Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church Part 2 | Pastor Julian

You're listening to a message to go from X Church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

Let me say that, for we are going through a

series called Unpacking the Vision of X Church. Unpacking the

Vision of X Church, right, and this will be a

six weekend series, and we are on weekend number two. Okay,

So to help us, there is a booklet or a

guide book which Joseph has just came past me. In

the book for as it looks like this, right. So

if you were not here last Sunday and you're a

partner in church, I would encourage you to lift up

your hands and the host will pass you a booklet.

So I think that some here, probably those who are

in KG three may not have received it. Can just

raise up your hands and can I get the host

to help. So it's important for us to have this

booklet if you've not received it, and it will help

us to take notes. There limited copies, so if you

have taken one last Sunday, don't ask for another one.

Now take notes and then go back and fill up

the booklet. Okay, thanks yourself. Okay, sorry one Okay, if

you need a booklet, raise up your hands.

Post will help you.

This booklet will help the structure what we need to understand.

About the vision of X Church.

So just to bring contexts, we are in the second

part of a six series on unpacking the Vision of X.

So there's four more. The next four will be in January. Okay,

so next weekend, in the following weekend we will we

will do Christmas and a team will be on Christmas.

Then in January we'll come back to unpacking the vision.

Okay. Session two.

All right, if you guys were here last Sunday, give

me a whoo if you had a good time. Okay, yeah,

I guess people had a good time with Jason. Jason

started it off. So all across ex Church, in every

service plan or worship plan, ministry service that we have,

everyone's doing the same thing at the same time.

Okay.

So we have this unity all across our even services

better in Eilai or so Money or PJ or in Subang. Okay,

So let's do a quick recap of what happened last Sunday.

Last Sunday, we learned this we unpacked to understand and undertake.

So we unpacked to understand. So okay, first of all,

in your nose there are blanks, So we're all students

again this morning. If you need a pen, can also

raise your hands. And in general, the words that are

raid on the slides will be things you need to

fill up if they are blanks there. But I'm not

gonna give you the answers. You guys just figure it

out on your own Lotkay. I'll go through as best

I can without having anyone fall asleep this morning. But

for us to internalize unpeck and more than understand, we

need to undertake. So it's for us to then bring

these words into our own lives and bring it to

a practical application.

Okay.

The two main verses we look at for the Big

Vision of X is Harbercook two fourteen and Genesis.

One twenty eight.

Okay, I'll read those two verses now, it's not the screens.

If you have your Bibles or your phones, you can

also turn to this Bible verse. Harbercook two fourteen says this, for.

The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the

glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the

glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Genesis one twenty eight says this, Then God bless them,

and God say to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill

the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish

of the sea, over the birds of the air, and

over every living thing that moves on the earth. So

those are the two anchor versus in the Bible, which

gives us the vision of what XS is like. Right,

So as a recap let me say this verse, this

word feel the earth, fill the earth.

So what is earth for you? Guys? The world?

The earth is so big, right, you know? But what

is earth for you? I think this is how we

can break it down, meaning to say, like your earth

can be your campus or your school. Your earth can

be ex clang, we're all in next tank. Now, this

is our little earth. We need to be fruitful and

multiply here, have dominion, have influence. The earth can be

sol family, right, my family that I need to see

to be to be filled with the knowledge the glory

of God. So what is that earth for you this morning?

And and the word dominion dominion? Right just now we

heard that word dominion. What it actually means is influence.

So you see that influence right. I take this to

very similar to how the Bible calls us to be

salt and light. Right, were called to be Christians are

called to be salt and light. So we need to

influence the earth that is around us, right, We need

to be the agents that make that earth experience the

knowledge of the glory of God have influence over the

lives around us. When we live out the fullness and

abundant life of God and with God, this will influence

the people around us. So this is what I catch

from this when we live out in that fullness. So

when we actually live out the fullness of what God

has caused us to do, we are fulfilling this scripture.

When we live in the fullness of the abundance that

God has called us to be. Right John ten ten,

you know the enemy comes to still can't destroy, But

I have come to give you an abundant life, an

abundant life. So when we live that, we will influence

the people around us. Okay, that's just a recap. So

what are we going through today? So last Sunday, next

night we went I think you guys went through four

or five piece right, the mission of X Church. So

today we will focus on p Number five, which is

prepare everyone say prepare okay, Okay, so that's a lot

of cover.

