Revival In Our Hearts | Pr. Matthew Chang

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So turned with me to Matthew chapter twenty five. So

what I'm going to do is basically it's a three

part series going to do They're gonna cover part one,

three part series of a revival series that I'm going

to be covering and is covering coming from Matthew twenty five.

So Matta twenty five is I'm gonna split it up

into three parts, but they are all connected and ending

in the grand finale towards the last part there. Okay, uh,

And I said it because I never planned it. I

just was. I was actually planned to just preached the

whole chapter, but then I re said, oh no, no, no,

there's something. I caught something there and I got wanted

me just to focus on one part because I feel

that each section has so much to unpack and to

learn as well. So if you look at Matti tat

twenty five, I just have a quick overview, then you

will see in that the title first of all, it

reads the parable of the wise and Foolish Virgins. Then

the second parable you see is the parable of the

talents and then the last one where it coming it

too is the Son of Man will judge the nations.

And all of this I really believe speaks about revival. Okay, revival,

revival in the hearts, and the way we revive our

hearts is to understand the message of Christ, not just

to know the word, but to understand the message and

to have the godly wisdom in our lives to guard ourselves.

It's a very very very important thing. Now, before we do,

you will probably like sort of like when you're read

through this right you kind of have an idea that

this is toward talks a lot about end times. Okay,

I'm not here to talk about end times, but I'm

also to give you guys, like why did Jesus talk

about it? And how can we understand the context and

apply into our own day lives? You and I, all

of us, we are right now in the midst and

the thick of it right now. You don't realize it.

We are in the midst and the thick of it

right now, and the end times. It's going to be

surprising to many of us. It's not gonna be yes,

the world will be it south like on fire Shah

you know, walls and turbulence. Oh, the Kingdom of God

is coming, Yes, it will be coming. But yeah, there's

also a silence and unseeming quietness that everybody and the

piece that we all fall into and many who be

caught off God. You get what I'm saying. Now, there

is the chaos, but there is also the false piece.

You know what I'm saying. There is whether there is

a chaos and the false piece that will come, and

we do not have the wisdom, we will miss out

what it is as well. Now the parable of this, all,

this entire propose is part of what we call the

all of the discourse. How many of you have went

from mind knowing Jesus Part two sessions before? No anyone here,

see I'm promoting a radio, okay, So if I am

knowing Jesus, I will talk about this is one of

it is that the final week of Jesus, the final

way of Jesus. One of the things that he did

after he enters into Jeru to them is what he

has this discourse. You know what's the discourse? Anybody knows

what's the discourse? We highly use that word. You are

okay this cause it's a series of talks. This course

is like having a chat, not discord, okay, and the

gaming thing okay. The discourse it means I have a

series of teaching or the talks and stuff like that.

So it called the Oliver discourse because Oliver, what's happening

during in the amount of olives and the mainly happening

in the amount of olives, and Jesus gives a series.

But Jesus, this particular series is not the Sermon on

the Mount. The Sermon on the Mound is talking about

the Kingdom of God, how it looks like in heaven

and how it actually applies into the earthly ministry. The

Oliver Discourse it's a lot about warning, warning, especially reserved

to Israel, and also to believe us a lot of

times many to believe us, okay. And when you read

now towards the end of Matthew and the Book of John, right,

you will here like, oh what no themes like Antichrist?

You think, like, oh the end times, all the signs

and one of the deceptions. You're gonna know when you

hear all this, right, And what's the first who's the

first person that comes into your mind? In the old Testament.

What's the first person that comes into your mind. Anyone

who says Daniel. No, yeah, some people will say Daniel

because he prophesied a lot. Okay, I will think that. Actually,

you must understand that the way the Bible operates that

is that it's harmonious mane. And the way that works

is that the Bible interprets the Bible. So if you

want to understand the Bible, and in the New Testament,

you look at the Old Testament. You don't look outside,

you look within, Okay, you see the sign or a

saying or a symbolism. You look at the Old Testament,

and the Old Testament were a firm and points towards

the future as well. It points back and it points forward.

You go, I'm saying that it's very powerful. One. So

when you read, when we read towards that, for example

the Oliver discourse, right, who do we look to? The

key is Moses. Moses is the key. Okay. So when

you start to understand when you read all this Antichrist,

all this under the scope of Moses and especially Israel

Moses when they were Egypt, then you will see to

have the understanding. See what happens is that Moses is

a type of Jesus, a foreshadowing of Jesus. Jesus is

the greater Moses. He didn't just came to give the law.

