Repent | Eld Rosaling Ang

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We hope this message will light up your day.

So I'm gonna start by asking a question.

Are we okay with questions? Yeah?

So I don't like to be up on the stage

because I cannot come to you, huh, Because I like

to come near to you and make sure you don't

fall asleep. Aha, you're joking, joking, joking. I'm sure you

don't fall a sleeper.

Okay. So the first question, and this is a question

for you.

I want you to take time to think about it,

and then I will probably come to you and ask

you for an answer. Okay, think about it. Yeah, this question,

who is Jesus to you?

Okay?

The question is who is Jesus to you? Okay, I

see some smiles. I'm giving you some moments to think

about it. Think about the ans, sir.

Okay. So I'm gonna go to Andy. Who's Jesus to you? Okay?

Okay, he's into his worship leading mode?

Right, the one who broke his chain? Yeah? Cool? Great, great,

great John John. Who's Jesus to you?

He's God, but he also changes in different circumstances. Okay,

So so you you experience different parts of God. Okay,

maybe I have to correct a bit of theology. God

doesn't change, by the way, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you

know what that man. He's just saying that he experiences

different parts of God in different seasons of his life.

Yeah. Is more more like it? Yeah yeah, okay. The

Word of.

God says that God does not change. Yeah, so we

experienced him differently.

Okay, cool.

But Julian, who is Jesus to you saviors? How many

of you agree that Jesus your savior?

Okay?

Okay, okay, cool, cool, Let's see who else? Can I

go to Joanne?

Who's Jesus to you? Savior? Savior? Savior?

Okay, only savior, comforter, provider. Yeah, okay. So we know

Jesus by many names. We know Jesus by many names,

And do you know the thing is right? I think

this question is very deep. This is very deep question

because how you process this question and how you answer

actually determines how you live your life.

True or not? Okay?

So do you know that many people and I'm speaking

to believer us here, right, I'm speaking to faithful people.

But the thing is right? How how would you share Jesus.

To someone else who do don't know God. Okay, so

let's let's turn that question around a little bit. How

would you share Jesus to someone who does not know

him anyone? How would you share Jesus to someone who

do not know him at all? What would you say? Sorry, friend,

Jesus is a friend. Jesus is a friend. Okay, Jesus

is a friend. Okay?

Uh? What else? What else?

What else would you how else would you share Jesus

with your friends? With your friends, we people who do

not know who God is. He's a god who came

and to die for us? Okay, have you tried that before?

Kind of? And what was the response? Yeah? Yeah, So you're.

Sharing your friends, right who don't know about God and

you say, yeah, Jesus is the one who came to

die and across uh?

Yeah?

And what was their response from from dea?

How you know? Okay? How you know? How you know? Truly?

How do you know? Give me the proof youw me

to prove?

Right?

Okay? Okay? What else? What else?

How else would you share Jesus with someone who do

not know God? Your life experience, your life experience, Yeah,

your life experiences. You know your own testimonies. By the way,

was it Kareem? Thank you for sharing that testimony. I

was so blessed to hear that, and I was thinking, wow, okay,

no need message, really no, I think your testimony.

Cover everything already. But you see, the thing is.

Right, when we encounter people, there are many perceptions about

who Jesus is.

Yeah, do you agree?

There are many perceptions of who Jesus is. Some people

think that Jesus is a legend. Do you know what

legend is?

Right?

Someone who lived before? Yeah, maybe he was a good teacher.

Have you ever heard of that? Jesus as a good teacher,

Jesus as the miracle worker? Yeah, Jesus who is God

who answers prayers. Right, there's so many parts of Jesus

that we know of. Okay, so some will say that, yeah,

he's a legend, he's a good teacher. Right, he can't

perform miracles, some might we can go to the next light.

So who is Jesus to you?

He could be a legend, he could be what's the

next one?

A liar.

Like some of our encounters, right, Like, yeah, Jesus said

that he would you know, tear down the temple and

rebuild it and raise it up in three days?

Is that true? Do you believe it? Do you believe it?

Did you know what I'm talking about? Sorry, you're looking

at me like.

Your eyes like like go fish like blinking like it.

I'm like, did I lose you already? Yeah? Do you

know what I'm saying? So everything? If you okay, I'm

going to ask you this other question.

Right, if you believe everything that Jesus says? Do you

believe everything that Jesus says in the Bible? Is there

anything that you have questions on? Are there any questionable

thoughts or things that you're like, yeah, this one very

had to believe that Jesus says. You know, I will,

you know, you will do greater miracles than I did.

Jesus say anyone believe that anyone exercised that? Not quite yet?

Like huh, you mean what I can raise the Dad?

