12+1 Core Values: Faith Evident | Pr Daniel Chong

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We hope this message will light up your day.

The all value that we have this morning is the

word faith evidence, Faith evidence, Amen, faith evident. Those are

the key versus. We will be diving into them a

little bit later. But before I say anything this week,

I would like to share with your personal story and this.

Some of you may really know my story. Some of

you heard it until you are bored about it.

But it's okay.

I think I have a different, fresh way of delivering it.

But can I have the picture up next slide? This

is my SPM result. How many of you know what

SPM stands for. It stands for CG but lighter on Malaysia,

all of you Malaysians. I don't know in Germany and

what you all do that, But SPM is for those

in Malaysias, So you us do I GCS so I

g c S was quite foreign to me back then,

back in the day. But nowadays, I guess is even

more popular than SPM. But it was super foreign. I

don't think there was such thing called igc SE. But

some of you're really laughing, okay, but this is my

SPM result now SPM. Actually it is very important. How

many of you know that? How many you know that?

Sam is okayty semi? Yeah, nothing close to the reason

now okay, But however, here we go, here we go.

I actually learned how to count in my SPM. Result,

Let's do this together. And by the way, you use

smart lex asking me west number one past the worst

of one. Number one is in my ic ever since birth.

I learned how to account in my ice nine one

one two two three one two three M. I see

I learned account but my but God decided to be

even more funnier and say that, Daniels sees you didn't study.

Here's a consequence. Here's a consequence.

Let me tell you some of the consequences verse or

let's let's do some counting. Okay, everybody, let's way together.

Let's find number one one is icy one Okay, result,

Let's go resoult two three fock can find.

Out for there?

Five model model not that five six verre six physics yeah,

seven sijarra the eight chemistry, No wonder, I got no

much chemistry, people, because I feel my chemistry nine in

my is seila back?

Do I see? Can I see it?

Alleluyah, praise a lot of one fool sir, yeah, one

in I see nineers back?

Do I see? Now?

This is this is my spray result. Now I'm saying

this because I'm sharing with you this morning. I'm not

sharing this message from a distance. I'm not saying that

I'm in a place where my faith is so evident

that it was evident back in the day and until today,

No today or so.

I am struggling at times.

There are struggles that I go through that actually I

feel like only my wife for no, only God knows.

But it's every struggle that man has to face. Yeah,

and this is testament to dead. This is my result?

Why why I got this result? Let me just bring

you to a topic called chemistry. Now, chemistry eight e?

How cool? How does anyone even get eight e? Like? Seriously,

why why do you even ate e?

Right?

I don't. I don't understand. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Okay, why because my chemistry paper three? Yeah or paper two?

I forgot which one? The first paper is objective forty

question forty questions. My way of answering objective.

Questions is this.

I just choose the alphabet and I worked the whole

elth word. I take even more time writing my name.

Then I answered the forty questions. Yeah, all a's because

I want am. What did God give me? E?

All right?

So now there was Le's paper one, paper number two.

I was actually thh you know te stands for yeah,

because I was actually in the cyber KF playing Dota too. Yeah,

that was what I was doing. Yes, I'm telling you

I'm not preaching for a distance. I'm not preaching from

a place of strength. I'm telling you that I have

a testimony that God has given to me that I

continue to hold on to. But I prayed it will

continue to bring forth more new es money as well,

and God has been good.

All right. I also have this thing called English? Where's

my English? English? Is the wonder?

I only got a? And let me tell you, let

me reveal something to you. You know, it's one other

thing called triple one nine? How many know that my

triple one night was five C? So the only A

I got it's not even an a. Okay, it was

five c. Now it was so bad until right now again,

our children, teenagers, please listen to me, Listen to my heart.

Please don't take this and take.

An example oh, look it, but then he can count

to eight in his sbm. So I DeFore I get

do it too, please please? Until this day, I'm struggling

with double doubles. Okay, I'm struggling to spell. I don't

know how to spell things with double L, double M,

double N double. Oh that's why I have to marry

my wife. I have to make sure I spell her

double L. You know, imagine if I spelled her with

one single L. There's different girly. There's different girly. Yeah,

I don't mention it. There's actually rachels here. But yeah,

but but there's so many instances that I spell things right.

We've double L becomes single L.

I don't know how to spell, and my wife had

to correct me, and initially in our marriage, I gets

so frustrated, Why you keep correcting me? Right after I

realized that actually it's good, lie, it's good to know

how to spell, like Emmanuel.

Actually don't spell is it two m's, is it one M?

I don't know.

That is the consequences things than carefully. That is the consequence.

Until today I'm bearing the consequence. I actually want to

spell bearing. I spelled single R like that. But sometimes

I spelled double r.

I don't know. I really don't know.

I don't know what it's past present tense present adjective?

What is that doesn't even exist? What? What exceptive? I

don't know what?

Like?

What? What? What? What? Okay? English? Bad? So again I'm

not bringing us from a distance. Now.

You may think that you learn from your mistakes. Present

to you my my tertiary, except my my college is

out that that twelfth, right, it's not the world like

over ten, it's over twenty then is barely pass Yeah,

and and what I didn't show you is my tr

I think some of you know that I got second

last in my entire Taylor's University examinations, only to find

out that the last person left the college halfway during

a semester.

So actually I got last. Okay, So that this is me,

This is me, all right.

So I'm not sharing this from a place of u

a success, but I'm telling you I feel my spa

Another funny sorry, right, another funny story about biology. I

never take biology, right, I always decided to take biology.

So there was one day me and my friends, very naughty,

very naughty, right, we decided to steal a frock. You

know biology, you dissect the frock. How many of you

old enough to this diside the frock? Yeah, that's that's

my life. I did get the diceecd the frock, so

I went and steal the frock. Someone else's class pun

your frock. There, group, we went and okay, straight the

highs to steal the frog. So we stole the dead

frog and we went and operate and we took out everything,

and then we.

Threw the frock away. We never gave the frog back.

So they turn that nicely from the Balagi teacher because

you say, where's your rock? We don't know where the

frog is. We actually never reveal it. There was us.

