Discipleship | Elder Kien Yiak

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The Bible says in First Currentie, Chapter eleven, Verse one,

imitate me as I also imitate Christ. So we are

in the form of discipleship year this year, and the

key thing for us to remember is that the Bible

reminds us today that we are supposed to imitate Christ.

Christ is an ultimate example. If you know Christ in

your life, you have no Christ of the Bible. Of friends,

it's hard to really the word is to forgive someone

who actually backstep you, who is your inner circle. Judas

was in Christ's circle of you know, discipleship. And could

you imagine right now the very person you pour your

heart out into and one of the twelve. And Judas

decided to sell Jesus out, and yet Jesus chose to

forgive him, which reminds us today, friends, no matter what

we go through in our life, there is always a

better way to live.

There is always a better way to respond.

There's always a better way for you and I this

afternoon to remember that, no matter what season we could

be in our lives, friends, that Christ has shown us

the way to live our lives so that we will

not be under the season, but we will be above

the season.

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So the Bible reminds us that we are supposed to imitate.

I like at the NIV version it says, follow my example,

follow my example as I follow Christ's example in your life, friends,

I pray that you have good example for other people

to follow. And many times in our lives sometimes we

don't realize how impactful our life can be. The very

fact that our attitude can be seen by other people,

can be copied by other people.

Show up in church.

Really matters because other people are looking for us for encouragement.

I like to use this example sometimes when we go

to work and some of us are not morning person,

it takes a while for the engine the word is

to start up. And sometimes you know, we go to work,

you have this amazing cliques that go and say.

Good morning, welcome to your office. It's a brand new day, right.

I know most people are not a good morning stuff

like that. I have a clique that really like she

thinks about like three hours to start up our engine.

You you great her with such excitement good morning, morning

or the right and it's about by time we hit

to us lunchtime, though the facial must begins to activate,

and if you're not careful, we tend to pick up

some of these things. The word is it's okay because

the majority of people are doing it. There are examples, right,

But the Bible here says, follow my examples, and I

follow the examples of Christ in the meets off Betrayed,

Christ say forgive.

Do you know how hard this is to forgive someone that?

The word is that.

I don't like the use abuse, but take advantage of

our trust. It is hard. Someone say that could you

loan me money? And you loan the person the money, and.

And you want it back? The buses it. I can't.

I heard of a story whereby someone asks for a

big sum of money if I figure, and the person, uh,

just say I'll give it to you with the knowledge

that might not get it back, And the person still

gave anyway, And the person was never seen in church

after that. But yet this individual who gave this indudio

gave decided to let it go.

You see, there are examples in our life that we

could follow.

Friends many times in our conver in our lives journey,

we follow so many other examples which look like Christ

but may not be Christ. So the question is that

why do we need to follow, friends, why do we

need to follow Christ's example? Because if you're not careful,

we are always the worst taken up by some other

people's example, isn't it. Think about it. There are people

that inspire us, right, we like those examples. Suburbs are

so inspired by the Five Year Book Club. So you

wake up at five year trying to replicate everything that

the book authors was trying to explain to you. Suburbs

for a bit more healthy. You're so inspired to have

salary juice in the morning. Salary juice in the morning.

Come on, no, no, no one here, no takers here,

no salary juice participator here. Oh yes, I do, I do,

I do?

I do?

I do not because anything, because I realized in my diet.

In my diet, right friends, I don't really there's not

much fiber intake. So I've decided that, you know, suddenly year,

I want to increase. So it's about maybe about like

ten stop or salary just blended and just drink it

first thing in the morning, you know, and it's actually

pretty tasty. It is true, right, I don't. I'm not

trying to convince you, but it's actually pretty tasty.

Praise hallelujah.

So I've done it for almost like a week now,

so I'm enjoying it, although the price of salary is

a bit expensive Malaysia. Right, however, and we can inspired

by all these examples.

It's healthy, it's good, good for the God and stuff

like that.

But the question is is about all this external but

how much more? How much is who are we following

for the internal?

Right? So why do we need to follow friends we can?

