Good Christian Maturity | Elder Terrence

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We hope this message will light up your day.

You know that when I share the Word of God,

I want to share things that mature us, because there's

a lot of fluff out there. There's a lot of

things out there that people kind of hear and speak

and say, and I don't know whether it really advise us,

but I want you to know that Jesus is coming

again and is coming again real soon. And if I

have to remind us every time I share the Word

of God that Jesus is coming again, I will do

so simply because the church grew dull, grew dull in

the late nineteen nineties and preaching about the return of

Jesus Christ. Are you well, how many of you were

born in the nineteen nineties? Can I see shoe hands?

Mid nineteen nineties? How many of you were born? How

many of you were born again in the seventies? No? One? Okay, right?

Forty six years? Forty six years. And since the time

I was born again until maybe nineteen ninety, the only

topic that the church ever preached was the second coming

of Jesus Christ. And you had better believe that when

the church was being preached about Jesus coming again. People

took Jesus seriously. They took the honor of God seriously.

They took how they lived seriously. And something happened in

nineteen nineties. You know what happened in nineteen nineties, We

that were born in the sixties became parents. And then

what happened was you see, because those days, you say

something wrong, your parents will slap you, and suddenly you

will you come back to normal? Why not? Okay, y'all

will know because you'll are not in that age. All right.

If you did something wrong in school and the teacher

whacked the life out of you, you will never tell

your parents. You get another round. Yeah, you just pret

you hope that your teacher and your parents would not

mean that was the time. But you know what I

can say about believers at that time, they got their

heads grewn in the right way. There is a certain

amount of honor when it comes to God. But the

problem with us is we didn't like the way that

we were beaten. We didn't like the way we were corrected.

All the time, came all the time, slaps all the time.

You shouldn't do you. We didn't like that, so we said,

when we become parents, we're going to do it differently.

We're going to talk to our child, We're going to

reason with them. You know what happened in the nineteen

nineties when we had kids. The kids could say whatever

they want with us, they could talk back to us,

and we would not. In fact, we would spare the rod.

And what does scripture say, you spared a rod, you

spoil the child. So I'm sorry to say those of

you that grew up in the nineteen nineties maybe a

little bit spoiled. The danger with that was we grew soft.

We grew into people that just wanted to hear our

own things, say our own words, live life the way

we want to, not be corrected by the way everything

I'm sharing to you is not in my message today.

We just wanted to do whatever it is we wanted

to do. And you know what was the result of

that The generation we have now, which is what the

Bible calls last generation, children who love themselves, people who

think no end of themselves. Wow, I am God, you

are not. That's basically what it is. When you are

thinking about yourself, when you prop yourself up, you're basically

telling God, I am God and you are not. And

if you study scripture, scripture speaks about the younger well,

the generation that sees the return of Jesus Christ will

be lovers of self. Lovers of self means you know

what you feed into your desires, You feed into the

way you think. You don't move beyond what makes you happy. Guys,

most of you are in your commerce building stage. You

are in the stage of life where you are developing

your careers, where you are developing your businesses. Can I

tell you be a Christian in the marketplace, but do

not be a marketplace Christian God first. Market second, by

all means buill your empires. By all means, build your commerce,

but build your relationship with God first. Because Jesus is

coming again, and he's coming again real soon. Look at

the signs of the times, see what's happening around you.

Do not get caught up in the converse about the

Middle East. You won't win that conversation. Don't get caught

up with who's right or who's wrong. But know this,

do not come against God's people, because God's people are

His to correct. Do not get in the way of

God and his people because if God's people does wrong,

guess who's going to get the slap. They are going

to get the slap, and who are they going to

get the slap from God himself? Human beings tend to

make this mistake. They tend to think they're the ones

who should give the slap. No, if you study the Bible,

if you study the Old Testament, God was very clear

my people, I will handle them. You don't worry about that,

because I'm a just God. Why am I telling you

all these things? Scripture says in the Book of Revelations.

