12+1 Core Values: Word Faithful | Pr. Alvin

You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.

We hope this message will light up your day. We're

gonna talk about word faithful. Okay, who did the first

Well do you do the first? The first value? Right?

So okay, so only you give introduction. I'm sure he

did a good job. He came and preached at PJ recently,

you know, and uh, they really loved him, you know.

I tell you why because he showed all the graph

and all the statistics, you know. And the one thing

about PJ, which I'm not sure that I mentioned to

you here, is somehow in PJ. Right, I find a

way interesting now because there's a lot of doctors there,

a lot PhD students, right, I got a few doctors

study PhD. And and they're like you no, no, and

it's not like arts kind of PhD. You know. They're like,

you know, I don't know statistics, la research law. Oh

he's got okay, okay, good, good, good, let's sry. No.

So they really love love. Uh then you know, now,

my mom like, I study creative, you know, never do masters. Yore.

I guess I guess God is good? Aah, you know,

must be something I'm saying or the law is inspiring

that people are receiving. You know, I'm just joking, okay,

but anyway, I'm sure he'd be a good job. Okay,

we're going to talk about word faithful. Okay, and since

they are a lot of PhD people here, also, let

me go into the word straight Matthew to any Okay,

you know, Mark, We're going to read Mark Mark chapter

Mark chapter the teen. Okay, Mark Chapter the teen. Whatever

I'm going to read now, I'm not going to expound

on it much. Right, it has something to do with

what we're gonna share about today, but not exactly. Okay,

but I'm just giving you an example. Okay, So let's

read Mark chapter the teen. What does it say? Here's

he says. Then, as he went out of the temple,

one of his disciples said to him, teachers, see what

manner of stones and what buildings are here? You know,

probably marveling at like look, look look at the building,

Look at the wonderful bill, look at the temple. Right.

And Jesus answered and said to him, do you see

these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon

another that shall not be thrown down? Well, why Jesus,

why you so so emo, and I'm showing you nice architecture.

Then you say, this building is you know, not going

to stand long? Right? And then Jesus and he sat

on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple. Peter, James, John,

and Andrew asked him privately. Okay, they asked, tell us

when will these things be and what will be the

sign when all these things will be fulfilled. So you've

got to understand a little bit the context of why

they're asking this question because they all they all knew

that Jesus was the Messiah, the savior, and the cultural

context on that time was that Israel was under occupation,

so they were all expecting Jesus to lead the revolution

and you know, save them from the Romans, and that

that didn't happen, Okay, according to their expectation. That's why

they are web and you're proud of their buildings, you know,

built by the Temple bill by Solomon. That's why when

when one of the said, oh look, look, look Jesus,

look at this wonderful building, it's it's almost like we

go to a church buildings. Oh look, lo load this

wonderful church building. You know, look at I don't know

whether any of you have gone through Putrajaya. But I

remember the first time when I stepped into Projida. I

was very amazed, like Malaysia so nice on now our

guma buildings, you know, right ah Tangjae change one. Yeah,

you know, high tech, you know. And I was very impressed.

And I remember going to make my icy and I

was also very impressed with the amount of counters that opened. Anyway,

you know you're know alah, you know you know so

so so so the tree uh in secret. They want

to ask Jesus when's gonna happen, and you say, the

buildings are gonna come down, you know. So they were

expecting the answer, and then what did Jesus said? Jesus

answered them, and answering them, began to say, take heed

that no one deceives you or interesting why you start there?

For many will come in my name saying I am

he and will deceive many. But when you hear of

wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled, for

such things must happen, but the end is not yet. Hmmm.

Does that not sound familiar in today's day and age? Okay,

let's read Honor for nation will rise again nation hmm familiar,

and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in

various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These

are the beginning of sorrows. Sound familiar. You read the newspaper.

It's happening. Ah okay, But watch out for yourselves, for

they will deliver you up to counsels, and you will

be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before

rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.

But when they arrest you and deliver you, do not

worry beforehand or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever

is given to you in that I will speak that

for it. It's not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. Now,

brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child,

and children will rise up against parents and cause them

to be put to death. And you will be hated

for all my name's sake. But he who end us

for the end shall be safe. So let's just understand

the context. A little bit of what we just read

sound verre familiar, right, sounds like things that are happening, correct,

And I just want to highlight something. It says that

you watch out for ourselves what they will deliver you

up the councerts. Okay, I asked a very honest question.

Is it easier or harder to be Christian nowadays? Right? Easier? Harder?

