Broken No More | Pr Dr Daniel Kong

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We hope this message will light up your team.

I guess the scriptures that we're reading today because we're

going to talk about Apostle Paul, and Apostle Paul himself

is in a form a bi vocational pastor. Okay, he's

got a full time job. He was a tent maker

or he is a tent maker, and he's also involved

in ministry just like how we are today. And there's

also many others as serving his God's house as well

a week after week. But here we go. Let's read

from Ephesians one to ten. If you don't mind help, oh,

thank you. Oh by the way, you know, if you

notice the guys are all dressed in green today, they're

all color coordinated. They didn't give me the memo, by

the way, they didn't tell me green was the team.

But I think God orchestrated green law. So it's all purely,

purely coincident. But yeah, let's read on from Ephesians one. Okay, okay, okay,

So if you're new here, you're not used to reading

by what, that's fine. You can read up read with

us on the screen. But otherwise if you have your

Bible turned to the Bible, I'm gonna read from the

NIV version Ephesians one. So this is a letter written

by the guy just mentioned. Okay, Paul, it's just a

guy who wrote wrote a letter his apostles. Okay, let's read.

He says here, okay, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ,

by the will of God, to God's Holy people of Ephesus,

the faithful in Jesus Christ. Jesus, Grace and peace to

you from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual

blessing in Christ. For he chose us in Him be

for the creation of the world to be holy and

blameless in sight. And he says here in love, everybody,

say in love, in love, right in love. He predestined

us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance

with His pleasure and will, to the praise of His

glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the

one he loves. Okay, next part in him, we have

redemption through his blood. Now this refers to what happened

on Good Friday, where we usually talk about the blood

of Christ which she was pought out. Also the community today,

this is the part is referenced in him. We have redemption.

What is redemption? You exchange something, you go for, you

give a coupon, you get something. That's the redemption. Right,

and that's referring to Good Friday. Now, what are we

redeeming the giveness of sins in accordance with the riches

of God, of God's grace that he lavished on us.

How many of yous lavish in your daily conversation? You

know what's lavisher? Lavish is really right? I think we

need to bring lavish back to our conversation a bit more.

If I invited you to my home for dinner, if

I lavish you, what what would that mean? That means right,

all abundance, a lot of things. Daniel Confie is correct. Yes,

lavish it with food and we know what that sounds.

All right? Lavish right, you do more than what you expected.

That's what lavish is. And this is what it says here.

I lavish right, I sorry lavish on earth? He lavished

and I love this lavish on earth with all wisdom

and understanding he made known to us. But take note

of this second part, or the latter part. The mystery

of his will according to his good pleasure, with which

he purposed in Christ to put into effect when the

times reach, is fulfillment. And the last bit here very

important for what reason? To bring unity? Everybody says unity, Unity, okay,

to all things in heaven and on and on earth

under Christ. Amen. All right, So I'm just gonna be

speaking today a very short message, and I want to

speak to you from this topic or this title, which

I have titled broken no More. Okay, Broken no More.

And the fine print there is sharam restored and will

probably make a bit more sense at the end. Before

I go, Before I carry on, let me just pray uh,

and then we will start uh the the the message. Okay.

So Lord, we want to thank you Lord for Easter Sunday,

a day that we can pause and remember you know

the gift that you've given us. Oh, what a powerful

gift you've given us. And we know that you are

here today so far that I pray for your spirit

to move today and speak to us. Let's be open,

not just our minds, but our hearts be open to

what you have in store. First, in Jesus precious name,

we pray Amen. Amen. All right, cool, all right, let's begin. Now,

before I even start off, I want to introduce you

to a word that most likely most of you have

never heard of before. Okay, Now, this word is gonna

be flashed up on the screen. It's a very very

big word, quite a mouthful. Who It's like those Mary

Poppins kind of a thing. Right, Yes, yes, this is

the word. And at the end of it, right, I

will tie up and explain what this word actually means

and what it actually represents, at least in the context

of Easter Sunday. All right, how do you really I know? Somebody?

You look at it? Oh, this sounds like some kind

of at least the actual writing itself is originally in Greek.

So for those of you who like to geek out

like Charles, Okay, this is one of the longest Greek

letters Greek words in the Bible, fifth longest, to be

more specific. Okay, so this one has eighteen seventeen eighteen characters.

