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Session 4 - Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church | Pr. Daniel
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You're listening to a message to go from at church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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So we are at our fourth part we have we
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are in the midway point right now, right in the middle, uh,
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and we are going to unpack. We're going to continue
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to unpack. But before that, let me ask you a question. Yeah,
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let me ask you a question, Harry Lojah, So what
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is the vision of X church? Hold on Hypercook two fourteen.
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What does Haber Cook two fourtheen say, amen, Amen, you
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know it's important to know. I don't know how many
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of your business owners here. Yeah, I don't know how
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many of you here. You run a business, you run
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an organization. I don't know how many of you part
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of a university here. I'm part of Monash. I used
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to be a Monash alumni. I mean I am a
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alumni and until now I know the tag line. What
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is the tech line of monsh University? Rachel, what's the
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techline of Monash University? Come on, Ankara in battle? All right,
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there's always something that you have to remember. There's an
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identity that comes to you, right and the vision as
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it begin to ex church is Hubbacook two fourteen. Now
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you may wonder to yourself, like, why even this vision
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does it sounds special? Does this sound different? Butally, if
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you really read it in its context and deeply, all
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Christians should align with this verse. Amen, because it's not
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talking about our own strength, it's not talking about own wisdom.
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It's talking about the glory of the Lord. And this
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should be our desire that the earth shall be filled
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with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as
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the water's coming to sea.
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Amen.
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So, if you have your books, or if you have
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your books, turn with me to page number twenty nine.
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We're going to recap a little bit on a bad
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tree what we have just went through, and we are
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we are on the journey of making sure that all
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of us are on the same pagere It comes with
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the vision of ex church, right, and last week rachel
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An spoke about disciples, right, the plan. What's the plan?
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The plan is to make disciples, and not just any disciples,
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but disciples that make the difference a man. That's the vision.
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That's a mission of ex change. Our mission. Yeah, the
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vision is to feel the earth with the knowledge of
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the girl of the Lord. The mission is to make disciples.
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That's the how how can we feel this earth the
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knowledge of the Gerier the Lord is by making disciples
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that make the difference. Right, And last week Rachel shared
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or in fact, Rachel brought the part tree of the
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vision by saying that we are how are we preparing
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for the next twenty years? Okay, the first twenty years
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when an extras was planted twenty two until twenty twenty. Right,
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there was the Joseph Church and read where that's who
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we are. A church that's preparing right there, storehouses, they're
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preparing training materials that we're preparing now that we are
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going to the next twenty years. Right, we are more
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moving in the direction of the Daniel Church. Right. So
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the five seeds that Rachel gave us, and I hope
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you remember is this and it's in your books. Actually, right,
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we got to have conviction. A conviction is not something
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that we can teach, especially if we can say, you
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know what, Stuggles, your name is Stuggles, Right, Stuggles will
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never be struggles. Snuggles is my cat. Okay, Snaggles will
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never be struggles. Until she accepts that she stuggles. She
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has to catch that a I am Stuggles. I respond
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to the name struggles. Therefore my name is Stuggles. Yeah,
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no matter how many times I dish, right, she will
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never get it until she catches it. So same thing here,
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the vision has to be caught. And I pray that
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as you listen to what we're about to share this morning,
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you know, it's very different for six weeks now, we're
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sharing something that everybody is going true. Yeah, every church
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plan in ex church, and we're going to share it
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once and we're going to move on, Right, We're going
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to move on into our usual Bible study. Whatever that
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God puts on our heart, that's okay. But as for
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six weeks alone, we want to align. And I know
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some of your business wanted to say you the alignment
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is very important, right. You don't want your staff to be,
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you know, selling T shirts when your business model is
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selling raised cars. You don't want to do that, right.
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You want to ensure that everybody is on the same page.
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There's the first seed. The second sea is the condition.
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So now that we have aligned to the vision, what
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is the condition that has been given to this church? Yeah,
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this church is saying that, you know, as long as
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the vision is to fuel there's many ways. There's many
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ways to feel this earth to glory the Lord. Amen. However,
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God is given our founding senior pastor the mandate. The
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word that came to him was that we've got to
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do this in small groups. Right. It isn't matter what
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other stations are doing, really, and God bless them and
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they are growing by the grace of the Lord because
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they have their mandate too. But the focus here is
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important because if we do not catch it how we
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catch it, how how it is downloaded to but the
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canev and the vision, the leadership of the church, then
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we're not in alignment. Sometimes we will say, oh, let's
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do it small and then the other persons say the noda,
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let's forget about smaller. You know what, Let's reach it
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my way. I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying
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it is possible. But you will know that there's there's
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going to be a lot of this unity. There's gonna
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be a lot of misalignment. Right, so there's a condition
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to it. The third sea that we are preparing ourselves
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is cooperation. Yeah, we've got to corporate one another. For
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sea is community. We can't do this without community, right,
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We can't run church without community. Everybody will have their
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own strength in the small group. Some are gifted in teaching,
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some are gifted in communicating, some not gifted in food.
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You can't expect me to be as good as my
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wife when it comes to cooking. You can't. It just
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doesn't work that way, right, No matter how much I try,
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I can't. And you can't expect my wife to be
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better at me and being lame. You can't. It's just
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not possible. I'm just more lamer than her, right because
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I pay too much big up all aside, lame can't walk,
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So yeah, you can't. You can't expect different people to
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be one another. You can't do that right. And finally,
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the college college is essentially is training, right. I can't say, hey,
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please go out there and do something without telling you
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how to do it. You know, today I really give props.
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I asked. I asked Josh Right, actually, what y'all are
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live shooting today? Because I'm not aware of a live
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show today. He told me this is practice. Wow, only
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this plan practice is for livestream and that's the excellence
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that they're having. So big props to XTV right giving
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their best. I know I Anoledge Sunny, but I know
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behind Sanney there's Roy and there's Atol who is really
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giving their best. You know. They don't have to do this,
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you know, but they're doing it. So praise the Lord
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for your talent, and praise the Lord for your faithfulness,
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maying God, we want you whoheartedly And I tell you what, Roy,
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you are still praying. We're still praying for your father.
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We're going to declare life. We continue to declare life,
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and we're going to declare food, healing over a children
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amen name of Jesus. All right. So that's the five
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seas that we have been preparing for the next twenty years.
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So that's that. So the mission, the vision is that
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the mission, the mission again is to make disciples that
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make the difference, right and and Rachel shared last week,
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how how do we make disciples? All right? How the
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first part, the first f that's been given to us
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is to follow right, follow me. That's what Jesus said
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to his disciples. Follow me, and I will make you
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off man. Follow me, not the shampoo. Follow me? Is
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it follow me shampoo? Yes, follow me and I'll make
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you fishes of men. You're not going a revelation when
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it came to the follow me shampoo. You know when
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you're when without the follow me, your regularly very messy.
