12+1 Core Values: Word Faithful | Pr Sandra Chin

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Today we're gonna talk about word faithful, all right. Core

value number four is word faithful. And in order to

bring the idea of word faithful, I had these two

pictures for you, like okay, and then we probably want

to come back to these two pictures later when we

talk about it. What makes a building stand? What makes

a building go down? You know the the Highland Towers

back in nineteen ninety two. I was still working then

corporate and but it happened in nineteen ninety two December

December ninety four, ninety five, so December, and it really collapsed.

I think we could sent it I wooking kl so

so can't feel or whatever. I don't know. And it's

a it's a condo, right, three condos and this one.

And I have to say my in law, my my

father in law's oldest brother lived on tower in Tower too,

and he practically saw.

The building drop like that. And he has a heart problem.

So to to come here here, to slowly walk down here,

to slowly walk.

Down to get to his car to get away.

Unfortunately, his BMW was smashed with that building tumbling down,

so I think a bit scary for him, but he

was not affected. However, that his whole apartment, that that

whole building was tilted. Yeah, so they had to move.

Nobody could live in this highland tower anymore. You can

see it if you drive along Jalan unpunk Uh this

book it Antarabangsa up. You can see these abandoned two

buildings there. And only about two weeks ago the Veritas

Group architect group gave a report on this that it

will be now fully removed.

Right, they're going to bring it down. And we were

hearing the.

Reports of what happened and will this happen again, And

according to this architect, top architect, he said, this should

never ever have it should not have happened and will

not happen even though you build houses on the hillside

because there are measures now taken there and these measures

should have been taken anyway, So human error, building error.

But he says, you can build houses on hillsides, there

is the signs towards it, there's the engineering towards it,

and that it shouldn't happen, and people still build houses

and there's a way to build it, Okay, So just

keep your mind on the Twin Towers. And we're all

shopping there here and there, visiting, right, playing the wather,

taking friends to site. See, we're so proud, I'm so

proud the Twin to always bring our guests and then

we take photos with them there because it is a real,

real monument. Right, it's such an amazing site. But to

get to the Twin Towers, to be where it looks,

there has to be some work done.

We'll come back to that. And we're talking about word

faithful today. Amen.

Our part of our twelve plus one core values of

how ex Church has been planted and develop and growing

is this point of being word faithful. In Acts chapter

two and verse forty two. You can turn to Acts

chapter two, verse forty two, and it says here Acts

Chapter two, verse forty two. It says, and they continued

steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship.

In the breaking of bread and in dress. Amen. Amen.

So we first started with number one US Holy Spirit,

spirit filled, second US Christ centered, third US Kingdom minder.

We want to have a We want a God has

restored us to sonship so that we can be the

disciples who share the kingdom and think about the work

of God.

And today is the word faithful? All right?

And according to X chapter two, verse forty two, it

says that when the first Church, the early Church, was birth,

this is what happened. They continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine,

which is the teachings of Christ. Amen, all right, you're

too quiet for me. All right, you get me, and

that's it. My husband tell you, don't do this.

Andra, No, I'm sorry.

I'm born again and I believe I'm alive when I

celebrate God's Word, I'm alife.

God's Word is living. Are you living? Come on?

Come on, come on, come on, come on. I cannot

help it. I did not come to a cemetery. I

came to a church. I want my young people to

know that this church is alive. Come on, adults, are

you all children as well?

Come on?

Come on, the Word of God is living. This is

part of my point here. Jesus is alive. So wake

up and get ready. You just had a powerful time

worship in sense the Holy Spirit.

Now's word time.

You're going to celebrate the Word. Oh come, I'm going

to celebrate God's Word.

Amen.

And they continue steadfastly in the doctrine of the apostles,

which is.

The Word of God. Amen. So, so you know, the

Word of God is where we are founded on. If

we don't.

Teach you the Bible, if this church stops teaching you

the Bible, then.

This church is in trouble. If I'm just talking about.

My own opinions, you should just say, Lord help her, yeah,

and pray for us.

But no, we must always come back to the Word. Amen.

And we cannot do without the Word, because this is

the whole foundation of the church, the Word. So I

have a point there, the Word of God. This is

es central in the life of a Christian. Amen. Central central.

And the first thing we say is unshakable.

Amen.

God's word is unshakable. Matthew twenty four thirty five. Matthew

twenty four thirty five. Is in your notebook, you know,

heaven and earth shall pass away, Jesus says, by my

word will remain by a bite. Amen, Praise the Lord.

His word, by no means will pass away. So maybe

we might say a lot of things. I don't know

why this and that. I don't know whether this is

Jesus do whatever are you're disbuilding this house.

This, all of this will pass.

But the word of God that has been spoken, has

been taught to us, will not pass away.

Amen, will not pass away. It's a living word. Amen.

And so I move on very quickly. It's not that

you don't know this.

You know this, but we're just establishing the word of

God is unshakeable.

Amen. Number two, Jesus is the living world. Amen. Hallelujah.

Jesus is the living world.

It's not our pet dog, all right, bunny rabbit.

No, the living word is Jesus.

Amen.

And you read that in John, isn't it in first John?

In John chapter one? I lost my John? All right

with John? John, come out all right? It's John chapter one.