I want to do this in three parts.

Number one, I want to help us understand what is

my or our role.

In fulfilling the mission of X church.

Right, okay, So we all of us here have said

yes to be a partner in X.

We call this our home. We call KG one, K

you do KG three, exact? KG four? No? Right, Yeah,

that's old man, It is so bad.

Yeah, we could all right, I have nothing to say

about it. Oh, these guys are our homies, right we

call we call them sometimes you call it more than friends, right,

people that walk through life with us. This is where

we are, and if we say yes to that, we

want to fulfill this united mission that we have in

X Church. Okay, I'll do that in the first part. Okay,

the second part I'll remind you again later. I want

to re emphasize some numbers in X. Okay, So so

this I know the next dog or some numbers thing

going on? Right, they read numbers, and then so here's

what we have. Numbers, but in a sense where the

numbers gives us a picture of what the vision is

X of X will look like. Okay, and number three,

I will just summarize everything by reminding us how where

to focus on. Okay, so let's get into it. The

big mission of X next, like the big mission of X.

The big vision vision of.

X is what I read earlier, Fill the earth, be fruitful,

and multiply have dominion. Okay, that was the recap.

The big mission is to make disciples.

So what's the difference between vision and mission? I'm like,

does it even matter? I think it matters for us

to just define it very briefly.

Left, So vision is vision, right or I have this

vision or this company Apple has this vision. The vision

in a sense gives you an idea of where we

are going. Okay, I have this vision of being marathon runner,

you know, under three hours one day. So I have

this vision in my mind, right then? Or for X,

the vision is fill the earth, be fruitful, and multiply

have the minion.

Okay.

The vision describes a future you hope to create or

what does success look like in the future? Okay, So,

as the Christian, what does God call me to be

and what does it look like in the future. It's

very important to first have this because without vision, the

people perish if we can't imagine what the future is like,

then we might not be going anywhere. So that's the vision.

What is mission? Mission is how do we get there?

What do we do to get there? Mission explains your

purpose today and how you work towards the vision. So

mission is what do we do every day right now

to get to our vision? Right in summary? Vision is

a destination. Mission is the path of getting there. Right So,

after church today you want to go to Chili pan

Me for lunch. The vision is going to enjoy the

ball of Chilipan Me.

Right.

Wow.

The mission is how do we get there? Make sure

everyone gets into the car. Everyone has a place in

the car. Which how do we drive? Is electric vehicle

or you know, gas vehicle? How do we get to

the destination?

Okay?

So how do we get to the vision of fill

the earth? Be fruitful and multiply and have the minion.

That's what we're going to cover today. And the mission

is we get there by making disciples.

Okay.

So we may not be able to fulfill the big

vision as an individual. I can't possibly as one person

fulfill the big vision of filling the earth with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord, But what we

could do is be fruitful and multiply where we are at.

And what this looks like is three points. Okay, so

a quick one, not fruitful and multiply. I think I

feel like God has been asking me this question lately.

Have I been fruitful?

Huh? No? This guy he didn't. No, no fourth one coming. No.

I think God has asking me this question lately, like

have you been fruitful? And if you remember, if you remember,

in a Book of Mark, there's this story where Jesus

saw a fig tree and he was hungry.

Jesus is hungry.

He saw a fig tree from Afar, and then he

wanted to go to the fig tree and take a

fruit to eat.

But he saw the.

Fig tree full of green leaves. Looks so healthy, but

the zero fruit. And what did Jesus.

He cursed the He cursed the victory.

You know, may may no one ever eat fruit from

you ever again?

Right?

And then you know, the next day the disciples came back,

they saw the victory.

All shriveled up. Yeah.

I think this shows that Jesus finds fruitfulness as very important. Okay,

and to a certain extent, is showing what the Pharisees

were Last time, the Pharisees looked like they were healthy.

It looked like they were full of life, doing what

is right in God's eyes.

So green the leaves, very full, but no fruit.

No fruit, but the key to Jesus, he wants to

see the fruit. He wants to see the fruit. So

it's a very sobering question to ask myself what is

my fruit? And I'm asking that question to you guys

today as well. So how do we fulfill that mission

and vision of being fruitful and multiplying?

