Who will roll away the stone | Pr. Kenneth

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

We hope this message will light up your day.

Praise the Lord. God is good.

And I want to extend the message of Easter just

in case some of you missed it. And if you

didn't miss it, you probably missed the message that I

prepared for Singapore and it was the first time I

appreciate that message in Singapore.

I want to now bring it to you. Are you ready?

Okay, Let's now turn to Mark sixteen one to six.

Mark the Book of Mark. If you have your Bibles,

turn with me to the Book of Mark. Please mark

chapter sixteen. But anum blasts I add sat a number.

Is Mark sixteen one to six.

All right, Sometimes I try my bahasa because I have

to brush my basa if I want to preach more

in Saba and Sarawah. Okay, mark sixteen one to six.

Now let's read the word of God. When the Sabbath

was passed, Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mud of James and

Salome bought spices that they might come and annointed him

very early in the morning on the first.

Day of the week. What's the first day of the week?

First day of the week, is Sunday, right, because Sabbath

in the Jewish culture goes from Friday evening into Saturday.

That's the last day, and then the first day that

starts the week is a Sunday. Okay, So to everyone

in this room, welcome to the first day of the week.

They came to the tomb when the sun had risen,

all right, and they sat among themselves.

Who will roll away the stone from the door of

the tomb for us?

But when they looked out, somebody said, look out, all

of us in this room, I encourage you to look up,

all right, because when you look down, there's nothing. There's

nothing but disappointment, discouragement, sadness.

Okay, let's all remember to look up.

Jesus is Lord, and God is in heaven, and he's

looking down on us, and he wants to meet.

Our needs and do miracles in our lives. Today. To

look up.

They saw that the stone had been rolled away, for

it was very large, and entering the tomb, they saw

a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting

on the right side, and they were alarmed, but he

said to them, do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus

of Nazareth. Who was crucified. As right, he is risen.

Somebody say, a man, he is not here, see the

place where they laid him.

The next light says, he is raisen Jesus. Reason.

I remember being part of FGAKL, you know, many years ago,

and we were doing Bible study after the service every Sunday,

and one Sunday we had a Bible trivia and the

Bible trivia question was what is equally as important as

the cross? And I didn't know the answer then, so

I didn't get any marks for that. But later on

I realized that the answer was the empty tomb. What

is as equally as important as the cross. Jesus died

on the cross, is the empty tomb? Because the empty

tomb then becomes truth that he was not just any man,

but he was the son of the living God, and

death could not hold him. He wasn't just any man

to die for you and me, but he was the

son of God. For God's soul of the world that

he gave his only begotten son. So he is raisen.

The next light says, it's very important now because I

want to move from this move from Easter.

Into what it means to us. He's reasen.

So what the stone has been rolled away?

What is it to us?

This is the first thought I want to give you. Therefore,

he can help you, me, or anyone else for that matter,

to overcome anything. If he can overcome death, what could

he not overcome? Can I hear a good amen? He

is our overcomer. His own stone was rolled away, and

he is alive. The next slide is a scripture, and

the Bible says in Romans eight eleven, but if the

the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead

dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead

will also give life to your mortal bodies. Through his

spirit who dwells in you, is coming closer to home.

Now.

Not just the spirit raised him Jesus from the dead. Now,

the same spirit who lives in us can also give

us life, give us life. Turn to your neighbor and

say life. Make sure some breath is coming out of

your life. Yeah, hope you brush your teeth. The question

is how do we experience this resurrection power? That's right,

how do we experience this good? And find for Jesus good,

and find for the Lord Mos High to have experienced

what he experienced But now the important question is how

do we experien how do we experience this resurrection power

in our own lives. So let's get into the word.

John eleven says this. Then Jesus, again, groaning in himself,

many of you know where this comes from, came to

the tomb.

It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

Jesus said, take away the stone, Martha, take away the stone. Martha,

the sister of him who was dead, said to him, Lord,

by this time there is a stench, for he has

been dead four days. Who has been dead, Lazarus? There

is a stench? He has been dead?

How many days? Four days? Jesus said to her.

Did I not say to you that if you would believe,

you would see the glory of God. Okay, we all

know that the stone that laid in front of the

tomb of Jesus was rolled away. Now let us look

at our stone. This is a stone laid at the

mouth of the cave the tomb where Lazarus, who was dead.

Four days laid.