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But the moment you apply follow me, then your your
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path will become straight. That's what happens. If Jesus as well,
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your path will becomes strict. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. The
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next f that's been given to us is to feed
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my sheep. Yeah, if you love me, feed my sheep.
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And the last was given is to be fishies of men.
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So the summary, let's let's talk about the summary, and
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then we're going to move on into to day's sharing.
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The summary of the mission of discipleship is this. Yesterday,
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the leaders gett for salt and at the breakout, I
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in fact, the leadership instructed us to do a survey.
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And in this survey was very very very hard questions
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and we had to ask ourselves some of these hard questions, like,
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for example, when we come to church, we fully focus
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on what God has installed for us. That means when
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we become to church, do we come on time? I'm
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talking about the leaders are if you feel convicted, that's
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the Holy spirit, we come on time. Now I understand
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there are many circumstances, but that's that's circumstances, but that's conviction.
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Do we come on time because the Lord is saying,
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come go commit convict and we come. But somehow it's
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not our focus. It may be our focus at the
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back of our minds. I'm going to go to church.
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But I tell you what if the movie Avengers is happening,
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you know, December twenty twenty six, eighteen December, it's coming out,
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and you know that Don't is stuck is going to
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become doctor Doom, and you are you can't wait to
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watch that movie. You buy the ticket, you buy some
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golden ticket, fifty five ring it. You got to be
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there ten minutes before the movie starts because you are expecting.
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You are expecting to see what's about to happen. So
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when God convicts your heart, I'm not just talking about church.
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I'm talking about when you're visiting someone to pray for
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the person and you set seven o'clock. Are you there
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at six fifty? Are you there six forty five? I'm
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talking about when you wake theme in the morning and
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the Lord convicts you to put Jesus first, with him first.
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Do you put him first or are you going to
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check your phone for the next five minutes? Thing? I
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gotta reply my pastor these are things that you've got
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to catch. Friends and family and the leaders were given
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this question and he was really tough for me personally
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to answer some of them. And I wanted to just
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ask you this question this morning. What is the summary
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of the missional discipleship? And some of you you can
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see in your book steps the summary It is to
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always and only give our best to God. If we
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can summarize the missional discipleship, it is to always give
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only our best to Gods. Cannot share this to our leaders.
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In twenty twenty one, he used the example of a
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home leader and to some of you, you may when
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I mentioned the name, you will know who this person is,
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But I shall not, because I'm going to share my own.
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We have to ask ourselves, friends and family, have we
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been giving our best to God? Because for out of
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that best that we give unto God, it flows towards
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other parts of our lives. Because when we give our
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best to God, we will also be give our best
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to husbands and our wives and our children. But we
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do not give our best to God. Sometimes we find
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it difficult and challenging to give our best to men.
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So I had to question myself if I did give
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my best to my dad. You know, some of you
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here may not know me. I know that I carry
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my emotions on my shoulders sometimes, and that's a personal trait.
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Sometimes it may be advantage. Sometimes it maybe a disadvantage.
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But sometimes I carry too much on my shoulder. So
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if you know, you know, if then he's sad or
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he's upset, you know very clearly, And that's something that
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perhaps I'm trying to work on. However, I forgot, and
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for a moment in time, I forgot that he actually
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why why am I? Sometimes it just happened this year
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and someone just questioned me, like he actually, you're here,
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you're doing okay? And this person forgot that I just
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lost my dad five months ago. And when I reflected
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on that, and by the way, just by the grace
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of God, I want to just account to the church.
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I'm ready to move on. He's in heaven now and
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we're all happy. I'll see him in heaven and life
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is short. In the past week alone, we heard of
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tree love One's going off, some due to sicknesses, some
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due to just tragic, tragic, tragic accidents. But that's life.
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You never know when it's going to take you. You
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never know when it's going to happen. H So got
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to continue to remember that this is the mission to
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just give God your best in every area of a life,
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any moment, every living moment in your life. Just give
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your best because we don't know when it's the last
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time we're going to be able to say hello to
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one another, right, So why why regret? Why regret when
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you can do it now? For longest time, the guilt
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of caring for my dad was weighing on me because
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I often think to myself, did I give him enough?
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Did I give him enough time? Did I give him
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enough care? You know when I was when he was
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still with us, right, every little irk and crunk out there.
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To like a stop it, right, stop doing this, stop
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saying that, Stop being so silly, you know, stop shouting
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to mom this and that, this and that, And then
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the feeling is like, you know, why don't you come
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and see me more?
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As my mom said lately, why do you come and
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see me? What was his crime? And I was like,
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if it gets to you like I guess you're like, yeah,
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I should have. I can use the time to go
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and do other things instead, right things that perhaps, in hindsight,
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I would not have chosen. I would have rather chosen
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to go and spend on him. But I was driven
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by the guilt quite quite heavily. For a couple of months.
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I carry that burden. But recently I had to ask
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myself this question, and but helped me through this journey.
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He asked me, Daniel, did you give your best in
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the moment that you had? Were you there for him?
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And there was a piece that was in my heart
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because I knew that no matter what I do outwardly,
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I know inwardly I only had the best for my
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dad financially when he came to his hip replacement, without
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a blink of an eye, I withdraw a huge amount
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for my bank just to pay for that hip that
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you want. When we when we was what was that
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cremating the ashes? Yeah? That he was there, so I
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had to keep that hip. Now mean no, no, I
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did I put together with ashes? Yeah? So funny, you know,
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I tell you what the only thing left of him
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was that thing. I'm like, hello, if I knew, if
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I if just I knew ten thousand ring It just there? Okay? Anyways, Yeah,
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I'm like, wow, life is like there, you know you,
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no matter what you do, all material wealth, it will
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stay on this earth. It doesn't go with you to heaven.
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Nothing goes there, no matter how much ring it us
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stay heaving your pocket big coin, it stays here. So
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just live your life here to the best, to its fullest.
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Give your best, not to ards. For me, it was
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my dad. For you, it may be your family. Are
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you giving your best? Are you giving your best to
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those that God has given to you? To those your sons,
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your daughters, your spiritual sons, your spiritual daughters, you're in laws.
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The god.
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There have been serving us for the longest time down there,
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the hate God. If you know his name, anyone knows
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his name, anyone knows the hate guard that is serving
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us down here. His name. Let me reveal his name
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to you so that you can quite say thank you
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to him one day. His name is su Nil. Okay,
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I think some of you will remember. His name is
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so Nail. He's a lovely person. He keeps our place safe,
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right yeah, directs direct people the church. Did you know that?
