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12+1 Core Value: Faith Evident | Pr Ronson
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You're listening to a message to go from axt church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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Today we're gonna look into faith evidence, which is all
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call value number seven. We have done spirit field, christ centered,
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kingdom minded but faithful, discipleship focused and of course last week,
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but they won't have shared a very powerful message about
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prayer powered.
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And today we're gonna look at faith evidence.
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There must be an evidence to our faith beyond a
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profession of saying that I'm a Christian right and there's
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a difference between a practicing Christian and a Christian. And
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today we're gonna look at that faith evident. Now ex
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Church was birth by faith. Every work of God, every
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ministry of God must be birth by faith. And every
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life represented today I look at a person on your left, right,
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front and back. Every life take time to look and
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appreciate each other's beauty is a miracle in God. And
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every life represented today in growing makers is the evidence
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of faith. In year two thousand, pastors started the church.
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We don need three people three people, and today after
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twenty six years, we are in at least eight countries
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in different locations.
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And it takes faith. It takes faith to grow.
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And I want to remind us that ex Church Primary
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DNA is also faith. If you know Pastor he is
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a man of faith. Who we have thought that Malaysian
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Church will planning in UK. Who would have thought that
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Malais Church will be planted in Africa and Botswana? Who
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would have taught them Malaysian Church will be planted down
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under in Australia. It takes faith, meaning when God says go,
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we go. You know, the language of faith often is
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I don't understand yet, but I would choose to trust
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you God. There is a danger in church today where God,
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you showed me first, then I will go.
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But what happens if God tells you you go?
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And then I will show you how many would take
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that lead of faith to trust God. Because as church
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we must understand that the greatest legacy we can give
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to our people, the greatest legacy we can give to
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the next generation.
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It's not the sound, it's not the lights.
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It's not how big of a building, it's not how
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comfy the chair is. It's not how good the food is.
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Or is probably important to show excellence to God, but
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it's not the most important. The greatest legacy you and
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I can give to each other, and we can give
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to the next generation.
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Is the gift of faith.
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Where we will continue to show people that re God,
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all things are possible, and the only way to please
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God we will look at scripture later, is to live
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by faith. For without faith it is impossible to please God.
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We want to be a church where we want to
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please God, and the only pretty bigal way to please
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God is a demonstration of our faith. So we must
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not lose sight. The most important thing that is to
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live by faith. So faith is not just something we believe,
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it is something that must be.
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Widden.
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So it's beyond the Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. Whenever people
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ask you how are your brother? How are your sister?
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It's beyond that. It must be evident in the life
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that we live. It must be evident in the decision
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that we made, and it must be evident even in
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our testimony as a Christian. So Hebrews eleven is a
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very powerful chapter where the author actually lists down key
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people who have demonstrated faith. In fact, not everyone gets mentioned,
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because if everyone gets mentioned, we will have probably chapter eleven, twelve, thirteen,
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all the way to one thousand. I don't know, but
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it was kept at just that one chapter for a reason.
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And every person in Hebrews chapter eleven had one thing
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in common. They believe God obeyed, and it shows so obedience.
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And faith goes hand in hand.
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And later we're going to read from the Book of
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James as well towards the end that faith and works
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go hand in hand. So it's beyond the profession. It
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is also translated into action. I like Hebrews eleven because
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to me it is a wall of faith. You guys
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probably would have heard a popular term wall of fame.
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You know, a wall of fame is where you got
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famous people being listed and say, okay, Bill Gates used
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to be the most richest person in the world. Now
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is I don't know, Jeff Bezos or Elen mass I
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don't know. And then you have probably wall of fame
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for football stars it has to be Lionel Messi, right,
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because it's the good okay ah, Then you have a
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wall of fame. Or in Hollywood they have the Walk
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of Fame, right, the Walk of Fame Bay if you're
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a good actor, actresses popular, then got a star tow
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for you and your name. They call it the Walk
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of fame. Let me tell you, if you want to
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prosper in the things of God, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
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In the kingdom of God, there's no wall of fame
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because God is not into popularity. God is starting to success.