So this, this.

Bunch of notes came of course from past the Kenneth

reminding Earth as X. This is our mission and I

want to remind us this morning as well. How do

we do this? Number one, We need to make disciples,

need to make disciples. So this has been our focus

for twenty twenty five. Our team this year is disciple first.

So we all know this very very We know this

very well now. But not only make disciples, making disciples

that make the difference. Okay, So make the difference means

what I said earlier, have dominion have influenced like salt

and light of the earth.

Right?

Okay? So Number one, make disciples.

Number two, produce leaders, produce leaders or pioneers. The fullness

of the word discipleship or disciples is not only a follower, okay,

is also a leader.

I'll say that again.

If we want to say yes, I'm a true disciple

of Christ, I'm not only a follower of Christ. I

will then be also a leader. So there's a statement

here that says turning every pre believer to be a

partner means you're committed to the process. Every partner to

be a pioneer, which is a leader, and every pioneer

to be a parent.

So what does a parent do. A parent care and a.

Parent also has the ability to multiply produce children.

Right.

So so that is the reminder today we are called

to make disciples and making disciples also means producing leaders.

Right.

So let's break this break this down further to the

next light. With this statement, plant a disciple produce a leader.

Plant the disciples produce a leader. So you see a

few names there. We got Pasta Lasius in Botswana, began

Osaka Pasta Joel in Melbourne. And the reminder this morning

is how this works is we need to remember that

God works by.

Planting seeds, so x Klang x Clang.

Who was the first seed in x Clang, John Raj, Right,

John Raj was the first seed in x Klang. And

then of course now we have Jason and Jazz who

are pioneering and being that seed. So they were planted

into a town called Glang, which is now have grown

to what we see today on a weekly basis all

the lives here.

Right.

Similarly, Benji's planted in Osaka, right, He's see it went

a bit furtherler right to another country, and he's planted

as a person into this nation, and now we can

see roots taking shape and the tree growing. We have

seen three or four different lives who have been transformed

by that planting of that person.

Right.

So the reminder is God plants lives to gain lives.

I think it's important to understand this because if you

remember a couple of weeks last month, we did a

devotion in homes from the book the Five W's, and

there was this statement the man before the manual, the

man before the manual, meaning God has this great vision

to fill the earth with his glory. Right, but he's

not going to implement just a system, right, He's not

going to say, follow this microsoftristis five system and the

earth will be established. Right, But he uses a man

to do that. And Jesus was that first seed that

transformed the world. So God plants lives to gain lives.

So we need to see us ourselves as seeds as well.

Where and where and why is God planting me in

this place where I am now? And how can I

continue to grow and be a pioneer and be a

leader in my position to have dominion and influence over

the world and earth around me. Okay, it's people that

reach out to other people. It's people that reach out

to other people. So if we have a desire to

see more of Malaysia saved and receiving Christ, receiving the gospel,

hearing the good news, then we have to look at

ourselves as seats.

Right.

So it just came to me like Angi and Mins

and also being planted in Sydney, right. I don't know,

maybe they'll continue on the legacy of living out this vision,

feeling the earth, that little corner of the world Sydney,

Australia where Nimo went to to to be a blessing

there right, a seat being planted there and I'm sure

they have many testaments of how God can.

Do that in their lives.

And another thing about this is when you plant a seed, right,

it takes time to grow. When you plant a seed,

it takes time to grow. I think it will be

the next light, but the initial process is the roots

taking shape, right, the roots going down, having a strong

anchor before the tree continues to grow. So we need

to remember that if we are seeing God using us

in this scenario, right, I'll probably use Visiness NG as

another example. I don't know when they are being planted

in Sydney, as their lives are there. It will take

a while to establish the roots, establish the foundation of

who they are as a family there and the influence

that they have. And it's okay, it's okay in that.

I don't know how long it will take, but eventually

they will need to be fruits. They'll need to be fruits.

I saw this very clearly in the plants I plan

in my own house. You know, I told it before

my dad wanted My dad, who is a botanist, told me, okay,

can plant this whole row of plants. He'll be very nice,

You'll be boushy, will grow very tall. But he said,

I will get you the plants. So I thought, it's

going to come ready first day, come plant the plants

is going to be like my height, I can block

off the neighbors.

