God’s Heartbeat Is Missions | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

will light up your day. Let's begin the message today, God's heart beat

its missions. What do I mean by this? So let's look at the

first definition of the word mission. This word is without the letter S at

the end, and what it means is a cause, an aim, a

purpose. So all of us here have a mission in life, a mission.

Even in your company, in your job, in your family. You

should have a cause. You should have aim or a purpose. If you

don't, you should find one because it's important to live a life of mission.

Somebody say amen. But when you put a letter S at the back

of this word mission, in the church, we recognize it as mission.

That is cross cultural meaning to say that you still have an aim, you

still have a purpose, you still have a cause, but you are ready

to do it outside your comfort zone. That's what the next slide says,

reaching others different from us or than us, outside of our own culture,

of our own comfort zone. This is very important. This is really God's

heartbeat, not our heartbeat. God's heartbeat, and my prayer towards the end

of this time with you this morning is that God's heartbeat will become ours now.

Jesus also had a mission, and his mission was to seek and save

the loss. Am I right? But he also did missions because he had

to come out of his comfort zone to do that. Speak about it for

a moment. Heaven is a beautiful place, don't you think so? How

many have you want to be there? One day? Of course? Of

course, And Jesus has already bought us the ticket through his blood. Amen,

we will be one day with God in heaven. And I think it's

a beautiful place, you know. I think it's it's a it's a place

that's filled with fragrance that is probably more beautiful than any fragrant perfume cologne that

you can ever find on the face of the earth. I think it's all

the cologne's added together. I think it's all the flowers added together. I

thinks all the perfume added together. I think it's it's beautiful. It's going

to be great. And this is the place where Jesus was at the right

hand of the Father, enjoying the Father's a fellowship and and presence. And

then the Father says, you gotta go. You gotta go, because there

are people on Earth that needs you, that needs salvation, and salvation can

only come through Jesus. Acts. Chapter four of verse twelve says that in

no other name but the name of Jesus, no other name under heaven by

which we must be saved, but Jesus. Jesus had to leave this beautiful

place called Heaven to go down to a place called earth, which was filled

with sin, and it was smelly because of sin. Compared to Heaven,

it was definitely cross countural. So Jesus had a mission, and he also

did missions. And if we didn't do missions, we would not be here

this morning. Now some of us know the word missions, but we spelled

it differently. We spelled it M E S S I O N S because

we recognize that missions. It's all about me. And this is very natural.

This is human beings. We look at a photograph, we want to

look for ourselves first, you know, we sit down for a meal and

we're hungry. We don't care whether other people's meals have come. We will

go for it. We This is just human nature, or should I say,

the fallen nature of human beings. This is that's who we are.

We think about our family first, We think about children. First, we

think about our spouses first, we think about our house first. We think

about the convenience. You know. I know some people, even after a

whila, didn't want to come to DVCC anymore because we didn't have touch and

go and so the lining up to pay. I know it's very inconvenient,

right, But people will start thinking about whether I should go and the result

of my decision. Usually it's based on whether it will help my comfort and

my convenience. This is human nature. Okay, so we hear the same

word missions, but usually we spelled it m e. What's in it for

me? What's in it for mine or my own or my family or just

me, myself and I. But Matthew twenty eight nineteen, before Jesus went

up to heaven, he messed us up with a scripture. Life was never

to be the same again because of Matthew twenty eight nineteen. The Bible says,

gold therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in

the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

These are the words of Jesus. He did not say stay put and be

comfortable. He says, go out and make disciples of all nations. Now,

the definition of nations is not countries. Is not Malaysia, Singapore,

Indonesia, you know, and different countries in Africa, etc. It's ethne.

And ethnicity comes from that word word ethne. It's people groups Chinese,

Indian, Malay, and so and so forth, people groups. God's heart

is for people, and he says, I want you to go out and

make disciples of all, not some, but all people. His heart is

for people, different kinds of people, with different kinds of skin color,

and different languages and different cultures. If you believe it's amen, all right,

I'm trying to build you a case. Some of you know that I'm

a lawyer by training, so I'm trying to build my case up for you

to see. Is it true or not that God's heartbeat. His heartbeats with

missions all the time. So let's begin with X one eight. The Bible

says, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

Hallelujah, and you share, I'll be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and

in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. It's not

just Jerusalem, but Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

Now, Jerusalem means our world, the world we live in means our

culture means, our language, means our comfort zone. And we are also

to love our Jerusalem. We are also to pray for our Jerusalem. We

are also to reach our Jerusalem. We are also to love and feed and

reach our Jerusalem. Very important. Jerusalem. It is also included. But

the word of God says and also Judaea, Samaria, and to the end

of the earth. So that's the word of Jesus given to the church as

he was taken up to heaven. So really these are like his last word

on earth. Ah. Now we look at Acts eight one. Acts eight

one has this to say. Now Saul was consenting to his death. Who

died Stephen, Stephen the first martyr. As far as we can see in

the New Testament, Saul was consenting to his death. And that time,

at that time a great persecution arose against who? Against who? Why do

you God allow it? I thought he loved his church. I thought he

will protect his church. I thought he gives his church peace. But he

allowed persecution to arise against his church that he loves so much. Why this

church was at Jerusalem, and as a result of that persecution, they were

all scattered throughout the regions of Judaea Samaria. Accept the apostles, so X

eight one, Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters. After seven chapters,

we now only see Judea and Samaria because for seven chapters, X one eighth

is X chapter one. Of course X one eight is X chapter one.

