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Filled with the Holy Spirit for a purpose | Pastor Stephen Kong

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

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

  3. With the Holy Spirit for a purpose.

  4. Now think that just patiently, chang man, all right.

  5. Let me begin. So the basis of okay, the basis

  6. of missions. So let me begin by explaining the difference

  7. between these two wards, mission and missions. Round that.

  8. That's happy England, the family that's eager.

  9. That's happy. All right. So the word mission, most of

  10. words will know it as an important goal or task

  11. that you're assigned to.

  12. Now mean, that's just that is a useful to me

  13. out the movie quantity.

  14. And I'm sure you're familiar with this movie called mission impossible.

  15. That you can't go take mission impossible?

  16. How many have you watched the recent one? Okay? Okay,

  17. I like the.

  18. Movie Okay, so he's not a mission how he has

  19. important critic tasks so called the world is depending on

  20. him to save the world.

  21. Question?

  22. Know what?

  23. How ted like?

  24. Fun fact? I like to watch the Sky movie because

  25. it gives me like a of a motivation. You know, okay,

  26. don't leave okay. So what's the difference with the word missions?

  27. Shabby?

  28. You know, it's a word that is used by the

  29. Christian Church to you know, the Christian moving out of

  30. his or her comfort zone into a different culture to

  31. bring the good news of Christ to them.

  32. She see the shus around, do do the food in

  33. that trun get Hammond.

  34. How many of you know that Jesus is actually the

  35. greatest missionary.

  36. No, think about it this way, in case you Jesus

  37. had a mission, yes to.

  38. His mission was to come to Earth to die on

  39. the cross. Today you and I can be reconcilt with.

  40. Not just a lie that the city is sound a

  41. way woman, the three that the show folk that was

  42. the mission that he was sent lie me now, Jesus

  43. to we did missions? Cause yeah, like she strang out,

  44. why because he had to leave heaven and come down

  45. to earth in when high light that Redian.

  46. Into a world that was filled with mass, filled with

  47. sin and selfishness.

  48. Put on the the same way.

  49. But he did it anyway because he's our greatest missionary.

  50. That you and I can learn from.

  51. Face woman that she should see that.

  52. And you're also learn at homes that missions is about

  53. God's glory.

  54. Yea that down a strangeron Yeah, and you hear us

  55. often callte this scripture found in Hapa Cook chapter two, vers.

  56. Fourteen.

  57. Message will show a downstairs city, it says, for the

  58. earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory

  59. of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Just Homeman,

  60. P and D how sound straight, Evan, So.

  61. It's all about him, his glory.

  62. So you now there's a way the generon.

  63. Yeah, everything that we are, everything that we do, is

  64. all for his glory.

  65. But in the generon Yeah, And as believers, our mission

  66. here on earth is to be a witness for Jesus

  67. woman the take Yeah, the un.

  68. Genreal. Another word for them, and you may be familiar with,

  69. is evangelism just a snya. And how do you even

  70. know that? That is when you valid here on earth,

  71. because when you get to heaven, you don't need to

  72. evangelize anyone in heaven. She's a p So that makes

  73. our mission even more important here on earth.

  74. So you know, just around mons, they got that tech

  75. mean a gunway on.

  76. You and missions is uncomfortable to many of us because

  77. we need to come out of our comfort zone.

  78. Now. A three woman Honduran lives was a page image woman,

  79. she past woman, the st.

  80. We are creatures of comfort.

  81. Women evand one they get ron.

  82. We love to hang around our own group of people

  83. to the c GD, but God has called us to

  84. do missions, to go to people who are not of

  85. our own.

  86. Searching you why the rent life? She shang Harman to

  87. we shared a love of Christ with them, and she

  88. round the window and her eyes Hammond.

  89. So missions is not spelled missions.

  90. With the m saying that in that they see it

  91. in that that water. It's not about us. What's that woman,

  92. It's about the glory of God. Yeah, the people that

  93. were reaching with the.

  94. Love of Christ. High omens.

  95. Sure like you furnish, Yes, you do do the eitherension.

  96. So if you have a Bible, why don't you turn

  97. with me to X Chapter one, verse eight.

  98. Fandouts twenty each party. Now many of us will be

  99. familiar with this verse.

  100. Enguin. This was the promise of the Holy Spirit given

  101. to the disciples.

  102. Thy sendling gate, she.

  103. Ship it Saasier.

  104. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has

  105. come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me

  106. in Jerusalem and in all ju they are, and Samaria

  107. and to the end of the earth sing you beat

  108. the you know the salm.

