The 12+1 Core Values | Jason Martin

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X Church twelve plus one and it's the core values. Okay,

Core values. How many of y'all are familiar with the

word values?

Okay?

If you were in the Malaysian schooling system, you would

have taken this subject called moral.

How many of you all remember moral? You know? So? Moral? Right?

It is one of the subjects that we took where

you had to memorize. If you're on a score, eve,

on a score right, all of the do is memorize

eighty values. All you the do is memorize eighty values.

I still remember I had to memorize it. I scored

an A two. Who was But again, that's just memorizing

and then just writing it all down in the test MS.

You must write it exactly as how you memorized it.

Any change of words you were immediately remarked as wrong.

I'm not sure whether you all had the same experience. So,

and in Malay it's called nielai ni lai muri right

or values.

Okay.

If you are in a company, your company has values, okay,

how many of you all remember your company values?

Usually usually if you if you.

Remember your company values, it's amazing because it shows that

the company is actually believes in what their values are

and they continuously emphasize it. And because of that, it

has a lot of I mean, everyone who works for

that organization remembers the values. Okay, So I wanted to

give you an example of some of the companies and

their values. Okay, So the first one, let me see, Okay,

this company is a it was actually a huge company,

and the stated values is integrity, respect, excellence, Integrity, respect, excellence.

Right. How many have we all think those are good values?

Awesome values? Right?

Okay, So the name of the company is actually Enron.

How many of you all know Enron?

So Enron was actually a huge company that was doing

very very very well in US, but it was found

out for fraud. It was caught for fraud and the

whole company went bankrupt. But their values, they say it

is integrity, respect, and excellence. So just because you say

you have values, it doesn't mean that you are living

the values, you know. Another example is okay, probably I

take a good one of Apple's values is actually privacy.

How many of y'all believe that? No? But Apple is

one of the most Like, if you have your information

in Apple, right it is considered more secure than in

any other platform. That's why they take privacy very very strictly.

So some companies when they stated in their value, they

live by.

So even if the SBI were.

To ask them for us and say they want to

do an investigation, I know your customer information, it is

very very difficult. Apple will make sure that they go

through all the proper due diligence before just leaking. But

you know, like for our information right now, how many

of us get scam calls? You get scam calls is

like everywhere you know. So this is an example of

a company that did well. Another example of a company. Okay,

so this company is innovation, imagination, storytelling.

Can you guess Disney correct?

Disney is And because of that, they continuously it's all

about storytelling, it's about imagination, it's about innovation. And what

happens right is recently I just I just did a

quick such just now, just before coming up. So one

of their values is actually inclusion. And then in bracket

they put there formerly is known as the recency, so

you can see so I didn't go and uh don't

don't quote me because I need to go and fact

check this as well. So I was thinking, okay, why

so you know that recently there's been a lot of

backlash against Disney because suddenly instead of family values, Hey,

this is not aligning with my family values, you know,

and that's why there's a lot of backlash. So values

to a company, and values to even a church, values

to any organization, even your personal values. Just because you

say something, but if you don't live by it, people

will call you out and then you will lose all credibility.

So that's why values is very important.

Okay, it made you.

It might be something you just see the first time

during your first day orientation at work, but if you

live by it, if a company lives by it, then

they will achieve what they plan to achieve.

Okay, So let's why values better. Okay.

Next, So we had the vision earlier this year. If

you were in ex Church, we were covering the vision

and the mission of X Church. So the vision of

X Church is where we are going, the destination where

we are hitting to. Okay, the mission is why we

are going, and the values is how we are going

to get there, which is the few, Okay, So to

remind us what the vision is. Next line, So the

vision that the whole earth be filled with the glory

of the knowledge, the knowledge of the glory of the

Lord as the waters power the see. So our vision

is to make God famous across the earth. That's our vision.

How are we going to do that? What's our mission?

Our mission is to make disciples? Right, our mission is

to do that. We have to do that by making disciples.

So how are we going to make disciples?

You can put.

Somebody, you can put a gun to the head and

say become a disciple of Jesus. That's not I mean,

that is one way to achieve your mission. But if

it's not aligned to the values, then it is the

wrong way. You know, you can get to a destination

using the wrong methods. Right, you can use selfish methods.

