12+1 Core Values: Christ Centered | Eld Kien Yiak

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We're gonna talk about Christ centered right, Christ centeredness, all right,

I want to talk about that because if you're not

careful in your daily life, you'll be tempted to be

let astray aside. And you know, and I realized the

more and more as I begin to grow older by

the day. Right, it's there's always a temptation, temptation really

to not to have the form, but not the power,

to have the form of Christianity but not really understand

what it really means.

Right. So look chapter ten, Look chapter ten, verse study eight.

So the question is this, if your book lessen, what

distracts us from putting Christ in the center?

Look?

Chapter ten, verse study eight says that now it happened

when he entered a certain relage, a certain woman called

Martyr you know this story, welcome him to the house.

And she had a.

Sister called Mary, So Martha and Mary all right, and

Mary said at the at Jesus' feet and hurt this

word worse forty matter was distracted with much serving. She

approached him, complain to Jesus friend's all of us would

have a matter moment in our life. One all of

us will have a martyr moment in our life. To say,

as believers, there is no complaint. It's really impossible. You

have to be got like not to complain, right, I

say that if you don't want to complain anything, then

just go to a church whereby you're the only person. Right,

you're the worship leader, the pastor. Right, you're the only person.

Need to fall up with yourself, right, And this is

easiest because you can't complain, is you see yourself in

the mirror. But Martin began to complain to Jesus, and

I want you to hear marter words. All right, Lord,

don't you care that my sister has left me to

serve alone. Don't you care Lord that my sister my

brothers who say that they will come around me?

Right?

Could you imagine yesterday's wedding the groom said, don't show up, Josiah,

where's the rings?

Oh? No? I Forgod?

Right, yesterday, the program coordinator, Elie was texting me, Eldre,

did you bring the register of marriage?

Is not to sign?

I said, oh no, Ellie, I forgot. I was joking

with oh no, I forgot I left in my house.

Can you forgot the register? She said, Elder, you know

it's a sin to lieon honesty, But it happens.

Something.

It happens because God always uses moments like that to

really to speak to us.

Right.

So Martha took to Jesus said, Lord, don't you care.

I'm the only one. I'm the only one serving today.

I'm the only one carrying. You know, I want to

speak to people who are caring for their family members

as well. I have trees, I have an older brother,

I have a younger sister. Now, if there's three of

your right, the first two that leaves the country, then

the last one has to stay back. I when I

studied in Melbourne, I told I told myself I want

to be the first one, really, the first one to

get out from Malaysia. Right, whoever's left behind has to

take care of mom and dad. Right, it's an unsick rule.

Right.

So I wanted to do so badly, So I started

applying overcation of every country I could find the right

so be right everywhere else I could find and and.

Stuff like that, non application caps. Right.

I had a chance to work in Melbourne, but that

time that the calling to be Malaysia was stronger. So

I stayed here. So my brother went went to season

to work, then Australia. My sister went. No, my brother

is in Singapore and my sister in Australia, so I

left back here. And the worst thing about UH being

the only one in Malaysia take care of parents is

that you texts from your OC siblings. What are you

doing with mom and dad? What are you doing with that?

My mom passed away just three four years ago? What

are you doing with that?

No?

Do this for that? Do that for that?

I'm not sure whether you have been there before not.

You get instructions from OSIS right like Charlie's ANGELI to

the woice speaker box that Charlie angels. Charlie is my anyway,

So I get texts from OC's do this.

Do that? Why are you not doing this? Why you're

not doing that?

And after a while, friends, I can guarantee you, you

get very frustrated, angry, angry, because.

Oh it's easy for you to say all this love.

Just recently last week, about two or two weeks ago,

my dad had a four my dad fell down, broke crack,

three ribs, my dad is eighty two or eighty three,

I can't remember, but cracked three ribs. It fell down.

You know.

I was in extingapause ministry. The king apot came there.

