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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

Someone asked us before that the why do we trust

the stage to young people? Why do we trust the

stage to young people? And our answer has always been,

if we don't trust the stage to them, now, when will.

We do that?

Think about it that if we don't give them a

chance to serve them right now while the older ones

already the slightly older.

At heart right around the guide to encourage.

We've been young once before, and when we were younger, right, friends,

we will also rebel back then, all right, if you

were back in those days, we were transitioning from the

him singing to hosena integrity and that was a big change.

Remember those days.

No then you you remember you explains which category of

age group you are at? H And we always wanted

the newer songs back then, right, But after a while

we got really tired of following newer songs because back

in those days, cassette, how to come by, No cassette, right,

all right, cassette, A right, fantastic thank you guying the

galaxy for.

The reference, right, cassette, it's how to come by?

So we have people bringing in cassettes from the States,

and we used to listen to them.

CdSe came after that.

But these days with the internet, everything is so quick

we couldn't catch up with the songs. We get requests

almost every other way. Could we do this song, that

song and after wild friends? If correct me by blah wrong,

we are chasing after songs rather than worshiping God. We

are chasing after the song rather than worshiping God. So

we will tell the church that, hey, hang on for

a moment while songs are great, but songs are.

Not the focus of worship. Right.

Songs are great. Lyrics are good, but they're not focus

of worship.

Right.

In fact, if you have any form of lyrics, just

put into AI you will come out a very good

tune for your right. I did I try to put

hold the whole sumption in the tree in English bastard

time every day it come up to the very nice

are and be so kind of someome right it will

definitely you listen to. You can't differentiate. Really, it's just

too perfect. Right, So we tell young people that, hey,

it's not the likes and the sound and hence that's

why you notice this place is still in work in progress.

Thank God for the team that's so overnight they fix

up this place, they decorate the painted right again, you

could see this is a typical youth place. Big in dreams,

low in budget, super big in dreams, right, but super

low in budget. But they did allow the budget to

stop them from dreaming. And that's what young people need.

Young people need to dream again how God could use them.

So for the past twenty five to thirty years, we'll

be bringing young people to travel throughout Malaysia. Had their

own cause to encourage the local churches around up all

the way from police anybody from police to all the

way down south to Joho to Kuantan and all the

way to the smaller towns, because we truly believe, friends,

that the call of God cannot be just for the cities.

Everybody wants to plant the church in Kuala Lumpo, in

Pinang and maybe in jb The question is that who

is going to go to Quota Baru, Who is going

to go to goa musam? Who is going to go

to some of these places whereby the gospel has to go.

In and reach and encourage.

And here's the thing that we tell young people that, look,

God has given you strength and we want to be

the channel, so we bring your people around.

We had our first drama for a Ya.

Back then he had slightly longer hair, and he told

Passa Kennel that Passa, I got slight longer hair.

Would you accept me here? That?

Would you accept me? Would you receive me? Would you

allow me to be on the band? Pass say yes

on one condition, you tap your hair. You can keep

your hair long, but tie it up because it's not

the hair, it's the focal point. A lot of people

say I like the style, so they we chased after

style strengths. We chase after starles. Okay, and what happened

when when we chase after stous we get really tired

and we say, it's not about the stars anymore, but

can you put away the starles for Jesus? So we

are the guy we're yearing on on the bend. We

say that, look, when you're on the stage. When you're

on the stage, you're in a position of influence. Young

people will look up to you. Whatever is you look

up because you're on the stage every concert you go to.

The focal point is the stage. The backup dancers and

everybody on the stage. Whatever you do on stage has

a report effect on the ground. We say, even though

you got hearing, could you remove the earing for worship?

We have people say no, I can't. I can't mean

to say that I cannot be discipled. I can't remove

my hearing because this is part of me. Just accept me.

Say you can keep your hearing, but for worship part

on stage, would you removing Because we have young people

that we are leading, and many times the choices who

come in front of you, lifestyle choices who come in

front of you where you have to decide whether or

not these would make you to get to heaven. But

for the sake of jeez, I'm willing to put away

because I do not want another brother.

This is de number think about it. I we got

to my message hit.

But I just want to just share this to you

because I truly believe, friends, really truly believe that as

we run to the last slap about twenty twenty five, Amen, hallelujah,

Christmas is round the corner.

Right as we run to the.

Last lap of this year, friends, we have to decide

that although lifestyle could be presented in front of us,

we have a choice. So last month we were at

Karachi and get to meet some of your former meets

from here, four of them from Examine. They went back

the tree, went back to be back at Indonesia and

White got hijacked because of marriage.

Uh went there?

And why let you know? Zin is doing really well.

His back got healed in Indonesia.

Don't know why. I say, what do you do? Is

it the massage? This is the one? They said? No,

he did say my wife.

Uh no, He said that he actually went to play

basketball in Indonesia and got healed after that, which look

at you can play basketball of Malaysia. Oh ye, lack

of faith. I think that nothing good can happen from Malaysia,

is it?

