Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church Part 2 | Pastor Sandra

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All right, so we want to recap from last week.

Come on, church, are you with me? Do you have

your notebooks? Okay, it's too quiet for me, and I've

lost my voice, so I cannot shout and scream and

say Amen Hallelujah. You gotta do it for me. Okay,

promise can can Sharon? Can? Amen? My brother they lost

his voice, but okay, we're two people lost boys still

saying Amen. All right, we want to recap, So you

all just recap from last week. We unpack. We are

unpacking to understand and to undertake what God has given

to ex church. Amen. The reminder of the big vision?

What is the big vision? When someone asks you what's

your church vision? Well, our church vision is based on

Haberkak chapter two, verse fourteen, Genesis one twenty eight Hyperca

chapter two, verse fourteen says anybody, anybody the ex church

members come on. Amen. Okay, thank you for the leaders

who have memorized this. Now partners, come on. What is it?

Hypergod Chapter two, verse fourteen says bah earth shall be

filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

As the waters cover the sea. It means everybody, everybody,

And how would that happen? Genesis one twenty eight. The

Lord said, go be fruitful, be foodful, and multiply. That's

how you're gonna feel the earth. Amen. So what is

it about? It is to fill the earth. How be

fruitful and multiply. Multiply means make disciples. We are called

to make disciples. Why why? Because God, once you have

dominion over the earth, wants you and I to have

an influence in our community on the earth. Amen. Okay,

So why are we doing this? Why has God given us?

What has God given to us about? This? Whole vision

is to prepare us. Amen. So while the vision is

to see the whole earth filled with the knowledge of

the glory of the Lord. A man. The mission is anybody,

last week? What is the mission? Thank you? Anybody else

want to say? Say lauda la? Yes? Making disciples? Oh?

That make the difference? Okay, the difference? All right, So

make disciples. This is our mission. And this comes out

of Matthew chapter twenty eight. All right, he says, go

ye into all the world and make disciples. We didn't

coin it up. We didn't cook it up. No, it's

not passing. Kenada came up and it's in the Bible.

So don't curse us when we say make disciples, say

I don't want to be disciples. He said the Bible.

You have to be disciples a man. It's what God

has come unded, not Kenneth cheat. All right, So we

may not be able to fulfill the big vision of

filling the earth with the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord. But what we could do is to be

fruitful and multiply, meaning be fruitful, reach another person, one person,

another person. Right, so what would this look like? Three

thoughts for us? Number One, we make disciples, all right,

we make disciples that make the difference. I don't. We're

not in the business or making disciples who make a difference.

The difference he has to impact the person's life or

the community's life. And we can do this together. We

want to say to you that Jesus. We want to

tell people when we make disciples, Jesus is the only way.

That's no other way. Jesus is the only way to

have eternal life. Right. Number Two, we produce leaders. Leaders

are are pioneers, pioneers are leaders because the statement that

we had last week was turning every pre believer to

be a partner, every partner to be a pioneer, and

every pioneer to be a parent even you know, the

question was given the Doctor Daniel home past the Doctor

Daniel Home and said, if you had to do it again,

he was he was as he was the senior pastor

of UMC. He's retired now he is doing other ministry.

So what would what would you if you had to

do it again? What would you do? You know what

he said? He said, if I were to do it again,

I would start a church with nobody, and I would

reach the loss and disciple them one by one. Not

church transfers, not take people from anywhere else, start from scratch.

That's what it is to turn every pre believer we

reach to be a partner. Why a partner, Because partners

put their hands to the plow, partner with the Lord

and get the work done. Partners become pioneers. We don't

have time and space for church pew warmers. Okay, okay,

no church pure warmers. We don't have time for that.

I don't you and I don't have time for that.

For warming the seeds. They don't need the warming. The

people need the warmth of Jesus love. Amen. The seats

don't warming. So that's what it means. No, no church,

pure warming. Turn every pre believe it to a partner,

and you partner together with the Lord. Together we partner,

and this partner you can be a pioneer. You can

be a leader, and this leader will become a parent. Okay,

why parent? So what does the what does the The

key thing here is the pioneer is a leader. All right.

We want to start anything for God. We want to

send God's the person who has been a disciple. We

raise Daniels. We talked about Daniels. And then as you

have been a good disciple, you experience discipleship, you in

turn can become a good parent because now you can

can do the job of you do the whole cycle again.

You understand, Amen, the reason why we plant churches. Friends,

if you people want to plant churches, we already have

the mechanism at hand and we plan. But I never

planned a church with just anybody. People can walk up

to us. We could be an x KKX or wherever.