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So if you're here looking at wanting to be the
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most richest person, sorry, wrong Semina. Today in Godd's kingdom,
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it is the wall of faith, and every person that
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have been listed in Hebrews eleven made it into the
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Wall of faith. Because the wall of faith will often
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put you in a place of significance more than success.
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Because the people that was mentioned in Hebrew eleven, in
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the eyes of the world, they're not very successful, they're
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not the richest, they are probably not the most talented.
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By in the eyes of God, they are so significant
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that they are being mentioned. The stories were mentioned, the
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stories were remembered by God. And if I do ask
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all of us this morning, how many of us want
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to be remembered by God? I believe all of us
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want to be remembered by God.
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Yeah.
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God doesn't forget Okay, get me wrong, God doesn't forget God.
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We'll still remember you. But you want to make an
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impression like being remembered, remembered of all the rich people
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who do he God remembered the woman with the two minds,
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and he was told that in the Bible it will
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be told as a memorial of her. She she was
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a multimillionaire, should have two minds equaln't probably two cents
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today or less?
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I don't know.
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I mean she gave up that two mind It was
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a demonstration of faith, and God remembered her. So to me,
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to be remembered by God is too consistently to leave
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a life that requires a demonstration of faith. Because often
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faith is not about our convenience. Faith at times it's
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also not about our preferences. Faith is about what does
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God requires of us.
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We live in a time.
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Where we've got to be careful not to be led
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by our own preference, society's preference. You know, post COVID,
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it's harder for people to come back to church because
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for the two years when we're in MCO lockdown, people
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are very comfortable in their online worship, and then when
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the church just starts opening up. You ask any pastor,
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they'll tell you that people are slow to come back
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to church. In fact, some have adopted if I'm not
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serving our tuning worship online. If I'm serving our turner
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to church. Who detects serving?
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Is it me? Oh? God?
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Because when we come to God, when we come into
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the presence of God, everyone must offer something before the
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presence of God. We offer our praise, we offer our
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tithe and offering. We offer our time, we offer our talent.
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That's why we are here before we offer our heart
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to God. If we come to church on a Sunday
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and we don't offer to God something we can ask ourselves,
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then why are we coming to church? Everyone has something
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to offer. We offered our praise, you offer your praise,
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you offered your singing, You're offered your lifting up of
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your hand, you offered your time today to God. And
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that itself is a demonstration a faith. So when we
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look at the early Church in Acts two, they were
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no different. They believed in God, they changed how they live.
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And the question is not do you have faith? But
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is your faith.
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Evidence?
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I believe all of us has faith today, all of us,
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whether you're believing for something, you're here.
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You have faith, but how is it shown?
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Because your faith must be demonstrated true your works.
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So Hebrews eleven.
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One says, now, faith is the substance of things, hopeful
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the evidence of things not seen.
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It's very familiar with us.
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Faith is the substance of things, hope for the evidence
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of things not seen. Now, I'm blessed by this story
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where it was told of a healing evangelist was traveling.
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Healing evangelists are people who preach the Gospel and they
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are gifted in the area of healing and probably deliverance
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as well. And a boy was paralyzed sitting on a wheelchair,
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never once wore a shoe.
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In his entire life.
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When I heard that this healing evangelist was traveling to town.
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You know how this boy turned up to.
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The meeting with a pair of shoes together in a wheelchair,
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but says that when this man prayed for me, I
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believe God will use him to heal me.
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That is a demonstration a faith.
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You're still bound in wheelchair, but you have the substance
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to hope to see a future. God will heal you.
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He decided to bring your spear of shoe. I used
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to serve as a host, all right. A demonstration of
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faith to me is this when my dream team leader
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places me in a lobby area. Back then I was
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placed in B three car park. A demonstration of faith
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is anyone who walks past, I will lock in my
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eyes with her and I want to have conversation.
