Paul Disciples the Corinthian Church Part 3 | Elder Terrence

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Why is it important that we should emphasize on missions. Well,

we're not doing anything that Jesus did not do himself.

We are not doing anything different than what the Lord

meant for us. And you know, Jesus says this in

Acts chapter one, verse eight. It's not there on the screen,

but you know. But you shall receive power, whether the

Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be

witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria,

and to the end of the earth. I like doing

that because you see, when you know, can I read

my book, I don't imagine Jesus as my voice becomes weak,

becomes thin, no impact. But when I read the words

of Jesus, I imagine he's got this, oh, this kind

of voice that will just encourage you. And you know,

it's a voice of strength and you can just fall

into this voice and be comforted. So you know. But

of course, no any what his actual voice is, because

I have not heard his actual voice. When I hear

his actual voice, you will no longer be seeing me,

all right, So anyway, praise the Lord. Let's see what

scripture has for us today. Reading from one Corinthians two

was one and it says, and I, brethren, when I

came to you, did not come with excellence or speech

of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God, for

I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus

Christ and him crucified. Jesus came because he went. I mean,

we always missed the simple words. Right do we take

into consideration those little words Paul was saying, I came

to you. Why could Paul say I came to you

because he went on? Is as simple as that He

got up out of bed and he went. You know

the thing about this is we think that missions is

something so great that we can't do it. Let me

tell you this. If you get out of bed every morning,

you're a missionary. The only time you and I are

not involved in missions is when we're stuck in bed.

And you know what I just read. When I just

read Acts, What did Jesus say you shall be witnesses

of me in juh Erusalem? Where's Jerusalem the place where

people sleep? Where Islam the place where they were? And

then he says and not just where you are, but

then you will spread out. The next place would be Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

Judaea in all Samaria. That's the place that nobody knows

you wanted to go to. So you will be going

to places where maybe you don't want to go to.

And then it says to the whole world. I got

to tell you this. If you can get up out

of bed, you can be a missionary. And you think

to yourself, oh, I can't do this, you know, have

you seen a stone drop in a pond? What happens?

Please forgive my phone. I got a new phone, and

I quite haven't learned how to shut all these noises off.

All right. I thought I've put it on silent, which

I checked before I came up, and it's still making noise. Okay.

So when you drop a stone in the water, what happens?

There's a ripple? And where does the ripple start from

where you drop and then it begins to spread out?

Is do you have you ever seen anything specially where

you drop the stone and then a little bit from

the stone there's nothing, and then suddenly a ripple pops

out in the middle, and then it starts. Does it

work that way? No, it simply means that you and

I can do it. You and I can do it.

You know, I never wanted to share. I felt very

small about sharing about missions because I felt my age,

my goodness, I haven't gone anywhere. So last year, I,

you know, told past Sendra okay, the time has come

for me to go for missions. And since the first

time I'm going for missions, I'm not going to go

to some place in Militia, some small place nearby. Easy,

I said, I'll go to lake Tuba. Then she said,

thank you very much, but I don't think I want

to send you at your age to Lake Toba, so

I'll send you to Becassi. Little on I found lake Tuba.

From where they are, they have to drive five hours

on rough road. Most of the time the people going

in that road are throwing up because the road is

so rough, it's so muddy, it's so that's how difficult

it was. Thank God, my back would have been crying,

all right, But they sent me to Bakassi. When you

go for missions, you will realize something God can and

will use you, you see, because it's not about you.

It's never been about you. What does Paul say? I

determined to know nothing except Jesus Gosh. Going to Bakassi

was quite an eye opener. You and I we live

in a nice house, and we always complain our house

is not nice enough. True not. Don't put up your heads.

Let me tell you what are the kind of houses

that I saw people live in in Bakassi. There's a

guy who's pulling his family in a wooden cart. The

wooden cart is less than two feet wide, so it's

about so white, it's about two and a half feet deep,

and it's about three feet long, and he pulls his

wife and his child. That is his house. It's amazing

people are living like that. We went to give food.

We packed food and we went to give it to

the poor. We packed once, we went in the night,

once we went in the afternoon. We packed about one

hundred packets of food. So we go out to distribute it.

