The Important of Knowing and Serving Your Calling (Part 3 Continuation of discipleship) | Pr Yvonne Chong

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That's about Christ to really have that standing and that

grounding in the lot. You know, sometime back I talk

about you know, there are this based on observation, and

different ones have also pointed out, not different ones, not

extra people, but just general church wise studies and what

you know, there always two groups of believers.

Right, one is the regulus.

Uh. And I'm bringing this out not out of a

place of judgment. It's just studies that have been done

and I'm pointing it out, okay, And they're the one

who is really committed into their relationship and what we've got,

which is called the disciples choosing to follow Christ. And

and so I I you know, and many people just

either could go about life. I mean, we can still

go about daily lives.

Uh.

And and you know, I this morning and I was reminded,

you know, buster Stephen, come, here's the church plank coordinator

for ex money, And I remember there was once a

student and now he's a working adult. Uh and and

married as well. And and I am I actually said,

you know, and reach all different leaders here as well

that there are a lot of the decisions that they

made and knowing Buster Stephen, uh he decides a lot

of things based on being a disciple first. Uh And

and what is being a disciple? It shows in what

we prioritize our decisions in. So for example, uh, I'm

using it as an illustration and some of you know

I'm using it as an illustration as well. Hi, Buster Stephen,

I'm using you he's.

Listening to this.

Uh So even he's married, very in love with his wife,

but his first priority will still be a child of God.

Uh And and praising God first, loving God first, then

his wife. Uh And because I could confidently say that

because he has shown it based on the decisions that

he made. And and when even he was a student,

he wasn't you know, if you're ask him, he won't

say that I'm a student first, but I'm a child

of God first.

So that helped him to continue on in this race

and to decide.

But there be a lot of decisions that you can

go ask him personally. And he has seen how God

has blessed him over and wor again, both in his

career and it's also his personal life as well. So

I before, I I just I have six points, but

I may break this into maybe two or three parts.

I don't think I can cover everything today, but I

just want to share about you know, discipleship, you know,

and and I want to show some photos now. And

it started a photo with the yeah, the Colarly Piece

on first. So last week we Angelina and myself, we

it wasn't like planned like many many months a hit,

but there was an urgenty that came from the ground

in one of the small groups of the IPG movement.

So this is a small group that is in IPG

Colarly Biased if you don't know, Colarly Piece is in Pahang, uh.

So so that time, I mean, the urgenty came out

to us because every single one that is part of

the small girl isn't doing well. And you know, Angela

being the field coordinator, we have to field coordinators. As

of now, we are ping that this still got to

raise out two more, but two Krista and herself. For her,

she has a view on what's going on and different

ones out there are very very discouraged, uh in the

world we've got and then they are facing a lot,

a lot of pressure so to the extent, you know,

there is stop meeting as a small girl. They want

to give up on things and stuff like that. And

when we heard it, it didn't sit right with us

because you know, there's so much more that can actually

be done, uh, and you know you don't have to

come to a place of giving up, and you know,

if there's extra support needed, we can because there is

a potential right right in every small group. There's a

potential for growth, but there's also potential for revival. And

the enemy always would like to close things down. When

there's a spark of fire, he will close it down

as well.

So this was the case.

And then the week itself, we left on a Friday,

almost close to after walk time. The drive that was

about we took a break in between O Sola because

we're the tuning for our discipleship with me up. So

we arrived at about eleven something at night, right eleventh

the DPM. So it was a long journey.

It was very tiring.

Got for that week, or so actially for quite a

few weeks, cause sometime now I have been tired because

not enough rest and why not enough rest?

Because I get it's like my sleep in between gets disturbed.

Uh. And and different things are happening in the house,

not the spooky one, but it's done. Natural things are

things are happening, and and uh, we got my sister's room.

It's just next to mine.

So whenever she's awake and whenever she's loud, I can

hear everything. So she she wakes up random hours. So

that's another story for another day.

But I get this stub.

So I'm like, you have to drive all the way.

I'm like, it's okay, God, you know this is going

to be worth it. So we were there Saturday eleven thirty.