Oh I want to plan a church. Sorry, I don't

send anybody. We only send people who are disciples, who

are pioneers, who are leaders. For example, we plan a disciple,

we produce a leader passor doctor Lazarus, who was once

a student who came to study in Eli, and he

was at our camp and he sat there and I thought,

oh my gosh, this is a gangster. There was his

six foot four and he's sitting there and laughing. I'm

thinking he's saved or what? And he was he is

a believer, he was, he's a believer. But I tell

you what, anyone who comes into ex doesn't just become

a believer. You can be on a fire. This young

man became on fire for the Lord and from that

position to become a part a partner to a pioneer

and then now a parent. Why because he went to

England to study his final year and then he said,

I guess it's me. When Pasta talked about planting a

church in London, we don't know who, he said, I

think it's me. And one person by himself went to London.

We didn't know who was going to be there. And

then two musketeers turned up from our church who happened

to be studying there and then three of them helped

start the church. Amen. But he alone we planned, We

always planned a leader, and they will lead the church.

We don't plant anybody, just anybody, anyone. I need you

first to be a disciple. Amen. So we see that

in Lazraus, we see that in Benji. We see that

pass Joel in Melbourne. Benji was fourteen years old when

I met him in Kotakina Balu playing drums. Young boy.

Then years later he came to Kl's family, moved back

to pj and there again you know, all come nowhere

on fire. Oh, I say, experience the Holy Spirit there

on fire. And then leaving his job to say yes

to planting in Japan, God put that in his heart.

We send our pine, our pioneers, our disciples. We raise

the disciples and they plant and then you grow. Pass

Joel as well. Planting. We don't just send anybody, not anybody.

And we also learn from this when we send anybody

in trouble, all right, so we must send disciples. All right.

We plant the seed of a good disciple, and in

a good soil we get thirty four sixty four, one

hundred and four. So what we get when we planted.

Is what we get when we plant the disciple or

the seed, is that we produce a leader. Okay, we disciple,

we send a disciple. Plunder disciple, you groom up a leader. Amen,

Praise the Lord. So this is what it is about

for us. We really want to raise daniels out of

these leaders. Amen. So moving forward, moving on, Yeah, we

also raise and release the Daniels into the marketplace. So

we are keep being reminded we can have a church,

we can have many partners. We serve you, we serve together,

we work, we do the work of the Lord. But

we're a reminder we're not just about keeping people in

the church. When we know something and it's an important message,

we want to tell somebody, that's why we need to

release them into the marketplace, your marketplace, wherever you are,

your school, your office, your neighborhood, or your family, or

wherever God has planted you. We release you as daniels

into the marketplace. Amen. You know, Daniel had his challenge.

Daniel had his mountain when he went to Babylon as

a captive and he had to be destined. Yeah, he

had his mountain, but he went through that test. If

you have a mountain this year, Take it for the Lord.

He could be a family members yet to know Christ.

Take it for the Lord. Claim that life for Jesus.

It could be a difficult boss. You know that's a

mount's standing before you. We're talking about different challenges that

you might be facing. We don't always understand and know

what your challenge is. The Lord knows you can stand

on the Lord promises to take that mountain and ask

the Lord for his grace? And man, what is that challenge?

See God move in your midst. God wants us to

focus on growing deep roots to produce good fruit. And

how to do that root is always about going deeper

the roots. Your faith fruits is going deeper into God's words. Now,

God's word is like water. Water washes us and it

just cleanses us. Amen. Right, So the more you read

of God's word, then there will be washing and cleansing.

All right. If we if we you know that church

for so long, we can tell you a lot. Why

did I start the campaign bring your own Bible, by

your own Bible because I want you to read the Bible.

Ay Ah, Lord believe us not reading the Bible. And

the reason we give iss many reasons. But we have

time to scroll. We're reading word. We're reading word. He's

like you read by Boll. You asked a lot to

help you to read. Only the word of God will

give us deep roots. Yeah, so that we can grow

tall and be a strong structure. KLCC was not built

in one day. I worked in that area. I would

walk across chaos see to my office. I don't know

how many years IM looking at the hole I left

my company. The whole was still there. I mean it

was a whole. I couldn't see what was happening inside.

It didn't take one day. It took five years or

so a froum the time that I started working, and

then I left. Still a hole day and I left,

and then I came back to care. Oh, structure can

sway some more. Okay, you need to go deep church.

Ask God to help you to have a hunger and

just be able to read the word. God's word is

his love letter to us. The word of God is

like water. It washes us. I want to say, you

know we said earlier, he plans lives to gain lives.

It's always about people reaching people. God will not use

a donkey to reach you unless you're so stubborn the

the donkey has the dog to you. Oh hey, people

reach people. God wants to partner, inviting you to partner

so that you can work with him. However it is.

You know, sister Sharon, she wants to fly here downstairs.

You know downstairs fly You don't forget I remember, So

we need to give up flyers. Fly here, flyer, flyer.

You never know who you catch. You can don't say

waste money, you have the fly her. You never catch

one person, you might catch two persons. You never know. Right.

