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A surrendered heart | Pr Alvin Keng

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from at church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. Today. I'm going to talk about first thing, okay, because

  4. it's our last week, right, last week, how many of

  5. you here fast thing? Just wave your hand, fast thing.

  6. I was talking to Aaron and it's so encouraging and saying,

  7. oh fast now, I can fast? Last time very hard, no,

  8. you know, because every time I fast, you know, all

  9. kinds of things happened. And true, true, our body goes

  10. through a change when we fast, right, because it's not

  11. used to certain thing and it's a new deprivate for Fuda,

  12. he will retaliate, you know. But I'm happy to hear that.

  13. My brother here is like, yeah, I finally did it.

  14. My body submitted to what I want to do, you know,

  15. and I think we're gon do more of the time.

  16. I say, yeah, fast because first thing is quite healthy.

  17. There are a lot of studies on fasting and how

  18. it actually resets your body and does different things. Right,

  19. So if you're fasting, let's carry on, okay, don't give

  20. up another four more days, five more days okay, five

  21. more days, right, but let's study a little bit about

  22. fast thing. The first time I fasted was I'm not

  23. sure that I shared this story. I don't they I've

  24. said before was when I was in form five and

  25. I learned in church that if you want to pray

  26. for something, you're fast. So simple, right we are you

  27. want to pray, and you only fast if it's serious

  28. because Jesus said, oh, this won't be cast out except

  29. by prayer and fasting, right, So only serious, only you're fast.

  30. So the time experiment was quite seriously so and I

  31. wanted to get good grades. Okay, I wanted good grades.

  32. So so I say, hey, okay, God, I'm gonna fast

  33. for the first time two months, okay, and I will

  34. do Daniel fast right means if you are Daniel, don't

  35. see me. Okay. Uh. That was the first I was doing.

  36. Uh and uh and and and and someone advice right, Hey,

  37. you know actually I tell you our church, you're so

  38. awesome you want to fast, so we give you devotional

  39. last time I do. The only advice get oh, go

  40. read is f fifty eight. Telling a seventeen year old

  41. to go and read is f fifty eight. To try

  42. and understand fasting r is as good as saying, hey,

  43. you want to fix your car. Here's the manual, Go

  44. and fix your car. You're like, how am I gonna learn?

  45. So I read is fifty eight New King James version,

  46. and I was like, I have no idea. All I

  47. know is God is happy it is and not happy

  48. it is. And I don't really understand. But I read

  49. the eight I did the first thing, and the cool

  50. thing about the first thing was that you might start

  51. with selfish reasons, but you will end with not selfish

  52. reason one because it is a transformation of your heart.

  53. Not necessary. You know, it's very funny and no humans are.

  54. We're very reward oriented. We are very benefit oriented. We're

  55. very selfish, he said, the right word to use, not

  56. nice to use our selfish past. You know the church right, right,

  57. but it's true, right, you won't do things that won't

  58. benefit you want very rarely we will do things that

  59. won't benefit us. You know, we only do things that

  60. benefit us. Okay, I'm not gonna ask anybody to raise

  61. up your hands. Okay, but that's the truth, right all.

  62. But you say, oh, but then I sacrifice for my family.

  63. You are it's unconditionedal No, it's conditional. They're your family.

  64. If they're not your family. You still sagurance, so them

  65. or not? I don't think so still like by something right.

  66. So let's study Isaiah fifty eight. Okay, so maybe I'll

  67. read Lackay. So it says, here, cry aloud, spare not

  68. isah verse one, lift up your voice like a trumpet,

  69. tell my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob

  70. their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and they like

  71. to know my ways. And as a nation that did

  72. righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God,

  73. they asked of me the ordinances of justice. You know

  74. what ordinance? Ordience just means like a law legal. They learning,

  75. they're learning that right, and they take their light in

  76. approaching God. Sounds good. So far, everything sounds good. So far. Yeah,

  77. I think it sounds good. And then it says in

  78. verse three, why have we fastered? They say, and you

  79. have not seen? A Hey, I thought they did everything

  80. right verse one, verse two. But then I'm seeing them complain,

  81. why have we fastered? And you you big wi It

  82. means God, no, you have not seen. Why have we

  83. afflicted our souls? And you're not taking notice? Why we suffer? God?

