Revival Fire: The Holy Spirit | Pr Alvin Keng

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We hope this message will light up your day.

And today we want to talk about revival right.

We want to talk about the revival fire right and

the revioval fires the Holy Spirit. Okay, please turn your

bible so X Chapter four of US twenty nine to

thirty one. We're going to read that X Chapter four

twenty nine thirty are you guys?

Okay? X Chapter four of US to Unite? What does

it say? It says here?

Now, Lord, look at their threads and grant to your

servants that with all baldness they.

May speak your word.

He's asking God to grant him baldness against what against treads? Right, people,

how many of you here are in a place where

you're being threatened. You know, it's very easy to be

bored when you're not being threatened. It's very hard when

somebody is threatening you. And they the tread have married

no meaning. They can egg upon the tread. Right, But

look at what they say. Lord, look on their threads

and grant to your servants that with all bonus they

may speak your word. By stretching out your hand to

heal wa answering, Trusty healing powerfuler. Interesting huh, I thought

you should answer trusted retaliation, unsertrusted violence. Right, No, unsertrusted healing,

and that signs and wonders may be done through the

name of your Holy Servant Jesus.

Very important thought.

Friends, You are not doing things and serving God out

of your own volution. You're doing it under the name

of Christ.

Right.

You got to remember that, because if we think that

we're doing it because of ourselves, then we will miss

the point.

Right, No, it's not that.

And thirty one says, and when they had prayed, the

place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they

were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke

the Word of God with bonus. So for revival to happen, friends,

we really need the Holy Spirit. Okay, I know there

are many thoughts processors about the Holy Spirit. In extras,

I want to let you know that we believe that

the Holy Spirit is still here. Okay, of course if

you I mean, I wouldn't encourage you to go and

google it if you don't think about it. But the

cessation belief because normal science that one and stuff like that,

I feel like right explanations are that sometimes make us

feel better.

You know.

Sometimes we come to a place so I don't know,

talk about Christian or favor. Sometimes we will listen and

now the world.

Is like that. We will come out with a.

Phrasing or statement so that we feel better, but it

may not be truth. Now have to wear a careful

and with the way, because now there's a lot of

things that you can do or say to make you

feel better or to justify lifestyle.

Got to be a careful right.

The only justification that the Bible has are is true

Christ Jesus.

You know.

So we got to be a careful okay, But for

revival to happen, we need the Holy Spirit. Friends, let

me let me go there, and hopefully as I bring

you through the Word today, you will catch something right.

John sixty seven to eleven says, nevertheless, I tell you

the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away.

If I do not go away, the helper will not

come to you.

Help her.

Holy Spirit Paracletos comforter. But if I depart, I will

send him to you. And when he has come, he

will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and

of judgment of sin. Because they do not believe in

me of righteousness because I go to my father and

you see me no more of judgment, because the rule

of this world is judge.

So this Jesus world, he said, I have to go away.

How many of you know that is not here on

this earth anymore.

He's not He's alive, he didn't die, he resurrected, but

he's with a father who is here with us. Holy Spirit,

who is here with us. Holy Spirit. God's presence is here.

That's why we pray for God's presence.

Right.

We have to have the understanding right, And Jesus said,

I need to go. You know, he cann't come.

Right. Let's study someone. And this is interesting.

He says, here the Holy Spirit will convict he and

through him people will be saved. And through him we

have bondus to be witnesses. And through him we also

display the fruit of the spirit. In Galatians five, when

we read Galatious wife, there's nine fruits, you know, peace,

long suffering, you know, stuff like okay. And through him

we are given spiritual gifts for the work of the ministry.

Spiritual gifts like what different ones here you have a

gift gift of encouragement different ones here. You have a

gift of administration, different ones here. You are very good

with a prayer, You're very connected. We've got different on Hey,

you can preach and teach. Well, these are all gifts

of the spirit given by God.

Right.

If Holy Spirit not here, we don't have the gift

one No, your cash that. But he's here now with

each and every one of us.

Okay, he's a big deal Holy spirits a big deal

of friends, because he's said by God after Jesus left,

and I will say that this is the age of

the Holy Spirit, not in the Posson's time.

No, until now. It's happening, right. But the question is, friends,

do we recognize him? Do we acknowledge him? Jesus, God,

get along, credit, God the Father. We pray to God

the Father. We pray to Jesus. But who is the

one that communicate it. She's Holy Spirit? Right, Okay, do.

We acknowledge him?

Do we have a relationship of communication of fellowship with

the Holy Spirit? Is good question ask. I'm not saying that. Okay,

now you need to start changing your prayers. No, no, no, no,

you need to recognize that there is a Holy Spirit,

there is the spait of God here right there is

you know this is what the Bible says. Not why

I say, you know, this is what the Bible says. Right,

And just to give you an understanding of the relationship

got the Father, Jesus Christ, his son in the Holy Spirit. Right,

we say they work together. Right, we say that they

are the trinity. Right, and we accept because what the

Bible says, right, our Benediction scripture.

This runs something every Sunday. I you know, sometimes sometimes

we do things right.

I realize we have a tendency, I say, we cost

me or so have a tendency to take certain things

for granted, like pray for grace, take for granted, right, Benediction,

take for granted?

Or it's just something that church do.

On let me let me break down some truth to

you guys, Benediction second Corinthians, their team fourteen.

Right.

We will declare this to all the believers after service.

