Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church-Part 4 | Pr Stephen Kong

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

We cook this message will light up your tea.

In session four, which is the plan. But before I

go any further, let us recap the vision of X Church. Okay,

and this is the big vision. Can anybody tell me

what's the big vision? Say loud, come on, have a

cook two fourteen. Okay, have a cook two fourteen. Maybe

can put the verse up. Let's all say this verse together.

Here we go one, two, and three. For the earth

will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Amen. So

this is the big vision of ex Church. Have a

cook two fourteen. If you forgot everything or anything we

said throughout the entire four sessions, make sure you at

least remember this. Okay, this is the big vision of

ex Church. For the earth will be filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters

cover the sea. That is what we want to see,

and that is what God has thought, that he is.

The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will feel

the earth. Every corner of the earth needs to hear

about the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord or

the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen. And another verse that

we also be kept in our homes is found in

Genesis chapter one, verse twenty eight. Okay, I'm going to

read it to you. It says, then God bless them,

and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply feel

the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish

of the sea, over the birds of the earth, and

over every living thing that moves on the earth. Okay.

So that is Genesis chapter one, verse twenty eight. And

of course we are saying that not just be food

for multiply in terms of physically with babies, but by

making disciples. Amen, by making disciples. But the keybord is

is to fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion.

Have dominion. And if you remember that we mentioned about dominion,

it speaks about influence, okay, is to have influence over

the earth. And in our case, is in Malaysia, okay.

Or if I can break it down even smaller, is

in some Mania. Okay, It could be in some Manya.

It could be in your marketplace, it could be in

your house, your family. You know, your school, your campus

is your classroom. Okay. If you break it down even

smaller and smaller and smaller. Okay, all right, So I'm

gonna now recap the part three okay, Part three which

is last week, which was done by Passor Ronson. And

so now we are preparing for the for the next

twenty years. Okay. How are we preparing for the next

twenty years? And he gave you five seas? You remember that. Okay.

If you open your book right now, you will see

the five seas there. Okay. Can you tell me what

the five seas? Conviction, condition, cooperation, community, and college. Okay.

So these are the five seas in which we need

to prepare for the next twenty years. Okay. So the

reason why we say twenty years because the first twenty

years was year two thousand to year twenty twenty, whereby

we were a Joseph Church. You remember that we were

Joseph Church. We were really dreamers back then. You know,

we had very little, but yet we dreamt a lot.

And you know, we were small, but yet God did

great things, you know, in and through our church. And

the next twenty years is the Daniel generation or the

Daniel Church, which is from year twenty twenty to year

twenty forty. Okay. So this is what you're referring to

about the next twenty years, the five seas. Okay, so

let me be kept quickly. Conviction speaks about what we

believe in, okay, what we believe in. And you may

have heard us say before that the vision is caught,

not taught. Okay. You gotta see it, you gotta believe it,

and you believe it by catching it, okay, because we

can't really teach it. You know, you can teach it,

you can. You may or may not understand it, but

you may walk away not believing it in it, and

you will not do you any good. But a conviction

is powerful when you actually believe it, and when you

actually catch it and see it being possible, you see

it done, you know. And a vision will never come

to pass if we do not believe, okay, if there

is no conviction okay. And that is why the motto

that we have in the extra is called helping people Believe.

Somebody say event helping people believe. And you actually can

find the motto at the back of the book if

you actually look at the logo behind okay. And that

is our motto okay, and sometimes you share it as

our mission, which is to help people believe. So that's

the first see conviction, we must believe in order to

see a vision come to pass event. The second thing

is this condition okay. Condition actually also means sensualized. So

we need to set a condition in which everyone needs

to be on the same page, okay, so that everyone

understands the same thing, we speak the same lingo, you know,

and so that we are on the same page. Because

if you look back in the Book of Judges, the

Bible actually says that everyone did what was right in

their own eyes. And even though that that sentence sounds

doesn't sound so bad. Right, everyone did what was right.

But did you know that right and wrong? It's very subjective,

you know. Did you know that in different generations, certain

kind of cultures may be right, but in Malaysia it

doesn't seem so right, you know. So where do you

define the moral standard? How do you define it? You know?

It's very subjective. Of course, you and I know that

we have the moral compass, which is the Bible that

is unchanging. It never never changes, right, It's it's immovable,

you know, And but for the world it's it's very subjective.

So we need to be on the same page. You know,

we don't want to have a church whereby everyone does

what is right in their own eyes, otherwise we will

get in trouble. So we need good condition. We need

to be sent for lives. Amen, there's a second sea condition.

The third sea is cooperation or another word for that

is commitment. So many, if you know, without corporation and

without commitment from everyone, we have nothing. We will go nowhere,

we can share all we want and share our hearts out,

but without cooperation and commitment we have nothing. A vision

is nothing without provision. Let me say that again. A

vision is nothing without provision. And I have to say

the provision that God has given us is people, people,

you and me. That's why we are part of this vision.