He fulfills the law. So when Moses was said to Egypt,

what did God do? What did God bring with him

as well? Signs and wonders? Okay, plagues In the end

times of our time, it's going to be singing, its quakes,

things going to be You're gonna see many signs. But

what is the purpose of science? So that on, so

that the Egyptians will repent as well and let go

of his people. Always the same thing in the end

of times, very similar as well. When Moses entered into Egypt,

did he enter into a know, what they call it,

empty country? No, he entered into a country that was

steeped and soaked with so much gods Amon Ra, son

of the God of Son. He sees the God of

the underworld, now the God of the river. Now there

are thousands of gods in Egypt, so many gods. In

the end of times we will have false prophets Antichrist,

who will prophesy and do signs and wonders as well.

In a similar fashion as well, everything that was happening

is well, and then when God delivers his people what

he's asking to do. Sorry, yeah, yeah, sorry, I thought

in the other times when when touring towards the last

plague as well, Okay, what they got ask them to do.

There's going to be what they call it, the Angel

of death going to pass through every household, and every

first one will be killed unless you apply the blood

of the lamb on the door post. But this is

where it gets interesting. Now does it mean that you

have the blood? This enough? This is where the Christians

get me. You see, every God told Moses, and Moses

have to tell everyone, and everyone had seen nine of

the plagues. Verad, there you have seen. Oh, you have

seen all that you can see? Ready, frogs, flies, hell,

you know all these things you've seen. Ready, you know

you've seen it. Lord. Ready, you thought that you will

believe radire. But yet God said that you apply on

the door post, but you are to remain inside. If

you remain outside, the blood is on your head. So

there is a responsibility for the Israelites to remain inside.

So for Christians is the same thing as well. God

is giving us warning. These are the signs. These are

the plagues, and this is what you need to do.

But not everybody will hear, not everybody will listen, not

everybody will remain inside. But God is provided the covering

that God is given. You get what I'm saying you

not like you say. It's a foreshadowing. Everything is a foreshadowing.

So Jesus is spending his final week and his final

few days talking to them, are telling them, you know

God is going to come, you know, you see God

is going to come to Just why it's a tree

part series and I tell you it's all connected, one,

all connected. Gonna teach them, Okay, don't deceive yourself thinking

that you hear, you understand, but you don't know the difference. Now,

it's more than just staying inside a house small, It's

more than just an going to a church. Now, it's

more than just hearing worship songs. You know what makes

you remain inside Christ? Abiding in Christ? Get me right?

And so God teaches how how we know? Through these parables.

He gives us the wisdom and also the foolishness of

the world, how the world thinks, how the world does leaves,

and how scripturally we should do so you mark the difference,

so that you know and all of us know that

we remain inside the house. It's important. And when we do,

we we stay inside and we are ready. You know

the way were the way they eat that and not

it's like they were belt get me and they have

sandals and they have stuff, not eating as if they're

having a six hour buffet. When the Japanese buffetiare not

eating like that and are ready, and they eat and

they move, they move, and so oh it complete all

the baptism that you have. But the real baptism is

when we get out of the house and we hear

the voice of God and God Moses delivered them to

the edge and enemy wants, but they passed through and

your sins are completely wiped away, baptized into Jesus completely.

So everything in the past, all that God has done

in the Old Testament, is a foreshadowing for all the believers.

Wright now you get me right towards the end of times,

it will happen to the Christians as well the same

way as well. You know what I'm saying. Now, even

when we do all things, are all the ten parts

of the templace and do everything the enemy was to

pursue you one to know you like it or not.

But at the end God makes away, and then nobody

can make and God wifes wops away. And if you

have a final victory where all your failures and your

past and all the sins are completely washed and wipe away,

and there will be a complete separation, give me it right.

Death cannot pursue you anymore. And that's the final victory

we have. Now. Well, I thought a lot already. Okay,

are your guys ready? Just then intro? All right, let's

read verse one. It says that then the kingdom of

heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their

lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five

of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who

were foolish took their lamps and took not oil with them,

sorry with them. But the whites took oil in their

vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed,

they all slumbered and slept, and at midnight a cry

was hurt. Behold the bridegroom is coming. Go out to

meet him. Then all those virgins arose and trim their lamps,

and the foolish said to the wise, give us some

of your oil, for our lamps are going out. But

the wise answered, saying, no, lest there should be not

enough for us and you. But go rather to those

who sell and buy for yourselves. And while they went

to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready

went in with him to the wedding, and the door

was shut. Afterwards, the other virgins came, also, saying, Lord,

Lord opened to us, and he answered and said, surely,

I say to you, I do not know you watch therefore,

for you know neither the day nor the album in

which the sound of man is coming. No, every time

I read this parabola diffused me. I fear one. And

it's like, oh Lord, am I the wise one and

the foolish one. You know what else drives the fear.