How long do you think it It took for us

to distribute the food less than five minutes. Everything, God,

and you see these people with such joy on their

face to receive a meal. Guys, when you go for missions,

you can help somebody in a way you never thought possible. Ah,

what can I do? You can make yourself available. I mean,

there's another place we went, Okay, and it was a

big dirty drain where all the dirty water from the

whole neighborhood goes into the drain, and these guys are

fishing in it. You know what they're catching, You know,

the bandaraya. You know it's bandaraya. Bandarai is a sucker fish,

that awful sucker fish you put in your You put

one fish in the pond to eat all the algae,

and then when it grows to big, you take and

throw it in the drain. Right, they're catching them, and

then they cut it open and they squeeze out the

eggs and they sell the eggs. When you see the

water from which that fish came from, how on earth

can you eat the eggs? But you see, these people

are so poor. But do you know that they receive cheesus.

I mean Pastor France. This is quite an amazing man.

Everybody in the neighborhood knows him, All the poor people.

You will say, I'm going to see you in Churchen Sunday, right, yeah,

yea ye, don't you. But you see he doesn't stop

asking what difference can you make? You know, one of

the scariest things for me was to speak Bahassa kabila

cyber chuck up dabas Malaysia somewhere on Karana Basa side

a particary the buko Bukan's chara or chad okay. Do

you understand what I said? So my friends used to

laugh at me because the way I speak Malay is

like textbook. So I stopped speaking. It's been years since

I spoke, years, So I thought, when I go to Bakassi,

I'll keep my mouth shut. I'm the new kid on

the block, sixty three years old. But never mind, I'm

the new kid on the block. The others all experience going.

So I thought, no, I'll keep quiet. I won't say anything.

I'll go and I'll follow their lead. Whatever they say,

I learn from it. Let me tell you, when you

go on missions, God will use you in ways is

you never thought possible. So we went house visitation. We

went from house to house, sharing with people, talking with people.

So as they're telling the story in Basa, Indonesia, I'm

trying to pick up here and they're here and there.

I don't know whether I got the whole story or not,

but I keep quiet that you know, I was with

Elder Rose. Elder Rose is, you know, genius when it

comes to speaking BASAs. But she's a genius nevertheless. But

when it comes to basa, you know, she's the go

to person. But you want to know something, The Lord

put prophetic words and I apologize, okay, uh yeah, So anyway,

prophetic words and I spoke it in basa and I'm

I'm listening to these words come out of my mouth

and I'm saying, where are you're getting this from? It's

so fluent. It's just come now. God will use you

because you made yourself available. There was one family they

were about to lose their house. We went there to

share with them. They were so poor that there was

no more electricity. Okay, cut, electricity is cut in the house.

And we go there and then they're telling us we

were once very successful in the business man now because

of the pandemic, we've lost everything. And now they're going

to take away the house and we've got a few

more days and then they're going to kick us out.

And then the word of the Lord came and I

shared with them, you know the word, and I said,

you don't have to worry about this I'm saying all

these things in basa. You know that I never knew

I could say. So I'm just telling them, telling them,

telling them. One week later, past the France sends us

a message, by the way, just to let you know.

For reasons that cannot be explained, the bank contacted them

and pulled back on the eviction notice and gave them

such an easy deal to restart their business and to

turn their lives around. All this happened within a few days. Guys,

if you don't go, you may not be allowing someone

to hear something from the Lord that is going to

change their lives or Then came Sunday. Sunday was quite

a thing because Sunday I had to share the Word

of God in church. I got to tell you I

wrote my first time. Actually it's the second time. The

first time I wrote my whole message out before I

shared it was because it was a really tough message.

It was so strong and so hard. I wanted to

check with pastors, the pastor have I got this right?

So I gave him my whole message. Then he went

through the whole thing. He says, go for it. So

I had the courage because that was the hardest message

I ever shared. But this time I wrote the whole

message out. I even timed it ready, timed it, okay,

forty five minutes perfect right. Then I put it on

chat gibbt and I translated in Basa because I was

so afraid that I was going to, you know, not

do it. So then came the time. The time came

for me to share the word. So I got up

to that pulpit and then God said, put the paper aside.

Put the paper aside. You gotta understand, all right, I

have not spoken by USA in years. I opened my mouth,

I started sharing, started sharing. Then someway through the message,

I looked at Elder Rose and he said, how am

I for time? Am I? Okay? She said, ah, you

got another five minutes or so. I should be all right.

So I shared, I wrapped up the message. I came

down whevery. You know, the people were just soaking the

message in. So I asked, so I forty five minutes,

no one in a half hours. The message was one

and a half hours. I haven't even preached that long

in English. But you see, God doesn't need my skill.