I got a call from my brother, can you come back?

I was driving down and I thought to myself, Oh,

easy for you to say, sharing all this getting off

my chest right now healing. I say it easy for

you to say, because you are just here for the weekend.

After you have to go back, I have to take

care of death subsequently, follow up hospital visitation and the

stuff that you can't imagine the works. So anyway, so

I told my brother Wise, yeah, no, I mean need help.

Sometimes I was praying true I was talking to pass

about that. I was praying Toru, like no, should I

just should I just take a buss back? You know,

I just felt God to say that your dad's gonna

be all right. But the frustration point is, like Martin, like,

why am I the only one? And come on, why

am I the only one taking care of that?

I just saw my.

Brother's Facebook yesterday Holiday in Bouquet. Come on, come on,

it works on you or not. Come on, it works

on you or not. Come on, Christians. You you know

what I mean. Right if you're the only one taking

care of your parents here and you saw your siblings

holiday in bouquet, like, oh got time to bookett no

time to come and to see that there? After all

you brought that out, he felt on your watch. Ah,

matter like beginning to complaining. Right, And this is what

Jesus said, Right, Jesus answer to her.

Matter matter. You are worried about trouble about.

Many things, but one thing is neither Mary has chosen

the good part which is not taken from.

Her choose a good part. Now I want to focus on.

Worse forty Right, Lord, do you not care that my

sister has left me to serve alone? You know, when

you when you feel like you're alone in the situation,

When you feel that you're alone in the situation, it

could be even to be serving in the ministry.

Right, the enemy will begin to.

Sow doubts on doubts like God doesn't really care for you, right,

the leaders doesn't really care for you. Right if you've

been before wherever you're the only one carrying stuff, only

one playing you know in x is Kandau pastor.

Paul uh some of you may or may not know him.

He is, I will just say, really one of the

fitful leaders I've known in my entire life. Joseiah was

there for a short while. He decided to come to

care to work, abandoning the church plan over there all right?

And because of that, no worship leaders, right, so God's

and God raised up someone else to work there. But

the wife got pregnant, wife gave birth. Told Pastor Paul

that you know, I can't worship lead. I can take

a wife for this season for the first one to

two months.

So he said, no problem, you do what you need

to do. I will worship.

He says, So exe, guys, I want to let you

do this by first time worship leading. I know I

sound terrible. I got no choice, right, he worship leads.

He does x TV by himself worship latez. He's a

chairperson and he's a speaker, and he is a father

of two. I said, poor, way, where do you get

you know? Why do yourself? It was a smile on

your face because I know many people, even great people, right,

who're just train the tower. I just say, forget it, right,

I'm the only one. You don't care for me, and

you know what, he's a full time right now with us.

He's a he's a he is a very good product designer,

very good. He studied I think if we're not in

Sweden and stuff like that on Melbourne after Sweden to

do his masters, same team as the team who designed

the Zeeker cars. Right, he knows all these people in

the industry, really good designer, but give all that up

to serve. He found his true calling a ministering to

the office. So on Monday, I tell you his ethics

is amazing. I got to share this with you. Right,

he goes, he goes as he goes to a private

school as a chaplain. Right, as a chaplain, he minister

to them, teach them. After school, you go to another orphanage.

He'll round up some of this orphanage or rather not offinition,

but some of this true that that that the parents

don't have enough time for them.

Pick them up and go to our church office and do.

Bible study with them every day without fail, every day

without fail. I got a privilege of meeting some of

this children, I said, Paul, I can last for a day,

how do you last for like three years? I mean,

he'll be like martyr likee. So the enemy will so

dub in your heart. God don't care for you. Your

leaders don't care for you. You're the only one. For two

years they say, I will send help. Have you been

there before?

Not?

You're listen, don't worry. Help is coming, right, but help

is coming but to the wrong directions. Right, help is

coming back to the wrong direction. So that causes you

to rethink about God's goodness and fitfulness.