People reach people, and it's usually by the one or

one friendships. God doesn't use an animal, doesn't use a car,

doesn't use the cockroach, uses people because you understand people. Amen,

He wants to involve us. So remember, yes, last week

you had a start button. Please don't stop the button.

Leave it on. Leave it on, all right. And why

we're going through this or taking us to that unpacking

is because for the first ten years God was just

building internally, putting the word becoming a storehouse. And now

the next ten years or whatever we call the next

ten year season is to whatever has been stored is

ready to feed. But we also need to be sent

up release into the marketplace. Amen. Okay, cool. So the

overall picture, people remember there are a lot of lost people.

They're not inside the church, they're outside the church. You

cannot be here and tell me your loss. If you're lost,

you need to engage with Jesus. You need to be discipled.

That is the problem with the church today. Many people

don't want to be disciple. You cannot be lone rangers.

All of us have disciple, one way or another, whether

we're accountable to someone, whether we open our hearts to

somebody can speak into our lives. And even if the

word is hard, sometimes we have to say it. You see,

if every time we only say nice things to you,

you better watch. You should say why my person never

say anything that's true. I should not be lying to you,

you know, I should be speaking the truth. But because

we're so afraid to offend you, we never say anything.

It's okay, thank you, yes, okay, thank you. We can't

Sometimes we have to say the truth. It seems hard.

But that if you say, but we only do that

to disciples, so I can only speak to Herbut this

way you should go. You doing when you were when

you were your student life. He didn't do anything. He

didn't do anything. I know. Now you're married, I said,

do friend, we all disciples, we all disciple or disciple.

We can only speak to them, and you cannot always

take things to be offended. Your whole life will be offended.

Disciplesh it, it's so important. This is Jesus' way. He's

not can the Jean's way a schoolar complain about ex

church always talking about Discipleshi, you go ahead and complain.

You're not complaining against us, You're kicking against God. Beware,

stop complaining about discipleship. It's not my idea. Do you

think I owe so much time to count decide for

you or to give up everything. I'll decide for you.

But we're willing because we know that it works. Because

this Jesus said to us, follow me, follow me, and

now we have to imitate Christ. Follow Christ, and you

follow me. Right, So we need to make disciples so important.

So the overall picture is that we talked yes last week,

vision dominion. What is the vision we take dominion? Let

the whole earth be filled with the knowledge of the

glory of the law. Dominion. Influence. Are you an influence

in your marketplace. Are you an influence in your school,

in your office, in your neighborhood. How can we be

an influence if we haven't been, It's okay, start now.

We can start now. Amen. So take dominion. That's the

vision where we talk. That's not a big vision. The

big vision is take dominion. Feel the earth a man

feel the earth by how The mission is to do discipleship.

So question is are you disciple? Have you been disciples

and who are you discipling? This whole year we were

talking about discipleship at least to your other groups and

you know, the small groups, And how do we do

this discipleship? The direction is to raise the daniels, to

raise daniels so that they can be released into the marketplace. Amen. Okay,

you know God doesn't want us to be ex church

as a brand. Next, like please, God doesn't want us

to be an ex church that is like a brand.

Oh I'm from ex church. Oh we throw church names,

you know, just because I'm from this church. Oh, very great.

That should be our last last focus. He wants us

to be a lifestyle, a lifestyle of reaching, discipling, raising, releasing,

because there are a lot of lost people outside the church.

He wants us to live out our ex live out

our acts, our action. That will rich pre believers who

may not understand what church is. But people understand practical love, peace, care, thanksgiving, friendship, grace, joy.

People understand these things. Isn't it We came out with this. This

is a picture that passed ahead in his mind and

one of our designers came out with this year a

few years back. It starts with acts of acts of kindness,

ects of love, acts of grace, acts of thankfulness, ects

of care, acts of trust, et cetera, et cetera. You

see that in your welcome back. If you're a newcomer,

before you would have had a bag. What will X

church become? What will we be known for? Just the name?

Just a church that has see games, sportsman, sportswomen. It's

quite a privilege to be able to serve them, to

be discipling them. But that's not The focus is in

the navy disciples and they will be able to reach others.

We need to bear fruit the fruit of Christ. Amen.

Pre Believers don't understand church. They've never stepped in the church.

They have a picture from the movies they watch so

that's that's an idea. They might have a picture of

church around the different types of movies that portray Christianity,

and it's it's sometimes it's a bit wrongler, Okay, they

don't understand. They might have a bad perception by personal

experience or just a bad perception. So just for a moment,

sometimes just for a moment, let's not talk about the

word church. That's for a moment, act focus on the

act of love, being reminded love by reminding myself. I

think in your workplace, if you saw someone in trouble

and you just say, could I pray for you? The

act of love I remember should leave. When she was

teaching in Malaysia when a student, the teacher died a

paston because of COVID, everybody was silent because he was

COVID don't tell anybody or died of COVID, and the

students wondering what happened to the teacher. Nobody talked, and

she was churched to them by not saying, Hey, I'm church.

