Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church Part 2 | Pr. Alvin Keng

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Let's get into it. What was the recap last week?

And only a few recaps? I know I don't have

a lot of time. I know Passa did a major

dissertation ready, so I won't go so deep into that.

Praised a lot for him.

Please go and listen to his uh you know, full

dissertation of the notes.

Yeah, yeahs and good friends. Ok.

I always trea him under the bus and just talk

for fun. So we unpacked to understand and undertake the

vision that the church has. Okay, right, So I will

encourage you to don't miss any class. We'll use the

class or at least if you miss, go and listen

to the MTG because we don't write five years from now.

Right.

You look back and we asked you what you do know?

It's extra church. Yes, how long have you come to

AX for the past five years? But you don't have

a vision now? Yeah, I don't know.

LA.

Guys, don't be like that, LA, don't be like that, Okay,

And that's why you want to unpack, so that people

will be able to have an opportunity to understand, because

we want everybody to experience the fullness of God in

their lives. Amen, who you want to experience the fullness

of God in your lives? Just praise your hand if

you want to, okay, as you can see, and then

rest there not waving your lying okay, sorr, yeah right direct, okay.

So what is the big vision we talk about?

Haper Cook chapter two, verse fourteen, right, what does hapercook

Chapter two, verse fourteen extecally, does you notice right now

already for God soul love the world?

No? No, come on?

Maybe yes, that the earth may be filled with the glory, right,

the knowledge of the glory of God as the water

is covered there see Okay. And what's Genesis Chapter one,

verse twenty eight. What does he say.

If we can help? No, you cannot? They are I Genesis? Want?

Doing someone want to, you know, flick their bible real quick? Yes?

Then God bless them and God said to them be

fruitful and multiply.

Okay.

So that's got commandment to us. Okay, So what what

where are we or what what do we do?

Well?

It says feel the earth Okay, feel the earth for

you guys. It's banda Tama I feel, but can you

feel bandw Tama not feel but feel.

Right? How how do you feel the earth? Well?

It says here, be fruitful and multiply okay. And of

course in edam and Ives, context is make babies. Lah,

I think a lot of people in this world right now,

it's not just make babies, it's make disciples, okay? And

why why do we need to do this? Why do

we need to do this? We talked about having dominion. Wow,

sounds very uh, very dramatic. Dominion take aver right. Dominion

also means influence. Right, let me ask all of you here.

Do you have influence in where you are working? Do

you have influence in where you are studying? Do you

have influence in your industry?

Yes? Or no? Or someone else is influencing you? Do

you have influence? Right?

Does xbu have influence in this hotel? Or you are

just an event that happens on a Sunday that they

have to lie on. Think about it, Think about it.

Jesus Christ had influenced now right the moment. Even when

he was a child, he had influenced parents, lost him,

found him three days later or how many parents do that?

Three days?

You realize Hey, where's my son? And they have to

go back to back track somewhere and then find him

in the temple, right, and then you're like, what are

you doing here? He's talking to all the old people

and they're very impressed by him his knowledge.

Right, get influenced.

Okay, that's what Jesus had, right, and if you are

follows of Christ, we shure to influence. Okay, so that

was why we learned. We feel the earth right, and

we be fruitful and multiply in this life, make more disciples,

and then we also have influence, and not just bad influence,

but good influence.

Don't you think Let me ask you a question.

Don't you think that if we have more good more,

if the church has more influence Overdama will be a

better place, don't you think? So? Think about it? If

the church or sorry not church. Maybe let me use

any another example. If Jesus Christ right have more influence

in your office, don't you think your office will be

a better place?

Okay?

Because something use church then and be like if you

got bad experience of church, then that's it, like you know,

because you're all human, right, But if Christ have more influence,

the Holy Spirit had more influence. If God had more

influence in your office, don't you think it'll be a

better place for you? Do you think things will be

more fair? Do you think people be more kind? Think

about it?

Right? So influence is very powerful, right, It's very powerful.

Think right. So that's what we do. Your catch that

your catch that that was last week. Okay, Today we're

going to talk about preparation, and he talks about us prepparing, preparing,

we understand the why, we understand the purpose. Okay, the

last time we talked about the purpose of unpacking the vision.

Now let's talk about preparation. And that's what we're doing.

Is the church right now? Preparation right, and we're gonna

go into the mission of our church. So what is

the big mission of ex Church? Let me help you all?

What is the team for this year? Disciple first?

Okay?

Right, Well, you will find that we are very unique.

EX Church is very unique because we are big on decipership.

We are super big on decipership. Right, We don't we

don't plant churchs without disciples. We don't hire pastors just

because of their resume. No, everyone is discipled. Right for

some of us who experienced it, we know there it's

a hard journey, but we know there's a fruitful journey

for those that have not experienced it. You think that

people were controlling, right, and we all have all kinds

of ideas about the discipleship. We should look like that, right,

But in acts we are. We're very big on disciber ship.

Right.

It as simple as Jesus's commandment, go make disciples.

How do you make disciples? Is it? Is this just

making disciples?

I mean we used to say, like, oh, you know,

someone would say, oh, you know, I'm disciple of TDJX.

I'm we had to use his name. Now last can

use his name. Now we have to use his name.

I'm a disciple of blank. You know, I don't know

wish pasted as, I know one knew Australian Lady Pasta

as red fiery one, I've hurt, but I don't know

what's the name. Oh, I'm a disciple of this person,

disciple of that person. But does the person know you

or not?

Right?

Yeah, you say a disciple, you listen to the stuff.

You consume the content, but you're applying your life and

not you know, we consume a lot of content, but

actually we consume and we feel good, but we don't

do it on think about it?

Right? So then can we truly say you're a disciple? Right?

So it says say that we may not be able

to fully to fulfill the big vision of filling the

earth with the knowledge of the glory of God, but

what we could do is to be fruitful and multiply, right,

Can always here be fruitful and multiply?

Can right? Okay?

You guys are I'm losing your radio looking at me like,

what are you talking about? Come on, guys, can we

be frueful a multiplying not Okay, I'm not just talking

about getting married, making baby sah.