It's not just a process nor friends, it is a

declaration that when you all live here, when you all

live here, made the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why you need God's grace, Why I need Jesus Christ grace?

You need his grace because true his grace, we are safe.

Right means ah, however bad or whateverad things you guys

have done prior to this, because of Jesus Christ grace.

You can ask for forgiveness. Not because of God's love. No,

God loved the world, He gave his son. God gave

the grace of Jesus because he loved you. Because He

loves you, he can forgive you only through the Christ.

Like there he can forget Jesus.

Not around how God love, You're gonna forgive you because

it's God. He can change his mind. You catch that,

your cash, your relationship. I hope you catch your relationship.

Some of your engineers here you're like, oh, I think

these things already. Okay, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's the significance of the Lord Jesus in our life. Grace,

because true Him, we can ask forgiveness, true Him. No

matter how bad things are, friends in your life are

no matter how much you think, how messed up the

brain is, how much rubbish nowadays I'll tell my kids

nonsense in nonsense out, rubbish in rubbish out. Oh daddy,

I cannot sleep. What do you watch last night? What

game do you play true because if you don't know,

you don't know. That's the innocence of kids.

But the more mess you put in your brain, the

more messed up you are, the more God's word you

put in a brain. Ah, rubbish in, rubbish out. Think

about it.

The more you read, the more you read about leadership stuff,

the more you know leadership st. The more you lead

about entrepreneurship, the more you read about relationships, the more

you read about magazines telling you how to lose the

guide in fifty days. Think about it. What you input

here is what you what you like or show, because

what your life weret input. Trust me my brain, red master,

I imput all nonsense things asiety right, Please input the

right things?

Okay, right? So the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sorry, My point is, no matter how messed up your

brain is, through Christ grace you are safe.

Amen. Isn't that something that we should be thankful for? No? Really, now,

how you feel.

About it doesn't matter, No how you mean, how bad

I feel, even if I just made a mistake yesterday,

if I come to God with ernest, he will forgive me.

Yes, yes, that's how easy it is. But it wasn't

easy that someone had to dine across. Do we catch that?

Do we take for granted? Right? Let me get back

to benediction, having.

Too much one the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

and the love of God.

You'll know in the.

Bible, that's a scripture it says there's nothing too high,

nothing too low, no value to why right, that will

separate us from love of God? Do you know that

that's true? Do you know that God loves you? No

matter what how you feel? God loves you. That's why

he has a way for us. But his love cannot

save us. No, it is only through the redempty power

of Christ that saves us. And God, because he loves us,

he gave us that way out your cash there not

and because so that he cannot contrade himself. Right, I

can go deeper into it, but I don't. Course, got

too many things to share, okay. And then this is

the exciting.

Part and the communion of the Holy Spirit. Beefre hey,

forse we why not love or grace?

God loves us through Christ grace we are redeemed.

But the day today communion, it is the Holy Spirit.

Day today community is Holy Spirit. That's how it's important now.

Day today, every day, this morning, when you wake up,

when you're convicted to come to church, holy spirits do

want convict you?

Yeah, because what the Bible says, he convicts the heart

of men, He convicts the heart of man to believe.

This is why we also got to remember when we

become witnesses, we have bonus on need to be witnesses.

But it's not our power that get people safe. No,

it is the conviction of the Holy Spirit alone. People

still don't catch that. We feel as scared because we

think we are responsible. Friends, let me absolve all responsibility

from you, from you right now on getting real safe.

It is not your responsibility, but what is your responsibility

to share the gospel. Whether they say yes or no,

it doesn't matter. But we are human. We feel the

one We feel bad. Don't you feel better? I feel

bad for just share. They want to receive, they don't

want to receive is their choice. Because you can reject

God ran you can actively reject God right, so don't

of course you can warn your friends and all. Of course,

I also believe that when the Holy spirits in you,

you will share the gospel properly. Laugh because I wonder

how many times, because see I think about it, think

about you. I logic, if you guys are God loves you,

give you away redemption.

I don't think we should share the.

Gospel condemning people to hell, because even the gospels say

there's no condemnation in Christ. So then the question is

why sometimes there's those messages. I mean, those are good,

you know, I would say, well, maybe they're a bit

too zealous. They're trying to do God's work. Because if

you follow in the floor of the Holy Spirit, I

think love will come out. I don't think it's condemnation, right,

I really don't think the Holy Spirit condemns. I think

he convicts. It's different. Okay, did you use some stuff

on how to identify things? Okay, so let's idea a

little bit. Who is the Holy Spirit. It's important for

us to know who is the Holy Spirit? First point,

Holy Spirit is God.

Right. If you study the Bible, will the exception of the.

Second and third episer of John over right, every book,

sorry in the New Testament, contains references to the person

and work with the Holy Spirit God. Every book will

talk about the Holy Spirit right X onwards. The Holy

Spirit is essential to God's plan for redemption. He is

right John sixteen eight. What does it say, let's respreate

John sixteen eight. John sixty says, and when he has come,

he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness

and of judgment. When he has come, when the Holy

Spirit comes, he will convict the world. There is no

conviction except through the Holy Spirit.

Right.

Oh, but then, basemen, why some my non belief friends

can doever because they are not convicted in their hearts.

Because as a Christian, even if no one teaches you

what the Bible said or you will be convinted in

your heart to do what is right.

That's the power we have as believers.

A true believer that really believes in Christ and has

his heart redeemed, the Holy Spirit living in will convict

your hearts.

That's why you.

