Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church Part 5 | Eld Rosalind Tay

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

We hope this message will light up your tea.

You know, this whole vision thing, right, the laws, the leaders,

the level isn't something new to you, Is it new?

Is it like your first time hearing it? No? Right,

that means you've been in the church for a long time.

You've been in church enough to know that this is

God's heart, right, This is God's heart and he continues

to want us to remember He's hard, all right. So

that's why we are going through unpacking the Vision series.

It's really a revival, right, and revival it's not something

new in revival. It's not like whoo ghost. No no, no, no,

holy holy ghosts. I meaned the holy ghost. But revival

is really you remember this, coming back to basics, right,

coming back again to what God originally intended. And so

that's why we're doing this. So the church. God has

said something, right, God has said it. Your leaders are

all saying the same thing. What are you saying? What

are you saying? What is your response to the vision?

Are you saying I'm in or by your silence, you're

saying I'm out. We always have a choice on your friends,

you either say yes or by your silent and most

Maligians are usually silent or sitting on the fence. That

means I don't want to be part of this, right,

and so I really again everything that Genies said, right.

You know, if you have life and breath in this,

it means God has given us opportunity right to do

what we need to do. LA Right. There's a reason

you think God just you know, gives us lives to

enjoy ourselves. Yes, there is that part as well, but

that's not the sole purpose. There's a bigger mission. There's

a bigger heart that God wants us to catch, right,

and so we want to do that now if you

understand past the kenneth, let me see, okay, beside us

all these let me see how many young Chrystal well

people who've come to X right at least, how many

of you have been in subang Jaya with you know,

presidential and the team for less than one year? Okay,

and you come in and I don't don't raise your hand.

It's okay, it's your first day here. Don't scare you. Okay.

At the rest of you call partners of X Church.

How how many of you have been here. Lesson one year?

Lesson one year? Can I see your hand? Okay? Lesson

one year? Oh that's all start if you came for

our Christmas production or so good? Right? Lessen one year?

Uh yeah? Two years and under? Two years and under okay,

two years and under three five years and under five

years and under the miss the rest of you more

than five years are old time. Okay, So I'm talking

to old farts. O yay, then won't edit ou okay

x TV Okay, so I'm talking to people who've been

with us for more than five years. Okay, fair enough.

You've heard of the vision, right, So the difference is

what are you saying? It's not what God is saying,

because God is always saying the same thing. He's the

same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The leaders I believe are

still saying the same things. If you you heard Winning's

story of you know, just understanding passes heart. She went

through all the old Facebook posts and all that. I'm

not sure whether you've shared she shed this or you've

heard this and she said he if she fussed, so consistent. No,

whatever he's saying last times still the same today or

so God is consistent pastor is consistent? Are you consistent?

What are you saying to what God is saying to us? Okay?

Now if you know, okay, those of you five years

and above, you know passic Canna the bat right. If

I ask you what is the secret to Passicana's success,

what would you say? I cannot red lips yet grow

small to grow big is his secret to success? Ah?

So okay, okay, can we just agree that there is

some level of success if you look at Pascanna agree

not agree on start that we treat people now in

the thousands and in so many nations, churches everywhere. Okay,

so we can say there's some measure of success. And

so one response is the secret of the success is

grow small to grow big. Okay, that one we only

received in twenty ten, actually twenty ten, grow small to

grow big. So if you remember the vision, right, grow

small to grow big twenty ten. So maybe there's something else,

because you know he's started in two thousand war right,

So what else do you think is the secret of

his success? Immense faith? Oh? I love that, And I

have to say, right, I think you know in the

spiritual gift things, you know that there is gift of tea,

this give of puzzleship and right, you don't want to.

One of the spiritual gifts is the gift of faith.

Have you ever read that before? I really think past

is blessed with the give of faith. I mean in

man's faith. I love that immen's faith. Okay, okay, good, good?

What else? What else do you think? Is? You know?

If you ask him right now, he's sit there here,

you interview him, pastor what is your secret of your success?

What do you think He'll say? Obedience? Okay? Faith? And

I love that you took it one step further because

you can have a lot of faithor but no obedience.

Do you know what I mean? You can have like whoa,

I have a lot of faith, but God says I'm

going to do this right now, but it's okay, not

do it all right? So so faith and obedience. It

looks like sema, but it's not. It's not right. So

you can have great faith but no obedience. But you

have great obedience, your faith will increase even as small

as a muster seed. Right, Jesus, say you know your

faith as more as a muster seed. You can tell

this mountain to move and go that side. You will

do it, God will do it for you. So it's

not about just faith, but is the obedience part of it? Right? Okay?

And landing onto it one of the principles that passes shared. Right.

If you have to ask him what is one of

his secrets to success, he will say, I live by

the power of the tithe. Hmm, interesting, power of the tithe?

What does that mean? Okay, tell me what you understand

about tithe? Ten percent? What else? Ten percent? Okay, yeah,

ten percent of it of your wealth? Okay, all right,

that is correct. What else do you understand about the tithe? Time?

I heard the time? Okay, we're gonna go deeper into that.

I heard Jessey or on the next level. Okay, give

your best. Okay, It's not just ten percent anymore, right,

because giving your best sometimes could look like fifty percent,

you know. Okay. Oh, someone, you're like, oh what, I

never read that in my Bible. Okay, now I think okay,

I have to say that. You know, if you read

scripturally right, the principle of tiding came when the Mosaic

law was given. Right, Moses gave the law and say, okay,

now there's this ten percent thing that you give to

the Lord, bring it to the temple. Da da da

da da da. This is how you worship the Lord.

And so my shallow understanding was, that's it like ten

percent of your finances. Gutem right, goutim means done, means

if I have given my ten percent of my finances,

I'm a good Christian. Yes, I'm a good leader. Yes, okay,

And we stop at that. But so so then the

argument came, right, hey, but you know when Jesus came

right here abolished the law, there's normal. We don't live

under the Mosaic law. Otherwise all of you can read.

You know, you know one of the Mosaic law was

you cannot wear mixed linen, mixed material in your clothing.

