Don't Keep Offences | Elder Kien Yiak

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Up your day. Chapter one. I won't speak about the

word concern. What is a heart concern about? I think

many times in our journey of life we don't really

pay attention to what our heart is thinking about. We

go to life really like every day right, so fast?

Now really, end of August, praise the Hallelujah. A few

more months is going to be Christmas. Then we look

forward for Chinese New Year, right whereby all your relatives

as you when you can get married, if you're married,

when you can get children, and if you have children,

when you go to get another one again it's band's

like buying buying a house, like okay, another one? Yeah,

stuff that you understand, right, So life is really fast,

and you know, and sometimes we don't really pause to think,

just for a moments, pause to reflect, stop and say,

where is our heart going? Or what am I really

concerned about besides the normal day to day stuff? Really,

what is really occupying our heart? So ni my chapter

one says that the worst of nim I had the

son of Hashila. It came to pass the month of

all these really tought difficult names you having pronounced right,

but you understand the right worse.

Two can I don't want to skip there.

Hanani one my brethrens came with the man from Judah,

and I asked them concerning the Jews who had kept

wh escape, had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

First, Nimaiad the Bible says it's a cup bearer. Cup bearer.

Basically, he is placed in the most secure place of

the city.

You and I need to recognize that.

You know that Nimya doesn't need to concern himself any

other day except to serve the king. To not his

primary main job in his life at the moment was

to serve the king, to test the food and the

drink that's that's going to be served to the king.

So any other thing outside of the castle, outside of

the city, Uh, you don't really concern one, You're not

really the word is this that you don't really take

notice of. It not your primary main thing that you

need to think about. It's almost like if you stay

in this part of the town, right, you're not really

concerned with the traffic jam in subang Jaya, right, and none,

none of you are going to ask traffic Uban Jaya.

Well you talk about three hours to get back home.

Yeah, one day I think on Casas Highway there was

a lorry that all the chemicals overturned, and what used

to be a twenty minutes to get back home took

about three hours. Right, and this is after homes at night.

So imagine after homes you're tired. Really you're driving back,

you know, had an amazing time at homes and the

cell group, and the way back you get stuck in

the two hours jam, stationary taking to yourself, why were

you so obedient to the law to go to homes?

Right?

And you understand this, right, and if you're stay in

this part of the town or this part of the area,

you're not going to go like, huh that happener you got? Okay,

I'm glad I say some money. No traffic jam at

eleven PM. I think at eleven no, no, no traffic jam.

I presume you're gotta have a lorry with chemicals. Old

spieling here right, I just want to let you know

Kassas Highway is notoriously okay. I stay in Sharlam the

morning and notoriously right known for road works off on

Friday evening. One I cannot at least twenty times, ten

times really after homes.

I used to lay at homes in mont Cara.

One time, driving back, got stuck in the jem for

an hour because of road works on a Friday night,

and I asked myself, why didn't I attend of homes

in sha alam?

So anyone I'm trying to say is that near my hea.

The Bible says that He began to be concerned about

the Bradrens that came out escape from Jerusalem.

Now you and I know that we don't have.

To want, but he really was concerned about And God

just begin to capture my heart and ask.

Myself, like what are we concerned with?

Because sometimes when we hear about concern, right, and we

go like this, okay.

The Christian way of answering is like, I'll pray for you.

Then what was a good answer to the person who

told you a concern? But most of the time we

go back and we don't really pray about it except

maybe ten second prayer for the individual.

Right.

So I want to share this to you because many

times you ask about other people's situation, but we don't

really take one step further, and God wants to minister

to us today because to often we pick up concern

We pick up things in our hearts where I don't

be concerned about that, right, we are really concerned. For example,

like and so I have to deal with the church context. Okay,

so I know, so I don't refer to individuals. Otherwise

people think I'm always talking about chich people. But no,

So the statement has always come is that whether we

should be doing this right? We should be doing this.

We should be ministring to young families for example, right,

young families with.

Children, We should be doing this right.

