Unity Guarded | Pr Matthew Chang

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of all, start with a world pray. Okay, loyah, thank you,

Lord Father. We want to commit this time onto your hands,

and we want to thank you for such a wonderful

work and faithful work that you've been doing in our lives.

And Lord, we have this breath that we have today

because of you and today as we get in your house, Father,

and in your name, we pray that you will begin

to minister into our hearts to speak to us as well.

But and Lord, we know only you Holy Spirit, are

able to minister and to speak according to what we

need and what they need to be ministered to. So

we give you all the room. We surrender all our

spaces onto you have your way in Jesus my name,

we pray. Man. Oh yeah, before I've got on as well,

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keep them in prayer as well. Journey HIC, journey mercy

upon them as well. Okay, So today we're gonna be

harvering on value number. It's called unity garded. But I

can't remember what's the number called? Ready? Is it number nine?

Is it? Yeah? Number nine? And it's called unity guarded. Okay,

unity garded. Let me just okay, so I prepared some

slides here, so let me just read some parts of

it here. Okay, it says here, if you return to

your booklet, it says Jesus, on the night before he

was crucified, prey one thing, okay, that his people would

be one. An entire chapter John seventeen devoted to a

single request. And it is not hard to see why.

The God had is one, the Father, the Son, and

the Holy Spirit. Imperfect communion. Now, oneness is the very

niche of God. Oneness, and salvation itself is the product

of that oneness, three persons working together to rescue what

was lost. Unity is not a preference, It is in

the very nature of who God is. Okay. So for

better context, maybe we can go to my next life

and I'll just share a bit of a scripture here

so that you will know the prayer that was Jesus

was actually referring to here, okay. And we call this

one of the high priestly prayer. And this prayer was

not just out of nowhere, as Jesus just the night

before he was about to be crucified, and he knew

that his time was coming, he prayed this very heartfelt

prayer so powerfully that his disciples hurt as well. And

of all the things he could have prayed, and one

of the things that he chose to pray was for

the oneness and the unity of all believers, okay, And

he says there in verse twenty, I do not pray

for these alone, but also for those who will believe

in me through their word. So for who just for

the disciples. No, Jesus is thinking about you and I

as well. This prayer is for all of us. It's

about us, okay, Okay. So what did he pray that

they're all maybe one? Okay? One thing that Jesus was

looking into the future. He's envisioning. He's seeing all the

ones where there's Malaysia, Highland, Singapore, all around the world.

He's looking and he's praying for that all may be one.

Now he's not talking about just we gether hands there

and then we sing Kumbaya, We sing carold Okay songs

or Chinese songs, you know, like hey, you know like

to sing songs. But he's not talking about that one.

The one ess that he's talking about, he says, is

about the father, as you father and in me and

I in you he's talking about a relational oneeness, you

know what I'm saying. Not it's a type of oneness

that he shares Jesus shares with the Father and the

relationship that the way that Jesus describes his relationship with

the Father and the Father with him, he described it

as one. He didn't say ty, he didn't say close,

he didn't say best friends forever. He said one. That

is the way he described it as one, okay, And

his desire saying that because we are one, that they

also may be one in us. And Jesus is saying

that I want you guys to be one, but I

also you want you to be one with me. So

I'm saying no, Well, I want you to experience to

be one with me, so that you get to experience

what I have with the Father as well. There has

always been been a plan, okay, saying that the world

may believe that you sent me, and the glory which

you give me, I have given them that they may

be one, just as we are one, I in them

and you in me, that they may be made perfect.

So the idea of one ess is not to just

sing songs. It's not something that we share the same,

you know, with with you know, but what the one

ess is so that we become perfect. You know what

I'm saying. That is a goal of perfection that God

desires for us, that the world may know that you

have sent me and have loved them as you have

loved me. Okay, now let's move on here in the

next life. Now. Unity, the idea of unity and oneness,

it's foundational and powerful. Okay. We're not just saying how

it's not an elective, it's not all by the way,

it's good to have. No, it's foundational, it's essential. Okay.

You know in every church, in every believer's life, it

is foundational and powerful in our Christian belief and unity

is very important. To understand unity, to believe in unity,

and to fight and to protect the unity that God

has called us for is so important because first of all,

it helps us to understand God. You cannot say that

you believe in God and you don't believe in unity.

You cannot say that you believe in God and you

don't fight and protect unity. You know what I'm saying.

You know, it's very very harmor It's like saying that

I know I love God, but I don't care about

my relationship with my wife. I don't care if every

one of you fight with me or not. I want

to fight with you, but I still believe in God.