A lot of us think, Jesus, you should come and

take away my stone. But the instruction from the Lord

is not that he will take away the stone. The

instruction from the Lord is that we should take away

the stone. So the first revelation I want to give

to you is, if you're waiting for the Lord to

remove the stone in your life, think again, because he

said to Martha, you take away the stone.

The miracle really is not the stone removed.

The miracle really is that someone who is dead now

is alive. And only God can give life to the day.

You know, my father was in the army. He was

serving in the Malaysian Army and they were stationed in Thailand.

And I think it was to help with the war

in Vietnam. And so the Malaysian Army was in Thailand

and my dad was just a low rank army officer.

He didn't want to be in the army, but my

father wanted him there because my father wanted to teach

my dad disciplined.

My dad was really bad with disciplined.

Okay, yesterday it was my dad's birthday, eight year's birthday yesterday.

Okay.

Of course, my dad has not been here on earth

already now for twenty six years. Okay, he died when

I was thirty. But my dad is well known in Malaysia.

Some of you know him as Mike Bernie okay, the

manager of Suderman and cafree. Some of your old enough

to know some of his names. Rindu Bayangan uh and

uh he was manager of.

Ning Baizura uh and uh.

So he's he's very famous when it comes to the

entertainment world. And he brought in artists like Diana Ross.

He brought in artists like Eric Clapton, and then of

course the biggest artist that my family brought in was

Michael Jackson in this big, huge stadium. My father was very,

very famous in the entertainment world in Malaysia. But he

was he had a he had a broken life.

He was on drugs, He had two failed marriages. And

I mean, I.

Can go on and on to say that sometimes we

look very good on the outside, but sometimes our lives

can be a mess on the inside.

Are you austy with me?

Uh? And so I wanna I want to say to

you that my dad was in the army and uh

he just you know, we're talking about asking that.

That God would take away the stone.

But I tell you what the day that my dad

began to you know, he had drugs, He was doing

drugs and all that, and he couldn't quite overcome then

when Jesus came into my dad's life around the same

time Jesus came into my life many years ago. You know,

that particular stone had to be rolled away. So I

tell you how it was rolled away. My dad one

day just decided that he wanted to give up drug

give up drugs. So he called, my name is Kenny,

you know, come, let's burn this thing. And so we

went to the garden and he took the bong. It's

called a bong, not that I'm teaching you how to

take drugs, but the bong, and he puts a papayas

stem and you know I will help him.

I will. From six years old, I was lighting up

the gun jar for him.

But that day, because Jesus came into his heart, he

made a decision to give up.

There was a stone also in.

My dad's life, but he made a decision to give

up that a drug habit.

And we burned that bong in the middle of the garden.

And I can't remember how to pray or how I prayed,

except I think I said, ganjaw, we kill you in

Jesus name. You know, because I was such a young

Christian only six months old. Christian, I want to say

to you that sometimes you're waiting on Jesus. And anyway,

my dad was delivered from thirty five years of Ganja addiction. Okay,

and I want to say to you right now that

your stone can also be rolled away. But it's not

Jesus who's going to come to row. He's going to

come into your life, but he wants you and I to.

To know, Ah, to know.

That we should roll away the stone. I want to

continue on my father's story. So the no, my father

was Catholic, and he thought he was a very strong Catholic.

Actually he wasn't. My father was an altar boy at

the Roman Catholic Church in Saint John's. My grandfather was

given the front row seat in Sen John's for some

reason that he helped to propagate the Catholic religion in Malaysia.

So the pope had given him, you know, some kind

of honor and the front row seats in the.

Roman Catholic Church.

So sometimes my family can be very proud about some

of these things, but I, you know, you know as

good as I, and how these things don't matter.

Front row seats and.

Titles and honor given by men. We want the honor

given by God. So my father really lived a terrible life. Anyway,

my dad told his army mate, his army mad's name

was Bernard burn Also, Hey, hold on, yeah Bernard, hold

on yeah, Burner is it? Yeah, Bernard? I think yeah, okay,

let's just call him Bernard for now. And so the

army mat had received Christ, and the army maid came

to see my dad tell him about Jesus. My father said, hey,

don't tell me about Jesus. I know about Jesus. I'm Catholic.

And however, you know that you can know him up

here in your brain, but not in your heart. And

so my father was trying to argue with his friend,

but because they were armymates, my father gave him some

respect and said, you know, I know this Jesus and uh.