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But these days it's very different because hand phone.
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Can be an excuse of us not demonstrating faith sometimes
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when we serve, you know, remember we are serving God
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and the handphone can be very distracting. So X Church
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must have hosts that consistently demons straight faith if by
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not being distracted that every life that walk past is
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an opportunity for engagement or whatever you serve in sound team,
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it's the same. How do you demonstrate faith in sound right?
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It's like whenever the sound goes bad, what do the
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congregations usually do? We all a turn behind? They're the
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start Hiday. Demonstration of faith is when when you use
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the sound console, you've gotta believe that the Lord will
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use you to press it to give opportunity to hear
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the word of God. Because when we are in our
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role for Toulong, and sometimes it happens when we become
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Christian for Tulong, it's easy to let familiarity from demonstrating faith.
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Even in a context of giving. You know, we can
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be so comfortable in giving an amount. Every Sunday comes
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it's the same amount. Okay, not to say you don't
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have faith, but you're comfortable in that giving. But when
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was the last time we're given a mound that we know?
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We know your neighbors don't have to know. But you know,
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it's a demonstration of a faith that when you put
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it in your finance, it cuts to your heart. It's
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just like how you have surrendered, Isaac. So familiarity sometimes
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can draw us from giving what is required of God.
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So the word substance here basically means firm found and
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present assurance regarding what God has promised, even though we
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cannot yet see its fulfillment. Abraham believed in God, Scripture says,
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and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Abraham and
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Isaac when he was one hundred years old. Yes, any
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one hundred year old man, can they believe for a son?
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Many would have laughed off. Even Sarah laughed when the
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idea was shed, and Sarah was in the nineties as well.
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But you know, Abraham believed in God that even without
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having Eyaac yet his belief was stepped first to God.
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Many of you, God would have, through his revelation revealed
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to you a particular promise. Praise God if it had
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come to pass, because He's faithful. He makes all things
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beautiful in his time. For some maybe you're still believing
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after one year, two years, three years, ten years, and
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you're wondering God after all these years, when Lord.
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I want let ask me. I know that.
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Your state fast believe in God before the fulfillment of
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his promise is far more important than the fulfillment of
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the promise itself, because that is fifth. You haven't experienced it,
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you haven't seen it yet, but you choose to believe.
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The world will call you crazy, but God will look
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to you and say well done. In Matthew twenty Matthew seven,
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verse twenty four to twenty seven, it's one of my
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favorite parable given by Lord himself Marriage chapter seven, verse
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twenty four to twenty seven. Therefore, whoever hears these sayings
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of mind mean the saying in the Teaching of Jesus
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and dust them. I would liken him to a wise
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man who built his house on the rock, and the
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rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and
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beat on that house, and it did not fall, for
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it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears
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these sayings of mind and does not do them will
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be like a foolishman who built his house on the sand,
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and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds
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blew and beat on that house, and it fell. And
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great was it fall? You know it was twenty four.
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It's that it's Therefore, whoever hears this saying of mind
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and dust them. I want to encourage the church today,
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don't just stop listening to God. Continue it with obeying God,
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so is listening and doing. Then you'll be liking like
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a wise man who built his house on the wrong,
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because it was founded on the wrong. Let me ask you,
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what is the foundation of your faith today?
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What is it built on?
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Is it built on the word of God and built
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on the fact that you experience God's word for yourself,
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or is it built on the experience of others? What
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is your faith built on today? Is it built on
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the faith of your family? Is it beyond the faith
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of your parents, Is it beyond the faith on your wife,
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your husband?
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Is it belond the faith of your.
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Parents, or is it built on your own experience with God,
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built on your own word with God. That is very
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important because the day will come where the floods will
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come in, and God often send challenges to test what
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is in us. So it's beyond profession because the day
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will come, you and I will be tested. The floods
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are going to come knocking at your house, and we're
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going to see what holds our house.
