Imitators Of Christ | Pastor Sandra Chin

You're listening to a passage to go from axt church.

We hope this message will light up your tea.

So disciple first, and you know when we talk about

disciple first, it's about following Christ. And if you're following Christ,

you're imitating Christ. And you know, all of us can

either be a baby Christian and we're growing and we're

following Christ. So we have launched out and you are

aware of this disciple first, meaning you will be a

disciple and you will disciple somebody. That is the cycle

of life. Okay, all right, lion king, all right. So

the cycle here that Jesus has given to us is

that we make disciples. So I start with Matthew twenty eight,

verse nineteen to twenty. I'll end with that, but just

to say, ex church, we are inundated with Matthew chapter eighteen,

verse nine in the twenty and it says, you know,

make go make disciples of all nations, amen, And to

teach them all that you've learned, and you know, to

baptize them first, and baptize them the their father son,

Holy Spirit. Teach them everything so that they can observe.

So Jesus is the one who told us to disciples,

not exchange me your idea. Okay, from day one already

we have started doing discipleship. What we have is huddle,

a huddle system coming from the American football. The illustration

is how the team huddles together as they give instructions

and rarah before they go on to the next game,

you know, they change other on. So that's what we've

been doing for twenty five years. And we're just putting

it out there this year for the word dream Malaysia Dream,

and we're gonna hit out on disciple. We're gonna really

strengthen the discipleship that we are doing in XTS. So

what is and what is the word disciple? Where does

it come from? In the Greek? It sounds like this.

I may not pronounce it right, math that is or

math that is. I don't know how to pronounce this.

I haven't learned Greek, all right. The mathatists, which means

ormitatus or whatever, a learner. How many of you are

lifelong learners? Yeah, we're all lifelong learners. We keep learning,

we never stop learning, all right, We're all lifelong learners, learners.

A pupil it also means disciple and a disciple was

not just a pupil, but an adherent or adherent why

because they are said to be imitators of their teacher.

We adhere it here is to stick very closely, to

follow very closely. And so when we talk about discipleship,

is we stick very closely to the person who's discipling us. Amen.

And and that's where the word disciple comes from. So

are we sticking very closely to Jesus? Amen? So we

are im we are the disciple of Christ. I believe

all of us saying whose disciple are you? And then

you say Jesus Amen. All right? And that's our foundation

because when we follow Christ, we are disciples of Christ.

And therefore we want to remind us again now where

you know, because some people, you see, if we did

church and taught you everything I could, I got so

many messages I would love to share so many. But

do they have to speak on discipleship? War? All right?

Because if we teach you everything else and not talk

about discipleship, we have not taught you the full Gospel.

We have to teach the full Gospel. Everything the Bible

teach we have to teach. And so today I get

to say this to you, we have really followed on

with what Christ said to make disciples. Now, how and

where does Jesus say this? All right? So do you

remember the story in John chapter thirteen where there was

the the last Supper? Okay, this is Jazz before Jesus

was heading off to the cross, and there was the

passover meal, and it will be the last meal that

he would eat with his disciples. So in John chapter

thirteen they recorded this of what happened. And so if

you remember the painting of da Vinci, you will see

the Last Supper. And some people have been in your

house hanging soon as they seated across a long table

and Jesus at the center. And there's the picture we

had for years and years at least for me growing up.

My auntie's house would have a picture of that, you know.

But in actual fact, if you visit Jerusalem, I mean,

you go to Israel and you'll get the chance to

do the Last Supper there. The actual seating is actually

a U shaped table, yeah, a U shaped table, and

right at the frontier, the first seat would not be Jesus,

it would not be the host, not necessar Jesus, anyone

who was hosting the p over, they will be sitting

at the second seat. And then the first seat is

someone who will be like the arm not the one

who shields no in case anybody suddenly comes in the door.

And you know, so this guy will take the bullet

for you, all right, he's the he's the he's the bodyguard.

And then the horse. And then the third place, the

seat on the number three seat is the seat of honor.

Is where your most your your guestler, your guest of honor.