Uh?

Anyway, so we had a good camp. We had a

good cam at Karachi. We went to a place. I

tell you what, friends, The place was beautiful. Was formerly

a five star because the COVID became three stars, right, friends,

The toilet I could tell you this, Okay, it was

I know the fire place because I went in the toilet.

The toilet bowl was made of marble, The toilet seat

was made of marble. I went like, this is next

level of next level of uplands and richness.

And I'm like, if you.

Give to us, we just give us a plastic seat

because plastic seat is warmer. But we had good can

met One guy got here of cancer over there, God,

he just chat with me. You know when when the

nurse took my blood, I just have to proclaim that

you are taking the blood of Jesus right now by faith.

No more cancer cell, no more cancer trace. After a

couple of tests and everything like that, friends, the doctor said,

what happened to you? I remember I saw a marker

there and one month later there was no more cancer marker.

I want to let you know. God is on the move. Friends,

if we choose to believe, God is on the move.

And many times, what happened is this that? Well, it's

not me. Maybe that's that's all. Maybe that happens only

in the field. What good can come out from some money?

What miracles can come out from somnier? And many times

we wrestle with this thought, what good can come up?

Because I'm young? What good I'm young? I don't know anything,

But the Bible says, don't despise your youth. The Bible says,

do not despise your youth. And many times, friends, we

put ourselves down. And at X just before I go

get to my message, I just want to encourage you.

We are a firm believer, firm believer that God has

never made a mistake where you're born. Never, We have

totally encouraged people wherever you're born, whichever country you come from,

God has a plan for you.

God has a plan for you.

And many times in our journey and our lives, friends,

we put ourselves down because we always think that we

are not good enough. Who said they we cannot write

the next worship song? Think about it, who says you

can't write the next worship song? Many times? And this

hard to believe, but many times we have to tell

young people this is that.

Look.

I understand that you know the Western world writes amazing

worship lyrics. But when would Malaysian rise up and write

our own song? When would our church in Botswana rise

up and write their own song? When would our people

in Mema, Mema rise up to write their own song?

If you don't give ourself a chance, a believe that

God that we served the same God in America, the

same God in Malaysia, same God in Botswana, same God

in Memmah. Whether we give our chance to believe that

God can use us mightily and powerfully. They say, young

people don't like to talk to older people. That's what

I get. My dad is from a Methodist church summer

in Pucchum. He said, no, our church is fifty and

the birth I say, mixture, yeah, but the young people

do want to talk to old people. Heard this statement before.

Young do not want to talk to oh? Oh do

not want to talk to young Then then there's a

great divide. I say that you have to force a conversation.

Then think about that. You have to foster conversation. Come on,

and that's why at our homes you say there is

no such thing as a youth Home's only young people,

homes only friends. I want to let you know, in

the glimpse of an eye, you'll be fifty. Praise a lot,

Harlee luiah some I'm looking out of the amazing young

men in this room. You reach whereby it's all clean shaven.

After that, amen, you don't have a problem every day

when you wake up, what jail to put on your hair?

All right?

So we say that young and oh have conversation, be

in the same homes, talk.

Right, talk, don't be afraid of friends.

And you know what happened now church, the young begin

to talk to the old, the old begin to talk

to young. And when the young said I got no

money to pay, the older one gentlemen will say, I'll

pay for your lunch. Amen, praise a lot, hailea lujah,

and all the young people say.

She cannot.

You're not in that case category anymore, right, But yet

the young gives energy to the old. I met a

lady to just join our church yesterday. I'm going to

get my message. You're a church elder, I said, yes,

I am. I expected you to be older, more wrinker,

maybe about seventies like that, but you look so young.

Then pass who say a young person can't be a

church elder. Think about there who say, yeah, of course

you the are the dangers that they feel us definitely.

But we were young ones we first got our driver's license,

the fear and trembling we drove our parents car. Right,

But anyway, I got to get my message right now.

I want to speak about image. I really want to

speak about image because I think many times in our lives, friends,

we are.

We are always pressured, pressured to be.

Like someone else, because if you don't know your imagengs,

if you know you're calling, if you don't know uh

why God caught you and made you white, you in

a particular manner, You're always going to be pressured to

be like someone else.

Do you know?

The pressure is so real even in the Christian world,

even among churches. Right they say that everyone who gets

get who flies over to Melbourne or at Australia, just

taste a church over there. They get so hooked to

the church. They say that passador are so welcoming. They

put the arms around you, They encourage you think the

worst day. They use fresh can speak straight into your heart.

You just felt that you met your best friend. We

have youth in our church campus. Students who were there

for holiday for five days come back and say, I

want to my grade.

I want to migrate to Melbourne. I say why there.

First of all, the skies are really blue. You take

the picture really blue.

No, Malaysia is faded blue, pantone shape number something something something.