The next morning, we met up with this group of people.

We just had a time of worship and then angually

the devotion and then she ministered, uh you know, and

and God's presence was just really really evident doing that

small group that we have had with them and amember

during the ministry time, you know, just different. One was

deeply moved.

They're crying.

And then after that, you know, when we talked to

you know, you can see right here this is the

picture after the countenance actually totally changed.

Already before that they were just all down, uh and depressed. Uh.

And and so yeah, so this this was the trip there.

And after that, you know they have made a decision. Okay,

we'll not give up. We'll try to come from the

IPG Small Grow Facilitata overnight such a long name.

That's happening this coming in and uh three days, two nights.

Uh. And it's for especially for the IPG movement. Okay,

small movement. And then Steph is going to be there.

So one of the panelies for one of the sessions. Yay.

And you know we got recently we have we had

the educators meet up and one of the things we

actually asked if you know the current teachers who like

to mentor future generations.

So Steph said, yeah, yeah, coming in.

So we gotta get her over the be on a

panel so that yall can go deeper with them. Your

means are talking those those so and and so. God

just transformed the situation around.

So praise a lot.

Uh.

And then I think this week.

Then after that, you know they're like, okay, I want

to come for that. And we know that whenever someone

says yes to the Lord, that itself is a potential

in there like every seat right, even though it was

it has not touched the ground yet a potential is

that and then once it touches ground, the ground, and

he has the right everything our humidity, pH water, sun,

and then it germinates right and then it grows uh

so so and the devil recognizes that as all that

there is a potential in every seat and and he

will try ways to stop us. Also, we have hit

had challenges even just leading up to this coming with

and but the team you know, decided to pray. You

can show the next picture online prayer every day. One

is the preparation of hearts, but the next is to

really cover because uh, we have gotten different news. Okay,

suddenly like Saturday we got uh laja uh you know

field trips, gotten around young accident. Then just now, Crystal

just this morning said that God, Crystal is gonna fly

in from Lawas. She said, Lawas Airport has been closed

because of bad flood uh and has been closed for

some time already. Right, so I pray very hard that

the apple will be open so she can fly over

so so different hindrances, but we believe that you know,

this overnight it's going to be a very significant time

of raising disciples, not just to ex church, I mean

in resciples in ex church, but the disciples uh former Laysia.

Because you know, we know that teachers have an amazing,

amazing influence, they have amazing potential in them as well.

So every revived is a disciple, and a disciple would

have further potentials to to continue to help Malaysia experience

the love of Christ. Okay, so and and and so

the next one all uh got more photos. So different

meetouts has happened in all Machen and Dennis or there.

This is the Cheriss team and then the next one

will be the I B G k L team. And well,

and you know it wasn't easy for both for Tree,

not both ANGELI Machen and Dennis uh to make it uh.

And and the last meet was yesterday. They drove all

the way from me like to KL just to meet

the team and then drive back at night. Sl if

anyone would see this home uh and this house is temporary, Uh,

they wouldn't have done that. But I do know that

the three of them, the Tree ask some cheese to

just and just kidding, Oh listen, Okay, they went all

the way because their first disciples, and they know that

true their soling and through loving this other IBG campuses. Uh,

that's gonna be, you know, just amazing things that's gonna

happen in the days to come. All right, So why

are we doing this? Because bas Cana right now, you know,

he says it's let's says in regards and and he's

still resting. Keep him in prayer for complete, complete healing

and recovery. But Baskena has been running the theology or leadership.

He has been asked to speak at a different platforms

as well regarding it, and he did share it all

for anything to last? Uh, it's you know, at least

you know, have at least four generations and and you

know today you know, I'm going to share because I've

shared in many manypacity, But today's sharing is going to

focus on the continuity of the continuation of discipleship and

how do we last a long haul as a church?

How can we last a long haul as individual disciples

as well? Okay, so I'm gonna cover perhaps two points

or three, let's see. So the first point on how

we can actually last is from Mark chapter twelve. Let'sten

to Mark chapter twelve, verse twenty eight to the t.

