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Great Commission - Walking by Faith or Sight | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

  2. will light up your day if you have a Bible with you, which you

  3. turn to Matthew chapter twenty eight. All right, you know I'm going with

  4. this scripture relief. I ask you to tend to met to twenty eight.

  5. But metro trainy eight, you know, I'm so going to try to do

  6. like a devotion training. It was sixteen with you all, and let's see

  7. how the Lord will leaders. Okay, Metro trainy eight was sixteen. Then

  8. the eleven eleven disciples went away into galley to the mountain which Jesus has appointed

  9. for them. It's very nice to see the mountaintop. Very nice at the

  10. mountaintop experience. Right, you get fresh air, lovely scenery. You know,

  11. you get to see everything the world is like on top of the on

  12. top of the world experience. We love it. But how many of you

  13. know that. You know, Jesus did not ask us to pitch a tent

  14. on the mountaintop. He did not ask us like this is the place you

  15. will sort of settle down, and therefore you will built your house on top

  16. of the hill. Well that is nice. You know having Jesus up there,

  17. meeting up with Jesus like going away for kem All right, Well it's

  18. good and everything like. But God has never encouraged us. This is the

  19. place I want you to settle down to fellowship with me continuously, just worship

  20. me and dismounted. God this morning wants to remind us again that I have

  21. an assignment for everyone here. He says here in verse seventeen, when the

  22. disciples saw Jesus. When the disciples saw Jesus, they worship him. That's

  23. what everybody, every believer needs to do when we see Jesus. What do

  24. we do? We worship? How many we love worship service? You love

  25. the worship part of the service. Songs minister to our hearts, lift up

  26. our burdens. We get encouragement and hope to songs that we sing. Well,

  27. worship is good and everything like that. But how many of you know

  28. that worship itself it's not the end goal. It's not the end goal of

  29. the believer, because if it's the end of believer, you will not get

  30. worse eighteen or worse nineteen and was twenty. God this morning was to encourage

  31. again, Well, it's good to worship. But worship must lead to transformation.

  32. Worship must lead to transformation. Say again, worship must lead to wear.

  33. That's right, Worship must lead to transformation because if you're not transform then

  34. worship it's all about you. If you're not transforming God presence, worship is

  35. all about you. What I could get from the Lord? What number shry

  36. by? I know I'm saying this right now in the Christian community, but

  37. I also do know that a Lord Christian community is who by numbers? Right,

  38. there's between you and a lot. Okay, But here's the thing.

  39. If I'm not transformed, that everything's about you. What I can get from

  40. today's service, what I can get from let's say, espresso every time,

  41. you just go in there because it's about you. The food, it's about

  42. you. You go to homes, you look at the meal there. Ah,

  43. this home is always a really good one. I was speaking at ADM

  44. service. I was telling them that those of the youth for a complaining that

  45. older people homes are boring. And now I say that one thing I know

  46. that anybody who is not a youth anymore, who is at the words you're

  47. looking at out and adult homes, their homes are never bankrupt one, never

  48. running deathsit. Campus homes are always in there sit one every campus sorry campus

  49. homeley to say see until now until give to normal strain to say anymore already

  50. please held appreciate right because it I oh, friends, because the home leaders

  51. like, oh, I'll pay for you, I'll pay for you. I

  52. would no more I need to pay a doubt. I know one thing for

  53. sure that the table is always feel with foot one. I went to a

  54. PC home PC one friends. Excess, y'all talk quiet, excess of course

  55. one the vegetables am all. That's why so selling people that come on.

  56. It cannot be. It cannot be just because people are older that they are

  57. the words that expression and the zeal diminishes. See. Worship must always need

  58. to transformation. If you're not transformed, now, when would you be transformed?

