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Pearl of Great Price | Pr Kenneth

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

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

  3. The first one this morning was entitled Suffering of the Grape.

  4. Actually that wasn't the real title. The real title was

  5. He makes all Things beautiful in its time. But I

  6. told the people at eight fifteen a story about how

  7. owner of a vignyard, a wine dresser, owner of a

  8. vineyard in America, how he won best wine of the world,

  9. beating the wine of France for ten years in a row.

  10. I think it was nineteen seventeen to nineteen eighty something

  11. like that.

  12. Okay, he won.

  13. And got to produce wine better than even France, who

  14. wins almost every year for the last so many centuries.

  15. Because he discovered that if you could suffer the grapes

  16. just a little bit more a time in the maturity

  17. of grapes whereby you don't give them water, and what

  18. happens with the grapes is that they go deep into

  19. themselves and produce or release something that doesn't get released

  20. until that pressure or pain or stress or struggle comes.

  21. So even as human beings, and especially as Christians, we

  22. sometimes go through pain and struggle and stress and problems

  23. that actually is allowed by God, so that we dig

  24. in deeper into the source and resource that we never

  25. knew was there.

  26. And so that was the eight point fifteen message.

  27. It was recorded both on video and audio right now,

  28. I think because the team is home or having lunch.

  29. I told them, don't worry about recording this session and

  30. maybe you'll be recD on it at another place at

  31. another time. Oh, look at as you say. You get it,

  32. you know, but you get it on some phone. But Daniel,

  33. thank you so much. You don't have to really because

  34. we'll get it recorded some other time. But anyway, thank you,

  35. thank you, Daniel. It's good to have a leader. It

  36. so like, so quick on his feet, a fantastic man. Wow,

  37. praise God. Which school he went to? A? Which leader school? School?

  38. He went to School of hot not oh rash sheell

  39. rash shall school of hot knocks A wow. Okay okay.

  40. So the message was long, and I thought I could

  41. do it all in one, and the Holy Spirit said

  42. to me, don't try to do it all in one,

  43. or you will not even mess up, but you might

  44. not give the quality cake if you rush rush rush,

  45. no quality.

  46. Huh.

  47. So I'm going to give you the second part now,

  48. and it's not he makes all things beautiful in this time.

  49. But thank you x TV. It's Perl of great price.

  50. Per or. How many of you like pearls? Wow?

  51. If Lizay, who doesn't? Oh, I got you, I got

  52. your hand up. But you like pearls? My wife likes Pulse,

  53. just I can't for them. I almost was going to

  54. buy her pulse, you know, but when I saw that

  55. they were eighty ring git, I realized that, you know,

  56. it may not be.

  57. The pulse that she wants. You know.

  58. Now I saw one that was eight hundred ringgit. You know,

  59. I thought, okay, maybe these you know, but they were

  60. not surround you know, they were like more like uh,

  61. you know the rice puff what was what we called it,

  62. rice chrispies? You know rice chrispies. You know the puffy

  63. rice chrispies. Did they look more like that? You know,

  64. eight hundred ringgit. When I was in Sandakan they were

  65. selling it. It was born your pulse.

  66. Right.

  67. Then I went to one shop I don't want even

  68. walked into that. You know, a steely walking into the

  69. shop is free, right, that's okay, just walk But I

  70. wish I didn't because my wife saw the real pearlse

  71. and you know eighty thousand ringgit you know, one hundred

  72. and twenty thousand ringgits.

  73. So I said let's go, saying we'll come back here again. Okay.

  74. Anyway, I reminded my wife in heaven there's a lot

  75. of pearls if she can wait that long.

  76. You know, if the gate yourself, the gate yourself is pearls.

  77. All right, So anyway, jokes aside, purls are actually very nice,

  78. and they look very nice on my wife, even at dificial.

  79. My wife is the one that makes the pulse available.

  80. Oh yeah, let her know I told you that. Okay,

  81. all right, Rachelle is giving the eye to Daniel.

  82. Daniel if then, if Daniel's going to buy pulse for

  83. Rachelle anytime soon, I'm going to have to raise his salary.

  84. Okay, let's not talk for the shop.

  85. P what semie eleven eleven eleven eleven semi eleven purse?

  86. Don't buy la?

  87. Okay, pearl of great that's why he says pearl of

  88. great price, okay.

  89. Not pearl of fair. You know what fair price is,

  90. super bucket in staple fair price. Okay.

  91. So in small letters at the bottom is the purpose

  92. of the irritant. Okay, purposely made it small because that's

  93. the not so good news that pearls need irritance to produce. Anyway,

  94. let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's look at some

  95. scripture that show us what the Bible says about pearls. Okay,

  96. here we go. Matthew thirteen forty five to forty six.

  97. By the way, the doctor just gave me the X

  98. ray two days ago, and my bone, my heel bone,

  99. is healing very well, Praise the Lord. And he says

  100. that in two months time you should be able to.

  101. You know, get back into your normal activities. So, oh wow,

  102. changing time for Christmas.

  103. And I said, when can I get back to pickle ball?

  104. He said, you know, had the pickle first, forget the

  105. ball for a while, maybe in six months time, so

  106. that you had to wait before you beat me again.

  107. Never beat me out, Okay, maybe never, but yeah. I

  108. was like, I'm kiddy, no, no, no, no, I'm sure I'm

  109. sure Pasadena can beat me up when I play with

  110. my left hand. Okay, Matthew, did this can even from

  111. bad to words? Matthew thirteen forty five forty six. I

  112. heard that Pasadena is very good. Now, very good Russia. Okay,

  113. she's laughing, she's loving. Okay again the Kingdom of Heaven,

  114. let's ready would have gone Matthew thirteen forty five to

  115. forty six. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant

  116. seeking beautiful pearls, who when he had found one pearl

  117. of great price, when and saw all that he had

  118. and bought it, meaning he actually sought off exchanged his

  119. life because you know why, on the money and possessions

  120. and assets that he has came from his life, because

  121. he swept for the money, he worked for the money.

  122. He gave his life for all that he had, So

  123. now he's giving it back in exchange for the pearl.

  124. That was the value of the pearl. So this pearl

  125. is very valuable. It's one pearl, not see he read

  126. looking for beautiful pearls, but he settled for one, okay,

  127. and he gave his life in exchange for that one.

  128. So that pearl that we are all looking for needs

  129. to be worth your life. That is the kind of

  130. value God himself is looking for. I want you all

  131. to understand this scripture is worth you giving up everything

  132. for this one. I'm not sure whether anyone of you

  133. have found it yet. Okay, I pray you have, like

  134. Jesus should be that pearl of great price that we

  135. give our lives in exchange for you know.

  136. We got Jesus.

  137. I want you, I want all of you, and you

  138. want my heart. Here's my heart, here's my life. I

  139. give you everything because God, Jesus you are worth more

  140. than any treasure.

  141. Amen. Right, So cool?

  142. But what God is after is that he's after pearls

  143. in our lives. Let's look at another scripture. Revelations twenty

  144. one twenty one is easy to remember as far as

  145. references concerned, because it's Revelations twenty one twenty one.

  146. Okay, the Bible says the twelve gates in Heaven.

  147. Were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was off one pearl.

  148. Can you imagine a whole gate. A whole gate is

  149. one pearl? Can you imagine that? And the street of

  150. the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. Heaven is

  151. going to be such a beautiful place. We're just gonna

  152. be so amazed. Haven't even gone in now to Heaven.