You deny, you reject the very essence of what who

God is? You know you know what I'm saying. Not

it doesn't work that way on It helps us to

understand God. It helps us to understand ourselves in our

relationship with with ourselves, with our family, with our friends,

with our neighbors, with our society. You know, why do

we affect one another? Why is it that you affect

me and I affect you? And what we do actually

determines where we head as well. That is why we

talk about destiny. When we understand that we are united

with called to be one, That you're not just pursuing

your own destiny. I don't know what destiny you want,

but we are pursuing a collective destiny. You know I'm

saying now, everybody wants their own ambition. Everybody is you know,

this is what everybody want to do, But you forget

that we actually called to be one and that we

actually have a collective destiny. And also understanding unity will

also begin to help us understand our problems, our problems.

We're not just different. We actually have a problem. You

know that. People say that, oh we're just different. No,

you have a problem. We have a problem. We can't

we have a problem. We can't tolerate one another. If

you fight with your husband and your will just say, oh,

we're just different. Now we're fighting. We are fighting right now,

you say different? Yeah, right, I know we are fighting.

It's not just different. We are fighting. You know that. Okay.

So and you know and we understand our problems and

we understand why we need to guard it. Now today,

what I'm gonna do as we talk about unity, I'm

going to go back to the source and I'm gonna

you know this, this part is so important. I just

felt the need to go a bit into it, and

I try my best to explain how I understand it,

how to explain that God is one. Okay, First of all,

I'm not going to do it progressively. First of all,

there is only one God. Okay, there's only one God,

no other God. He's God because there's only one. You

understand the meaning God is not just powerful God, it's one.

Because he's God. It means there's no one like him.

You know, I'm saying, no, if there's any other God,

that he's not gone anymore. He's not unique, he's not holy,

he's not transcendent anymore than many like him. He's just

more powerful, he's just a bit bigger. He's just a

bit harder to understand. No, there is only one God.

This is something very very very very very very important

because before these concept people many a lot of people

will have different kinds of background and believe. Some religions

will teach there are many gods. But if you understand

the idea and the true meaning of God, there can

only be one God. Now this is where we begin

to go deeper and deeper. This is like Christopher Norlan

or the see. Okay, take you guys a bit deeper

as well. I'm gonna use some paper, I'm gonna use

some objects. I'm gonna go into dimensions as well. Do

there as well, so I try to bear with me.

I'll try to explain it as much as possible in

a layment. Um. Okay, now there is only one God,

and God is the next one one being and three persons,

three persons being, father, son, and the Holy Spirit. Okay,

one God, But this is where a lot of people

get confused. But you talk about three persons. You call

about Jesus, you talk about the Father, and you talk

about the Holy Spirit. But there's three different persons. Now,

this is where it gets exciting. It's past the men

digging his own grave right now? Ah, how many of

you have been asked this question before? Yes? How many

have you struggled with this question before? Are you still struggling?

Still struggling? Yeah, you know why we struggle because we're

not God. But it doesn't mean we cannot have a

preview or to see a shadow of how it works. Now,

Christianity is, yes, it's a lot about faith, but I

can tell you that science is actually all about faith

as well. You don't realize it. Science is actually favorite

by faith. You pursue science one and on, and a

lot of things you put show even though you don't

get the evidence, the theory proves it. So I'm going

to do that today. Okay, Now what do we mean

by that? The next one? What do we mean that

there is only one God, one being in three person

It means that you see in this light here the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit each person. Now the

word being in person is the one day we have

to differentiate regularly, and I'll explain to you racually that

each person, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

is fully and completely God, not one third. You take want,

they take wanted and wanted combined together. Yeah, like some

Captain planet. No, it doesn't work that way, not like

power Ranger. It doesn't work that way. A lot of

people think like that, and actually there's a whole group

of people who actually Christians who believe like that as well. Wanted, Yeah,

combined together. No, they are one. They are equal and

fully and completely God. And these are very foundational thing

is that you believe, and I'll explain to you shortly

why that affects everything that you believe in in Christianity. Now,

the third is that that the three person are not

three gods, but one God, not smaller gods, not creator gods,

but all are God. They are actually they are. There

is only one God, but the three persons are different.

All three have always existed. The Sun and the Spirit

were not created. It didn't like not create, create create

like we think about family. It doesn't work that way.

And each person is equal in power and in glory

and in nature, no one is lesser, no one is

greater than the other. Now I can see all your

faces are like that. My mind is blown. Ready, I know,

I know, I know. I'm gonna blow your mind more. Okay,

now let's dial back as I expain some of this

what we believe in. I'm gonna die bat when I'm

gonna step back again. That's unpacked what it actually means. Okay, Now,

first thing we need to understand is what is a being?

You know what it's being means? What is it being?

The word being means what be an in? You are

and you continue to be. You exist, and you continue

to exist, be an in with the moment you stop

to be and you in then you stop. Ready, you're

dead already you can't put Ready you came saying, nor

your existence and your continual existence in a particular format. Okay,

you are a being? But what kind of being you are?