You can use methods that will harm others because I

don't care what it takes. Have you heard people sing

I don't care what it takes. I will get to

the top no matter what. So you might stab, like

in a corporate worlds, sometimes people will bapstab or will

tap people down so that they will be built up.

And in terms of that, but for us to hit

our destination, which is our vision to make God famous.

And by making disciples, how are we going to make

disciples next? How we are going to make disciples is

by our values. Okay, so there's a code here by

Pastor Kenneth. He says here, when challenges come into our lives,

it is the values that get us true, not only

get us true, but help us overcome. So when you

go through half times, that is when you know what

you're made of. You know you can say that A

I trust in God. It's very easy to trust in

God when everything is going well. If your value is

if you say your personal value is to have faith

in God, your value will be tested when you're going

through tough times. Right then it will be are you sure?

Because your value is something that is the fuel. Just now,

you saw the picture of the car, right, the picture

of the car.

The vision is your destination.

The mission is how we're going to get to the destination,

and the values is the fuel. So if we are

using the wrong fuel, we might never hit our destination.

It's the same way like if you want to go,

you want to build six pack, Okay, you want to

bill six packs? You need to fuel properly. If you

don't fuel properly, you know, you take the wrong fuel.

You're like, well a KFC every day awesome, you know, uh,

finger licking good. Right, it's fuel, but it's the wrong fuel,

and the wrong fuel gets you to the wrong destination.

You know, you will probably get one pack instead of

six packs right when you do that. So we have

to ensure how we live our lives, the values that

we use. It has to be aligned so that we

don't miss the mark if not, you know, like pasta

Matt Chad last week, that about the five Foolish versions

and the five wise virgins. Right, if you run out

of fuel, you don't make it to the finish line.

So we need to make sure that we have sufficient

fuel and the right fuel. So what is the right

feel The right fuel is our values. So that is

the twelfth plus one okay that.

We're talking about.

So you understand why values is important, right, So let

me go to the next line. So values are actually

our character, you know, right, just now I told you

Enron had their values. One of their values was integrity.

But was integrity their character? No, it was just a

word on a document. It was not their character because

behind closed doors they fought reports, they did a lot

of fraud. So to the public, they're saying we are

integrist company, but behind closed doors they did the opposite.

And that's important for us as well. Values is when

nobody is looking, we still consistent with what we say,

we believe, okay, what we are where no one else

is looking. And this is very important because for example,

right now, in church, everyone knows that well, in church,

I know how to behave, I know how to act.

But if you go into a place where if you

go into your workplace and.

Suddenly you're surrounded by non Christians or people who don't

share the same faith, will you still stand by your values?

You know, the jokes that you listen to whether you

want to cut corners or not, or the example, you know,

in Malaysia, a lot of times when you get stopped

by the traffic police, you know that's when you say

when nowadays, of course much less because the police is

much more integris right now in terms of that. But

you know previously you're here that hey, just to get

off the hook, you suddenly put your values out the

window and you decide to write, for example, because it's

more convenient, it makes life easier. So values, there's not

take into account whether it makes your life difficult or easier.

It's about doing the right thing, no matter what the cost.

So that's values. Okay.

Next, so values are non compromisable. So there are some

things that you can compromise. Some things you cannot compromise, like,

for example, the color of the clothes.

That you wear today.

The one is compromisable, right, it's up to you today.

I feel wake up, I feel like we're angray or blue?

You feel in blue is fine, But dressing our best

for God is non compromisable because God is the king

of kings and we are putting God at the place

of honor, so giving God our best is non compromisable.

That's an example. Okay.

So our faith in Christ cannot be compromised. And this

one is really a huge thing because in this day

and age right now, becoming a Christian or even praying

for people is becoming a hate speech. Do you know

that in some countries even praying for people or saying

that Jesus is Lord is now becoming less and less popular.

In fact, some people categorize it as hate speech. What

do you mean you should be inclusive. You should you

shouldn't judge people, you know, everyone should be free to

believe that's not my truth. But then as Christians we

say that Jesus is the Way, the truth, and the life.