And this brother said, do you know that Jesus is God?

And that's something that my father didn't really understand. He said, no, no, no, no,

Jesus is you know, the son of God. No, no, no,

he's God, his son of God, by his God, also

his God. And my father says, no, he's well. He

was struggling and then this man said to my father,

who gives life? And my father says God, And he says,

if you read your Bible, you know that Jesus gave

life to Lazarus, and Jesus gave life to the child

of your old child that died. He says, if God

gives life to the dead and Jesus gives life in

the Bible, then what is Jesus? And my father had to, yeah,

admit that Jesus is not just a son of God,

not just a good prophet, not just a good teacher,

but he is God. And so the miracle that we've

just read is that Jesus was.

Going to raise the dead up to life.

But the key thought is that the stone that is

in front of us needs to be removed before the

miracle of resurrection can happen.

So I want to say all this to all of you.

If you want to experience the resurrection power of Jesus,

you've got to be ready to remove the stone, all right.

And Jesus says, if you would believe, you will see

the glory of God. Thank you so much. Is this

Tata day? Oh, it's the best taste of water I've

ever had. Rassia thank you so much. Let's look at

the next lighter. If you would believe, if you would believe, Martha,

you would see the glory of God. What do you

think the real stone is, Ladies and gentlemen, She said,

I cannot remove the stone because by now there's a stench,

because the body has been dead for come on or days.

But that's just an excuse.

Can I say to us right now that many of

us are just one step away from a miracle, But

because we are living an excuse, it doesn't happen. Is

the stone really the stench? Is the stone in your life?

And mine?

Really the excuse? You don't understand my boss, he's quite cruel.

Is your stone really your boss? You don't know my husband,

he's actually quite violent. Is the stone really your husband?

You don't know my wife, she's actually quite unreasonable. Is

the wife the stone? You don't know? My kids, you

haven't met them. They're a terror. Is the kids really

your stone?

You don't know? Buster. I am sick. You know, I'm

not able to breathe well, so I can't climb up

the steps here in the legacy. Is it really the steps?

Is it really eight fifteen that you can't come to

because so early? Is it really ten forty five? Is

it really because of the patrol going hide and you

can't drive because tell me the truth. You would pay

any price if you really believed in it, If you

really believed in it, you would pay any price.

Come on, come on, let's be honest.

If you really want it, need it, it doesn't become

an excuse anymore. You would pay for that shoe. You

will pay for their car. You will pay for the house,

You will pay for the holiday, You will pay for

that fine, You will pay the interest. You will go

the second mile for your favorite restaurant. How far is

this restaurant? One and a half hours? But I love

the bakuta, the hair, the baku day is made in heaven,

and in heaven, I know that I won't be eating

it anymore so because Jesus doesn't eat I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

We eat manna in heaven. You know Manna, I know Mana.

You won't pay any price. Every mother here, you love

your son, You pay the price. You love your daughter.

You pay the price. You love your wife. You know

she really likes that. You'll pay the price. You save

up for it. We only make excuses when we stop believing.

Come on, so, what's the real stone in Master's life?

What's the real stone? What's the stone that needs to

be rolled away.

Unbelieved?

And he said, did I not tell you? If you believe,

you will see the glory of God? Can I speak

this to all of your lives? I love you, I

love God's Church, and I want you to prosper. Everyone

in this room, I really want you to prosper. I

really want you to do very well. Believe me, Hey,

I didn't start this church out today. All of us

can fail. By the grace of God, this church who

started so that you can be blessed with abundant life.

I want you to succeed. I want you to do well.

If I can look into all of your eyes, I

will tell you that I want you to do well.

I want you to break through. I want you to

have new testimonies. But it's going to take believing. And

that's a stone that's very real in our lives. It's

not the excuses behind it. Then he said to Thomas

John twenty twenty seven, twenty nine, reach your finger here

and look at my hands. And reach your hand here

and put it into my side. Do not come on,

be unbelieving. These are the words of Jesus himself, but believing.

And Thomas answered and said to him, my Lord and

my God. Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have

seen me, you have believed.

Come on.

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.

Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters. It takes believing to

build a great church. It takes believing to build a

good marriage. It takes believing to build a strong company.

Those of you who are bosses or your own company

are when your staff stop believing that you know on

pause the excuse us stuff. Why you came late, why

you go back so early, Why you haven't.