And we need to cooperate and commit to this vision

so that we can see the vision come to pass.

And what is the vision again? That the earth will

be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the

Lord as the waters cover the sea. So can you

see that every one of us here has a part

to play in this big vision. Amen. The fourth sea

is community. And you and I know that we are

not made as creatures to be solo. Right, None of

us love to be alone, even though some of us

are introverts. And even then, we still like to have

some friends now, right, you know, maybe we don't like

to have friends in a big circle, but you will

love having one or two very close friends one okay,

And I know someone's insurance may be maybe you know, smiling,

you know, and I was. I was also insured in

the past, but after being an access for almost fifteen years,

I would say I'm more extra worted now. We can change,

you know. But yeah, the point is we are not

made to be alone, to be solow. In fact, a

Bible actually says that it's not good that man should

be alone, you know that starting Genesis. Okay, So God

does not want us to move forward alone, but to

go together. We all need each other, do we we do.

We all need each other. I need you and you

need me. We all need each other. We need the

Lord in our lives. And you know that communication is

a big part of community. You know. We can only

understand each other or work together if we have good communication,

you know. And that's why we love having small groups,

because in small groups we have better communication. You know.

I always shay people. I love the power of the

small groups, because in a small group setting in homes,

you should know that we get to have two way conversations.

Did you know that? But in a church setting, very

seldom we get a two week complication unless I come

down to you and give the maac to you and

ask for a response, which is unlikely to happen. Right.

So that's why we believe in the power of the

small and so as the saying, if you want to

go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far,

go together, right, And so we need community in order

to go far together and to see the vision come

to pass. Even the fifth CE is college or another

word for that is training. Okay, training, uh, And we

want to emphasize on our training like never before. I

think that is why you have noticed that we started

to do a little more teaching in our Of course,

we did our fewers get away in our in our

messages because we believe in the power of training that

even as we are equipped, we will be effective witnesses,

effective laborers for him. Amen. Okay. And so how do

we make disciples? There are three ingredients for us to

make disciples, and they're all in letter f's Three f's Okay,

as you can tell, our past academy's very good with

the wordplay. Let me change my again. Okay, all right, okay,

So what is Mike? Sounds different now, okay, okay, all right.

So the three ingredients to make disciples are found in

three f's. The first F is follow me. Okay, follow me,

And so we know that discipleship is not a program. Okay,

listen to this discipleship. It's not a program, but it's

about following people. In fact, if you look at the Bible,

even the disciples who follow Jesus saw how he thought,

saw how he prayed, so how he ministered to people,

and that's how they learned, right, because they followed Jesus closely.

In fact, he had an inner circle, if you if

you read it carefully, you or not he had an

inner circle. There was certain miracles that he only brought

a few people with him the inner circle. You know,

I think it was Peter, James and John and a

few other miracles. He brought some of the inner circle.

But really the disciples learn by watching him closely. Okay,

they didn't sign up for a program, they didn't sign

up for a course. But it's about follow me. That

me is a person which is Jesus Christ, and of

course in our church today is a past us right

or your leaders. So as even as we imitate Christ,

you also should imitate us. So that is what the

first ingredient that we need, which is follow me. The

second one is to feed my sheep. And so our

role and our responsibility is to continue to feed our sheep,

those under our care. That is what is my role,

you know, that's what we as leaders, we are tasked

to do. And then we need to continue to feed

our sheep. And I pray it you will also receive

your daily break from the Lord you know, and not

just wait to be fed in church. Because if you

only wait to be fed in church on a Sunday morning,

I would say to you, it's not enough. Uh. And

I pray that you will continue to read your word

and also uh to to receive your daily bread every

day on your own at home. Amen. And the third

elf is to be vicius of men. And the way

how I understand this is to simply practice what we

have learned, right, because we don't want, we don't ever

want to be spiritually fed. Okay, whereby we hear the

word so much it comes into into into our into

our minds, our soul, our spirit, but we don't exercise it,

you know. And you know that the Word of God

says that faithor that works is so we've got to

exercise it. You know. How do you know that you

really have faith unless exercise it, right, And so we

want to be viciures of men, and that is why

discipleship has this team called do and teach, do and teach.

Sometimes the world can get it mixed up. They tend

to teach and then do. But in actions, we believe

that the man came before the manual. Let me say

that again, the man came before the manual. So we

have to do first, and in our doing we learn

how to do it as the Lord teaches us by

his grace, by his Holy Spirit, and then we manualize

it so that we can pass on from one generation

to another. That's why it's called do and teach, Do

and teach. And so the summary of the mission of

discipleship is simply this, and you can find in a book.

It is to always give only our best to God.