We need to follow so that we can become examples

to others. You and I need to follow Christ because

so that we can become example to others. It's very

important for us to realize these freends. No, given the choice,

you know, I was just sharing that the Mandarine service

given the choice right, that we like to pick and

choose our own songs, because there are many fantasy songs

out there, but we follow what was given to the church,

because many people around you to know that God has

given a church, every church, their own sound, the own song,

the own voice, right given the choice. Frends, of course,

we like to dress up other colors beside black and

orange because our wardrobe has more colors.

But we we we follow.

Some of these examples because God understands our hearts sometimes

needs alignment. Alignment and many times our journing our life.

We don't like to alive. You like to align our

own desires. Our on't liking own preference. Well, there's nothing

wrong with it. But there are some days in your life.

When you're alive yourself with the word of God, friends,

you see a brick true. When you ally yourself with

the world of God, you see a brick true. First Timothy,

chapter forwards Traild say, let let no one despise your youth,

or let no one despise you, friends, But be an example.

Here's Timothy rightly to us, Paul right to us, carry

you us being examples to other believers. Friends, in regardless

of whatever your education, background, financials standing, God remind us

that everyone of versus here has a potential to be

an example. So the next time you come to church

and you praise and you lift up your hands, you

begin to worship. Friends, be an example to the neighbors,

to the people around you, because your neighbors already the

people around you need to hear what it's like to

praise the Lord. Be an example to others when you

come for prayers service, because many times people say, I

can pray anywhere, but we come as a corporate body

to come together to pray because we truly believe it.

Atuallygether, God will be.

There on It's see, we do things only because we

believe in the conviction. So Timothy here in Timothy of

the False States, reminds us again being an example the

believers in the world, come on in conduct. How has

your conduct been, friends? How has it conduct been? I

like to use this example, and I know many people

don't like it, But why is it that you know

the challenges that to align ourselves with dressing is so

the words that God will always use the smallest things.

To be real. What's in our hearts.

Dressing, for example, of friends, is not so much that

the tithes and the and the suits and stuff like

sometimes in our journey friends, that this conduct of alignment

is so key when God begins to touch the area that.

Of our hearts.

Whether we don't like to align, it reveals look at

our response, Look at our response, Look at what things

we say, the things that comes up from our lips,

the thing that comes out that comes into our mind

and our hearts. We get the word it is that

we don't want to align because of our own preference.

I'm going to show later to scripture, but the Bible

here says that being an example in our conduct. A

couple of days ago, a couple of weeks ago, I

was one brother, and this brother is constantly late to church,

late to church, sometimes as late as fifteen minutes.

Before the service end.

He shows up late, right, And I was just sitting

here and say, brother, you know, I think you need

to work on this area because really, at the endvery day,

we have a choice.

Come on, do you know that being an example of

a conduct is a choice. At the end of the day,

we have a choice.

I say, you have a choice to make arrangement on

a Saturday night, you rest enough so they can be church.

We are on type to church on a Sunday morning.

But you don't understand I'm really trying. I say, I

believe you. I believe you're really trying. But I did

say that if if something that's really important, you will

make time. Many times we don't remember, we don't The

word is that we don't pay attention to what our

conduct is.

And something. God has used some of these things in.

Our life, timing, timing to open up what's really in

our hearts. So so, therefore, how do we follow friends?

First? Courrentage, Chapter ten, verse one, more our gradrooms.

I do not want you to be unaware that all

our fathers were under the cloud, passed through the sea,

baptizing the Moses, the cloud in the sea, and the

same spiriture food, drank the same spiritual drink. For they

drank the spiritual rock that followed them. That was that

was Christ first QUARRENTHI intent was one in the New

Living translations say that I don't want you to forget

their brothers and sisters. The messages remember our history and

be worn amplify classic wordes says, I don't want you

to be ignorant.

How do we follow them? Friends?

We need to remember first point. First, You and I

need to remember all that've got deposited in our hearts

in our life, because we can't forget, we can actually

forget what was this posited earlier in our life when

we went to our primary school friends, there were a

lot of good values. There was instill in our lives

the way we should be a good student. Now back

the years, right, now, go back to your primary school.

Remember your first day of school? Right, you were taught

that you're supposed to talk in your uniform.

I think so, right, still do still?

Still I'm not sure these days I can't right, were

suppose so talking our uniforms? And you know, and I

think Monday, do you do they still wear ties? I'm

not sure, right, but but there's a day assembly day

you're supposed to have tie, right, and stuff like that.