See a lot of people right who really believe in

Christ are change transform Why because you know it's the

Holy Spirit convicting your hearts.

Right.

So the Holy Spirit is essential because if the Holy

Spirit's still here, the world will be in the darker place.

But because the Holy Spirit is here and the Holy

Spirit earth, we bring the light to the situation. Of course,

it's uncomfortable, friends, I know in darkness verre scary.

And you come and you've got small lightly me right.

And if let's say, the relationship the Holy Spirit's store strong,

then the light is not bright enough, you know. So

I will tell you again, repeating myself, that this is

the age of the Holy Spirit. Why because Jesus has

gone to the Father already he has well, he'll come

back soon second coming of Christ, when nobody knows like

a thief in the nine That's what the Bible says.

But he has left us a helper, which is the

Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is so so God's Spirit,

God's presence, your cashtana.

First point, Holy Spirit is God. Second point, Holy Spirit

is a person.

Right.

The Bible uses a personal pronoun you like pronouns, love

you like pronouns.

Now, he not it.

He is a person right. John sixteen thirteen fourteen says, Oh,

I love this one. However, when he the Spirit of truth,

has come, he will guide you in all truth, for

he will not speak on it his own authority. But

whatever he hears, he will speak, and he.

Will tell you things to come.

He will glorify me, for he will take of what

is mine and declare it to you.

See this scripture itself is very important. He will glorify Christ.

So if there's a spirit around and the spirit doesn't

glorify Christ, not holy Spirit. The Bible teaches us how

to identify things or no, I wonder whether you read right?

Right? And he would declare what is Christ to you? Friends,

let me teach you another tip.

How do you know what is the spirit speaking to

you about in your hearts?

How do you know? The only way you know is

if it's a line to the Word of God. Right, Okay,

let me ask you a question.

If you don't know the Word of God, how do

you know it's a line you will never know. That's

why we ask you to read the word. No, read

the word so that you see how yeah maybe maybe okay,

faster really that's you know?

Now, no choice? Have to rely on it more right

because of job vocational job hazard. Right, let me let

me explain this, explain this.

I've realized, really, if I don't read the Word and

have hate knowledge of the word, God can't use it.

Because if you read Joshua chapter one, it says a

few things about God's word. Keep my commments in your hearts.

Meditate on it day and night, means constantly. You got

to remember, remember, remember why. And then he says you

will be prosperous and you'll be fruitful. Right right, That's

what God said, that's the promise.

Okay.

The question is how is it just application? Yeah, in

a way, but it is guided application through the Holy Spirit.

When there's no input, hould is going to use? You

don't know.

You won't know whether it's your voice, Holy Spirit's voice.

Or even worse, the devil's voice. You will never know.

Look at Jesus when the devil tempted him in the Bible,

what did Jesus use the word of God? He didn't come.

I am Jesus sort of God. He didn't know. He

went back through the world of God. No, he referred

to the world God. He knew the world God.

No.

Since when you know the girl God your God, study

Jesus life or not of years old?

That's how much? Huh? Then when thirty years only he applied?

Yeah, a lot of thing, A lot of you went

for a lot of you in college right now right

right four? Your studying all the information when you apply

after you graduate, you mean you apply it now. No,

some of you argue, Actually a lot of stuff I study,

I don't even apply.

To better to bad.

I'm sure here and the little BA cannot say totally.

You don't have right, you know, definitely at least maybe

not here knowledge but understanding right. They're training you critical

thinking right, or how to think like an engineer, how

to think like an accountant. That's the training bit right.

The Holy Spirit is of person friends. He possesses the

basic characteristics of a personality. I've got a graph out there.

He possess us intellect, sensitivity, and will. Okay, and this

something I need to teach you, guys. He can think

and can reason you all like feelings. He can feel,

so deside. The Bible says, do not grieve the Holy

Spirit right, and he also has will.

Okay, let me give you this example.

Let's say me and pass the seven are good friends, Okay, friends,

not friends, And I want to be his good friend.

And I always say, perceiven, let's hang out, let's hang out,

Let's go your baby. Just care of be sid and

pass the Stephen. He's too busy taking care of the

church and meeting all you. It's okay, I can't sorry, God, Baby,

I can't.

I can't.

Do you know that after a while I wouldn't ask

him anymore? Do you know that after a while I

will get the message and I probably won't call him.

Do you know that after a while, maybe when he

really needs me, he called me and I kind of

sae help.

But do you like the kind relationship?

Do you like the kind relationship where only when you

need the person or only when the person a person

call you?

Do you like the kind relationship?

No?

Right? Do you know that you can reject God even

as a believer?

Do you know that? I hope you know that. Let's

not reject the Holy Spirit. Let's engage God. Kennah right,

very dangerous? No, very dangerous if we come to a

place where our favor is just tradition.

Tradition is not bad. Or why you go, I'm just

a Christian? Do you believe? No, I sit down when

I'm just taking my phone. I'm just here, my checklist, checklist,

attendance checked. Ask me, I give you a face. I

come here. I don't know. I fear for you.

Because when really things happen in your life, how you

know God's mercy is still there? Or no, he will still.

That's the wonderful thing about him. That's not as we're

still alive. You come back to him, he will accept

you one right. Emphicients for the Tea says, don't grieve

the Holy Spirit?

Right?

Do you know that you can lie to the Holy Spirit?

X Chapter two. I won't go to them into this. Actually,

what time do I have until I was even okay, great, okay,

I'm i'm I'll make it faster.