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Is it the obedience to God's word or other things.
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Romans ten seventeen says faith comes by hearing, and hearing
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by the word of God. We must always go back
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to the Word of God. And the Word of God
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here basically doesn't just means the written word of God.
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It means the revelational word of God, the rama Word
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of God that can only be brought about through the
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Holy Spirit. So when we read the Word of God,
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we've got to involve the Holy Spirit in our life.
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We've got to involve the Holy Spirit to help us
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to interpret the scripture, to help us to bring light
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to the scripture. So relationship with God's Word can only
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be obtained through the relationship with the Holy Spirit, because
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it's the Holy Spirit that will give us the appetite
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and hunger for God's word. There's no other way. Friends,
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I wish I can share with you other ways to
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hear from God. I'm an old school guy. I always
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tell people only know one way, that it is written word.
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People often say that, oh, I dream this, I dream
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that God is telling me this.
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God is telling me that. Praise God for you.
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But whatever you experience, does it align to the word
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of God? Because the written word of God will always
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confirm and will never contradict what God is revealing to
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you in other means, It's not always about science, wonders
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and miracles.
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It's the word first.
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Then science, wonders and miracles will confirm, will follow the word.
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But in modern day today signs wonder very cool profits
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this Dad, But how many would really sit down to
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read God's word? How many would sit down to have
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that discipline of a daily devotion. How many would really
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sit down before approaching man to approach God's word? How
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many would sit down to approach the counsel of God,
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then to seek the counsel of memphirst.
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But you see, our ears are very itchy.
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You know, we we tend to want to go and
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here to other people have to say But then do
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we want to go and hear what TikTok have to say?
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But how many would anchor our years with the would
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have God?
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No other way, no out of way, said the word
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of God. Because faith can only come by hearing and
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hearing the word of God, and our faith must be applied,
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it must be tested. When was the last time our
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faith was tested? When was the last time we make
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a decision where we know it costed something, but we
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chose to obey God. Faith is confident trusting God based
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on being persuaded of who He is and the reliability
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of his promises. You can only need know God and
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his nature through his word. You can only know God
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and his promises through his word, not just hate knowledge
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kind of no, because there is also a day where
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people can quote you scriptures Genesis to Revelation, and they
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can do you even better from Revelation to Genesis backward.
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The devil also knows how to quote scriptures. When he
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tempted Jesus, he used three scriptures. So it's not about
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hte knowledge. It's not about knowing how many scriptures you
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know how to quote.
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It's about knowing that you know scriptures and how many scriptures.
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Do you live by? How many scriptures do you apply
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in situation in your life?
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So he says here in Hebrews eleven six.
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But without faith it is impossible to please him. Or
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he who comes to God must believe that he is,
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and that he is a rewarder of those who diligiently
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sick him. So come about characters was mentioned first us
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fall by faith able offered to God a more excellent
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sacrifice than came through which he obeyed, through which he
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obtained weakness, that he was righteous to. This was in
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the context of giving. We demonstrate faith also through our
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giving in verse seven, by faith, Noah, being divinely worn
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of things, not yet seeing moving godly fear, prepare an
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arc for the saving of his household, by which he
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condemned the world and became air of righteousness, which is
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according to faith. You know, prior to that the world
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have never seen havy rain, the worlfe never was seeing flood.
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But God for one Noah that these things are coming,
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and the people ridicule Noah, why are you building an arc?
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Let me give you a modern day parallel. It's almost
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like we know Jesus is coming back. We know that
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God is going to judge the world. We know the
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importance of preaching the gospel. We know the importance of
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being good witnesses for Christ. We know the importance of
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sharing to people about Jesus. The modern day equivalent is this,
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the world will ridicule you. You know, why are you sharing
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about Jesus, who says Jesus is king?
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But let me ask you.
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Will it deter you or will you be like a
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Noah preparing that arc? We have to also, in a
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modern day prepare arc because the day will come when
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God's judgment fall upon the earth. I pray that we
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all be delivered from it. But the question is who
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will be in your arc? Are you bringing people into
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your act?