It's not about your heart. It's whether you are wise.

It really speaks it now whether you make it at

the end that it's not just I mean you in

my heart, but do you have wisdom? And it means

that you can have so much good intention and still

missed it. You know what I'm saying, No, you have

so much good intent and It starts off by saying

I said that ten virgins, you know, and when you

say that virgins, it means to a cleaning on. They

were all invited, you know. So I really do not

believe that this is meant so much for non believers.

It's meant for the own people. Really, the own people,

you know, you and I. Every one of us there

are call well many are called. Okay, and so now

let's lett let let's understand this important parable. It says there,

then the kingdom heavens should be likely to ten visions

who do their lambs. Now these lamps are You must

understand it's not the ather didn't land, you know, you

put a home money and no, that lamb you won't

survive you go out there. Okay, It's more like a torch. Okay,

So no, it's not that tw lamb. That lam can

last for a while, but it's a torch, and so

it's always a torch, right, typically, give you a rough understanding.

I will spend a bit less time on this, but

this is important normally for US Asians. Right, our wedding

we start in the morning. You have your uh, your brighter,

your your groom. Was that a party, the brider party

wake up morning Nbout eighty nine, arrived at the bride's place,

maybe it's something nine at that and you go to

the church. In the Jewish committee, different they start in

the evening. The aim to have you know, their aim

is to have a procession. They aim to start around

nine o'clock, around nine o'clock, nine o'clock, meaning the process

the actual the wedding, and then the feast, all until

like maybe eleven twelve o'clock. There's their timing, okay, and

so normally they will leave their house. Maybe they walkman

so probably around seven o'clock seven, roughly around there, typical

seven with the guys, they arrive, okay, stuff from the

stuff from the groom's house. They will walk and all

with a party arrived at the bride's place, take the

bride and go to the back to the groom's place.

Actually these are all symbolic, you know. It's basically representing Jesus.

Jesus has betrothed the church, bought with a price, prepared ready,

and so the job and the responsibility of the bride.

Sometimes the wedding, the waiting could be one or two years.

The responsibility of the bride. The church and the believers

is to remain pure and ready and beautiful. You can

be throw a person, but the person is not ready

for the wedding. That's why we make so much preparation

for the wedding. You know. So the question is asked,

you know, as as a church, as a believer, yes

we believe. But are you beautiful? Are you sanctified? The

key word is sanctification, is that we put cosmetics and ladies,

but God puts on your what sanctification, holiness, good works,

no sot and light. You can mean people look at

you wow, you know like Christ. You know. So this

is a preparation as the church, and so the then

then then then then and then then the groom will

head with the party. We'll head here and saw me

of the way they will meet the ten virgins, and

the ten virgins will have the torches okay, around probably

around eight they guide them to the bride. Those without

the tortures are in my because it's at night, they

cannot see faces right now. If you do not have

a torch, you're considered and a Robert, a thief or

an impostor. And you don't know the way they will

never follow someone without a torch, because you can lead

them astray. Only those with a torch they follow, and

they follow a party ten or them. They all together

as a group, they'll all exhibit the same thing. Go there,

and then we'll bring back to the father's house. Why

the father's house because most of the time at that time,

people live in the same family. I don't know some

of you, but back in my hometown in which you

see right, my grandfather, my mom's side, they have my

grandfather stay in the big house. Okay, the father, my

grandfather's at the top, the first law. Then I have

three to four uncles staying on the basement. So they

have one big house, one big house. So that time,

people stay in their own one big houseman. Now, our

mentality is different. You get one condor you get one

condor you get one condor everybody stays separately, you know.

So that time people and if you look, you know,

in the old architectures, people have this concert of big houses,

you know, And so what they do is that they

bring back to the father's house. And that's why Jesus said,

this is what my I go and prepare a place

for you in my father's house are many mentions, but

the mention of the word is not mentioned. It's like, uh,

it's actually a place. So the son. Typically the father

will give the land and the son will extend the

house the area for the bride and the groom one

which is what at that time that everybody did that.

So when Jesus said that, everybody knew. It's just that

now while we're so used to YouTube, but mentioned Jesus,

do I get a five or six bedders? You know?

Do you have a basketball underneath or not? Do you

have a seaming pool or not? He's not talking about that.

It's not everybody's like, whoa you gonna have a private

helicopter jet? You know? And it's not that. Okay, it

doesn't it doesn't mean. So it's Jesus is talking about

from a groom's perspective. Okay. So now he says that

five of them were once five of them were foolish.

