Postcards of Heaven | Pr Dave

Listening to a message to go from at church. We

hope this message will lighten.

It's called Postcards of Heaven. Postcards of Heaven. Wow, you know,

postcuts of Heaven. Just we're saying, you feel like, ah,

you know, sounds like a love song, sounds like a

country song.

I don't know, you know, postcards of Heaven. What does

that mean?

I'll go into that a little bit, but let's start

with some scripture. Is that okay, Let's turn to John

chapter twenty one, verse fifteen to nineteen. We're gonna look

at John twenty one, fifteen to nineteen, and this Olivia background.

This is Jesus.

Going to find Peter again, after Peter had abandoned him,

after Peter had denied him, and after Peter had just,

you know, just just ran away from God.

And this is the heart of our God.

The heart of our God is not that he's so

holy he's waiting people to draw near to him. But

he is so holy, and yet he is so hungry

for our suvation that he draws near to us. The whole,

you know, idea of Christianity is that we were never

good enough to reach God, so God had to come

and reach us.

Amen, you know John three sixteen.

Is this for God soul love the world, that he

not we, that he sent his only son, that whoever

that's us, whoever. Your education background doesn't matter, your skin

color doesn't matter, your age doesn't matter, your finances don't matter.

You know, nothing matters, your past doesn't matter. Whoever who believes,

shall not perish. God's heart is that we don't perish,

that we don't get destroyed, that we don't get lost.

None of us perish, but receive eternal life. So let's

read on jump turne one, verse fifteen to nineteen. If

your dad can't hear a good amen of cos XTV

has it very coolly put it on the screen for

those of us who might not have a Bible.

So let's read together.

So when they had eaten breakfast, so Jesus had gone

to find him and.

Recreated a miracle.

Uh, you know, recreated the moment they first met, and

the Jesus first met Peter through the miracle catch. You know,

they were fishing and then there was a miraculous catch

of fish, and Jesus, in running to reach him again,

recreated that first moment, and then they caught the fish.

They had that that really they reconnected.

And they were eating breakfast, and Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon,

son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?

And he said to him, yes, Lord, you know that

I love you. He said to him, feed my lambs.

Let's read on. He said to him again the second time, Simon,

son of Jonnah, do you love me? He said to him, yes, Lord,

you know that I love you. And he said to him,

tend my sheep. And then he said to him the

third time, Simon's son of Jonah, do you love me?

And Peter was grieved because he said to him the

third time, Jesus will keep asking me. Do you not

trust me? Do you love me? And he said to him, Lord,

you know all things. You know my heart. You keep

asking me this. You know that I love you. And

Jesus said to him, feed my sheep. Let's keep reading on.

Most so surely I said to you, when you were younger,

you gird at yourself and walked where you wish. But

when you're old, you will stretch out your hands, and

now that will get you and carry you where you

do not wish. This he spoke, signifying by what death

he Peter would glorify God. And when he had spoken this,

he said to him, follow me, follow me. You know,

as Christians, if I'm not careful, we can fall into

this pattern that's very similar to the part of Peter.

We found Jesus or Jesus found us. We're following Jesus,

We're being changed by Jesus, We're experiencing Jesus. We partner

with Jesus in various ministries and various dream teams. And

then there comes moments in our lives wherefore one thing

or the other we abandon Jesus. We leave Jesus, not

just leave him, but leave his teaching, live his principles,

leave his values. You know, we deny him. We we

fall I don't know, you know, we're tempted to maybe

have nothing to do with him, and then we run

away from him. We try to hide away from him.

But God is so good. He comes and he finds us,

and then he blesses us, and then he restores us,

and then he revives us, and then we go from

denying Christ to loving Christ again. And if you're not careful,

if we don't follow through, as Jesus asked Peter to say, that, okay,

all say and done, now follow me? Many times, what

we do is that we miss the follow me part

and we then go back to conflight being with Jesus,

and then before we know it, we fall back into

the same cycle again, you know.

And and I don't mean a big bad.

Uh betrayals of Jesus or denials of Jesus like we

read in the Gospels. You know, you don't have to

you know, Jesus didn't have to be captured for you

to deny him three times. So you know, because some

of you reading, is it not best Peter one, not

as best judas one pasta you know, But.

But we all have moments like that.

Now every time we go through our lives and we

we we take a detour away from the values the

principles of God. You know. That's a denial that you know,

I'm not sure about you, Jesus, you know, And we

do that at work sometimes it's okay, I've not been

stalking you, but I'm just not prophesying. But you know,

assuming you know, we're all humans. We all have moments

and sometimes at work it's hard to live for Christ.

And sometimes at work, you know, we I don't know,

we we know what Jesus stands for.

But then at what maybe our temper.

Gets the best of us, our jealousy gets the better

of us. We join into gossip when we know that

this is not what Jesus we wanted.

We we we we I don't know.

We join into you know, still credit when we know

that that's not what Jesus wanted. You know, and in life,

you know that the same continues. You know, you know,

I deal with a lot with people who are younger

in age, but it is not necessarily something that the

only young people struggle with. But you know, in life,

you know, we we are pressured to follow trends, were

pressure to follow the pressure that comes from our peers.

Uh And and sometimes you know, what's popular the world

might not be popular with Jesus. But sometimes we feel like,

oh maybe Jesus, you understand right, you understand right, you know,

And and and why I'm saying is this, we have

we have pockets of that, We have pockets of that right.

We have pockets of denial, pockets of running away from

the Lord, pockets of disobedience, pockets are falling into sin,

pockets of the flesh taking over you know and maybe

some of us here, you know, the Malaysian traffic has

a way to bring the flesh out sometimes, you know.

So maybe on the way driving to church today, you know,

like you know, you you it's differentile praise that came

up from you, you know, and so Jesus loves you.

Is something else that ends with you. Uh, you know

it was holy hands lift in worship. It's uh, your

hands were definitely lifted up, you know. And maybe one

thing that was lifted higher birth. But but what I'm

saying is this that you know, we God doesn't want

us to just have this cycle. You know a lot

of us, and and you see that this cycle is

very tricky. On one hand, in this cycle, we're doing

our best. He's saying to God, God, I'm doing my best.

And in this cycle, you are experiencing the blessing of God.

You are experiencing the grace of God. And and the

blessing grace of God is is is very nice. But

but God wants more for us. Turn to your neighbor, says,

God wants.

More for you. God wants more for you.

Amen, and a lot of us we are just happy

and content with our little Christian cycle, a cycle of

blessing and grace, blessing and grace, blessing and grace, you know,

and then we go like, oh, you know, I'm so

glad that you just loves me just the way that

I am. Uh, you know, I'm so glad that you

know he's patient with me, and and yes he is,

but God wants so much more, you know, just coming back.