I don't know. I remember when I was growing up

as a believer. I think being a Christian was looked

up towards like when you're a Christian means people got

high regard over you, and quite high regard right now

like you, I mean as though like where Jesus, iidn't know,

you won't life, won't it? You know? Like there's a

like even when you get stopped by police and you

say a Christian, they won't even bother asking for any

other thing? Right, Uh? You know, you know? But but

don't you realize that actually nowadays it's harder to be Christian,

that your beliefs are very archaic, that whatever you believe

is not progressive. Do you realize do you notice there

is actually getting harder to be a believer harder? And

I'm not sure how many of you actually dare to

say they're a Christian in your workplace there to say

they go to church. Right. I don't know, okay, but

it looks like whatever that Jesus said a long time

ago is happening. Let's read on now. Okay. So when

you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel

the prophet, standing where it ought not, let the reader

understand that. Then let those who are injury flee to

the mountains. Let him who is in the house stop,

not go down into the house, not enter to take

anything out of his house, And len him who is

the field not go back to his clothes. But war

to those who are pregnant and to those who are

nursing babies in those days and prey day or flight

may not be in winter, For in those days there

will be tribulation such as has not been since the

beginning of the creation which God created until this time,

nor ever shall be. And unless the Lord has shortened

those days, no flesh will be saved. But for the

elect sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days. Then

if anyone says to you, look here is the Christ,

or look he is there, do not believe it, for

false Christs and false prophets will rise and show signs

and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. But

thea kead also, I've told you all these things beforehand. Guys,

this is something just a long time ago, long time ago.

Let's read on. But those days after that tribulation, the

sun will be darkened and the moon will not give

it light. The starts of heaven will fall, and the

powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will

see the Sun of Man coming in the clouds with

great power and glory. Then he will send his angels

and gather together his elect from the four winds, from

the farthest part of Earth to the farthest part of Heaven.

Now learn this parable from the Big Victory. When its

branch has already become tender and puts fourth leaves, you

know that summer is near. So you also, when you

see these things happening, know that it is near at

the doors. Surely, I say to you, this generation will

by no means pass away till all these things take place.

And this is the part I want to highlight. Heaven

and Earth will pass away, but my words will by

no means pass away. Okay, well, she wanted that scripture.

I'm not going to go expound about it, but I

just want to highlight some things the first part and

I will break it into like three actually four parts. Right,

the first part actually happened really or is happening right now? Right? Wallah?

This lah false profits lah. You know, I don't know

what that I share here before. But there was a

Netflix documentary about cults, you know, and I was very

intrigued about it. Got very interested, you know, not to

start out, but to find out how it works and

how people get into it and do you just to

let you know, a lot of cuts happen in the States.

I don't know, why go figure you know, very funny.

Uh so so, so there are a lot of things

things happening ready with Jesus has predicted the paragraph or

the passage after that, now haven't happened yet. Haven't happened yet?

No mhm means it's going to happen. And then of

course the last part, Jesus gave an assurance that he

will come back right and uh, you know the part

where it says you know and Jesus also know that

it's a sad thing because it says that you know, uh,

you know, people arrest you brother will be tray brother.

I mean, he really says it's gonna happen now, right,

And he said that this is the beginning of sorrows.

Means that you're gonna be set up, you know, right.

Uh So he really said all these things that in

his word. This is why the word of God is powerful.

So my first point, the word of God is unshakable. Okay.

So the statement is heaven and earth will pass away,

but his word will not pass away. People have tried

to get rid of this word. Tried. They have tried

this guy named Hitler. He wasn't very successful. In fact,

that name now not so nice. Nobody want to use

that name. Right. It's attached to a lot of things

that is an abomination to the Lord. Because God never

likes Livee's being lost one. It is never in God's plan.

In fact, God always talks about the sanctity of life.

You read the Time commments. It talks about do not

take another person's life. Right, So that's something that God

is right big on. So the word of God, this

Bible that we read, is unshakeable. See it also means

that whether you or I agree or disagree, or whether

people agree, it doesn't matter. It's not about agreement, it's

about truth. You're your catch that. Okay, you gotta understand

that first, because if you don't understand us believers, then

we're gonna get deceived. Do you understand what deception is? Okay,

let me give you an example. I use this example

this morning. It's very good. So I remember the first

time I walked into a gym, uh you know, at

the time, like I think it was thirty plus a

new exercise, and then near my house got two gyms,

Anytime Fitness and then the Celerity Fitness. Then we got

the we got I got the I think the free

free Tesla free try, and I told my said, oh,

I'll take a free try Trier. I must sign up,

you know, and join the gym, right, and I went.

I went, and then the first time they will assign

you a ptler. Then they accumiliate you because you go

and do the BMI and it's always very high on right,

and then you realize that actually your abest all these

things are okay. So I went through it, and after

the BT session, I went and I ran on the

trademill for ten minutes and stopped because tyren La and

then I walked towards the vending machine, and I was

very impressed with the vending machine because they were telling

a lot of things that you cannot find other places.