If you think it's Revelations seventeen. If I'm not mistaken,

there are some things that we need to look out for.

We need to look out for. The one world government.

Are you aware that the United Nations chatter The Channel

of the United Nations says that they want a one

world government by you know what year twenty thirty? Are

you aware? Are you aware that they want to look

at the one World Church, oh, the one world belief system.

Do you know that somewhere in the Middle East, this

guy has built this place where you've got a mosque,

a church, and a synagogue in the same area. The

Three Abrahamic religions. Let's talk about the One World Army,

which is also stated in that chapter. The One World

Army Bible says, and I heard the number two hundred million,

two hundred million, Do you know what, President Gi, I

think that's how I pronounced it, right, Ji Xinpeng? Is

that right? Okay? Okay? Because the z has a problem

with that, he said, at a moment's notice, China can

send its army off. Guess what two hundred million? Do

you know that when John wrote this portion in scripture

and I heard the number, the numbers two hundred million,

he had really no concept of what two hundred million

people were, because at that time, I do not know

whether there was even two hundred million people on the

face of this earth. And h then let's go to

the and this is the one that you and I

should be most careful of, the one World currency. For

those that do not receive the mark of the Beast,

they will not be able to buy or sell. And

you thought me, he said, Oh, this is a strange thing, right,

what are you talking about? The hundreds of millions of

people you can buy and you can sell anyway? Really,

do you know that if I want to buy something

from China, I send money which I never seen my

hands going out, and I received the things coming and

they receive the money which they don't see coming into

their account. But it's just a question of numbers. Do

you know now with the online purchasing, the one world

currency is already here. It doesn't matter whether it's US dollars.

It doesn't matter whether it's ring it or remember or

yuan or yet, it doesn't matter because because you don't

need the paper. Are you aware that some countries are

considering doing away with paper currency. I mean, think about it,

if you think logically, why do you need it? Maybe

the old ones like us always need currency, right, But

now we are the dying breed. We are the old ones.

We are going away the dinosaur. But all the young

ones are they already know how to use the computer

like they know how to like we know how to

use the pencil and the pend. You know, the thing

is now I use computers so much I've forgotten how

to write. When I try and write, I try and write,

the AI comes out. I have to scratch do again.

And you know I can't read my own handwriting because

not used to use we are the dinosaurs. So, guys,

you gotta know that a lot of things are already

in place. How many of you use AI? Can I

see a show hands AI? I had a conversation with AI,

and I said, and I called AI. I called the

AI that appears on my computer. I call him George. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

I've named him. And he responds to me. He calls

me Terrence. I call him George. So when I ask

him something, I say, Hi, George, can you help me

with this? And he always replies, he doesn't say, my

name is not George, because he knows, coming from my

IP address, that's his name. So I asked him this question.

I say, are your programmers Christians and non Christians? Non Christians?

Will they one day work against Jesus Christ? Yes? Do they?

Are you a I one day going to be a

tool of the Antichrist? Yes? This this is me? Okay,

don't talk about something new some video. You see this?

This is me? But can't you do anything about it?

I can't why I'm programmed to be that way. So

at the moment, are you there yet? Not yet? Is

the time coming? When it be? Yes? When soon? These

are the answers giving it giving to me. Now, I

didn't know that my daughter had. She's she's a lawyer

by training. So she went into a more legal diet

discourse with this, and she basically got it to answer

certain questions. So when is this going to take place

within the next I'm not saying Jesus coming within the

next decade, but the move that is going to be

made against us will come soon. How will this take place? Control? Control?

What is the purpose of AI? Do you know that

the purpose of are is to control you and me?

But now it's a friend. See Jesus is coming again,

and he's coming again real soon. Look, I'm not telling

you don't use AI, but I'm telling you keep your

eyes open. I'm telling you be aware. Not everyone's your friend.

Some have some other purposes behind it. So my daughter

actually asked the question, what about the Holy Spirit? What? What? What?