Only years later we went and tell them, actually stole

your frock. Yeah that we had. We we shed no remorse.

Now I got remossel right now, that follows the doctor.

So it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. Life works out

at the end of the day, right, So that's me, right,

that's my life. But I went even further after that, drugs,

you name it, the reason you name it. I went

went to a place of of addiction. I went to

a place of just nothingnesse and I'm sharing from that

perspective that your faith has to be evident. It's not

something that you just say you're gonna do, but you

don't do. All right, So that's where I'm sharing on. Okay,

very very quickly, can the next light. There's a question there?

How many of you need a holiday?

Today? Wow? I see two hands over there raised away?

Hi?

How many anyone in holiday?

Is real question because if you don't, you don't raise

your hands up, don't go, don't don't go in question

a y now go bringing for holiday? I don't see

racial lifting out of the hand. So maybe this maybe

this year no holiday? Okay, but anyways, I'm excited. I'm

excited for my holiday. I really want to go uh

the China and uh bring the Gospel day o you know,

just kidding but not kidding, no kidding. Well we would

read the gospel Chang hi chang hai ah, but but

but we need a holiday?

Right?

How many of you need? Okay? So this picture next

picture corresponds to the holiday? How many we know? What is?

What is this? I will play in fly fly right?

I don't know how many of you here? Excited? Excited?

Every day you book ticket?

Right? What do you do what's the first thing you

do when you book the ticket? Check the flight ticket

to the price, right price, posting bortant, right price? How

many you want to pay? Spend ten thousand to go

to Japan? Maybe something you can, but it's okay. But

I think even if you can, you won't right right,

you still go into Asia. You still save money because

you want to save the rest of money to eat

in Japan. Right, but the first thing you do is price.

Let me ask you a question.

Your price?

Why bother your life my about them? Have you ever

checked the pilot's resume? Have you ever checked the train

conductor's history, check record? Whteter not that plane mas touch wood.

Few accidents happen before, but that doesn't stop you from

flying MS correct because some people still like MS. Lake

room classic coo, you know, very nice, comfortable. So can

I introduce a statement to you? Can I have the

next light? Everybody already has faith in something. Everybody already

has faith in something before we go into the scriptures

this morning, I want to show you this.

I want to show you the picture of what I

just explained.

When you last bought it a flight, you didn't check

for the resume, You didn't check for the chat record.

Let me give let me break it out even further.

Some of you here, I tell you what.

How many of you here commute from Kikoto coming out

into Subang daily raised offense?

God bless you?

What time you go out arena five to t am

Nowadays I find out six times it is too late today?

Still jam, I tell you what, that five lane highway

can become eight lines, sometimes even ten. Everybody has so

much faith, you know. The problem is not heavy faith.

Everybody is so much faith that a person on the

right or your left, it's not going to bang into you.

But if you are taking a bird's eye view from

one talk, you're like, what in the world kind of

saucery is happening?

Oh?

Here? Like everything is like walking in like no accidents.

Yeah, sometimes you get accidents, but that accident is like

one out of two thousand cars three thousand for the

past thirty days I drive in Casasa. Maybe I expect

is one accident beside the road, that's it one. But

how many cars commute daily? Can you see how intertwined

people are with one another. You trust the other person

so much, do you go like, hey this person, Yeah,

as much as you are cursing the hold in the car,

scoing the in the car, but actually you have faith

in them. You have faith that he will know not

to cut in your lane when he cannot cut.

You have faith in your breaks that you will break

on time. You have a lot of faith.

Friends. The question is not about faith, because everybody already

has faith in something. Here's the truth. The real question

here is not do you have.

Faith for some of us?

Here? Look at the word fa and go like faith

is for the past us, faith for the leaders. Faith

is not my thing, right, I can't fae? No, you

have you have faith. The real question here is where

is that faith place? Where is that faith place?

Is that next night?

Where is that faith place? I don't think it's the

next night, Okay, I did the same mistake. That's the race.

Where is that faith place?

Where there's that faith that you claim to have in

God even half as evident as the faith you already

put without thinking twice in the pilot you never.

Met the train.

Conductor you never met. You know, Rachelle takes the train

to Preligan every every month. I asked her, there's a conductor,

right if the conductor conducts wrongly. Then I don't know

what happened. But she I don't think she ever checked.

I don't think she ever met the conductor. I don't

think she goes to the God and say good morning

this morning, please drive the train safely.

Ye.

No, she just sit down part and sleep, right, That's

what we do. We get on the plane, we sit down,

we sleep. Anyway, wake up either in heaven or I mean,

it's good to be in heaven, or hey, I just

just trying to drive for a point. Either we wake

up there, which is good, halleluya place a lot, or

we wake up in the place of our destination. But

how much faith are we putting in the God of

the universe, the creator of the universe, that has formed

you from us, that has give you breath in your lungs.

That very God deserves a little bit more faith than

the pilot. True, without thinking twice, you know you trusted

the pilot. So why do we think so much when

it comes to God? God says, unpacked and.

Go why.

No, even this is not even thinking twice is going

against the creator of the heavens and the universe. So first,

the ching I have for you this morning. Is faith

is active obedience. Faith is active obedience. Someone say obedience,

faith is not passive belief. Next like, you'll say this,

it's a belief that acts called X church, so I

hope we act. Yeah, it's a belief that X. Hebrews eleven,

I coin it the not I coin it, the the

popularly called the whole of faith.

I'm not sure you're heard of system before. It's stories,

real stories.

Testimony is a characters in the Bible that actually stepped

out before they saw the obedience, before they saw the outcome. Sorry,

they stepped out before they saw the outcome. So let's

study a little bit from the Book of Hebrews. If

your Bible's turned with me to Hebrews. Now, the way

I study the Book of Hebrews is I actually highlight

in the color the character name, and then I highlight

in another color what they did. All right, So I'm

gonna give you some examples, right, But before that, I

want you to look closely at a verse. Before that,

let's go to Hebrews chapter eleven, verse six. Let's read it.

But without faith, it is impossible to please him. For

he who comes to God must believe that he is,

and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently

seek him. I want to notice this and look closely.