Do you believe that? So if you don't believe it,

then you're making Jesus out to be a liar, like

I don't think so. Because Jesus say rights, you either

think that whatever he said is real or it's not.

They cannot be two sides. You can't stand on the

fence and say, yeah, he is. This part is real,

but this part is not real.

You know.

That's the word that says God is uh. He will

bring down his wrath on those who who do not

believe him right and put you out, you know, with

gnashing of teeth.

You have you read that before? You like, cannot be.

God is so good, God is so loving and kind.

How can he punish people?

You see what I'm going Some parts of the word

of God, we find it very hard to accept, and

so we're like, oh, Jesus, you can't be saying this, right,

You can't possibly be saying this.

Some people think that Jesus is a lunatic. Do you

know what?

When he was walking on earth, right just before he

went to the cross, he told his disciples, Okay, you

must eat off my flesh and drink of my blood.

Anyone want to drink some blood after this espresso? I

don't know what your server Someone's uh, Okay, it's type

AB today.

The blood today is type AB, so please drink of it.

And you know, yeah, and then it's someone's flesh, someone

who who died recently. Oh, and Jesus says, if you

do not eat my flesh and drink of my blood.

You have no part of me.

And to some of the disciples at time, do you

know that that's when all of them left, the other

disciples except the twelve, all of them left like cheesyer?

Do you know what that crazy saur? Howckey long? See hour?

You ask me to eat? What's this? This kind of

teaching is lunatic. It's crazy, Jesus. What you're asking me

to do is too radical? Radical?

What hit your mother? If you do not hit your

father and your mother, it means that you do not

love me?

Cheesy or not? I thought God asks us to love

our parents, you know, or our parents?

How is this teaching? So it's just as see our

Do you know what I'm saying? Some things you might

not be able to process in your mind, and you're like,

what do I make out of this? This perception that

we have of who Jesus is right? Or you can

come to a decision and a conclusion that he truly

is Lord?

Is he Lord? Is he Lord of your life?

Can I tell you something that he can be your

savior without being your lord. I'm gonna say that again.

He can be your Savior, like, yes, God, you save me.

I believe that you went to the cross to die

for me. I got a thicket to heaven, so I'll

see you on the day when I reached there. Okay,

God got it, so thought Lord Jesus, I will see

you there on that day. You are my Savior. I

already believe in you. I really believe you died. But

for the rest of my life you're on earth. I

am Lord. For the rest of how I live my life,

I make the decisions God. I will decide how I

want to live. I will make use all my time

however I want it to be.

I will make my.

Career decisions, my life partner decisions, whatever I decide on

my children's education based on what I know.

So who is Lord?

So you see, you can think of Jesus as your savior.

But if he is not Lord, then he is not

God over our lives. I want us to catch this

because do you know the more that I talk to

people now in even amongst our church partners, young people,

all theer folks, and I realized that our perception of

our understanding of God, Who's Jesus?

Do you really Who's Jesus? To you.

Yeah, He's a god I worship and sing too on

a sandela and then Monday and then in your conversation

with your boss and in how you lead your children.

Who's Jesus? I don't know.

Someone I just pray good night prayers to someone that

I just say grace before dinner and that's it. And

Jesus has no weight in your everyday life, you know,

everyday decision. Does he have that kind of weight? Does

he had that kind of position in our lives? That's

my question And I have to question myself as like, God, really,

am I first thing in the morning?

Am I thinking about you? Last thing?

And am I thinking about you when I'm going through

my challenges? Am I thinking about you? Am I going

to you? Are you really Lord of my life? Or

you're just a savior on the wall or on the

cross hanging somewhere that I'm wearing.

Do you know what I'm saying?

And I want us to to understand this because this

will determine how we live our lives and it always

begins with an encounter. And so I don't want to

just say, you know you, as long as you come

to church, you're fine. As long as you give your

tithes and offering, you're serving, you go to homes. You're

fine because when all that is strip away, friends, can

I tell you, when all of this is stripped away

and you are standing before.

Jesus, are you gonna tell him? Jesus?

You know I did all of this for you, and

the last thing that we want to hear from him

is I do not know you because you do not

know me. Do you know you can do all of

this and still miss the mark? And so so my

heart is this, my burthen is this that I don't

want any one of us to miss the mark to

really know who Jesus is to us? And so let's

go to the world of God. Okay, let's go to

Acts chapter nine. And you know this guy. His name

is Saul. Do you know Saul? Who is Saul? Let

me ask the children, children, who is Saul Pauh King

and King Saul? The different Saul we are talking about.

Thank you for that, But at least you're thinking about

someone assault from the Bible?