So the foolish took their lamps and took no oil

with them. Now, when I look at that, I was like,

why there's your foolisher, So why they're so foolish? Don't

need no they just have to get oil. Now, typically

the torch will last about ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, okay,

And most of the time people don't expect people to

delay so long, like I said, they expect to start

at nine like that. But it says what it say

in verse five. But while the program was delayed, they

all slumbered and slapt and in verse six, and at

midnight a crime was hurt or delayed quite long until

twelve o'clock. I'm not even started a Yeah, arrive, you

know it could be delaying three four hours? Ready? And

what happened? Then? They fell asleep? Now were they're foolish

because they fell asleep? No, right, because all of them

fell asleep. All of them fell asleep, mad, they were

a foolish man with us all everybody fell asleep. His

life is like there also, isn't it. You get ready,

not because you know the time you get ready, because

you don't know the time, not just the time you

get ready, because you don't know what comes. You really

don't know. Jesus is already trying to tell them something. Ready,

you don't know the time. It's so it's and because

you don't know the time, it doesn't matter your heart,

it's what because you don't know who wisdom comes in.

You don't need to apply too much wisdom where everything

is certain one and all, and just let things run on.

You pre you know, just use my aiag and run

things on here, just run on the automatic already. But

you don't know. That is when your preparation, your foresight,

your your discipline and everything, all the wisdom comes in.

You can I'm saying now it is when uncertainty you

can tell among yourself, among those around you who are

the truly wise ones. You I'm saying, you know. It

is when it's when uncertain where wisdom comes in. Not

your good intentions, you know, really it's your wisdom that

actually makes it. Now it's easier. Then let me go

in here in verse seven, Then all those virgins who

arose and trim their lambs, and the foolish said to

the wise, give us some of your oil for our

lambs are going on now today, I got three key

points I want to deliver to you about the oil. Okay,

then all close. First one, you cannot borrow your oil.

Cannot borrow the oil? What does it mean? What? What

what does the oil represent? And why we can't borrow

the oil Okay, the oil, if you've read the Bible

most of the time, will represent the Holy Spirit. You said,

talk about using oil for annointing the oil, but we

have to go a bit deeper. You will say, hey, Papasta,

you I thought every Christian when they're saying they called

the mark of the Holy Spirit or She'll save Ama,

are you saying the a I save idea? But no

can lose my salvation. Ah going to deep theology and

stuff like that. You know, I went into a long

one of my on this. I tell you why I know.

I don't know. Okay, I only know one thing. When

Moses and the Israelis, when Egypt r they applied the

blood of the Lamb, but they were asked to remain inside.

When Adam and Evil in the garden of Eden, there

was not only one tree, but there were two trees.

One the tree of the knowledge of wo ever and

the tree of life. They always had a choice, always

always had a choice. And the responsibilit is for us.

God can provide everything for you, the word of God,

the instruction, even the blood of the Lemma. God can

put you in the midst of the garden, fill with animals,

all the food you can eat all the enjoyment and

only one temptation and no other thing, only one. But

you still need to obey. You're gonna say no both

the in the area of plenty and the area of life.

You always have a choice always you got to say no,

not neither. You never always have a choice one, okay,

but you always have a choice, and it's our responsibility

to exercise that choice in wisdom, A very very very

very important one. Okay. Now, when we talk about the

Holy Spirit, it's not just about oh I feel the

Holy Spirit. Yeah, and that was so done. Really pass

the mad talking about just responding and you know, and

then we play a music. No, no, no, Remember Matthew seven?

What did Mathew? Chapter seven? What did Jesus say? And

those in the end of the days many will call

me Lord Lord. I'm periphrasing here. You can't read that,

but I tell you I was. Jesus was saying that begone.

I do not know you, you who are workers of

iniquity or lawlessness. You know what I'm saying. No people

will say, but Lord, we cast out demons in your name,

We prophesied in your name, all these things. That's why

this is a d half. But it's true, we have

we can do all these things. But yeah, Jesus causes

workers of iniquity and lawlessness. I'm not saying that you

all are here, but there is a way too, truly,

very fine, Okay, So, but Jesus says that it is

those not those who what what is the requirement? Those

who do the will of my Father, Those I know

I'm perfecting here, those who do the will of the Father.

So if you add the formula together, if you have

the Holy Spirit, you are intended to do the will

of the Father. And what does the will of the

Father do for you? Jesus says another one, My food

is to do the will of the Father. If you

have the Holy Spirit, you will do the will of

the Father. And by doing the will of the Father,

you will have food, you will have feel in your life.

You know, I'm saying, no, it's not it's just having

you know, it's not just that all I claim the

word of God, I have Holy Spirit. That's one thing.

By that many people will claim and don't do the

will of the Father. It just proves you claim, but

the Holy Spirit does not recite in you, and you

do not respond to it and you do not, do

you know what I'm saying? So not so that is

what you means that God is going to provide everything.