  109. You're tied so I'm gonna say it again. We are

  110. filled with the Holy Spirit for a purpose.

  111. So know what your side shang moments certainly like wait,

  112. you eat you?

  113. What is that purpose? Come on, we just read it

  114. to be a witness for Jesus.

  115. No yeah she wait, yes, she tow.

  116. So what does this word witness mean? So I'm going

  117. to give you a little different perspective today. She gets.

  118. Now if you study this root word of this word witness.

  119. She witness to the un when she can't know. In

  120. Greek it's called martis. They take a martis.

  121. Of course, it means a witness a legal, historical, ethical sense.

  122. Just chldren shund to you, lenely.

  123. Imagine going to a court and you have to witness

  124. for an incident or event that happened.

  125. Shoot out, it's just in fashion, money or children.

  126. So you're basically saying what you saw, what you felt,

  127. what you heard.

  128. Just need to count down the nick and show down

  129. and ching.

  130. That's what the winness is. Just But did you know

  131. there's another meaning to this.

  132. Word because I have link got the East.

  133. And by analogy it means a martyr.

  134. Just lately, like should you see your shinned out?

  135. How many of business. Do you want to be a

  136. winness for Jesus?

  137. You say, Hi shan, yes to there. Man.

  138. You know, I remember when I was in the missions

  139. field one time.

  140. You tagatif I wouldn't mention the pastor's name and the

  141. location a.

  142. Thief found your because this is recorded at the location. Uh,

  143. there was a village that came to the pastor and

  144. who brought us for the for the trip turn down?

  145. And how do you like shealing out the thief?

  146. Then? And you too, the pastor, you gotta leave or

  147. call the police.

  148. Hold you you now like she in like she and Hamma,

  149. so neil she can like she bouting.

  150. So we continue to linger for a little while, no sha.

  151. And then after that the passer came out to me

  152. and said, you got to go. Let's go now try

  153. not to light that woman toler and we.

  154. Left Julie and then on the car on the way

  155. back to the house, churney men without the other to ask.

  156. Me this question, how do you ready to go to

  157. prison for the gospel? Were into for you? You need

  158. she to allow? What do you think?

  159. My answer was the answer summer okay. So that that

  160. was still a campus students, Hi I said yes. Now

  161. then I think to what do you go to your signs?

  162. But you know there's a cause to die, Yeah, the

  163. winness for Jesus situations, Are you willing to die for

  164. your faith? Intert sing Young waitness for him the scene

  165. and like she just sees the same, like waited years

  166. to do. I pray you never need to come to

  167. the place now she aana needs to push you out out.

  168. But even if you have to pray, you stand strong

  169. because it turns people the honey she didn't think so

  170. I thought about this word matter turns ah that is

  171. And in many ways it's quite true, you know, don't

  172. find me and that she didn't have because.

  173. Sometimes even for us to be a witness for Jesus

  174. to share the gospel.

  175. Hold down woman, you're like you furnishing for inli ship.

  176. We feel we shout it nights.

  177. You have you been there your you know, especially around

  178. family members and friends that are close to you.

  179. Your teasing that any ching fan how your live in.

  180. Why because they've seen the worsiness.

  181. Hamma you cannot wonder to see poor.

  182. I find it's it's the hardest to share with them.

  183. What do yours continuement her tea. On the flip side,

  184. it can also be the easiest because yeah, than that

  185. if they have seen your life turn around in wait, god,

  186. Hama kinda is mean down the guy been.

  187. What I'm trying to say is that in some ways

  188. we need to die to our own selfish desire because

  189. you want to share the gospel because.

  190. Atitution woman, your life, your furnish sunction for in the

  191. whole woman your life. She's thirty. So that's what it

  192. means to be a witness, not juice innacy.

  193. So the Holy Spirit was given to us so that

  194. you and I can be a witness. Somebody say, amen,

  195. the Holy Spirit is given to us so that we

  196. can be a witness.

  197. Just a certainly let's see you maman situation to incent.

  198. It's not just for ourselves, but the world may be reached.

  199. How round take a shitty put on the random pay troop.

  200. So we see the permise. In X one, it say

  201. t eat young party you can ship and you.

  202. Know, friends, what God promises it will come to pass.

  203. Now ye shouldn't mean eating way.

  204. This is the turning point for X one.

  205. It take a tat got to answer.

  206. I call it the turning point because you feed the

  207. two numbers.