Really, he came over to my house.

He gave me little seedlings and they were like about

this tall. So two years later, I'm still waiting. I mean,

it's much taller than before. But that's a process in planting.

And we need to remember when God plants a person, Yes,

the initial stake is for roots to take root, establish

his roots. So that's in the next light, the root

is going deeper into the world. Okay, So going back

to what we are doing now, we are talking about

the mission of being fruitful and multiply, multiplying, and number one,

we need to make disciples. Number two, we need to

produce leaders. And number three, how we produce leaders. How

we get there is by being a Daniel. Raise and

released Daniels into the marketplace. Is there any Daniels here?

All right?

Oh yeah, it's Denzel, Danzel Daniels. So long, raise and

released Daniels into the marketplace. What what are Daniels? Who

was Daniel in the Bible? What are Daniels. What does

Daniel represent. Daniels are actually kind of like all of

us here. Right, Daniel was not a priest or profit

working in a temple. Right, he was a senior government

leader serving the public or marketplace, okay, of two kingdoms,

Babylon and Pressia.

So that's basically all of us are.

We are not so called full time workers in church

serving church on a daily basis, but we are in

our in our own extent, agents in the marketplace, serving

different kings and kingdoms.

Right.

And Daniel was taken to excel trained to work in

the royal administration of Babylon, where he became a top

and top administrator advisor under multiple kings.

So that is what Daniel is.

So when this this statement here raised and released Daniels

into the marketplace, it's actually a calling for all of

us to go out into the marketplace, be as effective

as how Daniel was, and we'll go through more in

his life in a short while. Be effective Daniels in

the marketplace, become become like the high performers in our

different marketplaces, and then bring influence of what God wants

us to do there.

Okay.

So that's a summary of how fulfilling the mission will

look like in our lives. So just a recap. The

overall picture is this number one. The vision is to

have dominion, become influencers, to fill the earth with the glory,

the knowledge of the glory of God and the mission.

How we get there is discipleship disciple first, and the

outcome of doing it is actually that direction is being

a Daniel in our lives. Okay, so I'm gonna close

the first part surely, but I'll say a few more

things next, Like God doesn't want us to be ex

church as a brand. I think this is really important

and we should remember this if you forget anything else.

Let's come back here for a short while and focus.

God doesn't want us to be ex church as a brand.

He wants us to be a lifestyle. What that means, right,

is this thing where pastor calls it X off X off. Okay,

tracking me for a while, stay before. So instead of

ex church, we should think about it as X off,

X of what, XT of love, acts of care, ex

of trust, act of grace, acts of service, kindness, thankfulness, friendship, joy.

I just wrote all these words that are so good

and will be a blessing to many people. If we

become just an ex church, we move on to becoming

ex of so to live out X that will reach

pre believers in a sense where this morning we shouldn't

be so focused on just X church here right on

a Sunday, But we need to move to a place

where it becomes X of kindness, X of love, act

of joy, X of grace. Because if we don't do this,

then people will not experience who Christ is in a marketplace. Right,

So there is what being Daniels in a marketplace means.

So move on from ex church to X off.

Okay, and when we do that next like we will

be able to connect connect with people because it makes

sense to people when they experience this acts of love.

Right.

We have many jargons in church. Try sometimes we you

know Holy Spirit, and and make grace be with you now,

pray for you or have faith you know God bless you,

which are all really good things. And sometimes people that

have not been this in this environment they won't understand.

So you told me to you told me God's grace

be upon me today?

Like what does it mean? Who is God? What is grace? Right?

Is it a girl? Girl's names.

But what people make sense of, what people understand is

when they experience that acts of love. Right, So we

need to make connections. And when we make connections, we

make sense to them. So love makes sense to them,

Generosity makes sense, punctuality makes sense.

Right, Like if you're a student.

Or a worker in a company and your testimony or

your your track record shows excellence already, then everyone on

a team really understand. Hey, why is this person like

always on time and it's always happy. Why when the

boss say, hey, you're gonna work on Saturday or so,

it's like, heymen, yeah, we'll do.

You know why?

So then you start to ask why you like that?

