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12+1 Core Value: Faith Evident | Pr Ronson

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

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Today we're gonna look into faith evidence, which is all

  4. call value number seven. We have done spirit field, christ centered,

  5. kingdom minded but faithful, discipleship focused and of course last week,

  6. but they won't have shared a very powerful message about

  7. prayer powered.

  8. And today we're gonna look at faith evidence.

  9. There must be an evidence to our faith beyond a

  10. profession of saying that I'm a Christian right and there's

  11. a difference between a practicing Christian and a Christian. And

  12. today we're gonna look at that faith evident. Now ex

  13. Church was birth by faith. Every work of God, every

  14. ministry of God must be birth by faith. And every

  15. life represented today I look at a person on your left, right,

  16. front and back. Every life take time to look and

  17. appreciate each other's beauty is a miracle in God. And

  18. every life represented today in growing makers is the evidence

  19. of faith. In year two thousand, pastors started the church.

  20. We don need three people three people, and today after

  21. twenty six years, we are in at least eight countries

  22. in different locations.

  23. And it takes faith. It takes faith to grow.

  24. And I want to remind us that ex Church Primary

  25. DNA is also faith. If you know Pastor he is

  26. a man of faith. Who we have thought that Malaysian

  27. Church will planning in UK. Who would have thought that

  28. Malais Church will be planted in Africa and Botswana? Who

  29. would have taught them Malaysian Church will be planted down

  30. under in Australia. It takes faith, meaning when God says go,

  31. we go. You know, the language of faith often is

  32. I don't understand yet, but I would choose to trust

  33. you God. There is a danger in church today where God,

  34. you showed me first, then I will go.

  35. But what happens if God tells you you go?

  36. And then I will show you how many would take

  37. that lead of faith to trust God. Because as church

  38. we must understand that the greatest legacy we can give

  39. to our people, the greatest legacy we can give to

  40. the next generation.

  41. It's not the sound, it's not the lights.

  42. It's not how big of a building, it's not how

  43. comfy the chair is. It's not how good the food is.

  44. Or is probably important to show excellence to God, but

  45. it's not the most important. The greatest legacy you and

  46. I can give to each other, and we can give

  47. to the next generation.

  48. Is the gift of faith.

  49. Where we will continue to show people that re God,

  50. all things are possible, and the only way to please

  51. God we will look at scripture later, is to live

  52. by faith. For without faith it is impossible to please God.

  53. We want to be a church where we want to

  54. please God, and the only pretty bigal way to please

  55. God is a demonstration of our faith. So we must

  56. not lose sight. The most important thing that is to

  57. live by faith. So faith is not just something we believe,

  58. it is something that must be.

  59. Widden.

  60. So it's beyond the Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. Whenever people

  61. ask you how are your brother? How are your sister?

  62. It's beyond that. It must be evident in the life

  63. that we live. It must be evident in the decision

  64. that we made, and it must be evident even in

  65. our testimony as a Christian. So Hebrews eleven is a

  66. very powerful chapter where the author actually lists down key

  67. people who have demonstrated faith. In fact, not everyone gets mentioned,

  68. because if everyone gets mentioned, we will have probably chapter eleven, twelve, thirteen,

  69. all the way to one thousand. I don't know, but

  70. it was kept at just that one chapter for a reason.

  71. And every person in Hebrews chapter eleven had one thing

  72. in common. They believe God obeyed, and it shows so obedience.

  73. And faith goes hand in hand.

  74. And later we're going to read from the Book of

  75. James as well towards the end that faith and works

  76. go hand in hand. So it's beyond the profession. It

  77. is also translated into action. I like Hebrews eleven because

  78. to me it is a wall of faith. You guys

  79. probably would have heard a popular term wall of fame.

  80. You know, a wall of fame is where you got

  81. famous people being listed and say, okay, Bill Gates used

  82. to be the most richest person in the world. Now

  83. is I don't know, Jeff Bezos or Elen mass I

  84. don't know. And then you have probably wall of fame

  85. for football stars it has to be Lionel Messi, right,

  86. because it's the good okay ah, Then you have a

  87. wall of fame. Or in Hollywood they have the Walk

  88. of Fame, right, the Walk of Fame Bay if you're

  89. a good actor, actresses popular, then got a star tow

  90. for you and your name. They call it the Walk

  91. of fame. Let me tell you, if you want to

  92. prosper in the things of God, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

  93. In the kingdom of God, there's no wall of fame

  94. because God is not into popularity. God is starting to success.