Are you an animal? Are you a plant? Are you

an alien? You know what I mean? Right? There are

many beings, but you are. You and I are a

human being. Are not animals, We're not plants. Some some

of you may be think that you're higher being. But

as far as I know you are a human being.

We have distinctive things. We think, we feel, we have

a sow, we logical reason, we decide, we choose, we love,

and all these things. Okay, you are a human being,

but a person is not what you are, but who

you are, Joelle. I don't just call you, Hey, human being. Hey,

human being. That looks a bit different. Hey another human being.

Number two? That look very different. Hey another human being. No,

that looks very different. Now you are a person. So

you're Daniel, you are Jess Joelle. You have an identity.

Although you are all human beings, you are a different

person you I'm saying. You're saying that you share the

same nature, but you have your individuality, your uniqueness. You

know what I'm saying. No, you communicate personhood, you say

you know I'm saying. Not, so who you are. I'll

give you an example. It's Adam. Adam is a person.

And now the way we human beings connect on the

line is this one being is one person, correct or not?

Daniel is one being and his person is Daniel. I

am one human being. I don't share the I although

I'm a human being, I don't share my nature with it.

I have my own nature the same, but we don't share.

I am my own unique individual. So one human being,

one human being, he's a different person. I'm a different

person now because we have always been interacting with every

one of human nature, even with animals and plants. Always

one being is always one person, one identity. It is

always remain there. And then when we begin to get

into the part where one being God is three person

we cannot. We cannot understand, you come saying, now we cannot, so,

so well, what do we do when we cannot understand

something that is beyond and highlight us. We try to

cool them down to simplify what we cannot understand to

something that we can relate. Oh, God must be three

persons must be. Oh then no, no, this one comes

over there. Maybe you get what I'm saying. No, we

try to bring God down to what we can understand.

But there has never been what God intended you. I'm

saying no, because back then you don't require faith anymore,

believe anymore. God is not God anymore. God becomes like us.

We have made God into human beings, and that is

a religious okay, so next one, next life. But God

is not a human being. He has not called us

to interact with him, to relate with him, or to

worship him as a human being, not as one being,

as one person. But God exists as a divine being,

you know what I'm saying. No, so that's very important

understanding that you have to understand that God exists as

a divine being. And because it's a divine being, he

has a divine nature. And what do you call as

divine something? Is it just live a bit longer, live

a bit behavior, look a bit nicer, you know, can

float in the airbit And so human beings have always

tried to understand what is divinity? You know, we have

a whole entire marvel universe to give thanks for you know,

you see you're seriously we love to look into human beings.

Oh he's like these it's like that he shoots bider webs,

you know, or maybe he's like oh these years, you know,

get lost, spatifical and still come back when no, you know,

we try to connect, you know, what is divinity and

all this stuff like that? Or maybe cannot see one.

But God is a divine being and with a divine nature. Now,

what does it mean that God is divine next one. So,

God as a divine being is not limited to the

rules that govern created beings, such as one body, three dimensions.

He is not limited by time or space and the

rules that govern created beings. Now, let's say, for example,

one of the things that you know, can I have

a pen? Do you guys? Anyone have a pen? Here? Oh? Fantastic?

All right, just give me a I'll return it to you.

Show you when you think about God, right, when you

think about Okay, let's think about human beings. Okay, I'm

trying to sting which one go first? Okay, maybe it

can go to the next flight first, you can go

to the next life first. Let's side for example, you

know how many dimensions we have in this world? Maybe

go don't show them the answer? Yeah, how many dimensions

do we have in this world? Three dimensions? Okay? Why

is three dimensions? Down?

No?

Why? And the X? And then why is there? Have

you seen things in one dimension before? What is one dimension?

One dimension means one line on there you only exist

short or long? Short or long? Money makes sense? Not

so it's the one dimension? What is two dimensions? Two

dimensions is a piece of paper? You not only draw

how long or how short. You actually can go up

and go down. You can suddenly draw a circle, you

can draw a square, you can draw whatever you want.

Upside there's a two dimensional being, you know what I'm

saying and not it's very powerful and all when we

have when we when we had computers, the first computer

started with one dimension on it. Now it's just signals talk.

You only see ing dunding, dum ding down. Then after

that we had two dimensions. Oh, then you see prints

of Prussia, pac Man, and then we had three dimensions.

Instead of looking up down sideways, we start to look

parallel into the depth. The third we can see a

that into something. And now obviously what we see is

like trying to imagine human beings. But everything that you

see in Treaty is imprinted on a two dimensional place.

The screen is two two dimensional, isn't it? Yeah, the

two dimension can preview a three dimensional being. Quite cool,

isn't it. They can preview, but they cannot see foody,

But they can preview. Now how many But if you

believe there's only three dimensions in this life, in this universe,

if well, all of a suddenly it became very smartner

Now past the matter is like tricking me. I'm sure

there's more than three. Really, how many if you believe

there's more than three? If you say there is a

truth to me? How many of you? How many? But

how many dimensions are there? Do you believe three? Who

says four? And you want to say four? Don't they

because you don't don't know how to prove? How many

say five? Four? How many say five? Huh? Actually? Yeah?