Right.

If you think it's just that, then it's very shallow perspective.

You know, being fruitful right and multiply can be as

as simple as multiplying yourself right, multiplying the values you have,

multiplying your understanding, multiplying yourself right. And how do we

be footful and multiply? How does it look like? Well,

there are three key things on how it looks like

the first one is make disciples right, and we have

this techline make disciples that make the difference. Okay, what

do you mean by making the difference. Well, we want

to be able to make make disciples that would really

make the difference in people's limes. Not it's not just

but it's not just face value. It's not just oh,

you know, I'm a disciple or pasca and that's it. No,

there's no there's no other fruit out of my life.

I'm using a lot of these Bible, very biblical words,

but there's no I say, there's there's nothing that comes

out of me, right, beyond just the name pasta Alvin

very big, you know, or you know a lead Flatfish

or lead Tim the special Neists ministry. But but beyond

all these names, nothing, nothing else comes out. There's no fruit. Right,

there's no reproduction you give I mean, no, you you're

catching something. Not it's all just stay us on me, right,

it's meaningless status. How do I know that Jesus said

himself when he was tempted by the devil meaningless.

So how are we making disciples?

You got to think about that, because it's not just oh,

you know, pass the Alvin passes even problem leader problem,

my home leader problem. No is everybody's Jesus didn't say

go all of you pastest leaders bishop. You know, I

think that time he didn't even have all these titles

on these all human titles, because we need to show seniority,

and showing seniority is good. Right, He just say, go

and make disciples right, and teach them all that I have,

all that you have observed, and all that I've taught

you right. And he did give a promise that I

will be with you always. Now we claim that God

will be with you. That means we claim Jesus with us.

But are we doing what He's asking us to do?

Every one of us here? Okay, good to think about that, right.

So we want to make disciples, and we want to

not just make disciples they are normal. We want to

make these disciples that make the difference people that you know, really,

if someone you know, if someone were to say, if someone, okay,

just give you an example, if I really do well

in producing a good disciple that make the difference.

The only way you will know whether it is.

A successful WHO model is that if you interact with

my disciple and you see that he's making a difference

in your life. Okay, share not so let me do

some let me do a let me do a review. Now,

let me do a re performance review now of passes

even soon because he's my disciple. Ma, okay, okay, let's

do that. Let's do that for funner. Ah, and please

don't be nicer. Passes across your eyes again, Okay, curse

your eyes. Curse your ears, curse your eyes. So so

let me ask you a question. In the past one

year that you've been in in BU, has passed even

been doing a good job or not? Just and no, no,

don't don't say just raise up your hands. I've been

doing a good job, because if you don't raise up

your hands means that he's.

Not doing a good job.

Okaykay, okay, great, great, Okay, can put on hands? Yeah,

passes even you can?

You can?

Yeah, just now, None of them raise their hands just now. Yeah,

So you have to review yourself, your kick. Actually quite

a majority of them raise their hands, you know. And

I can see that they're not pressure, just shy on it. Okay, No,

but you give I mean not you. You You give

what I mean by making disciples that make the difference. Right,

So the question I have for always here is do

you see yourself as someone that can make disciples? Not

because you're published church and again. Now we're not expecting

everybody to raise up a just front turn or don't

don't get just just multiply your self lower. Of course,

if you feel that you have nothing to give, then

you've got to improve yourself first before you multiply yourself.

Like, right, you're your catch that? Right? No?

And why you do it? Why are we encouraging you

to do this? It's just as simple as Jesus asks

us all to do it. So isn't it funny that

we read this word every day but we don't do it.

Don't catch that, or we just succon it to the leaders,

succoring to someone else.

It doesn't make sense to me.

Right, And of course, yes, understand your challenges and all,

but it guys, can I give you an encouragement? One enough?

If one is your capacity, one is good enough. Don't

don't overthink it, because I believe that when you're faithful,

you want parrel the talents go give you more. God

will give not you go find more. God will give

you more until you cannot handle until you have to

like hey, Steven, sorry, yeah, I got this guy, I

cannot you.

Can you know? Until you have to do that?

Because you just can't you just do have the time

because you have been fruitful, right, are you catching something?

So we want to make disciples, and that's why we

have all these like classes, you know, all these things

because we want to teach people. You want to train people,

or I want to make but I don't know how.

Very simple talk to the leaders, find out how to

make disciples. We're not dumping you there, and then you

go pray and ask Jesus lah, let him speak to you. No, no, no, friends,

how to say we just because we say this doesn't

mean that there's no pathway. There is a pathway. And

for the past two years we've been developing this pathway.

Right uh.

And I can tell you arewhare blessed now because well

I wouldn't say gone at the day so that you

might come back. But to a certain extent, how I

grew up in the church was that it was really

like you're going prailer and ask God to lead you

or there was no formal training or anything. I don't know.

We just like, okay, God, I believe.

So we actually were born out of the score of

heart knocks, right, XPJ was planted out there. You can

talk to my experience, planter out of the score of

heart knocks b you have the benefit or at least

past you have benefit of someone working with him.

You get what I mean.

Well, maybe we don't have a well we do have

like an official training for church planters, but but he

has the benefit of working with someone having that connection

being guided. And do you know that be is doing

way much better if I have to compare, like when

XBJA started first, sere second yere, you guys are doing

like lips and bounds And that's a good thing.

It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.

I'm not comparing, it's I'm telling you that it's a

good thing. This is something that God wants. We get

better at what we do. Your cash there not right,

We get better at what we do. Okay, So we

make disciples and we produce leaders. Right, because a true

disciple is not just a follow of Christ and his leaders,

but also follows how Christ led and raised others. You

look at the Jesus model. He led and raised twelve Well,

I wouldn't even say fishermen, because some of them were fishermen,

like uneducated brash carry a knife with the one right

who has did that the main disciple, Peter, why is

he carrying a knife with him?

Gangster man? This guy.

Don't you think it's a gangster? I think it's a gangster. Right,

And then you have like Methew, you know, and Luke

the doctor and text you know, different Uran people, right,

and Jesus led them. And these were the leaders of

the church. Know, Hey, guys, that that is amazing. So

you can't come and tell me I'm not a leader.

