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12+1 Core Values: Kingdom Minded | Pr Ronson

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

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

  3. Now. When Jesus began his ministry, the very first words

  4. he used, the very first message he told the people

  5. back then, is repent for the Kingdom of God is

  6. at hand. Jesus didn't start off his very first ministry

  7. by saying be blessed all of you. He says repentance. So,

  8. in other words, to enter into God's kingdom, repentance has

  9. to be the key. What is repentance? Most of you, you know,

  10. repentance basically means a change of our mind, a mind

  11. that was against God to a mind that is aligning

  12. to God, alive that was away from God, to a

  13. life that is aligning to God. So Jesus say, is

  14. repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Now,

  15. when you look at the word kingdom, you've got to

  16. have three things that mix up a kingdom. First, you've

  17. got to have a king. Next, life, A kingdom without

  18. a king is not a kingdom, right, And for a

  19. king to rule, you've got to have subjects or people.

  20. So if you have a king, you don't have people

  21. to rule, it's not a kingdom. But if you have

  22. a king, you have people to rule. But if you

  23. don't have territory, it's not a kingdom. So when we

  24. talk about a context of kingdom, they are treatings king

  25. subject territory. Now, in the context of our faith Christianity,

  26. we know that Jesus himself is the king of kings.

  27. Here's a lot of Lord. So he is our king.

  28. And if you believe in Christ as a Lord and savior,

  29. you have repent of your sin and you have you know,

  30. throw away your own life and brace the new life

  31. that Christ has given you. Because his word says the

  32. all has gone, the new has come. We are reborn

  33. in our spirit. Without the second birth of the spirit,

  34. we can't enter into God's kingdom. So Christ gives us

  35. that salvation. And when we enter into God's kingdom, he

  36. becomes our king and we become his people. In other words,

  37. we acknowledge that his lordship, his rulership, it's all our lives.

  38. Now when it comes to territory. In as much as

  39. the scripture says that Satan rules the world, but Christ

  40. eventually still rules the world, there will be a second

  41. kingdom for us where eventually this earth will pass away

  42. and the new kingdom will come where Christ will rule

  43. for eternity, and we're going to be part of this

  44. kingdom with him. Now, before that, we have to understand

  45. that God is not just after our salvation. See, many

  46. Christians feels that when they have entered water baptism, or

  47. when they have said they want to believe in Christ,

  48. that's it right. They don't do the the way of

  49. Christianity that means to come to church, to be part

  50. of a prayer movement, to be part of a small group, uh,

  51. to do a communion, et cetera. So God is not

  52. zz after our saluation, but sonship all the scriptures here

  53. is the three scriptures that like to share with us.

  54. The first one is Romans five, Roman Chapter five, verse twelve. Therefore,

  55. just as true one man sin entered the world and death,

  56. true sin and turst death spread to all men because

  57. all sin now pop Chris since his family Sunday. Who

  58. is this man that Romans Fife spoke about. Therefore, just

  59. as true one and seeing entered the world, Adam very

  60. good good student behind Well, I thought good student always

  61. sit in front of one, but actually it's different. Now

  62. goes to them sit behind Ah, it's it's Adam. So

  63. in Romans five, when Adam dis orbeyed God by partaking

  64. in the fruit that he is not supposed to take,

  65. which is the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil,

  66. through that act of disobedience, seeing him into the world,

  67. and because of that death spread to all men. The

  68. word death here basically means is a spiritual separation from God.