Thanks, thanks for that.

So X Chapter five, verse tree the four tells us

a story about and then I asked and a wife. Right,

And during that time it was the home of the

church or.

I were exciting. Everybody sell their staff, give to the church, right,

or want to be power of it? And I don't

know why. This couple were interesting, right.

They decided to sell their land, keep fifty percent of

the proceeds, and give the fifty percent the church. That's

totally final. Do you know that that is okay? But

then they tell the church that, oh everything is I

is everything? Not telling the fifty percent? They kept whire

why like it belongs to you? There was no rule

alone something that's my thing?

Oh no, maybe no?

Could it be because they want to be seen as

or I read generous. I give everything.

I don't know.

Maybe they pressure out the people, but they still want

to kid. Do you know that no one would have

judged them if they gave fifty percent and said that

they gave fifty percent? But why did they have to lie?

And they didn't lie to the posts God postles blurm.

They lied to the Holy Spirit. They like to God, God,

I gave this to you and it's everything.

Sure not God? What about fifty percent you kept Texas Texas?

I don't know.

We've got fifty percent against text, right, you buy homes

for the first time?

Yeah, maybe you experienced that he lied. Do you know

what happened?

He died, struck down like to God, bless him against

Holy Spirit? Right, and then the wife came. They cleared

the body. I don't know how they do that, like

some drama. By the way, interesting and can read a

lot of drama.

Clear the body.

Then the wife came, and then of course they knew it.

They loud because before that they didn't know.

Ma. Right, they don't know your dealings.

But but when that happened, then like okay, Holy Spirit revealed,

don't lie out then the wife came, try to give channel. Hey,

then she said, yere's my husband. And then she's like no, no, no,

we gave everything. She also died. Says say it, right,

do you know that you can lie to the Holy Spirit?

Please? Don't do that?

And nobody knows past you will no, no, unless God

speak to him now, right, But I don't think he

will do that as sola, right, don't lie. The Holy

Spirit has different expressions in the Bible. So we got

to remember the Holy Spirit is a person.

He is.

That also means that it is a relationship that we build.

We say we have a relationship with Christ right through

the Holy Spirit. That's the relationship we have, right, Okay.

The point the deity of the Holy Spirit. Okay, let

me tell you why. And I always believe that God

is very practical God. The more I read the Bible,

the more practical I think God is very practical.

Right.

The Bible calls him God except the five first tree

of four. Okay, that's what the Bible says, X five

trade four says. But Peter said, and then I asked,

why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the

Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of

the land for yourself.

What it remained? Was it not your own?

And after your soul? Was it not in your own control?

Why have you conceived this thing to your heart? You

have not liked to men but to God. Okay. Then

and then I, hearing this words, fell down. Brief is last,

So great fear came upon all those who heard those things.

Right.

So the Bible calls him God, and he possesses godly characters.

Can we see the graph? There is godly character's Holy

Spirit has get this the expression sorry, feel comfort?

Thing? These are the characteristics. Yeah, so this is the

godly characteristics. Okay.

He has an eternal nature. If you want, you can

write down a scripture. I'm not gonna go treat one

by one.

Okay.

He has an eternal nature. He is also omnipresent. He's everywhere. Okay,

this is the thing. This is the one up. Why

Jesus said I have to leave so he can come.

And it's better that I leave so he can come.

Because Jesus is one place. One are only in its

human form. Jesus was slim by time and space. He

was only one place, one time. That's why he can

go down to town that's it. He can't go anywhere, right,

he could only be at one place, But the promised

companion and comforter, the Holy Strait, would be able to

be with all believers all the time, in every place,

even to the ends of the ages.

Think about that. He's here now in church. After this,

when you go home and you're alone and you feel alone,

you're not alone. Police Pray is there when you're doing

your business this morning. He is there.

When you're thinking about doing something wrong, he is there.

And if he convicts your heart and you're like, yeah,

maybe I shouldn't great. If he convicts your heart and

you go he's okay one time one, then you are

you see very interesting?

All these things. I don't know some of you are.

You can thinking something or not. He is only present.

Do you know that it's to our benefit that's only

present that we have a comforter at all times. Let

me give you something that happened to me two years ago.

Some of you might know. Twenty twenty three. Right, I

went for normal health check me of the year.

They found a possible blockage, then went for angel gram

and up became enjo plus icstcuse only percent blockage right,

and then after that everything went fine and it was

basically the I feel like Caliana keep telling me no,

no blockage because of my non smoker, you know, I

mean I was quite overweight.

Then I think now a bit more fit. Okay, thank god.

So what happened was, yeah, he when and then found

out his block When did the block and then he

was like a you'll be fine because still young. Right

next day you can this chargity or actually on that

day can dischat city. So I was just taking easy

and thought like, okay, I'll be this chage immediately. Then

because he told me we didn't want week can go

bude jumping, I'm like, okay again over confidence. And then

what happened was what I was in ICU. I don't

know what I shared this last round. Something happened, uh

doctor's term. I had this thing called a vessel vagger

reaction where my body shut down right suddenly, you know,

suddenly it was very weird. I felt summer ach and

then I'm like, oh, hungry, don't know why, you know,

ten minutes suddenly hungry. Then I look at the nurse

that I thought, I think I better call them. I

pressed what I say nurse that I fainted. Basically my

blood pressure dropped.

Right.