I'm just a housewife. I cannot know. Friend, I'm talking

to friend.

I learned this.

I learned this listently, I'm gonna try it. Hi, guys,

my name is Elvin, and I'm your friend. Okay, No

matter how I speak to you, I understand.

I'm elving.

I'm your friend. I want to help you. I want

to help you know Jesus more. I want to help

you go deeper in your faith. That's my that's my intention,

my desire. So we want to produce leaders, okay, and

I give you this pathway turning every pre believer to

be a partner, go catch that, every partner to be

a pioneer, every pioneer to be a parent. Okay, what

does it mean? Let me let me give you the words.

What is a partner a partner? We don't believe in

membership here an ex church, you believe in partnership because

a partner doesn't come to be serf. A partner comes

to serf, A partner comes to be part of it. Right,

But I understand a lot of because church. Right, that's

how even we even change the name of our church,

because we don't believe that church is a service.

It's a worship. You're your catch that.

But of course, the I'll say the widely accepted it's

because we serve people.

Yeah, the church serves people. Yes, I get that.

But when you come to church to worship your worshiping God,

so their perspective have to be there, you know.

That perspective and true worshiping God.

We are served through the worship, true, the serving, true,

the giving, truth, the living we are we experience more

of God. Not that way around. Human behavior is selfish

human behavior. Serve me, I pay you money, you help me.

That's the constant, you know, thing that we deal with

on a daily basis. Right, But we want everybody to

experience growth in their life. So partnership, understand partnership. That's

why we have partnership, right, and every partner to eventually

pioneer something. Why because when you pioneer something, when you

and I'm not just saying planners, you know, it could

be different. Things could be I don't know. Maybe there's

a there's a prayer group that you started. Maybe because

the moment you come into this place where you are

solt like how to say her, when you put your

hands to the plower, you will stop complaining.

Okay, let me give you this perspective.

Nobody here will complain about the house that they pay

that they bought and they pay an installment on one.

You you you're not gonna do that, right? How do

I explain this?

Uh, if you build it, you won't complain about it.

You will find ways to fix it. You get me right?

If you built it. If you didn't build it, then

it's very easy to complain. It's very easy to find

the cracks, right, But when you don't, when you're not

involved in building anything, it's very easy to be critical

about it, right, and we're all like that case very natural.

But when you build yourself, you will stop complaining on

because you know how hard is it?

Okay?

Let me let me let me give you this perspective.

Who here is from expresso and expresso right, just okay,

expresso people, will you ever complain about the food yourself

or not? But I'm sure you received many many complaints

about the food yourself or feedback feedback okay, constructive criticism,

all right, and then you'll probably feel to yourself, why

don't you do every week? Then you tell me whether

or not you can maintain the quality and all because

you understand, you understand because you want to give this much,

but then there's a budget. That's I mean, so, friends,

I my encouragement is you want to really grow up,

start pioneering something. But if you want to be a

kid and you want to chill and you want to

sit down and not experience any responsibility, then then just

sit there and do nothing and always be the one

complaining because people who have no stake in it will

complain that that's that's just ran noormal I guys, okay.

And eventually, after you pioneer something, you'll be a parent.

Not a parent, but a parent okay, why okay? Parents

understand this. Parents think about the future, not for yourself

but for others. A parent will take care of other people, right,

and that's what we want to see it happen. You

guys catch that. So we believe in planting a disciple

and producing a leader. Okay, what does it mean? This

God's method is God's strategy. We've tried it many times

a day. It's not hiring someone, because hiring someone is

a hiring But we plant disciples right and then leaders

are produced. Right like how Pasta Leazras was planted in Boswana,

Passa benjing Osaka Passa Joel in Melbourne. We plant a

seed of a good disciple and in good soul and

then it will multiply.

Write a lot of just plants right now.

In x orc Is they go through a lot of challenges,

right or see if they go to a lot of challenges,

we don't see those challenges. But because the disciple is there,

the church is driving not because yes, God will bless

it and all, but it is because there's a disciple,

because there's someone who's willing to when they don't feel

like it, when it's difficult, they will still do it.

Right.

That's how it happens, right, and then you have the tenfold.

So what we get when you plant a disciple or

see is that we produce a leader. Right, Okay, you'll

catch that. So that's how God works. He plans lives

to get lives. So if you're here and say, oh,

you know, is it just the method or the strategy,

I can tell you that's not going to be it.

It is not the method or the strategy. It's just

the way God works. Because you can go to another place.

The method be different. You come to build, the demographic

is different, the method is different. You got the PJ

is different. Right, The method can be different, but the

message is still the same. Decide wherever you go and

acts in the whole of this. Well, right, maybe somethings

you see a bit different, one like okay, why does

Sney do this? Or why does Honey do that? Ory

Sunday say this right, minor differences, but you will notice

that the value is still the same one giving God

our best dressing up on Sunday.

You're cashire not right.

You will not look different because the value is the same,

but the method may be a bit different. Now, God

Japan maybe you have to speak Japanese. La right, different, Okay,

So we produce leaders. That's the second point. The third

point is that and this sun might be more relevant

to a lot of us. Here we raise and release

Daniels into the marketplace. Okay, I just gave you two

examples about well, the first example is something alm Us

can do.

A second example is replannt church.

You really got to be called to plant church, right

or maybe you have a calling from God. But I

think the third thing all of us can do because

we are we are in this space as a church,

that we are getting into the Daniel generation where it's

no longer just oh you know, uh how the sayer

it's no longer.

Just oh you know.

I want to say this, but it's not entirely correct,

o Sola, because we still need people coming full time.

But is this understanding that it's not just full time

church on Sunday, but it's from Monday to Friday. It's

not just passa Stephen and pasta Elvin and Pastadic and Pasada.

It's all of you making disciples in the marketplace, right

is raising Daniels people who understand who their God is, who.

Your God is.