  69. It's not a physical death, because if it signified physical death,

  70. Adam would have dropped death Dan then. But it signifies

  71. that prior to Adam's disobedience, he had a very close

  72. fellowship with God, right, But after Adam disobeyed God, that

  73. fellowship was broken because sin separated us from God. God

  74. is holy holiness and sin cannot mix. Right. So in

  75. Romans five fifteen he says, for if by one man's

  76. of fans, many died, so we're gonna blame Adam right

  77. much more, the grace of God and the gift by

  78. the grace of the one man Capital and one man,

  79. Jesus Christ, abounded to many. So the bad news is

  80. Adam sin, and as a result, sin entered the world.

  81. But the good news is Christ came to give us

  82. that grace. Christ came to give us that salvation. So

  83. in John one twelve to thirteen. But as many as

  84. received him, meaning Jesus to them, he gave them the

  85. right to become children of God, signs and daughters of

  86. God to those who believe in His name, who were

  87. born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,

  88. not of the will of man, but of God. Not

  89. let me pause here for a while by sharing that

  90. your life is a miracle. Your life is a miracle.

  91. And as much as some OFAs think that we are

  92. here because of our parents' choice to have us, or

  93. Salmas may feel that it wasn't our parents' choice to

  94. have us, but let me tell you that you're here

  95. because you are God's choice. You're born because God wiels

  96. that you're here, and because He wiels that you're here,

  97. you're given time to seek for him and to look

  98. for him because He is your perfect father, He is

  99. your creator. He is the one who knows you far

  100. more better than anyone in this world would know about you.

  101. So to enter into God's kingdom, we've got to understand

  102. that salvation is just the starting point. We still as

  103. a Christian, got to grow into a place of maturity

  104. in our faith. We got to be bearing fruits that

  105. Christ one day, when he looks at our life, would

  106. look at it and say, well done, my good and

  107. faithful servant. So salvation is not the end but the

  108. beginning of sanship. You see, God's intention was always for

  109. his children to spread his kingdom across the earth. So

  110. the first commandment he gave to Adam before the sin

  111. was this. Then God blessed them, and God said to them,

  112. be fruitful and multiplied, fill the earth and subdue it.

  113. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the

  114. birds of the air, and on every living thing that

  115. moves on earth. So man was supposed to rule earth

  116. before sin. But when sin came in, men have gave

  117. up that right, and corruption came in, and man was

  118. deprived from God's original purpose and intention in taking dominion

  119. on earth. Now, this commandment was just not it's not

  120. just unique to Adam. In the time of Noah, when

  121. God has flooded the earth and only noah family came

  122. out of the art, it was the same commandment that

  123. God gave to Noah, be fruitful and multiply. So the

  124. anchor point here is this that God desire for his

  125. kingdom to be spread across the earth, and God often

  126. choses his sons and daughters to fulfill this. So the

  127. Kingdom's message is sonship. We're all child of God. Those

  128. sometimes biblically some people say, oh, I'm a servant of God.

  129. Yes you are, but a birth that you are a

  130. son of God. You're a daughter of God. You have

  131. a heavenly father who loves you, who cares for you.

  132. And we have to understand that we are not safe

  133. merely to go to heaven. We are safe to become

  134. sons and daughters who brings God's ring and rule to

  135. every sphere of our life. Let me ask you how

  136. many of you here you have friends who are not Christians?

  137. You have? I have too? How many if you're your

  138. family members who are not Christians?

  139. You have?

  140. I have too? Colleagues as well? Are they all children

  141. of God? There? They are all children of God? Just

  142. that because of seeing, they're blinded from seeing the truth.

  143. Who is supposed to bring and present this truth to them?

  144. We we, So we must bring the message of the Kingdom.

  145. The message of the Kingdom is repentance. Jesus says, repent

  146. for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. So we,

  147. as his children, we are to bring his reign, his

  148. rule wherever God has place us in, where it be

  149. our family, our campus, our marketplace. We are to be

  150. his representation. We are to be the Christ that people

  151. can't see. We are to be the walking Bible that

  152. people haven't read. The physical Bible. But we are to

  153. be the walking Bible. So what is the kingdom? The

  154. kingdom to me is the present reality where we experience

  155. God now as he transform our hearts. So God's kingdom

  156. is also a very spiritual kingdom. You see, Jesus when

  157. he rules, he doesn't rule lands right, he doesn't take

  158. country by country, he doesn't conquer countries by country. He

  159. conquers heart. And when our heart is given surrendered to Jesus,

  160. when his kingship comes into our heart. Essentially, what it

  161. does is that we are saying that God, now I

  162. choose to live for you, I choose to place you first.

