Power Of Knowing | Elder Wong Kien Kian

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

will light up your day. I want to speak about knowing God this morning

very important. It's the start of our Christian faith, our journey in the

Lord. And as we know that our church, this us team is Heaven

rules. Uh, it's really to know that Heaven rules. It's really to

know that God's in control. But to know God's control, you need to

know the Lord. So how I got this message was that one day I

was just reading the Book of Isaiah and ex Chapter one, Worst Tree.

Exiah chapter one, Worst Tree speaks like this, alay the ox. The

ox knows his owner. I'm reading from the amplified so that's why you get

a lot of more additional words. So the ox in stick instinctively knows its

owner. Very important way. The ox knows the owner. All right,

the donkey, Okay, I'm not calling anyone that ox. The donkey just

wanted. But the donkey is Master's creep. But it's you doesn't know or

recognize me as the Lord. My people do not consider understand very interesting that

the Lord is using the description when we talk about the ox friends. First

thing that comes to our mind. Is the OX symbolizer strength? True not?

An ox symbolizes strength. You will find the ox no matter what time

or weather of the day. The ocs will be out there plowing the field.

True not. Have you seen the ox selling the Master's say? Do

they? I don't feel like working. That starts a bit too hot.

Did you put some screen on me? You know I'll turn a bit?

My skin turned in the darker? Note, I've not seen the OX saying

that you know the ground that you ask me to work on is very hard,

so therefore, given the option, I like to work on better ground.

No, I've not seen the ox. The Master you work me five

days a week. Already I wanted to take MC somehow. The OX also

reminds us of ourself. We are wired and we are made to work.

Someone say, amen, okay, half of y'all. Wife, how y'all

I'm wired to have holiday? Right, and said okay, and said this

is your journey right. We are wired to work, and some of us

are like the OX. We need to say that we work in very challenging

environment, yet we still go to work. Why not? Mm hmmm,

Just like the OX. Some of us here have never applied for MC and

hotly say that were hotly. MC will be the last last option where you

really cannot get out from bait. Oh, you are played for MC.

Otherwise we running those to w one. Some you are white like that,

not all of y'all, but some of your life. How me over like

that? You're white like that, the meaning to say that even you still

don't feel well, but you still show up the work one. Whatever.

Oh, Jessica dave it well done, some of Nicole well done, well

done. But I was selling the eight am surveys this morning. I hardly

apply for MC. Really, my whole entire working career right, never apply

hardly, very very rare. In fact, I highly applied for leve or

so. So I was just sharing with them my wife, my wife one

month or two months of MC includes my one year. Yes, my wife

applied for MC because she has a sinus condition, so she applied for it.

Now, nothing wrong, friends, but I'm just trying to say that

we are wired to work in very harsh environment. All right, our boss

some of our bosses are not very kind. Yet we're still short about work.

Somethings of working conditions are not very good. We're still short. We'll

work just like the showing up right to work the lend. Now we talk

about donkey. First thing that comes to your mind. Please don't think about

Shrek. Okay, the animation Shrek where we talk about donkey. First thing

they come to my mind is this that donkeys can be very stubborn, very

stubborn, right, very resistant like Earth as well, we sometimes can be

very stubborn. You hear your parents, don't go out so late. We

hang out later. Don't so much ripe food, We wag some more.

Chicken skin is not good for you. You give all the elder pigole.

But we do the total opposite. Isn't it come on right? Not in

your life we experience that before. Don't do this, We're going to do

right. Do this. We don't do study. Well, I don't need

to study that my friends sleeping classes so we can get a right. So

we do the opposite. So in a sense we're also quite stubborn, right,

not just like the ox and the donkeys. So the Bible here says

even the Ox knows the Master. Some of us here this morning really need

to come out or the place of knowing God. Really, it's all about

knowing the Lord. You can't imagine now with this, of all the things

the Lord has left behind for us to know. He left the Bible for

you and me to discover more about him. He left the world of God

for us to read. He did not give a jigsaw puzza. Every new

believer right now you get six thousand pieces of jigsaw puzza a jigs about six

thousand pieces. Find your way how assembled without the final picture very hard.

Every jigsaw pazza you buy there is always end product there right so roughly though,

but then against some of you, even though it's six thousands, okay,

fifty pieces to a hungred pieces, you don't feel like doing it.