So recently I was in one of the one of

the biggest Chinese school in Klang Valley. Recently we were

looking at the possible venue to rent and and uh

and uh, well we will showing the venue and stuff like.

I asked the teacher the day. I just say, hey,

I know I'm outsider, but could I buy your school

can then food because it smells so good and stuff like?

I say, yeah, sure you could work. So we went there.

We bought our food.

And Man's school cantin food is cheap, is cheap compared

compared to what we pay outside, right, but it's cheap.

So we're having me uh Pat Alvin and you know,

and edeln were having lunch there and after we finished.

Right and we're talking.

We know that you're supposed to clear your table right started,

but we do know every school a different process.

So I say it was ABCD.

So so I thought that, Okay, the place is here,

the CPS is here, the cutliories is here. But then

and then said, no, elder, there's a way, right Amy,

store aim at all the store A places go back

to A. I went like, okay, so friends, there is

a way. Friends that we were trained to clear out tables.

But after a while, when we growb the doubts, I

heard a doubt. Sometimes a thing they don't wash your

place until the next day. Yeah, there are sometimes people

actually do power up the thing full need then the wash.

We can actually forget into this different season of our life.

What was instilled when you came to Christ. The first

time we came to Christ. You will tell how to worship,

how to give unto how to.

Serve the Lord.

But isn't it interesting through the journeys of your life

we can actually forget some of the things that was

instilled earlier on of your days. And God this morning

wants to remind this Afterwards to remind us of to

remember you told me chapter eight, verse one, every commandment

which I command you today, you must be careful to

observe that you may live and multiply and go in

and possess the land which the Lord saw to you.

Friends, God has given us.

His word, and God have instructed us to observe his

word to live out his word. This is the word

of the Lord. Friends, that he is.

Reminding us today that he has given us his word.

The purpose of his word is for us to experience it,

to live out and to experience increase, live and multiply.

And because when you live and multiply, friends, that's where

you begin to have courage to go in and possess

the land. And this is the thing that the Lord

wants to do that. And you shall remember the Lord,

your God that led you all these forty years. The

Bible is asking us that you shall remember is God

that led you all these forty years of your life

and many times in our journey. Friends, we have to

be careful because we can actually forget we got to

this place.

Our success.

It's not because our own intellect, smartness, strength, ability, but

it's because God has opened an opportunity for you and

me to experience what it is to know what is

it to live in the Lord and to experience his increase.

We can actually.

Forget that, you know, the investment that God has given

into our life friends, and you know why sometimes in

our life friends, that we can actually forget because of one.

Mistake me or may not know that you know that

you have.

Have you been in a place whereby a person that

invests so much in your life and because the person

have to address something in your life, then you go

like this person is not good, bad leader you get

Then you can all these years putting his arms around you,

encouraging you, and maybe one time you just say, hey,

there's not good conduct.

That is not good conduct. You go like, I don't

agree with you. I don't agree with you.

And because of the one statement, all the goodness is

wipe out already. And this is what happened when before

thow the Lord. Sometimes you can get to this place

because let's say, all these years God be so fitful

to you, and maybe you're going to a rough pet

right now, and we can come to a place whereby

God is not good and God is not real. God's

not hearing my prayers. So the Bible is reminding us

again that even the forty years in the wilderness, God's

presence was there. He led the children of visual through

the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire. All

these forty years, God was there, even though something you

don't feel him or don't see him. He was there

in our tears, in our fears. We need to remember

how good God is in our life. All these years, Saville,

who are married, and God provided for you. Friends, if

we could provide for you for your wedding day, he

will provide for you for your future as well.

Right some of.

Us who are working right now, when we just came

out the world, we didn't know where we were going.

But God leted the right place and to where you

are right now. But many times now Genu, we can

actually forget because after a while, friends, the turn of

Israel for God, that God was the one that led

them out from Egypt. You see, the situation did not happen, friends,

the moment they left Egypt, even the time of Egypt,

the Templics, they know it's a lot. The moment they

exit Egypt. They still remember it's a lot. The moment

they went through the rat seat. They know it's a lot,

but the moment when they ran to the desert. Friends,

that's where our season, the different seasons of our life

begin to reveal what's really in our hearts. Because it's

in the wilderness, friends, that sometimes our commitment, our conviction,

gets challenged and gets revealed even more. That's why this

coming you turn, friends. It's not just a time where

fasting and praying, friends, but the time where we set aside,

say Lord, I just want to learn how to seek

you for just twenty one days. It's not for we

used to do it for forty days, and we decided

doing it for twenty one days.