  163. I choose to submit my life to you where I

  164. could have lived my life. Really, now I subject my

  165. life to your kingship. Many of you here can experience God. Okay,

  166. God can be experienced any time, anywhere, as long as

  167. his people seek for him. You can experience God in

  168. your room. You can experience God in your kitchen while

  169. you cut there anon and you start tearing right. You

  170. can experience God when you're driving. You can experience God

  171. in your offices. God can be experienced in fact. Jesus says,

  172. the Kingdom of God is withinged you. So wherever you go,

  173. you carry with you the Kingdom of God, the kingdom values,

  174. the kingdom power, the Kingdom's message. So the territory will

  175. come when Christ comes and reign, but before that, the

  176. Kingdom leaves in you. So I'm a believer where God,

  177. wherever God placed you in, you have the authority. You

  178. have the power to share the message and to pray,

  179. to take dominion and to see God's Kingdom come. Remember

  180. the Lord's prayer, Our Father, who is in heaven, Hollower,

  181. be thy name, the Kingdom Come. Thy will be done

  182. on earth as it is in heaven. I have been

  183. praying for my company for many years, and often I

  184. interchange it as or you can pray for a country,

  185. which I've used as well. Let's use country because if

  186. I share my employer's name then or like okay, very good, employer.

  187. It is the best units to Malaysia. But anyway, ah,

  188. so you can interchange it as thy Kingdom come, that

  189. will be done in Malaysia, as it is in heaven.

  190. The Kingdom come. That will be done in Salmon, as

  191. it is in heaven. The Kingdom Come. That will be

  192. done in Mozambique as it is in heaven. The Kingdom come,

  193. and I will be done in the Tan Family as

  194. it is in heaven. You ask God's kingdom to come

  195. and to be manifested where he has planted you. So

  196. here are the seven mountains that some people say affect society. Right,

  197. some of you are familiar with that business and technology.

  198. Does it affect our daily life? It does? Right? Especially

  199. now what is the key with in technology? AI? AI?

  200. AI every day. I'm sure we have used a form

  201. of AI. I confess the ex kids template was done

  202. by AI. Oka didn't handraw it right. But you see

  203. how AI affects our life where it increases productivity, it

  204. increases efficiency businesses as well. It does affects life. The

  205. venue that we meet in is a business. The chair

  206. that you sit on, someone would have thought about it

  207. as a business and sells you chair. Government how many

  208. of you here know that government also affects our life. Right,

  209. election is coming, I oh, you'll vote for the the

  210. right people to be empowered because these are the people

  211. that will go to the Parliament and past policy sees

  212. that will either say they will remove your subsidy or

  213. they will increase your taxes. Right, so it will in fact,

  214. it will affect our life. Family for sure, the very

  215. you know children, children's primary influence in their formative years

  216. come from their family. Right. So if you are Christian

  217. parents here, remember the commanment that God has given to

  218. you is to raise up your children in the ways

  219. of the Lord, because they see you more than they

  220. see their friends while growing up. So parental influence is

  221. very important for children. Religion as well. This is not

  222. unique to Christianity. The world have probably hundreds or thousands

  223. of religions and religion does affect society as well. Media.

  224. Many of us at least once a day we will

  225. scroll our Instagram or TikTok Facebook, the news that we read,

  226. the things that we get exposed to media. You know,

  227. election season is coming up in Joho and the Grease

  228. and Milan as well. You begin to see more information

  229. shad through media. Right, But as Christians, we got to

  230. also be discerning what we expose ourselves in in media.