We all are you all two with me? Because I'm going to do some

mathematics with you right now. And now we are reading X eight one X

one eight X eight one. How many chapters? Seven, seven chapters have

passed and we have not hurt Judaea and Samaria for seven chapters. God's heart

is not our heart. His ways are not our ways. But he was

so patient to wait for seven chapters before he did anything. He's not into

persecuting us. He's not into making our lives painful or suffer. But his

heart, although he loves you and me, it's more than just you and

me. His heart, it's more than just our comfort. But he's so

good that he weighs seven chapters. You know what seven chapters could mean seven

months, it could mean seven years, it could mean seventeen years. He's

very patient. He's very patient. And then he allows now persecution for one

purpose only, and that is that his will be done. And his will

is not just Jerusalem, but Judaea and Samaria and the end of the earth.

Are you all still with me? What loves us too much to allow

persecution to come away? But he will allow it if we aren't moving,

if we are overly comfortable where we are, and we're not thinking about other

people outside of us. Are you also with me? This is very important

to catch. So God allows the persecution, and what happens as a result

is the people of God gets scattered. And now the scattering mentions the name

Judea and Samaria. But still it says, accept the apostles. Before I

close, I will tell you why that even the apostles weren't moving. And

sometimes you can be a great leader like an apostle and still get something wrong.

I agree. I will be the first to admit, even though I

can be the founding senior pastor of X Church and all this that Elie just

mentioned earlier, I can still, you know, sometimes just miss it because

of my own fears, because of my own focus, which may not be

completely right. We can confess our sins and say, Lord forgive us and

get us back on the right track. Seven chapters until I saw Judaea and

Samara mentioned. So I would say this to you as a gentle, loving

warning that if we don't live X one eight, then prepare for X eight

one. Is it easy to remember? Easy to remember? If we are

not living X one eighth, then be prepared. I said. I didn't

say God will definitely do it tomorrow. I said be prepared for X eight

one, because God's will will be done if we want to do it God's

way. We want to do God's will. Somebody say, amen, it's

very important doing God's doing God's will and doing it God's way. Let me

just pause for a woman here, you know, and just speak to you

about that, because I'm very passionate about this. See this is called X

church, and God has a way to do exchurch, and God told me

how to do exchurch. And so when I follow his design and his way,

the church prospers. And every time you seek to do God's will,

God's way, you will also prosper. I guarantee you. So we are

now fifty churches in ten nations, when once upon a time twenty three years

ago, we were only three people in one venue. Three people in one

venue twenty three years ago, twenty three years later, by the grace of

God, we are where we are. I give God all the glory.

But listen, I'm talking about doing it God's will. Well, doing God's

will, I should say, doing God's way. So there are many times

I can get a hit of myself. I can get too smart for God.

I can get overly creative and say, oh, I want to do

it this other way because this other church down the road is doing that way.

You know, I read the latest book, and the latest book said

you must do it this way and this other thing. You know about pivoting

this and pivoting that, And why don't you change it according to the modern

day, Why don't you turn off all the lives because churches are turning off

all their lives doing worship so that you can feel better in worship. Well,

I don't mind that. If God taught them to do it, and

let them be unscrupled to God. But God never told me to do that.

In fact, God said to me, let the people be used to

the light. So turn on more lights because we've got to get used to

light because heaven ain't gonna be dub. Heaven ain't gonna be dube because God

is not due. He's light. And by the time you step into heaven,

oh so bright is it? Give me some shades, Peter? Okay?

Anyways, see me. So when God told me to plan x got

the communing where I live, I only had one thing in mind. I

said, God, the way I started x subang is a way I'm going

to start x KK because you never told me to do it differently. So

I dressed the same, I have the same spirit, the same I trained

the leaders the same. And because you do it, God's will, God's

way. It went from fourteen people to one hundred and forty in seven months.

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. Sixty percent of them are knew

our worship team also sixty percent you our ashous No all going with that.

That number, by the grace of God, last week it was one hundred

and sixty seven. Any people are keeping because you know why, I don't

build God's church. According to Kenneth Chean's design is got to be God's will,

God's way. I'm telling you right now, if you do it,

God's will God's way, you will prosper. I'm gonna show it to you

in a minute. But I thought I want to say that to you.

So let's not be overly clever, Let's not be overly creative. Let's be

faithful God's design. You know, even the Act had a design. God

was so specific, and the temple headed design God was so specific. His

ark of the specific specific My design, God says my design Isaiah fifty five.

I think it's verse eight and nine. My thoughts are not your thoughts,

nor are my ways your ways, says the Lord. For as high

as the heavens are from the earth, so are my ways, then your

ways, and my thoughts. You gotta remember that. And so I don't

seek to be too clever. For Jesus, I just God, tell me,

tell me, I'll do it. You have the blueprint of church plan.

I don't even have to read it from a book. I read it

from your book. And then and and I depend on on the Holy Spirit.

All right, everybody, Okay, please get applied to your own family,

your marriage. Okay, don't be too clever and say, oh,

I read all these books on marriage and I'll no, no, no,

read the read the book. First read the book, do it his way.