  59. Because the Bible said, although the eleven disciples worship God, there's there's

  60. two words that some doubted wish mean to say that some other people are like

  61. the worst taken up in worship. Some of them are like, cannot be

  62. this one cannot be Jesus. It's like some of us here today, this

  63. one cannot be the word of love for me because I'm here, I want

  64. to brit shoe and eldest talking about mission. I'm here, I'm looking for

  65. a life. But the eldest talking about mission. I'm here, I need

  66. healing. Elder's talking about mission. Some will doubt the Bible, says those

  67. who doubt. Why if you look at second Courrintius five, verse seven,

  68. second Courritis five ver Severn, Let's see what the scripture you have to say.

  69. Second Courritius five, verse Severn said, we are called to walk by,

  70. come on, we are called to walk by. Come on. We

  71. are called to walk by, not by sight. So therefore, friends,

  72. why do we doubt? We doubt because our eyes is off the Lord and

  73. onto the physical. Our eyes is off the Lord, off the Lord.

  74. Let me, you're not looking at the lot anymore. We are looking at

  75. the round it. That's why I can hear when people tell me that,

  76. oh, this homes is not not not tentpati servies. Okay, I've quantified

  77. this because everywhere I go I'm going to use example. I'm just talking about

  78. my homes. No, I'm not talking about your homes. I'm talking about

  79. eight am homes right now. So when I go when I go to,

  80. When I go to, I'm talking about homes. No kidding, but first

  81. I've heard. I've been in church since they were I've known. Some people

  82. said, how do you want me to talk to this person no older than

  83. me by twenty years old? Why am I gonna talk to them about soup?

  84. At least? I said, if you don't know want to talk about,

  85. always talk about food because food is our common language. But anyway,

  86. they said, what I'm gonna talk to them about? That's so boring law

  87. They go in rounds. What do you do? What do you study?

  88. Oh? Very good, future friends. It cannot be because if we want

  89. to really the world is that. If you cannot look by sight, then

  90. we're always going to choose things that pleases us. True or not, this

  91. home is not? Or if Graham's Grahams home must be really excited because he's

  92. so fun to be with John, someone who's always going to score. You

  93. actually do discipleship. Then we pick according to what we like in a flesh.

  94. That's why we doubt, because when Jesus appeared differently than what we expect

  95. him to, appeal with doubt. When Jesus doesn't come to this very moment.

  96. When you pray with doubt, we doubt because we cannot see a brick

  97. tue right now. It cannot be friends. That youth and the doubt cannot

  98. mix together and do our great hopes. Someone say, a man, it

  99. cannot be friends when we age. After all, our expression begin to the

  100. world is drying out, and just say, oh, I'm slightly older right

  101. now. So therefore my expression has been no. Who says so, friends,

  102. Come on, I will speak to youth right now. One day you

  103. get to our age. I know Johnson when he was a campus student,

  104. he looks so young. I thought he was a youth. I was reaching

  105. out to him saying that I'm looking at out ready still young. But here's

  106. the thing, friends, if we're gonna go by sight, we're not gonna

  107. get a big to turn with me right now, right to John chapter twenty.

  108. Wow, John, chapter twenty, I hope you're getting something off from

  109. this, John chapter twenty worse. Let me see a worse sixteen, you

  110. know, let me see a worse. Let me I gotta turn the John

  111. John twenty. First, I'm going with for a worse nineteen worse one nineteen

  112. one night, Okay, John, Chapter twenty was nineteen. The same day

  113. evening being the first day of the week, the doors were shut, the

  114. disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews. Jesus appeared. This is Jesus

  115. appearing to them after the resurrection. Now Jesus came and stood in the midst

  116. and seeing them, Peace be with you, friends. I want you to

  117. know something. This peace that Jesus speaks about really ministers everyone had because it's

  118. not the peace that comes from how much you have, the possession you have,

  119. or the knowledge you have. It comes from the word of God.

  120. It's a perfect peace. It cast us out of fear. First, you

  121. and I need to know. When God speaks something in my frist, it

  122. ministers to our hearts. One. It's it's beyond what we could imagine when

  123. God appears to them. First, you got to understand this. This is

  124. Jesus who was weep bruce half on the cross that took him off to try

  125. to bury him. And all they heard was Jesus came out from the tomb.

