12+1 Core Values: Introduction and Spirit Filled | Pr Alvin Keng

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We hope this message will light up your day.

So let's start with the first thing. What is the

importance of values? Think about it a little bit, are

you Guysually we do a b a training, Bible study,

you know, let's do it be all that. Okay, what's

saying about our values to lead and guide the church?

Why do we need values? Okay? So can we go

back to the actually, oh yeah, you can go to

ka ne nay mine.

So if you go to the website, the top part

you see vision, the vision of the church.

Okay.

The vision of the church basically tells you where you

want to go, where we want to go. This is

the vision. You go and join the company. The company say,

oh our vision is this, you know? And that is

the vision is where you want to go? You know,

I have a vision to go to Pinang to have

check it out. That's your vision, right, that's the vision right?

And and if you scroll down you see the mission.

Why are you going there? I want to inject your cuadella.

That's why I want to go to Penine.

Right, there's a vision, right, lovely couple, vision I want

to get married.

Why, of course we love each other.

Okay, mission right, So the vision and the mission right,

So vision and mission tells us where we are going

and why we are going there.

So as a church, she's saying, we have a vision

in the church. Right, we are church prunning church. Right.

We want to help people believe this aur is our vision. Why, Well,

we want to be obedient to what God has asked

us to do. You know, we'll believer us. Right, that's

the mission. But the values, and we're talking about values

in thirteen weeks, is the fuel that drives the car there.

The values is the thing that will help us move forward.

It's good to have a vision, it's good to have

a mission purpose, but if you got no values, you

won't be able to reach there. If there's no values

driving you, you're.

Not going to be able to move forward.

Right, Okay, how many of you know life is hard,

not hard, but hard. Life is hard. Also, life is hard. Okay,

Me and my wife have this joke every time we argue.

After you argue, we look at you, I love is hard,

you know, and then we will Yeah, we'll make up

and then we'll move forward.

Okay.

That's why passes and always remember she said, Oh, I

know marriage is for the brief, so you want to

get married brief people love battle scarcity, so life is hard.

That means that your face challenge is correct. How many

of you here never face challenges before? No challenge in

your life? Go on, anybody, I want to meet you.

What's a secret? No challenge at all?

You know, never suffer, never, never worry nothing, all right,

God challenge right?

Okay?

When a challenge happens, What happens when there's a challenge,

what happens?

Face it?

Run away, fight or flight? Okay, when you have a challenge,

only two things would happen. You either give up or

you overcome Corona. When the challenge happens, you either give

up or you overcome. You either are defeated, right or

you you know, become stronger correct when the challenge comes.

Just these are the two things. When a challenge comes,

you either okay, I give up, don't do anything. Even

staying there is giving up now, or you become stronger

by overcoming it. Right.

And in life, in a church and de tig you'll.

Probably know there are there will be challenges that will

come to defeat the vision admission Let's not even talk

about church. Let's talk about your company. Let's talk about

your family. Your family. Do you know that all of

you here has a vision, have a mission, a mission

for your family? Do you know that some you not know.

You probably think about it for all time, You have

no idea what're talking about. But I will argue that

you do have a vision admission for your family because

it motivates what you decide every single day. It motivates

what you decide to do for your life and your family.

You have a vision admission. Maybe you haven't write it

down yet, but you do have. You know in the church,

we do have. And the thing is, there will be

challenges that come in our life. Will be one that's

the surety of life. Okay, There'll be I'm and down right.

There will be winding roads, you know, crossroads young okay, doubts.

Everything goes well and then suddenly someone made the change

and then you're like, oh, you know, I'm back to

square one, or now I'm at a crossroad deciding what

to do right right, there could be heels while I'm

going up the hill. There could be values as well.

And we know that challenges can either come to defeat

the vision, admission, or to make it stronger. Right, but friends,

values are the field that helps us get through those challenges,

or it helps us to overcome. If you've got no values,

it's very difficult to overcome challenges, want to know, very difficult.