  231. Education for sure. For sure, you got to choose the

  232. right school for your kids to belong to, because education

  233. does shape society. Education does influence society. Arts and entertainment,

  234. for sure. The movie that you're gonna watch, the series

  235. that you're gonna watch, the Netflix series, uh they're gonna watch.

  236. If you're a parent here, someone told me that to

  237. really understand young people and the influence of social media,

  238. you gotta watch this series called a Dolescent. Have you

  239. all watched that before? Right? It's like how a kid

  240. was exposed to social media ended up doing some bad stuff.

  241. Go and go and go and read about it. Go

  242. and go and look at the movie. But what I

  243. want to say is that in our day to day life,

  244. these are the seven mountains that affects society and it

  245. affects us as well. Now, my point is basically this,

  246. if you're working or you're studying, you are part of

  247. this mountain somewhere. It's either you are in the mountain

  248. or you're being exposed to the mountain. For me, I

  249. work in education. Education is my mountain, and God has

  250. given me a clear mandate to take on the mountain

  251. of education to see that our education should be a

  252. ground where not only with nurture the current generation, but

  253. to build them up with values. Right. Safi may be

  254. called to the realm of business. If you're a business owner,

  255. that is your realm of mountain. Safi are called to

  256. be media or entertainment. We need more good Christian artists,

  257. good Christian singers, good more Christian role model even in

  258. the arts and entertainment. Right. But if God gives you

  259. the grace to go and to flourish, that you should.

  260. So when God has planted you there, what are you

  261. supposed to do? You're supposed to bring God's Kingdom with

  262. you into that mountain. You're supposed to bring God's influence.

  263. You're supposed to share the Kingdom message, the Kingdom power,

  264. and to represent Christ in these mountains. Because if Christians

  265. do not take dominion over this mountain, who will take

  266. dominion over this mountain? Christians do not shape this mountain,

  267. who will? Right? Because society can only be impacted when

  268. Christians begin to recognize that their influence extends beyond Church.

  269. We've got to share the love of God. We've got

  270. to share the principles of God. We've got to let

  271. the world know that there are better ways of making decisions,

  272. better way of doing things. So the Kingdom's method is discipleship,

  273. which often re lead to maturity and multiplication. Matthew twenty

  274. eight vers. Ninety says, go therefore, and make disciples of

  275. all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,

  276. and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. You see,

  277. when Jesus back to heaven, he gave the commandment to

  278. the twelve. The twelve is supposed to I say, he

  279. gave eleven right the because Judas betrayed him. So the

  280. eleven is supposed to bring God's message, and they're supposed

  281. to multiply themselves. And then we have Paul who told

  282. Timothy second Timothy chapter two, verse two, and the things

  283. that you have heard from me among many witnesses. Commit

  284. this to faithful men who will be able to teach others. Also.

  285. I love God's method discipleship. The only way a Christian

  286. can truly mature. I use the word truly mature, is

  287. when we place ourselves in a relational discipleship where we

  288. open ourselves to be disciples by someone, and in turn

  289. we pour out our life disciple others. Because discipleship will

  290. often put us in a place where we need to

  291. depend on God. I believe that everyone here can be

  292. a disciple. Everyone here has something that God has given

  293. to you to impart to the next generation. Remember the

  294. Seven Mountains. Right. If someone who is in a business world,

  295. God will open doors for you to disciple the younger ones,

  296. so that when God opened doors for them to run

  297. their first business, they know how to run it for

  298. the glory of God. You know, we are many school

  299. teachers here. Maybe God will give you the ability to

  300. disciple young Christian teachers who one day enter in a classroom.

  301. They will know how to be sought and like maybe

  302. some of us here, we are gifted. As a parent.

  303. We can also decid dip younger parents in how to

  304. raise children in the ways of the Lord. So I

  305. want to understand that when we talk about kingdom mindedness,

  306. it is not church mindedness. Right. We don't grow God's

  307. Kingdom by just being Oh, this ex church agenda. This

  308. is just excuchangenda. No, we should live bigger than that.