But in Melbourne, every corner is beautiful, the air, the

pick of the golden retriever over there, stuff like that

five days and don't forget the accent.

Five days.

Friends in Melbourne can come back with an accent. Think

about with an excent. I mean, like, wow, pressure friends,

but the elder. But the passes over there are so encouraging,

I said, the Malasia pass the encouraging men. They look

on the ground. Yeah, encouraging in a very different way.

There's more work, there's more there. They are more relational

over there, here's more work focused.

Their pass said that. I would say, can you see that?

They say Melbourne passes are are very encouraging. No, I said, yeah,

of course because they used to. They see it for

the very first time and they say to you, your

a legend and you believe in it.

They said. The after that, I abyt the worry.

I say, I'm about two thirds the first of all,

a big size and bore hated. They are big sizes

and bore hated check check. The only thing is ourcluding

is a bit different than it as all. They wear

jeans and T shirt. We were shit in the tie right.

But what I'm trying to say here is is that

the image in the christable pressure to be like them,

pressured friends like to be like someone else, and God

doesn't mean us that way to be pressured to be

like someone else. So if you have a Bible, would

you turn to met two chapter twenty two, met to

chapter twenty two.

I'm going from worse.

Let me see I was fifteen versts yeah, verse fifteen,

verse fifteen, first slightly number two slight number two agent

thank you.

Byways.

One of the church leaders for Examini asked me to

promote region again, so I went. I went back to

ask the leader why you're interested?

Is it? But anyway? Magnetic chapters something they get it.

The mine three two, verse fifteen says that when the

pharisees when and plotted how they might entanger him in

his talk. Right, come on, you have a enemy. You

have an enemy that seeks to bring you down. You

have a lifestyle that seeks to tear you away. You

have someone that seeks to pull you down, put you

in the bondage, and never want you to advance. Sometimes

it's called laziness, which means to see that you know

what you're supposed to do, but you don't do it.

The metros started will be so comfortable, and the metro

has never been the issue. Friends, you all need metros

to sleep on. But the word comfort, comfort, right, what

a hijack your future? So we may not have pharaoh

seas in our life that's plotted against us, but we

have a lifestyles friends, that seeks to rob you. When

I tell young people that I wake up at about

five am in the morning, go like five am in

the morning, I was just about to go to sleep.

Say what do you sleep? Then?

You you sleep around nine pm? I say, no, around

twelve sometimes one. My everay sleep time is about four

and a half hours to five. That's on a good day.

The bad day is about three and a half hours

like that to four. Not very good, not very good.

But I'm wired that way really, But you know, I'm

trying to undo sending bad habits I picked up. But

here's the thing, friends, here's the thing, lifestyle triices. I say,

why do you become so earliest? Well, starting to pick

up the habit back again to read my Bible earlier,

needed the ex short time to read my Bible earlier,

and this stuff like, I just need them more time.

Not to put people down or make people feel guilty.

But friends, the question is that don't you like to

sleep in? Friends who rejects sleep? Who on earth will

reject sleep?

Think about it?

You don't like to sleep in your You all made

the choice to come to Chishma. You already meet here, Liza,

You already made a sacrifice. You talk the comfort of

your mattress and your pillow, and your and your and

your bid.

I love you, but I love God a bit more today.

So how wake up a bit earlier? Right? So you

have a pharisees that plot against you.

Friends, if God cannot get you to the mattress, then

get you to other things. I want to let you

know if God, sorry, if the enemy can't get you

to the mattress, the comfort, friends, he will attack you

to another format.

So verse succeeds.

They send to him their disciples, with the Herodians saying, teacher,

we know that your true teach the way of God

in truth. Nor do you care about anyone, for you

do not regard personal man. Basically, what he's trying to

say is that Jesus you whatever you teach's true right.

There is no wrong in your teaching, your doctorinery your

correc Verse seventeen tell us, therefore, what do you think

is it lawful to pay Texas to seize it or

not what the moment I bring about Texas? We just

had a budget that was released on Friday, right, so

is it lawful to pay Texas?

Now? Friends?

This is no longer a theological question anymore. This is

a lifestyle choice. I know that people in church that

don't pay the Texas back then. I know that people

who actually don't. And sometimes in our life we made

lifestyle choices. Either they draws us closer to God or

draws us away from the Lord.

Right not so?

Therefore, friends, I believe in the coming days, the challenge

is no longer a theological one.

It is not. It is mostly a lifestyle choice.

At the end of the day, a lifestyle choice, very blurred,

very fine line there it says it was eighty by

Jesus perceived that wickedness. Wow, and say why do you

text me, you hypocrites? Verse fifteen. Okay, the pharises went

out the plot how they might and tanger hip in

his top. Hey, Lisa, it's in the our conversation, friends,

sometimes that bring us into bondage. The word and tanger

you is to entrap laced there for anything that fixes

or grip a snare. It seeks to put you into bondage.