Somebody say amen, always and only give our best to God.

That is what we truly believe. Is the heart of

discipleship in our church. And that's why you always hear

us say to you and to me, you know, give

only your best to God in whatever you do, not

just on Sunday, not just in church, but even your

in your classroom, in your marketplace, in your in your workplace,

in your families at home. That's that's how we can

be a Daniel generation, to be ten times better. Amen.

It is when we always give our best and to

the Lord. Amen. And so I'm gonna now move into

part four, which is the part of supposed to cover today.

And so the question that is posted there in the

book is this, So what makes this different? Okay? You've

heard us share about this discipleship for many, many times, right,

for many weeks. Maybe if you've been an extra long enough,

it's not the first time you're hearing about discipleship. And

so the question is what's the difference, right? What makes

this different from the other? And these next three questions

is what makes it different? The first question is what

is God saying to you or to me? What is

God saying? Okay? And what is God saying speaks about

our conviction? Okay? Even as God speaks to you and

to me, we've got to hear the voice of God.

We've got to believe it and got to we've got

to keep it in our hearts. So that's the first part,

what is God saying to us? Right? And secondly is

to hear what your leaders are saying to you? Okay?

Of course there are blanks in your book, right, But

there's no specific answer to that. Okay, So I know

some of you are telling me in like what's answer?

So there's no specific answer to it. You can write

whatever you you felt let to write, okay. The second

question is what is or what are your leaders saying

to you? And that's a condition because as your leaders

download from the Lord, or I use the example as

pass the kennel downloads from the Lord, he has got

to give us conditions, right, He's got to set the

church on a path, on a direction towards where God

is leading us as a church. Right. And so that's

the second question to you, what is your leaders saying

to you? And the third part I find is very important.

Of course, the first part is the most important what's

God saying to you? But the third part is very

important to you and me, which is what are you saying.

The reason why that is so import is because that

speaks about our part, our commitment, our cooperation. What are

we going to do about it? Because the word of

God will always demand a response. And every single time

we hear the word of God being preached, you know,

whether on a Sunday or whether it's to a quiet

time that the Lord downloads into your spirit, to your

daily break, the word of God always demands the response.

And the question is what are you saying about it?

Because it's not just about knowing what God is saying

or what the leaders are saying to you and not

having anything to say, you know. And so I've seen

I've said in many of the vision castings with Pasa

Kenov in our top leadership, and when he shares you know,

a vision or a direction, he will always pause at

the end of it, and for half an hour, for

a good half enough, right, he will ask this question

to the top leaders right now, I want to hear

some feedback. I want to hear some feedback, and in

then half an hour, right, you get to hear leaders

to respond back to Pasta Kenough saying that, yes, past

I I resonate with that, or I hear you or

I've been reading the world and I also send this

leading in the same direction and you get a response, right,

And that is where I find it. A vision becomes

powerful because it is not just shared to the people,

but you actually get a response back. What are you

actually feeling, what are you actually hearing? You know, and

what is your response to it? Maybe someone words can say, yes,

come on, pasta, I'm ready to run with it, you know,

let's go. How high do we jump? You know? How

far do you want me to run? You know? Or

maybe some words someone are saying no, like I'm not ready,

maybe I need more time, or maybe past can you

explain further what you mean by dad? You know, maybe

I don't understand this part. You know, it's important for

us to have a response. It's important for us to

know whether are you running with a vision or not?

Are you with us? Are you on board with the vision?

Because if you look at the scripture, there is a

story in the Bible whereby Jesus turned to his disciples

and asked his discipers, who do they say I am?

You know, you remember that the scripture or the passage.

It's found in Matthew chapter sixteen. Get write it down.

It's not in your book, Matthew, Chapter sixteen, verse thirteen

to sixteen. I'm going to read it to you, okay.

When Jesus came to the region of Cicia Philippi, he

asked his disciples, saying, who do men say that I

the son of Men am? So they say, some say

John the Baptist, some Elijah, others Jeremiah and one of

the prophets. And he said to them, Esus are. Jesus

said to them, but who do you say I am?

Come on, do you see that? But who do you

say I am? Jesus was not satisfied with the answer

of what other people say who he is, although it's

a good answer, sounds like sounds like a good answer,

but it's not satisfied the answer. The question is who

do you say I am? There it was the powerful

part when Simon Peter answered and said, you are the Christ,

the son of the Living God. Did you see the response?

What a powerful response. And Jesus actually said to him

that men and fast did not reveal this to you,

but God himself, you know. And there's the power in that.

So the question to you and to me is what

are we saying? What are you saying? You know, the

success of a vision. It's not just knowing what God

is saying to us. It's not just knowing what the

leaders are saying to us. But what are we saying

in return? Even as we hear the vision? Are you

catching something this morning? Amen? What are we saying to

the vision? So I encourage you. I pray it. Everyone

here will say, yes, Lord, we catch the vision. We

want to see the whole field with the knowledge of

the glory of the Lord. Help us, Lord help me.