So you're God, I don't know what la spandex law whateverver,

all those things are. All you have broken the law

of Moses. It must be only one type undred percent cotton,

hundred percent linen, hundred percent silk. It cannot be mixed. Okay.

So that's one of the old principles. All of us

have broken it. Okay today, so we say, no, we

don't live under that, and therefore we throw all this

principle of the tide as well. Course, we say technically

it came from Moses, right, going by that logic through

or not. But then later I found out actually earlier

than Moses in Genesis, there was already you know, King

milkys that remember that, And then he gave a tithe.

He gave a tie to most. I'm like, hey, actually

it dates even before Moses. But do you know that

when I when I received this and I learned this,

it blew my mind because the principle of the tide

came in Genesis chapter two. God. Let's read. Now, let's read.

Let's go to the world of God, Genesis chapter two.

It started there already, so I'm gonna read to you

Genesis chapter two. Let's turn to verse Ha. Okay, let's

listen to verse seven. This is where we came into

the picture. Okay, are you there Genesis chapter two. Please

turn to your bibles. Oh but your XTIV is so man,

tap men, they straightway put it up on the Yeah,

thank you, thank you xtiv. Okay, I'm gonna read. And

he says in verse seven, and the Lord God from

men of the dust of the ground and breathe into

his nostrils the breath of life, and men became a

living being thing. All of us are here. Verse eight.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and

there he put the man whom he had formed, all right,

verse nine. And out of the ground the Lord God

made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight

and good for food. The tree of life was also

in the midst of the garden, and the tree of

the knowledge of good and evil? Imen. Are you with

me so far? Okay, let's read for the verse fifteen.

Now verse fifteen, Chapter two. Then the Lord God took

the man and put him in the garden of Eden too,

to the what to have party to ten and to

keep it. There's a responsibility, right, You're supposed to tend

and keep. Adam was supposed to do that. Now, listen

to the commandment and the word of God. Verse sixteen.

And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every

tree of the garden you may freely eat, But of

the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you

shall not eat, for in the day that you eat

of it, you shall surely die. Okay, you we are

on the same page, my bie b your bie ble same. Okay,

say mah, So that is the context. Now this human being,

human nature is very funny. Right. So let's say in

this whole area of the VA and you know your

your church plan here, there's all these rooms, right do

you see there's all these rooms that you can go into.

I say, okay, partners of ex church. You can go

into every room, accept that one room. Everything, you can

go everywhere. You can go out pilot. So you can go, ah,

accept that one room. What is your first instinct? What's inside?

I want to go in? True? Not? True or not?

Because you're like, what are you hiding from me? Inside? Go? Go? Bar?

Is it? Daniel? You're keeping go bas inside? Right? Why

we cannot go in? Why cannot if you recognize that

within yourselver, you're recognizing the very nature of Adam and

if true and so and I you know when I

think about what this principle of tidying, right, it's beyond

that ten percent of your money. It's telling God, God,

there is something in my life that I cannot touch.

Because if I can touch anything and everything and any

time I want, then guess what I'm God la true

or not? If I can do everything and any time

I want I can touch everything, then I am God.

You see in Yeah, if you can touch anything everything

in life, then we become God. God says, don't touch

the tree. Right, and let's look to chapter three. Now,

chapter three, right, you see, the desire in us to

want to touch the untouchable is because in verse chapter three,

verse five. Okay, okay, I go to verse four. Verst are,

this is where the serpent comes in. Then the serpent

said to the woman, you will not surely die. Wow?

What a lie? Right? What a lie? And blatant, outright

lie in verse five. For God knows that in the

day you eat of it, your eyes will be open

and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Men.

We all want to be like God, don't we. We

all want to be like God because we say, if

I am God, then nobody is above me. I am

above everyone else. So this desire to want to have

control of everything in your lives, can I tell you

that it's birth out of a sin, this need and

the desire to have everything under control or everything I

want to touch. Right, And so the principle of the

tide is saying, God, there is something in my life

that I will not touch, because that simply means I

say you are God. There is an area. If God

says don't touch, just don't touch that, and I obey that,

it means I acknowledge that you are God. How wonderful

if if or Adam obeyed and just says, God says,

don't touch, and therefore I will not touch. WHOA Can

you imagine the life that will be living today? No sin,

no sorrow, no death, hello, no pain, no diseases. Where

do you think all this came from? It came from sin.

God did not intend for Adam and if to die,

you know he that was not his intention. His intention

was I'm gonna give you guys this beautiful garden that

you can turn and eat from it, and that you

can have communion with me forever. But because we want

to be like God, because a knowledge good one. We

all want knowledge, right, I'm not knocking seeking knowledge. Those

of you want to pursue your master's PhD Okay, no,

I'm not talking about you, liater, You stole me. Okay, no, no, oh,

I also doing my master's now and never. That's a

different story, okay. But you see that that that desire

to have that knowledge of good and evil of basically

it comes from this pride, pride of saying I want

to be like God. You see, it says that criptures

clear clearly that we want to be like God. And

so that's why we says no. It says here that

we must not fall into this temptation of saying I

want to be God over my life. Yeah, I want

to be God over everything in my life. So you

look at the principle, right, it's not about the money,

but it's about acknowledging God as God that we will

set everything in our lives, not just money, our time,

our talent, our treasure, our breath, our attention. Hello some

of us, you know, I speak to some campus students.

They're like, oh, okay, I can't help it a lot.

My attention spans only two minutes. I'm like, hello, you

own your attention span or your attention span owns you?

Basically social media owns you. La true? Not yes, brother,

you have a question, you see, thank you for that question.

It's a good question. Right. Is it our own desire

or we were played by the devil? Okay? I would

say it's two ways. Firstly, there's a desire, there's a

desire within us. And when we follow our desire, we

obey our desire that causes death. And do you know what,

the devil is very good as they see that desire

and they stalk fire to it. They're very good at that.

The devil will say, oh, yeah, this one, uh always

like to sleep late, right, And you know what is it? Truer?