The longest one is about twenty characters. Okay, so one

of the longest one, and it's mentioned in scripture a

few times, and usually when we look at this is

usually in the context of ephesions that we just read earlier.

So even if you're a believer, this should pick some

interest in you, even if you're not believer, just because

it's so long and such a mouthful, right, I think

it'll also picked some interest in you. So how do

you pronounce this? Go ahead, try oh yearh okay. Just

to help everybody out today, I put it up phonetically.

Okay, okay, okay, long white, I know, I know.

Anna kafa lee oh says tie says tie. Okay they okay,

well done, guys. You completely butchered it, completely butchered it.

But it's an interesting word, all right. And I explained

to you what that actually means shortly. Uh And for

those of you are looking for, you know, your future.

Kid's name, consider that hin hin nail me ah oh.

New means by the way, they are expecting their first

kid very soon, I think in a in about a

month's time or so. Yeah, So imagine that oh Anna

in short, Anna in short, Na in short. No no

jokes are side jokes aside. Okay, Anna kill fa le oh,

says tie. Okay, the emphasism, Oh okay, that's why it's

capitalized there. And uh, like I said, I'll explain to

you what that actually means at the end. It will

make a lot of sense later on. But this just

parked us aside for a while. We'll come back to

this now before we carry on going further. I would

have asked everybody a very simple question. Have you in

your life ever broken something before? Quick way? If anybody

broken something, definitely broken something for it. When I was

a kid, I threw a boy. I broke a window,

you know, naughty boy. Right in my household yesterday we

had Ned and John and family all over place of dinner.

You have noticed something in my fab household, right? We

don't have matching cups? Right? Why? Because our family is

very notorious for breaking sets, yeah, plates, coups, everything. It's

not because of domestic violence. My wife don't throw cups

at me and all that kind of thing. No, it's

not because of that, but just we are prone to

break stuff, right, especially my kids as well. Okay, I

remember my steak and my kid. I remember one trip

we just bought. I think when they I think we

were traveling for Then we had a kindle, fairly new

kindle took read my kids love to read, by the way. Uh.

And then I told Zach something, he's not here? Second,

you just name. I told Zach my son something, who's there.

I'm just supposed to ask kids. Hey, sorry now anyway, anyway, anyway,

so I told him to keep it away. And then

as usual, they don't listen. New kindle fell on the floor,

broken straight away, broken broken. Okay, so uh yeah, we all,

we all can relate to breaking things, right, but let's

go a little bit deeper. Let's go a bit deeper.

Have you ever broken a promise? Don't show your hands out,

don't have to show your hands. It's fine, it's fine,

all right. Have few ever ever broken a heart before?

I guess he's someone nudging the side there, yeah, or

broken a relationship? You know? Now? The truth is, we're

all guilty of breaking things, you know, in our lives. Okay,

but we also understand and know this, right, Sometimes you

break things, but different things can have different value to

different ones. Okay, So you might break things but not

all things have the same value. Doesn't make sense, okay,

all right, to which I'm going to be introducing now

a picture here of this gentleman. By the way, it's

not the guys saw this glimpse of this picture. They'll

be like, picture, please, who's this Nick? Yeah? Well done?

Always cant read? Okay, cool? Nick? His name is Nick.

They'd be like, who on earth is Nick? Okay, yeah,

I know who on nerve is Nick? Right? Yeah? So

this is Nick? Everybody Nick here? And who is Nick?

And why is he part of this conversation over here? Okay?

I'm glad you asked, because my boys always say, right,

why do I always get, you know, use as the

main characters in all my so many illustrations. So I thought, okay,

let's let's outsource it to Nick today. Okay, Nick today, Okay.

So anyway, Nick is just a simple guy, very simple guy,

and one fine morning in the year two thousand and six, okay,

not too long ago, all right, about twenty years before,

he decided to take a day trip to this museum

in Cambridge called the fitz William Museum. Cambridge is in England,

by the way. So he is famous not because of

the things he's done. I mean, it's not not invention

or not some a speech that he's given, but rather

he's famous for breaking something. You can already sort of

know where this is gonna Hitay, all right, all right,

so let's just move on. So at Fitzwilliam Museum, there

was a set of seventeenth century Ming dynasty vases, all

vays depending on which part of the world you come from, okay,

And it's approximately about five hundred thousand, sorry, five hundred

thousand pounds in that day's value. I sort of googled it.