  84. And you didn't realize huh suffer? Okay, that's interesting. In fact,

  85. in the day of your fast you find pleasure and

  86. exploit all your laborers. Indeed, you're first for strife and debate,

  87. and to strike with the fists of weakedness. You will

  88. not fast as you do this day to make your

  89. voice hurt on high? Is it a fast that I

  90. have chosen? This? God's speaking a day for a fast

  91. for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to

  92. bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread

  93. outside cloth and anxious? Would you call this a fast

  94. and acceptable day of the Lord? Okay, let's break this down.

  95. Pretty interesting. First verse, second verse looks correct, looks correct,

  96. doing everything right, guys. So it shows you that sometimes

  97. we may look like we do it ever doing right,

  98. but still something is wrong. Right, everything seems fine, but

  99. they're still in the outside. But still something is wrong,

  100. you know. And then God addresses something deeper, because what

  101. is he addressing. He's addressing not just your complaint. Don't complain, No, no,

  102. it's not that He's addressing the condition of your heart.

  103. Why did they fast? Right? Because they say, oh we fast, God,

  104. why we suffered? Why didn't you see us. We affected out.

  105. We know why can't you see? Aren you good? God?

  106. Didn't you love us? And then he say, in the

  107. day of your fast, you'll find pleasure and exploit your laborers. Wow. Hello,

  108. you're doing everything correct, you're fast thing, but what are

  109. you still doing? Don't realize that first thing is not

  110. just don't eat the white? We say, first thing is

  111. not just direting. You know, first thing is not just

  112. you know, no, it's not the act. Right, And you

  113. say you fast or strifeing? Debate you first because you

  114. want to prove a point, right, and you strike with

  115. the face or weakness? Weakness come from where it comes

  116. from the heart. Okay, And he said you were not

  117. fastest you do this day? And then he also addresses something,

  118. is it that we want to faster that we can

  119. just all suffer together? Church less suffer together? Right do you? Everybody?

  120. Everybody are okay? So we suffer so we can show

  121. like we're a good Christian. Is that the fast that

  122. God has chosen? He's saying, no, that is not the

  123. fast that I have chosen. Right, So the people they

  124. fasted as well as an act. They fast as an act.

  125. You know, no church with issue don't. Don't fat you know,

  126. we don't. We highly encourage you to do it, but

  127. it's not a rule of law. So if you can't,

  128. you don't want to, and all. It's fine if we

  129. don't judge people know for it because at the end

  130. of the day, it's between you and God. Right, But

  131. we want to tell you the benefit and what you

  132. will get out of committing yourself to the Lord. That's

  133. what we want to share a few. But the people

  134. they fasted as an act. Unfortunately, they suffered and sacrificed,

  135. but there was no heart that was surrendered to God

  136. because they were still object to their own their own desires. Right,

  137. whatever the desire is, right, what does it mean? Well,

  138. it means that they did it for the sale doing it.

  139. They just did it for the Okay, guys, twenty one

  140. there's you and fast. Let's all do it. Yay, that's it.

  141. They just did it for the self. Doing it right,

  142. and their hearts was what God saw in verse three.

  143. And for how come God can see their heart? God

  144. can see their heart. God can see your heart. I

  145. can see your heart. So I won't know, but God can. Right,

  146. twenty one days of U turn and fast for us.

  147. And now we're going through the last five days. It's

  148. a time where we you turn back to God or

  149. do you mean past? Before this, I was not working. No, no, no,

  150. that's not what I mean. Because sometimes in life, the reality,

  151. even if you are doing right, you just do you

  152. know that you've got to sometimes take a pause, reflect

  153. just you know, I mean, God of like leadership, think

  154. about stuff like reflection, lah wanna, realignment, la restart, retreat,

  155. all the reads right, you know. Why do they do that?

  156. Because when we just go go, go, run, run, run,

  157. we might veer off and don't realize and by the

  158. time we realize too late. That's the danger. That's why

  159. it's good to always have a reflection. It's always good

  160. to come to a place where like, okay, I reset again.

  161. And every year when we do fasting and you turn

  162. the encouragement encouragement not the rule of law is that hey,

  163. can we realign again or not? Because maybe we need

  164. to check some things. And even if you're doing the

  165. things that are good, yes, you're loving the law, you're

  166. doing good, continue in that reflecting and realigning. It's still

  167. a good thing. You get you get, I mean, so

  168. you turn for us is that coming back to God,

  169. coming back to say Lord, we're gonna pause everything and

  170. we're gonna take this time to really get into you. Right,

  171. instead of eating and indulging ourselves, we're just gonna pray.