  126. They have not seen Jesus yet, and jive and Jesus a pit to

  127. them, even to us right now, we'll be afraid and Jesus know what

  128. we go through, he says to everyone. Right now, peace be with

  129. you, friends. You and I need to grab hold of this truth that

  130. no matter what we go through in our life, Jesus saying, peace be

  131. with you, because a lot of times we are in situation whereby it robs

  132. us of our peace. The moment you get medical report. Don't you think

  133. we focus on the medical report, then our future the moment, don't let's

  134. or even go so far, friends, because I know a lot of people

  135. here only go to take medical report when we are asked to, forced to,

  136. or we feel something wrong with our body. Buying new clothes, all

  137. sudden you're the size should be wearing for the past five years, and the

  138. anymore you're looking in the in the changing room, looking at the excess you

  139. cannot even baton the last one. You're asking yourself, maybe I should lose

  140. weight. Thereforeever that day, right all you could think of that, I

  141. think I need to lose weight because I can't fit anymore. We focus on

  142. things, friends, that doesn't give us peace. When performance appraiser is deal,

  143. everybody gets something. You get something, but it's lesser per see,

  144. I did equal work, Friends, when Jesus speaks to us, it give

  145. us perfect peace in the midst of the storm. We need to know this

  146. truth because there are days in our life that's coming. Everybody, it's going

  147. to rob us from the peace. When you are in the operation theater all

  148. by yourself, you need to know that Jesus is saying to your peace be

  149. with you. When you're in the exam hole all by yourself. You don't

  150. know how to answer. Friends, I've been there, do not know how

  151. to answer the examt question. You need to know that God said you peace

  152. be with you in the midst of that lawyer that you're sitting in front of

  153. trying to work out and negotiation. Peace be with you because God is going

  154. to always going to bring us to a place where might we depend more on

  155. him. It says it was strengthy. Then when he said this, he

  156. showed them his hands. Friends, Jesus began to reveal himself even more,

  157. show them the palm, should them discuss and show them decides. He wants

  158. to reassure every disciples that was there, it's really him right. So therefore,

  159. let me introduce your character called Thomas. What's twenty four Thomas? If

  160. your name here is Thomas. Please don't be offended because I'm reading from the

  161. Bible, right, so if I'm referencing Thomas, Okay, I'm referencing from

  162. the Bible. Okay, now now what's tenty four? Now? Thomas called

  163. the tree one of the twelfh was not with them when Jesus came. Thomas

  164. to me from the Bible. Here speaks about every believer I've met. Because

  165. it worse Training four said Thomas was not there when Jesus appeared, it says

  166. in most training. Five. Other disciples therefore said to him, we have

  167. seen the Lord. We have saw the scars on his palm, felt the

  168. sex of his body. We have experienced Jesus for ourselves. I won't let

  169. you know that Jesus is real. Like most believer I know, they go

  170. like, yeah, that's you, that is you. Like we have taught

  171. people in church, come for homes. Homes is exciting, it's great.

  172. Come and joining a small group, that's you, couple. Church, church

  173. is exciting. In church, you will never yawn, right, No,

  174. so I have yawning. I'm funny to say. This is what Thomas said

  175. to Jesus. Okay, this is what Thomas said, the disciples already to

  176. Jesus Verse twenty five. Other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen

  177. the Lord. And this is what Thomas answered. Unless I see in his

  178. hands the print, first condition, I must see the prince first. I

  179. must see his print. I must see his print. Therefore I believe no

  180. need that not only see the I must therefore put rou the print first condition.

