Repent | Eld Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

We hope this message will light up your tea.

So, okay, I'm gonna start off with a question.

Okay, afternoon timer, don't fall asleep on me because I

will call your name.

Although am I getting wrong?

Ah?

If I get it wrong, please forgive me. Okaya.

The question that I want to ask us, and this

is a searching question and I will gather some response

from you in a bit. Okay. So the first question

that I want to ask you is who is Jesus

to you? Okay, I'm looking for genuine responses. Don't give

me textbook answers. I know there are many textbooks answers,

but we want to be real, Okay, So just think

about it. Give you a moment to think about this.

Who is Jesus to you? Okay?

I'm looking at the clock. There's one nice red clock

in front of me.

So I'll give you another fifteen seconds to think about

your answer, and then let's hear from your own journey.

So I want to say that our journey with the

Lord is a journey, and that means you might be

at different stages of your life. So it's okay, right,

that it's okay to just be real where you are. Okay,

So definitely I'm gonna start. Do you sense the evil

after as.

The doctor Daniel go, Is that bringing on?

Bringing on? Who is Jesus to you? A friend, a friend,

close companion? Okay, Okay, cool, I have to ask my

dear friend Low okay, my best Sie, my best Dye

from Uni days, just who's Jesus you he's got, he's got, okay,

God winning, Who's Jesus to you? Someone deeply intimate, deeply intimate? Okay,

someone very close Okay, uh Joel, who's Jesus to you?

Everything?

Who he managed to infiltrate all parts of his life?

Okay?

Because everything, lash everything, every fiber of your being is Jesus.

I think this is a.

Very important question because some of us have never asked

this question to the Lord? Who are you? Who are

you to me? There is what your parents can say,

there is what the church can say, what your leaders

can say. But who do you say the Lord is?

Who's Jesus to you? It's a very deep, intimate personal question.

It's something that you will ask someone very close and

intimate to you, because if it's someone like a stranger

on the road.

You were like, yeah, who's this person? Nothing?

Nobody, right, And I find that this is a question

that really would change and dictate how you would live

your life.

It would.

How you view Jesus. What is the name that you

ascribe to him? Will determine how you live your life? Okay?

So you know, as we go through time, right, Jesus

is well known. You know that Jesus very famous. Right,

so some of the people they would ascribe Jesus as

he's a legend trough not legend, legend? What does legend meaner?

Go? Okay? Goat? So so last the last time I

came here.

It was not the goat but the deer that we

were talking about, right right, right? So but anyway, he's good.

You understand what God means or not? Young people are

older people. I help you, I help you greatest of

all time. I just learned it. Okay. So I'm saying

power with you, saying power all these new terminology your

goat okay doesn't mean they thought better, Okay, it means

you're great. You're great?

Okay. Was he just a legend?

Someone who was you know, written long time ago, two

thousand years ago, right, two thousand years ago? And someone famous,

someone everyone actually, the whole world celebrates him. A hey,

do you think about it? The whole world got Christmas? Eh,

and isn't Christmas the time that we hear? Oh, there's

this guy named Jesus. You know, he was a baby

in a manger and then after that, Yeah, birthdays and

gifts and holiday right, so he's he's very famous. Okay,

so famous is one thing? He's a legend? Was he

only a liar? A lunatic? What's my next? One? Liar?

There are many people who don't believe in Jesus. You

may know of Jesus, you may heard of the story,

you know, all your little Christmas stories, but most of

them don't believe that when he says that I am God.

How many believe? How many populations do we have right

now in the world, eight billin? How many actually thinks

that he's got.

Right? So I would say.

Maybe about thirty percent who would say Jesus is God?

And the rest makes him out to be a liar.

That's it, right. It's either you actually take him for

what he says he is or you're on the other end.

All right.

Some people think Jesus was a lunatic, crazy guy. Right,

the things that he said, the things that he did.

I don't know. When you read the word of God,

do you sometimes find that hard to believe? Sometimes? Sometimes right,

very radical things. Jesus says to the rich young ruler,

What do you say to him? Go sell everything? Thank

you very much, sell everything, and then come and follow me?

What did the rich young ruler do? Or waila? Because

he thinks sheesy Jesus means crazy. You're asking me to

do something that is not logical. Can I tell you

that God defies our logic? Yeah, sometimes he may not

make sense to you. Okay, and you might think this

is crazy? What give up my job in the corporate

and join.

Full time God?

Are you crazy?

Are you serious? How am I going to feed my family?

Right? My husband already full time? Anyway, that's my back story.

My backstory. Backstory is my husband was full time when

I was pregnant with our first child.

Okay, and then many many many years later.

Then I was challenged with that that question as well,

would you follow me? And of course I say it

in my heart, I was like struggling with it, right, struggling, like,

are you crazy. No. Yeah, so God had to deal

with some things in my heart, you know. And then

my husband also like very conjung I think you knownedla

no serious st he's thinking medical benefit. By the way,

I used to work in this big company, very great

benical betefits.