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You don't have to go far.
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Start with your family, because when the day of the
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great flood comes, of course God say here and I
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will give a great flood again. But when the day
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of judgment comes, who will be found in that same
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arc with you?
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That is a demonstration of faith.
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You know, my lecturer may resist the gospel, my colleague
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may resist the gospel. My colleague may use the name
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of our Lord in wain, But I'll still demonstrate faith
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by loving them, I still demonstrate faith sharing to them
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about Christ. Parents may not be the most easiest to
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reach out to, maybe because of past experience, but you
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know what, as a child, no matter how difficult it is,
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I will still love them by the love of God
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because I want them to.
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Be in my art. It was it by faith.
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Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to
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the place which he would receive as an inheritance, and
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he went out not knowing where he was going. We
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all know Abraham a man of faith. God called him
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to come out to a place where he don't even
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know where he is going. And today when I talk
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about Abraham, you probably also remembered about sacrificing Isaac. I
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want to let the church know that there is one
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thing about knowing. There's one thing about being. We can
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all know about the power of surrender. We can all
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know about the power of coming out of the comfort zone.
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We can know all about the power of giving, like
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how Abe would have gave until and unless we demonstrated,
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nothing changes nothing. It becomes just a very good biblical
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history story.
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Oh so good.
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You know, Abraham came out of his comfort zone, and
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today we are also recipient of his of his faith.
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Oh so good.
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You know, Abraham surrendered Isaac and then the most smartest
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of us. And we'll say, oh, you know that Isaac
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also is a symbol of Jesus hate knowledge. But when
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the time comes, when God says, hey, enough with the
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corporate world. We have earned all you need to earn,
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would you step up and step out to serve me
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full time? And maybe one day Lorc knock into your
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hand and says that you know, all these years you
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have been faithful to me. I bless you with a
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very nice house. Would considered surrendering your house and opening
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up for homes a prayer service?
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Maybe all these years, you know, we learned about the
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power surrender.
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But one day God will confront you with a question,
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would you be willing to surrender this for me? The
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past sixteen seventeen years, we surrendered Suba. We came to
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near life. Suba is very good, you know how me?
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Have you been to Suban?
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Okay? But Nila is better. We've got.
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But we came out of the comfort. We came out
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of comfort. I can't preach to you about, you know,
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coming out of your comfort zone. If I myself don't
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come out of my comfort zone. But we know the
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demonstration of faith can only be possible when we leave
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our life outside of the comfort zone. When I had
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my first breakthrough in my finances many years ago, when
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the Lord gave me a forty six percent pay in creement,
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there was many many years ago. I always wanted a car,
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a very nice car. Back then I was driving a
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National Car. Nothing wrong with National Car, okay, but back
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then I would car has a major problem. At least
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my car. It'sied a power window. It can go ground.
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You cannot go up go up. You have to like
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press and you have to certain level then aultomatically go up.
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Second is the air con I've driven.
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The worst combination is this, Can I go down aircn out?
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I drove in sweat from Subang to Neili, Neili back
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and go to a toe back. Then do I have RS?
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I d have to open up the door, close the door.
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How you're here, you identify with me. So when God
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gave me my first breakthrough in finances, immediately I knew
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I wanted to buy a car because I find that
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I need a at a car. Praise got for my
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Proton Vira very good. Actually it's not my my mom's
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Proton Vira. When I started working, she loaned me the car.
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That car had a record of seven people plus the driver.
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Can you not sorry? When I did campus ministry around
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Bangie with five nuts behind, never passed by the Okay,
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don't do these, guys. Okay, I was young, naive and foolish.
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Maybe God expanded my car.
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I don't know.
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So when we come to the when we come to
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the harm, the bomb say Okay, guys, before we cross
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the harm, I want you to know this. Everyone have
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to go down first close. Uh, just to share that
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a lot of memories with the car.