  309. It should be the kingdom agenda, So can anyone disciple

  310. anyone outside of ex church. The answers should be yes.

  311. So I don't want us to see discipleship in the

  312. context of just a local church. If you are in

  313. a marketplace and you have people reporting to you, that

  314. is an opportunity to disciple. If you're giving a position

  315. of influence, you know, you may run or lead an

  316. assignment group in your campus, You may run a club

  317. or a society, or a leader in your club or

  318. society on campus. That is an opportunity for discipleship. That

  319. is an opportunity to represent Christ. It's good to be

  320. a leader outside of church. It's really good because you

  321. will be given the opportunity to influence. But the question

  322. is what would be the source of your influence. Would

  323. a Christ centered nurse in your identity be the source

  324. of your influence or would your influence come outside of Christ?

  325. Because only a disciple can bring about that godly influence

  326. when you are anchored in Christ, when you open yourself

  327. to be discipled by others, and then you disciple others

  328. as well. Now why these matters. God is very clear

  329. in his vision where the day will come, the earth

  330. will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of

  331. the Lord. As the water is hours the sea the

  332. seven mountains that I show you earlier, the day will

  333. come where the knowledge of the glory of the Lord

  334. will cover next, light will cover the earth, as waters

  335. cowards the sea, or the earth will be filled. I

  336. want us to reframe by thinking this. I know that

  337. we have family who have been praying for their live

  338. once and today I want to encourage you to also

  339. pray something like this. For my family will be filled

  340. with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. As

  341. water is covers the sea you're prophesying over your family.

  342. For my business will be filled with the knowledge of

  343. the glory of the Lord, as the water is cows

  344. the sea. For my work, my company ABC will be

  345. filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord

  346. as cowers the sea. For my community will be filled

  347. with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as

  348. cowers the sea. Wherever God places to be, there must

  349. be a higher purpose. The highest purpose is to see

  350. the glory of God manifested in the domain that you

  351. have placed us in. Sorry, like Lating's testimony, it shows

  352. the glory of God coming into the family. I know

  353. that many testimonies as well, even when you talk about family,

  354. how when parents heart turns to God, or how when

  355. the kid's heart turns to God. The glory of God

  356. just come upon the family. And the Kingdom of God

  357. is about love. The Kingdom of God is about recon

  358. The Kingdom of God is about restoration as well. Right,

  359. often we want to see the glory of God, and

  360. the glory of God appears often in ways that will

  361. just blow our imagination. And God did not leave us

  362. alone when you have placed us in this mountain. The

  363. Kingdom's provision for me is power. First Countians four twenty

  364. say is for the Kingdom of God is not in word,

  365. but in power. As Christians, we have power in us.

  366. Why because the Holy Spirit is in you. Scripture says

  367. that the same power that rose Jesus from the grave

  368. lives in you. Right, So if you are with me,

  369. just tick out your palm, hold it at your heart,

  370. and say, I have the power. The Holy Spirit is

  371. in you. So if the Holy Spirit is in you,

  372. you have the power of God. Really, there's nothing that

  373. you cannot do. There's nothing that you cannot overcome because

  374. His provision is in you and will work through you

  375. to overcome things that you need to overcome. Right Manyew

  376. sixteen says, now there is a lot's prayer, and do

  377. not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the

  378. evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power

  379. and the glory forever. Amen. So when I look at

  380. this line, I associate kingdom as power and glory. Whenever

  381. God's Kingdom is manifested in the life of someone or

  382. in the community, you have to see power, you have

  383. to see glory. If there's no power, there's no glory.

  384. We've got to pray, pray, pray for God's Kingdom to come. Amen.

  385. X One it say is but you shall receive power

  386. when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. So you

  387. have the power to us share in God's kingdom. You

  388. have the power to live up God's kingdom wherever He

  389. has brought you. The power essentially will bring transformation next life.