You know, all the kids were taken care of.

And after that, you know, as I was thinking about

this decision to leave that corporate to come full time

with the church, my husband was the one who said,

are you sure? Actually, are you're doing fine? You know? Yeah,

you know you're you're already like serving the Lord. You're

serving the Lord in the marketplace. He said, oh you can.

I cannot.

I don't know nothing like that. But but do you

see even our family, close friends, you know, or sometimes

cast out, is this really the voice of the Lord?

Are you sure? Yeah? So so yeah, you know, things

that God leads us to do, sometimes it just doesn't

make sense. And so so I heard some responses from you.

He is God, he is best friend, he's someone who's

really intimate.

He's everything. Did this one very deep answer? He is everything?

Is everything?

And then my question is that you see everything.

In every day, in every moment of your life, you

know where I'm going with this because I realized that

we can confess and say something, but then our life

shows differently. Okay, we can say he's my best friend,

but is he really best friend?

In everything? In everything? You know, in everything?

And so one part of God that I want to

bring to you is this is Jesus Christ, Your Lord.

Is see Lord.

And we're gonna unpack this a little bit later as

we go along. Its Jesus Christ Lord. Because until you

come to a place that you acknowledge him as Lord,

then your life will still.

Be the same.

You can be the bestest Christian church goer, hide giver,

ministry server, and yet still miss the mark until you

know and are able to acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Do you know? It says right in Matthew, let's go

to Matthew. I'm gonna turn to Matthew seven Matthew seven

twenty one. He says this, Not everyone who says to me,

Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he

who does the will of my Father in heaven.

So what does that mean? So because I let's let's

move on, he says.

Many will say to me in the day Lord, Lord,

have we not prophesied in your name, cast demons in

your name, and done many wonders in your name? They

means you're doing everything in the name of God. And

this is the scary verse. I want to give you

the scary verse verse. The scary verse in Matthew seven

twenty three says this, and this is the word of Jesus,

he says, and then I will declare to them, I

never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness?

Now where the guy is doing bad stuff or not?

They were prophesying, casting out demons war Isn't that what

we're supposed to do? But how come they missed the mark?

How did they miss the crucial mark? Until to the

point that as we are standing before the Lord, and

we can call him Lord, Lord, Lord, we can sing Lord,

we can say you are God. And yet Jesus turns

around and says, apart from me, I never knew you,

what a sobbrging thought right?

And I feel that we as a church need to prepare.

Our people to stand before the Lord. Yeah, it's not

how well you start your journey, is how well you

are standing before the Lord.

And I want to give.

You that confidence, right, the confidence to say that as

you stand before the Lord, Jesus will say I know you, Joe,

I know you, Jolene, I know you. Because many times

we think.

We know the Lord.

But does the Lord know you? Does the Lord know

you or not? And so so my heart is this okay,

just catch my heart. I want us all to be

ready to stand before the Lord if it comes back today,

if it comes back tomorrow, we say, Jesus, I know you,

I know who you are. Many of us have a

wrong reception of who Jesus is, and we limit him

to just a certain part. We know him, maybe as

the good shepherd. We know him as the provider, comforter,

maybe best friend. But I think there is more. There

is more, Okay, so let's go. Let's go to the

story of a transformation. And I believe God is in

the process of transforming all of us a man. Do

you believe that?

Like I said, right, it's a journey.

You start somewhere and then you're being transformed until.

You meet with Jesus. Then when Jesus looks at you, right,

he's not looking at Caro.

He's like, I see me, I see me in her.

Do you want to get there. I think we all

want to get.

There, right, there's a desire for that process of transformation.

So let's go to the story of not a story,

a real person that was truly transformed by the Lord. Amen.

How many of you.

Know Saul.

Ooh?

Okay, Saul? So how many of you like Saul before after?

So is before after? I asked you, it's.

Saul before after?

Okay?

How many of you like the before Saul? Not the best? Okay?

Uh?

In Acts chapter eight, it.

Says that Saul was consenting to the murther of Stephen

the matter right.

He was there saying, good job, guys, kill Stephen. All right?

So can you imagine if Saul came into the church

right now?

Hello the tympathy, I mister Saul.

Any of you who says that you follow the way,

come with me. I'm gonna bring you to Kajang, not

for sate, but to the prison.

How many of you would say, yes, no, serious? This

is Saul.

Saul when around capturing Christians, capturing those who profess to

be Christians, and say, okay, you're saying you follow the way,

that you follow me.

To the prison, to.

The dungeons, because I am going to capture all Christians.

Do you know what? We don't like Christians. We don't

like Saul very much. Right, but do you know that

he was zealous for God? He was the most zealous

for God. Did you know that? Why was he even

persecuting Jesus Because Jesus, in his mind, was not upholding

all the Mosaic law.

He is known as the Pharisees, of the Pharisees, you.

Know, the mean stop gurup rabbi for the Jewish loss.