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Right. So one day I find that I can afford a.
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Car, I begin to have a lot of imagination. It's
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good to dream, right. We all have things that we desire.
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There's nothing wrong with it. Okay, guys, you can desire
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the best things you want in life. Now, whether it's
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God's willed for you to have it, it's a it's
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not a story. Right, So I'm not saying that to
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be a Christian you cannot desire what you want. You can, okay,
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and God choose to bless you with it. Praise God.
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If God choose not to bless you with you, it
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just means that he has a better plan for you.
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So anyway, I went to four show houses, drove fur
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different model, found a model that I really like.
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You know what's understanding.
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When I started working year two o six, for five years,
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I have drove my mom's car. So that is where
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we need to coordinate that. Here am I now being
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financially capable. I thought I can buy my own car,
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and yeah, it's good. Just returned to mom the car.
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One day I was just cuttin grass, you know, I
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was at my house. Now I hear the voice of God,
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not from heaven, but from here. Sir, Ronsen, your new
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car is not going to be for you. It's going
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to be for your mom. I s like, I start tearing.
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I thought the rain was falling because I remember in
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one of the showrooms my mom was keep on saying
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that this cor very good, this car very good, this
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car very good. It's actually it's a favorite color. Back then,
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it reminded me about Abraham and Isaac. You know, I
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don't know how to explain this. Just reminded me of Abraham.
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Is I say that God, if you say so, so bila,
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so Bila. The next day I told my mom. I say, Mom,
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I'm not going to buy a car for myself. This
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new car it's going to be for you.
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I was so shocked.
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Really say yeah, so you ran said that we put
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in a deposit everything. My mom wanted a nice number
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for the corplet lot. These days you can buy, so
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she asks, the running number is this? I say, Mom,
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don't Wila just get a car. When I came back
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home that day when the car came, she was so excited.
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She said, look at a corplet number. Yeah, one O
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five two? Say why is it? Can't you see we
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didn't buy the number. Okay, it was just given by God.
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Can't you see my birth date, my birth man, and
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my birth year on October nineteen fifty two, one oh
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five two. And then it confirms in me that it's
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the right decision. Say God, I obeyed you. This is
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a food of testimony. If I need to drive the
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Wira or drive the Wirala, if I need to sweat
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in the car, I need to sweat in the color.
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You know, if any girl can't take the car means
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I know it's not the one for Mela.
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So for five.
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Years I continue with my protono Mira, hey, I continue
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with my prora.
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I can tell you.
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The day came where the car totally when knocked out.
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So it was in December, one of the combined service
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in Subang. I came from Subang, I drove to mantin
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In Legendar College in LinkedIn, so we will pick up
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our international friends the movement. I arrived LinkedIn. How have
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you been to Lincoln before mantin Ah the plaicing all prayer,
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but anyway, white smoke coming up from my borden and Joseph.
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There's a guy called Joseph. See Buster Buster your car,
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see said, I know, I know. The rediator decided to
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just praise Scott for a nearby friend. He came with
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his four wheel drive. For the first time in my life,
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I put my life in danger. So he told my
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my car all the way from Mantein with me and
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Joseph behind, you know in my era in the four
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whel trap throw it to the workshop in Kajam. So
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there was like about forty minutes show experience. Why am
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I shaying with you this right? Sometimes God will ask
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you to do things there it doesn't fit your preference
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lack if I put it away, but it will always
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yield fruit that he's looking for.
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In you. God is looking for something.
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And when you begin to obey, say that, God, it's
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not my will, all right, he's your will. And when
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we go through that, the process itself will build a
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character that yields that fruit, that willingness to obey. It's
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almost like saying this right. People always say that, ah,
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when I become a millionaire, then I'll give God one
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hundred thousand. Hey, if you really go on a hundred ringa,
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you don't keep your hundred ring it today? What makes
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you think you give an one hundred thousand?
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Come?