  208. Think justnger Holm the drump. You get x eight one

  209. just to eat party? What does eight one say?

  210. Yes? Eating? And that's that's read it together to screen. Now,

  211. Saul was consenting to his death, and at that time

  212. a great persecution arose against the Church which was at Jerusalem,

  213. and they were all scattered thout the regions of Judea

  214. and Samaria.

  215. Accept the apostles, now, don't want that sour? Yeah, shed

  216. bay high soanter yell sales out, be high, show environment too,

  217. dolphin Chanta, you'll tie her shu.

  218. Well, it took a great time of persecution for this

  219. for me to come the past.

  220. Dan, do the Tiger people hold ying She's highlight?

  221. Now maybe perhaps some of hers may have gotten comfortable.

  222. No woman tied shoe fuller. But God can use a

  223. time of trouble to make his promises or his you know,

  224. whatever he has ordained to come to pass. Because in

  225. the round, Chin, the keyword here is that all of

  226. all of us are involved. That the Quantian seduces may

  227. Yiger and like she told that she don't the disciples

  228. were scattered across you there and Samaria.

  229. This istrue to manmand she fan.

  230. Except the apostles. I presume they needed to stay back

  231. in Jerusalem as a as a h Q as the

  232. main location to Mohamma.

  233. Yellow sounded nalid like she how did she darken the defunct?

  234. The key is that all of us are involved.

  235. Mantuansa, and so the disciples were not called to be

  236. comfortable just in Jerusalem. So just that yellow siln your shoe.

  237. But the gods had to be preached outside of Jerusalem.

  238. Because tiger inside yellow salon. Why like you finished young

  239. and if.

  240. You actually see the Book of X, it covers these

  241. three areas.

  242. You know.

  243. Like you can't and you're gonna cannot sund on.

  244. The first seven chapters the Gospels preaching Jerusalem.

  245. They eat out that yellow Salonapter eight twelve.

  246. The Gospels preached with Judea and Samaria.

  247. Thirty deep down, so that your tie twenty her after

  248. to the ends.

  249. Of the earth in c D. Friends, God didn't call

  250. us just to be comfortable on our own.

  251. But you mention that you hold out a shoeful the

  252. diser and.

  253. The places where God has called them to go. We're

  254. not We're not the easiest places.

  255. Man who mature the defounder her shoe for the defund.

  256. Jerusalem was where Jesus was tried and executed.

  257. Yes, yes, sis year sus babe be big, be poor

  258. her actually based sea that the de funk.

  259. The place in Judia rejected his ministry.

  260. The founders uh that she uh yes, yes for in

  261. that tag didn't.

  262. And if you study the history, the Jews will not

  263. associate themselves with some meritans.

  264. No like she at least your tyrant down simple easy

  265. rent her guancy.

  266. You can go and study about it because they consider

  267. them as like half because they're intermarried with foreigners that

  268. you have much honeymoon tolerant. So we're not called to

  269. be comfortable.

  270. Woman paid diete.

  271. She even Christ came as a suffering king, suffering Messiah.

  272. See what happened sunlight That sounds highed like she waited

  273. a woman like she uh that she paid more.

  274. Now let's look at the deeper into this X eight one.

  275. Okay, like she concerned, like she eating.

  276. Can you just go back to the slide for X

  277. one again. Okay, if you look at this X eight

  278. one right, the word cast scattered, they were all scattered.

  279. They take a bad and and you kind of that

  280. in you if I mean kind of scattered.

  281. It's not a very interesting fact about this word scattered.

  282. You take a fun sand and that just to you

  283. your shooting.

  284. There are more than one occurrence of these words scattered,

  285. but they have different meanings. Try to take a fun

  286. sand and your If you're familiar with the story of

  287. the Tower of Baby.

  288. Ruin, you kind of a barb?

  289. Who should have the Lord commanded that they should be

  290. food for multiplier and feel the earth?

  291. You hammad like you just to.

  292. The P and D. But what did the people say,

  293. because she's let us build us have a tower? That

  294. she ad? How how the lets me be scattered?

  295. How how are like to pay fun sand? They were

  296. going against God's command? Much she may pai that's a

  297. e and so the lord confused the language. You like

  298. she around harman y t shall like you fun sand harmon.

  299. So they were scattered harammand paid fernand. So that's one

  300. form of scattering. Sigar eager. Now let's look at a

  301. difference in the sketching in this verse. That's easier than ink.