I Yeah. In the beginning was the word, and the

word was with God, and the word was God. And

then the word became flesh whoa, and he dwelt among us,

and we beheld his glory, the glorious of the only

begotten of the Father. Jesus was full of grace and truth.

Amen.

So the word is living because Jesus is the living word.

Amen. And that's who's living in you, the word of God. Amen.

I think we we are so forgetful. We have to

encourage each other. Hey, Puss, even Jesus is living in you.

He's a living word.

Amen. And we forget that He's a living word and

we live like we did ham On. Yeah, I know,

someone I also forget that every time you can, Yo.

But no, Jesus is the living Word.

That's why you know our faith in him is unshakeable.

Amen. As long as we anchor more more than anything

in Jesus. Amen.

And of course he's the Word of God. Is the living,

is living and powerful.

Amen.

How you know we might not have uh, we might

not be let a kungfun in jails with the with

the sword, but.

We have the sword right. The living Word is powerful. Amen.

Yeah. How I think we have to get a bit

more illustrative sometimes because God's word is living and powerful.

This is the sword of the Spirit. Amen. And Hebrews

four twelve, Hebrews four twelves is the Word of God

is living. Amen.

It's the reminder to all of us that the Word

of God is living, is powerful.

Amen. And it's shopherd than any two edged sword.

It pierces between even the division of soul and spirit

joints and marrows, and it discerns the thoughts and intents

of our hearts.

Only God's word.

Nah, I tell you, every time you and I read

God's Word, that's what happens. This sword, this word is

like a double aged sword. You know, most thods are

what most words are like. But this is okay. So

it's double agent sword, all right, two sides of the sword.

And that's why sometimes people are scared to read the

Bible because you know, but then again, all right, because

it's a double aged sword.

It discerns our hearts.

I want to tell you every time you read God's

so it's not just you reading one way. It also

speaks back to us, and it discerns our hearts. No

one can discern your heart, no one. No, not your wife,

not your beloved husband, no one.

Only the spirit of God.

And that's why the word of God's living, because the

spirit of God is in the living Word. It's not

just a printed Bible. It's truly God's Word, all right.

And and and and I want to tell you that

if you if you didn't already know, but this is

a living, living word. It's how do I say it?

I heard a testimony of this great preacher called Derek Prince.

The older generation might know of him, or you might

see it on YouTube. You know, Derek Prince, before he

became a Christian wasn't a believer.

He had a sickness.

He worked in he was in the army and a

British army, and then when he came out, I think

he was very very ill, very sick.

Nothing could be done, probably dying, and.

He had a visitation, I think, an encounter of God,

and the only thing that he could do was to

read God's word. Would you believe it? He read it

cover to cover and the word of God healed him,

healed him.

I believe it.

I believe it if we would only just because there

was nothing else for him already nothing, so what could

be was there to lose?

Right?

Readler, although he was so unbelieving, and as he read

cover to cover, he shed this testimony that the healing

in his body began to take place and he became well.

He became a great preacher. He's a great teacher of

the world. You can google him on YouTube online.

You get a lot of his messages.

I think I had the privilege many years ago in

our church, our home church, I think he came once

maybe uh, and very powerful preacher, teacher. The word of

God healed him personally. I've experienced that when I had

assists in my ovary and the doctor said, I don't

know a lot of seas. I'm like, can a child

of God known for us, not a Christian? And I said,

he said, okay, get you go back one month, don't

know how many months, and then come back and we

check again.

And I said, Lord, this can't be. I'm your child.

I cannot have any of these things.

So every day I would take the word of God

and declare over my life, over my body, because it's

not just a piece of flesh. It's a living body

that can hear the word of God. Now speak into

my womb, speak into my ovaries, and say, hey, sis

out you go in Jesus name, Salah packing. No pucking

any Salah packing. It's not the right pucking place. Fuck

yourself out of my body. It's not men to be here.

By the stripes of Jesus, I'm healed. And for a

woman to have a cist over it, it's really it's

just bad news, la, all right. And I'm like the

woman with the issue of blad every day bleeding. Okay, sorry, man,

but you know it's just not fun. Not life is tough,

and many women go through this. I say, God, I'm

gonna claim that. Promise you heal that woman with the

issue of blood. As I read God's spoken to my body,

I can only testify after some years. It wasn't immediate,

but over time. Just what day I realize it's gone.

It's gone.

And then I told the doctor and he said, m m, yeah,

it's gone. And then the cis had gone as well.

The first one was that sis it this gone? After that, yeah,

then the bleeding stopped, but it came back again. So

now mind claim again. And then he said, so why

you came. I just wanted to, you know, check.

And I'll still pray. And now went back to him

because Good Lord healed me. Amen.

So honestly God's word, even declaration. Reading it and don't

read it with your eyes, read it with your voice,

speak into it. Read it louder than so that your

ears can hear, and then your spirit can hear and

your body can hear because it's living. Believe us, the

beloved of the Lord in this room. The word of

God is living. It's not just a book that you're looking.

At words, it's living word.

It's Jesus came in the flesh, he walked with us,

and now he gave us the Holy Spirit, our helper.

