Not Sparing the Rod: A Father's Love | Pr Daniel

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That's the title of my message today. Not sparing the rod.

Did I spelled sparing wrongly?

Yeah? Consequence of not doing well in your SPM English.

Okay, not smiing that's like fighting, right, yeah, yeah, don't

fight you the rod?

Okay? Not smartring the rot and sparing the rod Father's love.

Yeah, XD you can edit if that would be grateful,

but it's okay if you have a Bible sturm with

me to Probabs thirteen, verse twenty four, we're gonna read scripture.

So if you're following me, right, I was reflecting and

the memory came back, and I was reminded all the

times that my dad never spared the rot. Never once

did he spared the rod. In fact, he had to

wrote on me. I don't know you heard of this

story before my mom caught me right handed stealing or lying.

I was wearing ten underwears. Yeah, heard this story, right,

I show it before?

Right? Yeah? She said, nicely, asked me the band over.

She whacked me one time, and then she said take

out the next layer. She whacked me again.

Take out the next layer, way again, take our next

layer weak again until the bed, but then again.

Then my dad came and continued the story. After that,

I thought it was over.

You know, work ten times without underwear, yeah, ten layers

of underway, I was. I thought I was smart wearing

the ten layers underwear when they were smartla so finish.

Really, I thought, oh, finally I can breathe.

Then my dad came into the belt. Okay, uh, he

never sped the rod.

He never.

But let's read Proverbs shipped the teen verse twenty four,

and we're gonna just go through a little bit of

my findings and my reflections on my dad's life. Three

four says he was passed his rod hits his son.

Wait wait a minute, remember earlier I shared about when

I always get gonna discipline and wrote on by my father.

I thought he hates me. I thought he hated me.

He hated me for the life of his He doesn't

want to see me. He wants to to to erase

me from this earth. That's why he wrote to me.

It's so much pleasure and he's laughing, ha ha.

Ha, well done. Why are you way better?

That's why I thought, lie in my hit. But when

I spoke to my mom, every time he wrote on

me nicely. Right when he go in the room, he

starts crying.

I didn't notice.

I didn't notice until recently, and after my father passed,

when I was having more time my mom, I asked

my mom, Actually, what happened? He will shed a tear

whenever he was to punish me, he will shed a tear.

But this verse brings a lot more perspective to it. Right,

he who spassed his rod hates his son. That's why

at the wake, at the the remembrance, when we're remembering

my father, the brother that was giving a message said

that my father was really a man after God's word.

He really loves God's word so much shoulder he appliedly

literally so much so. Right, I don't hate Daniel, and

that's why I cannot spare the rod. Let's read on

in Proverbs thirteen twenty four. But he who loves him

disciplines him promptly.

That means my father loves me.

My dad Stephen Chong ping on, which means peace, loves

me so much that he cannot leave any remnant of

not disciplining his kid. He cannot delay it. He needs

to do it promptly. It is his method's right. Well, debatable,

how much you can actually rot done debatable? Yeah, because

when you do it out of anger, that's when it's wrong.

You have to do it out of love, because scripture

says that if you love your child, you discipline. So

when you do it out of anger, you're not fooling

the word of God. When you get angry and you

start lushing out on your children or your wife, your spouse,

it is not God. So do not use God's wear

and say because God's say, don't speare it. WRD, I'm

gonna whack you nicely. No, don't do it of anger.

Don't do it because you got nicely from your boss.

Way you come and wake them.

No. One thing that my dad never did was out

of anger.

That's why I knew. But he didn't know how to

control his strength. He was a strong man. Even until

he's dying breath. He was a strong man, so.

Strong can't even carry him so heavy, the bone is

so dense. That's my wife, boys thought she can take it,

you know, bring it on the moment he let his

way on the brock, can cannot again anymore, too heavy.

It is so strong, but he who loves him disciplines

him promptly. I mean, as I was reflecting, I know

how of you have heard of this verse before. I've

read this verse before, but it was a fresh perspective

to me. It was a fresh perspective that the word

father will here as you discipline your child.

You know who else is the father? God is our father.

And there are times in which that because he loves you,

he disciplines you. Because he loves you, he does not

spare the rod. Those that desire to live a godly

Christian life will suffer persecution. If you desire to walk

in the steps of the Lord, if you desire for

God to order your steps, you are going to come

true persecution and trials one way or another. And sometimes

our prayer is, Lord, take me out of this persecution.