But if you've got strong values, if you're very clear

with yourself, then it will help you. It doesn't say

the challenge don't be there, but it will help you

to overcome whatever challenge you face. Values causes us to

stand firm and strong and faithful despite opposition. It will come.

That's the surety of life I've learned. And do you

know that God is big on values? Win Bible got

say it no, read the Bible. Everything is value, God value,

Kingdom minded. You know everything is values?

Right?

Values also character, Friends, show me a person who has

a lot of values, and you will see a person

who has character.

A person who got no value, got no character.

And you know, like the Bible says a suit, we're

doing left and right. When the wind blows values, anything goes.

Whatever can how do you reach that? I cannot?

Right? Values?

Also character and character is this one right is now?

Character is what we are in the dark when no

one is looking. How many of us here have eaten

that cookie even though you know you shouldn't. How many

if you had in doubts a little bit in you

know something that you shouldn't indust when no one's the king, right,

I mean we all have. But if you've got strong values,

you will have self control. This is why values are important.

I guys, okay, okay, let's talk a little bit more

about values. Do you know that values are also non compromisable?

Do you understand what that means? Values are noncompromisable?

Right?

And friends, I'm talking to believers here, so I will

be upfront with you guys. As believers, right, we need

to understand that in this life there are things that

are compromisable in our life, and there are things that

are non compromisable. Right, and see, when you know that

there are things compromisable non compromisable, then what you do, right, Well,

you need to decide really early and maybe for some

of us we need to learn learn about it. Learn

what are the things that are compromisable and not compromisable?

As believers, right, we need to decide early and learn, right,

what are the things that we cannot compromise in our lives.

Why if we want to live the abundant life, then

we have to decide early. If you want to live

the life that God has intended for you, then you

decide early. What are the things you don't compromise?

Isn't it a challenge? Young? We get asked?

I know you, you know, like when you're in campus

to learn everything's like perfect, you go the moment you

go on working, well, you see a lot of things.

When then you will also learned that a lot of

things are gray gray one God, I pray so hard,

but this person took the person out for macan and

then they got the promotion. Right, things are great. In

the Bible, it says I will cause it to rain

on the weakened and the righteous. How are you gonna

argue your God could not go so?

Now?

No?

How were not good?

Lie?

Easy? Right? Do you have values? Do you trust in

a lot?

If we want the abandoned life that Got wants for us,

if we want to see ourselves succeed, then we need

to know what other uncompromisable values in our lives. Let

me give you some examples, because I know sometimes this

is small, like decision making. We think about it in

the area of church, and sometimes we say certain things.

Let me talk about dressing a little bit. Okay, so

uncompromisable dressing. Okay, So today I decided to wear a

flower blue tie I like.

I like flabberties.

Okay, if tomorrow I decided to wear a great tie,

is it compromisable? It's sort of unless pastor Steven come

and say I win tomorrow, I'll dress Coda. It's all

going to be orange tie. Like the hosts them, I'm like,

okay to a Strengthsay, it's going to be uncompromisable because

I will have to decide whether I want to follow

he say, or not career or not.

Right.

But if I start, you see, if I'm a team player,

they'll say, sure, I'll wear orange tie or go buy one.

But if I want to, you know, do my own

thing or figure my own way down and start giving

no why.

I must have tie? What is the doctrinal reason why

we need to wear orange? Why do we? It shows

my value? I'm not a team player? Your your cash

there not?

Okay again, it's a big gray Okay, let me give

you another another value that I practice that I confident

can say that it's uncompromisable to me and my family.

I don't miss Sunday church even if I'm on holiday,

even if there's no take costal Holy Swity church there,

I will look for a church even if the church

just boring and day.

You know why, because my value is not about church,

not about Sunday. My value is I must worship God

on Sunday because it's my sylver. This is me. No,

it's me. You got your catch that. I got another value.

I show you my family value for me and my

house long time ready it may and my wife decided.

We will serve the lot.

Because of that, we make decisions on a daily basis

to serve God with our kids.

Does my kid enjoy it? No?

Right, I have one child that made a bit more compliant.

Praise the Lord right every day? He stressed, I you

read my Bible. I'm like, okay, great, I don't have

the pressure you.