But yet daily Christians are not choosing to recide under

the covering of God. They go outside the house. Ah,

it makes sense or not. Moses told them you are

God's chosen people, a pride of blood. Stay inside. God

has done everything for you. Some said that I don't

want to, I want to see fire works. I don't

want to. Don't know how you want to do for

the world.

You know.

It is your responsibility. You cannot blame God and not

you can. Mean it's a very very important distinction. So

now we understand that the oil is not just the

presence but to that, but it's the active working of

the Holy Spirit. And if you want to summarize that,

if I have the Holy Spirit, how do I know

it's not instead just don't It's not just having the form.

But daily am my asking God? What is your will?

And am I doing it? Do I do respond? I

not play any worships. So you don't have to let

Oh prove to me you're speaking tongues. I just need

to know one thing, are you doing the wills of father.

Are you hearing and doing the will to fath? You

know what I'm saying? No, you said you didn't say, Hey,

do you speaking tongues or no? My food is to

do the will of the father, of my father. That's

my food. You know what I'm saying now, And so

whether you have that is no, where are you doing it?

That's the feeld you see towards the end, and I

have actually I was on PJ. I have a stage

I there's a very good illustration. But imagine me. No,

you see, when you start up off right, all of

them were virgins, and all of them will have the torchlight.

At seven o'clock, all of them look wise. You must

understand now, all of them look wise. It was only

until twelve o'clock you can tell who look foolish. That's

the thing, isn't it. It's only at twelve o'clock you

start to realize who look really foolish. At seven o'clock

everybody look wise. Everybody looks mad. It's like it's like

a well, you know, we all started with the whale.

Every you know, all saying pad you also look full.

It all look full. You look full everybody always starts

up a Christian okay, But yet when times are hot,

you dig, you scoop, and that's where you realize that, hey,

I scooped one a two hour nothing left radio. You're

nothing left ready, you know? But yet I just look

the same. And when times you school, and you school,

and you school more, even until you cannot see the

whal already you cannot see the water. And times a

day Christian life, I don't know, sometimes challenging, and you

don't know where your faith will come from, and you

just just go dig a bit deeper. You drop down

the well. You cannot see a radio and what the

word finish already? Then you pull Oh god, wait, you know, hey,

you think it's dirt or stinky water or not, oh,

fresh living water her because underneath it's the Springer. It's

not your doing, but because of your experience, because you

were walking with the lot and you were hearing his

way and doing his will. Even sometimes you don't understand,

you keep digging and you dig, and when time comes

when you scoop it up, you find water to do

it all. You see, the working of the Lord cannot

be borrowed because it is the personal work of the

Holy Spirit in your life. If you're a doctorate, cannot

borrow your doctorate to enter into another university to claim

that name. I cannot You know you, I'm saying, no,

it is God's working in your life. Is God digging

that well for you, not for them? You have to

dig your own. That's why you can't borrow from it

en all. You know what I'm saying. No, you cannot borrow.

You cannot borrow from someone on earth. You cannot just

say I'm a Christian because my parents are a Christian. Hey,

you cannot say that I'm a Christian because my spouse

is a Christian. I am a Christian because I can't

and then just drop my kids in X kids that

makes me a good Christian. Your children were their own,

but you You cannot rely on their digg Neither can

they rely on you. You have to rely on your

own spiritual walk to feel that oil reserve and all.

You cannot borrow one and all because when they walk back, okay,

when they walk back to the group, they need that

torch as well. They cannot give what God has given me.

Our challenges all are different. I go to better or

worse my challenges is the faith that God keeps me

sustaining until I come and meet my father face to face.

You all he come saying no, it's my faith. You

no my oil or I can't borrow it cannot. And

so a lot of people say this is the thing,

you know, when you realize you cannot write, You cannot

rely on my preaching. They cannot rely on YouTube because

YouTube will not really really will not. We not minister

to you. You know, you know I'm saying no, it

doesn't get you to minister or to sir, to be challenged.

What is the will of the father?

You know.

This is very rare. You cannot borrow. The second point

that I want to tell you is that you cannot

rely on oil. Oil. You cannot rely on oil. Everybody

start off as as as virgins with lamb. The reason

some of them they were foolish because they dip their

torch once their first dipping or are their first baptism

or their first experience. And counter we got oh everybody

seven o'clock. Everybody looks like they're on fire all about it.