So he was not actually like someone who just went

around persecuting Jesus. He was actually zealous for the things

of God. And that's why I say sometimes as Christians,

we gotta be careful. We can think that we are

doing everything for God and still miss the mark and

still miss Jesus. Right, That's what exactly Saul was. He

missed Jesus. He didn't know who Jesus was. He knew

Jesus as a fraudster, because what was Jesus doing bringing

everyone to follow him when they should be following God

of the Jews? Did you see there's a little bit

of a discrepancy here, as a huge gap in his mind,

his mindset, He's like, but you know, we must follow God. Yeahwey,

he's not wronger Yeahweh. But he missed Jesus, who was

part of Yahweh's plan. Okay, So when you pray for

the Jews, can you just pray for them as well,

because many of them have not recognized who Jesus is

as the Messiah. All right, So this is exactly where

Paul is, all right, So let's read xt Chapter nine.

Hah Saul. Then Saul, still breeding threats and murther against

the disciples of the Lord, when to the high priests

and asked letters from him to the synagogues of the maskers,

so that if he found any who were of the way,

whether men or women. So don't think you can escape

bout women. Kept to you, my husband, can you ready,

men or women? He might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Okay,

so bringing them to prison. Now, as he journeyed, he

came near the Mascus and suddenly, ever say suddenly, suddenly

a light shone around him from heaven, and then he

fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him.

Now, I want to start off.

By saying, do you know that your journey with the

lot starts with an encounter. There needs to be an

encounter some of us, right, we come to church, we've

been in church for a long time, but we've never

encountered Jesus at a personal level. So it becomes someone

else's faith. It becomes my leader's faith, my parents' faith.

I want to speak to our young people. This has

to be your own faith, a personal encounter with who

Jesus is. And do you know, as bad as we

all make it out, make us Aul out to be right,

most of us.

Right, if we were God and we had someone like Saul,

what we.

Do zepp him? No? Now, think about it. If you

were God and you had someone like Saul persecuting your church,

what would you do? Not? Very nice things? Right? I

mean of course you will like lock him out, get

him out of the way, right, don't let him come

near us. Oh, but Jesus very different, No radical, because

even with the worst. How did Paul later on describe himself,

I'm the chief of sinners, the chief, you know, the

worst of the Lord. Like if you can think of

someone bad, think that that's worse. No, maybe make that

one hundred times worse. And that's how Saul saw himself.

Paul saw himself. Okay, so he's there, and then Jesus

came to meet with him. You think about it, Jesus

is not going to miss anyone out. If you think

that you are the worst of the worst, the most

hopeless of the hopeless, can I give you good news.

Jesus is coming for you in a good way. He

does not want to leave you the way you are, right,

And that's why he came to Saul personally. He had

an encounter with him, and so he called him by name.

Do you think Jesus knows your name? He knows every

one of us by name, so we call him Saul. Saul,

why are you persecuting me? All right? And this is

the question that led to this message verse five, And

he said who are you?

Who are you?

Lord? Now, this might throw you off right in your Bible,

you might say, hey, but he already called him lord

war It's like, who are you?

You know this what Lord?

And this is what I'm getting at, is Jesus your lord.

He already called him lord, but he still had this

question who are you? So it's a bit puzzling right

to say, hey, who are you?

A father?

Like? Can you imagine you go to your dad and

say who are you father? Okay? So this lord, I

realize is when he says this lord, right, it just

basically means and a respectful term for someone with authority.

So he recognized, right, he's like breeding threats and he's

trying to put people in prison. And then something divine happened. Right,

Is it normal every day that you have a voice

from heaven like shining around you? If it happens, please

tell me, she okay, I just want to hear your experience.

It's not an everyday experience.

But he recognized it's someone divine and he's so he's

basically asking this question, who are you, sir? Respectful term?

Who are you sir? Right? And so what did the

lord say? And the lords? I am Jesus whom you

are persecuting.

It is hard for you to kick against the goats.

Isn't that a very strange thing for Jesus to say, like,

who are you? I'm Jesus, stop kicking the goads. Hey,

we talk about so many gods.

G O A T now god g O A d oh.

So maybe God is the word of the day. What

does it mean?

Do you understand what it means? That it is hard

to kick against the goadts. Have you ever asked yourself

that question? Well, what does it mean? Tell me, I

don't know where I appreciate you before? Not?

Do you do you know what it means? It's hard

to kick against the goads?

Don't know? Don't know?

Say, don't know that I tell you?

So if you look at this picture, now, basically what

is the god? So? Yes, why are you persecuring? So

it begins with an encounter. So Jesus met with Saul.

Let's go to the next like now in the olden

days when they are these are farmers right, so they

are plowing the land.

Okay, what animals do you used to plow the land? Cattle?

Bulls? Right?

So they will yoke them up. Do you see that?

Yog? And that's why a lot of the analogy in

the Bible is using farbing energy. Right, Jesus says, you know,

do not be unyoke with unbelievers. Okay, but Jesus says,

take on my yoke. Do you want to be yoke

to Jesus? Not yahn yoke? That means you're bound with Jesus.