And it's only twenty one days, just seeking.

The Lord, putting things aside what we like to do

in our am time. She say, Lord, I just want

to know how to see you in this trainy one days.

But even then, some of us finding challenging because we

are so used to the lifestyle, so used to the

way of thinking, so used to the way of life,

and we find it how to let go. Point number

two is this is released, friends. Surrender control every part

of our life. One part is to remember the other

part is surrender because we can remember, but not necessarily surrender. Friends,

all of us here need to know that the Lord

knows better.

Think about it.

The Lord knows better. He knows the real intention of

our hearts. Even after things get revealed. After things get revealed,

what are we doing with it?

You know?

I know a lot of people do the annual health check.

Praise the lot you do your annual health check. Right,

the questions never been about health check. Friends, I realized

it's never been about health check. It's what are we

going to do with the results of our health check?

Because sometimes we can wear that like a badge. I

do my annual health check, you know, I do it

every year. I go to the all the skin. You know, Okay,

your lifestyle is still the same. I want to tell

you a story. This is my wife's story that she

recently she caught up with somebody and you know, this

person's gonna get married. And you know, every every lady

is gonna get married, everyone's gonna get married. They tend

to like, I'm wanna slim down. I want to look good,

which is good? Which is good?

Right?

I tried the dress. Really, you know, the dress is

a particular size. So therefore I come that point in time,

after I kept pulling away, I can decrease the weight

a bit, but I kept put the extra weight. So

this person was with my wife and one more other leader,

just encouraging her, praying with her over dinner right half

to the dinner, right, you know how my wife really

like you know, I think in the days she thinks

only about like.

Ten tablespoon of rice. She rarely to rise on friends. Anyway.

That's when trying to say, so, this lady is sitting

across my wife looking at my wife's half eaten rice.

Oh the chilly Could I have your rice?

Right? And she took her my wife's rice and said,

wanted you know, I'm trying to cut cops, trying to

cut cops, trying to cut rice, trying to cut starch

and stuff that. And she was eating and she was

looking at the other leader's rice. It's not eating yet.

And she asked the other do you want your rice

to not They said no, I'm also cutting so do you.

Want Yeah, so this person is about to get married.

Took the other boshes rice right and look at both

my wife and the other leader, and they say, I'm

trying to cut rice in my life because I got

to feed the dress.

But she's working all the rice and many times.

Now. Journey, friend, is not so much the revelation. Yes,

God giving you amazing revelation. But the question is is

that are we going to take the revelation and see

a lifestyle change in our life. Let me just show

you to scripture right now, see first Curdentita, chapter ten,

verse one to fall. The Bible says, every one of

them went through the same experience. They went through the sea,

they were, they drive from the same spiriture rack the Israel.

We're following God through the journey of you. True that

every season of.

Your life, friends, they were following God, following God. But

the Bible says the worst five, but most of them

God was not well pleased. Thinking about it, for you

are following only to find out at the end that

God was not pleased. I wanted this to sing that

in for a moment because many I think it's just

done and reflected upon me that sometimes in our life

we are we think we are on the right journey.

We only discovery that we are the wrong path and

something got oops. I'm not sure we've been ever been

to a long wrong lecture before all, Oh I've read

to the wrong class. Right, Oh, you bought the wrong clothes.

It happens to me and my wife, my wife when

I share clothes, and sometimes.

Yes we do, we do, we do.

She would look at because she wear oversized shirts and

stuff like that.

You I can fit into your clothes, I say, please.

So there's a period of time whereby our house was

under renovation, we didn't any place to wash. Sometimes you

pass it through. My mom in a love to wash

our clothes, and she was trying to sort things out.

She's she will ask my wife like.

Who's T shirt? Is this this is yours?

Or is this your husband's see shirt? Then my wife said, no,

we are sharing. It's hard after a wild friends to distinguish.