It does. No one cares for you, so you're burning out.

We had a privilege of interviewing staff recently, about one

year ago. She's twenty four, twenty five. The first thing

she said.

That would I get help if the work? If the

work is a lot?

I say why, because I'm worried about my mental health? Okay,

would I get time off? I say you excuse the word,

excuse the malaia, but your balloon stuck.

Good. You're the radio. You want to ask about mental

health radio.

As for extra stuff, I say that guys, look, just

go into the system first to see how it is

that we will take care of the stuff. I say

that we have about forty old stuff and none of

them complain yet. I think maybe the detail management. But

Here's the thing I wanted to say. Is this that

the enemy beginning to sol dub leaders don't care for you, right,

Church don't care for you?

Right?

I got a friend for my own self. What happens

after that? Friends, what happened? We will start to when

we start to dwell, d well, start the entertaining doubts

in our hearts, in our minds. Right, we will start comparing.

We will start comparing very natural. One look with what

mater say.

My sister didn't even bother to help me. Have you

been there before?

Whereby you say to yourself like you're the leaders, so

free here am I carrying everything?

And that person just come to church? Not need that?

Begin to make like, why did you set this up? So?

When I first entered full time ministry, I was one

of the people who buy things for the church, basically

a purchaser for the church to restock stuff. When when

you are excited, when you are encouraged, when you are

just full of the Holy Spirit, nothing I touch you.

People say, hey, run out my load, you go and buy.

Run out of toilet paper, you go and buy. But

when you're at the lowest point of your life, Elder

normal toilet paper. No more toilet paper or tissue paper

in the toilet there still start?

Can you replenish it? Can you rep am?

I like, oh, you're the last I really hate the

last person who used the todler rode the toilet, the

tissue paper left, the todler rode inside there.

I'm sorry, I'm just evering my givances right now. Right

the it works on you because by the time you enter, like.

All the French want to come out already, you look

through the scripture, the law is my rangers and stuff

like that, and you just reach you could just but

anyway anyway went at the lowest point of your of

the day that you got no more energy and stuff

like that, you just feel like just killing the person

and resurrect. Thinking after that, look at this person, brother,

the tissue paper is right there.

Then sometimes there's no more.

Tissue paper, no more already, I say, brother, thank god,

you're in Malaysia.

There's something cub Be.

Day, there's something cup I'm sorry. So we were like,

look at Elden, No, there's something cup Be Day. Just

just wash up mama with a b DA. That's it,

all right. You begin to compare compare team A, team

B compare, And when we were doing church earlier days,

earlier day, how come I got all the bad musicians,

you got all the good musicians.

Compare. It happens. I've got all the bad singers, you

got all the good singers. Compare.

Right, I'm not sure in our life when we start

to compare what happens you will hijack you to a

place where but you don't even want to be in

the first place.

You're none of us born out like to compare. One.

Isn't it true?

We don't compare our greates. You get your report cut,

what you get? What you get Steven, stevehen what you

get here a plus? None of us take a report

cut to compare. But yet at the same time we

come to ministry, we compare doubt because this is to compare.

Mart begin to compare? Why am I serving so much?

And my sisters sitting now?

Friends?

When we get our eyes of Christ, begin to look

at people, that's why distruction comes. We're no longer Christ centered,

Christ focused. After a while, when we begin to look

at people, friends, I will tell you this is that

we'll forget what it's all about.

In Malaysia.

Majority of the churches are below fifty are below fifty

in attendance. Some pastors we got to find out, we

got to know they're faithfully serving every week for every

week for past fifty years. We know of a pastor,

a Baptist pastor in East Coast who he's the only

one to take care of four or five churches. He

will drive to different church plan every week, the only one.

Could you imagine you're the only one driving and say,

I'm seventy you really right now, I'll just go to do,

just be fitful, to do.

What God caused me to do.