You know, do you want to be bound with Jesus,

I don't know. Someone was like, Nola, it's too heavy.

But Jesus said, I will carry the load. Because that's

the verse that says, come to me, all of you

who are weary and heavy laden? Do you see the

conversation that the what Jesus is trying to say? If

you god yourself to me, right, if you're tied to me,

then I will carry your load. How many of us

want that? We want Jesus to carry all the lord

and then we free go into our own thing. Right,

We're like Jesus, you said, the letlad then I can

live my life however I want. But do you know

that when you're walking with someone, you actually have to

align your life with that person. So how many of

us are actually aligning ourselves with Jesus? Walk up walking

with him, walking with him? And so basically now all

of us are like sheep who have gone astray on.

It sounds like a song. It is a song, but

it's also in scriptures. Okay. And the thing about us,

right is we like to turn to the left and

turn to the right corhy not as you don't do this,

are you to do do it? As you don't look

up everybody look up like that? Allah, right, don't look

up that everyone to look up. So the farmer is

asking the god to go straight? And what will they do?

Go left or go right?

Normal humans?

Right, we like to turn to the left or turn

to the right. Do everything we want to do. Okay. Now,

the farmer has a device and it's called the God.

The God is the thing that you see that farmer using, right,

and it's a wooden thing. At the end of it,

there's a sharp, pointy thing. And what does he do

with it? So every time the goat the cattle that

is walking together, when they turn to the left or

to the right, right, the farmer will use it to

prick ouch right. So you're supposed to go straight and

then you turn. Let what would the farmer do? But ah,

so that you will turn back to the straight and

narrow path. Do you see that straight and narrow path?

Oh?

I want to turn to that right now. O. Cool,

Now I'm going back on the straight and narrow path.

Right.

And So what Saul was doing at that time is

whatever that he was doing with persecuting the Lord, he

was kicking against the ghost. Now, how many of you

if you kick against something shop, What will happen to you?

Pay for on?

And because he's struggling, right, he's trying like, no, I

want to go my way, on, go my way. I'm kicking. Oh,

you're poking me a kick, right. Normally, if something is

spoking you, then you're like, mosquito, come to you. What

you do You're like, oh, come, come, come, prick me,

prick me, prick me? How many?

What will you do to the mosquito? You wag cla.

So as you're walking right, you have no visibility. Something

is poking you behind. What you do you kick against it.

You're trying to get rid of that thing. But Jesus

is saying, why are you kicking at the goats? It

is hard for you. It means you're gonna hurt yourself.

And so what Jesus was trying to tell Saul is

is useless to persecute me. If you continue persecuting me,

you are going to get hurt, right, And Saul recognized

this because this was a proverb use in the Roman sanctuary,

so he understood this term. All of us don't understand

that because we all don't recko one right, no bulls anyways.

So so now Saul had.

This recognition, is like, okay, this Jesus is someone else,

And I thought, yeah, Jesus, whom I'm trying to persecute

is someone different, someone not that who I think he is. Okay.

So then so then that this becomes his response now right,

So the thing is right. I don't know when you

met with Jesus, how would you respond. Is it like, oh, okay,

yeah Jesus okay? Or was there a genuine fear, a

genuine astonishment, like.

Recognition that who Jesus is?

Because look at verse six he says, so he trembling

and astonish, say, sir, what do you want me to do?

How many of us as we encounter the Lord Jesus,

our first response to him is what do you want

me to do?

What do you want me to do?

It's not I tell you what to do, eh Jesus.

You think about your own prayer life, how many of

us the type or the pattern of our prayer? It's like, Jesus,

can you do this? Can you bless can you do this?

Can you provide? Can you solve this problem? But Saul's

encounter with him was what do you want me to do?

What do you want me to do. So he's catching

onto something. Are you catching something? What do you want

me to do? It's not what I want you to

do for me, God, okay, catch that. And then the

Lord said to him, arise and go into the city,

and you will be told what you must do. Verse seven.

And the man who journeyed him too, speechless, hearing a

voice and seeing no one. So there's this encounter with him.

Let's let's hear what goes on after this versus. Then

saul A rose from the ground, and when his eyes

were open, so you tried opening his eyes. He saw

no one. Actually it was he was blinded at this point. Blinded, yeah, blinded.

But they let him by the hand and brought him

into Damascus verse nine. And he was three days without sight,

and neither ate nor drank. Okay, Now, every encounter that

you have with Jesus will lead you to this place

of a deep search. Have you been there? Have you

come to this place where you were in this place?

You know when I read this verse nine, right, three

days without sight?

Do you think he see light or you see darkness?

Imagine me?

Imagine with me. Is it darkness that you see? Darkness? Right?

You can't see anything without sight, and he ate nothing.

He drank nothing. How many of you faster three days before?

No food?

