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Unity guarded | Pr Dr Kenneth Chin

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

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

  3. We've done eight so far. How may have you remember

  4. last week's last Sunday's one?

  5. Can you remember? Sus? We all ownership promoting? All right?

  6. How many you remember? There's a faith evident okay?

  7. So our church the core value, one of it is

  8. ownership promoting, meaning to say that we are not just

  9. members of a club where we come and we pay

  10. our membership fee and don't care about what happens in

  11. the church. No, we have partners and we want to

  12. put our hands to the plow and make it work.

  13. Faith evident is one core value. So we want to

  14. be a church that's full of faith. And then what

  15. else you can remember? Christ centered was excuse me, I

  16. have thank you for the water I think I need

  17. it now about to say discipleship focus. That's right word faithful.

  18. So our church is not just about filling the seeds

  19. with bums, but making disciples. Because when we reach heaven

  20. and talk to Jesus, he's not going to ask us

  21. how many people he brought to church. He's going to

  22. ask us the very thing he asked us to do

  23. is to make disciples. He's going to ask us how

  24. many disciples have we made? Excuse me? And if we

  25. have made one, that's great. If we have made none,

  26. it's not too late to start, Okay, cool, praise a lot. Now.

  27. Today's value number nine, somebody say nine. I wrote a

  28. book on nine. Note because nine is a very very

  29. good number. Is the number of the Holy Spirit. Ah,

  30. it's the gifts of the spirit, is the fruit of

  31. the spirit. And you know nine is a good number.

  32. And I've just told me we're out of nine. The

  33. book nine sold out about nine years ago, and it

  34. sold out, and so we might reprint because a lot

  35. of people are saying, passa, we want to read the

  36. book you wrote on nine.

  37. By the grace of God, and only by the grace

  38. of God.

  39. I've written about fifteen books now, and five or six

  40. of them don't really counter because they are courtes books

  41. full of courts. But anyway, Value number nine, somebody say

  42. nine of the twelve plus one core values of ex Church.

  43. I was asked in x Clang when I was bringing

  44. the word in x clag Puss, why must be plus one?

  45. I don't know whether they explained it.

  46. To you but when we first started, and I said, God,

  47. what are the core values of this church that I

  48. can give to the generations to come? He said to me,

  49. read Acts chapter two. So I read X chapter two

  50. and got all twelve in the first year from the Lord.

  51. I said, Lord, thank you. That is scriptural, is biblical.

  52. In fact, extrap the two is when the church grew

  53. in the Book of Acts, it really exploded. And so

  54. we want to be like the Book of Acts. We

  55. want to be like the Church in Acts. And then

  56. about a year later I just felt that there was

  57. something missing, and then I read the scripture again in

  58. X two and I missed out one very important one.

  59. Generosity. Do you know when revival.

  60. Comes and he hits our hearts, when our hearts are

  61. burning with fire, revival generosity seems to flow very easily.

  62. But when our hearts are struggling, and when we are backslidered,

  63. we hold our fists very tightly. You know.

  64. It's like even ten cents you don'tant to give, you.

  65. Know, but when God takes a hold of your heart,

  66. you're very generous, not just with money, with your time,

  67. you know.

  68. Have you seen your friends on fire?

  69. It's like, what more can I do you know how

  70. many more mission troops can I go for? What can

  71. I do to serve the Lord? When you're on fire?

  72. Your desire ooh, that's rhyming. When you're on fire, your

  73. desire is to just give unto the Lord. That's why

  74. God is all consuming fire, and that's why he continues

  75. to give. Our God is so generous, you know why,

  76. because he's on fire, he's on revival constantly twenty four

  77. to seven. And when his people made in his image

  78. on fire as well. Oh my word, we're not asking,

  79. you know, why should I jump? You're saying, Lord, how

  80. high do you want me to jump? So I added

  81. plus one, and of course I could have said thirteen.

  82. I thought plus one.

  83. We just kind of rock your boat a little bit,

  84. you know, and make you remember it a little bit more. Okay,

  85. so the plus one came a bit later. But you know,

  86. we want to be a generous church. Somebody say generous church,

  87. Praise God. And you were here, Passandra, telling you a

  88. little bit more about how your giving has made this

  89. church able to give. We've given to any CF, we've

  90. given to Alpha, you know, and sometimes you know, we

  91. don't just want to give three ring gid. We don't

  92. just want to give thirty ring kid. You know sometimes

  93. when Alpha says, you know, Passcanna's ex church, can you

  94. give to the work of Alpha.

  95. You know, we write a checkout for a minimum of

  96. three thousand.

  97. We never write anything less than that because we feel

  98. like anything less doesn't make a difference. And then you've

  99. got Malaysian Care who's doing great work among the addicts,

  100. and you know among the prostitutes. You know, you can't

  101. give three hundred ringd you know what difference does it make?

  102. So we give ten thousands sometimes, But it's because we

  103. collect all these funds that comes from a thousand, five

  104. hundred people in Colon Loupor, and they give. Some give

  105. ten ring gids, some give one hundred, some give a thousand,

  106. some give ten thousand. Sometimes when I look at the

  107. amount that people give at the well, we call it

  108. the aniversary gift. And the next chance we get to

  109. give is at our missions conference. You know, the amount

  110. is like sometimes twenty five thousand, fifty thousand from one person.

  111. Why because they give got their bonus, then they want

  112. to give to the Lord. They give to the Lord.

  113. Somebody say amen, not to the church. They give to

  114. the Lord. And that's why the Lord blesses you. If

  115. you just give to a church, a church can't really

  116. bless you. You give to the Lord. The Lord bless

  117. that you. Amen.

  118. And it's all free will offering.

  119. People give according to how much they want to give,

  120. no force, no compulsion, and we collect and it comes

  121. close to a million and a million plus right, And

  122. so then you give us the power to be able

  123. to bless other ministries and other church plans, and to

  124. even build churches and all that. Okay, so there will

  125. be another chance to give you haven't given yet, and

  126. so pray about it. In Lord, what do you want

  127. me to do? But generosity is powerful. So that's the

  128. twelve plus one? Am I going too fast for you?

  129. All right? Praise God? Everyone here is young, amen, even

  130. those who feel right they're not so young. You're all

  131. young at heart and so welcome. And for young people,

  132. I know everything's fast and you're able to hear fast messages.

  133. And why am I speaking fast? Because I have to

  134. bring my two hour message down to one hour? Okay,

  135. here we go, Unity guard it. We have the screen

  136. up for you. You and uh, let's begin, let's begin.

  137. Are you ready. Okay, So let's go back to accept

  138. the two, where I pulled out all these values from value.

  139. Number nine also comes from there. Let's read accept the

  140. two verse forty two. Now, just don't just read it

  141. on the screen. Yeah, don't be lazy, because when you

  142. go back home, there's no more screen, and then you

  143. go to, hey, wait, where did pastor leaders tour? But

  144. if you flip your Bible, or at least press and

  145. click your device, you will go like, oh, I think

  146. I can remember. I flipped to my right. So you

  147. go back home. I flipped my right. Where is it again? Oh?

  148. Acts that's right. So let's read the word have got together,

  149. and they continue steadfastly in the Apostles, doctrine and fellowship,

  150. in the breaking of bread, and in press. I started

  151. with as two forty two because the Bible says they

  152. continued They all right together, continue steadfastly in the Apostles, doctrine,

  153. in fellowship and break your bread and in p Let

  154. me talk to you very quickly about this verse. Do

  155. you know that I've used this verse for weddings before?

  156. I use this verse for weddings before, you know? I

  157. because the Lord told me this that it takes one.

  158. Somebody say, one to follow the Apostles doctrine. Just just

  159. one one of you to follow the word of God.