  181. Not seeing enough, I got to feel it for myself. And that's

  182. why sometimes when we ask people to serve, where we ask people go for

  183. missus. Unless a lot speaks to me in true Malayian kinney, I will

  184. now believe my name has to appear somehow. I I must connect. I

  185. must ask the impossible. Therefore, I only can believe unless God showed to

  186. be my bank account increased by tomorrow, give me this deal. There only

  187. I serve it cannot be friends because Thomas was like that. Thomas said that

  188. unless I see his hands the print, put my finger into the print,

  189. put my hand to his side. Then only I believe how many how many

  190. people? Right now? You know I always asking. Unless it's a lot,

  191. show up now and speak to me personally, I would now believe that's

  192. why the takeup is very low globally for missions. The Lord had to speak

  193. to me very clearly. The Lord has to speak to me very clearly.

  194. Then only I believe, friends, is what Thomas as. I must see

  195. his hands. I must see the scars. No, I must see the

  196. scars right and I need to put to the scars. I need to put

  197. to his side picture right now, all of you here, right now,

  198. Jesus, you are Jesus. You're ministry through the child of Disciples. Right

  199. now, you are Jesus and you can want disciples? Is that really you?

  200. Lord? Come on, show me your hands, then I believe.

  201. Not only show me hands, No, I got to feel whether this would

  202. is real or not. I got to feel your sights because I heard that

  203. you were at the site. Here it's almost like this. I want all

  204. of you all to tell your mom right now, are you really my mother?

  205. How do I know you're reading my mother? How do I know you're

  206. really my mom? Unless I know that you went to all that labor pains.

  207. I know if anyone of your ask your mom right now, are you

  208. really my mom? I can guarantee you you'll be up here. It you

  209. really you get slapped all. Notice that the worst things that your health will

  210. be taken away. You'll be like your mom. Forgive me. This is

  211. what Thomas asked as a three conditions. And too many believers right now are

  212. like Thomas, God, you got to give me three signs and then only

  213. I believe showing if I do on me is not enough. I got to

  214. feel your hands to see where it is real or not. Maybe you draw

  215. it, maybe cosmetic, you draw on your palmner like bleeding like that.

  216. No, the ass asks with the sights, and that's what happened. That's

  217. why we never had the brick too, because all the time we are walking

  218. by sight. All the time in our Christian faith, we have been walking

  219. by sight. All these homes are other homes. Are got more food your

  220. homes. It's always fright Rice. It cannot be friends, come on church.

  221. It cannot be just because today which she plays elliot, I should borrowing

  222. when I know fass all. It cannot be because if it goes go by

  223. side, that's why everything goes downhill. Every time you look at your age

  224. on your passport, wow, two more years to fifty, two more years

  225. to fifty. Wow, what have I been doing my life. Every time

  226. you look at your age, you go and get more depressed. Don't look

  227. by side every time you see your boss like work, how boss are you

  228. pre law? Come on it? So, therefore, friends second quarters five

  229. or seven say, therefore we are not to walk by side by by faith,

  230. Thomas asked for a side. And this is what Jesus did. Jesus,

  231. you know why he went to He was whipped, he was bruised,

  232. he was spent upon, and all of a sudden, Thomas, any front

  233. of Jesus, are you the real Jesus? You get the imagine right now?

  234. Right? You went through so much everything. Let's say mom went through

  235. so much to give birth to us, and the sun asking are you my

  236. mom? Of course you'll get wet, of course gets coding. Of course,

  237. who told you I'm not your mom? This is what Jesus said to

  238. Thomas. Okay, Jesus did not reject Thomas. If you were Jesus,

  239. you will weet your disciples really right, not come on right now, Come

  240. on right now. If your sun would ask you are you my mom?