I may not have enough. I'm very small, I'm fearful,

I'm worried. But Lord help me, Lord help my unbelief.

But at least we are moving forward. Amen. At least

we agree with the vision. At least we believe in

the vision. At least we are running with the vision. Amen.

So the next part is very important. It is the

tree els that we're gonna talk a lot about today.

The three l's are this, the lost, the leaders, and

the eleven. Okay, those are the blanks that you can

feel in the lost first one, the second one is

the leaders, and the third one is the eleven. Okay,

those are the three l's. That you can feel in

in the blanks. So the first one is this the loss.

The vision of ex Church has always been about the loss.

Listen to this. It's not been about having a big

sound system or big lights, or big stage or big equipment,

having a private jet. You will find that ex Church

is not none of that. Okay. In fact, all of

our church services, our systems are very basic. Okay, I

will say we are blessed, very very blessed by the

grace of God. But we don't have very elaborate systems. Okay,

many of our systems actually some whatever even we see

from others for free, you know, people give to us

things like that. Yeah, Gary's pointing at the drums. The

drums came from our favorite service in Subang Jaya. And

if a service needs uh you know or I wrong? Right?

You know? You wrong? Yes, you wrong? Yeah, I think

part of the jums came from Irong. Actually he he

gave to us, shipped all the way from East Malaysia, right, yes,

shifted all the way from East Malaysia. I don't, I don't.

I don't know how much it costs. I think it

gave me like curtains, you know, big curtains. Yeah, so

it's a combination of his set together with our church set,

and we've got our church drum set going around. You know.

If a Cyberga needs to say, we send his head

over to them. If Kneli needs to set, we sent

one set to them. You know. So again, the whole

point is that it's not about how big, how grand

our church is. Listen, the vision has always been about

the lost. And I remember this saying, you know, but

I think it was Whinehart Bonk you say this. If

the church does not reach the lost, we are lost ourselves.

Think about it, and that's the very mission and the

reason why the church exists. It is to reach the

laws and thens why I need you to understand why

sometimes our church spends a lot of money on missions.

We spend a lot of money on planting churches. We

spend a lot of money on sending missionaries abroad. You know,

it's not easy and not cheap to plant churches in London, Like,

no one in the right mind will plan the church

in the currency that it's five times their size, no one.

But we don't do it for fun, and no, we

do it because there's a call of God. In our

lives on our church. We are our church planting church.

We are a movement, and our goal is to spread

the gospel as far and as wide as we can,

and that we believe that every street and every corner

must have a church. I don't think so. We can

ever have too many churches. I don't think so, because

if the entire militia comes to church, we don't have

enough churches. I think there's a lot of room. There's

plenty of room. We believe it. So remember the vision

has always been about the lost. And by the way,

in your book, there's one line that says everyone can

be a leader. You can actually cross out the line.

It's not meant to be there. There was a there

was a typing error. That line is supposed to be

in the next point. Okay, so just for your information,

you can cross out the line everyone can be a

leader under the lost item. Okay, all right, Okay. The

second point is the leaders. We need the leaders to

rise up, and we truly believe that every single person

here can be a leader. Event they believe that event

not very convincing because maybe you're scared of shicking or

when I don't think so, I can you're a leader.

But really, I believe that everyone can be a leader.

In fact, you and I we are already a leader

in one capacity or another, because you heard me say

that we we first need to lead ourselves. The fact

that you are in church today, you had to lead

yourself out of your bit and to come to church.

You made a choice, you made a decision to be

in the house of God. And so in one way

or another, you're already a leader of yourself. And we

can only lead others when we have first led ourselves.

Does that make sense right? So I believe that we

all have the capacity to be a leader. You know, leaders,

I don't think they're born per se. You know, it

can be raised, It can be raised and betraying now

to be a leader, and we already have one thousand

people in our church, we do, and I believe that

every single person of this one thousand people should be

a disciple, not just a disciple, but eventually a leader

to raise another disciple after them. Amen. So we need

every leader to rise up. And if you're not yet

the leader, I want to encourage you to be willing, uh,

you know, to be to be open. You know, we

have a lot of trainings these days for leadership, and

of course first of all to be disciple and eventually

to be raised as a leader, because we need every

available hand and leader that we need to see this

vision come to pass and man, so the leaders need

to rise up. And the third one is this, It

is the eleven, the eleven. Jesus said this. The Kingdom

of Heaven is like leven. Of Heaven is like leven.

And so leven, right is when you you know, you

know what leven is when you put if if for

those of you who are bakers, but you know what

this really is. When you put eleven or years into

the door, it begins to rise, right, it begins to rise.