No? No, it sounds like he was pretty desperate. Yeah,

that spread for the truth. How many of you have

really come to this place where you wrestle with the Lord? No?

Honestly, I need.

You to recognize where you are in your journey as

a Christian all this world? Did you have an encounter

with him? And in that encounter, did it leads you

to a place of search, of deep search of who

Jesus is really? Who is Jesus to you?

Do you know that? I think that was his main question?

What would you be thinking about if you were saw

at the point? Think about it? Well, what are some

of the thoughts that you might be having at this point?

Habez aha?

Just very honest. Habe is like, God, woe is me?

What do I do? Forever?

Black? Yeah? You know? True? Hey, actually it's true. You know.

I tell you a story, real story. So my mom

in law went for a catrick surgery. Uh, And so

she went for one already, and she was fine immediately

she could see after the surgery, right, So she was fine.

And then she was discharged and then a few months

later he went she went for the other cat track surgery,

and this time, right after the surgery, she could not see.

So guess what she panicked. She panicked, and guess what.

Her BP shot up high. She's supposed to come home

at three pm. One No, so her BP shot up high,

and she's like, I cannot see, I cannot she's panicking.

And so what happens was they sent her to the emergency,

to the er and they say, okay, I think her

blood pressure was so high on eighty, you know, hundred eighty.

And they're like, okay, I think to be saved, let's

do a brain scan and lo and behold, they found

out that there was a bleeding in a brain. Okay,

So a bleeding in the brain, it actually usually means

it's a froke, right, But of course, you know, different

doctors have different opinions. You know, normally, if it's like

a high BP, it will not lead to a struck

straight away, but there must be an underlying thing like

But of course at the time we didn't know, right,

we thought straight BP, heiden, you know, you get a

bleeding in a brain anyways.

So but she could not see and that's why.

She panicked, And so Jesse is saying that, can you

imagine if you're blind for treating you don't? Of course

we read now in hindsight, we know a lot of

three days out the day you receive his side. But

if you're in that position, you're like, gone, I'm gonna

lose my sight forever. What's happening to me? Can you

say as the consjongness? Now, a little consjongness? Okay? What else?

What else might he be thinking at this point? Feeling anyone? Don't? Noah?

What is it?

What did I do to deserve this?

Very thanks for that, because that's all our question, true

or not, especially when you're going through a hard time?

What did I do to deserve this?

Hey?

Actually that's true. You know who is a man of God?

I am doing everything for God? Why am I going

through this right now? Right? So there was this real

search of the heart and mind and He's just like,

I'm not gonna eat I'm not I don't have epithite

to eat nothing. I'm just in this place like looking

for answer. I'm looking for answer the truth now you

see in and can I tell you that that's a

good place to be. I would rather you have that

deep search than to go through your entire life just

being on surface in your relationship with the lawyer, because

nothing will change for you. No really, nothing will change

for you if you live your Christian life just on

the surface. I didn't not go deepler. No, no, no, no no.

I tell you it's a good thing.

It's a good thing.

To go and engage, like I said, just now right,

you want to go with God, go on hundred percent.

It's at it all or nothing. You know, it's all

or nothing. So don't play church, friends, don't play church.

We want you to be fully in. And so Saul

was fully into this engaging mode, asking asking whoever it

is out there, what is the truth right, so that

the deep work of transformation is happening right now for him.

Now, guess what.

There's this other guy in the character and his name

is Anna Nayas.

You heard of him.

Good guy, by guy, good guy. But even go guys, right,

God also wants to transform. Let's read verse ten. Now,

there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananaius, and

to him, the Lord said in the vision Ananaius, and

he said, here.

I am Lord.

So the Lord said to him, arise and go to

the street called straight and inquire at the house.

Of Judas for one called soul of Tassus.

For behold he is praying, and in a vision he

has seen a man named Ananaius coming in and putting

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

And what the annas say, Yes, of course I will go. Hey, no,

I thought he's a good guy. He's like, yes, send me, Lord,

here I am, send me. You know you always sing

that song send me. And then Anonaius answered, Lord, But

you know 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

buying all who call on your Name's serious, you know,

He's like, Jesus, do you know how serious this matter is?

You know sometimes we talk to hey, oh you know not.

Do you know how serious this threat is? Don't you know?

My life is in danger?

What? What?

What might en? And I is be thinking at this point,

think about it, songs sayer you want to dire?

You know, hey, Jesus, you.

Didn't know he's putting everyone into prison, you know, and

you asked me to go and lay hands on him.

She's heer.

Like I said, some people think Jesus is a lunatic.

How is this possible? Right?

But the Lord said it go for he is a

chosen vessel.

Of mind to bear my name before gentle house kings

and the children of Israel. Then he said this, for

I will show him how many things he must suffer

for my name's sake. How many of us say that

we want to be disciples of Jesus Christ? You know

the song in the new song the second song? Is

that a new song? The one the Son of Suffering?

When it is new to Mila?

I never.

Just started this cycle? Wow?