  160. The microphone seems to be going lower and lower. Can

  161. I have some power behind the microphone? Thank you so much, Moses.

  162. What Moses was like, his hands was going up like this,

  163. hutting the rate sea. Yeah, you know I need to

  164. hear my voice. Yeah, I hear it now, Praise God.

  165. And when I'm preaching to myself as well. So it

  166. takes one person, just one person, even if the whole

  167. world is only one person, that one person still has

  168. to follow God's word. Yes, but it takes two. Somebody

  169. said two to fellowship. If you are fellowshipping with yourself,

  170. you gotta come for counseling. Okay, so one to follow

  171. the Apostles doctrine, two to fellowship. But you know why

  172. he takes three to break bread, because because the two that.

  173. Fellowship can get angry with each other.

  174. That's why churches split, churches break up, because even the

  175. best of friends in church can split and get angry, upset,

  176. you know, misunderstanding. So the third person when you break

  177. bread has got to be there, and he says every

  178. time you take the bread and drink of the cup.

  179. Remember remember me. So it's you and that brother or

  180. that sister who you can't see eye to eye even

  181. in the same church. And you continue to see eye

  182. to eye and forgive because Jesus is remembered. When you

  183. break bread and drink of the cup, and you say,

  184. if the Lord can forgive me from my terrible sins,

  185. why can't I forgive my sister? Why can't I forgive

  186. my brother? Are you ready? So number one or only

  187. takes one to follow God's word, but it takes two

  188. to fellowship, but it takes three two break bread. So

  189. I'm speaking to the couple. I'm speaking to merit couples

  190. or even young couples who I helped to exchange the vows.

  191. I said, listen to me. You came as individuals, keep

  192. following the word of God. But now you're not an individual.

  193. Only you are a couple fellowship. But certainly I want

  194. to tell you that you will fight as a husband

  195. and wife. Remember to put Jesus in the middle. Is

  196. this good preachy? And only when you break bread and unite.

  197. I'm talking about unity guarded today. Only when you take

  198. bread and unite. Can you pray? Prayers are powerful? Have

  199. you ever seen a husband and wife? They argue you

  200. think you can pray together? Can can't?

  201. And and.

  202. Upset to each other. They haven't forgiven each other. You

  203. think their prayers are powerful? No way, no way. So

  204. it's not just merried a couple is the whole church? Right?

  205. We must go to you come together? Say Lord, I'm

  206. so sorry. I know my sister hurt my feelings the

  207. other day. I would have forgiven because you first forgave me.

  208. You break bread and then your prayers will be How

  209. were full and hindered? Somebody say, amen? So the unity

  210. comes from the breaking of bread, and it's so important

  211. to put Jesus in the center of it. Or can

  212. I hear good? Amen? Next one ex Chapter two still

  213. on except the two Now all who believe. In verse

  214. forty four says were together. Somebody say together, what's the

  215. topic again? Unity guarded and had all things in common?

  216. Say common? Common is where you get cammon or community.

  217. A community shares all things in common. Common unity is

  218. where you get community. We must have all things in common.

  219. Nobody here thinking that you're greater than me. I think

  220. I'm greater and you. Everybody thinks that you are more

  221. high class. You are low class. You know you are

  222. no body your skin color, doesn't you know cause you

  223. to be anything greater than me. You know, we when

  224. we are in church, we don't look at skin color.

  225. We don't look at anything. We don't know a status,

  226. we don't know at backgrounds. We look at the fact

  227. that we're all brothers and sisters in the Lord. Somebody say, man,

  228. praise God, and so we must come together and have

  229. all things in common. We must be together. Somebody say

  230. together again, and they sold their possessions. You see, when

  231. we are not together, When you're not united, we can't

  232. do radical things like they did in the Book of Acts,

  233. which is like when there were needs in our house,

  234. needs in our community.

  235. We're not together enough. We're not common enough, or rather.

  236. We're not Yeah, all right, okay, thank you.

  237. So all those who are watching your live streaming, don't worry.

  238. I'm back, thank you. It's okay, Okay, fantasy, I'm so

  239. glad you're here. More. Keep bring miracles. Oh he's keep

  240. pointing to be payed back because he wasn't working. So know,

  241. yeah he's working. He said, no, I was kidding. Okay.

  242. So they saw their possessions and goods and divided them

  243. among all as anyone had need. Next scripture, still on

  244. except the two. I want to show you how I

  245. was able to draw out unity as an important factor,

  246. as an important core value, from except to itself. So

  247. continuing daily with one a call, somebody says, want a card,

  248. somebody saying, want a card, and it's not a Honda car.

  249. But in the temple and breaking bread. You see, they

  250. continue to break bread. Why why didn't they use the

  251. world fellowship here? Why did he repeat the word prayer here?

  252. Because when you are going to be one accord together,

  253. having all things in common, you've got to continue to

  254. break bread. So they broke bread from house to house,

  255. ate their food and with gladness and simplicity of heart.

  256. This is a characteristic of the thriving church in the

  257. Book of Acts. We want to be that church. That's

  258. why we call ourselves X. But we want to be

  259. in one chord. Everybody, listen to my heart one. We

  260. want to be united, and the way to do it

  261. is to remember Christ what He's done for us. Okay,

  262. Unity is key, says the next slide is key to

  263. success and sustainability. Sustainability is a big word now, Okay,

  264. people say ESG ESG you know ESG. Okay, well neither

  265. do I. But the as is all right, goals, he says,

  266. all against Cendra environmental very good. Yeah, just guessing. But

  267. I think Byenra is nodding her here. She says, yeah,

  268. it's right. And you know your husband, yeah, is really

  269. supporting you. He's an expert. Yeah, okay, so EESG, all right.

  270. Unity is really key if you want ex church to

  271. sustain for another pen generations.

  272. You know, I think Jesus will come back a ready.

  273. I really am convicted and convinced that the Lord will

  274. come back soon, very soon.

  275. So I'm trying to live my life like he's coming

  276. back tomorrow.

  277. But the thing is, sustainability is what we all want

  278. for our families and for our ministries and for our church. Okay,

  279. now let's study together very quickly. John seventeen, twenty twenty two.

  280. Are you ready turn to your Bibles now? And now

  281. you should be turning left because from X back to

  282. John is left. And if you're using a tablet, it's okay.

  283. Just ignore what I'm trying to say to you okay, Oh,

  284. I just turned off my eyepad. Hold on one second, okay,

  285. I do not pray say Jesus for these alone, but

  286. also for those who will believe in me through their word,

  287. that they all maybe once come on, they all maybe.

  288. Do you understand that this is the prayer of Jesus himself.

  289. Do you also understand that this is one of his

  290. final prayers, one of his final major prayers recorded in

  291. the Bible. In fact, some people call it the High

  292. priestly Prayer. John seventeen is known as the High Priestly Prayer.

  293. Do you know if it's your last prayer, you don't

  294. waste your words? How many of you will if you know, now, okay,

  295. this is my last prayer. After this prayer, I'm gonna

  296. go to be with the Lord. How many of you

  297. just just praisimply like, oh Lord, and a thank you

  298. for the vegetables? I ate you probably won't say that.

  299. You probably say, oh Lord, please save my unsaved family.

  300. Who's still not saving You begin to pray very important prayers,

  301. and in the last recorded prayer of Jesus he prayed,

  302. make them one How important is it.

  303. To the Lord?

  304. To the Lord himself?

  305. He said, make them one, as you Father are in

  306. me and I in you, that they also may be

  307. one in us, that the world may believe that you

  308. sent me, and the glory which you gave me, I've

  309. given them, that they may be one, just as we

  310. are one.