And many times in our lives, right, we are the

same as well. And most times she gets it wrong

because suffer my wifelothes she passed to me because about

our colors is only black and white. My colors are

mostly black, look slimmer. And my mom in lawa pecked

her close into my bag and this stuff that and said,

mom does not mind this. My wife's say, okay, I

remember next time. Then after the next show, she passed

back to me. Mom passed to her. Mom, does not

mind this my husband's clothes. After I say, I fed out,

I don't wash it anymore. But we can come to

a place whereby whereby whereby all these forty years, the

children of Israel, like the children of Israel, think they're

on the right path, but wrong. Let me show you

from Exodus chapter thirty two, verse one. Now, when the

people saw Moses was delayed coming down from the mountain,

the people gathered together to Aaron and said to him, come,

let's me, gods that go before us for us. For

this Moses, the man who brought us out from the

land of We do not know what has become of him.

We can't wait anymore. Eron this Moses, I really don't

know what happened to him.

But we need a god right now. We need a

god right now.

So therefore, what I want us to fashion a god

right now out from the jury, we give to you

because we cannot wait for Moses anymore. And sometimes in

our life are we are like the tune of visual

I cannot wait.

We can't take no for an answer. I want to

do it my way. I want it now.

And worse six is that rose next day offering okay,

burnt offering and peace offering.

The people set down to eat, drink and rose up

to play.

I want you to think for a moment, if the

tune of issue knew there were this obedient to God.

We need to say that if you knew, at the

end of the day, they couldn't enter the promise that

you think they will. Who asked for the golden caff

and we can become that the children of is you?

And this statement I heard it many times. God understands,

God knows we are like the children of Visual Because

God understands. God knows God say, yes, I understand, and

I know what you're going to, But do you know

what I'm trying to bring out from you?

Do you know what I'm trying to bring out from

you when.

You're going to this not because this is the very

thing that's causing you not to go into the land.

This is a very thing that's.

Stopping you from experiencing My multiplication. This is a very

thing that's limiting you from going to another level, a

deeper relationship with God.

So the churnre of Visual friends. After the offering, they

rose up to play.

We can offer things in our lives, friends, but the

end of the day, there is no change in our life,

no transforming, no change just by following externally, friends, that

cannot be real transformation. We can follow a schedule, but

schedule doesn't transform us. We can had fifty versions of

the Bible in our house. It doesn't transform us. It

doesn't we know all the song. That doesn't transform you.

We have to be fully convinced, friends. That's why Romans

chapter twelve Worse Too reminds us to not be conformed

to this world. And the world is trying to make

us to confirm that this is the way, this is

how you should look like, this how you should behave

externally friends, But the world of God reminds us to

be transformed. It starts with the transformation insight by the

renewing of your mind. Late last year, we we will

encourage every partner to buy a Bible. Not just to

buy a Bible, friends, was to buy a Bible and

open and read it. I want to encourage you friends.

If we think that just by coming to church you'll

be transformed and renewed, that's only half the process. We

need to spend time with ask God, God, is there

something in my life that you want me to change?

Open up his word to just read his word, because

our mind needs to be renewed and many challenges come

from our mind. Friends, just because a leader now shake

hares with you, you go like, don't like me? Right

it happens. So one brother was just share he after

like ten years, came up to me and just say this,

I just want to apologize to you.

After ten years, I say, why what did I do? Right?

Because I think my first time to church I say

hi to you, you this high back. I said, I

really don't remember. I'm so sorry if I ever done that.

But yeah, I just want you do. I just want

to get it off my chest because right.

Now he's a leader.

Really, but I just want to let you know my

first time to church, I say hi to you and

you just walk past me. I got like, okay, if

I did, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it, but

you know, I hope you accept my apology. Say set way.

But the point in time, I was so angry and

she could have allowed friends his emotions to hijack him

to a place whereby you don't even want to be

in the first place. And that's why it's so important

for us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind,

because if you're not careful here is that friends, you

experience betrayal, right, and every time we see this individual,

when you're betrayed, you go like bad person, bad person,

and you begin to have different thoughts. A cyclist come

and cut into your lane. You're driving your car. You

felt like getting even sometimes stick to your lane. You're

not even paying read tax, right, it happens a motorcycle

is just haunt you for no apparent reason. At the

point in time, it irritates you. You feel like, you

know your horn is louder, right, you just have just

putting your hand on the stair and just just push

it a bit to the right.

Hand side because you get irritated because.

