Unpacking The Vision Of Acts Church Session 5 | Pr. Kenneth Chin

You're listening to a Message to Go from X Church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

Theme revival for twenty and twenty six by going back

to what was shared in twenty and one, so.

That everyone, not just my leaders, but.

Everyone in ex church will understand, we'll be able to

We call it the Unpacking Series, So we want to

unpack the vision with you, unpack the mission of this

church with you, so that we can understand it.

And when we understand it, we can.

Undertake to do the will of God in and through

and for this church.

We're all still on the same page, all right, So.

Let's if you have this booklet, you can go ahead

and turn to page number thirty nine. I believe it's

part five, the second last part of this Unpacking series.

For those of you who are new, you.

Can get the videos that I think was has been

recorded already. Emptyg's right, there should be at least four

mptgs now, EMPTG just means message to go. You know,

we've got burgers to go, we've got French fries to go,

we've got milkshake to go. So I thought to myself,

why not have message to go as well? Which will

really encourage you more than French Fries could ever do.

So message to go.

Four messages now in the last four weeks will have

the four parts. Then of course today we will record

the fifth part and so you can watch all five parts,

but you know, probably within a week or two, and

I think we will put up the QR code at

the end of this service so that you can QR

and get the other messages, so that you can if

you're new, if you're not new to this church, that

you would have known already what we've been talking about. Now,

can I just very quickly review some things with you? However,

if you remember the tree, l's the tree else.

Is is this? Or ah? These excuse my English? The

three ls? Are these? The loss, the leaders, the eleven.

So I've just got to review with you so that

you understand and you can follow part five easily. So

so we have this vision that includes numbers, numbers of

souls saved, numbers of disciples made.

And uh again I want.

To just remind you that all that was shared in

the last four Sundays and uh. Part of what was

shared was that the challenge to this vision, the challenge

meaning to say that what could stop this vision from

happening is three l's or the lack of tree ls,

meaning to say that the first L is lost, the

loss right once said before that the church that does

not reach the lost is lost it's health. So the

loss is very important in seeing the vision of X

Church come to pass. We will not get to the

ten thousand people, we will not get to the many

churches planted. Now we are in eleven countries EX Church

including Malaysia, and I think the latest count is about

sixty churches around the world. By the grace of God,

we give him all the glory. But what God is

after is not just numbers. He loves people. He loves

the loss. And so EX Church will never be able

to see our vision come to pass if we don't

have a heart for the Okay, Number two is you

have to have leaders leading this vision. And the leaders

must have a heart for the loss, and they must

also be desirous discipline to be able to carry out

God's work.

And so that's why the last L, the third L

is eleven.

And what eleven means if you don't understand, is you

know when you the Bible talks about putting heaven into

the door and then the door just expands. Do you

know that the door was never asked permission, as in

when the lady, the woman in the Bible put the

leaven in or the yeast in like some of you

women who you know, or maybe men who probably make

bread or bake bread, and you know the power of

the yeast that the yeast or the leaven never asks permission.

It just goes in and it does the work.

And this is what we need in our lives because

you know, there's a scripture in the Bible where Jesus

says pray to the Lord of the harvest to send

out laborers. Do you know the words send in the

Greek is egg ballow. Egg balllow means kick out. Another

word is tear out. It's like, you know, tearing someone's

hair out. Ah, kicking somebody out, nor permission needed. Uh,

it's it's it's almost like an ect of violence. But

that is the actual meaning when Jesus says pray to

the lot of hars to egg barlow, to send out,

to kick out, to push out. Why is this word

so violent is because many of us, if not all

of us in this room, are creatures of comfort.

We like comfort.

We like to sit on our lazy chair, watch TV,

do our gardening. Well that's not too bad, but you know,

just just just we like to do things ourselves.

What we like.

We like ice cream, we like food, We like to

go out on the holiday. We like the beach pasadeniel.

We like the rays shining on our face. We like

celebrating birthdays. We like you know, comfort. We are creatures

of comfort. So when the Bible says, or when Jesus says,

go out and make disciples, it's very hard for us

to do that because we don't like to be rejected.

We don't like to be uh what's the other word, Yeah,

just just people not paying attention to us.

It's a tough job to make disciples.

So, because we are very comfortable, if I went around

this room right now and ask how many have you

shared the gospel this last week, I think most of

you will say.

That we didn't.

If I asked us how about this whole month, I

think most of us will say we didn't.

Do you understand?

Uh, it is not the easy. But if I ask

how many of you had ice cream? Maybe most of

you will say, yes, how many? How many of you

had dessert. Most of you say, yes, how have you

went on a holiday this one last thirty days?

Yes? How many have you went on the plane? Yes?

How many of you went to your favorite restaurant? Yes?

How many have you made a disciple? No? How many

have you made? You know? And it's a very command

of Christ.

So do you understand that when Jesus says pray to

the Lord of the harvest to send out, do you

know why it has to be violent? He has to

be violent because we won't move unless we won't move

unless we go to our favorite restaurant in time and

time again for the last ten years, and the same

waiter waits on us.

In fact, we are, you know, so familiar with the

waiter the witnesses.

I don't even need to know your order because I

know what drink you want and I know what food

you want. But that waiter has never been witnessed to,

not once.

You know. But but we are very happy and way

for milliarus. Do you understand?

I mean, I have to tell myself every time I

go to a restaurant that that waiter will go to

a christless eternity. Hell, And yet I've seen him for

ten years and he's waited on me. Now I know

he's very past the early morning scholars. So no, no,

I'm not schooling. I'm just telling facts. You understand, you

under staying. It's very easy for us to do easy things.