He helps us and got revealsed to us. That's why

double it just thought. While we can go this way,

it can also gone back this way. Cut all the

fat Amen, Yes, I wish, and all the misterial facts God,

and now we lost all our facts, right muscle, And

so we want to build that spiritual muscle because God's

word is living. And then it's Jesus who is the

word speaking to us.

Amen, Praise God.

So it is so central for our lives. Hallelujah. It

cannot be anything else. Friends, We need to anchor into

our Jesus, who is the Word that was made flesh.

No matter what you go.

Through, Grand sisters, the love of the Lord, go back

to the Word of God. Anything you're going through, go

back to the Word of God.

It is relevant.

And many times people say it's not relevant. It's an

old book, it's something gone and dead.

No, it's a life. It's living.

Amen. And I tell you, until you fully experience it,

you may not believe what I'm saying until you fully

this Bible. You know, as a sixteen year old, seventeen

year old reading the New Testament cover to cover, chapter

from the Gospels, from the Book of First Book Matthew,

all the way to the Book of Revelation as I

read it as a teenager, the Lord just cleansed my

life and set me on a path to walk with him.

Did I have my ups and downs?

I did? Did I fail?

Yes? You know I liked my mom. That kind of

story and all that. Right, a teenager, you go through that.

But the Word of God was established to that and

could always come back to God's word.

Can I hear an amen? You can always come.

Back to God's word. It's unshakable. If there's anything in

your life that's shakable, friends, turn your eyes back to

the living Word of God again. It is Jesus Amen,

God's word that you plan in your heart, Read, memorize scripture.

Allow God's word to work in us. It is unshakeable.

You are faith. It will be also unshakeable even in

the midst of the tsunamis of our lives, even the

real buildings sunami will wake and beat it up. Right,

But the spiritual tsunamis are very heavy on our lives.

Many hardships will come and we cannot feel we cannot

go through it. But it's the Word of God that

sustains us. Brand sisters, Really, really, it's really that there

will be a lot of hard times we might go through.

Then why does the Word says they concentrated on the teaching,

the doctrine of the apostles, the teaching. So these are

Jesus is teaching to us?

Amen? All right, are we good?

So in your I know you want to write notes,

Maybe you can, maybe you can't. So I just put

their word of God first, one unshakable, but it is Jesus,

the living word, followed because he's the living word. Third

point that it's the Word of God is living and

powerful because it's like a double edged sword. You one

healing your body, it will it will bring that healing.

Amen.

If you're dealing with issues of the heart, the intents

of our heart, it also only the Word of God

can search our hearts and tell us the truth.

Friends.

If we are going through jealousy, word of God will

discern it. If we're going through pain and offenses, the

Word of God will also discern if we have been

hurt and broken. Also the word of God discerns it

and brings healing or brings correction, meaning hey, do something

about it. This is the powerful, living word of God.

There's no other word, no other Bible, not no other

book but the Bible. This is the Word of God.

Amen. Now point number.

Two on your notes if you're taking notes. Yeah, sorry, yeah,

there's a point there, but I think I'll bring it

in later. Yes, no, yes, I Also one thing we

realize about the Lord is in some one three eight

in your notes book verse two.

No, we think, oh, the name of God, no name of.

Jesus, very powerful. But guess what, the Lord magnified his

word above his name. So so his name is great

ready right in the name of Jesus be healed, powerful, Right,

But the Lord magnified his word above his name. Mean

his word is eternally there for us is the name.

The word is above his name. There is God himself

magnified his word above his name. So I don't know

how to emphasize us that there is such strength and

power such you know, come such a summit of like

number one word of God God. So why are we

word faithful because God thinks his word is faithful.

Is important. Amen.

So then we come to the next point. We talked

about two parts of being word faithful. And we've read

this many times. Don't you always here, hey, don't me

just hear as la be do words?

Okay? All right?

And you and you hear that in James chapter one,

verse twenty two, twenty five, and you can read that's

also in the notebook, so that at least you can

read it.

So he says, yeah, but be doers of the.

Word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. Or if anyone

is a hero of the word and not a doer,

he's like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.

He observes himself, goes away and immediately forgets what kind

of man he was.

But he looks into.

The perfect law of liberty and continues in it. And

he's not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word.

This one will be released in.

What he does. Now, let's break it down. Number one,

at least be a heroller. Okay, you say, I cannot

do okay herella here cannot can hear an of us?

At least hear the word of God. Amen, hear what

the word of God? At least be a hearer. Hello,

All right, let's at least hear the word of God,

and and and and and you know, never never run

away from it, at least here so that when you hear,

you get a glimance of who the Lord is and

what he's saying to us.

Amen.

And and as we hear, we are because every time you

open your ear gate, you're hearing a lot of news. Anyway,

you're getting a lot of information every day at your workplace,

your family. Now people speak over your life. You know,

last time, say you you call your son some wrong name, right,

those days, those there's a you know, I'm a Cantonese, right,

So we call these names sometimes you know, uh, now

they name the child or so like that. You know.

But but we don't want to speak that over our

like oh your death or your your dog nolah.

We have a name so important name our children well, right, So,

so the word right is.

So important to hear because you want to hear the

word of life. So at least hear the word of life.

So many negative words are spoken over us, and we

also sometimes hear negative things about our own country.