  302. How can you to fin sanda is the word that

  303. was used is dye spiro take a bit younger die Spiro.

  304. It's a combination of two wards, which is too scattered

  305. and to.

  306. Sow Jus And.

  307. She just fan sand her bottom.

  308. Did you see that? You come down?

  309. Man?

  310. God is good? And how he gave the promise of

  311. the Holy Spirit.

  312. Shlling the you scattered them for a purpose, which is

  313. to sow the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world

  314. around Harmon that she sand brought out on the t frond.

  315. How around Harmon Gola she bought on.

  316. So friends, we are not called to remain in Jerusalem.

  317. So no woman push paid why.

  318. Some people tell me the scripture says the apostles remained there.

  319. Your children do it, so I should. But the also

  320. end because then you're yesuit, your high seal just said

  321. they will go back to Jerusalem a high way. Wait

  322. should spaced.

  323. Okay, let's go be further. Can now let's continue reading

  324. from egg chapter eight, and let's read down until verse

  325. verse eight. Okay, So now let me read from first

  326. one again. So now so was consenting to his death.

  327. At the time a great persecution arose against the church,

  328. which is a Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout

  329. the region of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles and

  330. development carried Stephen to his burial. This was Stephen the martyr,

  331. and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he

  332. made heaven of the church, entering every house and dragging

  333. off men and women, committing them to prison.

  334. She had pay Hi to wait that be poor through

  335. the tree environment to dolphin, Santai said, you'll tie her

  336. to your teen genderan basity fan maisana the city anticipation

  337. in down nigarette wait Shang Darko, south Lata nand and

  338. what's for.

  339. Therefore, those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word.

  340. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and

  341. preached Christ to them, and the and the multitudes. You

  342. want to call here that the things spoken by Philip,

  343. hearing and seeing the miracles which he did for unclean spirits,

  344. crying with a loud voice came off out of many

  345. who were possessed, and many who were paralyzed and lame

  346. were healed. And there was great joy in that city.

  347. Nation sander one Girtu Tronda Felich, Shan Juan Ti to

  348. gender yukan't jin faily show sing the sand tong singh

  349. the ting chonga in wha yoshet or pay oh gayman

  350. soon sound true like hiaht whan the daughter. Naturally you

  351. die your seed love.

  352. So what did Philip do in Samaria? He simply preached Jesus.

  353. Many I told the shaman how to say that you

  354. furnished on years.

  355. So and wherever Jesus is preached, they will.

  356. Be joy yees furnished nai your seeder.

  357. So remember when you go for a mission strip like Eager,

  358. you're going there to encourage the people, the leaders there.

  359. This is not being there that she not dan to

  360. put on the link show your presence really brings joy

  361. to them. Neither they like she around Harman. You know

  362. how we know they will prepare the best meal for you.

  363. Weight that she turned the gainy to it.

  364. How that.

  365. To be, how that Tan's hands like too.

  366. That is how much your presence brings joy to.

  367. Them, like you run needed hometel and round.

  368. And at the same time you also will be blessed.

  369. Pay amen amen. So let's look further into this life

  370. of Philip.

  371. Now, Maa, she can't I can't fail.

  372. I'm going to skip all the way to verse twenty six.

  373. She kind of.

  374. And I'm going to give you three quick points in

  375. your clothes, she finished verse twenty six. Is Now the

  376. Angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, arise and

  377. go toward the south along the road which goes down

  378. from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is desert. So he arose

  379. and went and behold a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch

  380. of great authority under Candide, the Queen of the Ethiopians,

  381. who had charge of all her treasury and had come

  382. to Jerusalem to worship, was returning and sitting in his chariot.

  383. He was reading Isaiah the Prophet.

  384. Now man lie to asolute your fail She like Shang

  385. Nandong yellow Salon Shaikang fairly, but now you I t

  386. up bar run uh see duch And the Titian said,

  387. I t upang Gandai the show quote Shang yellow Salon by.

  388. Isaya the show first nine. Then the spirit said to Philip,

  389. go near and overtake this.

  390. Chariot, selling you to it. Feli here gonna stop there

  391. for a while. That's at So to give you a context,

  392. kinny beating goes.

  393. Philip ends up in Samaria. He preached, and multitudes were saved,

  394. feelin friend, Honduran the bay.

  395. Just so, just so.

  396. Now the Holy Spirit shocks him to go down towards

  397. this road that leads to.