Based on the currency of that time, it was about

three point five million. Of course, our currency now it's

a lot stronger to praise a lot, but during that

time it's about three and a half million ringed worth

of value. So Ming dynasty quite an enormous value there. So,

like I said, your guess where this is coming from.

I've got a picture of the vasis. Oh there you go.

Uh beautiful beautiful races, beautiful beautiful races right all right. Now.

The reason why Nick is a part of the story

today is because something happened that morning. Okay. So he

was at the museum visiting on his own solo. He

went up a flight of stairs and at the very

top of the flight of stairs, he decided, oh, I'm

going the wrong way. I need to turn around and

come back and go the other direction. So as he's turning,

he trips already he stepped on his own lace shoelaces,

there's a little bit untied. And then yeah, the miracle happened. Okay,

he spun, then he sort of tripped, he fell down,

tumbled down the staircase, and at the bottom of the staircase,

on the ledge near the window, there were these three

ming century faces of bases. Okay, So I eventually got

a photo of that. Oh you refleshed that fantastic. I

got a funny photo of that happening. Well, funny to

most people, but definitely not funny to Nick. Not funny

to the guys at the museum for sure. On the day,

right right, they'd be like, oh, how who would break?

Who would do this? Who would do this? Uh to

who the right mind do this? Right? So they by

the way, it broke into about four hundred old pieces okay,

and three vases, so they all mixed up as well.

How do you aim? It's like a it's like a

bowling ball rolling down And then so happened you get

strike straight away, right, straight, So how many of a

bad day today? Let's say Nick has a really bad

day that day, right, really really bad day. Right. And

and sometimes when we're so perspect perplex you know, why

how can something like that happen? Or why with something

like like that? Some comanly let be so not careful.

Usually when the kids are a bit younger, always like

whenever they go around ours, right, there's a lot of breakables,

we're like, oh, careful, how you type make sure you

don't go anywhere close to something that is breakable. But

more importantly, as unfortunate as it is the incident of

the tripping and all that kind of thing, the more

obvious questions like why did they leave that vast If

you go back once, it's not that let over there. No,

it's not even like protected or buried or anything and all.

But in all fairness, the three vases has been there

for sixty years before this incident. So it was fine

until Nick came along. Okay, it was fine until Nick

came along. And yeah, so he did a real good

job breaking things. Excellent job, like I said, strike, But

this story is something that we are bringing up. I'm

bringing up because although it's a very unusual incident, and

perhaps many of us may not be able to relate to,

not at least in this context, like hopefully you've not

broken something that valuable before, But we could also relate

to and also feel for the person, right, because why

we also break things. It's just that we choose not

to break things in certain places. Okay, yeah, but we're

all definitely guilty of breaking things in our life, and

if we can be really honest with ourselves, yeah, definitely

we will have done something similar. Sometimes we can also,

as I mentioned, break others in the process as well,

and sometimes you also may break ourselves in the process. Right,

But what I mean by breaking ourselves, we tend to

be also a little bit harsh or cruel on ourselves. Okay,

so anyway, let's just come back to this. But if

you are those of you have lived quite a long life,

you would in your minds if you reflect that in

all the different moments in your life, and if you

really are honest, sometimes as you reflect, you can be

you can say, oh maybe, oh gosh, maybe that time

I may have said something that I shouldn't have because

that really broke that person, right, Or you may have

done something or acted something acted in some way that

you may have regretted. And because why, it doesn't really

just affect you, It affects that person even more. Right

And like I said, if you can be really honest,

some of us even do it without even realizing it. Right.

But on top of all that guilt, So I've actually

asked that question over there, have you ever contributed to

someone else's brokenness? Or the other question? On top of

that guilty of breaking others is one thing? Are you

also guilty of breaking yourself or oneself? Myself? Okay? Ever

thought about that? Why did I do that? Why they

even think that? Why do I do it to myself? Okay?

And we sit here in a room where we can

all relate to the same truth because this probably has

happened to you know, us extending to others, breaking others

or breaking in ourselves. Right, And I can tell you

this almost very confidently. No one in this room can say, no,

I've never done that before, right, unless you're a new born.

