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Session 4 - Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church | Pr. Daniel

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from at church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. So we are at our fourth part we have we

  4. are in the midway point right now, right in the middle, uh,

  5. and we are going to unpack. We're going to continue

  6. to unpack. But before that, let me ask you a question. Yeah,

  7. let me ask you a question, Harry Lojah, So what

  8. is the vision of X church? Hold on Hypercook two fourteen.

  9. What does Haber Cook two fourtheen say, amen, Amen, you

  10. know it's important to know. I don't know how many

  11. of your business owners here. Yeah, I don't know how

  12. many of you here. You run a business, you run

  13. an organization. I don't know how many of you part

  14. of a university here. I'm part of Monash. I used

  15. to be a Monash alumni. I mean I am a

  16. alumni and until now I know the tag line. What

  17. is the tech line of monsh University? Rachel, what's the

  18. techline of Monash University? Come on, Ankara in battle? All right,

  19. there's always something that you have to remember. There's an

  20. identity that comes to you, right and the vision as

  21. it begin to ex church is Hubbacook two fourteen. Now

  22. you may wonder to yourself, like, why even this vision

  23. does it sounds special? Does this sound different? Butally, if

  24. you really read it in its context and deeply, all

  25. Christians should align with this verse. Amen, because it's not

  26. talking about our own strength, it's not talking about own wisdom.

  27. It's talking about the glory of the Lord. And this

  28. should be our desire that the earth shall be filled

  29. with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as

  30. the water's coming to sea.

  31. Amen.

  32. So, if you have your books, or if you have

  33. your books, turn with me to page number twenty nine.

  34. We're going to recap a little bit on a bad

  35. tree what we have just went through, and we are

  36. we are on the journey of making sure that all

  37. of us are on the same pagere It comes with

  38. the vision of ex church, right, and last week rachel

  39. An spoke about disciples, right, the plan. What's the plan?

  40. The plan is to make disciples, and not just any disciples,

  41. but disciples that make the difference a man. That's the vision.

  42. That's a mission of ex change. Our mission. Yeah, the

  43. vision is to feel the earth with the knowledge of

  44. the girl of the Lord. The mission is to make disciples.

  45. That's the how how can we feel this earth the

  46. knowledge of the Gerier the Lord is by making disciples

  47. that make the difference. Right, And last week Rachel shared

  48. or in fact, Rachel brought the part tree of the

  49. vision by saying that we are how are we preparing

  50. for the next twenty years? Okay, the first twenty years

  51. when an extras was planted twenty two until twenty twenty. Right,

  52. there was the Joseph Church and read where that's who

  53. we are. A church that's preparing right there, storehouses, they're

  54. preparing training materials that we're preparing now that we are

  55. going to the next twenty years. Right, we are more

  56. moving in the direction of the Daniel Church. Right. So

  57. the five seeds that Rachel gave us, and I hope

  58. you remember is this and it's in your books. Actually, right,

  59. we got to have conviction. A conviction is not something

  60. that we can teach, especially if we can say, you

  61. know what, Stuggles, your name is Stuggles, Right, Stuggles will

  62. never be struggles. Snuggles is my cat. Okay, Snaggles will

  63. never be struggles. Until she accepts that she stuggles. She

  64. has to catch that a I am Stuggles. I respond

  65. to the name struggles. Therefore my name is Stuggles. Yeah,

  66. no matter how many times I dish, right, she will

  67. never get it until she catches it. So same thing here,

  68. the vision has to be caught. And I pray that

  69. as you listen to what we're about to share this morning,

  70. you know, it's very different for six weeks now, we're

  71. sharing something that everybody is going true. Yeah, every church

  72. plan in ex church, and we're going to share it

  73. once and we're going to move on, Right, We're going

  74. to move on into our usual Bible study. Whatever that

  75. God puts on our heart, that's okay. But as for

  76. six weeks alone, we want to align. And I know

  77. some of your business wanted to say you the alignment

  78. is very important, right. You don't want your staff to be,

  79. you know, selling T shirts when your business model is

  80. selling raised cars. You don't want to do that, right.

  81. You want to ensure that everybody is on the same page.

  82. There's the first seed. The second sea is the condition.

  83. So now that we have aligned to the vision, what

  84. is the condition that has been given to this church? Yeah,

  85. this church is saying that, you know, as long as

  86. the vision is to fuel there's many ways. There's many

  87. ways to feel this earth to glory the Lord. Amen. However,

  88. God is given our founding senior pastor the mandate. The

  89. word that came to him was that we've got to

  90. do this in small groups. Right. It isn't matter what

  91. other stations are doing, really, and God bless them and

  92. they are growing by the grace of the Lord because

  93. they have their mandate too. But the focus here is

  94. important because if we do not catch it how we

  95. catch it, how how it is downloaded to but the

  96. canev and the vision, the leadership of the church, then

  97. we're not in alignment. Sometimes we will say, oh, let's

  98. do it small and then the other persons say the noda,

  99. let's forget about smaller. You know what, Let's reach it

  100. my way. I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying

  101. it is possible. But you will know that there's there's

  102. going to be a lot of this unity. There's gonna

  103. be a lot of misalignment. Right, so there's a condition

  104. to it. The third sea that we are preparing ourselves

  105. is cooperation. Yeah, we've got to corporate one another. For

  106. sea is community. We can't do this without community, right,

  107. We can't run church without community. Everybody will have their

  108. own strength in the small group. Some are gifted in teaching,

  109. some are gifted in communicating, some not gifted in food.

  110. You can't expect me to be as good as my

  111. wife when it comes to cooking. You can't. It just

  112. doesn't work that way, right, No matter how much I try,

  113. I can't. And you can't expect my wife to be

  114. better at me and being lame. You can't. It's just

  115. not possible. I'm just more lamer than her, right because

  116. I pay too much big up all aside, lame can't walk,

  117. So yeah, you can't. You can't expect different people to

  118. be one another. You can't do that right. And finally,

  119. the college college is essentially is training, right. I can't say, hey,

  120. please go out there and do something without telling you

  121. how to do it. You know, today I really give props.

  122. I asked. I asked Josh Right, actually, what y'all are

  123. live shooting today? Because I'm not aware of a live

  124. show today. He told me this is practice. Wow, only

  125. this plan practice is for livestream and that's the excellence

  126. that they're having. So big props to XTV right giving

  127. their best. I know I Anoledge Sunny, but I know

  128. behind Sanney there's Roy and there's Atol who is really

  129. giving their best. You know. They don't have to do this,

  130. you know, but they're doing it. So praise the Lord

  131. for your talent, and praise the Lord for your faithfulness,

  132. maying God, we want you whoheartedly And I tell you what, Roy,

  133. you are still praying. We're still praying for your father.

  134. We're going to declare life. We continue to declare life,

  135. and we're going to declare food, healing over a children

  136. amen name of Jesus. All right. So that's the five

  137. seas that we have been preparing for the next twenty years.

  138. So that's that. So the mission, the vision is that

  139. the mission, the mission again is to make disciples that

  140. make the difference, right and and Rachel shared last week,

  141. how how do we make disciples? All right? How the

  142. first part, the first f that's been given to us

  143. is to follow right, follow me. That's what Jesus said

  144. to his disciples. Follow me, and I will make you

  145. off man. Follow me, not the shampoo. Follow me? Is

  146. it follow me shampoo? Yes, follow me and I'll make

  147. you fishes of men. You're not going a revelation when

  148. it came to the follow me shampoo. You know when

  149. you're when without the follow me, your regularly very messy.

  150. But the moment you apply follow me, then your your

  151. path will become straight. That's what happens. If Jesus as well,

  152. your path will becomes strict. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. The

  153. next f that's been given to us is to feed

  154. my sheep. Yeah, if you love me, feed my sheep.