You go to yourself.

Right when we go and do stuff and are too busy,

he gets restressed.

I got no time read my brother.

I're like, okay, okay, chill, chill, God's not gonna judge you.

Be fine.

I got another one after thirty opposite, right, hah church

again right, the moment finishes, where can we go home?

See? All these things.

Does not detect my value because we will still be

in church so much so that my kids are all

a little bit more now it's a normal thing on Sunday.

They will ask me, so we shuch sh are we

going this week? Because sometimes I will go different places,

and so we shish are we going this week?

Ha? No xpja.

I like all the friends there, right, But that's the value,

and it takes time to build.

Right. There are certain values that we need to know.

It's important. I guess.

Okay, this is why we're talking about values as a church.

And I hope I hope that as we go through

the values as a church that you will recognize and

at least see even if you don't fully get it

yetna or practice yet. It's okay, let's get there. Okay,

sh there not let's get there. Is it a value

in my kids life to make church a priority? Of course?

Not lot they don't understand, right, but to bad lah,

I'm the father. You have to follow up, you join

another family, you go another family.

Value. They don't.

They don't honor God on Sunday. That's your problem. You

join them, Go and join them, join your family. But

my family, I do this. Don't catch that. Don't catch

that right, because I want to honor the lot. So

they are non compromisable. Let me give you another morning. Friends,

Once we start compromising on some things, we start going

down a very slippery road. You agree, Let me give

you an example, a funny example. I've been on this

health Jennifer already okay, and last week.

Let's just say I compromise. I supposed to exercise, I reals.

Keep exercising two and a half one and a half

week city and I'm feeling it. I'm feeling bad, right,

I'm feeling not just bad in my conviction, but also

feeling bad. And said, oh no, I'm feeling like something

is wrong inside ready because go holiday over it yesterday?

And I'm like no.

So now I'm trying to crow in push ups here

and there, no right before I sleepy, push ups in

the morning, wake up kro just trying to make myself

feel better.

But they compromise.

It took one time, I busy, another time or nobody

there at the gym in compromise.

Then it's hard.

The thing is the moment we start compromising our values,

you will you will start finding yourself in another place.

That's why we got to come to this space where

I said, no, I cannot compromise. No matter what happens, right,

I will not allow it to move.

Guys. Okay, okay, not a long time. Let's go. Okay,

let me share you where is these child call values

come from? Okay?

So when when Pascana started the church, and when he

was praying, asking the Lord what is the name of church?

And all he God led him to call our church

ex church as I mentioned just now, because we want

to go back to the church that had no fingerprint

of man, right, the church that the lot intended.

Right. So when he was looking.

For the core values that will guide our church in

the things we do, it is definitely from the Bible,

and not just from his own life case. Definitely from

a Bible right and X. Chapter two was a key

chapter where we drew out the child court values Chold

plus one sorry, because it starts with the visitation of

the Holy Spirit and it ends with the church triving

grew and we are church right, So it makes sense

to you know, see what the Bible say about that.

The first church and follow up right, and he wanted

to find out what are the ingredients of a driving

church and how we can try beyond him because the

founders can one day not be around.

Do you know that?

Do you know if everything is resting on the founder,

when the founder's not here, it won't survived?

You want? Right? For example, if the values that.

I mentioned to you just now, we will serve the

lot and I don't miss Sunday church. Do you know

that those two values, it's not even an Elvin Kak value.

It's from the Bible that we honor the Sabbath and

that we for me and my house, yourself, the lot.

It's not even my value. No, it's a Bible value.

You know. Do you know that if it's my value,

it will die? Oh? My value is I will be

a go there? Why my friend son dont be a goku?

Or in my very if I create values so that

it might not last, it will die with me those

values because it doesn't. It won't last. It's a human value,

but God's value will last.

One.

God said in his word right that his word will

never fait. Do you say his words will never fait?