But even new bonnes break things very quickly. By the way,

for those of you who are parents, you will know that, okay,

very quickly, take notre very quickly. Yeah, but jokes aside,

what do we do with this brokenness? Right? What do

we do this brokenness? And the world's reaction can be

typically categorized into these three reactions in terms of what

do we do with brokenness? Okay? Number one? Okay, we

can mask our brokeness in our lives. Now, what does

this mean? Mass That means you just carry on pretending,

you do raise surface stuff, You put a distance between yourself,

you keep things very casual because you don't want people

to see that brokenness. And this typically will also lead

to what we call a very superficial or very surface

kind of life. Right. In other words, I just do

things on the surface, or I try to keep people away,

let them close, but not too close, so that you

don't actually see the cracks as they move close to me,

either the cracks that have caused others or the cracks

within myself. So that's the one thing. But the danger is,

like I said, everything in life will just be very superficial. Okay.

Second thing we could do, we can ignore it. We

can deal with it by just ignoring it. What would

or you know, or whatever you want to call it.

We live in a world today with a lot of

ways that we can actually ignore this. What I mean

by dad, we distract ourselves, We take ourselves. Let's substitute

this so that we don't see the problem. And of

course there are huge opportunities out there. There are devices,

there are different platforms, social media platforms, different things you

can consume. Because why if you are busy with this,

your mind is focused on this, you won't remember the

brokenness and therefore, in some sense, you're actually ignoring it, right,

ignoring it by distract ourselves with But like I said earlier,

we've all got brokenness. When you ignore it, it doesn't

mean that the brokenness won't go away. You're just distracting yourself.

That's one way to deal with it. Lastly, we can

live with it. Now. What I mean by living it? Just

accept it? Long, I guess it is what it is.

I am who I am? I know That's how life is.

You know, that's it. I just accept it. Now. The

problem with that is that ultimately you would just accept it.

And what do you mean by accepting it, You're going

to be living a life that is defeated? Right? What

do I mean were defeated? Okay? Uh? You know I

I'm quite old older now wiser. But one thing I've

also noticed, right when you have negative people around you,

if you study who who is sitting next to negative

person right now, don't put your hand had just joking,

just joking, just joking, just joking, okay, ah, but usually

I tend to run away from negative people. But anyway,

but if you notice native people, right, if you look

very closely, they actually defeated people. What do they mean

by defeated people? It's because sometimes the way they say

things is always about, oh, you know, world's cruel. It's

always a language of defeat, right, And because of what

happens in their hearts, their hearts are already defeated, so

naturally things come out. There's almost like there's no will

to live or lead a life that is victorious. Right.

So sometimes people like that are who they are because

of what's inside why, because they just choose to live

with it. And then of course it's expression that comes out. Okay,

So all these things really have to do with one thing,

all right, All these different approaches is to do is

to also to it has something to do with human brokenness, okay,

and what so the question is do we mask it?

I know sometimes we do so that people don't know

and still operate like like nothing is wrong. Do we

ignore it, do we just feel our time, let's just

leave it aside, or do we just live with it,

accept it and then start being that you know that

all Oh sorry that let me just rephrase back that

negative person They always like, oh, you know, you don't

know what it's like. You know, it is what it is, Okay,

So what do we do with brokenness is the big

question here. But I guess the bigger question is probably

if you want to know how to deal with it,

we should know why we're broken. First in the first

to the beginning with right, So why are we broken?

Why are we so broken? Now? We live in a

very beautiful country called Malaysia. Right, there is no auh.

There is no natural disasters here, no earthquakes. We are

just spared. Uh. The country is generally very prosperous, a

very advanced. Uh, even to the point that you know,

people generally speaking, it is quite okay. You're not a

war torn country, et cetera, et cetera. Even in kl

you know, beautiful city of kl. You know, this morning

I had I had four as that is free range,

you get it. From kl Right, it's such a blessed

kind of arrangement, right, beautiful sky. Life is good in general.

Life is good right here compared to some of the

other things that you've read in other countries where people

can't even live. And yet in the world, or in

even in the city or even in the country that

is so blessed, there are still broken people. Imagine that.

Why why are we broken? You would think that at

this day and age, with so much advancements, with so

much access to help to information out there, we should

be free of brokenness, right, haven't we progressed enough as humankind?

Isn't this already the age of enlightenment that everything is

at your fingertips? Right? But somehow we still today see

human brokenness all around us, if not in us, by

to the lenses of the people around us. What is

the deal with that? So much pain out there, so

much hurt, so much violence, so much war that is

out there. And that's the external all right. But more importantly,

even the externals is one aspect. There's also the internal brokenness.