Our Malaysias are gna. And it's only the Malayians who

say that.

Nobody else right, everybody else thinks our country is divine,

you know because like all the best food right, oh

to tower, us best beaches whatever?

Right, so good?

Right, But we are the ones who will say who

when we hear negative, we also live negative. But we

want to hear what the word of God says to us,

and not just words of men. Many times we are

we are so pressured to hear the world's words, what

they think we should do, how we should live, how

you should you know, practice your marriage or your job,

or your career or whatever. Right, So we are whose

word are we hearing? So what we want to at

least encourage is at least hear the word. Don't be

of hearing the word of God, although I know many

people are tet of hearing the word of God. Gone,

yes so again, come on always talking here? So no

I have to sorely because yes, so is living and

he's our life.

Amen. Sorry, I gone yeah so all the time?

Are you? But because that's all I've experienced that has

given me life.

Amen? So the world will always attack the word of God.

The world will attack and blame and say this is wrong,

this and that, this and that, And then if you

are we are in the world, but not of the world.

And then you are so caught up right because I'm

asking you, who are you listening.

To all the gurus, ted talks, all these talks.

You're listening to all these good stuff to the point

that you might just put aside God's word. And then

then you you're hearing all the financial gurus, and you know.

How to do your business well, how to live well?

Mental wellness, So many mental wellness talks these days. How

to make more money, faster and quicker? Are you so

many things? How do you know?

Love better? Eat better? You know, exercise better. It's all

about you.

It's all about your body and that you just want

to look great.

But friends, you're rotting inside. You are rotting inside.

I'm rotting inside because we're not putting the real food.

This is the word.

That at least healer, I mean you say, are you

were hard to do? Heala here and then let the

Holy Spirit work in us changes, he transforms us. How

do we get transformed? Not by transformer, Captain Marvel whatever,

It's a word of God. But so few of so

many God's children don't read the word. We don't. That

is the truth. That is the truth.

I'm not condemning you.

I'm saying me too sometimes like but we have to

try to really put discipline.

And you know, if this is my lover, what I mean,

my lover. So I have to read the world from

the love of my soul. I was reading from my boyfriend, right,

our boyfriend.

You know, boyfriend?

Why are you no boyfriend?

Okay, all right, No, this Jesus is the one whose

love of your soul?

Do you need this?

You read this so that you know how loved you are,

how much beautiful pants you are? Who are you listening to?

And and I know it's tough. That's why we don't

make time. Because you say I's borrowing so dry. I

can't read Levetic because I'm dead so hard.

Then you read the math?

You be God, be God, We God be good? Be

got you know so hard? And we can and you see,

you can you see the point because it is life.

We are hindered all the time because it is true.

The more it is true, the devil will make a

hindrance for you.

And then we will keep saying it's boring, it's dry. O. Man,

it's like so yesterday. I'm so done right, so yesterday. No,

it's a today word for you.

It's living.

I'm still living, friends, right, and I met Jesus forty

over years ago. He's still the same word, and I'm

still here.

It's in.

I'm still running. The favor stepped out of the grave

and I'm still running. Because he's just so good. Come on,

He's better than Durienne go one, is better than the

good Diver ice cream.

Come on, come on, He's just so good. Yeah, so

long as we come our restaurants so good, right, like,

oh that candy is so good? All right, he's so good.

He's just that good.

Can't beat it. Better than my nasillama, Oh my non yak.

He's just so good because he's living. Amen.

And therefore here because you are going to get a

lot of voices coming around you. How to be word faithful,

hear the word of God. Then number two is we

do the word of God, faithful to God's word, to

do God's work. What do you mean by do God's word? Bro?

Don't know.

Well, if you look in a mirror and you see

a spot there.

What you do? You clean it. That's why I don't

wear makeup because I'm just touching my face and all

the makeup is gone. So when you're looking your face

a mirror and they're like, oh, there's a spot, and

then you spot it off right.

So God's words like a mirror.

When you read it, it reflects this is this is

who you you ought to be. And then you go, yeah, man,

I was so rude my mom yesterday. I need to

go say sorry. But then you say, yeah, I was so.

Rude my mom. Neh, walk over.

And then then you're like use lasla right you you here,

and then you go like, I can't do it, can't

touch this.

Then you walk away.

But now it's sayings like that mirror, if it shows up,

you sure clean one, ma, unless you really don't clean

your face, like I'm sorry. It's like a mirror and

you see it and you go like, yeah, shucks, I

gotta clean it up.

I gotta clean my face. I gotta get my act together.

Amen. And so that's why James says be a doer

of God's word. And when we hear God's word, the

hearing also is because you are reading you are hearing,

and then as you hear God's word, you go like, wow, okay,

I need to help that person. That person is not

very liked by others. But the Lord is saying go

to that person and help him, because not many people

will help him or do something right. Maybe a lot

of things is just reflecting who we aren't and we

all have different struggles. We all have different challenges, but

we want to be able to hear the word and

then take steps to do it. Faithful, be faithful to

God's word. Amen, all right? And then I'm going quickly

because these are things you know you got pasta I know, yay,

all right, hey, so good do it? All right, let's

all do it. Let's all bear the fruit of the spirit.

All right, somebody slap you slap them?