Oh?

Design is holy spirit man? And you know what the

devil will do, I will put more interesting things for

you to see. Yeah, I tell you your phone is

the devil, sister, delete those apps? Joking, joking, joking, joking.

You see that there is desire right within us, and

the desire within us before we had the knowledge of

good and evil, right, we only knew good. We only

knew good. Right. But the devil comes and uses that

desire and stalks it and leads us down to temptation.

And when we are down to temptation, it leads us

to death. Right. So I would say, yes, desire does

come from us, but the devil uses that desire. So

maybe the first thing that we have to ask ourselves

what is my desire? What are the desires of my heart?

Are they in alignment to God? Or they are they

in alignment to the flesh right, The flesh were always

one knowledge. The flesh were one success, more money, more convenience,

I don't know, more travels in the world, more experiences,

the flesh right. And so there is this part that

we say okay, no, no, no, because my flesh are

the tendency to go south is very, very great. We

are saying, okay, no, I'm gonna apply this principle of

the tithing to say, Okay, God, this part I'm gonna

learn to not touch it because it belongs to you.

Give to God what is God right? And you know

that actually God owns everything of us one hundred percent. No,

one hundred percent. But God is not saying okay now,

if you think about it, one hundred percent means that

all of you will be here every day, every day,

just worshiping the Lord, saying I don't know, what do

you think about their prospect friends? No right, because what

God wants you to do is receive the feeding here

today so that you can go out after this and

be the light in the world that is dark. That

is what God wants you to do, right. And so

there is this idea of saying, God, my time is

for you, My talent is for you, my treasure is

for you. So we want to say it's in the

slight here. It's not a law. Can I say that

we don't live under the ten percent? Oh? You mean

ten percent means you can clear everything all right, percent.

But it's the spirit of putting God first, giving God

to what what belongs to him. Amen. Can we agree

with this? Okay? Now, let's talk about time. Let's use

it loosely. Lah, So we say the principle of tidying

is ten percent. Let's just use that loosely. How many

hours in the day do we have twenty four hours?

What is ten percent? Okay? So are you giving two

point four hours every day to the Lord on a Sunday? Yes? Right, Monday,

Tuesday when it's day, Thursday, lay, Friday alter no Fridays yes,

right because you go for homes alter that tuesdays. Yes,

because you go for preservice other than that, simple man,

simple Caucasian right Linearly we think like that. But you

say the thing is right. We are not here to say, wow,

have you spent two point four hours with the Lord.

It's not legalistic. It's not the Lord. He's saying God,

I'm gonna put you first. Now, what is putting God

first look like in terms of your time? Can can

someone share with me? How do you put God first practically?

Day to day? How do you put God first? Practically? Sorry?

Start with start with the Lord? True or not? What

does start with the lot mean? Can you give me

some examples so that we're all crystal clear? Spend time

with God this morning? Yeah? How many of you spend

time with God this morning? Why? You're very braver, but

some of you are also very honest. Thank you for that.

I was talking to eight am am considered early morning

really right, So I was asking them, what do you

know do you spend time with got this money? They're like, yeah,

I came here for extreme Then I said, yeah, extreme practice, right,

And I asked again, did you spend time with God

this morning? Because we can be here for worship practice.

And you know we always say this, right that worship

begins at home. It doesn't start when you come here

for practice. You know, worship is the preparation of the heart.

And so did you meet with the Lord this morning?

Did you meet with your father? Because that is Jesus's secret? Right?

What did he do. He always withdrew by himself to pray,

to seek the Lord, because without that time with God,

there is no power of friends. Where do you think

your Jesus's source of power came from just because he

himself was powerful, he's the son of God. But I

believe that it was because he spent time with his father.

And so you think about it. Wow, Okay, maybe that's

a secret now of saying God the first drops of

the morning, the first ten minutes of the morning, Can

I dedicate that to you? I won't even asked for

two point four hours on our friends, but ten minutes?

Can or not? Can you start with that? That the

first thing that you reach out for is the Bible,

not your phone. Oh, getting very close to home. Right,

I made a decision for myself right that the first

message that I want to hear into my heart, my mind,

my brain was the word of God. That's a decision

I have to make, and I'm saying it is a

decision you will have to make right And with that

it means in the morning, Okay, I know we need

to change our phone right the whole night ready, So

first thing, I will purposely put it away from my

eyes because our eyes very easily distracted. Right, you see that?

Or forty messages? You cannot the hand ready? You want

to see all of it? What did my friend tell me?

What do I need to do? Right? I plug it

in and I leave it and I go to another

space to meet with the Lord. It's my commitment because

I believe that actually God should have the first fruit

of my day. And I can tell you, friends, this

is from true life that on the days that I

missed that my whole day was ruined, you know. Or

it just feels off. It just feels that I have

something that Ganana always got something that Ganan you know.

But do you know that after you give that time

to the Lord, you're like, even though challenges come, even

though I'm tired, God gives me that strength. Do you

know this? Yeah, today is a long day for me,

right And I woke up like not enough sleep there was.

It was a long day yesterday. It's been a long

two weeks. It's been a long seventeen days of January. Yeah,

it's you know, it started the year running, he think

the ground running. It's been crazy. Every day just so full,

so full. Every night I'm out for something and so

I woke up this morning. I say, oh God, I

just be so dark. You really no, physically, I'm tired,

you know, And I have to preach at eight am.

Then I went for ten to thirty and now I'm here.

And then after this we have a Christmas Appreciation of

Christmas production appreciation four to six o'clock. I'm like, God,

how am I gonna stand the whole day? Not stand

the whole day? Literally, but wow, I really felt you

know that I couldn't. I don't know how. Tulah coffee

can only help somehow. But then I just say, God,

I met with you. I need this. So I just pray.

I say, God, give me the strangler. Friends, can I

tell you that from eight am until now, I have

felt like the energy level has been consistently high. Do

you know because this is the supernatural, right? Do you

know what happens is when you practice the power of

the tide. You're saying, God, I said this, I make

this commitment, right, I make this commitment to meet with

you first. You know what he does. He redeems the

rest of the time. He redeems the rest of your energy.