  95. So if you're here looking at wanting to be the

  96. most richest person, sorry, wrong Semina. Today in Godd's kingdom,

  97. it is the wall of faith, and every person that

  98. have been listed in Hebrews eleven made it into the

  99. Wall of faith. Because the wall of faith will often

  100. put you in a place of significance more than success.

  101. Because the people that was mentioned in Hebrew eleven, in

  102. the eyes of the world, they're not very successful, they're

  103. not the richest, they are probably not the most talented.

  104. By in the eyes of God, they are so significant

  105. that they are being mentioned. The stories were mentioned, the

  106. stories were remembered by God. And if I do ask

  107. all of us this morning, how many of us want

  108. to be remembered by God? I believe all of us

  109. want to be remembered by God.

  110. Yeah.

  111. God doesn't forget Okay, get me wrong, God doesn't forget God.

  112. We'll still remember you. But you want to make an

  113. impression like being remembered, remembered of all the rich people

  114. who do he God remembered the woman with the two minds,

  115. and he was told that in the Bible it will

  116. be told as a memorial of her. She she was

  117. a multimillionaire, should have two minds equaln't probably two cents

  118. today or less?

  119. I don't know.

  120. I mean she gave up that two mind It was

  121. a demonstration of faith, and God remembered her. So to me,

  122. to be remembered by God is too consistently to leave

  123. a life that requires a demonstration of faith. Because often

  124. faith is not about our convenience. Faith at times it's

  125. also not about our preferences. Faith is about what does

  126. God requires of us.

  127. We live in a time.

  128. Where we've got to be careful not to be led

  129. by our own preference, society's preference. You know, post COVID,

  130. it's harder for people to come back to church because

  131. for the two years when we're in MCO lockdown, people

  132. are very comfortable in their online worship, and then when

  133. the church just starts opening up. You ask any pastor,

  134. they'll tell you that people are slow to come back

  135. to church. In fact, some have adopted if I'm not

  136. serving our tuning worship online. If I'm serving our turner

  137. to church. Who detects serving?

  138. Is it me? Oh? God?

  139. Because when we come to God, when we come into

  140. the presence of God, everyone must offer something before the

  141. presence of God. We offer our praise, we offer our

  142. tithe and offering. We offer our time, we offer our talent.

  143. That's why we are here before we offer our heart

  144. to God. If we come to church on a Sunday

  145. and we don't offer to God something we can ask ourselves,

  146. then why are we coming to church? Everyone has something

  147. to offer. We offered our praise, you offer your praise,

  148. you offered your singing, You're offered your lifting up of

  149. your hand, you offered your time today to God. And

  150. that itself is a demonstration a faith. So when we

  151. look at the early Church in Acts two, they were

  152. no different. They believed in God, they changed how they live.

  153. And the question is not do you have faith? But

  154. is your faith.

  155. Evidence?

  156. I believe all of us has faith today, all of us,

  157. whether you're believing for something, you're here.

  158. You have faith, but how is it shown?

  159. Because your faith must be demonstrated true your works.

  160. So Hebrews eleven.

  161. One says, now, faith is the substance of things, hopeful

  162. the evidence of things not seen.

  163. It's very familiar with us.

  164. Faith is the substance of things, hope for the evidence

  165. of things not seen. Now, I'm blessed by this story

  166. where it was told of a healing evangelist was traveling.

  167. Healing evangelists are people who preach the Gospel and they

  168. are gifted in the area of healing and probably deliverance

  169. as well. And a boy was paralyzed sitting on a wheelchair,

  170. never once wore a shoe.

  171. In his entire life.

  172. When I heard that this healing evangelist was traveling to town.

  173. You know how this boy turned up to.

  174. The meeting with a pair of shoes together in a wheelchair,

  175. but says that when this man prayed for me, I

  176. believe God will use him to heal me.

  177. That is a demonstration a faith.

  178. You're still bound in wheelchair, but you have the substance

  179. to hope to see a future. God will heal you.

  180. He decided to bring your spear of shoe. I used

  181. to serve as a host, all right. A demonstration of

  182. faith to me is this when my dream team leader

  183. places me in a lobby area. Back then I was

  184. placed in B three car park. A demonstration of faith

  185. is anyone who walks past, I will lock in my

  186. eyes with her and I want to have conversation.