They came half an hour, they were doing different things,

and then I came back right. And then after I

was like, ooh, I guess it's not as simple as

it is, you know, because I was still under observation. Basically,

if six hours observation eight, I was six hours observation,

no problem. After the proceeding, can go home. Made So

because of that little incident, I had to stay one

night in the ICU. I'm like, right, and I want

to let you know that I was not the worst case.

I was not like oh after the protic and do

I was still.

Like up and about.

There were other worst people there groaning in the ICU.

Not fun, okay, But after that incident, I took it

a bit more seriously. So as usual, when you think

you're gonna die, right, you know, make amnsa you know,

ask a forgiveness thing of wood else the hell gif right,

I go past and the pastor so normally pastor when

we help people with their last prices, we will do that.

Anyone else you haven't forgive yet, angry with you know

you better forgive?

Now?

You know right that I did it for myself. You

know that I started reciting some to something tree, right

do I walk to that? I'm thinking, I said, Oh man,

I wrote my reality. You know I haven't wrote yet.

You know she call my wife now to ask see

all your brain.

Friends. Even there at the hospital, the Holy Spray will

stap me, he comforted me. I don't know how. I

don't know how else to explain to you that in

your lowest, most downess time, even if you feel very funny,

I everybody got bigger proms than me, and but I

still feel like this Holy sprays stap You. Talk to him,

engage him, read the word. I seem to encourage you,

because the encouragement that comes will before you. Only you know,

don't rely another person, rely on God. That's why this

is a big deal, omnipresent big deal. If Jesus here,

Jesus might be busy in another place and then you're

alone in the hospital and you must wait for him

to come to heal you.

But because Jesus has gone and the Holy space here,

he's here. He's omniscient, he knows all things. So you're

gonna black him goodlah. Do you know it's best suffering

to live in life, so suffering to live in life.

It is actually relief and freedom that we can lort

Take me as I am right. You know everything. Okay,

He's omniscient and he's omnipotent. That's why when we pray

in Jesus' name, we believe because it is the power

of God that comes true. We got to remember these friends.

It is truth of the word, and it's real because

I've seen it.

Have you seen it?

Maybe you've not seen it. Maybe you need to start

believing and see it, then you will believe. Ask God, God,

I see, haven't seen someone raise from the day yet.

I'm praying, Lord, I want to see someone raise from

Have I seen someone here?

I have? Have I prayed for someone with back issue

and got healed?

I have?

I'm sure you had healings here. We've seen it? Right, God?

What can.

So?

What is the word paracletos and his meaning?

John fourteen sixteen says, And I'll pray to the Father

he will give you another helper that he may abide

with you forever.

Right.

The comforter it means barraculetos means comforter called to one

side to help. It implies to greatly strengthen you in

spirit and enlive in you friends, in the.

Life of every belief.

It is the gracious presence of the Spirit to constantly

assure us of the Saviour's love and presence the life

of every believer. And this is something that I think

I need to help you think. So, what makes us

different from people who do not believe?

Yet? They are not spirit of God in your life?

Can they still pray to God?

And he answered yes, But they do not have the

Spirit of God in their life because they have not

received Jesus Christ as their personalized savior. And because of

that there is no transformed mind.

You know.

That's why believe us. You think differently than your friends.

Want to know a lot of things. They think they can,

but you know you cannot. Why because you have the

Spirit of God living in you. The Bible says that

you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. That's why

we tend to take some of these things seriously. You

know how we treat the temple right, I can tell

you I'll be abusing it before I got healthy. You know,

how do we treat our bodies? How do we treat this?

It is true, you know, and We've got to remember that.

Right.

So when when you think of a relationship or you

think about understanding. Now, this is why a lot of

people who are not believers won't get you one. When

you do certain things, when you're overly generous, why you

so bordeo? Last time I had a girl of friends

are because I n generous, buy meals and all right?

Since young?

Right, they will say, why you so dumb? They don't

have God spirit deciding you don't see for me, I understand.

I believe in being generous. I believe in you know,

that's me. That's the spear of going me right.

Is it wrong? No, it is a difference or it's

a new normal.

That's why we can love people unconditionally, no conditions, because

the spray of God is in us. You've got to

understand the significance of the spirit of God. But yes, friends,

we are still on this earth. Yes we are still

going through the motions of this Some of us are

still being Why do we still get tormented?

Some maybe tormented by you know, depression and mental health

and pressure and comparison. They say comparison is the thief

of joy.

And one of the best ways to compare is to

look at what someone else is doing on social media

and comparing, Oh, why they got more views? And I

don't have why they're doing so much better, but I'm

still stuck here. Then your joy are be gonna because

comparison is the thief of joy.

Right.

But when the Holy Spirit is readin us, what happens,

okay John fourteen, ten and sixty is help the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send in my name.

He will teach you all things, bring to your remembrance,

all things that I have said to you. Right and

again back to said, how do you know God said

the word of God? God has spoken in his word.

The only way we can draw really the life that

we want to live is really to go into God's work. Right,

And you don't have to know a lot, no, friends, don't.

You don't have to be a Bible scholar. Just start reading.

Just you don't have to understand us all. Just start reading.

Just start reading one chapter. The Trila cannot one verse

a day at least, so at least God can use

that little bit. If nothing, then how hey, friends, can

I tell you another thing? You cannot also rely on

the the messages of people are because that's not God's.

Work, that's man's word.