Who else? Okay, let me ask the kids who else is?

Who is Saul? To you? Jet? Who is saw? Someone

who changed? I like that, someone someone who changed.

From bad to good woh good like can give bonus

points on it?

What else?

Who else? What else do you know about? Saul persecuted

the church? Okay, so we want to talk about bad guy.

Right.

So let's by the way, who would like the Saul

to be your church pastor anyone if that, if there's

a living Saul today, would you like him to be

your church master?

No? No, of course not. You know what he did?

No?

He went to the church. I say.

For example, he came to Premier Clang right, and then

he's like, okay, who who he will come in right now?

And he said, who are you? Who of you who

say that you believe in God, in Jesus? Come out

here right now and I will bring you to Clang prison,

cank God prison.

Now, don't have right? Okay? Then go to the balet pudu.

I don't know where. Do you know what? That's what

sold it? Right?

He went around to churches and he says, those of

you who are following the way, which is Jesus, I

will drag you into prison.

Okay. So if you don't believe me, you go to

act chapter eight. All right.

Act Chapter eight says that Saul was bringing people all

the way to prison.

That's how it started. In X chapter eight. Okay, I'm

gonna read that. Okay.

So before that he even consented to Stevens's death, the martyr.

Okay. Now Saul was concerning to his dad. This is

X chapter eight. And at that time.

A great persecution arose against the Church which was at Jerusalem,

and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea

and samar Accept the apostles, all right, And so this

is the start of the introduction of Saul in the Bible.

He came on the scene.

He was already saying yes to the Christian's death. All right,

let's move on to X Chapter nine. Exceptain are you there?

Ex? Chapter nine? All right? EX.

Chapter nine Versus one two four, Okay, I'm gonna read

that from the Word of God, okay, So verse one.

Then Saul, still breeding threats and murder against the disciples

of the Lord, went to the high Priest and asked

letters from him to the synagogues of the Mascus, so

that if he found any who were of the way

the way, whether men or women, he might bring them

bound to Jerusalem. Now this is this bound is bringing

them to prison. All right, So in in in what

do you call it? Cuffs?

Handcuffs? Verse three?

As he journeyed, he came near the maskers, and suddenly

a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell

to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul,

why are you persecuting me? Yeah, Saul, Saul, why are

you persecuting me? What is the first thing that you

capture from this first four verses? What do you think

is what is God trying to say to us from

the first four verses?

What do you think what is God saying? Now?

Do you do you believe that God knows everything that's happening?

Does he know that this Saul is coming against him

again his believers? And what was his response? What was

God's response to this guy called Saul? Okay, let me

put this way. If you were God, what would you

do to Saul? You would smash him?

What what? Punish him? Of course? Right? Logic and not logic.

Not if someone is destroying the work that you sent

your son to do, you would try and demolish this guy,

punish him or whatnot? But what did God do? He

pursued him? Did you see how God pursued his the

person that is the most anty God anti Jesus. By

the way, I have to say this that Saul was not.

Actually Saul was very zealous for God. He do you

know the reason why he was persecuting Jesus was because

he felt and he thought that Jesus was a fraud,

because he thought that they were turning the Jews away

from the way of the Jewish laws. And for him

is I am the righteous man, I need to uphold

the Jewish laws. He said that I'm the Pharisee of

the Pharisees. You know, anyone kept the law, I kept

all the law. He dared to say, anyone there to

say that one? I think none of us there to

say that, right, But he was so righteous. But I

have to keve it that by saying he was so

self righteous for the things of God that he could

miss the mark. So, friends, can I tell you that

you can be so zealous for the things of God,

doing everything that you think is right, doing everything that

you think is very Christian, and.

Still miss Jesus. Do you see that? So? So it's

not that he's like completely like a bad guy. He

was doing things for God. That's what he believed.

He's like I'm doing, I'm going all out to make

sure that God's name is not dishonored. Do you see

that he's coming from that place? So he's not really

a he's really owned for God. Okay, but he missed

the mark. And so, my, my, you know, my comfort

from this is it that Jesus wants to come and

correct that.

He is not. You know, you might as humans, right,

you might see this person a hopeless.

Hopeless, right, hopeless, useless, destroying my plans and my work.

But God had a better plan. God had a higher plan,

and you see the things right, God will pursue that one.

And that's why I'm sorry. I was very encouraged by

Korean's testimony. You know, she said that, yes, God pursued

even though it took some time. But that means friends,

everyone has a chance. Everyone has a chance. You know,

even the most anti Jesus friend that you have right now,

your most empty Jesus auntie, uncle, grandfather, grandmother, God is

still pursuing them. And God wants to use us. Yeah,

God wants to use as just as he used Saul

to change and transform lives.