  187. But these days it's very different because hand phone.

  188. Can be an excuse of us not demonstrating faith sometimes

  189. when we serve, you know, remember we are serving God

  190. and the handphone can be very distracting. So X Church

  191. must have hosts that consistently demons straight faith if by

  192. not being distracted that every life that walk past is

  193. an opportunity for engagement or whatever you serve in sound team,

  194. it's the same. How do you demonstrate faith in sound right?

  195. It's like whenever the sound goes bad, what do the

  196. congregations usually do? We all a turn behind? They're the

  197. start Hiday. Demonstration of faith is when when you use

  198. the sound console, you've gotta believe that the Lord will

  199. use you to press it to give opportunity to hear

  200. the word of God. Because when we are in our

  201. role for Toulong, and sometimes it happens when we become

  202. Christian for Tulong, it's easy to let familiarity from demonstrating faith.

  203. Even in a context of giving. You know, we can

  204. be so comfortable in giving an amount. Every Sunday comes

  205. it's the same amount. Okay, not to say you don't

  206. have faith, but you're comfortable in that giving. But when

  207. was the last time we're given a mound that we know?

  208. We know your neighbors don't have to know. But you know,

  209. it's a demonstration of a faith that when you put

  210. it in your finance, it cuts to your heart. It's

  211. just like how you have surrendered, Isaac. So familiarity sometimes

  212. can draw us from giving what is required of God.

  213. So the word substance here basically means firm found and

  214. present assurance regarding what God has promised, even though we

  215. cannot yet see its fulfillment. Abraham believed in God, Scripture says,

  216. and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Abraham and

  217. Isaac when he was one hundred years old. Yes, any

  218. one hundred year old man, can they believe for a son?

  219. Many would have laughed off. Even Sarah laughed when the

  220. idea was shed, and Sarah was in the nineties as well.

  221. But you know, Abraham believed in God that even without

  222. having Eyaac yet his belief was stepped first to God.

  223. Many of you, God would have, through his revelation revealed

  224. to you a particular promise. Praise God if it had

  225. come to pass, because He's faithful. He makes all things

  226. beautiful in his time. For some maybe you're still believing

  227. after one year, two years, three years, ten years, and

  228. you're wondering God after all these years, when Lord.

  229. I want let ask me. I know that.

  230. Your state fast believe in God before the fulfillment of

  231. his promise is far more important than the fulfillment of

  232. the promise itself, because that is fifth. You haven't experienced it,

  233. you haven't seen it yet, but you choose to believe.

  234. The world will call you crazy, but God will look

  235. to you and say well done. In Matthew twenty Matthew seven,

  236. verse twenty four to twenty seven, it's one of my

  237. favorite parable given by Lord himself Marriage chapter seven, verse

  238. twenty four to twenty seven. Therefore, whoever hears these sayings

  239. of mind mean the saying in the Teaching of Jesus

  240. and dust them. I would liken him to a wise

  241. man who built his house on the rock, and the

  242. rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and

  243. beat on that house, and it did not fall, for

  244. it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears

  245. these sayings of mind and does not do them will

  246. be like a foolishman who built his house on the sand,

  247. and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds

  248. blew and beat on that house, and it fell. And

  249. great was it fall? You know it was twenty four.

  250. It's that it's Therefore, whoever hears this saying of mind

  251. and dust them. I want to encourage the church today,

  252. don't just stop listening to God. Continue it with obeying God,

  253. so is listening and doing. Then you'll be liking like

  254. a wise man who built his house on the wrong,

  255. because it was founded on the wrong. Let me ask you,

  256. what is the foundation of your faith today?

  257. What is it built on?

  258. Is it built on the word of God and built

  259. on the fact that you experience God's word for yourself,

  260. or is it built on the experience of others? What

  261. is your faith built on today? Is it built on

  262. the faith of your family? Is it beyond the faith

  263. of your parents, Is it beyond the faith on your wife,

  264. your husband?

  265. Is it belond the faith of your.

  266. Parents, or is it built on your own experience with God,

  267. built on your own word with God. That is very

  268. important because the day will come where the floods will

  269. come in, and God often send challenges to test what

  270. is in us. So it's beyond profession because the day

  271. will come, you and I will be tested. The floods

  272. are going to come knocking at your house, and we're

  273. going to see what holds our house.