  153. The pearl really is gonna just really cause you to

  154. go wow. And this is not a normal wow, not

  155. this wow spelt backwards. And you're just gonna You're just

  156. gonna look at the gate and go like, I can't

  157. imagine what's awaiting me behind that, because even the gate

  158. amazes me. And as soon as you enter the gate,

  159. the flow will amaze you because it's gonna be gold.

  160. And the best kind of gold is like transparent, pure gold,

  161. and it's going to be good enough only for the floor,

  162. right the floor, the lowest of the lowest in heaven.

  163. Pure gold makes it.

  164. And so I'm telling you, if heaven is gonna beautiful,

  165. so ours have lost loved ones there there already, and

  166. they're enjoying it so much. And we will joining it

  167. one day and we'll all celebrate together.

  168. Amen.

  169. And if there's still any unsafe loved ones that is

  170. not Christian, you know yet, I pray, let's pray that

  171. they will all come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

  172. I'm telling you it's gonna be such a beautiful place.

  173. And the one that makes it beautiful is not even

  174. the Pulley Gate and the a pure goal of the

  175. streets of pure goal, but Jesus one glimpse of Jesus

  176. is gonna make you fall.

  177. In love with him again and again and again and again,

  178. and you can't have enough of him.

  179. You think some Bible teachers here on earth are really good,

  180. wait until you hear Jesus teach the Bible and you

  181. be like, I can't get enough of this man, right, Okay, So.

  182. It's gonna be good.

  183. Ah, And I pray that all of you look forward

  184. to it. All of you look forward to it. Christians

  185. should never be afraid of death. It should never be

  186. afraid of going home to be with the Lord. It's

  187. going to be really, really a special blessing from God.

  188. And that's why the Bible says, a beautiful in the

  189. sight of God are the death of his saints.

  190. You know it's raining, is it?

  191. Just have a little bit of a look outside, because

  192. if it's not raining, then I have to check it out.

  193. It could be smurfs running around. Okay, thank you so much,

  194. Thank you Albert for looking so long. And whether it's

  195. reading or not, is the ray? Thank thank you so much.

  196. Can I can I can? I just tell you.

  197. Something before we move on, tell you something before you

  198. move on. And I can't confirm this. I can't confirm this,

  199. but I just want to share a conviction.

  200. I have.

  201. That the gate right because because it's one pearl, that

  202. means it must.

  203. Be a very big pearl, one huge pearl. Then when

  204. you enter, it just opens, it just breaks into half. Right.

  205. So so so I can't imagine a pearl as a gate.

  206. I can't. I can't. Maybe it is so, and I

  207. can stand corrected because our.

  208. Minds are so small heaven and God is so great,

  209. so he can do anything he wants to love it

  210. can be a big pearl that you can walk through.

  211. I don't know, because you know, like Jesus walked through walls,

  212. he was resurrected, you know. But what I think it

  213. could be is that we become pearls. We become pearls.

  214. What God is after in transforming us is that we

  215. become posed, and when we walk through those gates, it

  216. actually takes a pearl to walk through that gate. I'm

  217. just giving you a suggestion. It's not even backed up

  218. by any scripture, but it's like it's like if you

  219. are oil and you're walking through a gate of water,

  220. you can't get through. You've got to become water to

  221. get through. You you with me, or if you were

  222. water and the gate was oil. Actually doesn't mean that

  223. the gate is oil. It means that you will take

  224. oil to go in, and it doesn't. It might not

  225. mean that the gate itself is pearl, but it means

  226. that the entry, the way to enter, is to become

  227. a pearl. Okay, So just just keep it at the

  228. back of your head because I sort.

  229. Of believe that that's what God is after.

  230. And so when you are walking through a gate that

  231. is meant to be peerl, but you are not peerl,

  232. or you have not allowed God to make you into

  233. a pearl, you might not get through, Okay. So so

  234. I want to encourage you just to think about it

  235. for a moment. Is there a reason why God put

  236. a pearly gate one pearl as a gate or did

  237. he try to Is he trying to say that everyone

  238. that walks through this.

  239. Gate is a pearl?

  240. So it's like a pearlyague gate is a is a

  241. is a one person walking in Okay, So I think

  242. you get what I'm saying. I don't want to go

  243. deeper in this because again it's not backed up blah

  244. okay by scripture. Okay, I just want to let you

  245. understand that God really is after our transformation, and he

  246. might not just be pearls within us. It might be

  247. that we become a pearl, and therefore He will continue

  248. to add irritance into our lives to make us become

  249. something that we never knew we could. Okay, Okay, I

  250. shouldn't be labeled the point because it's not the most

  251. important thing, all right, all right, So next.

  252. Light, next life.

  253. Pearls are precious, priceless and powerful. Pearls are precious, prices

  254. and powerful. Now precious Why because it's found in the

  255. Bible and God has chosen to use pearl. He didn't

  256. say diamond, no, although most of you would rather a

  257. diamond for your anniversary or a diamond for your proposal,

  258. or you know, he used goal a lot, and he

  259. used some other precious stones. But Jesus and God and

  260. the Bible is using pearl and even pearly gay, Okay,

  261. So it's precious because yeah, the Bible has included it

  262. as a rare gem and we need to pay attention.

  263. We need to pay attention because the Bible is telling

  264. us pearl number two.

  265. Is priceless.

  266. Because the value of this pearl that God is after

  267. warrants the man who finds it to exchange it for

  268. his life. That's how priceless it is. Now, he had

  269. to sell everything he had, and he thought it was

  270. worth it.

  271. That's the thing.

  272. He sold everything he had and bought that pearl of

  273. great price. So God's word is telling us that that's

  274. the kind of value of a pearl that he wants

  275. us to go after. Not many pearls, because the merchant

  276. was after many beautiful pearls, but he said the fock

  277. come out one, and he gave his life for that one.

  278. So it's priceless and certainly powerful. Because in the Bible,

  279. every time Kate is mentioned, he speaks about authority. So

  280. when they were building the walls and the gates of

  281. Nihi Maya, well Jerusalem, Nee Maya's time you read Knie Maya,

  282. Knee Maya says, we are rebuilding the walls. Walls in

  283. the Bible speak about identity, and so when the enemy

  284. comes in and tears down the walls, they are tearing

  285. down your identity. And that's why when Satan came against

  286. Jesus in messochupter four, he says, if you are the

  287. son of God, throw yourself down.

  288. He's always after your identity. Satan is always after. He's

  289. going to.

  290. Say, if you are that great, if you are a Christian,

  291. if you are a child of God, if you know,

  292. He's always after because if you can break down your identity,

  293. he's got you. That's why people got identity crisis and

  294. all the kind of stuff.

  295. They are not certain, they are not confident.

  296. And when he shakes the identity of a pastor, of

  297. a preacher, he goes after your identity. Who said you

  298. are you know? Who said you are a child of God?

  299. Who said you are worthy? Who's you know? Suffer it?

  300. Right? Okay?

  301. So understand is the walls speak of identity and.

  302. The gay speak of authority.

  303. So the enemies of God, the enemies of the of Jerusalem,

  304. burned down the gates. By what happened was Ni Maya

  305. was very careful not only to rebuild the walls, but

  306. to hang the gates back. And so God is after

  307. our identity and our authority.

  308. God wants to restore.

  309. Listen our identity, every person here in this room, listen

  310. to me. Identity must be restored and the authority must

  311. come back. Otherwise we find it hard to cast out

  312. demons because we don't know who we are and we

  313. don't know what we have. It's in knowing who you are,

  314. then you know what you have. If you are a prince,

  315. you know you have princely authority. If you are a king,

  316. you know you have kingly authority. If you are a policeman,

  317. even if you are a plain close policeman, you still

  318. have authority because you know who you are. So the

  319. devil was to break down who you are, so you

  320. don't know who you.