Why are you always joyful? Where does your source of

happiness come from?

You know? So it makes sense to them.

Then when we share the gospel is because of Jesus,

because of Christ. Right, So that is the reminder this morning,

we need to connect to make sense.

Got it? Okay, let's go.

So that's the first part, a reminder that the vision

is for us to feel the earth, to multiply, to

have dominion. That's where we want to hit. That's where

we are going and how we get there. The mission

is to make disciples to produce leaders, right and to

be Daniels in the marketplace.

Cool.

Next part, let's go reviewing some numbers. So this is

where the numbers come in. And Hauberkook two to two

says this. Then the Lord answered me and said, write

the vision and make it plain on tablets that he

may run who reads it. So what we're doing today

right now in the six weeks is we are trying

to write and re establish and remind us all about

the vision of X.

Okay.

But more importantly we need to remember that we need

to run with the vision.

Right.

So that statement down there, we don't want you to

just know the vision, but run with the vision, okay,

just a reminder. So so this is a I would say,

another angle of what this vision is like.

This is where the numbers come in. Okay, track with me.

Number one, this number ten.

Focus for next ten years. The focus for the next

ten years from twenty twenty to twenty to thirty is

we are in this era as a church of being Daniels.

Okay.

So we went from being a Joseph church dreaming maybe

going through different challenges, going through a process of growing,

to now going to a church of being a Daniel

means being an effective leader in the marketplace. Okay, So

what this is is next light These number ten comes

from the story of Daniel and Daniel in the start

of the of the book is he was asked to

he was asked to eat food that was offered to idols, right,

and in that day it was it goes against his

convictions as a Jewish person, right, as a person of

Jewish faith. So what Daniel did was very wise. He

didn't just rebel against the leadership which he was serving,

but he told the leaders of that day, baby long

that he said, this test earth for ten days, Test

Earth for ten days.

So we are in that season now.

Where so this is a bit prophetic, right, pastor speaking

this over our church. We're in this season from twenty

twenty to twenty thirty, where in these ten years God

is asking us to not only be firm and stand

up on our convictions as Christians, okay, but also be

tested to be shown that we are strong and come

out of the process being stronger. Because if you remember

in Daniel, what happened after the ten days, he and

his friends they fasted the Daniel Fast, so they did

not eat food offered to idols and the meat and

the drinks that everyone else had. But he came out

looking The Bible says, they look fat, fatter.

And more healthy and stronger.

Right, So this is that prophetic word over us in

twenty twenty five, twenty six, that in these ten days,

which implies ten years for us, is for us to

not only be tested and to get our house in order,

our convictions in order, but in the process, after these

ten years, we're going to come out looking better, fatter, plumb,

and juicy and strong and shiny and amazing.

That is in the spirit luck in the spirit. Okay,

in spirit.

That is the prophetic word over our lives in twenty thirty.

So we can see that as a timeframe, right, you know,

and we need to be aware of where we're and

what is God doing now so we can follow along

with him. Okay, So maybe in twenty thirty will look

maybe or like and you can say, like, hey, don't

recognize any of them, is so buffing, Like Oh yeah,

that's the prophetic word over us in a spiritual sense.

Okay.

So yeah, next light, the next set of numbers will

look at So there's a time frame ten years for

us to be tested and be found being better. The

next slide here is this number one thousand times one thousand, right,

So what's one thousand times one thousand, one million?

Six zeros? Right? Six zeros and one one.

Let me say that this is not a mathematical equation first,

but it's a vision that we have on where we're going. Okay,

So just have that in mind. So one thousand times

one thousand for today doesn't mean one million, okay, just

like one plus one doesn't equal to To explain this,

I will want to share the story of how this

number came about. If you have been with X for

many years, you might already know this story. If you

are new, I think I will adults will share very

openly what happened now because I was there.

I was there during this process. I think many of

you were there also.

So this, this vision one thousand times one thousand, came

when we lost the Glenn Mary building. Okay, So there

was a time in X many many years ago whereas

it was only one worship service in Subang, Okay, I

can't really imagine that now, of course not.

We're so spraad out right.

And during that time it was probably thirteen to fourteen

years ago.

Okay, that's how long.

Right, During that time, there were about one thousand people.