Finished your work, why you didn't do what I told you?

Excuse us, excuse us, excuse us.

The real deal is they don't believe as much as

they did when you first gave them the job. Of course, sadly,

maybe they never believed and they wanted the job because

they needed they Listen, ladies and gentlemen, we cannot build

anything great, not even a great country, if you don't

believe with all your heart. Blessed are those means you

means me, we are blessed when we have not yet seen,

but we believe. Okay, let me give you three words

very quickly. Unbelieved achieves nothing. The Lord told me this

many years ago when extrach was still young. Actually is

twenty six years old, by the way, And when Excisus

was one year old, two year old, the Lord said

to me, Kenneth, I want to tell you right now,

and you better believe it and believe achieved nothing. I

actually came out with a design you an, and I

put it into a T shirt and I sold it

to myself because the type of church was very small.

And believe achieves nothing. Tell me that you have achieved

something very amazing through unbelief, and I'll stop the message. Now,

tell me that you built a great testimony by not

believing at all.

Let's just throw my notes. Now. Tell me that you

build a.

Great family, a great house, a great company by half

not to belief, and I say, let's go home now.

Then why do you keep something so useless and valueless

or unbelief in your system when he achieves nothing? Why

still keep it in your heart? Why still keep it

in your storage in your brain?

It's useless. Check it out.

If you want to be healer, believe. Don't come out

with the author half believing you will not receive anything.

Don't turn to each other and pray for each other,

half believing maybe God maybe maybe maybe he loves me,

maybe he doesn't.

This is not Christianity. Christianity is believe with all your heart.

That's why God always wants all, he says, love the

Lord your God with He always wants all because you

cannot give all without believing.

Everybody.

Okay, very important, But we walk by face, not by side.

Side is when you calcolate, do mathematics in your mind. Kennah, Kennah.

I spoke to one brother just recently. I'm discipling him

because he asked me, passa, can you please disciple me?

I said, okay, So if somebody asked me to disciple them,

you know that, then it becomes my.

Commitment and I will be there.

And so I'm discipling this guy and he tells me

reasons why he hasn't served in church, even though he's

in that church for three years. Excuse us, excuse us,

excuse us. So I prayed before I went to see him.

I said, Lord, what word do you have for this

man today? And the Lord gave me the word. I

went and I said, brother, the Lord told me, you'll

tell you why after three years you're still not serving

in his house. And then he gave me about three excuses.

He has to do mainly with his work. He has

a very good job. Very good job pays in the

tens of thousands. But excuse, excuse, excuse, I said, brother,

God loves you, you know that right. And I also said,

I love you, you know that right. I'm gonna say

something to you. All your excuses is by sight because

I can see you see. I can see my schedule

like this. Therefore I can see I cannot I can

see that maybe my boss needs me to play golf

on Sunday, So therefore I don't think I can say

yes to Albert when he calls me to worship. Believe,

I can see that my children might cry at the

time that I go for worship practice, so therefore I

can't go for words. I can see that my wife

might get I can see you know, you calculate with

our minds we are going by side.

I can see that maybe there is a long.

Weekend and I won't be around you see you see

how far I can see. Maybe it's a long weekend.

Who told you it's a long weekend? But I can

see you know when you have excuses, you can see

a lot of things on there are not there. I

can see that maybe my children will be sick three

months from now.

Hello, I can see that.

Maybe maybe I can see you're calculating. But the Bible says,

don't live by side, live by faith, where even if

you can't see, you still believe. So then he said

to me, Pastor, actually the Lord has been speaking to

me for months, but now today you have come to

confirm it. I said, you know, angry, mere better, don't

be angry in here. I didn't become your pastor to me,

you're angry on. I became your pastor so that I

can disciple you in the way of the Lord and

see you prosper. So he turned to me and said,

the pasta today your confirmation. I must act on it.

Even though I don't know whether my boss will send

me overseas or not. I don't know whether at that

time I will go overse I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know, I don't know. But one thing I know,

I must serve the House of God. You know, when

I left the discipleship meeting, he took the phone and

he called his pastor, all right, his local pastor, and said,

I don't know what will happen, but I'm signing up now.

He's signed up by they. And then you watch and

see God open doors for him. Watch because God is

no man's better. He will move on your behalf. That

God doesn't move by sight, he moves by faith. Without faith,

is it impossible. It's impossible to please God. So let

me move on. Believing is powerful. Somebody say, amen, Oh, yes,

it's very powerful. I've never seen a miracle done in

the Bible without believing. Water turn into wine. Not only

the mother had to believe, Hey, do whatever he tells you.