And sometimes our life is like that as well. Right, We try so

hard to discover how we're supposed to look like, how we are supposed to

behave, how we're supposed to carry ourselfs, and we discover that it is

at the end of the day we get right frustrated. And most times you

get frustrated because you don't achieve the results. God this morning wants to remind

us I'm here for you. It starts with knowing the Lord. It starts

with knowing God. So if you're here in terest to that, I pray

that you have a desire to know the Lord. I pray that in your

quiet time, do you want to know the Lord? I pray even in

the midst of the situation. The word is that, the crappy situation.

There is also to say, God, what way is your hand in this?

There's this desire you need to know the Lord right Asiety chapter one was

treating it. So the Ox knows the owner. The question is that do

you and I know our owner? Just a question? Do you know who

the Lord is in your own life and your own journey of life? Right

now? The Bible here says in John chapter ten was eleven very important for

us. You know, John chapter there was eleven right says that I'm the

good shepherd. I am the good shepherd. Well, thank you, xt

you for adding additional picture to my slights. I am the good shepherd.

There's one thing about being a shepherd. The Bible here say he's a good

shepherd. God is all powerful, isn't it. God is all knowing and

God's ever present. But all this great attribute of God doesn't really mean much

to us until he shows his affection for you. Just like some of us

here will know the top twenty richest person in Malaysia. You read it on

newspaper, you read it on the web. You know the network very rich

people. But that doesn't make a difference in your life until the rich people

know who you are and of you. So the Bible here says that I'm

the good shepherd. Friends, he's not just a shepherd, but he's a

good shepherd. Thirty your neighbor right now and say he's a good shepherd,

because many times when bad things happen to our life, what happens, say

this thought that image of him being a good shepherd. He wants to do

what is contaught that image so that you not recognize him as a good shepherd.

You recognize him as a shepherd that doesn't really care, a shepherd that

is either a shepherd that wants to curb your enjoyment and you're satisfaction, a

shepherd that don't really care about you. That's why when bad things happen,

the first thing that goes out is our faith, because you say that if

God is so good, why is he allowing this to happen in your life.

They're not disputing about God they're disputing about his nature, his person,

character, him being good. You and I today, friends, need to

be rest assured. The word is be confident that he is a good shepherd,

he says, a good shepherd the Bible says res and lay down his

own life for the sheep. A good shepherd, one of the characteristics is

a shepherd that laid down his life for the sheep. In our own understanding

of what the definition of good is, we have a lot of different definitions.

He's a good husband, but will his good husband laid out his life

for the wife? Mm hmmm. He's a good boyfriend with his boyfriend laid

out his life for the girlfriend. Hmm. Probably the girls that not think

the boyfriend right now? Will you lay down your life for me? If

my mom fell down into the sea and I fought out, who you rescue

first? Just kidding, but all take a very different definition of understanding what

good what good is. But God this morning wants to set the record straight.

He said, a good shepherd is a person that laid down his life.

In other words, friends, for you and me this morning, we

can be rest assured that this shepherd is reeling and have done it By laying

down his life at the cross for you and me. Friends. Before you

ask anyone to die for your God has already died for you. So that

is why we can this assured that He is a good shepherd. In John

tenvers for this is I. I am the good shepherd. I know and

recognize my own friends. He recognizes you. He knows you, and the

Bible says that my own knows and recognize me. Very important to know these

friends. God doesn't show up with futer, He doesn't smoothing out his face

to appear before you. He doesn't contade this image to be more popular.

You and I can recognize God because in John ten versus one says that the

shepherd enters through the door, only a thief scales shoe. The fence the

door really symbolizes to me is order. God has always been a god of

order. He is not a god of chaos. He is not a god

of disorder. First, the door is the most boring way to enter a

building. Think about it. The most boring way is more fun for someone

who's small size to squeeze through, the head up and come climb down,

isn't it. Have you ever got locked off from your house before. When

you were young, your mom said come back by four pm. You came

here by four thirty and you're a habitual sinner. You have never constantly come

back at four pm, constantly at four thirty four forty five to five pm.