  311. So you know, friends, even as we read the scripture.

  312. That the anesis of this concept or idea. The inspiration

  313. of unity doesn't come just by the fact that we

  314. should unite or that is good to be one. The

  315. very core of this idea comes from the fact that

  316. God is one. So you're drawing not just from a

  317. Bible scripture. You're not drawing just from a good preaching.

  318. You're drawing from the fact that our God is one,

  319. Father's son, holy Spirit. And that should be enough to

  320. let you know and to convince your heart how important

  321. unity is our God, Father's son. I'm repeating myself, because

  322. God is three persons, although it's one God, and they

  323. work together so well all these years, and because they

  324. are one, Jesus says, make them one, all of us

  325. in this room, as we are one. So the inspiration

  326. doesn't just come from scripture. The inspiration comes from a person,

  327. from God himself. Do you get this all right. The

  328. microphone is still starting to go lower, and therefore my

  329. voice is starting to strain, and I'm not sure.

  330. I pray God will uphold my voice for the second service.

  331. But here we go. Second slide that will come your way.

  332. Let's read this one. Let's read this question. Can you

  333. imagine God fighting with himself anyone in his room? Can

  334. you imagine in your wildest dreams, Father scoring the sign? Hi, yead, Jesus,

  335. why are you wake up so late? Jesus talked to

  336. the spirit, Oh, Holy God, John, I told you many times, Spirit,

  337. Why are you like that? You know? Spirit said Father?

  338. Why have you ever imagine in your wildness dreams, God

  339. Father's son, Holy Spirit fighting? You cannot imagine, right, You

  340. cannot imagine. Right. I pray that it will not happen.

  341. Also in the church, it will not happen. Also in

  342. our marriages, you know, it will not happen. Within ourselves.

  343. God will never fight with himself. He is so united,

  344. he is so one, and his prayer is that we

  345. will be one. Now. I like the word us and

  346. the word hour because it was not just using John seventeen.

  347. It was used all the way back in Genesis one.

  348. Twenty six. Let's put that out. Then, God said, let us,

  349. somebody say us already from the beginning, God, the Father's

  350. Son and Holy Spirit created the heavens and the earth

  351. and human beings as we know them.

  352. From day one. They were us from day one.

  353. They were not just you, not just me, but you

  354. and me and us amen from day one. And they

  355. made us in their image, our image.

  356. It's never just been you, me, but our it's us everyone.

  357. Okay. That's how we continue to build this church. Unity

  358. guarded is a very important core value. We need to

  359. God unity with all our hearts. God your marriage unity,

  360. God your heart unity. I'll talk about that a little

  361. bit more because I believe the Holy Spirit has dropped

  362. something in my spirit for you. But God, the church unity.

  363. All right, let's look at some scripture. Now we have

  364. more scripture, I should say. Let's look at the next slide.

  365. Luke three twenty two says, and the Holy Spirit descended

  366. in bodily form like a dove upon him, and a

  367. voice came from heaven. We said, you are my beloved son.

  368. In you I am well please, well look at that.

  369. Just in one scripture, you get Holy Spirit, you get Jesus,

  370. and you get the Father all working in one, all right,

  371. John fourteen nine to ten.

  372. He who has seen me has seen the Father.

  373. Wow. You see how how closely they work together? All right?

  374. If you have seen me, Jesus says, you've seen the Father.

  375. So how can you say, show us the Father? Do

  376. you not believe that I am in the Father and

  377. the Father in me. The words that I speak to you,

  378. I do not speak on my own authority. Wow, how

  379. closely the Son and the Father works. But the Father,

  380. who dwells in me does the works. One more Matthew

  381. twelve thirty two. Anyone who speaks the word against the

  382. Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever

  383. speaks against the Holy Spirit, you will never You will

  384. not be forgiven him, either in this age or in

  385. the age to come. You see how the Son is

  386. so close to the Holy Spirit. They are one. Have

  387. you ever seen friendship like that?

  388. You know?

  389. Let's say me passa. Daniel and Albert are so close. Right,

  390. If you talk about Daniel, I'll say, don't talk to him,

  391. don't talk about him. A. Have you seen friends of that?

  392. You know how close they are? Then you know Albert,

  393. you know. You know, someone say, hey, it's Alberta always

  394. always want to be black? No, I said, you know that,

  395. you gotta answer answer for him. What you mean, always

  396. want to be? He is black inside? You know inside? Amen? Amen,

  397. brother you feel me. Yeah. Yeah, don't even say the

  398. word yeah word. Amen, don't even say black. Want to

  399. be is black? You know? Yeah? Because black want to

  400. be is not a very good thing.

  401. Yeah.

  402. No, you you gotta that. That is how the Father's.

  403. Son in the Holy Spirit workskay mage.

  404. The Sun says that the Sun says that you want

  405. to score me, you score me, don't score the Holy Spirit.

  406. If you hear me, you hear the father. If you

  407. see me, you see the father. Father says, you see

  408. my son in he in him? My Well, please you

  409. see how they talk about each other. That's why I

  410. show'd you like that all these years, you never allow

  411. anything to come in to break how to break the

  412. parents and how to break parents up When children go

  413. to mom and say, mom, daddy won't give you ice cream,

  414. and mom, all the mom has to say is you're dead.

  415. I tell you you're dead. I tell you always. You know, party, pooper, party, whatever,

  416. you know, he's always no. Then then then then then

  417. then the mom says no, no, no, no, my mammy, give huh,

  418. you're dead? Or and then you run to your dad

  419. sometimes and that says, your mama, tell you what I

  420. know how I marry her right? Over right? That's the

  421. way you break the parents up right, And so the

  422. best give father's the best gift you can give your

  423. children is to love your wife. Wife is the best

  424. gift you can give your children is to love your husband.

  425. I mean, your children come running, you know I mean

  426. you don't you don't We taught this? You know this.

  427. Your children come running. You say what your father should say?

  428. What the mommy say? They cannot only after dinner? Then

  429. that's also my word. And if you don't agree that,

  430. you talk behind the doors. Hey dear, why are you

  431. going to do that? Okay, you do that, you do that,

  432. but you must always be you writed and unity is

  433. the best gift you can give your children. It's the

  434. most secure gift. Your children feel so secure when mommy

  435. and daddy are together. You can't break God up. You

  436. just can't. That's why we are all so confident in

  437. this room. We all feel so secure in this room,

  438. even with that war going on in the Middle East.

  439. We feel secure because the Middle East can break up,

  440. but God will ever break up.

  441. And when he.

  442. Says he loves you, all three loves you, father' sid

  443. Holy Spirit. You understand what trying to say. So bring

  444. it down to your own life. Bring it down to

  445. your own family, Bring it down to your own parenting,

  446. Bring down to your own office, Bring down to your

  447. own you know, business, because a business will break up,

  448. a company will break up, a church will break up.

  449. If we don't understand this, anybody, Okay? Oh, God works

  450. as a team, says the next slide. He works as

  451. a team together, everyone achieves more. He works as a team,

  452. and he desires us to do the same. Can I

  453. hear good? Amen? Now listen, I'm gonna give you five

  454. points very quickly of what unity is not. What unity

  455. is not? Are you readyber One is not uniformity just

  456. because everybody dressed in the same uniform means you're united.

  457. Not really. Yeah, you can be all in police clothes

  458. in this room doesn't be united. You can be.

  459. All in boys, brigade, girls, brigate uniform.

  460. You're not united.

  461. You can be all wearing the ex church follow shirt.

  462. That does it? Be you're united. You can be husband and wife.

  463. You can be driving the same car to go to

  464. the same church. Doesn't be you're united. Okay, so quietly

  465. can can love for be one churche huh? Okay, yes,

  466. thank you so much. What else is it not? It's

  467. not exclusivity. That's because you're exclusive. If you're a club.