I recently had the conversation with one of our church

partners and it goes very subtly. It goes something like this, although,

don't you care, elder, don't you care that these people

are going through this? We brought it up before, but

there was no response, no action taken, and we are angry.

Right. Sounds legit right? Sound true?

Right?

That I asked this brother, I say, look, if the

churche leadership respond to everything that everyone bring up, we

will be very busy, first of all, and I want that.

I have to explain to him. Do you know what

else is being brought out of my attention as well?

The toilet is not working. The toilet is not working,

do something about it. The toilet is stuck, please unclocked it.

The air con is not cold enough, not just people,

all other requests one sorry, I explained to him. I said,

did you know I get all this as well? And

let me I said, I go on for the express.

So right now, my little elder, we finish our my low.

I said, I can give you a lease after lease,

and after lead, I say to this brother, I say, look,

I understand where you're coming from but want to let

you know. If we act on everybody's wish of what

they don't like, then when we really listen to God,

I'm not trying to put him down.

I'm not trying to give him perspective.

Yes, thank you for highlighting, but not everything you highlight.

The leaders need to take action.

The brother is not rooted in church, do something about it.

So it's become your problem because the other brothers not

routed in church. The other brother is studies not well,

So it's your problem because the other brother studies not well.

Everything becomes your problem though. That's what the enemy sinks

and tangle you. If you get sucked in into the

emotion of the conversation.

Friend, what happens? You said?

Your life is my fault if I'm not good enough,

I'm always so busy. Have you ever get That's why

we always tell young people be very careful when you

get a long phone calls with the open sex.

Enemy can becomes a boyfriend and girlfriend for sure.

One you spend long enough time with the individual you

show fall in love one. I know of a person

who spend time with the same collique for lunch for

past three years and she's engaged, and she fall in

love with the guy. Friends Lunchunia copy Lunch forty five minutes.

Think about the same individual for three years. The conversation

wasn't funny conversation, this normal life conversation. What do you

have for dinner at home?

Right? How was your week end? Three years? Same person

fall in love.

Guys, I'm not giving you a recipe how to chase of

the persistent Sya wins.

Not until you were out there kill killer? Did you like?

Did you like?

No?

Friends?

Not? But this is what happened. This is what the

mis six he wants and tanger you have. You have

a conversation after the wild friends, you get really worked up.

It wasn't your problem the first place, but also becomes

your problem. And that's what the enemy is six friends,

enemy six and tanger you in the way you respond,

come on, It seeks to trap you in the way

you respond. We have to be very careful because some conversation, friends,

you can't just sit. Thank you so much for highlighting.

We'll pray because you get sucked into it. Friends, you

don't even know how to come out from it. Next time, bond.

This show a conversation, not all conversations, healthy conversation.

Can we agree with this?

Not all conversations a healthy conversation, not all conversations a

healthy conversation. And many times in our life, friends, the

enemy seeks to bring you in, very subtle, bring you in.

You know, I went to change the deer, passus Steven.

Never say hi to me?

Yeah, yeah, very innocent, right now, passor Steven pastor extra money.

Never say hi to me? Just a statement, but.

You present a statement to some other person who has

something against Stephen. Y'all, I tell you what he leaves

worship never smile. One gets deeper.

Just the other day.

All he talks about is serf number one. Never asks

you for lunch at all. See where it's great. It's

it's hooking you in slowly by shure. You're just making

a see when there. He never gets you at the

door only that's it. They go, y'alla, how so now

he never asked me for luncheon. Only spend time with

his wife. Only but spending time with wife not good man,

very innocent, very s friends. It gets even deeper, y'all,

ask you to serve, do this, and do that. He

never won them show up during the weekday one, sometimes

last time, all the time, and now hardly.

Ah.

So not all conversations a healthy conversation, not all statements.

You have to entertainment, be very watchful. This is how

the enemy seeks to bring you in and put you

in the bondage, and you can afterwards your thoughts get

so real wired you can't see a way out.

That's why better health is so key. Right.

Some conversations starts off very innocent, but it seeks to

trap you. Start off very innocently and seeks to trap you.

I was at the campus even about two weeks ago

at Salmon. It was on the boy good relationship. The

statement was the question was asked to me that, Mmm,

how do you know that you're leading someone on? How

do you know that you're leading someone on?

You know?

Did you understand right? If if you understand, how do

you know that you're leading someone on?

That I wad to expect.

I say, guys, you know, back then before internet, maybe

it's very straightforward.

These days very weird.

People get lead on by any single thing. You drop

your pancer, the other guy picked up for you, You

bought your whole one other the panther. You felt like

sty coming flowing through. She is so helpful. I dropped

my cinnical pancer. No one helped me. She and now

to pick up for me, and our eyes locked. But

whos are sharing the same shampoo smell? This must be

a sign. I so I have to ask, Like I said,

you have to define it, because not everything.

It's not a very innocent of friends. It's not a

very listen.