And just picture leven like a force, you know, or

like a like a push, you know, whereby we need

some discipline or we need some some movement or some

reaction to cause the door to rise. And this, you know,

without the leaven, the door will not rise, and you

may just get flat bread. I don't know what do

you call it? Is that correct? Okay? Okay, oh okay, okay,

that's that's what you get. I didn't know that. So apparently,

according to the Liners, if you don't put leven you

get uh you know, and sometimes you and I our

lives are like that.

Uh.

We we are made of We are creatures of comfort,

you know. We we tend to lace a lot. We

we tend to be lazy. I'm not sure where you're

like that, but I am like that. You know, after

a long day on a Sunday, right when I go

back home, we can ask my wife. I'll be on

the couch, right, I'm just like flat, I want a couch.

I'm on a couch. And I'm like, I will just

kof for like I don't know, half an hour, one hour,

because if I when I gave my best one hundred

percent in church, right I go back. I'm just I

just knock off, you know, and so and and and

sometimes on on on a daily basis. But also like that,

we tend to be lazy, right because we are creatures

of comfort. And so Leopard gets the disciples and he

just kicked out of their comfort zone. You know. That's

what the says, you know, send out laborers into the

harvest field. Send out labors into the harvest field. I'll

give you the scripture later because it is on the

later part. But did you know that word send out

labors into the harvest field actually means kicked out, kicked

out or another word is pushed out. You know, if

we if we actually use that word in church, you

may leave church. If I kick you out though another

church ran to plan at church, we may leave church.

But did you know that's actually what the word means.

I'll show you later, okay, because I don't want to

jump my head of the notes. Okay, barby me. I'll

come to that again. Okay. So the secret to real

growth is radical obedience to God. The secret to real

growth is radical obedience to God. I must say, in

the past twenty years of ex Church, the past twenty

years past, the cannel and the leadership ex Church have

always built the foundation of Exchurch on these three radical things.

Number one radical obedience, Number two radical unity, and number

three radical generosity. How have you know without radical obedience,

a vision will fail if you'll not come to past.

And when I look back at the history of ex Church,

I really do believe that we have radicals because we

have planted wherever and anywhere that God has called us

to plan only by obedience. And I've always thought about

this point you know, how many of you know that

we are called to live a medical life of Jesus Christ,

and I always wrestle. We just thought sometimes on my

own or when I when I discuss my wife, you know,

when we wake up early in the morning and travel

one hour away for worship service and then travel back,

and sometimes we have this random conversation or we were

discussed by saying, you know what there, how I wisha

if you could just leave some normal life. I wonder

whether it's not of my leadership asked the question before.

They're not in their hates, So I asked the question

for no, I wonder if I can just leave a

normal life. And then I realized in my quiet time,

and then the lort ministers to me, and also when

I talk to my wife, I realized one thing, you

know that God didn't I should say, Jesus didn't come

to the earth to die on the cross, so you

and I can live a normal life. Think about it.

We are not called to live a normal life, because

even the scripture says we are called to be more

than overcomers, more than conquers. Doesn't look like a normal

life to me, and you will only experience the more

than overcomer, the more than conquers, when you really live

your life by faith, when you live a life radically

in obedience to Him. And so I say, Lord, thank

you Lord, that I'm able to live radically for you.

But one of my prayers, my deepest prayers, I always

ask God, Lord, the journey is not easy. I pray

for grace to run the marathon race until he's finished. Amen,

to run until he's finished. Because as I sit with

some of my other Okay, I see my boss. My

boss is a so a Christian. He's the chairman of

hair Guy International. If you know, hey guy, that's that's

my boss. Uh. So, he likes to sit down with

me and we like to talk talk about faith. We

talk about faith in the office, you know. Uh And

here then tell me, you know, like, remember it's a marathon.

It's not a spin race. And I see, yeah, I

remember that. I remember always all the time. It's not

a spin race. So help us lot, help us lot,

help all of us. Hear an experts to live a

radical life. Listen to me, not as a spin race,

but as a marathon. By God's grace, You'll be able

to do it. Amen, Radical obedience. Without obedience, a vision

will fail. Without obedience of vision will fail. Radical obedience

number two, radical unity. We need to unite like never before.

An extra has been to his ups and downs. Whereby

we have some challenges. Whereby they were gossip, they were

bad things, they were said about us. You know, the

church had to not to say split. But we had

some people who left, you know. But we always remind

the church to guard the unity like never before, because

if you give a foothold to the enemy, the enemy

were attacked from the inside and where and when the

attacks on the inside is the worst. It's the most painful.