  468. We are a church called ags and you know we've

  469. got our own corner, doesn't mean we are we are united.

  470. You're joining a club you know, called up my club

  471. or whatever club you know, Suddenly you got club status,

  472. Suddenly you got exclusive status.

  473. No, it doesn't mean that. Don't build a club. God

  474. doesn't want a club.

  475. He was a church. Amen. I know there are there

  476. are all kinds of systems around the world, cast system

  477. and you know, I don't know even in China. You know,

  478. there is some sort of a cast system. And people

  479. think that, oh, we are united because we are united.

  480. Don't friend that person from another cast, don't friend that

  481. person from another economic status. Oh we're not from that school.

  482. We are from Oxford. Let's not Oxford is united. Oxford

  483. cannot work with Harvard. Harvard cannot work with Cambridge. You

  484. know that's exclusivity and it does nothing in the Kingdom

  485. of God. What's point number three? Over protectiveness and possessiveness. Parents, Listen,

  486. one of the worst things you can do for your

  487. children is be over protective. But you say, no, no, no,

  488. I just want to keep everybody in the same room.

  489. I just want to keep everybody in the same house.

  490. I just want to keep everybody united in No, don't

  491. say that. You are being overprotective and over possessive. And

  492. you know what will happen. Your children will one day resented.

  493. All right. Some people call it helicopter parenting. Okay, actually

  494. a helicopter t big now is drawn drawn? Why why mommy?

  495. Why mommy? You don't want to know everything your son does?

  496. Why mommy, you want to know everything your daughter does?

  497. I want to keep everybody united? Who you bluffing? Right?

  498. They will resenting one day? Stop it?

  499. Stop it number D number D because number dar Okay.

  500. Next, life controlling, Okay, don't be con Oh you know

  501. I love my family and I want to keep them

  502. all one. And then you control everybody's schedule, you control

  503. everybody's life. No, don't do that. And finally, manipulative. Somebody,

  504. I don't even spell this correctly. I'm wondering whether the

  505. eye comes before the uu becomes before the eye. But anyway,

  506. I wrote it right this time round. I think Okay,

  507. many pooh maney Pool so much, super maney Pool. Don't

  508. manipulate and what is what is manupulate or being manipulative?

  509. Manipulative is also a form of control. But you are

  510. controlling a person for your own benefit, using their weakness,

  511. using their fears.

  512. Uh.

  513. Sometimes we do it without even knowing. Also, you don't

  514. love Mamadila, you need love their deala. That's manipulating because

  515. you're riding on you know that they will respond and know, Mammy,

  516. I also love you.

  517. You know we think it's like very loving and very

  518. like all together united.

  519. I know it's not. It's it's just you just you

  520. just really take an advantage of what you You already

  521. know the person will respond that way because they will

  522. feel guilty or they'll feel bad about there's you're you're

  523. writing or the person's weakness for your own benefit. Know. Oh,

  524. so you you know you only care for and stuff

  525. like that. You know, uh, uh, you only care for

  526. your staffler. You don't care for you know, stuff like

  527. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have all

  528. the examples in my mind. But these five things are

  529. not what unity is. Can I hear? Good? Amen? All right?

  530. So what is unity? Let's move on? Uh, there's two

  531. points in your booklets? Some of you have your booklets?

  532. M me s all right, fat wow, I'm so proud

  533. of you. Fantastic. Do you keep in your car? I know,

  534. I know somebody keep it in my car, so I'll

  535. never forget it. Uh? Some are you keeping your bible? Right?

  536. So you bring your bible? You bring your book? Very good,

  537. very good. Those of you who are new to our

  538. church and don't have it, now, we have copies for you. You know,

  539. were actually made photo copies for you. And so please

  540. let your friend know I don't have a copy. Can

  541. I have a copy and one of our host team, Yeah,

  542. we'll give it to you. God not got anyone anyone here?

  543. What's any okay? Okay, So let's look at the next point.

  544. Unity is powerful. Somebody say unity is powerful? It is

  545. very powerful. Okay.

  546. Let's look at Mark chapter three, verse twenty three to

  547. twenty five. So he called them to himself and said

  548. to them in parables, how can Satan passed out Satan.

  549. If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand,

  550. cannot stand. You can add if you want to, that

  551. family cannot stand, that marriage cannot stand, that company cannot stand.

  552. And if a house is divided against itself, that house

  553. cannot stand. Other words of Jesus very clear, very clear,

  554. how important unity is. See ladies and gentleman, I want

  555. to tell you in advancea unity is hard work. It's

  556. hard work because we are people of emotions and feelings.

  557. And sometimes it's easy when things are all going our way.

  558. Sometimes when it's not, it's very hard. Even in church,

  559. especially in church, it's very hard. But you and I

  560. need to understand how we cannot not God unity, because

  561. this is a statement we use in that church. If

  562. you got unity, unity will guard you. If you got

  563. your marriage, and the unity of your marriage when you

  564. are down, that which you invested, that which you sold

  565. into will one day reap when you're down and we

  566. are tired, and suddenly all that you were sowing into

  567. unity all these years suddenly comes back and says that

  568. don't worry. You have given your life for this family,

  569. and you've guarded the unity, and you loved us so much.

  570. Now is out time to take care of you. I

  571. don't deserve this, know you do because all these years

  572. you've done your best to keep us together, and now

  573. we're gonna help you keep together.

  574. I'm retired from this church for now six years.

  575. You know, I've sold into this church for the first

  576. twenty years, and I've continued so of course, but not

  577. like the first twenty years. And today the church really

  578. takes care of me. Wherever I go for ministry, whatever

  579. I do, the church continues to look after me. And

  580. then I say, hey, guys, you know I don't work

  581. as hard as I used to, like, you know, for

  582. the church and in the churches. Said but Pastor, for

  583. twenty years, you've been investing into growing this church, and

  584. now is our time to invest in you. So praise

  585. the Lord. I want to say to you. If you

  586. got unity, unity will guard you. Somebody say a man,

  587. all right? Next verse ecclesiastics. Not very easy to pronounce this,

  588. but ecclesiastics, Oh hello, All the children are there, okay.

  589. Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.

  590. And a three four cord is not quickly broken. This

  591. verse is very popular for weddings. How many have you

  592. ever heard this scripture for weddings? Ah, one may be

  593. overpowered by another, so don't be one.

  594. I just only use this versa for a wedding for

  595. my niece.

  596. My niece book me her uncle for two years, two years,

  597. twenty to twenty four, Uncle Kenny, Can you do my

  598. wedding as you're get married? It is so fast? Say no,

  599. two years time? Say what you woke me so earlier.

  600. I'm afraid that you won't be around. So I did

  601. the wedding and it was ninety percent non Christian guests

  602. the end of ten percent. So the Holy Space says,

  603. now's the time to share the love of God and

  604. the word of God to all these beautiful people here today.

  605. And I use this scripture. And I told the couple,

  606. don't come into this wedding as one, because sometimes you

  607. can get married as one. You know what I mean?

  608. Meaning to say. The girl says, if I don't get married,

  609. I will never be complete. So she wants to get

  610. married so that she can feel complete. Then you entered

  611. that wedding as one. And if you enter a wedding

  612. as one, you will one day be overpowered, or the

  613. guy says, oh, I really need a beautiful girl by

  614. my side. I feel like, you know, I'm a man.

  615. So a lot of people get married for selfish reasons

  616. or no, you know, you get married for selfish reasons.

  617. You get married as one, but two? Can we stand that?

  618. So come into this wedding. I told them as two.

  619. But even better, I closed the message. You know, it

  620. was the shortest message I've ever done for wedding. I

  621. think it was eight minutes. Who because the people all day,

  622. I know they never been to church, or some of

  623. them been to church. My let never been a long time, right.