But the Lord says, I'm with you you, I'm working

with you. I'm putting you through this fire because that

is what's going to grow you. And because I love

you so much to see you fail, I got to

stop you before something bad happens to you. And that's

why sometimes sometimes in our life we think that rejection

means failure. Perhaps rejection is God's sovereign hand over your

life to stop you to go into something before it's

too late. God works that way. His ways are higher,

And we don't know. We are not God, We are

not We are not sure what's gonna happen tomorrow. We're

not even sure whether the weather forecast is real, except

if you're in Coriola, then perhaps it's always REALA can

I there us a joke? If you're in God there,

it says rain is gonna rain, bring umbrella. Learn that

the hard way. But perhaps perhaps if my physical natural

father can love me so much that he really really

didn't spare the road, well, I thought I'll find it,

don't I do? I still have thirty stripes on my

back last I checked. Nolah, it's not that bad. It's

not that bad, ain't it?

Come on? You still alive today?

But God loves you so much more. Because he loves you,

he disciplines you. And he doesn't just discipline you. He

disciplines you promptly. And sometimes we often say this, hear

me out and really follow me.

We say this before, right Lord? Why always the good

things have to wait when the bad things say? Way,

come on? Wh I have to wait when it comes

to my break true, I have to wait. But when

it comes to my trial immediately now it comes. Wave off,

the wave, trial off the trial. No full stop.

Gives the liberal a perspective and policy counting all joy

when you fall into different trials and sufferings. Counting all joy,

not because you're so happy dropping into a trial and

know because the Lord is with you when you are

in a trial, when you're in the storm, Jesus is

in the boat, counting all joy, knowing that the Savior

is going to be there with you.

And when you fall into various trials, he's there somewhere in.

The boat, perhaps even sleeping, perhaps even resting, because the

storm does not bother him as much as he bothers you.

But sometimes we are all frantic over life. Oh con

is anymore? Stop this church together?

Back?

It's how you laugh, But that's how it sound like

to God. Sometimes you know, are you are this cake

until now cannot go up to the.

Temperature, all the small little things to God God day, Hello,

I gave you breath in your lungs, and now you're

complaining what cake? I gave you breath in your lungs

and now you're complaining about three hundred increement. Hello, promotion

doesn't come from many, comes from me. Why are you

trust in me? You're just in the workforce one year

and you're complaining about promotion because you work so hard

you deserve something more. But God knows his ways are higher, Amen,

His ways are higher. So I honor my dad today.

I acknowledge his every effort, He's every intention and the

legacy that he left not of perfection, but of love.

And when the thought of discipline, the thought about how

discipline can feel like a rejection, how silence can feel indifferent,

how the absence of affection can feel like abandonment. All

of these thoughts that come into my heart, and perhaps

some of you may even wonder, how can silence be love?

How can silence be How can delay be of the Lord?

Because the Lord is good? Amen?

And I thought that the Lord, because the Lord is good,

and therefore my life should be good. One day today

I can suffer no problem. Lord, I suffer for you,

no problem. Thirteen years will you still trust the Lord?

How long will you go before you say no? How

long will you go before you say no? Because Dniel

went all away? Daniel you went at the face of

the lions, did not say no. He went all the way.

Paul went all the way. He finished the race. He

and the odd for the good fight. I pray that

when you're face to face with your fue in heaven,

when you're giving a count, you can say, Lord, I

went all the way.

How long can you go before you say no? How long?

In Hebrew, we're gonna talk about a misunderstood rot in

a while, and then I'm going to give you three

points and I'm gonna close. In Hebrew, the word rod

is shebbad all right. It means it's a shepherd's tool. Stev,

can I have this slight? Just follow me. It's a

shepherd's tool, not a weapon for abuse, but the symbol

of authority. You know, when Moses had the rod, it

was a symbol of authority, Yeah, guidance, correction and protection.

It was used to guide the sheep back onto the

right path. The ship went astray, the rod is man

to show the sheep, Hey, I'm the shepherd.

Come back, come back, little shit, Rachel, Ray, Rachel, Rachel,

come back. What the radio names means, ship, come.

Back, little sheep, Stop going so far? Hello, the rod. Yeah,

dun dung come back. And when the sheep sees the

shepherd with the rod, he feels comforted, knowing that the

rod is also like a double age if I mis

misbehaved Ba. But the copa can also be for the lion,

can also be for the wolves. They are also afraid

of the rod. The enemy is also afraid of the rod.