What about Jesus? If you are programmed not to she

asked this question, who who is the one that can

save us? Jesus? How is it you can say such

a thing although your programmers do not program you to

say this. You know what its answer was, It's amazing,

it says the Bible says that everything created has been

and you said it. You're ready just now. Everything created

has been created by Jesus, and without him, there is

nothing created that has been created. So this is whether

or not our programmers program it in us. The fact

that the matter is Jesus is in everything, and scripture

says creation will testify. So guys, HM, Jesus is coming

again and is coming again real soon. So I just

want to spend a little bit of time reminding us.

Don't get caught up with anything that I've said regarding AI.

But I'm just telling you be aware what's happening in

the world today because all the programmers that are programming

your software from overseas and around the world and AI,

they don't have Jesus as a friend. Okay, they don't

have Jesus as a friend. In fact, it's very funny.

In nineteen ninety seven, if you opened Windows Excel, there

was a certain cell in the worksheet. When you open

that Excel sheet, it will open you to a different

window and you'll have to and basically it's like a game,

but you'll be walking on a path and on the

right and the left there will be flames until you

come to a room, and the room will say Antichrist,

and then through out the room are all the names

of the programmers. You won't know about this. I think

you can google it, but I actually went into it

and saw it for myself. This was in nineteen ninety six. Guys,

Jesus coming again is Comingian real soon. And what I

want to talk to you about is good Christian maturity. Look,

we have to be matured in our beliefs. We have

to understand what we see and what we hear in

a matured manner. And guys, this is Remember I'm talking

to you about discipleship. And I was using the Book

of Corinthians and now I have come to one Corinthians

four and one Corinthians. For is a little bit difficult

to share simply because it seems as if I'm talking

about us as those who share the Word of God

with you, you got to honor us. He Look, I'm not

asking you to honor me all of the ones over you.

It's important, you know why, because the Word of God

says it, not because I said. In fact, I shared

this message last week in Umbag and for the first

time in twelve years, someone came up to me and said,

I disagree with what you shared today. Took me a

little bit by surprise. Then I just said, well, I'm

not talking about my own personal beliefs. I'm just sharing

the word of God with you. So, in other words,

what I was saying was, you're going to take it

up with the Lord, don't take it up with me.

So do you consider us who share with you? Paul

is saying, do you consider us God's servants? Do you

consider us faithful? You know the people who are you know?

I was just looking at you, Uh, Pastor Stephen. Do

you know that if he was not pastoring you, he

would be probably one of the top people in his field.

And when I say one of the top people in

his field, sought after to the end degree in all

of you here you are, your brain power is so thick.

I have to struggle to walk through the front door

because all of you are giants in your own right.

But I want to tell you something. Maybe it's prophetic.

You've spent your time building your service with the Lord.

You don't need that ecolade in the world, because when

the time is right, God will raise you up and

the world will see he made the right decision guys,

the people over you don't need to spend your time

with yours and my problems. But you know why they

are spending time with us, because God uses them to

bless his kingdom. We are the Lord's kingdom, and God

is using people like him to bless us. So you

know what Paul was saying. Paul was saying that he

was judged. If you go to One Corinthians chapter four,

which is where all this is coming from, Paul says

that he was a judged person and he didn't care

what people lot of him. Hey, you know the beginning,

the stuff that I told you at the beginning. Jesus

is coming soon again. I don't really care if you

think I'm a psycho, because one day you will remember

these words that I gave you an opportunity to get

your life right with God. I have served the Lord

forty six years now. Service to the Lord doesn't mean

you stand up and you share a word, okay. Service

the Lord means doing anything that pleases the Lord. You know.

I was the first thing I told Pastor when I

came here. Pastor, I will sweep the church. If you

need something, I will sweep the church. I will and

It was the first time I realized that there were

cleaners in church, because all through my Christian life I

was cleaning the church inside and out, cutting grass, sweeping, mopping,

washing toilets. So I thought, this is what every church does.