No, don't slap that bag. You're like, I dare you?

All right?

Well, humility like, okay, sorry, I don't do it again.

But yeah, we want to be the hearer and a doer. Thirdly,

very important is the world is the third point on

your notebot, is the word is an anchor in a

changing world. Come on, the Word of God is an

anchor in a changing world. Amen.

So the world is moving very quickly.

Uh. I don't know if you're a university if you

heard this or I said, I think I'm not sure

ever spoken. It's a vukah world. It's just volatile. It's

constantly changing, you know, things happening so fast. Today it's

this AI program tomorrow like holyz, Like I can't catch

up with the AI stuff that's happening, web based whatever.

And then I have to learn it because I'm a

teacher now. So they asked me to create something with

that thing just yesterday, and I told the team, guys,

you play with it. I pay, but you have to try, Okay,

you know, prompt it rightly. But then there's another one

coming up, alumna, I see how to learn all one shot? Right,

world is changing good things and also the things that

challenge us, and the world will challenge you, will challenge

God's word all the time. I'll tell you what it's

like to be challenged right, uh, because because if you

stand on God's then you know those truths like what

is important, Like there are a lot of things that

the world will say like abortion is okay. It's so

where's your routing is okay? Then what's your where do

you hold on this shift shifting sand? Do you want

to live your life in shifting sand all the time?

Bortion is okay, it's just an egg. Is it really okay?

Nobody gets hurt? Yes, you do emotionally. The one who

got that abortion will be emotionally traumatized or have pain.

LGBT is okay. It's not my stand friends, it's the

word love the person, but not the action. God loves

the person, not naturally the actions. What else that shifts?

Maybe marriage and divorce. Divorce is okay, No, it's not okay.

People get hurt. Our children get hurt the most. Oh,

there's no such thing as creation. If we were all

from apes our cousins, well, good on you if you

like them to be your cousins. But God has a

word on creation, science and the solar system. If you

think it's just the big bang, fury, good on you.

But there's a Bible here that tells me how who

made it? On your health and your wellness. Bible also

tells you how to God your health. The word of

God is stable and is trustworthy, right, And that's what

I have there.

It is stable and it is trustworthy. Amen.

Why do I say that because things are going to change.

A lot of things are going to The voices in

this world will tell you this is how to raise

your kid.

You won't believe. But the Bible already tells you how

to raise your kid. If you want to read it,

it's there. It's stable, it's trustworthy.

Psalms one, chapter one, verse one to three says this,

Why is his stable and trustworthy?

Right? So he says, yeah, are you do you want

to be blessed? Yeah, so blessed are you?

The man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,

not stands in the path of sinners, not sits in

the seat of the scornful people who laugh at God's word.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,

and his law he meditates day and night, day and night.

And some people go like, I'm so done. Don't be done.

Don't be a cake and be done done.

Oh, come on, don't be a big cake, be a

living vessel.

You won't be done. So done. Stop saying that, all right? Speakin?

I someone tell me I'm so done. I'm so done.

I'm like I wanted to say, why are you so done?

Don't be done?

Let's get through this by conveyisations and prayer and forgiveness.

I say it, I'm so done. Okay, nobody send this

message anywhere.

It's not regarded all right, don't be so done. It's

very rude to say it's I'm so done. It's meaning

if you hurt me and I'm so done with you Vic.

But then I'm like, I'm holding a grudge against him,

I'm so done, like.

And walking out.

You have not given the other person a chance. You've

not given yourself a chance the world. God tells us

how to live. When you read it and you go like,

oh man, I have to forgive.

Shucks, no fun. No, it's it gives you health bitterness.

If you keep it forever and ever, you will get

a cancer in your heart, a real cancer, or if not,

a spiritual cancer.

People don't know that Bible tells.

Us to be well is to keep your heart like

a well spring, always flowing with fresh water and good thoughts,

according to God's word.

So your delight is in the law of the Lord,

and your and his law. You meditate there and night.

I can't say I'm meditating as in memorizing versus I'm not.

I try I have a few I pull out now

and then all right, But the delight.

Is to Meditaylor.

Like some people like chewing gum right now, chewing gum, No,

you gotta chew the word of God. To like this meaning,

you take a verse and you keep saying it until

you can memorize it, and then it gets planted into

your spirit. Man, and then one day you need it,

it pops up the Holy spirit. Draw it out and

remember this word of God. Amen, and wise, it's stable,

it's trustworthy because it goes on to say, you will

be like a tree planted by the rivers of water.

You're gonna have fruit, and your leaves will always be

you know, green, and whatever you do.

You prosper. Amen. We all want to prosper.

And how by meditating on the word of God, it

is stable, it is trustworthy. And I like someone one nine,

someone one nine and verse eighty nine it says that

your word is established right forever, your forever, Oh Lord,

your word is settled in heaven. Amen. Its settled means

it is stable. It's not going to move. God's word

is settled. If this is the word that is spoken,

it will not change, it will not move. When God

says I love you, it is settled. No matter Okay,

you want to try and make God not love you.

You try, you try, but his word is settled. He

says I love you with an everlasting love. In scripture,

no matter how you try to make God not love you,

there's one tough cookie there.

He will love you.

