Distraction (Nehemiah) | Elder Kien Yiak

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In Chapter one, verse two, Hanani one my brethren, came

and asked from the men of Judah. I asked them

concerning the Jews who escaped and survived the captivity, concerning Jerusalem.

And worse.

Tree says that and they and they said to me,

the the survivors who left the captivity in the province

are there in great distress and reproach. The walls of

Jerusalem is also broken down, and the gates are burned

with fire verse four. So it was when I heard

these words, I sat down web and mourn for many days.

I was fasting and praying before the God of Heaven.

Friends this morning want to speak about distraction, but in

in a in a very different way. Worse two says

that Hanani, who escaped from Jerusalem, came and told him,

maya friends, maya right who have nothing the words said

nothing to do with him. May in that sense you

think about it, he was in the palace serving the king.

Right.

You know, when you're in the palace treands, almost everything

is provided for you. There's a certain lifestyle that you

can the word is that you are accustomed to. It's

very different. So when I was in ex Karachi for

their camp and they invited us to take their camp

and rendered my wife and the team from ex Kids

and this place that the camp used to be a

five star resort and because Core became like two and

a half start the tree star. But it was a

very beautiful place. Man, I just reached. Those prices were

here in Malaysia to hunger and get the day plus

accommodation and food and also the walk that uh uh

conference package.

Everything all right, But.

When you are are certain like stars, friends, you know

that you cannot go any lower.

What do I mean by dad that.

Theah WC or the toilet bowl right was made of marble,

solid marble. And when they're like, wow, marble, okay, the

sit cover friends, sit cover marble super cold if you

use it, super cold. But I'm sharing this with you

because in their mind, the result or the person who designed.

It fitted it.

Had a certain manner like this is a five star

in their mind, and therefore it's supposed to be fitted

in a particular manner. And therefore I cannot use any

chip plastic. You understand what I'm trying to say so, Ni,

my friends was in the palace, and you know, when

you're in the palace, Frands, you get influenced by the

sudden lifestyle you get. You have access to good food, right,

any food that you want, the service can bring right,

good bathing nice like this morning your mattress became extra fluffy,

right because of the weather.

Nice. Right.

And because of that, friends, NII Maya could have heard

about the problems in Jerusalem, but not necessarily need to

respond because he's not his problem in that sense, think

about it. But friends, Ni Maya did not allow the

lifestyle of the palace to influence him. I want to

share with your friends. Sometimes it's not the enemy doesn't come,

you know, the enemy doesn't come with you know, with fangs,

with knives. It's it's very subtle, like a lifestyle choice, right,

And that's why sometimes it is the challenge for Christianity

is comfort or versus conviction? Come on comfort versus conviction,

because sometimes a lot allow us to go to certain

parts of our life whereby we will be challenged with comfort,

whether or not would we leave a particular place to

serve in a particular place for a short period of time.

That's why access.

We always give people an opportunity to go for a

community because once a year, for the every homes, they

get a chance to minister to a certain committee which

you and I will not have access to on a

daily basis. We don't design program just to make your

life miserable. We don't design program just to feel in

your clender. WHOA, this guy is free. Put one more

program in. This guy is so free. Look at this

instagram Put one more program in.

No.

First, we design programs so that you and I could

experience Christ what it means to serve the Lord.

We are preparing people one day.

Let's say one day, perhaps one day, if militia ever

go to persecution, think about it. The Bible really prophocie

there with persecution. Like let's say one day that no

church can be allowed to meet in a copper gathering

like this, how would they look like? Can we still

survive hold onto our faith? Or do we say that

it is so hard? But one day whereby they ban

all Christian resources on YouTube for example, can we still

hold onto our faith? And that's why Nie maya Hear

says that he began to inquire friends worse forces.

When I heard this word, I sat down and wept.

I'm not sure how many of us here will hear

the plight of the community, will actually sit out, poor

grow of people.

But NII Maya shows that.

Friends, although he was in the palace, he did not

allow the p us to influence his conviction. Come on,

he did not allow the palace to influence a conviction. First,

the first distruction was packaged in the way of a lifestyle,

and sometimes live style could be very, very tempting, very tempting.

You get, you get, you get pushed a particular place,

whether do you still believe in Christ or not? You

get put in a particular place, whether do you still

believe in the conviction or not.

You know, me and my.

Wife, Uh, I'm going to say this nice in a

nice feel in the nice Me and my wife, Me

and wife.

You know, we were whiter. We were whiter.

One one day, one day to attend a lodge of

a fashion lots of a fashion line, fashion line, fashion line,

fashion line. Right, it was one of those things whereby

I was in the particulation shop, I had a chance

to talk to the creative director. First thing he asked

me was are you in the creative industry? And I'm like, uh,

I guess so you could say that, yeah, because of

what I do at work. Yes, in a certain way,

I do paint creatively the walls of my office, yes, right,

make sure that everything is in place for events, yes, creative?

Yes correct? You could see well I just say, well,

sort off? Yeah, how to how to put it? When

your full time ministry? How because you're you're almost you

have to do everything anyway. We invited, we writed, we

were writed, we went there, we showed up all the

like we are the wow the feel non Malaysia, non Melissa,

what the funeral Malaisia. So we were like, okay, like

shine you know kind of thing because you shot up there,

We're gonna share the gospel. But we just could allow

our presence there and showing up people look at us.