She did like a little site, a website kind of

thing and ask people to write words about the remembrance

of this teacher, and you know, just say what do

you remember to go so and so, you know, And

people began to pour in and some were crying and

daring just to remember this person. Don't be silent. It

helped people process their feelings. What's going on? What happened

to the teacher? People were silent. We were so afraid

in COVID time, we didn't We all thought we would die. Right, well,

I'm a life still. At that time, all of us

were highly loered. Oh don't meet other people who don't

go out of the house, we might die, okay, and

so we don't even talk. And the students were suffering.

What was happening? What was that act? It was an

act of care in kindness to just remember. And then

I think you bought something as a collection. Yeah. Yeah,

every time something happens, we get the people. Let's let's

raise some funds for the knee. And they raise it

and they brought a hamper or the gift for the family.

There was a life still. I'm sure he had a

wife and some money and just to encourage because people

are alone, right, So that's what she did. Where was

she to them? She was she was Christ to them

just so they won't see church. But they saw love

in action. What can you do? Too many times we're

so slow or we're just too involved in ourselves. We

want to be that picture right and got once the

Daniels right to move out into the marketplace and start

connecting with the world. And the question is to connect,

to connect, is to make sense even before we make disciples,

because people don't know church. I did Church Christianity. Don't

think that everybody knows who Jesus. What the name Jesus,

Coca Cola? They know in the desert, they know Coca Cola.

Jesus said, don't know those those watch all movie called

the Gods must be crazy many years ago, and aeroplane

flew and threw a Coca Cola bottle in the desert

of Kalahari in Botswana, and they picked up Coca cola.

Jesus don't know. So, you know, we need to make

him known. So, but how we need to make sense

to people. Don't straight away say I want to make

disciple of you that you're calling I'm gonna disciple you. No,

it's not that way, right. We got to make sense

meaning what is their need? What are they going to

be a friend? Be the hand to them, make a

first connection, and as you begin to make sense in time,

in fact, you will be making disciples. You will be

because they're watching you, experiencing you, and then they want

what you have, and then they ask you what's this difference? Right?

It's very important? So what kind of sense am I

going to make this week? Example? Are you punctual at work?

Do you finish all your work projects? Do you finish

or your assignment? And you do group work? Now? Do

you have an excellent spirit? Are you kind and love

your patient? If we fail at different points, but we

can pick ourselves up again and learn again. If we

fail some days because we are weak, but God is strong,

he will help us. How can we make sense to people?

And nobody will reject your kindness? Nobody will reject your prayer,

especially in a time of need. Amen? Amen, I told

the first of these. I really I have to tell

you because I don't hope that any of you are

like Lieza. Somebody you know said there came from x

KL and went to ex London. Some thirty year old

person don't know I want to work there or something.

So we're welcome, law they welcome you know. Our church

is full of students and young adults. We don't know

this person, thank god, because if I know, I will

hunt that person down. So they came and then so

we make me very welcome. Then so the students always

go for lunch on Sunday, So they went for lunch.

But this person has health issues, not a problem like

all of us. We go to McDonald's. What do we say,

please leave the pickles out, leave the mayor out or

something like that. It's okay, right, got right? Sure, you

say that, it's okay, yeah, and then you pay the

bill and you go this person when it came to

pay the bill, why you judge me full bill? H

what you ordered? But no, but I don't want the sauce.

I'm not paying for the sauce. I'm not paying for

the ketchup. And then the person like, no, but you

ordered the thing, and I did what you want, but

it comes as a package. I'm sure you all know this.

This person argued and argued on that same table on

that very Sunday. Our church member's elder brother was not

a believer, decided to come to church that day and

he experienced this, and he went, is this how Christians behaved?

Not coming back to church. I mean he doesn't have

to make decisions like that. But that was his first experience.

He enjoyed our church and enjoyed the service. He loved

the warm and but that he paent for lunch and

this in the same group, and he thought, this is

how your behave. I don't want to have a part

of it. Students say I pay, I pay. You know

that the person running and say, no, I don't want

your money. Just just go, And they wouldn't. They wouldn't

receive our team in for months past. He saying, this

is your church before behavior that. Please don't come how

people reading you? So I told the morning morning service,

I hope y'all not like that. Now calculate, calculate gait

yet some long something go wrong and calculate how can

like that? Don't mean like that. Don't get rich on

a few cents because it's just terrible. Can you imagine

God calculate with you, Steven. You can't imagine go asking

you that day the fight sans where you like said, yeah,

you pay your fightcens right, giggle something yo. Then you

calculate like that, you know that's what that person did.

I don't know what the background is the cold people,

because the charge you for the sauce. I delive if

I were there, I really what the come on? Because

but I have seen people like that haggling over brace

lay please lave just you got money? Just paying? What

will bless you back? One? I don't need to calculate

and later then Jesus loves you to look at you.