  155. And the last was given is to be fishies of men.

  156. So the summary, let's let's talk about the summary, and

  157. then we're going to move on into to day's sharing.

  158. The summary of the mission of discipleship is this. Yesterday,

  159. the leaders gett for salt and at the breakout, I

  160. in fact, the leadership instructed us to do a survey.

  161. And in this survey was very very very hard questions

  162. and we had to ask ourselves some of these hard questions, like,

  163. for example, when we come to church, we fully focus

  164. on what God has installed for us. That means when

  165. we become to church, do we come on time? I'm

  166. talking about the leaders are if you feel convicted, that's

  167. the Holy spirit, we come on time. Now I understand

  168. there are many circumstances, but that's that's circumstances, but that's conviction.

  169. Do we come on time because the Lord is saying,

  170. come go commit convict and we come. But somehow it's

  171. not our focus. It may be our focus at the

  172. back of our minds. I'm going to go to church.

  173. But I tell you what if the movie Avengers is happening,

  174. you know, December twenty twenty six, eighteen December, it's coming out,

  175. and you know that Don't is stuck is going to

  176. become doctor Doom, and you are you can't wait to

  177. watch that movie. You buy the ticket, you buy some

  178. golden ticket, fifty five ring it. You got to be

  179. there ten minutes before the movie starts because you are expecting.

  180. You are expecting to see what's about to happen. So

  181. when God convicts your heart, I'm not just talking about church.

  182. I'm talking about when you're visiting someone to pray for

  183. the person and you set seven o'clock. Are you there

  184. at six fifty? Are you there six forty five? I'm

  185. talking about when you wake theme in the morning and

  186. the Lord convicts you to put Jesus first, with him first.

  187. Do you put him first or are you going to

  188. check your phone for the next five minutes? Thing? I

  189. gotta reply my pastor these are things that you've got

  190. to catch. Friends and family and the leaders were given

  191. this question and he was really tough for me personally

  192. to answer some of them. And I wanted to just

  193. ask you this question this morning. What is the summary

  194. of the missional discipleship? And some of you you can

  195. see in your book steps the summary It is to

  196. always and only give our best to God. If we

  197. can summarize the missional discipleship, it is to always give

  198. only our best to Gods. Cannot share this to our leaders.

  199. In twenty twenty one, he used the example of a

  200. home leader and to some of you, you may when

  201. I mentioned the name, you will know who this person is,

  202. But I shall not, because I'm going to share my own.

  203. We have to ask ourselves, friends and family, have we

  204. been giving our best to God? Because for out of

  205. that best that we give unto God, it flows towards

  206. other parts of our lives. Because when we give our

  207. best to God, we will also be give our best

  208. to husbands and our wives and our children. But we

  209. do not give our best to God. Sometimes we find

  210. it difficult and challenging to give our best to men.

  211. So I had to question myself if I did give

  212. my best to my dad. You know, some of you

  213. here may not know me. I know that I carry

  214. my emotions on my shoulders sometimes, and that's a personal trait.

  215. Sometimes it may be advantage. Sometimes it maybe a disadvantage.

  216. But sometimes I carry too much on my shoulder. So

  217. if you know, you know, if then he's sad or

  218. he's upset, you know very clearly, And that's something that

  219. perhaps I'm trying to work on. However, I forgot, and

  220. for a moment in time, I forgot that he actually

  221. why why am I? Sometimes it just happened this year

  222. and someone just questioned me, like he actually, you're here,

  223. you're doing okay? And this person forgot that I just

  224. lost my dad five months ago. And when I reflected

  225. on that, and by the way, just by the grace

  226. of God, I want to just account to the church.

  227. I'm ready to move on. He's in heaven now and

  228. we're all happy. I'll see him in heaven and life

  229. is short. In the past week alone, we heard of

  230. tree love One's going off, some due to sicknesses, some

  231. due to just tragic, tragic, tragic accidents. But that's life.

  232. You never know when it's going to take you. You

  233. never know when it's going to happen. H So got

  234. to continue to remember that this is the mission to

  235. just give God your best in every area of a life,

  236. any moment, every living moment in your life. Just give

  237. your best because we don't know when it's the last

  238. time we're going to be able to say hello to

  239. one another, right, So why why regret? Why regret when

  240. you can do it now? For longest time, the guilt

  241. of caring for my dad was weighing on me because

  242. I often think to myself, did I give him enough?

  243. Did I give him enough time? Did I give him

  244. enough care? You know when I was when he was

  245. still with us, right, every little irk and crunk out there.

  246. To like a stop it, right, stop doing this, stop

  247. saying that, Stop being so silly, you know, stop shouting

  248. to mom this and that, this and that, And then

  249. the feeling is like, you know, why don't you come

  250. and see me more?

  251. As my mom said lately, why do you come and

  252. see me? What was his crime? And I was like,

  253. if it gets to you like I guess you're like, yeah,

  254. I should have. I can use the time to go

  255. and do other things instead, right things that perhaps, in hindsight,

  256. I would not have chosen. I would have rather chosen

  257. to go and spend on him. But I was driven

  258. by the guilt quite quite heavily. For a couple of months.

  259. I carry that burden. But recently I had to ask

  260. myself this question, and but helped me through this journey.

  261. He asked me, Daniel, did you give your best in

  262. the moment that you had? Were you there for him?

  263. And there was a piece that was in my heart

  264. because I knew that no matter what I do outwardly,

  265. I know inwardly I only had the best for my

  266. dad financially when he came to his hip replacement, without

  267. a blink of an eye, I withdraw a huge amount

  268. for my bank just to pay for that hip that

  269. you want. When we when we was what was that

  270. cremating the ashes? Yeah? That he was there, so I

  271. had to keep that hip. Now mean no, no, I

  272. did I put together with ashes? Yeah? So funny, you know,

  273. I tell you what the only thing left of him

  274. was that thing. I'm like, hello, if I knew, if

  275. I if just I knew ten thousand ring It just there? Okay? Anyways, Yeah,

  276. I'm like, wow, life is like there, you know you,

  277. no matter what you do, all material wealth, it will

  278. stay on this earth. It doesn't go with you to heaven.

  279. Nothing goes there, no matter how much ring it us

  280. stay heaving your pocket big coin, it stays here. So

  281. just live your life here to the best, to its fullest.

  282. Give your best, not to ards. For me, it was

  283. my dad. For you, it may be your family. Are

  284. you giving your best? Are you giving your best to

  285. those that God has given to you? To those your sons,

  286. your daughters, your spiritual sons, your spiritual daughters, you're in laws.

  287. The god.

  288. There have been serving us for the longest time down there,

  289. the hate God. If you know his name, anyone knows

  290. his name, anyone knows the hate guard that is serving

  291. us down here. His name. Let me reveal his name

  292. to you so that you can quite say thank you

  293. to him one day. His name is su Nil. Okay,

  294. I think some of you will remember. His name is

  295. so Nail. He's a lovely person. He keeps our place safe,

  296. right yeah, directs direct people the church. Did you know that?

  297. You know? I want to share your destimony, And I

  298. know I'm thinking taking a bit of tension a little bit,

  299. but did you know that this place, Legacy was never

  300. meant to be a church. Did you know that we

  301. actually faced a lot probably know when we first got

  302. this place, there was a lot of caveats. You know,

  303. you shall not name me a church. So we had

  304. to come out. I don't know what the legacy recording

  305. studio or don't know what studio, don't know what cannot

  306. call you a church, cannot put out sign out church,

  307. nothing can be church. You know today you see big

  308. fat signbot over there at church. God's leading our people

  309. down to church management, not giving us problem. Rent still

  310. read the same hallelujah, praise a lot. Amen. This can

  311. only be because of God's goodness. No weapon form against

  312. us shall prosper because of those who are faithful. Amen.