What so when after people meet us? So, what creative

agency are you from?

What is your fashion brand? Right?

And sometimes because of this question, now I get you

not it makes you feel that you are creative all

of a sudden, if you understand, just because you're in

the environment. It makes you feel friends feel like oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah,

I love I think I think frushire is the in

color right now this season.

That's right, huh.

I was asked a question, do you think if you

produce an old size coding for men it would or not?

All of suddenly, first my hand will become a bit softer. No,

I think I think.

It can work. It gets to you, friends, here's the kicker, right.

I don't share this a lot, okay, me and my

wife laugh sometimes. Hey, so the creative director came up

to us and just say, hey, would you consider right?

Would you consider to be our next if you need

to take pictures model for us for some shots creative

shot because we need people of different sizes this side,

how to become mother a couple please live friends, you understand, right,

but but would you consider right?

Would you? Would you? Would you?

Would you consider that we want to take pictures of

different people, right? And we want a different face because

all your model friends is slimmer than Albert, right, like

stick like their friends.

So I'm like big size and stuffing.

They want the one, the one older face anyway, and

I'm trying to say is that I was there, I'm

looking at my wife, look at my wife.

I'm just whoa in white for photo shoot?

Wall? Think about you never in your entire life, last

time you have to ask people people take photo shoot?

You have to. I want to be in the picture.

This is classroom photograph. I want to be in the

picture right now.

People ask you, can I ask you in future to

be part of if I need to do a photo

shoot to feed your profile. It gets to you friends

and all sudden, friends all suddenly you feel like, hey

started my modeling career. I'm joking, I'm pulling it, but

it gets your mind. Afterwhile, you you mingle you with

all of them, you go like.

Wow.

Then after that they took picture. Then some of the churchmen,

how do you went for their launcher? I say, how

do you know? She had to feature you on your Instagram?

I got like I got I went like, I read

like I wanted asked to remove. You know that I'm

not I'm not friends, I'm not into all of that.

But it can get to you what I'm trying to say.

It can get to you one friends like all a sudden,

All of a sudden, you feel like, oh, this is

what it feels like to have like four thousand likes

on your on other people posting in your face.

There you understand, just say also, why would.

You post you only get a hunger one hundred and

fifty four thousand, five thousands like oh to this what

it feels like?

Heavo anyway, but near.

My web friends, near my cry over the plight of

the Jews, cried he did not just ask friends. A

lot of Christians, they say, oh, but you can do something.

I'll pray for you. Then after it puts, we go away.

The only thing we remember is to say grace. We

forgot about Albert situation. How many times? Okay, we're going

to ask this. Okay, please don't answer. I'm not here

to put anybody down. Before elbow flew to the elbow

will be praying for you. Right, how many ethers actually pray?

Uh huh?

Anyway, it's like that first understand and this is what

happens that my name my friend, Nie, my Nie my,

do not just stop at asking Christian We are very

good to ask you got no food, Okay, I'll pray

for you. We are very good at asking. But Nima

took the asking to another level. He acquired faith to

say the first he begin to fast and to pray.

You see.

The distraction came first when he started to ask how

are the Jews doing?

How is the city doing? He did it.

He did not need to ask, but he did. He

did not allow his comfort to rob his conviction. Whether

or not we have one band, two men, one worship leader.

We shouldn't allow the convenience of worship to rob us

from our real worship.

Come on, we shouldn't.

Allow whether there is air cord or not, to rob

us from being part of a church getting together.

Right.

We should have allowed us because we meet and worship

of homes, the experience is lesser. We shouldn't allowed all

this because many times we find that just because we're

in a different environment, become worship. I've attended past this fellowship.

Bless your hearts. Some of them really couldn't sing. I

was there, friends, trying not to laugh. I was I

was young, I was arrogant. All I know was Helles songs.

Music.

They went hole Zenna integrity in the eighties, like Celebrate Jesus.

Celebrate you remember that song right from the era.

Right, So those songs right, and and and and they

begin to worship without without issuman.

Friends, it was so off key.

I understand how it feels, because my wife will tell

me that, dear, can you stop singing because I cannot

worship late and hear the guitar because you're singing so loudly.

My wife tell me to keep quiet and start worshiping

God because the way I say was so off key

she cannot catch the guitars key and lead the homes

into worship.

I understand how it feels.

And I was there, I couldn't worship the passes was

singing really out, really loud.

She wasn't singing to me, she was singing to the Lord.

And the rest of the older pastors were just worshiping

the lot together and all of them off key. And

my wife tells me later, much after I got married,

there you sing exactly like those pastes.

You just don't know it.

And sometimes dressed we we we we get stuck. We

get stuck because different environment but near my head did

not all right, friends, he fasted and pray.

Therefore first his faith was put into action.

Don't stop just asking Christian regular asking how are you okay?

I'll pray for you.

Then go up. We forget the all focused food, pick

a ball something else. Then after you beat the same

person again. I'll pray for you.

Then we go off.

Friends, come on, repeat it the same cycle. I pray

that you acquire faith.

Be like NII.

May pray for the situation, even though it's only a minute,

but there's still prayer. Come on, even though thirty seconds,

still there's a prayer after out of the love for

the situation. Right now, next night, Verse four. Then the

king said to me, what what do you do with requests?