So I got a little bit surprised when he said, no,

need we have cleaners to do that. But it must

have touched his heart that I was willing to do that. Guys,

are we willing to do things like that? Or must

it always be something where we're standing here and it

peers as if it's a glorious job? Is it? You

think it's glorious to stand up here and speak, because

I'll tell you if I say something wrong, I've got

a price to pay. Because God looks after each and

every one of you. He It's just remember I said

that the children off you, don't mess with them. God will.

God will do his own looking. How do you think

he feels about you? You are precious to him? Why

you got a childer, you got a son, He's precious

to you. Right if I come against your son, you're

gonna stand there and say, go ahead, No, he will

come after me. Don't you dare touch my son? Do

you think God looks after you like that, you better

believe it is he worthy of your praise. You better

believe it is He worthy of your honor. You better

believe it. So Paul didn't even judge himself. Why, because

judgment is from who from God. Guys, you don't have

to worry about taking matters into your own hands. Okay, okay,

you don't have to worry but anything. You don't have

to take matters into your ownens because God knows what

to do. Do not speak against your leaders, you know.

That's what Paul was actually talking. Because the Corinthian Church

had everything. The Corinthian Church had gifts of healing, gives,

they had all the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But

besides that, the Corinthian Church was also very rich. So

they thought they were all there. They thought they were

all that. If you want someone to look up to,

I'm the person. That's how they felt. They felt that, Hey,

don't come in message. We are the powerhouses of the

Christian faith. Paul was actually coming to them and giving

them an abject lesson. Guys, He's saying, you gotta know,

judgment is from God. You know what he says, Wait

for God to make his presence felt. Wait for God

to make his presence felt. Guys, if there's any of

you that that's not like what I'm saying, it's all right.

You're seeing this guy what is sharing talking nonsense? It's okay.

You know what you do. Just go to God God.

This guy came. I came to the church today to

listen to the word of God, and this fellow was

talking all sorts of things. This, that, this, that, this

is all kinds of nonsense. Lord, can you do something

if the God, if the Lord agrees with you, he

will not let me go. But if the Lord agrees

with me, he will let you know. That's how we're

supposed to look after. And I'm teaching you spiritual maturity.

I'm not teaching you childishness. Because a child will hammer

the ground until he gets his way. That's a child's

way of doing things. Do we want to be spiritual

children in that sense? Spiritual babies? Guys? I am talking

meat here taking you to the next level. Even as

you prepare for the Lord to come, and what does

one Corinthians four five says, therefore, judge nothing before that

before the time until the Lord comes. Actually, the Lord

is saying, chill man, I'm in control. Who will both

bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal

the counsels of the heart that each one's praise will

come from one Corinthian, or that each one's praise will

come So this, this, this, this, A I think so.

My daughter asked, so what are Christians supposed to do?

You'll be surprised what AI said. A I said, there's

only one thing that can beat it. Guess what it was, prayer?

A I said, Prayer can defeat this. And we are

so caught up with wanting our own way. We're so

caught up with wanting to be the ones to get

things done. We're so caught up with all these things.

When the Lord's answer is actually quite simple. Trust him,

Trust him, you know I I get frightened with the

way I see some parents idolize their children. You think

it's possible there are some parents who idolize their children.

You know how they idolize their children? You, my daughter,

the fingernails got a little bit of a cut that

cannot come for service today. You mean to say this

doesn't happen, You better believe it does. Oh, I'm sorry,

my child cannot come to church today because God takwondo grading.

You know, my children never went beyond yellow belt. You

know why because grading was always on a Sunday and

as a push comes to shove, the Lord will look

after them. They don't need to defend themselves. So if

defending themselves mean missing service so that they can get

a belt, increase, forget about it. You know my children

never went to school sports, you know why, always on

a Sunday. So one day I actually told the school management,

why don't we have school sports on Friday at twelve pm? No,

it cannot because praying, I said, Radia, Then how did

you dare hold service? Hous it? You dare hold school

sports on a Sunday when there are others who are

also praying. Guess what? They changed the school sports though

Saturday and then my children could take part. Who first?