The constant ringing of his horn on different horns, you

know what I mean, that traffic jam, right, You just

want to signal, right, and you're just looking for opportunity

to just go to the right hand side. And this motorcycle,

this motorbike coming from like hanger mometers haunting you or

something just shot up off of nowhere.

It irritates you and the feeling after a while you

just want to get even.

Get That's why the Bible is reminding us again to

not conform to the patterns of the world, because our emotions, Friends,

I'm gonna say, our emotions will take us to a

place where by how did I get here in the

first place? How did I get here in the first place?

And that's why God is reminding us that Christ examples

that you and I could follow. There are Christ examples

that you and I could follow, not to get even,

but get better.

Friends, So be renewed in your mind.

Friends, Be renewed in your mind, so you get able

to prove so the different seasons of your life. Friends,

you know that God is in the picture, even though

some of us even today right now, we may not

be at a good place in terms of like you know,

there's so many challenges right, but you know that God

is fitful. I was talking to one brother that day,

and it's just showing me that, you know, while it's

been really the word he used was hell for the

past one week. My mom in law just felled out

and she's in the critical world. He says that my

sister in law has emputy her because of diabetic and

just stuff like that. And my wife right now is

and it's having no have to balance off so many things.

But yet he was still at homes recognizing that God

is in control and we could pray. See if you're

not renew you go like, this must be some bad

luck somewhere, and retried the words let's do the bad

life by moving our furnatures around. First, I think only

because it's sometimes in our life people are looking for

answers and this is the only answer they could find.

Two stories is that recently I heard that someone was

demon possessed or has the evil spirit in their life,

not just one, but at least a couple of spirit.

I follow how much the exorcism costs? No, not Christian exocism. Okay,

it's about like thirty thousand per spirit. I could see

I could make money for mexicism. Who can we have

a class of healing and deliverance?

Please? I want to make money?

Right?

And and this individual of this parents and stuff like that.

Right word the word this is that they were.

Looking for answers. They were so desperate they were knocking

on every door they could find. And this is how

how it is friends, when when there is no answer,

we just conformed to the world ways of doing stuff.

Just look for answers. I can't.

It's a pay money for the eu spirit to come

out and go like, wow, how much money can we

meet that the choice? The pastors could make it ready

by paying for people.

Wo. Sweet. But it's not about that, friends.

That's why the Bible says be transformed by the renewing

of your mind. You have a choice right now, friends,

You have a choice right now. Finally, my third point

is that repeat. What do I mean by repeat?

The Bible says forty years in the wilderness, forty years.

In the desert. Think about it, not just one day,

not sixty five days chung hunger and sixty five days

times forty. No, it's hard to go to the wilderness.

It is hard.

Maybe some of us have not been to desert. I

have not been to the desert before, but I could

just think about how a desert will look like. The

scenaries is all the same, right, you see what desert?

I guess you see all the desert?

Is that correct? Those have been there? This correct?

Me? You see what desert? You see all the desert,

isn't it? I presume so that the temperatures about the same,

the dryness is about the same. It really, you know,

it reminds you of you know what about going to work.

Think about it.

If you're a part of a company, right for how

many years? You know you know the traffic already, right,

you get in there. It's the same lift, right, you

might lift number you think, it's the same lift that

goes up your.

Off face and stuff like that.

The death is death and not changed for X number

of years. It's life on the repeat, life on the repeat.

And many times when you live life on the repeat

on the daily, life that's on the repeat. Friends, you're

finding mundane and boring, just like the children of Virgil.

They got manner, they got quail that that God has

delivered from heaven. And your large places are more that's

the same. The options are more less the same, friends,

And you cannot run because in the desert, you try

to run anywhere else in the desert, right, it's still

that make the same place. So she tried to reside

from one organization go to the next. It's but the

same thing again. So call this like you know, forty

years is forty years of working My future if you're

praying God, can you drop the letter A S from

desert and become these.

It make youse sweet. The Lord help me.

Friends like excitement right when you go to the thing,

So do you words to say that you shall remember

the Lord, your God lets you to all these four

the years in the wilderness.

Come on. The word is to humber you.

To humber, your God will use the repeats in our life,

the different seasons of our life. That repeats in life.