I thought this song was so edman, son of suffering.

And so if you want to follow Jesus, h you

will be called son or daughter of suffering. You know

that's what he said, right, for I will show him

how many things he must suffer for my name?

Say anyone want to follow Jesus? Now?

Why so hot? Wanna?

I thought being Christians so easy?

Right?

I think we all love?

We all like the love, love, stuffla grace and mercies

knew every morning? Where is that pie?

How come that's not in this message?

No? No, Jesus is gracious and merciful, but the road

to him is marked with suffering. It is because Jesus came.

He didn't have it all on a bit of roses.

That's what the message is. He went to the cross.

He himself went to the cross, and it says that

if you want to follow me, then you must deny yourself,

take up your cross, and then follow me. Are we

willing to do that? So something is happening, Something must happen,

There must be a change and transformation.

And what did anon Ius do then?

In verse seventeen, and Annius went his way and entered

the house, and laying his hands on him, he said, bro,

bro from jess now jesey, now Jesus. If I go

to him, he's gonna send me up to lock up.

You know. Now he's like brother, brother Saul. What he said,

Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on

the road as you came, has set me that you

may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Amen.

So there's this process. Do you see this process of

transformation happening for everyone? Saul the bad guy, ann I

as the good guy. Everyone needs to go through this transformation? Everyone?

What is transformation? What? Okay? Do you have you heard

of this word called repentance? Heard of it?

Right?

What do you understand by this word repentance? Tell me Christians?

I know you can give me the textbo answer. Now

I want a textbo answer. What do you understand by repentance?

You turn? You turn?

Okay, explain it a bit more? What is U turn?

How would you explain you turn to someone who doesn't

know Jesus? How would you explain it? Turn from your

evil ways?

Do you agree?

Okay? Halfway there? You can turn? Okay, let's say this

is evil way. This is the right way. You can

turn from your evil ways and walk here? True? Is

that what full repentance is? Then? What is full repentance?

Turn away from your wicked ways and turn towards God? Right,

there needs to be a change. Right, and the word change.

The word repentance basically means matter noya. This is a

Greek word matter noya, and it has this word matter.

What is meta? Oh? You think about meta? Right now? Ai? Right?

What is meta?

Change?

Oh?

The answer is there?

Thank you very much, thanks actually for helping your friends out.

Meta is changed? What is the other word that you

learn in school science. Meta?

What a metamorphosis?

This on?

You know?

Right? So what does metamorphosis mean? Change states the form? Right,

the morph is a form. So you're changing from a

state or the form of a larva into a state

of a butterfly. Different form now, right, So that's meta morphosis.

But what about meta no yah? What does that mean?

What does meta noya mean? Oh, your untilsolarity. It's a

change of your mind. It's a change of your understanding.

It's a change of who you perceive Jesus to be.

Do you know that when Jesus came on to earth

right after he was baptized, he was anointed by the

Holy Spirit. What was the first thing that he preached?

What did Jesus preach? Repentance? He didn't say God loves

your world. That's how we preach to our friends, right, Hey,

God really loves you. Then you're like, so what, But

Jesus came and came hard. He came and says, come

and change your mind. There needs to be a mindset

that needs to change because the Kingdom of Heaven is

at hand. Because you know why, we all have a

wrong understanding of who Jesus is. So let's not blame

it all on Saul. All of us, even though you've

been walking with Jesus for a long time, we all

have a not a full comprehension of who Jesus is.

So Jesus is saying, I need you to have a

change of mind of who I am, and then I

as good guy. He needs to have a change of

mindset right of God's plan and God's purpose for Saul.

Because most of us would have written Saul of Honestly,

none of us would have given Saul a chance. Nobody

would think that he's gonna turn around, Nobody except Jesus. Right,

he says, I will have a plan for him, and

I will show him how much he must suffer for

my name's sake Verse eighteen. Immediately say immediately, well, this

transformation is immediately. Immediately there fell from his eyes something

like skills, and he received his side at once, and

he arose and was baptized.

Do you see that?

You see how the Holy Spirit is the one that

will cause our perception, our blindness to fall off like skills.

And that's why our.

Theme is revival right this year. Revival means it's the

work of the Holy Spirit. I can preach until the

cows come home. But unless there is the power of

the Holy Spirit, you will not have the skills removed

from your eyes. You will still be blinded by by

what you think Jesus is or who Jesus is to you?

All right, he received his side at once, and he

arose and was baptized. And when he had received food,

he was strengthened. And then Saul spent some days with

his disciples at Damascus. Now this is the full transformation happening.

What do you now say of food the Lord Jesus is?

Who is Jesus to you?

My first question? Who is Jesus to Saul? Verse twenty.

Immediately he preached Christ in the synagogues that he is there.

Who is he Son of God? Now do you understand

the connotation of calling Jesus the son of God?

What does that mean?

If you call Jesus the son of God? What does

this mean? What does that mean for your life and

my life? Tell me His sovereign thank you for that. So,

when you have this understanding that Jesus is God whom

you are praying to, how will your prayer change? Now?