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You know? I want to share your destimony, And I
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know I'm thinking taking a bit of tension a little bit,
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but did you know that this place, Legacy was never
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meant to be a church. Did you know that we
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actually faced a lot probably know when we first got
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this place, there was a lot of caveats. You know,
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you shall not name me a church. So we had
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to come out. I don't know what the legacy recording
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studio or don't know what studio, don't know what cannot
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call you a church, cannot put out sign out church,
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nothing can be church. You know today you see big
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fat signbot over there at church. God's leading our people
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down to church management, not giving us problem. Rent still
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read the same hallelujah, praise a lot. Amen. This can
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only be because of God's goodness. No weapon form against
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us shall prosper because of those who are faithful. Amen.
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Come on, Let's continue, be faithful, Let's continue run is
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racis and the resists many things that we don't see.
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Someone words feel that, Hey, it's been three years now
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turning to four years soon, that's gonna come mooning? Are
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we growing? I don't know what you may think, but
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the fact is that a God that doesn't even believe
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in Jesus is leading people to our church. Come on, friends,
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I think that deserves praise. Amen, that deserves giving God glory.
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Can we do that this morning? Can we give her
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a glory to nod a shout of praise. There are
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things that we do not see that is happening in
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the spiritual realm. We do not see. The Holy Spirit
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is fighting our battles. Did you know that? Did you
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know that for everything that's happening in your being? The
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Lord is fighting our battles for us, against principalities that
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we can't even see. And yet sometimes we lie down
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on our pit we go like, oh, life is good
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in the background. Yeah, I encourage your friends. Church is growing.
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God is going to be continue to be glorified, and
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nothing is going to stop that in the name of Jesus.
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Let's go on to today's topic. What is the difference?
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So what is the difference? We have heard these a
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million times. We have heard John Tree sixteen. We have
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heard Habakup two fourteen. We have heard Genesis one one.
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We have heard John ten ten, we have heard First
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Cointance thirteen thirteen. Now I'm just writing all the verses
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that I like that. Okay, we've heard it all. We
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have heard the Great Commission, we have heard the Great Commandment.
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What's the difference? What is the difference? The difference is this, friends,
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many of us or many of these things we have
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heard before. So what makes this different? The first thing
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that makes this different is this? What is God saying? Okay?
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What is God saying? Sometimes it's very easy to hear
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what the pasta says, what passa kindo says. Take it
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as gossible, because yeah, he's a man of God. I
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want to encourage your friends and family. This is not
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just a buzzer kind of chesture. This is not just
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exotic computing a buzza Daniel chesch, Yes, it's not. It
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may be started by us, it may be you know,
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we are here doing the work, but it is not ours.
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It still belongs to God. I want to encourage you
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everything that comes out of this place. You got to
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have a person that encounter with the Lord. Amen. What
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is God saying? Because how about two fourteen is big?
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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of
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the glory the rod as one is court to see
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it's big. How is it apply to you? What is
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God saying? Just been in your current situation, in your
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current scenario, what is God saying, do you go back,
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we want his shed today and you put it on
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the altar and you say, Lord, speak to me, did
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you do it? Because it is important because without that,
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it's no different. Without that, it's going to be something
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that you can say. And this is very familiar phase.
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I've heard this before. I've heard it before the start
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zoning already, right, I heard it before a million times already.
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That what makes it different is that when you take
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it home and you personalize it and you ask God,
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what are you saying? How does it apply to me? Amen?
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The next thing is that when you hear from God
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and you want to come under the covering of a church,
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because that's important as well, it's not important, then it
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won't be a scripture. Paul will go around planning churches.
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Having a body of Christ is important. Have you got
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placed to come home and root down? It's important. The
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second thing that makes it different is what is or
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what are your leaders saying. Some of us here may
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take scripture home and then go to God and suddenly
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God says to him. God says to him, thou shall
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party in the club all night and do whatever you want.
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We've until you know whatever, because you know what, I
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gotta reach that one person who's drunk. It's not therefore
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I either to be drunk as well. Some people may
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go go the way God told me that. You know.
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You know how many times we have to come across
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people who say, God say, if God say now, what
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else am I going to say? God say, God say
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thou shall be drunk to reach a drunk The only
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thing you should be drunk is the Holy Spirit. That's
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the only thing you should be drunken. Yeah, or drunk water? Yeah,
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I drunk water. So the second thing is this what
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your leaders saying, you hear from God? You bring it back.
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If it's not important, Paul wouldn't say follow me as
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I follow Christ. You won't say that. You won't say that.
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God would't allow that to be permitted, permit that to
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be in the Bible. If following after man is not important,
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because as long as a follow man that follows Christ,
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that is what God wants of us. Amen. So bring
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it back to the Paul, bring it back to the leader.
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Align with the leader. There's a condition. Okay, God says
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this to you, all right, do this in the covering
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of the church. And I tell you what that becomes
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the responsibility of the church. You are no longer responsible.
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If the Church puts you in this way and the
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alignment is this way, and it's alignment the word of God,
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then go going through for as a second thing that
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makes it different, Okay, the final one, and I is
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the most important. And likewise the leadership is this. What
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are you say? Because God can say a million things
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to you, so can the leaders say a million things
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to you. But if you say no, then it's as
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good as bye bye. He is as good as bye bye.
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If you say no, then how are we gonna move?
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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of
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the glory of the Lord, as the water's compled. I
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say no, Lord, no, for Daniel shall be exalted in
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this earth as the sand covers the shaws. If that
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is what you are going after, then how Because you
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have to find and say, you have to find a choice.
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You have to free will and then have the choice
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of whether you wanna take the fruit or not. Right,
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it still comes down to us. It still comes down
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to your faithfulness, It still comes down to your decision making.
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It still comes down to your obedience. Amen. And that's
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the third one, the cooperation. What are you saying? What
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are you saying? So there are lines under one, two
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and Tree, Right, you can write for number one it's
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the word conviction. Number two is the word condition, and
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number three is the word cooperation. You can write that
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now if you want to take it down. Tree, Ce's
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for you to remember. All right, you must go away
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saying something. You must go away saying something, whether yes
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or no. You don't see someone asking someone to marry
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that someone, right, Wow, you don't hear like Rochelle, would
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you marry me? Right? Russia has to give an answer
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yes or no. Even though she say waiter, eventually she
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still have to say yes or no. Right, There still
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must be an answer. Same way here with the vision
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of God given upon his church. When we hear it,
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we must go away saying something. You said, Oh, yes
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we are really ready for this, or yes I'm not
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ready for this. But I tell you what, I'm still
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to go anyways and see where that leads, because I
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tell you what journey with God is often that way.
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I don't know what the future holds ahead of me,
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but yet I'm still gonna walk. I'm still gonna walk
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through this valley of shadow of death because God, you
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are with me, your own your staff will comfort me.
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But I tell you what, I don't know why in
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the world is ahead of me. But or we say no,
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this is not for me. Feeling this with the knowledge
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of the glory of the Lord is not for me.
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You have to make a choice, your mad decision. Remember Jesus.