  241. Most Mammy will actually give a long lecture, right not at least you'll give

  242. because you went through so much you care with for nine months, the pain

  243. and everything like that. But this is what Jesus said to Thomas in Worse

  244. twenty six, And the ad disciples appeared inside again that Thomas was. Then

  245. Jesus came the door it amiss, it stood in a miss and say peace

  246. to you. He did not zero in on Thomas and say, Thomas,

  247. I heard what you ask of me, that disciple. Jesus did not say

  248. to Thomas that I heard you asked me for my science. You know,

  249. I went to for you, not I got spelled, I got wecked,

  250. I did all. I went to all that for you. You're asking me

  251. whether I'm Jesus not. Most time we reject people like that because they take

  252. us for grunted for all right. But Jesus said to Thomas, peace be

  253. with you friends, You and I this morning, friends, no matter what

  254. your went true, matter what doubt that you have, I want to let

  255. you know that Jesus is saying to you that peace to be with you shows

  256. the acceptance of love. Jesus know what everyone's journey is, he says to

  257. Thomas, And this is my hands, this is my sight. Fel it

  258. for yourself. But even after that feel even after showing my friends if the

  259. after revealing to Thomas is what Jesus said to him in Worse twenty seven,

  260. he said, the top us, reach your finger here, look at my

  261. hands, reach your hands here, put it at my sights. The last

  262. words to not be unbelieving but belief. Do not be unbelieving but beliefs.

  263. After you experience everything, you can still not believe. On you know,

  264. you just heard an amazing testimony. Someone cancer, Marca went down, Someone's

  265. cancer Marcael went down. Your faith should be like whoa. Your face should

  266. be like yay, but instay like unless I experience it for myself, I

  267. would not believe. Unless experience it for myself, I won't believe. It

  268. cannot be friends. Your faithness the words that rejoice. If God can do

  269. it for Elaine, God can do it for my life. That's how it

  270. is friends, when we come together. When you hear a testimony of faith,

  271. issue the words stirs on to believe. But Thomas, even after doing

  272. all that, feeling Jesus, that's why you said to say, do not

  273. be unbelieving but belief. You can experience amazing priess and worship amazing preaching.

  274. In fact, you have all the Bible version in your house, you should

  275. not believe it's true. You should not believe because believing the Bible says Jesus

  276. said that blessed adults who have not seen yet belief, just like Jesus the

  277. minister to Thomas, blessed adols who have not seen yet believe. Therefore,

  278. friends, right now, Savil might be thinking, yeah, although you know,

  279. great preaching, but you know, if you're only knew, tend to

  280. tis a visa it's a bit more adoptish. Now, let's excuse the word

  281. towards a doubt right now. Just have used a lot of fuss. Someone

  282. you know really like gets us going by. Now it's like you start slow

  283. them after the second songs and almost worshiped rely them praying between the after my

  284. most my more last song. Then that's it so different though I grew up

  285. in this shit back then, when people are younger and light that we can

  286. jump. Now now it's like older, like everyone seems to be at right

  287. now we go like a doubt series the senior fellowship. After that, then

  288. there's like then at the place the way it's more lively. This is like

  289. m First, it cannot be friends. Come on, we don't go by

  290. side. Doesn't mean I got normal head, doesn't mean I'm getting old,

  291. I think. So it cannot be friends. That just because things are different

  292. now that our passion changes, cannot be because if we're going to be led

  293. by sight, then what happens is that then Malayian no Hoper. Malaysian no

  294. Hoper have been entertaining a lot of conversations to be asked to me, Yeah,

  295. why don't you migrate? Why don't you migrate? If you need to

  296. migrate, we can make a ration for you my grade. I can help

  297. you, make a ration for you. I make a ration for you,

  298. my grate. I said, why do I need to my grade? I'm

  299. caught. I'm born in Malaysia. I'm most worried will die here. This

  300. is my country and that's God called me. I won't leave and this is

  301. a good land. We have to see to the lands of faith. It

  302. cannot be if this land is really the word it says. If this land

  303. doesn't have any hope, then the Bible says that you are the light and

  304. salt of the earth. Therefore, let your lights shine before men. And

  305. what happens body the Christianity here is this that? Or those who are serving

  306. are called more committer Christian. Those are not serving I just called Christian.