  398. Gather Rahana selling dialing, feeling a shanganga the tiger. Uh. Look,

  399. so let's look at the math for a whi. And

  400. she can't juice them in the middle, you know. And

  401. he goes up to Samaria. How do you shoot out

  402. somebody to come back all the way down? You shout

  403. out like down south, Jean bootle.

  404. Friends, he was inshocked by the Holy Spirit to leave

  405. from Samaria and go into a place called the desert.

  406. He Yoman has failing and has insert shining like she's

  407. dialing like she shann So that was like a kuanya

  408. the loop, or some versions will say the desert road

  409. jud Kuan yep.

  410. The question is are we willing to be obedient to

  411. the Holy Spirit.

  412. Because won't you juiced a warman.

  413. Like she shouldn't even when times it doesn't make sense.

  414. Jus her male male male that ship. Because Philip was

  415. in Samaria and maultitudes were being saved the faise in theoler.

  416. And the Holy Spirit asked him to go into a

  417. desert road.

  418. Sinding like she's tying ta kwang ye.

  419. I'm sure, Philip, you don't know where he was going,

  420. who he was meeting or chancing.

  421. The pouts say.

  422. But he went to the desert road to meet one person,

  423. kangy igorant one person He opened you just to take

  424. a titian and if you read it, you know a

  425. common sense, you'll say, what a terrible idea, rony meo dim.

  426. But God has his wisdom and his waist. So many

  427. of us are field with the Holy spirit. The questions

  428. are we led by the spirit.

  429. She pays sending a chung man because tiling and when

  430. you are let, will you obey? She paid tying how

  431. how you should.

  432. For So that's my first point, simple obedience.

  433. The just than the certain full.

  434. He left from a place of preaching too many, just

  435. to preach to one.

  436. And found that she leave she way iagorant like she fink.

  437. Doesn't that remind us about the heart of God? From

  438. the you know the parable of the lordship?

  439. No suposi she run teasing that.

  440. A big you know that God will leave the ninety

  441. nine to go after that one.

  442. Jueses and Na's somewhere that she kind of chose to

  443. Coopers and me.

  444. And when one receives Christ, the whole of heaven rejoices.

  445. Some eageranized the And.

  446. If you've ever felt left out or abandoned, I want

  447. you to read this again. Now work just just a

  448. long Lord she had to take because you're not forgotten.

  449. God is really going after you and me like you

  450. to a straight woman. The second p the three verse

  451. nine says, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise.

  452. No sound counts likeness, but it's long suffering towards us,

  453. not willing that any should perish, but all should come

  454. to repentance. Second Peter, three.

  455. Day, Peter whole, shoot this sunds down, Judy, you show

  456. down and say like she fun sister, he had a y.

  457. She now your share? Jedd Uh your saranswer Jeddaker she

  458. woman because sooner had around and go like she, I'm

  459. the red nine. So when we're obedient to him, the

  460. lower users, Now when we had show, how do young women?

  461. I read this story. It's very interesting because Philip was

  462. chasing a chariot.

  463. Well, jendife, she quiet the junai. He had a three

  464. straight march.

  465. Have you tried chasing a chariot before March. Yeah, okay,

  466. let's read on her. Okay verse three nine. So then

  467. as we said, the Philip go near and over take

  468. this sherier. Let's go on. So Philip ran to him

  469. and heard him reading the perfect Isaiah, and said, do

  470. you understand what you are reading? Now? Yomanad to.

  471. Nat lad si isayah mean by And he said, how

  472. can I unless someone guides me? And he asked Philip

  473. to come up and sit with him.

  474. Place in the scripture which he read was this, he

  475. was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as

  476. a land before is Shiva is silent. So he opened

  477. not his mouth in his humiliation. His justice was taken away?

  478. And who will declare his generation? For his life is

  479. taken from the earth.

  480. Mean byner you saying faily sanching you sha yung young

  481. gadha wushanbe the shirt.

  482. Panta. So the you know, answered Philip, and said, I

  483. ask you of whom does the prophet say this? Of

  484. himself or some other men? Then Philip opened his mouth,

  485. and beginning at this scripture, what did he do? He

  486. preached Jesus to him shin dinner the fad and my

  487. second point for today is opportunities the way divine opportunities.

  488. Because Philip was obedient to the instruction of the Holy

  489. Spirit in wait for the dialing, the Lord would have

  490. opened a divine opportunity for him to share to preach Jesus.