He needs me to be present. He doesn't need you

know how He just needs you to make yourself available. Hey,

Paul came because he went so then I was praying

to the Lord. Now was asking the Lord. You know,

I was kind of shy to go for missions. He said, Terence,

you've already been on missions. Say what you mean, say

when you went to study in Singapore the two and

a half years. What did you do there? Then? I said, oh, yes, Lord,

I didn't consider for two and a half years. While

I was in Singapore. I was just a new Christian.

But you know what I was doing. I was sharing

the word of Lord. You guys are so young. Don't

be afraid to tell your friends about Jesus. They don't

need to accept Christ. Then, then, because I found out

that after twenty after twenty five thirty years, a lot

of the friends that I shared too, they've become Christians.

They build churches, they've become pastors. There are preachers going

around the world, and I'm finding out for the first time.

And when I link up with them, you know what

they say, They remember all the things I used to

share with them. You see, because while you think you're

not able God things otherwise, I was only a student,

right I go to school in the morning. I was

living in the church hostel. So morning I'll go to school.

I'll go to school around seven in the morning. You

know what time I get back almost eight, because after

I finished school, I'm coaching the tennis team. I'm you know,

very involved in in in the school, I was the

hate prefect, doing a lot of stuff. Get home around

eight o'clock. God, have my shower, you know, after wash

my clothes. Do you know all that? And you know

what I do after that? Go to church. Go to

church at ten o'clock in the night. You know why,

because we are praying for people to be delivered from

evil spirits with the pastor praying and praying and praying

and seeing people being delivered. And the next morning, of

course I have about two three hours sleep because I

will go back around three to four in the morning,

catch a quick map, actually go back to school and

share with my friends all the things that I had

seen God do. What is missionary? What is being a missionary?

A mission a missionary sharing what you've seen God has done? Guys,

it's easy, man. You share this testimony what God has

done for Jerome. You mean to say, somebody else is

not going to listen and be blessed by it. I mean,

how many of you are blessed listening to that testimony today? Why?

Because God is real. You can't find what everybody has

been seeing all these years. And it's because of those testimonies.

I told my friends many years later, they gave their

life over to the Lord, and they remember, it's been

forty five years. One of my girlfriends, Okay, now, don't

get your mind. She's a girl and she's my friend.

That's it, no more nor less. Just that she tells

me she has never forgotten what I've shared with her,

and it has helped her and her friends. What did

I share? The enemy cannot touch you unless Jesus says so,

And if Jesus says so, it means you can take it,

and he's going to take you over. I was getting

all this from the Book of Joe, all right. And

then she used to tell her friends who were going

through trouble this very same thing, and she says it

helps so many people. Guys, you will make a difference.

I hope you understand that when you go out, God's

going to use you. And we are so busy saying, ah,

it's not for me Oh, I'm not that good? Hey,

whoever said you were good? The other day I was

walking and praying. Every time I come in, I share

the word that trusts me. I walk for two hours

from four to six, praying and asking the Lord to

bless you. And one day, while I was walking, this

was last week, last week, a week before last, the

Lord asked me this question, what's so great about your face?

What do you mean by that? Said? Look, you're not

that special? What's so great about you? Hasn't it always

been about me? This is what the Lord is telling me.

So you've seen so many things accomplished because of God,

you can't take credit. So when you can't take credit,

he becomes very easy. It becomes very easy to do

what God tells you to do. Cool. Why you get

so upset when the person doesn't accept the Lord because

you share with them. I met a man the other day.

He came because he wanted to said his child to school.

And then after that he said, you know, I'm very

very it's very important to me that Christ be in

this child. So you've known the Lord for a long time,

he says, Well, I studied in a marriae and there were

such great people, and they shared with me Christ every day.

I used to follow them to church and all that.

And I said, you accepted the Christ, accepted Christ. Then

he said, no, I refuse to accept Christ. Then how

does this change take place? He is one day, this

is he already left America for so many years, he's working.

Now one day he's walking to catch his train in Korea,

and the Lord just speaks into his ear. So and

so you're not a Christian? Accept me now. So in

the midst of walking to his train, he just says, okay, Lord, Lord,

please forgive me. I receive you as Lord and Savior.