On No, I wouldn't say all exactly. And because I

was there ten minutes, right, and I really exercised, I

wanted to treat myself right. So I bought something from

the vending machine. I had that thing, I enjoyed myself,

and I walked out the gym, never to return. So, friends,

if I tell you that I went to the gym,

will you believe me? You will? Right? I did. I

did go to the gym, But did I really go

to the gym? Let me give you a deeper example,

because I think I don't know whether Dan was there,

but there was. Once we had a CBC retreat, I

think last year CBC retreat. And then the interesting thing

that I would share with you its last time when

we were younger, when we had our retreats, right, we

used to have this author snacks, you know, the joke okay,

LK bye, you know. And then because we really want

to take care of our leaders, and we really enjoyed

the autos. Next when we were younger. But the older

we get. Now this's got no he goes. Nobody touches,

you know, because more health conscious and actually all of

your chest leaders are quite healthy. One. Now we all

go to the gym. Elpinghole runs five km. I think

doctor Daniel now also running. Don't know how many MD

okay every day, every day, Okay, I cannot, I cannot okay.

I would just stick to whatever I'm familiar with. So

all of us, you know, when even though now we

we go gym, you know, always go. Jim and I

remember that morning passed the keough. He had lunch with us.

Uh he can breakfast with us, and we were just

talking loud, and he gave this very interesting example and

he was just joking. Like I said, he yo and

gym right. I also went, he said, like he said,

he went out, he went check out the machines la.

You know. But the rest of us we were we

were we went to the gym to do the gim

I know. But I went to look at the machine

and say hello to us and give us one of

the board. And but but he could say he went right.

And the joke was he tell he told us, I

mean he used it as an as an example during

our devotion, he actually said, hey, guys, you went to

the gym, right, I just went to the gym, you know,

and all of a sudden just happy with that. And

he said, but if you ask deeper questions, then you

will know whether the person really went to the gym

or not. If you get what I mean right, Like

which machine you use, how many minutes, how many calories

you burn? Right? What exercise you cross in? Do you

know that we can actually come to church and say

I can judge I didn't my I worship, I did

all the I I checked the boxes. But have we

really or not? And that is what deception is, guys.

That's that's the part we have to catch though, because

no nobody can point it out and say, you know,

because it's very but I'm behindhl. I think this so

that we will not deceive ourselves. That's why when the

Bible says, don't deceive yourself, we've got to take q

in it whether we are really deceiving ourselves or not. Right, like,

like we go we are there, but are we really there?

Are we really or or we just check off the boxers? Right?

Because you see, you check out the boxes, you don't

stuck in the world. You feel good, live feel good,

but didn't really do it. You know, I could say

I did I start going to the gym, then no,

I didn't. In fact, talk about deception. Okay, I signed

up for one year for anytime fitness. I can count

the amount of times my hands are in the one

year many time were no every month, two hundred year.

Don't you think that it's deception, as in I block

myself because I got the gym membership. Friends, don't live

life that way. Don't live life in deception, right, don't

live life in deception, live life in truth, because when

you live your life in truth, you will have freedom.

I'll share a little bit about that later. Okay. So

Bible says heaven and earth will pass away, but my

words will by no means pass away. Psalms one three

eight two says I will worship toward your holy temper

and praise your name for your loving kindness and your truth.

For your You have magnified your word above all your name.

See God has magnified his word. Remember I said that

God's way is unshakable. Right. The word here is powerful, friends, Right,

it is powerful. So we all know this. I don't

think any of you will disagree me when I say

God's way is important. Right. In fact, God's way is

so important that sometimes we only come for the Word.

We skip worship. Right, We don't come for worship, you know,

because word is important. Friends, you know, worship is okay, one,

fellowship is okay one. The word is important. Right, so

we can agree with that, right. I was just telling

PJ this morning that I encourage you, and I say,

you know the word is important. I agree. But the

thing about worship is that it primes your heart to

be ready to receive the word of God. Your cash

there not you cannot have. You can't have the Word

without worship can but then you will tickle your intellectual years.

This is why people can be selective over messages and

preatures because their heart was not prime to receive what

God wanted them to hear. Because when you worship God,

your heart will be prime to receive. You get I'm

a prime mary NATed, saturated, prepared to receive the Word

of God. Isn't that deception too? This picture not goola

You're ready to receive or not? Because when you have

a heart or worship, when God speaks, you will listen. No,

when you are just listening to a good word, it's

a different kind of deception. This how people get deceived. Friends,

This how get deceived. So I'm just cautioning you don't

get deceived. That's why worship is important. That's why the

word is important. Yes, so we all know as good

Christians that the Word of God is important. But the

real question that we've got to ask ourselves is how

important is it in our own lives? Okay? How important?