How many of you have watched Avengers before? If you

know that blue little cube in the first Infinity War,

it's what the testaact isn't it? You know what's a testarect? Mhmm?

Do you know why it's a testarect? That? What testarect

is actually a scientific name? You know? The word testa

rect is what we call a cube in a four dimension.

Don't believe me? Going check your AI right now. I'm

sure most of you it is like past records talking

nonsense or not? Right now, you check your AI right now, right,

But the testa rect is actually a cube in a

four dimension. It's still sat downside and deep, but it

also looks the other way as well. Now you cannot see,

you cannot imagine how the testareyt looks like but it

actually falls space. So if you're a single line, you

have a square, you have a cube. But then you

begin to the next dimension, it becomes something that completely

with you cannot see it. It's like right now, if

I look at you, I see a top three dimensional being,

but a four dimensional being will look at you at

the front, but look at you from the insight as well,

all at the same time. You can imagine it, right

what and so if you see this actually emotional in

it and now, but it's actually happening, happening all at

the same time, not moving it on all at the

same time, He's like, it's mind browing. But in fact,

did you know that there's actually more than four dimensions?

Is it possible to go even up to eleven dimensions?

You know? It's it's really that's how all the concept

of theory of time travel everything came about. Now, what

I'm explaining to you, it's not about how many dimensions

there are and stuff like that. But I'm telling you

is that every dimension provides a limitation. Every dimension provides

a limitation. Now, when you think about God or think

about time, right, most of us will process time like

a straight line is in there right now, We are

right here and this on my left you're right is

the past and we are walking here to the future.

And no matter what it is, we are here and

knowing there's a future, we plan, we do things, we prepare,

but everything we pull line is a straight line. But

it's our understanding of time's dimension. But what about God?

How does God perceive time? Is he over the time?

Is he longer? Is he there? But time continues? Isn't it? So?

God is where the meet there and you're here? They?

How is going going? So I tell you the way

I see it God that look at time as a

straight line. Instead, God changes dimensional. It doesn't doesn't change

the way because it's his higher mentioned. He's transcendented. It

looks at line not as a lion, but as a

single point. There is no length, past, present, and future

in one single point infinite. He will always he was

and is and will always will be. The way we

see this, God looks at one and his hand envelopes everything.

You can imagine it right, because we keep thinking time

likes But God doesn't look at time like that when

it's actually a single point. When we look at space,

we are here, and you are home here and Singapore

here in America. We look at distance like here and there,

But God, God is everywhere. Space is nothing to God.

To God, space is a single point. I'm saying now,

there's why He is everywhere in the big, in the small,

surrounds everything, and nothing escapes him, not space and not time.

But you cannot because you will, You and I will

always be trapped in this line of singularity. We're stuck,

but we enjoy and we walk there and we trying

to follow ourselves, trying to understand God through time and space.

We blow our minds. It's like this, you know. It's

like it's like where's my piece of paper? It's like

when we are living in a piece of paper. Okay,

we are two dimensions God, I'm trying to sing or

maybe yeah, maybe can someone hoo get woman God? Imagine

we are like our doing characters are walking here. God

is high dimension. We experience things like a two D object.

Uh down, it's a circle, and God is a three

D object, let's say high dimension. When we try to

inter with God, we imprint something here. We can see

maybe a small st feel. But when we try and

say God, I won't believe something I cannot understand. I

must understand you. If not, I will believe it. It's

not that God is not willing the fact that he does.

What happens to you literally break because the two dimensions

cannot accept a three dimension you cannot. You will break

you because you are a different nature, a different being.

You know I'm saying not like, give you another one,

one more example or not. I bought this. I always

because I teach this. I'm not out of the way.

I teach it because I do class for a Christian foundation.

I teach everyone this one. It's very very important to learn.

Why is this? How many colors that it has? Who says? Five? Hm,

she joined my class, joined my class? How many? How

may how many colors? Are there? Six? Right now? And

yet another favor again? Can you hold this paper again? Yeah?

Two dimension? Isn't it? Three dimensional? Cube? Now? Every time

this cube with this color interacts, what does the paper see?

Yeah?

A square? I do hear a square? Different time of

your life, when you're a teenager, when you are working adown,

when you're retired. Sometimes I might change color. Someone be

a blue, I could be a red, I could be

a green. You go to the next night, hold it

for people say hey, those are six different squirres, different colors.

But then it says, yes, but they are all the same. Cute.

Doesn't make sense. You say, hey, this is Jesus and

this is all this spirit, this is the Father. Different God.