Good suggestion, but the suggestion always lends right there without

a solution, without action, without anything of like, elder, I

want can I help. I've rarely made individuals that come

to me say can I help in something? Most often

they go like, hey, you should be you know what,

I love the way you worship band, But you know

you should have included a few more other songs. Right,

you should be playing with a different keyboard. The keyboard

that you have is limited function. And most times that

happens in church, that happens in any organization. We reason

uple concert, and we thought we did God the duty

by offloading the concern to another brother, And this is

your problem after that? Right, And this is what happens

with offenses as well. Come on, we pick up offenses

that occupies our heart, not knowing God was the one

that's in control.

Of all parts of our life.

So the bread who escaped from Jerusalem came up right,

and he began to share their escape stories. There, torture stories, there, struggles, there,

challengers and what the need may I do? Friends? What

did nem I do? He didn't just say, poor brother,

I'll pray for you. Right, I'll give you past the

seven's number. Call him past the past here, right, he

doesn't pick up won terrible, we'll pray for him.

Right, I'll give you Sam's number. Okay. She's very empathetic.

She would listen to all your problems for three hours

and she would just let us say, I'll pray for you.

Friends in your journey. Friends, when you hear something that

so near might heard all this the Bible, the word

its force.

He was burden. That was a burden that he carried.

I want to let you know that God is a

reflection who God is as well. But many times, friends,

we pick up things that we are not meant to

pick up. Offenses is one of them. We brew offenses

overnight throughout the years. Friends, Yes, we cannot shield ourselves

or offenses. I want to let you know the church

is not perfect. I've been in this church for twenty

five years, since the day one of church.

Since many people come and go.

But pass always told me that if you don't deal

with the offenses in our hearts, if we don't deal

with the offenses in our hearts, we are forever going

to be enslaved by it. Whether the individuals right or

the individual is wrong, we have a choice, and we

always go to make our The word is is that

we're going to follow our offenses more than rather than

follow God. And that's why Pastor says, deal with the

offenses in your heart. Don't let it grow, don't let

it faster, don't let it you don't even give time

for you to breathe off springs, because you know off

spring season, after a first you begin to make life decision.

Or the person is there, I don't want to be there.

It happens on friends, I'm talking to real people here

have here happens the individual is there? Oh, he's worshiping there.

I cannot worship anymore. You know, man by Me and

Ben are good friends.

Okay.

I always see him high high cast places on eating

all right. I always wish I could enter, but he didn't,

so I didn't want to be offended, all right, isn't

it true?

Friends? So what is a hard concern with? Problem? Chapter four?

Words Trenty Tree, come on problem chapter four worse trainy three.

I think it's there. I think it's about there. Let

me see her both forwards. Hearing the tree says, here

we go.

Keep your heart with all diligions for our springs, the

issue of life. Keep your heart with all diligions our

it springs the issue of life. I said earlier on

that life is really going going through really fast, and

very seldom we pause, take time. That's what the Bible says, that,

you know, spend time with him.

Jesus went away.

In the morning to spend time with God because there

is a neat friends for you and I just to

pause for a moment. Do you know how it is

that when we wake up we start making decisions all

the way until the evening.

Right.

Some are live decisions, some are not really life decisions.

But we make life decisions when we are awake. And

the danger is is that when we don't take time

to reflect what's in our hearts.

The Bible says that out of the of the band,

let me s.

The Bible says that you know, out of its being

the issues of life. So our heart, therefore, friends, will

reveal what we.

Have been concerned with.

I say earlier on that we make a lot of

decision based on how we feel, how we think, what happened.

With the individual who offended this.

So there was a time, friends, the earlier days of church,

I mean the fifty or six years, there was a

past I had to work with. Right, this pastor wrote

me a very long email asking for a budget.

Good morning. I hope this email finds you. Well.

I really don't never understood that statement before. I have

never seen any email fight any people well at all.

But it happens. Friend, So I'm like, okayla for.

Me, language is not a big thing, right, I'm like,

I hope this emails like like since where email finds

people like, don't send me email that fights f wel

right anyway, so wrote me a very long nice thing.

You know you know the lot impressed in my heart

that we should do an album, right, we're spending time

with the Lord, you know, a couple of songs and

stuff like that. Wrote like three four paragraph explaining the

tailor did we have a budget to do?

Back? Then really have the budget?

And my reply because of pressure, because of world, because

you've got so many things to do, right, you answer

the most straight to the point, straight to the point,

directly understand your message.