  307. The Bible says in Mettic chapter five, Year of the Light, there's no

  308. such thing as more committer light less committer light. There is no demon switch

  309. in the light. Friends, there is no demon switch in the light.

  310. Sorry, I'm just going okay, I'm just very passionate about this topic.

  311. There is no demons stitch, but a lot of Christian. The word is

  312. that the first show is a commuter Christian, that the commitment just goes down

  313. the road. The last show is this Christian. There's no such The Bible

  314. not say that the light therefore there's a demo site right now the intensity get

  315. turns on me? You like it? No, I don't off on the

  316. light switch either your lights on or its off. And many times if you

  317. end to think the thought, there's a demon suite. That's why our faith

  318. gets challenged. Why do we doubt? I tell you why we doubt redoubt

  319. only because we've been so lies by Satan. Yeah. God created a very

  320. powerful couple in Genesis chapter three, chapter one, Adam and Eve when Satan

  321. came to Eva eva us alone. And this is what happens when you're alone

  322. all the time. As since Dragmes the one come to church. Not really,

  323. and this is what happens. Satan will come and soul lies. The

  324. God really said this. How can you believe? Are you sure not?

  325. They say a healing fake cancer market job doesn't mean heal. If it was

  326. you, you'll be praising God. Come on, if if you were going

  327. chow, then you'll be praising God every change progress, you'll be lip big

  328. and praising God. But just because it's not you, it cannot be lah

  329. dropped one year, I can guarantee you one must go up again. One

  330. See see where Satan's going with this conversation? Yeah, they say, you

  331. give unto the law of God, will multiply back to you. I yeah,

  332. only a few people on you. And see where Satan is taking your

  333. thoughts to serve? Are the only one your time? On you? One?

  334. The only one your time? When they after they use you, they

  335. chew your side, use by they put your cold storage. All these secular

  336. talks of put your friends. There's no cool storage in extras because our eco

  337. is very warm. Sorry, lame joke. But that's true. That's what

  338. Satan six to do. The one is that I isolate you, catch you

  339. when you're alone and respot to you. Don't serve. I should. They

  340. got really tell you to serve. They got really say this to you.

  341. It can be that God let you to this company right and your work over

  342. time? Friends, what's wrong with all time? It can be friends,

  343. God let you know place and there you are dub thing can win the time.

  344. God let me to you. God let me you to me. Problems

  345. the time? God, where are you are? It can be that God

  346. cannot help me to look at marriage in your marriage conflicts, Frans is what

  347. I'm trying to sell. That was this morning, that if you're going to

  348. continue to go by sight, you'll not see a big True. That's why

  349. it met after all the experience. Some doubt that Jesus gave a very specific

  350. instruction go. Why do we need to go? It is because in going

  351. you get to experience the Holy Spirit. In going you get to experience the

  352. Holy Spirit. Many times, a lot of people ask for more power in

  353. worship songs, more power, more live, right, But what's the point

  354. of more if it's only for ourselves. Think about it. What's the point

  355. of God pouring up more power in a congregation? May don't go out because

  356. I realize power is resteductive. One urma urma nice. You when you're in

  357. power, you want more. One when you when you look at a better

  358. couple, grayer, you want more. On right, everything we want more

  359. except the fast around or sesia that want to be done more. But everything

  360. else you want more one, more power, more influenced, more lights,

  361. more followers. You get the trios. Well, finally you got one thousand

  362. million lighting your tweets. But if it's just more like their friends, that's

  363. why God fighting. If I had to pot something, If you're not going

  364. to be channeling into someone else, there's a going is very important. There's

  365. like it follows back to Genesis ship to twelve. I will bless you and

  366. you'll be a blessing. I'll bless you and you'll be a blessing. But

  367. a lot of people just focus our first part. God bless me, God

  368. bless me, Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus. Then where's the other

  369. second part? Then where's the second part? Because if our faith is going

  370. to grow, we have to go. If you want to grow your faith.