I say, oh, no, they are the same God. But no,

in my world it's three different square. Yes, three different persons,

but one. Can you fully explain it? Can you fully

understand it? It's impossible because you are a paper. You

exist in their limitation. But what if God chooses to

move a bit and you now see and angle You

start to see, hey, there's something beside there. Oh, there

could be a different color. It's not. But when you

tilt the square no longer a full square. It's like

a trapezium or something, isn't it? You see a preview

there's something more. But when you change it, and God

is a perfect square. But when you chease, I can

see not just one but two. Oh there's something more.

Cannot fully explain it? No, But does it mean that

it doesn't exist? It exists, but it cannot fully become

into and wrapped up in your world. You come saying,

not God, for God, for us to believe in some

for these people to believe in something that's beyond it.

What does it require then faith? But your faith is

not unfounded. Your faith is not because you let brain

cells you all your face knows that your brain cells

cannot enter into this realm. But you see and the

only logical thing you make saying there is only one.

It's just logic. You come saying no, it's just logic.

So there is how you can give glory to God,

God that you cannot understand, you cannot reach, but you

can fully believe Him who has chosen to reveal himself

in that way. Does it make sense? Okay? All right?

And it makes sense that Rana. It's very important that

you believe in that because I tell you I need

to explain to you that the Trinity is very important.

Not because you can sing songs better, not because anything,

but it's important for us salvation. Firstly, if you go

to the next life, next life, next night, because if

Jesus is not God, his death meant nothing. You see

what I'm saying, though you say no, it's why not? No,

If Jesus is not God, he's not fully God, He's

just a creative being, then his death meant nothing. A

mere human being cannot pay for the sins of the world.

People cannot know. Only God, only God, and infinite God

can take on the infinite sins of the world. But

if Jesus is fully God, then his death is of

infinite value. So it only swings to two parts. Now,

it's not like just a bit. No, it's either it's

zero value or it's of infinite value. Incomparable that what

you and I try to do, our good works, trying

to be a good child, going to be a good son,

good employer, man, zero compared to the love of God,

compared to the work of Jesus on the cross. You

must settle and someone comes into your life, I don't

care who is it. You fear a believer and they

say that Jesus is not the son of God, he

is not God. You cannot believe that according to the scripture,

what does the Bible say? You know what they're saying.

They're not just telling you something, and they're taking you

away the worth of the blood of Jesus. You know

you can. I'm saying not. It is so essential. And

I see so many Christians I know personally so many

of them are they're just yeah, I don't think Jesus

is God. And you don't understand the implication. The blood

has no worth to you. If Jesus is not God,

why you take the communion? Why are you worship today?

Zero value? Zero, no value. But if Jesus is really God,

he deserves not just Sunday worship, our everyday worship. You

come saying no when you go, when you're on your

last breath, the most valuable thing you have is not

your riches. It's Jesus that I want nothing, but only

Jesus be come saying not. It's so important that you

believe in that next one. If the father did not

send his son, okay, if the father did not send

God the son, and Jesus is not son, Jesus is

not soner, then who did God send? Who is Jesus

then a servant, a lesser God, a created being? Tier

two and all like and all like like like when

when you buy tickets like that economy sea in all

hot seat and then first class. We didn't get first class,

we get economy on it. Who did God send you? See?

It matters who God sends you all because who he says,

tells you how much he loves you. Yeah, you know

what I'm saying. All who he says tells you how

much he loves you. If he sends someone in the word,

he sent a messenger, he just sent a servant. You're

not the important Now. It's true, isn't it. It's true.

There's no other way around it. But if God says

I loved you so much, you are so important to me,

he just talked on either and he sends someone else

speaks nothing. But if God's said his only begotten son,

the only one who shares the same nature in him,

how much does it tell you how much he loves you?

Yeah?

He will help nothing. And so when people come and

tell you that Jesus is not God, they are not

just taking they're just reducing him. They're trying to tell

you God doesn't really love you. You understand what I'm saying,

And you know why. It's at steak here. You know

what I'm saying. And you think I'm trying to tell

you Trinity, just to show you how smart I am.

I'm not trying to do that. You know I'm not

that smart. But I know God loves you, and I

and when we don't understand trinity, we die a little

and diminish the value of our salvation. Not what God

means to us and what we mean to God and

all you have no idea what's at stake? You know,

everything we worship hinges on this and all. Okay, So God,

if it got Jesus is not God. He did not

give up his son, he did not say what was

most precious to him. Then we are all lost, We

are all diminished. Life has not much meaning. You know,

if God doesn't really care that much about you, true

or not? How about those people who have don't have

the ideal living situation, grew up poor without parents, full

of suffering. See, your life is full of May be

wondering why I might like this and they are like that?

Oh why are there like that? And I'm not as

rich as good as that. Some people die younger, some

people die poorer, some people suffered more. What is meaning? God?