You know, this is August, yikes, and of August, coming

to the end of August, and so both myself and

Cat we've been back since maybe June. So this is

count of like our third month in Malaysia again. And

after living away from Malaysia for so long, you know,

it's very funny you come back as a tourist.

You know.

I had to learn a lot of things again, learn

how to drive and then all these kind of things,

you know. Uh. And but it was besides relearning you know,

Malaysian road ethics and different things, you know, rediscovering Malaysian food,

Praise Lord, it was also a lot of reconnecting, reconnecting,

reconnecting with people, reconnecting with friends, old friends, and.

Just catching up with people.

And and in my catching up, I'm discovering that there's

so much brokenness in the world. I'm talking to people

and words like divorce comes up. Oh, oh, you didn't

know I got divorced. I'm sorry, did you know that?

Oh you didn't know. But my wife had a miscarriage. Oh,

oh sorry, I didn't know that. Oh you didn't know.

But last year we had a cancer scare. Oh cancer,

Oh sorry, I didn't know that.

Or you didn't know.

But my my my child, you know, is going through

a bit trouble at school and and or my husband

lost a job, or I had to close down my company,

I had to send my mom to a care home.

Uh.

Or we're trying IVF and we're failing. I'm not quite

sure about the future. Oh, I'm thinking of migrating our

Malaysia because there's just no prospects here. And as I'm

catching up with different ones, both in church and outside

of church, I'm reminded again what.

What a broken way.

We live in, where the effects and the curse of

sin is destroying people left, right and center, both directly

and indirectly. And and I'm certainly struck to the core

of my being by the fact that you know, gosh,

I I I didn't know, you know I've ever been

there before. You you You you go up to someone,

you talk, and then they certainly get very real. Praise

you got, They got very real man. You know, you

go up to them thinking, I just go, hey, how

are you? How's life? And then they instead of going

like it's okay and then you smile and you move on,

they just go, oh, thanks for asking. She's not being good,

and they get more real than you were expecting them

to get real. It's okay, you know, I mean church, right.

If we can't get real in church, where can we

get real? Right? So so don't be afraid to get

rid in church. I'm not getting step what I was.

You know what I look back with those things is

that I go like, man, I should prayed more. You know,

if only I knew that, you know what I'm saying, Christians,

you know, like like I didn't know that that dinner

catch up was gonna lead to some real stuff. And

and of course I was there and I tried my

best to encourage them to maybe even off the prey

for them. But looking back, you know, I go like, man,

if only I knew I I we prayed a little

bit more, you know, what I'm saying, you know, like

like you know, well, if only I knew you were

going to do some heavy counseling, I would like faster

and prayed, you know, like like like everything you know,

not just Daniel Fast, every fast you know, Edward Fast,

Joe fast than you fast, Ali Fast, moved too fast. No,

just just all the names that mean I'm just joking,

but you get what I'm saying. Like I would been

like man extra spiritual, I were memori small scriptures, So

I go yo that Halleylujah first say it's the law

of pump pum pump, you know, like like I will

have you know what I'm saying.

And and but that's.

The thing like God says that, but you know it's

it's we don't know with hindsight, it's always twenty twenty.

But what God wanted me to know is that Dave,

there are needs out there, and sometimes my people and

Christians and myself included in that category.

We can be so stuck in our own cycle.

That we forget that God has called us to serve

other people. You see, Salvation is not an afterlife insurance policy.

You know, It's not like in case I die today,

because I know some of us here we were asked

that question, you know, in our youth groups, by all

our Sunday school teachers.

If you die today, Joe at where would you go?

I don't know?

And then you know, out of that fear and trembling, okay,

by the Ansians policy called Jesus Christ LLC.

No, it's not God.

God is not an after you know in case I

die after life insurance policy.

He's the way, the.

Truth and the life, and and and being a Christian

being saved. It's not about surviving until we get to heaven.

It's about bringing Heaven to earth. That's why when the

Lord taught us to pray, he says, our Father, who

is in heaven, your kingdom, Come, Your will be done.

Let earth right on earth. Let you know on earth

as it is in heaven. It's basically saying that let

earth look more like Heaven. And I don't know about you,

but in heaven, I'm pretty sure there's no cancer in heaven.

That won't be death in heaven.

That won't be tears in heaven, that won't be miscarried

in heaven, that there won't be broken marriages, and in

heaven that won't be financial let in heaven, that won't

be health problems, and in heaven, that won't be hate

in heaven.

That won't be hurt in heaven, that in heaven. And

so this is what I mean.

Friends, we need to break out of this pattern. And

how do we break out of this pattern? It's not

just about being revived, it's not just about reconnecting with Jesus.

It's about reaching others. And you see that Jesus was

ministering to Peter. He wasn't just trying to get him

back for like, oh you deny me three times? Are

so I'll make it really awkward for you, Peter, And

I'm gonna ask you the same question three times and

then I'm gonna stare you eyeball to eyeball and see

you flinch. And that was probably what Peter was feeling

asking me a third time. This is he getting back

of me for the three times.

And then but you see Jesus says, do you love me? Yes?

I do, he mediately, and I don't want you and

I love you too, Peter, and I don't want you

to fall back to that pattern again because I know you, Peter.

And we look at Peter's time with Jesus even there

was a mini pattern of that.

Right, he was always the outspoken one.

He was always the one who, you know, acted first

and then thought second, wait, touch my Jesus kept your year,

and then she just gonna let Peter stop it, you know,

you know, he was the one that go like, wow, Jesus,

you've been transfigured. I know we're gonna build you a

monument here, or build you a monument for most is

gonna build your money.

You know, he's he's and Peter's and Jesus like Peter.

No, and then he's going like, you know, hey, hey,

do don't why wash my feet if you do? You know,

if you don't wash my feet, you know you gotta

wash my home. My Peter's not about that. Hey, Jesus,

what's this you talking about?

Dying? Dying? Dying? You know we're gonna bring Heaven to earth? Right,

Why how can you die? Peter? Yet be behind me? Satan?

So you see, God knows of our patterns, and he's

trying to help Peter to break his pattern by saying

it's about reaching others. Peter, do you love me?

Yes? I do. I don't want to be the old

Peter again and.

Goes like, no, Peter, I know, and I don't want

you to be the old man too. Feed my laps,

ten my sheep, take care of other people, follow me.

And I'm not sure about you, but some of us

who were there in Missions conference yesterday and just me

and my wife were talking and a passing cat was

saying that I don't know how to say this, but

I feel like I need to repent all over again

and have an auto call by myself the law. I

just need to repent and just for God, of the

needs out there and and how good we have it

as Malaysians. When we heard the speaker go like I

was in the war torn country and I came back

to Malaysia was too quiet, and yeah, we're complaining Malaysia

too noisy, when when you know what I'm saying.