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Remember Jesus. After hearing what others said about him, he asked, Pizza,
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who do you say I am? My fun Chapter sixteen,
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verse fourteen to fifteen. So they say, some say John
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the Baptists, they're referring to Jesus. Who is Jesus? Some
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say Elijah and others Jeremiah or one of the Professora
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the lie and verse fifteen. Jesus looked at them and
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said to his disciples, looks like I'm straight to die. Yes,
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I know you may be thinking I'm days I'm dead.
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But who do you say I am? Who do you
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say I am? Who do you say I am? It's
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important to know what Jesus is saying. He verse fifteen.
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I repeat again, He said to them, but who do
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you say that I am? So, friends and family, here's
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my question to all of you this morning. Who is
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Jesus to you? Who is Jesus to you? Because it's
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very easy to glorify God in the app but it's
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very difficult to glorify Him in the town. And I
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learned that through many circumstances, and the most recent on
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being my dad is very difficult. It's very difficult to
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see light in the end of the tunnel when there's
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st light, but there is there is like, Amen, Amen,
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I'm going to give you the three ls the tree
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elves that basically grounds the vision of X Church. Who
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we are that we need, that we need? Right? The
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first L is this? What is the vision focused on?
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Where we say that the glory of the Lord, the
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knowledge of the glory, I shall feel this. What what
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are we looking at? Are we looking at bringing or
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showcasing or testifying of God's goodness to the believers? Because
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with the believers is this it's not sharing the gospel
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to them, it's making disciples. Yeah, But the focus has
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always been about the loss. So that's the first L.
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That is always a feeling, the loss. The vision of
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X has always been about the loss. Now below that line,
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you will see that everyone can be a leader. You
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can strike that off because that is a typo. Yeah,
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you can strike that off. But the vision has always
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been a lot about the loss. We can't do this church,
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we can't execute this vision properly if we do not
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have the heart for the loss. How many of you
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out there have been to KL. I don't know anyone
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haven't been to KL before. I always thought that. I
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always thought when I was growing up that I was
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in KL, only to find out that actually I was
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in slang or all this one everywhere I go Qualuma
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from quum Po. Actually I never stepped through in qualum
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Po when I was young. Slang money you know. Actually,
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to be fair, I was born in a police station. Okay, yes,
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my birth certificate is police station. If you've been to
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KL and uh, you've been through this specific street in
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which is called Pitaling Street. There are many many corners
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that when you walk you notice that there are people
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that are homeless, people without food, people without water, no money.
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Some of them carry their children around asking for money,
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asking for food. I don't know. When you see these
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kind of people, what's the first thing that comes to
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your heart? Is it empathy. Is it sympathy? I'm not okay,
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I'm not saying what you're gonna do, because I was
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our wisdom you do not, we do not give. But
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for me when I see these coin of people, the
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first thing I come to my my heart is what
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a pity? Such a pity? I mean, not able to
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help you? Sound like a good Samaritan. But I may
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not be able to help you, but maybe maybe if
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I can, I will. But the sense of you know,
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I want the shame is there? Right? And I think
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likewise everybody here with a moral standard, and I know
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and I believe all of you do. There's a certain
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sense that you want to help you can. If you're
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Elon Muss right, and you have all the money in
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the world, I believe you will, you will, you will
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help them. Just then we get done you and get
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I'm sure you will, but I want to encourage you
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this way. Do we see the same when we go
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down to Eco Century Mall and we walk across people
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that do not know Jesus, do our hearts go to
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Does it bit fast? Does it go like, oh my,
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this person if he doesn't believe he's going to spend
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eternity without God. I want to say, go to hell,
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but it's not nice to say that, right, But that's
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the reality. Right. If this person does not believe in Jesus,
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and except Hemus, he's not a lot of savior, they're
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not going to end up in heaven. I am going
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to be in heaven because I believe in Jesus. By
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walking past this guy, all I want to tell you something.
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I saw your name that he says, Michelle, Jesus loves you.
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I don't know how I'm alway east eating, but I
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don't know how many of you have that feeling, that
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heart for the loss. That's heart for some of us.
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May may miss misappropriated or misunderstanding by saying there's a
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hidden agenda wherever we go, there's a hidden agenda. I
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tell you what I would wear that agenda loud, bro.
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Maybe the is that what's wrong? Have you heard? Agenda?
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If he means saving that person? What's wrong? Or Christians?
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I tell you what they're all fake on. I tell
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you they only want to make friends of me because
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they want to convert me to Christianity. Yeah, I genuinely
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want to make friends with you, not because I want
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to convert you. To prison Christianity. But because I know
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that the fact is that if you go and take this,
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you will succeed, You will prosper, you will not fall.
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You do not feeling. You're not dying when it comes
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to life whenever there's no such thing agenda more quanda.
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I don't care. Really, you're hanging from the cliff. You're dying. Readay, okay,
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I want to fall out your demise. Let's some want
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to say hello, nice to meet you. You only want
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to be friends with me because you want to pla
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do we aun saying I wear this tax problem? There's
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no shame. There's no shame friends in having the Gospel
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at the back of our minds. There's no shame in
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that you can genuinely be friends with that person. Yes,
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but having the gospel in the beat of by one day,
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if I get the opportunity, I'm going to share Jesus.
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There's nothing wrong with that. Stop stop being so so
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affected by that. It's okay, it's okay. When you're a
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seller insurance, you have either either gender, so no problem, right,
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no problem. You think all this peop won't make friends
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of you. They're selling insurance. They genuinely become friends of you.
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Maybe they do, but in the better way. When I
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get the opportunity, I will sell insurance of this person.
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It's the same thing with the gospel. So we got
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to have the heart for the loss. That's what it means.
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We got to have the heart. Because we doubt that heart,
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we can't we can't run this resion. Now does that
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mean that if someone you say, actually, I really don't
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care what the people out there, then I cannot be
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about extiously because I cannot believe me. No, if you
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do not have the heart of the law yet I pray.
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I pray, and it should be your prayer as well.
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Lord give me the heart of the loss. Lord gives
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me the heard. I didn't start with the heart for
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the loss of Bay. Friends, I would rather than all
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burn and rod in hell because they treat me so
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badly when I was younger. Really, I didn't grow up
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having their heart naturally. I had to pray for it.
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Bring my heart for what breaks yours. It's a prayer,
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you know. Friends, we believe that Jesus Christ died for
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our sins. It becomes we believe in that we want
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to love as He loves, and we can't do this
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by our own, amen. You can't do this by our
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own amen. The second L that we need is the
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leaders is the leader, says the second L. We need
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leaders to rise up, not talking about just some of
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us that are wearing attack. Where's my ta okay in
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the back. Yeah. Just reminder, when I saw Edward, if
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he's delivered, be beautiful, tech looks so good like on you.