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Some people say that, oh, when I complete my studies,
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when I start working, there only ourselve God.
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They only I got timer, no assignment.
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Be very careful, you know, because when you start work
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then they'll say I don't have time. So don't be
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afraid to give God that which is required of you,
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because God will never shot change you.
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Never never. Hebrews twelve one to three says, Therefore we also,
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since we are surrounded by so a great cloud of weaknesses,
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let us lay aside every weight and the scene which
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so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance,
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the race that is set before us, looking into Jesus,
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the autumn finisher of our faith, who for the joy
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that was said before him, and during the cross, despising
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the shame, and has sat down at the right hand
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of the throne of God.
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Who are this great cloud of weaknesses? They gotta read
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back to Hebrews eleven. There are people who have gone
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before us. There are people who have went through probably
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similar journey that you're going through now. And these are
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people that have triumphed with their faith. So I believe
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that the weaknesses in heaven are cheering for you and me.
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And you'll say, they are probably thinking that, you know what,
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when I stood for faith, they told me into the
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lions then, but God shut them out of the lion.
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I have to say that because maybe it's not.
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You are living a life where you're being prosecuted left
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right center. It's hard for you to come out in
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your faith. But there are weaknesses of birth that says that, yeah,
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we've been there.
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Maybe for some of you is it's very intimidating.
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You find it in even the thought of serving God.
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It's a natural challenge for you because you may struggle
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in self esteem. Maybe you feel that I'm not good
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enough to serve God. And this is a very natural
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challenge that people go through. But if you really look
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at things in God's eyes, what is God looking for?
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And the other day God is looking for your heart,
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that willingness to trust him. That yes, I may not
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have a talent, but God, I choose to trust you.
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Where you place me there will be I may not
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have enough, but where you have and trusted me with enough,
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that's where I will serve you. So the author reminded
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us that in our life they are going to be wait,
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they are going to be seen. That will distract this.
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That's why we need to keep our focus on Jesus,
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run with and your rents. Remember Jesus says, he who
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endures to the end, a crown of life is awaiting
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and dare And I noticed that the level of resilience,
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the level of endurance among people these days can be
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quite lacking. Too many people give up too easily just
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because it gets tough. But in God's kingdom, when it
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gets tough, it only means one thing. God is setting
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you up for something greater. I've always believed in that
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at the point of our pain, we couldn't see it.
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At the point of our disappointment, we couldn't see it.
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But let me tell you, at the point of perseverance,
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when you finally see the hand of God coming true
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for you, then you will see that He has been
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with you all this while building in you something. God
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is into our heart. Friends, second Korean five seven, probably
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the last scripture or the second last. For we walk
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by faith, not by sight. Look to Jesus, friends, don't
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look to the world. Don't look to what is popular.
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Don't look to you know, don't be Deceifler. Basically, the
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word of God will give you the descentment the last point.
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But someone will say, you have faith and I have works.
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Show me your faith without your works, and I will
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show you my faith by my works. So the evidence
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of your faith at the end of the day is
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found in your works. So we say that we are
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a Christian, we're a disciple of Christ. In fact, Jesus say,
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is let your light so shine before men, so that
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they will know that you are My disciple. For your
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life to shine, you have to work. There must be
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a demonstration of work. And I want to encourage exneylight
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by saying this, right It's not just about church attendance, guys,
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It's not just about homes attendance. It's not just about
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prayer service attendance, because all these attendance means nothing if
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when the day of challenge come, when the day of
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reckoning come, and finally God requires of you something or
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God says that, you know, Ronsen, you have been carrying
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this unforgiveness for far too long. Can you forgive this
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person it is on that day? Can I release that forgiveness?
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Oh? God may says that, you know, maybe it's time
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to do a new thing.
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And we are so comfortable in doing our own things,
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and the thought of doing new things it's to start
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over again.
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Can be very intimidating.
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You know how many you transfer house before from a
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new house, from an old house to a new house.