And and and and and and.

When I went my workshop, I went to the one

that is reaching out to the indigenous people of Malaysia

and of all the needs and they know they lack,

and how we need to bless them and help them

not just spiritually but also education and economically and and

and and you know, socially and all these things, and

I'm not thinking like, man, you know, I came out

going like, there's so much need out there's so much

need out there.

And I go like, I think some of us urban

Christians we gotta repent. Man.

You know, in there they got we don't have a

church to me, We don't have a Bible to read,

you know, it's not fully translated in their sub dialect yet.

And here we have Bibles to spare, you know, in

our homes, in our apps, you know, in that they

don't have a place to worship. And urban Christians we

can choose which service to go to. And even then

we choose which service go to based on our need.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I got pick up on in the morning, so

I'll go to one thirty, and I hope that you're

not here because you got pick up on.

If you are, that wasn't me, And that's God. Okay,

that's God, all right. I didn't.

I didn't know you were pickball, you know, And I

pray that you're at one thirty. You're actually not because

you're looking for church to satisfy your needs. But you're

here to worship Jesus. You're here to serve others. You're here,

you know, because they're their souls to reach and and

and every time when we live for ourselves, we go

back to the same cycle. But God wants us to

break that cycle. I know some of you are thinking, like,

you know, the last time he tricked us, he gave

us a very bad title. But then he was very

light and easy. This gave us a hard a nice title.

Now he is like gunning for us. No, no, no, no no.

You might be thinking, Okaya, where does this lead? Why

post cards of hellning? You know, I also want us

to break this, not just pat them, but this mindset,

that that that makes us think that missional work is

for the select fuel and that missionary is a mission

trip is something that we sign up when we have

the time and resources to do. So.

Don't get me wrong.

Every time the church organizes a big team effort, get involved, man,

get involved. If you never got on the mission trip,

go you know, it could be local, could be could

be cross cultural. Go go get involved. It's a great

way to grow your faith. It's a great way to

count your blessings. It's a great way to get to

know it other as well. Friendships really deepened. But but

I want to go and live more deeper than that,

because God's idea was not that a select few gets

sent out.

God's idea was.

Not that, you know, only apostle Paul gets sent out

to become this church planter and and letter writing guy

is so much more than that.

So let's let's go to the apostle Paul.

Right, So let's turn to Second Curritans, chapter three, verse

two to three.

Second Curriatians, Chapter three, verse two to three.

Right, and then this is the apostle who's very good,

everything like this, and him saying that you know, you know,

you know, I'm paraphrasing, but I can imagine it's like

you know me, I write letters. But you know what

you know, because today right, right, we we revere the

different letters right, not the word epistle. It's just an

ancient English word for letter, you know. And so if

some of your Bible, if you're from like in the NKJV,

you'll be like the epistle of you know, uh, you know,

you know. So today we go there as a first Courtian,

second Courriagers. But it was epistles. It was letters written

to the church in Corinth, written to the church in

Philippi that we now know as Philippians and stuff like that.

So right, sorry, English, lesson over. You are our letters.

Let's put it that way. You are our letters, epistles

written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

All right, clearly you know. And he builds on that.

You guys, you're not just here surviving in this city,

in this nation.

Chur just to get by the apostle Paul saying.

That you are letters written from his heart to be

read and seen by all men. And this is where

we get the idea of like that. People might not

read the Bible yet, but they can read you. They

can read your face, they can read your heart, they

can read your life.

And so then it goes on.

Not just let us written from our hearts, because he

was writing specifically to the church in Corinth, you know,

which is very close this heart. But you are letters

epistles of Christ, ministered by us, but written not with ink,

but with the but by the spirit of the Living God.

Not on tablets of stone. But then they use tablets

of stone. Now we use tablets, and so not they're

far but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

And the apostle pulse trying to tell us that you,

guys are letters. Whether you realize it or not, people

are reading you. And more than just letters of our ministry,

you are letters of the Most High God, sent by.

God into the world.

And and and and yeah, you're minister too by us.

But your life and what God is doing, your salvation

and your testimonies, it's inks by the Holy Spirit on

the tablet of your heart. That's why my message today

is called postcards of Heaven, because that's what we are

just incause letters of heaven doesn't ring quite true. Postcards

and and and and because postcards always have that right,

you know, you send out you look at Oh wow,

wish you were here, right, wish you were here, you

sent out you know. Postcasts are sent out to really

as act of love, to capture a moment, you know.

So so sometimes people travel all the far away places

and then they sent me postcards, you know, from Greece.

I'm like, wow, wow, what is this place to send me?

Postcars from Spain, spending postcasts from America, send me poscasts

from South America, and and postcards all have basically this premise,

wish you were here, wish you could see this because

I'm seeing this and I can't wait to for you

to see this. So I'm sending you a copy of

this via postcard. And that is the heart of God

as well. God's idea and expressed by the postle pause,

is that when we go out, we will be like

postcards or heaven, that when people see you, it's as

if Heaven go like, wish you were here too, wish you.

Know, like like if you are.

Uh, that's the Ivans colleague, and then you don't know

what Jesus, but but you read his life, by the.

Grace of God, it's gonna look like this. You know.

The Holy Spirit's won't be like, hey, wish you were

here too, wish you knew me, like how Ivan knows

me to wish you could let me work in your life,

like how Ivan is letting me work in his life

to sign the Holy Spirit int with the blood of Christ.

That's God's hard for us and friends. I'm telling you

this because unless you begin to view your life like this,

it's just gonna be cycle after cycle of typical church

going and a form of Christianity having a form of

godliness but lacking power. Because what I wish was that man,

if only I knew. And so as God's gonna lead

us to times and conversations to wake us up to

go there are needs out there that's bigger than you,

bigger than what.

You're going through.

Yes, you're going through stuff, but there are other people

who have you worse than you, who need my grace,

who need my love, who need my peace. And would

you be my mouthpiece? Would you be my hands and

my feet? Would you be my postcard? And if we

have that thought, we don't have to wait, you know,

for a deep conversation to happen. To wish that we

have prayed a little bit more every day, we would

have been like God, I want to be prayed up.

I want to read up, and I want to and

I want to lift up other people and standing together

and lift up their burdens to you, because that's what

you saved me for.

Amen.

And so I just got three points to help us

to make this more practical.

I hope that.