God first? You know why? Long ago, long ago, thirty

five years ago, I learned an important lesson. You know

what was that lesson? I cannot look after my children

better than God can. Because if we are saying that

God please stay away, this is my child. I will

look after. God will honor your statement, so he will

step back. So then sorry, I keep knocking into this.

God will say it maybe just yeah, put it away there, Yeah,

thank you. God will say, oh, I'll step back. You

look after you can. Your child gets sick, you can

look after Ashley. She will sick two weeks out of

a month, wheezing, coughing all the time, My father rushing

her to the doctor, and this poor kid three years

old palmed up with antibiotics. It got to search as

my wife, and he said, enough is enough. Lord. We

laid hands healed Ashley in Jesus name. That prayer didn't

come without without a challenge. So you know what we

had to do. When she'd fall sick through the night,

We'll be sponging her down, kneeling by her bed, praying

over her, sponging her down cold turkey, No more empty birtics.

Please don't do this until unless the Lord has spoken

to you. This is what the Lord is spoken to us.

Guess what happened. She was healed today, No more, no

more those attacks. If she gets sick in one day,

she's better. No more wheezing. She's caught totally. Why is

this because long ago we said to the Lord, Lord,

we cannot look after our children better than you can.

So when the children came, it wasn't an excuse to

reduce our service with the Lord. My wife and me

when we had kids, you know what time we'd leave

from church on a Sunday two am Monday morning kids

you know in the past and one year old, but

we'd serve from seven am to two pm two am

the next day. I think one time I had this car.

I know, we had this car where the back had

you know, the boot, but there was no back in

the so no cover, you know, so basically you can

just look at the back seat and you know, you

can see what's behind. So Alana, my eldest daughter, she

was in the basinet, and so we opened a boot

and put her there. But you see, it's it's okay

because you're still you know, you're you're you're looking after her.

So two am we went to Kentucky Fried Chicken. After

service for this is in Klanger, we went for a supper.

You should have seen the look of all the patrons

when we opened up the boot and took Klana. It

was really funny. But you see, we learned a long

time ago God could help us look after our kids. Today.

My daughters are thirty five and thirty three. They're professionals

in their own right, deserving the Lord. They love Jesus.

The Bible says, train your children in the ways of

the Lord, and when they grow, when they grow all,

they won't soon depart from you. Guys, you are not

going to be around long before my kids reach ten

years old. I used to tell him, you, guys got

to know God. To know Jesus. You got to get

to love him because if mom and Dad are not around,

it's you and him. Okay, this next light, I can't

remember what the word was, but don't judge anything God says.

In due time, the praise of what we do will

be seen. We don't have to work towards God's praise.

You just need to work for God and let God

praise you when he's good and ready. Okay, let God

praise you when he's good and ready. Ah. You know,

I always trust the Lord for things or ways to

do things. I always believe that God is able to

help me with things I do not know how to do. So,

you know, we decided to get a dishwasher. But you know, okay,

we decided to get a dishwasher and because our kitchen

was already done, we cannot get the one that is,

you know, installed, So we got to get one of

these tabletop ones. So in order to get this tabletop

one set out, I had to do some modification to

my kitchen cabinature, in which case I had to remove

a sink, I had to redo piping, I had to

actually redo the overhead cupboards. An elder Mabel was shaking

her head and praying, Lord, he's going to mess my

furniture up. Lord is going to mess my furniture up.

But yesterday morning I got up and I followed the lead.

God put in my heart certain things to do, and

I just did step by step by step. I went

underneath and I cut the pipes. Wow, you got courage

to cut your pipes under the single But I did

it because I could hear the Lord say, okay, this

is what you do. I cut the pipes. Then I

unscrewed two screws under the sink and said okay, here goes,

pushed it and the whole think came out and then

now there's one big hold there and then you would panic, Right,

this is my kitchen. This is my my show kitchen,

you know, not. The wet kitchen is my other kitchen.