  274. Is it the obedience to God's word or other things.

  275. Romans ten seventeen says faith comes by hearing, and hearing

  276. by the word of God. We must always go back

  277. to the Word of God. And the Word of God

  278. here basically doesn't just means the written word of God.

  279. It means the revelational word of God, the rama Word

  280. of God that can only be brought about through the

  281. Holy Spirit. So when we read the Word of God,

  282. we've got to involve the Holy Spirit in our life.

  283. We've got to involve the Holy Spirit to help us

  284. to interpret the scripture, to help us to bring light

  285. to the scripture. So relationship with God's Word can only

  286. be obtained through the relationship with the Holy Spirit, because

  287. it's the Holy Spirit that will give us the appetite

  288. and hunger for God's word. There's no other way. Friends,

  289. I wish I can share with you other ways to

  290. hear from God. I'm an old school guy. I always

  291. tell people only know one way, that it is written word.

  292. People often say that, oh, I dream this, I dream

  293. that God is telling me this.

  294. God is telling me that. Praise God for you.

  295. But whatever you experience, does it align to the word

  296. of God? Because the written word of God will always

  297. confirm and will never contradict what God is revealing to

  298. you in other means, It's not always about science, wonders

  299. and miracles.

  300. It's the word first.

  301. Then science, wonders and miracles will confirm, will follow the word.

  302. But in modern day today signs wonder very cool profits

  303. this Dad, But how many would really sit down to

  304. read God's word? How many would sit down to have

  305. that discipline of a daily devotion. How many would really

  306. sit down before approaching man to approach God's word? How

  307. many would sit down to approach the counsel of God,

  308. then to seek the counsel of memphirst.

  309. But you see, our ears are very itchy.

  310. You know, we we tend to want to go and

  311. here to other people have to say But then do

  312. we want to go and hear what TikTok have to say?

  313. But how many would anchor our years with the would

  314. have God?

  315. No other way, no out of way, said the word

  316. of God. Because faith can only come by hearing and

  317. hearing the word of God, and our faith must be applied,

  318. it must be tested. When was the last time our

  319. faith was tested? When was the last time we make

  320. a decision where we know it costed something, but we

  321. chose to obey God. Faith is confident trusting God based

  322. on being persuaded of who He is and the reliability

  323. of his promises. You can only need know God and

  324. his nature through his word. You can only know God

  325. and his promises through his word, not just hate knowledge

  326. kind of no, because there is also a day where

  327. people can quote you scriptures Genesis to Revelation, and they

  328. can do you even better from Revelation to Genesis backward.

  329. The devil also knows how to quote scriptures. When he

  330. tempted Jesus, he used three scriptures. So it's not about

  331. hte knowledge. It's not about knowing how many scriptures you

  332. know how to quote.

  333. It's about knowing that you know scriptures and how many scriptures.

  334. Do you live by? How many scriptures do you apply

  335. in situation in your life?

  336. So he says here in Hebrews eleven six.

  337. But without faith it is impossible to please him. Or

  338. he who comes to God must believe that he is,

  339. and that he is a rewarder of those who diligiently

  340. sick him. So come about characters was mentioned first us

  341. fall by faith able offered to God a more excellent

  342. sacrifice than came through which he obeyed, through which he

  343. obtained weakness, that he was righteous to. This was in

  344. the context of giving. We demonstrate faith also through our

  345. giving in verse seven, by faith, Noah, being divinely worn

  346. of things, not yet seeing moving godly fear, prepare an

  347. arc for the saving of his household, by which he

  348. condemned the world and became air of righteousness, which is

  349. according to faith. You know, prior to that the world

  350. have never seen havy rain, the worlfe never was seeing flood.

  351. But God for one Noah that these things are coming,

  352. and the people ridicule Noah, why are you building an arc?

  353. Let me give you a modern day parallel. It's almost

  354. like we know Jesus is coming back. We know that

  355. God is going to judge the world. We know the

  356. importance of preaching the gospel. We know the importance of

  357. being good witnesses for Christ. We know the importance of

  358. sharing to people about Jesus. The modern day equivalent is this,

  359. the world will ridicule you. You know, why are you sharing

  360. about Jesus, who says Jesus is king?

  361. But let me ask you.

  362. Will it deter you or will you be like a

  363. Noah preparing that arc? We have to also, in a

  364. modern day prepare arc because the day will come when

  365. God's judgment fall upon the earth. I pray that we

  366. all be delivered from it. But the question is who

  367. will be in your arc? Are you bringing people into

  368. your act?