I remember reading someone's Facebook, someone Facebook in our church

many many years ago, and this lady just.

Have to write this.

I don't understand guys. I don't understand guys. I cannot

be nice to them.

Every time been nice to a person, the person thing

I like the person.

Every time I'm nice to a guy, the guy thinks

I like him.

Songs, demon songs, dement.

I went like, but first of all, it's not very

innostantly right. I'm just nice, but maybe you have other intentions.

And just be aware that our conversation and healthy friends,

that's why some conversation people.

How do you know this happened? I said, I do

not know.

It's not because I did not want to know, because

I really that a lot of things will come to

me one It's one day to know that. Really they

looked at me. Right, I'm the most unfriendly elders face here.

Both hated this grumpy face. I've been my mom and

my parents, right, I say that there are other passes

that are the elders very friendly. They always fucked with them.

Tell them about the story. They say, oh, did you

know about this? I say, the only thing I know.

I'll look of money or no money. Have you thought

about what conversation behaving recently? Have you thought about it?

Met two twenty two, Ards sixteen seventeen says that when

they send him their disciples with the heroine, say, teacher,

you know you are the truth.

That you teach a way of God?

Right, I say that earlier on next So therefore no

longer about the discussion about doctrine, and it's about obedience,

conviction and maturity. It's therefore the discussion is no longer

about doc trying issues anymore. It's about conviction. Let must

share a few more talks with your people. Ask us

before that, you know, why do we get young people

to dress up on Sunday? Where should and die? Nothing

better else to do with it on Sunday? Then you

look at YouTube.

You different just different expression, our explanations wrestling. But we

just tell them.

Look, I say that the Sunday belongs to the law right.

So who do you come to church for on Sunday?

God?

And what do you do on Sunday worship? So we

are worshiping God by giving.

God our best. That's it. It's very important.

Just give God our best, give got our best. When

I was a youth in age of fifteen, we used

to see the three Hundle of Us sit together with

and carusch. Our dress well on Sunday because it's worship.

Is that just worship? Just worship? You go every other

different cultures in Africa they dress really well, really well

on Sunday tradition that is really well. There comes Ausy

culture Bermudah pants and T shirt and slipper to church

on Sunday. Now we don't know, we don't know the dressing.

It's never been about the dressing. It's always been about

our hearts, because sometimes our dressing can be such a stronghold.

No, friends, God only looks at the heart.

I refuse then when you have to meet the prime minister,

When you have to meet the prime minister, when it's

your wedding. I have not seen any groom on the

wedding where mud and the t shirp. How many girls

want to marry a guy with bermudas and t shit

and take your photograph?

We tell people.

People spend thousands on their wedding day, and how you

dress up on your wedding day you remember forever because

on your coffee table it's going to be the photo

album and every time you flip through that page.

Why did I dress? I did? So? One of the

things we like.

One of the things we tell couples in our church

about getting married, consider what you're gonna dress on your

wedding day, because you are going to put on your

wedding gown once once and you're going to read and

do you want to renew your maasure house right? Be

consider for the day that maybe you don't need a

second change of wardrobe, because once you teach a wardrobe,

you could look like any other girl in the wedding ceremony.

I say you're wedding gown you only wear once, don't

keep it for only the two hours where the whole time,

if possible, Then when you take picture, people know that

you are the bride and some of the ladies say that,

thank you all for helping us to save money. Here's

the thing, friends, here's the thing. If obedience a conviction,

maturity is the key challenge.

Why do you think it's so hard to reach young people?

People say, you reach young people, you need to have

ten thousand ringing budget, show give iPad iPhones everything. But

after a while the church becomes a place of freebes.

Some you cannot outbeat the world. Friends, we say you

have to give them something they don't have is Jesus,

because only Jesus can see them true. Our mandatey just

want to let you all know, all right, deciding just

we want to prepare you for the days to come.

The days to come, friends, when you graduate and you

go outside the word, you won't have some supports system

on the weekday. We want to ensure everyone of youth,

everyone of a young working a doubt, no where to

turn to when they hit a war, because there will

be days when the questions we asked us, can the

young people? Can the young people and we know the

young people can be extreme, ask them the extreme stuff

they can, But can the young people take solitary confinement

all by themselves? Can the young people be by themselves.

Sometimes we know by their hands, but still worship God

because if you're not preparing you for the good times

and the challenging time stress, we are not a church

if we're only preparing you for the good times. Don't

give giving you sugar.

High.

But when you hit a wall of friends, your whole

world crumble down. You do you know who to turn

to if you are the only believer back then. So

that's why it's no longer about the doc trying to

issues any more friends, because in those moments of being

in jail sometimes or being more by yourself, doctrine won't

save you. It's your faith and your belief in God

that will save you.

Just let me go to the next light.

So a lot of people have knowledge but not necessary

wisdom and faith to apply it.

Come on, it's a year of knowledge.