Jesus love me. Don't come to my shower. Yeah, for

weeks they could not go. RELISSI please don't come to

our shop. You are like that. We lost one soul.

You know all this woman's behavior. I tell you, Auntie, y'all,

don't do this. Calculates go people yours? I scared? I

get I get it. Slept me. Okay, you a mission?

Wake wake up? What are people sensing about you? Are

you a complainer? Are you calculated? Every day? Oh my god?

Stay tomorrow? Can make back the money man? Seriously, you

get rich on this few cents. The rich will always

get richer and the poor will always be wor because

we're always giving. No, you'll be rich in your generosity,

acts of generosity, kindness of words. Calculate every cent. I

cannot live like that. I cannot live like that, are you?

I see people anti antiola. I don't know what to do. No,

I stand there and ask me. I don't know how

much for tier run away? I don't know. I cannot

because that person is making a living, he has a

family to feed. Is he cheating me? He is cheating me.

I don't buy la no need to him? On and

on and need all right? I hello, helloall in Thailand?

Can you go with them every time? The auntie uncle?

How much neat? All? Right? After Auntie dinking? It's only ten?

But how much low am I gonna fit? You would after? Or? Please?

Thank you Jesus? Hey, you don't use Jesus name way

way which one comes first? I so don't know. Ah, pracha,

God bless you. If we're not thinking what God you're serving? Oh? Please? People?

All right? What is people said thing about you? Be

very careful. I also have to remember this, what do

people seeing me? You know? What do they think about me?

And a smiling person? Always my long face? Every day? Emo? Hey,

get that bad world the emo out of your spirit.

Man that listen, unclean spirit. Stop being emo. It's the

worst thing people can experience of you. Enough are you?

The world is dying. What are you and I doing?

We are emoing, emoing, We're not making sense to people.

We're giving problem to people. Come on, the Lord say

I come to give you life, and lie more abundantly.

A man hahman allehah. So Church, it's just you have

no time to waste time to you know, we're not here,

a babysit. You were here. The raised up soldiers for Jesus. Amen,

serve the Lord. Serve the Lord. That's all we're gonna

say today. Okay, reviewing some numbers, the Lord answered me

and said, write the vision. Make it plain on tablets,

then that he may run who reads it? Okay. This

is from Haberka chapter two, verse two, So this was

the Lord spoke to us as well. Past Lord said

write the vision. So we caught the vision. Fill the

earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

Make it plain. Okay, so we got it on recorded.

I'm bridging it here. We got a booklet for you,

all right, Then make it plain on tablet, tablot, tablot, tablet,

tribleot tribloot, all right, that he may run, who reads it,

who watches it, who hears it, So that we can

run with the vision. We don't want you to just

know the vision, but run with the vision. Would you

run with us church? Ten the focus for the next

ten years, between twenty twenty to twenty thirty. So the

first ten years we before a lot of you join

our church because ex got the commonings only three years old.

From twenty from year two thousand when we planted to

twenty twenty, those first twenty years or so, we were

really building internal, growing, growing, putting deep roots. Now the

next ten years we want to get ready to go

out right. We call it the Daniel. The Daniel chapter

of our lives all right now in between that, in

twenty fifteen, the Lord revealed the Buster from the story

of Hezekiah the Book of Kings, and the word that

you will read about Hezekiah is that the Lord said

to him, get your house in order, because things were

not happening right in his family. The Lord said, get

your house in order. So from twenty fifteen to twenty thirteen,

we started twenty fifteen, we were trying to get the

house in order, put things in order, get our lives right,

you know, do things that will please the Lord. If

God was moving things, okay, we let the Lord, move

you whatever God wanted to do with us, clean the

house up. Then from twenty eighteen we had another a word,

which was from the book of Nihimaya, to rebuild. So

we started rebuilding the walls and the gates. Now rebuilding

the walls last week is one to rebuild your identity.

We need to know who we are and what we do,

and then rebuild the gates. We need to rebuild our authority.

Gates represents a authority. Why authority is important for us

as we move out this in the next few years,

is that the authority, when you pray in the name

of Jesus, expect them supernatural to happen, that people be healed,

that unclean spirits be come out of people, that those

who are down will be lifted up. That as you

pray in the authority of Jesus, name those that is

your faith in the Lord to see God move in

our wits. But you need to rebuild that authority. Sometimes

we forgot whose child we are. We may forget what

we are called to do, we may forget all things.

But the Lord wants to rebuild us. So twenty eighteen

we took that that rebuilding. So we're still in that

journey because the hazard Kiawan is fifteen years and the

Nihimaya took twelve years, so all of it is headed

to twenty thirty. So we are now saying for us

from twenty twenty twenty thirty, ten years is our focus,

all right. So in the Daniel he said to them

in Daniel chapter one, test us for ten days. So

I'm only recapping her to ten days? Am I recapping? This?