Where is the Word of God placed in our lives

and in our priorities? Just something for us to think about.

I'm not going to point fingers here. I'm not going

to say or no, no, no. You see, our friends,

even if you're a Bible scholar and you know the

Bible from the front to the banger, it may not

be the most important thing in your life, you know,

because it's not just my hate knowledge and the reality

in life our friends, which the older I get, the

older I know, is that we actually have different priorities

in life. One. So if you really check your heart

off hearts, you will know what is number one. And

it may not be God's words, or it may not

be this is part of you know, that's the thing.

I'm just highlighting, not to say you're a horrible person.

Highlight think so that you will not deceive yourself, so

that you will have a heart check. So I say, okay, hey,

maybe I need to realign my priorities. Maybe I need

to realign what is important or what should be important,

because we know that it is important. But is it?

Where is it in the ranking? Where is it in

the ranking? Okay? Hebrews fortual says, for the Word of

God is living and powerful and sharper than any two ages,

sort piercing even to the division of soul and spirit,

and of joints and the mirror. It is a discerner

of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. This

is why I believe that when we read the Word

of God when you are you know, when you have

the Word of God in your life, when you come

to church has to be changed. One that has to change.

On friends, you cannot not change a no. So if

you're not changing or I'm not changing, that means that

something's not happening. Either there's deception like we establishers now

could be deception, right, or a priority issue because the

reality of what I know. See, God loves us so much, right,

he will never allow us to be in the same place.

He always wants us to move forward. And if you

look back in your life the past five years, I

can tell you and you say, yeah, I progress even

a little bit. God is doing something. Allow him to

do more. That's the power. But if there's no movement,

then something is out of wag ready. There has to

be adjustment. And the only person that can just is you.

No one else can preach here until the cows come home.

You know you can. Doesn't work one, friends, doesn't work one.

Everybody has free will one. You know, that's the power

of the world of God. James five says, be doers

of the world, not hear us only deceiving yourselves, or

even say that deceiving, Just here deceiving. For if anyone

is a hero of the word and not, he's like

a man observing his natural face in the mirror. For

who observes himself goes away immediately, forgets what com man

he is. But he who looks into the perfect law

of liberty and continues in it, it's not a forgetful hearer,

but the doer of the work, this one will be

blessed in what he does. So word faithful. Friends. She's

interesting when you look at the fourth value, because not

just talking about the word of God. Because all of

us can agree about the Word of God, but can

we agree to be faithful with the word of God.

You'll catch that saying that the Word of God is

true is correct. But being faithful with it, with the

truth that He gives us, is that something all of

us can participate on it. I believe we can. And

we're not saying that everybody needs to be Bible scholars

and no, no need. You know, there's one line that

we always say that I remember we used to say

an ex You know it is better to know one

verse and apply in your lives rather than know the

whole Bible. But don't follow any of it. Theologian know everything,

can do all the Bible study, but never practice. Let

me shure you one scripture that is close to my

heart until today, right Matthew sixty three sicky vers the

King of God, and all of this shall be added

to you. This was a scripture that God has given me.

You know, when I was deciding whether I want to

join full time or not. Right. Even before I had family,

even before it had kids, there was a scripture that

I remember, and I know some of you might have

that scripture, and different ones say you might have a

scripture that's close to you, because this is a scripture

that God's not just spoke to you, the scripture that

comes alive. Quote, it's not just a memory verse, No,

it's real, friends, right, And of course from then on

there many more other scriptures. Right, Luke saves sixty eight,

Give and be given to you, you know, push down

right or flowing? Okay, I need to record it, but

it's one of my favorite scriptures about you know, about giving.

And that scripture that I remember is freely as you

have received, freely, give right, so give freely? Right. There

are many many scriptures. Can we live out those scriptures? Friends,

live it out right, follow it, do it right. Another

thing about the word of God that is powerful is

that the word of God anchors us in a changing world. Right.

Remember I mentioned just now that it's hard to be Christian.

It is, but do you know that the word of

God is the anchor the anchors however crazy the world evolves?

See how how the world the world has evolved. I

remember when I was younger. It was a different time.

You are not innocent. There was not so many alphabets

to remember. Now got so many alphabets called plus minus.

You know, I'm not gonna go through them. I don't

get into a but but but but see see how

the world has evolved. See how there is a redefinition

of love. See how there's a redefinition of marriage. There

is no because it's more progressive. You'll catch that word

more progressive, right, And the Bible is more old school

more what was I don't know whatever word that people

use it la, Right, But see this the interesting thing. Okay.