Knowing that he's sovereign.

It's gonna affect you, right, it's gonna affect.

How you pray. Do you pray from a position of

defeat or victory victory?

How many of us pray defeat?

The prayers like I'm not sure? Like God, are you

sure you can do this? But do you know what's happening? God?

Like Jesus isn't Nola? Do you see that? Do you

see how when you look at Jesus as Son of God,

as God, now your prayers changed.

You pray now in victory.

You're like saying, Jesus, I know you've got this. You've

got this God, I don't have to worry about this anymore. Yes,

I receive a report, Yes, bad health report does the matter?

Yes, I'm gonna lose my job.

But so what Hello? So what do you believe God

is in control? Do you believe Jesus is in control?

If you believe He is in control, then you'll say, God,

I know you will settle this for me. Lack of finances, Jesus,

I trust in you, even if I have to break

eat bread and meggie me It's okay. I still got food.

It's gonna be okay.

Do you see.

Do you see the difference now in how you perceive

who Jesus is how you will affect your entire life

when you know, when we say things like Jesus is everything,

is he really everything? That means that if you lose everything,

is he enough? I'm gonna say that again. If you

lose everything that you care for, love, cherish in this world,

is Jesus going to be enough? Because this is a

very real question. Yeah, Because if you love something that

is very deep, very dear to you, most of the

time the question is why is this happening to me?

How can you do this to me? God? Right? There

is a misunderstanding of who God is.

And then we go.

Into this spiritual spiral and they're like, I don't know.

I don't believe in God anymore. My faith is shaken

because I can't trust this God. But the problem is

we don't know this God. You see the problem? We

don't know God? And friends, can I really want to

encourage you, how many of you really believe that this

is the word of God? How many of you really

believe this is a word of God? Then how many

of you read the Word of God every day? Do

you see what you said, and what you do is

completely different. You say, yeah, this is the most this

is the authority, this is the word of God. It

brings life, you know, it brings direction, it gives me peace,

And then we don't read it law. So what are

we actually saying. You're saying, that's a lilah Jesus. You

know it's good for Jonathan, it's good for Abigail, it's.

Good for everyone else except me.

What we say. So now when people say things to me,

I'm like, you can say whatever you want, but show me,

show me how you live your life, because I think

that is a true, true test of what you believe

in how you believe it. Because okay, friends, I want

to say this right in loving warning that we do

not want to come to a place when Jesus tells us,

I do not know you, because if we've never opened

this word of God on our own, and can I

tell you, I am very concerned when I hear some

of my leaders tell me that the only engagement that

they have with the Word of God is Scripture of

the Day, Verse of the Day. How are we gonna

build our faith when we just read that five minute

verse of the Day and like, go about our day.

Then is Jesus everything? Probably not? And you know it

and I know it. He is that five minute that

you think you owe him and then you go about

your day. So then of course you're asking, but I

really don't know. I never hear God's voice. Of course, law,

you didn't go to this horse hello, If you never

went to the sauce, then of course you cannot know

God's way.

You don't know what he wants for you. It's as

simple as that.

Right.

If you never ask for.

The person who knows the direction to go clang, how

will you ever get to clean yourself? Why I go

to klangl I so don't know.

You think about it, you're trying to.

Then my question is do you even want to get

to Clang? God claim pe here not I don't know.

We must go to Clang?

Then you're he takes away from this sage. You must

go to Clang.

No no, no, no no. But you see do you

see that if you don't don't have the word, a

love for the Word of God, it's very hard to

grow in our faith. Can I tell you every Sunday

that you come here, It's not enough France, it's not

enough for you to grow your faith, and then then

we get very shallow Christians who doubt every single thing

that happens in their life because you're not anchored in

the world. So my encouragement to you is, can you

really get serious with the word of God? Because Pasadan

and Jess and the team cannot do anything to transform you.

Only the Word of God can and the Holy Spirit.

Right, it is that there's something that you need to

do because God knows what you do on Monday to Saturday.

They don't. And so how serious are you? How serious

are you with God? I want us to get serious, friends, Right,

we really need to get serious. We need to prepare

our hearts and our days. Do you know at the

end of the day, right this word Lord? Have you

ever called God Lord Jesus as my Lord? Have you

ever in your life done that? What does lordship mean?

Lordship mean means you acknowledge him as sovereign, right, that

he is God, He's in control, he's all powerful, he

knows everything. I love to live like that. Man means

I don't need to know my Shah. I don't need

to think. Okay, God, I want you to think. Or

so I said something from doctor DANIELA say, don't do things,

no need to think it so hard? Okay, okay, okayay clarify,

noned to think so hard? True? Do you know that

life as a Christian can be very simple? Don't overcomplicate things.

Just say I only know Jesus is God. That's it,

and I'll follow whatever he says. That's it. Hey, true, No,

it's simple, simple life. Not easy to do, lah, not

easy to obey. But do you know, obedience gets easier.