  172. And yes we have needs, but we just want to

  173. spend time with you. Right. Why do we enchaig you

  174. to have means? Why do we do testimonies? Because testimonies

  175. is an evidence of God working in your life. Oh

  176. but only during you turn? No, not only doing you turn,

  177. but we recognize that during you turn there's more focus.

  178. And because when there's more focus, I shed before here.

  179. I think why do chems work? Why do chems work?

  180. Why do concerts work? Because there's more focus? Just that?

  181. But do you know that God don't need cams or concerts,

  182. He doesn't need you turn to work in your life.

  183. The problem is us, Actually are we focused? We are not.

  184. We're so distracted. It's like you turn helps us to

  185. come say, okay, right, are you turned? Do you know

  186. that you can fast any other day? Can you want

  187. to make your lives? And go ahead? Nobody's stopping you

  188. in our lives, in our decisions. You turn right in

  189. our love and our commitment to Christ. Maybe we've been

  190. serving faithfully, but we've los us the desire, you know,

  191. we're just doing it as a job. Then we've got

  192. to come back. Maybe we forgot our first love Christians

  193. so many years today, I kind of forget what I'm doing.

  194. What I'm doing right, come back? You know. Maybe you're

  195. in a place where you know, I don't know, you're

  196. the only Christian in your family, and God said your

  197. family is going to get saved and experience Christ. But

  198. then there you are for the past two years, are

  199. giving your parents. I don't know what. I'm just throwing

  200. a I'm saying that because that happened to me, right, So,

  201. I don't know what is it? What do we need

  202. to you turn to God for to this topic is

  203. a surrendered heart? Because as I read more and more

  204. is f fifty eight, I realized that even when you

  205. talk about the first thing, it's not just the act.

  206. Is the condition of the heart. Do we even have

  207. a surrendered heart? When we you turn to God, we

  208. surrender to him. We surrender our heart to him, we

  209. surrender our mind to him. It's not about what's happening

  210. in the world right now, right, yes, yes, the day

  211. my wife may be annoyse like, oh you know there,

  212. we need to start saving money because patrol. You know.

  213. Then I half worried that she will, you know, get

  214. me to go and pump patrol in some tongue. You

  215. know what, I thought. I know she's not gonna do that, larky,

  216. but he gave me. No things happened in the world.

  217. But but who's in control of friends? I'm not saying

  218. don't care, don't be wise, you know, but do we

  219. live our lives dictated by what's happening around us, or

  220. do we live our lives in you know, as subject

  221. to our Lord, God Almighty, who has the best for us.

  222. We got to decide, friends, We got to decide. So surrender.

  223. You want to surrender your heart to who? You want

  224. to strender your heart to your desires. You want to

  225. strender your heart to the world that is going to

  226. disappoint you. You want a strengder your heart to a person,

  227. or you want to surrender your heart to God. You

  228. have to decide. Let's talk about strender. Now, what does

  229. it mean to surrender to someone? Well, it's like how

  230. we surrender ourselves to, for example, our spouse, for those

  231. that are married right, their death to a spart really all.

  232. I know the world has different values, but for us,

  233. it's really their death. Do a s partler right, or

  234. maybe we strender our house, do our families? Oh, Canna,

  235. I cannot do anything. I cannot do this cano because

  236. you know, my kid, my wife. It's not wrong, but

  237. re evaluate, think about it because in my look right,

  238. it might sound right, but you gotta check your heart right. Oh,

  239. maybe surrender ourselves to our situation or boss? Sorry, yeah,

  240. John cannot. I cannot blag it. I have to go

  241. and play golf with my boss. I no, now, we're here,

  242. play golf because everybody playing golf is out there at

  243. the golf course this morning. Actually, I have a I

  244. have a church member who loves golf and plays golf.

  245. But he's there on in church on Sunday. You play

  246. golf other day. I'm like, okay, we strender friends. Who

  247. have you been strending your life too? Even if we

  248. say job right, someone shared me something very profound. I

  249. feel you know all the stress that you're going through

  250. in your job today. Tomorrow do you know that tomorrow

  251. when you tender your resignation, that those problems are no

  252. longer your problems, very funnier life. We stressed, we stressed.