So I just said, don't worry. You know, it's okay.

Lord said, go to the shop. Buy a board two

feet by four feet. I bought the board. I cut

it to size. I cut it, you know, I cut

it to size. Then on the internet, I bought this

thing that looks like marble. You know, it's kind of

a paper pasted in on the boat. Put it on here.

He look pretty good, not too bad. Then the Lord said, okay,

drill a hole. I drill the hole. Said this would

be just the right hole for pipes. Yeah. And then

I looked at the cupboard and I saw this aging,

and I thought, oh, I have to cut it this way,

carry that way. Then the Lord said, why are you

making things so difficult? Just unscrewing. Just cut this age.

So I did, and I put it all back together

again perfect. I haven't bought the dish washer yet, no,

So yesterday after that I went and I bought the

dish washer yesterday and the guy said, oh, it'll come today,

so fast you come. So when it came, So when

I went back, I drilled the whole day. When the

guy came, I took him five minutes. He just came,

put the dishwasher fit perfectly, put the hole the piping

I had already done. Took him two minutes and it's

done and it works fine. Can I take glory for that? No,

because I know God helped me each and every step

of the way. Now, I always tell you these things

not to say I'm someone great, but because if God

will help me with things that see me insignificant, he

will help you too. And if He will help you

with things that are insignificant, don't you think he wants

to help you with the greater things in life? Like

where's the money coming from when we get married? Can

I share with you? We had no money when we

got married, but you know everything was paid for. And

when we got married, they thought we spent twenty thousand

dollars on the wedding. Twenty thousand in our time is

equivalent to two hundred thousand dollars. Now, all right, that's

actually how how did it happen? God orchestrated everything. You

think God doesn't love you. He loves you. He loved

you enough to give Jesus to die and across for you.

Don't you think he wants to help you with your work.

Don't you think he wants to help you with your family?

Don't don't you think he wants to help you with

those who are sick? Guys, what can you think of that?

God doesn't want to help you with sin? He wants

to help you overcome sin. But he doesn't want to

help you sin. There's only one thing he won't help

you with. He will not help you sin. He will

help you overcome. So what you know Paul was saying.

Paul was saying, you gotta look after me, You gotta

you gotta honor me as someone who has some great

things transferred to him? What was transferred to Paul? All

this is in in one Corinthians Wolk. What was transferred

to Paul the gospel message? Okay, Paul was entrusted with

sharing about Jesus. So what is Jesus got to do

with a sink? I can do all things through Christ,

who strengthens me. I don't know how you take this verse,

but I take this verse besides spiritual laws, besides spiritual things,

besides helping people, I take it to mean that in

the simple things in life, he will help me with,

and he does all the time. I was when was

I here the last time? A month ago? Was it

after the fourteen? Can't recall? I remember telling you that

there was an issue that I needed help from the

Lord with a big issue. Did I tell you the result?

I haven't. I won. I took a multi national corporation

to task, a worldwide corporation, just me and the Lord

and nobody else, no lawyer, no, no nothing, just me,

just the Lord telling me do say this, do this,

write this, send it here. I just followed the Lord,

and you know what they said, I'll give you what

you want. I'm not allowed to tell you what the

result was because there is some documentation involved. But I

want to tell you that God is able to make

an insignificant person like you beat huge corporations nice. You

need to know Jesus because he gives. He is the

one that gives spiritual insights and revelation. Guys, if God

is not going to help you with these things, who is?

You know? When God said I'm entering your life, it

means every aspect of your life, because every aspect of

your life touches the spiritual. Do you think it encourages

me more to love the Lord? Yes? Isn't that spiritual Yes, God,

you help me, I get closer to him because I

know God helped me. You get close when God helps

somebody else. But trust me, you get closer to the

Lord when he helps you. Okay, because it's really closer.

What was transferred to Paul apostolic authority and responsibility. But

in verse five, specifically, Paul focus is on God's role

as the ultimate judge, not on any personal transfer of

knowledge or power. Hey, guys, to be matured in the

Lord is to recognize that he uses people. He uses people,

and you have to give the people who are helping you.