In this verse, it does not say faith pleases God

when he produces a feeling. He does not say that, right,

He says faith pleases God when he believes that is

the he would it believes and that he exists, and

he believes that he rewards those to diligionally seek him.

So the word I want you to look at here.

And underline in your book is the word diligionly, diligiently,

the word diligionally over here.

It's not passive.

Now, I don't know how many of you have been

given an instruction to do something before right and you

can do it. For example, my wife gave me an

instruction and say like, Daniel, please do this diligionly and

then and then you go like, all right, I'm gonna

do it.

You noted it, But then.

You you took the instruction for so many instructions. Please

swip the floor? How do how does someone that diligionally

sweep the floor look like you? Swip every corner you

go and cover every base? Now can you do this?

Can I say that I'm diligiently sweeping the floor while

sitting on the sofa eating popcorn. I can't do that.

It doesn't make sense. It isn't Something is not right

in the English right. Something is not right in the statement.

There was once I was so caught in my in

my mind that I washed the same place five times,

wash one time, washed again, wash the time, wash, fourth time, wasted,

fifth time, still dirty after day. I don't know why,

because not actually washing, just just the handgoing is a curse.

I don't know how many have been there before. Yeah,

there's stop being diligion. Let's stop doing things with the

best that you have. Right, The word diligionally here is

not passive. The word diligionly here is active.

Right.

Faith in scripture is the same and man the faith

in scripture.

You notice this is always associated with feet.

It's always second Corentans five to seven says for we

walk by faith and not by side.

It does not say for we sleep by faith.

No.

It's not saying for we sit by faith.

No.

He says for we walk by faith and not by side.

When you have faith, you gotta walk.

When you gotta have faith, you gotta walk like he

know he walked, and do he walked?

No more?

Yeah, So let's go into the the Bible and let's

let's let's study some characters. Let's walk true together with

me the Hall of Faith for a moment. And let's

notice a pattern. Right, Noah Noah in verse seven by faith,

Noah being divinely worn of things not yet seen. So

this is not yet seen because faith is the evidence

of things hoped forul not seen. All right, so things

not yet seen MOREE got live here, he prepared the art.

So let me ask you.

A question, Noah, in the time of Noah, when there

was an instruction to build that up in that culture,

in that context, rain is not something that nobody has

yet seen. It's a foreign object. It's a foreign occurrence.

Nobody has seen rain. I mean, if you believe scripture

are right, rain came for the first time when the

flood came.

So can you imagine being in this situation and summers?

If you're not really that clear, maybe you already are

a prayer group in the office. You crazy, you want

to be sacked by your boss. Boss already say clearly

in the rules and regulation no religious activity in office.

But yet you want to pray. Almost sounds like Daniel

right already saw you shall worship this idle, And yet

you want to go and still pray to your God.

You want to die.

Some of us be persecuted as well in our places,

right in our in our in our communities. Everybody is

doing something that you are not doing, and then you

get moved by that. Can you imagine if Noah get

moved by that? No One did not see rain at all,

but he decided to obey despite being mocked time and

time again. Do you know that that he was mocked?

Do you know that he was ridiculed for building such

a big up? Do you think it was a small

little toy up that Clarisa can just tree deep pain. No,

it's an art that requires specific dimensions, specific wood, specific

height and everything. And it's so big, so fast they

can untain all the animals to each by pass the

vast of the glory of God. Can only do that.

But it required faith, required obedience from Noah. And when

Noah acted, he saw the outcome. So the action came

before the outcome. The obedience came before the outcome. We

can go into other characters like Abraham, right, we can

go into other characters like Moses.

Moses didn't just believe in a promised land. That's why

he didn't know.

He walked away from the trace of Egypt, choosing rather

to suffer the affliction in the desert than to stay

in Egypt because God told him to go, so he went.

Because we know that Moses never really enjoyed the fruits

of the promised land.

And this is my next point.

Sometimes you may not even be the one to experience

the fruits. Someone else might, but it's because of your

obedience that brought that person in the place to experience

the fruits of what God has instol for you.

Amen.

So I hope that encourages you. Fath requires in every case.

Fave requires that it comes before the evidence. The heroes

of the Bible didn't get proved then only they obeyed. No,

they obeyed, then the proof came later. Sometimes it comes later,

years later. Sometimes it comes not until when we are gone.

In the case of Moses, he's gone. Of course we

know that because Moses did something. But that topic for

another day.

So this is a thought.

For some of us. We tend to want the reward

before we take the race. This is a warning. We

tend to want the miracle before the obedience. We tend

to want the proof before the surrender. We tend to

want the proof before the surrender. Tell me, if I

think these steps and it will hurt, he assure me

one hundred percent that I'm going to get it. Give

me the proof. But that's not how God works. Because

how God works is you think you're getting this by suffering. No,

I have so much more in store for you. Man,

Do not limit God. Do not limit God to your

own patterns, your own ways, because God is so much

store in store for each and everyone averse.

Amen to take the risk. Faith is actually race.

Right, Think about it. When you take a flight to Japan,

it's actually risk. But some of us don't even say

a prayer before the flight leaves. Whoa father, I'll see

you when I see you. No, do you say a prayer? No,

you just get in the pape sleep. Are you getting

the place? Really close my eye? Because I scared, I'll

take off.

I scared, scared, scared? Now this is the pilot's getting

more and more.

Gang, I tell you the landers feel yeah, But after

a while.

You go like I tell you what you are going

to get into your destination.

So much faith, you know, so much faith that you

already book you ento your life savings in your pen.

There's no coming back or the work you or the you.

You gotta really, you gotta cover, hotel, everything. If you

are living by fear, you actually think the fright to

get first reach pend only by the combination. I know

some people do that. We gotta feel. But you get

my point, right, You actually do things. You just spend

what you have, right some of us, I'm not afraid

to invest money. There's risk to right. You invest money,

you think the money you'll come back. No, it's a race,

you might lose it. But some of us know, we

just meant invest same faith in God we should have.

Don't think to us, do you.

Mentionin you know? I went like her?