  371. You have to go, because in going, the Bible says you get

  372. experienced. So go therefore and make disciples of all nation. It did not

  373. give you, it gives a very specific blue print. Here as I bring

  374. the smashes to close the next fifteen minutes, God's asking us a big disciple.

  375. This is why I want to challenge your over us. Here. You

  376. see these empty chairs around you. A pressure souls needs to sit at this

  377. chest. If you're going to go by sight on your this chest so empty,

  378. l this so big, cannot feel friends, we started the church.

  379. Joy knows this. She walked up in a service whereby there's only three big

  380. sized gentlemen there one round table. She can walk in, but she can

  381. she find you had to walk up because there's only one exit door. I

  382. thought, by God's grace, to God's divine intervention. But she stayed.

  383. She and the sisters stayed. Some psycho girl, these two ladies, or

  384. they stayed. I remember the first time when we had a barbecue night.

  385. Joy volunteered and the sister, we will cook, we will marring it the

  386. chicken. The chicken turn out to be the words that she followed through the

  387. word, we are salt of the earth. Everybody that took a bite off

  388. a bit gets reminder of Chapter five. We are salt of the earth.

  389. It's a good reminder that we are salt. Subsequently, we have to wash

  390. every chicken because too salty. I'm sharing all this you because I tell you

  391. why. If you're gonna go by sight, there a lot of things,

  392. even a personal life, you're not going to achieve it, never, never

  393. going to achieve it. Because if you want everything to be perfect, then

  394. only you move very hard. If a company is perfect, they won't hire

  395. you because you are You are abnormally in equation. But if and if you

  396. understand the principle of God by faith, when you go into any place to

  397. transform and change, things would now be the same. I got to believe,

  398. friends, the homes wherever I get planted cannot be boring. I got

  399. to believe that serving a long precious people cannot be dow. I gotta believe,

  400. as I age, that my energy, my passion fall cannot be diminish.

  401. I gotta believe that you know, we have great people in our church

  402. and not just boring. I gotta believe, friends, that to the lens

  403. of faith that we have the best youth ministry and taste ministry. You've miss.

  404. Ministry is not based on how you dress, because when I was asked

  405. to do youth ministry, I died by the grace. I was just studying.

  406. I just had dinner with Ellie and Christavelle. I was just studying Ellie

  407. that no I got. I remember picking up go for an event. The

  408. mom was so worried. The mom was in front of the door. She

  409. got into my car. The mom was looking at who is this ball,

  410. gentleman, big size picking up my daughter for a church event. I was

  411. saying, thank God, your mom did not stop me for going to church.

  412. For it. You got to believe that God now will meet the mistake

  413. one. So therefore, friends, are you going to work by faith or

  414. by sight? So I got to just finish up one more point where you

  415. all. Then I'll close and pray. The reason why we are called to

  416. participate in missions is because you and I, You and I are given a

  417. mandate to go and not to stay. To go and not to stay to

  418. go and not to stay. As believers, we are called to be live

  419. and solved the earth. And therefore, friends, many times We are not

  420. called to be full time missionary. God has never asked you to be a

  421. full time missionary unless He specifically caught you. But obviously I called to be

  422. witness for Christ. So ill be what the old missions means has to be

  423. full time missions has to be uncomfortable. Missions meeds to go to a place.

  424. We are toilets without without egghorn, which just means there's no no hot

  425. water. It can be because if all that is stopping you from missions,

  426. if all they're stopping you from missions, you think about it, what God

  427. say, Actually go in Melbourne, X menman to serve there for three months.

  428. Then you then your story cheating. But how do you must understand ext

  429. chu high? First of all we complain no, no toilets, no no,

  430. no proper baiting, no hot water. Then God said, no,

  431. I didn't ask you go to or Austly as you go Melbourne, well you

  432. still go. How do you must understand exchange you expensive a ticket, expensive,

  433. even all that is provided for? Well used still go? Because going

  434. has never been about what was prepared. Going has always been about the heart.