Medical generosity and I really really believed that act Church

has verdical generosity. You know, we built this church starting

with campus students. And if you've been in the Actress

long enough, I still remember the early days. Uh did

you know a fun fact? Right the chance that you're

sitting on right now, Actually many of the chairs were

sponsored by campus students. Fun factor. In the early days

of our church, we didn't have money, no money, right,

most we had got we had faith. And so when

we had to start a church, when we had a

bigger building, bigger space, we needed to raise money to

buy chess, and we had this program called buy a

seat s e A t I buy a seat by

a child or buy a seat right, and we encourage

every person to buy your own seat in church. First

of all, buy your own seat first, and if you

can afford it, if you have extra, buy another seat

for someone else. So that's what happened in the early

days campus students, and of course those days church was

very very young. A lot of campus students, many campus

students that you was seat that here today gave to

the cost and so the very chair you're sitting on

is a miracle of that campus students with verdical generosity

who gave unto the Lord and bought a seat for

themselves and for others. Praise the Lord. That is what

brought us to the last twenty years. But friends, we

cannot stop there. You need to keep moving, right, So,

these are the requirements for the next twenty years of growth,

Radical ideas, radical initiatives, and radical implementation. That's the word

you need to write down, verdical implementation. This is what

we need for the next twenty years of growth, radical ideas.

And another word for that in record is daily bread.

Because we can continue to do all we want in

our human wisdom, and we won't grow. We need godly ideas,

so we need to download from the Lord ideas, radical

ideas through our daily break as the Lord leads our

church moving forward. And the second part is verdical initiatives

and is the part that we give back and to

the Lord. So we call it esther Tithe, the tithe.

I pray you will come next week because next week

in the part three there is a part whereby it's

going to be on the power of the Type. And

it's really really very powerful if you can really please

don't turn it now, look at it later. But next

week we're gonna talk about the power of the Type.

And this is the verdical initiated whereby this is our

part that we give back onto the Lord, even as

we download from the Lord radical ideas and our daily break.

This is the part where we upload and give it

back on to the Lord, to our tithe. And the

third one is our radical implementation, which is eleven, nothing

will come to pass. And as you and I take

action and put our hands and our works to the

and our hands to the plow, nothing will come to

pass until and unness, we implement the vision. And so

we're gonna go back to the three l's that I

spoke about earlier. Remember to year by the three els.

The challenge to our vision in these three ls. The

greatest challenge to our vision is that we cannot achieve

it without winning the lost. Did you hear that? Let

me say it again. The greatest challenge to our vision

is that we cannot achieve it without winning the lost,

lots of them. Because the Church is not here in

Malaysia just to serve the ten percent. What I mean

by the ten percent is that if you look at

the stats today, the Christian population makes up about ten

percent in Malaysia. According to the census. That's always about

twenty twenty one, I think, Okay, sometime back it's about

nine point two percent roughly. If you round it up,

it's about ten percent. And by the way, more than so.

I think it's East nature makes up majority of it, Okay.

Easplanation has more than fifty percent, okay, of Christian population.

We didn't Inspilacia itself their majority. Okay. So the point

is this, the Church is not here to look after

the ten percent. Come on, I pray it as believers, right,

we will learn how to take ownership of our own

faith because the responsibility of the church is to eleven

the ninety percent that has not hurt the gospel of

Jesus Christ. And that is why you and I as believers,

we need to be equipped, We need to be trained,

and we need to be raised as leaders so that

we can be elevened and forced and kicked out of

our comfort zone to do what God has caused us

to do. You see, even Jesus himself knew exactly what

was his purpose and mission on earth. Luke Chapter nineteen,

verse ten says, for the son of Man has come

to seek and to save that which was lost. So

Jesus had thirty three years on earth to be exact,

and he knew exactly what was his purpose. What was

his mission which is two sick and save the loss.

And if we are his disciples, that very mission of

Jesus Christ should also be ours, which is to seek

and save the loss. So I pray that it will be

re aligned to that. So here had asks, we also

know it as the fifth w And what is the

fifth w? Weaitness? The fifth dou w is witness, that

is the is the part whereby we need to shift

our gear in this year to witness more than ever before,

to create a momentum, and to push forward so that

we can see the vision come to pass with nurse

amen witness. So remember this is the greatest challenge in

our vision, is that we can't achieve it without winning

the loss and many, many, many of them. And I mean,

I'm pleased to share with you that we actually have

quite a number of salvations last year in so manyay

I think it was three salvations and maybe about four

or five dedications in so many itself. Praise the Lord,

and you want to you want to win more souls

for Jesus, Amen. And there's our mission to win more

souls for him, hallelujah. The second els is leaders. The

second greatest challenge is that we can't do it without eleven,

which is the sending out or another word for it

is the leaders or laborers. What does the scripture say

about this? Matt threw Chapter nine, verse thirty seven says,

then he said to his disciples, the harvest fully is plentiful,

but the laborers are feel Therefore, pray the Lord of

the horvest to send out laborers into the harvest. What

does the scripture say, pray the Lord of the house

to send out labors into the horvest. And the word

here send out actually means actually in Greek is eg balow.