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I was just not just talking about that. I'm not
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just talking about leaders in the marketplace. I'm not just
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talking about that. We're talking about leaders in the In
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the previous part, I think believe it's part two, we
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mentioned that a definition of a leader is the ones
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that lead themselves. As long as you lead yourself, you're
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a leader. When you're playing the drums, you lead yourself
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to worship God. When you're playing the base to boo
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boo boo boo boom boom, boom boom, you lead yourself
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to worship God. You can easily just pay the base,
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without which worshiping got just requiet, and then just like
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stay at your own your own self. It happens to
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me too. But we lead ourselves. We tell ourselves, no,
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today is the day that you have made, and today
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I shall rejoice and be clearing it. I made that decision.
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Yesterday may be a difficult day, many things may have happened.
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But today I'm going to wakeme knowing that it's a
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new day. The Lord and his mercies are new every morning.
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And I tell you what I've already asked forgiveness, and
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I'm going to move on because the Lord has forgiven me.
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I'm no longer going to suck and just be emo emo,
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Move on with your life, move on, lead yourself. Everyone
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can be a leader. Everyone can lead yourself. Amen. You
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know in the previst part, we heard the vision right,
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one thousand times one thousand, Yeah, one thousand homes, one
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person planting one homes, one whole time, and we get
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on something. You look at the number and go like,
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oh my goodness. The one thousand that we already have.
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Everyone should be a disciple and eventually leads someone to
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the Lord a leader. There's the second L that we need,
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and the third L is this for some of us,
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we may not know what it means. What it's called.
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The eleven. The eleven all right, Matthew thirteen verse the
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three says this Jesus said, the kingdom of heaven is
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like eleven. Heaven eleven the heaven eleven. The kingdom of
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heaven is like eleven Matthew thirteen thirty three, which a
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woman took and hit in three measures of male till
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it was all eleven. That's how the verse completes itself. Eleven.
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For some of you that may not understand, it's like yeas. Okay,
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leven is like yeas. And when yeas is put in
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the door, for some of you who do baking right,
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it is important because it begins to rise. Though without
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eleven were not rise in the likewise, in the same way,
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without the eleven, the door doesn't rise. And without eleven
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in our lives we will remain stagnant and flat. How
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many of us like to remain stagnant and flat? How
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many of you like to bake a cake and the
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cake just remain flat? How many are love to bake
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bread and the bread doesn't rise. You put the bread
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to rise in the fridge, but you do not put
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the leaven the yeast in the bread, And you open
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the fride and go like, how come this thing that
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will grow on? I don't know how many of you
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good bakers here in this place, but without the eleven,
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the door will not rise, and same way we will
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be stagnant without Leven and the eleven. Here we are
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referring to to here is is this eleven gets disciples
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and leaders out of their comfort zone. Okay. When we
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put Leven in our lives spiritually, it gets us out
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of our comfort zone. Okay, it expands us. We get
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sent out labors into the harvest field. We get kicked out,
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get kicked out. You know the words sent out refers
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to being kicked out as well. Yeah, kicked out. The
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real and secret growth is radical obedience to God, radical
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obedience to God. Amen. The secret is this God. If
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you say so, we say so God. If you say so,
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we say so. If you say love your enemy, we
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also say love your enemy. If you say forgive, you
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also say forgive. If you say go, we you so go. Amen.
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That's how it is, and that's how Leven is being
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put into our lives. Is it comfortable, No, it's not.
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It's not comfortable, but is necessary, Amen, It is necessary
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for our growth. If you say jumped, we say how high.
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The foundation of our first twenty years was this, how
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how did X grow from three people into what we
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are today, and Passers share reverse that it starts from
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being obedient, and not just obedient, but radical obedience. Imen
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radical obedience. It was really just a three of them
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being obeedient to the Lord. Was it was? It was?
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It was it a normal thing for three young men.
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It was how you may look at Passa now, why
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is fifty blass? They are just reveals it? Ah, I
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think you reveal himself next weeks one Andre's birthday, by
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the way, so we'll be celebrating together here. We look
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at them now and we go like wow, for wisdom?
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Why is strong independent? But did you know that twenty
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years ago they were younger than me? And if he
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has the same issues, you know, how can you lead
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a cheschla? You're so young? You're so young? Do you
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even have children? Advise us about children? Who are you
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to give us advice about young children? In mission? Feel
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when you reward children? You know this a lot of
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things that were said, but then you would your post
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received this. He was just radically obedient to the Lord.
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There's a lot say to school to school today because
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of the radical obedience, this church is not just young
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people anymore. But this church has grown into a place
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where their old people as were also not so young
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people young in heart. I just said old, maybe offense
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some people. I'm still getting there you anyway, So maygan
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just get me because she's tied to her age is
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tied to me. Okay. Anyways, when I get old, you
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get old to ha ha ha. So raise the God. Okay.
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So when when now he's at the place where it's families,
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you know, yeah, but we won't get there. If buster
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was affected by that comment, young people cannot lead church,
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So do not despise your youth and older ones in
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a year, don't despise the youth. Don't say that this
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church cannot grow because there's a young person leading it.
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Do not say that about any church for that matter,
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because the young people is going to lead themselves because
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they have the Holy Spirit. Amen. I believe. I believe
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one day or our young people here will become I
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don't know prime ministers, even in prime minister, I don't know.
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Maybe she just look at me her. If I environ minister,
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I shall make green hair a mandatory thing for every uh,
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every human being on Malaysia. But we believe in young
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people and I pray that you will too. You wild too,
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they meant, But it took radical obedience. Yeah, so much
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hardship came. In two thousand, we lost our building. In
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twenty ten, we lost our building. I think past share
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this before he almost started giving up. In fact, think
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he almost did. Forget about what kind of master loses
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the church? So I will see some of that. Just
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join church now, may go like, yeah, that's pass a
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kind of But it takes a journey of preparation to
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get to where you are supposed to be, in the
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corners of the will of God, and it takes radical
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obedience to get there. In the process of getting there,
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you may struggle, you may suffer, you may sell on
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people's stores by telling you what Just move on because
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his mercies are new every morning. Amen, Just move on.
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Just talking about my life, each and every one of
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you can do that as well. Do not be grounded
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by what the enemy is trying to do, because he's
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just here to seek here and destroy you. The moment
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you say I give up, ah, you know what, so
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bel he wins so first and for me, we've got
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to fight this battle together, and not just together. We're
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gonna depend on the Holy Spirit. Amen. And he will
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fight for he will fight for us. He will fight
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for us. And if he is for us, then who
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shall be against us? Amen? And that's the next point?