  435. With this, I'm going to close and challenge of us here the reason

  436. why why we don't respond. It is because with doubt, and with doubt,

  437. because we don't see things to how Jesus saw things. When Jesus saw

  438. the multitudes, the Bible says he was moving compassion. When Jesus saw the

  439. multitudes, he was moved with compassion. When you see people? What comes

  440. to your heart? When you see people? What comes your heart? When

  441. you see a girl people? What comes your heart? But they deserve the

  442. gospel. They don't deserve the gospel. They deserve your attention. They don't

  443. deserve your attention. When you see people? What what comes to your heart?

  444. No point? I design always think of wantage of people. When you

  445. see people, what the words? What stirs within your heart? The Bible

  446. says, when Jesus saw the maltitude, he was moving compassion. He likened

  447. them like ship without a shepherd left for slaughter. It can be friends that

  448. you and I are moved by a big church. I'm not getting big chest,

  449. but you're moved by the exterior. But we're not moving compassion people.

  450. I was asked one time, why did I start a certain homes far away

  451. where it travels for one hour gem I just said this. I saw good

  452. people that takes about one and a half hours to get to homes. The

  453. homes in the area. Just go ahead and start a one has to pay

  454. a sacrifice. That's it. Did it for ten years because say bring it

  455. into the chapter close. But it's that in the obedience, friends, it's

  456. what goes after? What do you see? Friends? Oh? No,

  457. this server because every time I come at there's more than sufficient homes. Then

  458. no need. Every time I come with so many people, shake my hand

  459. myself enough one to give because this is such a big chest. Right,

  460. I just tiponne can be friends. When God saw the multitude, he was

  461. moved with compassion. When we saw this place, we will move by faith

  462. that this will be our ground for X number of years. We don't know

  463. how long we're gonna have this place, but we truly know that if God

  464. ask us to go, will go. We're not where a sentiment up about

  465. places. One you go out to say, will stay? What do you

  466. see, friends? What do you see? Why don't we goes? Because

  467. we don't see through the eyes of Jesus. That's why we doubt. When

  468. Peter was asked of water, the moment his eyes got of Jesus, out

  469. of the wave he begins to sing, and that's what God is speaking to

  470. us this morning. He wants us to see through the length of faith everything

  471. that you do. It can be at your business place or so. It

  472. is so hard, It is so hard. Where is your faith? Where

  473. is your faith? We are called to speak to mouths, not confessed problems.

  474. Where is your faith? Extra It can be that older people has less

  475. of zeal. If you for us only the expression of zeal, then we

  476. missed the point. It can be that the moment you reach a certain asia,

  477. we can put our faith on sima. There's so much more. Installed

  478. A lady came up for am survey. She was in the sixties. Her

  479. one prayers is God, please use me more, because I do not want

  480. to exist without being fully used by the Lord. I do want to leave

  481. these places there was fully maximized by the Lord. It can be, friends,

  482. see how passions I am. It can be. As I close right

  483. now, I pray that you allow God to speak into your heart. Really,

  484. our life here it's so precious. We really do not know what tomorrow.

  485. May hope it's true, but you have today, and that's why it's

  486. so important that today, if we hear the words of the Lord. Do

  487. not harden your hearts today. If we hear the words of Lord, do

  488. I say that, maybe I'll respond tomorrow. Don't be like Thomas I say

  489. that, God, I know you are speaking to me about faith. Therefore

  490. you got to show me these signs then on. Yeah, I believe,

  491. even after God show you everything, do you still believe? You hear testimony

  492. after testimony, do you still believe? What more do you? What more

  493. do you want Jesus to proof? Do you think about it? What more

  494. must he do to convince you that He is your personal lot and savior?

  495. What more must He showed to you right in your own journey, right that

  496. she is the author of your faith. We hope you've been blessed by this

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  499. is going to be a good week ahead for you. God bless