You say, I'm gonna God, I'm gonna sow this talent

to you singing Elaine amazing voice. Always when you saw that,

God redeems the other talents that you have. Right, that's

the principle, because you know the thing is right all

of us. If you don't have time, right, coright on,

no time, no time, no time? Can I give you

another principle. If you sow time, you will reap. You

will read time. This is God's work. If you saw something,

you read something right, you saw finances, you will read finances.

We've heard so many testimonies of people giving generously and

they say, wow, just God just came through amazingly. Right.

If you lack time, friends, all of us feel like

we lack time, right, but I always think God, you

give us all for twenty four hours. There's wisdom in

that because even our Prime minister also busy men were

also had twenty four hours on also have twenty four hours.

All of us have twenty four hours. Doesn't matter whether

you're young or you're old. What matters is how you

use that twenty four hours. So this language not enough.

I think we need to turn it around. And when

to say God, if I feel that I I don't

have enough time. I'm gonna saw time crazy, right, radical

or not quite radical? I have no money, but I

was so what I have no money, but I will

give what. It's radical, you know, but it's radical obedience.

Remember that radical obedience, radical unity, radical generosity. If you

struggle with time managed, friends, can you try this principle

that when I sow time, I'm gonna read time. And

so when you practice this principle, do you know what?

Sometimes in my own mind IM trying to rationalize how

how this works, lire, So I say, if I'm gonna

give you that time, that half an hour, what he's

gonna do with the rest of the twenty three point

five hours is he's gonna make me more efficient. He's

gonna make doors open for me, because you can work

on your own strength. Right, And you try, and you try,

and you try without bringing God into the picture, and

you burn out. True, do not you try and do

things on your own way? You try, you try, you try,

you try, and then you burn out. But if you

come under this principle of saying God, I'm gonna give

to you what belongs to you, He's gonna redeem the

rest of it. I love this word redeem right, because

it says in efficients, let's move on in Efphicients Chapter

five and ACTI, we can help me with this. I'm

gonna read to you this very very precious verse fifteen

to sixteen, Ephicients five fifteen to sixteen. It says this,

see that you walk circumspectly. Okay, this is the nk

JV version. Not as fools, but as wise. Let's move

on redeeming the time because the days are good? Is it?

The Bible says the days are evil? We're living in

evil days. Friends. If you don't know, yeah, I'm telling

you you're living in evil days. Yeah. And God is

saying redeem that time. And I looked up this word. Okay,

A few things are Number one is let's go back

to the worst before that. He says, see then that

you walk. So when you say, what, doesn't mean I'm

just walking RD. It means you live your life? Okay,

see that you live your life? What is this word circumspectfully?

And English teacher, here you understand this meaning? A don't

understand your eyes don't say so? I have to look

it up. What does it mean to to live circumspectully?

It means to live carefully, to live exactly, to live strictly,

to live diligiently. Religion, okay, not as fools, but wise.

And this word redeeming the time, because the days of

you what does it mean to redeem? Now? The Greek

word for this word redeem, right, it means exa gor razzo,

I know, Greek let it. So this word right, it

means you to buy out from something, from the marketplace.

So ec in Greek right means out of something, out

of something, and agorazzo means at the marketplace. So when

you use it in the terms of Jesus, redeem us

means he bought us up, He bought us from the marketplace, right,

he purchased our salvation and redemption, all right, So this

is what meaning. But when it says redeeming the time,

another meaning is this to rescue from loss, to rescue

from waste. Friends, I guess we must be wasting our

twenty four hours because it says redeem the time. And

you know, every time the Bible says something or it

means we're not doing it. Lah. So if you're not

reading redeeming our time, you're wasting our time. Claire. If

you're not redeeming the time means it's a loss. So

what however many years you have in life, if it's

not impactful, then it's a loss. It's a waste. It's

a waste, you know, friends, because it says take full

advantage of the present opportunity. That's what redeeming the time is.

And I love what Jenny shaid she redeem her final

few weeks in more Nash because she could have easily

just did her own thing right and it would have

been wasted. But she chose instead to say, Okay, let's

do something to bless the campus. And that's what happened.

And that's where she can stand and testify to you

that the harvest truly is plenty four Okay, so maybe

some correction there. The harvest is not growing. You know,

the house has always been there, but the laborers is

a few. Can you imagine out of this whole congregation,

only Jennis did that. What are the rest of us doing?

Seriously you think about it, Huh. I was convicted. You

know how many of you attended the first homes of

the year last week? Right? Your attender homes good? So

I decided to do like a quick review with my homies, okay,

and we just went on the house. You're twenty twenty five.

So we went sharing like okay, some good you know,

like yeah, different things that God's teaching da da da

da da da great success in career or praying for career,

blah blah. Then came to this auntie and she says,

this is how she started testimony. Now, I had five

souls for the lot last year. I saved five souls

for the lot last year. Boom boom. I strayed it

like one of suraday. I'm like, okay, great, tell us

some more. So she said one of the tests, one

of the story was one of the salvation. Was she

was in the hospital and then there was a lady

at the bit next to her right, and of course

she's like, why I need to go in right? We

all don't like this kind antis one. Right, honestly, I

run away, run away, this anti coum ready. But she

just felt the urge from the Lord and then she

just went over caught all over her shared the gospel

with her, say God loves you, but you have to repent,

and all of you shock, right, But you know that's

how gospel I was gospel doesn't stop that God loves you. You know,

there needs to be a repentance. So she shed that

and then you know, after that conversation, the lady says, yes,

I'm ready to receive the Lord. Praise the Lord. One salvation.

Then she said the next day, right, she wanted to

go and minister follow up, right, and follow up. She

was still there. And guess what, the lady died ready

the next day. So that was the only opportunity that

she had to share the gospel with her. And if

she had not obeyed, guess what? One more in hell

redeeming that the days are evil, friends, theys are really

really evil. You really don't know how much time we have.