Amen.

So so God is pursuing it. So catch can you

just catch Jesus heart? Yeah, So he went there and

says Saul, Saul, he called him by name, Why are

you persecuting me?

And then verse five is says this.

Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice

saying to him, Yeah, okay, we went there verse five,

and he said, who are you Lord?

Who are you? See? The thing is right?

Do you think that Saul didn't know about this name Jesus? Right,

So he was the one who persecuted everyone who followed

this Jesus. He knew of this guy, a prominent guy

named Jesus who went to the cross, died and rose again.

But he's like discouraging anyone else from following this because

they're distracting them from following.

The Jewish Jewish laws.

So, but God is saying to him, why are you

persecuting me?

And he said to him, who are you Lord?

Because can you imagine he was already on the ground, blinded,

and he knew that there was the higher powers that

was speaking to you. Isn't natural for you to certainly

lose your sight and here avoids booming who So, so,

why are you persecuting me? It's very unusual, and you know,

right this encounter, you know that it is something supernatural.

I wonder if you've had that encounter with Jesus yourself.

Have you asked yourself, have you had a personal encounter

with the Lord or Jesus was just an idea that

you hear from church every day? Do you know that

I'm working with this couple. You're a very young couple,

and so they are one thing to get into pre courtship.

So we're asking and all that, and they're like, they're

like each other fine, you know, And he said that

the boys, do you know I pray for twenty one

days during the U turn? Yeah, we just had our

U turn. And he said, but I didn't hear from

God at all, right, And as we went deeper, and

he's like, what does it mean to seek God? And

we discovered further on that actually he's like, I don't

have faith. Actually, this boy grows up in a godly family,

godly family, you know, his parents are God fearing parents,

and he was raised in church. He's about twenty plus

years old now, and he says, I don't know this faith.

He's found in church every Sunday, you know, every Sunday

for twenty one years, and he says, I don't know Jesus.

I don't know who he is. I don't know how

to hear from him. So I'm wondering, like a lama,

what happened?

Guys, what happened? He's like, I don't know. I never

met him.

So of course I was very concerned. But we said, okay,

let's journey together. Let's journey together to help you find

Jesus and encounter him for yourself. And so that's what

our young people are going through.

Right.

Do you know that if our young people cannot call

Jesus as their own lord, then that's a journey that

we need to pray for your parents' parents. Don't just

pray for good education, don't just pray for good health.

Pray that they encounter Jesus, that they know who Jesus

is for themselves, because you and I will not be

there for them all the way when they stand before God,

they will have to answer their own self. You can't

be there like, oh no, no, Jesus, this is my child,

you know. I let me tell you that's what he

did all as right, top of the class. No Jesus,

like no, no, no, paren, I push you aside. I'm

going to talk to my child. This is my child, right,

and so so I I begin to have this real

burden for our young people, real burden for our young people.

Not just our young people everyone lah, okay, that we

really need to know who Jesus is for ourselves. Don't

need to look to your husband, your wife and who

I don't know? La, ask God like, who are you

to me?

Actually? Who are you Jesus? And this is what exactly

saw us? Who are you Lord? He's asking this deep

question who are you really?

And by the way, can I tell you when I

when I when I when I first read it?

Right?

But he already called him lord? Does that mean that

he acknowledged him as lord? So what I discovered was

in the.

In the old times? Right? What when when.

You see this word lord, it actually could mean as sir,

who are you sir?

Who are you sir?

So it comes back to again, if you think this

Jesus is someone who is a good teacher or someone

very knowledge by somewhere powerful you, you would accord that

honor and respect. Right, But it does not mean that

it will change your life. Does not mean that God

will change your life. Okay, So let's move on, he says,

And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

It is hard for you to kick against the ghosts.

Do you know what this means? Anyone knows what it

means to kick against the goats?

What is the goat? Not the gum being? Okay?

So do you know that if you are farming and

you have cattle, right, if you raise cattle, you will

always put them to plow the land.

Yeah, So you want to plow the land? You want

it to go left? All right? Left? You wanted to

go straight? Can no?

Not?

Can we go straight? Don't want to go straight?

Out?

So you want to go left and right? Is it

only life? Okay, let's go to the life. Okay.

So right, you notice that your cattle is moving to

the right. What do you do and you wanted to

go to the left, what do you do as a farmer?

As a cattle owner? You will have this stick, And

at the end of a stick is a prick. Yeah,

And the moment you turn right, when you're supposed to

turn left, what does the farmer do? They will prick you.