Now you know who your God is, and you know

that God plays you there in that company, in that school,

in that place for a reason to spread his influence

to make another person's life better. Yes, your life might

suck right now. You might have a horrible boss right now. Yes,

all about you. Friends, It's not all about you, because

if you stick to where the Lord, if you know

your God, then you will know what to do in

that situation.

You are not helpless.

No, that's the one thing that I maybe I know

it is prophetic or I need to encourage you Christians.

You are not helpless. Daniels served four kings, he remained

you know xpja right. We've been in Jaia one for

thirteen years a day, thirteen years friends, four different this

recently latest development, new management, and I had some hiccups

and all, but I can testifind out that we still

have the favor of the Lord there. They still want us,

They still gave us a very good rate praise the Lord,

and they want to work with us. And they realize

that we are pretty very good to work with and

it's a partnership. Although I didn't sign a contray to them,

I still recognize God's favor of us meeting that right.

We are not helpless. No, you are not helpless in

where you're at. You have an unfair advantage and it's

called prayer. So we want to release Daniels into the marketplace. Okay,

good question for you. Choose one mountain this year and take.

It for the Lord?

Do you all know I give you this perspective? Do

you know that there is seven mountains? Okay, I forgot

the seven mountain is ready, but in this in men,

in the world, and all right, there are seven key

mountains in the marketplace one okay, remember not you know,

I'm trying to remember. There's your media education as different

things are right, all these different mountains.

Okay, So I don't know where you're at.

Okay, but maybe a question is can we choose one

mountain and take it for the Lord?

Can you do that?

Not think about it? Or which mountain is God leading

you to take? And I'm sure there isn't. I'm sure

in your heart of hearts right, there is something that

God has impressed in your heart to do in your

marketplace and whether in your marketplace or your life.

It's just that we are naughty. Alert. Let's be honest.

We are not the.

And not pastor not pasta Kenola right, Pastonia got power right?

Not true?

No, but we believe in this lie right that we're

not good enough. No, friends, King Davy was not a pastor,

he was not a priest. He was king right, he

did great things for the Lord. A lot of people

in the Bible are not pastors. No, they're not called

to be priests. No, but they did awesome, crazy things

of the lot, right, So what can you do? Daniel

was not a pastor. Daniel was in the marketplace. But God,

you see my Telly Joseph?

Same right?

Oh but scaryaan scary? Yeah, of course he's scary. I know,

I understand that. But you're not alone. No, right, because

God wants us to focus on growing deep roots to

produce good fruit. Root means going deeper in the word, Friends,

I will admit maybe at this point of time, in

your capacity and the capability, you cannot. Yeah you can't,

but you know who can? God can? Therefore, do you

know what you need to do?

Well?

Your roots need to be deeper because to be used

by God in where you're at and to bring change

and to make a difference. The only solution or the

only way forward is to understand God more, is to

discern him more, is to get into God more than

only you can Because it is not true your own

experience and your talent and your ideas that will get

you there.

It is true God only.

That's the interesting thing I realise, Well, God, it's kind

of like I'm trying to remember, there's this scripture I

think in Joshua, and yeah, it was a devotion we

did last week, and I thought that was a very

revelationary devotion. It was numbers chapter thirty one, right to go, go

and read up. So basically is a story about how

the Israelites were taking the Promised land right and it

came to a point where they were supposed to fight

the Amalekites. And what happened was they went and fought

them right, and God gave them the victory. So because

of that, now nobody died, nobody was injured, nobody died

miracle right. War definitely got some injury or but for them,

nobody died, no injury, nothing. And they were so proud

of themselves, thinking that they are the ones that did

everything right that they actually Sami didn't listen to everything

God said. In fact, they didn't do a few things

that was supposed to be sp and when they came back,

thank godda they repented. The army, you know, repented and

say no we cannot and they decided to go above

and Beyonna to how to they make reparations with the levies?

Write something to the effect.

You know, the picture tells me one ra simple thing

that when God says that he will give you the

victory in your life, it won't come through you.

It will come through him.

But because we're a human now, we think that when

God gives us a victory, we think it's going to

come through us.

I come to us.

Not, So then we work harder, we go and talk

to our connections, we go look at our bank account.

No.

No, every promise that God gives in the Bible, if

you go to read and study it now, never came

from humans. Not always came from him, is you know?

Even Abraham, every promise came from him. So then what

do we do about selving nothing? Lah, you're not supposed

to do anything. Well, the only thing I supposed to

do is continue to wait on him. Na not go

do thing to your own self. But because we are humans, Mama,

you know, the can thing to say is we're choot

Yanna echief fingers, can all wait? Let me help God.

And most of the time the things that come after

that now is when people help God. Is bed Runner

just something for us to think about. If God call

you to take that mountain, it will come from him.

You don't have to do much. You just continue to

be fitful, continue to follow him, continue to do the

things that you are doing right now right, and then

God will open the door.

God will lead you, God will enable you.

Friends. That's my encouragement. That is something I've experienced myself.

I realize every time God give me a vision or something,

the thing that I'm s alposed to do is wait

for him, you know. But there's this tendency. You know,

maybe I should go study, Maybe I should go and

took to this persond maybe I should pray. Maybe maybe

I should you know, I mean first and pray Ah

yes la.

You know.

I think that's that's going deeper in God's presence and

all that is a given laugh. But we want to

do things ourselves. And I realized that sometimes don't need la,

just chilla. Just wait on the latla and then when

he when he gives you the thing or when it

comes to your place, and then walk through it.

La. Don't be like Hey, how coma. He's very funny.

You know, God give you the you forget and after

that Sundeny came Nola, Nola, not me, and then you

let it go. We waste it right, right? So, friends,

let me give you the ol picture. Are you guys

catching something from this? See I'm unpacking the but you

notice that you are getting something very interesting? Because before

I go there, let me give you this picture. You're

all in ex church for a reason. It is by

no chance to hear maybe someone someone us here. We

came because we know a friend. We came because it's

near to our house. It doesn't matter, right, Yeah, because

of your family, it doesn't matter.

Right. God has a.