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You've done order backing before, and then suddenly God says,
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you know what, it's time to move on. Then you're
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gonna back again. There you go the old day we go.
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Sometimes the thought of new can be intimidating. But you
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know what, Abraham is up there saying that when I
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was seventeen years old, God told me to pack up
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and go.
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I don't know what season you're in.
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Really, if there's one sticky point, I want you to
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remember this faith can only be demonstrated when you give
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to God what is required of you.
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It's just that, it is just that. And you have
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many examples.
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You know, I've seen my pastor when when we're very
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young church, ninety five percent campus student, we raised ten
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thousand USD to build a school in Bihar, India. We
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raised enough funds to give uniform to kids in Beha,
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Bia was known as a missionary graveyard. When you want
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the testimony, the testimony I think I shared with this
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church before testimony was this right when the extreme mists
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from another religion which are not named. When the extreme
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mists came wanting to burn down the school, the parents
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of the kids began to surround the school in lock arms,
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preventing them from wanting to burn down the school and
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the parents itself tell this extreme miss these Christians have
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done things for kids and their education. What have you
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done for kids? Demonstration of faith.
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When we're very young church?
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Uh, this says, of course, you guys will know the
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popular Christian band.
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But back then, back then, many.
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Years ago, there was a popular Christian band called Delirious. However,
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you know Delirious, you know the song history maker.
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Ah, I don't want to be.
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Okay anyway, it was a big band. It was a
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big Christian how about Raindown? You know it's a raindown Okay, Okay,
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So we brought in Delirious.
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Following year we brought in Sonic Flip.
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Do you know if an elder king wrote to Delirious
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y an email, don't even know where Malaysia was because
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most people think there are no Singapore of a retailant.
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Malaysia.
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But you know what Delirious, there are such a god
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fearing band. They pray, you know, for a small invitation
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from a small church in a country called Malaysia. They
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replied and say, we will come to Malaysia and we
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had our aie festival. Then became the minister, you know,
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I mean the no there are some bands. They'll make demands,
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you know, Oh, we can only find business class if
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you you know, bring us here, this and that. Man,
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it's up to there how they want to arrange lab
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But over the years, when the church moved in faith,
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do you know that the fair is such that we
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hosted rarely in Putra Indoor stadium in book Jellia small church,
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hundred fifty probably two hundred fellars, organizing a big relih,
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a big band, a big stadium. It can only be
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because of a big God, the big God. It takes
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faith to believe in God for the impossible. You have
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to believe in God for the impossible. That makes your
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Christian life very exciting. Believe in God for the big
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things in life, you know, the big decisions, the big impact.
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You know. Ask God to give you the capacity to
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dream big, dream big. You know why because when He
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comes true.
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For you, who gets the glory? Jesus gets the glory.
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God gets the glory. He will, He will for us
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to plan a church out of here, to send letters
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to London, for us to plan here to Nottingham. It's
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all by faith. Sisty guys. We don't have a bibird degree.
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The people that we said out don't even have a
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by bird degree. Bird degrees to me is good, it
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is important.
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But when the.
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Voice of God comes in and say that now it's
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our way to plan, we don't tell God like God,
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give me three years to be ready, then only we
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go plan. When God tells you to do something, he
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already know you don't have enough. This is a very
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good foot that I read, but it may sound very
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condensing ding, so I'm going to use it to me.
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Okay, I read a quote before.
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God has a really outulated my stupidit before he called me,
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you're getting. God really calculated that I'm going to doubt myself.
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God has recalculated that I'm going to make poor decisions.
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God has really calculated and knows that I'm going to
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break his heart one day. I'm going to make decisions
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that I'm not proud of.
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Yet he called me, tells me that God believes.
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In me more than I believe myself, and it requires
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faith for me to trust him. Recuef requires faith for
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me to do the things of God. So, Exneila, I
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want you to know everything that we do must be
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done by faith. Everything that we do mask causes to
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have a form of dependency on God.
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