  491. She run way to finish.

  492. What did he do?

  493. He was running next to the chariot dog match power.

  494. And it was common in those days that people read

  495. out loud, thanks, hold har much so you do me young,

  496. you do so lung functions. These days we re quietly

  497. sit down, just a more door. In those days they

  498. read out there read out loud because how much lang

  499. and so Philip heard she fair little link. And while

  500. he's running he's talking to this it opened you know

  501. that power had the titans.

  502. So he asked you a simple question, do you understand

  503. and what you need?

  504. Mean by man?

  505. And of course with a simple question that you're not

  506. invited him onto the chariot now in.

  507. One tight and your Yet, when we are.

  508. Obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit, the Lord

  509. will give you divine opportunities.

  510. Now man, that you shouldn't for the tally had so sidity.

  511. Wait, there is a difference between knowing and understanding, yo,

  512. not that I mean is not her t was happy

  513. that that's why Philip as him. Do you understand?

  514. So have you want handy mean bad man?

  515. Because he may ready, but you don't understand what is

  516. the portion in perfect they're talking about?

  517. Now, don't have to put it out the best or

  518. more like? Who was he talking about?

  519. Under now?

  520. This?

  521. Just say so knowledge is good, understanding is better. None

  522. you mean? But you're selling right? And I thought about

  523. it in those days right they don't have Google or

  524. chat or Google, so I imagine Philip was very well prepared.

  525. So do you it happens it is a face hung

  526. your tongue to you.

  527. In fact, I should say, we are filled with the

  528. Holy Spirit to be a witness.

  529. Now woman, it's Hongman and she's her.

  530. Because in that moment, the Holy Spirit will give you

  531. the words you ought to say. Any her.

  532. You need to share the three and that you finished

  533. on what we've seen the because high you need to

  534. really study Iticine.

  535. Be prepared, yeah to bey how because when the divine

  536. opportunity to share the Gospel is presented before you, I

  537. pray that you will take it in.

  538. See where you friend?

  539. Amen? Amen, let's continue reading for a few more verses,

  540. even if we are about to close undert verse thirty

  541. sixty is now as they went down the road, they

  542. came to some water, and the unit said, see here

  543. is water, what hinders me from being baptized? Then Philip said,

  544. if you believe with all your heart you mean And

  545. he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is

  546. the son of God. So he commanded the chair to

  547. stand still, and both Philip and the eunuch went down

  548. into the water, and he baptized him.

  549. A real sannalanchin da Yoshi. The defunct hidien't show kind

  550. of straight? Was so serious? Fund I know Felis was

  551. seeing ye the earth for her turn through fail her

  552. titan and home. Really she failed your gate gate has s.

  553. And the third point for today is outcome, this.

  554. Supernatural outcome, how rand when we are obeying to him,

  555. that woman that she's turned for help, and we take

  556. the divine opportunity open before us, nay, wait her. There

  557. will be supernatural outcome Niew around the I pray it

  558. not just in your ministry, but also in your personal life.

  559. A too, a too, A circon from a certainty the

  560. current fund.

  561. So here in the moment when Philip preaches to him,

  562. he immediately receives salvation.

  563. Fain you take a tighten.

  564. Salvation is for those who will believe in their heart

  565. and confess with their mouth.

  566. Singingly chunthing as a young call that she stened the shaving.

  567. That's actually the condition to be saved.

  568. Now just and just smalized. Believe in your heart, so

  569. chancing Jesus Christ, Lord, yes, confessed with your mouth that

  570. she just sheten.

  571. So Philip asked him, and he immediately said, I believe

  572. that Jesus Christ is the son of God.

  573. Now you sounds show chancing yes, Uh send the earth.

  574. Both the belief and the confession.

  575. Happened, chancing high Strengthen.

  576. You know, I really believe that our salvation is supernatural.

  577. Child's a random because it's it's not natural that our

  578. lives would turn around one hundred eighty.

  579. Degrees when she did run around. It's me do the

  580. guy based.

  581. It is really by the grace and mercy of God

  582. that transformed us sooner.

  583. Like she's interested the Indian had.

  584. And me in the days. I don't even imagine where

  585. I would be if not for his grace and mercy

  586. in my life interest the Indian. But praise be to God,

  587. you and I we have salvation in Christ, Joe and man,

  588. let's give him praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah. So if you obey,

  589. there will be a supernatural outcome.

  590. Like how how the uh she soon? For how you

  591. didn't just stop at the salvation, Joly maintained.