  253. Josiah disagrees. He's like, no, it's still gonna be my problem,

  254. even if I tend it tomorrow. Well, it's true, ConA,

  255. once you quit means the CD not your problem anymore.

  256. Day right. The only problem is that you can quit family, la,

  257. you'll start with them, they'll death to a spot. But job,

  258. job is just a job, right. Even you say, oh,

  259. my own business, Yeah, I think you've got a business

  260. saying no more brom or go for someone else. Let

  261. that be as someone else's problem. You can steal the

  262. side on Why do we live our lives as though

  263. we are start friends? We are not start that's the reality. Okay,

  264. So what does it mean if we can strender ourselves?

  265. Let me let me let me play a bit of

  266. Devil's advocate. If we can strender ourselves to all these things, right,

  267. why not strender ourselves to God, who wants the best

  268. for you, who is how father in heaven who has

  269. everything in his hands? Think about it? Interesting? Let's read

  270. on Isaiah fifty eight, verse seven to eight. Verse seven says,

  271. is it not to spare your brain. Oh sorry, let's

  272. read verse six. Okay, is this not the fast that

  273. I have chosen to lose the bonds of wickedness, to

  274. undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppress go free,

  275. And that you break every yoke. It is not to

  276. share your break with the hungry, and that you bring

  277. to your house the poor who are cast out. When

  278. you see the naked, that you cover him and not

  279. hide yourself from your own flesh. Then your light shall

  280. break forth like the morning. Your healing shall spring forth speedily,

  281. and your righteousness shall go before you. The glory of

  282. the Lord shall be your great God. See. God tells

  283. us in Isaiah chapter fifty eight, verse sixty eight that

  284. God chose the fast. That God chose it's not a

  285. fast about ourselves, friends, but it's a fast that we're

  286. aligned to God's heartened character. Or what do you mean

  287. by that, nailvin? Huh? What do you mean by a

  288. fast that aligns to God's heartened character? Well? Because God's

  289. heart and character is always about others. It's never about himself.

  290. He loves super unconditionally. That's God's character. He always thinks

  291. about others. He doesn't think myself or no so when

  292. he asks for this fast, don't you think it aligns

  293. to God's character? Why is it important that he aligns

  294. to his character? Didn't I share in the beginning of

  295. this message that God is our father in heaven and

  296. we are his children, not self for others, friends, God

  297. always wants to meet the need of his children. A

  298. stranded heart to God, I argue, this will display God's

  299. character and desires. Is that true? A heart that is stranded,

  300. you know, a heart that's stranded to those they are

  301. merrit or maybe you know in love, a heart that's

  302. stranded to one another. When you're in love, you always

  303. want the best of the person on right, You always

  304. want to buy the best of the person. Right. You know,

  305. everything goes eat what you or you eat? Like now, me,

  306. me and my wife, right, we we always we always

  307. get this stale mate. You know, what do you an idea?

  308. I don't know. After you, what do you want to eat?

  309. Then for the next half an hour be like that,

  310. and then one of us get irritated because most of

  311. that I decide, you know, uh, and she's not pequila,

  312. you know, but still we get stuck in that.