I know some people don't even like the words submit. Some woman with

a melody, why submit to? Because you can't take it right, because

the world has has made that word a bad word. Argue word. And

then husband, love your wives? You know what do they mean? Flowers

every day? Well, if you have to. I heard a joke,

Rosilina, My wife told me I never buy her flowers. I said,

I never knew you sells flowers anyway, So you will catch it later.

Eight four to five says Therefore, those who were scattered when everywhere preaching the

word, then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preach Christ to

them. All right, hey, for seven chapters no movement. You know

why people don't move not just about churcher, about life, about whatever it

is that you are having to make decisions about. Is because of success.

Someone said before the question was this noal? And I didn't answer it correctly

When I first I was first asked the question, Kenneth, what's the greatest

tests a man or woman can go through? So I thought to myself,

Wow, okay, uh, you know I was thinking about all the temptations

I was thinking about all the failures. I was thinking about all the sad

things, and I answered about three and the person said, no, Kenneth

is success. The greatest test for mankind is success. That's the only reason

why we don't fulfill pledgures and vows. Oh Lord help me. You know

exam on Monday Sunday. Haven't studied all the chapters, so you've learned to

pray all other times forgot to pray, but you will pray now because exams

Monday Sunday. You heard from your friend chapters twenty four, twenty five,

and twenty six are coming out. I haven't even got a day yet.

I studied all the way to twenty one. It's coming out, I found

out. So you are now on your knees. Suddenly you got tongues ka

ya ya yay, help me od And then you thought you would add in

a promise God if you I'm not even asking for for a I remember how

my friend told me how to spell banana in Tamil b a yen a yena.

So it's not even a ya. It was an Indian guiy that to

me, it's funny guy b a y it's not a yea God, don't

even never give me a yay. Just give me a pass, and I

will serve you for whatever. I will serve you for whatever. I will

never miss a single Sunday. Just give me a pass. Come on,

God, you can do this. You can partner red Sea. If you

can do anything, Lord, do it for me. Go. I will

serve you, God, I will give to you God, I will you

know, never be late for church. Right. It's not bad times that

are the greatest testa. No. In fact, I bad times make you

pray more. Bad times make you say many promises and vowels. And it

is when things are really good you forget you said the vow You forget you

said I'll come earlier. You forget the great So I must tell you,

even though the Apostles started very rough in Jerusalem, they prospered. Peter's first

message three thousand at three. I want I hope you know that it will

happen again the next time. I preest tree thousand gets saved. Oh I

want that you want or not? Yes? I want three thousand souls.

Peter soul successful. No boom boom, boom comes the word three thousand hand

good up. I can imagine the last night when I said that how many

hands no will be raised up for salvation? I counted about ten. Yeah,

that was last night. Three thousand. No Caroc Cownity, that is

I'm saying, and count count Nay, Sorry, one, two, three,

four, five, six, mbermight don't count Carrol Cownity. Count Later

three thousand they found three thousand, So three thousand. Immediately the church grew

to three thousand. From one hundred and twenty to three thousand, talk about

church growser the next one five thousand and so. Although they started rough,

they had success. And when you are successful, you stay. You see

you stay. You forgot Judea and Samaria and the end of the earth.

We forget, lady Neleman, come on, let's all be honest. We

forget. We forget the last pledge. We told God, God, if

you, if you, if you I will, I will, And God

did his part, and we didn't do hours because it's not so can chung

any it's not so exciting anymore, it's not so pressure rising anymore. We

are not so tempted anymore. You knows times are good, and so we

forget, and the Lord allows another opportunity for us in the form of obstacles

to pray like we never prayed before again x eight one, the persecution happened.

They were all scattered, and within three versus four verses, it says

Philip, that's a new name, now, Philip, not the apostles name,

the apostles Dame are not mentioned. Is now a new name, Philip.

And Philip goes down to the city of Samaria and preach Christ to them.

And if you read x A, you will find that Philip was so

successful because the Bible actually says the whole city went to hear him preach,

and he healed the sick. He didn't miracles, and Samaria got to hear

the gospel. Listen for seven chapters, no Judea, no Samaria. And

now because we do it God's way, we do God's will his way.

You get results in three verses because it's God's heart. And when you do

things on God's heart, he will bless you. You think you want to

wait seven chapters for one soul, Nay, he already died on the cross.

I went back to heaven. And he says, go and make disciples

right. He wants people save every day. He wants disciples to be so

that's why even after fifty church plants around the world, ten nations, and

over three thousand people that call their call Exchurch their home, why in the

world should I leave here DVCC until some of you have to? You know,

now, give me a long introduction like ours, a guest speaker,

because we understand God's heart and God doesn't want us to stay put in a

place for too long. Some of us are caught, yeah, for longer

than others. Maybe some I caught twenty years, there thirty years. But

listen, you must always be willing, keep your heart soft like clay in

the potter's hand, so that he can continue modest. Don't be hard,

because you know, when you're hard in your heart and you are a fixed

vessel, he will take it. If he wants to remolde you, he

will break it. He will break your heart. And so you go like,

wow, he's got so cruel. No, no, he's not.