So it's just two alphabets, no, right, I just right?

No? He it to me transactional email, you understand. So

in my in my in my interpretation of it, it

was a person skip me, then you got money or

not exactly you an't going you know. So it's it's

a three worded a three three alphabet or two alphabet

yes or no?

So to me. I see, So I didn't think too.

Much about it, friends, I because again you have tons

of email to rush to, tons of messages, have to

reply in the midst of it. You get this very long,

elaborated email, which sometimes you're not in tune with how

people describe. They describe everything else. But then use what's

the bottom line? Just give me the bottom line? Right,

do you have money to do our album. So I

just replied him no, and I just know regards my name.

Said if you shouldn't efficient, you know, just straight to

the point, no tag, right, So I replied that way.

Friends replied that I thought I have done my duty.

This charge replied, really, well should the boy he understood.

There's no room for misinterpretation. No room.

One week later I found a pasta Committy's office. Yeah,

I said, I want to let you know. The way

you apply your email. I knew I was in trouble. Really,

the way you reply the email. This pastor was offended.

I'm like, I didn't do anything wrong in my mind.

Was got money or no money?

That's it.

If people ask you, can you be on me money

not sam? I cannot be offended. But anyway, you should

reply properly because people have taken time to write to you. Now,

this brother is hurt. I wanted to tell he's hurt

his passela because I did in sell his email.

Get there.

I did not in sell his email. I did not

put his project out. I just say that at that

very point in time, I don't have a budget.

Right, that's it. That's it. Then this is one I say,

can he, because you are one of.

The oldest, eldest olders in the church, lead by example,

be the first one, be the first one to offer

an apology to him, Offer apology, friends, to this individual

who felt hurt by your reply. I was honestly, I

was just trying to okay, if it was me writing

the email to someone asking for a budget and replied me, no.

Would I feel hurt? Noah, So I was.

I was trying to bring them the his respond his feelings,

musicians a bit more, you understand, musicians a bit more

feeling feeling that man, hom I trying.

Okay, now I know why? Okay?

Could you would you be the first ord of apology?

Would you be the first one to extend olive rush

to reconcile? The Bible says to unite again.

Friends.

I want to let you know, right at that point

in time and pass was talking to me, I was

just trying to understand that why this brother was hurt,

Why this brother was hurt? Then God spoke to me

to Passer, why is it so hard for you to reconcile?

Why is it so hard for you to reconcile with

someone who took offensively email, because it's very easy. You

want more of the Holy Spirit, Come touch my heart,

feel me, send me out the do missions, few and

everything that, but to reconcile with someone in church, to

reconcile with the individual. So God, I didn't do anything

wrong with like just led God forgive them for they

don't know what they do. I didn't do anything wrong.

And just replying the email, some of you understand nothing wrong.

But then God begins to speak to me. Come on,

keep your heart with all the deligions. At the beginning,

there was a certain pride like here. I came from

the school of hot knocks, all right. I grew up

with parents and just say that if you cannot study,

just go out and work. Some parents cannot study. I

give you you shouldn't. My parents can all study.

Just go and work.

We need right to Negative encouragement comes in.

In friends, right night, the three is not good enough,

ninety four is better. So stuff like that.

Friends, You grew up in that environment that shapes you,

and you expect people around you to to understand you.

And I've never taken time friends in my devotion to

really the words, to.

Reflect, to reflect my heart, to reflect the interpretation, how

I interpret the gospel true my own experience. Just because

I can tahan doesn't mean the other person tahnaone try

to just because I can take it, right. I mean,

I grow up in an environment by the word stupid.

It's very common, very common. It's almost like a like

like like listen, a normal word, like like good morning,

like that. Right, It's no, my parents don't mean in

the negative way. It was.

My parents just meant it as a form of encouragement, and.

I thought that it's a very good encouragement to other

people as well. Right, because look, I'm not that bad word.

I'm not great, but I understand that some people it's different.

So I didn't take time to spend time with God's

word to go deeper.

The Bible says keep.

Your heart with all deligious I'm not even focusing on

the word keep. I want to focus on the word

deligience because many times in our journey, friends, although we

are concerned with something, there is no consistency.

In doing what's right.