So if we practice the values that the Bible has,

don't you you know and you if you, if you,

if you follow what the Bible says. Sorry, I think

that In Joshua chaptob one, it says, meditate on my

word day and night, and you shall be prosperosed you

not just you, but you and your generations. That's the

promise of the Word of God. Because when we follow

God's values and Bible, we will succeed, we will prosper,

we will experience the abundant life that He intended for us.

Right.

And the wonderful thing is that it can be passed

on to the next generation because God will be there

with them.

Amen.

So he wanted to find out what are the ingredients

of a driving church and how it can try because

once he's gone, that's it. It is just based on him, right,

you know, you know how easy it can be. Let's

just use this experien example. If passus Stephen is very

particular about I don't know, maybe uh or every chair

must be aligned straighten on. Okay, let's say that's his value.

And in Bua all the chess must be straight, run straight.

I see second, really all this second really right? Not

as straightly?

Do you know?

That when passes Steven is not here, the chess won't

be straight. It's also funny, but it's true. We set

sound the live and you're like, why are you following it?

But if it's God's values, there's a reason why. There's

so why if it's God's values, it it's beyond us,

It's beyond the physical. So I will argue that best

value is in the Bible. Right what will hold it

is not the word of men, but the word of God,

because the word of God will last forever.

And pass.

It came out with this is so because he wanted

people to stand on the word of God.

Because the word of God is.

The rock of our salvation, and we will send of

the word of God, we won't be shaken.

That's why we have the chop coverlage.

This is why the chop Collveralene chop plus one coveralue

is important for our church. Okay, Okay, I hope I

give her a good introduction. Okay, let's talk about grave

Field okay X Chapter two, US two. If you got Bibles,

please turn to it. It says here and suddenly there

came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,

and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Of course, we talk about the Pentecosts, you know, the

coming of the Holy Spirit. That's what happened then, right,

And we read in X chapter T very then Peter

say to them, repent, and let everyone of you be

baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission

of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the

Holy Spirit. Actually happen, And none of MYSI about the

Holy Spirit. I don't think I preached before because I

think we're pretending you'll be easier to explain to you all.

But you know, when you become a believer and you

receive Christ into your heart. Now, do you not Jesus

not here anymore? Do you know that Jesus is not

here on earth anymore?

Right? Who is here with us? Holy Spirit? Right? Do

you know why the Holy Spirit is here? Not Jesus here?

Because the Bible says, oh, okay, let me give you

some other practical reasons why the Holy Spirit is here.

Jesus is a physical person. Yeah, yeah, he's Christ are okay,

He's God and all. But he's physical. No, means that

he can only be at one place at one time.

But do you know the Holy Spirit can be with

everyone at every time. This is why is beneficial for

him to be with us.

One of the.

Reasons why because God the Holy Spirit, he's omnipresent. He

is also all knowing and he has intellect. That means

when you are doing your business in the toilet this

morning and scrolling to your phone, the spray was there,

will you will think about it differently from noun words.

This is why it's beneficial for us as believe us

to have the Holy Spirit us because imagine this rather

than just having one person that starts somewhere and every

time we want to go and see passes Steven and

we come to church and you see him right nowhere

else and then you have to probably call and then

is limited limited by time and space. But Holy Spirit

is not limited. Holy spirits with everyone. When you pray,

God hears you because the Holy Spirit is with you.

This is why the first value is spirit failed because

when we receive Christ into our hearts, that's what we said,

we receive the salvation you know of God and you

receive the gift of Christ, the grace of the Lord

Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit comes into our life and

communes with us. That is what the Bible says. That

is why Benediction, I think it's in numbers right or

Corinthians right. When we send people off, we say, may

the grace of the Lord just Christ. Grace, not grace

of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God. Why

for God's love the world he gave his only begoden Son. Also,

the cool thing about love, God's love is that there's

nothing can separate us from the love of God. Your

sin cannot separate you from God's love. Okay, your catch,

how important that is not No matter how messed up

you are, friends, God's love can still reach you.

No matter how messed up people out there are.

Is you have, you should have the confidence that God's

love can reach them. But of course it is the

communion and the conviction of the Holy Spirit that gets

them transformed. It is the communion and the conviction of

the Holy Spirit that touches our hearts.