  321. And you don't know what you have.

  322. Everyone's say, okay, so it's called a pearly gate.

  323. So gate is an authority.

  324. So pearls speak about precious, priceless.

  325. And power full.

  326. This is the potential of every Christian in this room.

  327. Precious in God side, priceless in God side, and powerful.

  328. Can I hear good?

  329. Amen? All right? So we want to have pearls in

  330. our lives.

  331. Next light says, I believe the Bible considers pearls as

  332. precious because.

  333. Of the way they were formed.

  334. Now we are missing a y at thhe all right,

  335. And sister Katrina up there was the first one to

  336. not ahead because she's the English teacher you see, so

  337. he said.

  338. Yes, why know? Why?

  339. Why? No? Why in thhe Okay, so let me read

  340. it to you again.

  341. I believe the Bible considers pearls as precious because of

  342. the way they are formed.

  343. So we need to look into how they are formed

  344. and then realize why did Jesus even choose to mention

  345. pearls to include pearls. He didn't say diamonds, he said pearls.

  346. And I think between diamonds and pearls in this life,

  347. I think more people would choose diamonds, but Jesus has

  348. chosen pearls, and I think it's because he knows the

  349. way they were formed.

  350. Okay, are you ready?

  351. We're gonna look into the way diamonds. No, no, just

  352. to make sure that you're awake. Pearls are formed. Okay,

  353. there are two questions.

  354. I have for you.

  355. How a pearl is formed in our lives. We want

  356. to look into that, how a pearl is formed in

  357. our lives, and number two, how our lives are formed

  358. into a pearl. All right, they're probably the same answers

  359. to two different questions, but here we go. Let's now

  360. look into pearls. I'm not a pearl expert. Somebody turned

  361. to your neighbor and say, he's not a pearl expert.

  362. So maybe in this rumor there are pearl experts. All right,

  363. I don't know, Sharon, Are you a pear expert?

  364. No?

  365. Okay? The only pearl I know is in the milk

  366. tea boba and they cook it with you know whatever,

  367. uh my's tasty is tasty. There's the only pearse I know.

  368. But I'm gonna tell you about three types of pearls.

  369. Are you ready?

  370. The natural pearl, the coultured pearl, and the imitation pearl. Okay,

  371. these three are found in the market, found in the

  372. world day the day and the world. We live in

  373. three kinds of pearls, or three types of pearls.

  374. That produce, and there's a market for all three. There's

  375. a market for all three.

  376. So people will settle for imitation because that's all they

  377. can afford, or there's all they want, or they only

  378. wonder look and not the value. All right, as long

  379. as people think from afar one hundred meters away, she's

  380. wearing pearls, I'm fine because I just want to look

  381. rich for So there's there's a market for imitation. Pearls,

  382. and there's a market for cultured pulse, or people say

  383. it farmed pearlse okay, cultured pulse, and then there's definitely

  384. a market, although a smaller market.

  385. For natural pearls. All right.

  386. Next light says that the main difference diference is found

  387. in the value.

  388. That's the main difference.

  389. The main difference between the tree is one imitation is

  390. probably about ten US dollars. You can get it for

  391. forty four ing it, okay. Sometimes some toy shoppers sell perse.

  392. Have you seen the toy shop on sell perse?

  393. Ah?

  394. Yeah, we buy it for kids, you know. And then

  395. they write they just wear mummy purse. Okay, and lemmy

  396. say yeah, as long as you're happy, please, you know,

  397. mommy can buy you purse. You want the real one

  398. as your husband in the future. But you know, the value,

  399. the value the price. Are we all on the same page?

  400. We agree? We agree the main difference. Okay.

  401. Now let's look at the next slight that says the

  402. difference or the differences that makes the difference. So the

  403. value is the main difference. But what makes the difference

  404. to the difference? What are the differences that cause the

  405. value to be different? All right, three things, time, environment,

  406. and rarity, under time.

  407. Under time. I want to tell you it.

  408. Takes a long time for a pearl to receive what

  409. you call a coating, the thickness you see. I'll tell

  410. you in about two minutes how a pearl is made.

  411. And some of you already know it, but let's just

  412. put it at the back of your minder. If we're

  413. talking about the coating, there is a coating around the

  414. pearl that goes on and on.

  415. It coats again, it coats again and again.

  416. And the more the coating, the more thick the coating

  417. around a pearl, the greater the value.

  418. But it takes time.

  419. It takes an except for imitation, pearse imitation pearls don't

  420. have the kind of coating.

  421. Okay, they have a paint.

  422. They paint, you know, a transparent glass ball, the glass ball,

  423. glass gully, a gully marble glass, the transparent glass marble,

  424. and they just paint on it like maybe a paint

  425. that was manipulated from what you call a mother of pearl.

  426. Have you ever heard a mother mother of pearl? So

  427. mother pearl.

  428. They will scraping or they will bash it up, and

  429. they make a substance where it becomes paint and they

  430. take the paint and they just.

  431. Paint over that one. Not even you scratch so you

  432. can see the you can see the glass.

  433. So that that's cheap. So that doesn't take time, that

  434. doesn't need time at all. But time is the one

  435. that makes the difference because of the coating. Understand that

  436. number two environment. Uh. They tell me that when the

  437. pearl is in the right environment, it gets rounder, and

  438. it's in the shape of the pearl that the price

  439. is it.

  440. So if it's like your crispy path or crispy whatever was.

  441. Rice, crispy s okay or whatever it is, you look,

  442. it doesn't look round, right, the cost comes down, even.

  443. The natural pearl if it's not round enough.

  444. You know, I know a lot of people here are

  445. nodding their heads, and I'm so happy to see that.

  446. The people owning Persia. Yeah, so cool, fantastic. You know,

  447. it just tells me how.

  448. Rich is churches all he hardly a praise God? How

  449. come rich?

  450. And you're just not going like that? No yet I

  451. know yet. Okay, maybe you will be a.

  452. Pearl, Amen, amen, Amen, Albert.

  453. Shape the shape, the shape, the shape, and you know

  454. where the shape is most round is in salt water.

  455. I did some research. It's in salt water more than

  456. fresh water. Pearls can also develop in fresh water, but

  457. the best kind is in a god forsaken undisturbed place.

  458. It cannot be disturbed. Its pristine water.

  459. See right where there's no boats or whatever it is,

  460. or fishermen try to, you know, disturb the waters. It

  461. has to be on his own and it has to

  462. be in salt water more than fresh water for the

  463. shape to be perfectly round. Think about it. You know

  464. what salt is, right, Salt is sweat. And there are

  465. many Christians who avoid sweat. Means we don't want to

  466. sweat for Jesus. We don't hardship, we don't pressure, we

  467. don't go for missions.

  468. We want air conditioning, we want television.

  469. We want to watch the service from the comfort of

  470. our homes.

  471. Even though pandemic is gone for a few years.

  472. Now, you still, you know, I call it Sarah Christians,

  473. you still want to be in your Sarah watching because

  474. the comfort. Now, I'm telling you, right now, I told

  475. the first service. So nothing great comes out of come.

  476. You can't build muscles, you.

  477. Know, am I right? Albert, you need resistance.

  478. And if you are building your muscle on a certain weight,

  479. let's say one hundred kilograms, and you if you keep

  480. doing one hundred kilograms for the next three years, it's

  481. just all you will get is maintenance. You need to

  482. break into the one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty,

  483. one hundred and thirty because your muscle also needs to

  484. break And however, you know in this room that's why

  485. we call it breakthrough, and that too many Christians who

  486. are not breaking through because they are unwilling to go

  487. one step higher, are willing to serve one hour more,

  488. aren't willing to read the Bible one page more, aren't

  489. willing you understand this.