  313. Come on, Let's continue, be faithful, Let's continue run is

  314. racis and the resists many things that we don't see.

  315. Someone words feel that, Hey, it's been three years now

  316. turning to four years soon, that's gonna come mooning? Are

  317. we growing? I don't know what you may think, but

  318. the fact is that a God that doesn't even believe

  319. in Jesus is leading people to our church. Come on, friends,

  320. I think that deserves praise. Amen, that deserves giving God glory.

  321. Can we do that this morning? Can we give her

  322. a glory to nod a shout of praise. There are

  323. things that we do not see that is happening in

  324. the spiritual realm. We do not see. The Holy Spirit

  325. is fighting our battles. Did you know that? Did you

  326. know that for everything that's happening in your being? The

  327. Lord is fighting our battles for us, against principalities that

  328. we can't even see. And yet sometimes we lie down

  329. on our pit we go like, oh, life is good

  330. in the background. Yeah, I encourage your friends. Church is growing.

  331. God is going to be continue to be glorified, and

  332. nothing is going to stop that in the name of Jesus.

  333. Let's go on to today's topic. What is the difference?

  334. So what is the difference? We have heard these a

  335. million times. We have heard John Tree sixteen. We have

  336. heard Habakup two fourteen. We have heard Genesis one one.

  337. We have heard John ten ten, we have heard First

  338. Cointance thirteen thirteen. Now I'm just writing all the verses

  339. that I like that. Okay, we've heard it all. We

  340. have heard the Great Commission, we have heard the Great Commandment.

  341. What's the difference? What is the difference? The difference is this, friends,

  342. many of us or many of these things we have

  343. heard before. So what makes this different? The first thing

  344. that makes this different is this? What is God saying? Okay?

  345. What is God saying? Sometimes it's very easy to hear

  346. what the pasta says, what passa kindo says. Take it

  347. as gossible, because yeah, he's a man of God. I

  348. want to encourage your friends and family. This is not

  349. just a buzzer kind of chesture. This is not just

  350. exotic computing a buzza Daniel chesch, Yes, it's not. It

  351. may be started by us, it may be you know,

  352. we are here doing the work, but it is not ours.

  353. It still belongs to God. I want to encourage you

  354. everything that comes out of this place. You got to

  355. have a person that encounter with the Lord. Amen. What

  356. is God saying? Because how about two fourteen is big?

  357. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of

  358. the glory the rod as one is court to see

  359. it's big. How is it apply to you? What is

  360. God saying? Just been in your current situation, in your

  361. current scenario, what is God saying, do you go back,

  362. we want his shed today and you put it on

  363. the altar and you say, Lord, speak to me, did

  364. you do it? Because it is important because without that,

  365. it's no different. Without that, it's going to be something

  366. that you can say. And this is very familiar phase.

  367. I've heard this before. I've heard it before the start

  368. zoning already, right, I heard it before a million times already.

  369. That what makes it different is that when you take

  370. it home and you personalize it and you ask God,

  371. what are you saying? How does it apply to me? Amen?

  372. The next thing is that when you hear from God

  373. and you want to come under the covering of a church,

  374. because that's important as well, it's not important, then it

  375. won't be a scripture. Paul will go around planning churches.

  376. Having a body of Christ is important. Have you got

  377. placed to come home and root down? It's important. The

  378. second thing that makes it different is what is or

  379. what are your leaders saying. Some of us here may

  380. take scripture home and then go to God and suddenly

  381. God says to him. God says to him, thou shall

  382. party in the club all night and do whatever you want.

  383. We've until you know whatever, because you know what, I

  384. gotta reach that one person who's drunk. It's not therefore

  385. I either to be drunk as well. Some people may

  386. go go the way God told me that. You know.

  387. You know how many times we have to come across

  388. people who say, God say, if God say now, what

  389. else am I going to say? God say, God say

  390. thou shall be drunk to reach a drunk The only

  391. thing you should be drunk is the Holy Spirit. That's

  392. the only thing you should be drunken. Yeah, or drunk water? Yeah,

  393. I drunk water. So the second thing is this what

  394. your leaders saying, you hear from God? You bring it back.

  395. If it's not important, Paul wouldn't say follow me as

  396. I follow Christ. You won't say that. You won't say that.

  397. God would't allow that to be permitted, permit that to

  398. be in the Bible. If following after man is not important,

  399. because as long as a follow man that follows Christ,

  400. that is what God wants of us. Amen. So bring

  401. it back to the Paul, bring it back to the leader.

  402. Align with the leader. There's a condition. Okay, God says

  403. this to you, all right, do this in the covering

  404. of the church. And I tell you what that becomes

  405. the responsibility of the church. You are no longer responsible.

  406. If the Church puts you in this way and the

  407. alignment is this way, and it's alignment the word of God,

  408. then go going through for as a second thing that

  409. makes it different, Okay, the final one, and I is

  410. the most important. And likewise the leadership is this. What

  411. are you say? Because God can say a million things

  412. to you, so can the leaders say a million things

  413. to you. But if you say no, then it's as

  414. good as bye bye. He is as good as bye bye.

  415. If you say no, then how are we gonna move?

  416. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of

  417. the glory of the Lord, as the water's compled. I

  418. say no, Lord, no, for Daniel shall be exalted in

  419. this earth as the sand covers the shaws. If that

  420. is what you are going after, then how Because you

  421. have to find and say, you have to find a choice.

  422. You have to free will and then have the choice

  423. of whether you wanna take the fruit or not. Right,

  424. it still comes down to us. It still comes down

  425. to your faithfulness, It still comes down to your decision making.

  426. It still comes down to your obedience. Amen. And that's

  427. the third one, the cooperation. What are you saying? What

  428. are you saying? So there are lines under one, two

  429. and Tree, Right, you can write for number one it's

  430. the word conviction. Number two is the word condition, and

  431. number three is the word cooperation. You can write that

  432. now if you want to take it down. Tree, Ce's

  433. for you to remember. All right, you must go away

  434. saying something. You must go away saying something, whether yes

  435. or no. You don't see someone asking someone to marry

  436. that someone, right, Wow, you don't hear like Rochelle, would

  437. you marry me? Right? Russia has to give an answer

  438. yes or no. Even though she say waiter, eventually she

  439. still have to say yes or no. Right, There still

  440. must be an answer. Same way here with the vision

  441. of God given upon his church. When we hear it,

  442. we must go away saying something. You said, Oh, yes

  443. we are really ready for this, or yes I'm not

  444. ready for this. But I tell you what, I'm still

  445. to go anyways and see where that leads, because I

  446. tell you what journey with God is often that way.

  447. I don't know what the future holds ahead of me,

  448. but yet I'm still gonna walk. I'm still gonna walk

  449. through this valley of shadow of death because God, you

  450. are with me, your own your staff will comfort me.

  451. But I tell you what, I don't know why in

  452. the world is ahead of me. But or we say no,

  453. this is not for me. Feeling this with the knowledge

  454. of the glory of the Lord is not for me.

  455. You have to make a choice, your mad decision. Remember Jesus.

  456. Remember Jesus. After hearing what others said about him, he asked, Pizza,

  457. who do you say I am? My fun Chapter sixteen,

  458. verse fourteen to fifteen. So they say, some say John

  459. the Baptists, they're referring to Jesus. Who is Jesus? Some

  460. say Elijah and others Jeremiah or one of the Professora

  461. the lie and verse fifteen. Jesus looked at them and

  462. said to his disciples, looks like I'm straight to die. Yes,

  463. I know you may be thinking I'm days I'm dead.

  464. But who do you say I am? Who do you

  465. say I am? Who do you say I am? It's

  466. important to know what Jesus is saying. He verse fifteen.