We can't look at singles place different. We cannot look

a big difference. Oh, start off as parenting, I said parents,

because I also preach the same thing with them, aselves

our parents. Oh I'm a Christian parent. Or when my

baby come out, I play worship some twenty four hours

on it, or until my baby's face grow in the

hale and Moses like the beautiful baby. Ever know, ah,

you know this is a Christian baby ready? You know

immediately I make sure I bought my time with passed Stephen,

you know, to make sure baby dedication. I'm the first

I ask you. I have everything you do. But then

seven o'clock becomes twelve o'clock and you realize that, hey,

you only had one dping. And my question is that

when was your last testimony? People? You think we asked

testimony not because hey we need pr you know, to

run out of people. Testimony is because when was the

last time God spoke to you? God challenged you, and

God asked you to do his will. And a lot

of us are relying on something that's so all the gold.

It's like frying your fried chicken now with like oil

like six months ago. I mean, we want to go

to the fed KFC to eat fried chicken. They used

all oil to fry. It cannot e won't be a fright.

You will be bought chicken, BFC and KBC. Okay, I

don't know what Kentucky brought chicken.

You know.

Oh it cannot relate. And it's because not just that

it's finished, it's already. You cannot some of you, some

of some of you that some of us. We all

go through it. We rely on our testimony and our encounter.

We serve God. Or I used to be president Evangelism,

I used to lead wash your ministry, Oh do do?

And then oh my time has come? Oh and maybe

you know ourself when I'm after this period. You know,

that's one of the things that I sometimes I don't like.

You know that I hear when I when I heard it,

I used to hear when I started working on I

hear this from a well intended Christian. Well intended Christian say,

it's okay. You earn all the results already, and when

you can serve God later, you do it for him.

When you have gained all the experience, you have all

the money, you don't have to worry already sounds wise, last,

but I will tell you what you do not know

the time, which is our shortly letter I'll give you

another reason why. The third point why this is where

this is so not true. Okay, The second reason is

that you cannot rely on all oil. You cannot. My

question is that when was the last time God spoke

to you and asked you to minister, to give to

go out in faith? Really, when was the last time

and you caught something? Not because of the pastor everybody's like,

oh you caught from r because yourself, your own life,

you have not been experiencing much. You rely on somebody

to to motivate you to bring closer the reality of God.

You cannot at all you see him. I worry, you know,

because the oil is so important on your own life.

But like I said, I use the analogy of the

of the well, where they will become a time when

you need to go from point A to point b.

But because in your life you never die the well.

It looks like you have oil. You look like you

have oil. Maybe you needed ten scoops or twenty scoops,

you know, to get there to under enough world to

get to a bit. Maybe you have a financial difficulty,

Maybe you need healing. Maybe God is asking you to

go into ministry, or maybe it could be anything challenged.

It could be requiring a lot of faith. You know

it's right, you know it's right, you know you want

to do it, but yet you go in like the

rich young, like the rich young ruler. You know, you

open up your heart and you check your bank deposit

and you realiss than zero money left because your heart

has been stolen. And you dig into your flask and

you realize that your flash is empty or just a

little left. A to B requires five. You got zero

point five, and you want to exercise face passer. You

pressure me. I thank you for your message, your minister

to me, I got reviewed to me in the world

twenty one day, or fust I heard this radio. This

is the step. You want to do it, but you

couldn't do it. Out of the goodness of your heart.

You couldn't do it. And then you start to bargain

with God because you don't have the all you bargain

you come. I'm saying, you bargain, and because of that

you fall short. Not because it was hard, but because

all the years of God asking you, you keep delaying,

you keep denying, you keep procrastinating. Then you don't have

the depth. You really don't have the depth. I mean

professionally with norma. If you're the first few years of

your life, you're supposed to get experienced. Man. Then after

twenty fifteen years at you don't have the depth. You

cannot lead a team one and all. You cannot at all.

You read what you saw professionally, it's like that one.

You read what you saw, but it's spiritually the same

way as well. And so because when you come to

that point of your life you get so lost and

so confused. But actually, because you don't have that depth,

you can borrow and you look at your oil and you're, oh,

I used to it doesn't apply anymore. You go into missions,

like twenty thirty years ago, you go for missions. Oh

I cannot I got too many keys, and go blah,

I go to my I got my business. You don't

have that faith anymore. When God said, when you start

off your business, you should have gone for missions, because

I need to make sure that you are ready when

the time comes. Go ask you to give now on

a give and I have plenty only. But then when

you make your million, when you make your ten million,

when you make a hundred million, I tell you a

thousand will struggle to give. It feels like you don't

have enough because you'll never die. You don't understand. This

principle is that faith begets faith in all. Faith begets

faith one and all. And this certainly that, Oh God,

I want to do the right thing. If not, I

feel so lost. And then you go twenty one days

and fast and pray, you cannot You just couldn't master

it because you never die. Enough. You cannot rely on

the old ones. Okay. And the third one, you know,

the third one that I want to mention is that

what did I want to say? I think my mind does.