  490. So I don't want to say.

  491. I love you too much to have you all appear

  492. before Jesus regretting. I want you to at least try that,

  493. even with broken food, do something.

  494. Try not to.

  495. Live by excusers, by live by exploits. Exploits means, sir,

  496. God can use you more than you think you can

  497. be used.

  498. That's what exploits really mean.

  499. Like if you working at the office and you and

  500. your boss is causing you to do more work than

  501. you're paid. There's exploitation, right, But God wants to use

  502. us more.

  503. Than we think we are capable of. That's another kind.

  504. Of explotation, but it's a good explotation.

  505. Daniel, eleven thirty two.

  506. They that know their God shall be strong and do

  507. great exploits. But instead we are making great excuse Okay,

  508. we don't want excuse us.

  509. We want great exploits. Can I hear good? Amen? So

  510. God is shaping us.

  511. In salt water, in sweat water, in times are hard water,

  512. in times.

  513. Are not so easy? Water? Are you all seeing me? In? Like?

  514. There is trouble? Also in a Christian life water, there

  515. is also headache and stress.

  516. Water. There is also struggle and pain and sorrow. Water.

  517. But we get shaped by God, everybody, Okay. And finally,

  518. rarity rarity. Rarity just means a who is asking. If

  519. a person is asking he only wants a ten US

  520. dollar pulse, then so be it. I can make a thousand,

  521. I just I just bring whatever you know, Just give

  522. me whatever marble, right, I just painted here you go

  523. ten US dollars. Who's asking? But the one who's asking

  524. is God? And God is asking for pearls of great price.

  525. He's not even asking for.

  526. Cultured he's asking for natural pearls of great price. I'll

  527. show you in a slighter what's the difference. The difference

  528. is in a couple of zeros behind. That's that's a

  529. real difference, because even in cultured pulsa, you cannot fetch

  530. so much. And God is saying the pearl that he

  531. wants out of our lives. It has to be worth

  532. you giving up your life for. So he ain't asking

  533. for imitation. And I'm sad to say that there are

  534. imitation Christians around who was settled.

  535. For just give me a paint.

  536. That's why there's a scripture that says in the last

  537. days they will have a form of godliness. Deny is power.

  538. A form means painted overland. As long as you think

  539. I'm a pearl from ten meters away, I'm fine. But

  540. when you come before the Lord, he will be able

  541. to detect whether you're an imitation or whether you are

  542. naturally form perl. From a mile away, he can smell you,

  543. but our friends can't, our colleagues can't, our classmates they can.

  544. You know, you look like a Christian, you play Christian song,

  545. but in reality, in your house where you are alone,

  546. the things that you watch on internet. Don't be an

  547. imitation Christian. Please don't be a fake. You want to

  548. be be real because God is after the pearl of

  549. great price. So who's asking? God is asking, and he's

  550. asking for better because he believes that all of you

  551. in this room can amount to better, including me.

  552. I'm not done yet. No, I'm not done yet.

  553. After this injury, I'm saying, Lord, please more, because I

  554. don't think this injury is by accident or you know

  555. or no, it was an accident, but you know it

  556. wasn't don't don't waste time. You've gotta get injured, then

  557. get injured for good reason.

  558. Don't waste time. There's there's no you have time to waste.

  559. So rarity, the rre it is if you can produce

  560. like that, you know, just just produce like that, just

  561. have the look and.

  562. Not the power. No problem. Ten dollars I pray, and

  563. there's no ten dollars Christian in this room. Okay, please please,

  564. no ten dollars Christian in this room. Right.

  565. I pray that every one of you are priceless, come on,

  566. price less? Can you hear gray Man?

  567. Next one? Next one?

  568. Okay, let's let's now, don't go to the slide for us.

  569. Oh no, see you go to this slight idea you saw.

  570. Never mindnumb mine. He's not your fault. It's not your fault.

  571. We saw already that imitation takes one to seven days.

  572. It's only ten dollars. But okay, I want to go

  573. into the story. Can I go into the story? I

  574. had to go into my iPhone now because the story

  575. is is that here? Please please forgive me. I am

  576. not showing off. Okay, can I tell you?

  577. Okay, I read to you.

  578. I read to you because I haven't memorized it, because

  579. I'm not a pearl expert.

  580. But here we go.

  581. There are three kinds of pulse, or three kinds of

  582. ways pearls are produced. Number one, let's do the natural.

  583. There are essentially three times. Okay, I read that natural

  584. culture imitation. I read that natural pulse. Let's tarty with

  585. that natural pearls form when an irritturnt. No, no, don't

  586. start look at your husband and wife now, don't look

  587. at your brother or sister now, please please?

  588. Yeah? How may you now know why God putting it

  589. in our lives? Yeah?

  590. Yeah, He's after the pearl he's after the pearl. Okay,

  591. all right, how many of you know everything in your

  592. life right now? Okay, don't don't look don't look left,

  593. don't look right. How many of you know everything in

  594. your office right now?

  595. Don't look left, don't look right.

  596. Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, thank you, because.

  597. These two fellers work together in the same office. Yeah,

  598. there is a reason for irritans.

  599. We forgot that natural pearls form and an irriturn usually

  600. a parasite.

  601. You know, you know, you know there this uh.

  602. This proverbial, proverbial a story that says a dirt one

  603. day went into a per oyster, a sand, a grain

  604. of sand went to a muscle and when so we're

  605. talking about sand and dirt. Actually, in real life, it's

  606. usually a parasite. No, no, supplik, He said, you know,

  607. how too much are you? I said, parasite that if

  608. we look at Rachel.

  609. No, I don't. I don't think you meant that. I

  610. don't think you meant that.

  611. I think yeah, yeah, not really, not really okay, really,

  612. but not really okay, parasite.

  613. You know, in our lives there are many parasites. Love,

  614. but you know, we don't.

  615. Like the parasite. Right, we hate the parasite. We blame

  616. the parasite. We see our classroom has a parasite, and

  617. so we work the parasite. We tell the teacher and

  618. look at the parasite. Right, But you know what the

  619. parasite is there for. And if we keep rejecting parasites

  620. in our lives, we will become a ten dollars imitation

  621. at the end. I don't want you to become a

  622. ten dollar in mediation. So everybody, I think it's time

  623. to start embracing parasites.

  624. I can see how your eyes going on. I can

  625. think of a few.

  626. Okay, okay, Oh we are the par yeah, yeah we

  627. could be. Do you know when you come to church,

  628. churches got eythens, but God put them there because at

  629. the end day God is after you as a pearl.

  630. So if you keep going to churches that don't have urethants,

  631. I want to go to a church that there's no trouble,

  632. no problem. No one looked down at me, no no,

  633. no one look up to me, No one looks.

  634. Aside to me.

  635. No, no, no, you know, I please God give me

  636. an everything free church.

  637. He gave you a pandemica. So we don't have to

  638. go to church. He gave you you don't have to

  639. go to church. Just say home.

  640. Everybody watch online, because online you can't see the paraside.

  641. Everything looks good online. Has he given you a name

  642. that okay, let's talk and please don't go to school

  643. and go to your workplace Monday, then say, oh, I.

  644. Got a new need for you, my dear colleague. It's

  645. very nice. Name is para parasita.

  646. Parasita parasita. Usually a parasite has worked its way into

  647. an oyster or a muscle, or a muscle or a

  648. clam now as a defense mechanism. How many of you

  649. in this room have got defense mechanism? Yeah, yeah, you

  650. know what your what was because some people shout out

  651. to me, was your defense mechanism. Blame blame, dumb parasite

  652. coming to my life, you know, blame. My life was

  653. easy without you, you know, my life was peaceful without you.