Mother said. The mother said, do whatever he tells you.

So Mary believed.

The very people that pour water into the sixth jars

also had to believe, even though they believe blindly, but

they believe. And then Jesus scooped out that water turn

into wine and is the best wine. I want to confess,

declare and prophesy on you that your best wine is

before you. If you believe you say amen, say I

receive it. Lord, your best life, your best wine, your

best contract, your best pay, your best bonus, your best promotion.

Come on, Just fill those water pots with water. What

does water mean In the Bible, it speaks about the word.

So fill your hearts and your lives with the Word

of God. Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by

the word Romans ten seventeen. Faith comes by hearing and

hearing by let the water pots. All of us are

just of clay. So let the water pots we fill

with the water, and then let God move. So who's

supposed to roll over the stone? You and I? And

then you let God do the miracle. Don't worry about

the miracle first. Do your part first, and your part

in my part is not to wait for God to

roll away the stone. To roll it away. He said

to Martha, take away the stone, Martha, he says to Kenneth,

take away the stone, Canneth, the stone of unbelief. Believing

makes the impossible possible. Look at Abraham. Abraham believed God,

and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Did you

know that just by believing you suddenly become righteous?

You know, and not.

Only that he became a father of faith and a

friend of God. How many are you here in this

room would like to be a friend of God? All right?

For the rest, I don't want to be a friend

of God or for God to bring their hands.

Not only can we be a friend of God just

by believing, but we are given the right to become

children of God. Did you know that Scripture JO one twelve?

But as many as received him to them, he gave

the right to become children of God to those who

believe believe. Why is God wanting me to share this

with you? Because some of you in this room may

have started to stop, started to stop believing, or you

believe less, or you believe half, you cannot build anything great.

Let me repeat myself. If you only believe half, that's

why maybe all you're getting is half because you believe half.

So we reap what we saw. We saw havel, We

get half the right to become children of God. Ladies

and gentleman in this room, I want to re mind

you your faith and your position and posture as a

child of God is not by just wishful thinking.

It's a right.

Whenever the devil comes to attack you, you tell him.

You have a right.

It is a right to become a child of God.

Somebody say, amen, what else does believing do? That? If

you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe

in your heart that God has raised him from the dead,

you will be saved.

Do you know that salvation comes from believing?

If you believe with all your heart, I'm saying to

you right now, you and I will be saved. You

know why some of us feel that we're half saved

because we half believed. Unbelieve is powerless. In factadies and gentlemen,

brothers and sisters, it drains power. It really does drain power.

It drains you, It drains me. It makes the possible

aim possible. So why keep unbelieving in your heart? Why

why have any unbelieve at all? Ladies and gentlemen. You

should be like a child. That's why Jesus wants us

to be like a child, child like faith. Children don't

believe half or not. You watch the little children when

you say to them, ice cream, They.

Say yeah, all, ice scream? You say the.

Holiday, yeah all. They are already jumping on the bit.

Are we going now? Are we going now? One month

before the holiday, and God wants us to be like

children again. But you know, the older we grow, the bore,

we get hurt, disappointed, discourage, people hurt us, make us

feel down. So we lose trust, We lose faith you

with me, and so we believe less, and we believe less,

and we believe less, and we experience less, and we

experience less, and they are less testimonies. Now, last time,

when you first came to know the Lord? Testimony every week?

Now once a man, don't my everyon? So with the

testimony time at homes? Anybody got any testimony? Shair very quiet?

Why not everybody looking down like prairie? Any testiminy? Shair

looking down? What are you looking down? Lost by airring?

First came to know the Lord? On fire? One hundred

percent belief? Testimony after testimony after testamenty is it a

problem with unbelief? I believe? So?

Is that the real stone? I believe? So? Who's the

only one that can remove it?

You? And let the Lord do the rest? So how

do we get here? How did we get here to

this place of half belief? Thirty percent belief? Hello, ladies

and gentlemen, even ninety percent is not good enough?

How do we get here well?

The next slight says, these are some of the reasons

along the way, you were discouraged, disappointed. You prayed for

someone to be healed, not healed, pray for a breakthrough

in your finances.

Did come in the way you wanted.