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Is there? Radical unity? Radical unity? Let's continue to speak
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up for one another. Speak up, no speak down. I
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know I'm speaking down to soth, you know, literally looking down,
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but actually we've got to look up, right. We've got
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to speak up with one another. We've got to continue
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to lift one another up. We've got to continue to
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not just lift one another in our own emotions or
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sometimes very easy to say, I today, right, handsome, you
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know today are very beautiful. But I'm not just talking
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about that. I'm talking about if let's say I hear
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of person a that I know of a person as
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character is one of this, and know that hey, he
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is actually okay, and then sadly, behind the behind the
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scenes person be he can't respond to my ear and
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say that, yeah, do you want this person? My response
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should be what what's my response be? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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no my experience person a something like that, But let
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me check, don't go and join the partida yeah yeah,
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no check account. Yeah, if anybody comes to me and
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tells me that my wife is not a loving person,
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I wouldn't believe it, because to me, she's the most
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loving person I've ever known. Right, just getting some brownie
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points from the in laws because cny coming one once
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at home. Just kidding, just kidding, married that you cannot
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get okay, Uh, that's that's out there about about to
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come soon. Save your money for camp. Okay, hallah. Praised
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a lot besides the point okay uh. Third point besides
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being united, is this, be generous. Be generous, you know,
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be generous sometimes. Uh it's easier for someone that does
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not have anything to give more than someone who has everything.
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You mean, think that you are being generous, But in
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the great scheme of things, are you really? I'm not.
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When we may talk about generosity, right, we're not just
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talking about finance. So financial generosity, be generous in the
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giving of a talent. Ohya, I serve this church three
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years Alreadyala, I think by the time is up, let
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other be burst. I tell you what Christians and believers
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I don't encourage you are. And this is something that
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I bullying pandung in my own life. If I ever
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get there, I hope my wife will slaughter me and
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feed me to the cows if I ever get there, Okay,
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but the grace of God, I won't get there. Yeah,
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you may ask what cows ask more? Okay, So I
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figure speech, this is the this is the sentence I
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bullying pundunk Okay, and I I get this for my
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baster's especially pat center. My time is up. Let other
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people that over this still say this. I think, I
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hope and I prayer that none of you in Escaca
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will catch Because until the day that you have breath
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in your lungs, are you have a part to play.
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Until the day that you have breath in your lungs,
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you have a part to play. But the Sandra's dead
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before you passed on. Until the day he was struggling,
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you know, he's back, he couldn't walk. But until the
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day that he couldn't walk, he was still out there
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in front, seventy plus years oh, shaking his hands, Welcome
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the church, Come the church, the church. Until the day
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that he couldn't physically what anymore, he was still going
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into prison in the street. Yes it's important to raise
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the next generation. Yes it's important to watch them, but
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you still got to watch some people say, okay, now
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my time is not let's fight, let's let's raise the
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next generation. But you're nowhere to be seen. How are
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you raising the next generation when you're no where to
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be seen. You got to be dead somewhere observing, right,
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it is I do you watch? I do you help?
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You do I help? Mm hmm ha, you do I watch? Right?
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It is not you do it? I chow. I don't
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think it's that way you do? I chow. No, you
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too want that. You tu want God to treat you
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that way as well? You too want God to do that?
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Do that?
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You do you as well? Oh, you are well and wanted,
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capable already. While you're a mature human being, you are
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a mature Christian. You do everything.
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Now.
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I used to watch over you, but now I chow.
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You want that? No, that's not how we operate. So
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be generous, friends, Be generous with your giving unto the Lord,
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in both finances, in talent, in time, in raising on
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the next generation. Be generous with that. Amen, then will
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come there. So these are the requirements for the next
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twenty years of our growth. Okay, these are the requirements
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for the next twenty years of our growth. The first
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one is radical ideas. We won't grow if we will
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we do not have radical ideas. Okay, we will not
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grow if we do not have radical ideas. And what
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is radical ideas? Radical ideas come from the daily brain.
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Give us this day, our daily brain. Amen, give us
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this day our daily breain. We got to depend on
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the daily bread from the Lord. That's why I always
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emphasize that it's important. It's important to talk to the
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Lord daily. Some of you may not have the capacity,
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or maybe you may not have it yet. But if
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you have not been speaking to the Lord daily, pray
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that you will develop the culture that habit that way
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of life. Speak to him one way or another. Help
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us Lord, because without the daily bread, the people of
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Israel will not have survived. Without the daily manner, the
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people of Israel will not have survived the desert. The
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people of Israel was desperate. I put myself in there
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in your shoes. Sometimes we do not understand or do
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not realize that we do not have it until we
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are actually desperate. They were hungry, they were without water,
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they were without food, and that's really really long for it.
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They already came. You've got to be there. You gotta
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be there. You've got to be there early to receive
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your daily berate. I don't know how many words treat
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God this way again yesterday the Leaders meeting. The questions
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that we asked us else is that if we can't
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even do it, then how can we expect people to
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do it? And the character to all of us partners
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is this, if you do not have the daily break
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from the Lord, then how can you expect God to
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move in your life? How can you unlock their potential?
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The next thing that is important for our growth for
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the next twenty years is this radical initiatives with the brain.
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If the daily break comes ideas, and when the ideas comes,
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the initiative and initiative is something that we have to
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do out of our own self. And this is the
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word tithe. First January, we tithe our time to the
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Lord by coming together to pray. The first thing that
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we do in the new year is to pray, come
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together to seek the Lord for some of you that
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will be able to be there. You would have heard
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Pus this message on loving God, for God's soul loves
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this world and he soul loves us. He didn't just
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love us, his soul love us, such an emphasis to
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his love for us. Yes, we've got to take our
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own initiative, you know, to plan. The idea is important,
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but without implementation, which is the leven, we won't be
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able to achieve the plan. Without the leven, we won't
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be able to achieve the plan because we remain segmented.
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We won't move, we won't grow. So we've got to
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type again, not just the financial aspect of tithing, but
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we're gonna type our time onto the Lord. We're gonna
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type our ideas unto the Lord. We've got to commit
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our ideas under the Lord. Amen. Amen. Church. And finally,
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the one over there, the empty empty line is radical
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implementation implementation. So you're tithing, you're saying, the Lord, I'm
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going to tie this unto you, but without putting in
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the bag, it will not happen. Amen, So radical implementation eleven.
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Now we're going to go into some challenges of our vision.
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Some of you here may be wondering that yeah, easy man,
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easier to say that you share, but how are we
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going to do it? So I'm going to share you
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some challenges and this will be potential pitfalls that will
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cause us to be stagnant and we may not grow. Okay.
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The first challenge to our vision is again the loss. Okay,
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it is the focus, but it is also the challenge.
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The greatest challenge to our vision is that we can't
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achieve it without winning the loss and in this case
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lots of them. The whole ex Church vision is based
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on the fifth W. If you have been the homes,
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you would have known that we have gone through the
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experience book, which is the da Ana of X Church,
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and you know the fifth W what is it? Witness?
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Witness is the fifth W. The church isn't here in Malaysia.
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Just to look after the ten percent, and if you
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are following the statistics, it's now eight point nine percent
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used by nine point two last I check eight point nine.