And your parents decided one day to teach you a lesson. Lock you

off of the house. Let you taste what it is like as you come

back at the cercond time. Don't come back. I lock you up for

a while. Have you experienced it before? Okay, eight am, got

a fuel? Teny? Okay, I've experienced that before. I got locked

up from my house. Now I've seen some very painful just stay in front

of the say I'm so sorry, please let me in like most good people,

right, but for as a boy young age, decided decided to be

a bit more direct. Climb over the fence and you on the way.

You wait your own compounder that wait outside right, not right in your own

compoud. You got ship outside under the hot sun. So I decid to

climb over the first friends you've ever climb over a fence before. It's very

exciting. Now some of your house friends got this glass shot one okay,

god bless you. Okay, if you know the old school, they like

to put this bottom glass shut there. I don't know if I keep people

or keep people out. I'm not sure all right, but the number one

is that that ate that that you know what I mean that the metaspie.

Okay, you climb over, you feel that, well, I can climb

over the fence fence. Even after you climb over the fence at your inside

house, doll out is still locked. So what do you do? You

climb up the balcony though, well, much younger, slimmer, I can

climb up the balcony anytime. Really like claim up the balcony. So my

parents of the downstairs door. Okay, but the balcony door, that was

one because nobody will climb up here any baby friends climbing up your very first

experience, climb up to the balcony and enter your house up shure, you

know, load me out. Live still get climbing, think about it,

lock me out, I still get excitement, trial challenge, text me and

not locked the door. I'll still get find a way into the church.

Run, I'll find a lubun, I'll find a hole. Sometimes our life

it's like that, as well, God has always been through the same door

week after week. And sometimes it is so boring you get here, it's

so mundane, so boring. You know what. Let's climb over the fence.

Climbing on the fence. Excitement. Sometimes the devil. Church is not

exciting. Church is not exciting enough. Everything is so dark in DVCC,

it's all black. And what happens is that the devil will come and just

spe to you. There there's more exciting thing outside. Just walk out.

True the church that opposites the cinema, it's still duk, but yet that

there's more excitement. The devil want to start the image of God so that

you don't know God. Well, that's why we think we are fooling the

shepherd, but in fact it's out to be the hirling. Why is it

important for the ox to know the Master? Because even though the ox has

strength some words, has strength, but without a direction and a purpose,

without submission, the Lord that strength would not have any productivity. Have you

seen the ox? Have you seen the other? Thought? Speak the ox?

Ox? Tomorrow, day one, work the few, day two,

work the few d tree. You can the half day leave, okay,

but still work the Few guarantee you. If the ox is not let,

it will never work. The few just like our life as well. Friends,

it's important for you and me to recognize who the Lord is and why

he created us. Some of us here asked the words being challenged because of

that. You know that I recognize I know God, but I'm just normal

on you word, I in fact, I'm not that talented. I'm just

normal. I'm not that talented enough. And that's why we struggle with our

faith because we had this self image thing. Once you know the Lord,

we discover more about ourself. Someone say, amen, once you know the

Lord, we discover more about ourselves. Genesis chapter one, Jenesis chapter one,

verse twenty six. The fact God says, let us make men kind

in our image. Friends and speaking Agians here is right now. I'm going

to say that I spoke this at Am. They understood it. Some of

you may understand in your life growing up, some of you have been declared

spoken before that you are worth as a piece of chaste. You if you

understand south of you go before like that you are picked up from the rubbish

being one heard that before. Not okay. The older generation, yes,

understand, parents have seitd it to me before that you know what I picked

you up from the rubbish being one okay Asian, Okay, I understand right,

we go to that's why we go to. We can take abuse.

Sometimes we've been saying there's something that chaste worth more than you. Right.

But the Bible here says is that God has made it in his image.

But the world was contact by introducing a concert evolution that you are evolved from

monkey. But God said, I have made you in my image. So

if God is valuable, therefore we are of value as well. The image

he fashioned you, friends, it is his own. So in other words,

if we declare being up there as God, God doesn't make mistakes,

so therefore your life is not a mistake. But the devil was who come

in visible to you that you know what you are a mistake because you know

what you cannot singing key, you cannot sing. Probably that's why you are

not of value. Do you know how the you know what? If God

created you, why you keep making mistakes? See how the de will come?