So I pray to the God of heavens. I said

to the king. If he pleases the king, then you

find your servant, have found faivor on your side that

I asked, and you send me to Judah.

Come on, send me to Judah.

Now, Niimi told the King, I'm going to leave the

palace from serving you. I'm going to go to Judah

to rebuild the walls. First, nam I was an engineer.

Near my I was an architect construction. He will was

a cup bearer. But he decided because of his conviction,

he's going to serve the Lord. No matter what I'm

gonna I'm not. He's not going to make an excuse.

Just because I don't have experience doesn't mean I cannot

do it just because I don't have an experience. I

cannot lead a group. And many people have cities before passa.

I cannot do it because I got no talent.

Praise God. Where we have no talent, that's why we

rely on God.

Sometimes it's the most talented people that don't depend on

the Lord. Come on, it's the most talented people that

don't depend on the Lord. Sometimes when pass as we

had the campus passa, he resigned, he left, and after

that there was no campus pastor. In the interim pasta

looked at me, say, would you lead the kemper student?

I thought, this face frightens campus students. This face can

collect deb this face can become bounced at the door.

This face can can become discipline teacher. For Chuan's program,

I did past there's one boy running around banging people right,

knocking people and punching people. Can you put him aside?

I got no experience. Your kids, Oh, I know that.

My work keep telling me, if you don't smile, you're

very scary. So I decided to use this. I look

at the kid. I didn't smile. I say, boy, if

you run again, I don't know what but to owe

me out. I think I just want to get the

job done. You're tired. I just told the kids, they say,

you run a game on more time. I'm gonna I'm

gonna chop.

Off your head.

I'm sorry. I have the confess right now. I'm not

very good. Excuse So why you don't see me? You

don't see me, you don't see me in ex kids,

all right, we have fearful, very fearful. I know my mom.

I didn't I know. I didn't know how to how

to talk to the kid. And this was all excuse

the kids or the noughtiest sil of friends not deide.

He ran and just banging people, right, especially guys in

the middle part there to anyway anyway, anyway, okay, would

you lead the campus? Didn't know how to lead offenders

so many people. But yeah, same time, I'm not going

to make excuses with every with every bad comments, just

get better edit. But my friends wasn't trained to build

the walls. He just said, Lord, if you can use anyone,

would you use me? He began to He did not

just stop at just praying, and many times a lot

of fictian just start praying.

I'll pray for you. I'll pray for you.

But friends, it's time to turn a pray into action.

What else can I do? What else can I do?

Come on church? What else can you do? You know,

in the atmosphere like that, sometimes you think that, oh

it's so quiet, it's so down. Friends, you have a

voice as in key or oh okay, doesn't matter that

you sing unto the Lord. I irritated my wife. I

sing unto the Lord. She's say, dear, please, Heavens can

hear your heart? Ready, don't sing? Don't sing?

You sing?

I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't dress. I said,

I'm not singing for you. I'm just singing to the Lord.

And I I have a special talent and sing off

key one friends, off key, very good singing off key.

I don't know why what music school I learned? I learned.

I learned sing off key, and I'm quite proud of

it because it is my wife right. But here's the

thing I want just want to say, friends, just want

to say this. It doesn't mean that, it doesn't mean

I'm friends that because you sing off key, we gonna

make that excuse that you cannot leave worship. It doesn't

matter because really what one day homes You're the only

one who knows the song. Come on, will you push

that boundary? And of would you push it away? It

doesn't matter, Lord, I'm just doing this for you, Lord,

and thank god, it's only one time, right.

Me, My, don't make excuse us. He does love first of.

All, the palace lifestyle to distract him. Very tempting, our friends,

very tempting, very tempting. I had once Pastor taught me

before that. You know, I first started the day taking

when you did the girl, you go slow, okay, go slow,

don't go high. Because you go high, you cannot go down. One.

We should mean to say that if.

You go, if you take her to a good express

short you can all take her to mama. After that,

you start you start low, first, you start load that

you slowly ramp up, okay, because you start mama. The next,

the next, the next one that the first, the first

one is nice one, the next one where you're going mama,

start slow, says start slow.

And I went I understood that thought.

I understood the thought, friends, And after that I begin

to apply the principle that sometimes in life, sometimes in life,

we need to start moderating it, saying, you slowly ramp up.

Five seen families.

One time, some just wanting took me off for a meal,

very nice beef place.

I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw some.

Really real meaning parents or the fright Rice for young kids?

Care why you why you be fright? Rice for my kids?

Why you be? Nothing? Wrong? Friends?

Nothing.

I'm not knocking on the time, but I'm saying, well.

If you've started at this age, at this level, how

is he going to survive college rumney burger beef?

How's he going to survive? Because he started this level?

Radio right?

I told my wife this before. Yeah this is expensive chocolate. Okay, yeah,

I know experenive chocolate. But I just don't like Capt

bree I said, Capt Breed Yeah. Capt Breeze kept breeler right.

Important is important, you understand, not because if you started

this level so friends me, my friends did not allowed. Again,

I'm emphasizes the lifestyle of the palace to influence him.

Now action he began to go to Judah to rebuild Jerusalem.

This way, another distress come in the form of people.

Next night near my chapter four was one, but it

so happened when heard that we were rebuilding the walls.