  390. The first transformation to know whether someone has the Kingdom

  391. of God in them is the transformation of self. If

  392. we have been a Christian for twenty years, twenty five years,

  393. and there's no change in a character, we become more impatient,

  394. become more angrier, We become to have like self control,

  395. we become more unkind. Then we've got to connect back

  396. to God and ask him to transform our heart because

  397. there's power to transform. Ah. Really, I've seen life being transformed.

  398. People come up to us and say that, you know,

  399. I used to be very quick temper. Now God has

  400. lived in my heart. I become more patient. There's a

  401. very positive transformation. No, I used to smoke twenty secrets

  402. a day. Now I smoke five secrets a day. We've

  403. got to celebrate the progress because eventually the person who

  404. say I have quit smoking. You know, I used to

  405. every opportunity, I used to swear a lot, A little

  406. bit this would come out. Not mean I'm just give

  407. me an example of stories I hear a little bit,

  408. A little bit, this would come out little, a little bit,

  409. this would come out. But scripture is very clear. You

  410. know the same amount that praise God cannot be the

  411. same a mount that say bad words. Yeah, how many

  412. times we have seen transformation in people's life where they

  413. become more kind in their words. So as Christians, please

  414. do not pray things like God transformed my neighbor. The

  415. first praise would be God transformed me. First change me first,

  416. because God is more interested in your heart, my heart,

  417. so that we can represent Him in a manner where

  418. he would like us too. So the first transformation is

  419. always the transformation of self. When the King of God comes,

  420. we should be able to see the transformation in artists

  421. as well. So the church is a good place to

  422. see this because for sixteen years we run next Neelai.

  423. People come and go because of graduation and all we

  424. have seen life that have come in the before and after.

  425. The before is package A. After is package C plus

  426. Christ plus right. They live to be better than they were.

  427. So being involved in ministry is a very good thing

  428. because you get to walk with life. You get to

  429. see first hand transformation. You know, God is not looking

  430. for perfection. None of us here is perfect. In fact,

  431. there is a saying you know, if you have found

  432. the perfect church, please don't go because you and I

  433. will then make the church imperfect. Up to today, I

  434. have still things that I need to deal with, I

  435. need to grow in as well, and likewise, you also

  436. have your own journey. So God is never looking at perfection.

  437. But what God is looking at is can we be better?

  438. Can we be better? Because His Holy spirituiness. He will

  439. give us a power to be better. Now. The third one,

  440. when the Kingdom of God comes, there will be a

  441. change in atmosphere. About a year ago, I needed to

  442. deal with a situation at work. It wasn't the best

  443. situation to be in because I find them the culture

  444. is such that it was toxic. Right, it's either there's

  445. gossip here, gossip there, to a point where my people

  446. who I let didn't have a very good working relationship

  447. with me. Because as a boss sometimes I need to

  448. say things that are not popular. So for example, if

  449. you are sharing office and you have been talking most

  450. of the time than working, and when you submit work

  451. there are careless mistake. What should the boss do? The

  452. boss ever say something right? Sorry to say something. And

  453. then it became things I say very nicely. I say that, Okay,

  454. if you're on to talk, maybe you should talk during lunchtime.

  455. You know, go and talk whatever you want to. Don't

  456. talk during work time because it's a distraction. It can

  457. be disturbing as well. Right, It came back to me

  458. ronson doesn't allow us to talk in office. And you

  459. know what God told me, continue to love and you

  460. must pray because I recognize that God has given me

  461. a dominion in that sphere. And there are things that

  462. we deal in the marketplace and sometimes in your classes

  463. may not necessarily be physical challenge, it's spiritual. So I say,

  464. I pray God, the spirit of truth must prevail. I

  465. bind every divisive spirit, cast it out. I pray that

  466. hope will be planted. Pray that joy will be planted.