There is no consistency you know where we'll be consistent

when someone constantly reminds you ben clean your room. Sorry,

I'm picking a bend because I know him now right,

or maybe a linus clean your room right, I send

your emails and your text put the remainder on your

phone right every time I open your room, liners right now,

clear your room one right. It creates consistency after that, Well,

what happens when there is no alarm from the Bible?

Think about there? God does it keep your heart? With

all diligiance and many time strengths, we are very good.

We're celebrating the first day. First, say that we spend

eight to nine months preparation for wedding perfect, just like

a room after our parents issues an ultimatum, first day

super clean. After that, friends, is a different story altogether.

Family of cockachas living under your bait. It happens, Friends,

it happens. One of the greatest accid tests I tell

every church part who wants their own building is the toilets.

The toilets.

I've seen it because I have we have our own

space before, and I know how terrible the toilet can be.

Everybody wants to use it, but nobody wants to clean it.

Nobody wants to clean the toilet one. Friends, what happens? Friends,

it's always pass Steve. When the toilet is start. You

discharge your duty as a church member. Already you go

off have larger is. They're trying to uncluck the toilet.

I bring this up only because, friends, you could be offended.

You know by the very fact you have to put

your hands in there and take our toilet paper. I'm

sorry we have to grosser up, but that's what happened

to us. I'm not sure why people have this mentality.

Friends. There was one time we had one issue came

out of the toilet start. I look at it. Oh

my world. Why do people put like stack of tissue there?

There's no way I could flash it down.

The only way I could do it is back myself

with people, back with my hands and think you have

be plastic, back and take the tissue out. They wash

my hands to pray for people. After that, it's kidding.

Consistent offenses will come. The question here is is that

we are not consistent enough to keep our hearts. Because

the word the Bible used to work di legions. We

are very good with keeping, but not very good with diligence.

That's why even we're in the midst of the forty

day prayer and fast right now, she's he choose. Some

days we miss correct. Not after we missed, you say

out to the next day, right, bad? Right? We ad

the next day and next day after that. The Word,

that's what God wants us to be. Diligion to the

Word is to produce consistency. Produce consistency, friends, in.

Our walk with the Lord.

Why do you think that we offer mission trips throughout

the whole year. It's because we want our church partners

to have a consistent.

Life in the Lord.

You're the only way a supplement to work is to

become consistent in taking it.

The Bible is not a panel. You just take what

active fast. That's it that it has to be a

consistency in a walk.

So when Pastor told me about this brother was offended,

I have to think about I wasn't consistently I pick

and choose. Come on, we love God's presence, we love

the worship, we love a good word. But when we

have to deal with the issues of our heart, where

God brings individuals somethingless offenses comes, we take it into

our heart.

Friends, we begin to brew alway. Think about it.

How can we get even and how can okay, Christians

don't get even and how can we bring up to

the Lord and they say, God, you are my avenger,

But God say the other person of my son?

How offenses? Who come?

Friends know what happens. You have a choice. You have

a choice to forgive, to do what's right. I remember

that I had to call here and say, brother, so

and so, I heard that you're offended. And I tell

you what, Friends, I don't know why I wasn't offended?

No offender? Why you say.

No?

I'm serious? I said I heard you're offended. That we

just say no, not really, I wanta say. That's the

reason why I have to apply you yes or no?

Because not really offended? You mean you're not really pregnant.

I think you're pregnant or not pregnant. I'm not really

pregnant weed, not really all the time. I'm not really offended.

So are you offended or not offended?

Are you for the Lord? Not for the Lord? I'm

not really, I'm not really, I'm not really. Have you

heard this. I'm not really into either you're in or

not in?

And many times you allow yourself, friends, we allow yourself

to be in a place the middle road. Not really,

And that's the reason why no no brick shoo. Come on,

no brickshoe, no break shoe, and God wants us to

be fully in. Say rather, I tell you what I

heard about it. The individual didn't have to respond I

heard about it. You were offended by my email. I

want to accept my apology and say that to him. Okay,

it was in a very quick tone, but you offended. Okay,

why you know? I'm so sorry sending you with the email.

Please forgive me, thank you, thanks, bye. No, but there

was a break shoe. That was the start of many, many,

many many many after that. People that will say I

will offend it by you, say no, brother, I can ask.