He will forgive you when you ask him to. If

you try so hard to just stay away from the Lord,

he will still draw you with his cords of loving kindness.

He sends people to you.

He comes and blesses you, And maybe you still can't

see that it's God's blessing. You just can't see it.

But that thing that you're in, it will never happen

if it was not a divine intervention God moving in there.

Amen.

So he's stable, he's trustworthy. If ever you feel shaken,

are you're my bosses? You know they're doing restructuring, a

lot of reorc now in a lot of companies.

If you're if you're in those type.

Of companies, you're always reorganizing, reorganizing. Do they think like

he's like dominoes or like chess? Right, and people lose

their jobs and they're so unstable. That's when you say no,

God's word is said good in heaven. I'm in him.

I will then on his word. God, you just have

to help me. You don't have to make away from me. Lord,

you are the stable one. I trust you. Second, another

point about when things are, when the world is changing,

when things around is it changing? Why is it an

anchor for us? Because this is also important for us.

He keeps the word of God keeps us from falling.

I use the word falling because I didn't want to

say sinning something you say. You say, I see, no,

I'm not saying you sein, but it's true. It keeps

us from falling into sin. Anyone can give me someone

one ninet eleven. Anyone knows this worse. Yeah, yeah, thank you,

Thanks Wesley. Your word I have hidden in my heart

that I might not sin against you.

Your word.

I have hidden in my heart hidden your word. Another

version hidden is your word. I have treasured. I have treasure.

Do you treasure?

And a lot of things we treasure right in our hearts,

so many things like the people you love, you treasure them,

You me and my leg who say pot, I treasure

my bod So I won't lend it to you.

You know, in treasure a lot of things.

But this person says, your word, God, your word, I've

hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you,

King David. When I mean this is David writing this

Psalm one one nine, He said, I hide your word

in my heart so that I don't sin against your friends.

If you want a way to overcome.

Sin, Bible the meditation of God's word, memorizing, keeping it

in our hearts, living it. It helps us from falling.

It keeps us because why He's an the anchor of

our faith. Amen, and we go to this.

See, sometimes we do things that when we sin, we.

Knew we shouldn't have. Why you knew because conviction comes.

The Holy Speak convicts us, not condemns us, but convicts us.

I knew our And you know this story. I think

I told you a hundred times or you heard it

over time as you grew up with us. I sin.

I liked to my mom right about dating this guy

and uh not dating going out with this guy and

went to see the movie during school day form six

right nineteen years old. I'm a big girl. Mom.

Oh so done.

That's not a stick mom, Like no you cannot avoid me.

Why so you how does the word of God keep

me from falling?

Well, I fell, all right.

I went out and I didn't and I liked to her,

and then she.

Found out okay. But then I knew also it was

not the right thing.

But I chose not to hear it. But did the

word speak? He did? I just chose to like deafen

my ear. But did the word God speak? Yes? Because

I had hidden God's word in my heart, I have

the conviction I just.

Like I wanted my own thing. Just let me.

It's not wrong. I'm nineteen. It's wrong when your parents

say no, it's okay. When they say yes, right, they say, oh,

my parent, No.

The word of God.

Keeps this very powerful bransistess. If you like you're thinking,

how will I overcome sin? How I'm so near to it?

Every you know, there's there's all these things in my face.

How do you overcome it? You need to keep God.

So you need to treasure in it. Treasure means while

you read a verse, you memorize it like you chew it,

and you swallow it and you keep it in your spirit.

So then there's this conviction that comes and it stops you.

Because his word stops you. It reminds you how much

he loves you and that he can make away for you.

But I think we don't keep his word enough. We

don't hide God's word. You will hide your money. You'll

have a safe in your house, and you hide all

your money like that, right, you keep your You hide

your money so that nobody will see it. So that

you have money. You'll hide your part because you don't

want anyone.

To use it.

Right, you hide the corkeys. You don't want your sixteen

year old son to drive your car. Right, you hide

it like that.

Lah.

You have to hide God's words so that it can

help you and it can save you, to keep you

from falling. I don't know how else I've been through that.

It keeps me from falling things that I might have

walked into. And I know, and God says, no, it's

not good for you, because I have loved you with

an everlasting love, or the Lord remind me, but my

plans for you are like the sand on the sea

shore as so many thoughts for you, Sandro, don't walk

into that that you think is the best way, but

it's not. By plans for you are really good. And

then you go like, Okay, I'm not going to that

thing that I might fall and you know, really free fallen.

But still God catches me. However, I would have had to,

you know, move out of his plans for a little while.

So friends, the word of God is an anchor in

a changing world. Many things are going to change. Our

jobs are going to be changing. You know, the price

of fuel, greeps going up and down, that's changing. What

else is changing? Suddenly it's COVID tomorrow, don't have? Then

something else comes out? Right, food looks like there might

be a food shortage.

Who knows what. The other day I read I heard

they say you're gonna have no not enough water?

Please say what the you know you I hear my

you know, play watching my free flow. But then they

tell you what They're going to be a shortage? Right,

and then there are other things. A lot of things

evolve around ourselves. A lot of things is evolving around ourselves.

We haven't thought about what God is thinking about for

us and for the next doorn neighbor, for whatever God

he wants to speak to you, Because we can be

a beautiful world if we had the thoughts of God

then we would know how to help each other again.