You think it's cruel or not parents, you want to

have this device?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey parenting pool. Here parenting tip.

If your child goes to the left and you want

them to go to the right, right, you break them.

And this is the real too. Can you see that.

Is a rod with a sharp pointy thing, and it's proding.

Is it meant to hurt them? Is men to pop

their conscience so that they will turn to the left,

not to the right, but on the straight road.

Do you see, parents, how important your role is. Yeah.

It's not just to like do whatever you want, but

you are raising them in the ways of the Lord right,

and the ways of the Lord is not easy, you know,

because guess what we all like to go turn left,

to turn right, do our own things. And God is

saying this thing and this is the word of God

that will prick you, the word of God that will

prick you so that you will go straight. Now, why

is God saying this to Saul? Because it's in the

Roman and the Hebrew proverb. This is a proverb that

they use that time right. It says that it's understood

that if you do this, you're going against God's will.

As simple as that you're going again a divine going

against a divine will, and so it's like, so, why

are you trying to go against God's will? So he's saying, okay, okay, God, right,

and let's look at this respec.

Verseing.

So he trembling and astonished, said sir, what do you

want me to do? And the Lord said to him,

arise and go into the city and you will be

told what you must do. So it started with this encounter.

He lost his sight. Suddenly he was put in this

place where he's uncertain about what he believes in God,

what he believes in Jesus. And do you know our

response when we encounter Jesus is God, what do you

want me to do? Do you see that if you

encounter Jesus is saying God, what do you want me

to do?

Now, it's not God, what I will do for you? Yeah?

Hello, exclaim. It's very different from saying, God, you do

this for me, You do this for me. It's now

answering back and say, God, what do you want me

to do? Have you ever asked that question in all

your decision making? It's not so much God, I want

to do this for you. God, I want to do

that for you. But God, what do you want me

to do? That is a response? Okay, all right? So

do you know sometimes right when you encounter the word

of God, it will prick you most of the timeline,

Like when you're reading this right now, is it pricking you?

Is it like an ouch?

And that's simply because God wants to bring us back,

bring us back to what he wants, where he wants us.

Amen.

So the encounter led him to a deep place of search.

I want to encourage us to come to this place

where we wrestle with God. We wrestle with who we

think God is. We wrestle with our understanding of who

God is.

In our lives.

Don't just let God be? You know something in the Bible,

some a figment of you know, your philosophy, that He's

good on a Sunday but not every day?

Can I?

Can I encourage you just to think about it? That

have you come to this place where you have a

deep search, a deep you know, a wrestle. Really, God,

who are you? What do you mean to me? What

does it mean to call you my God? What does

it mean to call you my God? What do you

want me to do?

All right? And you look at verse nine verse nine.

Right, he says this, and he was three days without

sight and neither ate nor drink.

So so there's this place of darkness.

Do you know that three days or he had no sight,

he had no food, he had no water. How would

you feel that time anyone went through fasting three days

without food, without water?

Has anyone experienced that?

No? Oh, yes, sir, okay, in that place where you

empty yourself, do you see that when there is no

other things to see? This is a place of search,

like like you're really really going into this like wolfare

and going with God and just saying, God, what is

this that I'm struggling with? And I want this breakthrough.

I want this breakthrough of knowing who you are. And

Saul went through that. So Saul was being you know,

just now one of our one of the jets said,

it's Saul was a guy who transformed from bad to good. Right,

all of us need to go through a transformation.

Yeah.

Do you believe that all of us need to be transformed?

Because God loves you, but he loves you so much

that he doesn't want you to remain the way you are.

You cannot remain the same if you've been the same

for the last five years.

Then God has a plan for you. Ha ha.

He's gonna come and prick you because he says, you

cannot remain the same. You cannot say that you are

a follower of Jesus and still remain the way you

are true or not, because then there's no transformation. If

there's no transformation, then God has not shown his power

in your life.

Yeah.

And so soul went through this deep search, darkness, no food,

no water. But do you know that at the same time,

God was also transforming someone else.

Yeah, Okay, let's read in verse ten.

He says, now there was a certain disciple at Damascus

name Ananias, and to him the Lord said, in the

vision Annius. And he said, here I am Lord. So

Anonius good guy or bad guy?

Good guy? Bad guy?

Okay, good guy, good guy, good guy. But still got

wrong mindset. Let's see yah. And the Lord said to him,

arise and go to the street caught straight and inquire

at the house of Judas for one called soul of Passes.

For behold, he is praying, and in a vision he

has seen a man named Ananaius coming in and putting

his hand on him. So that he might receive his side.