  467. I repeat again, He said to them, but who do

  468. you say that I am? So, friends and family, here's

  469. my question to all of you this morning. Who is

  470. Jesus to you? Who is Jesus to you? Because it's

  471. very easy to glorify God in the app but it's

  472. very difficult to glorify Him in the town. And I

  473. learned that through many circumstances, and the most recent on

  474. being my dad is very difficult. It's very difficult to

  475. see light in the end of the tunnel when there's

  476. st light, but there is there is like, Amen, Amen,

  477. I'm going to give you the three ls the tree

  478. elves that basically grounds the vision of X Church. Who

  479. we are that we need, that we need? Right? The

  480. first L is this? What is the vision focused on?

  481. Where we say that the glory of the Lord, the

  482. knowledge of the glory, I shall feel this. What what

  483. are we looking at? Are we looking at bringing or

  484. showcasing or testifying of God's goodness to the believers? Because

  485. with the believers is this it's not sharing the gospel

  486. to them, it's making disciples. Yeah, But the focus has

  487. always been about the loss. So that's the first L.

  488. That is always a feeling, the loss. The vision of

  489. X has always been about the loss. Now below that line,

  490. you will see that everyone can be a leader. You

  491. can strike that off because that is a typo. Yeah,

  492. you can strike that off. But the vision has always

  493. been a lot about the loss. We can't do this church,

  494. we can't execute this vision properly if we do not

  495. have the heart for the loss. How many of you

  496. out there have been to KL. I don't know anyone

  497. haven't been to KL before. I always thought that. I

  498. always thought when I was growing up that I was

  499. in KL, only to find out that actually I was

  500. in slang or all this one everywhere I go Qualuma

  501. from quum Po. Actually I never stepped through in qualum

  502. Po when I was young. Slang money you know. Actually,

  503. to be fair, I was born in a police station. Okay, yes,

  504. my birth certificate is police station. If you've been to

  505. KL and uh, you've been through this specific street in

  506. which is called Pitaling Street. There are many many corners

  507. that when you walk you notice that there are people

  508. that are homeless, people without food, people without water, no money.

  509. Some of them carry their children around asking for money,

  510. asking for food. I don't know. When you see these

  511. kind of people, what's the first thing that comes to

  512. your heart? Is it empathy. Is it sympathy? I'm not okay,

  513. I'm not saying what you're gonna do, because I was

  514. our wisdom you do not, we do not give. But

  515. for me when I see these coin of people, the

  516. first thing I come to my my heart is what

  517. a pity? Such a pity? I mean, not able to

  518. help you? Sound like a good Samaritan. But I may

  519. not be able to help you, but maybe maybe if

  520. I can, I will. But the sense of you know,

  521. I want the shame is there? Right? And I think

  522. likewise everybody here with a moral standard, and I know

  523. and I believe all of you do. There's a certain

  524. sense that you want to help you can. If you're

  525. Elon Muss right, and you have all the money in

  526. the world, I believe you will, you will, you will

  527. help them. Just then we get done you and get

  528. I'm sure you will, but I want to encourage you

  529. this way. Do we see the same when we go

  530. down to Eco Century Mall and we walk across people

  531. that do not know Jesus, do our hearts go to

  532. Does it bit fast? Does it go like, oh my,

  533. this person if he doesn't believe he's going to spend

  534. eternity without God. I want to say, go to hell,

  535. but it's not nice to say that, right, But that's

  536. the reality. Right. If this person does not believe in Jesus,

  537. and except Hemus, he's not a lot of savior, they're

  538. not going to end up in heaven. I am going

  539. to be in heaven because I believe in Jesus. By

  540. walking past this guy, all I want to tell you something.

  541. I saw your name that he says, Michelle, Jesus loves you.

  542. I don't know how I'm alway east eating, but I

  543. don't know how many of you have that feeling, that

  544. heart for the loss. That's heart for some of us.

  545. May may miss misappropriated or misunderstanding by saying there's a

  546. hidden agenda wherever we go, there's a hidden agenda. I

  547. tell you what I would wear that agenda loud, bro.

  548. Maybe the is that what's wrong? Have you heard? Agenda?

  549. If he means saving that person? What's wrong? Or Christians?

  550. I tell you what they're all fake on. I tell

  551. you they only want to make friends of me because

  552. they want to convert me to Christianity. Yeah, I genuinely

  553. want to make friends with you, not because I want

  554. to convert you. To prison Christianity. But because I know

  555. that the fact is that if you go and take this,

  556. you will succeed, You will prosper, you will not fall.

  557. You do not feeling. You're not dying when it comes

  558. to life whenever there's no such thing agenda more quanda.

  559. I don't care. Really, you're hanging from the cliff. You're dying. Readay, okay,

  560. I want to fall out your demise. Let's some want

  561. to say hello, nice to meet you. You only want

  562. to be friends with me because you want to pla

  563. do we aun saying I wear this tax problem? There's

  564. no shame. There's no shame friends in having the Gospel

  565. at the back of our minds. There's no shame in

  566. that you can genuinely be friends with that person. Yes,

  567. but having the gospel in the beat of by one day,

  568. if I get the opportunity, I'm going to share Jesus.

  569. There's nothing wrong with that. Stop stop being so so

  570. affected by that. It's okay, it's okay. When you're a

  571. seller insurance, you have either either gender, so no problem, right,

  572. no problem. You think all this peop won't make friends

  573. of you. They're selling insurance. They genuinely become friends of you.

  574. Maybe they do, but in the better way. When I

  575. get the opportunity, I will sell insurance of this person.

  576. It's the same thing with the gospel. So we got

  577. to have the heart for the loss. That's what it means.

  578. We got to have the heart. Because we doubt that heart,

  579. we can't we can't run this resion. Now does that

  580. mean that if someone you say, actually, I really don't

  581. care what the people out there, then I cannot be

  582. about extiously because I cannot believe me. No, if you

  583. do not have the heart of the law yet I pray.

  584. I pray, and it should be your prayer as well.

  585. Lord give me the heart of the loss. Lord gives

  586. me the heard. I didn't start with the heart for

  587. the loss of Bay. Friends, I would rather than all

  588. burn and rod in hell because they treat me so

  589. badly when I was younger. Really, I didn't grow up

  590. having their heart naturally. I had to pray for it.

  591. Bring my heart for what breaks yours. It's a prayer,

  592. you know. Friends, we believe that Jesus Christ died for

  593. our sins. It becomes we believe in that we want

  594. to love as He loves, and we can't do this

  595. by our own, amen. You can't do this by our

  596. own amen. The second L that we need is the

  597. leaders is the leader, says the second L. We need

  598. leaders to rise up, not talking about just some of

  599. us that are wearing attack. Where's my ta okay in

  600. the back. Yeah. Just reminder, when I saw Edward, if

  601. he's delivered, be beautiful, tech looks so good like on you.

  602. I was just not just talking about that. I'm not

  603. just talking about leaders in the marketplace. I'm not just

  604. talking about that. We're talking about leaders in the In

  605. the previous part, I think believe it's part two, we

  606. mentioned that a definition of a leader is the ones

  607. that lead themselves. As long as you lead yourself, you're

  608. a leader. When you're playing the drums, you lead yourself

  609. to worship God. When you're playing the base to boo

  610. boo boo boo boom boom, boom boom, you lead yourself

  611. to worship God. You can easily just pay the base,

  612. without which worshiping got just requiet, and then just like

  613. stay at your own your own self. It happens to

  614. me too. But we lead ourselves. We tell ourselves, no,

  615. today is the day that you have made, and today

  616. I shall rejoice and be clearing it. I made that decision.

  617. Yesterday may be a difficult day, many things may have happened.

  618. But today I'm going to wakeme knowing that it's a

  619. new day. The Lord and his mercies are new every morning.