And he became a Christian that day. So I just

told him, praise the Lord. You've encouraged me. You know why,

because I thought I was the only one. That's how

I became to how I came to the Lord. Four years,

I just studied scripture because I wanted to prove my

sister wrong. And one day I went to church and

the Lord spoke to me and said, Terrence, you're not

a Christian except me now, as simple as that, Guys,

Paul came because he went so we have to go

because if we don't go, when God tells us to go.

You know what happens? We become stagnant. Worst case scenario,

we go back to where we came from. Look at Peter.

What happened when Peter saw that Jesus was brutalized, he

rejected or he denied the Lord. Correct, you remember that?

And then what happened after that? He went back to fishing. Guys,

when we are not doing what God tells us to do,

the danger is we go back to where we came from.

He became He went from being a fisher of men

to a fisherman? Is that where you and I want

to be? Do you think we find the blessings in

our jobs? Do you think we find ourself worth in

our professions? Let me tell you what the Lord means.

This one is for you, Okay, this is for all

of you, because this is what the Lord ministered to

me this morning. So as I was going over the

messages of walking my kilometers, you know, early in the morning,

and I said, okay, Lord, what what a share we

dam And I said, take note of what happened at

that seat. So now Peter was fishing after rejecting the Lord.

And then what did the Lord say? Throw your ned

on his side, and they caught a lot of fish.

And then Peter says the Lord, and he jumped into

the water, and he went towards Jesus. And what happened

When he came to Jesus? There was fish on the fire.

Do you think they had stalls that to buy fish from? Hey?

If there were stalls to buy fish from and the

fish hadn't come yet, okay, because the fishmen were still

out there fishing whole night, they didn't catch anything. But

when Peter came there was already fish on the fire.

So you are worried where your money is coming from,

it's on the fire. Are you worried about your job,

it's on the fire. Are you worried about whether you've

got a partner or whether you'll get a husband or

a wife? Guess what it's on the fire. Are you

worried about whether or not your room is going to be? Okay?

Guess what he's on the fire? Please? Is that when

I said you're on the fire, what I mean is

breakfast with a lot. It's taken care of. What can

you think of when you go back? Always remember this

that God's got it on the fire. Our thing is

when we're not moving forward. Being stagnant is the same

as moving back. So Paul came because he went. We

have to go so that we won't remain stagnant. Because

Jesus commands us to go. Did Jesus tell us to stay?

You just go into the world, not stay in the world.

We cannot stay in the world because one day the

candle burns on both ends. For me, at least, you

know what that means. Jesus is coming soon, I'll go

and be with the lot. Or he delays coming and

I expire, and I still go and be with the lots.

The candle is burning on both ends. But I tell

my children, highly likely Jesus will come, maybe not in

my lifetime, but certainly in yours. Why do I say that? Okay,

that's not my message. But let me just share something

with you. The Book of Ezekiel says that the dead

sea life will come back to the dead sea, and

springs will flow from God's feet and come into the

We'll come into that dead sea. Do you know how

many of you know that nothing lives in the dead sea.

You know where the dead sea is? The dead sea

is somewhere in the promised land Israel. Okay, Now that

Dead Sea is so salty that if you were diving

you cannot sink. So those of you that are not swimmers,

that's the place to go. You lie there, you can

lie do you just won't sink, you'll float. Guess what

happened just recently, not too long ago, some scientists or

some divers, or some photographers found that there were pockets

of fresh water in the Dead Sea and for the

first time fish were there. Is this even possible? And

then do you know that there are little streams of

fresh water nobody knows where it's coming from, that are

beginning to flow into the Red Sea. And Azekial says

that this floor water starts like ankle deep, and then

it goes to knee deep, waist deep, and then it'll

cover Where is this coming from? So the people who

are saying this say, could this be an indication of

the soon coming of Jesus Christ? Preparation? How many will heard?

In Book of Revelations says that Jesus will enter the

Holy City from the east gate from the Mount of Olives.

I think, well, you know it's in the Book of Revelations.

But if you were to go to the Holy land. Now,

the east gate has been shut very very early on.

The Ottomans were afraid of this prophecy. So what they

did was they sealed the east gate. They sealed it shut,

and then they made graves in front all on the land,

because they say no holy man would walk over graves.

So they thought that by doing this they had overcome

the prophecy. One thing they did not pay attention to

that Jesus defeated death and he rose again. So do

grace mean anything? No, they don't. Let me tell you

what's happening in the world today. Scientists have found that,

for some inexplicable reason, the east Gate is beginning to open.