If you're there, say yay, how may I o yeah,

all right, yay, all right, I'll be reading from the

amplified version. So and the first one I'm gonna start

with is gonna is laying the foundation, okay, of what

a disciple is. Then the scribes, Okay, who are the scribes?

They are like modern day lawyers. Okay, they're experts in

the Mosaic law. They So the scribes came up to them,

and they started arguing with each other, those for those

who are arguing, And then they noticed that Jesus answered

the arguing people very well. So then they decided right

to ask Jesus which commandment is first and foremost important

of all?

And verse twenty nine.

Jesus answered them, the first and most important one is

here o Israel, the Lord, our God is one lord.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all

your heart and with all your life, and with all

your mind, and with all your strength.

Okay.

So for us as a church and a disciple individual

as well to be able to last a long haul,

I think, and another modern day where people like to

use this sustainability okay, but like I'll put it in

se continuation because my series has been in c CCS. Okay, uh,

ceries okay, nice and faster runsom So you know, this

very important thing for us to continue to go keep

going is love, all right, loving the Lord our God

with what, with all our hearts, with all our life,

with all our mind, our and our strengths, what is mine,

our understanding, whatever that is logic to us our thinking processes.

To love God with that as well, because our mind

is the greatest CBO of all time, right, central processing unit.

CPO in all your computer CPO. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Y'all know that now like top eighth yead don't use

CPUO anymore personally, know we know, we know the same era,

same era CPUs. So our mind is the greatest CPO,

and a lot of times our mind is the one

that always would have tried to think think loge logically

that will sometimes contridict with what God is saying as well,

right of our own understanding of things, but not through

the perspective of what God is.

Seeing it as all right.

So love is the foundation of being a disciple. And

without loving the Lord our God, first, we have nothing, okay.

And because we love God, right, it will continue to

motivate us, it will continue to propel us to follow him,

all right. And then it does not just stop there,

you know, It moves on to verse thirty one. It says,

this is the second you shall amplified version says you

shall unselfishly love your neighbor as a self. There is

no other commandment greater than this, all right. So it

will propel us to continue to follow Christ. But it

will propel us to serve each other as well, and

it will enable us, right or when we love God

with our heart, it will enable us to love others

as ourself and not you know, desire and sick, you know,

things just for us. But when we will desire and

sick things for the betterment and for the good of

the person that's next to us.

All right.

So the Greek word here, okay, those of us who

already know, is agapeo agape. Love is agape. And it's

actually not so much of a matter of emotion only,

but it is the place of action, all right, benefiting

doing things that will benefit other people, not out of

selfish desires. But it's the willingness to continue to seek

the best of another person.

That's what.

Will continue to keep us going. It all different ones

of us we have a different I not use the

word expiry date, but it's not expired dated. What you

call it life spend.

And you know the days.

Our days are numbered and only the Lord knows, okay,

But even as our days are numbered, we have every

day to make it count and every day that counts,

every day that lovest the lot first and loving his creation.

And it's not easy. It's easier said than done, all right.

Which I'm gonna come to that later, but you keep

that thought for now, and I'm gonna expand it a

little bit further, all right. So that's the first to

cont for the church to continue to make disciples, for

us as a disciple, to continue in our journey of

following Christ, and to continue to help others as well

to make more disciples. So each and everyone of you

here actually see a potential in you that you will

one day be able to disciple another person. You know,

no matter who you are, where you're at, you have

the potential to disciple another person. So you can turn around.

It's like, hey, you know you have the potential to

make a disciple. Okay, So love, loving the lot and

loving others. The second one is being stepped fast okay,

being committed, being dedicated and persistent. You know, the IPG

movement came about because that's the Crystal and that's the

angel the angey Okay, that didn't give up. Uh. History

not really history not too long ago when there were

two of the IPG campuses that said that we want

to do small group right or it was sleepys and.

Was it one one?

Okay, we've got a sleepeas and they say on those

small group and then you know, our small group team

in the office had a meet out with them discussion.