He was furious. Friend, I want pro society. You you

have some, You're going to have some a lot in

your life. You would have the sambala in your life.

You would have the Bible here says that which may

say someone close to you. It could be people from

your homes. Yes, the disagreement that hurts and stuff like that.

It could be people in church sometimes right. It could

be a real physical enemy sometimes in your office and

stuff like that. But there will be somebalah in your

life as there will hurt about your plan and don't

like it.

Come on, learn about your conviction and don't like it.

Someone say to us when we were younger, about we

were ten year old as a church, please do not

challenge campus student to live for God. Please do not

challenge campus to live for the Lord, because the number

one focus is the studies. We say, true, yes we

believe in it. But we will tell them that do

not just get a degree, but get the testimony. Don't

just get a degree, but get a testimony out from

the degree, because every other person got a degree but

no testimony. But when life really hits them as a believer,

when life really hits them. They do not know where

to turn if it keeps saying that exams don't need

to come to church. And what happened to my previous church.

When I was growing up, our youth group was about

four hundred plus. I was in the same batch of

amazing students or very smart one. The year that returned

from five, the year that returned for five, all them

stepped down from leadership. We got to focus on SPM.

We have to focus on SPM right the major exam.

This year, no one's serf or stepped down. It became

a trend from five step down. A few years later

I heard the from fourth step down because next year

is exam. I got prepared this year. Come on, next

year is exam. I can prepare this year. And the

leaders back then, leaders back then, bless your heart, they

try to understand, we understand major exempt prepared early because

they will determine where you go for university, which is correct,

all true, all good. However, the God that as they've

got great results and the great university, but left their faith.

Majority of them stop serving, stop coming to church, stop believing.

The God a degree but no testimony, and.

The message that we set out to young people, is

this is that your exam is bigger than God. Your

exam is bigger than God. Your exam is bigger than worship.

There will be some sumbert in your life. They will

tell you that, hey, don't serve because when your serf

you bound to get hurt. One she'll get her what

the leaders said, just want to use you need use

you like a cow, milk you dry, then show you

discuss you for another person. I heard this before. My

cashment is this that, friends, it was never our intention.

We are still learning and we'll get better. But that

doesn't mean be subserving. So there will be some sumber

in your in your life, they'll say that you want

to serve. They get angry, well meaning and come worse too.

He spoke to his bedroom and to the army of

Samir and said, what will these feeble jewice do? Come on,

he said, you'll dire fortify himself. They offer sacrificers. Will

they complete in the day? Will they revive the stones

of hip rubbish stones that was burned next night?

Ni my water to rebuild the city of Jusalem. But

they were enemy.

That's so to oppose it the moment, friends, we commit

to something, there will be challenges. But if we never

commit to something of friends. You notice, if we never

commit to anything, those distructions are not really distraction, a

welcome invitation. It's only when you commit, for example, commit

to something, then those things become a distraction. But if

you never commit to something of friends, you welcome those singer,

What do I mean by it? So right now, I

got to lose some weight before I see my doctor,

so I have to get back to my first thing routine.

So I told my wife there I put them because

of you. You have to put the BLib on someone somewhere.

I'm a right, It's easy to pining on the wife

then to say I'm god glattony. Anyway, I see it's

because of you, dear. You can't ask me whether I eat.

You know not that I see you putting one person

to order food, right, So I join you law.

So anyway, so I have to get back and I can.

I can. I know for me it's pretty normal. Eighteen

hours of fasting pretty normal. Twenty four hours is pretty normal.

Just dring water. Anyway, last night, last night I saw

putting it by myself. Did you seel hungry? Right? I

thought her let me join you. Out from the goodness

of my heart. Out from the goodness of my heart.

Let me join you, Let me join Let me get

some food. Then maybe my wife gets hungry very fast.

If you don't know my wife, she gets hungry very fast.

She is one hour later, Dear, I'm hungry. She gets

hungry very fast.

I do not know why she is.

Those you're in the same office as her, You she

will order rise. She'll only take like two tablespoon. The

rest she give it away. She takes the food out

of the pair. Would like to sit next to her

by a KFC because she don't eat the skin on,

she don't need the skin to someone else, and stuff

like that. Like that. So anyway, what I'm trying to

say is that I look at her and say, let

me all the food. They say, dear, remember remember you're fasting.

Remember you're fasting. Don't eat.

I want to say, are you sambala or usually huh?

I say, like, why why do you need to remind me?

Right?

The moment we commit to something, friends, it becomes a distraction.

By the way, it is all right because if I

didn't fast, if I didn't faster, then she say, come

join me from Macan. The moment I say it's fasting

and the food become so tempting, it becomes.

A distraction for your commitment. Towards your commitment.

So they might want her to rebuild the sit of juicer,

but they were enemies that sort of oppose it. Next,

like here's what Sabala had to say, when might want

to rebuild the walls? Can these feeble juice do is required?

It attacks the person's identity. No, friends, you cannot in

Malaysian language?

You sure or not?

Can Albert Link preach? Let me ask you a question.

So many people here, you got two fans here, the

rest of the people say please out there. No, I'm

just saying just you and said that Yo, I'm sure

he can preach, all right? But what this license?

Can this?