That's where the first one thousand came from. And we

as a church, we were in the process of pursuing

a building in Glenn, Mary. It was an old factory

that we want to convert to become our dream home, right,

our dream home as a church, having nice stage, nice

aircorn and lights and sound and excellent theater sitting. And

I was there, and I also remember like on the

first few times where we were like, okay, you know,

we made the initial payment, everyone gave, We had faith

giving into this dream that we had. And there was

one night where they caught all of us to go

and like clean the church or so.

Yeah. So so we.

All went there and I think I wasn't even married yet,

that wasn't married yet. I remember chunko like uh like

leaves and like weed on the ground to clear the place.

H So, So I have those memories. And we actually

met there so once or twice once right as leaders

or church church, right, Yeah, we actually met there. So

imagine like being an empty warehouse, super hot ground or

dusty just being plastic chairs go and like have faith

to have silvice there. Right, it was a very big place.

I could imagine how nice it was after renovation. So

we were there in that place, and then suddenly we

lost the building. We lost the building, we lost the

investment we put in, we lost the the dream. It

was actually very painful, right because for for months and

probably a year, we're building up to, Oh, God, it's

going to give us this place. It's going to be

so beautiful. We're going to be able to meet there,

invite our friends, have Christmas parties there.

And we lost the building.

And I think I think Pastor Kenneth to keep the

worse because he was leading us towards there. We only

not just lose the building, we lost financially as well, right,

And it was a disappointment. It was a massive disappointment

to everyone in church, so painful. I think it sort

of became news in among the churches in Malaysia, so like,

allow this church, I don't know what they do then

they lost the building?

How you I mean from the outsideler.

But the statement here is what was a disappointment was

an appointment by God.

Okay, so at that moment.

God began to reveal that process of pain gave us

the vision of one thousand times one thousand. Okay, struck

me for a while. So instead of building this one monument,

First of all, I'm not saying that having a very

nice building as a church is a wrong thing. I

know many other churches have that. It's like, it's just

not who we are called to be as a church.

Okay.

So God has caught many a literatures to have that

excellence and we totally support them.

But for us, that process that.

We went through birth out this vision that God has

called us as X.

Okay, so you go to the next light.

The building was lost, but we found our vision and

God said this, don't build a cathedral for me, but

spread out right. So you can ask many questions that

are like, why do we even have to lose the building,

Why do we have to lose financially? You know, why

did God bring us through that process? But the correct

question to us is, actually, God, through this process of disappointment,

what are you teaching us? And from that we got

one thousand times one thousand, and essentially this is what

it is. Don't build a cathedral, don't build a monument.

Nothing wrong with that, But for us as X we

are not called to build one monument, right. We are

called to be a movement, a movement spread out scattered

about this few weeks ago. We're called to be scattered

and be sold in a light in many different places.

So that is what one thousand times one thousand is

right next light to Pasta Kenneth receiving that word from God.

This is what we can see. If Pasta Kenneth can

be used by God to build one thousand people at

that time, then God can do it again with every

person that was there.

So that is the vision. You guys are part of

this vision, right.

I think now we are more than one thousand people,

maybe thousand and five or more, spread across different places

in Malaysia and across the globe. But it's Earth today

in twenty twenty five, going to twenty twenty six, fulfilling

that calling that God has given us. From that one

thousand people, each one can then go and become like

a Pastor Kenneth. So John Rach is fulfilling that I

mean when he when he started exclaiming, and now Jason

and Jazz are fulfilling that vision here past the Lazarus

in Botswana. Right, he's fulfilling that vision. I'm going to

become that agent in that earth and that world whereb

I am over there.

Right.

You know, if you're a student in Taylor's you need

you're gonna fulfill that vision as well. Right, Not just

a cathedral, not just a monument, but I'll do a

movement wherever I'm at.

Okay, So that's the vision.

So we want we dream that God will use every

person in X the same way. Okay, next night, the

one thousand that we already have cannot just remain as

they are, but they are to be made disciples and

then leaders and finally daniels that will be sent out

to fill the earth with the knowledge of the globe

of the Lord. So that is what one thousand times

one thousand means. The next part about this is the

next one thousand, right, So you see now the rid

color being on the other side. So we are we are,

we have the first one thousand ready and we're in

the process of what the next one thousand will look like.