  467. Every seed that the enemy have sown in the area

  468. of dominion that You've given to me, I tear it

  469. up and I plant God faith, I plant hope, I

  470. plan love, I plant peace. When you're a boss, you

  471. can pray that why because you have you have physical authority,

  472. and you also have spiritual authority. When you're lecturing in

  473. your classroom, you're a teacher in your classroom, you have

  474. the physical authority, you have the spiritual authority. Most of

  475. us wrestle in the physical authority. Are you fight me out,

  476. I'll fight you back. Sometimes we can't win in the

  477. physical authority. But I am of the opinion when it

  478. comes to the spiritual authority, when Christ is with you,

  479. you will always win because when you win that spiritual authority,

  480. you see the Kingdom of God. Manifested here translate to here.

  481. So we're going to know where is our focus. Our

  482. focus is not that difficult friend who is giving us

  483. hell on earth. Our focus is not that person who

  484. has been unkind. Our focus should be on the principalities,

  485. the power of darkness that is influencing them to cause

  486. heartache to you. So when we're going to focus, you'll

  487. be able to pray. So after one year we are

  488. way better. I think there's more understanding, there's more grace,

  489. there's more patient. God is able to transform that atmosphere.

  490. God is able to transform society as well. You know

  491. the next like, Kingdom mindedness is not church mindedness. To

  492. understand that primarily when we speak about kingdom mindedness. In

  493. God's kingdom, there are many churches. We are all one

  494. and passa CANDEV has always discipled us where if we

  495. can help another church, we should. That's why whenever we

  496. have combined church prayer rally in subang Ex church has

  497. always been the biggest supporter. We will turn up in

  498. the hundreds and we will come because we value kingdom unity.

  499. Even in Eli we have done revel Nelai before we

  500. partner with our friends from the Nelai Chinese Methodist Church.

  501. We partner with the Gospel Neli Gospel Hall. We partnered

  502. with different churches. So when we talk about kingdom mindedness,

  503. it's not church mindedness. It's also about working together in

  504. the churches because Neli is so big that there's no

  505. one church that can win Neeli. For God, we need

  506. each other, right, So I don't ask Neli to be

  507. a place where it's just about xts because sometimes when

  508. we are not careful, it can often look like it's

  509. just about us. But we should look at it as

  510. it's about us and others. The end must be dead.

  511. The last point for today. Sick first the Kingdom of God,

  512. Jesus says. But sick first the Kingdom of God and

  513. his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

  514. So the word sick care basically means to desire, to pursue,

  515. to stroke life after or to make something a priority.

  516. This is very important. In every domain God has placed

  517. you in, in every decision that He has placed you in,

  518. You've got to first seek the Kingdom, seek the mind

  519. of God, seek the will of God. Put him as

  520. number one. Someone said this before, right, if Jesus is

  521. not a lord of all, he is not lord at all.

  522. What does it mean? It basically means this. You know something.

  523. People can say, Lord, you are the lord over my family,

  524. but when it comes to business decision, I'm on my own.

  525. Sometimes it can be the opposite. Lord, it can be

  526. the lot of my career. But when it comes to

  527. my relationship, don't touch, because I will lead like how

  528. I want. So it's either Jesus' reign and rule in

  529. every domain of our life, or he doesn't. So when

  530. you say sick first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,

  531. it basically means I may have my own agenda, I

  532. may have my own desire, I may have my own plan,

  533. but I subject to God's direction. I sick first the

  534. mind of God. I sick first the will of God.

  535. In this, so to know whether a person is making

  536. a decision that is kingdom minded or not, often is this.

  537. You will look at the fruit of the decision, whether

  538. the fruit will yield a glory to God or the

  539. decision will yield to itself. Where I look good, it's

  540. all about me. It's all about my achievement. It's all

  541. about my own effort. That is very self centered. A

  542. kingdom decision is it's all about God. I wanted to

  543. do this, but God turned my heart to do this

  544. and it turned out way better than I could imagine,

  545. and He gets all the glory. Amen. So this will

  546. be our value, kingdom mindedness, something for us to contemplate on,

  547. something for us to reflect on. I'd like to I

  548. want you to stand as we call today's message to

  549. a close. Where will you appel an altar before God

  550. and ask him to come even right now where you are.