You get the process.

Not right does why spirit feels the value that we

need to remember because if you read in the Bible,

it all starts in the Holy Spirit.

Before that it was Jesus. This is good.

I'm not saying just one of our values is Christ centered. Yes, you,

Jesus is still there. But I'm not talking about getting

into becoming a believer. No, I'm not talking about receiving

salvation because yes, Jesus firsta okay, but after that then

Holy Spirit, after the Holy Spirit. Really and okay, I'm

not theologian. I don't want to get discussions with any

cessations here, but I believe that's Holy Spirit. What is

my proof my own life. Okay, you don't believe me

up to you, but I.

Know he's here.

Because I've experienced him. I understand what is it like

to be spirit filled, not just bringing towns friends, but

living life with the Holy Spirit, walking in the spirit.

It is a very exciting one. Right, there's a spirit field.

It's important for us as X because it all starts

with the Holy Spirit.

If you read the Book of X, and people argue

that the Book.

Of X is the book of the Apostles, but actually

the Book of X is the Book of the Holy Spirit,

because it's all the ex of the Holy Spirit, the

Spirit of God in men. That is causing the miracles

to happen, that's causing people to be convicted of their

sin because the Holy spirits dont want to convict right,

not us, We just we just Peter, just push the word.

But the spirit of God is when to convict the

heart of men? Right X, when it says you shall

receive power, when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and

in all Judea and Sema, and to the end and

to the ends of the earth. Okay, let me make

this argument here that scripture right, I believe all but

passe Alvin. I you know, I yes, I'm a believer,

I many years believer. They say I will receive power,

but I go to power one I cannot shoot web

out my hand.

I'm gonnat fly. I pray for word.

Don't know we are healed? Right, friends, you need to

go deeper in it. When you receive Christ in your

life and the Holy Spirit resides in you.

The Scripture is in the fact ready.

Right, meaning the power is deady, you have the power

to be witness Ready. The question is are you doing

anything about it? The question is are you reading the

world and learning and growing and applying and operating it?

Because it takes training. You know you mean the moment

I say, he passes. Even you play guitar, right, Nah,

here's the guitar.

I give you a guitar.

Can he play the guitar? I ha, play, just talk,

but just giveing the guitar first day today, of course,

not long. He has to do what he has to learn.

He has to practice, He has to learn from other people.

It's the same thing. It doesn't mean that he doesn't

have the guitar. No, you have the guitar, can play it?

E Can he learn without the guitar? He can't. Can

we with witnesses were without Holy Spirit? Do we have power?

Without whose spirit we don't have? But with the Holy

Spirit we do have power. But they have to practice that,

have to pray Allah, have to grow, have to trust

la right Zacharia for six says. So he answered and

said to me, this is the word of the Lord

to zerah Babel, not by mine, not by power, but

by my spirit, says a lot of hosts. So when

we have the Holy Spirit friends with us. Being spirit failed,

this is the first, very inexprestional. When we have the

Holy Spirit, we have the helper. And because we have

the helper, then we can follow the teachings of Christ

only through the help of the Holy Spirit. Huh, you

mean if I got no Holy Spirit?

Very hard? Let me read more.

And then I explained, okay, because and why is the

Holy Spirit important to us? Because if we are filled

with the spirit, Actually, all the other values were just following.

Do you know when you are fully influenced by the

Spirit of God, right, that all the other values after

that you learn, you can go and read what the

other values. Right, It won't be very difficult for you.

Do you know that because you're influenced by the Spirit

of God. You're not influenced by your flesh. You're not

influenced by your background, You're not influenced by something you

read online, you're not influenced by another speaker. You're influenced

by the Spirit of God living in you. That's why

it's a big deal. And where the Spirit of God is,

Christ will be exalted in the present physical absence from

Earth of Christ himself, who is We've got the Father.

That's where Christ Jesus is right now, Okay, that's why

we say this is going to come back soon. Right.

The Holy Spirit.

Is available for every believer to make Christ's presence accessible

to them. That's the power. No, it's not by association. No,

it is by relationship. You'll get there, not you're not

so association means associations is Oh, my name is.