What are these people just doing? You cannnot? You are

cut barrel. You cannot do it when ma cannot Malaysian

just cannot want. We have seen a lot of times

when we talk to people whereby conferences are packed because

they might the speaker praise the love for them. But

at one point, if you feature a Malaysian speaker, those

of you all that came for a missions conference. The

main speaker seventy plus year old lady who minister to

Central Asia, going strong for the Lord despite being almost

being being raped, besides going through seeing watching her friends

got raped got killed.

Yes, you serve the Lord with such passion. What are

these people just doing? What are you doing? Canon not built? Church?

Can not do an album? Can you name it? Friends?

You name it?

And something like this spot of the enemy. You want

to serve or get your life right first. And that's

why many times we stop doing things for the Lord.

Never rise up, never like I'm nobody. We're there forty

five myself offer sacrifices next night. That sics to distract

you by getting you to dub your identity.

He does, he does.

Just so young you want to chair, nobody listen to

you and this and this is the commissar we got back.

You put up young people so quickly your church young people?

Huh like you want to take a break like that,

You're se to think about you putting up young people

worship chair to speak?

What are you doing?

And this is what explanation I tell people this. You

know it's always a peerage to allow the young to serve.

Always and we want to do that. More is because

while we are alive, we can guide encourage that can't

I say that can't we die? We need them, we

start allowing them. So I'm so sorry. I'm that blood.

I'm so sorry. I said, if it don't tell me

we're no longer around, we need say, oh, that was

your turn? Do we have to wait until the very

moment they will need me allow? The Bible says, do

not despise your youth. And the worst thing is that

after this guy message, you know what they do. Although

there's a very good message for the young people, I said, no,

it's for the older and young people to come together.

Friends.

We need everyone to come aboard. Come on everyone, we

need everyone to come about. Just because like we are

slightly older, we go like, oh, there is a young

message you young people message, young people message. No, the

enemy really seeks to get you the double identity.

Friends. We are for the young.

That doesn't mean there's no place for the older. Younger people.

Doesn't mean friends. We want to welcome people and we

and you know what, the older we get, the more

responsible we have to be a role model for the

younger ones. Friends don't grow. Oh and this and and

I'm speaking to younger and we grow one day, I'm

not speaking to the other one. I'm speaking to younger

one who go one day, don't go up and say

I've done this before. I've done this before, and this

steple don't know where it comes. I've done this before.

And because I've done this before, I'm not doing it anymore. Friends,

My encagement is this is that everyone jumps on board.

I'm here to serve. I tell young people this. You know,

you know, it's always a privilege to be with your parents,

always a privilege.

I lost my mom three years ago, she passed away.

But I tell people this, It's always a privilege to

be with your parents because your parents have vent through

so much. If only you take time to understand them,

take time to know more of them. I say, take

them to learn the cooking recipe because they're amazing repecipele.

We should have learned through the years. Friends, learn from them.

I say, don't cut them. Don't go and say that,

ha bring jaw again, Ha, bitter god again, ha, fishy

fish again. Why can't I have but nest? Why kind

have ever? Like my own my friends from Instagram. I'll

tell young people that come on, learn from them, and

I tell other people smile, connect with them, don't always

pull up a prune face. Don't smile. My wife keeps

telling me that, dear, when you talk to them, smile.

Okay. I heard one time before someone say that, you know,

I taking a very strict where street? Where street?

Then another campus will say, no, you get to know him.

Or he's gentle, one, he's gender, he's always joking. One

here by never smile one, never smile, Never smile. There's

other smiling friends.

I went.

I started going about some the smiling and the immigration

counter always get stopped, sir? What are you doing here

in our country? I'm here for conference. Do you have

a written ticket? Past immigration, past custom? About the exit?

The door?

Police pull me aside, sir. Can I see your written ticket?

I see act clear your immigration castill?

No problem? Why you're stopping me? My transport is outside, sir?

Where you staying?

I got to worry of your address right now? I

told my wife's here I smiled too much. They suspect me.

Don't smile. They suspect me what I'm trying to say.

The enemy seeks to distract you by getting w d

next night, Sam reminded me in my head that his

people a great distress reproach the mighty city of Jerusalem

have fallen. Basically just it just means these effects. The

enemy wants to remind you of your past. You feel before?

How many of us don't feel before? One friends, impossible

if you feel something before. My wife grew up in

the right bunch. Her family doesn't cook for the you

know one because when they were growing up, the children

which my wife and her brother's commented on their mom's cooking.

Then God, my wife is not here. Comment on wife mom?

No life in that safe way. Yeah, don't put this

out on podcasts. I'll ask past they raise it anyway.

Comment to comment to comment the mom, I don't like

your cookie. Don't let your cookie. The mom gave up,

give up. I told my wife, what do you do

to your mama? You all? I say, if I say

that to my mom, I tell her my head. We

turn't her sixty degrees? Why full circle know? I say,

your mom was so leaning on you all. Don't let

the cookie. She gave up a cookie. They never cook

after that, never cook. My wife started the court only after.

She got married. Fright ach I'm serious.

I kept because my in law, my my mom in laws,

she's Singaporean. I would say, you know, you all are

singapore that wanna. Don't like criticize, don't like criticize anyway.

This is what happens. Reminds me of your past. Cannot

want not good? Who are worse?

I have never felt before, messed up before friends big time.