And maybe I'm biased because I've been in ches for

so long. Okay, maybe lah, Maybe I'm biased. Lah, And

I'm an old man, right forty blasts right, maybe, But

I've come to recognize, right that when the Bible says

that God's works is his truth, that when we follow

in the world of God, even in the way we

live our life, we will experience abundant life, in marriage,

in family, in love, in fulfillment, in peace. But then

the world is subscribing another kind of thing. What is

the fruit of that I have not seen good fruits

out of here. No, so I have come to my

own study, you know, my own understanding, my own reading

of the word, and I am with you. I'm not

a Bible scholar, right, I'm not as powered as power.

And you can go and talk to him, right, But

I've come to realize and recognize her that really this

is the anchor that, however crazy the world is, if

you just need to, all you need to do is

just follow. Okay, this is how a family need works.

This is what love means. Right. The definition of love

you know in the Bible is powerful. Now is more

power than any other love that you can find on earth. No. Right,

when you can accept that now and the old school right,

you will anchor you on it will give you less headache.

Let me give you some examples of that. Because the

Bible teaches us how to forgive, right, how to forgive

someone wrong? You forgive? Isn't that a powerful thing? Forgiveness? Right?

Because if you don't forgive, what will happens? You don't forgive,

then there'll be bitterness and you don't know word a person.

Then it just gives, It just spirals out of control. Right,

and then from doing away the person to don't away

these type people to you know, it becomes crazy and crazier.

But God addresses it from the beginning forgive no more,

no more problem freedom. Okay, let me let me go forward.

So first Corinthians one five says, five says, because the

foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness

of God is stronger than men. Basically, even God's foolishness

is smarter than Youola and me, ah, and how weak

he is, so he's still stronger than Elsa. Right, even

in God's weakness, he's still stronger us. That's what Cornthians say, right.

Let me read John tewenteen fourteen to nineteen. It says,

I've given them your word, and the world has hated

them because they are not of the world. So, friends,

don't be surprised that if you profess that your believer,

you were be hated by the world. You be hated

by the world. Impressions are I'm not talking about truth

and reality, I'm talking about impressions. Okay, So maybe my

encouragement is don't be so quick to want to please everybody. Law.

I think we just need to place Jesus law canna

and again, I don't have to be don't have to

fight one know, this kind of thing. We just need

to love. Do you know that Jus never find anybody,

just never argue anybody. When Jesus was presented in front

of the senderin he didn't defend himself. And I guess

that's the way we need to go as Christians are right,

we're not expecting everybody here to be keyboard warrior. No,

no expecting actually wear tying one right, it is, it

is we're tiring when we get into their mode. No need,

let's read on. I do not pray that you take

them out of the world, but that you should keep

them from the evil one. They are none of the world,

just and I'm not of the world. Sanctify them by

your truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me

into the world, I also send them into the world,

and for their six I sanctify myself that they also

may be sanctified by the truth. Okay, so let's talk

about word faithfuler and talk about the power of the word.

So I've got this little graph here based on John

seventeen and can go next. Nothing else just not also

like empty, because God that should be a words sanctify there, Ah, okay, nice, okay.

How many of you here still use sanitizer? God? God,

God still last sanitize your hand every day? God? No,

not really are because we're dry, right A tobal lotion? Yeah?

Uh you know. Yeah, I'm sure you sanctified, got right,

you got I not the animal? So how yeah? Anything? Okay?

So so we use right because if you don't sanitize

what happened got germs, ma, I'm sure you got that.

If you go hospital, you come at your sanitizes coming here,

don't don't do that, right I. Also, you know, every

time I go to buy, like go marketing, touch all

the meat, you know, because you want to avoid another coronavirus. Right,

also going you know, sanitize, right, So the word of

God sanctifies us according to the word. Okay, it sanctifies

what doesn't mean it cleanses you and me. And it

doesn't just cleanse us as it keeps us fuel. Let

me give you this example, right, Imagine someone who doesn't

only sanitize sends once in his life, never after that, right,

So just sanitize one time and good enough right after tenaces,

then then go and touch everything touch everyone eat you

know works right? What happens Frans there will be gems la.

Is he enough just sanitizing one time? No, you have

to because you when you touch germs, then germs in

your hand, and then if you're not careful, you touch

and then you spread the gems. Right means that Let's

say my wife, she sanitizes, she re takes care of

herself and the husbandner. You know, not really believe that

sanitize one time enough for the rest of my life.

I don't need to. And then I hold her hand.

Don't you think, however much she is sanitized, I will

spread germs to her. Let me change sanitizes to the

world of God. Do you know that when you have

the word of God in your life, it sanitized and

cleanses you. What is the word of God? Say? I

gave it example just now? The word of God says,

forgive friends, I see a lot of you here or

how am you here? Still living this stey Lana And

you will never get offender on God and never never

nobody will offend you ever, no such thing. Right, I'm

sure someone have offended you, even maybe just now or

so huh you jump to high or sing to loud. Huh,

why can't you worship in quiet? You know, I don't know.