I'm trying to remember. Wow, what's the third point? Wow?

What's the third point? Let me check my notes? Uh Suddenly,

then my mind got plain, what's the third one? Had

remember it's a very very very important one. Can I

be replaced my mind? My mind's bank? Okay? Ah, okay,

I know already, I know already. No, I got it, Okay.

I always look at the scripture, okay, always, And he

says there verse nine, But the wise answered saying no,

lest there should not be enough for us and you,

but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves,

go to the seller and buy for yourself. Third most

important point. There is a time to buy, and there

is not a time to buy. There's a right time

to buy, there's a there's a wrong time to buy.

You cannot The oil is a gift, you know. You

exchange by faith and you get it. You serve by

faith and you receive an inheritance. You don't realize it.

Every time that you overcome something challenging by really the

obedience of God, you receive an inheritance. Like I said,

you dig a bit deeper. But this is very important

principle here when you go out at night to buy

the oil, no one is there for you. There is

a time, warner. There is a time to sow, and

there's a time to reap. There is a time to fast,

and there's a time to pray. There's Jesus says no

during the time when the when the it's a very

broad principle, but it's a very important principle. When the

bright room he is here, you don't weep and you cry,

you don't fast, want enough, you celebrate. And when the

braagroom is away, then you begin to whip and you fast.

It came snaw when the sun is out. You go

out to work. When the sun is down, you go

and rest. The question is are we aware what time

is it? So this is where the wisdom is, the

wisdom see yah when times are late, really the wisdom

make exposed. No, oil is not expensive together at that time,

it is very clear, because they say they we're not

in bich. It's not expensive at all. But the foolish

nurse is that the body at night, when there was

no one around the buy from. You could have done

all this within your power to do it, but yet

when the time arrived, you didn't do it. So the

foolishness of time also permeated into the lives of the believer,

the fulliness foolishness of time. That's why it's that I

told you here might some people tell me, oh, you

earn your money first, get it all this is this

is though time of the warman, do all this money.

Then when i'm later, when I have the money, when

I have the convenience, then I serve, then I give,

then I respond to God. Up by the way, I'm

not here to manipulate anyone to do anything. I'm preaching

to you myself because your ministry, you're responding to do

God's will. That could be many many things, okay many many,

many many things. Make God mayor asks you to do

start a business by faith. But if you're delayed, you're

procrastinating all these things. When the time when the sun

is up and you are sleeping, and a lot of

times we don't know the time. You know why, because

we're inside the house. You're in your own cocoon, in

your own little world. You don't even open the window

to see what is happening. And you're too lazy. Your

wisdom is lost. And when you want and when the

time comes, you know, when the time comes, and I

said saying, ah this immediately, you know I really need

right now, or I realize that I don't have the

depth or how come I I have this challenges? You know,

people can just believe God so easily. You people, Oh,

why why he is a pastor, That's why he can

believe God so easily. That he's got annoying thing. It's

not then annoying thing, it's the is the well is deep.

The will was deep during the daytime, and all you know,

I'm saying, no, the wall was deep during the daytime.

You know, they're not during the daytime and all they

feel it up in all fielding not but yet uh

wh believe in God in the provision, believe in God

for all this like that, Go out and surf you know?

Do you know? Missions? God, studying business, Go and minister,

go and visit someone in the in the hospital. I

can't I do it because everything is no. No no

no no no no no no. You think you say

no now will help you to say years later, I

can tell you you will have a thousand and one picture.

You can't do something when you're all, ah, my bad, hurtsler.

I can't say that every day. Oh no, no, I

got to see doctor right then. Tell you new things

will happen and it will begin to rob you and

you realize you got don't have the capacity anymore because

you bought you didn't buy the oil during the daytime. Yeah,

I'm saying, you know. But the opposite is that the

world will try to make you feel like you're a loser.

I really say this, make you feel like a loser.

See not right now? If you're not in church, what

are you doing? We could I drive five minutes and

go play golf on We could go pick a ball

and you know, probably a few more sessions ready, brother right,

well this one BIXB you'll start at ten o'clock and

got the hour because you know, because I could have

have Brown Branch breakfast and teams number one twelve thirty brothers,

I have to go and rush my kids to going.

My cant ready. You know why you spend all these

hours for the church and still that they're being in

God's house and do ministry like that? Why you spend

ten thirty at not even people? You know, when you

spend the time to go and call them, hey, your kids?