I'm not talking about failing exam. I'm talking about failing

in life. Failing in life, make wrong decision and very

strongly the people before reministered to people before whereby people

went to abortion, biggest to be seeing of their life,

you know, to get you out everything. Reminded that I

made the worst mistake of my life. Sometimes the enemies

once about reminds remember you did that. The individual break

down and cry, this is what the enemy seeks to do.

Remind you of your past mistakes. Then, because of the

friend snow it's so hard. The moment you want to

move forward, something is pulling you behind. The mother want

to take the first step, somebody is pulling you behind.

Sometime it doesn't remind you of your past mistake, reminds you.

How old you are.

You're already like not so much energy. You want to

hang out young people, you'll fall asleep by nine o'clock.

It happens.

We got elder terrorists and maybe opening up the homes

for the youth. Their experience is that Pastor Tobasca Pastor.

It's like real living parenthood again. They can talk until

so early in the morning. You know, elder terrists can

really talk.

One can.

But once you've got no more energy to talk of friends,

you know, you know that even the youth all talk.

I'll talk him, he said that. Man, they can also

really eat, but they love every experience. I'm sharing this

because sometimes the enemy reminds you of your health is

not good.

Don't don't serve. Your health is not good. Don't serve

your ladies, don't serve. You're not good with youth. Me,

I'm not going with youth. Don't serve, not go preaching,

don't preach.

And that's why when when God gives you the opportunity, friends,

opportunity to serve, the first response is cannot come on.

The first response is no, The first response is too hard.

Next, like, they will remind you about your past feelage

and what you don't have your past feelage that you can't.

They will remind you. Friends.

Next, if we keep walking and keep the say to

what they have to say, we'll be walking on next shells.

Come on, if you keep listening to what they have

to say, you'll be walking on the shell. Let me

just give you some brief insight to commands I got

about this place. First of all, why do you build

the bleaches so steep?

Steep? People? My foe down? How? I said? I don't know,

I really don't know. Pass say builder number one? Number two?

Why go the community? Why rem buy you? Why so far?

Why so far?

All the way out there?

Whye so far? Why not somewhere that us j Putra

hides something better? Sexier?

Address? And Bangsa mont Kiara White Echos sanctuary. Then after

you you stretch the address for them, think about it

for a moment. Nothing nice about those address. Where do

you stay? The look panglima Gharam? Where is there? Where

do you say?

Mont Cara dam Sarah Jaya? Why so far?

The funniest commander ever I told the first service was

out the Why got so many pillars and beams? I say,

this is the nature of the building. Yeah, you can

tell them to shift the beam I say, can you

pay the developer? You pay and pay everything you finance

the moving of the I cut all those that were like,

he's an engineer. I get all those comments and went like, yeah,

you should have done it, so you get more space better. First,

if I keep listening to what they have to say,

that I got no conviction. Come on to share what

I need to share. Afterwards, you'll be challenged to share,

otherwise you rock the boat. Don't share, otherwise you rock

the status call. Don't be so gumbled, don't shout and

scream the microphone. Some people say second service is for

the less ready curve, because first services are the world

that the more on fire because they become early. It

doesn't matter friends, but the first or second you're supposed

to give our best ut to the Lord. So if

you keep the same today that wife puts friends, then

you don't have to turn to the Bible.

You have to listen to what they have to say.

You don't.

You don't need to turn to the Bible anymore, because

after all, they are your lord, not the Bible. Think

about you, we got commence. I'm just showing all this

year because I have to draw from past experience okay,

thank god. I only come to expo to Commany once

every six months, so I do not know yours. I

mean we do a fellowship one we don't fellowship. Okay,

we don't go off for laste talk of people go

to company. So I don't know any references about you?

All all right?

I know references or I gotta, I gotta, I gotta

close it next twenty minutes.

But here's the thing.

Command and command command what people have to say. If

you want to reach your youth, you got to dye

your hair blonde color. There was a tread one point

dyeing the hair.

Die.

I say, I got no hair, how I broke cannot

really I was bought out, really but I really raw word.

There was the tread, the trend back then one point

in time, the trail was you gotta wear Jesus and

type T shirt like the like the US the masales right,

and and that's how they preached the image through how

success who they are? I say, past it. I got

I fit like I hated, hated. We are big sized,

big sides. I got I got one ring here. They

also got one ring here. But pass if I wear

if I really wear a tack T shirt. I look

like mister Michellan one la year, one l year, one

LA year. I say, I can't if I sit down,

rear hard, re distracting, people cannot focus. There was there

was a trend. The trend after became everybody was whole,

a nice coffee, mauth.

Sneakers. No, there was a tree.

There is a trend after a while that this is

the image that if you want to reach, if you

want to reach young.

People, this is the way to go.

I couldn't imagine passers from CITYA one wearing tight T

shirts and ton jeans. I can't imagine. Friends, I can't imagine.

If you want to be a barrister, you must have

body tattoos over I read so many cafes. Everyone have tattoos.

Praise God for them. Okay, thank you for them. All

right there they led their way. I read the one

o my guys only in short pants, running short pants,

not running short pants and body tattoo.

I say, if if I were to follow, could you no.

Don't imagine, don't imagine, don't please, don't don't imagine at all.

But you know, if you get on, could you think

about it like you have to be like that one day.

The next trade is no body tattoo is inting.