They not send his most precious for all? Because you see,

when God sends his better, all suffering and all painter

is off little value compared to cords. He comes saying no,

all of this will pass in the light of His

eternal glory. And love nothing. You know, how many have

you remembered what happened last year? You forgotten? Really your opinion,

You're sorry forgotten? Ready, everything kails in comparison to the

eternal love and glory of God. You see what I'm saying.

You know what I'm saying. Not then the third one?

If the Holy Spirit is not God, then God cannot

assure or guarantee our salvation. Wow, you know what I'm saying. No,

if the Holy Spirit is not God, he cannot guarantee

our salvation. What's the point of believing that God loves me,

that he died for me, but can't guarantee you. What

if I make a mistake I suddenly fall out step up? Oh? No, No.

The Holy Spirit not just a lesser messenger of Savannah.

The Holy God personally himself, not just saves you hold

your hand, lives inside you, always with you. That same power,

the same person that raised Jesus are from the graver

is with you. We know the Holy Spirit there is

we are praying to right now. It's not a lesser

than one and all. It's the same power that raised

Jesus to life and all, not lesser. The same is

with you. And all when you are at home, when

you are lost, when you are hurting, when you are disappointed,

when you pray and ask, that's the same Holy Spirit

you are praying to. All I'm saying God is how

much he loves us to give his own self to you,

so that you don't doubt he loves he loves you,

or that he can guarantee you. You know what I'm saying.

Not so we don't. We don't like anything in all,

Father and Son and the Holy Spirit, perfect love, oneness

that covers us all.

You know.

You know what I'm saying. No, he didn't just save

you so that you are alone. You know I can

make it on a No. The joy that he gives

you is complete, full joy. It lacts nothing in all.

It lacts nothing. But we deceive ourselves. We feel like, oh,

if only God can attach one millionaire in it, it'll

be perfect. It's not like your order. Narcilla might need

one and all. Pe would like to Tampa. No. Ita

likes nothing. It really likes nothing. Even in this life

ends tomorrow or later today, you like nothing, like nothing,

one and all. Okay, So the salvation the last light said, No,

not the last life, but as I come to pay

her salvation is the Trinity reial work of God. The

Father chose us, the Sun died for us, and the

Spirit seals us as God's children. Now moving a bit here,

So what are we called to do now? When Jesus says,

pray that they be one as you and I are one,

he's talking about the Father and himself. We are called

to imitate God's oneness. You co I'm saying no, We

are called the whole entire world. Okay? No, it is

that is established through the wondness of God. Our salvation

is achieved through the wonders of God, and we our destiny.

And what we are called to do is not to

check out what's the next cool Instagram and be like that.

Our call is to be one, okay, one, you know,

the next light through the different levels, to love as

one another as the Trinity loves, the Father loves the Son,

the Son loves the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes

and affirms the Sun as well. Some the Son loves

he did you just say lover it submits as well,

humbles himself to the point of data. You know what

I'm saying. No, So love is not just hey, I

tell you what to do. You know, lover is also submission,

you know, and so when we understand love, we don't

understand love on one person. We understand the dyna dynamic

of love. You know, love protexts, but love or fully submits.

You know what I'm saying. No, And so through that

three person we are able to see the dynamic of love,

you know what I'm saying, the love that leads, love

that also submits. And so a lot of time the

world will tell you, oh, if you really love, what

you need to follow? God lost me. I don't need

to submit. No, Jesus submitted, and so as Jesus submitted,

the church is also submitting to him. Is continual and all.

If you fully love, you will submit to him. You

know what I'm saying. Now, It only makes sense. Your

honor one is not one one another. As the trinity honors,

the son honors the father, and the father honors a

son as well, okay, serves one another, submits to one another,

and all this tree level, we don't just do to another,

we do it at the marriage level. The first oneness

that God created for us, one human being another human being,

the first covenant that God created was to bring us

together as one, you know what I'm saying now. But

two being about oneness. Okay, then as a family, we

didn't give birth to each other, but out of our

wonders we give birth to another children and the children

from us that the family become one as well, then

the local church, then the whole universal church as well.

You know what I'm saying. No, and all these things

were called to be one. And it's all these things

that all the different atoms and our cells and molecules

and tissues, as they buy together to become one entire body,

they become the bride and one is complete. Christ comes

and becomes the bridegroom. Is what we call the final marriage,

the last supple as well, the final subburb of the lamp.

You know what I'm saying now. We experienced that oneness

as well, so we all You must understand that we

are all called to be one. And the things they

are always happening within you is not just to make

you say, it's also affecting you with one another. Why

do you think that there are some marriages being spoiled,

being hurt, being attacked the idea of getting married, but

can't stand one another you can see. No, yeah, they're

getting married. They love the wead things, they love the honeymoons.