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I don't know whether that makes you beat in a
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certain way. That means h. You know, I I recently
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went to Korea, not recently two years ago and a
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half years ago, one hours ago, I think one and
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a half. I read the Korea UH and I went
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to Yoido Church and UH experienced such a life changing
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experience there. You know, it was great experienced. I tell you,
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the presence of God was really so tangible right. But
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we went to another place I think it's It was
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in john Ju and we were trying to go to
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this English speaking church. We went there and it was
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just three old people and then said, and then we
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had the piers, you have dinner with them, and all
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the dinner they shared us. Corea used to be such
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a place where when you say the career, you think Christians,
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you think believe us, because about twenty eight percent quite
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big population of Korea. Now that place, that percentage has
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dropped to an extent where you go to Louido big church,
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and I think some of the megachiches in Korea is
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the same way as well. Service after service service Phoenician
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people lining up at the door, just pushing themselves to
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enter into the service, and it's like very elderly and
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go out going. So it's like very very un orderly.
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But one thing, you know, Lisa, you look down, not
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a single young person there. You know, the young people
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will go for the youth service. And the youth service
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is only one. The other was Service seven. The Pray
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Mountain unlimited bus rites up and now up and up
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and down, but the whole bus is all all be
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burnt I'm telling you the effects are and I tell you,
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if this continuous, and this is the cry of the
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Corean church, He's a crier's't you? This is a crier.
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Say when we die, we're in the chest. The church
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will diverse. We're talking about Korea, a place where it's done.
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It's done. We go there, we go like this church.
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I wish exches. She's like that. Yeah, but this is
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the crier of the chest. A place, a nation, a
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nation who calls themselves the United States of America a
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Christian nation. You ask any American, you'll see that the
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Gospel is more important than ever because it's being kindled
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down to a place where things that are in the
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Bible specifically mentioned not to do, yet being celebrated over
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there and now being accepted as the norm. Yes, love
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the sinner, but hate the sin. That's what the Bible says.
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But somehow it cuts many related and it's not changing,
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it's changing. Were engage it just now now maybe stepping
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into unfamiliar territory. Year, But it's just a fact. We
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love them. We love them, really we do. We accept them,
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but we do not accept. Yes, it's hard, it's hard
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to precious messages. But where are we friends in Malaysia,
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Where are we ten percent when this message was shared
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eight point nine? Now it's hard and if this continues
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to go on and on and on, and sometimes we
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will be surprised by thisa. But read the second half
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of Daniel, the Book of Daniel, and you won't be surprised.
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You won't be surprised. Amen. So this is the challenge.
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The challenge here is really the church here in Malaysia
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is not just to look after the ten percent, but
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the ninety percent. For the Son of Man has come
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to sick and save that which was lost. Jesus came,
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He knew what he was here for, and he did it.
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If that was the vision, there was the mission of
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the son of Man, which is Jesus, and want more
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us if that is his focus, and if we are
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his followers, that must be our focus as well. Amen.
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Here and asks we are also known as the fifth
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w Witness. God wants us to engage into the fifth
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year and take this vehicle up to maximum speed with
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maximum distance before he returns. The second greatest challenge that
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we have is the leaders. The leaders. We can't do
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this without leaders and laborers. We can't Mentea Chapter nine
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vers to the seven to the eight. Then he said
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to his disciples, the harvest truly is plentiful, but the
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laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord. Pray to
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the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into
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his harvest. The word said now over here, as I
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alluded to earlier, it is the word kicked out. That
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means the church has to start kicking people out into
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the harvest. What does it sound like? Friends? Does set
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sound like another worship service? I'm asking real questions here.
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Do set sound like another worship service? Or does set
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sound like Rochelle going to Massa? Because that's where the
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hovest is, you know, not here the house out there,
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The house is in better up. That's what we're supposed
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to do. Kick out, move out into the harvest that
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the Lord of will send people out, and the church
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has an important part to play in that. That's the challenge.
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That's the challenge. The problem has never been about the harvest,
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but the harvesters. We were never taught to pray for
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the harvest. Sometimes we pray, right, Lord, bringing the harvest,
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Lord bringing the people into church this morning, But we're
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never taught to pray that way, she thought to pray
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for us. Lord, shake up our hearts, shake up our traditions,
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shake up our thoughts, shake up the way we think
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about life. Shack us up, shack us up to the call,
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move us to a place where we can't stand, but
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be kicked out, be sent out into this land. And
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that's the only way that the eight is going to
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go up. Amen, because the Lord desires all, I repeat,
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the Lord desires all to come to the saving grace
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of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. He meen not just one,
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not just two, not just eight nine percent, but all
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that is his desire here. Whether it's the reality we
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know from scripture, it will not happen. But we do
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not know what the final number is. So we've got
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to continue to be faithful with what we have in
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our church. The third greatest challenge is the eleven. We
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can't do it without eleven, which is a sending up Romans.
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Then Verse thirteen two fifteen says, for whoever calls upon
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the name of the Lord shall be safe. How then
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shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
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And how shall they believe in Him of whom they
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have not heard, and how should they hear without a preacher?
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How shall they preach unless they are sent? And it
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is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who
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preach the Gospel of peace, who bring lead tidings in
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good things? Leven is the discipline. Eleven is the discipline
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first Corincdiance nineteenty six to twenty seven. Therefore I run
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us not with uncertainty. I fight not as one who
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beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring
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it to subjection. Less when I have preached to artists,
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I myself should become disqualified. Eleven is the disciplined. Friends
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and family, it takes discipline to bring the Gospel to
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the loss. Some words here may think that, oh, I
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don't have what it takes. I am not a naturally
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gifted speaker. I am not a naturally gifted evangelist. I cannot.
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I cannot friends and family. That may be true. But
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what you have inside of you is discipline. When your
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child misbehaves and you have to discipline them, it's an
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action that you have to think. He does not have
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it naturally in himself. What he has naturally in himself
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is the disobedience a child. Right, You don't have to
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teach a child to lie. He lies, but you discipline him.
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And when you discipline him, he will have to discipline himself.
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The next time he wants to lie, he has to
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tell himself, no, I will not lie. But some of
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us you struggle to go and to share the gospel
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because we think that we do not have what it takes. Yes, personally,
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maybe maybe you're right, you do not have what it takes.
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But you know who has what it takes, the Holy Spirit.
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And if you discipline yourself and allow the Holy Spirit
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to move in you, that's going to be to wait
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to move forward. And that's why it's the greatest challenge,
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one of the greatest challenges. It's the lack of discipline. Amen,
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So discipline yourself, friends and family. Levin is the doing. Next, bitch,
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we're gonna We're gonna close very soon, Leven is the doing.
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Discipline is important. You know, before I close and before
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I end very quickly? Is that you know when I
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was I shared this before four years ago, before I
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got married. I told my wife that I'm going to
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lose weight. I told my wife, and I think I
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don't know what I did mention to my in laws.