Specific purpose for you if you would discover it. And

when you discover the purpose that God has for you,

it is not going to be a curse on your life,

but it's going to be a blessing you. No means

that if you following that pathway of that purpose and

you continue to be faithful, you will benefit. You'll catch

that on. Sometimes we think that you know, when we

do things, you will be a disadvantage to us. No, friends,

the world is rare ticing, But God has bigger things.

For you, And if you would only want in that path,

God will open the door. If you only want in

that path and align yourself, God will lead you. But

a lot of times we are not dealer. We know better,

we know better than God. That's the problem. Right, So

my encouragement is aligned, aligned to the Church, and you

will be blessed.

Why because the church is the bride of Christ.

No, right, I'm not just trying to put working biblical

stuff here, right, because God calls you here. There's de

fire reason amen. So this is the over picture. Our

vision is influenced or dominion and the mission. The way

together is discipleship, right, So don't shun discipleship. If you're

not in a discipleship relationship today, please go and get one.

It is not about being a best friend.

Trust me.

Men passes even are not best friends. I know there

are times I mess with him, sometimes intentionally, most times

intention sometimes not intentionally white intention because he needs to

be training on some things right, right, But we're not

necessarily best friends. Of course, later on can talk more

and can build. But disabled is very important. And when

you understand discappership, then you can disciple someone else, right,

and you can go deeper. Right, that is the mission

and what is the direction. To build daniels so that

you will be a blessing to your marketplace, so that

you will be a blessing to where you're at. Amen

and friends. God doesn't want us to be ex church

as a brand. It is not about the brand, right.

He wants us to be a lifestyle, right, Jesus livestyle

to live out ects that will reach pre believers who

may not understand church but understand practical things like love, peace, care, grace, friendship,

joy and prayer. Friends, it's not just about coming for Christmas. No,

it's about all of us being a good influence, all

of us being kind out there, all of us being

able to be a have integrity. Do you know that

it's so easy to have in degrity now because the

world is in a place where there's totally no integrity. Right,

it's not very hard to be a good person. No,

you know, because everybody's doing anna kind of thing, they

will notice like it, how come you so nice on that?

How come you pay your bills on time?

No?

How come you pay somemonona when everybody else say no need?

Is it necessary? It's not very hard, No, now the

word is so messed up. It's not very hard, right?

Or do we like the world and want to be

more like the world. You gotta choose who you want

to follow?

Right? So what would X church become? This?

On you write own words? How do you foresee the

church to become? And you are the church? The church

is not just here, No, you are the church. How

will you see X in your home?

X of what?

Okay, it's in your booklet like you can write okay,

and friends, I'm sharing all these big, big concepts like

what passed the shad previously as well.

But we all are web the one.

We understand that a lot of people out there, non

believers that we're trying to reach, they're trying to share

God's love with don't understand your jargon.

One.

They don't understand worship. They don't understand lifting up your hands,

they don't understand, they don't undertand all these things. But

do you know what they understand. They understand when someone

cares enough to ask them how they're doing. They understand kindness,

They understand generosity A you so in a tough spot,

YU being so nice to me. They understand that they

don't understand you know what. Jesus will come, Pussus, Stephen,

I know you don't know Jesus, but he will come

and say you will God bless you, pray for it,

busses you w and that's it.

They don't understand that.

So to connect, right, friends, is to make sense even

before we make disciples. But what's the difference between a

pre believer and you? You understand Christ. You understand that

prayer is powerful. You have heard testimonies. You see it's

different now there is a progression in your faith. But

people who don't know Christ said, they don't know all

these things. I can't go to you know, like my

in laws are non believers. I remember when I was.

They think just a time, you know, and and really

we got a lot of faith testimonies about how God

provided for different things. I can't go to my father

in law and say, and I very clearly that don't

worry about the future. God with take care of it

in full time. You think he will understand that? No,

you know, I understand. I mean you do freelance right, yeah? Yeah,

I share him about my freelance business and being more confidence.

Are you know I'm going to marry his daughter. You

want to make sure I take care of him. And

now he gave me a long lecture about Kevin in

the woods. Right, I still remember that one thirty minute

talk about building it Kevin. I'm like, wow, this is

like some sermon. And I still try to connect my

father in law in ways.

You understand.

I try to bring Christ in my in laws family.

That's my job because eventually I want them to experience God.

They're coming for Christmas.

I'm slowly trying to bring that into my sister in

laws as well. You know, use my brother in lock

cat Hey, I wrote the script, can you please come

for Christmas? Not? Do you know that they want? They

won't step in chest one? No, no, don't talk to

me about Jesus. Don't talk about your song. Okay, right,

you do you, I do me. But there's some influence. Now,

there's some influence. Now I've recognized that last year they

took me out for my birthday without my wife. Oh

so supricious surprival, over surprise. You know, I've got a

secret WhatsApp group that my wife is not even my

sister and laws. This is how tight we are. Okay,

so it's influenced friends, you'll catch that, not influence.

That's that's what you want. Amen. Do my sister and

lost understand.

No, they don't understand, but they understand that they are jeerful,

is kind, he's friendly, he understands, can give good advice.

Especially you want to listen.

They know that if they're in trouble they call me,

I will be there for them.

They get all these things. Don't catch that.

So, friends, let me ask you, and we can apply

this almost immediately to connect, if to make sense even

before we make disciples? Do you make sense in the

life of your friends who are not believers?

Yet? So what kind of sense are you going to make? This? Sweet?

And there are some words here. Have you been laid

to office all this time? Can you be punctual? Do

you hon a time? Do you have excellence in your work?

I'm talking about work laminly okay? Are you kind or

not as a boss? Are you understanding? Are you loving

to your family members who are not believers? Are you

patient in people or you're impatient?

Run right?

What is the sense you're gonna make this week? Think

about it? Think about it? I mean it could be anyone.

What is the sense? See even before we straight away like, oh,

you know these Jesus you must be you have to

make sense. Lah. If they look at your life and

they're like, huh, Christian Aleana, you think they will become

You think they would be you know, but if they've

seen a transformation, and then they might be curious. Actually,

how come last time you're more angry, Now you're less angry.