God is beginning to geminate the idea of postcarts being

a postcut, being his postcard to a broken world, being

a postcart of heaven. But this is how we can

make that a greater reality. Point number one. Right, if

you want to be a postcut of heaven, if you

want God to send you out point number one, let

God have you. You see, God can't send what he

doesn't have. You See, if God did have a son,

he couldn't send a son. But because he had Jesus,

he could send Jesus. The question is are you letting

God have you? Are you letting God have all of you?

You know?

How many here you love celebrities? He love?

No, true question, not like his He's gonna he's gonna

preach something against idols and no, no, no, no, no, how many

you not? You have a fandom, you have a right?

How many into like K pop?

K pop? Right? It's okay, okay, hey you know hey,

I mean you know kop? Yeah? Right?

And uh know you you man, if you see them,

you want to give them something to sign, right, right,

just just being real? Yeah, how many of you buy?

You guys into sports? You know sports? I know some

guys are really into footballers. Right if favorite footballer went

to you know, I don't know if if you happen

to be at FROTH and your favorite footballer happened to be.

Visiting summit, Uh do ask why.

Just yeah and ordering coffee from for You'll be like,

right you you I don't know you were offered to

buy him coffee? Right, you might try to find something

to give.

Him the sign? Right? How man you hear like movies? Movies?

How do you have a favorite movie actor, actress? Right?

Yeah, you know? Living living in London, you know the

place I want my dog. I don't know why, but

I often bump into celebrities there. I just remember, like

one time, but but they're not that famous or so

like the famous to me, maybe because it really depends

on what movies you're you're into, right, uh So, so

I know there's one time I just had to go like, like,

you know, because sometimes it's so funny, like you don't

know celebrities and but your brain recognizes them because you

watch movie and read says that this is something with

someone famous. So when you walk past, right, it's very

bizarre because it feels your brain is saying that you

know this person, but your your other brain goes that

I don't know this person, right, And then there's this

and then makes you do a second take.

Right.

So I remember one time when I was at the park,

I was walking my dog and I saw this actor

that looked a lot like the person who played Loki

in uh No Avengers thor you know, Tom Hiddlestern and

stuff like that. And I just remember, you know, he

was wearing a cat walking my dog. He was walking

his dog, and walked past each other. And then my

brain just had like a you know, like and like,

hey him, like it looks like the guy, you know.

So I thought nothing about it. Then the next day,

I want my daughter, I walked past him again. Uh

it's the guy, you know. So in I walk past

this guy three times, and so by by the second time,

I go like, hey, I think I saw this guy.

And by the third time, I'm like, oh, should I

do something right for selfie whatever? So I didn't. I

just I just tipped my hat. I just I just

walked past him and go like sorry, do you know,

because I was afraid I'll scare him away out No,

I you know, I'm not play cool, not just in

case you don't want other people. No, no, I don't

want to hear and then other people swarm him and

then he would hate me, you know. You know. Also,

I just you know, tip had tip his hat back,

like yeah, and that was one time, you know, bumm

into one of the Jonas brothers. So I wasn't yeah

sounded girls here almost fainted. We were out. We were

out celebrating the birthday. We were out celebrating the birthday

of one of our church members. It's a funny story,

like we wanted to this church member's birthday, but we

didn't know how. And a want of Cat's friends had

a booking in this fancy restaurant, but she couldn't go

for so but but if you don't go, if you

cancel the booking, then they'll take your money. So she

was asked around. So he said, oh, okay, table for four,

let's go. British re member out brought another church member

and then as well, there this this Tuman god that.

That's a Jona's brother. That's a Jonas brother.

Because I don't follow that fandom, you see, celebrity. It's

very subjective, right, I know some of you like like

I don't do football even I know ironic, right, They

send you know, like paster Joe vij who's really into football,

say that you know he he misses watching football because

in Australia it's so hard to catch live matches and

then he said that what a joke. Man, God send

the guy who's not interested in the football to go

through UK. I can watch it in real time in

in in you know, normal hours, and so football is go.

I got past and I wouldn't know. So this jone's

brother walked past. I didn't know, member, what are the brothers?

And they're not not just one of the jus brothers,

but it was something he's dating. So he was dating.

I think now they're divorce already. So sorry, but this

girl called Sophie Turner, Sophie Turner. So Sophie turnersund you,

it's not the older people, is that?

What is that? Google?

You can google the day. You can google those. So

who wants like a celebrity? She was in some movies

and some famous and so they were dating for a

while and they were married and they unfortunately, uh separated.

But but when we bumm into them, they were dating,

and so I thought, you know, typical past energy. I thought,

after we finish our meal, they look like they're about

to go, So I say, hey, we go. Then as

we collect our jackets outside because it's a fancy place.

When they take your jackets from you you know, uh

and uh, I can't ask them for selfia And then

they were like please mauster.

Dawn, don't embarrass no h.

And then you know things, don't tell your pastor no,

you know you you know if you if you ever

want your pastor to not do something to tell him? Yes, yes,

but great idea. You should plan five more services, plan

five more services. If you say don't plan, no, he'll

plan anyway you're talking. And so we went there. Long

story short, we I cheekily asked, oh, we're.

Such big fans. So yeah.

I had a moment where I was like, Peter, so

I you know, I lied I didn't know him from Adam.

Oh, well, big fans.

We give it their pictures my friend's birthday a little

and and so they were like, oh yeah, sure, okay,

but then they will count dating. Don't paparazy to know. Okay,

we don't mind taking a picture, but maybe is it

okay if we take separately?

So I'm like, okay, no mind. You know.

So we had a group picture with one a Jonas

system on a group picture with the girlfriend and then

we then I don't know why. In the end, I

think we was having such a good time. They decided

to do one group picture of everybody in the praise

a lot. Now you might be thinking, what on earth, Okay,

I just got to do with what we just talked about. No,

that's just my my encounter. I'll tell you my encounter

with Spider Man and that time, uh and so and so,

if you were to certainly meet the person, could be

could be superstar, could be could be athletes, could be singer,

could be actor, could be you know, because we got

some phdcre could be an academic or Nobel Piece price professor,

so and so. For us, it's like, you know, but

enough for for people who are into that, they're drooling

all over. You know, like.

If you if you had a chance to meet.

Some of these people, wouldn't you give them something to sign?

And and and if you didn't have something to sign,

you would you would go sign my hand right, sign

sign my You take out your wallet and need to

find that you're carrying pharmacy receipt and then you go,

like you sign the back of this. You just try

to find any piece of paper on material that can

hold ink, right, and for this person to sign. You

try to capture that moment forever to tell your friends

about it. What more, God, when we say, let God

have you, and and this is the thing, right, that

thing might be My start off is life as you're

all Unicorde T shirt equest start off your life as

like you know, like if you meet a football star

and the only ball you have it's a Biger ball,

you're getting him to sign it. And so do you

understand when you let God have you? And God is

He's above every celebrity. You know, Celebrities come and go.