So if I say carry side my guests of honor,

you get to sit on the third seat, and then

your horse will be on the second seat. And so

that day from the last passover that Jesus would take

who was the guest of honor? You know who was

the guest of one who was seated at the third seat?

Was it James? Was it John? No? Where was John seated?

John was the youngest disciple and he lived the longest. John.

So John was seated on the first seat, and he

was the god macham Ama Berola. He's the one gonna

take the shot for him, take the take it for Jesus.

So so he's the one. Okay, the body got Jesus.

And so the place of honor would have been either

the oldest of the twelve disciples or the closest to Jesus.

And then there was the last seat, you sham, And

there was the last seat there. Know who was sitting

the last who was sitted at the third place. So

the third place the guest of honor was Judas. Judas

was given the seat of honor Jesus knowing what was

going to happen. I believe it was a real true

act of love and forgiveness to show Judas that no

matter how you're going to be training, Jesus knw this ahead.

I love you. He even you know, fed him, right,

I gave him bread, dip the dip the bread in

the stew and shared with him, of course, telling John,

this is the one's going to be trained me all right.

And then but who was sitting at the last place?

It was sulking Peter. Why because Peter wanted to sit

at the dead place. Number three. I'm the close friend, Remember,

he said, Jesus, if everyone else betray you, I will

go with you. I will never betray you. Right, And

and there he was thinking I'm the best, but he

was he was so angry. He said, the last okay,

I just sit there sulking right now? What was the

last seat meant the person sit to death? That person

was meant to wash the feet of the people at

the table. And people used to lean on their side,

lean to eat, very Eastern style of eating, not sitting

like this and eating. They would lean very relax. I

don't think it's very relax But and then your feet

will be and the other person's face or something like that.

So he was supposed to wash the feet because they

would have walked, you know, for miles right those days,

no no grab so they would have walked. The few

have been dusty, you know, muddy, So you clean the

feet for your guests and the last person but sucking.

Peter was too busy sulking and going through his mind

a one hundred times why Jesus did not put him there.

He didn't wash, but instead, in the middle of the meal,

Jesus got up, took the towel, took the basin, and

he started to wash the feet of all the disciples. Now,

scenario today, if I came to you to wash your feet,

or if you came to me to wash my feet,

I would like go like, no, thank you, it's okay.

The first thing is I mallow it after you take

out my shoe. It might be stinky away. Who knows.

I didn't cut my toornails, I didn't wash my feet.

It will be thomeley shy, embarrassed. But Jesus went and

did it for them, and they were like, no, no, no,

you can't. But you said no, I have to. I

will wash your feet right, and then Peter sucking. Peter realized,

oh my gosh, supposed to do this. So he goes

and there's the usual shoot his mouth out. He reason,

don't wash my feet, I wash my head. O sola

beathe miller. He just and he said, no, no, it's

not necessary. I've cleansed you, so just your feet. So

the Lord, and this is called he took on the

role of a servant. He truly was the servant king

to wash the feet of his disciples. And so that

brings us to this verse in John thirteen, verse fifteen.

If you read thirteen verse thirteen, verse fourteen, he will

say he would have said something like, and you call

me master, you call me teacher, And it is rightfully

so I am your master and I am your teacher,

but today I'm I am white washing your feet. He says, right,

so as I washed your feet Verse fourteen, you also

ought to wash one another's feet. Actually is quite emotional.

No if I, if I. If you just came to

you to wash your feet, malu is one thing. But

someone who you didn't expect wash your feet, you like

you quite well? Wait, so he say, if I've washed

your feet, you also to wash to wash one another's feet,

all right, And sometimes you may have done that in

our church life, et cetera. To wash one another's feet,

show off servant who show of humility, and also to

you know, bend our will and watch each other's feed forgiveness,

asking for forgiveness. So Verse fifteen says, for I have

given you, and everybody say right that you should do

as I have done to you. Jesus says, I have

given you an example. Whoa an example? Jesus never leaves

us without any examples. He left an example, And he says,

most surely, I say to you, a servant is not

greater than his master, nor is he sent who he

is sent is greater than the who said If you

know these things Verse seventeen says, if you know these things,

blessed are you if you do them? Here's the example.