What I mean, my Internet brokeness is things that come

from within. You know, there is still people who feel guilt.

There are still people who feel pride. There are still

people who feel shame right because of whatever reason, and

that in itself is actually brokenness. So the big question

that I know people don't like to ask a lot

is why and why is all this happening? Right? And

of course, as Christians of believers will say, and we'll

know this right, we say that this is actually one

of the root causes of this condition is actually sin.

Sin has come into the world. You can psychologize all

you want, you can try to apply wisdom to it,

but sin is the problem. And you're wondering. Daniel one

his wife is so solemn one on Easter Sunday. You

talk about sin as we supposed to be celebrating and

talking about that, But it is true. Now, let me

explain why sin is the cause of human brokenness. It's stated,

or you can read the scriptures. It'll tell you that

it's the cause of brokenness in ourselves. It's also the

cause of brokenness when it involves other people. But the

more important thing is that it actually causes Sin causes

a brokenness between us and our creator, whether you have

a relationship with the creator or not. That is the scenario, Okay,

where This is from It's a clear verse from Isaiah

fifty nine. Sorry, don't have the scriptures up. Your iniquities

have separated you from your God. Your sins have hidden

his face from you. So this is not what got

intended by the way. He really wanted it to be

all happy or peaceful, all great. And I can show

you what this means. So the next word I'm going

to be introducing you to is the word shalom. Even

if you're a believer or not, you would have heard

this term shalom before. Now what does shalom actually mean.

It's a Hebrew word, Okay. It means peace, It means completeness.

It also means wholeness. Now how many people who would

like to live in these three areas? Peace, completeness, and wholeness.

You have all those three things combined together, right that shalom?

And I think nobody will say no to that. Again, Peace, completeness,

and wholeness. Nobody will say no to that. Okay. Corneliss

platinga butcher his name. He wrote a book called Not

the Way It's Supposed to Be in nineteen ninety five.

Read some of the excerpts from there. In the Bible

Shalom means universal, flourishing, wholeness and delight, a rich state

of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural

gives full, fully employed. A state of affairs that inspires

joyful wonder as its creator and savior opens the door

and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in

other words, is the way things ought to be. So

again God's original plan. I think the previous slide I

put it as shalom what God intended it to be.

But in the process when Sin crept in, this was disrupted, right.

And he also go in to say that sin is

the culpable disturbance of Shalom. Okay, Now there's a lot

of big words there, okay. In other words, sin is

the thing that's destroying shalom. Got that sin is the

thing that is destroying peace. There's destroying wholeness. That is

destroying completeness. Okay, all this mental stuff, spiritual stuff that

you're dealing with, the health, mental health, spiritual health, peace, wholeness,

and completeness, this is disrupted by sin. Okay, So sin

breaks the peace and wholeness one more time. God intended

for us to live in and actually enjoy. When does

Sin creep in? Do you remember long time ago, very

first man Adam and Eve, Sin came in. Then Sin

hasn't left since then. But before that it was all shalom.

It was all as God intended it, right, He created

humanity to live in shalom. You must remember that. You

should be coming back to that. Okay, now what why

is this important? You must say it's this time gold

end the message, well somewhat but not really.

I won't leave you hanging here, all right, But.

More importantly, why why is Easter Sunday important? Why does

it matter? Why do everybody sometimes even those that are

not regular churches or people who cause in the Christians

but don't come to church, they come to church twice

a year Easter and also Christmas. Why is it important?

It's because why are we celebrating here people? Jesus, Yes,

the resurrection on yes power right. You know we call

it Easter Sunday, but you know that Easter Sunday is

actually man made right. In fact, in the early days

they celebrated every Sunday Easter Sunday. Every Sunday is Easter Sunday.