Celebrities come and go. No, they are only as good

as their last movie, their last achievement. But but you know,

nothing can ever tarnish the name of Jesus. His name

is above any other celebrity name, and and and so

we understand when a celebrity signs my caring pharmacy received.

After the celebrity signs it, that no longer becomes just

a receipt, that becomes an artifact, that becomes something you

can sell on eBay, that becomes something you can frame,

that becomes something you can pass on to your next

generation and become a family and loom right, you know,

like like if a favor footballer signs your soccer ball.

You're not gonna use that soccer ball for You're gonna

frame it up, put in a glass case, and it's

gonna be passed on to your children and your children's children,

et cetera.

Let God have you.

Many times you think that we don't have anything to offer,

and you might not have. But all it takes is

it being in the hands of God for it to

be immediately transformed into something far more precious, far more powerful,

far more meaningful than what it started with. See, God

wants to send us out. He says that we are

his letters. Would you give him something to write on?

Would you be that someone that he can write on?

Would you give yourself to him? Give him everything right,

give him your heart, give him your mind, give him

your job right, and don't mean like give up your job.

Give him your job and say that God, I am

a letter. Everything attached is a letter of you. So

how can I be a lawyer? That is your letter?

How can I be an engineer? There's your letter? How

can I be a teacher? There's also your letter? How

can I be a housewife? There's also your letter? How

can I be a businessman? Who is also your letter?

How can I be a mother, A full time mom

doesn't matter. How can I be a mother who is

also your letter? How can I be a father who's

also your letter? How can I be a retire who's

also your letter? How can I be a neighbor who

is also your letter? How can I be a young

fifty year old boy who is also your letter?

God?

How how can I be? But the first step is

when you give yourself to him. And for some of

us here, we maybe like Peter, God had to reach

out to Peter and recreate that first moment again and

tell Peter do you love me more than these? And

maybe what Peter was thinking, do you love me more

than this? It's not just about the fish, but it was.

The fish also represented not just his comfort zone, but

it was also how he met Jesus.

And maybe some of us.

Here you are on fire, but you're resting. You're resting

on past glory. And you said that, Oh now that

I'm young, Wyrda, no time is precious now?

But uh, where was a student? Now?

I served a lot every day when I was a studenter,

I was in church every weekend. When a student, Now

I serve all the service. When I was a student.

I volunteer in excisus. When I was a student. I

took the bus to missions when I.

Was a student.

Now they're not a student, or now they're not you

know stufferent Now no, they'm not a student. I don't

have time, and so PRIs Scott. You still love Jesus,

but you're resting on past glory, and Jesus is asking

the same thing again. Do you love me more than

your past glory? Do you love me more than your

youth group experience? Do you love me more than your

overseas experience? Do you love me more than last year?

Do you love me more? Can I have you again?

Because maybe for someone us here, you did give yourself

to Jesus and he wrote a beautiful letter, but that

letter has expired. That letter needs to be updated, and

he's asking would you come out of retirement?

Would you come out of rest and let me have

you again?

Maybe if someone us here, it's not past glory but

past hurt. You know, you go like, ah, I join

one thirty because the people all here very friendly, because

I've been hurt by people before, hurt by Christians before.

Or I really like the kngs. You know, they ride

down to earth. They open up your place for prayer,

so nice, let me pack their cat. And but but

you know, I don't know, you know, I don't know

whether I can trust leaders the way I trust it again,

and going saying that, would you come out of your

hurt and let him have you again? Point number two

is this that God has you? Let God write? You See,

a postcard doesn't get to right itself. You need somebody

else to write the postcard. Right, it's very beautiful. Right,

somebody has to pay for the postcard. So we're all

here because Jesus paid for us, and so now we

let him write. Would you let God be the author

of your faith? Some of us are like, okay, fine,

God have me, but don't touch, don't write, you know.

Some of us, you know, some of us were scared

to even go for Missions conference or anything like that,

because we're like, if I go, got my semi out,

so I love God, I'll go to church, but missions,

no way, jose And because he might send me to

the country that I really I'm afraid of.

And I don't know why.

Every time you say timbak to timbak, do you know

maybe one day will meet meeping Tibaktu and go like,

w it's achally very nice, you know, like you know,

you go there, realize it's modern day Wakanda or something.

And then and they realized, shocks, I shuld have come

to Timbuktu. But but but the areas of our faith.

Maybe maybe it's not missions. Maybe maybe it's how you

spend your free time. Maybe it's how you spend your money.

God was to use you, you know. And and maybe

you're in a position where you can financially be a blessing,

but you're not a millionnaire.

It's easy to go to God.

Please save Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, the second

richest person in the.

World, and and and and and.

And save him and make him like a modern day

you know, Zacharias or something or that, you know, where

he will come down from his tree and he will

sell half of Amazon shares and give to the poor. God,

please do that. But that's you dictating how God will write.

But God oftentimes would not write the story where the

millionaire gives half its possession away. But God in the

Bible has written where it was the nameless young boy

who gave his lunch away so that God could use

that five floors and two fish to feed five thousand people.

Do you understand? Sometimes we want God to move, but

we don't want him to write. We don't want him

to have control. We don't want him to have final say,

we don't want him to have the right to add it.

You go like, this is my story, Please don't touch

it by God. I say, I'm the author, I'm the editor,

I'm the publisher. Let me edit. You think that's a

good ending. I have a better ending. You think that's

a sad ending. But actually it's a good ending. And

you can see this. When Peter was talking to Jesus,

he says that one day you're gonna go where you

don't wanna go. You're gonna be led. And the Bible

says very clearly, and Jesus is describing, hinting, telegraphing the

final moments of Peter's life and how he would die.

But he says that his death will glorify him. How

would you want to die peaceful death that doesn't glorify God,

or a tragic death that glorifies him. Of course you'd

be like, past, don't don't be so extremely don't Maybe

choose can be only this two outcome.

Right, But what if God desires that.

Yesterday a missions conference we learn of the missionary, right, Jimilien.

Right.

I'm sure he would have loved to start a mission's

outreach to the Amazonians and and and and and.

You know, build them a church and disciple them.

But but God's plan was that he would give his life.

And in the giving of his life, God is glorified,

but an entire generation is mobilized. Will you let God

write your life?

Every day?

Would you boldly pray this prayer? God, I give my

life to you today. God, please write my story today.

I have my plans, I have my purposes, I have

my appointments, I have my meetings. All right, so please

don't misunderstand and think this is an excuse to be lazy. Okay,

every day you just wake up there, you know, you

know this. This is not like like Christian fortune telling.