He used the word humber. And maybe because now because

of our life, friends, we have developed a place whereby

we're quite powerful. You cannot receive. If somebody say, elder,

you don't understand this word, and use the word the

lile God, you understand something because we say that we

cannot receive. God has used the word hummer. Because God

will use the wilderness, the desert of our life.

Friends.

The word this is that to crack the outer shell

of our hearts.

Sometimes it is the word it's so stubborn.

And God will irritate you with the closest people to

you to remind you of what's really important. I like

to say this that God will always use your wife,

your husband to remind you sometimes of your commitment to

the Lord.

Hey, not reading the Bible? Are you today? Is that right?

Sometimes my wife reminds me you preach about studying God's world,

by then you live the Bible.

Everywhere.

I got like ten bibleses, all different different rooms and

stuff like that, different versions. I just say, you know,

I want to make my place a centuary. So everywhere

I go through this as the world of God. Right,

nice excuses just for pure laziness. Don't want to put

back the book in the same place we make excuses friends.

And it's because God uses the wilderness the words to

crack the outer shell. That's where sis can be planted,

sets can be planted. Friends. So the Bible reminds us

a game to humble you, then to test you to

humble your next friends. In the different season of our life,

we get tested, and none of us feel like to

go to the test.

None of us see it like to go to a

test because we think that we are all right.

The test comets because something needs to happen to show

what's really in our hearts. Our attitude gets reviewed, friends,

our attitude gets reviewed, Our attitude gets revealed like it

or not, friends, it really shows what's really in our hearts.

At the end of the day, how have you our

attitude been? What has Got been revealing to you? If

you don't like to be told to correct yourself, maybe

there's an edituvee that we need to check. Right to

like to change, then maybe there's an editing we need

to check. Why has God been revealing to you to

the test? I want my answer now, but God say wait,

you can't wait. What is God saying to the process?

He says, to test you to know what's in your heart,

whether or not you keep His commandments.

And they have their friends.

Sometimes we give out our We saw our conviction for convenience.

We give up our conviction for convenience at the end

of the day, and God reminds us to be an

example for our next generation, be an example in extraus friends.

We really try to model this out by telling people

that to coll do it to be an example, not

just to us, but the other churches around because.

They're looking for an answer. They're looking for a solution.

Wortree said, so humble you allow you to go to

hunger and fect you with men which you do not know,

nor do your fathers know that he may make known

to you that men shall not live by bread alone.

Men shall not live by bread alone. Friends, as I close, friends.

What have you been living on? What have we been

living on?

Because many times, if you're honest with ourselves, we live

ourselves that everything's all right. But when God wants to

speak challenge and changes, we say no, We say that

I was talking to pastor them. We're just talking about

the future of ex church. How I'm in my fifty

turning fifty this year, passes fifty five this year, talking

about in the next twenty years, right, because you don't

come to a place whereby.

You can't even know what access.

So we were just talking about the future, and I

realized how important it is for us related to know

what's important to instill because no one has got to

the funeral, right.

If you've been the funerals, you've been.

The week series before, right, and look at the coffin

of the casket and the individual and go like, but

you you die day you did with me Show one

Millionaire Because when we were growing up, that was was

our aim. That was something we aspired to have to

achieve a sudden financial status. I understand, but nobody friends,

nobody goes to the casket and go like putting, you're

like three dollars shot from one million.

I have not.

I'm not saying maybe God, I'm not sure, but no,

as far as I know that, I've not seen it.

Because normally remembering the good deeds, apperces I have done right,

the good values, the persive instilled, and God this morning,

this afternoon, friends, remind us that when we allow where

we will we want to follow God through the different

season of our life. Think about that forty years in

wilderness so that God could reveal right, this repeat this

on repeater, meaning to say that will we still follow

God through the different season the upside down? When God

reviews to come on to hammer you, to test you

or I partial test number one?

I thy I.

Graduated, but God said no, you're not graduated.

That's test number two. And you go like huh after

test them this test number three.

Our life, friends, is a continuous journey, friends, continuous journey

of learning and working with the Lord. First fourteen years

in the desert really is the test.

Of the heart.

Will we come out after the forty years in the

so you have the same rigor and excitement. So I

was at the Whig service recently of our well a

brother they used to be part of our church, and

he has multiple health issues, but towards the leader part

of his life, friends, besides you know, having massive things

done on his heart, he had kidney failure.