Is not okay? New one ready? So tests us for

ten days with vegetables and water. Why because they were

going to eat the very very fantastic food from the

king's table, but the daha lala da hall da hallal,

so they cannot eat all this food all right, So

they said, why don't we don't think certain types of food.

But they say, okay, test us for ten days. So

the vision that passed the interpretation was that ten days

was to ten years. That we have ten years to prepare,

to prepare ten days for ex church implies ten years

to set a house in order to rebuild our identity

and our gates, our authority. We are what we are?

What do we do? God doesn't want to just test us,

but also to strengthen us and ready us. A man

to ready us ten years down to twenty thirty. I

remember it for shed. People say so after twenty thirty,

what happened and Jesus come back radio. No, we stand out.

We are ready, meaning we are doing equipping now, putting

our house in order, now, building our identity, getting ready, prepare,

and then there will be a going out release into

the marketplace. So this is the thing it is to

strengthen us. We may be to test us because after

the tests of eating reggia and water, they were more

plump and more stronger. They didn't look weak because they

didn't eat chicken or not chicken. Bob Okay, okay, God's diet.

It's the only way to go, all right. God's way

is the only way, all right, And we will be

found to be strong ready for greater things hit. So

we move on to this world. Or this number called

one thousand, one thousand times one thousand, what is this

all about? Don't panic? Okay? Long time agoing Beadlehem ex

Church in twenty ten wanted to buy a building because

we were growing very very quickly, rapidly. We were using

Sunway Pyramid convention Center, were one of the first churches

to take the Convention Center every Sunday, taking two halls

and there we said we need a building, so we

went to buy a building. The whole church raised the funds,

many of our longtime partners here. We raised the money.

It was really impossible because we were mainly students and

some young working adults. We raised the money, but obviously

we cannot meet the sale of the building price was

fourteen million. We raised the depot sit how he couldn't

get the full amount, so we asked for time and

then we had to pay interests. We finally found someone

who would loaness the money, but in the end said no,

I'll buy it for you fourteen million. So we had

fourteen million to give to the owner. And the owner

were people that I used to work for in my

contacts of my work, but the father had passed on.

So I just really I went all the way back

to my bosses to ask them, make the connection, to

ask them, please please sell us this place. They refuse.

In fact, they put up the price of sixteen million.

It's been three d right, because I was going to

give fourteen million it's here. But when they saw who

the donor was or the supporter. They would raise the price.

So we lost the building. One day we were saying, yeah, hallelujah.

I remember that moment, everybody dearing. We got the fourteen million.

Next day we were crying because we lost everything. I think,

my husband, just what do I do? You know? Give up,

give up, don't be busted. Just washed floor, and they

pay by everybody's pay back. You know how so many

people gave up their first car money, their honeymoon money,

they're wedding money, they sold their car, they sold this.

They put in money. But not one of our partners

ever complained or how we went together. We were not

so big a church, yet we were growing. Students gave money,

mothers gave money, couples gave money. We all gave, were

all put in. We lost it. God said, don't build

me a cathedral, but spread out. What a disappointment became

an appointment for us one church, one speaker. Today we

have churches across the globe and many many speakers, all

growing and developing their gifting. So God said, spread out.

He's saying, if Kennachin, an ordering man, can be used

by God to build a thousand people, he can do

it again with every person he brings to X And

you have seen this through all the other church plants

in Kal. You've seen this in the global church. Kenachin

is not there, but our disciples are there and they

are building, building and riching. What was a disappointment became

an appointment. Hence the word one thousand times one thousand.

What does it mean? We have one thousand people. We

wanted to help each one believe. We dream that God

will use every person in acts. God can do this

again and again. He used Kenneth, but he Kenneth's not

a special person. He was just available. He was just obedient.

Any of us will be just available and obedient. Allow

God to use you as you partner with him. You

can't do what God wants us to do. Amen. Have

you ever experienced a challenging time in your life? What

seemed to be a disappointment initially only to see how

God turned it around for the better heart check question

for you. Think about it. Have you ever experienced it?

We have? We really did, and God turned it around

for us. Amen, and that's why we have excota gammoning

and we are now family. I didn't know you Nis

Tang three years before. But you know Rogers, although Rogers

might have known us when he was only ten, he

received Christ and or thirteen went past to preach a message.

My husband isn't doing youth ministry for a long time.

But it's just not cana Chin alone. Any one of

us here can continue to do this work. Hence the

one thousand God gave us one thousand. Even currently we

have we have on paper ler thousand and five, but

we take a very small what you call it here?

What's the accounting for word for it? You told me

just what conservative figure A thousand, one thousand partners. But

the one thousand partners cannot just remain as they are.