Yes, I can quote the scripture, and I hope you

remember the scriptures that quote, but you remember no more

the content of the message in the scripture quote. I

get away worried. And that's the problem with today or

so right, the Bible says, seek the word. You don't

know what sick is? You have to search on do Google,

search on the word of God. Right, search the word

any formal searching of the word. You are looking for

an answer. You got to search a word. Right, sometimes

maybe this life right? We want things easy? No, I

just talked to passus Steven. He give me wisdom in

a way. If you know what Dan just you mean,

you're gonna put your entire life responsibility on him.

What if you make a.

Mistake, you're gonna blame him. I'm not saying don't listen

to him. No, I'm just saying that you have to understand, right,

that you have to look for the answers to yourself.

Right, you have to look for answers yourself.

And then how when only you speak to ass Because

even in the Bible says there is wisdom in the

council of many. Right, the Bible also says, listen to

your leaders. It's not in contradiction. No, right, you walk

in the spirit.

That's how.

Let me talk a little bit about that. Once you

know Him, you know God, we walk in the spirit.

This is why people who do not have Christ, they

can't walk in the spirit, because the spirits you know

in them. So don't stop being surprised at white people

who are not believers, or people who don't know Jesus

yet are doing the things they do. Stop being surprised

they don't have the spirit of God in them, but

you do. You have the spirit of God, then why

are you going to follow other people? You should be

moving in the new way. Okay, I like this example.

Let's talk about what in the spirit. And now I'll

give you an example. Once we know Him, we should

work in him right in the present, physical absence from

earth of Christ himself means he's not here.

Who is right now? We've got a father and repeat

his full time city.

The Holy Spirit is available availabler not compulsitly, but available.

Available means you have to engage. No right, He's available

for every believer to make Christ's presence accessible to us.

The Holy Spirit is here and he's available for us

to make Christ's presence accessible to us. Right, So what

do we do as a believer? Number One, We've got

to constantly walk in the intimate personal presence and companionship

or the Holy Spirit. We got to continuously learn how

to appropriate.

Appropriate.

It's the only time you can do appropriation. Culture appropriation

is where bad. Well, Holy Spirit appropriation is good.

Please do it more.

Okay, appropriate the many beliefs of that benefits of that presence,

cultivating a deep inner awareness of his intimate presence.

Let me give you one example of appropriating the spirit.

Okay, Baba talks about So so the what was the benefit? Okay,

what's the benefit of all this? Well, transformation of your life?

Right? Okay?

If you know Elvin King, maybe for pastor or right me,

I will tell you that I have an anger problem

because of I have an anger problem really honestly from

young right and also and also maybe because it was upbringing, okay,

and it was something that let's just say that continues

in my family, continued from my family.

Last time my grandmother had it.

You know, my my very very very the nice one

two is very full of life people, you know, very

emotionally in twine, you know, very very okay, very big emotions, right,

anger problem, right, and God has been dealing with it.

Right.

And by the time I got married, I thought, yay,

I'm good already. You know I don't have any issue.

I don't get angry. A lot of things, a lot

of things small chill. Oh and then you had kids.

Oh my goodness, mussed. Seeing your kid is gonna press

you the wrong way all the time because they know

where the buttons are. Right, He's gonna be hard from

you who parents, You understand this. You know they're gonna

message your zen not there, falla not there for.

It's just the way life is. Right.

So when I kids, Wow, he came back right, and

let's just say shouting at home, huh you can show, yes,

I can show my voice were out. And then one

time I remember where my son was six, yes, old,

he was six, and I he did something wrong, Okay,

I don't simply shot people are okay, he did something wrong.

I got angry and I gave it to him.

Six is oh no, right? And then you know he

went sleep. I went sleep, and then God woke me up. God, no,

I willingly wake up God woke me up at four am?

Can I sleep? Delvin? Not in my head? Helvien God?

Is that? What do you do? Yesterday? I disciplined my

son because he did something wrong and I should do

it so that he can be a good Still trying

to reason, are you sure you do the right thing?

The Holy Spirit convicted my heart and I knew I

did something wrong? What did do?

And I was wrestlinger four am, wrestling for one hour,

not praying, not on my knees, no worship, wrestling whether

I did wrong or right, arguing I did something right?

Uh the time I was forty forty old men, you

know what you should do? Right? Apologize to him? But

he's six. I woke up, my son woke up six o'clock.

I went to my son. I knew what I had

to do. I went to my son and apologized to him,

and again a kid sat, did they forget ready? Right?

He's like, oh, okay, you know only his life get

ready for school? Right?

I had to say no, no, no, the sun. You

don't understand. I'm so sorry for shouting and yesterday, can

you forgive me? That was the wrong thing to do,

even though you did something right? There was the wrong

thing to do. I'm sorry I did it, and then

he said look at me. Then no, normal hed like,

look at me, okay, that I get it. Then I

went back in my room and I pray, okay, O,

I did it?

Really? Can I can I be.

Honest with my emotions. It was very humiliating for me

to admit I was wrong, humiliating to a six year

old boy. Man, now we have this ego, but God

was dealing something in my heart. Ever since then, it's

not so hard to say sorry to my boys with

meaning and reason, not sorry, you know something you get there,

God say sorry. No, I needed to make sure that

my heart was softed and I had to look at

it and say I'm sorry. Can I give you a

testimony that come out that my own testy. I don't

know why that it's happened yet, but the testimony that

I have is my my parents, awesome people, the bigger

Chinese people I've never received or remembered that they've ever

said sorry to me.