You know, it's not like you wake up and you

go like, I'm just brainless, I'm just nothing.

God use me.

You throw your Bible to the floor and whatever page

it lands on, is you all like? Then you have

a board that says that number one means what color?

Number two and and and no, no, no, it's not like that.

It means that God give me. I'm I'm You're giving

me an opportunity to to to work here, to study here,

to live here. I have my appointments today, I have

stuff to do today. But God, right, God added, God

please add, God please subtract, and and the literally helps

us because if certainly that day doesn't go exactly how

imagine it, you don't have to be frustrated, because go,

maybe God's editing something, you know, Oh I missed that

business steal. Oh my boss is gonna be so angry.

But maybe God's writing something. Maybe maybe that's the start

of a plot twist, you know. And so would you

let God write you? Would you let him right over you?

Because for some of us here it's our past, you know,

our hurts, our excuses, And would you God, would you

let God just you know, I'm old. So we have

this thing called liquid paper, you know, so like you know,

this thing where you go and then you you.

Know, and then wait for you dry.

Right, would you let God liquid not paper over you,

but liquid his grace over you?

Right? You know? Would you let God highlight.

God while you highlighting these areas I want to keep

them secret.

You know, God, why you? Why are you exposing me?

And and but yet when we visit I don't know,

the Japanese Museum or something. You are blessed enough to

visit Japan itself, you know, you visit the place and

go like, oh, this is the ancient earth firm of

kid Tsunagi, where we crack the busselin and we put

it back together in gold.

And then you'll be like, ah, so smart people.

But like God's doing the same thing, and God's saying that, Yeah,

I'm the potter, you're the clay, and I put you

together again, and the cracks in your life, I can

use the goal of my grace.

And I'm highlighting your cracks. Don't expose me. I'm hiring

your crest. Don't expose me.

But I'm highlighting them so that they are no longer

something to be a shame of. You See, if it's

a crack, you want to hide it, you turn the

company other way around. If it's a chip, you want

to hide it, turn it. But if it's cover in gold,

you want to feature it. And so for some of

us here we go like, God, you know my past,

it's ugly and God saying that, let me add it,

let me revisese. Let me highlight what I need to highlight.

Let me wipe over what I need to wipe over.

Let me add it. Would you let God add it?

They see the world needs Jesus, and God is looking

for people that can send out. He's looking for vessels.

And after you say yes to being a vessel, you're

gonna let God fill the vessel. Fill it with what

he wants to feel, right, what he wants to write.

Some of you here, maybe the law has challenged you

to start something, get involved in something. But I don't

think I can. But if God says you can, you can. God,

you know your stir might have to give to a

family in need.

I don't have. I don't have.

I have some savings. I'm saving up for my wedding.

I'm saving up for my dream car. I'm saving up

for all that that break that I really need. God,

why don't you ask somebody else's richer? God says, I'm

asking you, and I don't know right this part of

your life?

Would you let him right?

Some of us here we have different hopes and dreams

in our life. Some of us here we you know

we we we dream of just just just no random example.

As I'm saying this, I don't want to hurt anyone,

but you know, we all have dreams. Know we want

to you know, get a job, find someone, get married,

have kids, settled down you know, or set them down,

have kids in that sequence. And about what if I'm

saying this lovingly, but what if That's not God's plan

for you? Would you hate him or would you serve him?

You know?

We we live in a culture where we glorify relationships

and we make the single people feel like they are less,

We make them feel cursed. And single people come to

church and every time they go to a wedding day

they feel like they are reminded I'm still alone. Every

year past they feel like my eggs are drying up,

you know. And there's nothing wrong with a desire to

have children and to start a family, to be with somebody.

But but God aways are higher. Don't get me wrong.

You know, God can use families for missions. God can

also use single people for missions. But what I'm saying

is that, you know, can we let God write because sometimes,

you know what the disappointments that we go through in

life is self inflicted.

It's self inflicted. You know.

Let's say, for example, you're single, and God never find

me anywhere in the Bible that says that if you're single,

your cursed. But it says that, you know, be fruitful,

multi blood. Yeah, but where does it say if you're

single your curse. Show me where Jesus is said, you know,

I wish that none of you are single. No, in fact,

he says the opposite. Somebody asks Jesus, the way you

describe marriage just like man, So isn't it better if

you don't get married? And Jesus not a lot of

people can handle that, and you stop talking and stop

teaching that. But you know, the most blessed person in

all creation is Jesus. And he was single, he had

no biological children, he had no wife, and yet he's blessed.

So it's self inflicted, self our disappointments, self inflicted, you know. Yeah,

in the Old Testament before full multiplier, But in the

New Testament it says that go and make disciples, and

Jesus is saying that I'm doing a new thing in me.

Even the single can have children, it's called spiritual children.

And then when you have a chance to invest into

people and see them saved, see them discover Jesus both

can I marry. We've had, you know, an opportunity to

really see one young girl's life transformed.

She was radically saved by Jesus.

And then we had the opportunity to disciple her, do

life with her and don't see her baptized, see her

get trained up as a as a leader. And then

can I say, all this is like a spiritual child.

And then we were like, oh, this is better because

we don't need to give birth to her like Kat

didn't have to.

You know.

Now now we have our own child, so that's different.

Now I didn't have to change a know, the kind

of thing. You know, I can just work through youth

ministry and have somebody see.

Me like a spiritual parent. Right.

But what I'm saying is this that it can be

a similar blessing. You know, you don't you don't have

to self inflict. You don't, like, let God write. If

God is writing this season of your life, you know,

enjoy what God is writing, don't fight against it, right

and and let let God be glorified. And maybe someone

was here, you know, it's the same. Maybe you're praying

God to heal you of a certain disease, and maybe

God's not writing healing. God's writing persevering you persevere or

would you give up? See a lot of times we

give up our faith. We get angry with God when

we don't have the right to. When God has always

been there. He's the one that actually has right to

be anger and disappointed.

Yet he is.

Anger is never long, and he's never disappointed, and it's

always there, you know, Like the Father and the Parable

of the Lost Son. The moment he sees the prodigal

come back, he runs and covers, and nowhere in the

Parable says that what did you do your inheritance? He

gave him a ring, restores him. That's the God we serve.

And so, friends, if God is asking to persevere, persevere.

If God is asking to hang on, hang on and surrender,

surrender your career maybe for someone us here. I know

you're thinking, Man, I hate this job. It doesn't pay well.

I hit this place.

I want to know. My friends say, if you move

to Singapore, you earn more money. If you move to

that company, earn more money.

If you move through this, you know you you get

all of your dreams come true.