And this thought, that image that God has created. The Bible says

that not only he created you in this image, but the Bible says that

let them have complete authority over the fishes in the sea. Friends, You

and I friends, have the ability to be productive, have the ability to

be productive. Just because we made a mistake doesn't mean that we are not

good. We just learned from it. Many times many Christians think they're not

good enough. I cannot do this, I'm not good enough. You know

we do. We confess over our life. I'm stupid. How many times

we have already declared all life, I'm stupid, I'm poor. I learned

something really valuable from axing about at the camp. Very good pass the mind

for axing apare. He said this. We should really stop confessing we are

poor. Stop because we are poor, he says, stop it. We

should just change our LINGO just say we are pre reach. Just declare we

are pre reach. She says, Stop saying we are poor. Saying we

are pre reach. I love the statement of all the things I've loved,

or the cap that statements. Stuck with me? All right, friends,

The Bible says you have complete authority friends, in other words, that you

can rule and manage. Sometimes our life is out of control because it never

managed our life. And we go on with this top process that I cannot

manage. I cannot manage. I cannot manage it. But the Bible says

that if He given you authority to rule over the birds of the air,

the fish in the sea, how about own life? If Annam was given

the ability to name every animal on the earth, God has not made us

lesson you think about it. Right, of all the names Adam have given,

he gave an animal call hippopotamus. Some of us don't know how many

peas there are in the animal, let the pust pe l Okay. See

what I'm trying to say here is this that if Adam can give names animal,

how much earth? Friends, God did not make anyone lesser. But

what happened to us? We have resigned our lives to live in a particular

way in fashion, thinking that this is us, this is our future.

The devil comes as so doubs in our mindset. God must have made you

lesser. And that's why many times we struggle. We cannot. The only

we can pitual from me is that we be self knowing God when we became,

when we come to make him our lord and master. The ocs recognize

a master. What about you and me? What about us. See,

many people study God, friends, but they have never him. Make him

the lord and master. We can study all day, we can have all

the best Bibles we have out there, friends, until unless we make him

our lord and master. It is very hard. It's very hard for us

if receive a breakthrough, if we still one our own way. God,

I want my own way. But yeah, I still want to break through.

I want companionship of a wife. I still want to meet other girls

out there. It's very half us to have a do our lifestyle, friends,

because at the end of the day, something will have to give.

Something will have to give, and you know what we do. God,

I can manage it. Friends, we can't. Let me just show you

a few more things, all right? In met Chapter eleven was eight Metic,

Chapter elevel was trainy says the Bible says, come to me. Jesus

is having an open invitation to us, friends, Come to me because he

understand, he knows friends, He knows that all of us will labored and

a heavy laden. Friends, this is not a physical weight. See a

lot of times we bench press one hundred and fifty kilos to some of us

here, Praise God, you can do it. But we can take care

of the physical weight. But it's an uncertain way of expectations. Sometimes we

can't even carry, isn't it? We can't even carry? They come to

me all those heavy litter. God knows, friends. In other words,

God understand, He knows human being besides working. He knows that we have

things in our heart that we carry. Every time when we rest or try

to sleep, he says, come to me, those who labor, and

hey be laden and over burdened, over burdened. And I will cause you

to what. Come on? I will cost you to what? Come on?

Church, I will cost you to what? Friends, God did not

say I'll cost you to sleep? Did not say I'll cause you to sleep.

Many times we try to achieve eight hours of sleep, right not?

You heard out people out there? You want to have a good lifestyle.

Minimum it hours of sleep. But right but, friends, While the world

adver case in hours of sleep, God's ever can advocating rest in him.

You can eight hours of sleep, Friends, doesn't mean you have a good

rest. You can't sleep for ten hours. Some of your God bless you,

you can sleep for ten hours. I know my wife is one of

them. If with lout you can hit travels. Oh, yes, Nicole,

that's it right, twelve hours, I say, so unproductive your life.

If Jesus come back when you wake up. Not I have to ask

all the question. I'm just I say I rapt her first, okay,

that you will stay behind. But here's the thing. First, we look,

we wear so much of things just to get sleep. Thinking about that,

that's why good mattresses very important. I know people who spend ten to

fifteen k on the metress. Now not wrong. Okay, if God bless

you great, but good metress doesn't guarantee rest, doesn't guarantee perfect rest.