  592. Philip himself also experienced a supernatural event fainly sooner y

  593. like she think chance how to and sh let's read it.

  594. It says in verse thy night now when they came

  595. out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught

  596. Philip away, so that the you not saw him no more,

  597. and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was

  598. found at Xotus and passing to he preaches all the cities.

  599. Still he came to Ciceria.

  600. No, you shout sounded like Tyler Joe when adult look

  601. hold on you're Andi, Yeah, sure you didn't. Piana found

  602. that girl trying Shane trying for into the Kaisalia.

  603. Anybody want to try to explain what happened to Philip? Yeah, yeah,

  604. I guess the same teleported has So you don't huh, Johnny.

  605. Not not many events in the Bible you will find

  606. that this some event that this happened, that is certain fashion.

  607. I think another incident was when the disciples on the board.

  608. This is a link like a fashion a.

  609. Straight Jesus got on the board and on the other side.

  610. Oh no, yes, think that. But not many instances at

  611. the way you find this happened syndicate. He really experienced

  612. American enough fairly just I wonder what went to his mind.

  613. That is how the tonal limits was young additional film

  614. never stopped soon had to even that teams even as

  615. he was founding ess how do you think, uh yeah,

  616. so totally yeah. He continued to preach all the way

  617. up to Ciceria. How do you she li she young

  618. into I will say she preshed to all the cities,

  619. same thing hard that she turned man. That is why

  620. Philip was given the title the Evangelist. So innovation of

  621. feline and has your strength and Jewish and has.

  622. He never stopped preaching. Jesus finished so so I encourage us.

  623. Don't remain comfortable where you are.

  624. Just so for the little tiny the the trunk tie.

  625. If you are young and a lot of energy and

  626. you you're gonna need her your I encourage you to

  627. go for a mission. Strip if you have kids, you

  628. still can go just challenging.

  629. Your heights a year. Okay, Well, when you go for

  630. a mission, she will open your perspective because done you

  631. get an opportunity to be used by God, you know God?

  632. Like she patient, how how the ship?

  633. And I just want to say that when we're obedient

  634. to the Lord, he will give you divine opportunities.

  635. She soon how you need how to render? Share a way.

  636. I remember one time when I was driving my car

  637. with my Colleen next to me.

  638. You don't know what you die yesh maaraw or the

  639. toms pumping.

  640. And next to us was the church we crossed the

  641. hotel your child away and he asked me, what does

  642. the cross mean?

  643. Do you want?

  644. What system?

  645. Is it?

  646. What an opportunity? Friends? I shared to him about the

  647. meaning of the cross in my broken cantoness your land. Yeah,

  648. it's like, I don't know what I said that you.

  649. So I just I just played my heart lot. I

  650. can't share what I can now what you will do

  651. the rest? And so I shed in my basic cantonese

  652. deep and quantum finished all of us have done wrong.

  653. Just your fansic.

  654. I don't know what all of that done wrong?

  655. Just so many thought three Jesus came to die for us. Yes,

  656. women that saved that. I could say, what yeah? But friends,

  657. will you take the opportunity and is given to you?

  658. Because how your man go see way lie down in

  659. the We're not not.

  660. Just sharing here but also in ju their Samaria and

  661. to the ends of the earth. That you're tired, remember

  662. the Holy Spirit has been given to us. We can

  663. be a witness for him. A woman that's sometimes we

  664. think of the Holy Spirit just for us to do

  665. our our work, our business, our you know, our studies. Woman.

  666. So that she found the woman that you call him

  667. the tuns.

  668. It's more than that. Consoner should be the count to

  669. be a witness for him. Remember that the Holy Spirit

  670. is not just a power and presence. He is a

  671. person shaken. So we want to draw near and draw

  672. closer to him.

  673. So when you're like, she cann't tell the changing her

  674. and so I encourage you to go for a mission strip.

  675. Now she's turned admission strip, you're not shy. I may

  676. ti to a change out that hold needs. It's a

  677. point I'm a high show.

  678. You all do it together, even is it so you

  679. will experience just a boost of fire and power the

  680. Holy Spirit to just share.

  681. As you so that the girl the see that you finish.

  682. If you don't want to share, just be a witness

  683. for Jesus put out so much you wait you how

  684. share your own testimony? French City, that take because that

  685. is your personal story that no one can argue about.

  686. You would say, need the current courses and mayor and

  687. clean that your folt thing neither So.