  620. And I tell you what I've already asked forgiveness, and

  621. I'm going to move on because the Lord has forgiven me.

  622. I'm no longer going to suck and just be emo emo,

  623. Move on with your life, move on, lead yourself. Everyone

  624. can be a leader. Everyone can lead yourself. Amen. You

  625. know in the previst part, we heard the vision right,

  626. one thousand times one thousand, Yeah, one thousand homes, one

  627. person planting one homes, one whole time, and we get

  628. on something. You look at the number and go like,

  629. oh my goodness. The one thousand that we already have.

  630. Everyone should be a disciple and eventually leads someone to

  631. the Lord a leader. There's the second L that we need,

  632. and the third L is this for some of us,

  633. we may not know what it means. What it's called.

  634. The eleven. The eleven all right, Matthew thirteen verse the

  635. three says this Jesus said, the kingdom of heaven is

  636. like eleven. Heaven eleven the heaven eleven. The kingdom of

  637. heaven is like eleven Matthew thirteen thirty three, which a

  638. woman took and hit in three measures of male till

  639. it was all eleven. That's how the verse completes itself. Eleven.

  640. For some of you that may not understand, it's like yeas. Okay,

  641. leven is like yeas. And when yeas is put in

  642. the door, for some of you who do baking right,

  643. it is important because it begins to rise. Though without

  644. eleven were not rise in the likewise, in the same way,

  645. without the eleven, the door doesn't rise. And without eleven

  646. in our lives we will remain stagnant and flat. How

  647. many of us like to remain stagnant and flat? How

  648. many of you like to bake a cake and the

  649. cake just remain flat? How many are love to bake

  650. bread and the bread doesn't rise. You put the bread

  651. to rise in the fridge, but you do not put

  652. the leaven the yeast in the bread, And you open

  653. the fride and go like, how come this thing that

  654. will grow on? I don't know how many of you

  655. good bakers here in this place, but without the eleven,

  656. the door will not rise, and same way we will

  657. be stagnant without Leven and the eleven. Here we are

  658. referring to to here is is this eleven gets disciples

  659. and leaders out of their comfort zone. Okay. When we

  660. put Leven in our lives spiritually, it gets us out

  661. of our comfort zone. Okay, it expands us. We get

  662. sent out labors into the harvest field. We get kicked out,

  663. get kicked out. You know the words sent out refers

  664. to being kicked out as well. Yeah, kicked out. The

  665. real and secret growth is radical obedience to God, radical

  666. obedience to God. Amen. The secret is this God. If

  667. you say so, we say so God. If you say so,

  668. we say so. If you say love your enemy, we

  669. also say love your enemy. If you say forgive, you

  670. also say forgive. If you say go, we you so go. Amen.

  671. That's how it is, and that's how Leven is being

  672. put into our lives. Is it comfortable, No, it's not.

  673. It's not comfortable, but is necessary, Amen, It is necessary

  674. for our growth. If you say jumped, we say how high.

  675. The foundation of our first twenty years was this, how

  676. how did X grow from three people into what we

  677. are today, and Passers share reverse that it starts from

  678. being obedient, and not just obedient, but radical obedience. Imen

  679. radical obedience. It was really just a three of them

  680. being obeedient to the Lord. Was it was? It was?

  681. It was it a normal thing for three young men.

  682. It was how you may look at Passa now, why

  683. is fifty blass? They are just reveals it? Ah, I

  684. think you reveal himself next weeks one Andre's birthday, by

  685. the way, so we'll be celebrating together here. We look

  686. at them now and we go like wow, for wisdom?

  687. Why is strong independent? But did you know that twenty

  688. years ago they were younger than me? And if he

  689. has the same issues, you know, how can you lead

  690. a cheschla? You're so young? You're so young? Do you

  691. even have children? Advise us about children? Who are you

  692. to give us advice about young children? In mission? Feel

  693. when you reward children? You know this a lot of

  694. things that were said, but then you would your post

  695. received this. He was just radically obedient to the Lord.

  696. There's a lot say to school to school today because

  697. of the radical obedience, this church is not just young

  698. people anymore. But this church has grown into a place

  699. where their old people as were also not so young

  700. people young in heart. I just said old, maybe offense

  701. some people. I'm still getting there you anyway, So maygan

  702. just get me because she's tied to her age is

  703. tied to me. Okay. Anyways, when I get old, you

  704. get old to ha ha ha. So raise the God. Okay.

  705. So when when now he's at the place where it's families,

  706. you know, yeah, but we won't get there. If buster

  707. was affected by that comment, young people cannot lead church,

  708. So do not despise your youth and older ones in

  709. a year, don't despise the youth. Don't say that this

  710. church cannot grow because there's a young person leading it.

  711. Do not say that about any church for that matter,

  712. because the young people is going to lead themselves because

  713. they have the Holy Spirit. Amen. I believe. I believe

  714. one day or our young people here will become I

  715. don't know prime ministers, even in prime minister, I don't know.

  716. Maybe she just look at me her. If I environ minister,

  717. I shall make green hair a mandatory thing for every uh,

  718. every human being on Malaysia. But we believe in young

  719. people and I pray that you will too. You wild too,

  720. they meant, But it took radical obedience. Yeah, so much

  721. hardship came. In two thousand, we lost our building. In

  722. twenty ten, we lost our building. I think past share

  723. this before he almost started giving up. In fact, think

  724. he almost did. Forget about what kind of master loses

  725. the church? So I will see some of that. Just

  726. join church now, may go like, yeah, that's pass a

  727. kind of But it takes a journey of preparation to

  728. get to where you are supposed to be, in the

  729. corners of the will of God, and it takes radical

  730. obedience to get there. In the process of getting there,

  731. you may struggle, you may suffer, you may sell on

  732. people's stores by telling you what Just move on because

  733. his mercies are new every morning. Amen, Just move on.

  734. Just talking about my life, each and every one of

  735. you can do that as well. Do not be grounded

  736. by what the enemy is trying to do, because he's

  737. just here to seek here and destroy you. The moment

  738. you say I give up, ah, you know what, so

  739. bel he wins so first and for me, we've got

  740. to fight this battle together, and not just together. We're

  741. gonna depend on the Holy Spirit. Amen. And he will

  742. fight for he will fight for us. He will fight

  743. for us. And if he is for us, then who

  744. shall be against us? Amen? And that's the next point?

  745. Is there? Radical unity? Radical unity? Let's continue to speak

  746. up for one another. Speak up, no speak down. I

  747. know I'm speaking down to soth, you know, literally looking down,

  748. but actually we've got to look up, right. We've got

  749. to speak up with one another. We've got to continue

  750. to lift one another up. We've got to continue to

  751. not just lift one another in our own emotions or

  752. sometimes very easy to say, I today, right, handsome, you

  753. know today are very beautiful. But I'm not just talking

  754. about that. I'm talking about if let's say I hear

  755. of person a that I know of a person as

  756. character is one of this, and know that hey, he

  757. is actually okay, and then sadly, behind the behind the

  758. scenes person be he can't respond to my ear and

  759. say that, yeah, do you want this person? My response

  760. should be what what's my response be? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

  761. no my experience person a something like that, But let

  762. me check, don't go and join the partida yeah yeah,

  763. no check account. Yeah, if anybody comes to me and

  764. tells me that my wife is not a loving person,

  765. I wouldn't believe it, because to me, she's the most

  766. loving person I've ever known. Right, just getting some brownie

  767. points from the in laws because cny coming one once

  768. at home. Just kidding, just kidding, married that you cannot

  769. get okay, Uh, that's that's out there about about to

  770. come soon. Save your money for camp. Okay, hallah. Praised

  771. a lot besides the point okay uh. Third point besides

  772. being united, is this, be generous. Be generous, you know,

  773. be generous sometimes. Uh it's easier for someone that does

  774. not have anything to give more than someone who has everything.