Friends.

The rod is the weapon that causes the enemy to

die as well. The rod was the staff, was the

one who closed down the power that God gave to

Moses to collapse the ocean upon the pursuing Egyptians. But

we need to understand the rod. Sometimes we misunderstand the rod.

It was used to guide the sheep back to the

right path. Can have the next line psalms The tree

was four your rod, your staff, they comfort me. How

can an object of discipline comfort you? The rod is

a rod that's used to discipline those the Lord loves.

He disciplines, but he's comforting the know He's comforting the

know that I'll create it, and having cares enough for

us to even remember us, the thing about us so

much so that he doesn't want us to fall into

the traps of the enemy.

The rod and stuff they comfort you. Next light? Can

I have the next light?

The rod comforts because it reminds the sheep that the

shepherd's inn here, watchful and invested the same way of

farest discipline. Although painful, Yes, it hurts, yeah, mister jumping

on really painful, But it's actually a sign of proximity

and love, not distance or hatred. You know, when we

spared a rod, when I speak the fartherest in the house,

if we spared a rot with your children, what happens

is your children will just grow not worried about what

you're gonna do. But if you do not spare the rod,

and you do it out of love, your children will

actually know that my father cares about me. Although sometimes

they may be scared about you, scared of you, but

you are actually approximately in nearby enough and not distant

the point where your father. Your children grew up without father,

even though the father is in the same house. Yeah,

but your father cares, and he showed me that. It

was painful, he showed me that. But I remember, Oh,

if I did something wrong, he's going to whag me nicely.

Again. Ah, out of.

Anger, wrong of love, you know how to control line

when you're doing all love, you know a control line?

Huh?

You know how control? You definitely can control. I can

hold back, hold back. Do you think when when your

father in heaven, the Lord disciplines us, he doesn't hold back.

Do you think you generally think so?

Do you think that whatever that you go through is

the worst that he is ever going to bring you through?

Come on, come on, come on. You think that you

lost your job that's the worst of it. No, some ways,

when we lose our jobs, we think that God is

against us. But what we do not know that in

the horizon another job is waiting for us. And perhaps

he's just relocating you from a place of dormancy to

a place of activeness where you can now serve the

people that He is intended for you to serve. But

at the point of losing your job, you do not

know that you curse God.

But no, he's removing you because he loves you.

He loves you, He wants you to be back on

the right track.

You're like a sheep being led astray. He's saying, man, man, man,

come back here baa and ba sheeps.

We are like sheeps. We like Sometimes you think about it.

I'm quite silly or you know. You know, when I

was a little little kid, my mom they well pass by.

The thing I always ask my mom was that, what's there?

What's that? Mom said, you wanna die?

You touchilla?

The more you say like.

That, I want to touch it. I see this mark here,

I do today, Ben.

But that's how he is when he got we've got

Sometimes it's like as well, God is saying, do don't

touch that fruit.

Don't touch that fruit. Okay, every fruit in this garden

you can touch her.

But then what fruit?

You know, Sometimes when it comes to that, the more

you tell me don't touch I'm gonna touch it.

Man.

That's mankime, that's mankind.

But because DoD loves you so much, when he disciplins you,

he spass you, he spass you. He holds back sometimes

he knows how much you can take. He won't put

you in a place where you can't I can't take

it anymore. He plays you in a place where he

knows how to put you there, he knows how to

take you out.

Amen. We just got to trust the process. We just

got to trust the process. Kind of the next light.

Probably thirty two fifteen foolishness is bound up in the

heart of a child. The role of correction will drive

it far from him. That's what I mean. We grow

up as mankind, filled with foolishness in our heart. But

the rod is the one thing that will drive us away.

That means discipline. The Lord's love will drive us away

from foolishness.

Amen.

Next line, our generation has confused freedom with the absence

of authority. It's dangerous when we get to that place.

When there's an absence of authority, it is not freedom.

It is bondage. It is not freedom, It is bondage.

The God's love sets boundary is boundaries, not barriers. I

don't know how many of you have been up Cameron

Highlands before. You'll prefer the sim or away? Am I

speaking sense?

Here?

Simpang Pula or Tapa those initial d drivers. Maybe you

want Tapala? If John Lowers here, I want Tampa? Why

because no boundaries? One slip mistake?

Bye bye? Have you all been? Have you all drive

down at night?