  313. Uh.

  314. And then one of my kids to decide I want

  315. to McDonald's. They were like no, and we ended up

  316. choosing something else not McDonald's. So no, but but but

  317. that's how it is, right when when you you know,

  318. when you surrender your heart to someone, right that you

  319. you know, everydy think about the person right passes even

  320. Sharon right, one of the best for you know, but

  321. of course the prior of humans right, which very fun. Okay, yeah,

  322. I share you We all will understand is we want

  323. the best of the person, but we always give the

  324. best of what we think the person wants, not one

  325. the person actually wants. And you know they say opposis

  326. a track. So you end up doing something for the

  327. person that you think the person will like, but I

  328. see the person don't like. Couse it's total opposite or

  329. what a person likes. Take it from someone who's happily married, right,

  330. So then you have to adjust. Then you have to

  331. figure out what would make the person happy, and think

  332. about the stuff that you want to do for the

  333. person opposite or what you will do for yourself, and

  334. then maybe a lot better. God also promises. So what

  335. is the benefit? Rend said, we all do stuff because

  336. we are benefited. Well, let me give you some benefits,

  337. because God promises a few more things. When we fast

  338. the way he wants us to fast, we fast away

  339. a strended heart, fast to the Lord, not to our desires,

  340. not about what I want. Right, Okay, let's read on,

  341. let me see. Okay. Then you shall call out verse nine,

  342. and the Lord will answer. You shall cry, and he

  343. will say, here I am if you make away the

  344. yoke from your midst the pointing of the finger, and

  345. speaking of wickedness, how many of you are fasting, and

  346. you know scalding each other? Okay, please don't right, Please

  347. practice grace and mercy and forgive one another. Right. If

  348. you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the

  349. afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness,

  350. and your darkness shall be nine noon day noon day.

  351. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul

  352. in drought, and strengthen your bones. You shall be like

  353. a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose

  354. waters do not fall fail. Those from among you shall

  355. build the old way spaces. You shall rise up the

  356. foundations of many generations, and you shall be called the

  357. repairer of the breach the restorer of streets to dwell

  358. in that verse itself is very significant, and I'll unpack

  359. it one by one with you guys. So God promises

  360. us that after we surrender an aligned to him, after

  361. we fast and say, hey, Lord, I will want to

  362. fast away you want too fast? What's the other thing

  363. about fasting? We take our fleshly desires in submission. That's

  364. why we abstain from food, the most basic need of

  365. a human being. That's how profound it is. A fast right.

  366. Of course, in our church we say and Christ you, oh,

  367. you can fast social media and or fast something you

  368. don't like. We want to help people, but ultimately I

  369. will encourage you. Ultimately consider a food fast because it's

  370. very hot, unless you're not well or you need to

  371. eat medication. Then God readink that okay. So what happens

  372. when we align and strengther when we say bodies submit well?

  373. Isaiah fifty eight, verse eight says God will, we will

  374. be fulfilled and all our needs. To Let me read

  375. that again. Then your light shall break forth like the morning.

  376. Your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall

  377. go before you. The glory of the Lord shall be

  378. your red God. We will be fulfilled and all our

  379. needs will be met, all our personal needs to be met.

  380. You will get your healing and the one thing I

  381. like about the Lord to be your red God. You

  382. know that line. Let me interpret the line for you.

  383. What does REGD mean? They a'll know re God? Do

  384. you all know what re God means? H? Watch your back? Right?

  385. Do you have any of you besides moms here? I

  386. know moms have eyes at the back of their heads

  387. because that's what my mom had. Do you have eyes

  388. at the back of his No? Right, If someone comes

  389. up from you at the back, you won't know, right.

  390. But do you know that God will be a red God?

  391. Do you know that no one will make the jump

  392. on you? Do you know that even if you're in

  393. a toxic environment, because God will be your red God,

  394. no one can will get the better of you. Think

  395. about it that way. God will cover the things that

  396. you don't even know what happened to you. That's what

  397. it means when you strender to him. Powerful right? Powerful? Right? Wow,

  398. I can thank God for all the times that I

  399. almost blank and I didn't even know. That's amazing. What

  400. else second point is you'll be able to speak to

  401. God and he will answer. Isaiah fifty eight, Verse nine says,

  402. then you shall call and the Lord will answer. How

  403. many people like that? You shall cry and he will say, here,

  404. I am right. If you take away the yoke from

  405. your midst the pointing of the finger and speaking of wickedness.

  406. You know when when it says you're able to he

  407. will answer. What does this speak off to me? It

  408. speaks off relationship. God will have a relationship. If you don't,

  409. you think that's true. When you strenger your heart to someone,

  410. your relationship, MA, of course, you will constantly talk. It's

  411. not just once a week you see how many will

  412. you here? See your spouse ones awakeney, see your kid

  413. once awaken. The other time you're not seeing them. I

  414. would argue that that's a very unhealthy relationship if you

  415. do that. You know, no, you're with them all the time,

  416. most of the time you're talking to you have a relationship, right.

  417. Third point, it will change our situation from dark to

  418. light when we do the things that God wants or

  419. care for right, God will take care of us. Let

  420. me read The Lord will guide you continually. Oh sorry,

  421. Verse ten. If you extend your soul to the hungry

  422. and satisfy the cricked soul. Then your light shall dawn

  423. in the darkness, and your darkness shall be like noon day.