  654. God burn up all the parasites in my life.

  655. No, seriously, there is a defense mechanism found within the shell,

  656. within the oyster itself, within the muscles, within the clem Okay,

  657. maybe somebody else shout at me or shout to me. Uh,

  658. what the other defense mechanism? Yeh, change table, change table,

  659. change church. So everything you do, change change your cologne,

  660. change your death, change your department.

  661. Ask for a.

  662. Promotion or demotion, no piece that just demote me.

  663. Just demote me. I don't mind being devoted.

  664. I just can't stand to be in the same office

  665. with this parasita. You want to know what defense mechanism

  666. the oyster has. It's called a fluid. A fluid that

  667. is called Knacker an a c R E. And Albert,

  668. don't try to make it into a I could see

  669. your your husband's faces are like oh now again say

  670. in in Africa Naka and a c R E.

  671. There's a fluid called Necker.

  672. The Knacker is already in the oyster.

  673. Listen, ladies and gentlemen.

  674. The thing that will make you valuable is already inside you,

  675. and God wants you because comfort doesn't bring out the

  676. Knacker is a fluid.

  677. The Knacker only moves Jang Jiang Jang.

  678. It only moves when it has two, so he doesn't blame,

  679. he doesn't do anything. It now covers. Can imagine that

  680. the parents come into Officer and you just slaughther it

  681. with love it.

  682. He just yeah, this on the necker just comes out,

  683. flew it right, oh dirt, oh saying ooh eat it.

  684. Then let's just surrounded with all this love.

  685. No enough, one more layer, two more, laya Hello. He

  686. doesn't say good morning to you, good morning to you,

  687. or no, you haven't said good morning to me. You know,

  688. you ever say you never say you love me. I

  689. love you because God told me to. Ah. And this

  690. this necker within you that just comes out, and it

  691. just just bills and surrounds this dirt, this parasite, And

  692. the more you surround it, the more you can't see

  693. it anymore.

  694. He doesn't fight it. He doesn't fight it. It quotes it.

  695. Now you know why God chose Perl.

  696. He wants Christians to coote all the dirt and the

  697. parasise in your life with everything that is from the Lord.

  698. And how does a dirt become a treasure? How does

  699. a parasite become a jewel? When he gets covered and

  700. slaughtered and you know, and and and and and and

  701. and you know, just surrounded by knacker. There's unending and

  702. it takes time, not just one day, two days time.

  703. So the longer this irritant is in your life, or

  704. is in your office, or is in your school. And

  705. every day he doesn't want to smile to you, but

  706. you smile back.

  707. Knacker. Right.

  708. He throws rubbish in front of your place. You know

  709. you don't throw rubbish on in front of you pick

  710. up the rubbish. And I don't know, I don't know

  711. what else. The other day when I went to Malacca,

  712. I was eating very good kaya, very good from Baba

  713. Baba Charlie, very good, very good. And then uh Pacea

  714. said you want to buy any back? I said yeah,

  715. So I bought six. Bought those bag say he so many?

  716. I don't know. I was thinking about my neighbors. So

  717. I bought four, two immediate neighbors and two signed. Never

  718. bought them any gift at all. I thought I would

  719. just knacker them.

  720. All four of them.

  721. No. Sorry, One has uh left for the States because

  722. his uh daughter just gave birth, so he went to

  723. the States for six months.

  724. And so I ate his kya, no point in wasting it, yea.

  725. And all the neighbors were like, you know from far

  726. can earth, so good your kaya. I know. Now we're

  727. becoming friends. Now now now I want to go blocker

  728. and gain and buy them some more stuff so I

  729. can necker them some more. Wouldn't he wouldn't it be

  730. a good sentence to knacker people, to Jesus. People come

  731. to you said, how do you?

  732. How do you? How did you? How did you come

  733. to know the Lord? My neighbor just nackered me. Ah,

  734. not nagger, not nag. And he didn't nagger, He knackered.

  735. He just kept surrounding me with this layer of fluid,

  736. over and over again.

  737. Do I expect him to buy me back? I don't

  738. think so. It's amazing. Think about it. Why did the

  739. Lord choose pearl? Because he was?

  740. Is the way it's formed, okay, But without the irritten

  741. the neckar doesn't get released.

  742. There's something in all of us in this room.

  743. Something beautiful comes out of you in times of trouble,

  744. at least it was meant to be there. Or something

  745. bitter can also come out, so we choose right, bitter

  746. or better? Can I move on? It's a different mechanism.

  747. A fluid is used to quote the irritant. Layer upon

  748. layer of this quoting, called necker is deposited until a

  749. lustrous pearl is formed. Now let's look at culture. A

  750. cultured pearl undergoes the same process. The only difference is

  751. that the irritan is surgically implanted. All right, it's not

  752. so natural. It's either a bead or a piece of

  753. shell called mother of pearl. So they use a mother

  754. of pearl and they, you know, force it. Some of

  755. our lives and some of our Christian development feels forced.

  756. These seeds or nuclei are most often formed from muscle shells.

  757. Quality cultured pearls require a suffce amount of time, generally

  758. at least three years for a thick layer of necker

  759. to be deposited. So three years just too mature, three

  760. years just to form necker, right, for a thick layer

  761. of necker to be deposited, resulting in a beautiful gem

  762. quality pearl.

  763. Lower quality pearls have.

  764. Often been rushed out, so cultured pearls that can also

  765. be of low quality. You know how low quality is

  766. produced when we rush through. We want things done now

  767. now now, now do it for me, and do it now.

  768. I'm hungry. Now give me the drink, now, give me

  769. the handphone now. But you know what it produces pearls,

  770. but very low quality because they've been rushed out of

  771. the oyster too quickly, and they have too thin a

  772. coat of necker. No point having it, no point having

  773. pearls with toothing, because it is the knacker that gives

  774. it its value. Anybody, Okay, the knacker that is produced

  775. out of irritance is the one that gives it value.

  776. And I want to believe that everyone in this room

  777. has more necker to give. Okay, Hey, good amen, more

  778. knacker to give. Please, don't resign so quickly, don't retire

  779. so quickly. I believe the best production of necker is

  780. ahead of us. Now, pearls can come either from salt

  781. or fresh water.

  782. I say that to you. Historically, salt water.

  783. Pearls were rounder and had a better knacker than fresh

  784. water pearls, while fresh water pearls tended to be very

  785. irregular in shape, with a.

  786. Puff rice appearance. The most prevailed.

  787. You know, but you know what if you if you're

  788. gonna settle for less yes, I guess beauty is in

  789. the eyes of the beholder. Maybe the world is asking

  790. for lesser Christians. Maybe maybe the world wants Christians who

  791. don't mind LGBT.

  792. So a lesser Christian will agree the kind of Christians

  793. the world.

  794. One's is the rush kind God wants the great price,

  795. are you assuming there is a demand? No, in the world,

  796. even for Christians. There's a demand in the world, even

  797. for Christians. But they hope that you are not the

  798. one of great value, because that would mean that your

  799. knacker or you know, the coating will be so strong

  800. that nothing will nothing will devalue you. Everybody, Okay, all right,

  801. I don't want.

  802. To bore you.

  803. I'll just go for a few more and then we

  804. will close this part. So after the three years of

  805. the cultured and muscle or oyster, it takes another three

  806. years to put the force in the irritant and takes

  807. another three years, so anywhere from three to six years cultured. Okay,

  808. after pearls produce, only approximately five percent are of sufficient

  809. true gem quality for top jewelry makers.