I tell you even the most experienced drivers will shake.

I mean, maybe not John Lola, but you get what

I mean.

You want boundaries in your life. You want boundaries.

You want you want, you want something to keep you grounded.

I want to go and explore can but at least

I know that there's this safety net.

How many of you there go bungee jumping without the rope?

Who there to do that? That's called skydiving, But at

least skydiving or better shuit we know a better short

is called sky dying. Okay, and you want to go

sky diving with me? Dye my hair? Can love? You

want boundaries in your life.

God's love sets boundaries, sets boundaries, because it's not a barrier.

When you crash in the barrier, you die, But it's

a boundary. It's a boundary. You go past it, then

then then then then then then come back, come back,

come back, come back. Alarm, alarm, alarm. When buried a

palm blead, it's not a barrier. Think about this way

is not a barrier?

Because how many of you, when the Lord speaks to you,

when you go past that boundary, have you ever felt.

Like, hey, how come can cross werner?

When God gave the fruit the order of the party

of the fruit, did he put a spiritual barrier and.

The fruit when Adam did he do that?

No?

He said about not a barrier.

That's why some of us, if we still don't believe

in the power of free will, if God doesn't want

to give you free will, he put a beder around here.

Really, you can't even touch it. You can't even touch it.

It's a boundary.

It's there because he still wants you to choose him.

He still wants you to choose life. Wow, some lints

thing coming up. Choose life. He still wants you to

do it. He still wants you to choose him a

relationship that he wants to you so much. A man.

Next light, very quickly, I'm going to give you three

points and learning from my very very good pictures in

the house like to give kolah fulah.

What did a DNA la I give you today?

Rod Nah rotan in bara leisha Dan. That's the vetadester

gen Z's and jen alphas. Something that you are not

accustomed to. You're never seen it in your life before. Yeah,

that's a fedaduster. Yeah, Verdiculan. I can't find the one

with the rot and the wooden one, the hook got

hook one?

What's the hook for?

You think it's the whole the thing I know knows

hook your hit okay.

Rot the rod, the Rod.

Let's talk about the rod today, God's approach to growth

and maturity. God's approach to growth and maturity. Very quickly,

First point are right direction. The rod exists to point

you in the right direction, to keep you in the

right direction. He Brews twelve first ten to eleven says

he is our he for our profit, that we may

be partake us of his holiness.

Afterward, it yields a peaceable.

Fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Who is twelve seven to eleven I'm taking especially from

ten to eleven gilds a peaceable fruit of righteousness to

those who have been trained by it, trained by what,

trained by the rod, trained by his discipline, trained by

his boundaries. Imen you know, sometimes in our life the

rod also serves as a life saving object. Let me

give you an example. How many of you know what

CPR means. Let me give you the CPR version of

the rod. Okay, So however you need CPR, your brother, deary,

the rod is there to give you CPR okay, next life?

What is CBR Okay? The road is there right and

Hippuws twelve seven It says, if you and your chestening,

God deals with you with sons. For what is a

son there whom a father does not chesten.

If you are a son and your father does not

chesten you, you don't go through chastisement? Right then what

is that? What is the relationship? What is your son

if it's not chastised by your father? What is it

that a father who does not chastise? Chastisement means correction? Yeah,

what do chestisem mean?

Yeah?

I so didn't know. I know simple English law, but

what does it mean? It means correction, it means pruning,

it means reproof. Now it means a lot of other

things like but I found a CBR for you.

Okay, when you're about.

To diary, the chastise man come to you, The discipline

come to you, the reproof come to you, The pruning

come to you because you're not bearing fruit. The correction

comes to you. Not by a correction tape, but just

you know, correcting you maybe even through your leaders, through

your parents, through your siblings, maybe even through your children.

They d at school, I learned cannot liear your told

a bl hat the lie the d skilled today and

link lie the d you lie. How many of you

felt you when your children do? There?

And if you heard how you feel as a parent,

will you school children? Tell your backside? Now? Click gonzo,

you know talk back to me. No.

Sometimes reproach comes through your children as well. Correction come,

because the Holy Spirit can use anybody you know to

touch you.

Can you even use a cat? Yeah?

CPR, A lot of us need CPR. I don't know

where you're half day to day. You don't net CBR No,

you want get.

You back to life? Okay, coum you great life, come back.

That's what the rod is called. To get you back

to life, to put you back into the right direction.