I ask for forgiveness because it's not my skin, it's

not my face. If I offer forgiven to you and

you're still offended, this between you and the Lord after that,

many times you just take it along. We just put

in a deposit bank, right, and never overcome it by

working together again, never overcome it by walking together again.

And you know how hard did this? Learn forever after that?

Right?

And this is what passes to me.

If you don't get over this individual, God will bring

someone in your office who resembles the individual. Number one,

we're still pass the say, God brings you a girl

that you would like. Everything you like except this one

part who resembles the individual in the of the face. Okay,

but in terms of the behavior. So it's either you

deal with it right now and grow up, or you

deal with it later. Because God wants us to mature.

Come on, God wants us to mature. God doesn't want

us to be in a place where by like like that.

How to work with Christians? How to work with brothers

and sisters? How to work in the Kingdom of God?

Do you know how if he? Sometimes? People?

Are you understand? You've been a Christian for some time.

You understand, friends, But God wants us to mature. Mature friends,

When was the last time I got bring you to

a place whereby you never got your heart?

You see? This doesn't consern me anymore because you don't enough?

Really you are? You just escape from Jerusalem? Your problem?

This church? You're problem? Who asks EXEMONI to have his

own building? Before this were renting ma after church?

No need to pack up, you just leave the place

like it is right, No need to do anything at all,

just pack into the back.

It happens.

You saw the Missions report just now, why plant the

church in Melbourne? Melbourne don't need another church after they

are all the big churches there. Friends, it's like say

why another church, White Samini, another church? We're reaching a

girl of people? This how I expect reaching a girl people.

The other people are not reaching.

That's it.

Just that's it people, other people not reaching. Because if

other people are reaching, you won't be here. But we

are here because you know we're reaching out to you

and to undergo people of your friends. Asian Youth Ambassador

was started nineteen ninety seven. Right was noted because God

told passed that he wants. God wants to say a

revival in Malaysia through the youth. Through the youth. You

know what I means some friends, It means and trusting

young people with the stage. And if you haven't work

with young people before. Friends, they're very different even right now, friends,

Even right now, I'm still trying to understand their terms,

the way they see things, what accept them and what doesn't.

Yesterday we had the school play school play. Throughout the

whole player.

I look at the whole play friends, there are some

very cheesy moments, cheesy friends, cheesy right, but the young

people will laugh anything they say, wow, so cool.

I'll be like, so oh so cool.

The effects the sound, and I'm like, at the end,

had this game sound the ending of the game over sound?

You know what I mean?

If I can before this game over someone that all

the youth are clapping anything was it comes out and

I'm like, oh man, that's so dated, right.

They like colors. I like minimalists and stuff young people.

So when we started going around Malaysia bringing the youth,

as people say, your worship leader is just a youth,

shouldn't may they be in the thirties forties, and pastor

kept saying, no, if we don't give our youth a

chance to go for missions to plant churches, when with

the next pastor come from, When with the next.

You've later come from? If you're gonna take offenses.

You know our young people when you use an instrument

or get spoiled, they're wack their drums too loud that

everything all maximum month, no minimum, all maximum month. We

had early days of church, our church a smaller friends

and you know young people they like loudness is equal

to passion. We had a parents sitting in the second

row halfway doing the service go to the middle row,

end of the worship services, go to the last show

almost almost exit door, really friends, because it's too loud.

But we are not.

We don't make apologies, just that these are young people.

They will make mistakes. What do we do do we

pick up offenses? The Bibles is keep your harvey all

dilligiance do I, therefore.

You are always you.

Give you a nice projector, friends, We give a projector

to one of our our church plan young church plant.

Two months oh two thousand year projector got dropped from

the car to the floor.

Elder, spoil ready, spoiled ready.

Keep your heart with all deligiers our issues of life

beg you mind saying So easy for you, sai, because

when we started the church we had to We had

to use whatever we had, those of you who grew

up with without much, and you understand we had to

use secondhand projectors. We took it kelvy like gold. He

comes to young people who have to give to them

brand new staff. Right they dropping within two months of usage.

Spoiled ready. You cannot be offended. You can just say

our teaching next how to carry a projector. But in

the meantime you have to keep your heart pure because

you know, oh of it flows the issue of life.