So if you good mattress are enough, nice pillow, come on, pillow

important, next support right, that's how important ends. That's not enough,

good boaster, I share this aa. One wife says, amen, hallelo.

I look at the husband. The look, I say, your husband

or do is skinny. It's not a boaster. Okay, set him free

so he can sleep and rest here. But we in rest so much air

come lies back everything to your specification, But still no rest. Why because

all these things on the physical outside doesn't guarantee rest. Only our God can

guarantee rest. Friends, the heavy burden you look at your mattress. Your

matress look bad at you, the heavenness of your heart, look at your

mattress. I don't int your heart say come to me. I will cause

it to have rest. I will ease and relief and refresh your soul,

the Bible says, And many times our journey, we try so hard.

We go for holidays. Not wrong, friends, We go for holiday.

We holiday will be an answer, but it's not. We tried switching jobs,

thinking that will provide a way out, maybe a short time of relief,

but not a permanent solution. The World Summer suggests switching spousers doesn't bring

any relief because true rest can only be found in the Lord, it says.

It words training, and I take my yoke, Take my yoke,

the Bible says, upon you and learn from me. You can only think

God's show the moment. We submit very hard to put a yoke on the

ox. If the os do not want to submit, resisting all the way

cannot lie old fashioned that this one, don't you know? Yesterday me and

my wife we stumbled. We were waiting for a family dinner, so we

just decided to just drop by one of those pop up shops somewhere. Literally

stepped foot in. We felt so old. It was what I think one

of those first of what issues. Uh, I think that I think we

brought the H. We brought the H up by another twenty years. Majority

of them are twenty years and below. Are twenty years old and below.

And uh and and it's a totally different fashion. Me and my wife went

there. I told my wife this, I said, I felt like I'm

a parent looking for my lost children in there. Oh yeah, the world

was cosplay. We just saw. We just thought it was a second hand

shop selling clothes. Okay, the people out there, study my wife,

let's go in and just check it out. Were walking and walk up.

We're like, what was that? But we felt old. Friends, We

felt oh, but here's the thing I want to decide. But here's here's

the thing. Right, it cannot be that. Oh, thank God,

so old fashion, boring, old fashioned. No take upon your learn from

me, for I am gener It goes back to God's knowing. God,

you can only take something upon your life, and you know that person giving

to you has good intention. Think about it. Friends, Human may promote

you, but with additional stress, God's promotion doesn't come with it. We

tried so hard to knock on doors, friends, really to push our way

in. But you and I need to learn how to rest in God.

He says that I am gener and humber in heart, and you find again

promise of God, you'll find rest for my young It's wholesome, it's useful.

It's good, not harsh, the Bible says, friends, useful and

good, not harsh, not pressing, but comfortable, perfect feet. Friends,

this is not your off size T shirt. I'm learning a lot of

new toters for my wife. Friends, this is not your off side always

by. I thought you need to buy closes. It's feeting my but no

off size boyfriend, cut boyfriend, cut boyfriend, boyfriend jacket. I said,

what you want your boyfriend, your husband? You really with sorry lame

Joe. Mm hmm right off size? What this off size means? I

can wear off size? Friends, I try to read. I look really

bad in all right, my while aloud? I try one time. You

say you stick your stick your normal clothing, bory clothing. But the Bible

here described that you that God has for us. It's a perfect feet.

It's comfortable. Think about it's comfortable. It's a perfect feet. It's not

one of those random Oh it's you, Liza, no more and nobody takes

qunching Liza. It's not a random thing that God's discovered that. Oh no,

you show up. Well, okay, you just made for a while.

Okay, let me look at my ventory. Where that want the perfect?

He knows what we can take. That's why it's important for you and

me to know God first. Many times you want the rest, but we

do not want to know the Lord. Many times you want the rest,

but we do not know one to know the Lord. We want the rest

without making him our master. Very hard. We want a break to without

knowing the master of break show. We want the blessing without knowing the personal

bless us. We just want money, dump out. We don't care who

gives it. Very hard, friends, God knows. Friends, if we

give too much sugar to us, we'll die. And here's God wants to

remind us that take my yo because it's comfortable and it's light. By knowing

God and knowing of ourself or purpose, we tend to be blest friends.