Is the world of knowledge right now, but not necessary

have wisdom and even faith to apply it. We have

leaders that know the court. Give your best, but not

silly having the faith. The faith has always been you

give us the money, then we have faith.

But faith is.

Always been God. If you speak to us, we will

go with or without provision. Botswana Botswana church was started

by three graduates from lim Wing that just hurt the

call of God, just say, I just need to go

back to my country and start the church. No formal

training whatsoever, just pure obedience. I've got to start the church.

It was never easy. They faced so many challenges, trials

and everything like that, this couragement, but yet they persevere.

Personal Legers is doing an amazing job with the whole

team over there, and the church is growing. Friends, faith

is needed when you go to trials and challenges.

Worse Trenty medi second.

Worse Trenty to say that he says to disciples, whose

image and inscription is this? They see the coiner the coin,

whose image an inscription is this? And many times, friends,

in your journey you get asked, whose image are you

forming the church?

Very tempting, very very tempting.

The history of the church was this that when we

started the church twenty five years ago, we were just young.

Uh have been visitable, but not a lot of wisdom.

We really want to build out the big church. We

were drowning the fact that we want to have our

own builig building. Everybody come in right. One thousand, two

thousand five thousand member church that was back then first

started big stage. Everything was there, so we embark started

the church.

After the tenth year.

We wanted to buy our own building, really wanted to

buy our own building.

Really the.

Purchase price US about it million, so we were supposed

to raise about a million down payment a million down payment, right,

and we were young. We are only about three hundred

plus member church and uh eighty percent cap of student.

We have no that didn't stand street or whatsoever. We

just had normal people just giving the normal offering, but

heard God say no bye.

We really wanted to buy.

We raise up about fifty percent of down payment, paying

for the other fifty percent. And we told the owner

of the building say that we need some of the

time to raise up the money, and uh, could you

give us time sick can but there will be penalty involved.

Would you pay late payment interest? That kind of thing?

So we did.

God provided for every set by the time keep I

cannot extend anymore longer. Either you pay me for fee

or for feit. Everything was painful. We know God to

earth to buy back then, so by that d they came.

The money didn't come in yet the money came in

like three days after that, really the treaties of that

the money came. We took the owner, Hey, the money

is here. Really we have the full sum. Would you

the transact this transaction? He said, no, you have to

repay me back the whole deposit again, whole deposit again.

It means you never imagine, He said that one lap's already.

Now you give me back another sum.

Of course, back.

Then, hurt disappointed, our donor asked us you want to

take a leaguer case against them and stuff like that,

go to the courts and stuff like that. But prayed again,

and God this time said no, let it be. It

is not your money that he has taken forfeitted. I'll

take it up with him. We walk away from the transaction,

walk away from the building, the image of having a building, image,

of having a building image, of having that we really

wanted big stage really you know, uh lie sound system.

And from their friends, God spoke to us even more clearer,

say that I want you right now to plant church

just around small church, because small it's easier to do

than big. You know, the strussure went to raising the funds.

So therefore do small because it's small. Friends, everybody can

get mobilized. There is no unemployment in small church. Praise

the hallelujah. There's no retireing. It's a small church. Everybody counts.

You don't show up. We know, so friends, even with

cheat people, we also take up offering before.

Have you ever taken offering with treat people? Yah?

You know how who gave who didn't, And you can

aspect that. You can ask did you give your offeringer

two of us? I know how much I give you.

I know how much leipus I give right, So small friends,

God spoke to us.

We were.

We didn't know back then in You're twenty eleven, we

didn't know they had the full picture. But now at

twenty twenty five, we are very confident in our image.

So when Jesus asked that whose inscription do you see?

And this question is for every church, not say the

big churchs are wrong? Friends for X this is the

image that we have come on. So whose image are

we made? From Jesus Chapter one, verse twenty six, is

that let us make man in our image or callity

of likeness? Come on, I was trying to service it.

So God created man in his own image. God created

you in his image. So therefore, friends, there is no

such thing as God made a mistake. We wrestled with

the fact that why why do I ship this way?

Why do I look this way?

Why am I so quirki, so weird?

God has never made a mistake at all, on friends,

But many times that the image that you see on

stage on YouTube? What image of success is a good picture?

This is how they look and you feel like I'm

not that image. Therefore I'm not as good as the

other person. First, it can be because if that's the

image of success, then everyone supposed to be forming that image. Then,

But the Bible here says that God has created you

in his image. The question is this that whether do

we believe in this is what God has wired you

to be. All it takes is someone whisper to you

and just say that you're not good enough, and a

whole world crumbles. Have you been those conversations before someone

whisper to you say you're not good enough, not pretty enough,

not tall enough.

Everything pressured cost you to doubt, cause you to worry.

Someone once asked me before, how come you're not as

compassionate other elders, not as compassionate other elders not as confassionate.

I don't say that everyone has a gifting. Everybody has

a gifting. Some elders are very compassionate. They've listened to

you cry together with you, praise God. You want the

kind of elders, but you don't want the kind of elders.