I just joking. Okay, go on, right, go on confirm one,

confirm no matter what happens, you will touch germs. One.

We're still in this fallen world corona. Then how forgive law?

Use the sanitizer law word of God law? Couse would have?

God said forgive ma. So when when you get offender, forgive,

then you said free, no more germs. But if you

don't forgive, then the germs are Germany, German, it German.

It become bitterness. You're your seat. You'll catch it, You'll

catch win. You need a word have got in your lives.

That's just one example, right, giveness. It's just one example.

What else are the world? Word of God said? Love

love one another? Right, That's what the love God asked us?

Do love people? You know? Hard? Is it to love

people or not? Do you know that that's saying that

you hurt the one you love the most. I'm all

like the one that you love the most hurt you more.

It's tough. But what does the word of God say?

How does the word of God cleanses us? Why is

it important that we have the Word of God in

our lives. We all go through disappointments in life healing.

How many were believing for healing for a loved ones,

I tell you got no, you got no word of God.

There's no hope, no friends. Do you know by having

the word of God and lives, I still hope that

God will heal. And God has healed. Just this morning

we heard a healing testimony. One of our homies fell down,

you know, want to show that she's muture. No, no, I'm fine,

I'm fine. Then go inside the car, the hand tingling ready, right,

But she said as I took communion, I declared, I'm healed.

She was healed during homes Amen. There was a powerful testimony,

and we've heard so many and because of that we

have hope. Isn't there a better way to live? Or

no hopela one? Doctors say, can a means that city?

We just surrender to the no Christians all everet we

are a bit tic skin one right? Doctors say cannot

we say? Can we pray? Colon? Isn't that sanctifying by

the word? Doesn't that set you free? You'll catch about this?

I think free and truth or not? That's how we

need the word in our lives. Amen. The world attacks

the word. They don't understand it, which is why we

must be its most faithful defenders and doers. Doers of

the word. We do. Don't just listen, don't just kive

in the heart. We do right. John eight three thirty

six says, Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him,

if you're abiding my word and you are my disciples,

indeed you shall know the truth, and the truth shall

set you free. They answered him, we are Abraham's descendants,

and I've never been in bondage to anyone. How can

you say you'll be made free? Interestinger. So Jesus was

telling the Jews, Hey, if you're buying my word and

my disciples, you will know the truth and the truth

say free. But they are like, Hello, we've been Christian

all our life. What do you mean by said free?

What do you mean by you know? We've never been

in bondage? I prayed, and none of us here be

like that that we're ignorant just because we already come

to Sunday service. Hey, God, remember I came, I gave

the offeringer. Remember do you know that for them. It's

all about checkbox. You see how I've gone to I've

gone to. Hey, God, you see how I preach in

those services? Say, do you know please give me more

brownie points today? I sacrificed my beauty sleep to come

here to preach to these people. They are not paying attention.

I'm I know you're py intention a bit more response,

I pja crowd. Okay, uh, maybe it costs money. They're

just waking out loud, right. I pray we will not

be deceived this way right, And Jesus answered them most assuredly.

I say to whoever commits a sin is a slave

of sin. And a slave does not abide in the

house forever, but the sun abides forever. Therefore, if the

sun makes you free, you should be free. Indeed, let

me give you this example this way. But let's go

to the example of us abiding. So what does abiding mean?

Abiding is hearing the word of God. So right now,

it's good because you guys are hearing. That's why listening

to messages is something we all like. Something's reading on

our owner is a bit difficult. Let me tell you why.

You see, when the Bible shares something and somethings are

quite just literal meanings. Faith comes by hearing faith parts

are hearing. So how can your faith come by hearing

the word of God? Not reading the word of God? Okay,

read God later we read in Joshua. But hearing the

word of God is whay your faith was arise. That's

why for some of you hear right now, your faith

is arising because you're hearing the word of God. And

once we hear the word of God, we need to

keep it in our heart. We need to meditate in it.

We need it. Remember, Okay, I catch this word, I'm

going to keep it in my heart. I'm going to

let it germinate. Right and then we got to practice?

Why practice? Because none of us here we'll get it

right one So you got to practice. I still remember

the first time I prayed for someone in missions. You know,

you see it's one thing knowing and learning about prayer

and hearing all the testimonies. But how many are you here?