You saw it. Now, if you do it, you're going

to be blessed. All right. If you do this, blessed

are you? All right? Because you're doing what I'm doing.

So what would that be said? You are doing exactly

what Jesus has done. So you're imitating him. And that's

what he began to teach. He's taught many many things.

How to cast out demon's law, you know, how to

pray for the sake, how miracles open the fish mouth?

Got one coin there? Not your my fave. You speak

to the mountain, Well, speak to the mountain, speak to

the fig tree or all that they're watching. You know,

they're a little little Oh my goodness. What Jesus doing Now,

he says, wash, not just wash the example washing the feet,

but everything that he's done we would be able to follow. Right,

So this is the picture that we get. So, fellow

brother and sisters, all of us, we have an example.

And therefore, if we do what Jesus did, we are

going to be blessed. Amen. So yeah, he didn't say

that Steven will be blessed because I wash your feet,

you know I will be blessed. We will be blessed

as we bend. We bend yeah ourselves to servant as

a servant. As Jesus was a servant king, he bent

and he washed our feed. So this is an example

of saying how he discipled his own disciples. So Jesus

already said make disciples of all nations in Matthew twenty eight,

the last commandment. Our first priority. Ex Church, if you're

new here, let me tell you we are inundated. With

Matthew twenty eight, verse nineteen to twenty. We go out

to make disciples, and we teach God's word to them,

not my word, but God's worth. Amen. So we're following

what Christis has taught us. And this has been twenty

five years of doing this. And therefore today through our discipleship,

what do we have. Our very elders were discipled by

pastor and myself, our very huddle one what someone might

call your deacons. Perhaps you know, the leadership of district,

all the home leaders, all our dream ting leaders, all

being discipled in a cycle, and they serve. We send

out sons of the house, daughters of the house, to

plant churches, to plant churches, right, but they've all been

discipled so that when we disciple, we have a right

to given. They open their hearts to say, teach me,

pastor teach me, elder. I'm willing to learn. I'm not.

I don't know everything all well, quite hard, a lot

this kind of want you tell me, like, but because

you love me, I know you love me, I will

take it. So that's what's been happening. We have this

discipleship journey that we walk with everyone. So Jesus laid

it out for us. Then who is the next person

who really strongly speaks about it? Year Possi Paul First Corinthians,

chapter eleven and verse one. Paul, who you know he

counts himself as the least of the disciples. Lease why

he's like number the thinner. He he came after Jesus

past pasted on RADI like, I mean, rose up from

the went to the cross roads from the grave. Here

he came after that. And he was so zealous for

people to follow Judaism, okay that you know the law

of Moses, that he would take them to prison or

kill them. Right. He was there saying yeah, Stone, Stephen Stone, Stephen,

and he would drag people to prison. So Paul was

the one who following Christ. He followed Christ, and and

he began to disciple because he was planting churches. And

then he set this line to the Corinthian Church and said, hey, guys,

imitate me as I imitate Christ. Wow. So bold to

say that way? Where are you there saying I shy

you because somebody would look at my life and go like, please, Lah,

all right, but I have to find that confidence if

I'm following Christ, have I been actually imitating as much

as I can of what Christ has taught us. We're

not perfect human beings. We are fallen, but we have

been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Right, everybody,

when you look at your neighbor, Look, anybody, look at

a neighbor, redeemer, redeemler, redeemler. Right. We've fallen, Ah, the

Adam fell, but we are redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Amen.

So uh So, when when your fellow believers say, and

someone is discipling you says, imit, Sharon, imitate me as

I immediate Christ. Say that, then Sharon has to have

that belief that, yeah, I am following Christ. She would

have to see the fruit of it, okay, which will

come to it in a bit. So Paul says, imitate

me again. It's a cycle of discipleship. Who are you imitating?

We are all imitating somebody. Don't say you're not, you

are we Everybody wants to follow something. You say I'm not,

but I say you are. If you're wearing your white sneakers,

you are following somebody. Right, it's such a trend right

to wear the white sneakers these days. I'm not and

you'll not catch me wearing it because I will not

follow a trend. I said it, all right, So you're

following something. Your hairstyle, the color of your hair, right,

your phone. We're all following somebody. Admit it something We all.