Tread you. That's why if you keep listen, this is

the way to do it, This is the way to

do it. This is the way to do it.

After our friends, you'll be so tired because you're falling

after trend and you're not preparing them for life past.

The one time he was asked a question in is Malaysia,

he says that what's a trend for the youth ministry

in Malaysia? And pass just explained them it's not about trend.

It's about preparing our youth for what's to come? Can

our youth, can our youth cannow youth? Can now youth?

Can now youth hold to God?

Right?

If if it's all by themselves, if we say, imagine

right now, if our youth is imagine, say if our youth,

because of the conviction in Christ, got put to jail, right,

can he survive the jail, not confinement for one day?

Or will he give out his faith if he's give

up his face?

Saying we're not preparing them for what's to come, the

temptation that's coming.

I'm not saying that you can go to jail. I'm

just saying that the conviction.

So if you keep listen what they say you want,

Dick Shell, our faith will be based on what they

say next. Like even though he man knew what something

I had to say, he also knew what the law

had to say as well.

Very important.

You can't silence them friends, and please don't try to

correct their theology because you never win one. Our focus

and our times should be focusing on what God has

to say. Come on, what the Lord has to say.

I was met the guy who had cancer, cancer who

previous that cancer? He shared with me, you know, I

was in Indonesia, took my medical health check. At the

health check, they said that you know, I got something wrong,

but they didn't exactly tell me what was wrong with it.

He married a Malaysian wife. The wife said, I tell

you what, Let's go to Malaysia for a second opinion.

When to Malaysia, his wife happens to know the oncologies

to say this this report, could you just retreat? Took

another blood test, he said, you got stage four cancer

from Indonesia. Didn't reveal found out in Malaysia. Could you

imagine the whorld wind? Four hours your mind just like huh,

stash for cancer. Didn't know in Indonesia, found out when

you're in Malaysia, got a very young son, young son.

And he just crowded the Lord.

His prayer was just this, God, please spare my child

from having to live alife without a death, because when

he was young, he has to live Indonesia because of

political thing. His parents got got called up put into

jail because of political reason. So he was shipped off

to Us at a very young age, graying without a dead.

He know what it means to live a life without

a father, and his prayer was his, God, please spare

my life or give me life so that I see

my my son grow up. So the next couple of

days he went back took a blood test again. By

this time he began to pray God. The medical report

says this, but no, but when they think my blood

it's going to me. Your blood, your blood will cleanse me,

your blood will cover me, your blood will heal me.

Comes back, medical reports say there's no more cancer cell,

no more cancer cell. And the doctor says, say what happened?

He just said, God is the one that have healed me.

You see many times we keep listening to what they

have to say for good, what God has to say,

and he just showing me I begin to just worship

the Lord. The medical reports are that I begin to

worship the Lord.

Crowd to God next night.

Medical four four says that man shall not live by

better alone, but by every word that proceed off.

From the mouth of God.

Friends, I want us to focus every word that proceed

of mouth of God.

What does what does he mean? Fritz, Let's stop be

selective on the way we read.

The word of the Lord. What do I mean by dad?

We love scripture like the Lord is my shepherd. I

shall not want true or not. After all, it's a

good image, right, he leads me. Besides steel waters and

green pastures, we love the image right and most time

we stop at death because the next scripture goes out

say that although I walk through the value of the

shadow of death, I shall not fear.

Now.

First, I want you to imagine right now, have you

seen any picture of Jesus leading you to the value

of shadow of death? So that because cannot sell, cannot sell,

you understand it cannot those images cannot sell. The good

image is that Jesus holding the lamb right by steel

waters and green pastures can sell very well.

But Jesus leading you to the although you walk to

the value that I should not fear.

For your right and your staff comforts me, then next

time it goes, you prepare a table before me in

front of my presence of my enemy.

So therefore, first, don't just focus on the good part because.

Something is a good part of friends, it's very tempting

my refuse my strong power.

But also focus on our hearts.

Forgiveness. Forgiveness Christian, we need to learn how to forgive easily.

Don't take our offenses so quickly. Just because we get

inconvenient doesn't mean your leader hit you onan No, first,

they are really busy enough. The main agender is not

to make you busier or not to hit you one.

Don't be so quick.

The Bible is forgive quickly, give thanks always. So what

do I mean, my dad, that every word needs to

say that, Please, don't be selective in the way we

read the Bible. Only selective part of the Bible that

we like me we memorize it those.

That we don't like.

This brother needs to hear this, This brother needs to

hear this. I have people like that in church.

This scripture is for this sister. This sister needs to

hear this one.

That's why we have a lot of people in the

Christian world like they tell other people how to live

their life, and we pick and choose. We are so

blinded by our own hearts. Sometimes it's so deceptive, isn't it.

So?

Every word that proceeds out from the mouth of God.

Next night, I got the answer. Really the October goal

for the enemy's planned to distract you. This for distractions

for us abandon God's plan for our life. Come on

the altber plan. Fans out of our plan. It's cause

you to abandon God. Don't trust in the Lord.

He is not good.

Don't trust in God. He will never come true for you.

Don't trust in God. That's the OUTI plan next life.

This is what some a lot told him were completely

in the day. You can you can complete your project. Man,

we didn't revive stones from the hero of rubbish. This

is a rubbish can become a woman. This is sorry,

I'm just using plain language recurrently.