You have dissatisfaction, maybe with members of the family, maybe

with church leadership, unmet expectations, frustrations in Malay, you know

what frustrations is, Bruce Trussy, I once heard it being

translated when I was speaking. I said the frustrations, and

the basta speaking pasta said Frustrussy. Do you have frustrausci

in your life? I hope you don't have fruit? Trusty,

I hope you have fruits. Oh well, suddenly you know

when you came to church, you know many years ago

you look to Jesus, Look to Jesus, Look to Jesus,

and then ask. As the time goes by, you start

looking at men. That's why when we read earlier the

people looked up.

You got it.

Constantly look up, even though the world tries to get

you down, and worse still, they try to get you

to look down. Look at others, what they are doing

or not doing. How come he can do? How come

she can do? How come he doesn't do? How come

I'm here early, he's not, he's not here early? How

Come I serve every week? He doesn't serve every week?

How come she? How come he your belief? Once upon

a time one hundred percent? Now, how many of you

I have started filling up your patrol tanker?

Only half? When he got his voice pensive, come on,

come on, don't put it, put her hands. I know

people are here.

You feel just enough because maybe tomorrow you'll come down,

He'll just yeah. Right, when the patrol was you, no

price was lower. We feel full time. Usually when now

people are are scared because you've been hurt bucket hard.

So you come to church half hearted now not necessarily

as before. Now you go to work dragging your feet.

You thought it was a dream company. Now it's turned

into a nightmare. Listening to negative voices around you. Yeah,

that's why I said to you earlier. Unbelieved can drain

you of all excitement, of all enthusiasm. But that's good news.

Jesus himself was resurrected from the dead. So, oh, you

do feel dead. I know, I know in your faith,

in your excitement, you feel like idea, your date, or

you're dying. But I wanted to say to you before

I close, made the resurrection power of Jesus Christ come

upon us all.

May the stone be first rolled away.

Unbelieve must go because it's no use to anyone of you,

and let us see life. Come back to your life

and your marriage, and your family, and your company and

your church. Somebody say amen. While he was still speaking,

some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house who said,

your daughter is dead.

Yeah, she's dead. How you feel it?

And so why trouble the teacher any further? I got

good news for all of you. It's no trouble for

Jesus this morning. It's no trouble for Jesus this morning

to give life to those who feel dead in this room.

Can I hear good? Amen?

As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken,

yes it was a discouraging word. Yes it was a

disappointing word. Yes, it was his only daughter and she died,

and everybody feels so down and depressed. And when Jesus

heard that depression, he heard that discouragement, he heard the disappointment.

What did he say he said, do not be afraid.

May this be the word of the Lord Jesus Christ

to all of you in this room, do not be afraid.

Only believe. Turn to your neighbors, say only belief. What

does only believe me?

Come on? Only believe?

That means there's nothing else you need. Hello, there's nothing

else you need but bah leave or believe again. Come on, guys,

I'm gonna say it again. Unbelieved, achieve nothing, Get it

out of your system, and start believing again. Next light,

as I draw towards the last lap, we may not

have totally stopped believing it's true, but we may have

stopped believing totally. I'm going to add this to my

chin inspiration quotes. This is such a good quote the

Lord gave me just five days ago. We may not

have totally stopped believing, but we may have stopped believing totally.

And it is hotel believe that will see your greatest

destiny come to pass. Doubt is the real stone that's

in the way. Why do we doubt because we've been hurt?

You say, because I've become smarter now. I don't want

to be hurt anymore. So I'm just gonna believe half

on the because I've been discouraged, because I've been disappointed,

because I fail, because because because all the excuses now

surround you like demons, and we buy into it, and

we see nothing, nothing that resembles a miracle in our lives.

And God comes today. Jesus alive from the tomb has

already happened. Somebody, Amen, He's alive, and he's here to

speak to our hearts, to say, if I can do it,

you can do it. The stone needs to be rolled away.

Let me give you one other scripture. The thief does

not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy.

But Jesus has come to give us.

Life and life more abundantly, you know, brother and gentlemen,

Can I just be very honest with you. The devil

has many times come into my life and tried to

steal my faith.

Passa.

Daniel was very honoring when he said, I got one

thing to say about Pasa Kenneth. Although I have many

things to say, one thing I will say is that

he really believes in young people. Tell the young people here,

I've seen them grow. Albert since he was fifteen in Quantan.