The summary, the summary of it all that God wants to bless us,

He does, He does, just let me just show you one scripture as

Ziah chapter one, verse nineteen, as chapter almost ninety say, if you're

willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the lend. If you're

willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the lend. If God

doesn't want to bless us, friends, why would he reveal this to us?

If you're willing and obedience, you're serving for the rest of your life,

period, full stop. He hides this portion away. But the Bible

here is this, if you're willing and obedient, you shall eat. In

other words, friends, God in his characters know him. He's designed for

us. It's ultimate, ultimate blessing is for us to eat from His goodness.

Many times we can be obedient. I've seen many obedient Christians showing up

to serve, but not many revealing Christians. Not many realing Christians obedient?

This is is that? Why are you saving? Oh, I'm just scheduled.

I heard this statement before you're serving this figure. Yealla? They put

me on schedule. Self law, I think wrong with my friends, yealla,

I'm all. I have the self law. Take out the treasure yellow

my mother's me take off, So I take out law for my own underwear.

I have to do it la. No servant ma, no mid ma,

my mother don't four for me. How many times we are just doing

things? Sorry for that quick example, just doing this just because we are

told I'm obedient with I just do neither. But your heart there? Why

always mea? Why always mea? And that's why we cannot eat the good

of the land, because you're just obedient. The Bible says feeling and obedient,

and many Christians are. I'm just serving, Okay, I'm not knocking

you, all right, I'm just striking up. I'm just giving. But

the Bible says God loves her. He doesn't. God just love givers to

your friends. If God just love givers, if you just say, for

God love give us. Second Corinthians. You know the scriptures, Second Corinthians

nine, Second Coritians nine. Okay, few more scriptures. All right,

I'll release you that you can go for your large ogay, praise the Lord,

hallelujah. Then you pray very hard. I don't come back here anymore,

right, skiddy kitty, I know you love me. Second nine,

verse six. Remember this, Come on, Church, remember this, for

he who sow what come on? Here, So what and come on for

if God doesn't want to deal with our hearts, just deal without giving.

He doesn't give, be condemned. But God was bringing even deeper thing about

it. He was so sparingly and gradually. Friends always give, we do.

The question is where is our hearts? All of us work, but

question that we're having the right attitude at the work place. Not all of

us, Your serf, you could be serving by your heart could be somewhere

else. Always he are married, not always some of us are married,

but our hearts, like why did I choose this person? Was the single

one? The laughinger? Very interesting? Whoever does your PFC comes to John

the love bless him or her? But he's no, he's But I want

us to realize is that it's not so much the act of giving because all

of a sudden gift. But God is going even deeper because he wants us

to eat the good of the land. Because if he doesn't want us to

eat the girl that he will not even reveal this to us, he says

grudgingly. And many times when we release the offering, I'm just taking offering

you as one part of the scripture and one part of the lesson when we

just give her without having a great heart, there is no blessing, There

is no breakthrough. We can be on surveys, friends, but yet in

our hearts if are sleeping, not excited, not expecting, just share.

I just heard yesterday at testimony there was an evangelist team that went over to

East Malaysia. So one of our friends decided to invite her friend, and

then and and and the children to come for this healing rally. The moment

she stepped into the sid stadium and the worship started, she started manifesting,

manifesting demons and evil spirits, just starting to cry and studying. To the

word is to distract and many times the hearts. If we don't deal with

our hearts, we open a doorway. Friends, That's what a lot of

times we just think it's just money, just give. But God was a

heart to be soft towards him because he doesn't just want us to be stuck.

And that's why many Christians stop. I thought, why I don't get

break through? I give a why I don't see a blessing? I do

everything work, but why when's my turn? It's because for us, our

heart is not in the right place the Bible is reeling. If you're reeling

and obedient, you should eat the good of the land. So let's it

be gone verse seven, night second verse seven. So let each one of

us made up his own mind, purpose in his heart, not reluctantly or

sorrowfully here this are or under compulsure. For God loves he takes pleasure.

He takes pleasure in a giver whose heart is chillful, weling, and obedience.

You should eat the good of the land. Friend, don't be disobedient.

Oh be word. You ask me dresser, I dress up, but

our heart is not fully in it. What you get married? Did so

long we didn't get married? La? I heard this. No, I'm

not not making the true statement. I heard it from this ten years Readio

must well get married. I'm not sure, friends, I'm not sure.