You're about to go astray. You're drifting wide and Cameron

highlands the body.

And then the ABS comes in. Do do do do?

Do your abs? Is it might even you didn't write

them some breaking assistance breaking system?

Man?

Is that what it means? He comes in and then

you ty you stop? The Lord helped me today. Yes,

sometimes when life it happens that way because God is

watching you every more. But you didn't know, you didn't know,

you didn't know.

You just caled him? Why Lord? Why you know?

Somehow these things a bit funny, and yes we can,

you can say, but what if we lose people that

we really care about. I tell you what, there are

things in this world that we cannot explain. We cannot

understand until the day You made him in heaven.

We cannot do.

They won't try do they even try to make sense

of things that you cannot, because His ways are higher

than your ways. And what you think what the enemy

meant for evil? Right, what the enemy meant for evil?

He can turn it around. He can turn it around.

It starts off as evil, but he can turn it around.

Your life and turn around. You've got to believe that

your life can turn around in the name of Jesus.

You got to believe it because if you give up

at the point of trials, you say to God one

year I can, two years, I cannot, three years, I can,

four you I cannot. If you start putting boundaries over

God instead of God putting boundaries over you, you are.

Going to be destined to fill.

And instead of being brought to life back with CBR,

you're flat line. And sometimes the dangerous part is when

we lose the faith. Because God says in his word

it's important that we keep the faith, not lose the faith.

You cannot lose your salvation. Yeah, because God gives it

to you.

It is a gift. But you can try to reject

the salvation. You can choose to reject him.

There's no point fighting the good fight, running the race

nineteen meters and ten meters in the background. You decide

to give up, and you no longer keep the faith,

and you lost it. You decide to reject it. Stop

and you stop your flat line. Only because His mercies

are new every morning. There's always a way back, friends,

There's always a way back, as long as you're still

breathing today. No matter what you have done and committed

in his life, there's always a way back.

The only way where it's times up.

It's when the Lord has written, and that one it's

only by the grace of God, by the grace of God.

And my dad loves revelations. You always tell me a

story about revelations, the tribulation. How many of you have

studied the first three and a half years, the second

tree and a half years. How many of you have

heard before that? Oh, we already in the first tree

and a half years. How many have heard before that?

All in the raptures, something will be raptured, and then

some people be intentionally left behind.

And then you know what, the muck of the beast

will come. How many have heard of it? I have

grown up your dad. Tell you I've grown up your dad,

And it's real. You know that the enemy will come

like an angel, the anti Christ. We don't push you

all is enough.

We don't push your bodies enough because all we want

to hear is roses. But in the days of the

Anti Christ, there will be church.

You know, there will be worship.

You know, it's just like who is the object of

your worship and their roles? Just to deny, to deny,

deny Jesus, deny Jesus, and I'll give you pleasures abandoned.

You know you want to wait and do then? And

do you let me wake up? Chilo thou one somehow

Tao sanhow you think what the enimy will come? Right in? No?

Den't i Jesus? Sure?

All the riches in the world one million, two million,

nothing he let.

All for you? Can you think it? But the rod

is there a guy? You look for the rod when

you are lost, look for the rock. Dung dum dum dung.

Look for the rot in your life, and then the

rock comes down to smack you nicely in your being

accepted because he loves you.

He loves you.

Every chastisement, every trial is an opportunity to allow God

to work in your life. Amen, right direction? Can I

just have the next light X point? Revelations three nineteen.

Then one, I hope you can take it down for

your for your for your own record. Can we go

to the next light, just just for them to quickly

take that down? Revelations three nineteen. What does he say?

As many if I love, I rebuild in a chest stun.

Therefore be zealous and repent. Yeah, as many as he loves.

Let me see, that's is to everyone that he loves.

He wants your repentance. He wants you to be zealous.

Next light. Oh the O in my rod? Like how uh?

Pas say? Okay, my pop? She said, remember the kay

in my pop? Yeah? The O in my rod?

Uh? It stands for obedience? Okay, not just obedience, but obedience.

Learn? Where do we get this phrase from? Obedience? Learn?

Is this even English? Next Light?

Hebrews five eight says although he was a son, he

learned obedience through what he suffered.

We're talking about Jesus.