They do measurements and they find they cannot explain, but

the gate is beginning to open. Could this be an

indication of the coming of the Lord? Look at the

world today? Scripture says that people be crying peace, peace, peace, peace, peace,

And we think, ah, okay, that means the world is

at peace. No, the Bible says people will be crying peace, peace, peace, peace.

It could be because the world is intermal that they

want peace, or could be the world is peaceful. Look

at it Duailer. If the world was peaceful, would they

be crying for peace? No, the only time you cry

for peace is when there's no peace. Right a on.

Did you see what happened in Anchorage the other day?

Why was the backdrop peace? And that's what the world

is crying now. Peace? Peace. Peace. You got to know

and believe that Jesus Christ is coming again soon. So

when he says to go into the world, what do

you tell them? Scripture says, just preach Jesus, Just speak

about him, tell others about what's going on in your life.

You know, Paul said, I didn't come with excellent speech.

I didn't come with You know, if I were to

talk to you so eloquently, you might believe because of

my words. But let me tell you, if somebody else

comes and he speaks better than me, you'll run after

those words. So Paul was right when he says, I

don't need to come to you in excellent speech. Could

Paul have done it? You better believe it. How do

we know that he wrote twenty six books in the Bible. Also,

he was a scholar. He could have come with excellent speech,

but he was determined not too because excellent speech has

no place in convicting hearts. It was not a motive

to impress. It was not to show superior superiority, is it?

It didn't even come in wisdom. You know what's the

meaning of the word wisdom? The philosophy. Do you think

Paul was preaching a philosophy. I can tell you there's

so many philosophers. You can't even remember a single thing

that he said. Aristotle was one of the great philosophers

of the time. Can any of you remember one single

statement he made. Let's not go there, let's talk Confucius.

He's quite confusing sometimes when you listen to him. Can

you remember anything that he said? No? But can you

remember what Jesus said? Yes, I am the Way, the Truth,

and the life. No one comes to the Father but

through me. Many people around the world can remember that

Paul was saying. It's not philosophy, it's not intelligencer because

for how intelligent you are, there's someone more intelligent. So

there are many intelligent people in the world who say, oh,

you can't believe in Jesus because it's all fantasy, it's

all in your mind. There's one guy who you all

know him. I'm not going to mention his name, who

always says, if you can show me one verse in

the Bible where Jesus is the son of God, I

will believe him. To that guy, I would say this,

Do you think I care you believe him or you

don't believe him. That's your business. If you recognize that

there's such a person as and you have rejected him

for whatever reason. Let me tell you what my Bible says.

Every nicheall bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ

is Lord. So whether you believe or not, I'm not interested.

You see, we get caught up in fighting the wrong things.

Don't get fired, don't get caught up in useless arguments.

The scripture says, don't get caught up in debates. Hey,

you got no time for that. You think when I

was telling my friends I was debating with them. No,

I just told him what God had done. I just

shared with them the things that I had seen, and

I left it. You know why, because it's not my

job to convict them. The Bible says that belongs to

the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that convicts their hearts,

not me. I don't have to convince Hey, I'm telling

you you believe, you believe, you don't believe. That's your business.

You think I fall to pieces. I'm not interested. We

got at the end of the day, we'll both seila.

Who's telling the truth? Evidence testimony of God, That's what

it is. You have got such great testimonies. How many

of you have come to the Lord. You've got such

a great story to tell, and you don't tell the story.

How sad is that scripture is not telling us when

we go and go on missions to talk about things

that don't exist. There was one guy I went to

his house. Let me tell you their houses. This is

the house, the whole house. Okay, there's the whole house,

includes bedroom, dining room, toilet, kitchen. Let me see how

I can explain it. Okay, uh, maybe this green patch

from this wall to this door, or maybe a little

bit narrower maybe Okay, this would be the hall and

this would be the rest of the house. You know

what's the biggest problem I had when I was there.

Cannot kneel, cannot squad. When I squat, I have to

stretch my leg. Then after two minutes of stretching my leg,

people can trip over. I got to pull my leg

back and then getting up. I have to struggle to

get My biggest problem was getting up and sitting down

because you have to do it on the floor. Got

no bed in the night. They just pulled the mattress

down and they sleep. So that was. We went to

one guy's house. This guy had a business where he

was fixing motorbikes. You can see a watermark, watermark as

high as this. So I asked him, you mean to

see a house floods. You say, yes, you go and

look out the window. So I look out the window.