He's out of love that he does that. Not just only love for you,

because he knows that you would die if you continue this way, but

he also loves others. So that's why me and my wife go back to

a place of restart. Ladies and geer, I think I told you a

story, right. There were times I cried, you know, because I

know, like it's Korean drama and you know, okay, and and you

know, I know you notice, but but I'll tell you anyway, just

in case people didn't never heard it. We went early in the morning to

set up. You notice was the back in like a year ago, and

and there were you know, the other musicians were late. And this is

of course, you know, sometimes sometimes a it just comes in. Pastor

Kenneth Chin foundings in the pastor all my all my faithful people are all the

under churches, and anyone would have come to help me carry, but now

there's no one, and so I had to carry. And you know what,

I sweat very easily. They call me Putra lilin Prince of the candle.

Is that right? I just I just melt. And so I had

to go to ascot to the morning, early in the morning with a t

shirt because I will be drenched by the time I move instruments. The Pastor

Kenneth people don't do this one at the CEOs of the world, when they

have built big corporations that they sit on top in their air conditioning penhouse and

they order people around. You deserve that because you have built this. But

no, no, no, hold on a minute, God build it.

Number one, number two, I'm his servant. Number three. I go

wherever he sends me. And so you see, you see what God is

doing is he constantly wants our heart to be soft and at a place where

He can continue to do new things with us. So now it's one hundred

and sixty seven, I am believing that by the end of this year it

will hit two hundred. What we do every Sunday in our prayer time is

we ask our people to lay hands on every seat. Lord, this empty

seat, let it not be empty anymore. My friend, my neighbor,

my father who's not yet Christian, bring my mum here a Lord. You

know we pray like that, we pray and this is how we used to

do it. Do you know all these chairs are once upoint in time was

bought by students and young Woki adults who had no money. I asked them,

buy one seat for yourself. The chair no money, you remember this,

So we didn't have money to buy so we asked, okay, joy,

buy one. But don't forget it's not just your seat, why don't

you buy another one? And some who could afford I bought three and said,

Lord, I'm buying two other extra seat because I want my mom and

my dad. You know, there was a dream every seat was alife.

And then one Sunday, the Holy Spirit led me to pray over the welcome

table. So I asked the ushers the host team, and they are carrying

the table, why are up as we carry to them? And the table

was carried to the author because a welcome back was there, the newcomers card,

the card that says you know if you're safe, you know you fill

up this card and all there. So I said, this table is very

important. If we miss this table, that we missed the heartbeat of God

for the loss. So we prayed, and when we pray that that day

sell five new people. King, come on, what is church about?

It's not just about us getting comfortable, you know with our own worship songs.

And sometimes we can complain. I don't like this where she sung,

and I don't like this where she reader, Hello, it's about you.

Cannot be always about you. Sometimes it's about you, and you know I

love you, Yes I do, Yes, I do. God loves you

too. He loves you more than I could ever love you, but he

wants to love others through you. They boys see, Okay, your heart,

Wait, where's your heart? I'm talking about God's heartbeat? And so

seven chapters of patience, and then he couldn't stand it anymore. He says,

I've got to get my people out, whatever the cost, and boom,

eight one happens, eight four or five happens, and that's a new

name. Now Philip goes out and he wins the whole city to the Lord.

God can't wait. He's like, come on, get on with it.

So I want to say this to you again. When you start doing

God's will, God's way, you will serious outs. Not in seven chapters

time, in seven versus time. I guarantee you this. I'm speaking with

passion because I've seen it again and again. People. How many churches must

I plantner to? Then? Only you believe me. If I started three

or four or five companies idea and successful in every company and done very well,

you probably will ask me to teach me business. Now I'm telling you

his fifty churches all across we got got started, and I'm just using his

way. So hear my heart. It works God's will, God's way.

Next verse place still in Acts chapter eight. I E yi, we haven't

even moved on from one chapter, and look how much God is doing.

All right, let's read this now. The Angel of the Lord spoke to

Philip, saying, arise and go towards the south. Philip again. Okay,

Philip, now he can't even stay in the city of Samaria that he

has so much success. People were being healed everywhere, people were, you

know, becoming believers by the hour. And God says, Philip, don't

stay. Don't make the same mistake as the apostles are making Jerusalem. So

the Angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, rise and go toward

the south. Wow, where is that along the road which goes down from

Jerusalem? Everybody's say from it's from Jerusalem to where new name mentioned, New

name Gaza. I want to say something to you, and I know that

it's in the next point. I'm gonna tell you now because I'm so excited

to tell it to you. When you do God's Will, God's way,

new things are gonna open up to you. You're gonna meet new people,

you're gonna have new doors open. You're gonna have new opportunities. Come on,

come on, let me, let me, let me see some north

at least if you're not saying amen. Really, that's why some people say

that Christianity is boring because you keep with us. Someone's preaching for me.

Yeah, someone said they're back there doing the same thing, being with the

same people. We're way. We're creatures of comfort, creatures of habit and

we don't get moved. We're gonna be there, stuck for a long time.

More to No, I'm not talking about physical things. Oh why are

you pastoral? But I've been here in the tenterty for longest time. No,

it's not about that, because you can do missions where you are right

here. It's your heart, it's my heart, it's our willingness, it's

our preparation. There's our eyes seeing those who needs attention, not just those

who already have all their attention. Are you all seeing me? Young people

are stuck in that place still because they haven't matured yet. Of course,

some away young people have matured even at thirteen fourteen, because they start to,

you know, live like how adults would see things, and not just

themselves and my friends and my you know, when you are still stuck like

that, then you are a teenager. And you can be a teenager even

at fifty, because it's the attitude, it's a mindset, it's the way

you live your life. But look at this again, Philip goes to Gaza.