But the Lord says, send out egg ballow that, my Lord,

they've gotta be kicked out of their comfort zone. Yeah,

so that's what leven is. Leven just means he's going

to force something to happen so.

That this door will rise.

And no, it doesn't rise because someone asks its permission.

It just rises because there's eleven, and Leven does its job.

Now we need leven in our lives. We do.

We need some discipline, We need some reminder, and not

just from the pastor on a Sunday. We need to

go to the restaurant and go like, oh, what did

Jesus tell me to do again?

Eat as much as you can. No, no, he did tell

me that. What do you tell me to do again? Yeah?

All your favorite hes. No, he didn't tell me the

whold on minute? What did he tell me again? Go

and make disciples, go and preach the gospel. Okay, okay,

Lord help me. Now this is a new year. I

don't want to go to my favorite restaurant. We lot

at least showing the waiter that I'm saying grace.

At least that start with that. Lie.

You know, some course some of us saying grace or

so we ma alou a shame. But maybe we start

with that. Maybe you find it hard to tell the waiter, hey, waiter,

where you're from? Oh myan Ma ma and ma, oh,

jesuiting my day. You know, maybe you learn their language.

Jesuiting my day means thank you. Oh the reader say

how you know my language? Or because I have a

church in Meyama. Do you know I have a church

in Mayan maa, oh, you have a church in Miyama own.

And then we go into the Sometimes I joke so

because I love them, are Chin and Catchin. You know,

there's their tribe. So they say, oh, we're Chein. I said,

I'm Chined too. You know I've kend thet cheened okay,

And then you know that we get the joe. There's

ex church Mayan ma And then I go on and

I go on and actually most of them cart Chins

and Chins are Christian, but they don't get to go

to church so I you know, I've got to egg

balow myself. Maybe that's why God put so many churches

extras everywhere, so that you can meet somebody and say, oh, yeah,

there's also ex Thailand, you know, check my you know,

uh somebody.

You know and copcom craft yeah, and and and they go,

oh you looked high. Oh yeah.

And when I when I, when I meet uh the Filipinos,

I love it. No, uh slama polama. You know, I

even know whole song in Taalo. You know that, you

know that the whole song is boo hi boo hi

boo hi live, live, live forever more. The Filipinos who

asked me how you know that's all? We used to

have a church in acts in philip in Philippines in Palawan.

Oh really or really? Yes? How long ago? Five years ago? Okay?

No, so so so you know it's it's really really

you know, I have to egg ballow.

So the loss, the leaders and the eleven mm hmm okay.

By time is pointing to the notes and reminding me

to finish, because I get so excited talking to you,

you know, because I haven't I haven't preached you a

long time, so I want to I want to spend

some time with you.

But it is my wife's birthday and I am thinking

her out.

So yeah yeah, yeah yeah, Christmas and my wife's birthday

is so close, you know, so close. I just get

really bankrupt and this God time. Yeah, but it's okay,

God provides. Yeah, then anniversary coming. Yeah anyway, okay, hallah,

praise God.

Last week you should have learned this.

Okay, so so so we have a vision from the Lord.

We need to have a heart for the loss. We

need to have leaders that will lead the way. We

need to have leven because after we listen to this message,

we might just go home and go like forget it.

I pray you won't forget it. I pray that there

will be eleven in your heart to go like expand

you cause you to rise like dough is. But we

we learned something last week. I think I wasn't here

last week.

I was where was? I said you? Yeah, my wife

and I were Okay, God's diet. Remember God's diet.

God's diet just means God's way. You know, when the

king was going to serve all his men, right, the.

King's delicacies steak you.

Woh you beef Okay, what did Daniel and his friends

choose to live on? Vegetables and water? Vegetables and water,

they wanted God's diet. God's diet is really very different

from man's diet. So man's diet could be, Oh, let's

build a church, and let's have beautiful lights.

How much are the lights.

It's gonna take us a million ring it to buy

really beautiful lights. And then let's have a big band,

let's have all the sound, and let's have all this,

and and and you go from one place to another place,

and sometimes you could see a diet away that may

draw people, and then you get tempted to do it

that way, to eat that kind of diet. And then

the Lord speaks and he says, Kenneth, you will not

do it that way.

And and you say, what way do you want me

to do it? God?

Because that way seems to be working. They're drawing thousands

of people. And God says, no, no, no, no, Hold

on a minute. I know the ice cream and the

cakes are looking good, and the steaks. But I'm going

to ask you right now to go on my diet.

I said, God, your diets, what's your diet? I'm going

to ask you to do it this way vegetables and water.

But God, it doesn't make sense. How many of you

know that when God speaks to you are it doesn't

always make sense. And sometimes it's the total opposite from

what the world does.

You understand, total opposite.

And the Lord also spoke to me, he says Kenneth,

I gave you a heart for Malaysia. I gave you

a heart to make sure that the churches in Clanton

are doing well, the churches in Turgano are doing well,

the churches in Police are doing well. Many churches are

closing down in Malaysia. I'm so sorry to say. I've

got a friend who is the head of the Baptist

church who says, if there's nothing done this year, at

least ten more Baptist churches will close. Not enough young

people are answering the call to serve God. Not enough

young people are going to Bible school. People are not interested.

So the church in Malaysia is really under attack. And

I don't want to go to a church in Clanton

to say you need to have one hundred thousand rings

it to do up all you know, to make sure

everything is lighted up and your sound system is great

before you can do church. I just can't get myself

to tell them you need to do this before you

can get people. I want to be able to go

to the churches, the small churches they only have fifty people,

forty one hundred, and tell them there is a diet

called a God's diet, and if you have it, it's as

cheap as vegetables and water. You don't need a huge

budget to see God move in your land. My heart

is really for East Coast, you know, I've been talking

to the pasts.