Then what then I say yes, and I say that, yes,

a conversion a soul say for the Lord. No, this

is what Ananaia said. Then Ananaius answered, Lord, I've heard

from many about this man, how much harm he has

done to your saints in Jerusalem. And here he has

authority from the chief priest to bind all who call

on your name. But the Lord had to correct his mindset.

The Lord said to him, go, for he is a

chosen vessel of mind to bear my name before gentle

kings and the children of Israel. For I will show

him how many things he must suffer for my namesake. Wow,

what it sounds like a punishment? Alas says, yes, worse

than punishment. I recently learned this term. I don't know

whether you're understanding. It's called suffering for success, you know not? Okay,

it's a very gen z thing. I still don't know

what it means anyways. It's like you you taste success,

but then that suffering comes along with it.

Okay, I don't know.

I don't know that it doesn't matter low Okay, but okay,

this sounds like punishment, right, But do you know that

God was also changing mindset for Annius. Many times we

think that person, really, no, this is the worst guy ever,

And God is saying no, no, no, I have a

plan for this guy as well. Right, And so I

think for us right as disciples, and would you rather

be a soul or an anis?

Would you rather be a soul Annius? Annius? Of course, of.

Course you just have to go and tell the message

you're right, and then Saul can suffer for all of us.

I don't know what God has called us to do.

Some he will call us to be sauls some he

will call us to be Anonius. But whatever it is,

I think we just have to be obedient to His

call of our lives.

Amen. Yeah, are you still okay with me? Are you

sleeping ready?

Do you know every time I preach this message right,

this spirit of sleepiness comes in.

I want to rebuke that in Jesus name.

You know why, because I really think, right, sometimes, when

the word of God is really for us, when right,

there is a spiritual battle. There's a real spiritual battle,

and it's called the flesh. And that's the one that

stops us from really grappling with the word of God.

Okay, so, so do whatever you need to do.

Right, If you feel like I need to stand up

and stretch just to receive the world of God, do that.

I give you permission. I won't call you out, okay,

but but just just be ready in your spirit. Can

be ready in your spirit to just hear what God

is saying to us, what God.

Wants to say to us.

Okay, Now, the transformation happened for Ananias because at the

end of the day, right, this question, who are you

Jesus to me? Is not a transformation of the heart.

It's not a transformation of just what you do. It's

a transformation of your mind. Yes, what is this word

repent Okay, I'm gonna ask you this word repentance? What

what do you understand by the word repentance? What do

you understand by the word report?

So bright?

Right, that's why I don't want to stand up there

like you be staring at it so bright? What do

you understand by the word repentance? Change your direction so

that means I go If I want to go south,

then I needed to change direction to go north? Maybe yeah, yeah,

change of direction? And so what is God saying to

us when he calls us to repent, change, direction from

where to where, opposite of what, opposite of where you're going,

what you're thinking about? Yeah, so correct, correct, that's absolutely

correct because the word comes from this word meta meta noyo.

Okay, this word repentance.

If you read in your Bible, the English word is repentance,

but the Greek word is matter noo or meta noia.

And what it means what is meta mata is change?

Let me ask the children, what is the word that

you learn in school that starts with meta?

Have you learned meta? More not meta for meta?

Yeah, it's a science term meta meta morphosays what does

that mean?

Transform? Okay?

Transform of what? Transformation of what? A butterfly from a

caterpillar to her butterfly? Who wants to be a caterpillar?

Who wants to be butterfly? Nobody wants to be butterfly? Me?

Okay? If the girls or don't want to be butter flyer?

No?

Thank you? You who said no? Thank you? Oh yo? Okay?

The one parents in there have a talught with that.

Now see the metal morpho morphosis, right is changed?

But change or what change of form? You know?

Morph morph you are morphing into a form, a process

of development, of changing from one form which is a

larva or poopa two a butterfly.

Change.

Now, the word know yeah means a change of mindset.

Change of thinking, change.

Of perception, change of and understanding. So, when Jesus started

his ministry, what do you say, let me tell you

about the power of God. Did Jesus say that, let

me tell you about the king What did Jesus first

say when he started his ministry?

What is it?

Did you remember how Jesus started his ministry After he

was baptized, he came out, He's like, okay, tada, I'm

ready to do my work. What was the first thing

that he said to the people that he was preaching to.

God is good, God is love. God's gonna transform your life.

What did Jesus say, sorry? Before that? What is the

one word before that?

Before he said the Kingdom of God is at hand?

What was that one word that he said? Repent? Jesus's

first word. You think about it.

The first word that he was preaching to the crowd

was not that I am good or whatnot. He says repent.

So he's saying to the people, change your mind. There

is a changing of mind that needs to happen before

a changing of heart happens and then a change of life.