But they can't stand one another. It's being attacked family

as well. Children can't stand the parents. Parents can't stand

your children. Ah No, nowadays, what problem do we have?

We have the lowest what they call it, rate of

children bearing in the history of humanity. You know, if

we go on this and we're going to go extinct.

You know, you know that at this rate, humanity is

going to go extinct because all we care about is ourselves,

our career, whether we can survive or not, and stuff

like that. No, we have forgotten sacrificial. We're forgotten that

we are one. We are not just living isolated. Okay,

next one. Now, Jesus says that if a house is

divided against itself, that house cannot stand. True enough, house

divider cannot stand. So what are some of the things

that actually affect our unity that we have to gut it?

Right?

Tru not? Most of the time it's pride. We think

I'm better than you, you think you're better than me. Yeah, offense,

simple things, oh like you know when you cook for

homes in your food, you know, not as nice. You know,

when you cook the same thing as me. You know what,

you steal my glories it Oh your chicken now you know, hey,

go one last piece of chicken. What you take you

didn't give for my children. Offenders you know, Hey, you

think it's so petty it things like that happen. Hey,

you come home, you always eat, You never counter, you

never give money. One offend or people. They also all

sorts of people. Temper oh everything. Just someone cut your

cut the cart. You must drive them, you know, drive

down there. And you went down the window and you

hope and hope that now the traffic that you can

see the guy. And the guy said, oh he's a

church partner, you know. No, it's Daniel. I just want

to went out the window to say I want to

bless you. So what's the what's the lesson when you

drive to submit? No, don't hang people. Okay, the chances

are quite high. Chances are quite high. Ah, gossip slender name,

Oh you see, no my gossip and stander because you're

having funner at the course of other people. You know,

with a lot of people. Because it's free. It doesn't

cost me you much. Until it begins to hurt people, Gaman.

It gives you a lot of glory and satisfaction, a

lot of punner at the course of other people complacency.

You take each other for granted. I always a dinner. Come,

I happened dinner again? I need to suffer what I

you know? All these little things. Hey, I'm not just

talking about church, in a family, in a relationship, in

a marriage, in officer or office even more, you know,

supposed to be as a teamer. Would you want a

teammate who takes you for granted all the timer? Your boss?

I say it can work from home, but then finds out,

Awa are you at the heirsalon? And it's true or not?

Unforgiveness rebellion, Ah, I die. I just want to rabbel

for the sake of rebellion. Yeah, show you power rebellions

but power yeah yeah, day mistrust you know, and different conflicts.

Now it's like draw to a closer. Let me read

this scripture efficient chapter four, verse one to verse three.

He says, I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, get this, Paul,

not the possible process. Beseech you to work worthy of

the calling with which you will called with all loneliness,

and gentlen with long suffering, bearing with one another in

the all the things that we have to do are

and nevor to keep endeavoring to keep the unity of

the spirit in the bond of peace. What does that

tell you? Unity doesn't just happen once. It is a

result of some of what you invest and the result

of your discipline. It doesn't just happened at that one.

It goes for a marriage, it goes for your family,

it goes for the church, it goes for our society

and our nation. I'm saying not. It doesn't just happen

by coincidence. You wonder why sometimes God, I always get

into fights with people. Why? Because God is trying to

teach you to be patient. How to teach you to

be patient unless you actually have an opportunity to be inpatient?

Why not? How to train you to a muscle unless

you go to the gym? Try not? You just think

about I want to be strong. I want to be

strong by yourself. Come out. But we do that with

with with with with unities. And I want piece, I wance.

I sing about piece. Then God, piza, no that God

gives you difficult people. How to tolerate this guy? Oh?

My goodness, God gave me a piece. Yes, then you

learn you fail one time, then you can I share

something with you. Guys, are you know what's coming? Ready?

So that you know I made myself a bit more

human here? Uh, I will watch my own the d laundries. Okay,

I play basketball. I play with a group of people,

some of them normal pasta all of them know and

actually have a lot of non Christians as well who

play with me, and sometimes I will tell them. Sometimes

I don't unless they ask, because I don't want them

to treat me a bit differently. But when I do

have the opportunity, I will share with them my journey

and get to door. And then sometimes I will even

call them out to have a meet as well. So

there was one time I was playing basketball and it

was a competition. They have a referee, they have a score,

and the way we play is that we had random

people joining us as well. That was I was playing.

I was getting rolled up inside because I'm a competitive person.

I am competitive. I don't look like I know. I'm

so adorable, I'm so nice. I will never waiting you

see me in the corner skid. I am competitive. I

am competitive. I have a lot of flaws. I will

never preach that I'm better than anyone. I am probably,

if you know, if I know myself, I am probably Okay.

I got rolled up and I was like, okay, I

cannot cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot show anything. Try to be

very encouraging. Hey, you did good. But then I was like,

you better run faster. It's like, you know, hey, there

was a good play, you better play, you better pass more.