No complain, No how come the Baptistic quill that will

send workers and this stuff like that. I'm sharing this

with you because you are this at this age whereby

you're young, able, strong. But one day, friends, I want

to let you know, you'll cross fifty. Amen, hallelujah, Praise

the Lord. Right, Sam, Jillian, you just got married this day,

one of you of your marriage. Right, we pray that

you will survive right for many years to come. Share

the better scar stories and you know, friends, when comparison

hijacks you, you begin to double God's goodness and God's faithfulness,

and this is what happens, friends, that destruction comes. Point

number two is this I got to skip. The next

point number two is this is that how does Christ's

sentences look like?

Then?

X Chapter two was that these six says that therefore,

let all the house of each you'll know surely that

God has made this Jesus home. You cristify both Lord

and Christ. Come on, Lord and Christ. He has to

be your Messiah and your lord. Friends, what do I

mean by dad? John Chapter fifteen, verse one to four.

I'm sorry if I sound like a speeding train, because

I was only given limited time. Nominally xan my end

by travel five one right, So so I'll try. I'll try.

I always I've always dealt with a very difficult cut.

Last week, two weeks ago, I was in Manches plan.

I was given twenty minutes to speak, twenty minutes out there.

You've got twenty minutes to kay because after this she

got to go to another just plan. So by time

I said hello, good morning everything, I got five more

minutes and the message ready.

All right? So John Chapter fifteen was one.

I say I'm the wine, I'm the true My father's

a wine dresser, right, you know this all right? Word

to every branch in me that there's some bad fruit.

He takes away every branch that bears fruit. He prudes

that he may bear more fruit. You are ready clean

because of the word I've spoken to you. A bite

in me and I'm in you. Every branch cannot bear

fruit in itself unless the bites in the wine. Neither

you Neither can you unless you're biting me. Point number

one is I'm talking about Christ Messiah, right, Jesus is

the true wine. God is the wine dresser of friends.

Always recognize that we need a savior true not you

need you need, you need God. You need God to

save you from a sin. None of us got a

problem with with with with Christ. None of us got

problem one. In fact, a majority of us here one

for some sort of faith. The problem is this is

that we have an issue with the word lord. The

issue with the word lord. What do I mean by that?

Do you know that? Friends that many times in in

our Christian faith? Right, it is coming under someone's leadership,

It's going to be the challenge. Coming under a lortship

is going to be a challenge because if there's no

lot of friends, you know, our God, bless all my plans,

bless all my initiative.

I want this house or bless it.

It's it's difficult when when someone say to you and

when no, wait.

Wait, how does Christ said to this?

Look like there must be a lortship in your life,

because I say it over a lot of us here.

Don't mind being a Christian.

You know, you like the faith, like the teaching of Christ,

you like the word of God. But when you put

yourself friends in a place whereby.

There is someone over you, you.

Find it very challenging and verdequate to submit, very hard,

very hard. If the worship leaders begin to lead songs

whereby you don't like the songs, you go like, it's

so hard to worship God because this worship leader simply

to someone, have you been to the place whereby the

congregation do not know do not know how to clap?

You have been You're nodding, You do not know how

to clip right, do not know how the clapping beat?

And you're the type that's really irritated by someone who

cannot clip me beat one. It works on you and

you go like, why this person can just follow the

hend move mony? How could it be just follow the

hend move Mononi?

How could it be right?

How I was with I was with one home leader

and this home leader, say, elder, stand three tree steps

away from me because I can delead the worship and

you start singing.

I cannot. I don't know what key. I'm like.

At the very moment, I wanted to just be naughty,

and they say, you know, I'm a church elder.

You know all right, you just just Playnila. After all?

I always wonder, I mean, when you get to heaven

or we're all the angels singing, singing keynot they think

about it, we're all the Asian singing peachnut.

I'm sure there are some. I'm sure they are.