You know that your brain is the most powerful thing

if you think. Let me tell you something, Eh, how

many of you think exercise is good? How many of

you exercise?

Oh? Very good?

The same hand state because you believed it was good.

Therefore you you did it. The rest of us wo

never put our hands out. We don't believe exercise is good.

We believe exercise is good for our neighbor, not for us.

So like you go exercise, I don't need it. Do

you see how powerful your mind is. If you believe

in something, it will change how you live your life.

And so God started on the scene.

Jesus himself started on the stance, and he's saying, repent,

change your mind about the Kingdom of God. So I

think we all need to have this different perception of

who Jesus is.

Yeah. Change. He's not just your comforter, he's not just

a savior. But who he is?

Who is he really to all of us? Okay, do

you know the word repentance? I just want to say this.

It's not about feeling sorry. You have you felt sorry

about something like oh, yeah, I did that mistake. I

just felt guilty about it. I didn't do this, I

should have done that. You go into this guilt trip.

That's not repentance, by the way, that's not okay. It's

not saying that. Yeah, you know, I just say like sorry, La.

You know, I can't say sorry to you ten thousand times. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,

I kick you up.

It's sorry. Sorry.

Then I keep you again, it's sorry, sorry, Because why

Jesus say forgive seventy seven times? So so you just

keep forgiving Mela, can or not? But has there been

any repentance?

Why not?

Thank you for the honest answer. Why is there no repentance?

I'm saying sorry.

Exactly. No change.

You keep doing the same thing over and over again

and you expect a change. By the way, that's the

definition of someone's lunatic. Albert Einstein says that, right, if

you keep doing something the same thing over and over

again and expect a change, that's what you call insane.

So what are we doing in our lives?

Friends that if there's something that you're struggling with, are

you still doing the same thing? You're still going life

as routine and you expect change.

To happen.

Not gonna, not gonna happen, right, not gonna happen unless

there is a change in your perception, in your belief

of what is it that needs to change?

Okay, So it's.

It's not just can I tell you and and and

Max is quite right, right, It's it's turning your direction.

So if you're walking this way, you're walking in your habits,

you're walking in sin. It's not just turning away from it, right,

because I can just turn away.

Look at me, Ah, if I'm walking.

This way along sin, but I just turned away from

sin and I'm walking this direction now, it does not

mean that I'm walking in the direction of God. Do

you see that I can just turn away from my

bad habits. I can just turn away from alcohol. I

can just turn away from whatever it is. But if

I'm not turning to the right direction, which is to

what God that is not repentance, I might just try

and feel sorry about things, you know, try to do good.

But do you know that the only one that is

good is God? And so it's a turning.

It's a one eighty degrees change from your old lifestyle

to something that God is saying, Yes, this is the

way that you should walk. Yeah, walking towards Him and

away from.

Your old lifestyle, your old habit.

That's what it is, a change of heart, a change

of mind and direction.

Amen. So it is this change and transformation that I hunger.

You know, you're talking about revival our theme for church,

this year's revival. Right, This revival right needs to start

from a place of an encounter with who God is.

Because without the encounter, that won't be that deep search

of who God is. And without that there will not

be a true repentance, a transformation. And I want our

church to transform. I want all of us. I want

to transform. I want to transform. And you know what happens.

You know, sometimes we say you just gotta do this more,

you gotta do this more. It's not about doing more,

it's about being.

Yeah.

Sometimes we get so tired. Yeah, friends, church partners, you

get tired of doing. We get tired of doing because

it's coming out of external like, oh, my leader come

asks me to.

Do this, My home leader asks me to do this.

Da da da da da. Everyone asked me to do this,

My parents ask me to do this.

So you're just doing because there's all these external pressures.

But until you come to a place where it's an

innate internal change, then you will get tired. Do you

know what fires you is from within? The engine that

needs fuel is the fire of God comes into our hearts,

to our minds, and it feels us. Do you know

why people can do ministry for long without burnout? And

I'm speaking to real situations here. Sometimes we can give

and give and give, and we're like, I'm experiencing burnout,

and I want to minister to you and just say,

maybe it's time to refuel inside. Don't just serve externally

because you think that all these things that I need

to do is the right thing to do.

But there is no refueling. There is no fire.

There's no fuel in us, and that is the Holy

Spirit within us. You know why I say this, Let's

go to extrapter night and this is what Howard Saul

to become poor verse eighteen, verse eighteen, And this is

and the night. Yes, right, okay, let's read from verse seventeen.

After the prophetic suffering that was given over, saw Annius

went on his way and entered the house. He went obediently,

and laying his hands on him, he said, brother Saul, Wow,

from someone who said, do you.