That's a non compromise our integrity before God and the

values that we committed to. So this is incompromisable. So

what do you want what you're having for lunch later?

That one can compromise most of the time, no compromise,

because the kids decide right, or parents will be like.

The kids will be like, no, this is a non

compromisable thing. I want to go here for lunch for example,

you know, or even where you choose to spend your time.

So where you choose you spend your time, although it's

listed here as compromisable, where you spend your time is

usually aligned to what you value. So what you value

you will spend more time with. What you devalue you

spend more less time or money with.

Right. So next, so.

Another code from Pascanas, So the word of God lasts forever.

It will be our people's foundation, the rock that cannot

be shaken. So regardless of the time and season it

we are in these are the values, and these values

are all biblical. Later, when you attach the first value,

you can see that all these values that are written

is taken from the Bible. It's taken from the Bible.

It's taken from the Book of X. And because we

are called X Church, so it's very much aligned to

the world of God. Right, it is not a man

inspired it is God inspired. Okay, So why next? Okay,

it should be coming out soon. But okay, so let

me just cover it even as it comes out. Right,

So in acts chapter two, all of us know X

chapter two.

Right.

X Chapter two was when Peter preached the first sermon

after he was filled by the Holy Spirit and three

thousand people got saved. Right, So it began before X

chapter two. It began by the Holy Spirit filling the disciples.

The Holy Spirit came upon them and they were filled

with the Holy Spirit. They started speaking in tongues. Correct,

And how does it end? It ended by the church

growing exponentially. So it started by the disciples being filled

by the Holy Spirit, and it ended by the church

growing exponentially. So our question is, how then can we

thrive as the first Church. There is something that we

can learn from the Church in the Book of Acts.

Right, then we can.

That God gave us a blueprint in Acts chapter two,

and that is what we can learn from. Okay, all right,

don't worry about their slights and XTV no pressure, don't worry, okay,

because regardless, this is very aligned to our values. So

the first value is actually spirit lad. So it's not

gonna be PowerPoint lead. It's gonna be spirit led. Okay.

So the spirit will lead our session right now, and

he will direct our path.

Right.

It's not man's wisdom, his wisdom.

So the first point is at least spirit filled, spirit filled,

so you can see right the disciples, the disciples will

be Jesus for how many years?

Three years?

If you were with Jesus for three years, do you

think you're ready to take on the world?

Yes or no? The disciples weren't.

You know that the disciples were with Jesus for three years,

and even after he ascended to heaven, the disciples were

not ready. The disciples were not ready. That's why they

remained in Jerusalem because Jesus told them you remain in

Jerusalem and then until the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

And that's why that's very important for us to do

the vision and the mission, we need the Holy Spirit. Okay,

So in the Book of Acts, it's usually known as

the Acts of the Apostle. Right, the Book of Acts

is known as the Acts of the Apostle, but actually

it's the acts of the Holy Spirit because it's not

done by men. It was done by men but empowered

by the Holy Spirit. So it's acts of the Holy Spirit.

So the Holy Spirit came first. The Holy Spirit was

poured out into the church in Jerusalem, and Peter preached

with courage that he had never shown before. He declared,

we are not drunk, and this is the promise of

God fulfilled. So for us to get to our destination,

we need the Holy Spirit. Because the disciples had Jesus

with them, but after Jesus left they were powerless and

they did not expand the church. So if the Holy

Spirit didn't come and fill them, they had no power.

You cannot do great things just by association.

You need to be in.

You need to live in the Holy Spirit and be

led by the Holy Spirit. So for us, right, the

mission is to make God famous in the whole earth

and to make disciples.

How are we going to do it? It's not by

our strategies.

It's not by our wisdom, but the Spirit of God

is the one that will lead us. So that's why

just now during priests with Sprayer, remember we sang the

song your ways are higher, your thoughts are higher. Not

my will be done, but yours. And that is the

only way we should live. Because most of the time

we use what the spirit tells us as our last resort.

I saw you get stuck.

You know.

We try and figure it out by experience, by whatever

it is.

But if we are led by.