When you are in a building communitee what color the painter?

Ask fifty committee members? If one committee member they three

minutes to explore what color they like? Friends, you've got

a hungred and fifteen minutes wasted.

There a day?

See you know what, we play our role friends, So therefore,

let's be confident in the imish God has caused us

to be. If God has caught X to express itself

this way. First we have to be confident. We have

to be confident in our calling. So next time when

you go first, when I said confident of calling, you

can go to a big stage and worship God as

well as a small stage to worship him.

Think about there, So what happened? Friends? Come on?

You are really like your your your your your pitch perfect?

What happened one day your worship leader is out of tune?

Think what happened? If an environment whereby your worship leader

sings out of tune.

I want you imagine for a moment what happened.

Seriously, I was faced one time in this situation in

the passes gathering and you know, blessed the passes there

and majority of that are not worship leaders, started singing,

it is well with my soul friends. It was well

for them, but not for me. It went realized. I

was trying not to laugh. It was so off, and

I saw pass Passica very good composed.

He was.

Just focus on the Lord. I was yum. I was like, well,

just don't touch me. The moment you touch me of laugh.

I want you to imagine this because the image that

we have a wiship leader right with the guitar pitch perfect.

But why but if you don't have that, bring someone

who's off pitch to leave worship? Can you see worship gotten?

Can you stee worship got? Can you still worship the Lord?

But if the preacher doesn't pronounce words properly, this guy.

Not anointed.

I don't know what, what idea, what image you have

in your mind? And many times you have to challenge that.

We have to challenge people who are about to date

girls something taller than the guys. And we have to

ask the guy wiper, if your wife to be like

to wear high heels, can you still accept.

The girl that's taller or not?

No car, she has to be shorter, cannot We have

to ask the guy this wipe, if your wife earns

more than you and this this girl earns more than

the guy?

Yeah, so what do you say? What the good?

What put with your wife to be earth more than you?

Do you feel that you're lesser? We ask all this

because this is a very real question, because some couples

fight over money over high difference.

I cannot accept guys.

My wife's still be before, I cannot accept guys shuttered

in me.

I say, God must must have heard your prayer so much.

And you have to be confident in your image, friends,

because many times in your life, friends, you get pressure.

Got no time, right, because if you're not confident, all right,

if you're not confident, next like, we will have a

post suff image, if you're a pertulf image, and we'll

hold on to external expression or things that give us value.

If you're not confident, then you'll hold on to external

things that gives us value. H we have an amazing

girls in our church. And one time my wife can

I can share this to you because one time my

wife was missting the girl and you know, really really

pretty and you know, and she just told this my wife,

I really don't have confident to leave the house without makeup,

but my wife takes me to you are pretty enough.

I can't. I just can't accept.

How I look without a makeup. No, say, makeup is bad.

So friends never been about about the makeup of friends.

It's never been about what you put, what you put.

It's not therefore not about makeup. She just said this,

I can't. I don't think I'm good enough, and my

wife have to encourage her. She went through her journey,

she went through things, and now she's more confident.

Right now she goes out lesser.

It's always says something it is okay, I'm not valued

by what I put on my face or why I

don't put my face.

And value by how it's how I am on the inside.

See, if you're not confident enough, then we then we

have a post self image, putting value of every external thing.

One time pass Cano saw two guys arguing by the

side of the road right by the side of the road,

I think, or try to enter a particular particular housing area.

The guy they allow him to.

And this guy who drives a fancy car just told

the secrety guard, you know who I am.

You know who I am. I know.

I got golf membership just so then I got golf.

I got golf back to golf membership, So therefore I'm important.

I got golf membership, Therefore I'm important. First if I

if our importance is based on our tighter friends, then

they were very pushed of image. My value is not

because of my title. I have a church elder. Gotta

tell your joke somewhere. Although your English name is elder,

is it? It's your English name elder? I said, oh no, yeah,

but everybody calls you elder.

You must be so anyway.

So it's on the external expression friends, it's on the

latest cast leaders, gradguet leaders, clothing. Right.

Some people ask me and my wife before.

We always we have this joke. Wherever we go, we

always get ask this question. Can you sureley of my

wife's name is Shirley. Both of you are in the

creative industry? Is it see why you look so funky?

Both of your I have this pair of glasses. My

wife has a ric color one different type that was

great reddish right and uh li if we're we're not, Yeah,

but we'll exhuberate the cow of like right, so we

will see graphic designer, interior designer, or the creative industry

receiving not what every were in ex London ex London

camp Wow of the Wow of the Church. Partners came

out with my wife, are you in the fashion industry?

My wife said, no, Why why will you ask that?

Because the way you put your scarf there is I

just put the the scarf around my night only. Yeah,

but it's so pois so perfect.

I got guy here, she says, it's got there is.

There is a certain way you put it there is.