Then after that they wereized, Ah, this is too difficult

or too much comming. I don't want to we don't

want to do and then uh, when Crystal heard it,

I heard it, Angually heard it like, no, you know

it's still too premature and too early to give up

H and to say that, you know, this is not

for us, so we persisted. UH. And it takes a

lot commit money. Can ask Angeline and ask Crystal uh

because being few coordinators, they are in communication with the

team often. On top of that, they have their own

jobs to do, so many other classes to teach, UH,

and their own life to do. I don't know what

else yet you can ask Angelici has a long list

of things, but you know she is committed. Both her

and Crystal, they're committed to see.

Uh.

Actually all the ibgs in experiencing the love of Christ.

And it takes a disciple and a follow up Christ

to be able to commit to continue to be step

fast in the work that God has caught us. Uh,

to be step fast not just the word right, to

be stepfast in our faith. Uh. You know many times

a lot of people just fall away and they go

call back slafe because that's not that fastness. Uh. You

know the other word these days that people are used greet, right,

you know, the stubbornness in a good way to continue

to hang on, to continue to persevere and and to

live out the ways of God. You know, the Bible says, right,

why it's the road that leads to destruction, but narrow

is the way. It's the road that leads to life.

And when it's a narrow road, meaning it's going to

be difficult. Ah. And and it's what you know, I'm

gonna paraphrase this first.

It says easy it's the.

Road, right, that is why highway is very easy right

to travel, but try traveling from Kuching to Lawas by road. Okay, now,

thank God for the pan Borneo Highway. But you know,

if you're to travel all the way to Laha to

let's say, from it's tough. It's difficult. Narrow is the road,

But narrow is the road that leads to life. And

when we continue to hang on to God's ways, to

live it up and to endure all difficult times in

our road here, enduring difficult times, we will come up

more victorious. You will come out overcoming the challenges and situations.

So being stepped fast. And guys, do not give up.

You know, when things are difficult, when you have ten

thousand assignments on your table that you have to come

summit tomorrow, that's how you'll hear the word assignment trauma.

Okay, do not give up. And and and when your bills.

Are coming knocking at your door that you have to settle,

do not give up. Persist on a true disapple of Christ.

Don't not give up easily our faith. We persist on.

Okay, all right, Uh, oh time, all right. Number three.

The third one is obedience and accountability. Ah all right,

So this is not a common word these days. Uh,

you know, with this h of all the freedoms and

the rights that we have as a human being. But

let's go back to the origins of human being, right,

the word of God. And let's see what the word

of God says uh. In Titus chapter three, verse one,

Titus Titus Titus chapter three, verse one. I am reading

from the ESV version. It says, yeah, remind them.

M hm.

That's why I'm reminding you guys today. Remind to be

submissive to ruleers and authorities, to be obedient, and then

to be ready for every good word. Okay, I'm going

to break up this point two obedience, accountability to men

and then to God. All right, So Titus tree one

is to men, all right. Have a few more verses

as well. Romans chapter three, verse one to two. Romans

Chapter three, verse one to two, ESV version. Also, well,

God says here in verse one, let every person be

subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority

except from God, and those that exist have been instituted

by God.

That's all.

Whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed. And

those raises were in judgment. Romans chapter thirteen, verse one

to two susan.

Loma loma.

So yes, it's strange not having a translator here today.

It got so used to having realized bilingo. Right, So yes,

dose of you. You know, if God's stirring you up,

the translating man gene translation can let us know, okay.

Romans chapter thirteen, verse one to two, all right, and

then the next one Ephicients chapter six, verse five to eight.

You can write it down, but I will read it

to us also from the.

ESV version.

Bond servants obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling,

with a sincere heart, as you would Christ by the

way of eye service as people please us, but as

bond servants of Christ, doing the will of God from

the heart, rendering service with a good will as to

the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatever good

anyone does this, he will receive back from the Lord,

whether he is a bond servant or is free.

Okay, all right? So now also that is.

Obedience and submission to men, and but not just to men,

to any man, but it's to the authority that God

has instituted, that God has placed over us.

All right.

And then to let's see what God says about submitting

to God.

All right.