And I just want to summarize by saying this that

the next one thousand is what God can do. Okay,

So if you really do the mathematical equation one k

times one k be goes. The one million is a

super big number, right. If I had that much money,

I'll be quite happy.

Right.

But the first one thousand is our part. The next

one thousand is what God can do miraculously.

Okay. So our focus is just taking care of what

we have already. Okay.

So next light bottom line of discipleship is followed me

as I follow Christ and next life, we will then

see the next one thousand being fulfilled come to pass

if we keep going. We keep going, making disciples, planting churches,

producing leasers, leaders, and raising Daniels. Okay, So Daniel one

twenty says this Daniel was found to be ten times

better than the rest. Right, So this is also the

same story we said earlier. Daniel chose to stand firm

with his conviction as a Jewish believer, and what happened

was after the ten days, he was not only found,

he not only survived, but he was ten times better.

So this is also a prophetic word for us that

God is bringing us to a place of ten times

abandon life ten acts right, from being just about one

thousand to then being ten thousand and ten years in

twenty thirty. That's the prophetic word that is being spoken

over us.

Amen.

Okay, So I'm gonna end shortly. I've got three more

slides and I want to wrap this up. And how

we'll wrap it up today is after saying all that,

so many things around the last two weekends, how do

we focus and where do we focus?

What are things we can do now? Okay? Next life?

So the focus of the year looking into next year.

Is we need to first of all, take stock of

the first one thousand, take stock of all that God

has already given to us, and draw their best. So

there are three questions in your note, and it's really

a self reflection question. What has God given us?

Or you.

Think about it in your own time, reflect in your

own time? What has God given me.

Already?

What lives he has already given me? Who has He

given in my care? What talents has God given me?

What gift things has God given me?

Right?

The next question, why do you think He's given us

him or her or them?

Right?

So, if you're a homes leader here, what has God

given me? Who has God given me? And why are

these people in my care? Question number three, what is

the best we can do to bring out the best

in them? What is the best we can do to

bring out the best in them? So we can look

at it at so many different angles, because all of

us wear many different hats today. We're a parent in

our families, we are leaders in our organizations. We could

be a leader here in church as well. The focus

is for us to take stock of what we have today. Okay,

So an illustration of this is let's say you have

not already have a house. God has given me a house,

and I have four rooms in the house right, right,

and then, so I need to be a good stord

of that.

But I want a bigger house. I want a house

with ten rooms, right, six small rooms?

But if I haven't fully utilized my space, I'm only

using two rooms, you know, one for my kid.

Want to host homes or something.

It's just an illustration, right, And the other two rooms

are left vacant.

Not being used.

Then my house is not fully utilize to its fullness.

So why would God then give me more rooms?

Right?

We look at this pattern in scripture on and on.

God will only give us more if we are faithful

with what He has already given us before. Right, The

parable of the talents. Each of them were faithful with

their own talent one, three, or five. Right, So we

need to be faithful with what we already have. Take stop,

look at what God has given us today before the

multiplication can happen.

Next light. So this just repeats what I say.

God will not give us more if we have not

been faithful with what He has already given to us.

We need to use all the talents God has given

us and not bury it in the ground.

Right, So when we do the possible, we take stuck.

God will do the impossible. Man the last light for

today and as I get the band to come up.

So this is just a reminder that.

At least at this second part of the series, having

said all that was said, our mission is to make disciples,

and God uses the man, not just a manual, not

just a system. God uses me as a person to

influence many. And didn't I then need to also produce

leaders right and become Daniels in the marketplace. And to

start off if we haven't been doing that, is to

be faithful in what God has already given to me today,

what God has already Who are the lives God has

given to me today? What are the talents and gives

that God has been given to me today, and I

need to be faithful with the first one thousand and

then God will do the rest and the multiplication. So

that's where were at at this second part of the series.

I think if you have been in asks for many years,

all these vision statements are very familiar to us.

So I want to say.

That that the leadership and God has been very consistent

in where He's leading us as a church. It hasn't

changed for many years, and it will not change until

we see God's word fulfill both in our lives and

in the church. So He is a faithful God and

we need to continue to do our own part in

the bigger picture to be faithful stewards.

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