You live to pray for cancers and cancer patients? You know,

if someone got crippled the lake look funny, You're like,

pray for me so that God can hear me. How

do you want say I will go there and I'm

the person. Do you know how scary it is when

you go for a mission trip and you're the team

leader and you're a young person and then they bring

you the worst case don't know what case, worst case

and they believe that when you lay hands they will

be Do you know how scary it is? I remember

that day by improved. I'm braver. Now I pray with

more confidence. Now see, it takes practice. You know what

else it takes. It also takes that when you practice,

God meets you halfway. That when you pray, God uses

that prayer that yeah, I just heard. I was just

talking to someone. Someone came to uh uh you know

our office passy one was there and basically this year

we are starting to fundraise for Timmy the society, you know,

because the church has been very generous, but we want

to come to a place where we were able to so,

you know, see different bills for a fundraise. And there

was a partner that came all the way from New Life,

you know, and you're just sharing his story to us,

and he just said, you know, I was looking for church.

I came to exste in Line found out but ex

Church came to ask me, like, he actually joined us

in our twenty twelve revel in stadium. There it was.

I was there. They're like, oh, really the goal, you know.

And then he joined a few years later and he

was like, you know, I came and he said, I've

always had a shoulder egg, always had, you know, And

I was going through it that day when I went

passially wanted switching. And when she preached at the end

of course we do our auto coit, she said, there

were three people here, one with the lake pin, one

with the side pin, and one of the shoulder pin.

I want to pray for you. He's like, oh, then

he prayed. He lift that sends. He got immediately, no

more problem for a few years. He's dealing with it.

And the cool thing was that that was the first

time pussally One heard it. This guy has been coming

to New Life for years, ready, you know. And she's like,

I've never heard this testimony. He said, I never show you.

Now I'm like, great, now you'll know see when God

missed your halfway, you will be braver. But you got

to start. You got to start by going to missions.

You got to start by by saying yes, I will

be a leader. You got to start by coming out

to say hey, I want to You got to start

by taking care of people. You got to start somewhere.

You got to start by serving. Whatever your next level is,

you got to start. Then you practice, and then from

practice you will start doing right. The cool thing is

you might discover your gifting and then every time you

have that, they have this issue, we'll go to you.

Can you please because we recognize your gifting. We people

recognize the gifting that you have in your life. But

it starts your abiding God's worth, your catch, that your cash,

that sparts abiding Godsworth right, and he says, here a

sun abides forever. Okay, let me let me give you

this analogy about God's word and okay, so let's say

if okay, these examples personally, I cannot relate to this example.

But if you are here and you have a good

relationship with your family, like your your dad or maybe

your dad. Okay, you've got a good relationship or dad, Okay,

he's someone you can respect, someone you can you know,

you know the words, you know you're really hold strongly.

If your dad said, son, daughter, this this by this

booker that I'm leaving bag is all my words that

you will benefit from. For those that got that kind

of relationship, you can relate like you. If you don't

have that, I'm sorry you're like Mila. Would you treat

these words this book lightly? I don't think you will know.

I think if your son and a daughter and you've

got a good relationship, or your father on earth, I

think if your father said this is important, you will

take it to heart. That is really important, right, I

said later because unfortunately I didn't have that experience. And

maybe the only people to be better that I can

sow like put close to that is because I benefited

from the share happy with them. That's why a lot

of times I say I'll just follow anyone because the

word is important. Right. And here we are reading in

God's word that you know, a slave does not abide

in the house forever, but the son abides forever, a

son and a daughter abides in a house. Right. So

these book, friends, is God's word, the word of God. Right.

But the difference is who are we? Who do we

choose to be? Because if we are son or daughter,

we will listen to it, we will take it seriously. Right.

I shed that I know a young person that reads

the Bible every day, right, and it's very interesting because

you know you think like every day. No, No, this

young person I has been reading about it every day,

and I know that it's like a it's like a

it's like a scheduled thing like I'm a ste the Bible,

you know. Uh. And the young person schedules it in

like part of home work like that, power work like that,

and does it every day without fail Right, guys, I

tell you this young person is gonna get so much,

gained so much from the world of God. No, even

if it was done now like like like routine like that.

Have we been deceived by emotions that we feel that

we need a ghost bump experience, then only God speaks

that every day you wake up in the morning and

do your quiet timer and then after that on the

music and then feel then then only God speaks. But

all the other days where are boring, god'st not speaking?

Think about it because if you are a sunna and

we can discipline, now it's not about the emotions. No,

I think we have we have don't really so much

on the ghost bumps? Am I saying it's bad? No? No, no, no, no,

but but we can can we know the the word disciple? Right?

I think the root was disciplined. Now do you know

what decid is? Boring? Friends, I don't feel like going

exercise every other day or no. I'm sure doctor Daniel

don't feel like running every day or no. But he

does it just because he's schedually in ready right, he's

say a honeymoon period, so he cannot relate to that

again yes, yeah, so no, so so so that so

can I encourage us to do this? Read the word

of got Lah even if he's boring, just just scheduling in.

I don't know one verse now, last time I used

to one verse. Actually, now do one chapter at least.