Never. And of course I can live life like, oh,

you know they didn't say I just don't want to

say that, right.

But because of what I did, my six year old

son now ten year old son have a reference that

it's okay that even as an adult, when you make

a mistake, you can apologize.

Isn't that more powerful?

Why do you see some parenting real that learn about

respectful parenting or gentle friends? It is the Holy Spirit

that wake me up at four croop and wrestle with

me and convicted my heart to say sorry to my

son on that day. It's not me, no friends, If

I had my way up, it's okayla.

But from then until now, God continues to stir my heart,

continues to change.

Me because just because I grew up that way, I

don't have to be like that. Now my house wide peaceful. Now,

no Halley, actually, no shouting in the praise God. My

kids are a teenager just again, right, I tell you

last time suddenly happened straight away, father, come right, get

them in line.

They need to learn style.

Start disciplinarian authoritarian nowadays days something.

So kella, you know, let him learn that. I'll talk

to them, I will unpack with them. Is it me?

No, it's a Holy Spirit. When you walk with him continuously,

he will convict your heart. When you work with pink continuousy,

you will be able to you know, have the benefit

right of that presence. And the wonderful thing friends, And

this something that I'm dealing with recently, is you learn

how to converse with him as your closest, most cherished friend. Right,

We've got to learn to value his voice in our

spirit man constantly leading, guiding, teaching, and informing us of

all that we need to hear from the Father.

Really, a lot of things I tell you, I tell

you I do right now. It is really holy spirit. Right.

I wouldn't claim any credit for you.

I wouldn't say all because you know or look at

all my you know accolades, you know special needs and

all these things and media. Friends, Can I be very

honest you are? I am not an expert in specialists.

I don't know why I'm here, but I know that

my eldest son is you know, has it and God

encourage us to. But but to be really honest, was

it an innate desire that I want to help families?

Can I be honest? No?

Like I got my own problem with friends, But I've

seen how God has used my life, and God has

used the ministry to encourage parents.

Right, and and I somehow I have this of making

people cryer when I ask him questions. You know, when

we have those coaching sessions, I use coaching sessions right

because because it is not me, friends, it is the

Holy Spirit speaking to say, this is the issue, because

I understand when you can deal with the issue, and

when you can deal with the root, cross everything else

we find one know, because ultimately that's the goal, right

you want to deal with the process and move forward,

that's the goal. You don't want to get stuck in

that problem again. And who knows what's happening in the

hearts of men God, So we've got to value that

and with that we want in the spirit. That's how

we want in the spirit. That's how why we have the.

Things we have here because the different leaders here, the

different people you know, we believe in discipleship. The different

leaders here know how to listen to the Holy Spirit,

know how to obey and be obedient.

Even though sometimes are certain conversations are difficult.

They are brave enough boldness to tell you what you

don't want to hear, but what you need to hear

to tell the truth so you can move forward. Not easy,

do you know that as easier as a leader and

a pastor to bear everybody's friend. Yeah, I love it

right where you got people of you right? But I

also know in my life there are people who don't

know me because I will just say honor.

Right. Of course, we have to say the hard things.

What will you prefer people to ticker your ears and

you continue to live in the sane, or people to

tell the truth so that you can overcome. You got

to decide. We'll have to decide, you know, and it's

not easy. So revival, fire and the Holy Spirit. I

hope you guys caught some thing right from this and

and and really the one thing that I really want

to chourage you is that all of us have Him.

All of you here have Him.

It doesn't matter whether or not or you know, sometimes Christians,

you can get into the whole. I get very careful, okay, okay,

I must. I must preface this first. I am a

skeptic at heart. I question everything on It's so funny, right,

men of faith, question everything, you know. I feel God

has a sense of humor, so when I see something

I will question that times on.

Right, Uh, But I want to let you know that

God is with you.

By the mere fact that you said, I believe in Christ,

and maybe actually come up, I believe in Jesus Christ.

He is my lot and Savior.

And when you accept Him in your heart, the Holy

you have allowed the Holy Spirit to come into your

heart to reside in you. Right, you might not feel anything.

You know somebody that they got feeling. You might not

feel anything. It doesn't matter. But it is the truth

that's happened. And the more you walk in Christ, and

the more you want in the spait, you will start experiencing.

You start noticing certain things that are happening. You start

realizing it. How comes so different? How Come I have

an unfair advantage over things? How Come I'm more patient?

Now?

How come I'm more caring? Now Come I'm willing to

do things I normally I am not willing to do.

It is God working in your life. It is not

your personality. It is not your feelings, emotions, it's not

your flesh. The more you subject and submit yourself to

working in the spirit, the more God will lead you

to do things that you will not recognize, but things

that are good because it is a transformation in your life.

So just the first thing that happens, transformation in your

own life. You want to know the other thing that's

more exciting where you're at, friends, God will use you

to transform that place. Are you the only believer in

your family?

Or maybe you're not the only believer by your family

or believers, but it's still a mess. Friends, Maybe everybody

is not listening to the Holy Spirit and they're listening

to yourself more. Can you be the difference? Can you

start asking God, God, how do how? What can you

do to change my family? I see, don't ask yourself?