How much more can we do? What more can we do.

For East Coast, for East Malaysia, for Prelice up North,

maybe even for Joho that it's facing some challenges. So

I want you to understand I'm not looking for man's diet.

I'm looking for God and God's diet, God's way. So

we interpret the vision that God gives through the knowing

of God's diet. What is God's diet for ex Church?

So that you don't go around saying, you know, why

don't we have this pastor why don't we have that?

We want to do it God's way what God has

said to us the diet, But listen to me. After

ten days of eating vegetables and drinking water, Daniel and

his three friends were stronger, better looking, fatter, the Bible says,

and healthier than all the other men that ate the

diet of the world.

Are you also doing with me?

If you dare, by faith take up God's challenge to

do it God's way, I guarantee you we are going

to prosper all right, not just us, but all these

other churches that talk about in different parts of Malaysia.

They don't need another format that they can't afford, you know,

talking about young people.

Let's just talk about this for a moment. When I

go and visit.

Past us in Alostar in different places in Malaysia that

are small and you know, just you know, I said

to them, how about your youth group?

Right? Do you have youth leaders?

You know what most of them tell me, Pastor, we

lose our young people already after form five. We don't

have young people. After form five. They go to kl

they go to Pinang, they go to Singapore. We don't

have a future because when they go after form five,

they don't come back. That's why churches in Malaysia don't

have a future. So we're praying for God's diet. God,

give us a diet, Give us a plan, you know,

talking about diet planner. Give us a plan, your plan

from heaven how we can make a difference for Malaysia.

Otherwise Malaysia will not have a future as far as.

The Church is concerned. Eybody, okay with this?

We want God's diet, the way to do it that

does not cause an arm in the leg, that doesn't

have to have you know, PhDs and and and all

that comes. No, no, no, no, we can do it

with whatever and whoever God gives us.

Can I hear good? Amen?

Then flowing from God's diet, we need the daily Bread.

So if God's diet is God's way, or let's let's

use the word will. If God's diet is God's will,

this is God's will for Malaysia, This God's will for

ex Church. Then what's God's way. God's way comes from

what we call the daily bread. So when we look

at the daily Bread, we need to start making a checklist.

That's what you learned last week.

Make a list, Make a list of what God is

saying to you and me that we need to do.

So if If winning souls is important to ex church,

then you know.

How will we do it?

Is important? The next thing that you learned last week

is tithing. So God will give you the idea and

God will give you the initiative tithing. If if daily

bread is downloadading from the Lord, tithing is uploading.

What will we give to the Lord? What will we do?

And finally you learn the word leven, which is important.

Okay, So I just want to close this part by

reminding you what happened last week. We want to moving forward.

Make a checklist, make a checklist, like for example, if

you really are serious about reaching the loss, then why

don't you go home today and start saying, Okay, what

is the what is the daily bread? The daily bread

is the download? What checklist must I make? So you

go home and you say the waiter that I see

every week when I go to my favorite restaurant, I

hope that I can reach that guy.

What's his name? I don't know, Samuel? Okay? Uh? Then

you say tithes? What will I do? What will I

commit too?

So the first word is checklist, the second word is commit,

and the third word is make it count.

So make a checklist.

This the three people I want to reach in the

minds of Fabruary, coming Fabruary.

Then make a commitment.

I will go to this restaurant and I will start

to make a composition and then make that composition count

its leven, all right, So I hope that is a

good summary of what we have been doing. Now let's

move to today's lesson. Today we want to start with

the tithe ladies and gentlemen, brothers.

This is here.

I want to reveal something to you that you might

or might not know about your pastor and how I

have been living the abundant life and the life. Not

to say that I don't have trouble, not to say

that I know I problems I have, Not to say

I don't have challenges.

I have sometimes more than.

Usual because I serve the Lord. But I want to

tell you that I have a great wife, I have

a great home. I have a family that has been

coming to church after twenty years of being lost in

the world because twenty years I was praying for them,

and now they have come back to the Lord. They

have been coming to this church. But I think now

they're going to go to the submit church in Subang.

I've been blessed, I've traveled the world, and.

So on and so forth.

I want to tell you that if you look at

my life and you think I'm blessed, I want to

tell you one of the most amazing secrets.

Of my life. Some of you know it, some of

you are living. Some of you might not know it.

One of the greatest secrets in my life is the

secret of tithing.

Tithing.

This has been on my heart since the early days

of my Christianity, which is now probably close to forty

years ago, actually forty years ago exactly. And the Law

taught me from the early age that tithing is not

just about money.

It's about obedience. It's about putting God first.

And so in all my forty years of serving the Lord,

and and and and and following the Lord, I have

not missed, not once tithing. And this comes from a

man that doesn't get a salary. You say, pastor, how

do you tie? I just tithe whatever I have I

just tied in a way that I want.

To please God. See, tithing.

Is a statement of who is first in your life.

I find that when many Christians suffer and struggle, especially

through finances, I usually will sit them down if they

allow me to sit them down and I will talk

to them about tithing. I often know because the Bible

says that if you don't, then the devour will come.

So you know why, even though we are earning ten thousand,

we end up with nothing, Even though we are earning

twenty thousands, we end up with nothing. Even though we

just got a bonus ten times you know our salary,

we end up with nothing because the devour keeps coming.

And it's not just devouring of money, devouring of health,

et cetera. Piruse you know why, if he touches your health,

you have to spend money touches your health. Spend money

touches your health. Supplement touches your health. Medication touches your health.

Doctor touches your health. Surgery touches your You understand, it's

not to say that once it why you cannot go

to the hospital. And I'm just talking about the ones

that like every month, every week, all the time for

the last ten twenty years.