My wife said, she's sketching it, really really, she's sketching.

Like because if our value is based on the bread

of clothes everywhere, come on the bread of clothes every

were everything else? Friends, I asked my wife this. My wife,

I don't know what her parents did to her this.

I say that you are like most like a very

tomb boy. I say that nicely because it's recorded. I

got the clothes, or I can share this to you.

Very confident. She has more confident than me.

She will tell me.

She just said, tell me this, Why are you so

afraid of of things? You've got to any shop, any shop,

you say, any shop, even you go to the most

expressive shop. You are a customer, say I know, so

you shouldn't be afraid. You can go to tiffany cut

you any shop. They have to take out whatever you

point to them.

Say, but why one do? Therefore can I no nothing

to do? She say? Mindset?

Nothing to do with affordability, She says, She's trying to

put the point to me. It's how you see yourself.

It's not the shop, but she says, it's not the

video shop. See any guy, she was young, any guy,

they say to her right ugly should kick the guy

immediately literally physically kick the guy. I say, what do

your father tell to you told you when you were young.

My father just told me this that wherever you are

in Malaysia, if you hit a wall, call me.

I'll be there.

And that gave me a lot of self confidence that

my daddy has my bag.

As like close friends.

If you put our external external expression or external external

value or external expression That's why when the thing is

no longer there right, we feel lesser, not good enough.

People who are in relationship you understand this. Sometimes our

value isn't a relationship. The moment the guy or the

girl don't inject that to earth, we feel lesser. It's

really pressurizing. I got very poor self emissure when I

was growing up, very poor. If you asked me to

stack the microphone and to preach, I can't do it.

Twenty years ago. I didn't come from a wealthy family

or poor family. Average. My greats was average. But I

enter a college, a very very college in kl where

by everyone else, I got to extreme once I'd like

to do the climbing scenes, going to the clubs at

night and have the ended extreme, the studying type. I

don't really like to study, so I didn't join them.

Now that they have enough money to go for the

night activities. So I'm in between, in between, so hard

to fit in, you know, friends, and it created draws

me in. Whenever someone just say something nice about me,

I almost like a puppy after water or treat like that.

Please tell me, tell me more, because I get to

feel good.

So my my image already myself value was let onto

every other expression like that, every other expression like that.

I understand what I said. I tell you, guys, I understand.

Sometimes right, nobody recognized you, and the moment you lose,

the moment you got slimmer of people say WHOA so

good looking? Looks so good? I share with the person

it's funny, isn't it all this time? And never said

that they went to you. The moment you lose, lose

about five kilos or your chickire wha so good looking?

Then the person say yeah, strange right, I say yeah,

But we don't base a value based on what people say.

You have a choice today, friends, it's like close, Whose

image are you.

Made? From? Whose image?

Because if God, if you knew that God created you'll

meet you after his image. Therefore, friends, you would behave

treat yourself slightly bit more value. Not an accident, not

a mistake. Yes, we go through our daily challenges correct.

But as I close friends, I want to encourage you.

So it's no longer the external gives you value. Whether

you have or you don't doesn't really matter. Have is

a class point.

Don't have?

It's also okay, it's all right. It doesn't define who

you really are. But my question to you today is

that do you know who you are in the Lord?

Do you know who you are in the Lord? That's

key because if you know who you are in the

lot of friends, then no matter whether a guy I

tell you that, if you love me, sleep with me.

I heard the settest story, friends, Ever, a young couple

got married after two years, did divorce two years two years,

not because of anything else, because.

He gave her STD. After that, he gave her STD.

She got so shocked, couldn't believe it, distraught When I

heard the news, Friends, I went like.

I felt for her.

And many times in our life with our journey, friends,

we give ourselves. We give ourselves to what we think

is a value, to what we think gives us value.

From asking us this morning to give our heart to

the Lord. Because God is the one who made us.

That's why Jesus say that give to Caesar what belongs

to Caesar, because the image of the coin is Caesar.

But if you and I are made in the image

of God, therefore, friends, we give ourself to the Lord.

To the Lord.

And you and I know, friends, God will not short

change you. He won't as I close friends, my encouragement

is this is that everyone of us here in this

room understand and know that we are of value. We

have value friends. God doesn't put us on a discount.

Been none of you is on a fifty percent discount.

Don't let anyone tell you that you're not good enough,

you're not pretty enough, everything that you got, no more hope, you.

Messed up, and stuff like that.

As I close friends, what would your response be? Would

you stand right now as I want to bring this

service to close. So I didn't want to take too

much of a time, but I just want to close

these friends.

I don't want to end the service. You're praying for

us here, for some of us here.

You know, the Bible here reminds us again that Jesus

came friends.

To that across to give us a hope in the future.

But also in Luke chapter four five says that to

heal the broken hearted, to heal the broken hearted friends,

to bring healing to our soul, to our heart, to

bring healing friends, to our mind, to being healing.

To our past, to been healing to our future.

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