  775. You mean, think that you are being generous, But in

  776. the great scheme of things, are you really? I'm not.

  777. When we may talk about generosity, right, we're not just

  778. talking about finance. So financial generosity, be generous in the

  779. giving of a talent. Ohya, I serve this church three

  780. years Alreadyala, I think by the time is up, let

  781. other be burst. I tell you what Christians and believers

  782. I don't encourage you are. And this is something that

  783. I bullying pandung in my own life. If I ever

  784. get there, I hope my wife will slaughter me and

  785. feed me to the cows if I ever get there, Okay,

  786. but the grace of God, I won't get there. Yeah,

  787. you may ask what cows ask more? Okay, So I

  788. figure speech, this is the this is the sentence I

  789. bullying pundunk Okay, and I I get this for my

  790. baster's especially pat center. My time is up. Let other

  791. people that over this still say this. I think, I

  792. hope and I prayer that none of you in Escaca

  793. will catch Because until the day that you have breath

  794. in your lungs, are you have a part to play.

  795. Until the day that you have breath in your lungs,

  796. you have a part to play. But the Sandra's dead

  797. before you passed on. Until the day he was struggling,

  798. you know, he's back, he couldn't walk. But until the

  799. day that he couldn't walk, he was still out there

  800. in front, seventy plus years oh, shaking his hands, Welcome

  801. the church, Come the church, the church. Until the day

  802. that he couldn't physically what anymore, he was still going

  803. into prison in the street. Yes it's important to raise

  804. the next generation. Yes it's important to watch them, but

  805. you still got to watch some people say, okay, now

  806. my time is not let's fight, let's let's raise the

  807. next generation. But you're nowhere to be seen. How are

  808. you raising the next generation when you're no where to

  809. be seen. You got to be dead somewhere observing, right,

  810. it is I do you watch? I do you help?

  811. You do I help? Mm hmm ha, you do I watch? Right?

  812. It is not you do it? I chow. I don't

  813. think it's that way you do? I chow. No, you

  814. too want that. You tu want God to treat you

  815. that way as well? You too want God to do that?

  816. Do that?

  817. You do you as well? Oh, you are well and wanted,

  818. capable already. While you're a mature human being, you are

  819. a mature Christian. You do everything.

  820. Now.

  821. I used to watch over you, but now I chow.

  822. You want that? No, that's not how we operate. So

  823. be generous, friends, Be generous with your giving unto the Lord,

  824. in both finances, in talent, in time, in raising on

  825. the next generation. Be generous with that. Amen, then will

  826. come there. So these are the requirements for the next

  827. twenty years of our growth. Okay, these are the requirements

  828. for the next twenty years of our growth. The first

  829. one is radical ideas. We won't grow if we will

  830. we do not have radical ideas. Okay, we will not

  831. grow if we do not have radical ideas. And what

  832. is radical ideas? Radical ideas come from the daily brain.

  833. Give us this day, our daily brain. Amen, give us

  834. this day our daily breain. We got to depend on

  835. the daily bread from the Lord. That's why I always

  836. emphasize that it's important. It's important to talk to the

  837. Lord daily. Some of you may not have the capacity,

  838. or maybe you may not have it yet. But if

  839. you have not been speaking to the Lord daily, pray

  840. that you will develop the culture that habit that way

  841. of life. Speak to him one way or another. Help

  842. us Lord, because without the daily bread, the people of

  843. Israel will not have survived. Without the daily manner, the

  844. people of Israel will not have survived the desert. The

  845. people of Israel was desperate. I put myself in there

  846. in your shoes. Sometimes we do not understand or do

  847. not realize that we do not have it until we

  848. are actually desperate. They were hungry, they were without water,

  849. they were without food, and that's really really long for it.

  850. They already came. You've got to be there. You gotta

  851. be there. You've got to be there early to receive

  852. your daily berate. I don't know how many words treat

  853. God this way again yesterday the Leaders meeting. The questions

  854. that we asked us else is that if we can't

  855. even do it, then how can we expect people to

  856. do it? And the character to all of us partners

  857. is this, if you do not have the daily break

  858. from the Lord, then how can you expect God to

  859. move in your life? How can you unlock their potential?

  860. The next thing that is important for our growth for

  861. the next twenty years is this radical initiatives with the brain.

  862. If the daily break comes ideas, and when the ideas comes,

  863. the initiative and initiative is something that we have to

  864. do out of our own self. And this is the

  865. word tithe. First January, we tithe our time to the

  866. Lord by coming together to pray. The first thing that

  867. we do in the new year is to pray, come

  868. together to seek the Lord for some of you that

  869. will be able to be there. You would have heard

  870. Pus this message on loving God, for God's soul loves

  871. this world and he soul loves us. He didn't just

  872. love us, his soul love us, such an emphasis to

  873. his love for us. Yes, we've got to take our

  874. own initiative, you know, to plan. The idea is important,

  875. but without implementation, which is the leven, we won't be

  876. able to achieve the plan. Without the leven, we won't

  877. be able to achieve the plan because we remain segmented.

  878. We won't move, we won't grow. So we've got to

  879. type again, not just the financial aspect of tithing, but

  880. we're gonna type our time onto the Lord. We're gonna

  881. type our ideas unto the Lord. We've got to commit

  882. our ideas under the Lord. Amen. Amen. Church. And finally,

  883. the one over there, the empty empty line is radical

  884. implementation implementation. So you're tithing, you're saying, the Lord, I'm

  885. going to tie this unto you, but without putting in

  886. the bag, it will not happen. Amen, So radical implementation eleven.

  887. Now we're going to go into some challenges of our vision.

  888. Some of you here may be wondering that yeah, easy man,

  889. easier to say that you share, but how are we

  890. going to do it? So I'm going to share you

  891. some challenges and this will be potential pitfalls that will

  892. cause us to be stagnant and we may not grow. Okay.

  893. The first challenge to our vision is again the loss. Okay,

  894. it is the focus, but it is also the challenge.

  895. The greatest challenge to our vision is that we can't

  896. achieve it without winning the loss and in this case

  897. lots of them. The whole ex Church vision is based

  898. on the fifth W. If you have been the homes,

  899. you would have known that we have gone through the

  900. experience book, which is the da Ana of X Church,

  901. and you know the fifth W what is it? Witness?

  902. Witness is the fifth W. The church isn't here in Malaysia.

  903. Just to look after the ten percent, and if you

  904. are following the statistics, it's now eight point nine percent

  905. used by nine point two last I check eight point nine.