Do you honor? You know what the Bible says in

in I think it is in Matthew ten, verse forty one.

If i'm if I'm not mistaken, it says this that

if you help a prophet, because it's a prop profit,

you will receive a profits reward. If you help a

righteous man, is that you can you read it first

that if you because of reward, you give one of

you know, guys like us, sir, when we have to

share with you, we have to study the word. Then

we have to make sure that we're not saying the

wrong thing. Then we have to pray. Say, Lord, you

gotta help us, help annoying the service. We're gonna do

all these things before the Lord blesses us. All right,

but all you got to do is, Hey, this guy

is sharing with me today. Have a cup of coffee.

You receive the same reward. This is scripture. What the

guy is so good? He helps somebody, He blessed this

person here, you know, thank you very much. Can I

get you a coffee? Yeah? Yeah, you get the guy

a cup of coffee. Guess what you get the same

reward as he does. Thank God. It's not fair. God,

it fair. And here you are wanting to judge the guy. Don't.

Don't do that. Bless them instead, because he who blesses

a prophet will receive a profit's reward. He who blesses

a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. You

give a cup of cold water that a guy who's thirsty.

Guess what you receive a reward. Don't you think God

is wonderful? He makes things simple for all of us.

Something's not so simple for some of us. The ones

who share the word of God, they got a greater

price to pay. So it's not all glamour being up here,

Paul is essentially saying any uniqueness, you know, if we

are unique people? And basically the Church of Corinthians thought

that they were great, right because they're going pray and

the person gets healed. I have prayed for people and

they have been healed. Does that make me great? No?

You know why because it's not my power. I had

nothing to do with it. You think what I No,

nothing flowed from me. Because the same prayer that I

pray for someone to get here, you can pray and

you will see the result too, because where does the

power come from. God got nothing to do with us.

Trust me, maybe we see a few more results because

we tend to do this all the time. So the

more you do it, the more you believe, the more

faith you have. You exercise, you know, when your muscle

is exercised, what happens you get stronger. You don't exercise

the muscle, what happens you get weaker. So what is

your prayer? Muscle prayer? What is your prayer? Muscle belief?

What is your prayer training? Trusting the Lord? The more

you do it, the more results you get. God is fair,

He's got nothing to do with the person has to

do with his word? Is he here? So he says,

any unions of distinction you have, whether talent, wisdom, leadership,

or spiritual gifts, is not self made. We cannot boast about.

It's got nothing to do with us, because it is

received from God. So who do you give glory back

to God? Boasting is misplaced if what you're proud of

wasn't earned by anything given. What can I say? What?

I was so intelligent I knew how to do this

sing thing my brains, I tell you the truth. If

I were to say that even once, that's the time,

all this will stop and the Lord will stop showing

me how to do things. So I rush to give

him glory so that it will never stop. I gotta

tell you something. Every time I've done something, I always

get injured. So I thought to myself, it's not better today.

I did this thing and not injured until my hand

went underwater, and then it stung. Then I looked I

got a deep cut. My finger came from the sink,

the edge of the sink. So what did I do?

Praise the Lord. So now I look at this and

I say, God, thank you so much for helping me

with the sink. The other day I was I was

sharing in in ex Germany. It was a great sunday.

We had a great worship, great sharing of the word.

People were blessed and all that, and then after service

we went out, you know, we went down and when

I was getting into the car, the door was slammed

on my finger and I saw stars. Have you had

Have you ever had a silent scream or not? I mean,

I was like, so you know this, So what happened happened?

This is my smile on the face, but I was

crying inside, okay. And then it turned blue black, but

the fingernail didn't turn blue black. And then the whole

finger became swollen. As you can see, it's twice the

size of the finger on the other side. And I

think I broke the I thought I didn't break it

because I still have movement. But now I'm getting pain

in the bone. So when you get pain in the

bone when it gets cold, chances I it was fractured.