I'm also learning, not speaking at you and together.

I want to learn with you as well.

We're reminding that we want to be faithful to the

word of God.

Amen, it will stand.

You can trust God's word in the time when you

are shaken, times when you're also And I also know

people who are stuck. You know, they're just stuck. They're

just stuck in a situation. That's Oh, how passa is

taking so long? I know, I know, I don't know

why you're taking so why that situation is taking forever?

But could you just hold on to the word of

God that says that you know he never leaves you

nor forsakes you, that his thoughts are higher and his

ways are higher. And you're like, yeah, past is taking forever.

I say, I can't ask you to take another route

because another route would mean it's a wider road and

it leads you to eternal death. You need to stay

in the narrow road for a little while more. I

know it's tough. You haven't seen the breakthrough, you haven't

seen it. But can I say that his ways really

are still higher, his thoughts are still higher than yours?

And can you find a little you know, the hands

and grettel bread, can you still see leading you to

something still although it's small, not the big one Yet,

I have my own challenges to friends, and I'm still

having to look at those little bread that leads me

to some hope or whatever that circumstance could be. It

really God's word. Hide it in your heart so that

it reminds you that He's still good.

He's just that good. And I'm not just singing a song.

I know He's just that good.

Amen. Thirdly, we need to stand on eternal truth. This

is where that that thoughts I said to you many

thoughts will come.

Is abortion right? Is it not right?

I'll go ahead, just you know, take your It's just

an egg, it's an embryo, right? Or you know we

can't decide. Then we blame each other and the world

will attack God's word. In fact, we are quite shy.

We are quite scared to even tell our friends that

Jesus is the is you know, my savior or you know,

I'm a fallow of Christ. So we're quite scared to

say that because people laugh at us. They they will

will make fun of us. But first Corinthians one twenty five.

Such a such a key verse for a lot of us.

Some things look like so old fashioned, so like so yesterday,

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men. Things

look so foolish, like your friends? Are you so foolish?

Like you?

Why are you are?

Uh?

Huh? Premeritu sex? Come on like everybody's doing it?

Lah?

Really no, there are people who still haven't.

You're gonna.

Yeah, they're the boring ones. No, Hey, it's foolish to

stay virgin. No, it's not.

It took you a second to lose it, to give

it away. It's taken me a lifetime to hold it on.

And when I give it, I give it to the

men that I want to. I don't just give it

to anyone that's so foolish. But the foolishness of God

is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is

stronger than men.

What looks weak, it's stronger. It's stronger in God. Amen.

That's why you need to stand on eternal truth. There

are many truths in the world of God that can

set us free from who we think we are, what

we should be, how.

We should live.

God does give us guidance on how but when you

follow God's way. It's not popular always with the world,

but it's popular with God. And no one died for

not having sex, but they died when they didn't have water.

Are you with me? Church?

Hello?

Will you die if you do not have free or

sex or whatever?

Married people, because our young people are here, tell them

you will not die. You just have to find other ways.

Hot shower, cold shower, wat shower. Better hear it from

me from the pulpet. It's holy, Yeah, sexy's holy. Yeah,

it's not dirty. It's dirty when we make it dirty.

Stand on eternal truth. It is a lot of hard work.

The number of young people we work in and stand

with and help and revive and restore because somebody took

advantage of them because they didn't have enough truth of

God's were to say, yeah, I got risks, I'm worth

I've got worth ler, I'm not just a piece of flesh.

The guy just wanted me from my body, not for me.

The girl just took me for a ride because I

don't have eternal truth. Sometimes people are older than us

make those mistakes, and then the young people think that's

the way it is. It's not. It's not. I thank

my mom, did my dad every time when I celebrate them. No,

I don't know Father's Day, Mother's Day. Say thank you

for not divorcing because I know they had hard times.

I say thank you for not walking out because I

would have lost my identity.

I would have lost my hope.

As a child, we look up to our parents and

I thank them. They they're the like there worse enemies,

but the best friends do right if I and they're

best friends.

And they held on to maybe saying that we have

kids or something. I don't know. The eternal truth is

God is.

Our help and our strength, even in our brokenness in

our marriage.

Amen, hallelujah. So stand on eternal truth.

Friends. What is foolish to the world looking at God

is wise wisdom. And that brings me back to my

first picture to you again, would you build your lives?

Could we build our church on the rock? Jesus Christ? Amen?

Come on?

Were singing in a Sunday school song to our children. No,

build your house on the rock and not on the

sandy shore. There two verses here, But I like us

to look at Luke chapter six.

Look chapter six, Come on, II. There it's on the screen. Okay, look,

look forty six to forty nine.

So Jesus says this, right, Hey, why do you call

me lord lord and not do the things which I say?

Whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and does them,

I will show you whom he is like. He is

like a man building a house who dug deep and

laid the foundation on the rock.

And when the flood arose and.

The stream beat vehemently against that house, and it could

not shake it because it.

Was founded on the rock.

Another word for that is bad. Rock engineers will know this.

But he who heard and did nothing is like a

man who built a house on the earth without a

foundation against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell,

and the ruin of that house was great. Brand's sisters, firstly,

X we must remember to build God's house, God's people

on the word of God.