  369. You don't have to go far.

  370. Start with your family, because when the day of the

  371. great flood comes, of course God say here and I

  372. will give a great flood again. But when the day

  373. of judgment comes, who will be found in that same

  374. arc with you?

  375. That is a demonstration of faith.

  376. You know, my lecturer may resist the gospel, my colleague

  377. may resist the gospel. My colleague may use the name

  378. of our Lord in wain, But I'll still demonstrate faith

  379. by loving them, I still demonstrate faith sharing to them

  380. about Christ. Parents may not be the most easiest to

  381. reach out to, maybe because of past experience, but you

  382. know what, as a child, no matter how difficult it is,

  383. I will still love them by the love of God

  384. because I want them to.

  385. Be in my art. It was it by faith.

  386. Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to

  387. the place which he would receive as an inheritance, and

  388. he went out not knowing where he was going. We

  389. all know Abraham a man of faith. God called him

  390. to come out to a place where he don't even

  391. know where he is going. And today when I talk

  392. about Abraham, you probably also remembered about sacrificing Isaac. I

  393. want to let the church know that there is one

  394. thing about knowing. There's one thing about being. We can

  395. all know about the power of surrender. We can all

  396. know about the power of coming out of the comfort zone.

  397. We can know all about the power of giving, like

  398. how Abe would have gave until and unless we demonstrated,

  399. nothing changes nothing. It becomes just a very good biblical

  400. history story.

  401. Oh so good.

  402. You know, Abraham came out of his comfort zone, and

  403. today we are also recipient of his of his faith.

  404. Oh so good.

  405. You know, Abraham surrendered Isaac and then the most smartest

  406. of us. And we'll say, oh, you know that Isaac

  407. also is a symbol of Jesus hate knowledge. But when

  408. the time comes, when God says, hey, enough with the

  409. corporate world. We have earned all you need to earn,

  410. would you step up and step out to serve me

  411. full time? And maybe one day Lorc knock into your

  412. hand and says that you know, all these years you

  413. have been faithful to me. I bless you with a

  414. very nice house. Would considered surrendering your house and opening

  415. up for homes a prayer service?

  416. Maybe all these years, you know, we learned about the

  417. power surrender.

  418. But one day God will confront you with a question,

  419. would you be willing to surrender this for me? The

  420. past sixteen seventeen years, we surrendered Suba. We came to

  421. near life. Suba is very good, you know how me?

  422. Have you been to Suban?

  423. Okay? But Nila is better. We've got.

  424. But we came out of the comfort. We came out

  425. of comfort. I can't preach to you about, you know,

  426. coming out of your comfort zone. If I myself don't

  427. come out of my comfort zone. But we know the

  428. demonstration of faith can only be possible when we leave

  429. our life outside of the comfort zone. When I had

  430. my first breakthrough in my finances many years ago, when

  431. the Lord gave me a forty six percent pay in creement,

  432. there was many many years ago. I always wanted a car,

  433. a very nice car. Back then I was driving a

  434. National Car. Nothing wrong with National Car, okay, but back

  435. then I would car has a major problem. At least

  436. my car. It'sied a power window. It can go ground.

  437. You cannot go up go up. You have to like

  438. press and you have to certain level then aultomatically go up.

  439. Second is the air con I've driven.

  440. The worst combination is this, Can I go down aircn out?

  441. I drove in sweat from Subang to Neili, Neili back

  442. and go to a toe back. Then do I have RS?

  443. I d have to open up the door, close the door.

  444. How you're here, you identify with me. So when God

  445. gave me my first breakthrough in finances, immediately I knew

  446. I wanted to buy a car because I find that

  447. I need a at a car. Praise got for my

  448. Proton Vira very good. Actually it's not my my mom's

  449. Proton Vira. When I started working, she loaned me the car.

  450. That car had a record of seven people plus the driver.

  451. Can you not sorry? When I did campus ministry around

  452. Bangie with five nuts behind, never passed by the Okay,

  453. don't do these, guys. Okay, I was young, naive and foolish.

  454. Maybe God expanded my car.

  455. I don't know.

  456. So when we come to the when we come to

  457. the harm, the bomb say Okay, guys, before we cross

  458. the harm, I want you to know this. Everyone have

  459. to go down first close. Uh, just to share that

  460. a lot of memories with the car.