Listen, there's nothing wrong with you, nothing bad, nothing evil

about you.

But I want you to learn something and I tell you,

if you can get this, you will prosper, and not

just about money. Because the Lord said, his promise is

in Malachi. I will rebuild the divour. I will call him.

You know, hey, you count get out of my.

Son's life, Get out of my daughter's life, you.

Know, because of the tithe. But it's not just because

we give money. This is not a club. This is

the fact that we put God first all the time.

I'm gonna challenge even housewives. Oh but I don't get

very very much. Put in whatever it is that is

on your heart. God is looking at your heart. Remember

the woman with two copper coins, she gave her all. Please, please,

If there's nothing else I can teach you, for the

rest of my days, I want to tell you put

God first.

So this notes here you can read it for yourself.

The only line there that doesn't have a word is

giving God what belongs to him. Giving so you can

write that giving God what belongs to him. So I

want to tell you a story of what and how

the Lord taught me. This tithing began in the guard

of Eden, where no money was involved. God said, you see,

he put a tree in the midst of the garden.

A tree.

Now, first of all, the Bible says God created everything,

and he said He was all good, including.

The tree that should not be eaten. Even that tree

is good. Can I hear good? Amen?

Because he didn't say I made ninety nine percent good.

And then there one tree that's bad. No, the tree

itself is not bad. God made it. Everybody see with me.

So he made all things, and all things was good.

And then he said to the man, don't touch. Can

I just be very less? You use some common sense

for now, because all of you got common sense, use

some commentence for nour where you say, don't touch?

Who is master the one who said don't touch?

And who's the one who's supposed to follow the one

who has been given the induction?

Don't touch now?

As soon as you can touch, all right, whatever it

is that your heart's desires to touch, then you become master.

I'm talking common sense now, common sense. Everything in your

house right now. If it's yours, you can touch. If

it's not yours, you can't. And by not touching something,

you are declaring, even without your mouth, you are declaring

that I am not God.

There is a God bigger than me. I always say

with me.

So the real issue in the garden is that God

wanted to make sure that Adam and Eve always had

a reminder that there is a god bigger than them. Hey,

Adam was like a god. You know that Adam named

all the animals. He named all the animal will come.

You know, long neck. You know it was me. I'll

just call it long neck animal.

You know, something like the Red Indians and you know

those days you just call it, say see it long

neck neck and uh, big buffalo whatever. But you know

this is Adam. Adam was like a god. He was

like a god. He was a son of God. He

was He was the first one ever created, and God

gave him wisdom. And there was one tree. There's one

tree God says, don't touch. And there is something called

the tithe, the ten percent in our salary which is

not supposed to touch because it's not ours. And if

every man you get a thousand ringit and the first

thing you do is to put one hundred aside. Do

you know what you're saying? There is a God who's

bigger than that desert I want. There's a God who's

bigger than that new pair of shoes I want. Do

you know when you set something aside and not touch it,

you are not just saying with your mouth. You're saying

with your actions, there is something in life I cannot

touch because it belongs to.

See. People will argue you until cows come home about

the tithe.

Is he really ten percent? Is he old Testament? Is

he new Testament? I just get a little bit tired

because you don't understand the real Do you think God

even needs your ten percent?

Do you really think that God needs your money?

Allo, he needs your loyalty, he needs your heart, he

needs your obedience, He needs you to make sure that

He's always first. And so in your life you just

think about it now, are you in your life? You

think about it now every day you're living, and you say,

I can't touch this, Why, mummy, because this belongs to God.

You know why?

I get up in the morning and I try not

to look at my phone first, because my first hour

belongs to God. And when I go into my handphone first,

I'm giving somebody else my first hour. So I know

sometimes I do follow because I look at it as

an emergency. Oh God, this hour is yours, and I'm

taking five minutes of your type of your time. I'm

thinking five minutes of your time to answer somebody else.

Oh God. Sorry, it looks like he is God. I'm

so sorry.

I just I just answer for the Okay, you're dying,

I know, but I'm praying for you, okay. And I

will come to the hospital one hour after after this

message because I got to spend time with God. You know,

you know what I mean. If his emergency, go go

to the hospital. But but you know what brand to say.

It is like if if that one hour was for

your wife, you don't want to give you to any

other women.

If that one hour was for your husband, you don't

want to give you any other man. This is God.

Everyone're okay with this. It's very very important.

And so Adam and Eve for God, and it took

what is God's you know, I mean, the tree was good,

tree wasn't bad, and they ate and God, you know,

of course they saw they were naked, and you know

the rest is history.

So I want to I want to encourage you. I

want to really encourage you.

And and sometimes the richer we get, the more stingy we get.

Because giving one ring git out of ten ring git

is easy. One hundreds of thousands is easy. Thousands of

ten thousand, one hundred thousand, that's got ranging so much.

But I'm telling you this, sir, if you take this

challenge this morning, I want to say to you, so

much more is in store. And please please don't go

out of here saying that, well this past I come

this morning. I'm talking about money. No, I'm not just

talking about money. I'm talking about.

Everything in our lives, including your health, your family. A

man who is God. He is the god who in

your life.

You don't want to touch the things that belong to

him a man, because if you can touch it, then

you are God. All right, so very very important. We

want to tie to the Lot now, souls, and we

want to tie to the Lord now our obedience to

fulfill the vision.

I try to tithe.

To the Lot every day two point four hours, because

it's twenty four hours a day.

So I try to tithe to the Lord my time,

not just my money.

I say, Lord, if twenty four hours you give me,

then two point four hours must belong to you.