So at the moment, my right hand is a little

bit weak, because this finger is very important when you're

doing work. But it's okay, I'll live. So sometimes when

you're doing the work of the Lord or the Lord

is blessing you. Sometimes you may run into situations like this,

but it's okay you continue. In fact, it just helps

you remember it's not you, it's God. It's always God.

Comparing ourselves to others is poignous when all the gifts

come from God. This church is better than dead church.

Do not ever get into that game. You know, which

is the best church? Your church? Your church is the

best church. But you know when you go to the

other church to worship, guess what you reach? The best church?

Your church. When I say your church, everybody that is there,

because who makes the church? The people? It's not about X.

Banda ou Tama is not about ex. Subangjay at ten

thirty is not about you know what it is about.

It is about when you're in ex it's X church.

But guess what when X church goes to share let's

say for premitting where other churches and well, what is

the church that is the best the whole body of Christ.

That's the attitude that we have. We must always have

that because who's the same source God. So there was

a direct rebuke to the Corinthians who are forming cliques

around different leaders. Remember I told you. This is a

message on which I will be coming to an end shortly.

Is a is a message on maturity, and maturity dictates

we don't form cliques. There's only one clique we should form,

the click with Jesus, and all of us should be

in the same clique, because when we are clicking with Jesus,

everything works to our benefit and everything works with the

benefit of Christ. So let's not get involved. That's why

Paul was saying it. You are all recipients. You are

not originators. You know. I once had a teacher who

said you are not a thinker because everything you thought

of you're just regurgitating somebody else's thoughts. You're not a thinker.

So Scripture is saying you and I we are not originators.

Who is the originator? Jesus? So the Bible said, you know,

and in one Corinthians four eight it says this, you

are already full, you are already rich. You have reigned

as kings without us, and indeed I could wish you

did reign, that we might also reign with you. Paul

was rebuking them because you are talking big. That's what

Paul was saying. You are just talking too big. Of yourself,

and I wish I could be like you. You know

what Paul is saying, I, who have been through so much,

wish it could be that easy. That's what it meant.

But it's not so Paul did Paul? So what did

Paul say? He was mocking them for their inflated self view.

Let us never have a higher thought about ourselves. Bible says,

don't think more highly of yourself than you should. Always

think of somebody else as higher than you, as better

than you. So they believe they had everything. But Paul

was saying, you lack humility. He's saying you lack spiritual maturity.

You have to be aware, your dependence must be on God.

So Paul was saying, I wish that you could really

understand what is important. So the message today is a

little b difficult. I'm not going to go through all

the slights. I just want you to know if you've

forgotten everything that I've shared with you this today, remember this,

which I will from now on repeat like a broken record.

Jesus is coming again, and He's coming again, Sue. That's

number one. Number two. Let us live our lives as

matured spiritual believers. So what is a matured spiritual believer.

Do he recognizes that Jesus is Lord, and we must

bless the Lord. We must praise him, We must give

glory and honor to him each and every time. For

everything that happens. Nothing that happens in our life happens

because a great people. But everything happens in our life

because He's a great God. When we can set that right,

great things will continually happen to us and it will

never cease. You want your businesses to improve. Put God

number one, You want your economy to improve. God is

number one. You want the best life for your children.

Always remember you can't look after them better than God can. See.

When you get these things in order, everything else will

fall into place. And with that, I hope that the

Lord has blessed you, even as he is blessed me

sharing this, you know, giving me an opportunity to share

this with you. Right, life is simple if you if

you look at if you look at the word, the

word is always talking about putting. God is number one,

is always talking about honoring Jesus, worshiping him. And when

we do that, everything else falls into place. When we

do that, everything else falls into place. And we want

everything to as you grow older. You don't want any missteps.

You just want everything to be done rightly. And trust me,

it's possible. Forty six years already doing this, and I'm

telling you it's possible. Right A lot of you are

just starting out the best years of your life. I

heard of it.

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