So I pray that there will be a sense of urgency. Amen,

just a sense of urgency. Yeah, God, you know. And

you know what, Actually, when I heard that doesn't me

right then? Being a seven of the Lord, I had

to ask myself, So Rose, how many salvations you had?

Twenty five? Rude awakening? Okay from the Lord, Like, okay,

what are you doing? Girl? You can be serving, you

can be preaching, you can be doing, you can be

working in church. But if there's no fullness, then what

are we doing? Are we are we playing church? Friends?

I think we are. We're done with playing church right?

Then he said, you know, we're not a social clubler, friends,

we are a live saving organization, living and breathing. And

if we are not fulfilling our purpose as a life

saving organization or church, if we are not saving the loss,

and then we are lost. Okay, friends, if we are

not saving the loss, we are lost. Ahio, then Jesus

have to come and knocking on our door and say, hey,

what did you do? We are lives? Yeah? Do you

know a Passa David, the late Passa David has so

many countless people who came and said he touched their lives.

He brought them to Christ. And he not only brought

them to Christ, he journeyed with them. And so now

they are pastors himself as well. Do you know what

an amazing testimony? Would you want that as your testimony

as your legacy to say, my life countent, it was

worth it, we redeem it, you know? And so you're saying, okay, God,

now I know I want to set the site time. Okay,

So let's not even go with two point four hours.

Let's be realistic. Okay, I'm very real. Can you start? Wait?

Twenty minutes? Oh too much? Is it? Okay? Fifteen minutes?

Can run, let's start. Let's start where you are are? Okay?

What can you do with twenty minutes? If you say,

if you say, God, okay, I want to start this

year right, twenty minutes this year every day I'm gonna

dedicate twenty minutes to you. What can you do with this?

When you tied it unto the Lord? Right? You can

definitely pray, true or not? If you're on page forty,

you can pray. Pray for your loved ones, pray for

your campus, pray for your work place, pray for your boss,

pray for your family, pray for your dog. And then

you only use three minutes true not? Hey, there's only

got seventy more minutes. Well what do I do with

this seventeen more minutes? Ah? Maybe you can think about serving?

Ask God, God if I'm not serving it, but I

know I think that they we are going, I think.

Then then share the report all of the majority of

your serving already. Yeah, So praise the Lord, praise the

lot that you've caught the heart of serving. What else

can you do whoa share? Oh? Share? Share? Are you

able to share some of you? Are very good with

your socials? Right? Can you share what God is doing

in your socials? He say, what of what you are doing? Who?

But God uses Esla? Right? Do we give the glory

to him? I'm saying, make every opportunity count, friends, Make

everything an opportunity to talk about God. Talk about Jesus,

how he saved you, how he loves you, how He

transforms you. Do are we making that count? Share the gospel?

Share your testimony? Right? Can you make disciples or not? Wow? Okay?

Twenty minutes, I pray, reade for three minutes. Maybe I

practice my guitar five more minutes. I don't know what

talent you have, la, Okay, but you know in that

addition of five minutes, can you think about someone to

disciple and how you do that? Right? Really is what

the law is leading you. I cannot give you the

answer of friends, because only you will know how to

reach out to your colleague. Only you will know how

to reach out to your parents. I'm thinking about your mom.

You know this is a verse from the do you

know that when you share a word of God, you're

discipling them. Do you know that because you're bringing them

back to the Word of God, which is a truth.

I believe that every conversation can be a discipleship conversation.

This is my belief. Means every opportunity you spend with someone,

don't just hang out. My can't talk about the movies?

Yes you can, but where you when you are ready

on a mission, right your mind is focused, you will

just like, how do I how do I select God

in a How do I bring Jesus into this conversation?

You know that that sense of urgency? How do I

show kindness and just say yeah? God lost you? Right?

Think about making disciples take on leadership? Whoa just on

high calling her old Terance was preaching at Tenity today

and he says, I know many of you, especially the

older ones. He say one, no, no, I say when

I caught him, the older ones like, oh yo yo,

I want to serve on me. I can't just serve,

but I don't want the title. I don't want the

leadership title. Then he said this, many of us are

scared because of the term leadership. But if we tell

you it's servanthood, what would you say to leadership? And

if you come on to one of the costs that

we do theology of leadership. Actually, leadership is a deeper

level of and we're scared of that because it means

a greater commitment. It means a greater Do you know

people will step on you when you're a leader, They

will use your name in vain, they will depend on you.

And you're like, I don't want all of that. That's

why we don't want leadership because of the responsibility. Right,

I don't know, do you really want to be a

follower of Jesus Christ? Do you want to? You have

to ask yourself that hard question because if you do,

can I guarantee you that there'll be more work? Can

I guarantee you that you'll be on your knees more? No, really,

you will be on your knees more, because why you

have all this lost ship? Right? And you can like

cry or God, I don't know how to disciple them.

But it's a privilege. It's a privilege because this is

how you grow. Do you know? Leadership has grown me

in ways. I was just talking to another colleague, right,

so she you know, she's talking about how she's able

to do so many things. Now, talk to people, and oh,

this is a clague of mind. She used to intern

at Air Asia. You know Asia, everyone can fly. So

she went in there intern for two months and did

something really simple like Google spreadsheet. And then the boss

that timer was like comm's boss, but she didn't know

nothing about organization. And so Yanye came and just say, oh,

you know, can we do something like that? And the

boss is like, wow, this is amazing, you know, and

they straightway offered her permanent job because they were like, wow,

how do you know all these things? Right? And she's

like church talking to new people, church leading here. Church.

Do you know this is training ground, friends, training ground,

really good training ground. No, because why when you make mistake,

they'll come in sion you and okay, so you got doubts,

I see raised eyebrows. Maybe they were loving lists, correct you,

but so that you become better, Church is an amazing

training ground, right, And so so she was saying that, wow,

you know, actually everything one of our corporate Yeah. So

she she used to be with ex clang. They've migrated,

but she works in the corporate. She's one of the directors,

you know, in a marketplace, really really high up there.