It does get easy, just like this obedience. The more

you disobey, the easier it is. Obedience is hard at

the beginning, but the more you obey, the easier it becomes.

You know. And so wow, where did we come to?

Right now? God wants us to live a life of

obedience because you remember we read Matthew seven. Just now

the warning I gave you the warning verse He says,

no one who tells me Lord Lord will enter the

kingdom unless they do the will of God. So how

do we know the will of God? Friends? How do

you know the will of God? The word? Not doctor Daniel,

He will not give you the answer. Chat Jpit will

not give you the answer. Claude, which is more powerful,

will not give you the answer. They are confused. Do

you know know this is a lot of news now

about the Ai confusion because Ai is not God. God

is God. And I wanted to bring you to this verse,

and I think this is a very important verse for

us to understand. Can you turn to Romans ten, Romans ten,

Romans ten, Okay, let's go to verse nine. Er Romans

ten nine says this that if you confess with your

mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that

God had raised him from the day, you will be safe.

Are you familiar with this, firse? So sometimes I think

that our lives as believers, we have not confessed Jesus

as Lord. I don't know what you confess him as

you know? What do you confess? Do you confess him

as Lord? And what that means? The lordship of Jesus

means every need will bow, every town confess that Jesus

Christ is Lord. Many of you have bought your knees

in your prayer before the Lord, in your prayer time,

in your own prayer time. Because this position, what position

is this? It's a position of surrender, It's a position

of humility, It's a position of saying, God, you are

my master, you are my lord. That's what lord means.

You know you are my boss. And so when I

am in this position, I'm not gonna say, Jesus, I

tell you what to do. A It's more of like, Jesus,

you tell me what to do? You tell me how

do I make this decision? You tell me what kind

of relationship I should be in. This is the lordship

Philippians too, every knee will bow. I don't know if

every Christian here has ever about your knee to the Lord.

You don't have to show it here, but in your

quiet time in your own room. Have you ever bought

your knee to the Lord Jesus Christ? We say, you know,

we like to sing praises. Right, you are Lord, you

are God. But have you ever bought yourself and just

acknowledged God? You our Lord, Jesus. You are Lord over

my life, and that means you have control over everything.

I surrender before you. Amen. Are you catching something? I

think this position is something that I remind myself because

if I find it very hard to bow my knees now,

I don't know. Okay, there is for these kind of

jokes going around here. It's like, are you oh, very

painful now to bow our knees because it's creaking and

aching through not think because I mean, yes, oh saying

orthopedic alaraity. But even if it hurts, would you still bow?

Would you still bow your body? Would you still bow

your heart? Would you bow your mind to the lordship

of Jesus Christ. Amen. So I'm gonna bring this to

a close. I'm gonna ask extreme to come and be

ready to minister. And I want to really minister to

you and give you an opportunity to respond. Now.

This is how I want to call for you.

First one, I really believe that there needs to be

a baptism of the Holy Spirit, because, like I said,

if you've never encountered the Holy Spirit as a real person,

you only know God the Father, you only know Jesus.

What's missing is the Holy Spirit. And Holy Spirit is

the one that is going to empower us to do

what Jesus wants us to do. Amen. He is the

Spirit of Jesus. Jesus is not here with us now,

but the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit. We want

to honor him, We want to give him room in

our lives to work to transform. Do you know I can?

Like I said, without the Holy Spirit, there will be

no conviction. Without the Holy Spirit, there will be no

change in your life. You're going to find it such

a struggle, like why I can't do my quiet time?

Why can't I read? Why is this bad habit so hot?

Why can't I discipline myself with the phone? Do you

know I think right? For many of us, this is Lord.

For many of us, this is Lord. It's not Jesus.

How you spend your time, how you spend your money?

Is it?

Did you ask the Lord?

So the first group is this for those who desire

for a baptism of the Holy Spirit. You're saying, Jesus,

baptize me with the Holy Spirit, because Jesus said, I

will send you a helper.

Yeah, do you want to help her?

We leave, we lead, and we leave defeated lives because

we do not have the power of the Holy Spirit

and acts. Church believes that all believers need the power,

the presence, the person of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so

this is gonna be for you. Just get ready to

come up as we open the altar. Now a second

girl of people, I sense that God wants us to

come to a place of repentance. If you've never repented before,

and what does that mean. It's not saying, it's not

saying I feel guilty about something.

Oh I feel sorry.

You know I'm guilt laden right now, my emotions are

sid no repentance. As you heard just now, repentance is

a change of change off, change off, change off your mind.

You want to say, God, I'm gonna change my mind

about who you are. You are no longer just a

good teacher. You're no longer just my friends. God, you

are my lord, and I'm going to bow down to

your lordship. That's what repentance means. Repentance means, I am

bowing down to your lordship. I'm going to let you

take over the will. That's what repentance and that call

is for you. If you never repented before in your

journey as a Christian, Today is the day. Amen.

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