In the early days here we just pick a calendon

the Bible. Okay, let's make it Easter Sunday, right, right,

every single day, every single day, every single week of

the year, we celebrate this originally, right, because it's really

about what took place in the Cross. You know, we

talked about that on Good Friday. I think the speaker

I was in got to ask, but yeah, I hope

you had something similar. But yeah, it's about not just

what happened on Good Friday, but what happens after Good Friday,

the three days later that would have impacted the way

humans live and all how we can live if we

understand this context. Because if you understand what has happened,

that you will know that is already stated, that it

has finished things at the job is already done. There

is like like what Joe is saying, the power of

resurrection is already here. So why is important? It's because

then you can live every single day of your life

from nine to five with that kind of a revelation,

and then you can live differently. Right, he's risen, he

is risen. Indeed, Get it's very chicky here. Okay, have

you ever asked this question? Who cares about this? Why

do people care? About this, right. I know you guys

are all like Holy Moly and all that. But you know,

when I was growing up, so I thought about it,

and who cares? To be very honest, why do we

care about it? Because even as when I grew up,

I always thought that this is just a religious tradition

that we come together to celebrate. This is it a

religious tradition. Most people who may not know, well it's

not a Christian may not notice. They'll just think, yeah,

you know, some other religions have a special day to

do something. This is the Christian variation of it. Right,

they come together. So why do we care? Why should

we care about the resurrection? Why should we change our

lives because of what happened in the resurrection? Or we

just yeah, celebrate, but you know nine to five we

just or Monday to Fridays do your own thing. Anyway,

why should we care? Because if we do not understand this,

you are just going to be practicing empty religion. And

this again, it's not religion, its relationship right with God.

We always believe. And that's why you should care, and

you should know because if you truly understand the truth

of the resurrection, it will change the way you behave

every single day of your life. What I do today

is what I do on Monday on Tuesday. I'm no different, right,

So why do we care? Why do Christians care? It's

because of what we read earlier. Okay, the mystery revealed.

I titled that this was the verse at the very

start the second page if you go to Ephesians one nine. Okay,

let's read this again. He made known to us the

mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which

he purposed in Christ to put into effect when the

times read careful feelming. And here's the thing, don't miss it,

to bring unity to all things. Remember that word I

mentioned earlier, Net's potential child's name, what was it? Anna right,

Anna carefull? Leo ses tie anna Carefullio says tie right.

That is to bring unity to all things. That is

where that word comes from. I know, one word to

describe sorry once like before, one word to describe that

whole line over there. But that's what it means. The

word is used in scripture to represent that. And I

promise your meaning right just now, what's the meaning. The

meaning is to gather up, to put together, to bring back.

What is bringing back? To restore, right to unite, and

the full version will be the second part over there,

to restore God's grace that is poured out on undeserving,

what's undeserving, the broken people, bringing them back into wholeness

and peace from the inside out. One word, very powerful word,

to bring back together, to unite God's grace poured out

for the undeserving, the broken people. So on Resurrection Sunday,

on Easter Sunday, Christians together to celebrate Anna carefully, O

says tie. Okay, But as I clearly mentioned earlier, it's

not just on Easter Sunday. There we do this. We

do this actually every Sunday. We do this every Sunday.

In other words, he this word here represents He's bringing

things together in me, in you. He's bringing the brokenness

in me back together, restoring, He's bringing the He's also

bringing the collective brokenness of everyone together by his grace.

That's what we Christians for centuries have been, you know,

celebrating this because it comes right inside. There's a restoration

if you think about it. Right, Like I said, you've

broken something, right, you broke something. Usually my kids will

come to me and like you do not fix it low,

do're not put together? Right? If you knew how to

fix it, if you knew how to fix it, right,

would you have already done it already on your own.

And that's why sometimes you find somebody who can do it.

Because this person, this god can can can fix it.

You can't do it on your own. You don't have

the super good to do it right. So, just to

simplify even further, all right, I'm gonna end very soon.

In simple terms, what this word actually represents is the

fact that I'm trusting in his grace to bring back

together A what I've broken and B what I'm incapable

of bringing back together on my own. Oh silence, Okay,

let's go right to Nick. Let's go right heart of

the bit. Your friendly friend Nick. Okay, Nick Flint is

his name, right, I've got a short video if you

can just play it. He's band from the museum, by

the way. Okay, So after he broke those vases, the vases,

four other pieces and all that, of course we see

that the story. The museum put it together. There were

some missing pieces they couldn't find, by the way, So yeah, anyway,

but it took them about nine months to restore it

to its original form, Okay, slowly, but surely and painstake clearly.