There's a big drain, a ditch, huge that comes directly

to his house. And then it turns and the dirt

and rubbish and all that in the drain. He says,

whenever it rains, the water comes down and comes straight

into his house. He wants to buy that house. You

know how much? They want to sell it to him

for one hundred and fifty thousand ring it. I don't

kid you for an area that's small, one hundred and

fifty thousand ring it. So in Bahasa, you know what

I prayed? I said, Lord, So he said, don't the

authorities want to do anything?

Yeah?

Yeah, they promise they'll be wanting to do anything for years.

You know why they don't do it because the money

goes into somebody's pocket. So you gotta forgive me. I

am a very very real person. So I prayed. I say, Lord,

send these dirty flood water directly into the house of

those politicians and spare this guy. Do I believe it

will happen. Yes, God can do it, and then you'll

find it. He'll do something about the dream. If you

think God is not able to do that, let me

just tell you. I just want a battle. I took

some people to task under the guidance of the Holy Space.

It's huge. I got to tell you, the only one

in the world serious and I won. I can't tell

you what it is, but that's the kind of God reserve.

You can be the only person in the world that

he can show his power to all those billion dollar companies.

So will he send it flood water? I will only

know the next time I go, and I will meet

this person again. Guys, when you go, you go in

the power the Lord is it you? That's why God

asked this question. What's so great about your face? Nothing

to do with me. It just has to do with him. Ye,

you know, I don't think I'm gonna finish this message,

but I'm gonna get as far as I supposed to go.

So evidence of a divine God. Do you know that

Paul was determined to share nothing except Jesus and he

says this and him crucified. Do you know what that means?

Why on earth would Paul be so determined to share,

to know nothing else except Jesus. At the moment of

his failure, seeming failure, at the moment where he was brutalized,

he was beaten towards an incheon, He's never he's hung

hanging on a cross. Hey, guys, do you think that

cross was made of nice, fine wooden? The capital made it?

He send it good sandpaper, you know, smooth. Hey, it

was a splintered cross on a raw back. We can't

even take one splinter in our finger. He had those

splinters eating into his raw flesh. At that worst moment,

Paul is saying, that's who I want to share. You

will never be able to capture the heart of people

unless you give them hope that no matter how bad

the situation is, it can turn around in Jesus. Because

that's what actually Paul is saying, my God went through

the worst moments for you and for me. He took

it all upon himself so you don't have to face it.

But let me tell you. Did he stay that way? No,

he overcame. I tell you a few stories. How many

we remember? There was one Malaysian runner who made it

to the Olympics in nineteen sixty eight hurdles can you remember?

You can't remember? Well, there was one Malaysian that made

it in nineteen sixty eight. He was my friend, okay,

I knew him personally and this was his story. When

he was younger preparing for the Olympics, somebody came in

a car and smashed into his legs. He spent several

months in hospital and the doctors say, let alone walk,

he will never run again. They were not even believing

that he would walk again because so bad was the

injury to his legs. But he had a determination that

would not stop. So when he eventually got out a hospital,

his father helped him his His father was one of

the top people in sports in the country and this

is how he started his running career again. Over hurdle

six inches from the ground one foot by one foot

and slowly it came from six inches to one foot

one and a half foot two feet until he came

to the normal hurdle height. And he practiced. And you know,

when you run hurdles, it's one two three leg out,

one to three leg out. It's a system. He practiced

it like he was a baby. And you know what.

He is the only Malaysian to have made it to

the finals of the one hundred and ten meter hurdles

at the Olympics. The only one. Now, if I were

to tell you a story, oh there was a Malaysian

who made it to the finals of the one hundred

and ten meter hurdles in nineteen sixty eight, you will

tell me so what, right, didn't make any difference. But

now that you know the whole story, you feel about it.

It's amazing. I tell you another one. All these people

you don't know unfortunately, because I'm old, right, I only

know the old guys and you guys, all I don't know. Okay,

how many of you. I can guarantee none of you

have heard of this guy. His name is Thomas Muster. Okay,

you know he didn't make mustard. He was a tennis player. Okay,

how many of you know what tennis is, Okay, do

you know what the French Open is? Big tournament? Right?

This guy was taking his tennis records out of his

car and a drunk driver came and slammed to his car,

and his car went backwards and crushed both his legs.

This promising career almost ended. But such was the determination

of this guy that he started after months, he started practicing.