It was a rascal, just a big show off. The

first time I saw him, he was walking on his hands.

Albert true so that he can show off in front

of all the kale young people. But the Albert that

we know today is so far from the Albert that

I knew at fifteen, Now married to an amazing woman,

having two kids, partly it of our worship team, serving

the Lord National Champion of powerlifting, national record holder. I mean,

there's so many things that I can be proud of Albert.

But I believe in young people, and I continue to

believe in young people. Not every young person turns out

like an Albert, or like a Daniel, or like you

know the young people I know here. Sometimes they break

your heart.

You know what.

The devil wants to break my heart so that I

will stop believing in young people because he steals and

then he kills. So if he can steal your belief,

steal my belief in young people, he will kill my

dreams for young people. I'm so disappointed with young people

now because I've raised them up for twenty years and

then they stepped me in the back for comple So

now because of one, two, three, five, seven, ten people

have done that to me, I say enough of serving

young people. I refuse this calling. I reject this calling

to reach young people. They've hurt me so bad. It's

useless to serve down people. You under said, that's where

the devil wants to get you too. And finally he

will destroy your very destiny. Do you understand one trying

to say your destiny from the lord, it will be destroyed.

So this is the three ways he does it.

Anyone in this room ever felt like the enemy came

and stole something, maybe your joy. So he steals your

joy first, and he kills your excitement for whatever it

is that you were excited about, because no more joy

kills and then destroys you see the order, And who

comes to you and steal right in front of your face,

doesn't It's all stealth. There is no thief that comes

to your houser when all the lights are on and

you are away, very seldom. If they come like that,

they're probably very bold, and they're very crazy, probably on drugs.

But most thief comes when nobody knows.

The devil comes, and after he stole that belief and

faith and joy from you, you didn even.

Know what hit you. You still come to church every Sunday.

You still come to judge every Sunday, but you got

I wonder why I'm a bit bored now. I wonder

why I keep going to the toilet every time. I

wonder why you know I'm not praying as loud. I

wonder why I'm not worshiping as enthusiastically. I wonder why

I haven't lift up my hands a long time. You know,

he is very subtle, very subtle, slowly, but surely he's

going to kill you and destroy you. So many times

he's done it to me. But Ladies and German. As

I draw to a close, can I say this to you,

by the grace of God, I refuse top believing. I

refuse why because unbelieve achieves. I don't want to go

down that road, I say, Lord, no matter how many

young people hurt me, I was still believe in them.

Everybody okay with this?

Some churches don't do as well as others, but we

still Plantuchice, Yes, Daniel, were still because we believe that

this is God's will and way we plan. But not

every church succeeds the way we want it to. It's okay,

not every pastor does it the way you want him

to It's okay, do you understand this? Because He came

to give us life and life more abundantly. Okay, let's close.

Abundant just means there is nothing in this life or

even after this life, that I cannot attain a chief, accomplished,

a choir and or appropriate, as long as God wants

it for me. So God wants so much more for

you and for me, and the way to achieve it

is to roll away that storm of unbelief. As I close,

let me share one more thought with you. A lot

of you have never seen this, but it's found in

one Corinthians thirteen, the Love Chapter, the Love Chapter, the

Love Chapter. Have you ever seen this? That love believes

all things? A lot of you are more familiar with.

Love is kind, love is patience, and all that is

not puffed up. That's not parading yourself. But how many

of us have ever read this scripture? Love believes all things,

not just believes all things.

So when we stop believing all.

Things, we stop believing totally.

We only believe now fifty percent.

Because I'm not going to give my all, because I

get hurt every time I give my all. But I'm

telling you right now don't let the devil have the

upper hand.

Don't let the devil win.

You believe, and you believe in all your heart till

the day Jesus comes back. Because if you can believe

that way, you will see the glory of God. That's

what Jesus said to my math Did I not tell you?

If you believe, you will see the glory of God.

Love believes. So if this is my last thought, my

last thought, if you stop believing all especially, it might

be that you have stopped loving. I close with Jess

and an analogy. I think I've done about eighty to

eighty eight weddings.

I've worked with many couples.

I've done my first wedding I did twenty seven years ago. Okay,

so the person just said, oh, butster, remember you did

our wedding.

He's been married twenty seven.

Years for the first ten to fifteen, maybe even twenty years.