Of course you won't know, and then God will give

you the solution. Right, God restored my own family a

long time ago. Second gen Christian went through a lot

of mess. Right, my parents are also be built, but

they didn't know. But by the time I got married,

God restort my family. God restort restort everything, restore my

relationship my brothers, and continuously restoring. Let me show you

a fresh testimony then I'll close. So you talk about

family restoration. So, because my mom passed on and my

dad's around and my brothers are around, I've never had

good relationship my brothers. Seriously this and I regret a

little bit because I never invest in the relationship. So

I didn't really have good relations in them, but I've

been trying to take effort. Right two years back. I

one brother that stays overseas right now, he's in Brisbane,

and I have another brother who travels a little bit,

but he's saying in climbing my my dad. So last

year and last year we said, hey, you know, I'm

taking initiative as the elder start. I said, hey, let's

do something like so far my brother's coming back, and

I said, hey, let's do it all night term, right,

and we thought we'll go to uh skin Chan not

broger Sakin Chan. Okay, I remember the house two zero

zero eight homestaye a king Chuan. Okay, I remember, I'll

tell you I remember the house. So we went for

for then we arranged that August came saying one house.

Now it's been so long since he's say, in the

same house. So me, my two kids, my wife, my

second brother, his wife, my niece, and then my youngest

brother is single, and then my dad. He said, let

me tell you how normally the family dynamics will be.

Normally it will you know, we will be okay first

few minutes seconds, then after that, well we have dinner

and then someone will say something wrong and then after

that all hell break loose. No really really it's it's

it's so normal. Oh, it's so normal. But when we

went there first day, it was good, and it was

during December. We thought, hey, let's celebrate my brother's birthdays,

younger brothers friends. We don't separate birthday in my house

and my family we don't know, so we celebrate.

I bought the cake.

I actually picked my brothers up from the iPort send

him back. You see, I'm taking effort to be a relationship.

So I brought the cake.

We went there, we had family dinner, you know, so

we went to some petty museum and then after that

had dinner. Everything a peaceful until the birthday celebration.

So it happened. Uh, my brother went up. Then we

were like, oh, get the cake ready, you know, call

him come down and then we'll sing and celebrate. And

then we came brought him down.

It's not very happy.

Uh, then came down, then sang the cake, celebrate, but

his face still mramno, you know, still said there. We

were like everyally, okay. Then he's like he's wrong timing

why you know. Of course I very angret in a

person I'm not. Then my mom like, oh no, oh.

No, it's gonna degrade to how we normally operate.

All happits are heart right. But something interesting happened, very interesting.

So then my same brother's like, what what do I

say wrong? And then it's just a very casual conversation

during dinner that triggered luck okay, without going too much

into detail, which a bit hard tool, so you know

we won't end today.

They had a conversation. It was a very mature conversation.

My sister in law was there. My sister in law

was also a blessing. Gosh, she's a nurse. She does counseling.

Maybe she very go ahead trauma counseling. So she was

so talking to them, and I tried to butt in

as the elder brother. But I must tell you that

the relationship is very funny one. They don't respect me

as elder brother, and if I say something wrong then

I might get sucked into the whole drama and then

then gets her personal a right family right. So I

try to say that and one of them said, you

just say out of it.

They're like, okay, keep quiet. I was praying real ha, Lord, please,

we had a very peaceful day. It was it was

going to be a good not it was going to

be a good family out thing. Finally, one good family

out thing. Finally, Why why does it have to come

like that? Then my wife was all playing at the side.

And then the funniest thing is our three kids was

playing board games at the corner and happily play in

the corner, oblivious of everything. After forty five minutes we

had reconciation. After half an hour, we're all laughing. And

then because we all believe us, we are like, wow,

isn't it ironic or funny that God had to use

two thousand homestay second chan to patch our relationship? Then

the tree butt and then after that, because we all

know how to say, the family dynamics is a well

known thing among all of us.

I mean, you know, he's like that. You don't like

it to be like that, but you all kind of

know who cannot make it whole.

But it resolves itself. Can I tell you what I

was amazed about? Because I wasn't like actively praying for that.

I was thanking God for restoring my family before that trip.

To be really honest, if you ask me to go

and visit my brother in Australia. I will think twice. Start,

I mean that that speaks a little bit about my heart, right,

like I want to go on. I don't know, I

don't know what I enjoy myself, but after that night

or I'm looking forward to you man. And then yesterday

he just shared with the family that they're expecting another

child and I'm like, ah, another means on nephew, right? Friends,

Can I tell you that only God knows what you

need in your life, even if you're not praying for it.

And true life with God and moving with God. He

not just restore, but he will lift you up.

This is a God where there is a This is

the God that we believe in, a God that can

give you what you want even without realizing. I really

thank God for that night because now conversations my brothers

are very different prior to that, and I was just

so amazed. My wife wos always say yeah because you

also know the family drama, right, and now having conversations

in my family feels more like a family love.

Only God can do it. Friends, I don't know what

you're going through in your life. I don't know what

your experience it.

I don't know how much of this message He's getting

to you, but I truly believe that God wants to

give our church and revival this year. You know, Passer Shad,

that is going to be a graduation year. You know

in the in your satter and he also graduated. Now

I want to declare to exeminate that you guys are

it's going to be a graduation year for you. It

may not be graduation in your degree, but it'll be

graduation to another level, another level of maturity, another level

of responsibility, another level of you know, it's time to

go adulting. You guys are going to graduate. You guys

are going to be right problems that you one hand

in the past. Frands, it'll be revived this year.

Will you believe?

Will you believe in me that God will do something

in your life because it takes that no, and you

can't believe us.

God, God help me, Holyes Reid, help me lead me. Amen.

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