You are oh when you go on campus, you could

have got home and play you know, legal legends. I

don't know why you are all this thing you could

have done and all hey, you could have done all

these things. Are you know you fore you're going to

do your master's degree? I tell you know why, because

all this I gotten, I got so many ideas how

to improve myself on and know I got so many

times personally, I caught so many but God had to

minister to me mad. You're so flesh, so flesh, But

when you're going to be wise and look at the time,

you cannot see it, But I see it. Now is

the time you go out and sew. Now's the time

you go out and plant, so in due time you

can reap your harvest. You know, at the closest part, right,

I don't want to recap.

You know.

What's the first one? You cannot borrow another person's oil.

You cannot the second one, you cannot rely on oil oil.

What's the third one? There's a time to buy oil?

Can you remember this? Er? Huh? This is practical. It's

most like. It's almost like a household principle. It's very principal,

very very basic, isn't it. But you know it's a

country that there's one song that comes into my mind.

You know, how do we continue? Like the Bible say,

you know, have the holy spirit, make sure that our

oil is full. You know, yes, these are things we know,

But how do we You know, there's a song that

comes in my mind, you know that song.

Puify my heart, let me be yes, go and precious silver,

and then to refine as far my heart's wan.

This is a is to be holy said a part

for you, my master, not my man. The last part,

Ready to do your will, it ends, Ready to do

your will, Ready to do your will. So a lot

of us are. Our hearts are not one thing, but

not able to do the will of God. It's true,

isn't it. We want to, but we're not doing it.

We're not doing it because our hearts, they say, is

a clinging to so many debris and dirts and foreign materials,

you know, contaminating it. And we find our hearts not soft,

not pure, not pliable in the hands of God. In

the hands of God, you know we we we we

we we solid different we we've molded everything before God. Ready,

this is the temper temper, this is template.

You know.

When I started out having kids, right, one of the

challenges are what's having gone on? Really? And I tell

you the truth, Okay, I tell you even sometimes people

close to me okay, I won't say we're close to

me will say things are like that are I think

your children are will struggle. They used to people You

start to use the children to to make you feel

like you're I'm a horrible parent. That's the most powerful thing.

You know. Parents are just hate being feel like you're

a horrible parent. Oh you know, maybe they won't study, well,

maybe the one grow told. Maybe they will be like

you know, some people used to have with this thing

or become like a pastor's kid, you know, you know,

you know, they grow up and then want to be

like total rebel, you know, one hundred percent and fifty

you know, a round a percent rebel. But then I

was like it cannot be. Sometimes, I when I when

I started opening the house for people to come in,

messed up my house like crazy, you know, really amazy,

you know, sometimes because it's stop like oneot my kids

to not sleeping, you know, then the next day they'll

tie you and people are looking like, oh your kids

like that. Aha. I really can know, really, Ganna and all.

It's so many days I want to few example, and

sometimes I really don't know. I just say God, everything

I do is really just out of faith. I can

tell you my heart was not there, but I was

just doing it automatically. Only I was really really struggling.

It's not easy. But I tell you right now, I

look at my kids are not perfect, but I wouldn't

trade them for Mini one now. Really, by the grace

of God. No, it's not just that. And I can

tell you I am nothing zero, but yet God did

everything to raise my kids. I'm just so glad for it.

I don't know what we're coming in the future, because

I told them you cannot borrow my oil. You gotter

have your own oil, you mean, But my oil has

produced a legacy and a testimony for you guys, and

it's sustained me through that. I have to do it,

you get, I mean, right? And because I can now

I get to encourage others, Hey can't. I know, sometimes

just coming from BU to BJ can be a real

challenge because of the traffic. But I tell you that

actually homes and worship is not coming to homes now

your travel. That's the portion that God has given to

you to worship him. You don't realize it. You don't

realize it. That is the most spiritual thing you can do.

That is the most so your life is not filled

with hearing and understanding. Your life as a parent, I

feel is doing ninety percent doing than just hearing. You

don't realize it all when you finally arrive or we

can minister to you because you've done so much. You

have come the mountain to bring Isaac. You know, you

know what I'm saying. You know, so I hope parents

will do the same, that each and all you are

like everyone climb climbing the mountain to bring your isaacs.

You know that's the key. You know, you know and

say you know every one of you. When times come,

when when things are tough, better it is for your

children or for your own family. You have so much

fresh new testimonies. God. Wow, another challenge again, Ah, another

sickness or another thing. Just trust color and you realize

that because you invested so much, the peace of God

will guide you. It's not by coincidence. Right now, because

all the testimonies have built up this piece to guard you.

You are no longer sleeping because you have not oil.

You are sleeping knowing you have all the oil. And

when you say, hey, oh oil, I got oil, but

you don't want to feel like you are sleeping you

got all the on your world, I say, I'm reallying,

I got no oil. L Amen.

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