Somebody say egg balow, and eg borlow actually means to

drive out, to cast out, to expel, to draw out

with force. Well, did you know if I use those

words in church right, someone words may leave church. But

that's what it actually means. You know, if you're gonna

look back at the Greek word blow to drive out,

and the scripture is very clear, know that God never

asked right to pray for the harvest. You should know that.

What did the scripture say, pray for the horvest? No,

the scripture actually starts by saying the harvest is plentiful,

but the labors are few. And then the pray becus comes,

you know, pray the lot of the hours to send

out lay borders. Come on, say to your feet. While

now I'm a laborer, I'm a labor for Jesus Christ.

The scripture says, pray the lot of the hours to

send out labors into the horvest. It didn't say pray

that the hours were coming to the church think about it.

And so the second greatest challenge to our vision is

that we can't accomplish it without having labors and leaders

who are willing to be leavened. And the word leaven

again is to is to rise right, is to rise out,

and to be sent out. Send out is to be

driven out, to be cast out, to be pushed out

into the harvest field as laborers for him. How many

of us here would say that we are ready for that?

Come on, I paid our spirit will be quickened, then

we'll be ready. And so if you look at page

page thirty or thirty two, page thirty two in a book,

that word is laborers. The problem has never been with

the harvest by the house does We were never taught

to pray for the harvest, but to pray for the laborers.

Come on, I'm looking at a whole bunch of laborers

in this room right now. You and I we are

part of this vision. Amen. God has counted us part

of this vision that we want to see come to pass. Amen.

The third one is eleven. And the third greatest challenge

is that we can't do it without eleven, which is

a sending out Romans Chapter ten verse thirteen to fifteen

in page thirty two. Let's all read these together. One two,

and let's go. For whoever calls on the name of

the Lord shall be saved. How then, shall they call

on him in whom they have not believed? And how

shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?

And how shall they hear without a preacher? How shall

they preach unless they are sent? As it is written,

how beautiful out of feet of those who preach the

Gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things. Amen.

So if you're if you want to have good feet

or beautiful feet, be a preacher, be a labor to

be sent out. Amen. And so this is another way

of you know, of writing as a labor is to

be sent out. That's why we see in this verse,

how shall they preach unless they are sent? And did

you notice that this word sent actually in Greek is

a postelo, a postelo which means to send forth or

the away, or to send out on a mission. That's

what it means to be sent. Fourth, all right, the

next part is leven is the discipline, that is what

you need to write in a book. Leven is the discipline.

You know, even as we are laborers, it takes a

lot of discipline, because leven is very much in the doing,

you know, and in the doing we will need a

lot of discipline. And that's why the scripture in first

Covindence nine, verse twenty six day is therefore I run

thus not the uncertainty. Thus I fight not as one

who beats the air. But I discipline my body. Come on,

I discipline my body and bring it into subjection. Less

when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

So the leaven is the discipline. Eleven is the discipline,

and the next point we're also say eleven is the doing,

because in the doing you and I will need a

lot and a lot of discipline in order for us

to continue to be effective laborers and leaders to be

used by God. Amen. So leven is the discipline, leven

is the doing, and the doing is simply this the execution.

Every vision will only come to pass if there is execution,

if there is implementation. We need to execute the plan.

We need to implement the vision. And how many of

you know, the more we continue to implement the vision,

we will gain traction. We will gain momentum, we get

better at doing something. For example, if you have never

shared the gospel to a free believer before, I encourage

you to try it because that will truly challenge you

how much you really know about the gospel. When your

friends ask you more questions, you know, and the more

you do it, you get better. It did, right, It

makes sense, So we continue again. Momentum, we gain a habit,

we gain custom and culture, and momentum is the ingredient

to miracles. Let me say that again. Momentum is the

ingredient to miracles. Even as we continue to pray and

continue to do keep on doing it again and again

and again, we will continue to see God's miracles everything

in our lives and the many things you do in church.

Right that we have done it and it's become a culture.

I give you some examples. You hear us saying, oh,

yes and amen's doing the message. Amen. You know, I

remember in those early days right in our church, we

use we used to have a lot of excitement. We

used to do those play cards, and we have the

yes and amen preach it faster. You know, I remember

what else are there? Or what what's fabulous? You know,

so on and so forth right, And the reason why

we do it is because we are claiming the word

for ourselves. We say yes, not I believe it. Yes,

and amen, I believe it. You're claiming the word for yourself.

And it creates excitement in church. And that's why we

say in the ext church is we are never a

day church. You know you will find it. We have

a lot to celebrate about. And your excitement is contagious

because when other people who are new coming to our church,

they realize that we're very exciting. We're very exciting people,

and we're excited but things of God. Amen. And I

prayed that this culture will continue to go on for many,

many years and generations to come. Amen. Remember that there's

the reason why we do it. And so may our

practices become momentum, become habit, become customs. If we do

it time and time and time again, it's a discipline.