Ladies and gentlemen, Can I prophesy to all of you in Jesus name.

You will see new things. You're gonna see new opportunities, gonna take

new territory. In Jesus name, You're gonna meet new people. That's going

to be a blessing to you and you to them. M hmm. Are

you excited just because you do it? His way, his will, his

way? You see how he moves. I'm trying to prove to you now

as a lawyer would trying to prove his case, that this is God's heart

beat. That's why when you align with his beat, so your heart goes

to do to do for years, and his one goes do and you do,

do do Anything's all right for seven years, seven chapters. And then

now you're align and you go, Okay, if that's how you beat God,

I want to beat the same. And so maybe you slow down on

yourself and you step up on God. And then after a while it's going

to be a very beauty, beautful picture. God's heart goes and you goes.

Do You're one now with God? And when you catch God's heartbeat,

thing's open. So let's read that verse again, please. So he arose

and went and behold a man of Ethiopia. Another new name. Didn't see

in X one eight? Didn't see in X eight one? Another new name?

Why? Because end of the earth Maa. So how did the gospel

go to Ethiopia? How did the Gospel go to Africa? To the obedience

of one person who didn't just stay in Jerusalem and didn't just stay in Samaria

as well? Samaria? Also he's successful. Can I tell you this right

now, and please listen to my heart. Your Samarias can also be your

Jerusalem. What do I mean by that? When you obey the first time

you come out of your comfort zone Jerusalem and you go to another place and

you say, okay, God, I'm obeying you. And then while while

you're obeying him, success takes place, and you're so successful in Samaria that

if you're not careful, it becomes your Jerusalem, y'all. See with me.

Oh, this is hot matters. It's also hard matters, but it's

hot matters. So God doesn't want us to even create Jerusalem in Samaria.

He says, I know you're successful, Philip, but go keep on going

because I am the God who goes. Jesus says, go. So I'm

running. God is running. Come on, keep up with me, Keep

up with me. Come on. I want to show you more things.

I want to show you more opportunities and more blessings and more break truths.

Come, come, come, don't stay, No, God, let me

stay for a while. This No, I don't want to enjoy this success

for another five years. I said, well you can, but I'm going

after a while. You are successful, but you don't have God's presence.

Where are you? God's the questions? Where are you God? Why do

I feel fulfill even though I have a million dollars in by Bang because he

ain't there. So he's he's like going and and we've got to follow.

He meets a man from Ethiopia. Forget that he's a You're not God.

I don't worry about it. So you are going like, oh you know

this, you're not think is a problem with you to me, don't worry

about it. It's a barren the authority. So I'm gonna prophesy again to

you. When you do God's real, God's way. He's gonna bring you

to high places. He's gonna cause you to meet people that are going to

change nations, not just anyone, someone in high authority under the queen.

And he was already ripe and ready for the gospel. Do you know what

happened? Right? He's in his chart, no writing, and you know

what happened? This God tells or whether the Angel of the Lord tells his

servant Philip to go and chase after the cheet, why would Yeah? And

Philip did it. He's running and suddenly you was, licks are running really

fast and he was the first flesh. And not only that, you know

what, even when I run, I'm painting arena. But this guy got

time to talk. What are you reading? Ah, I'm reading from Isaiah.

Oh do you understand why what you're reading? You know, it's amazing.

It was, it was supernatural. That's why Christianity is not boring.

And for the Christians that says boring. You ain't running after Charila. That's

why do the things that God tells you to do, even though in a

natural sense it's impossible. Why because God will make it possible. He would

turn the natural too shop And not a day will go by when you were

sick. Christianity is boring. Not a day will go by. I'll tell

you what. Since the day I accepted Jesus to Nawa, not a single

day is boring with Jesus. I can't understand if you will say all your

board board, because there's so much of yourself straight exciting. There's I think

God's heart pumps with excitement when he thinks about others, things about you.

When Jesus was on the cross, he thought about you, his heart pumped.

He was able to leave Heaven to come to Earth. Why he thought

about you, It's not just for himself. Are you alway still with me?

Let's go through a reflection very quickly, very quickly. Number one,

it just keeps spreading after the scattering resin it. Acts eight one is when

the scattering happened. For seven chapters, nothing happened except in Jerusalem, very

successful in Jerusalem, and seven chapters when no Judia, no Samaria, no

nothing, Acts eight one happens, and it goes on in verses, no

chapters, boom boom boom, boom boom, and now you're even in Ethiopia.

Wow. Wow. When you do God's will, God's way, you

will have to spread out of your comfort zone. But watch it, watch

it grow, watch it multiply, watch it go crazy. Even our Samarias

can become out Jerusalem's watch out for that, watch out for success that keeps

you stuck. Someone said before, the actual meaning of success is succession.