Yeah, although he was Jesus, the son of God, he

learned obedience through what he suffered. In every suffering, there's

always something to learn in every trial, there's always something

to learn. And sometimes that something and someone that God

wants to partake into your life is obedience. He wants

you to catch it. Amen, because you have been a

disobedience chah. Why we do it all time? Sometimes sometimes

because the son the child is disobedience. Now was Jesus

this obedience? No, but he learned it. He learned the

concept of obedience. How can the son of God learn well,

he bruised five eight, He learned obedience, He practiced it,

he suffered it, He endured it, kill death on the cross.

So if the son of God can learn obedience, what

someone's thing is so hard to obey?

It is?

It is therefore you to learn that you really grew

up in the morning knowing how to do integration. Man, know,

you have to learn how to do integration right, So

therefore obedience also can be learned. You can learn how

to obey because what you do not understand, you obey

and then slowly God will give you the wisdom, the

grace to know, and and and and in future you

know what to do. You know that, Hey, I tell

you what. Things may not look very rosy now, but

from what I've experienced, I just have to obey because

Jesus is somewhere in my boat. I just don't know where,

any in the ethic, in the in the basement.

He's somewhere.

And when Jesus is with me, who shall be against me?

How we brave enough to say this? How we brave

enough to declare that, wherever you are at the law,

what is with you?

The Lord Hosts, the Lord, God of all, he is

with you.

How many of us are daring enough to proclaim that

when you step into a dark place, you know I

was invited ones to cast out a spirit, spiritual being?

You know?

You know it happens israela right. The Bible says they

are demons around.

But it's not. We approach this scary. Really, I used

to reel like that. I used to check unto my bit.

Sally go and hang on O. Too many movies right

towards imagination. But when you walk into a dark place,

you walk with the authority of God. You know that

God is with you, even a demon's feeler. They shake

like the name of Jesus. They shake, they shake, the

name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is the only

thing they make them shake.

But only if it is your Jesus. If it's not

your Jesus, if it's not who you believe in, the

fellow's gonna come and dance on your head and you

gonna run on naked scripture reala. Make sure it's your Jesus.

You're not dor Jesus, that the not the not the.

Pastor Jesus, nor this this pastor for your Lord. Because

he therefore, I am saying, no, the curing comes over you.

He is your shepherd. He is my shepherd. I shall

not want. The Lord is my shepherd. Friends, because the

Lord is my shepherd, I have no longer any need,

anything that I need. The Lord covers me in his love,

in his discipline, he covers me. He covered, He covers

me so much so that he protects me. And in

the in the present, all my enemies, in the present

of my enemies, he's there because he is my shepherd.

He's my shepherd. Next light nextv Jesus himself learned obedience

not true comfort, but true challenge. Obedience is not natural, friends,

He's formed true fire. God uses trials not to break

your bill, but to bend it towards You know one

thing about fire, you one thing about metal.

If you want to bend the metal, how do you

band it? You put it through fire. You put it

through fire.

And as you metal comes in contact with fire, something

that's so hard it bends. It bends, and God is

just bending it to his will to all be the glory.

Next light were the clos very is so? Next light?

Next TV series? Laughing because I think there's another ten.

Most lights there? First be there one sixty seven in

this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while

you need be You have been grief by various trials. Yeah, friends,

put your name there, Put your name there that Rachelle

greatly rejoice for a little while. Rachelle, you have been

grief with various trials. Little while, little wow, little while,

come on that the genuine or genuiness of your faith

erin being much more precious than the goal that perishes,

though is tested by fire, may be found to praise erin.

May you be found to praise, honor, and glory at

the revelations of Jesus Christ. It's just a little while,

it's just a little wow. It's just a little wow.

Without discipline, it becomes spiritually spoiled. Will be saying my

next light, spiritually spoilt. One thing God's blessing, but not

his boundaries. Wait, we want, we want all of the Lord,

all the blessing that comes with him, but not his boundaries.

But do you know that his boundaries produces his blessings.

Do you know that if you're not bounded by his boundaries,

his blessings will be nowhere to be found. Do you

know that if the people of Israel were not bounded

by the two oceans that putt it, they will not

experience their breakthrough? How many of them, while passing through

the sea, he thought to themselves, let me go and

have fellowship with the jellyfish. There was a boundary. There

was a boundary in the crossing of the raat sea.

But some of us like to go swimming.

Maybe one find for the smart Alex say, I want

to go swimming. There's some of us.