  688. It's that close from us to us. From Romans chapter ten,

  689. verse fourteen to fifteen, down like she do she Romans ten,

  690. fourteen to fifteen, No ma it, How then shall they hear?

  691. Shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?

  692. And how shall they believe in Him of whom they

  693. have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

  694. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As

  695. it is written? How beautiful are the.

  696. Feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, who

  697. bring glad tidings of good things? This is the Ran

  698. and wage and show tana wag and ting j hatan

  699. sink tanah ting jin Romeo fund Titian routing sound short

  700. the powerful in tryan see seeing then haman, don't hurt

  701. the jamming.

  702. All I'm trying to say is that someone had to

  703. go in order for the gospel to we preached.

  704. To sooner Yo or mass she paid twung your own

  705. clay links, shout out the fool in and yes there

  706. is a price to pay, say yo Shanda, if you

  707. are busy, we.

  708. Need to make time, rug mahaman girl to who life,

  709. we need to say finances to go for missions?

  710. And she lied to tan you Ja.

  711. I even still remember bringing one of my coursework to

  712. the missions. What the difference?

  713. You're like? Like?

  714. She dies, I don't recommend it? What the support? I

  715. didn't have a choice because I had the dateline. I

  716. couldn't finish it because what in the world you take

  717. that one? And I went by faith and sa God,

  718. I'm giving you my best. You will help me power

  719. to bound the war. So at night while people rested,

  720. I just couldn't finished it and submitted.

  721. Your daughter, shou see the one you udn't long story short,

  722. I std well to the high House compank, but just

  723. to say that there is a price to pay, because

  724. that you said, Nally, your can I say, this is the.

  725. Reason why we have the gospel today is because someone

  726. paid the price.

  727. The take of food, and that your food she take

  728. a yet.

  729. We don't ever want to take it for.

  730. That's just in town.

  731. So close with this one simple story. So I'm not

  732. sure how many of you have heard of this name

  733. called Andrew brother and ring Tagger. And he has a

  734. title given to him as Gods Smuggler tag a.

  735. Total.

  736. I really love this story. You know, I did a

  737. good ship. So he heard God's called along station I got.

  738. He got called to go into the Christian communities in

  739. the communist country.

  740. You like, show down the communience countries gone time down,

  741. let's see God.

  742. Yeah? Like, and they needed bibles?

  743. How much sending that?

  744. So he prayed God for every Bible I can lay

  745. my hand on, I'll bring it to this children here

  746. in this country.

  747. Now sounds the maid. Yeah for every open door you

  748. give me our god like ship.

  749. So he made his smuggling trip. How do you do yougo, Levia?

  750. How do you your total thing?

  751. The defund the defund?

  752. She brought tracks and bibles? How do you put on

  753. this your car? Di sh and he was driving these

  754. voks wagon better. How do you do, sir? And in

  755. his boat was filled with bibles had and then she

  756. was going to the checkpoint.

  757. How do you I'd a tigger man candish holder and

  758. she's watching the movies. You kind of I can't see.

  759. Many wants you to stop getting the car, Johnny, inspect

  760. your car. You can't need her.

  761. So he prayed the prayer that's not called the prayer

  762. of God's smuggler. How do you like? You like?

  763. Take?

  764. You said this Lord? In my luggage, I have scriptures

  765. that I want to bring to your across this border.

  766. Your tell then that she had tied out a guangka

  767. guangka hold hides. When you were on earth, you made

  768. blind ice. See now I pray make seeing ice blind.

  769. I took a.

  770. Runa and kant position around canting run say, do.

  771. Not let the guards see the things that you do

  772. not want them to see.

  773. Be around the guanoman and got Kandan kana the citty.

  774. And you know how the story ends. The the guards

  775. opened the board like you didn't see anything.

  776. One your kind of guang shang.

  777. He goes on round one trip to another tree for

  778. it and keep going on you may it's the made

  779. every check point, he play the same player, don't make

  780. into the dark until they started this organization called open doors.

  781. Let's take a dark headiment. For every open door, a

  782. lot will open long enough for him to go. He

  783. will go make a run with nurs like she got you,

  784. just to say that someone had to pay the price

  785. your she like she to bring the gospel to us

  786. around tiger woman, And would you and I be willing

  787. to pay the price to also bring the gospel to

  788. someone else and get so that the whole earth will

  789. be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

  790. Cover the.

  791. Like she patient trauma, the tentyra height epan Amen.

  792. Amen.

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  797. hit for you.

  798. God bless