And if you don't have succession, you don't really have success. So you

always got to think about your next. And when you think about your next,

like I told them, many of my leaders when they've started becoming leaders,

are work hard for God and work yourself out of a job. That's

what I did when I retired at fifty. I worked myself out of a

past a job because I don't need to hold this forever. People got to

be secure in who God called you to be. Don't be secure in your

title. Someone say before, don't work so hard on your job, work

hard on yourself. I like that because when you work hard on yourself,

that's how you attract success. When you just work hard on your job,

you just get a salary or a bonus to may people are working too hard

on your job. Only work hard on yourself, and you become a better

person, and you start attracting promotions and bonuses and trust people's trust. Are

you always doing me? Work hard, work hard on what you need to

work. So I work hard on trying to get myself out of a job

so that other people can rise, so that God will say, Okay,

Kenneth, now that it's all there, now, keep going, keep walking,

keep walking, Kenneth. Don't stop until you come to me in heaven.

Okay, it doesn't stop. If I can, if I can give

you life, life is for a reason, and that is to serve me.

The best thing in life is to serve God. The best investment you

can make is in the kingdom of God. I know a lot of people

have been burned lately from all kinds of investments. My heart goes out for

them. Not that they wanted to be burned. You know, they really

thought it was a good investment, but you know, a bad bad I

was with a billionaire on Friday having lunch, and suddenly, you know,

as he's talking to me, he look at his phone. All your market

following. You know, so the market goes up and down, but the

Kingdom of God doesn't. Get your focus correct, get your heart in the

right place, get your investment, because when you invest in God, you

in welfare. Are you also you me? This is very very key.

What's the last point there? New things are revealed when we keep going praise

God. New things I want to continue to confess over you. New things

will happen. All right, let's move on next nine fifteen to sixteen see

paste. But the Lord said to him, go, for he is a

chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before gentiles, kings and the children

of Israel. For I will show him how many things he must suffer for

my namesake. So what's this all about? This is about Paul. Paul

walking to Damascus wanting to put Christians into prison and wanted to kill them.

He meets Jesus on the way to Damascus, and Jesus makes him blind.

He probably was already blinded anyway, and he's now being guided to Damascus.

And on the other side, God speaks to his servant Annius. He keeps

speaking to us if we wanted to do his will? You know why,

Anon, I had also had to come out of his comfort zone because he

said, God said to him, you've got to do this. There's this

guy called Saul. He's coming in and he's going He's living on a street

called straight I liked the namer straight street. No. I remember one time

when I had a cell go on my own. In my youth dayser we

called it's straight street. The straight street is where Paul was living. And

Anonias was told, go and tell tell this man this, and you know

what, analyze it. God, you must be joking. He didn't say

that, write something like that today's language. You must be joking. Do

you know this man? This man has come here to catch people like me,

and now you want me to go and do this comfort zone? Every

chapter has a person coming out of his comfort zone because God has a bigger

plan than you can see. And if anon I didn't step out, there

will be no Paul, no Paul, no Gentiles, no us. Do

you see this? And so anon I steps out? And you know what,

the faith of Adonis was so amazing because if you read the scripture for

yourself, he opens the door and he says, brother Saul, it's so

amazing to call a man who is murdering Christians just because God told you that

God was going to use him. You came in in the first encouragement.

You're giving to him his name. He's greeting brother Saul, not murder us.

Saul. God told me to come to not good for nothing, Saul.

God told me the coming brother Soul. You stepped across your comfort zone

and you speak things and you do things that God told you too. It

doesn't make sense. And some how you could be still sitting here. Does

it make sense to come from mission conference? Please come, because it might

not make sense to your schedule and to you know, your golf on Saturday

or whatever it is. But please, this only happens once a year.

Hmm. But be ready to step out of your comfort zone. So God

was gonna cause Paul to suffer so that gentiles will come to know Jesus X

nine thirty one. Read this together with me, everybody in X nine thirty

one. Then the churches throughout all Judea. Someone say all Galilee and Samaria

had peace and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in

the comfort of the Holy Spirit. They will multiplied. Hal Lujah seven chapters.

No Judaea, no Samaria, no, nothing but Jerusalem and Jazz one

chapter later x eight and acts nine. How many chapters difference? One?

And in one chapter let's look at the script scripture again. In one chapter.

You see, I'm telling you right now, if you do what's on

God's heart, you do it his will, his way. One chapter.

And it's not just Judaea, is all Judaea and Galilee which wasn't even mentioned.

And Samaria had peace? Why because Jesus is the prince of peace.

And when you bring Jesus into a community, into a neighborhood, that neighborhood

will have peace. Somebody say amen, and they will multiply. Have I

convinced you yet that this is God's heartbeat? Do it his way, do

his will, and let God show up and show off. Next one?

I like this one. What we can do in just one chapter compared to

what we have done in seven, just by focusing and committing to do what's

on God's hearts. Think about it for a moment. Some of you are

probably praying, Oh, why God so long? Why God so long?

Why God so long? I'll tell you still this preaching, you gotta have

favor that you are hearing this word, because when God's word goes forth,

it will not return to you in void. So when the word goes forth,

right now, prepare, something is about to happen. Your seven year

weight or whatever it is, is going to return into versus, into just

three verses for God. What's what's this? I just want to propheside over

your life. I really, I really believe. It's all my heart.