I'm sure, but I always wonder that what put to

the rest of us who get up to heaven? Right,

we're worshiping the lot up there, like and would you

would you? Can you just sing in the in the

in the in the correct key please, because I cannoteel

God's presence, friends, Lord, the lordship of Christ. It is

it lot over, your emotions, come on this lot emotions.

I want to share a story. I might have told

this story before. If you are hosting hosting, you're hosting people, right,

and you know what the worst thing about hosting is

you get scolded by your church partners. Scolded by your

church partners. I share this story because there was one

time a person was the warship started. Really guy was

lifting up his hands worshiping the lot and they all

everybody likes to take the corner seat because they can

leave if the picture is pitching a bit too long, right,

I understand, also easier to go to the toilet.

Nobody didn't like to.

Take the media set one because by then you get

excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, So nobody lets go

to the center.

So this guy was lifting, he said, worshiping. What to

do people?

People came, no seats, So happened in the middle there

the hos just type. The guys tent to excuse me, circle,

You move in a bit because people just came. You

don't need to see the guys called back colded the host.

Don't you know a worshiping God right now? You can't

wait one you think a moment you cannot wait. I'm

worshiping God right now. I want you to think for

a moment. Both of you are on the same team. Okay,

Tim Jesus. Okay, same team A, same your wish. One

guy's worshiping God with his hands, and the guy was

shipping the lot by serving and you just type out

he is politely, can you please move in few chairs.

Away on me?

I just lost my connection with God. That was what

was the host? The host, I say, what do you do?

I just smiled away for you to finish worship.

BLA.

If he is not a lot over your emotions, friends,

come on, If not a lot over your emotions, you don't.

Have Christ center.

That's because many times you like the word Messiah, Savior,

Christian faith there across. He has to be a lot

lower your emotion because at the very moment, first I

can guarantee you you say, oh you are haha. I

shall make your life the very very difficult. The next

time I shook your head, I shall put extra lotion.

So when you shake my hands right, extra moisturizer.

I can make it. I'm misters, just keep me here.

But you understand trying to say you can't worship anymore.

You're either person.

What more, if you're just from the same cell group,

same homes, or you will call yourself a Christian and

after I can guarantee you you you hit everything about

the person you see a lot the way your emotions.

Sometimes we exhort talents come on more than Christ. Really

exort talents more than Christ. Now I'm not nothing wrong

with talents, but we truly believe friends at the end

of the day, right, if someone don't perform or don't

prepare as well as you don't get angry. So one

time we're talking to our team at the end soonery

talking to our team, and this guy was so angry

with the other person. This guy doesn't not to do

foot plating, just put foot on the plate. There is

a way to do foot playing whereby people you can

make it acta feels like it's michillin star. I said,

it's this the acta. No matter how you cut it,

act right, the best you could do just oh, this

is me right, So why do you need to pic

there to say this ia, that's just me all right?

This is so it gets so angry one he wants

to go the other brother. I said, brother, look, he's learning.

He doesn't have the finesses you can you just overlook it. No,

you don't understand. It's like people put up posted stickers

on the wall. You have to make it an alignment one.

If not in alignment, you can't let you. If I'm

preaching right now, you just keep looking at the post

sticker because it's out of alignment.

It is okay.

It says a lot of your attention during your quiet time.

Many times we want the Messiah, we want savior, but

no when do it? Lots ship don't like it. God

works true leaders. I cannot submit. Don't disciple ship. I say, Oh,

you're comfortable to God. I said, Who's how does God

speak to you? One scripture a day from Bible? App

I say, whether that's not enough? And I'm sharing this

you truthly and honestly because we have seen many well

meaning Christians lost their way only because they think they

know how to navigate the Christian faith. Seriously, just because

someone accept the Christ and when you imagine except the Christ,

the next thay they know how to worship. Say, no,

they need to be taught how to worship. Right just

because somebody accept the Christ in aw the gift onto

the Lord. No, they need to be taught how to

give to the Lord. Oh, don't teach you about giving

and stuff like? No, I can go on and on,

but you understand, you see the Lord of your life.