  624. But then after that, everybody keeps the visit. Oh, we

  625. so enjoyed faster, we so enjoyed the message. We wish

  626. it was longer, I say, I wish my church tells

  627. me that, but maybe too long and too long? One

  628. hour too long? A too long? Okay, So I promise

  629. you I'll do fifty nine minutes. Okay. So there, So

  630. I told them, I said, hey, one is not good,

  631. two it is better. So I hope that you come

  632. into this marriage as a two. Then they look at

  633. me and go like, yes, yes, uncle Kenny. Two, But hey,

  634. listen to me. Now I look at them right into

  635. their eyes. It's better to come in as a three.

  636. The world calls it third party, and it's not so

  637. good to have a third party in your marriage, except

  638. and unless it's God, because sometimes even the two is

  639. not enough meaning to say. You argue, you fight, you

  640. disappoint each other, you fail each other, you fail meeting

  641. each other's expectations, no matter how much you you know,

  642. sometimes these days are the vows. Are the vows? I

  643. tell you what. He's just long. You know when I

  644. was you know how many weddings I've done now, probably

  645. about ninety to one hundred weddings I've done, And the

  646. early days I was just the traditional vowels. No, I

  647. Kenneth Chain, take you Sandra yo, to be my lawfully wife,

  648. to have it to hold from this day for you know.

  649. Then if we go on now we have to pass

  650. pages to the guy and he says, just Andre, the

  651. day I met you, I can play violin. No, I

  652. assumed the deeper see by swimming pool. So he wants me,

  653. but in very romantic, very nice I know, I know,

  654. I'm not knocking them like you know, it's just very nice.

  655. You know, right, But even after saying all that, I

  656. will climb the highest mountain Gussie here, Yeah, I'll take

  657. a bullet for you. Right. And then when the time

  658. comes and they're fighting, all the vouce forgot.

  659. I see my wife. Yeah, she says she's seen it

  660. a long time.

  661. Yeah, I hope everybody heard it on the live stream. Yeah,

  662. keep it short like my message.

  663. No, no, no, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

  664. It's very romantically. I don't know people.

  665. Okay, is there is their wedding, Okay, let them have

  666. their thing.

  667. But listen, all those of you are married long enough. Yeah,

  668. when you're listening to a young percent give their bowser,

  669. I think you look at each other. Guy, let's see we.

  670. Say, no, don't be so bad.

  671. Or when you when you hear someone giving a long

  672. bous long bowser, you hold each other's hands medical post

  673. in the wedding and pray for the Lord, help him

  674. fulfill even ten percent of that. Oh Lord, but a

  675. three four court. Come on, ladies and gentleman, we don't

  676. have to have a third party in our marriage. But God,

  677. because sometimes even the best of friends have their days.

  678. But thanks be to God, we have Jesus in the

  679. center of it all. Do you know what three? Four? Caddies?

  680. Have you seen it? Let's look at this image. That's

  681. the image. Come out, look at this. Okay, it be

  682. a long time to draw this. I didn't draw it.

  683. I took it for somewhere. It's a three four court.

  684. You see that the ends the two ends. That's three,

  685. although it looks like two. Right, it looks like two

  686. in the middle right like there's only two being braided,

  687. but it's three. Do you understand three?

  688. Ladies?

  689. German? Do you understand three? Have any of you girls

  690. tried to braid your friend's hair using just two? You know?

  691. You just want to right there? You go, right right?

  692. You just have you ever tried? Have you ever tried? Girls?

  693. Come on, look at you? Have you ever tried? There's two?

  694. Just two?

  695. I tried before, not just two. Then I assume I

  696. let go.

  697. And revels. I'm like, hey, I work so hard, No

  698. two again, doc, I took the and I just I

  699. just I just did that. I tried to put a

  700. rubber bed at the end, and then the rubber beds stopped.

  701. But the rest of the head is because you can't

  702. listen to me now, because the Holy Spirit told me

  703. to tell you this. Do you know that we are

  704. also three person? We are spirit, soul and body. Do

  705. you know that quite a few of you are trying

  706. to get your life in order, not knowing why you're

  707. going through stuff because you're also a three part person,

  708. but you're trying to live life just two.

  709. Maybe it's okay, I look good. That's your body.

  710. I look good like I comb my hair, I do

  711. my hair, I pull my hair, I color my hair.

  712. Body I look slim. I look slim. I wear nice clothes.

  713. I look at the mirror. Okay, that's one part, one part. Okay, body,

  714. you are body, so you must get or your body. Okay.

  715. I comb my hair, I put makeup on my face. Okay,

  716. that's all right, that's all right, that's all right. And

  717. uh and I look beautiful every day. I started for

  718. a mirror one hour, one hour. So you're pulling on

  719. that one card. You're pulling on that one card. If

  720. you keep pulling, you can't become both. So you keep

  721. pull off the body. Body, very important body. Body, Okay,

  722. and then you try to Okay, what is the next

  723. thing I need to tie you with my soul, my

  724. soul or maybe my spirit, okay, and then you try

  725. to just just your body and your your spirit. Maybe

  726. sometimes you go to church, sometimes you don't go to church,

  727. and you and then and then you you you try

  728. so hard and then you unravel again. What in the

  729. world is going on? I go to church with it,

  730. and then you try the two again, and then maybe

  731. I tried this way. No, friends, listen to me. God

  732. told me before I came up here that your your

  733. victory and your breakthrough is gonna come when you start

  734. to tie your life together with three fall cord. Your

  735. body can look nice, great, but your soul, your mind,

  736. your emotions, that's what your soul is, and your will

  737. must be in alignment to God's word as well and

  738. your spirit.

  739. Your spirit, of course, will always take God's side.

  740. Your soul might not take godside. Your soul myself might

  741. sometimes take the flesh sight. Listen to me very carefully.

  742. The way forward for some of you in this room

  743. is to make sure that you tie yourself up within

  744. and say, body, soul, and spirit start believing as one.

  745. You come together and you say, soul belief, this is

  746. the word of God. I will believe I will tie

  747. myself with my spirit and I will bring my body along,

  748. because sometimes your body feel, you know, tired, Your body

  749. feels weak, and your body doesn't want to corporate. And

  750. so that's why God says in his word, if two

  751. or three are gathered, I will be there. I really

  752. believe this is not just two or three human beings.

  753. It's two because sometimes you can worship God with two. Yes,

  754. how do you worship God with two? Your spirit and

  755. your soul worship, but your body feels so tired, so

  756. you're sitting down, so your body is not participating. But

  757. God says, never mind. As long as two is in agreement,

  758. two is participating, I will still be there. But it's

  759. better if it's two all three. So the third one.

  760. Keep disciplinting your body so that your body will join

  761. your soul and your spirit and together as a full

  762. whole person soul spirit, body, spirit, soul, body, body is

  763. soul spirit, you are together. And I'm telling you many

  764. of you don't understand this, but if I tell you, you

  765. will understand it. How many of you have felt really tired,

  766. too tired to come to church before? How many of

  767. you were too tired to come to press service before,

  768. but when you came because your spirit says I should go.

  769. And so your soul, which is your mind, your emotions,

  770. is actually today I ah don't want then?

  771. All right?

  772. Right?

  773. Then somebody call you, baby, somebody call you. Passes call you.

  774. She said, that's that's a loving uh, you know, communication

  775. with you. Woe Ah, Elijah, I heard that you were thinking, soul.

  776. There's a soul, your spirit definitely, because the Bible says

  777. your spirit belongs to God. You're born again, so let's

  778. let's one again. That spirit is alive to God. But

  779. your soul you were thinking, soul, soul you were thinking.