La Just read just read it, get the habit. Read

it right, John Joshua one six nine. Be strong and

of good courage, For to these people you shall divide

as as an inheritance, the land which I swore to

their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous,

that you may observe to do according to all the

law which Moses, my servant commanded. You do not turn

from it to the right hand or to the left,

that you may prosper wherever you go. Don't deviate, friends,

godspel it's got let's not add subtract to it. Lah. Oh,

but pass, we don't. I don't know. Maybe there's a

discussion on eschatology. Maybe there's a discussion on the cessation

of the Holy Spirit. Say all you, I'm speaking Roman

Greek now right, you know some people believe that there's

a cessation of the world the spirit. I'm like, oh

my god, it's so complicated, right, cannot just follow the Bible.

Just just read and follow the Bible. Lahyba, as you

love your neighbor, love your name, Ala babba, ask your

love God, love God. Lah. Well make it so complicatedd

don't add, don't subtract. This book of the Law shall

not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in

it then and night, that you may observe to do

according to all that is written in it. For then

you will make your way prosperous, and then you will

have good success. Heaven I commanded you be strong en

of good courage. You not be afraid, do not be

It's made for the Lord. Your God is with you

wherever you go. God's word. Just really just follow. It's

as simple as that, and maybe some of us just

need to schedule it in our calendar. Just schedually in.

Must you do it in the morning, I don't know

after you. If you're not a morning person, then do

it later. But why not just schedule it in. Just

treat it like that young person I mentioned you. It's

like it's like home aord like that. I have to

do it. I don't like it, but I have to

do it. Then just schedually in. Right, but it but

every day the young person is reading every day? Amazing, right, amazing? Right?

You know I challenge your XP Yeah, I said, just friends,

just try it, just just try it, and maybe before

you die or leave this earth, you at least read

the Bible one time. At least at least I read

the Bible one time. Do I fully understand? No? But

I know I read. It doesn't matter of friends, because

why it doesn't matter because I believe that God will

use that and minister to you. Not the breaking rights

that you read the Bible from cover to cover, but

the breaking rights that God will start speaking through the

Bible because you force yourself to read the Bible from

cover to cover, your cash on, Because can that be

something that we just add onto our lives make it

a little bit more important, right, cannot I remember when

I was young, maybe extremely can come up. I remember

as young one of and I it's you know, God

uses instances in our lives to teach us lessons. One, right,

God also uses I believe that when we go through discouragements,

so so it's also lessons we learn. You know, lessons

was to be stronger, right, And one of the toughest

lessons I had to learn when I was a young person.

Maybe got new got really knew that he had a

plan for me. I didn't know it. But when I

was when I first I think it was my last

year of UNI, right, And to be honest, I also

not very rare in one you know to read by

bye every day and all. But that year I was

my my my church. The time I was a youth leader, right,

And I can tell you our friends. It was the

toughest time because I literally saw my youth group die

because from forty people to thirty people to twenty people

by the end of the year it was just me

the secretary. And the secondary is I don't like me

and another person. We went through different things all about

friends I tell you that year God really spoke to me.

And God spoke to me through this guy called Oswald

Chambers because he wrote a devotion right titled my Utmost

Voice Highest. Every single day I opened the devotion. Now

you think that it's right, I you know, you think

that it's very magical. I tell you it's so amazing

because every day when I opened the devotion, and he

was very simple because there was a scripture, I read

a scripture, I read a devotion every day, God's words

spoke to me through one of the most difficult times.

I tell you, if I didn't have that, now I

we have given up ministry. D like, don't want to

help church, do't want to serve church help people, so

they don't appreciate you know that That was probably why

I have gone through. But I remember those days because

it was the world of God that illuminated my path.

Though in the natural I see, and to be honest

with you, it didn't recover. I didn't. I would love

to say, oh, I ended my term with flying colors. No,

I ended my term prematurely or so. But God was

not over with me because He used that to teach

me to trust him. I had to trust him. I

had to learn how to hear his word right. Men

will see it and say such a failure. But I

believe God saw it and say thank you for listening

to me, my son, because He really spoke to me

that one year through a devotional by a guy that

died long time ago. And the England he used was

quite complicated. Somehow I understood it. How would God speak

to us friends, when we are work faithful, you know,

although we may be going through or extra shock of values.

You know, I really believe that God will use the

series to minister to us, help us to grow stronger

as believe us, help us to mature. That is always

the goal. Our Father in heaven wants us to overcome

our own challenges. You know, our Father in Heaven is

very practical. So can we not be so prightful? Can

we allow God to speak to our hearts? Can we say, God, yes,

just going through their program, But are you saying something

because that's more important? God? Are you saying something to

me right now? God? Are you revealing something to me

right now that is more important? Yes, we all know

that the word of God is important, but how important

is it to my life? That is the more important question.

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