Finally, it's going to be this. How do we constantly

keep Christ in the center? WHOA?

How do we constantly keep Christ in the center? He

bushed up the travelers one to two. Therefore, since we're

surrounded by a great crowd of witnesses, let us leave

aside everywhere and sin we're so easily and sna Let's

run the endurance, the race which was set before us. Friends,

you and I need endurance. We we can endure a

lot of things in our workplace. No endure when it

comes to the comes with the Christian faith. Endurance it's

a different thing altogether, because you're not paid at the workplace.

You got salary, you die. I also their salary there here?

Or you get well done self again? All right, I

scan you, I'll scare you you or get away for

next week. You're saying, very well, you surf really well?

Are you going to wallety next week? Friends? You need endurance, friends.

And one of the hardest part is this is that

endurance friends is easy when you're you're when you're younger,

But when you begin to aid friends, I'm going to

say this gently and nicely when you begin to age.

I've seen that before. I've seen that before. I know

what it's going to say after after this, the preacher asked,

all the call pray.

For you, but then you will all then you go bad.

Nothing change after that. Could you imagine the rest of

your life coming to church every Sunday, every Sunday, coming

to church, But there is no change. Friends, There's a

race ast God has prepared for you. Supposed to run

the race, fitfully all the way until God calls you home.

I really respect pastors who who really don't have much

as much as in don't have a lot of support,

but yet still so fitful. One time I official a wedding,

a mom came up to me to thank me, thank

you so much for officiating my daughter's wedding, and then

she started showing me about her wedding. You know, when

I got married, my pastors put me aside. Before I

got married, my passage just put me aside and just

told me this, whatever you do, if you're arguing with

your husband, you cannot go back to your mother's house.

You stay in the same home, face your husband, and

live with your husband, no matter how challenging.

The words can be.

Now, I understand, Okay, I'm not here, there is Please

don't tell me abusive. No, no, no, I'm just She's just.

She was just sharing her power of the story. I said, so,

what do you do? I just told my pastors would

like go like that, I just hang on to my marriage,

that I feel like killing my husband. She was just showing, honestly,

that's time I feel like like strangling him. No, I

would say, seven, Jena, and you would not, right, Yeah,

if you don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't trow places.

Just throw money. Okay, keep quiet and you said you're

fifty pounds. Just keep quiet, right, That's that's that's a

good way, all right. But anyway, I said, what do

you do? I said, I just, I just, I just,

I just.

I just help my tongue prey. I just endure. I said,

how is the marriage? It's all right? Many times I

felt like walking off the marriage.

Endurance. Let us run this race for endurance right. Worse

Number two is this that looking up looking onto Jesus,

the author phinition of our faith, who joy was set

before him, and you're the cross despicing the shame set

of the trone, friend, there is a reward words, who

say that for who the joy that was set before him?

And you're the cross, there is a reward. Friends, What

do you see that causes you to have joy? Come

on as the close? What do you see in your

Christian faith that causes you to have joy? How do

you understand? I look aroalm? Do you know how hard

is it to worship?

Late?

Sometimes when you look at the faces of the congregation,

some we are laughing.

Speak it of the speak it. Do you know how

hard is it? How hot is it? Come on?

Clap, clip, shout for joy? It happens right and you're there.

I don't know what what? What do you see the

causes to have joy?

Really? Like you?

You?

Is it all?

You need to see people smiling and and therefore you

derive joy for just because of people who are smiling,

people who are participating, participative, right, and therefore you that's

that's the only time you have joy?

Or can you see joy in the midst of the challenge?

Because Jesus saw the cross, saw the cross that was

set before him, because he knew that you're going to

see the father as like close, friends, what is it

that causes you to have joy?

How do we consider to have Christ in the center?