Elvin, I got Christian name, DeFore i'm Christian. That's by association.

How do you know that I'm a follower of Christ

through my life? Not my name, through my life, not

my job title, through my life, not my hey, my

membership in next church Exergus got no membership or partnership

or leadership. No, it's not true that. That's not how

you see that I'm a disciple of Christ. You only

see I'm a disabled of Christ through the values I practice,

through the things I do, not by association. That's why

we have to be very careful to not believe in

the lie of the devil that we can be saved

by association.

Oh, that's this is why you're not what my association means.

It's like, that's why we have people who say, oh,

I'm born in a Christian family, so therefore i'm Christian.

I don't believe. Sorry, everybody need to accept this on

your own. My kids as well.

Right, So his presence is accessible to as friends are

we tapping into it, the Holy spirits, there are we

tapping into it. Galatians five twenty five says, if we

live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.

What does that mean?

Work in the spirit. I'll give you some practical tips

to think about.

Okay, you know, God.

Wants us to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit,

and you know, hopefully also make him my best friend,

law right, because when we do have a deeper relationship

or the relationship the Holy Spirit, he will lead us.

He will guide us. He will also teach us the

teachings of Christ. Whereas that now John chapter fourteen, verse

twenty six. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the

Father will send in my name, he will teach you

all things and bring to your membrans things that I

said to you. This is why, as believers we have

nudgings and hunters and leadings, because it's the spirit of God.

But the dangerous thing that I that I I will

that I'm also learning.

Is that sometimes it can be used an excuse.

La you know, because even though we have nudgings and

leadings and all, I also believe that God is a

God of structure and right that means there is you know,

in the Bible it says respect your leaders. You know,

even your boss is not a believer, work unto him

as though we're working on the God. See, God recognizes

that one. Sometimes we go with the nudgings and feelings

according to our flesh and don't realize it. Then we

are deceived by the evil one.

That's the danger. So it's not just a nudging and feeling.

I'm saying that when you have the Holy Spain in

you and you really submitted to him, he will get

you in your faith and you don't have to rely

anyone else on You can rely on God. That is

the truth. But at the same time, right at the

same time, yeah, the focus is the Holy Spirit. Sorry,

so let's go. Let's let me go back to my

my message.

Gait the line.

I have a line here that says, so what does

spirit field means? Spirit Field means to be constantly filled

with the spirit, because if we are not filled with

the spirit, we will be filled with other things. Okay,

So if you read Galatians five, I'm not going to

go through it. You read the Galatians five, you will

know that the spirit wrestles to the flesh. Right, So

if we're not filled with the spirit, then we will

be filled with the desires, the last the motivations of

the flesh. If the spirit fills us, then the flesh

will not have power and it will not have a

say in our lives in our future. So we got

to be filled with the spirit, trends, not the flesh.

We got to be feeled the spirit. And if you

want to be really clear, I will also say that

only God knows.

That in a way.

I mean, you can kind of gage what is a

person motivated by?

One?

Most of the time because the BIBLESO teaches us that

you know a prophet by its fruits. So sometimes people

will ask me like, oh, you know, why do you

still do the so I still do that? Or why

do you still I would say, well, for me, it's

quite simple. I might not be able to gauge the

motivation of people, get what they say, gage everything, but

I can always gauge the fruit that comes out of

the person, and the fruit will only come out when

in due time on That's how you see. You know that,

That's what I've learned, That's how you see. So how

do I know my own life let's just my own

How do I know in my own life when I'm

doing the right thing? Be honest, and I heard don't know.

The only way I know is the fruit.

Right.

And of course there are other things that you can

do now, like for example, uh, desciper ship, accountability, talk

to your leaders, stuff like that. Right, this is all

standard stuff, right, I say standard, But I know some

people probably won't do it because no, I don't want

to be let by men, because men can men can

make mistake.

But you're also men. You also can make mistake.

Ma. Right, Better trust someone who also speak to God

and pray? You know and you know again? Mean, okay,

just give you some practicality to it, la or maybe

we are afraid to tell because we know we are

led by the spirit, by the flesh and not the spirit.