  810. So these cultured places are the farmerser.

  811. They have one hundred and you know how much it

  812. spent over each pearl to invest in it, over each

  813. cultured pearl, one hundred US.

  814. Dollars to spend. But they say only five percent.

  815. Will produce gem worthy pearlse So there's no guarantee, h no,

  816. no guarantee that every Christian.

  817. Will become a pearl. Sorry, I just started it in a.

  818. For you to think about, because everybody thinks that Christian

  819. you've gotta.

  820. Be a pearl.

  821. Not necessarily, as all you come to church, read your

  822. Bible once a week, you'll be.

  823. You know, I don't think so.

  824. But you can make a choice today what kind of

  825. pearl you want to be? Yeah, because if you want

  826. to be God's kind, which is very rare, then the

  827. price is a little bit higher. Okay, let me try

  828. to finish this. Okay, one hundred dollars for every oyster

  829. that is found, whether a gem quality pearl is produced

  830. or not, and.

  831. A day only five percent get produced. Okay, last one.

  832. Imitation pearls are a different story altogether. In most cases,

  833. a glass bead is dipped into a solution made from

  834. fish scales. Oh, the one makes me hungry. I'm thinking

  835. of tasty tiner fish scales. This coat thing is thin

  836. and may eventually wear off. One can actually tell and

  837. immitation by rubbing it across the teeth. Have you done anyone?

  838. Take a pe rub it across your teeth.

  839. While the layers of necker on a real pearl feels gritty,

  840. the falls or imitate. Imitation one will start to come off.

  841. The paint was come off. Please don't be a painted Christian, Okay, guys,

  842. be a pure Christian. The island of Mallorca is known

  843. for its imitation pearl industry, and the term Malorca pearls

  844. or Majorica pearls is frequently, though inaccurately, used to describe

  845. these pearl stimulants.

  846. Okay, so what's the difference the imitation one.

  847. You don't need time, you don't need a necker, you

  848. don't need irritating Okay, but there are many in the market.

  849. The couching ones told you the difference, and of course

  850. the natural one, which CAUs once. Okay, Now let me

  851. write and run this race to the last lap by

  852. the next few slides.

  853. Now x if he can help me.

  854. Imitation takes one to seven days and it's ten dollars,

  855. right or more? Second Tivity three five says having a

  856. form of godliness, but denying its power from such pulse

  857. or from such people.

  858. Turn away.

  859. Paul was not talking about Christian non Christiana. He was

  860. talking about the types of Christians, because he would never

  861. ask a Christian to turn away from a non Christian.

  862. You mean he will ask us to go and witness

  863. with them, love them, but he's asking us to beware

  864. of the imitation the Christians that you will only.

  865. Have a form. Okay, stay away from them. Okay, this

  866. I know is very strong. Let's move on.

  867. Cultured pearls take time between three to six years, and

  868. they are done for profit.

  869. Profit.

  870. Now why because after some businessmen saw that people pay

  871. big money for pearls, they had an idea, Wow, actually

  872. there's a market for nice looking pearls.

  873. But we cannot wait so long. We cannot wait so long.

  874. Is there a way to do it faster and so

  875. that we can do it faster and produce more because

  876. people are willing to pay.

  877. So Christians or people, or.

  878. Pearls that are rush through are usually done because of profit.

  879. The purpose is to gain a profit out of the process.

  880. How many of you think that Jesus after profit. He's not.

  881. He's not.

  882. I'll show you what he's after Okay, in the next

  883. one we'll go. But anyway that there is some value

  884. to this anywhere from one hundred US dollars to even

  885. ten thousand US dollars, you can because they've found a

  886. way to culture, pearls to be a little bit more

  887. round her, all right. And if the pearl is about

  888. four or five six years, okay, higher value, but it

  889. will never fetch the value of a natural perl, and

  890. it will never be considered a pearl of great price.

  891. Okay. Next one natural.

  892. The natural takes ten to twenty years, okay. And if

  893. you are willing to wait, this is what you call passion.

  894. So it's very easy to distinguish a passionate Christian and

  895. one that's just out for profit, and one that's just

  896. out for show.

  897. Okay.

  898. I pray that none of us will take that road

  899. for a form of godliness, or for show, or for imitation,

  900. never mind life, as long as they think it's pearls,

  901. I'm happy. I pray that you will not settle. I

  902. pray also that you will not just be here for profit.

  903. What's in it for me? What's in it for me?

  904. You know?

  905. And you just rush through being a Christian doing the

  906. right thing so that you can get the right blessing.

  907. Mammy said to me that if I can be a

  908. good Christian kid, I will get.

  909. To use my handphone profit.

  910. Mammy said to me, if I can be a good

  911. Christian boy, I will get together profit.

  912. So we are doing something for profit, but we just

  913. go through the emotion.

  914. I also, do you mean, but when you meet a

  915. Christian who is passionate without even a promise of a

  916. handful or for more TV time or more this more,

  917. that is passion. That's why people like volunteers, because volunteers

  918. don't work for money, and volunteers when they become volunteers

  919. that they work because of.

  920. Fire.

  921. And this one, the cost goes up, the value goes up.

  922. All right, natural pulse very hard to get. But you

  923. want to see one more. One more is what the

  924. Bible calls pearl of great price, or as the world

  925. would call it, of exceptional value, exceptional value. This one

  926. takes forty years or more. One pearl, no friend. And

  927. they said that in the in the research I was reading,

  928. usually is discovered by accidental because people don't even know

  929. where to find it. And then we found it out. Said, well,

  930. this part of the sea has never been touched, this

  931. part of the sea has never been disturbed. This part

  932. of the sea is pristine waters. Blah blah blah blah

  933. blah blah. And you know it's salt water and look

  934. at this pearl. I'll tell you a little bit more

  935. about this pearla forty years. Now, in the Bible, forty

  936. years is a very forty is a very significant number.

  937. Is a cycle. Forty years is a cycle of life.

  938. Eighty years is two cycles of life. So when a

  939. pearl is is of great price at forty years, it

  940. means one life in that one lifetime. And the guy

  941. who got founded a pearl of great price gave his all,

  942. gave his life for that one perl.

  943. I want to tell you right now, when you're talking.

  944. About the peerl that God is asking for, it's not

  945. just talking about money anymore.

  946. He's talking about life.

  947. Is a cycle of life forty years and it's now purpose.

  948. So we have gone from We've gone from imitation. Play

  949. play first P play play second P is cultured profit.

  950. Profit. You're in this? What do you have for me?

  951. I give to you? Why?

  952. Okay, you give me one, I give you one, You

  953. give me two, I give you two.

  954. You know there's this promise that goes on.

  955. Third one is passion and now final one is purpose.

  956. You know what purpose is? That means that even if

  957. you don't.

  958. Have passion, how do you how do you understand that

  959. you cannot have passion every day? I know, I mean

  960. my team liverpooler is losing one game after the other. No,

  961. I'm actually really knows no, su passionate now. I don't

  962. know why we get more passionate that you do. You

  963. know games sports. The country gets more passionate about a

  964. sport when their team is winning. That's why when Malaysia

  965. is winning, the whole stadium is where we're losing, is on.

  966. It's this is a mentality we have, right. But passion

  967. can go up, passion can go down. It's not every

  968. day that you're passionate about your spouse. I can't tell

  969. you now, place, sir, It's not every day you're passion

  970. about your spouse like I can tell you is the

  971. true thing? Okay, uh, I'm thinking about the wives who's

  972. got two or three kids to take it off, right,

  973. and the husband thinking, your wife passionate for you every

  974. day thing five times?