John chapter fourteen, verse fifteen, ESV version says, if you

love me, you will keep my commandments. John chapter fourteen,

verse fifteen, John fourteen fifteen. And then John chapter fourteen,

verse twenty one. He says that whoever has my commandments

and keep them, he it is who loves me. And

he who loves me will be loved by my father,

and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

And then Looke chapter eleven, verse twenty eight, Look eleven

twenty eight. But he says ya, But he said, blessed

rather are those who hear the word of God and

keep it? All right, You guys are good, okay. And

then the next verse X chapter five, verse twenty nine.

What does it say here.

ESV version.

But Peter and the apostles answered, we must obey God

rather than men, all right, And the context of this

verse right, if you read the verses earlier, so basically

they have been challenged in their faith. So okay, let's

read from verse twenty two. All right, then you'll understand

where this verse is coming from verse twenty two of

X five. But when the officers came and did not

find them.

In the prison. They written and reported.

Verse only three, saying, indeed, we found the prison shut securely,

and the guards standing outside before the doors. But when

we opened them, we found no one inside verse twenty four. Now,

when the high priests, the Captain of the temple, and

the chief priests heard these things, they wondered what the

outcome would be verse twenty five. So one came and

told them, saying, look, the men whom you put in

prison are standing in a temple at teaching the people.

What happened was twenty four. Then the captain went with

the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared

the people lest they should be stone verse twenty seven.

And when they brought them, they set them before the council,

and the high priests asked them verse only eight, saying,

did we not strictly command you not to teach in

the name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your

doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood on us.

And then Peter replied, that's where the reply came, right.

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we

ought to obey God than men, all right. So this

is the context of the verse. You know, when the

world challenges us and persecutes us and tell us, right,

did we not command you not to teach in the

name of Jesus? Did we not command you and give

you rules that you cannot actually preach the word of God?

You know? I hope you know we are able to

reply that I'm doing this because I'm obeying the Lord,

and this is what the Lord is commanding us to do.

So obedience, okay, obedience itself, it's a very key important

condition of being a disciple. Obedience to the Lord first

and to his word first. And what does obedience you know, do?

All? Right?

You know?

Sein, you know right?

We live in a sinful nature, sinful environment. The world

is sinful.

Uh.

And and every human you know, we have uh, we

call it. Yeah, I have to break it down simpler ways.

We have sinful nature. And that's and and like every

every baby as well, when they're born, every child, right,

they're not taught to tell lies, but somehow they're not

to tell lies. They are not taught to be violent,

but somehow they are violent.

Uh.

They're not taught to steal, but somehow they steal, and

they don't know that it's wrong.

But that's that.

Nature in them already, and and and so scene will

continue to steer us right, will continue, the directors will

continue to distract us towards the path of disobedience. But

when we are disciples of Christ, when we are rooted

and grounded in the lot, we are able, we are

able to identify, like, hey, you know it is bringing

this is actually bringing me further and further away from

a lot. This is causing me to disobey the word

of God. I need to stop it. So obedience, you know,

takes us, you know, coming to a place like to

say that I want to reject whatever this world has

offered me. You want to reject what's seen, you know,

the pleasures of sin. Sin is very pleasurable, right because

it fits into our kernal nature, if it's to our flash,

if it's to our human needs and our human one

human ones. But obedience will continue to stare us and

propel us to continue to pursue God's will for our life. Yeah,

so obedience to the Lord is it goes to hating sin,

all right, So that is obedience part. Let's look at

about accountability, all right, Ezra Chapter eight All Testomer Exra

Chapter eight, verse twenty eight to verse thirty four. You

can actually write that down, but I will not read

all the verses. Okay, So what happened was the twelve men, right,

Ezra selected this twelve men to carry gold, silver, and

bronze items okay, into Jerusalem. And before they start transporting them,

it was accounted for their weight, and then they account

for it and then delivery happens. So and instructions were

given right in twenty eight to twenty nine the verse

it says that you know you as well as these

are items okay, the goal civil and bronze that they

are transporting have been conscert created. Uh. They were asked

to guide them carefully until they weigh them out. So

upon the arrival at the destination, they were supposed to

weigh again to make sure they did not drop something

along the way. So they are supposed to carefully weigh

and then their duty is done. So what accountability is, right,

is a responsibility for us.