Could you imagine if if you hear it right, if if you're hearing it.

I was doing PMC counseling one couple see it and the groom see the

look at the bride. The brid was okay. I'm thinking to myself that

if it was you friends, heard it, you would think the four I

step right? Come on, now, come on, now, all the

girls. I think the four I stepped my boyfriend right, Oh, what

do you mean not excited? Put out evolution? We did ten needs to

have to get married. This love me? Just close this okay, I

love me closes, friend, don't just give God loves a cheerful giver.

Let me just give you another example here. And you told me Chap to

trade evers for the seven? Do you t me chapter trade evers for the

seven? Because you did not serve the Lord, yo God? With what

come on? Because you know the Lord your God, with joyfulness of the

mind and heart painful, the Bible says the Bible. Now say, because

you didn't serve to God. You know you said you serve, but your

heart is not in it. No bit true or friends, if you're willing

and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. So you serve,

But there is no joyfulness in your serving. There is no smile on

your face, there is no peace in your heart. That's why I no

brick. True. Many times I have to come to a place whereby God,

please forgive me, because I have been in the place before serving with

our being joyful. Because every week but fifty two weeks at least you're here

in church time plus prayer service to friends fifty two weeks times tree times another

tree. We weak out, same faces you appreach. You don't want to

respond. I'm not talking about you, okay, I'm talking about another service.

You guys are very good kidding. But here, my heart, I'm

just being very honest with you because what you see robs you of the break

through. You allow what you see to determine how you should respond. But

the Bible says that for God, so love a cheerful giver when you give

your gift to the Lord, not to the people. So the next time

you saw you myself so with cheerfulness, don't so grudually. Hi yah again,

first priority pledge again? Hai, yeah, this one again. Don't

then don't give because the money you give no big true one, no big

true Could you imagine right now if your family setting, your parents go for

you and you just have to do it. Hi me again, I can

guarantee you one day your parents say forget it already, I give you Money're

gonna tap out your own one because you know why, you wrong the blessing

upon yourself, because you don't serve the Lord, your God, with joyfulness

of your heart. What happens, what happens when worse for the aid.

Therefore you shall serve your enemies. I'm going to close very soon. Therefore

you serve your enemies. God is always after our hearts at the end of

the day. If you want to serve, serve with a joyful heart.

If you want to gay, friends, give you the joyful heart. If

I want to preach, preach your heart that's wanting to please a lot.

Friends. As I go to bring this to a close friend, I just

got one more and one more scripture first. If Isaiah chapter one, verse

eleven, this is what's happening around To what purpose is the multitude of your

sacrifices to me? To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?

Unless they are the offering of the heart? Friends? Is the girl

people just offering sacrifices to the lot, offering sacrifices to the Lord. But

your heart is not in it, not willing to bring under the submission of

Christ, always wanting your own way. God, Please, don't you can

tell me where to work, but do not pick my life partner, because

it's one thing in my life. I still want to do. How do

I know that whatever you pick our like that? Lord? Younger time,

our parents always buy our closes already we like it or not, so we

understand your parents always ready you like it. Our friends you always buy.

Sometimes friends you don't like it. Not your size is not your type.

But when we are older, ready, much older, we choose our own

style. And true enough, I'm not seeing any adult asking the parents,

mamstyle should I wear? Because you do want you old stuff. God wants

to remind us today. I'm not into styles. I'm into your life.

If we want to choose our own lifestyle. But God said, I have

a lifestyle for you. As I close, Friends, what purpose is it

that many multitudes or the sacrifices to me? Unless the offering of the heart

says the Lord, I had enough of the bird, of frees of rams

and fat of fat beasts without obedience, friends, God says, I do

not delight in blurred of bulls or lambs without righteousness. As I close right

now, friends, and write extreme amount on the stage. If we choose

the path of the Lord, Friends, if you're willing and obedience, we

tend to be blessed. How are you showing up today? How are you

showing up? How are you showing up at church today? Really? How

are you showing up at ches today? Friends? I'm not knocking you.

Notice that today I do not ask you all the scream of the shout,

the clip a man, the last book to me one day say please don't

do that anymore. Okay, I'll try. It's very easy to tell other

people that are not doing it. Man, then they tell your own life.