That all the vowels or traditional one not, you know,

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer. But the

new ones. Have you been to the new ones? And

maybe some of you already did it yourself. Yeah, okay,

and it's not wrong, that's not wrong. It's not wrong.

But can you feel the love in the room when

the officiating minister says the couple today has chosen to

exchange their very own written vows, and then as a minister,

I have to pull out their vows because they can't

remember because it's a four paper with the fall size eight.

Now I'm just kidding, but you know, pray small, very long.

Mine is very.

Easy, for better, for words, for Richard, for Porter his sickness, and.

In health to death towards part Amen, praise God count him. Yes,

somebody says yes, somebody say amen. But today okay, and

I tell you are the words. I don't know which

song they have taken it from all of me loves

all of you. You know someone I want to sing also,

but you know the words, the words. The words is

I will climb the highest mountain, the older ones.

I love you know the older ones.

I love you because we have been married too long

to know that man is too high. When you're arguing,

I will swim the deeper sea. Or the friends at

the table all crying, I wish it was me. I

will fight the lions. Can't Also you run away. I

would jump the highest wall. But you know why I

like it. I actually I actually enjoy hearing. I'm standing

right in front of them when they're saying this, and

I don't want in my brain to say, hum myga,

hum myga. You know I don't want as a minister,

I should be a night of faith. I'm listening to

them tell.

The world, give the world. I will.

I will take a rope and pull the moon down

for you, moon cake as you don't buy, no, but

don't you want to pull the moon down? But I

want to believe. I see, ladies. German kenne Chin has

been I'm fifty six years old now and he's followed

the Lord for thirty five years. He wants to still

believe that this couple can make it. You know, you

know a lot of you have become cynical. Oh my gosh,

shure not sure, not good thing. I'm not letting my

thoughts you know on the microphone. Can imagine I climbed

about thanks.

I actually do that as a minister. Paf a bit now.

I was astream the Deeper cly he hasn't even strive

yet anyway, he hasn't learned how to.

Stream yet stream the Deeper c I t I want

to believe.

But you know, can I say this to you as

a cross both of them when they're saying it, that

really believe, otherwise they won't say it. Then what happened

three years later, disappointment, discouraged, when paying frustrations, unmet expectations.

Children came hello, children came hello, mother in law as okay,

hello hello, Why are you laughing?

It's real.

The belief on that day is very high. I really

believe that if that day somebody happened to the girl,

he would stream the deeper see even if she couldn't stream.

But as the days go by, I won't even take

the rubbish out, you understand, rainier. See even the skies

are crying Father in the name of Jesus. As the

skies cry, some of us, though we are laughing and

having a good time listening to this message. Some of

us have been broken, have been discouraged. Some of us

really find ourselves every morning waking up in a marriage

that may not seem to have that much love as

it did on the first day.

And yet the Bible.

Says love believes all things. So Lord, maybe it's not

just about believing. Maybe it's about loving. Help us Holy Spirit,

fill our hearts with love again. Fill our hearts with

love again, for our marriage, for our church, for our families,

maybe even for our jobs. Someone said before, if you

love your job, you never need to work again.

But maybe we are.

Working so hard because we might not love the job

so much. It's just to put food on our table.

And I'm telling you right now, it's very hard to

work somewhere you don't love, very hard to be married

when love is lacking, very hard to believe. Love believes

all things. Maybe we stop believing because we stop loving.

Maybe we stop loving our church, maybe we stop loving

serving God. And now it has become a chaw, a

chaw that you drag your feet too, because you are

on the roster. You're on the roster, so you serve,

you drag your feet. It was so early in the morning,

you drag your feet because you may not have believed

with all your heart. But today is the day the

Lord has made somebody say amen, and I will rejoice

and be glad in it.

Jesus is alive.

The stone has been rolled away, and this very minute,

help us, Holy Spirit to also roll away our stone,

the stone of unbelief. I want to believe in this

marriage again. Come on, somebody, I want to believe in

this marriage against. Come on, somebody. I want to believe

in my family again. I want to believe in the

Bible again. So I'm gonna start reading it like I

never read it before. I'm gonna start serving the Lord

like I really believe. Serving his house is a blessing.

I don't want to drag my feet through life. I

want to go back to work on Monday, loving my job.

I want to love my spouse like the first day

I said those vowels. You can't build a strong marriage

without belief. You can't build a strong company without belief.

You can't build a strong church without belief.

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