They have to be made two disciples, and then leaders

and finally daniels. Daniels that will go to the marketplace,

send out to fill the earth with the knowledge of

the glory of the lot. Amen. One thousand partners who

can become disciples, who can then become leaders, leaders will

make more disciples. It's not our formula. This is formula

found in the Bible. So that's why I say a

lot of people never read their Bible. So whenever we

preach about discipleship, you almost show daggers at us. What

is this post bridging. He's in the Bible, Go and

make disciples follow me, pass down to faithful men and

to others cell discipleship. Okay, so we already have one thousand.

They had to make another thousand. God will do the

miraculous with the other one thousand. So we have to

accountable for the one thousand we have. There we one

at times one thousand, meaning every one of us reach

one person, we will have one thousand, one thousand times

one thousand of new disciples who will become new pioneers,

who are leaders. Amen. And and so what we do

is we need to focus on taking care of the

one thousand that we already have, and we believe that

God will bring the miraculous next one thousand. Amen. Can

not we It's it's challenging, it's it's impossible in the

human strength. But actually, if you reach one person in

one year and every year we reach it can be

a goal. And a prayer doesn't mean basically, don't get

hung out one are you? I have to reach one?

Are you? Maybe got U five? Le don't get hung

out with the number. The whole point that you focus

on is riching whoever God brings to you or puts

on your heart. Amen. So we want to be taking

care of what we have. What he wants to do

is don't get hung up about the equation and the numbers.

But the spirit of one thousand times one thousand is

to keep going. That's the next The next line yet

you fill up, is to keep going. Yeah, or before that,

the bottom line is the bottom line of disciple. She

used to follow me as I follow Christ? You got that?

What it be right? Follow me as I follow Christ.

We cannot be your shame to say follow me. You

needs follow me as I follow Christ? You needs my

look at you, go, lie, I can't see imperfection in you. Yeah,

but I'm also a working progress But I am following

Christ and I want to do what he does. Follow

me as I follow Christ, and we change, we continue

to transform. So that's bottom line. Yeah, And then he

says follow me, So see, don't worry about the extra

one thousand that's going to come. You focus by keep going,

keep going, keep going. Yeah. Next like yeah, keep going,

keep making disciples, keep planting churches, keep producing leaders, keep

raising daniels. It takes time. It takes time. But together

we can do this. Amen. God is just you know,

He's the one who will take care of the supernatural.

We must at least say yes to him. Daniel one

twenty says Daniel was found to be ten times better

than the rest, ten times better. So we want to

take this promise that this ten years we're going to

do as best as God has for us. Now a man,

so you look at this picture here for us being

at about one thousand now now one thousand times ten

years is equal to ten thousand in ten years. I

can't see a glimpse away like Hardler. So we ninety

percent new believers because we are the one thousand, ten

thousand minus one thousand is nine thousand. We are believing

God for nine thousand new believers. We're not focused on

church transfers. The laws are outside. Please don't evangelize your

friend from another church. Okay, don't do that. The parson

can't catch me. Okay, don't do that. Your friend other

church already saved. Go to the people who have yet

to know Christ. As I always say, sometimes the church

got it wrong. Why are you always fishing in other

people's garden, which is the church? All the outside church

transfers got more problem with the you. But I've God

transfer you to this church. I will take care of you.

As a purpose. We all look for those who have

yet to know Christ. And let's your family members, our neighbors,

are friends. I also scre loer how to share God's pool.

But we just said right, let's not start with the

picture of church in mind. Let's start with the act

of kindness, act of love, things that we can do

that relate to people. Let them then ask you, why

are you doing this? Why are you so kind? Why

are you so caring? Why you so friendly? Okay, the

ninety percent of new believers is what we're looking for.

It looks like an impossible figure. But we're gonna trust

God that we say yes, he will give that to us.

So if we plan a disciple, we're going to produce

a leader. Just keep tell ourselves plan the disciple, produce

a leader. So we just gotta keep doing that. Yeah,

but it's best to fish where people haven't fish before.

Don't fish in other people's God didn't soon our fish

and ready fishmen not yet fish. Okay. Yeah, to ask

you bring your friend to Christmas, I'm bringing my friend

he's from that church next door. Don't just next don't

got program he said, Oh no, no, they don't have programs. Okay,

no fish where the person hasn't had a chance to

hear the good news. Okay, some people have never heard

the good news Jesus one time, but most of us

get more than one time. But you know, we're still

struggling to follow Christ. So friends, focus for the year,

the new year that's coming up. Let's take stock. Let's

take account of all that God has given us and

do our best to draw out their best. Okay, focus

for the year. Take stock, or take account of all

that can already has given us and draw out their best.

How many accountants in the room finance people must take stock? Right?

Five four? Life? Which one first in first out last

invers out right? We have to take stock? Take stock.

The worst thing to do in accounting is this takes stock.

You cannot find this book solo or LOSSU take stock? Amen?

What has God given to us? Why has He given

it to us? What am I going to do help

us to help them be the best that they can? Amen?

Who who has God given to us in our church?

Who has God given to you in your workplace. Why

do you think He has given us this person? What

is the best we or you can do to bring

out the best in him or them? Why do you

think God has given us this person? And what the

best that we can do for that person? Takes time? Church?