  461. Right. So one day I find that I can afford a.

  462. Car, I begin to have a lot of imagination. It's

  463. good to dream, right. We all have things that we desire.

  464. There's nothing wrong with it. Okay, guys, you can desire

  465. the best things you want in life. Now, whether it's

  466. God's willed for you to have it, it's a it's

  467. not a story. Right, So I'm not saying that to

  468. be a Christian you cannot desire what you want. You can, okay,

  469. and God choose to bless you with it. Praise God.

  470. If God choose not to bless you with you, it

  471. just means that he has a better plan for you.

  472. So anyway, I went to four show houses, drove fur

  473. different model, found a model that I really like.

  474. You know what's understanding.

  475. When I started working year two o six, for five years,

  476. I have drove my mom's car. So that is where

  477. we need to coordinate that. Here am I now being

  478. financially capable. I thought I can buy my own car,

  479. and yeah, it's good. Just returned to mom the car.

  480. One day I was just cuttin grass, you know, I

  481. was at my house. Now I hear the voice of God,

  482. not from heaven, but from here. Sir, Ronsen, your new

  483. car is not going to be for you. It's going

  484. to be for your mom. I s like, I start tearing.

  485. I thought the rain was falling because I remember in

  486. one of the showrooms my mom was keep on saying

  487. that this cor very good, this car very good, this

  488. car very good. It's actually it's a favorite color. Back then,

  489. it reminded me about Abraham and Isaac. You know, I

  490. don't know how to explain this. Just reminded me of Abraham.

  491. Is I say that God, if you say so, so bila,

  492. so Bila. The next day I told my mom. I say, Mom,

  493. I'm not going to buy a car for myself. This

  494. new car it's going to be for you.

  495. I was so shocked.

  496. Really say yeah, so you ran said that we put

  497. in a deposit everything. My mom wanted a nice number

  498. for the corplet lot. These days you can buy, so

  499. she asks, the running number is this? I say, Mom,

  500. don't Wila just get a car. When I came back

  501. home that day when the car came, she was so excited.

  502. She said, look at a corplet number. Yeah, one O

  503. five two? Say why is it? Can't you see we

  504. didn't buy the number. Okay, it was just given by God.

  505. Can't you see my birth date, my birth man, and

  506. my birth year on October nineteen fifty two, one oh

  507. five two. And then it confirms in me that it's

  508. the right decision. Say God, I obeyed you. This is

  509. a food of testimony. If I need to drive the

  510. Wira or drive the Wirala, if I need to sweat

  511. in the car, I need to sweat in the color.

  512. You know, if any girl can't take the car means

  513. I know it's not the one for Mela.

  514. So for five.

  515. Years I continue with my protono Mira, hey, I continue

  516. with my prora.

  517. I can tell you.

  518. The day came where the car totally when knocked out.

  519. So it was in December, one of the combined service

  520. in Subang. I came from Subang, I drove to mantin

  521. In Legendar College in LinkedIn, so we will pick up

  522. our international friends the movement. I arrived LinkedIn. How have

  523. you been to Lincoln before mantin Ah the plaicing all prayer,

  524. but anyway, white smoke coming up from my borden and Joseph.

  525. There's a guy called Joseph. See Buster Buster your car,

  526. see said, I know, I know. The rediator decided to

  527. just praise Scott for a nearby friend. He came with

  528. his four wheel drive. For the first time in my life,

  529. I put my life in danger. So he told my

  530. my car all the way from Mantein with me and

  531. Joseph behind, you know in my era in the four

  532. whel trap throw it to the workshop in Kajam. So

  533. there was like about forty minutes show experience. Why am

  534. I shaying with you this right? Sometimes God will ask

  535. you to do things there it doesn't fit your preference

  536. lack if I put it away, but it will always

  537. yield fruit that he's looking for.

  538. In you. God is looking for something.

  539. And when you begin to obey, say that, God, it's

  540. not my will, all right, he's your will. And when

  541. we go through that, the process itself will build a

  542. character that yields that fruit, that willingness to obey. It's

  543. almost like saying this right. People always say that, ah,

  544. when I become a millionaire, then I'll give God one

  545. hundred thousand. Hey, if you really go on a hundred ringa,

  546. you don't keep your hundred ring it today? What makes

  547. you think you give an one hundred thousand?

  548. Come?

  549. Some people say that, oh, when I complete my studies,

  550. when I start working, there only ourselve God.