M hm hm hm hmmm. Does it makes sense? No,

he just obeyed, the rain came and you know the

rest of the story.

Amen.

So that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the

word of God kind of the next big next picture

is a picture of a stream. Now I want to

ask you a question. If faith comes by hearing and

hearing by the word of God. Romans tends seventeen. Notice

that faith doesn't come by a feeling. Right, Where does

faith come from? By donna the ling Manana Donna bada

Fermantuhan comes from the Word of God, the word of God,

that is speaking, that is a life Vermanduhan, young Hedo,

I don't know. I say speaking my say, but I

don't know. By the way I'm trying. I'm trying to

include Bahasa in my daily vocp now so that I

can be able to preach it fruelly. One day I

pray that I will, I will okay, by the grace

of God.

Okay.

So so where am I getting it? Faith comes by hearing?

And hearing by what the word is? What for Manduhan, Yeah,

I'm teaching you malayas okay Vermanduhan. Notice that it counts

by hearing, which means that faith has a source. New splash.

Faith has a source. If you want to find faith,

you know what to look for. Where do you look for?

You look at the word of God. The word of

God is a sauce. Water also comes from somewhere. One

teenager recently asked me, but the then do you know

where water comes from?

Then? I look at him and say where do you

think it comes from? Here?

He told me he come from the tap. I say, yes,

you are right, but where does it come from?

Where? Where? Where? Manna? Where? Yeah?

I was about to speak Corden, Yeah, where and you

can say, oh okay. So then he took the he

took it. Whelet say, actually, I don't know, buster, okay, let

me explain to you what the tap come from?

Where?

Then he said, uh, in the building, in the building

of what God tang and think, ah, yes, water come

from the tank.

But the water then come from where? I don't know.

I tell you a teenagers nowadays some shahbas. You know

what shabas? Do you actually know what shaba stands for.

It's actually an acronym, you know, right, so shaas you

think like, oh shabash raised, No, it's an acronym. Okay,

use fresh now. So sha Bas is a company that

looks into the water, right now, water from you take

a robe for sugar, Yes, come from the ocean. Lah

what did the ocean come? Robert All signs signs center

for you'll never do man that that thing? Now the

rain's like, yes, exactly, So there is a sauce. It

doesn't just medically appear out of the sky. Okay, yes

it does in the form of rain. Yeah, because God

sent rain. But that's the sauce. There always has to

be a sauce. So when it comes to faith, the

world of God is a sauce. The word of the

God is a source. Can I have the next light?

Next light is a picture of a radio? How many

of you have have operated this radio before? I'm proud

to say that I have one of these at home,

my old house. I think, throw and doesn't go anymore.

What you do is you need to and then I say,

as stall as my head, yeah, And then you do?

You do this this thing and you go.

Like hell on Good morning Africa? Yeah, good morning? I

know only about can do the accent?

Yeah?

Think of it a radio, right? A radio doesn't generate

its own signal. All he needs to do is to

be tuned to the right frequency. Now, I don't know

how many of you have have grown up listening to radio.

If you don't, If I say ninety two point nine,

you know as that's FM? Right? If I say one

zero five point seven, you know is that light FM?

Do you'll call it light FM? I call it light

and easy because he's yo. Yeah, it's easy, and his

word is light. So like easy.

Holy people listen.

Though, like easy, right, they go to one zero five

point seven. But now let me break something to you.

Is the channel always there? It is there, it's being rodcasted.

Right.

That doesn't mean that you cannot find the channel. Doesn't

mean it doesn't exist. If you want to find the

world of God, the world God is speaking, is living,

is always speaking. It's always there, But doesn't mean you

didn't hear it. It doesn't exist. All you have to

do is to tune yourself to the right channel, to

the right if you can see. And some of us

sometimes we still tune ourselves to another channels. For an example,

you're looking for let's say, for example, I'm not saying

that it's scripture and holy like FM is from the Lord.

No, I'm not saying that.

I'm saying that if you're looking for LFM, looking for

God's word, and you tune.

To ninety eight point eight, all you're gonna get is

Jo Papa, you're gonna.

Hear something Chang yang Right, here's some Hawaii chang hii,

good morning, hi haaii. You know you're gonna hear that

or so you like BFM.

BFM is scriptural to you.

You know, whatever BFM says, it is the truth the

fact eighty nine point nine.

Yeah, sometimes you feel that way.

But you got to tulle yourself because you listen to

BFM and you think that it's the word of God.

You open the Bible, but actually it's not the Bible.

You need.

You need encouragement. You're gonna open the Manual of Life.

You're gonna open what I call the HR booklet. Yeah,

you trust the HAH booklet more than you trust the

word of God. Sometimes because he shar booklets to say

thou shalt not Holy Bibles say thou.

Shall not, we shall. You're gonna believe.

He Sha booklet say it no religious activity allowed, holy idols,

and that shall love.

The Lord your God with all your heart, oil mine,

oil strength.

Are you loving God with all your heart oil strength

in your workplace?

Or are you acting out of a place of fear?

Now there's wisdom and it comes to doing asked Rachel's

professional list. Yeah, I'm pretty sure in every HR booklet

lit is actually a rule that you cannot do certain

things and to be professional. I think it's a rule, right,

But I think there's a way around it. And I

think the way around it is the Holy Spirit. He

leads us, he guides us. But we shall never leave

out of fear. Men will should not leave out of fear.

The only fear that we should have is the fear

of the Lord.

Amen. So the radio is there, the channel is there.

The world of.

God is speaking. Whether you like it or not. It

is speaking. But whether or not you hear it, that

is up to you to tune yourself to the right channel.

Amen.

So the world God is living faith that never risk anything,

has never really been tested.

Favor is risk, Favor is risk. This week as herself

is that something.

God has already been speaking to you, something about someday

you have heard from him, agreed in your hater, God said,

it's actually good to talk to me a bit more,

talk to me a little bit more, Daniel. Okay, Yeah, God,

I think I think you're right. I think I should

I should come with you that I think I should. Yeah, God,

you're you're right, You're right. And then some of you're.

Adding your minor. You already give yourself a date.