What's different about you? There's that transformation in your life? Amen,

are guys? Okay, okay, let me dream up pagous, let

me take this home. Okay, Okay, I'm just gonna breach

to discuss. It's a lot, but let me just go

through some numbers.

Okay. So in Hibercal, chapter two of US two, it says.

Then the Lord answered me and said, write the vision

and make it plain on tablets that he may run

who reads it. It's very simple design, very simple understanding.

It's just that if you don't write the vision down,

you're not gonna do it, don't you think? So? Actually

writing something nice very powerful. So friends, we're going to

get into twenty twenty six, right, can you write down

your resolution or not and paste it on your wall.

If you don't do it, it's not going to happen. Right,

If you just say it, it's not gonna happen. You

gotta write it down, write the vision down that he

may run who reads it, because once you have it,

you will run.

You reminded, it will feel painful. Okay.

So we don't just know the vision. After these friends,

we want to run with the vision. We want to

get the whole church to run with it. Okay, and

then share and then encourage each other. Let's talk about

some numbers and this again you might it might just

pass your head.

It's fine. Is this something that we've gone try as

the church. Okay? So last week you talk about.

Ten years, so ten so the focus on the next

ten years that that was in twenty twenty went past

the shar this unpacking series. It was twenty twenty. It

was spendemic time right right, the first twenty twenty of

X Church. And this is something you just need to

understand for your legacy. Part from the year two thousand

when our church started until the year twenty twenty, we

were Joseph Church. We pioneered, we dreamt you Like, like

I said, I grew up with the church. It was

all cheonga, you know, John Chong chong, okay, chung all

the way. Don't think one budos bulldos you know, make mistake,

Just go you know, trust, go, just go build it.

We build something, and we've come to a place where

we have built something that we believe that is strong

God let us twenty two thousand, twenty ten. The direction

is build these big contedral build this week. That was

the direction we were hitting. And then twenty ten we

lost the building and then it was scattered, and we've

been scattering ever since. And we've seen the benefit of

scattering ex church. Now see if we still build from

twenty ten onwards, a build cathedral. Let me tell you

how many speakers we have? Maybe five speakers in the

whole church, right, because for what wan to have more?

You know, pass cannot speaking, not always listening. You were

happy listening to Pasta, right, the eldest maybe passes cenra

maybe maybe on those hand, Feld, How many bands do

we have? Maybe maybe two bands, three bands, because the

standard be very high. No passes even maybe passes have

pasta you know, okay, then the rest of us can

already Okay, how many more, uh, senior passes?

Office? You have maybe one now? One, maybe twenty.

People, just the key elite people even to build that

in twenty ten onwards. But don't you find it interesting

that God asks to scatter that? Right now we have

twenty thirty over speakers and going. Do you know that?

So every day you everybody, you see a different face here,

isn't it a good thing? Got different flavors? Some some

you like, someone you don't like. Right, I'm sure I

don't know whether you like me or not. But right

someone someone wants in. Bill said, I realize your schooling message,

but I'm not schooling. You need improvement, need improved. You know,

you know it's so funny again doctor jail that day

and she's like you because doctor Jail, right, she's the

face of mercy. Okay, really She's like, yeah, the day,

you know, I need to score people more.

I try, I try. I say this.

I said, that's not school. I told her, said, yeah,

I'm trying. Nice I say this that. She's like, what

so harsh on your words? I need to learn from her? Yeah,

I need learn from you. So maybe by school we

got different flavors. But it's a good thing. Okay, speak

same message, right, different We've got so many more local

spios now, so many more capable leaders, no friends.

Now, God is preparing our church for something greater.

If we're all stuck on one place, we wouldn't grow

so much, right, We want to disciple so many?

So there is it is God's plan on our plan.

It is God's plan. So that was the first years,

and then what's the next twenty years? Well, twenty fourty.

We believe.

It's going to be more of this, more of what

you see today, more church plans, more different places. Right

in Daniel, he said to test us ten days. So

ten days of ex church implies ten years till twenty

thirty is a test.

From now to twenty thirty is a test? Are we

going to get this right or not right?

From twenty fifteen onwards it talks about setting our house

in order. I still remember those days where I look

at my church panders like, yeah, I need you set

different things in order? Do you know that God is

still setting things in order in our church?

See?

I feel it is by no chance? Are that different

things happen now? Okay, I'm gonna be as I'm going

to be a bit bold to say this. There are

different changes also in leadership sometimes there are different changes also,

people moving here and there. Because God is God's church

is not my church, not past No, it's God's chach.

No.

He moves you around, and you know how I know

there's a confirmation of when something at this happened. Yeah,

it's sad because we have relationship more, but friends can

I okay, I'll be as blund as I cannot think

about it. Lah, when something moves a and it becomes

more flulf forul, what do you think? Think about it?

If someone moves a and suddenly the mystery become more pufuler?

Do you things a good thing? Think about it? Let

us not be ignorant. Oh no, my friend and no

friends good friends. But I've read the Bible long enough

to know that if we just follow friend onia, we're

gonna lead ourselves in destruction. Follow God first, and God

will bring good friends beside you.

Amen. Don't be so fast to listen to friends. Very dangerous.

Do you know if Job listened to his friends and

his wife, he wouldn't experience God an in another powerful way?

Right, So be get careful. I'm just giving you a caution.

Right.

Have I lost friends?

Yes?

I have no, But God has a plan for us.

He has a plan for you. Right.

God doesn't just want to test us. No, he's just

not testing us, but he wants to strengthen us and

ready us. XBU, You're going to be strengthened for greater things.

I hate. Can you manage it?

Not?

Can you handle it?

On? I always think about this way, not PJ. Why

are we not, you know, growing as fast as it

because we're not ready? Because isn't it a waste that

when God gives us the people we cannot even handle?

Think about it? We got to be ready. Friends.

The other number is one thousand times one thousand. Well,

this is going to be a bit more complicated, and

I do have much time, but it's as simple as previously.

We lost the Grand Mary Building, you know.

So what was a disappointment was an appointed by God

because when the building was lost, we found our vision.