  906. I don't know whether that makes you beat in a

  907. certain way. That means h. You know, I I recently

  908. went to Korea, not recently two years ago and a

  909. half years ago, one hours ago, I think one and

  910. a half. I read the Korea UH and I went

  911. to Yoido Church and UH experienced such a life changing

  912. experience there. You know, it was great experienced. I tell you,

  913. the presence of God was really so tangible right. But

  914. we went to another place I think it's It was

  915. in john Ju and we were trying to go to

  916. this English speaking church. We went there and it was

  917. just three old people and then said, and then we

  918. had the piers, you have dinner with them, and all

  919. the dinner they shared us. Corea used to be such

  920. a place where when you say the career, you think Christians,

  921. you think believe us, because about twenty eight percent quite

  922. big population of Korea. Now that place, that percentage has

  923. dropped to an extent where you go to Louido big church,

  924. and I think some of the megachiches in Korea is

  925. the same way as well. Service after service service Phoenician

  926. people lining up at the door, just pushing themselves to

  927. enter into the service, and it's like very elderly and

  928. go out going. So it's like very very un orderly.

  929. But one thing, you know, Lisa, you look down, not

  930. a single young person there. You know, the young people

  931. will go for the youth service. And the youth service

  932. is only one. The other was Service seven. The Pray

  933. Mountain unlimited bus rites up and now up and up

  934. and down, but the whole bus is all all be

  935. burnt I'm telling you the effects are and I tell you,

  936. if this continuous, and this is the cry of the

  937. Corean church, He's a crier's't you? This is a crier.

  938. Say when we die, we're in the chest. The church

  939. will diverse. We're talking about Korea, a place where it's done.

  940. It's done. We go there, we go like this church.

  941. I wish exches. She's like that. Yeah, but this is

  942. the crier of the chest. A place, a nation, a

  943. nation who calls themselves the United States of America a

  944. Christian nation. You ask any American, you'll see that the

  945. Gospel is more important than ever because it's being kindled

  946. down to a place where things that are in the

  947. Bible specifically mentioned not to do, yet being celebrated over

  948. there and now being accepted as the norm. Yes, love

  949. the sinner, but hate the sin. That's what the Bible says.

  950. But somehow it cuts many related and it's not changing,

  951. it's changing. Were engage it just now now maybe stepping

  952. into unfamiliar territory. Year, But it's just a fact. We

  953. love them. We love them, really we do. We accept them,

  954. but we do not accept. Yes, it's hard, it's hard

  955. to precious messages. But where are we friends in Malaysia,

  956. Where are we ten percent when this message was shared

  957. eight point nine? Now it's hard and if this continues

  958. to go on and on and on, and sometimes we

  959. will be surprised by thisa. But read the second half

  960. of Daniel, the Book of Daniel, and you won't be surprised.

  961. You won't be surprised. Amen. So this is the challenge.

  962. The challenge here is really the church here in Malaysia

  963. is not just to look after the ten percent, but

  964. the ninety percent. For the Son of Man has come

  965. to sick and save that which was lost. Jesus came,

  966. He knew what he was here for, and he did it.

  967. If that was the vision, there was the mission of

  968. the son of Man, which is Jesus, and want more

  969. us if that is his focus, and if we are

  970. his followers, that must be our focus as well. Amen.

  971. Here and asks we are also known as the fifth

  972. w Witness. God wants us to engage into the fifth

  973. year and take this vehicle up to maximum speed with

  974. maximum distance before he returns. The second greatest challenge that

  975. we have is the leaders. The leaders. We can't do

  976. this without leaders and laborers. We can't Mentea Chapter nine

  977. vers to the seven to the eight. Then he said

  978. to his disciples, the harvest truly is plentiful, but the

  979. laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord. Pray to

  980. the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into

  981. his harvest. The word said now over here, as I

  982. alluded to earlier, it is the word kicked out. That

  983. means the church has to start kicking people out into

  984. the harvest. What does it sound like? Friends? Does set

  985. sound like another worship service? I'm asking real questions here.

  986. Do set sound like another worship service? Or does set

  987. sound like Rochelle going to Massa? Because that's where the

  988. hovest is, you know, not here the house out there,

  989. The house is in better up. That's what we're supposed

  990. to do. Kick out, move out into the harvest that

  991. the Lord of will send people out, and the church

  992. has an important part to play in that. That's the challenge.

  993. That's the challenge. The problem has never been about the harvest,

  994. but the harvesters. We were never taught to pray for

  995. the harvest. Sometimes we pray, right, Lord, bringing the harvest,

  996. Lord bringing the people into church this morning, But we're

  997. never taught to pray that way, she thought to pray

  998. for us. Lord, shake up our hearts, shake up our traditions,

  999. shake up our thoughts, shake up the way we think

  1000. about life. Shack us up, shack us up to the call,

  1001. move us to a place where we can't stand, but

  1002. be kicked out, be sent out into this land. And

  1003. that's the only way that the eight is going to

  1004. go up. Amen, because the Lord desires all, I repeat,

  1005. the Lord desires all to come to the saving grace

  1006. of the knowledge of Jesus Christ. He meen not just one,

  1007. not just two, not just eight nine percent, but all

  1008. that is his desire here. Whether it's the reality we

  1009. know from scripture, it will not happen. But we do

  1010. not know what the final number is. So we've got

  1011. to continue to be faithful with what we have in

  1012. our church. The third greatest challenge is the eleven. We

  1013. can't do it without eleven, which is a sending up Romans.

  1014. Then Verse thirteen two fifteen says, for whoever calls upon

  1015. the name of the Lord shall be safe. How then

  1016. shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?

  1017. And how shall they believe in Him of whom they

  1018. have not heard, and how should they hear without a preacher?

  1019. How shall they preach unless they are sent? And it

  1020. is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who

  1021. preach the Gospel of peace, who bring lead tidings in

  1022. good things? Leven is the discipline. Eleven is the discipline

  1023. first Corincdiance nineteenty six to twenty seven. Therefore I run

  1024. us not with uncertainty. I fight not as one who

  1025. beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring

  1026. it to subjection. Less when I have preached to artists,

  1027. I myself should become disqualified. Eleven is the disciplined. Friends

  1028. and family, it takes discipline to bring the Gospel to

  1029. the loss. Some words here may think that, oh, I

  1030. don't have what it takes. I am not a naturally

  1031. gifted speaker. I am not a naturally gifted evangelist. I cannot.

  1032. I cannot friends and family. That may be true. But

  1033. what you have inside of you is discipline. When your

  1034. child misbehaves and you have to discipline them, it's an

  1035. action that you have to think. He does not have

  1036. it naturally in himself. What he has naturally in himself

  1037. is the disobedience a child. Right, You don't have to

  1038. teach a child to lie. He lies, but you discipline him.

  1039. And when you discipline him, he will have to discipline himself.

  1040. The next time he wants to lie, he has to

  1041. tell himself, no, I will not lie. But some of

  1042. us you struggle to go and to share the gospel

  1043. because we think that we do not have what it takes. Yes, personally,

  1044. maybe maybe you're right, you do not have what it takes.

  1045. But you know who has what it takes, the Holy Spirit.

  1046. And if you discipline yourself and allow the Holy Spirit

  1047. to move in you, that's going to be to wait

  1048. to move forward. And that's why it's the greatest challenge,

  1049. one of the greatest challenges. It's the lack of discipline. Amen,

  1050. So discipline yourself, friends and family. Levin is the doing. Next, bitch,

  1051. we're gonna We're gonna close very soon, Leven is the doing.

  1052. Discipline is important. You know, before I close and before

  1053. I end very quickly? Is that you know when I

  1054. was I shared this before four years ago, before I

  1055. got married. I told my wife that I'm going to

  1056. lose weight. I told my wife, and I think I

  1057. don't know what I did mention to my in laws.

  1058. I don't know when my loss Toller was fat, but uh,

  1059. how can I give my my daughter to this fat guy?

  1060. I don't know what. I don't know. I don't I

  1061. don't know. I don't remember that. But in my memory

  1062. maybe God no, no, no, no no, they were very loving,

  1063. They're very loving.

  1064. Ah.

  1065. But I made a compliment to my wife. You know

  1066. I did. I did when I when I proposed to her,

  1067. I did. I said, I will lose weight, I would

  1068. lose it. I will lose it, I'll lose it. I did.