And she will just share at a board meeting. Oh

I learned this in church, serious one, you know. I

was like, whoa, you're so brave la, But she said, yeah,

all these principles, all these suggestions that I have, right,

I learned from church. So amazing, amazing that she would

really believe that God is the one who wants us right?

And why are we all there? Okay? Anyway, take on leadership,

community or missions. You understand this right? How can you

redeem your time from the lot? Okay, let's move on.

Let's move on to page forty one. Ill way, okay,

so far now line should have hit your stomach and

you're all slipper ready, right, need to do the jumping

jack and no, no, then you pinch your neighbor and

say stay away none if you want to hear that, no,

I can. Now I pinch yourself. Don't pinch your neighbor. Wait,

you get sued for something else? Now, okay, So broadly speaking,

I'm just gonna give you the big picture, right, do

you know that ex church ten twenty years in twenty twenty? Okay,

most of you will here more than five years A

you should know day is right we celebrate or twenty

Thier in twenty twenty and the time our vision, the

first twenty years of our church was to be let's

move on to the next line, significance of twenty years. Okay,

move move, move next one, next one. Oh, okay, before this,

let's go before this. Okay, you will see that the

first twenty years is Joseph. Yeah, Joseph the dream right,

because we knew that time past I had a lot

of dreams that God downloaded to him. And we'll always

joc you are the dreamer, so right, he has so

many dreams, right, even our vision this from lastly almost

his dream. D r e a m okay, but pass

the received from the Lord that the next twenty years

will be the vision. The vision now it's Daniel. Because

Daniel was in the marketplace, correct he serf? How many

kings for kings for kings? Were they Christians? No pagan kings?

And so God is telling us, as ex church, we

want you to go out into the marketplace. They are

non believers. It's okay. In fact, right, we're saying, can

you please be more out there in the marketplace? Right?

We don't need aw full time now of time already

save really right, what we need is effective evangelists who

will be out in the marketplace that will share the

good yos amen. All right, okay I'm saying this, but

if you have a calling for full time, please also

you know, listen to the voice of God. Okay. So

twenty twenty we had also the change of governments or

a lot of significance there. And what was clear as

we entered into a shift in twenty twenty one, we

had something called Eldo right ex Leaders a day out

and what was downloaded that time was all our huddles. Okay,

do you understand the concept of huddle? Yeah, I am

sure they have big conversations at your homes with your leaders.

Huddle is basically a discipleship system and structure in ex church. Okay,

we wanted to make sure all the huddles, all the

huddle members know that they are doing something. They're building

the part of the wall Corent. Now can you remember

which wall it was taken from nahe Maya when the

walls were ruined? And do you know that the Kingdom

of God, the walls are ruined. Why because the enemy comer,

The enemy comes to still kill and destroy. And you

know that many many Christians have been robbed true or not,

of their life, of their faith, of their hope in Christ.

And so the percentage of people leaving the faith is high.

Don't be comfortable, you know, because guess what. Any one

of us will be susceptible to that the temptation. Right,

because it's hard to be a believer. It's not easy.

I'm not painting to you an easy road to be

a disciple of Christ. You have to have some great friends. Yeah,

you know what greed is resilience because theys are evil,

It's gonna get tough friends. Okay, make sure every one

of the one thousand is accounted for. All Right, that's

the three things that you will see that I think,

go to the next light. Let's move on to the

next light, the next one. Okay, So this is the

key take away that we had in twenty twenty one. Right,

make sure every one of the one thousand that time,

in twenty twenty one, we already had thousand people. Okay.

Make sure there is a plan and focus on winning souls,

making disciples, producing leaders, and releasing Daniels into the marketplace. Okay,

Now I'm gonna read to you the scripture that is

taken from Emvisions, Chapter four, verse sixteen. Let's read this together,

right three two? One from whom the whole body join

and knet together by what every joint supplies, according to

the effective working by which every part does its share,

causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself

in love. What I mean There's a lot of words there, right,

but I want I want you to focus on is

this every part does it? Are you doing your share?

Think about it? Am I doing my share? And can

I say that doing my share is not just serving

it's one small part of it? Right? Our emphasis? And

I'm sure Eldo Ping who emphasized this, But it's always

about the lost? What is your share in ripping the loss?

What is your share? How many? How much share you won?

How much share do you want? Really? If you are

bold enough to ask God, I say, okay, God, give

me one soula this year twenty six, not boler But

let's start the allah. Can we just say God, no

matter what, I'm just gonna ask for that one soul first?

Can can all of us do our part? One soul?

A one soul? Is it difficult, very difficult? But can

be so into it we can the conversion God does

the sowing we do, friends, hovers is plentiful, but the

laborers are a plenty few. So don't pray about the harvest.

Pray for the laborers. Can you maybe even just say, Lord,

I have to pray for myself. I need that prayer,

not the loss. I need prayer to be bold enough,

to be courageous enough to say, God, souls for you

this year above anything else. You know why, because once

you birth thought that soul, you were automatically disciple one true,

not true not. I saw Ned this morning at family Martin.

I just asked him, Hey, so how are you doing, La.

It's okay, preparing for to welcome the addition to the

family because you know, right he's pregnant. He's pregnant with

his wife, of course, and you know, the Lord reminded

me of this soulce is actually the birthing process, you know,

the you know, that's what be called born again, born

again Christian, born again. It's like there's a birding part

to it. And so what we need to do many

of you are if you want children, if you are

already pregnant, you're like, oh, I need to prepare nine

months a hit, right, So can I tell your church

behind the season of preparation because the birding is gonna come.

And do you think you're gonna just gonna check your

baby or save radio or killer leave it aside? You

will survive when it's all babies are tough, no way, man.

In fact, you'll be like watching the baby, like how

twenty four hours? If there's thirty six hours, you will

also watch, right. And so that's how precious souls are.

That's how life giving souls are to a church. You

know there's a lot mtccre right, what can we do?

Are we praying every Sunday? Pray for a great worship experience? Yes?