You know, I tell you I'm watching spider on this Friday,

so excited that I had to send three invites to

my wife, three separate invites.

Of the same day.

Yeah, sorry, excited, you know, but some of us even

said the day you got you know, today, I'm going

to wake up early, I'm going to spend time with you.

But yeah, you still have a no actor on it.

What's the gap? Then? Get between what you have heard, what.

You have done is exactly where the faith is waiting

to become evident until unless you activate that faith, it

has not been evident. So today we're talking about faith evident.

Amen activate their faith. Friends, what's the game? Find the gap?

Pray, ask the who is way to lead you? Get you?

Help you. It helped me. It helped me in ways

that I can't imagine. Man is weak.

The flesh is really weak, guys. The flesh is weak,

but the spirit is willing. But I kind of thought

the key youths the other day that the spirit, the

soul and the body, for as long as two or

three are gathered there, my presence will be with them.

Sometimes you may ask a question, then how in prison?

How I get it the God? Is it I alone

in my cell? Or how? But when the Bible says,

when two or three are gethered, I in prison? How

poor in Silence? Gaula? But we're then the same cell.

I don't know they separate cells. Was he specified that

Paul and Silence was in the same cell. No, maybe

there way in different cells. Think about it. How about

to a tree? So how presidents of God cannot come?

So he illustrated it this way, and I'm going to

steal this illustration because I felt it was so good. Right.

He said that the spirit.

Is the one that's always willing to follow after what

God wants.

But the decision.

Makers, the soul, the body is always going to rely

We're always going.

To choose comfort. The body is always.

Going to choose The flesh is always going to choose comfort.

You know, whatever that that I don't wake up. I'm tired,

you know, I really I don't forgive me. There's a flesh,

there's the flesh, because the flesh is weak. But the

spirit is always saying, come on, come on, Holy Spirit,

let's go. We're gonna do this. And that's why it's

always a wrestle between flesh and blood. It's always a wrestle,

and the soul is like, who am I going to follow?

So as long as two or three are gethered too,

as as in the soul, which side are you going

to take the spirit or the flesh? Because if you

take the spirit, the President of God will come. That's

why when the soul chooses the power of the spirit

the body, the flesh will have to follow, no matter

how the flesh feeler tired?

Whatever have you ever direct yourself? Even? Why was the

sole truth above the spirit? I don't care flesh.

You subject to me and the flesh will obey.

But it's not.

That's why it doesn't just stop at two. God steal

wants the whole package. God steal wants. And more so,

if the flesh gets to a point where it's gonna say, okay,

I will follow. So notice this, when two or three

I get it. Two is not it's good, it's great.

But to or tree that's the ultimate goal. So flesh, soul,

spirit gathered again, this is past the cadast E chinger.

So how how much have you been tested? Second point?

Faith must be alife, not just claim. Faith must be

a lie, not just claim. The Boss of James famously

declared that faith that works is dead man faith that

works is dead.

You can't be doctrine thele correct. Friends.

You may call scripture all the time, and this is

a warning to me as well.

You may walk. We've got for decades.

Some of us here have been Christians for decades, so

much so that we say that our time on here,

our time in ministry is done. Hello, who said so?

If your time on earth is done, you won't breathe anymore.

As long as you have breath, you shall he praise

the Lord.

Please don't get to a point where you feel that

you have been there, done that, because the Holy Spirit

is not done with you yet.

At eighty six, you can still do kids ministry. That's

our past.

Next novel we see eighty six somewhere close to that

lie right.

At that kind of age, you can still do it

kids ministry. Friends, there's a very famous uh is it? Uh?

He got shot in the Bill Wilson.

Yeah, he still drive the bus to pick kids around.

It's why he's shot in the head. That's the when

he got a hole in his mouth five times. But

yet he's.

Still saying that Lord here my hands, use me. Faith

must be a life. Friends. Paul also wants us with

a form of godliness but no power. Doing everything right

while experiencing no power is not the life that got

intense for us. We must not just here. We must do,

and doing always requires faith.

Amen.

I remember the first time my mom allowed me to

drive the toyota of yours, toyota of yours.

I believe that she had a lot of faith. I

can see her shivering and.

Said that, hey, the prey, I think the breaks the

break I'm driving nicely.

Ah man, don't worry how much faith you have.

There's risk, there's risks. They must be done. My mom

cannot just say I have faith in your son. The

faith must follow a work. The work is let me drive.

You know, I'll never learn and grow.

Amen. I want you to turn to turn with me.

By the way, The verse about the form of Godness

and the ny as well comes from Second Timothy three five.

If you want to wright, no, you can write, but

let's go to James to seventeen. James to seventeen says

that's also faith by yourself.

It does not have works. It's there now.

I want to specify, and if you can underline the

word date, please underline it. I don't know what it

is in the in the book. It's the verse in

the book. Can someone clarify eighteen is yeah, okay, seventeen.

The word date is in Saturday, so you can write

down date in the word seven day. Right, So faith

by yourself who does not have works is there? The

word date here is not gentle. Okay, the word date

here is not gentle. I imagine when James wrote this, this,

this sentence, this verse, he did not say it like this,

that's faith by yourself. You know. I think maybe is

dayler and then the author or the thing when I say,

like James, by date, do you mean these are there?

No. I believe that the living Word of God is actually.

Word for word. I believe so people hear, people listen,

we'll transcribed. And I believe that when he wrote this,

he did not say it our place of like being

so gentle. No, he say hello, listen to me, carefully,

listen to me carefully, Albert right, faith for hisself. If

it doesn't have work, sir, Albert is dead. I think

it was very stuned in saying it, so it's like

a warning it's dead. He did not say that weak faith.

He did not say that that your fave is weak.

He doesn't say your favor is immature, or he didn't

say that your faith needs improvement. He says it's dad. No,

the miss day Y cannot come back to life unless

it gets the breath of God. Right see right next,

like shows you a picture of a tree. And I

don't know how many of you read the report in

because morning recently that a tree fell on the car.

If you'll see that, you're seeing that. Yeah, that's actually

a date tree. Okay, a tree I did research right,

can remain upstanding for almost twenty thirty forty fifty years.