  1069. I did?

  1070. I did you forget?

  1071. I did?

  1072. It doesn't mean it wasn't gay, I did. I did.

  1073. Uh come the wedding day, I didn't, But she still

  1074. decided to get married to me. Praise a lot, but

  1075. I didn't. For the first three years. You know, after

  1076. we got married, it was the pandemic. Hallylujah, praiss every day.

  1077. I WoT food, food, food, so she said, good cook

  1078. gne I tell you, no exercise, no nothing. I just

  1079. wish pickaball came four years earlier. My thing. It was.

  1080. I was so I was so on fire to to

  1081. to to lose weight. I tried to go to the gym.

  1082. La dead la. Nothing happened, And I thought that because

  1083. I wasn't naturally gifted. Therefore you say as an excuse, no,

  1084. it is not for me. I tell you what. I

  1085. tell you. What if I were to look back at

  1086. my younger self, I'll give him one by passlet on

  1087. the face and say you let discipline. Discipline is the

  1088. only thing that will get you there. You know you

  1089. think I lost weight now because of pickaball. No, I can't.

  1090. I would be still as fat as ever if I

  1091. didn't discipline myself or the next sugar. Ah, that's the secret.

  1092. You think Pickaba lose weight. No, hey, hallelujah, nothink pickable

  1093. lose weight? Just cardioony is the sugar. Accuse me, it's

  1094. the minor eyes. Thank god. My wife went to another

  1095. company that to stop drinking my low. I should not

  1096. name the not the name of the company. H But

  1097. it's the sugar. So it's the discipline. You got to

  1098. disipline yourself, is it is? It? Is it difficult? Yes?

  1099. Every day wen I dream though I know every day

  1100. when I dream about the sugar. Oh, got disagree myself.

  1101. And because of the discipline, you get the result, hallelujah,

  1102. praise a lot. Now I can't button my shirt. I can,

  1103. but then my shirt without having to a brief sucking

  1104. my thummy. Okay, Yeah, that's that's how how it gets.

  1105. It starts difficult, but as you disiplate yourself, it gets easier.

  1106. It gets easier, it gets easier, and then more shuld

  1107. you just become your way, some of you being struggle.

  1108. You're showing the gospel now. But come on, come on, friends,

  1109. there's going to be a day where you can button

  1110. your jacket when it comes to the gospel. Praise it

  1111. not hallelujah, Amen, all the abundance of the heart the

  1112. mouth was speak. And when your mouth speak abundance, your

  1113. tummy becomes smaller. Then you get okay, praise the Lord.

  1114. Imagine the day. Imagine a day let's go some hard check.

  1115. Imagine a day where witnessing so winning, discible making leaders

  1116. producing that they're releasing wow, becomes momentum, heaving culture custom.

  1117. Imagine the day when I come into this church and

  1118. it becomes a normal Friends and family, I always close

  1119. your eyes right now and imagine the day that this

  1120. place is filled with double the amount of people and

  1121. half of them do not know Jesus. Can you imagine?

  1122. Can you picture it? What a beautiful site? Amen, children

  1123. running around ex kids needing to get thirty more teachers

  1124. praise the lot because there's thirty more kids that don't

  1125. know Christ. And God bless your teachers. But it's going

  1126. to be a privilege. Imagine the day that this becomes

  1127. a norm. But this day it will never come. It

  1128. will continue to be our dreams if you do not

  1129. have discipline. We got to start somewhere, friends, We've got

  1130. to start somewhere, and how do we get there? Next

  1131. page says the implementation. We've got to adopt the diet

  1132. of God. The diet of God is this is our interpretation, right,

  1133. but it kind of interpreted this way. Daniel lived on

  1134. vegetables and waters for ten days and became stronger and fatter.

  1135. This is the way God wants. Asked for a purpose

  1136. to live on God's diet. Not the King's diet. Yeah,

  1137. not the meat, not the substance, not the wine, bodies

  1138. of the diet of God. And what is the diet

  1139. of God is the world of God. Let's break God's

  1140. diet down way quickly. Number one is the daily bread.

  1141. Make a list. Make a list. Friends, When you hear

  1142. the vision Hypo two fourteen, make a list. What is

  1143. it that you want me to do? Lord? Is it

  1144. engaging in powerlifting? Used to think Albert as an example.

  1145. Maybe some of his list is there? Is it engaging

  1146. in uh, you know, reaching out to the community. What

  1147. the one is that list? Friends? The year just started,

  1148. not too late to make a list? Is it? You

  1149. know I want to dicible my kid. I want to

  1150. see my kid get baptized this year. Is that is

  1151. that part of the list. I want to get baptized

  1152. this year? He's that part of the list. I want

  1153. to proclaim the glory of the Lord by getting baptized

  1154. this year. So, you know, baptized yet I want to

  1155. encourage you. Maybe maybe it's time to consider. Yeah, take

  1156. a list down from the Lord. After making the list,

  1157. right after having the die of the Lord. You you

  1158. need to know what I want you to eat? You

  1159. eat the vegetables, the carrots, the lettices, the cabbages, Yeah,

  1160. the salads, Yeah, all all the capsicums or all this

  1161. all these uh aubergine or whatever print jewels. Yeah, doing

  1162. the list? Make a list? What is God wanting me

  1163. to do Yeah, and then make a commitment. After you

  1164. have the list up, Blow to God. God. This is

  1165. my list. This is my commitment to you. This year,

  1166. I'm gonna read more Bible. Last year i read one

  1167. chapter a day. This year, I'm going to read two

  1168. chapters a day at least up. Blow you to God.

  1169. And the last one is to make it count. Make

  1170. it count. That's the implementation. Make it count. There may

  1171. be days where it's difficult to read the two chapters,

  1172. but disibin yourself. Make it count. Be accountable to what

  1173. God has given to us and what we have uploaded

  1174. to God. This is the list that we have got.

  1175. I'm going to commit to this. I'm going to commit

  1176. to sharing my life story, my life testimony to friends,

  1177. to families. I'm going to try my best when opportunity

  1178. comes arises, Lord give me the bonus to do so.

  1179. Make a commitment before, make time to help others before.

  1180. Make sure you'll remember the vision always. Make sure you

  1181. remember the vision always wherever you go, wherever you go,

  1182. whatever you do. I pray that you remember. As partner

  1183. of X Church, I pray that you remember the vision.

  1184. The vision not just limited to the patterns of X Church.

  1185. When you go out there, anyone, you talk to anyone, anyone,

  1186. you talk to any Christian, you talk to any believers

  1187. out there, they should also align with this. They also

  1188. should also have that heart for the loss. I don't

  1189. think there's any church out there that doesn't have the

  1190. heart for the loss. Amen, what's the vision, friends and

  1191. family that's been given the ex church? Come on, come on,

  1192. come on, come on forward. The earth shall be filled

  1193. with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as

  1194. the waters cover the see Harlee Lujah, Praise the Lord.

  1195. Now you have memorize one verse yay, yeah, oh, sorry,

  1196. two verses because you know for God soul of this world? Right,

  1197. how do you even remember that in the first day

  1198. as friends? Because you grew up with it. You keep

  1199. saying it, right, you keep saying it. How do you

  1200. think the kids can remember more? What's just say? Nurse? Yeah,

  1201. not for us? The subplane, yes, be subplane so extreme.

  1202. Come up.

  1203. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  1204. information on our church, please visit xchurch dot org. We

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  1206. this week is going to be a good week. I

  1207. hit for you, God bless