  975. All right, she's got these you know, precious little uh

  976. here it dance, here it is and I gotta pariicise it.

  977. All hanging on her hair, hanging on her eyebrows and

  978. everywhere else. And you know her husband comes back, you know,

  979. tries a new Colonne opens the door like Tazan. No,

  980. it's not always no.

  981. Every day when no. But you know what, we can live.

  982. Every day purpose. Every day we can live by purpose.

  983. That means that even you don't feel like it, that

  984. you still come to church. You don't feel like you

  985. still lays up your hands.

  986. You don't. You don't.

  987. You don't feel like you used to bless the Lord.

  988. You don't feel like you used to read your Bible.

  989. You don't feel like it. That is disciple first, That

  990. is Christian.

  991. That is of great price. It takes a lifetime to

  992. get there. You know, folks, you.

  993. Know the value goes from one hundred thousand US dollars

  994. to millions.

  995. Again is in the eyes of the beholder. People will

  996. pay for it.

  997. And I want to tell you who are bier God

  998. himself because he's looking for that pearl. Okay, something about

  999. this pearler. I read about her, and this is also

  1000. on your screen. So they said, how do you know

  1001. these pearls of great price? Right?

  1002. How you know? So according to the experts, you pick

  1003. up the pearler.

  1004. You pick up the pearl, he says, he will display

  1005. I wrote it down for you deep internal glow. Want

  1006. to look at it? If you ask Gut a brother,

  1007. Gut who is a jeweler. He knows jewelry, and when

  1008. he looks at the diamond, he tells me once again,

  1009. I don't pay for what they tell me. He says,

  1010. because I'll be in a jewelry business for fifty years.

  1011. I can see the worth of a diamond when a

  1012. pick it up. So I said, what do you see?

  1013. Girt is.

  1014. From Germany and he was in jewry business for fifty

  1015. five years now, and he picks up a diamond or whatever.

  1016. He says, I look for fire in the stone. I

  1017. got to see fire in the stone, whether with a

  1018. naked eye or with you know, the help.

  1019. I got to see fire.

  1020. The more the fire burns within the stone, the higher value.

  1021. And nobody ever told me that.

  1022. He says, some fire, sorry, some jewelry or gems they

  1023. sell you has no fire. I said, God, that sounds

  1024. like a Christian. That sounds like revival. That's how ours

  1025. could be Christian a long time but lose the fire.

  1026. Next year's theme is revival. I pray that all of

  1027. you here in his room in Jesus name me creaing

  1028. myself will have a fire. If there's any one of

  1029. your sons and daughters who are no longer serving the Lord,

  1030. no longer to go to the church. It is not

  1031. that he doesn't have a Christian name or doesn't have

  1032. Christian parents.

  1033. He's lost there.

  1034. You know what God is after as a master jeweler,

  1035. He's after the fire.

  1036. Amen. So when you take a pearl they call it.

  1037. There's this deep internal glow of beauty that's shining from within.

  1038. I see beauty from within.

  1039. So if anyone here have ever been told that you're

  1040. ugly and you look into the mirror, you cry every

  1041. time you look in the mirror, can I tell you

  1042. the truth? The truth is that God doesn't see that mirror.

  1043. And who is the one that judge who's ugly and

  1044. who's not from the outside. Because God is after things

  1045. that people can't see. That's your real value and that

  1046. takes time to build. And so the word orient in

  1047. in in a bracket, it's just this is the word

  1048. orient just means this. People in jewelry business use the

  1049. word orient a lot. The word orient just means rainbow color.

  1050. So when you see, uh, so someone if a person

  1051. takes a pearl. It says, I see a strong, radiant orient.

  1052. He means there's a rainbow of colors just shining from

  1053. with it. And you know, rainbow can only be created

  1054. by God. No God created a rainbow, and it was

  1055. meant to be a promise. And so when you see

  1056. a rainbow shining from within you you're seeing God in you,

  1057. the one who gave you the promise?

  1058. Are you also doing me?

  1059. And of course the world wants to think the rainbow

  1060. for themselves, are right? You know that the rain is

  1061. a symbol for something else devils to this spot now

  1062. this start, But this particular rainbow is particular orient and

  1063. you cannot manipulate.

  1064. It has to come from insight.

  1065. But there was a huge cost because you know why

  1066. when the pearl was untouched for forty years in the seawater,

  1067. you know what happens every year the Necker sial goes on.

  1068. This keeps going on so much Necker that now it

  1069. begins to become something you never even imagine it could become.

  1070. But there's only number one.

  1071. There's some one something internal shines forth. And then number

  1072. two there is a mirror like external shine or reflection.

  1073. The pearl suddenly becomes so reflective. When you look at it,

  1074. you can see your face. That's how they know a

  1075. lot of the pearls that, even the most expensive. Now

  1076. you can see maybe a glimpse, maybe if you polishes,

  1077. I think I can see a silouette.

  1078. But they're saying to you right now, and this is

  1079. from the experts.

  1080. When you look into a pearl of great price forty

  1081. years or more, not only do you see a shine

  1082. from within you is so clear, it's mirror like that

  1083. you can see your face. And then the Lord spoke

  1084. to me, you know, he spoke to me. When I

  1085. read this, he says, Kenneth, that must have been what

  1086. the man who found one pearl of great price saw.

  1087. He was looking for pearls, beautiful pearls plural, but he

  1088. settled for one because he found it. You know who

  1089. he found. He found himself. He took up the pearl,

  1090. and he saw his face. Because God is not after

  1091. real Purlse. What is he after real Purlse. It's after you.

  1092. He's after me. He wants to make sure that all

  1093. of us make it to the pearly Gates, and that

  1094. Pearly Gate hopefully will match our peerl and that's why

  1095. it's water to water, oil toil, Otherwise it will not

  1096. You cannot enter, are you okay?

  1097. I know?

  1098. I know. We always push away the very thing that

  1099. makes us who we should want to be. Yeah, we

  1100. always fight with the very thing that's supposed to be

  1101. there to make us. So that's how you know, they

  1102. think of the pearl and go like, Okay, this is different,

  1103. and this is worth my life. I'm gonna sell everything

  1104. I have because I found the real deal. Purpose of

  1105. the irritant is the next slide is to form pearls

  1106. in you, says the next line. And that's why the

  1107. Bible says in Matthew seven six, do not cast your

  1108. pearls before swine. You get that because all of us

  1109. here in this room, let's just say, we haven't become

  1110. the pearl, but in our lives, many hardships have created

  1111. pearls inside of us. And these are pearls of wisdom.

  1112. When I look at you know, doctor James, look at

  1113. his you know, dear wife.

  1114. Says the Christina.

  1115. Anyone who sits with them, I tell you what, you

  1116. will get pearls from them. I am quite sure. And

  1117. it did not come because of comfort came from hardship, sweat,

  1118. having four children bring.

  1119. Them all up to fear the Lord.

  1120. I tell you any one here will benefit from sitting

  1121. one hour with them.

  1122. Pearls.

  1123. They have pearls, but pearls came from the irritant they

  1124. allowed in their lives.

  1125. Areyway?

  1126. Okay, you know I'm looking at some of the older

  1127. ones here. I think this is the Sharon not so old, ye,

  1128. but but she will always tell you she's all she's

  1129. the youngest oldest person.

  1130. Here like this.

  1131. It's okay, I don't know what I'm mis kidding, but

  1132. I'm sure she's got a lot to tell you.

  1133. Her husband went through a tough time with his health.

  1134. It's not easy enough to take care of someone who's

  1135. not well. She probably cried tears we never seen tears.

  1136. Also are salty water, right, he said, salt water that

  1137. produces this. Some of you have cried in this room.