I don't know how I got from twenty to fifty. Yeah,

but getting that it can stand because the roots are

so deep embedded, it's so strong. But it's dead. It's

no longer finding water. And that's why the day tree

doesn't produced leaves, yes, no fruits, because it's dead and

it's all there's remain is a tree with branches. That's

all it is. And it's so dead that it becomes

a nuisance. So I saw that when it's time to

he dies, it crashes on the car. And I pray

to God when you when you when you buy your car, No,

no kind of tree falling on your car.

What happened to you? You got the day it just happened.

I saw the huh what?

No world three And it's very sobering to us because

that you can stand upright. And this was really a

gut that punch to me because sometimes it happens to

me as well. Okay, and I have to check my heart.

You can be worshiping God as a worship leader, and

I think Albert can relate to this as well, because

we always have to be on God. We always wear

that we're on God. Because sometimes we're shiping God. Sometimes

then the smell from the then come and you go like,

oh lunch or suddy that the voice go from outside?

What's that? You know?

You get distracted, but your eyes is supposed we fixated

on the Lord. That's why we always have to try

our heart. We as orsial leaders, we cannot say that

we have been there on that.

No.

I always remind myself, I got to prepare my heart.

I got to I really got to do this because

it's not just an act of service. Is a responsibility?

Is a worship onto the Lord? I have as a response,

you're doing that, and that's the same for all of us.

We can lift our hands in worship, but yet go back,

not not changed. We can quote scripture, we can callote

Bible versus. Yet we are dead on the inside. You're

not spiritually living. Two people may know your spouse someplace.

You can hide from your spouse too. But God knows.

God knows the desires of our heart. But God knows

who knows what you're going through your struggles, And sometimes

we may be dead on the inside. Next slide, Think

about a car. I was trying to find a car picture.

All I got was the start stop. But then finally

I got this, this, this this Inniti. I tell you, then,

Innian come back to start stop, but I tell you cannot.

Initial is still the best, seriously to me, because you

can do the I tell you starts talking of that

you try to start stop.

I cannot even do the can on the menu. You

can actually do the right. I love it.

I love it last time. I always to try very nice.

I hear that saw the engine. I love it so much.

But think about a car, right, a car. I told

this story earlier. Service is a funny one. Okay, I

recently got an accident. Okay recently. That means last year.

It was Actually I don't know what I did to

the kid, but in my deshcam footage, I saw a

small little boy came and kicked my car. I came

back and I saw how come my life went on

the inside letter? Did I bang anything? No, there was

the ray color light in the back went inside the

excited my dad share who take it?

Was a little boy came huh. I'm like, what did

I even do to you? Son?

Like?

Yeah, right, son? Yeah? What if? What if? What did

I even do do you to deserve this?

The first thing that came to my bite is saying

my wife because by the way, you already know the

car registered my wife's name, that is her car. Actually

did I nicely driving? Yeah? I'm like, how am I

going to report this to my wife? By the way,

this was last year. Until now, she had no clue

until recently recently recently, right, so she knows she need

before this. I told her the story really right, And

then and then I think, how am I gonnaell? Cause

I brought the million after I brought the car to

the workshop, and then they called me three hundred nine

ring it and then blah blah blah.

Right and then, and I'm like, okay, I can't. I

kind of thought it.

So I tell you what I'm just going to and

doually find out anthing. I'm going to cook up some

story and then and get it and get it done now, okay,

and by cook.

Cups and story telling the story. Okay. So I just

avoided the problem. How many of you and the problems

do there? Right?

But for some reason she never saw it. How many

of you? How many of you know that the problem

is still there? Yeah, it hasn't been fixed now recently,

you see God works in mysterious ways. Recently my car,

he says, I like so much.

It happened to me. Can I start the Carli? Three?

Can I start right? I thought, battery problem? No, its

plot problem.

Okay.

Now finally I another tabacle eight o'clock, all the way

to two pm, got the car find in the workshop.

I reached the workshop, said to the follow can you

come and follow me? Can you see this little light

in the back here? Can you fix that? And he

told me cancer? Can I fix? I say, how much

I know? Not?

Free? I do for you?

Halleoljah, praised the Lord. I came back so proud. I

came back. I saw the with a tape, and then

finally I went by. I saw, I thought, Rechelle got

take we here?

No, you know that? What's got the one?

Let me tell you? Finally got the guys to tell her?

Because nothing wrong looks good like brand new. So praise

the Lord, Praise the Lord. But talking about cars, a

car can be full tang or patrol.

How many you will love food patrol? My full tank?

Six seven game?

Whenever I bump full, I never go over se seven,

always seven. I never see six two eight before six

to seven. Okay, that's all I see.

I loved that.

Whenever I see six to seven, I love it. I

love a car with full tank. How many you love cars?

The full tank?

I love it so much. Whenever it comes to the time,

where is zero?

And I use my MANADDI I tell you I I

really know money. Yeah, no money to pay for Manadi?

Thank God for Manadi? Right, two underleaters left last year

last night I used up everything then you went but

food tank. But a car with full tank, A car

with full color? My color, my car, tell you sol

rad so rare tell you look at it one time

your soul change.

But because I didn't wash.

My car become date red, date red, right, date red,

You become a rat. So recently I went to wash

the car sparkling nicely. Foh, nice rat. Then the bird

decided though, deliver a gift, a white color gift. But

that's besides the point. I have a perfect car, nice car,

sol rad full thing. But let me ask you a question.

Will you get me from point to point me? If

I don't turn on the engine. That's the same thing

for all of us, if we do not attach ourselves

to the source and turn on the engine of our hearts,

so we do not get anywhere. That's where I'm trying

to get it, knowing it's never the problem. Next night,

faith without works is there? Yeah, no notice this, James

doesn't peak faith against works to complete one another.

It says works are approved, that faith is alive.

You famously say this, show me your works, and I

will show you my faith.

Buy my works.