God said, don't build a cathedral for me, but spread

out right, shure, that's just now. So he passed the

care of an ordinary man can be used by God

to build a thousand people. He can do it again

with every person he brings to X. That's what we

believe in, and that's what we're seeing happening. Look at

what's happening in Botswana, amazing. Look at what's happening in

the UK. If you want, you can go there and

visit them and then tell me that's not God people right,

you know, I'll give you this one testimony. I met

a young again now came back from the UK, would

confidently tell me that her first church in her in

her life experience is in the UK. I want to

say with Shana, okay, right, but she's Malaysian, she's been here,

she accepted Christ when she was in school here, but

because of persecution from a family, cannot go to church.

Go through UK so much freedom, go there, found church there,

no right, found church there, grew in faith, was disciples

and then had to come back right and then and

then and then of course confident tell me, yeah, my

first church is there. And I'm like, God, this is

why you're planting in other places, because your heart is

so much for them that you have to they need

to experience you overseas. So there is a reason why

God asks to plan. We are just being faithful. It

is not to be more famous. It is not so that,

oh we got ches UK very big time, very very

painful formulation world, right, But it's God's plan, amen, So

hence one thousand times one thousand. Well, the rest of

you here are about of the first actually are more

than one thousand years I now, okay, but we want

to help people believe helping. Will you remember the time

I help people believe because we dream that God will

use every person acts. But as a catch, friends, God

will only use people that say yes to him. Amen,

he only used people that say yes to him. So, friends,

it was a disappointment. We lost the building, and it's

a miracle. And I can stand here and tessaiyfy right

that it's the best thing that ever happened to our

church by in human eyes. Right, it was tough, I know,

past it can almost then that his resignation in that

time he got shared before on stage.

But you want to know.

Something, I've seen history right that when we have building

project and the building project don't go throughround the church,

Wren nominally split run, but the extras we grew funnier

and a lot of people that gave like generously to

the church are still here. You know, of course we

knew that we give to God, not to a man.

I didn't give to a man.

I give to God right right, Clearly, you got to

understand that.

So, friends, have you experienced something in your life there

was initially seen as a disappointment, only for God to

turn it around for the better.

Think about it.

Disappointment isn't bad, especially if you're walking with Christ. Something

may go down, but God can turn it around. In man,

if we are going through the disappointment now, my encouragement

to you is that God will turn it around.

Trust him. Amen.

So the one thousand that we already have cannot just

remain as they are, but they are able to be

made disciples and then leaders and finding daniels that will

be sent out to fill the earth with the knowledge

of the glory of God.

Right.

So we already have the first one thousand. God will

do the miraculous with the other one thousand. So we

focus on taking care of the one thousand that we

already have. That's why we want to be faithful with

everybody here. Come on, guys, don't sit there and chill.

Experience them more that God has for you. And the

bottom line of discipleship is just is follow me as

I follow Christ, right, follow me as I follow Christ. Right,

So I give you a lot of numbers, but don't

get hunger hung up about the equation numbers.

Right, But the spirit is simple.

Just keep going, keep making disciples, keep plunding gestures, keep

producing leaders, keep raising Daniels, right, because a lot of

you here are called to be Daniels in the marketplace.

Ought to be an influence there, right, Daniel one twenty

says Daniel was found to be ten times better than

the rest. Do you believe that that is a call

that God has all your life, that you are called

to be ten times better than the people around you

in the marketplace? Think about it, friends, But it's not

just for your own benefit, No, it's so that you

can be a blessing there is so that you can

share with them about what God is doing in your life.

That is the purpose.

Right. So for us being at about thousand, now thousand

times ten ten thousand, okay, in ten years, these are

other thing, friends, we are having. All these numbers are

But let me tell you what our focus is. People

who don't know Jesus yet, see, people who know Jesus

are praised the Lord good. You want to go to you,

It's good, ready, good, praise the lot good for you,

you know, Jesus Ida, I'm fine, okay, right, Yeah, We're

still gonna take care of you. It's gonna But friends,

there are many people out there that don't know Christ yet,

so many, so many are the need to experience your experience.

And if we just keep it here, we're being very selfish.

Start right, No, you gotta you gotta have a different perspective,

and you look at people, you got a different You

gotta you gotta have a different perspective, even though it's

not gonna happen.

Amen.

So, friends, I'm coming to a close. Okay, So what's

the focus of this coming year. Let's think about it, right.

So the first thing that I'm encouraged in your own life.

Take stock of all that God has given us. We

want to take stalk, okay, and do our best to

draw out your best. Right, That's that's the goal. We

want to text talk text talk of everybody here in

the church. My encouragement to you is can you take

stock of your own lives or not? Can you do

your best or not? Can you be drawn out or not?

Or have you grown old?

Friends? Have you grown old? H I'm through all I

let the young persons person, No, can you? Can you

go further on? Or is this it for you? Right? So?

Who has got given to us? Uss?

Even who has God given to you? Are they all

running at full capacity? Something to think about? You know? Friends,

who has God given to you? Who are the friends

that you have? Who are the family members you have?

Are you being a blessing to them?

Right? Next question is why do you think God has

given him to you? Why?

Why did God lead you here? See, there's no surprise,

I know, but why did God put you in this place?

If we really believe that God is sovereign, there is

a reason why you're here because you follow him. What

That's as simple as I can put it. You mean

God made a mistake. Sometimes we do, you know you

think like that God made a mistake. One And the

last question is what is the best that you can

do or we can do as a church to bring

out the best in this person?

The best? You know.

It's a good It's a good question to ask because

it's a question about progress. It's not a question about okay,

you okay, now are once your home leader? That's now

once you do in your No, it's every area of

your life, not just in the context of the organization

or a church. The best friend. Can you be the

best business owner? Can you be the best dad, the

best mom? I think the first question is would you

even allow someone to challenge you or not? Or you've

got it all figured out something you think about right.

God will not give us more if we have not

been faithful with what He has already given us. That

is a very true truth, whether we like it or not. Okay,

let's use our health for example. Okay, I've come to

a place personally where it's a little bit difficult for

me to pray for myself for other people are easy. Okay,

to pray for myself in the area of myne health

if I didn't really the care of it in the

first place, and ready.