Believe us.

For fulfilling our duties and our obligation as a disciple.

Okay.

So the twelfth priests right in Ezra chapter eight, you

know they were required to carry out their priestly duties

and the priestly duties was still transport all this precious

metal right to Jerusalem. And then you know they fasted

and they seek God for protection during the journey as well.

And why they do that because they want to continue

to keep guard, all right. So that's what accountability is

for us, That it starts with taking personal responsibility of

our own actions, our own faith, and making conscious choices

of allowing God and allowing the people that God plays

in our life which is around us right to help

us accomplish the calling and the role and the duty

that God has placed in our hands.

Right.

And so for example, the IPG I talk about the

smuggle again, they wanted to stop, right, But then initially

they wouldn't want to say that, hey, we want to

start doing something. So why do we have a follow

up and make sure we have a follow through together

with them every time? Because this is what they have

committed to do. And sometimes because of different things, we

can get distracted along the way, discouragements, right and give up.

God has placed is people around in our lives to

make it obvious to us, like, hey, you know you

have committed to this already. So people in our lives

to help us keep accountable what we have committed to.

So that is, you know, driving from an example of

the IBG group as well. So sometimes we can say,

you know, I'm only accountable to God, not the people

around us. But it's the people around us that can

notice the most obvious things. The people around us can

be our true mirror. No word, God is our mirror,

but it's the sometimes the first thing God. Sometimes, you know,

if our frequency is not right right, it might not

even be in tune with God's voice and his leading.

But God uses people around us to continue to keep

us in check. All right, So continue, okay, to allow

us you unpacked and get rooted in this church to

continue to actually like growing, we have to continue to

be obedient to the Lord, be accountable to him and

to the paper that places around us as well. Oh right,

I'm going to close with this last point, but this

last one I won't be finish the whole point as well,

but let me try.

Okay.

So, being a disciple of Christ and to continue to

be able to be that and see church continue to

be that as well, is we have to deny ourself.

What does it mean?

Okay, let's look and met chapter sixteen, verse twenty four

to twenty six. I'm reading from the New Living Translation version.

It saysya.

Then, Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone desires to

come after me, let him what deny himself, take up

his cross and follow me. For whoever desires to save

his life will lose it, But whoever loses his life

for my sake will find it. For what profit is

it to a man if he gains the whole world

but loses his own soul? And what will a man

give in exchange for his soul? So what has God

been challenging you to give up and to take up

the cross and follow him?

You know?

Or another version say to deny yourself and follow him?

What has God been challenging us to do? And a

lot of times God will challenge us the areas that

he'll touch, areas that we see it.

It is my right to have it.

It's my right to feel this way, it's my right

to do this, it is my right to do that.

But when we deny ourselves of our rights, you're saying, God,

I'm taking this cost and following you. So let me

just give a few examples, okay. Romans Chapter twelve, verse

nineteen to twenty. Romans chapter twelve. So for this point

I'll be reading all from the New Living Translation version.

Romans chapter twelve, verse nineteen to twenty. Says your dear friends, Hello, God,

never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God.

For the scripture says I will take revenge. I will

pay them back, says the Lord. Instead, feed your enemies

who are hungry, if they are thirsty, give them something

to drink. In doing this, who will keep burning coals

of shame on their heads? So an example, all right,

you know you have the right to take reveng You

know this person has around you all the ways, has

stolen your yours car burn down your condominium, cause you

to lose your career, and a top.

Institution in Malaysia. You have all the right to stand

out and fight and take the revenge. But God says, what.

Feed your enemies when they're hungry, if they're thirsty, give

them something to drink. You know there's a time and

place for rights. You know, justice to prevail. But perhaps

you know God, sometimes it's also challenging us that to

check ourselves. Are we doing it out of spike? Are

we doing it out of a place on one thing,

revenge only because you know what God says, right, leave

the revenge to God. He will settle your bill. Right

if God has allowed it to happen. God has allowed

your views to be stolen and your condo. But now

God was set a bill, and it's for us to

continue to put our faith and our trust in him,

all right, so we have the right, all the rights

to revenge. You know the story about when in twenty

ten we you know, but also note this down somewhere

I can't remember. I think it's chin up.