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I don't know when my loss Toller was fat, but uh,
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how can I give my my daughter to this fat guy?
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I don't know what. I don't know. I don't I
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don't know. I don't remember that. But in my memory
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maybe God no, no, no, no no, they were very loving,
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They're very loving.
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Ah.
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But I made a compliment to my wife. You know
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I did. I did when I when I proposed to her,
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I did. I said, I will lose weight, I would
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lose it. I will lose it, I'll lose it. I did.
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I did?
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I did you forget?
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I did?
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It doesn't mean it wasn't gay, I did. I did.
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Uh come the wedding day, I didn't, But she still
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decided to get married to me. Praise a lot, but
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I didn't. For the first three years. You know, after
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we got married, it was the pandemic. Hallylujah, praiss every day.
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I WoT food, food, food, so she said, good cook
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gne I tell you, no exercise, no nothing. I just
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wish pickaball came four years earlier. My thing. It was.
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I was so I was so on fire to to
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to to lose weight. I tried to go to the gym.
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La dead la. Nothing happened, And I thought that because
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I wasn't naturally gifted. Therefore you say as an excuse, no,
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it is not for me. I tell you what. I
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tell you. What if I were to look back at
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my younger self, I'll give him one by passlet on
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the face and say you let discipline. Discipline is the
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only thing that will get you there. You know you
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think I lost weight now because of pickaball. No, I can't.
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I would be still as fat as ever if I
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didn't discipline myself or the next sugar. Ah, that's the secret.
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You think Pickaba lose weight. No, hey, hallelujah, nothink pickable
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lose weight? Just cardioony is the sugar. Accuse me, it's
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the minor eyes. Thank god. My wife went to another
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company that to stop drinking my low. I should not
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name the not the name of the company. H But
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it's the sugar. So it's the discipline. You got to
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disipline yourself, is it is? It? Is it difficult? Yes?
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Every day wen I dream though I know every day
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when I dream about the sugar. Oh, got disagree myself.
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And because of the discipline, you get the result, hallelujah,
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praise a lot. Now I can't button my shirt. I can,
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but then my shirt without having to a brief sucking
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my thummy. Okay, Yeah, that's that's how how it gets.
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It starts difficult, but as you disiplate yourself, it gets easier.
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It gets easier, it gets easier, and then more shuld
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you just become your way, some of you being struggle.
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You're showing the gospel now. But come on, come on, friends,
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there's going to be a day where you can button
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your jacket when it comes to the gospel. Praise it
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not hallelujah, Amen, all the abundance of the heart the
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mouth was speak. And when your mouth speak abundance, your
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tummy becomes smaller. Then you get okay, praise the Lord.
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Imagine the day. Imagine a day let's go some hard check.
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Imagine a day where witnessing so winning, discible making leaders
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producing that they're releasing wow, becomes momentum, heaving culture custom.
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Imagine the day when I come into this church and
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it becomes a normal Friends and family, I always close
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your eyes right now and imagine the day that this
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place is filled with double the amount of people and
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half of them do not know Jesus. Can you imagine?
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Can you picture it? What a beautiful site? Amen, children
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running around ex kids needing to get thirty more teachers
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praise the lot because there's thirty more kids that don't
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know Christ. And God bless your teachers. But it's going
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to be a privilege. Imagine the day that this becomes
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a norm. But this day it will never come. It
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will continue to be our dreams if you do not
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have discipline. We got to start somewhere, friends, We've got
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to start somewhere, and how do we get there? Next
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page says the implementation. We've got to adopt the diet
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of God. The diet of God is this is our interpretation, right,
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but it kind of interpreted this way. Daniel lived on
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vegetables and waters for ten days and became stronger and fatter.
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This is the way God wants. Asked for a purpose
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to live on God's diet. Not the King's diet. Yeah,
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not the meat, not the substance, not the wine, bodies
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of the diet of God. And what is the diet
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of God is the world of God. Let's break God's
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diet down way quickly. Number one is the daily bread.
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Make a list. Make a list. Friends, When you hear
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the vision Hypo two fourteen, make a list. What is
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it that you want me to do? Lord? Is it
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engaging in powerlifting? Used to think Albert as an example.
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Maybe some of his list is there? Is it engaging
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in uh, you know, reaching out to the community. What
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the one is that list? Friends? The year just started,
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not too late to make a list? Is it? You
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know I want to dicible my kid. I want to
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see my kid get baptized this year. Is that is
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that part of the list. I want to get baptized
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this year? He's that part of the list. I want
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to proclaim the glory of the Lord by getting baptized
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this year. So, you know, baptized yet I want to
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encourage you. Maybe maybe it's time to consider. Yeah, take
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a list down from the Lord. After making the list,
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right after having the die of the Lord. You you
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need to know what I want you to eat? You
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eat the vegetables, the carrots, the lettices, the cabbages, Yeah,
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the salads, Yeah, all all the capsicums or all this
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all these uh aubergine or whatever print jewels. Yeah, doing
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the list? Make a list? What is God wanting me
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to do Yeah, and then make a commitment. After you
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have the list up, Blow to God. God. This is
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my list. This is my commitment to you. This year,
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I'm gonna read more Bible. Last year i read one
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chapter a day. This year, I'm going to read two
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chapters a day at least up. Blow you to God.
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And the last one is to make it count. Make
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it count. That's the implementation. Make it count. There may
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be days where it's difficult to read the two chapters,
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but disibin yourself. Make it count. Be accountable to what
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God has given to us and what we have uploaded
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to God. This is the list that we have got.
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I'm going to commit to this. I'm going to commit
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to sharing my life story, my life testimony to friends,
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to families. I'm going to try my best when opportunity
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comes arises, Lord give me the bonus to do so.
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Make a commitment before, make time to help others before.
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Make sure you'll remember the vision always. Make sure you
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remember the vision always wherever you go, wherever you go,
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whatever you do. I pray that you remember. As partner
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of X Church, I pray that you remember the vision.
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The vision not just limited to the patterns of X Church.
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When you go out there, anyone, you talk to anyone, anyone,
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you talk to any Christian, you talk to any believers
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out there, they should also align with this. They also
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should also have that heart for the loss. I don't
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think there's any church out there that doesn't have the
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heart for the loss. Amen, what's the vision, friends and
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family that's been given the ex church? Come on, come on,
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come on, come on forward. The earth shall be filled
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with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as
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the waters cover the see Harlee Lujah, Praise the Lord.
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Now you have memorize one verse yay, yeah, oh, sorry,
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two verses because you know for God soul of this world? Right,
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how do you even remember that in the first day
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as friends? Because you grew up with it. You keep
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saying it, right, you keep saying it. How do you
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think the kids can remember more? What's just say? Nurse? Yeah,
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not for us? The subplane, yes, be subplane so extreme.
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Come up.
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We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more
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this week is going to be a good week. I
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hit for you, God bless