The spirit, we will be heading in the right direction,

in the right power. Okay, so let's go to slight

the team. So not by my nor by power, but

by my spirit. That's our value. It's not about how

smart we are, how experience you are, how long you

have been a Christian, it doesn't matter.

Some of the most powerful.

Churches are underground churches, are Christians who have never even

held a physical copy of a Bible. But they are

filled with the power of the Holy Spirit, and they are.

Expanding like crazy.

They are making God famous in their circumstances and situations

like crazy. They don't need to have a digital marketing strategy.

They don't need to have the best websites. They don't

need to have the best speaker or preacher, you know,

because when the Spirit of God comes and heals the sick,

raise the dead, heals the blind, Hey, sign me up.

You know, it's not about how elegant the speaker is,

because the speaker is all.

It's like, well, just.

Go there and share their testimony, and their testimony is

what the Holy Spirit is doing in them.

Right.

So that's why I remember this verse. Not by might,

nor by power, but my spirit. How are we going

to reach the vision and achieve the vision and mission?

Not by min not by power, but by his spirit? Okay,

so the spirit leads us to Christ. The spirit leads

us to Christ. The Holy Spirit, he does not lead

us to himself. He always leads us to Christ points

us back to Jesus.

That's why when.

Peter started preaching, he preached great boldness and told everyone

to repent and turn to Jesus. So how many of

us are bold enough to do that?

Now?

By my own strength, I am not bold enough. I

don't have the conviction. But that's why I.

Need the Holy Spirit in me. That that's the good news.

It's not about how eloquent we are, how bold we are, well,

how experienced we are, nothing matters. The most important thing

is the spirit. Okay, next light, So Jesus said, it

is to your advantage that I go away, for if

I do not go away, the helper will not come

to you. So that's why Jesus ascended into heaven. And

then the Holy Spirit came, and suddenly the disciples had

the advantage. They had the advantage over the Pharisees, they

had their advantage over the Sadducees, they had their advantage

over every learned people. They had their advantage over all

the priests, and that's how they changed the world. That's

why spirit filled is important. So why did Jesus had

to go. Jesus told us it is to our advantage

that he had to go, because if he stayed, the

Holy Spirit would not come. And it's more important than

the Spirit comes.

That I remain with you boldly.

This is the priority that Jesus himself gives to his spirit.

And Jesus said, even greater things will you do? So

how important is it for us to be spirit filled?

It is very very important. So later, even towards the

end of the service. Right, we will just pray for

the infeeling of the Holy Spirit. Some of us may

not have had the gift of speaking in tongues, but

all we have to do is ask. We have to

ask and say, Holy Spirit, I need you. Can you

feel me? Can you speak to me? Use me for

your glory? It's not use me so that I will

be glorified, is use me for your glory. So what

the spirit filled looked like? What the spirit failed looked like?

First of all, the Holy Spirit will come upon us.

So if we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord

and Savior, then the Holy Spirit lives in us. Right,

So that's the first thing. We are filled with the

Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives in us. Once the

Holy Spirit lives in us, we have to develop a

relationship with that person.

Remember I gave the example. Right.

If, for example, I call Jess right, or I get

a phone call.

I get a phone call. Suddenly I pick up the

phone call and like, hey, do you pick up the kids?

I'll be like, who is this? Who else will ask

me whether I picked up the kids? Who else will

ask me whether pick up the kids?

Only jes right.

But if I go and say who's on the line.

Who are you? What do you think will happen? That's it?

Like you know you do not want to go there, right,

you don't want to go there. But why.

I can recognize immediately is because I have a relationship,

and I have a relationship, then I can recognize her voice.

Same thing when the Holy Spirit lives in us. The

more we communicate or commune with him, the more familiar

we are with his voice. The more familiar we are

with his leading and guiding, the more familiar we are

with Sadly, when thoughts come to us, we know and

recognize that it is him, and that can only happen

if we build a relationship. You know, so after we

are filled with the Holy Spirit, is not that checkbox done?

Is we have to continuously communicate? You know?

If you get married right, and that's about it, be filed,

be married done? For example, be filed here right or

get married done?

After that?