Our We were supposed to secure a building.

Uh. It was called Lot ten Gourse. It's Union number ten.

It's a factory building and a part of time, you know,

you know Canneth had in mind so like, hey, you know,

let's let's build a big church with you know, the

it's a factory law that we can do many many

different things.

Uh.

And we did, you know, fundraising for it, and people

gave to the Lord h. It was a lot of money.

And we raised enough money for the earnest deposit.

Uh.

And we were still you know, waiting for I think

the bank loan of sudden money to come in for

the major about so we're servicing, like you know, while

you're waiting the waiting period to pay fines, we were

servicing the finance well. So it came out to a

couple of million in total. And in the end what

happened was the owner of the building, without letting us know,

actually saw the building to another buyer. Okay, while we

have already paid all the different moneys already. So at

that part in time, you know, definitely it was a

very very sad time for us.

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yes.

So so we we so we raised enough for everything

and Barcelrondsa reminded and you know, we managed to have

the full sum uh to be able to buy the building.

That's where we found out that we actually lost it.

So buy every rights and law you can actually sue

the seller, right. And different ones came in like oh

and gets lawyer and stuff like that. Uh. And when

passa kind of seek God and ask God, God said,

do not do anything.

Wow.

And and a part of the time, you know, I

remember different ones. I know, you know they saw off

their car. Uh they did not okay, so they saw off.

Their car, they you know, gave to God.

Uh. In the fundraising. They took up their children's education

fund and put it in. So a lot of people

sacrificed to put it in. And imagine you know how fast,

you know, as as the father house would feel. But

when you ask God, God said, do not do anything.

Uh and and and you know vengeance is mine. You know,

revenge is mine like what Isai and Romans taught, don't

do anything. It was difficult, but because of that right

we saw things turning around. We didn't see anyone living church,

but church even grew further, We planted out even way,

many more churches. The whole small church or small group

movement even came about as well. We are church in

many many different locations. If we would have that building,

I think we will all still be at one place,

maybe one to speakers, one to worship team. But now

because you know of that incident God has if you

talk about extreme team and worship team in ext church

as well, collectively we have close to three hundred people

as compact. If we were still in one location, we

wouldn't have speakers as well. We have like thirty over

speakers or twenty over speakers on Sunday and many more

things that we could celebrate off. But it just took

that one incident for God forgot to tell us don't

do anything. And it took past the cannon's obedience and

submission to say like, okay, God, whatever it is you

have in control, so and and the amazing thing right.

A lot of times we feel like, hey, you know,

I'm giving money to church. But because the attention, the

focus at the point of time and different ones of

also into right was our giving was unto the lot

and got reminded past the Kenneth your church did not

give money to you for the fund raising. Your church

did not give money to ex church for fund raising,

but they gave the money to me. They gave the

money to the lot, and the Lord settled the bill

for us. Uh and in ways that we can't imagine.

If you ask us whether we've got the millions we

can get back now, but what we got back was

way more and the ability to even disciple nations. Now

we are in five different continents, I think it's five

or four, five different continents with at least fifty five

worship services planted or globally, so we can only be

that place. And thank God, you know, pasta Cannas has

always been obedient to the Lord, and whenever he teaches

us to give, it was giving unto him. So God

settled the bill for us, all right. And I'm going

to close now, and she this point has a lot,

a lot of examples I want to draw up, but

it's okay.

I'll keep it for the next round.

Denying ourselves taking out the cross and follow him, denying

our rights of what we can have or what we

should have, but allowing God to have us, allowing God

to have our lives. And it can only come from

a place when we are able to be submissive to

the Lord, being accountable to him. It can only come

to a place that we love Him with all that

we have and all that we have got. And this

will continue to spur us on to be stepfast, to

be persistent, and to be committed.

And this is what our faith.

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