Come on, oh, well flose the issue of life.

And that's the reason why sometimes our life get hijacked

by the concern that we have. Come on, guess, hijacked

by the consent that we have and doesn't really concern

this one. It gets hijacked by other people's concern. If

I'm gonna get hijacked by this brother who got offended

by me, friends, I will not be here. I took

a pay cut coming into church and myself outside. At

least someone someone said, at least outside the page more

you can endeal more. He'll pay all as good friends.

Everyone shared. There was the one time I think that

was there was a string of young working about sharing

about getting their bonuses and stuff like that. Look at

my clique full work bonuses and we also laughing, Yes

in heaven, hallelujah, praised the Lord right, and they show

you by the bonuses and stuff that. But yeah, at

the same time, Ah, what we can do is that

we can share about the success the testimony as well

as all the offenses.

You could. Then my wife taught me this.

Yeah, I teach you how to reply email next time

after the two alphabet no, you put a smiley face.

Soften the blow, soften the rejection. See your email, there's

no smiley face. I teach you to reply. My wife

replied emails really well, right, put a smiley face the

guarantee you at least you're you're reply with because you

know your emotions.

At least smiley face say that you're anyway.

Let me just give you a female scriptures my chapter four,

Name my chapter four, name my chapter four, verse one

right now after after you you know why you're concerned

because you spend time with a lot of taking time

off and just the words looking, evaluating my friends, the

words consistency, doing it. It's not just one of But

here comes a real challenge friends worst chapter four vers one.

But Soper Sambala heard about what we are, that we

are about to build the walls. He was furious, indignant

and mocked the Jews. You will have opposition friends, part

or part of rebuilding our life. You will have challenges.

Life is never a straight easy road, right, No matter

what we do, losing make or challenges, especially in Malaysia.

Every corner is good food. Every corner there's something nice

to eat one. I've never heard in any conversation, even

those who keep fit never talk about foot one. In

most of our conversation, at least out of ten times,

two times talk about food. It's hard, friends, So whatever

we do with life, there will be the challengers. But friends,

is not that we can shield ourselves of those challenges.

That what are we going to do with the challenges?

Here's the thing verse two, And he spoke this to

my bedroom right now, Fans is a stirer. He stirs

up people in this conversation, right to rebel, to challenge

against you. So when they say this is right, because

I want to see you next week, I'll live the

offenses that you have with me with the passes here.

Right.

If you're like the samballa time like like to stir

people up emotionally, right to go against certain things, I

pray that you spend time with the Lord to examine

your heart. Right if you're like the Summer, like like

the stir first, there's stirring, stir to support yourch growth,

to support the Lord, or stir to go against which

cam are you? Please don't tell me that I'm not

really in the camp. Please do not tell me, I'm not.

It's either you're for the lot or not for the Lord.

Either you're on fire for Jesus or not on fire

for Jesus.

That's it. Maybe I am believe. I believe. You believe

all the way. You can't. There's no pastial believer, you understand, right,

soa stir people up?

Right, stir people up? Say what will these fever use?

What are these people doing? First of all, friends, what

are these fever Jews doing? You know, you get a

taught that comes along your way or maybe you heard

who are you? You are just a Malaysian church. You're

just a Malaysian. You're you're just Asian? Right, You're nobody,

you don't have a name. Friends, I want to let

you know. Friends, you get that opposition that will come

along your way, that will cause you to question your

identity in God, will cause you to doubt when God

calls you to do something, the enemy will come and

question who are you? So next week we are launching relaunch,

or rather launching a new album in our church ep right.

Our church, if you didn't know, has a history of

we are very strong with creative arts, very strong. In fact,

there's one of our gift things very strongly because we

truly believe in reaching the youth to creative evangelism. When

we had to play school play with together with we

partner with Victorid Academy, AYA actually came together.

To produce a school play.

Some of the international students from another school were there

and they say, elder, my school even though it's one

of the most expensive school here, never had this kind

of play, never had this kind of play. Only because

that I recognize it's because of the church.

That's how you can have this. Most plays are champion

but one or two teachers.

But the whole organizer came around it because not because

victories our school, because we know that God is going

to use this play to reach many and other youths

that were there were coming to watch the play.