What do you see in your life? Really? What do

you see?

If you see only your normal surrounding, then that and

and that's why you have joy. One of the trip

went to a Chinese new village, Chinese new village in Epos.

You know, in terms of this Chinese new village is

very different. This this is an urban church. So the

Aurbun church that is very different. The Chinese new relage

church is totally very different. It's free, it's they say,

the Holy Spirit is flowing. It's really flowing. My friends

when meaning to say that you can make a decision

right now, next twenty minutes, and the decision can change it.

And because of their friends, because of that, many frustrations

without team, because I thought we agree on this, we were,

we plan for this really and just say, hey, don't

fight with the passer over there. Don't get angry with

the passer over there. She had paid the price, she

answered the call. She's been there every every every Sunday,

serving the lot faithfully. Can you see the joy in

serving the Lord in the midst of that challenge?

How about it?

It is a challenge because because some of this, you know, places,

a lot of people left these places to work in

the city. So one time our team went when uh

this this ancle came up to one our team leaders

on one keyboard this, mh you play the keyboard?

So well are you? Singer?

I got three son, I got here's I took out,

took out his wallet and showed the sun trees are

well to do okay, well to do a right still, singer,

can you aread to dip my son or not?

I couldn't imagine.

First, I couldn't imagine if you're from Herbert here, creepy uncle,

you creepy uncle. But I have to me and my

just say you must understand because there's not enough young

people in some of this. Religious really turn off young

people in some of these places when they and this

is how they speak. I think it's all right. The harmless.

This is how they connect their harmless of friends, the hamless.

There you change ther hamless.

I think that I went.

I went to my team my team members. He she

did like a Lisa, maybe the property let that can

use there. I'm so ver right, but closed joy that

was set before him.

Friends. But I want to let you this point to you.

He travels the team I'm closing for.

Consider him who I'm there such hostility from sinners against himself.

Lest you become weary and discourage in your soul? Friends,

what will cause you to not keep Christ in the center? Tightness? Tightness, tightenness, tightness, veriness, tightness.

It's very natural, friends, there is something about tightness from

your natural work. You'll you'll go tired every day one

but a different thing when your spirit it is tired.

Because when your spirit is.

Tired, no matter how expensive the mattress is, it will

not restore that strength in your spirit.

And that's why we have reguard our hearts. We go tired.

I mean, isn't it true? After church on Sunday from

here all the way to the UK? Right, the best

thing to do after church on the Sunday afternoon to

sleep somewhere, Elder I got, We've got prayer service after church. Okay,

praise God. We used to run force recess less. I

understand tightness. The only one carrying it wears your spirit down,

the only one leading home your show for cell group,

you're the only one there excited. Tightness sometimes tinants can't

come from our past, our guilt. It can remind us

that you're not going on. Sometimes chinants can come from

people putting putting you down. You still serving God?

Are you? You're still serving the Lord? You know what?

How much time did the chistick from you? Or not?

You're missing out? See if you don't self God.

You have your afternoons, you can play pick a ball

with net, you can join him. But because you committed

to something, you're missing. That's why you're so fed, constantly

eating with in all these places. Friends, I'm telling you

real stories, real stories I.

Tell I tell you a joke. Pastor Stephen, jacket used

to be my jacket. The jacket you walk today belongs

to me. You.

Yes, I was hunger. My heaviest was hungericulos, hunger and

the ticulos. Another pastor from another church have a saw

me for a very long time. Came up to me,

what on earth happened to you? What on earth happened

to you? I'm like, oh, I haven't seen you for

a long time. The first word is that, hello, how

are you right? What on earth happened to you? While

you go to fete bluntly put it now. Don't you

think that that ars your soul down? The come on,

none of us here wake up one day and say, oh,

I want it all all the cups that confine, Oh,

put a way none of us from like that.

Okay, things happen in now life.