Something for you to think about. Okay, let me give

you some like key practical points as I close. So

if you're like, oh, pass away, you say what in

the spirit? Right?

Ware? Cryptic?

What does what in the spirit mean? Well, I give

you four points. As a believer, we want to what

in the spirit. You want to be spirit filled, we

gotta constantly walk in the intimate personal presence and companionship

of the Holy Spirit.

Walk.

I want to do a demonstration. Maybe I get someone else.

I'll get really to come up, life, come, come come home.

Sorry?

Are you very comfortable that you walk a little bit?

Do you know that he's like an avid golfer and

you're like golf?

Just okay?

So I'm gonna pretend to be the Holy Spirit? Okay,

and really is gonna work with me?

Okay? So you walk first, and then I follower. Okay.

So he's walking, right, So who's walking?

Who?

He's walking me? I'm walking him.

I'm walking with him, and a lot of that just

keep walking and a lot of times people do that. Okay,

let's let's go back. Okay, Now we're gonna change a

little bit. Now we're gonna change a little bit. I'm

gonna walk and you know, follow me, okay, okay, so

I Holy Spirit, I'm okay, see okay in me? No.

So if he wants to want me, what must he do?

He has to follow? Right? What with right?

You don't see the walking? Does he know where I'm going?

He doesn't know who I'm going?

Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're supposed to follow me? Yeah?

Kick kick He doesn't know why I'm going right, he

doesn't know where I'm going.

He's walking me. Do you see?

Thanks, you can go and sit down. Thanks, everybody give

him my hand? Do you see the walking with?

What?

In?

What? With?

To be really honest, a lot of us right, we

want with no Holy Spirit? I will say myself as

because when you walk with the spirit, you have to like,

where is it going on?

What's happening here? You can see that you follow right?

Where is the spirit leading? We want in the spirit.

Does it take practice, yes? Does it take time to understand?

Yes, but start kenna, start right, constantly want in the intimate,

personal presence.

And companionship of the Holy Spirit.

We also need to continuously learn. Learn now how to

appropriate Okay, you'll don't appropriate things this generation. This is

the only time you can appropriate stuff. Okay, appropriate the

many benefits of the presence of the Holy Spirit, cultivating

a deeper inner awareness of its intimate presence.

Friends, talk to.

Anybody here who is mature in the lot.

When you hear them talk about their.

Experiensive we've got now, you will know that they have

a deep relationship with that one you know one, you

know one and some you hear, you understand what that means.

And if you don't understand what that means, maybe you

haven't gone deep enough yet. Right, And we've got to

learn how to converse with him as our closest, most

cherished friend. Yes, we talked to our you know better

half second half half right, our loved ones, we talk

to our leaders.

Yes, good.

I remember one advice at passa Canav always tells us

before we bring up to men the issue, bringing to

God first.

That's what he always does.

And that's something I'm trying to learn at least right

before bring to men, bring to God first, God, make

minse with God first, you know.

Learn how to converse and go make away.

The last part I'll give you is we got to

value the voice of the spirit in our inner spiritual

men to constantly lead us, guide us and teach us

and informing us of all the things that we need

to hear from the Father. You might be sitting here thinking, oh,

but how do.

You listen God? How do you do well?

My argument is Lah, if you ask God, he will

talk to you la. He said, simply as that some complicated.

If you really seek him, he will find him. That's

why there's a scripture in the Word that I used

to not understand, but now I fully understand. Seek and

you will fine. Knock and the door be open to you.

Ask and you receive. Because when we have the Holy

Spirit in us, when we have said, Lord, I have

followed you already I follow Jesus Readia made the decision. Ready,

have Holy Spirit me already walking right. When you ask

God to speak, he will speak. The only question is

whether we want to hear, whether we like while we.

Hear or not. That's the date. Just one no, oh, Lord,

I need then give something else.

You're like, uh, maybe get behind me. Say that right,

because not what you want to hear. But if we

can only come to say, okay, go on, I don't

know what this is you from or not. It's kind

of not what I'm expecting. But let me see what happens.