Are we going to learn how to obey when the

Lord places the boundaries in order. Jesus, Son of God,

this is your destiny, my son, whom which I am

well pleased. This is your destiny, fulfill it. Jesus can

come to this earth right and come and be paraded

like no tomorrow. I just slapped my finger. I turned

all water into wine. He did that once. La that

fame that he can, he can easily use that fame bump.

Everybody loves him. Whoo, free wine, unlimited juice. Come on,

who doesn't love someone that comes with free wine?

But no, he knew his purpose. He stayed faithful.

He stayed stead first, and he had to learn obedience

through the suffering trials that he had to face from

these own people.

Next night, very quickly.

Just take this down very quickly, probably in nine point

fifteen lamentations treet Andy seven for you to reflect on

your own We won't go deeper. He just says that

it's better though, it's better to start younger. Yeah, young

people in the house of it's better start younger, right,

youth canvas students things. It's important for you, the better

that you in your youth. Okay, the Bible says so,

because when you're already we have to change bad habits.

I speaking for myself, very hard to change my habits.

But when you're still young and.

All the words are young in your Lord, Amen, you

don't know, you know, so you wouldn't. You don't know

when you're gonna go. My dad didn't know. Maybe they

say that they have. There's a saying and that you know,

like you kind of know when when it's time. You know,

the Lord brings you bad, you know, but the people

around you you can't tell.

You can't tell when when you're gonna breeth or less?

So why not leave every every second? Why not leave

every second your best?

Yeah? Why don't give your best in.

Every moment that you have, in every waking moment? When

not guess what the worst says?

Right next? Like very quickly, even if I.

Don't understand, I'm still obey hallelujah. Next like, even if

I don't understand, I'll still obey. You will never obey

God by accident. Please do not ever say that, oh

I accident till you obey God. No, you never obey

him by excellent He will be always intentional, always intentional,

always a choice to obey God.

Always a choice.

Last point, we're gonna close We're gonna close running late,

but destiny prepared will be my last point. The world

leads you to your destiny. He prepares you for your destiny,

prepares you for your future. He prepares you for tomorrow.

Next Light James one to the Fall by Virgin Carry

all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that

the testing of your faith produces patience. But friends pay

attention to this. But let patients have its perfect work,

that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Amen,

Next Light. Discipline is never for now. It's always for

what's next. You know when you get disciplined today, right,

it's never for the now.

It's never because.

Your dad wants to see you suffer. Is there because

your father in heaven has nothing better to do in

this in his in his trou No, he wants to

form you, mold you into something. And a very wise

person once said to me, you know, the chesstisement of

the Lord comes in different ways. And I learned from

this very wise person. He says that, you know, sometimes

it comes in from a hammer hammers you now, but

sometimes it comes in the form of a chisel, shaping you.

Not every chesstisement is going to be unbearable. But there

are days where some of the chest tise one come

and he goes.

Like, WHOA, I can't take this anymore.

Lord. But there are days where it's just a decision,

a decison to come to church, choose church over pickable.

Or to speakable church. Do people too speak about wurch?

Maybe yeah? Will you lose your blessing for doing that?

I don't know. But she's silling God's chase, selling you right.

God is shaping you.

Let's talk about church, Let's talk about praying, Let's talk

about quiet time.

It's a choice. Are you going to spend time with

me today? Son? Are you going to spend time with

me today's son?

Are you going to speak? Are you going to spend

time with me? Daniel in the next week or so?

I come back Lah?

Where long? I see you for dinner? Ready? H there?

Why why are our son now come back home?

When? Why Daniel so busy nowadays? Now come back home

for dinner? I miss sim La. You know that's what

my dad used to tell my mom. I believe that

our father in heaven wants to have that relationship us well.

Jesus Holy Spirit in the Communion of the three of us.

It's been a while since we heard from Rachel.

We miss her.

La. Sorry, Yeah, I don't think that God speaks in

last and whatnot. But but we missed, we miss.

We missed, We miss ken Wis can so can go

to Can's because they always can can Square. We miss catching. No,

that's that's the you think.

You think the Father's son, the Holy Spirit is plotting today.

We're gonna make them go through this.

No, the Lord wants communion with us. He desires a

communion with us, And every decision that we make is

a chiseling from the Lord. He's putting a design in

your heart. They're already in feel. But sometimes we make

decisions that does not represent what he wants.

But he still loves He's still there. He loves us.

He loves us.