But can we bring now the loss to the forefront

of everything that we do because you know, when you

stop praying for that guess what? Oh which, let's move on.

Let's move on to Let me just give you that

very very clear example. Okay, so we talk about this.

Let's let's move on to the table. The table. Yeah,

so table one God wants us to you know, God's diet.

God's diet is almost like saying, this is our interpretation,

ex church, this is our interpretation of how God wants

us to fulfill our purpose. Yeah. Can I say that

every church has a different diet, but for us is

the diet of Daniel, and Daniel is what do you

have to eat for ten days? How many of you

like vegetables and water? Oh? Nobody? Only Charles outside there

the rest of us. I'd rather die than eat vegetables

and water. Give me my meat and my protein. Okay,

but God says, no, live for ten days on vegetables

and water. That's the diet that God gave. And so

the diet that God gave us one level is to

fill the earth and have dominion. Correct. So this is

what God gave to pass the cannearth and so he

the daily break. The download from the Lord is too

may disciples, and that's what you know extra always repeat

this again and again Mat tw twenty eight. Right, So

this is the download that God has given us, and

we want to be faithful to it. Now, what is

our tithe? Our tithe is starting with what we have, right,

starting with you know, the talents that you have, starting

with the ten ring it that you have. We're not

asking for other things, okay, just what you have at

this point, Like, yeah, God, this is where I am,

this is who I am. I'm gonna start there, and

then you realize that you're gonna start having that discipline

to do something with what you have. We're not saying

do something with other people's money, do something with other

people's talent. That's not that's crazy, right, do something with

what God has given you. That's being faithful all right Now.

The second level is this because so God told us

one thousand times one thousand. Have you heard of this before? Noah?

One thousand times one thousand? Have you heard of this before? Oh? Noah? Okay,

So basically that's another sort of principle that God gave us.

Right now, many of you look at one thousand times

one thousand? What do you think? First? What's the first

thing that comes to your mind? Is it double friends?

One thousand times one thousand? It goes one million? Isn't

it one million? Mess? Correct on? So what you know

when this was downloaded by you know, by pussy Kenneth

and he shared it to the leaders, You're like, what

they means We're gonna be a church of one million people?

And you know how daunting that feels? Like? All of

you right now, if I say you got one thousand,

ringing your by account, gona one thousand ringgate golla most

of us lah, if you don't have the mine, let's

say let's start with that one thousand, and suddenly we

say okay, now we want to grow it too, one

million ringa in what what's your response to that? Whoa impossible? Crazy?

Even if I say all my coffee drinks, my expensive coffees,

I will never reach one million, true or not so.

But the thing is right. When people see that, the

Australia gets scared, like, oh what cannot be? Cannot be?

But what the spirit of this is. God is saying,

don't worry about the second one thousand, that one. I

will take care you focus on the first one thousand, boleta,

because guess what, you already have the first one thousand

partners in ex church back in twenty twenty one, and

right now we still have about thousand over partners thousand

and two thousand three. So God is saying, don't worry

about the multiplication, because only I can multiply true or not? Hey,

hello the five loose two fishes? Who did it? The

disciples Jesus. So he says, don't worry about the multiplication,

the feeding of the five thousand. Just bring to me

your five loaves and your two fishes, yet the one

you have or not God? La, do we have that

one thousand people? Not God? Nah? Hello, all of you

make up that one thousand, you know, So we are

in that one thousand. Pastors reminding us, take stop, don't

let all of this one thousand people that God brought

to us. Okay, it's not Kenna Chan who brought you.

It was God who brought you here. Right, It was

not by some amazing social ad that you are here.

It was God who led you here. And we as

the leaders want to say, God, we want to be

accountable for who you bring to us. We want to

accomfort and so that's why it was like that time

and now still the same four years Parsa, we're still

at the same number, two hundred and fifty leaders. Roughly

we have auto five leaders. But saying our tied to

God now is to say, each of you leaders, all

of you count right, every part that's his share. You're

going to account for the rest of the seven fifty

can or not? Hey Hello, it's all in your homes already.

Why hey? True or not? You know? Them by name.

They're not just a random number three hundred and sixty nine.

They are a name, Lindy, Their a name Elaine. There's

someone already account for, and God is saying, can you

just be responsible with who you already have and disciple them? Well,

make sure that they know the vision, make sure that

they are on the same page and together we're running. Man.

So the final one is the timer in twenty twenty one. Right,

you're saying, what if every partner reached one? Wha, we do.

All mets are linearly in. But Mets is not so

faith la. We were saying, well, if everyone bring one person,

one new soul by twenty thirty, twenty thirty, we will

have ten thousand people whoa right vision again, vision again,

remember the spirit, and our dream is to have ninety

percent new believers in men true not friends. We want

new souls, right, we want new souls. I mean enough

with the moving around. Just stick to one and just

say new souls. If there's someone to feel it, let

it be a new friend. Let it be someone who

will be born again into the Kingdom of God. Even

that's exciting her exciting. New body is always exciting. Okay,

So how do you do it? What's the discipline? You

see her? We can have great plans, but no discipline.

Eighteen days into January, did you all hit your goals yet? Nah?

All got great aspirations, right, but we lack discipline. We

all have good intentions. Can I see that we all

have good intentions. What we all like is discipline. Okay,

I'm just gonna leave it that. Let's move on. Let's

move on now. So to make it even more practical,

so we're talking about every Okay, So I'm gonna issue

your challenge. Would you commit to saying that you want

one new soul this year? Some of you say yes,

some of you say I'll think about it. Yeah, can

you put a name to it? Don't just say yes,

put a name to it, because when you put down

that name, you're technically saying God, I'm serious about this.

And what I'm gonna do is I am going to

ask you for ideas. How can I pray it for

this person? Give me an opportunity to meet with this person?

What can how can I meet he's or her need?

Be a real gospel in love? Right? How can I

be that true embodiment of the love of God? Hello.