  1138. No one sees, God sees you sit down one hour,

  1139. says Sharon. I'm sure she won't just t talk to

  1140. you about pick a ball. Although pickles so salty. I'm

  1141. just sorry, side side joke. Okay, but no, it's not

  1142. just the older ones.

  1143. Here that have it.

  1144. I'm sure the ones here, we're in your thirties, forties,

  1145. everyone has got a pearl. So the Bible is saying, please,

  1146. don't take this purse and cast it to swine. You want,

  1147. you want to cast your purse anywhere, casting to people

  1148. who want it, cast to people who say, uncle, can.

  1149. You tell me more about life?

  1150. Come come to Rachel And and said, Rachel, you've got

  1151. two kids, Come to Albert. You know they're their first child,

  1152. Passendra and I had the privilege of walking with them

  1153. when Shay had some challenges.

  1154. In her life growing up.

  1155. But these two never gave up because they put their

  1156. faith in Christ. Yesterday we just heard the testimony from

  1157. Jessica and Jason Martin Jerome.

  1158. What a testimony they give. They almost want to give up.

  1159. You know how many times who knows that tears? Who

  1160. knows that tears? But today Jerome's a mocking miracle.

  1161. If you have a tough child, go sit with Jason

  1162. and Jessica.

  1163. I tell you, in one hour, they'll tell you things

  1164. that So I've got pearls or so, and I'd rather

  1165. cast them before people that came to change to receive it,

  1166. because hopefully when you take it, you make something out

  1167. of it. But please don't go outside and just cast

  1168. it anywhere, because those those swine would trample precious pearls that.

  1169. You took so long to earn. Are you also hear me?

  1170. It's very important, very important, Okay? And then.

  1171. Now let's go into this other slide not only to

  1172. form pearls in you, but to finally form you into

  1173. a pearl, to get you ready for.

  1174. The pearly gate. That's why I tell you I really

  1175. believe in this.

  1176. Irreturns will either bring out the promise or the problem

  1177. in us.

  1178. That's what the next slight says. Do you agree with this?

  1179. Sometimes iverythings can come right, pers I can come right.

  1180. Difficult people can come in the officer and you know what.

  1181. They reveal your temper, They reveal the imitation pulls that

  1182. incite you. They reveal your immaturity. They reveal that, oh,

  1183. maybe you have not really grown up in the lot yet.

  1184. Maybe you read the Bible, but you don't really know

  1185. the Bible. So Irriton's come into your life to also

  1186. test you. And what comes out is problem after problem

  1187. after problem. But God is not after the problem. He's

  1188. after the promise. So God, when he gives you irri

  1189. return respond well to the returns.

  1190. So then the promise can come. Amen. And what's the promise?

  1191. The pearl of great price.

  1192. Okay, but ladies and gentlemen, if the last six months

  1193. of irritance in your live and all you see is problem,

  1194. something's wrong, And I pray that today as I cast

  1195. pearls to you, you will go home with it and

  1196. go like Lord, I want to see my neighbors differently.

  1197. I want to see my colleague differently. I want to

  1198. see the uncle differently. I want to see the auntie differently.

  1199. I want to see my classmates differently. I want to

  1200. see my teacher differently. Lord help me, because otherwise I

  1201. end up always being the problem and seeing other people

  1202. the problem back to you, because it's all inside you,

  1203. and so God will continue to do so. Even if

  1204. you change office, change church, change schooler, you will find the.

  1205. Same thing.

  1206. Are used to me, change country, you will find the

  1207. same thing. What's the joy of VJ just told me

  1208. that Melbourne used to be the most diverpl city.

  1209. Now they're trying to chase the Asians out, some of

  1210. them and so.

  1211. A stabbing just happened with an Asian lady, you know,

  1212. because they're trying to demonstrate Asians get out to make

  1213. Australia Australians. So this is how only like you know,

  1214. some something in America. There's someunding sounding some in the

  1215. UK who's marching, you know, marching saying you know if

  1216. you know why, you know this is not your land,

  1217. blah blah blah.

  1218. The world.

  1219. Hey, a livable city, the most livable city in the world,

  1220. three times in a row is now becoming a nightmare.

  1221. So I'll church in x Melbourne for two sundays I

  1222. think in a row. I'm not sure.

  1223. Better it was one Sunday of two Sundays in row pass.

  1224. Joe Vida reports that, you know, it's only half the

  1225. attendance because people, the Asian in our church are scared to.

  1226. Come into the city listener. So we need to pray

  1227. for our people.

  1228. Pray, pray, and you know, ask also from wisdom and

  1229. and and how what.

  1230. Do we do with this?

  1231. I pray that you know, it would just be something

  1232. that would just pass. But it's not the place. Stop

  1233. thinking that just as long as you change the place,

  1234. you would change everything. No, it's not Okay, I'm going

  1235. to close already, and I know it's a heart message,

  1236. but I want you to understand. And I'm casting pulls

  1237. to you now because I love you and and this.

  1238. Is what God wants you. He wants to encourage you.

  1239. All right.

  1240. Irritants will either bring out the promise or the problem minutes.

  1241. I know, but you're standing up reready. I'll finished, race, rude, irritated.

  1242. I love you.

  1243. But while every while every oyster muscle clam has the

  1244. potential of creating a pearl, not everyone will. In fact,

  1245. in stats in research that's only one in every ten thousand.

  1246. I hope that not every one, only one in sixty

  1247. people here becomes a pearl. Extra has three thousand people

  1248. now buzz under count three thousand, three hundred across the countries.

  1249. I hope that not just one becomes a perl.

  1250. My prayer for disciple first is everyone becomes a per

  1251. only a small percentage of the one makes it to

  1252. the hands of the jewel.

  1253. We don't want that last few and then are closed.

  1254. It all depends on how we respond to the irritants

  1255. in our lives and how we allow others to respond

  1256. to us.

  1257. As irritants. Yeah, sometimes we can also be ritants. Let's

  1258. finish with some scripture.

  1259. And then our close Philippians six, or sorry Philippins one,

  1260. verse six, verse twenty nine, and verse thirty. Being confident

  1261. of this very thing, that he who has begun a

  1262. good work in you will complete it under the day

  1263. of Jesus Christ, somebody say amen for you. It has

  1264. been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe

  1265. in him, but also to suffer for his sake, having

  1266. the same conflict which you saw in me, and now

  1267. here is in me. Next slide second Corinthians four seven

  1268. to ten. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels.

  1269. Yeah, that's right.

  1270. We do have a treasure in this earthen vessel. That

  1271. the excellence of the power may be of God and

  1272. none of us. We are heart pressed on every side,

  1273. That's right. Some of you are heart pressed on every side.

  1274. Yet not crush. We are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted,

  1275. not forsaken, struck down, not destroyed. Always caring about in

  1276. the body or the dying of the Lord Jesus, that

  1277. the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

  1278. Last Slight and last Scripture, Second Corinthians four sixteen to eighteen.

  1279. Therefore we do not lose heart. Someone say, don't lose heart.

  1280. Even though our outward man is perishing, Yet the inward man, oh, Hallelujah,

  1281. is being renewed. The necker is going on and on

  1282. and on. The inward man is shining forth stronger day

  1283. by day. For our light affection, which is but for

  1284. a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding

  1285. and eternal weight of glory. While we do not look

  1286. at the things which are seen, but at the things

  1287. which are not seen. For the things which are seen

  1288. are temporary, but the things which are not The things

  1289. are seen are temporary, but the.

  1290. Things which are not seen are eternal.

  1291. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  1292. information on our church, please visit as church Org. We

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  1294. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  1295. for you. God bless