The whole play.

The script was about Moses and deliverance. God can use anyone.

The script, friends, wasn't bought from the internet. We develop

it to the help of check GPT. Praise Hallelujah. They

provided the framework. We added, we added the skin. After that,

the question is that what are this fever Jews doing?

And sometimes that's us as well.

Who are we?

We are nobody right, so our album is launching next

week and all the songs all the musician in house

x church and sometimes we question that just because of

a setback our third album or fourth album. I decided

to be bold to send it out ins to be distributed.

I believe it.

I send it out there right, I say, wo, you

want to distribute? Send me a sample? I thought, passing, yeah,

praise haighly live, let's pray see how it goes. A

month later came an email, thank you so much for

a semple do you want your sample back? I thought,

what does it mean? This should be our music. It's

so terrible that he even sample, so you want to

give back our music did make the international amount? Even

our sample CD we sent to Australia, please tay keep

back because it wasn't good. But that doesn't mean, friends,

that we are bad. It just means that they are

not a market. That's allly. It just means that they

are not the audience we want to readion. God doesn't

want us to go that way.

That's it. Just because of the oh you know what're

gonna rejection? That's it. Don't produce shut down the whole

ship team. Just take song friends.

Too often, too often we rely on the external, and

we keep putting ourselves down, keep putting ourselves out. That's

not good enough. What are these fever just doing? Let

me just try to end this very soon, right. It's

also saying will they completely in the day? We didn't

complete in the day. You can, may you sure you can? Man,

you can go the long women call the long haul man.

Young people, they all say they're on fire for Jesus.

Wait we reach sixty, see whether they see on fire

for Jesus or not. We should reach fifty they get married,

we see it on fire for Jesus.

Not it happens.

We friends when we were, when we were younger, we

say that we go all the way, but once we

wish a certain ash.

These young people are know how the Germany no love

music only.

We become very cynical about then people after a while,

because we've been through their face. Come on, we've been

through their face. But we forget when we were once

that a friends. We will say that God, if you

can you see what use me right? Send me out

to the missions field. What happens? So the moment we

passes of the age, God, don't send me anymore say

someone else. We will ask a question that all the

full time working and extius are they graduate dropout? All

the full time working and extras are they graduate dropout?

I'll reply to them, know, actually most of them, if

all of them got the degree, double degree something, they've

got the master's and doctorates. I said, really, yeah, So

what you do doing full time week newspaper is it?

We will ask the question that full time worker means

to say that you take up the newspaper. Now know

newspaper and you understand, okay, go online the week newspaper?

What you do?

That's what you do doing your I would say, no,

We've got a lot of things to do.

One but you got me a friendly because someone says something,

your future is going to be very bleak. And finally

here someone say, will they revive the stones from the

heaps of rubbish stones that was burned? Will they revive

the stones that were burned? I want to let you know, friends,

if I was near my reply, we can't. Only God

can redo the reviving need some other ultimate ultimate goal

is this to get our eyes off God. Get your

eyes off the Lord, get your eyes off his promises.

Get your eyes off God's promise about your future and

focus it on the heaps of rubbish. Focus it on

the burn that you had experienced before. I was hurt

before and forever forever. Friends, I've been there before. I'm

gonna save re love if you don't deal with it. Friends,

it was after ten fifteen years you steal first thing. Friends,

because I've been in church and one of the leaders

have a visit. They came to our church. I say, hey,

welcome to next church. I want to let you know

I from the sell the church and tell you what

the pastor offended me. First five minutes of introduction. First

five minutes of introduction, that was the first thing that knew.

We just said to me, I was offended by the

other church pastor. I'm like, so, what do you want

me to do? Can you call the other church pastor

the person offended me? Not I was asked to do that,

or the other brother. She took my money? Can you

talk to him from another church? When you wanted to invest,

you didn't consult the church. When you lost money, you

asked the church. It's like this word. Did the guy

like your girl never asked us. But the moment you

want to break up. You know what, man, I like

this girl. Can you help us to break up? I

will just reply about to date. Never consult the church

what to break up the time? Consult the church and

say the other girl was hurt?

Oh like that?

Want it to succor enjoy the falling in love but

them don't work out? The church have be coming and

clean up your mess.

Come on.