This is foundation.

The Twin Towers is only able to stand because of

the piling foundation that was done.

I'll tell you how long it took.

It started in nineteen ninety two, ninety one, ninety two,

and they.

Got rid of the turf Club.

I would walk across what is now Twin towers every

day for work and this huge hole. I didn't know

how huge the hole was until it was built. Then

I knew how how big the building was. But the

piling had to be tested. It failed, it tested, it failed.

They had to get two companies, Korean companies to build

Tower one, Tower two put in. The foundation failed testing

after testing feasibility. I don't know engineers for the world,

I don't. Because they needed to know if the foundation

could stand these two buildings.

So it went deep, very deep, very very deep.

You can read it in Wikipedia, so that they could

build high and then to have that bridge. Mind you

have you ever gone to that bridge before anybody? It swings,

if the wind blows, it moves, but it's it's it's

it's okay, stable, okay. So the technology used to build

these twin towers, that's technology that is needed for buildings.

We love architects, engineers. Then you do your job, study

six years. Be a doctor, No, be an architect, be engineer,

because people are going to live in those buildings. Hillside

they later found out did not do the right visibility tests,

did not test it properly. There was a stream underground,

but also there were pipes for the house, the whole housing,

and because of so much water and the stream and

the rain over years, the pipe bursts. There were signs

already two years, three years before, but nobody did the

upkeep maintenance. The signs were already, the cracks on the ground,

on the wall. They didn't take note of that, and

then lives. Forty six lives were lost, and the number

of people lost their home.

In our lives too.

Friends, Sometimes the cracks are there, you don't look at

it because you think there's tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, Yeah, tomorrow,

you think you will deal with the issue, but tomorrow

will come and go. What matters is what you do today.

When you see that track, when you see that challenge,

how do you get help? We've got Bible studies. You

don't want to go. You're like, oh, I don't have time.

Life will be busy forever, and I'm busy forever. But

they're got to be busy. We're doing what God wants

me to do. Time for study, time for word of God. Friends,

we want to build a house on the rock because

we can't.

Be saying Lord Lord, And he says.

Yeah, do I know you? Because you didn't do what

he told you to do. Forgive love, release your funds, save, help,

use your talent. He's talking to you. He's speaking to you,

Take care, go forward. What's God saying to us all

those points there? Friends, it is to be worth faithful.

Just be faithful to God's word. That house of God here,

asks church. We've got to be faithful to God's word.

We've got to be faithful.

We've got to preach God's word.

Not my opinion. I'm not speaking my opinion, friends, I'm

just saying this is how we keep going in truth.

Truth.

Sometimes it's difficult, but there can be mercy as well. Amen,

stand on God's truth, not anything else. Build the house,

this house of God. Build your life on the rock

Jesus Christ, He's living. Jesus says in John fifteen or fourteen,

which was last week's verse or two weeks ago, he

says that if you love me, say, if you love me,

keep my commandment. If you love me keep my commandments

means God's word, keep his word.

If you love me. And you know what, friends, we're

all growing in our love for Jesus.

We're all growing, we're all learning, and we need to

teach one another. We need to help each other to

go a little closer to God's word.

Amen.

We want our foundation in our faith to be built

on the rock that no matter what happens, this rock,

his name is Jesus. Amen.

Is the word rock in the Bible, Yes it is, Yes,

it is Pm. Eighteen two.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress second Semnel

twenty two forty seven. The Lord lives, Blessed be my rock.

Let God be exalted, the rock of my salvation. And

sometimes we really need this rock, this stability in Christ Jesus.

Amen. And how you walk your faith? How okay?

Their family's here there. You know we're all gonna take

the village to raise the child. All of us will

impact our children, our ex kids children, how we live,

how we speak, how we declare, how we forgive, how

we love, how we help one another, how we have

conversations when they're difficult, difficult conversations. I'm not a confrontational person. Oh,

but then I have to have heart and difficult conversations

to confront to us so that we clarify, so that

we clarity we can move forward all that based on

God's eternal truth, so that we help each other grow. Amen.

It's hard.

I mean, sometimes we their days are sometimes we're just

usler I'm so done, right, but that's in your private

I'm so done.

Then you go to Jesus and he says, are you done?

Are you done? Saying no, Papa, I'm still. Now you

go like Papa God, I'm still. I'm still going, but

I'm just so done.

Yesterday, right, So we'll have our yesterday so done, you know,

with that boss, with that thing, with that person. Because

you're busy, you're full, You're going through a lot of challenges.

But in the midst of the challenges, that one thing

that is stable, the one living living in us, is Jesus.

He is the faithful one Amen. In our lives and

for us as a church. I pray that if we

could just do his word and not just hear it,

I think we would overcome and we would build God

a great house, a great family, and reach even more.

Amen. Praise God.

Amen. I you know another day for how to read

and what to do, but suffice to say that you

have a Bible, read it, follow a reading program if

you need to, just so that.

You get into it.

Memorize scripture shot ones first, and then grow long for

the make time to read God's word. And this is

the sort this is, this is the double aged sword

for us. Amen.

And really this is this is.

All we need and all we want that will get

us through.

Amen. We stand to overcome by the grace of God.

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