But something God bring us a back piece of a fire to understand what

it means to be a cheerful giver. And many times the only why you

don't have a break schow is because we can be obedient but not willing.

Yeah, you're offering our sacrifices. You're just okay. God said you want

sacrifice, I give you. You want to give you, I give you.

But if there's no willingness right hard, no break true, no break

true. And friends, I pray that all of us say, in this

place, as we you're going to live soon this place, we do not

start the wak without knowing who God is. Its all starts with the Lord.

We need to know he is a good shepherd. He's not just an

a shepherd. But he's a good shepherd. The goodness of God will see

us through our lowers of time. Where you've got no direction, we can

always look at the good shepherd. If the good shepherd can lay down his

life for us, he can direct your life. If the good shepherd knows

that we are in pain and suffering, he's not going to leave us alone.

He knows you by name. He's not a random stranger. He did

not recognize you by lifting up. You know how sometimes we be people on

the streets. We just lift our here and this casual. Not that he

he doesn't. He would say brother or sister because we forgot the name.

He like, no, no, not only to say brother or sister.

Forget your name. Okay, some let do. But but something he knows

you by name, Church, He knows you by name. He understands that

the way of the world is going. There's so much expectation, there's so

much weight, there's so much things to do that we cannot cope with it.

That's why he says that come to me, all those you're over burdened,

Come on, Church, think about it. Of all the descriptions he

described us, he knows you're old burdened. We are worried about the future.

We are worried about how we're gonna put for the table, whether we

got early enough or not, whether we have kids now, what kids have

in the future. A lot of things can I have kids? So many

things on our mind, our hearts. We are occupied with burden our parents.

I just took my dad out for lunch yesterday to encourage shame. And

my dad is seventy seven, seventy eight. I was his mom when I

went home to be the lord. He's living by himself. One thing I

recognized as I began to visit him that he started to lose his memory.

That they just lost. I see just losses driver's license credit color like that,

you see the house somewhere. Let me help you. Okay, but

if you want a lot of things studden missing out. But yet at the

same times I looked at my own life, I just say, God,

I could have missed out on this part of can care my dad because I

really wanted to leave Malaysia. Like every fresh grand you graduated out, the

grass is always greener somewhere else. The first time you get a degrees,

I want to my grade go somewhere else experience a different culture, a different

setting for the very first time. I just want to experience what winter is,

not just turning on the aircorn because as adult plans came back, I

remember doing it, came back when I finished my summer, except came back

at the airport. My friends hijacked me. Let's go for a meeting to

see past can because he wanted to meet all those graduates of Australia. I

just want to say that maybe you can do something for Malaysia. I got

no choice because I was given a free car ride. You understand I was

giving a free car right. You understand it because you don't do you too

cheap to be for tax SEMA. So if I said, okay, I'll

just go go for a meeting with the passd about the vision of revival from

Malaysia. Is there something you want to do? Is there something you want

to do? There's a six six of us there pass one one of them.

I do so day, Passer, come me in. I may not

be much. I cannot say it cannot play right. The best I can

do for you is open the bookshop to sell books for you. But if

that's what's needed, are willing the my part to carry to help. But

friends, that was the start of the journey, beginning God, begin to

the word. Is that my heart began to went to fire. Not just

one day, one week, but it was close to twenty years of just

refining it. Friends. I remember when I was in Australia, a prophet

came up to me and just said this that you know what you're going to

You're got to excuse the fire of God. Who doesn't want the fire of

God you want? Right then he used the word he's going to prove you.

I said, your ambition. Your ambition is no longer going to be

yours but his. I'm like, God, why I want the couple letters

I want to leave that actually can work nicely? One go to places the

airport can actually work. You understand what I mean. You have your own

ambition, I said, God, why me? God, please mess someone

else? And maybe it's not me, maybe it's my neighbors. All right,

I had been good to you, God, I remember right there.

I was like, I'll bring you to fire. I'll bring you to all

this. But when God, when people see this, see Jesus, God,

I do want people see see because Jesus don't have a house. Jesus

didn'tdrive. Friend see cars. You know you, you're a working person.

You understand Jesus in all the way. You understand right having like, but

God helped them went through the fire. Friends, A lot of this chipped

out a lot of really a lot of things. And I pray these friends

that you understand. If you're reeling a willing you, let's stand right now.

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