In other words, faith is invisible, and do it most

what don't earn new salvation. But we were created for

good works. Amen, We're created for good works. But we

were saved by grace, created for good works. So Christians,

believers in the House of the Lord. Please do not

cease from doing good to one another. Please, it is

a blessing to give, then to receive. Continue to bless

one another. That's how we continue pressing on towards the

finishing line. Together, Amen, next night. Knowing what was never

the problem, friends, Knowing was never the problem. The gap

was always between knowing and doing. Last point before I close.

Don't leave on past glories. Don't live on past glories now.

Faith is a substance of things hoped for the evidence

of things not seen Hebrews eleven. We cannot leave on

yesterday's victories. Friends, much as we admire them, as much

as we enjoy them, we cannot live on that. We

cannot leave on the Yes. Yes, you can't keep on

telling your son the same old testimony. You know right

when daddy was younger, Daddy used to pray three times

a day. But if you start, look at you and

ask you, Daddy about now there you go, like when

the adults are talking, don't interrupt. You can't keep living

on the same. Yes, the testimony of Noah is amazing,

The testimony of Abraham is amazing. The Hebrew eleven. Hall

of Fame is hall of fame. All of faith is amazing.

But let me draw you to something. You cannot live

with your testimonies because every generation must have their own encounter.

Your children need to believe Jesus. They can't rely on

your faith.

Amen.

They don't automatically become a Christian because you are Christian.

By the way, somebody asks me, baby, the education means

the baby become Christian. No, then it get missed you

that it gets him to the Lord. You are saying

that Lord, this baby is yours. Not Mi'm not mind.

Mi'm speaking Germany nine. Right, this baby belongs to you.

So when the Lord asks for it, give it lah

like Isaac holding on holding us over tightly. No, that's

that's that's what the baby the digation is for. It's

not for that further, the baby's salvation. No, the baby

has to choose her, her or his own faith.

Amen.

He must have their own testimony, their own encounter. Can

can I the next light? Jesus said the mater. This

was Matha, the sister of Lezarus. Yeah, say the matter

this ef you believe, you will see the glory of God.

John learn forty. It's always belief first. Then see it's

not see first, then believe someone us want to do that,

see first, then believe.

No, that's like.

Hebrews twelfth. So we have the whole of faith. He

was eleven. And then we go into us tealth. Notice

the word that started, he was tealth.

What is the word?

Therefore therefore we are we also since we are surrounded.

That's how it starts. Now the Oxford Dictionary. Oxford Dictionary says,

the definition therefore is this. It's used to introduce the

logical result or something that has just been mentioned. So

we are not to live based on past glories, amen,

because the past glories are there to do what.

To encourage us? Therefore we not there for you not

Therefore rachel n not.

Therefore rachelle wong No, he says, therefore we we. That

means who me, you, me, I, myself and everybody around

me a pigble to do everybody We also, since we

are surrounded by so great account witness, let us can

you see that it's all about us? We we have

about to play in man. We can't just rely on

the past glories, past testimonies and go like, I tell

you what, because no one did it, I don't do

it anymore. All I do is to accept Jesus and

go to heaven. No, he wants to turn you from

sinners to sonship, not just salvation. Salvation is never the

end goal. Salvation is the door to being a son.

That's the original intention when God created Adam and Eve,

when God created us, is for him to have communion

with us, to be sons, to be like sons to him,

to have fellowship with him. But because of sin, that's

so easily and snares us that was taken away. And

they said Jesus to come to dine and across for

our sins. So therefore it applies to us. I'm going

to introduce you to correct us and we're gonna close

next light. How many of you know who this is

the what's the first thing that comes to mind when

you see this picture? Then I have some shout out names.

What's the first thing that comes to mind? Paul Saul

of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, right, What was

happening here? What's happening here? He was on his way

to persecute the Christians. Right, and then as he was

on the way, a great light came shine upon him,

and he was blinded. This is ex kid story. But

did you know and this is actually I think it's

actually correct. Saul of Tarsus was actually not the main

character of this story. So you say it's God, Yeah, yeah,

but there's actually someone else that was more important than Saul.

Let me introduce this character to you. His name is

called Anna and Ias, not Anna, but Anna Nias right.

Anna Nius is a lesson known person, profit apostle that

God used so mightily to impact the life of a

Christian killer, a believer, killer, keep Christian, persecutor, killer of many,

the spicer of the faith. So much so that if

you read the scriptures, you know that when God told

him and go and pray for soul of tasks the

man that was very actively hunting and imprisoning Christians. Can

imagine Anaus is a Christian and you go like, if

I go to him, he's going to imprison me and

kill me.

Hello.

You may think that analyst is someone who's brave, strong courage,

is no read scripture. He was actually scared. Anannaus was

actually scared X nine thirteen. Lord, I have heard from

many about this man, how much harm he has done

to your says in Jerusalem. You're scared. You know, he

was actually someone who is scared. And that's all of

us too. When we hear something from the Lord, maybe

we are scared.

How Lord, how can you use someone like me? What

am I going to do? How much am I gonna do?

Yeah, you feel that way, Yes, it's okay to feel

because and then I feel that way too.

But what is the key thing all here?

Even though he feared, he went and because of his obedience,

a miracle boss form the birth of someone who was

dead now alive in the form.

Of Saul to Paul, so much so that Paul.

Later on his life say, it's no longer I who lived,

but Christ who lives in me. All because of the

faith and obedience of anis someone who is not known.

I gave the analogy earlier. So the leaders over here,

you're praying for someone's testimony breakthrough. You pray nobody knows you,

and he experiences his break through. Everybody celebrates that person,

but nobody knows you. But you know who else knows you.

In the Book of Life, it is written Russia Wang

has prayed for this personing God is looking at this person,

go like, I'm so pleased with Russia the same way

he looked at Jesus, because Jesus did not look at

the left of the right. He went all the way straight.

He was focused on his goal, his mission, and every

juncture that he had, at his baptism, at his transfiguration,

and at the time that he left completed the mission.

God the Father looked at.

Jesus and said, this is my son, who I am

well pleased hear him. That's the main thing that we

won when we live by faith. It's not about the

glory of the past. It's not even the glory of

the presence. It's about giving all the glory to the

one who deserves it.

All Amen.