So I try. I try to do my quiet time

for about two hours, but sometime I can't finish. Somebody.

I do want to have hours.

This morning, I need it one hour because I had

to come here by seven, so you know, in my mind,

I'm still owing God what I half hours. But I

try in different ways to you know, pray, I try

in different ways to minister. I try in different ways

come to church or so one hour, two hours, okay, So,

but every day I try to tithe. I want you

to think about that every day in your life. Lord,

whatever you give me, ten percent belongs to you. If

you give me this health, then ten percent of.

My health belongs to you. And if I keep if

I keep using.

My health only to play golf, I use my health

only to go on holiday, then maybe in one day

I might not be able to go on holiday anymore

because I'll be in the hospital. Because you know, if

you keep robbing God, why do my people rob me?

If you keep robbing God, then one day our body

will have to pay back. But let me let me

just remind you that you know, tithing is not just

about money, is about whatever God gives you. Tithe that

to the Lord. Can I hear a good amen?

All right? So with.

Tithing, let's move on. Now what can you tithe? You

can tithe in prayer. Look at all your nice drawings there.

You can tithe in serving. So there are some people

in this room, maybe not many, because Pasadenia told me

Pasadena there's about fifty percent serving in the house. So

let's say one hundred and eighty people come, fifty percent serve.

Ninety people are serving, but I'm wondering where the other

ninety people are. So can you please this year twenty

twenty six, choose something to serve?

Please?

Tithe your time when you're coming to church. You're coming

to change for two hours. Tithe that that two hours.

Tie that time to the Lord by serving him. How

about sharing the gospel? Tithe your time at the restaurant.

You're going to eat in the restaurant for one hour?

Tithe hours tenor was one hour ten ten percent?

Or one hour six minutes?

Can you just have a conversation with the wait for

six minutes, not all at one goal because he has

to work us all. You know, everythime he comes back,

you know, Jesu with him my day or whatever. You know, Hey, myanma, whatever,

you know, my church, you know whatever. Okay, talk talk

to some people about Jesus.

Make disciples? Are you making disciples? You should? You should

take on leadership.

Yeah, some of you are very scared of leadership, leadership

I do or like like.

Like some curse word.

No, some play her leader can okay, I will never

be a leader.

No no, no, take on leadership.

Do something, guys, Okay, give because because because you are talented,

you are gifted, you are trained already, right, So don't

take your leadership and put it into the basket. Take

the leadership and use it for the glory of the Lord.

Tithe your leader skills, tithe, community work. Yeah, Erin and John,

thank you every time you go to the carry Carry Island. Yeah,

they're tithing because check go Erin, she's check. Oh you know,

she's a teacher and even though she's real, she will

always be teacher, and she's tithing her teacher skills very good.

And those of you are.

Teachers here please, you know, and those of you want

to be teachers here, Yeah, go ahead, tie tithe, tithe,

otherwise you know you're gonna be throwing into the the drain.

Missions missions work everybody, Okay, yeah, this is just you know,

how you can tithe?

How can I redeem my time for the Lord? Uh?

Now uh?

Some people say past is not is not money is

not a problem. Time time is Yeah, how many have

you say that. Even the students will say that, yeah,

money no problem. But money no problem. You know, I

I give, I give, But time are your time. Time

is money. Time is precious. I know, I understand, I understand.

Actually we can find my new I know, but just

can't find time. So I give you a testimonial. When

I went to Indonesia, I met a guy. I think

I told you before, but I'll tell you again.

Uh.

So this guy is the owner of one of the

largest toothpaste company in uh either Jakata or Indonesia.

Okay.

He hires about I don't know, one two thousand staff.

Uh and so his father left him. This company makes millions.

But he's he's a believer. He goes to church, goes

to a very good church. I think it's jack Kata JPCC,

Jakata Praise. Yeah, where Sydney Mohidi is. You know, we

went to the church before. So but this guy, there's

a race.

He looks like Albert. Albert. This guy, you know, uh yeah.

He's just he just looks like a million dollars, you

know what I'm saying. Just looks like Albert. Yeah, but

by his size, you know, and his look just like

you by.

He was wearing bay.

So I went for morning breakfast with him because he

was at that time the head of the Jagata Praise Church.

Businessman Fellowship, and.

That church is about maybe fifteen thousand people or twenty

thousand people. And I think this is the businessman itself,

like a thousand or two thousand, okay, and they give

to the Lord very very generously, and they talk about

different things that businessmen go through. So he was the chairman,

and so I wanted to also build a very strong

businessman ministry here in Malaysia for our church.

Okay.

That's why we call it abc X Business Community, abc

X Business Community.

So we have that. But I wanted to learn from

this guy.

And as he's sharing, he said to me, Past Kenneth,

you know with us business people are time is the

most precious commodity. And I had no time with about

two thousand stuff under me, making millions every month and

wanting to break into different markets in Indonesia. I don't

think it's cogate cogate, but is one Indonesian ban't remember? Uh?

And then he said to me, this is what God

taught me. I said, what do you teach you, he said,

you know, I had a desire. You know, I love

my dad so much and I have I had a

desire to take him out for a holiday.

But my dad was saying, son, you never have any time.

You know, I regret giving the company to you because

you're busier than me. And he said, Dad, you know

I want to do better than you. You know, I

hope you'll be proud of me. I want to do

better than you. I want to make if you made

ten million, I want to make one hundred million.

You know, Dad, I'm so sorry.

But in his heart, he said, you know, I really

want to spend time with my dad before he dies.