It's not just about just punting. It's about your own lives and your own

satisfaction, your own fulfillment. Let's let's I wanted to go to the next

one, actually, and look at X ten twenty four. So he's gone

from Wow, from scattering all the believers to Philip, from Philip to Paul,

and then now we see Peter. And the following day they entered CeCe

Aria. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and

close friends. Wow. He said to them, you know how unlawful it

is for who said to them Peter. So I'm guessing that you know the

scripture. That's why I'm giving you just parts and pastor. But if you

don't know the scripture, I'll give you a little bit of background. But

Peter is the one saying, you know how unlawful it is for a Jewish

Man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God

has showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. So

the background is that Peter is apostle. Like all the other apostles stayed in

where Jerusalem, they didn't move. This scripture gives you a reason. Why

is because they have in their mindset that it is unclean. So you can

be a very good leader, a very good pastor, but sometimes we are

stuck with a mindset that unless it's broken, we will not be able to

do the fullness of God's will. And this is Peter confessing that this is

his mindset. And he said that that God had to come and re mold

and reshape. He's thinking how when Peter was up on the rooftop, up

and he was hungry, and the Bible says he ran into a trance.

He was sleepy, and then a sheet of cloth came down from heaven in

a vision, and there were unclean animals, all kinds of animals, and

the voice of the Lord came Peter, rise, kill and eat, and

Peter says not so, Lord, because his Jewish culture, let's talk about

culture now, his Jerusalem culture, his comfort zone, his own world culture.

This allowed him to do it all those years of you know, mindset

For me, I was I wasn't wasn't gonna use the word brainwash. It

was because it's it's it's a it's a law, it's a it's a it's

a principle that Jewish people hold onto. But it was the very thing that

stopped them from doing God's will. Now you know why the apostles stayed and

so for seven chapters they stayed on. Even the persecution, they stayed on.

There's a mindset problem. And God had to bring the animals down three

times, meaning at the same message. You probably had to hear it three

times before some of you will move. So when he got it, when

he got it, finally, Cornelius sent men to go and get Peter in

another city. And the men were knocking at the door. Is Peter here,

is Peter here? And the Holy Spirit says, go down there,

men looking for you. Go with them. Fearing nothing, didn't tell him

what he's about. Just go with them. So listen, this is Cornelius

sending his men to go and get Peter, and then he brings his family

and his close friends to the house. Even that, I tell you is

amazing because the Cornelius, this leader of you know, the Roman heritage,

he sent men to get Peter, but didn't know when these men will get

him, because ladies and gentlemen, there was no handphone. Now of course,

you know you're looking for me or are looking for you. You're gonna,

Yeah, I got Joy, I got Joe. Let me let me

use this other elder. I've got Rose. Okay, I'm coming now,

yes, yeah, coming, yeah, be up in two minutes. Then

everybody you know scrambled to get the water ready, you know, the tower

ready, you know, because Elder Rose is coming. Okay, So then

they didn't have that. So I'm sending you blindly to go to a place

I the Lord, the Lord area told me where peters saying, but how

long are they gonna take? How long are they gonna take? It?

Is Peter gonna come with them? How? Peter said, no, no,

no, no, I don't go with strangers. Right by faith,

by faith, Cornelle has got his whole family and his friends to wait.

Did they wait one day? Two days, three days, no, you

don't know. Maybe it's slept over night, three nights waiting for Peter,

the messenger of God to come. I wonder how many of you in Peter's

shoes would have gone, And if you would not have gone, one whole

family would not have been saved. If you not gone, one who community

would not have been saved. And so Peter comes finally and confesses it is

actually unlawful. Do you know these days we don't use the word unlawful,

but there are a lot of prejudices, you know, that's in some worlds

that well, some parts of the world will live in. There's still cart

system. We blame the people that actually have car system. But sometimes we

have classesm here too. The way we look at each other, the way

we you know, have each other over for meals, inviting the same people

that we like. Every New Testament book moving forward is missions. Think about

it. I'm trying to say to you, this is God's heartbeat, and

this is that's why he keeps going. So we move from Romans or acts

to Romans. Romans also is about Romans. It's not about Jewish people Rome

Rome. Paul said, I will appeal to Caesar and went to Rome.

That's why Rome got the Gospel. And then after that is the other four

lettress. You remember the four atress, how you is go eat potato chips?

Right, we all know that. So Galatians for g go eat efficients

Poteto is Philippines and chips. It's Collosians. So the four let us.

After that it's all about him going. And then the Mastodonian call and Paul,

keep going, you keep going because God is going. I also me

God's heartbeat, God's heartbeat. And then let's look at another scripture here.

I'm going to a close down last lap oh until all the way to revelation.

Still the topic is clear and concise and convincing. It is evidence that

you cannot deny that even in revelations in heaven, people will be worshiping God

out of every tribe, time and nation, which is people groups, all

of us are going to be ashi in like Sheba into God's presence because it's

so many millions and millions of people says tens of thousands of tens of thousands

wringing, right, and so you get you can't choose, You can't choose,

but everybody can. I just use your imagination for millions, and you're

you're like pack like Sudens. Okay, already, because heaven, nock of

it. Okay, nobody's wagging your mask in heaven. Okay, okay.

And then you way, and then and then you start to worship. Okay.