That's what people say. But what about God? What is

God saying?

And maybe God is maybe your heart is crying for

Singapore or whatever country, and God is writing Malaysia. You're

crying off for marriage and God and saying them be single.

And you go like, why am I ugly?

God?

And God says you're beautiful? If I'm beautiful, why my single?

Because the story hasn't ended yet, Because maybe getting together,

being married, the idea of a family is a good thing,

but it's become an idol in your life. And if

I give it to you, I will lose you, and

I don't want to lose you. Let him write point

out of three and the end of this, let God

send you. See a postcard is not fun. If you

have it, have you been there before? I definitely have

been guilty. I can go traveling, I buy a postcar,

Oh all right for my friend, and then I forget

to send it out?

Have been there before? You know?

You only send out or you return to your native country.

Then the stem they get is from Malaysia. You know,

wish you were here Colorado, USA? Why is the stem

like good dad, a buddy? It's like what is this

I mean, I mean those of you who you stamping,

that's how you are like stamp is that you know?

You know? Now you just I don't know tag them

on Instagram. But I let God send you. Let God

send you right and and if God's going to send you,

let us send you everywhere. And if you're going to

send you, then learn to see where you are placed.

It's not just where you are, but where you are sent.

Once you see your office as where you have been sent,

it changes your perspective. Once you see your family as

where you have been sent, it.

Changes your perspective.

You know, I'll come from a broken family, but you've

been sent there by God so that you can be

light in the darkest of places.

Well, I hate my company.

My boss is a tyrant, and that's where you're being sent,

not to be punished, so that you can be sought

and light, so that that whole place can come to

know Jesus. But you don't understand my boss is a tyrant.

If Joseph can change the heart of the Pharaoh and

Daniel and his friends never canzza I'm pretty sure your

boss is not.

As bad as that.

If if if Daniel and his friends can change the

heart of a person who at a whim can throw

people into the fire.

You know esself.

You might be thinking that you have my boss. At

a whim, he can fire me. Then you're in good

company because because you know similar. No do you not

see how similar you know? And it's now suddenly you

go like, ah, I thought I'm working for you know something,

something is in younger heart.

It feels like it's some young Babylon. It's good.

Then then if you feel like you're in a Babylon,

then the Book of Danny becomes even more real and

applicable to you. And God is merely showing you that

it can be done. The giants in life can be defeated,

the tyrants can be thrown down, and people can change.

Would you see your school as where you're sent? Would

you see your work as where you're sent? Would you

see your church as where you've been sent? Would you

see your postcode? Would you see Subanja as where you've

been sent? Hey, man, let God send you, because like

I said, the world, the world out there is desperate

to know that there is hope. People are going through

so much brokenness and they need to know that there

is a God who can fix it.

People are.

Being choked up by the opinions of others, and they

need to know that there is a word that can

set them free, that is better than the opinion of others,

and it's the word of our Christ who loves them

very much. But we got to be sent out because

if we don't go, how would they know? No, yes,

they want the workshops. I ask somebody, oh you went

for the workshop, you know, because now I'm older, my

eyesight is failing me and go like, oh I saw

there's an acronym, not bl eess, no marketplace? What's beers say?

I don't know, they're jokingly, I say, be employed, is it?

You know, like you know, or be at work?

You know.

But you know, allchos deside maybe we need to be

at work, you know, like like really be present at

work and not just go there, you know. I know,

yesterday I was having a conversation with my cousin and

it's telling me how good he has it. I can

work from home every day or do not have an

office to go to God Lab. But then they allow

me to work from home and they go like, why

you know, where did you go? You can't love your

neighbor if you're working from home, right, you can't know

your colleague. If you're working from home, you can be

a blessing if you're working from home. Now, the thing

against working from home when you need to work from home,

but think about it. If your work is where God

has sent you, is working from home the best way

to be sent. You're gotta ask yourself that. And it's

God writing your day. You're writing today, I will work

from home.

Haha. Would you let God have the final idea of that?

And right, you see, unless we go out there, unless

we have those conversations, unless we have that you know,

cause sometimes this conversation had it wasn't like I didn't

pry it out from them, you know, I didn't go.

Like, so how's your marriage? I didn't.

And maybe there is already a certain grace when we

carry the peace of God that when we end that

when we sit down, there is something that glows from

us that puts people at ease and they're just waiting

for the right person to ask them. And you could

be that right person. You could be that listening ear,

you could be that mouthpiece. And sometimes what people need

is not like oh no, what wor scripture to recite.

Sometimes what people need is just a listening ear, just

a hug, just a pet, or if you're so touched

and so hurt by what they're going through, tears and

they will go like, I don't know whether there's a God,

but all I know that is in my deepest and

darkest moments, it was the Christians who cried with me.

I don't know if there's a God, but I know

that in my loneliest moments, when I feel so unloved,

when everyone is trying to cancel me, it was the

Christians who stood with me. I don't know whether there's

a God, but all I know is that when I

was hungry and and and had nothing, it was the

Christians who invited me over for a meal.

It was a Christians who blessed me, or the Christians

who who? Who? Who?

Who paid for my bill? And then then they meet

another letter they see. They meet letter one, Christian number

one that sits with. Then then they meet Christian number

two that christ if. Then then they meet Christian number

three that comforts, and they meet Christian number four who

maybe shares the gospel. They meet Christian number five who

invites them to church and meet Christian number six who who?

And the story goes on.

You know, if you get sent five postcards from the

same place, don't you think that it's a sign you

gotta visit? Right, it's only all five friends of yours

start sending you postcards. You got to visit ePol. You're

gonna be like, maybe I should visit Epo. You see,

we just need to give God. Say God, use me

God right over my life, over right. Help me to

forgive those I need to forgive. Help me to let

go what I need to let go. Help me not

to become my own stumbling block to what you want

to move this because that's what the devil wants. He

wants us to inflict our own wound, get ourselves disappointed

when God never disappointed us, so that it stops us

from hearing and being sensitive to where God wants us

to be, where God wants us to go. Some of

us here, Maybe you're thinking of changing a job. Is

it you who want or is it something that God

wants some of us here? Maybe you're thinking of I

don't know, God for a bid, change church or whatever.

But is that something you want? Is that something once.

Amen, Because at the end of the day, it's not

about living for ourselves. We are letters of the Most

High God, written in ink by His Holy Spirit.

There are hearts.

No longer be tablets of stone, but tablets of flesh

and blood that the world can see. Let's pray. Thank you, Lord, Lord,

We thank you Lord, and we just asked Lord, would

you change us?

Lord?