  551. They only I got timer, no assignment.

  552. Be very careful, you know, because when you start work

  553. then they'll say I don't have time. So don't be

  554. afraid to give God that which is required of you,

  555. because God will never shot change you.

  556. Never never. Hebrews twelve one to three says, Therefore we also,

  557. since we are surrounded by so a great cloud of weaknesses,

  558. let us lay aside every weight and the scene which

  559. so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance,

  560. the race that is set before us, looking into Jesus,

  561. the autumn finisher of our faith, who for the joy

  562. that was said before him, and during the cross, despising

  563. the shame, and has sat down at the right hand

  564. of the throne of God.

  565. Who are this great cloud of weaknesses? They gotta read

  566. back to Hebrews eleven. There are people who have gone

  567. before us. There are people who have went through probably

  568. similar journey that you're going through now. And these are

  569. people that have triumphed with their faith. So I believe

  570. that the weaknesses in heaven are cheering for you and me.

  571. And you'll say, they are probably thinking that, you know what,

  572. when I stood for faith, they told me into the

  573. lions then, but God shut them out of the lion.

  574. I have to say that because maybe it's not.

  575. You are living a life where you're being prosecuted left

  576. right center. It's hard for you to come out in

  577. your faith. But there are weaknesses of birth that says that, yeah,

  578. we've been there.

  579. Maybe for some of you is it's very intimidating.

  580. You find it in even the thought of serving God.

  581. It's a natural challenge for you because you may struggle

  582. in self esteem. Maybe you feel that I'm not good

  583. enough to serve God. And this is a very natural

  584. challenge that people go through. But if you really look

  585. at things in God's eyes, what is God looking for?

  586. And the other day God is looking for your heart,

  587. that willingness to trust him. That yes, I may not

  588. have a talent, but God, I choose to trust you.

  589. Where you place me there will be I may not

  590. have enough, but where you have and trusted me with enough,

  591. that's where I will serve you. So the author reminded

  592. us that in our life they are going to be wait,

  593. they are going to be seen. That will distract this.

  594. That's why we need to keep our focus on Jesus,

  595. run with and your rents. Remember Jesus says, he who

  596. endures to the end, a crown of life is awaiting

  597. and dare And I noticed that the level of resilience,

  598. the level of endurance among people these days can be

  599. quite lacking. Too many people give up too easily just

  600. because it gets tough. But in God's kingdom, when it

  601. gets tough, it only means one thing. God is setting

  602. you up for something greater. I've always believed in that

  603. at the point of our pain, we couldn't see it.

  604. At the point of our disappointment, we couldn't see it.

  605. But let me tell you, at the point of perseverance,

  606. when you finally see the hand of God coming true

  607. for you, then you will see that He has been

  608. with you all this while building in you something. God

  609. is into our heart. Friends, second Korean five seven, probably

  610. the last scripture or the second last. For we walk

  611. by faith, not by sight. Look to Jesus, friends, don't

  612. look to the world. Don't look to what is popular.

  613. Don't look to you know, don't be Deceifler. Basically, the

  614. word of God will give you the descentment the last point.

  615. But someone will say, you have faith and I have works.

  616. Show me your faith without your works, and I will

  617. show you my faith by my works. So the evidence

  618. of your faith at the end of the day is

  619. found in your works. So we say that we are

  620. a Christian, we're a disciple of Christ. In fact, Jesus say,

  621. is let your light so shine before men, so that

  622. they will know that you are My disciple. For your

  623. life to shine, you have to work. There must be

  624. a demonstration of work. And I want to encourage exneylight

  625. by saying this, right It's not just about church attendance, guys,

  626. It's not just about homes attendance. It's not just about

  627. prayer service attendance, because all these attendance means nothing if

  628. when the day of challenge come, when the day of

  629. reckoning come, and finally God requires of you something or

  630. God says that, you know, Ronsen, you have been carrying

  631. this unforgiveness for far too long. Can you forgive this

  632. person it is on that day? Can I release that forgiveness?

  633. Oh? God may says that, you know, maybe it's time

  634. to do a new thing.

  635. And we are so comfortable in doing our own things,

  636. and the thought of doing new things it's to start

  637. over again.

  638. Can be very intimidating.

  639. You know how many you transfer house before from a

  640. new house, from an old house to a new house.

  641. You've done order backing before, and then suddenly God says,

  642. you know what, it's time to move on. Then you're

  643. gonna back again. There you go the old day we go.