This I just did it. You sliss. Don't do men

for truing. This is what some ah does. You don't have.

Skillful people. Therefore your worship is like that. I want

you to think for a moment, that's what the scripture says.

You don't have and look at speakers. This is what

the scripture is saying. There's some bursts reminding us you

can you're so young, you're nobody everybody's living church. I'm

not talking about our church, okay, everybody's.

I want you to just think about it. This is

some less reminding you they revived next Light. It's so sutured,

so subtly deceptive, really deceptive.

Though in the process of rebuilding. They want you to

focus on your own strength. They want you to focus.

They want you to focus on doing everything on your

own strength.

Come on, next Light. What do I mean by this?

Will they revived the stones? Of course we can't. Friends,

think about it by our own strength. We cannot revive

anything by our own strength, our own words. We can't

encourage much, but with the worth of the love, we can't.

The enemy wants you to focus on your own strength,

to do everything on your own strength. Grow hosts by

your own strength, do choice ministry by your own strength,

do everything for the love by your own strength.

If people are not worshiping. You scream the.

Loudest you play Auntie your facetom blue. You do everything

by your own strength, and that's what the enemy seeks

to do to you. Can the burdstone be used to

rebuild the walls of the city, cause you to focus

on the stuff.

That people throw away? No use what?

And many times friends in our ministry, we get people

like that telling.

Us that don't use these people.

We do. We said, if the law wants them, we

will ta kid. Not everybody comes into chich perfect. Not

everybody comes to the chis perfect. Our present batch of

leaders that we have amazing people that we have didn't

turn amazing overnight. It was a process of journey and

this stuff like that, if only if we new majority

of our background friends, we're not perfect, just being transformed

in the image, but cannot can in the Lord next light.

That's I'm going to close. Really, so before was eight.

The lot is near to those who are broken hearted

and save, such as have a contract spirit close to

the Brooklyn heart. That those with the contract spirit he

lives see the world standard is perfection.

Good. That's how you get likes.

Sure must create perfect That's how you get likes, but

lots of it is different, broken and contract spirit. As

I close friends, the Lord wants to remind us today,

distruction is very real. Lifestyle distruction is very real. We

lost love Christians to lifestyle deception. A lot, a lot,

a lot. Can't do things for a love because I

just love where I am right now. Can't come back

to the Lord because what I love, I love this

lifestyle and the love one day will challenge us again

because he loves too much. Then after that, once he

cannot get you to lifestyle, he gets you to people

like Sambala. First of all, to remind you you can

can't bury, you can rebuild men, you can lead me.

You sure, it's never easy to plan the church anywhere,

never easy. But if the lot calls you, you plant.

If the lot calls you, you plant.

Can man.

You plant overseas, take a journey with the lot.

If you can look at you to that, friends, it

reminds you. It reminds you.

That your life is not perfect. Remember the burn marks

you have for your life. I want to let you

know the world callses as rubbish, birdstone as rubbish. God

calls a burnstone as a war of a mighty ct

The work caused the birds as rubbish, but Scott sees

the birdstod as a mighty.

War for Jerusalem. That's a potential.

Frans as as closest I might shreame out on the

stage in front here, Yes, this can come. Come, come, come,

pasa Daniel, you can come in now.

Anyway. He got something on anyway as I closer, as

I close those.

First of all, do not allow the comfort of the

palaza to rob you, do please don't tempting at this,

please don't. Secondly, is that Sambala will come to your life.

Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? You're

not how expert? Who are you?

Finally, finally, someone with a main aimy is to detach

you from the Lord. It's impossible. It is impossible. It

is impossible. It is impossible. I'm not sure where you

are in your journey of your Christian walk.

Really, my job this morning is just to encourage you.

Would you open your heart to the Lord, Just say Lord,

I know I got some wood marks. I know I

got some black marks. I know I do have I

know I got some black marks. But they shouldn't stop

me from just going a bit deeper.

Pass. He told me one time.

It's is that when people like Sambla or the comfort

of the palace comes, two things happen. Two things happen

when distraction of comfort destruction of somebody comes, two things

to happen. Number one, it's just it might losen your conviction.

Losing your conviction, we should be to say that I

think I think someone is correct. I think although I

mean the palace us, at least I'm praying for them.

At least I pray for them. Okay, I don't have

to go. At least I pray for them. Am I

losing your conviction because all this time you really wanted

to help to rebuild the walls. But because of that,

maybe because of the comfort of the palace, my agency

say that, Okay, I'm praying for I pray for them. Lord,

at least I'm praying for them. I don't have to go,

So you might lose in your conviction. It means one

time you want to do something for the lot, because

of all the distraction you Okay, at least I'm doing something.

I listen, I'm praying, giving I don't have to go.

I'm exempted from going. Or when distraction of Sambala and

distrection of the palace comes. It deepens the conviction. It

deepens the conviction. It really deepens the conviction. Ah, you

say I can't do it. If the Lord says I can't,

I can't, it really deepens the conviction. People around you

say cannot. My God say I can't means I can't.

It really needs you to know that. It helps you

to deepen your conviction because God is all that you have,

the laws, all that you have.

Friends.

As I close right now, I want to encourage you

either be losing a conviction because of the distruction or

we deeping a conviction.

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