They use some funny sticky tape or sell thefan tape

to put it together special once again. But what's interesting

right in this story as well? After you put it

back together, what do you think about the value of

the vas would it still be the original fire? One

thousand pounds is more? Sometimes they say it's more, you know,

got a story to the area, But actually they say

the value has dropped a little bit. Okay, not the

happy ending, right. It came down to about two hundred.

They admitted about two hundred to three hundred pounds British

pounds two thousands, sorry British pounds. Why because it's already broken. Okay,

it's no longer whole, right, even though they tried their

best to put it together as best they can, it

is lost. It has lost its value. But hey, you know,

Jesus our Lord is a little bit different, right. He

doesn't say, let me get those broken pieces and put together.

In the Bible, when something is broken, he will say,

you know, he's actually not putting it together, like like

how they attempt to do it that like like so

but it states that when he does his work, we

as broken as we are, we are a new creation. Okay.

Second Corinthians five seven days says therefore, if anyone in

Christ new, the new creation has come, the old has gone,

and the news here. So remember the slide I started

off earlier. Remember there's three vases of uses. Okay, I

didn't mention at the very start that this is actually

the photograph of the repair vases still there, still there,

still really split. But yeah, I don't know about that.

I have to look it up. Yeah, but question is

better still there in the window. Hopefully not that. But

you know, that's how God sees this new as though

it's never broken, just like how you guys look at

It's like, oh, it's the original form, a new creation.

What is new creation? As though it's a fresh one,

never been broken before, never blemished. Isn't that fascinating? Like

I said, it's as though all of us have never

been broken by sin before new. And that's what Jesus

work at the Cross enables us. It enables us to

stand before a God to be completely new, even though

there is no way we can be new. We are

foreigner pieces, but somehow by his grace we are new.

I'm gonna end here with some quotes that are about restoration.

One of the famous theologian Timmticll just passed away. Not

to go, he says here in his book, Jesus doesn't

just offer us a way out of brokenness. He offers

us a way into wholeness. Sometimes we feel that to

fix the brokenness you've got to do all those few

things that I just mentioned earlier. It's not. He accepts

you as you are and he makes you whole. FB meya.

Famous British Baptist evangelists says this. The resurrection of Jesus

Christ is the ultimate expression of God's love for us.

It gives us the power to overcome sin and watch

this and to live a new life in Christ. So

on Good Friday, you know, Jesus diing the Cross was

broken for our brokenness. He was sinless, right, you know that,

taking himself the weight of the entire world then pass

and also future since all the sins of the world,

all the sorrows and all the shame. But of course,

as we sung earlier, right on Easter Sunday, he rose again,

victorious over depth and through the resurrection. He offerses this power, disgrace,

the forgiveness, so that we can live a whole shalom life.

So the cross is actually where our healing began. The

empty tomb is where our hope actually lies. Right, that

is why Christians are always excited about Anna. Cafe Leo

says TI he has for many Christians in this room,

many believers in this room, made us whole again. Definitely

made me whole again. I was once broken, probably breaking

from time to time again. But you know He's made

us whole. But one thing that you have to do

is to have the faith that you can be. I

wouldn't we used to restore it's new right, But you

gotta choose to allow him to make you whole. And

that's why we keep celebrating this every week, every Sunday,

and his invitation to those who want to experience wholeness,

want to experience new beginnings. Let me just end with

this scripture says here. We read it ready, but let's

read it again. I've highlighted another bit according to his

good pleasure, it's his will. You know the question we

always ask our sorries, what makes you happy? What makes

us happy? I get a free meal after this makes

me happy. Maybe also let the get out of back

just now. But we're gonna get something special later on.

But yeah, maybe that'll be nice. May maybe that will

be nice. But what ultimately makes us happy is probably

shalom right to have peace, to have wholeness, to be complete,

and then of course well everything else you know, hell,

you know, I don't know, well being all that all

will come in under that wholeness. But that's always a

very selfish perspective. What can I get out of it?

Ask the question what God? What? What makes God happiness?

There?

It's already there his good pleasure, we just read it.

He whatever. What makes him happy is that when all

the brokenness can be gathered together and restored so they

can meet home. It is his good pleasure to say,

let me gather all the brokenness in your life in

my life, and it is my good God is in

God saying it is my good pleasure to put it

back together. That's to the light. Actually, He delights it

when we say God, I need this, and uh fuh,

heyo says Ti I need it? Why because then you're

inviting him to come in and give you a new creation.

Can we all stand. I think I'm gone a little

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