I'm saying this with love because if you don't deal

with it, this is what happens. Sambada will always want

to get your eyes of God. Focus on your heart

and your pain. Focus on this so much until you

never rebuild your life again. Friends, there will be the

moment's friends. I want to let you know God have

a lowed allowed by whatever he allowed, he also can rebuilt.

He can rebuilt in the process of the album next

week is coming out. Please during the missions conference, I

think prayerfully it's gonna be least online.

You can listen to it all right. I have the

work with creative people. I love.

Creative people are friends. Creative people are different breed. I'm

accounts by my major. Any any accountant here, anybody who

accounts before finance accounts like a white right, you see.

Black and white.

Right, so black white people emotionals are we see in

numbers one and zero. But musicians are different breeds altogether.

They feel a lot of things. Are friends. The moment

you say something that guy don't agree with the feeling

of friends, they'll feel a bit offended one a bit offended.

And because I'm not a musician, In fact, my one

of my engineers cannot hand me. Elder, can you please

stand further away because I I don't know which key

because you're seeing flat, I say flat is good. I

can't so I cannot be offended by that. I cannot

be offended. My wife there, Can you stop singing it

at homes? Can you stop singing up? Because I'm trying

to come in by kind of fire?

Which key?

The guitarist same, just singing or in flat tone? Since

that's not my problem, you just ask the Holy Spirit

to lead ela. Right, I'm dealing with the individual I

could feeling. I could have felt hurt. I could hurt

other people along the process.

You know what happened? Then what happened?

The album will never come out, songs will never be released.

Ultimate happened Malaysia The People was meant to hear it.

We'll never get to hear if we get our eyes

off God and focusing in the world such a big mess.

I haven't, I'm not. Don't get involve leadership so busy

when you're WhatsApp group never stopp ringing on.

Right, Get our eyes off, gotten off onto the one sapple.

You look at them, look at them serving the Lord.

Last time, got hand out, no hair ready, last time joyous,

Now no more joy anymore. Right, we happened friends, happen

with friends. But what do we do focusing on the

rubbish as like close friend focusing on the rubbish. Focusing

on the rubbish. No, we get our eyes onto the

Lord and not under the rubbish. Yes, friends, God bring

us shoe a moment where we feel burned. Do I

have moments of giving up?

Yes? Do I have moments of like surrendering, yes? Do

I have I want confess? Yes? But it's never easy.

And this is what possibly been encouraging me. If Jesus

can go too.

Invested in the twelve Disciples at the point of time

of s crucifixion, everybody left him except for one people

he ministered to left him accuse him. What makes us

get exempted, exempted. If Paul has to go to persecution,

what makes us exempted? You wuld not get in the

business of leadership to be liked. She get in the

business leadership to serve as I close. I closed one

story with your pastor. Dave shared one time he and

his wife was discouraged. Discourage because they do a lot

with a lot of students come to the church.

In London.

They come and the state there was one individual came

and you know she was in the mess, and their

husband and wife came, helped them, went to her apartment.

Her room was in a mess, in a mess, but

they loved her.

The church came around her, clean up her room, throw

trash away boxes and stuff like that. You thought the

individual be grateful, be thankful, no friends one two weeks later,

turn around, turn around, say a bit nessy stuff and

passive with me. Two years ago he just said what

to do? She left our church without saying thank you.

But it's a good test of our hearts. I didn't

do it for the individual. The love of Jesus compels

me to do it. We used to serve the law

with offenses just because some mothers say, hey, who are

you to revive the budstone. We stop our legacy, we

stop our journey with the law. Just because someone says something.

We stop everything. We stopped living for the law just

because the individual says thing. I went for my first

youth of chem issues for sixteen. You've keme issue of

sixteen in FJA. Came out excited. My mom, my late

mom just came up to me one this is this

is after camera. I came excited. Don't you ever go

into full time ministry? Don't you ever be a fanatic?

Do you know the expector I could be offended? I cried,

I know in my room there, I said, Mom, why

I just came up from kemboy, do you have to

do this? My mom wasn't Christian they understand anything. We

could take a lot offense in along the way. God,

what are we going to do with it? You take

the concern just kind of boyd some more the individual?

Or would you let it go? Say Lord, help me

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