God is calling us to partner with him. The whole

year we've been talking about disciple first, introducing to us

about discipleship. And I'm sure your home leaders have been

asking you are you in a discipleship relationship? Some people say,

wait loud, wait ten years old, they still no one disciple?

Are one discipleship? You know you don't want to be

disciples It's not my problem. You are fighting against God

because it's God's idea. So don't be so stubborn. Some

mean to Jesus and be discipled. I have a discipleship relationship.

It starts with connecting and building Relationshipmen. God will not

give us more if we have not been faithful with

what He had already given to us. So we have

one thousand. We need to be faithful to find out

what can I bring out the best in you. I'm

so blessed to see some of you serving Katrina. I

have not seen you place. So I know it's played

for homes for us those days. But you're in church today,

thank you. Yeah. Others are serving different parts, different things

using your talent. What is it that you have? Our

express So while I was away, the sending forhotose to

be torturing me. You know, look at our beautiful food,

look at our decoration, gipsy are I was having fish

and chips here? Oh what talent do we have? Use it?

So this morning here, if you have a talent, use

it for the Lord. Use all your talents. Don't hide

someone under your chair or dig a hole and throw

it inside there. God, do you want to use my talent?

Don't because if you throw your talent and hide it, God,

we'll think it away there gonna te learn how Elder

Shirley's mother chi how I used to do this approciate

with her when she first came to Jesus. And she'll

tell me, no tlen, no talent. I cannot do anything.

I can't do anything. She's leading our ex kids in

extra us now ex kids, yes, yeah, from I don't

know what to do. I don't know how to know

to make sandwich me. She don't know how to make sandwich.

She just don't want to cook. So the daughters who

cannot cook these days, our girls all cannot cook. Oh

my hunther, one man can cook very well. You can

go on, Vincent can go whatever. She'll say, I cannot

allah you teach me how to make sandwich? Okay, I

did you how to make this? How you mean? But

someone will say I can't. She stepped up to it

over the years from mere excus teacher helping her pay

her being. I heard these days she hates up ex

kids in excuris. Oh my word, she is sixty overcoming

the seventy, all right, and she she is an ex

kids teacher. I'm really proud of her. So you use

your talent. Okay, you got five talent, please use all.

After you use all, God will grow some more. Hey,

when you got Telenner, you never free already. God will

keep giving you adding. Remember he took the fellow with

the five talent. He got more the one way, the

two he got more, the one way I wanted buried in.

He was taking away. So one day you say you

can go very well, but you do want to serve

EXPRESSOA next day you find out you can a cooler

I four go out to cool Ah, you can go away.

Don't use your talent, not just for ourselves, not to

do this. So then again, now we're not a branding

bill or I from X church. I'm not. I'm very

proud of the fact that we have this church. But

thank God that He allowed me to serve here and

be able to surf you here by a lifestyle, the

X Book of X Holy Spirit working to us, turning

our lives around, transforming our lives, learning to be better parents,

learning to be a better husband, a better wife, the

best that we can be, a better sister, a brother,

a daughter, a son, a friend, a church member, grandfather, whatever,

Being better by applying the principles where we go deep

into God's word, being obedient to his word. All of

this is a package of what I have to be

accountable for. This package. So when we speak to you

and direct you and share with you what are some

steps you need to take, it's not being harsh. It's

telling you the truth. If you want to grow, you

need to anchor into a homes all of you going

to home. So nor someone told me this morning pasta

you very go wrong. Only when I'm in this position

after you're out there. I'm mild. Are you joining ames

if you want to participate in the things of the church,

be part of our homes and be regular. Don't be

irregular right now, I must be regular. I know why

it is a poor home leader alone, no waiting for you.

Then you never come? Why you never come? Yeah? Why

you never come? Right? Come on? Discipleship, That's how it begins,

from your homes, working with people you know, growing together,

and they're having your discipleship relationship. Want to learn more? Okay,

so quickly, quickly must end already do the possible. Let

God do the impossible. Amen, do what you can do. Okay,

if you can be a smiling person, you do that,

God will do the impossible for you. He will double it.

So Chai, how could only do nothing? She said? But

then later we said you can do this today it's impossible.

Imagine I see her say, you cannot do anything. How

come now you leading ex kids because God did impossible

for child. Okay, moving on, Let's start with the first

one thousand. Okay, this is like a tithe to the Lord.

Ten percent of ten thousand gous the ten verse ten thousand.

So we have one thousand people. You and I are

part of that one thousand. Let us offer ourselves to

the Lord as a tithe tie it to the Lord.

I belong to you lot, we are yours, Use me

lot ten percent the nine thousand God will bring. Who

are the souls out there that He wants us to reach.

Let's maximize the one thousand before the times the extra

one thousand comes. Okay, don't ask for more if we

haven't done.

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