I was like getting editated, and I was like, and

now out of nowhere, I was like, there's one guy

who made a player. I was like, come out, and

I was very loud. Everybody stopped and looked at me. Oh,

and I was shocked myself as well. Actually came out.

Oh no where. I was like the end off the day,

I tell you. Then the guy who was a directing

also stopped. It wasn't just the word and it was

like anger. And it's like, oh, I was so frustrated.

Oh and that moment, I tell you, it was so.

I was so dejected. I felt like the whole weight

of the world was upon me. I felt I felt

like the most worthless person. I felt like such a hypocrite.

I felt like God and not really. I felt like

I let God down. I felt like I let every

testimony of everybody, every brother, any Christians, they are there down,

I tell her. And then actually, I have a friend

who was there. He's an all time friend. He was

a who's who's a pastor, so he saw me. You know,

maybe he was there to minister for me and Jason

no ambulensday, not just in case now to restore the

brother and I only the only thing I could do

was just to play on. I went there and I

said I'm sorry, I apologize, and I played in melodon

or I tell you when I went back, I tell you.

For the next two weeks, I felt like the most

miserable person because it's not just that I said it,

because I felt like a hypocrite, really hypocrite, and I

felt like I let all my legacy or or the testimony.

I was so down I went like no. I told

my wife though. But you know, as I move on,

and I learned to realize that God allows these weaknesses

to come out to learn, and I have to learn.

I have no other choice but to learn, no other

choice but to learn. How do you learn self control

by understanding that you know, by exercising discipline, by learning

from your mistakes. And now when when I see I

have a trick, I'm not leaving it to that moment

like you say, no, no, now I have a trick.

Every time I'm beginning to, you know, get a bit upset,

I would just count myself ten ten to one, and

then there's that and then actually, you know what I thought,

like people around me would have like be disgusted in me.

I actually one of what they call it non Christiana.

You know I'm mad. I've known you. You are like

the nicest guy. I don't know anybody can be offended

by you. The only time I see you is that

one time, and after that I never seen you a

single time anymore. And I said, I can only learn

the only thing I can learn. I'm not perfect. I

will never say I am far from it. But the

only thing we're called is not to be perfect, but

to grow, is to grow. You know what I'm saying. No,

and you, I don't know what you've been true, you

probably had done. I don't know what I did or

maybe less than I did or more, But I can

tell you we are only called the one thing as

christ as Christ has given us breath to breathe, we

still have a chance. When you're here, we are called

to grow. Don't pull yourself down so much. Yes, there

is a time, maybe for the first twenty four hours,

for the eight hours you feel bad, but after that

you have to step up again. Learn from your mistakes.

Keep they know no matter what, Like you said, have

all the endeavor, put all your energy, endeavor to keep

the peace. Maybe your marriage is not working out that well,

but you have to be better. You have to learn

through the pain. You have to learn through the mistakes.

You do learn through the outbursts, get better and you bet,

and then from there on you will begin to discipline.

That's why all says that you know with all long suffering,

all humility, and when your mistakes you will be more

here to become more humble. You think that you're always

right and your husband is wrong or your wife is wrong,

then you realize that or if I ever want to

get through, I need to humble myself. It's true. It's true.

I don't know everything. I don't understand everything. In church

as well, you think you're not better pasta don't know anything.

Pastor always preach the wrong thing. I alway preach the

same thing and do this a lifestyle. And we always think,

we always have an impression on how a pastor to be,

or how the church should be, or how our hopes

either should treat us, you know, and they hold us

to this and everything you everything you think, you know,

it's like so hard and all. But yeah, we don't

understand what we're called to be. All called to be one,

you know what I'm saying. So it takes a lot

more to be forbearing, to be long suffering. It's easy

to tear down, you know what I'm saying. Not so God,

the unity, God the unity, and no passes say this thing.

Say when you got the unity, the unity will guard

you when the times when you will fall, the times

when you feel like you know, hey something, you know what?

The unity will guard you as well when you protect

your marriage, When you invest in your marriage and something

happens to you, your marriage will come and surround you

as well. You can I'm saying, not it works that way,

are I'm saying it not? It's not that to say,

you know, you know, when my children is always with me,

I'm not saying they're perfect, But when they do fo

all as I know you know you're made a mistake,

but I'm here to cover you as well. You see

this is so important because when Adam and It fail,

what did they try to do? They tried to cover themselves.

But God's wonderers with us. He created us in his image.

He will never let us cover ourselves. He will come

and cover us. He may know he didn't know. I

don't worth use plants in or leaves. You know, God

us what animal skins. It's a preview of God's sacrifice

to give you the proper covering. And when we all

see Jesus, we will have another level of covering as well,

the covering of righteousness. He will never lead you to

your own shame. Amen.

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