  424. Let me interpret the darkness shall be like noon day.

  425. Your lowest point in your life will be like afternoon.

  426. Means you won't suffer too badly. Quite cool, right when

  427. you read that, And the Lord will guide you continually

  428. and satisfy your soul in drought and strengthen your bones.

  429. You shall be like a watered garden, and like a

  430. spring of water whose waters do not fail. Very poetic, okay,

  431. very poetic, but it just means God be if you

  432. are right. Have y'all seen a How many of you

  433. like to have a p How many have you been

  434. picniced before? Have you been picniced before? Went for picnic before? Okay?

  435. Mostly I can see if you've never been to a

  436. picnic before, please go. It's quite fun one, right, of course,

  437. going to the people you like to go with flower? Okay,

  438. how many of you you've been to a picnic before?

  439. You like to go to a picnicer where the garden

  440. is not walter on, you've got dying leaves. You'll probably

  441. don't like that. Right, you go picnic, You don't go

  442. to a water garden. Right, garden is green, lash, a

  443. lot of flowers. You know you also feel happy? Right? Right?

  444. Correct or not right? God said that you will be

  445. like water garden. Think about this, a person who a

  446. person that who's constantly even in this climate where petrol

  447. prices are going up, the person still looks like a

  448. water garden. Say happy, say peaceful? Interesting. God said he

  449. will make you like that, the last one, God, what

  450. else will you do? This is why I think it's powerful.

  451. In Isaiah. Let me read it first Isaiah first fifty

  452. eight verse Job says those from among you shall build

  453. the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations

  454. of many generations. And you shall be called the repairer

  455. of the breach, the restorer of streets. To dwell in.

  456. UN's breach on a bridge is like a broken wall. Right,

  457. you will repair broken walls. You will restore streets. You know, streets.

  458. You know the thing about streets, right, Streets is not

  459. a place to stay one. But it says that streets

  460. to dwell in. Right. Again, very poetic, but this is

  461. how I interpret it. Basically, God will establish us in

  462. our purpose for Him and leaders to our destiny in Him.

  463. What is the purpose for this life? When you strender

  464. your heart to God, you will receive it. Let me

  465. give you another thing that caught out of this. It

  466. says here you shall raise up the foundation of many generations.

  467. I think this is something that when you are young

  468. you don't think about much. But the older you grow,

  469. the more you think about legacy. The more you think

  470. about future generation when you have kids, the more you

  471. think about it. Before kis on, you can like Yolo

  472. man right, John, Yolo buy that BMW. Right, No, no, no,

  473. he's checking. Say now, I will still buy the BMW.

  474. Of course it's safe of my child. You know, different,

  475. different decision making process. You know, you save money differently

  476. any last time. It's like save money for PS five

  477. now made up PS sixty. I don't know, but it's

  478. different when you have kids. There's no desire, right, or

  479. the desire is not as strong. Right you think about

  480. future generations. See God promises here that he will make

  481. all of us here, whether you got kids or not,

  482. to build future generations. Think about that means that you

  483. will have a legacy even if you have no kids.

  484. You will still have a legacy. We think that only

  485. kids is our legacy. No. I know a lot of

  486. leaders in our church. I won't name who. They don't

  487. have kids, but they have a very strong legacy. Maybe

  488. they have spiritual children. Maybe they are people that they

  489. pass on to like hand over to right amazing leaders

  490. that has a legacy. Let me finish up. Okay. It

  491. says here in verse thirteen, if you turn away your

  492. fruit from your foot, from the sabbath, from doing your

  493. pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight,

  494. the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor him,

  495. not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure,

  496. nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself

  497. in the Lord and will cause you, and I will

  498. cause you to write on the high heels of the earth,

  499. and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.

  500. The mouth of the Lord has spoken. See God reminds

  501. us again in these two versus to not do not again,

  502. to not strender our hearts to ourselves, but to strender

  503. our hearts to Him and to honor him. And friends,

  504. the cool thing is that all his promises will come

  505. after that, not before right, and we had to promise something.