I want to spend as much time with my dad

he said time. He doesn't have the time. He doesn't

have time. You know what his challenge was, You know,

his challenge was when he came to church every week,

he didn't serve because he's business man. And then even

the pastors should expect that business man no time. So

don't catch out the business maller, don't go to the

business personna and made them feel worse. You know, hey,

why aren't you serving the lords. I'm making millions out

there and I have a lot of staff. Just let

me just let me give la. My my calling is giving.

Then what my colleague pastor's calling only givra? I actually have

to give it. All of us have to give. Yes, amen,

my calling is giving, you know. So we tend not

to touch business people. Don't touch them sensitive because he

works so hard to get money. But this man, he

was challenged by the Lord.

And by his master.

He says, Canlisa Bisaladong b Sa be a.

Malayani too hard? Serve God? This is his house.

Remember the Bible says I, I'd rather be a dog

keeper in the house of the Lord than to be

in the tens of the wicked, you know, than to

make millions. I want to be a doorkeeper. David or

King David said, So, he said, a door keeper. And

then he said, but I know time past. He says,

I tell you what the Bible says, so and you

shall reap.

So I want you to start sewing. So you know

what he did.

He started doing, ushering, multi millionaire, owner of a big company,

two thousand stuff under him. But he give bulletin at

the door. Okay, give bulletin a the door driver drove him.

Bodyguard wa think him, but bulletin at the door because

I'd rather be a dog keeper in the house of

the Lord.

You know what happened As he gave.

I know, ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes to the

Lord on a Sunday.

You know what happened.

The Lord gave him one good manager, very good manager,

he says, Pastor even money came out bout his manager.

I said, why this goes?

His manager loves my company as much as I do,

and he will take care of my company like he

was his.

And then uh, I said, oh, very good. So what

what has what has that helped you?

He said, now I can not be in the office

for a few hours because of this manager. And then

go gave me two managers, and then go give me three.

They give me ten, then give me give me twenty.

And now, Basca, I don't even need to go to

the office because the Lord gave me amazing managers. I

don't even have to worry. They are making money for

me and Barseken. Just to let you know, Jess, this

was some years ago. Yeah, I think I talked to

him ten years ago.

He said.

Just recently, I took my father for a one month

Europe trip just me and my dad. You know, we

hired a car and I drove my dad everywhere in Europe,

and that it was my heart desire.

I always wanted to spend time my dad. See.

The thing is, the Bible says, what you show you

a rep do you believe it or not? Do you

believe it or not?

All right? All you can continue living twenty twenty six

like you live twenty twenty five and has the same problems,

same challenges.

If you want to see a breakthrough, I pray that

you will begin to redeem the time. Every Okay, all right?

Give to Caesar what is caeesars? And to God what

is God's? Oh, Jesus, should we give text Jesus is

bring a coin?

Right, bring a coin? Whose face is on this coin? Caesar?

Give to Caesar what is caesars?

But when you look at each other, whose face are you?

You are made in the image of God. So give

to Caesar what is esars? And give to God what

is God's? Who is God's you? Because the coin has

Caesar's face, but your life has his face. So better

give to God what belongs to him.

Amen, Praise the Lord. Ay do you okay, all right.

So what action am I going to take to give

God what belongs to him?

Ah? You decide, Ah, you decide. Okay, what is the

significance of twenty years? Now? Let me move now into

something very prophetic. Okay.

Twenty twenty was the year God gave us the diet.

The diet was given in twenty twenty. This is the

way Exs Church will do it? And can you imagine

this in twenty twenty? I gotta read this with you.

Do you have it on your notes, sir?

Twenty twenty? Way? Is it a yeah? Page forty one? Right?

Okay, So in twenty twenty it was so significant. The

Lord told me that we will become a Daniel Church

twenty twenty.

Twenty twenty is perfect vision. Yeah.

When you say do you have twenty twenty vision? Means

you have perfect vision?

All right? When we approach twenty twenty, God gave me

the vision.

God had brought us through twenty years faithfully using the

Joseph dream, and then twenty years in the future using

the Daniel vision. Twenty twenty is perfect vision. Even Malaysia

experienced a government change in twenty twenty. Do you know

that Daniels served four kings, and God showed me that

each king was like a government. So in Malaysia, right,

every five years, one government, every five years, one government

at least elections, at least elections. So in twenty years

time there should be about four governments. And that's exactly

what Daniels served. He served four kings. So that's prophetic

that in twenty years we will see movements in at

least four governments. Even if I know I brought him

is still the Prime Minister, there will still be movements.

There will still be changes, all right.

And God is asking ex church to, especially in Malaysia,

be ready to serve four elections within twenty years, twenty

twenty to twenty forty.

Thank you, thank you, Oh praise God. Amen. I don't

need the Okay, I can have it. I can have

it just in case. Thank you, Praise God. Even Micaelphone

must have bellowcase.

So let's get excited. Okay, there's a prophetic thing, all right. Now,

let's let's move on. So we need to break it down.

Everything is about breaking down. If you want to lose weight,

you gotta break it down to how much weight you

want to lose, how many days you want to use

to lose weight. Every plan, every vision must be broken down,

and it must be broken down into bite size, smaller pieces. Okay,

And what my leaders told me a few years ago

was passing. This is how we're gonna break it down.

We're gonna make sure that every huddle gets very clear.

You can see in your notes. We want to make

sure that every one of the one thousand. At that

time in twenty twenty one, we at least had one

thousand people coming to church.

Today we have more than that.

But we want to make sure that everyone that God

brings to us is accounted for. Okay, so let's just

talk about x KK now before I draw to a close.

XKK, Puss Daniel, how many people do we have here? Yeah?

Okay, hundred and sixty and seventy hundred and eighty Okay, at max.