The love of God is not just what you say,

you know. It's the one that feeds the tummy. It's

the one that cares for the soul. It's the one

that brings truth to the mind. Hello, that's the love

of God. That's the embodiment of Christ in each one

of you, each one of us. We gotta be the walking,

living expression of God's love. La. But that means we've

got work to do, friends, Yeah, we have work to do, right,

and a big investment is your time. Make it come,

like I said, redeem the time right, redeem, make it

useful again, don't make it a waste. I know of

many ways I can waste my time happily. Four hours gone. Happily,

I tell you so easy and then say, oh no,

my lie, I appreciate you. Right now, it's my time

to relax. There's time to relax. Friends, God will give

you rest. I believe that, but I also sense that

are you? But I just really do want to make

the next ten minutes comet more. Can I just drop

someone a text? I don't know this remembering at this,

do you know when you remember at this, then they

received you know? Actually, I've been thinking about you have

you ever received that before? Or actually, you know, I

really was at my lowest point and your text just

came in at the right time. Hello is the Holy Spirit, La.

When we are in line with the Holy Spirit, then

he causes us to do it like seemingly ordinary things, right,

very ordinary war text on me, and yet it can

mean the life and death to someone whoa friends. God

is not asking a lot from us, you know, he's

asking us, could you just carve out this time, this

intention to say God, from this time to this time,

I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna pray, I'm gonna intercede,

I don't know, pray for our nation. Our nation needs it.

Don't complain, just pray, La. How about that declare life

over it. You know there's a situation that it's like,

oh so challenging, so you know, so so full of prices.

Just bring God in. God, I'm gonna declare, I'm gonna,

you know, just now in ten thirty quick one and

quick testimony that we have new accunts, praise the Lord,

super cool, super col freezing Anther maybe was sitting She's like,

I cannot worship lot, I'm cramping. So she's sit in

front right, the price that you pay. As leaders are

sitting and Brooke called for everyone else. Then she's like,

I'm cramping, you know. And then she's like, I think

I better do I walk around, I move to the site,

and then I just felt by the Holy Spirit. I say, okay, elder,

maybe let's pray. Right. Isn't it like if you're in trouble,

ask God for help? So I just declared over I say, no,

this is a distraction from the Lord, so that you

cannot worship him, so that you cannot focus because all

these things right, well, this strike you, right, So I

just declared by fate and say, okay, we're gonna worship

God no matter what. By the end of the suy,

she's like, the pain is gone, the tightness is gone. Imen.

So friends, can I tell you this is real life working?

It's not. Wow. I'm like, God, thank you for the

bondness man, thank you for the faith, thank you for

the quickness to obey. You know, you could have just said, oh,

we'll pray about it and we all forget right. I

learn that delayed obedience. I appreciate this before the late

obedience is disobedience because God's want God wants us to

act then and there imen okay, I know my time

is up. My time is up. Thank you for your

patience with me. I just want to end with a

loving warning. Boleta, a loving warning. Okay, let's read this

from Luke chapter thirteen, verses six. Tonight. This is Jesus

sharing and teaching this parable. He says this. He also

spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree

planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on

it and found a lot none. Then he said to

the keeper of his vineyard, look for three years, I've

come seeking fruit on this victory and found none. Cut

it down? Why does it use up the ground? Whoa

Jesus saying, why yours wisa? I don't know what's gen

z tamla? Why are you so wasteful? La? I don't know.

Jesus is saying this, you know why does it use

up the ground? But he answered and said to him, sir,

let it alone this year also until I dig around

it and fertilize it, and eve it bears fruit. Well,

but if not, after that, you can cut it down.

Do you understand this paragol? Do you know that Jesus

as he had planted us wherever we are. Jesus is

the gardener, yeah, and he is expecting fruit. God is

expecting fruit. And as a church, we have to say, guys,

God wants fruitfulness out of our lives. He gave us

that life, and he wants an ROI. You know what

he invested in. He invested Jesus, his very own son,

The very greatest investment that God could give, he gave

to us. And so I don't know what is your

response to such a great investment into our own lives?

And I feel that automatically you just want to say, Oh, God,

out of that overflow, that abundance, I want to be

of use to you God. I want to be fruitful

for you. Right. Do you know that when he spoke

this to the Pharisees, actually he was targeting the Pharisees

because he said, you know what you have. You have Moses,

you have the scriptures, you have the prophets, you had

the law, but you missed it. We can easily miss it, friends.

We can have church structure, we can have everything the program,

and yet there was no fruit of repentance in our lives.

We would have missed it. We were really missed it friends,

and so lovingly, Okay, I come as the vignyard. Now

lovingly I say God, wait, hang on again, wait, wait

this one our friends. You are not waste of space.

You know they are not just using up ground. Let's dig.

Let's fertilize it a little bit with the word of God,

with the spirit of God, with prayer, with time, investment,

and evil bare fruit. Amen. But you see, the loving

warning is if not, if not, you can cut it down. Ouch.

It's a real ouch. Okay friends, you mean we are

at the danger of being cut down. It's a very

sobering thought. You know that I can be called a Christian.

But God is saying I don't know you. You didn't

do the works I asked you to do. You do

everything else, but you didn't do the very thing that

I wanted you to do. Amen. That those who have

not responded this last few years, you know, God is

still counting you in. God is counting me in. He

hasn't cut us off yet. That's why we still have breathma. Right.

The moment you know that you've been cut off is

when you ah bye bye. Okay. And even those who

have not been fruitful, if they are attending our church

and that's why you're here, and we lovingly want to

fertilize you. Friends, give them another chance, and if it

doesn't bear fruit, let them go their own way. I'll

invite the worship team on. Can I tell you that

everyone has a chance and a choice. This is a

second chance. Right, twenty five gone? Readyly it's okay? H

Is it okay? Friends? Twenty twenty five is gone, is dusted.

God is giving us this year. God is giving us today,

the very present moment. God is giving us today to say, God,

I think think I can make a difference. I want

to make that difference. You can hear all this, and

ultimately it is a personal choice, true or not. I

can't force this down you your throat. I can appreach

me all my heart, but the conviction happens in your heart.

By the Lord, Amen, let's send.

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