  506. When the persons start complying Corona meanwhile, to use the Okay,

  507. I give you this perspective, right, Why is it so important?

  508. Oh?

  509. By God, it's good. Wouldn't he reward me anyway? Wouldn't he? No? No, no,

  510. no no, let's let's let's give this perspective again. If

  511. God is our father and we're all his children, let

  512. me talk to fathers the house. Would you reward your

  513. child for something they do wrongly? Doll you you won't.

  514. Any anybody that has a brain will say no, why

  515. won't you? But you love him? What you love? How? What?

  516. Why won't you reward them and give them all that

  517. they deserve for something they did wrong? Why? Because you'll

  518. spoil them? That word itself spail coroner, Because isn't that

  519. And if we understand that, why can't we understand that

  520. God can do that to us, that he'd rather not

  521. spoil us, that he'd rather us follow him. Because if

  522. we think that it's you know, all I need to

  523. do is have affiliation. No you don't. Hey, both my

  524. kids affiliated to me. You know, I will die for them,

  525. I will go all out for them. But the other

  526. thing that will not that I won't do is that

  527. I will. I won't teach them to be horrible human beings.

  528. If I can understand that, why what not? My God

  529. in heaven, my Father in heaven, and we all want

  530. that for our children. We want to raise them up

  531. to be people that you know, people that other people

  532. will be able to. I don't know what you say,

  533. look up to help you know. I do want to

  534. raise up a child that will betray everybody, be evil.

  535. Nobody wants to do that, guys. Don't you think God

  536. wants to do that? God does someone do that. That's

  537. why he constantly reminds us, hey, hey, hey, hey, my child,

  538. listen to me. A follow me, A follow the commandments

  539. are and then you'll be prosperous because when you follow

  540. the commandments and you're aligned to my word, everything I

  541. will give you. But if you're being all disobedience, it's

  542. very hard for me, coral or not. If you're being

  543. this obedience, very hard for me. How if both my

  544. kids are being dion, it's very difficult for me. I

  545. cannot say one thing and do another thing. You know,

  546. then that reflects on my character one more God's character.

  547. Why can't we understand that it's Christians friends, we should

  548. you know, we think we live on grace? Is that grace?

  549. There is grace, There is still grace in my kids.

  550. They do something wrong, I will suffer for them right

  551. as much as I can. But they still need to

  552. learn the lesson, because if they don't learn the lesson,

  553. they'll do it again. A father rewards his children after

  554. his child follows his instructions. Let's try to understand that

  555. as believers, our father in heaven will reward us, will

  556. give us the promises after, not before, after we follow

  557. in his instructions, not before, not before. But if we're

  558. ever in trouble, will he save us? He will, because

  559. that's what a father will do, right, even if you're

  560. asking for it. Even if my same, even if my

  561. kids are getting trouble and they are the ones that

  562. cause it, I will still save them. That's the reality,

  563. right John. You will still and then teach after law

  564. and then hopefully they learn now, but you'll still be

  565. there for them. Amen, A stranded heart, I hope you

  566. caught something today as we learn about fasting. When I

  567. was seventeen years old, I really didn't get the script.

  568. I'm like, Wow, this poetry is right happening. But I

  569. guess when I'm older, I can't understand you a little bit.

  570. I can't understand why God chose a fast that will

  571. please him. I can't understand, not fully. Because if I

  572. can understand God that I can be got ready. Maybe

  573. some things he does I still don't get. There are

  574. some things I do. My kids still don't get right,

  575. but they trust me and I try my best. So friends,

  576. the last lap of youthh can I encourage us here?

  577. Maybe you? Oh I miss twenty one days? I miss

  578. how many days are? What? Sixteen days are? Fifteen days? Ready?

  579. Can I still can? Can? Can? Can we encourage you

  580. to just still participate with us? Maybe start today, start tomorrow?

  581. You know get it? There's no there's no how to say.

  582. It's not too late on that. You know when it's

  583. to late, when we're going when it's all gotten, day

  584. is now now, it's still not too late. Can still

  585. come back to human if you're fired from God this morning?

  586. Can still come back one? God loves you, he cares

  587. for you. So our last lap for youtn. I want

  588. to encourage us to really strender our hearts to the Lord.

  589. Take this time seriously, you know, because things can happen

  590. even in a few days. And allow God to speak

  591. to you. Allow your Father, God in Heaven to speak

  592. to you. Amen.

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  596. this week is going to be a good week.

  597. I hit for you. God bless