  551. God's kingdom is not just in words, but in power.

  552. We've got to be Christians who apply our faith because

  553. that's where power will come. Now, there's really no point

  554. feeding our head with a lot of good knowledge. But

  555. if we don't apply the knowledge of God, if we

  556. don't apply blibical knowledge, there won't be power. So my

  557. desire is for ask NELI to be a place where

  558. people don't just experience the power of God in church,

  559. people experience the power of God outside church, where God

  560. has placed you in, where God has placed you in. No,

  561. we've got to pray, ask his kingdom to come, Ask

  562. that God will use us to be a good representation

  563. of His kingdom. Show to the world what forgiveness looks like.

  564. Show to the world what restoration look like. Show to

  565. the world, what second chances will look like? Show to

  566. the world how much God loved them. We don't live

  567. just for ourselves. We live for God. We live for

  568. His purpose. The highest calling in life is to worship God.

  569. The highest calling in life is to do and to

  570. obey His will because all other things doesn't really matter.

  571. It doesn't really matter. What is God's will for me

  572. in my career? What is God's wal for me, for

  573. my family? What is God's will for me for my future?

  574. His kingdom Come. His will be done on earth as

  575. it is in heaven. So I see in my mind

  576. God is ready to continue manifest his kingdom upon your life.

  577. But aligned to his will, aligned to his purpose. I

  578. see in my mind God has so much in store

  579. for his kingdom for you. And God is ready to

  580. release every provision you need. What is it is it

  581. grace to come you persevere so that you don't give

  582. up for the sake of His kingdom? Is there a

  583. provision of wisdom? You know some of you you're in

  584. a good place. You're very careful. You're in a very

  585. good place because you're very careful, You're saying, God, I

  586. really want to please you. I really want to make

  587. a decision that will bring ornor to your name. Teach me, Lord,

  588. is it just my flesh or is it your spirit speaking?

  589. The Lord will give you that confidence. The Lord will

  590. gives you that peace. The Lord is going to give

  591. you that assurance. He's saying to you, my child, I

  592. understand your needs. I know your struggle. I know there

  593. are many things going through your mind. But my child,

  594. Lord says, my peace is yours, His peace is yours.

  595. My friends, peace is the fruit of the Kingdom. I

  596. see chaos being put into order. I see healing coming

  597. into God's people's spirit. Confusion must cease, clarity must prevail.

  598. As you open up yourself to God, you're gonna experience

  599. the Kingdom's power even right now. Is it a bad

  600. habit that we find it difficult to give up? His

  601. power will see you true. His power will see you true.

  602. God's Kingdom is a kingdom of light. It's auras we

  603. have Christ, but often we struggle in the area of darkness.

  604. But Jesus is saying he is the light of the

  605. world and that he has translated you from the kingdom

  606. of darkness, to the kingdom of His Powerle's love, His

  607. light will continue to shine in and through you. So

  608. I see even deliverance right now coming true. Every struggles,

  609. every setback, will we turn to victory as you turn

  610. your hearts to God. Come back to the farthest kingdom,

  611. Come back to the farthest heart. I see God covering

  612. us even right now with a robe of righteousness. Yes, Sulmas,

  613. maybe far away from God, just like the prodigal Sun.

  614. We have wasted our life. But in God's kingdom, there's

  615. no condemnation. In God's kingdom, there is only love. Love

  616. will always draw us back to God. The goodness of

  617. God will all always lead us to repentance. So I

  618. pray that the goodness of God right now will overflow.

  619. We'll all flow into your life. Hallelujah.

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

  621. information on our church, please visit aschurch dot org. We

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  623. this week is going to be a good week.

  624. I hit for you.

  625. God, bless