Right.

And the thing about following Christ, and the thing about

walking in the spirit is the more you do it,

the easy it gets.

The more you do it, the easier it gets, the

more you do it, the.

More Okay, this sounds to be funny. I don't think

I should go here. And do you know that God

will always bring you to another level of challenge. He's

not gonna get easier. Our friends, I'm not some.

You know.

Recently I was talking to a leader, actually I was

talking at Bucella and gave me a very good give

me an encouragement person I didn't expect he said.

He said this line like, uh, you seem to know

how you seem to.

Know how to hear the voice of God? Like, wh

so such a big thing, you know, Like really so,

I'm like, I was really like taking a back when

he said that. He didn't say it exactly that. He

said it in another way, which was like it's either

a voice of God. You seem to know what to what,

you seem to know what to do, or like you

seem to know when God needs you to do something

that you do it. Something to the effect. Okay, I

cannot remember exactly I should.

Write it now.

God wants you to mature. God wants each and everyone

always here to mature.

Yes, you're here.

I like what Josephine said just now, because at the

end of the day, whether or not you go into

the room and get yourself ready for worship, or whether

or not you're like whar my PGS and the hair,

ruffle and come up for warship. Do you know that

God will accept you however you are? That is the

love of God. But do you know that God also

wants you to grow from the wear my pgs and

rough head to the I'm really for worship? Do you

know God also wants that? Which parent doesn't want yet?

Kids to progress in life?

One? No parent? Right? If God means probably devil readly,

you know something wrong?

Ready? Every parent want their kid to grow. Our father

in Heaven wants you to progress in your faith. He

doesn't want you to get stuck there. He doesn't want

to experience that on me. He doesn't want you to

be enticed by the world and follow what the world

says and get disappointed. And he wants you to experience

the fullness of what He has for you.

Amen. And that's what we want to do in church.

That's why we are teaching people about the values that

we believe in the church, because we believe that when

you can.

Follow the values, you can try that. Let's try try it.

When you can adopt the values where you can say, yep,

this is my value that I want to follow, you

will be in a much better place in your own life.

You will be able to overcome a lot of things,

and not just overcome, you'll be able to also help others.

You know, one of the you know, I used to

think like, Okay, God, why why descipership? Why set the

goal of discipership as what we need to do as believers?

Have you thought about it before?

Okay? Don't think about deep stuff like this. Ah, Okay,

I got a lot of time in my hands. Maybe

I waste my time thinking about things. I think I've

come to a conclusion. Why decipership? Because the way to

maturity is to help another person. Do you know that

in the Bible that's a promise of the Word of

God that says you are blessed to be a blessing,

your one blessing here right? Do you know that when

you get blessing and it's just for yourself, you become

a spot brad? But do you know that when when

God blesses you and you understand the reason why the

blessing is there, and you bless.

Someone else, you are mature. It's a different one. No.

Do you know that the blessing is the same, The

blessing part is the same, the purpose is different. The

outcome is different. That's something we need catch. No, So

the goal is not the blessing. Actually, the blessing is

by the way thing. The goal is not to make

you a leader or no no, no, no, there is

by the way thing. Friends, don't don't so focus on that.

The focus is the maturity in your life. The focus

is that when you're blessed, you can be a blessing

we all enjoy. This is why I'm very convinced that

when we when we grow in Christ, to overcome our

own challenges and to be able to say it, you know,

it's like to experience the fullness of God in my life.

Right, I need to have others?

Sounds so funny, right, because when God knows that I

need to be okay to help someone else, he will

make me okay. Because do you know that if you're

not okay, you can't have other people. If I still

have anger issue, I cannot have another person I can

advise another person. If I still got a lot of

emotional problems in my heart, I cannot have other people.

Cannot I'm not really I'm not mature enough. I cannot

help people because I'm not fit. The only way I

can be fit. Is that I need to be the

only way I can help you? But is that I

need to be fit? And you know who can maybe

fit God? That is the power of what God has

in solved for us.

Amen.

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