The challenge is this even one ex church to go

in one accord in unity to a destination. We want

to make sure that everybody goes along. We don't want

we don't want a situation whereby only half goes and

half get left behind, only half understands the vision and

is unclear. So it's very important when Jesus says, to

make disciples of everyone.

We want to make sure that everyone here is in

a discipleship relationship.

It cannot be that when God brings people to this

church that they are left alone, left aside, they're only

warming the seats on Sunday.

Cannot be. It must be there.

We must have relationship here so that after a year,

I can say I know everybody's name in this room,

after two years, I can say I've visited everybody's house.

There must be something.

No one has come to this church by mistake, everyone

by divine appointment. We want to get close. We want

to make sure that every single person is accounted for.

I just asked Billy there day, I said where, Hey,

Oh you're wearing masterday. Who's going to recognize you? I said,

Billy can come to your house. Of course his house

is new, not so new anymore. Ah, but I haven't been,

so it's new to me. And you said, come buster

any time you know, wow wow yeah. And Rachel also

say that. Rachel, you say there, I want to go.

I want to go because uh, their their homes here.

I want to make sure that nobody gets left behind.

There's no one who is a stranger in this church, even.

After one year of coming. Very important, very important.

So if you get into your face, if you ask

you can we come to your house, please say yes, okay,

but you say I can't cook past that, I'm so sorry.

I won't be able to give you any food or

any drink. Don't worry.

We bring, we bring, unless, of course it's a Subin's house.

Sub will bring the whole klang to a house. Have

you been to Supin's house before? Subin?

She she's a klang champion and we get to eat

Klang's food. For others, you can line up in the

most famous klang stalls. You gotta line up half an

hour for the food. Subin just calls to me and

they said, Subin, all right, let's let's draw to a close.

Uh now, Level one, level two, level three. You see

in your notes. This is how it's done. Whenever you

got a vision from God or vision for your life,

you can.

Use this or so.

You don't even have to be spiritual about this. You

can be very natural about this. You have to know

what the diet is. The diet is for us, for example,

the first column, fill the earth and have dominion, right,

over things of the earth. You can write the word

dominion on page forty two. That's the first column. Now

how do you do that? So you go into daily bread.

Daily Bread tells you you got to make disciples. So

to be able to fulfill that big vision called God's diet,

you have to make sure it becomes smaller. Small means

you and I, everyone in this church must begin to

make disciples.

Our tithe means what are we giving to the Lord.

We had to start with who we are, what we have,

where we are.

If you're going to the restaurant again this week, remember

what is God's diet that everybody knows Jesus?

What is my daily bread?

That I'm going to try to make disciples wherever I go,

wherever I am.

You know, even in my own company.

If my own company has got ten staff, what am

I doing with my staff? How am I rubbing off

my testimony or my staff? Please tithe to the Lord

and you got ten staff. I pray that one will

come to know Jesus this year. That means you tithe one. Amen,

Praise God. It's not rocket science. I'm not forcing you.

I'm just asking that the Holy Spirit will touch your heart.

And that you will begin to live a life of tithing.

I pray that you be a tither and you will

see the blessing of God flow like never before.

I know some of you are very.

Rich readly in this room, but you can be richer really,

and riches is not just about money the leaven.

What would you do?

Well, you gotta be sent out, egg blow. You gotta

discipline yourself, yourself, your heart. Don't just order your favorite

food and then sit there. No, no, no finish, you know,

and then bye see you next week. No, you know,

you gotta egg blow yourself. You gotta try and try.

I try to make a conversation. Okay, level number two,

it's not it's not really level. As example, Okay, what

is God's diet? Well, God's diet to us is one

thousand times one thousand, So what.

Is his daily bread?

His daily braain is that we've got to take stop

of the of the first one thousand.

Okay.

Now for example, if I say, ex got the comding

by the end of this year, we'll have three hundred people. Amen,

that's diet.

Okay.

The diet is this is this is God's will. The

daily braain is that hold on a minute, Why should

three hundred people come even if you can't even take

care of one hundred and fifty.

So that's what daily break is. I've got to be resports.

Don't ask don't ask God for a six bedroom house

when you haven't used four bedrooms. I live by the

principal one. Don't ask God for a nicer car when

you haven't even treated this car well. Don't ask God

for twelve kids when you can't handle two. Don't ask

God for more people in this church if you can't

even handle the people they come our daily bread, our

tithe is Okay, now that I can see it, what

will I do about it?

Okay?

After this church service, I've got to look around and

go like, who can I think out for lunch? Of course,

maybe you're going out for lunch every Sunday? Who the

same people.

No agree agree? Maybe you're going out with your family.

But maybe after servicea look around and saying, maybe I

can in write one more, Hey, that that teenager or

not that that campus student looks like he's eating alone.

I think I can take him out, spend him, you know,

I mean.

Can you do that?

Just just just tithe, take a little bit of your

time and just tithe and then finally eleven, just do it,

Just do it all right. God's died is ten thousand.

By twenty thirty, his daily bread is that ninety percent

will be new believers. That's right because one thousand more.

We are only one thousand, so ten thousand means nine

thousand more to be saved, so ninety percent will be new.

Our tithes that every.

One of the one thousand in extras now must try

to reach one in the year. And eleven is start

looking around. Okay, last page, last page, and it's a

really ten oh one, but I hope that you're getting

something all right. Number one, start looking into numbers, breaking down,

breaking down. But numbers is not just numbers. Numbers are names.

Numbers are names. I was blessed with a club membership,

not just recently. Someone gave me a club membership, me

and my wife a freak club membership. Transferred the club

membership to me and my wife. And it's in quote

the PERMAI. So I took my wife for our very

first meal toquot to per my clubhouse.

Yes, two days ago, two days ago. I wanted to eat.