But towards the end their friends.

I heard at testament Byby like three months before his homegoing,

he was in church serving and praising God. However, another brother, Baeby,

he had polio and stuff like that, but towards the

end part of his life he was serving as a host, shaking.

Hands, greeting people in church.

So life on the repeat, friends, when God bring you

to one season to another season, wo you still want

to follow the Lord? After all the words? Is that

The Bible says that to humble you, come on. We

don't like the word humber because some of the humber

miss We think humility is humiliation. Sometimes you don't like

the word humber. We like the word empowered, Strengthen.

Go on to it and reach you. We love all

those words.

Come for a humbling conference, kidding that I know there's

no humbling conference, but come for a humbling conference that

you know what's really your house?

Okay, God can work. First, this word cannot self conference one.

You understand, you know, right, But when we want to

follow God and God reveals something hard that you all

come in, you go like, ah, that's it. Next ten years,

no more test, but get ready for the next one.

My final scripture is second Timothy Forward Sellers. I fought

the good fight. I have finished the race.

First.

Many people to finish the race, but not keeping the faith.

But here Paul reminds us again, keep the faith, keep

the faith. This time I'm going to end the turn

of Israel. Went to forty years in the wilderness. You

know again, Let's say, ga wilderness is not the most

exciting place you want to be for forty years, four

days maybe forty years, right, But to go to forty

years in the wilderness are friends only to discover they

couldn't enter the promised land.

Could you imagine paying the price.

A lot of hardship, the heat, the dryness, right to

find out friends that we missed them up. There's one

of the painful revolutions I got from readingou scripture.

You it's not you didn't know, you actually went through it.

No, friends, you've been coming to church for the past

twenty old years right, only discover that I have not grown,

I've not learned much about God.

You're being churched for some time, and only to discover

is that I'm just having an external experience. And but

the time you have the revolution.

If I could just down back my years, turn back

the clock, I could respond better. Friends, don't be like

the children visual after forty years the land they're supposed

to go in, they couldn't. The land is supposed to

possess friends couldn't. The Bible says the land was filling

with milk and honey. What an amazing bruture that will

be land flow with milk and honey. Friends, Because if

you're not really friends, we're not ready to prepare the

giant prepare for the giants is in the land.

It takes the.

Desert preparation to score of the desert to prepare us

for the giants in the land. Understand, because if we

allow the tune of easier to go into the problems life, friends,

they will be. They will be wept out by the giants.

But because of the disobedience and stuff like that. And

as I close friends, Timothy forward several reminds us that

friends is not just about the good fight and finishing

the race. It's about keeping the faith, is about falling

Christ and his example. Because the day will come, friends,

and the day will come whereby it's between you and

the Lord. The day will come in your journey of life. Friends,

the challenges of your life is between you and the Lord.

No one's going to decide for you. Paid Daniel come

won't be there to decide for you, to encourage you.

The day will come whereby it's between the Lord and

your convictions.

What would he be? Friends? As I close friends.

My encouragement is this that we need to remember all

the good that God has done in your life.

The different seasons of your life.

Friends, you need to remember that you pray God came

to for you as a campus student, and God will

come true to you as a working adult. You pray

as a working at out. Gold will come to you

when you're married. In the different seasons of your life.

God has never forsake your friends. You see, I'm not

sure why the train of visual decided to ask for

golden calf. Whereby they knew there was God's presence leading

them all these journey time in the desert, and yet

they ask for a golden calf. We need to learn

how to surrender when God revealed things in our hearts. Friends,

look at it. If we don't surrender, friends, it's hard

to work on things. To be able to clean your house,

you need to make time for your house. But to

make time for your house, man, you need put a

full stop surrender your other activities.

Say my house is a priority, I get to clean it.

I'm not sure where you are with the station and

season of your life, friends, but my encouragement is this

is that God have your way, because I do not

want by the rand, by the time I wished forty

years at the end of the journey of the wilderness,

that I miss out on the promised land. I need

to follow Christ's example so that I could enter the

promised land. I could know what it means to live

out His word as I close right now, friends, and

to pray for all of us here today it's writing extreme.

I'm on stage.

I thought the good Fire kept the faith, so I

finished the.

Race and kept the faith. There's a fight, there's a race,

and there's a faith.

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