Then God gives you a song, and the song is holy, Holy,

Holy is the Lord God, Almighty, the whole earth. It's full

of his glories. You're singing, and then you're singing Holy Holy. I'm

seeing English bays. But but then the next person to me could be from

Uganda, and some Chinese guys like oh, watching by me, watching back

okay, and then at the back there you know it's in the one years

okay. And then okay, now, whatever it is, there's gonna be

a beautiful picture. And if you can't get used to it here on earth,

you won't be get used to it on in heaven. I even sometimes

think that they go will probably put you up with people that you didn't like

on on earth, and yet we're all going to stand together. Were better

get used to it. We very start liking people who are different from us.

Every time I go to restaurants or cafes, I speak to all the

rats that come to my table like they were human beings. No, I

don't know if people two called waters. I know it sound like a red

right, we should go a red trap at or a table. And I

see, I see a memory is coming to my table. I smile at

him, I said, men glover. I gets shocked because nobody ever greets

him, and I fither if it takes my order. Tess you thin my

day. You know, I gotta learn some other languages. And my wife

always gets a little embarrassing. Canna you see you know you shopped them more

than anything else. No, I keep going, I keep going. I

keep going to do you know why I keep going to the same restaurant?

Not always because I like the fooda but because I like the people. Genesis

eleven one to four, or rather one end four. Now the whole earth

had one language and one speech, and they say, come, let us

build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens. Let

us make a name for ourselves. Let us let's be scattered abroad over the

face of the whole earth. These people in Genesis eleven did not know God's

heart, so they had one language, one speech, Chinese mandarin basa Malaysia.

Okay, people who just like to hang out with their own people go

to London, also hang out with their own people, go to Americans who

hang out with their own people always hang out with Because you're so comfortable with

your group, do you never learned, you never grow? No. Okay,

to embrace your group, but you must also be willing and open have

God's heart. But no, in Genesis eleven, it was on God's heart.

They were going in one language, one speech, and all they knew

what to do was let's build for ourselves, let's build us tower. And

the only reason, let's look at the scripture again, the only reason for

building like that is so that they will no longer need to move, so

that they no longer need to be scattered. I don't want to move,

La, I just want to build my own kingdom, my own world,

my own business. I just mean my my family to Koblah, you know

enough. No, this is not God's heart. So when they were building

building, why why they want to build so much? One voice, one

language, one speech, so that they don't need to move. And then

straight after Genesis eleven, his Genesis twelth, where God said to Abraham,

get out of your father's house. Get out again, because now that I

spread everyone all across the earth, I'm going to now go and save them.

So Abraham has to get out. Go to a land. I'll show

you what's the name of Abraham. What does it mean? Father of many

nations? Because the purpose was to go back to the nations and win them

all back one by one. But it ain't gonna happen if you ain't moving.

So move out, Abraham, Yes, Lord, I move up.

I will give your I'll give you descendants more than the stars in the sky

if you can count them. Why so many? Because he wants all of

them to go everywhere to win them back that God had scattered you. Look

at this slight, he says Joseph. Joseph was the same thing. Brothers

sell him to Egypt. He goes to Egypt. Why see, I don't

want to miss this slight because some of you are still thinking and wondering and

asking why why God you allow this to happen. And I'm saying to you

right now. God doesn't simply let anything happen, even the bad things,

if he didn't have a bigger plan. So Joseph said, to his brothers,

what you meant for evil? God? Men? For good? Wow?

What do you do? He brought Joseph into Egypt because Egypt needed Jesus

and became the prime minister. So I want to say this to you right

now, and I prophesy again. God's gonna lead you to place us where

He's gonna bless you and give you authority and give you inference. He did

the same thing to poses Prince of Egypt, authority, amazing a posture,

good looking, trained in the language. And then he had to run.

Why do I have to run? Because God also wants you to continue to

move, don't just stay in Egypt. So he runs, he runs,

and now at the backside of the desert, the Bible says, he can't

even speak properly anymore. He's scared, he's he's stuttering, and God uses

his mouth, the weakness of his mouth, to begin to orchestrate the salvation

plan of God. And then Daniel. We're reading Daniel this year, we're

reading Daniel. Daniel taken from a comfort zone into Babylon, and in Babylon

he becomes a prime minister, and he influences us not one king, but

four kings. Why do God? Why does God keep moving us? Why

does why does God allow things to happen, move us from one job to

move us one place no other? Why does he do that? Because because

his heart is not just for you, It's for others through you, and

Babylon knew about God because of Daniel. Would the last cripture up? And

we're close, Thank you Jesus, that the whole earth will be filled with

the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

When we your people are willing to move, are willing to be moved,

are willing to scatter, are willing to go beyond our own culture,

are willing to go beyond our skin color, are willing to accept our brother,

our sister, are willing to go to where it's not comfortable. Are

willing to give even to something that is not for our own enjoyment. Out

of every tongue, tribe, and nation or Lord, the whole heavens will

be filled with all kinds of people praising the Lord and worshiping him. Come

and everybody stand to your feet. Why don't you reddicate your heart to the

Lord, And said God, I don't want my heart to be hardened.

I don't want my heart to be selfish. I don't just live for myself

as a boring life to live for yourself, I want to live an excitement,

an exciting life. They can only be found in Christ. This is

the plan of God. But this is also the heartbeat of God. And

when we touch the heart of God, things begin to happen in our lives.

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