  644. Sometimes the thought of new can be intimidating. But you

  645. know what, Abraham is up there saying that when I

  646. was seventeen years old, God told me to pack up

  647. and go.

  648. I don't know what season you're in.

  649. Really, if there's one sticky point, I want you to

  650. remember this faith can only be demonstrated when you give

  651. to God what is required of you.

  652. It's just that, it is just that. And you have

  653. many examples.

  654. You know, I've seen my pastor when when we're very

  655. young church, ninety five percent campus student, we raised ten

  656. thousand USD to build a school in Bihar, India. We

  657. raised enough funds to give uniform to kids in Beha,

  658. Bia was known as a missionary graveyard. When you want

  659. the testimony, the testimony I think I shared with this

  660. church before testimony was this right when the extreme mists

  661. from another religion which are not named. When the extreme

  662. mists came wanting to burn down the school, the parents

  663. of the kids began to surround the school in lock arms,

  664. preventing them from wanting to burn down the school and

  665. the parents itself tell this extreme miss these Christians have

  666. done things for kids and their education. What have you

  667. done for kids? Demonstration of faith.

  668. When we're very young church?

  669. Uh, this says, of course, you guys will know the

  670. popular Christian band.

  671. But back then, back then, many.

  672. Years ago, there was a popular Christian band called Delirious. However,

  673. you know Delirious, you know the song history maker.

  674. Ah, I don't want to be.

  675. Okay anyway, it was a big band. It was a

  676. big Christian how about Raindown? You know it's a raindown Okay, Okay,

  677. So we brought in Delirious.

  678. Following year we brought in Sonic Flip.

  679. Do you know if an elder king wrote to Delirious

  680. y an email, don't even know where Malaysia was because

  681. most people think there are no Singapore of a retailant.

  682. Malaysia.

  683. But you know what Delirious, there are such a god

  684. fearing band. They pray, you know, for a small invitation

  685. from a small church in a country called Malaysia. They

  686. replied and say, we will come to Malaysia and we

  687. had our aie festival. Then became the minister, you know,

  688. I mean the no there are some bands. They'll make demands,

  689. you know, Oh, we can only find business class if

  690. you you know, bring us here, this and that. Man,

  691. it's up to there how they want to arrange lab

  692. But over the years, when the church moved in faith,

  693. do you know that the fair is such that we

  694. hosted rarely in Putra Indoor stadium in book Jellia small church,

  695. hundred fifty probably two hundred fellars, organizing a big relih,

  696. a big band, a big stadium. It can only be

  697. because of a big God, the big God. It takes

  698. faith to believe in God for the impossible. You have

  699. to believe in God for the impossible. That makes your

  700. Christian life very exciting. Believe in God for the big

  701. things in life, you know, the big decisions, the big impact.

  702. You know. Ask God to give you the capacity to

  703. dream big, dream big. You know why because when He

  704. comes true.

  705. For you, who gets the glory? Jesus gets the glory.

  706. God gets the glory. He will, He will for us

  707. to plan a church out of here, to send letters

  708. to London, for us to plan here to Nottingham. It's

  709. all by faith. Sisty guys. We don't have a bibird degree.

  710. The people that we said out don't even have a

  711. by bird degree. Bird degrees to me is good, it

  712. is important.

  713. But when the.

  714. Voice of God comes in and say that now it's

  715. our way to plan, we don't tell God like God,

  716. give me three years to be ready, then only we

  717. go plan. When God tells you to do something, he

  718. already know you don't have enough. This is a very

  719. good foot that I read, but it may sound very

  720. condensing ding, so I'm going to use it to me.

  721. Okay, I read a quote before.

  722. God has a really outulated my stupidit before he called me,

  723. you're getting. God really calculated that I'm going to doubt myself.

  724. God has recalculated that I'm going to make poor decisions.

  725. God has really calculated and knows that I'm going to

  726. break his heart one day. I'm going to make decisions

  727. that I'm not proud of.

  728. Yet he called me, tells me that God believes.

  729. In me more than I believe myself, and it requires

  730. faith for me to trust him. Recuef requires faith for

  731. me to do the things of God. So, Exneila, I

  732. want you to know everything that we do must be

  733. done by faith. Everything that we do mask causes to

  734. have a form of dependency on God.

  735. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  736. information on our church, please visit as Church Org. We

  737. are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

  738. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  739. for you. God bless