He's preparing you not for your present pain, by your

future potential. He's preparing you knowing that the chiseling of

your faith right now is gonna lead you to what'sci

just new. He's gonna lead you besides steal waters, though

you walk through the value of the shadow of death,

you will not fear My God and my staff. They

will comfort this man he's preparing us. He's preparing you

next light, very quickly, next light. The role of destiny

is not paid if east well with endurance next light.

God's preparation often comes package as pain. Wow, you can

ask Albert, you're gonna built muscle. You gotta experience pain.

It's the pain that actually shows you that you're in

the right track, because.

Something is healing, something is healing, something is getting better,

something is forming around that torn muscle, and it's getting

stronger again because God's preparation of them comes package in pain.

And when this muscle is strong.

And you're ready, and now you are stronger in the

spirl of Lord, and you tack up the soul of

the spirit, which is the world of God, and you

can fight. You can fight the good fight. You can

finish the race. You can kip the faith. Amen, you

fight a good fight, finish the race.

Kept the faith.

Well done, Well done, My good and faithful.

Well done. Only God is good. No one else is good.

And when God sees that faithfulness in you, Jesus gets

reflected in you, you are called good cats, shed friends.

No one else is good except the Father. But when

you reflect the love of Jesus Christ. When you're created

in the image of His son, and when you have

kept the faith, and when you're face to face with

your Father in heaven and you give him that account

that I have fought this battle, kept this faith, he

looks to you in the eye and he says, well done.

The word that is often.

Reserved for God is now used towards you.

Because you a resemblance of Jesus Christ. A man.

Your life resembles the love of Jesus Christ. When people

look at you, they see Jesus. There needs to be

more of Jesus in your marketplaces. They don't wait for

Jesus to come back, because when Jesus left, he said,

I will send you someone better. And that someone better

is the Holy Spirit. Is Jesus in the form of

a spirit that lives in and every one of us.

And we carry the spirit of Jesus wherever.

We are at.

But it comes sometimes in a package of pain, suffering,

and we can't take it anymore.

By God.

Today I pray in the name of Jesus that you

break every chain, every yoke of the enemy.

Lor God Lord, we break it in the name of Jesus.

Not today we declare life and life more abundantly, Lord God,

And we declare that if you are with us, if

you are with us, who shall be against us?

You are king over our lives. You are a lord

of our lives. You are a lot of lords.

You are Jehovah jire, you are jehoa rafa lord.

We declare, Lord.

God, You're living word into each and every person today.

Can I just invite you to stand your feet even

as we close this time together?

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah x TV.

Can I have sums to intrigue up on the screen

because I want to invite all of us to pray

this together. Can I have some on entry up on

the screen to Jesus, hallelujah? Are we able to get

the scriptures up? We're gonna read this together, a man,

We're going to pray to guests together, and we're gonna

declare it over a week.

Well, declare it well, man, because God is good. Amen.

God is good. He's good all the time. And he

is your shepherd, amen. And I pray that if he's

not your shepherd today and you desire to come close

to him, come back to him in a while, We're

gonna pray a prayer together, and that's gonna be a

way of inviting Jesus Christ back into your life. We're

gonna do it be doing it together anyway. Some of

us who have already accepted Jesus, we love him, but

yet we need more of His daily anointing in our lives.

We're gonna invite you to say that pray together as well.

But before that, we're gonna declare SMS toy treat together.

Let's go the kind of one two tree. The Lord

is my shepherd. I shall not one verse two. He

makes me lie down in green pastures. He makes me

leads me besides steel waters. He restores my soul. He

leads me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. Yeah. Two,

I walk through the value of the shadow of death.

I will fear no evil, for you are with me,

Your word, your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a

table before me in the presence of my enemies, you

annoying my head with oil. My cup runs over. Surely,

Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of

my life, and I will dwell in the house of

the Lord forever.

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Amen. Now we're gonna have to

prayer up very quickly.

If you have distanced yourself from Jesus, or if you

want to know who this Jesus is, this is your opportunity,

This is your chance. And if your city's prayer, come

and speak to one of us, either me or Rachel,

and we will be more than privileged to w you

to this jurney.

Can I have the prayer up very.

Quickly and then we are going to close. Let's praise together.

Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for your love for me

and for dying on the cross. Please forgive me on

my sins, wash me clean my your precious blood, and

come and live in my heart. Can I have the

next night feel me your Holy Spirit and teach me

your ways.

I now live to worship you and praise you in Jesus.

Nay may pray? Amen? Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

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