Imagine the day when witnessing, soul, winning disciple making leader

for using Daniel releasing becomes momentum, habit, culture, and custom.

That's where God wants to get us too. That's where

he wants to position us. That's getting our house in

order as rebuilding the walls and hanging up the gates.

That's what we want to leave for our next generation.

That's the road to twenty thirty. And that is twenty thirty.

And by the way, this sentence of this phase that

was said or written was given in twenty twenty one.

We're in twenty twenty six. No and Friends has never changed.

It is still the same vision. We're still on the

road to twenty thirty. When I watched this video's twenty

and one, No, and we are still preparing towards twenty

thirty twenty thirty. So the last part for today is

the implementation part. Now you may be wondering, right, you're

talking a lot about plans and making disciples, but you

haven't gone to numbers. Don't worry, You're getting into it

next week, okay, next week, next week almost there are

some numbers, okay, and some plans they need to write down. Okay.

So this is the last part for today, which is

the implementation. And another way to write it is God's diet.

God's diet. Now, if you read the Book of Daniel,

you will realize that Daniel and his three fans, Micheck

and I've been a goo. They lived on vegetables. They

refuse to take on the delicacies or the king's delicacies.

But they lived on vegetables and water for ten days.

They say to the kings, na try us for ten days,

you know, and just feed us, just vegetables and water.

And if you read the scripture, you will know that

they were found to be better. Oh, I think the

scripture says fatter. Wow, so you want to be fatter? Apparently,

eat vegetables. Okay, stronger and fatter. You know. They became

stronger and fatter as they lived on vegetables and water

for ten days. And this is what God wants to

once as to fulfill our purpose. This is the way

how God wants to fear a purpose. It's used to

live on God's diet. To live on God's diet. So

now allow me to break down God's dialectically as as

I close number one, which is daily bread, which is

the radical ideas you heard me say earlier, daily bread.

Make a list now, even as download FM the Lord,

make a list. Write down who you want to reach

out to, who God has put on your heart right now,

a friend that you have lost touch with, that you

may need to reconnect. You know, you can do it

at home or any other time. I think there's small

space in your book and the pages behind. But make

a list, even as you do a quiet time, as

you read the word, cause you receive a daily break

down from the Lord, make a list. The second one

is tithe, which is our initiative, make a commitment. This

is our upload to the Lord. And even as you

have made a list, you said to the Lord Lord,

this is all the time I have, this is all

the money I have, this is all the energy I have.

I want to make a commitment to see it come

to pass. This is my tithe. This is my upload

to the Lord. Remember from the Lord. First, make a list,

and then we play and set it as a commitment

and we upload back to the Lord. And the third

one is eleven, which is the implementation. Make it count.

Make it count. Another word for that is accountability. Accountability

and to make it count is to really get our

hands dirty, to get down to it, to really do it.

You know, where the rubber meets the road, you know,

and malay we call it. You know, just just do it.

Come on, get your hands dirty, make it count. And

the word accountability has the word count in it. That's

why it says make it count. We want to be

accountable for all the time and the resources that God

has given and trusted us with. Amen. The five steps

of God's dire is this, Make a list who want

to reach out to hoo on the disciple, who do

on invite? Number two, make a comedy mon pray about

the list, commit it to the Lord, tipe it to

the Lord. Number three, make it count. We live live

by the power of the tithe Again. We'll share that.

More about that next week. I pay you'll come and

join us next week and before make time to help others.

And number five, make sure you always remember the vision

so that we don't get distracted. And I remember that

the vision is always about the lost. It's not about us,

but it's about the lost. Amen. Allow me to recap

as I finished my last leap, my last lap thirty

more seconds. Vision is the vision is to have dominion

the last like okay, vision is to have dominion. Vision

is for us to have dominion, to subdue the earth,

to have influence, for the earth to be filled with

the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. That's the

vision and how do we get there to make disciples?

We get there. Our mission is to make disciples. The direction,

what do we want to be like Daniels? That's a direction.

What do you want to be like Daniel's to be

ten times better? To carry God's spirit in us with

the excellent spirit. The focus is diet, God's diet. We

can only accomplish this if we have focused and if

we take on God's diet. That's the only way we

can run and fulfill this vision. And last but not least,

it will cost us, and that cost is discipline. It

will cost us discipline, much discipline to run this race

and this vision to see it come to pass. Amen, hallelujah.

You know, I really believe there's a Lord shared today,

even in such a short time. But I pray that

you will catch something this morning, that all of us

are part of this big vision and this big, big

plan that God has for ex chearch, for you and

for me. Amen.

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