Before I close, I'm going to introduce you another character,

same name, also Anonaius, so that I call it is

the tale of two Anonais.

And God.

The tale of two and an ass One was afraid,

like I mentioned earlier, afraid, but honest and with his

obedience he was evident. He went and he went a

sault produced Paul. You know that story. I just shade

it another Nanas with his wife Safira. And by the way,

you will find out later that Saphira only knew she

didn't do it. She knew, but even in the knowing

and not doing anything, you also would die. Okay, so

Anas and Saphira no, Sephora Safira right. Based on a

chapter earlier that the Abossus gave to the disciples and

to the photos of Jesus, sell everything that you have,

come and follow me, sell everything I have, and nobody

actually have any leg a chapter before someone sold something

brought it to the feat of the bosses. They thought

that they got to do the same thing, so they

did the same thing. And what you didn't know? What

you and I did know. The church didn't know, but

the boss knew because God spoke to Peter what was

this that he sold? Majority? But he kept back something

for himself. And of course the story goes, why are

you lying in the Holy Spirit? Why are you doing

this to the Holy Spirit?

And dropped it.

Sephira can be Hi, hello, I'm back. And then also

denied it and also dropped it. But both dropped it.

So sometimes our lack of faith will cause us to

drop dead. Because the Anerns two one or two in

this case didn't have faith enough to believe that the

word of God is true. Sell everything that you have

and you have shall not have any leg They thought

they won't take these into their own hands.

They keep something back from themself. And here's the scary.

But one faith showed up trembling obedience is one. The

other faith showed up in Polish, pretending, just pretending. But

here's the whole scary. But only one of them was

actually evident in God's eyes, even though on the surface

the second and nast was probably the one celebrated more. Wow,

this person sold everything that he had. What what a hero?

But only Peter knew through the Holy Spirit that this

person did not. Why I know is the Holy Spirit

because he spoke, why you' lying in the Holy Spirit?

So I know because of that the Holy Spirit spoke

to Peter. Of course it wasn't outright mentioned, but that's

how the Holy Spirit works.

Why are you lying to the Holy Spirit? Are you

deceiving him? Amen?

Then I have the next light. We are closing Sheltery five.

So I just said, give you some some some courts.

Let's go to the Hassan Taylor court.

Thank you, x. Davie.

Hassan Taylor wrote this in his in his book, he

says God's work done in God's way.

We'll never let God supply. Do you believe it? Amen?

He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what

you can pick. He who is faithful to start a

good work to you, will be faithful enough to bring.

You the completion. Amen. He will God's work done in

God's way. Will never let God supply. So God is.

Saying, sell everything that you have and you shall have

no lack. Therefore He's done in God's way. When you're

doing God's way, it means selling everything, not selling ninety

nine tell one hundred percent, and you will never like

the supply of God, which is his grace, is sufficient,

His mercies on you every morning, the daily dependence on

the daily manna. I tell you what, I'm not saying

that I've been there, done that. I'm not as as

as like pass that kind of level. But when I

went into full time I actually had this experience. I

never once a struggle when I enter into my job.

I never once struggle to pay my bills.

Never never.

But when I start a full time ministry, why didn't

struggle is because I have abundance two thousand and two thousand,

Like what the a naway is three thousand. Okay, what

you what you walk you one hundred and twenty oka,

you asked Michelle.

Let's I used to live because when I grew up,

I grew up poor. I never had anything.

So when I get a little bit of money, right,

I begin to spend like like lavishly.

But I still had a lot because I did. I

was doing well. You see. I can still have like

a faith but still do well. But I tell you what.

Something that caught my mind and caught my heart was this,

when you live by faith and not by sight.

I start.

There was one time in my full time ministry I

had to ring it left in my bank account now

not counting the fd' is still there. So that's why

I say the faith not its strong, it's the kind

of yet still got FD but I don't want to

take up my fd LA. I never had to touch

my e FD never, but touring it to the success

was all I have left.

And the man was ending it, you know, for.

The man and day like where's the salary coming in

the credit card bill?

How how you paid on time? Not thy first thing?

You know? I think that it was that Mone was

just hardler on the ten fifty PM. So leui came

in thirty first of the month, paid my bills by

ten fifty five eleven o'clock. Bank close. You know the

bank closes in the midnight, right me, banker. God works

in such a And I tell you what that is.

That is a reminder to me of God's daily monarch

gave us this day our daily bread. How some of

us here need to learn how to live on the

daily bread. I'm not asking you to empty your bank accounts.

You don't have to.

You don't have to empty and give it to your spouse.

We we can.

But I'm not asking you to empty your banker. I'm

asking you to empty your heart and fill it with

the Holy Spirit. Allow the faith that works within you

to be alive and moving. One month called and we

are close. What comes to our mind when we think

about God is the most important thing about us? Ask

yourself this question, when you think about God, what comes

to mind? What's the first thing that comes to mind?

God? Why you didn't answer my prayer? God? Why am

I see sick? God? Why is my father's just struggling?

Or is it?

God? You are so great? You're so good?

God, You are Jehovah Ralpha You're a God who heals. God,

You're a God who provides. You are Jehovah Jireh. God,

you see me, God, you're el Roy You see me? Right?

I mean, I am and so much, so much undrest.

But when I look at you, God, you are Shalom,

you God of peace. You're my banner. You're Jehovah NISI Hallelujah,

Praise the Lord. I got I got a few more here.

I love this one. Jehovah Shammah. The Lord is there,

simply that you see in your mines. Yes, he's there

as the fourth person in the fire.

He's there. He's there. You are shared me, sure better go.

But he's there.

He's not just from Afar saying that you know there,

know he's in the fire with you.

He's he is your rock. Praise the Lord.

This is a so bring warning to all of us,

all of us that faith is not a performance. But

yet some of us can perform that faith so so well.

It was also a reminder to me that's where the

Lord had to minister to me. Any ministers to me daily,

and I get from a place of weakness to then

strength to then really being encouraged by the Lord, and

I want to pray that over all of you do

not rely on your own strength, rely on the power

of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will deliver you

in a way that only He can Amen.

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