  780. And why were you thinking of the comet? Because your

  781. body is tired. So now your soul and your body

  782. are one against God. So Passandra is an angel who

  783. calls you and say, Elisha, I heard you were thinking.

  784. Can you please come show you then decide to unite

  785. with your spirit and come. And suddenly, in the middle

  786. of the worshiper, your body feels refreshed. Come on, how

  787. many of you have experienced that over and over again?

  788. Just because now your body flows and follows your spirit

  789. and your soul. And now the tree two or three gathered.

  790. He is there now. Miss you understand this so many times.

  791. It's happened so many by the way, welcome back, even

  792. for those of you who don't know. She went to

  793. Singapore and after ten days she came back because she

  794. says she missed me so much. She miss her parents,

  795. she missed her food. Okay, so Treefold call, let me

  796. see the Treefold call again. Thank you XTV. I love

  797. you so everybody. I want to just speak over your

  798. life right now, that your body, soul and spirit will

  799. be like this.

  800. You will be one so strong the devil cannot unrevel.

  801. You, so strong that the lies of ca Pop cannot

  802. unrevel you. Yeah, cap is Kenneth Pop is it? Next slide? God,

  803. Unity and unity will guard you next slide. It's hard work,

  804. somebody's hard work. It takes real effort, especially when you're

  805. angry with somebody. Sometimes. My wife and I, you know,

  806. although we are both pastors, we have been angry with

  807. each other before.

  808. Yeah.

  809. Yeah, as I turned to that is it, I know

  810. I've never been angry. You didn't do by that as

  811. a saint, but we have been, you know, upset. It

  812. takes a real effort. I've actually prayed with my wife

  813. before while being upset with her, just because God says pray.

  814. So I mean my car driving down to the church,

  815. and then my wife is next to me, says Kenneth,

  816. you're going to pray. No, don't know she's she doesn't

  817. said sorry to me. But you're the man, Kenneth, Yeah,

  818. I know. I'm the man. What what does the men do?

  819. I don't know. Actually, you know why you don want

  820. to know? What does the men do? The man leads son,

  821. Then what are you doing now following? What are you

  822. following my feelings? Lee, Kenneth chain lead, You're the man? Okay,

  823. cral let's pray somebody I do even say crilist. Somebody

  824. just shut down so that when I pray tons, I

  825. should go. I should get the she get the idea

  826. that we are about to pray. And she also was

  827. started praying times but also based only because she knows

  828. I'm agree or she was to upset. So I don't

  829. want to pray like you as hold out. It's hard work.

  830. It takes real effort. Somebody say amen, I did say

  831. A man say ouch? Constant awareness. You've gotta be constantly aware. Hey,

  832. why am I angry my sister? Why am I upset?

  833. Why am I not saying hello to you? Can? I

  834. gotta be aware of what catch yourself, catch yourself contributing

  835. to disunity. Catch yourself contributing to disunity? Okay? And with

  836. deep humidity, with deep humility, somebody said, humbility, Never mind,

  837. humidity is the right way and true submission to God

  838. first amen, all right, but it's one. It's one of

  839. the best investments you can make in your life. Turn

  840. to your neighbor now and say, unity is one of

  841. the best investments you can make in your life. Come on,

  842. please turn one of the best investments. I guarantee you

  843. the r O I is very good guarnation. I'm looking

  844. at you, your wife, and and you are I tell

  845. you sometimes I look at you all. You're like one

  846. you know you really are. How come I what's your secret?

  847. You never get angry with Emily or ant ever. I'll

  848. tell you how. Who can agree with Emily? She get

  849. angry with her?

  850. She gives you one carry who want to run down

  851. your mouth?

  852. Who you're in love? Um hm? But they work very

  853. well together. I can see I can see them working

  854. very well together. And gave her a career. You know why?

  855. You know why gables together? I wish sometimes they were

  856. not so united. Thursday, are united with the or your father?

  857. Give you? How many too? Is it? I will give

  858. you too? It was equal. Okay, it's one of the

  859. best investments you can make, the best arrow. I am

  860. telling you. Please invest into your marriage, invest into your

  861. your business.

  862. Your business partners must be united.

  863. Come on, uh, your your your ministry, your home.

  864. Yes, the huddles and the church ba hard work.

  865. I know.

  866. Okay, I'm drawing to a close. Somebody say he'sdrawing to

  867. a close. All right now.

  868. Yella, okay? Are we question question? Are we unity builders

  869. or breakers? Please answer me? Answer me? Go say we're

  870. gonna answer. Okay, answer me. Are we unity builders or breakers?

  871. Come on?

  872. Turn to a neighbor saying, are you a uti builder

  873. or breakers?

  874. Come on? Some of you don't ask. Okay, ready, I

  875. don't get angry in me. Okay, this is all scripture.

  876. I'm gonna share you. Here we go Problems sixteen eight.

  877. A perverse man soul strive, and a whisperer separates the

  878. best of friends out.

  879. Any whisperer here, you know.

  880. I know today. I don't know why Elisha came up

  881. with make up, you know, I don't know why. Ah

  882. the lipstick, you know, the lipstick, the color? Huh? How

  883. is she? Yeah? Huh only fifteen Elisah, you look beautiful

  884. and just keep I keep on using you because you're

  885. so beautiful. Okay. The tale bearer reveal secrets? Are you

  886. a tale better?

  887. I alls say, no need? What's a tale betterer?

  888. Please? Cht? A tail bearer is a bearer of tales.

  889. But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals the matter.

  890. Are you faithful or your tale better? Next one, he

  891. who goes about as a tale bearer reveal secrets? Ah,

  892. I don't reveal secrets. Therefore, do not associate one who

  893. flatters with his lips. All this is the word of God,

  894. no word of God. Let no corrupt word proceed out

  895. of your mouth. But what is good for necessary ediufcation?

  896. That it may impart grace to the heroes when you talk?

  897. Are you imparting grace to the heroes or not? Please

  898. stop having all these mama sessions are that break people up?

  899. One stop stop being so gossipy. That's just doesn't like

  900. gossip Because God doesn't like gossip. You know what God

  901. likes gospel. If you want to gosp anything, gospel, Lah,

  902. don't gossip. Amen, getting way way quiet at the back?

  903. Sometimes okay, please? Do you keep thinking or talking about

  904. the things that divide or hear? Every time people talk

  905. to you? Do you find more healing in the church?

  906. Or EVERI people talk to you, you find more division? You

  907. find more people coming to church, or I find more

  908. you're leaving church after talking to you. Somebody say, ouch, okay,

  909. all right, more scripture before I close. There we go.

  910. The beginning of strife is like releasing water s.

  911. Therefore, stop contention before a choral starts. The discretion of

  912. a man makes him slow to anger, that's right, and

  913. his glory is to overlook a transgression. Do you overlook

  914. a transgression or not? Every little thing goes So you

  915. want to, you know, be angry with as check call.

  916. Somebody said, chackoll, I don't even know why I want

  917. you to repeat a card. But if you're hungry, it

  918. is too burning calls and would to fire. So a

  919. contentious man to kindle strife very important. A contentious man

  920. to kindle strife? Why A say important? Because I'll talk

  921. about the woman later, but at least you know I'm

  922. talking about a man now, a contentious man. Kindles strive.

  923. Are you a contentious man? Are you a unity builder

  924. or breaker? Do not hasten in your spirit to be

  925. angry for anger? Rest in the bosom of fools? Are

  926. there any fools in his room? Don't put up your hands, please,

  927. No one in his room want to be known as

  928. a fool. But the Bible has a lot to say

  929. about fools. But you don't want to be a fool.