I want to try, so we ate chicken, grill grilled chicken.

All right, we shed we shard because both of us

was quite full. Okay, And I want to let you know.

There is a waitress there called nin No no, no, no,

what's her name again? Nina is another person?

Was it was it? Uh? Dia Dia? She spelled her name.

My name is d i y a, I said the

I y no no d I y d i y a.

I said Ida like like like Priya and uh and

I'm so first day, first day, get to know her name?

And I asked for is very important, very important because

if titar is good, I'll be there for.

Often meetings, meetings. Uh.

And then so that my tatar came and he tasted

like coffee, so you know, so, I said, Dia.

Then she.

I said, your tatar is really special. It's really yeah,

because it tastes like coffee. And said, oh, I knew

when the guy was making I can smell coffee. Sold

you don't worry. Your coffee is so good. I don't

drink coffee. But did she take you back?

So I hope this was.

Nice, you know. And I hope that I can I

hope I can witness to the year. So it's all

his numbers, it's names.

Who was Nin? Said? Oh? Nin was the Chinese restaurant.

So I walked into the Chinese restaurant and there was

one person there who said Oh. I said, yeah, I

would like to do my company's Chinese to year. How

can you? I got forty stuff? You have four tables

for me to bring my forty stuff? She said yes,

I said, what's your name?

Nin? Okay, Nin, I'll see you soon, Chase suiting by day?

Oh you know me? And Ma?

Yes, I know man Ma, But I'll tell you more later.

You got to get some ideas, get some ideas today

to get there and invest your time. Okay, last one,

then we go. Okay the warning. The warning is.

Found in Luke thirteen ver. Six to nine. Let's do it.

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 none. Then so he said

to the keeper of his vineyard, look for three years,

I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and

found none.

Cut it down.

Oh, I pray the Lord doesn't say that to any

of us. Why does it use up the ground? That means,

why is any human being called a Christian breathing air

when it's better that you go back to heaven. Why

are you using up ground Christian? Why use breathe every

day only for yourself?

Cut it down?

But he answered and said to him, sir, sir, sir, sir,

let it alone this year also twenty twenty six.

I repent. I repent this year. Please. I would dig ground.

I would try my best. I would. I would our

egg balow I was fertalized. I would try to get

this Christian alive.

And if it bears fruit, well, if not, twenty twenty

seven curried down. I know how you're laughing very nervously,

because no one wants to be cut down here.

Now listen, the Master.

Said he's been coming for three years, found no fruit.

Do you understand that God is very patient, very patient

with all of us in this room, very kind, but

he wants us to bear fruit. And there is no

no what, no way we can get out of. There's

no other option. It's a choice, but no option. So

Father is the name of Jesus. I want to say

thank you. Time is up about maybe ten minutes ago,

but I pray God that it's just not notes. I

don't want people coming all the way to church on

Sunday just getting notes.

I want them to get your word.

I want everyone here in this room to download something

from the Holy Spirit. He loves you. He loves you,

He loves you, He loves you. God has blessed you

for a reason. God has blessed you. Not he didn't

just bless you with money. Bless you with talent. Bless

you with time, Bless you with administrative skills, Bless you

with leadership skills. Bless you with prayer. Your prayer is powerful.

Every time you pray for people, you know people's prayers

get answered. Why aren't you praying for more people? Then

He blessed you with a smile so that you can

shake people's hands at the front of the church. He

blessed you with a beautiful countenance so that when you

go to the restaurant, you know people are attracted to

you and they will come to your table. Is it

just about you? Is it just about your good looks?

Or is it about Jesus?

Yeah? God wants everyone.

In this room to be fruitful. So for three years now,

he's come and he's gone. He's come and he's gone.

He's come and he's gone found nothing, no fruit. Maybe

you have been part of X the community for three

years now, but not much fruit. God is very patient.

God is very kind. I don't ask that he cuts

you down. I don't ask that he cuts me down.

Let this be the last thing on our mind. God

is God is good.

But he's been patient.

If he's waited three years for you to respond, I

don't know whether he's gonna wait three more years. But

why don't you take the very first month January of

training six and just think about life for a moment?

Think about life? Why did God bless you? Maybe you're

here and you're much older. Maybe it's all pastor you're

talking to the younger people. I'm eighty five. Hey hello,

If you are eighty five, dear uncle, If you are

eighty five, dear auntie.

Why did God keep you alive?

If he doesn't have a plan to use you while

you're alive here on earth? Do you think he kept

you alive just to do gardening? Do you think he

kept you alive just to do gardening? No, your life

is precious. Your life has got so much to offer.

You are a precious commodity. Don't give up so easily.

Don't give up so fast. Maybe you're eighty five, but

as long as you have breath to breathe, let your

pastor encourage you. Right now, do something for the Lord,

Do something for the Church, do something for the Kingdom

of God. If he's done with you, you will be

home in heaven in just a split second. If he's

done with you, he doesn't need you anymore, you will

be back in heaven. But if you're here on earth,

there is a plan and a purpose.

For you to live.

People here who businesses, people who are business people earning money,

praise God for that. But I think there's more, and

I want to bless you. I want to pray for

you that you will respond.

Amen.

Ties to the Lord be a tith, not just money,

but time, talent, treasure. Halley, would you send to your

feet as part sender leads us in a song, and

let's just recommit our lives. Everybody here, lift up both

your hands.

Okay. I don't know what exactly you're gonna say to God.

I don't know what exactly you're gonna do after.

This service, but let's just lift up our hands to

surrender our lives afresh. This is January and before February comes,

Let's give our lives afresh to the Lord. Go ahead,

Pilsendra lead us in a song.

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