Right, no need to communicate, no relationship. What do you

think will happen to the marriage? Well, this indicate and

that's the thing. Being filed by the Holy Spirit is

only the step one after that we need a continuous relationship.

That's how friendships develop your best friends.

That's how with your spouse, that's how with your parents

as well, parents and kids as well. If there is

no communication, there's no relationship. Eventually, suddenly the kids don't

recognize a parent's voice. Sometimes the kids intentionally.

Don't want to acknowledge that. That one is a separate case.

But if right now, right, we are living in the

area of AI for example, you know, and then suddenly

you're heard of deep fakes, right, deep fikes?

You know?

Uh, and then suddenly there's a video of bastard Julian

there saying that, Hey, KFC is the best food ever.

I eat KFC every day. If Laura so that video,

what would you say, possibly true?

Okay, then.

May not have been the best example, you know, because again,

if we are if we do not recognize and then

we say, hey, it looks like Julian, sounds like Julian,

but not Julian.

Have you heard that phrase before? Looks that's the thing,

you know.

So, but that can only happen if you have proximity

with that person. You'll be like, hey, he will never

say that. I don't believe it. I don't believe he

will ever say that. Oh, that sounds exactly like Julian. Yeah,

that's Julian, Julia right, the one I say that. And

that's how we get closer to the Holy Spirit. When

we have spirit failed, being fi better spirit is only

step one. Then we need to have a relationship with him,

recognize he's leading. How he speaks to us and how

he speaks to different ones of us are different. So

I cannot tell just that, hey, cannot be the police

way won't speak like that.

It's not It's unique to you and it's real to you. Okay.

And after we are in a relationship, then we are led.

You know, if our kids do not recognize our voice

and then you say, hey, come, let's go, they'll be like,

who are you? Unless you give them candy. That's how

we say, don't talk to strangers, you know, don't talk

to strangers. But we will only lead somebody who we trust,

and we will only follow somebody that we trust, who

we recognize the voice, who we know has our best

interest at heart. Then we are led. And once we

are led, we are walking in the power of the

Holy Spirit because we are exactly where the Holy Spirit

wants us to be. And that's when he can use you.

He will use you when you are exactly where he

wants you to be. That's when you will talk to

the person he wants you to talk. That's when he

will pray for that person who has a need. That's

when you will speak that word of encouragement and suddenly

be able to lead that person to Christ. Right, So,

the next light, if we are not having a relationship

with the Holy Spirit, I think I've shared this before

as well, then the flesh. You know, That's why they

say every morning, right when we wake up, it's a battle.

This morning is oh, I had to express my alarm

clock snooze. It's a flesh because you're battling. Every morning

is a battle with a flesh. But we have to

choose that we want to walk in the spirit, so

the flesh will not have a say in our lives

or our future. We are helped, led and empowered to

do exactly what Christ has desired to do in our lives. Right,

So I'm drawing towards a close right now, next light.

Since we'll live by the spirit, let us also keep

in step with the spirit. That means we go where

the Spirit leads us, and we only can do that

if we are filled with the spirit, we recognize his voice,

then he tells us where to go.

Then we step into that place.

So you will be able to step into places where Hey,

why are you going here?

It doesn't make sense. Everybody around you says that it

won't make sense. But I am going here because the

Spirit leads me. And that's how you know. Paul. Paul

when he was.

With the other believers, right the other believers told him

don't go to Rome. Don't go to Rome because if

you go to Rome, we may never see you again.

If somebody told you that, hey, don't go to Subang

or whatever, don't go to Bunting for it, because you

know something bad will happen. And these people, you know,

they are god fearing, god fearing people, you know, and

they they have it impressed in their spirit that hey,

if if you go to Bunting, for example, something will happen.

But then in your spirit, the Holy Spirit is telling

you you have to go to one thing, and that's

exactly what Paul did. Paul says, regardless, I will go

to Rome because to live is Christ and to die

is Gain. And because he went to Rome, he could

share the Gospel to Caesar, he could share the gospel

to people in authorities.

But he was put in prison. But he did.

He was exactly where the Spirit led him, and that's

why he the power and the courage to do so.

So that's why it says he Since we live by

the spirit, let us keep in step by the Spirit.

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