Know this guy is really persecuting you? He actually turned.

Do you know that Ananias had to change your mind?

He called him brother. He knew that this guy was

on the same side as him. You know that this

is how reconciliation happens. People who are opposite you and

you're like, oh, we are totally disagreeing. But when you

obey the Lord, he changes us. And then he went

on him and said, brother, saw the Lord Jesus, who

appeared to you on the road as you came, has

sent me that you may receive your sight and be

filled with.

Ther be filled with holy spirit. And verse eighteen.

Immediately there fell from his eyes something like skills. And

he received his side at once, and he arose and

was baptized. And when he had received food, he was strengthened.

Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.

Now this is the fruit that we want, right and

this is the fruit, he says in verse twenty. Immediately

he preached the christ in the synagogues that he.

Is there, that he is who son of God. Do

you believe Jesus is the son of God?

Because if you believe that he is the son of God. Right,

do you know that there's nothing that you cannot do

in your life? It changes everything to how you look

at the challenges in your life, every situation, because you say,

my God is not just a good teacher.

He is He's the son of God. What does that

mean to you? Son of God, Son of God, Son

of God. Does he have all powers in the world?

I believe he does.

Does he have sovereign control over everything on earth?

He does?

Do you know how important for you to be able

to say, I believe that Jesus is not just God,

but he is the son of God. And he's not

just the son of God. He's my savior. And he's

not just my savior, he is my Lord. Do you

know you can call Jesus savior, but you don't call

him master. Being able to call him my lord means

you are subjected to his lordships. It's almost like a

slave and a master's sort of position. You know, Right,

when you can call Jesus you are my lord, it

means I'm waiting to serve you. I'm waiting to hear

what you say. Whatever you command, I will do. That

is a position of someone who can call Jesus you

are my Lord.

You are my Lord.

You're not just my provider, You're not just you know,

my ATM machine.

You are my Lord.

And therefore Saul became Paul because he understood he had

the answer to that question, who are you Lord? And

so I'm going to ask the team, the band to

come and I want to minister. I'm going to give

us a chance to respond to the Lord. There's two

calls here, okay. The first one is for those who

have not received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And

I want to tell you that this is crucial to

our lives as believers. If you you know of Jesus,

you know of God the Father, but you do not

know the Holy Spirit. That I want to give you

that invitation to say, I want to receive the Holy

Spirit because you know that without the Holy Spirit, you

can never fulfill your calling, your wark as a follow

of Jesus, you cannot be effective in your ministry. Do

you know Jesus himself was baptized with the Holy Spirit

the derve came upon him, So you thought Jesus was

just powerful. No, he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Okay,

So that's the first call. The first call is for

those who say, yes, I want to receive the Holy

spapit and the rest of us, can we just be

praying and expecting for the move of God. Be expecting

for the move the Holy Spirit. Children, if you feel

that you also want to receive the baptism, come.

Okay.

This is for everyone, It's not just for adults. The

second call is this. I believe there are some of

us who need to come to a place of repentance.

And when I say repentance, it's not just feeling sorry

for sin, but it's coming to this place where you're

repenting of the way that you have seen God in

your life, the way you have treated Him, the way you.

Have believed and perceived about Him. Who is have you?

Has he been reduced in your mind? Or does that

need to be a repentance, a change in your mind

about who God truly is in your life? And so

I'm gonna open the altar. I'm just gonna put this aside,

and I'm gonna ask all of us to stand. All

of us can stand. There is no shame in repentance.

You know.

I remember the story in Look that.

Says there was a pharisee and a text collector that

came to the temple. And the pharisee came before the

Lord and said, I thank God.

You know that I'm a good person.

I gave my thighs and you know, yeah, I serve God.

You know, I'm pretty okay, God, thank you.

He came with that kind of attitude.

And there behind him, just at the outer courts, I

was a text collector.

And he came in.

He was beating his chest. He did not even lift

up his eyes. He says, God, forgive me, for I

am a sinner.

Forgive me. I do not deserve this.

And Jesus said it was the man who was beating

his chest and saying, God, I repent.

I repent.

I am a sinner, and that's why I need a savior.

And he went home justified, not the pharisee. So we

don't want to be Pharisee said, we don't want to

have the attitude of a pharisee thinking I'm okay, I'm

not that bad.

You know my life has been I'm a pretty good person.

And so.

We want to come to this place of just saying God,

I repent. It doesn't have to be an emotional thing.

It's just a decision that you make. I'm changing my mind.

I'm going to call you my Lord. I'm calling you

my savior. I'm calling you the Son of God. That's

who you are in my life.

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