I'm sure we need you because it works on your soul,

causes your soul to be tired.

Be careful of that.

Be careful of the words spoken over your life that

seeks to wear you down, six to tire you out.

When you're tired, friends, friends, you don't feel like serving.

You can be scheduled, you could be serving like Martha

was serving friends, but.

Her spirit was so tired. Her spirit was so tired.

And you know what happened When your spirits tired, complaint

will be very natural, but we don't see it. And finally,

in the same scripture he puts up in Troubles, she

says that discouragement, discouragement, friends, that's like close Thiscouragement in

the Christian world is very real, very real, so real

until that some people left the faith because of discouragement, discourage,

because no one prayed with them, no one journeyed with them.

Before I came here I got opportunity to talk to

her dad in the mending church. Her daughter is about

five years old. Her name is Anna. Daughter was in

I see you, I see you.

Doctor.

Don't know what's happening. She couldn't go to the toilet,

she couldn't beee. She was just big reading for almost

like two weeks alreadly right now, her low power body

just started with any strength. I was looking at the dad.

You know, the dad just kept this, really dedicated his life.

The mom's had to work on the weekends and stuff

like that, because you still see a smile and the

drawer on his face. I was just telling him that,

no past myself are committed to pray for your daughter,

but sometimes in life, friends we go to alone and

somebody we can keep discourage.

Why is my daughter like that? Why am I like that?

Why am I cutting this? As I close? Friends?

Please don't allow this couragement to constantly hijack you, Rob

you really, discussion is very real. Yes, I'm not saying

that as Cristians will be immune. Oh, discrition will come.

I'm tryler. No, friends, you have your experience discouragement with

my friends, but don't stay there.

Don't stay there. It's a season you go.

To come up from it. As I close, I want

to share a story with you all. I went through

my second hand check last year. Last year, second check.

You know, the second hat check is very no wrecking,

because first of all, you're wondering how it was the

first operation, whether or not they're still in a good condition,

or whether do you need to do even more to

the extinct one.

I was there lying down on.

The very cold operation data metter table, right. I thought

to myself, why didn't why didn't just heat it up?

I was there, friends, and sometimes you really wonder. You

do a quiet time, you pray you will come to

church fitfully right, fitfully.

Serving the Lord. First thing it comes is see you

messed up. You messed up.

If you're taking care of yourself, you won't let yourself

in this place. But if you know you're going to

mess up, come out is it? You won't start the

breed beginning. So I was there, lying on the bed,

lying on the doctors came, nurses came right, and they

talk in languages that causes your heart to even like,

you know.

Like they don't really care.

This isn't nicely because all they talk about like, who's

going to top all lunch while you're lying there? Friends

half naked on the on the opportunit data. Who's going

back luncher today? Who the data there? Next note I'm

They're like, oh, I'm just one of the numbers.

I see. This is the last thing I'm going to

see before I exit the world. Bright lights? Oh yes,

they say it.

Walk towards the light right, So like, oh okay, oppid

the lights? Oh yes, I could see it. It's it's

it's it's discouration. This is gonna be really real with you.

So they have to put the booker. They have to insert.

They do a keyhole insertion.

They have to.

So they give me a shaver. Mister, you want to shave?

You want us to shave you or you shave yourself. There,

I go like, pass it to me, I'll shave friends.

I took the shave of friends. This shave has not

been washed by the previous patient.

Yeah, I know. I'm so sorry, So sorry, okay, largely

afterwards haven't been washed. Look at it as I was

just doing what need to do, getting.

Ready for operations coming down, like courent drama like that,

this curage. Look why why why why this? You know,

why do I go through this? Why do I go

through this? Why do I go to this? That's like

close friends don't stay in the discouragement came out from

the operation. Every doctor said your good health and stuff

like that. But besides that, none of us like to

go to the value of discouragement and weariness and tightness.

How do you keep Christness centers like close friends? Just

look to Jesus.

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