  930. I also want to be a fool. But when you

  931. do these things, you're a fool. Yeah.

  932. By some Malaysia bod do God blows from whatever or.

  933. Indonesia gold blow board.

  934. Fool, You're a fool.

  935. Don't please. No one in this room be a fool.

  936. So watch your anger. Don't be so contentious. Don't everything

  937. or so want to you know, small and God seem

  938. and leave church. No, don't be like look at another

  939. foolish thing in secontivity to Trady three to twenty six.

  940. But avoid foolish and in ignorant disputes, knowing that they

  941. generate strife. That's right, strife and a servant of the Lord.

  942. How many observants of the Lord in this room must

  943. not quarrel? Law said, we cannot call it anymore. Okay

  944. from video always please take this scuture down? Uh? I

  945. think you so? What? Yeah? Write it down for me.

  946. How are you, uh, servant of the Lord? I mean,

  947. I mean servants of the law in this room? Okay,

  948. about heaven, don't quarrel, but be gentle to all?

  949. I mean?

  950. Are you able to teach patient in humility, correcting those

  951. who are in the opposition? If God perhaps will grant

  952. them repentance a way power fool so that they may

  953. know the truth, and then they may come to their senses.

  954. That's right. If you want people the computer senses and

  955. escape the snare of the devil. So the devil puts

  956. a snake in front of us, in front of fools

  957. having been taken captive by him, to do his will

  958. avoid foolish and ignorant disputes. Okay, ladies and gentleman, God,

  959. unity and unity will guard you. What else do I

  960. have for you before I close a foolish son? There

  961. you go, fools again? Is the ruin of his father.

  962. And the contentions of a wife.

  963. Are a continual dripping trip trip trip.

  964. Trip trip, Darling, I think I can hear dripping.

  965. Trip's okay, Darling's all right. I'll have him looked at

  966. next year. But Darling, if we don't do it now,

  967. every drip is going to make that damage worse. That

  968. hole is going to be from small a pin hole

  969. is going to become so big. Rats are gonna come

  970. down from that hole from a drip drip. You don't

  971. deal with it, the drip is going to destroy us.

  972. A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a

  973. contentious woman. Somebody's can be mad as that are alike.

  974. Whoever restrains her, restrains the wind. Anybody here try to

  975. restrain the wind and grabs oil with his right hand. Impossible. Father,

  976. in the name of Jesus, I pray that the content

  977. dripping will stop today, hm next night. It starts small,

  978. but affects all. Somebody can write a song. It starts small.

  979. Drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip drip every day, drip

  980. drip drip five years, drip drip drip, still talking about

  981. the same thing, drip drip, still completely about same thing.

  982. Drip drip, drip drip why is my life so terrible?

  983. Drip drip because you haven't stopped the drip. Why is

  984. the whole getting bigger?

  985. Drip? Stop the drip and see your heart heal your

  986. life blessed, and greater things come for your life. Because

  987. it starts small, but it affects all Suddenly it only

  988. affected you then, Now it affects your husband. Now you

  989. affects your favy. Now that affects you, your homes. Now

  990. you affects your huddle. Now you affects your church. Now

  991. it affects you everything, so aside close, How do we

  992. do it? How should we then?

  993. Do it?

  994. Pasta? Not easy? You all, yes? Correct? Not easy? How

  995. do we do it? Matthew eighteen tells us one way. Moreover,

  996. if your brother sins against you, go and tell him,

  997. lah directly him. You know, I just spoke to two pastors,

  998. and can I tell you very honestly? Three days ago

  999. I spoke to two pastors who's part of ex church.

  1000. Two of them couldn't see to I didn't know this.

  1001. For one year.

  1002. Now cannot see iye to I. The church is suffering,

  1003. people are going ap Hey, why is the church not

  1004. growing up? I asked the Lord, Lord, why is the

  1005. church not growing? The road says, it's always in the leadership.

  1006. Start there first, So it's amazing. One brother said to me, Pasta,

  1007. I'm so hurt because of what I heard this, the

  1008. brother said about me. So I ministered to this brother

  1009. three days ago. I said, have faith, have patience, don't worry.

  1010. God will defend you. God will help you. Yeah, but

  1011. past I'm hurting. I don't even know when I can

  1012. ever talk to him. One hour later, I'm praying, Lord,

  1013. what should I do? The law says, send that brother's

  1014. message to the other brother. So I screen shot the

  1015. message and I send to this brother. I said, Brother,

  1016. I don't use this screen shot one because I don't

  1017. think it's ethical. I don't think it's right. But I'm

  1018. going to screenshot this message because I hope it brings healing.

  1019. I want you to read exactly what this brother is

  1020. going through. And the brother read it. The brother said, Pasta,

  1021. can I call you now? Help me? We talked for

  1022. twelve minutes. I said to him before he put down

  1023. the phone, you pray about this. Whatever the Holy Smith

  1024. tells you, do it. About half an hour later, a

  1025. text came in. This brother said, Pastor. As I read

  1026. this other brother's text to you, I realize how wrong

  1027. I am. I was angry with him because of all

  1028. these things he was doing or not doing. But if

  1029. I was angry with him, I should speak to him directly.

  1030. Why did I go to everybody else? I'm wrong, Pastor,

  1031. I apologize. I should take it up with him, Bible,

  1032. go and tell him, not everyone else. So the God

  1033. does not allowed the church to grow because it's small.

  1034. By the facts, all one year, the church hasn't been growing.

  1035. In fact, has been going down in numbers. So the

  1036. Holy Space said do something about it. I said, yes,

  1037. I will you leave me, you guide me, I will help.

  1038. So this brother gave me such a beautiful message, I said,

  1039. I'm proud of you. You are showing Christ's likeness. You

  1040. are showing such mature discipleship. Half an hour later, I

  1041. thought of myself, what should I do now? What he says,

  1042. you screen shot that one and give you back to

  1043. this brother. So I screen short, I said, brother, I

  1044. hardly ever screen shot anybody's message. You know, you don't

  1045. screen short. If he's going to create more problems, you

  1046. screen short. If ever, what allows you to do what

  1047. if it's going to be healing. Are you a healer

  1048. or you a divider? Are you a peacemaker? Blessed and

  1049. the peace makers? So I said, brother, and the message

  1050. came back from this brother saying, fast, thank you for sharing.

  1051. This with me.

  1052. It's like the whole burden lifted off my shoulder. I

  1053. didn't realize what this brother was thinking. But now after

  1054. listening to this brother, he said, Fast, I've been praying

  1055. that we can reconcile for the sake of the church.

  1056. Now you have just given me an open door, because

  1057. now that I know his heart, I can easier reach

  1058. out to him. You're with me. Blessed to the peace makers.

  1059. How many peacemakers in this room closing last night? Last

  1060. night they were Okay, you're getting something out of this.

  1061. And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets,

  1062. some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. Why for the

  1063. equipping of the sayings? Why for the work of the ministry,

  1064. Why for the edifying of the body of Christ? Oh,

  1065. there's a purpose. Why we're being equipped till when till

  1066. we all come to the unity of the faith. There

  1067. is a goal in God's mind. What's that goal? Be

  1068. quep until you come to the unity of the faith

  1069. on God's heart that we all come to church, study

  1070. the word, Study the word, study the word, so that

  1071. we can be more united, not more divided. And when

  1072. we come to the unity of a faith, we become

  1073. a perfect man. I underline and bolded these words. What

  1074. does the perfect man mean? Mature? No longer children?

  1075. I underline and highlighted that word as well.

  1076. We don't want to be children anymore, talk to and fro,

  1077. but we want to speak the truth in love.