Your cash that or not?

Just me? Lah, If I'm not being faithful over something,

it's a bit hard for me to ask God for

a miracle for it because I know that I've not

been faithful for it. So instead of praying confidently, I

will pray our repentance for slot. Sorry I messed up,

You're your cash had? It's weird somethime I feel. Do

I believe God can hear it.

Yes I do.

But it's by God's grace that if he does do something.

But if I'm not fitful over this, isn't it foolishness

for me to be asking God to do all the work.

If He's given me a job and I didn't do it,

you'll get that, okay? So can we use the talents

that God has given us and not burying the ground

or but away? What talent do I have is just no?

No?

Friends, Can I give you another perspective? The talent that

God gave you are is not just about prayer and worship.

It's not just in a connect. There are many talents

that God has given you. Maybe it's encouragement. Maybe it's

being a good entrepreneur.

Do you know that? Son? You my no on he

hear you? Do you know that chess planters are all

good entrepreneurs? Be very good? Start that one.

Because we see potential people plant just see potential or

no means they can stop business easily. On right, don't

be so close minded in the gifting that you have.

Oh but I'm just good at engineering, then engineer something

in chesha. Then use your engineering he gave me. Not

it's a skill set that you have. It's a gifting

that you have. Right, Can you use the talents that

God has given us? Don't bury in the ground because

when you use that talent, Friends, I testify this, you

will give you more talents. He will give you a

way more talents. Right, and do the possible. God will

handle the impossible. Do what you can do today. Okay,

So we want to start with the first thousand, right,

and it's like a tithe to the Lord. They ten

percent of ten thousand. I'm speaking prophetically as well for myself.

Let us offer ourselves as a tithe to the Lord?

Can we do that?

Let's maximize what we have right now before the next

people come, because.

You think about it.

If God brings in the multitudes next and we are

not even ready for theiper ship for the next we

will lose the multitudes.

Because we can't even get our egg. Right.

If BU is not strong now I'm not just talking

about fellowship. No, if BU is not strong in your faith,

are you going to teach someone else?

Right? No, You've got to be strong.

So last question, taking stock of the one thousand that

we have, how can we maximize what we already have?

So think about our lives as we step into twenty

twenty six. It's good to think about it. God, I'm here,

I mean this church, I'm sueing, this ministry, this is

my life, this my business, my family. Okay, can you

take stock of what you have right now?

Not?

Can you think about how are you going to maximize

what you have right now? How are you maximizing your relationships,

how are you maximizing your you're giving, how are you

maximizing your your investment in the future, How.

Are you maximizing all these things? Take stock of it? Right?

And I think that encouragement I have for you.

Is to ask God what to do with what you

have because a lot of us sometimes we don't know

what to do and we we have it, but we

don't know what to do with it.

What do I do with this? A how do I do?

You know that God will give you the ideas He

will know.

One of the best times right that I get ideas

from the lot is when I worship, all the ideas

will come. I'm like, oh, I need to do this,

I need do that. You're like, oh, you're not paying

attention where I am paying attention to God? And then

he will speak friends, I truly believe that all of

you here have the ability for God to speak into

your life.

I think sometimes we just need to tune in a

little bit more. Tune in, tune in.

Yeah, there are a lot of questions, There are a

lot of you know, there are a lot of doubts.

One of the greatest challenges will be that one you

shure not you listen correctly? God ask you to do this.

You shure not you listen correctly? The SIDEX wave look

to trust the side next faith too. But can I

give you more encouragement? Do you know that you're not alone?

Do you know that you can just talk to the

leaders or talk to the people. Don't talk to your

friends outside. Your friends outside will disguise you. Hey, I

think uh passes. Even God is impressing on my heart

to give instead of ten percent of my bonus, twenty percent.

To the church.

Hauh, Hey White Bodo put investment. Now you know you

got wants to use that cannot readly because you're following

what the world says.

Is he wise? Yeah, it's wise, but it's different. Advice.

If God has given you something, friends, again, don't blindly

just go and do whatever no, confirm it, talk to

your leader. This is why we have the cyper ship.

Do you know that passus Stephen is very accountable. Every

time he got a crazy idea for b or, he

will check first. You should thank God that he checked first.

Now because technically he has a as a CBC know,

but he always checked first. He will check with his

other leader. He will check with a t SPO and

then we confirm it. Yeah, I think it's good, and

then your benefit. Discipleship is powerful, friends, it is dangerous

when we operate a lode.

Amen. So with that, I end Session two by pray

you received something.

You know. I realized that as we go through this

unpacking series something it seems like, oh, you know, so dreary,

But I realized, right, no, it is the truth of God.

Oh by so structured. Yeah, but it's God's truth. God

is a God of order.

His words have life.

The Bible has been written so long ago. Is so

structured God chapter God verse. Don't you think it's so structured?

But yet we experienced life when we read it. But

yet when we read certain scriptures, it speaks to you

as though God is speaking to you. Isn't that God

speaking through a structured Bible. Don't you think it can

draw something out as we go through this unpacking series.

I believe you can. I believe your minds will be renewed.

That's why every single speaker in our church, when it

was presented to us to do this, we all say

yes because we see life in it. It's not just

the words of a man, it's God. And we believe

that our church is going to rise up another level.

You know when we say church right, this means you

know it, what means your life. You're going to rise

up another level. You're going to experience God. There's three

sees that pass the sad. I don't think it's inside here. Conviction,

There's two more. I can't remember, but I think the

third one is corporation. Conviction, commitment, and corporation.

I think.

Only the Holy Spirit can convict us of our hearts.

I can't convict you. I can explain, I can share,

but if you're feeling a nudging, it's God. And then

later we as leaders, we present whatever. But the third

one is your choice. Are you going to corporate with God?

I'm gonna say, God, I'm hearing this out. I don't

fully understand it, or maybe you do understand it. I

want to corporate. I want to find a way to work.

I want to work my leaders, I want to align.

Then we need you see things happen, or we can

choose to sit and wait and see.

It's up to you. Amen.

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