He started practicing, and he won the French Open twice.

After that, he also became the most celebrated clay caught

tennis player of the time, before Rafa Nadal, So before

Raphael Nadal was the king of clay, Thomas Master was

the king of clay. And what's the story? He did

it after his legs were crushed. So now you have

Paul who is talking about Jesus after Jesus was brutalized

for you and me, what difference does it make? It

makes a huge difference, so much so. And Paul's when

Thomas said, I don't believe what's the first Jesus did

when he came and came and so hey, Thomas, what's

the matter with you coming? See my hands? Feel it?

Put your hand in my side? Philip, you okay for

my Lord and my God. That was what Thomas responded. Guys,

when you talk about your experience, you talk about how

difficult things were for you and then God turned it around.

You mean to say, somebody is not going to be blessed.

You have to go on missions. You have to as

I started out in the very beginning, you get out

of bed, guess what you're going for? Missions? Missions to

your place of work. Missions while you go and catch

the bus. Missions and God, you know, you remember the

testimony I share the man who just refused to accept

the Lord, and he was dying from cancer. And when

I heard he was in hospital, I went to see him.

Do you remember that? What did I tell the Lord? Lord?

What do I share with this guy? He's already rejected you.

Then the Lord said, Badminton? Are you okay? Lord? Badminton? Yeah, Badminton.

So I went to see him. This man, he is

in hospital. You know when I ask him, Hey, I'm

sixty four years old, I've got no more timer, I

got no more time. So I asked this guy directly,

you do know you're dying, right, That's my first question?

Would you all ask him that?

No?

But you say, I'm sixty four years old. I don't

care anymore. You do know you're dying, right? Yes? I said,

do you like badminton?

Oh?

Yeah, I like badminton. Great, I said, Jesus was playing badminton,

did you. He's already served the shuttle to you when

he died in the cross for you. You will see

nothing happen in your life until you return it back

in faith. Do you want to accept the Lord? Yes,

he accepted the Lord. One week later, he tells his niece.

You see, the man said I would not accept the

Lord until I see him right. But it didn't happen

then when he accepted the Lord. One week later, his

niece tells me a man appeared in white in his bedroom.

Couldn't see the face, but he was gloring, really all white.

And this man said, I knew this was Jesus. He

came to visit me. I couldn't see the face. A

few days later, he says, two men in white came

into the room. They had a discussion and then disappeared.

So I told the nwe kids, get ready is about

to go. A couple of days later, he left, those

are the angels, probably preparing for him. Oh is this possible?

You gotta listen. You gotta know God will use you

even when you think you are not able to be used.

Do you know? Paul says, I'm determined to share Jesus

and I'll be ending soon. I'm determined to share Jesus

and him crucified because nothing compass, nothing compares to Jesus. Guys,

when I went to Singapore and I was sharing in

my friends, you know how long I had known Jesus.

Three months. I've only known Jesus for three months, and

I'm just telling what I have seen, what I know.

You don't have to be a preacher to share. Let

me tell you. The ones who preach up here, they

are always shaking. You know why, because if we preach

the wrong thing, God's gonna hold us accountable. So you

think it's jolly up there, No, it's no, it's a

great responsibility. We come. You don't see a niece knocking,

But actually the niece are knocking. Okay, the older people

the niece cannot knock so well, they had to move

like me. No, but this is it. Guys. You were

saying that Jerome was saying on you were saying Jerome

was singing at the top of his voice, praising the Lord,

and you didn't care whether it was on key off key.

It was just do you know that when I first

became a Christian, I couldn't sing. In fact, it was

described this way. You know the black keys and the

white keys are those that heard me sing. Say I'm

singing in the cracks in between. I couldn't sing, But

did it stop me? No? I sang on top of

my voice, just like Jerome. In fact, the the song

the ministry team leader. So I'll be here singing. I'll

be always in the front seat. And then after that,

keep quiet. You're throwing everybody off. The music leader is

actually telling me to keep quiet because I'm throwing everybody off.

Then praise the Lord. The pastor stands up and says,

leave him alone, because if he sings like that one day,

bring a dead body before his worship and the person

will come back to life. I was so encouraged. But

you want to know something, The Lord taught me how

to sing. You cannot do something doesn't mean you will

never do it. But if you're willing to open yourself

up to the leading of the Lord and do what

he tells you to do. You will be able to

do all things through Christ who strengthens you.

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