  1078. That's why the Bible says, speak the truth in love.

  1079. May grow up. Somebody say, grow up. We all must

  1080. grow up, join and knit together together by what every

  1081. joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every

  1082. part in this church. We call you partner. We call

  1083. you partner, not member. There's no members of ex church.

  1084. There's only partners. Because partners do their part causes growth

  1085. of the body Amen.

  1086. For the edifying of itself in love.

  1087. Thank you Jesus Lord, help us today, no matter what

  1088. it takes to God unity. Firstly in our own lives,

  1089. God Unity. I know that most of you are smelling

  1090. something very fragrant and you're saying to yourself, what is there?

  1091. Could it be the presence of God? But it's making

  1092. me hungry. So here is the end of my prayer.

  1093. Thank you Jesus.

  1094. Lord.

  1095. Let it begin with us. You know, sometimes we can't

  1096. give unity because we ourselves are not united. Our spirit

  1097. is fighting with our soul. Our soul is fighting with

  1098. our flesh. But today I pray, come, if there's anyone

  1099. here who want to stand and say, pastor thank you

  1100. for preaching this. I receive it. I want to receive

  1101. it from my own life. I want to receive it

  1102. for my marriage. I want to receive it from my family.

  1103. I want to receive it from my ministry. I want

  1104. to receive it for ex church. If that's you, why

  1105. don't you stand? And it could be that everyone will stand.

  1106. That's okay, you know want we all want unity, don't we.

  1107. Jesus prayed for unity. He said, make them one, Father,

  1108. make them one as we are one. Come, let us

  1109. be inspired by God himself. Because God is one. He

  1110. never fights with himself. And that's why we're also secure,

  1111. so confident. Because God never fights with himself. He's one

  1112. and he will always be one, and he wants us

  1113. to be one. So maybe you can stand, lift up

  1114. your hands, maybe even say, Lord, make me one, Make

  1115. me one. Yeah, Spirit, soul and body, make me one,

  1116. so that I will not be You know what they

  1117. call it, uh skid zone. You know, I don't fight

  1118. with myself. I don't fight with my own thoughts. I

  1119. don't have to fight with my own feelings. I just

  1120. I'm united in myself. And from that unity of self

  1121. will come the unity in your home and your family,

  1122. your marriage. I pray for unity in every marriage in

  1123. his room. Oneness is the best gift you can give

  1124. to your children. And then I pray for unity in leadership.

  1125. All the leaders in this house be united, be one.

  1126. Regardless of your feelings. Don't worry about your feelings. Your

  1127. feelings come and your feelings go. Your feelings and my

  1128. feelings that they're not dependable. They're not dependable. Feelings are

  1129. not trustworthy. It's fickle. So don't go by feelings. Go

  1130. by faith. How does faith come? Faith comes by hearing

  1131. and hearing the word of God. May all of us

  1132. have strong faith in this rule and may act church

  1133. unite like never before. Come on God, unity, And I

  1134. assure you I guarantee you that unity will guard you.

  1135. When you feel down and you feel weak, and you

  1136. feel like you want to give up.

  1137. If you have.

  1138. Invested into unity, unity will also invest in you.

  1139. If you have protected unity, unity will also protect you.

  1140. One day. Yes, I guarantee you it will happen because

  1141. God said, so, make them one, and the world will

  1142. know that you sent me. Lord, bless every single person here,

  1143. feel every heart, give us the conviction to put unity

  1144. as a priority in our lives. Because when we God

  1145. unity unity regardless, feel us, Oh God, with your holy spirit, father,

  1146. son and spirit, Jesus says, make them one. Father's we

  1147. are one. Make us one. Lord ex got the communing.

  1148. Make us one forever one. Whether I personally be here

  1149. or not, whether pass sand or be here personally or not.

  1150. It's okay. We all will continue to guard this unity

  1151. that we had from the beginning. Yes, you know, at

  1152. the beginning always unity is easy because everybody is happy.

  1153. But later on it gets hard. But it's okay. It's

  1154. part and passive life. Let's put our hands together, play

  1155. our part as partners of this church, and let's build

  1156. this house causing growth and edification in the body of Christ.

  1157. Eyes are close. He's about is there anyone in this room.

  1158. You're here for the first time, second time, maybe even

  1159. tenth time, but you have never really given your heart

  1160. to Jesus Christ. That's why maybe sometimes inside of you

  1161. you don't feel complete. You don't have the three four

  1162. cod What do I mean? You're just the two that

  1163. can't bind yourself together, and you keep falling apart. You

  1164. keep falling apart. But I want to invite you to

  1165. invite Jesus. I want to invite you to invite Jesus

  1166. as the third fall cord, so that you and me

  1167. will be a three four cord that will never be broken.

  1168. Are you ready? Maybe Jesus has not yet been put

  1169. as the third fall, as the third party in your

  1170. life that can really make the difference. So his eyes

  1171. are closed. He it's about, is there anyone that needs

  1172. this prayer? If you need this prayer, I am so

  1173. honored to be able to pray for you. Are you ready?

  1174. I'm gonna count three, one, two, and three when you

  1175. hear the number three, and those of you watching online

  1176. you can be that person or so as well. Maybe

  1177. you're not a Christian, Maybe you don't even go to church,

  1178. but you happen to come online. There's no happen to

  1179. there's no accidents in God's economy. There's only divine appointments.

  1180. And so you have come in to this recording, or

  1181. rather this online today, and yes, after this online, after

  1182. the life online, it will be a recording. Maybe you're

  1183. watching this one year from today. It's okay. God brought

  1184. you here to watch this. Maybe because you are totally

  1185. in dis array. You're totally a mess inside of you.

  1186. And today you hear that Jesus can make your spirit,

  1187. soul and body one, and that you can be a

  1188. steady person full of God's peace. Are you ready? Jesus

  1189. can make the difference in your life and those of

  1190. you in this room. This is also for you. I'm

  1191. gonna count to three, and after I say three, you

  1192. lift up your right hand, and I'll pray for you

  1193. and those of you. I can't see you on television,

  1194. but if you lift up your hands lifted up by faith,

  1195. God sees you. I can't see you, but God sees you.

  1196. Here we go. One. When you hear the number three,

  1197. lifts up your right hand. Two and three. Let me

  1198. see their head. I see the hand two heads in

  1199. the bag. Three, four, okay, good, good, Praise the Lord.

  1200. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. It's okay, it's okay.

  1201. Some of you are thinking, you know, I'm not sure

  1202. whether I should have lifted up my hands or all.

  1203. Just do whatever God puts on your heart. You're just

  1204. obeying the Lord. It's okay, all right. There's no face

  1205. and fixed rule and how it should be done. No,

  1206. if you put up your hand means you want God

  1207. to come and do something in your life. So here,

  1208. we're gonna pray this prayer together. You may have said

  1209. this prayer before, but why don't we just say it

  1210. and meet it with all our heart? So can we

  1211. put up that prayer on the on the screen.

  1212. All right?

  1213. And I know that at least four hands, at least

  1214. three of people I have not really fellowship with before,

  1215. and maybe two or three other hands that have gone

  1216. up that I know you. But let's do this together,

  1217. everyone in the church. Dear Lord Jesus, Dear Lord Jesus,

  1218. thank you for your love for me and for dying

  1219. on the cross. Please forgive me on my sins, wash

  1220. me cleaned by your precious blood, and come and live

  1221. in my heart and come and live in my heart.

  1222. Fill me with your Holy Spirit, and teach me your ways.

  1223. Tea.

  1224. I now live to worship you, and please you to

  1225. worship in Jesus. They might pray Jesus my prayer. Amen.

  1226. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  1229. that this week is going to be a good week.

  1230. I hate for you.

  1231. God bless