Every time you open up your word, let it be

like a mirror that that shines in. And Lord, help

us to change and help us to be transformed according

to your word. And right now today I just want

to pray and that my brother sister here. Then maybe

they have been, you know, previously revived, but right now

they are resting. Right now they are look warm. Friends,

don't be look warm anymore? Friends, don't you know your

past glory? Cannot say if you God's not done with

you yet? Would you let him have you again? Or

would you let him have all of you? Some of

us here you say God has me, but friends, he

maybe he doesn't have.

All of you.

Would you surrender and learn to surrender all of your life?

Would you learn to surrender your relationship? Would you learn

to surrender your family life? Would you learn to surrender

your financers who learn to surrender not to men but

to God.

Amen?

If your house, if if your life is like a house,

what you know? Does Jesus have all access or does

he have a basement that you say is don't touch?

Or does he have a wardrobe that you say don't touch?

Or does he have do you have a garage that

it says don't touch? Or would you say, God, come

and have it all? And those of us who have

given God are all? Would you let him write and

let him continue to write? Maybe some of you here

you are struggling to understand why you know. You're saying, God,

I've been faithful, but I don't feel blessed.

God.

I love you, but how come other people who don't

know you seem to be overtaking me in career, overtaking

me in life? And and Lord, I feel left behind God,

I've been so faithful. Yeah, I feel left behind. I

feel forgotten. Friends. I'm here to tell you lad, God right,

and stop getting in the way, and and and and

learn to live according to God's pace Because we serve

for God, who says that the first shall be last

and last shall be first. He works on a different

his time line than us. He works from eternity.

He he he.

He has a different point of view than us. He

has Heaven's view of all of creation. To let him write.

God knows what we need. Let him write, and also

let him overwrite your plans and your purposes. Let him

over write, let him add it. Let him highlight what

he needs to highlight. Let him cross out what you

need to cross out. Let him turn the page that

you don't want to turn.

Let him close the chapter.

That you don't want to close, and so that he

can open a new chapter for you. But let him

write last one, not only after he's surrendered life. You're

You're his writing on you. Then, friends begin to see

where you are at as where you have been sent.

You're in Malaysia because you've been sent here, not just

born here, sent here. You're not just working there. You're

sent there. It's more than the paycheck. You've been sent there.

You know your neighborhood, your postcode. You're there not because

you kind of thought better housing or whatever. You've been

sent there. It's a rough street. You've been sent there.

Why God, why would you send me? Don't you love me?

I love you. That's why I'm sending you there, so

that other people can be loved by me. Lord, have

your way today, have your way, and forgive us of

the many times where we've been so engrossed with our

own routine and by own ones and needs, that we

forget that you saved us, not so that we can

collect us to heaven, but you saved us so that

we can bring Heaven down to earth. And Lord, the

world we need. The world right now does not look

like Heaven. The world right now, Lord, there's so much

undercurrents of sickness and disease, undercurrents of divorce, undercurrents of

bodily pain, and and and and and sickness and and

and Lord, the world needs you.

The world needs you. The world needs your deliverance.

The world needs your miracles now more than ever before.

The world needs you. So, Lord, help us to be

sent by you. And Lord, knowing that we are sent

by you, help us to live a lifestyle of clean

hands and pure heart, because you never know when you

might just use us to speak, and you might use

us to pray. And so Lord, help us to always

be ready for your glory. In Jesus Na me pray.

Amen.

Right, why don't we all stand and let's worship God

a little bit more? Amen, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Thank

you Lord.

Amen.

Amen, Let's ask God to just wash us clean as

in the part is holy fire upon us again.

Your path, you have me time come.

That's why this is white.

It's about jeezus cries spread.

We need your holy spirit. Would you feel us a

fresh lawn?

Lord, have your way over our lives, your times and geez,

says Criss, hallelujah.

Let's just say and let your fire fall down. Hallelujah.

That God wants sir, burn away the past eleves. We

need your revival. Long, touch us again.

Long. We don't want to be seeing go gone. We

don't want to be selfish.

Law, give us a new hearts, give us new eyes

to see.

You, give us a new heart to feel. And you

have your were.

We need you, holy spiral, that your fine holly.

Were five.

Money and fire.

That's your speed fall fondness and your will being.

And your brill.

Till every time.

Till every time con fast that gus, till every time

con fast that geeze one more time till li every

time come fast that Gesus cries.

That's why it's about till every time confess as the

waters covers the.

Sea and the earth. So Lord, we want people to

know of your glory. Friends.

Before we close this service, I pray that we will

not only leave this place more open to what God

wants to do in our lives, more surrendered, more submitted,

tearing the old page of our own lifestyle and saying, God,

write a new story. But I also just want to

give people here who don't know Jesus the opportunity to

know him. You see, like we said today, the world

is broken, so much messed up stuff going out there.

We're just even just scraping the tip of the iceberg.

Crime, you know, corruption, poverty, just just you know, oppression, wars, family.

Natural you know, you name it. The world. The world

is broken.

It's not because of greenhouse effects or environmental reasons only.

But there is a curse. The Bible says there is

a curse upon this earth, a curse that came from

our word disobedience to God. As humanity, we are living

in disobedience against the Creator, and that's causing a malfunction

to happen in all of creation. The Bible cause that

a curse, and from that curse comes all forms of

corruptions and mutations and all these things. God doesn't want

us to perish. God doesn't want us to live under

this curse. God wants to set us free. Christianity is

not for people who think they can make it on

their own. Is for people who realize that compared to

God and his holiness, we are nothing but sinners. We

cannot save ourselves. We are not smart enough, we're not

clean enough, we're not pure enough.

We just can't.

We can't even with the best intentions. We are not

driven enough to save ourselves.

We need God.

And so how you become a Christian simple as abc A.

Admit that you need God, Admit that you are a sinner.

Admit that I can't save myself. I need him. The

problem with the world today it's me. It starts with me,

it's all of us. But the solution also starts with me.

So admit that you need God, and then believe in Jesus.

Put your faith in him, not in the world, not

on money, not on yourself, but put your faith in Jesus,

the Son of God, Jesus who God, who was God.

But he came in.

Human form, and he absorbed all the sin and and

everything wrong that we've ever done. And then he went

to the cross more than two thousand years ago and

was crucified in our place. Believe in that, and not

only believe in that man and his teaching, but believe

in the fact that after he was crucified, he died

and he rose again. We believe because Jesus rose again.

If Jesus didn't rise, there's nothing he would just be

in another man. But because he rose again, only God

can overcome death. When he rose again, he was saying

that I am God who made no way for you.

So believe in him and then commit your life to him.

Commit your life to follow him. That's what Christianity is.

We're getting better each day, We're getting more healed each day.

We're changed day by day, season by season. We just

need to keep following Jesus.

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