So therefore people are looking for following this God, which

God I am, the Way, the Truth and the life,

says Jesus. No one comes to God the Father except

through me. People want to follow. There's a God shaped heart, right,

it needs to be filled by God only. But we

went to the Treela. We went to Manila, We went

to this lah Deadla to fill this hunger for worship

of a God, the God who made us. So take

me as I imitate Christ. People are watching you and I.

How we live, how we we do life, how we

how we love people, how we are kind or how

we even take a punch? Huh? How we go through

our times of testing? How do we take sickness and illnesses?

Do we cry? And why mean? And you know or

when they when you hear you speak and you say

you know, I'm still in the Lord. If God's my healer,

heal me or don't hear me, I'm still in the Lord.

Doesn't matter in touching my soul, in touching my spirit?

All right? How you take hardship? How you take a punch?

Sometimes of people blash out at you? You still come

and cool? Which of you are like that? And my eula,

come and cool? Don't flinch your no, super colm and

cool here right, okay, move on. But the resilience not

today we call it. If you are an educator, we

call these twenty first century skills. Are our young people resilient?

And we found that these are union No, I say yeah.

Professors are saying that they were going to teach the

next generation resilience, flexibility, adaptability. This is a twenty first

century skill. Which we are going to be hired and employed.

We are looking for staff like that who are digitally equipped, compatible, collaboration,

creating all these things. You know, we need to hire, right,

so somebody has to teach. And then if you got

naturally already, how come you're so resilient, then you share

that right now? You know, how are we raising our

young children? Everything you give, they will not be resilient? Really,

we all fall down. You're gone getty? Hey, we're for

foller well for no yeah yet up again yet again? No,

not be rule, not being bad like sometimes you don hey,

don't run, don't run, it's still gay. Get up. You know.

We teach resilience, we teach them how to stand up again.

So we've got to follow. But who is our example?

Everybody is looking for an example, all right, maybe looking

for hero, honey, the hero. Okay, you're not born yet

when the song was written? Okay, so we need an example,

all right, And Paul says, imitate me. And what else

does Paul say? Second Timothy to to? This is inundated

in next church as well. Second Timothy to to Paul

says to brother Timothy, a young up and coming past her.

He says, hey, Timothy, and these things you have heard

from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men

who will be able to teach others also. So Paul

Paul is saying to Timothy, there is a Paul in

your life? Is there a Paul? If you are Timothy,

you have a Paul? If I am a Paul, do

I have a Timothy? And Timothy has to find faithful men,

all right? And the faithful man has to find others.

So I've asked this question before. Where are you between

Paul Timothy faithful men? Others? Majority will answer me? So

who scared to say faithful? No? I know yet? How

about the Timothy? Are you lucky? Not there yet? Get there? Now?

How to be a Timothy? You need a Pall. You

need a Pall in your life who recognizes you. I

want to say to you, I'm speaking to you not

as someone who's not been discipled. From the time I

was born again at the age of sixteen, in my school,

somebody took me under their discipleship. Somebody gave me a

chance to serve. I became a Christian in my school CF.

And you know how school CEF. Every year you change

committee right, I was. I wasn't informed for they were

going to change committee, so they have to look for

new members. Of course, they have to look for members

that are say fuller coming to CF, you know, then

do something loud, So do you want to choose me?

You know, ah, you want to choose me? My school

CF to serve on the committee. Of the whole team.

Only one person, which was the president, said let's let's

choose Sandra. And then they're like, no, oh, why she's

very weary Early, you know, because she can alla. Why

why do you say she really? Have you seen her not?

She's on the cat walk half the time. You know,

my school got cat well, were always doing fashion show

and on TV all the time doing advertisements Connecto Girl

shampooger not shampoo Girl shampoo, you know, selling bro and whatever.

I was on TV all the time advertisements and doing

catwalk in school. He said, so Wearly cannot serve God food.

But somebody said, let's disciple and my president. I still

am in touch with her till today. See in another

church she reconnects and she gave me a chance and

one was my first duty. I think I'm still doing it.

Communications today we have digital communications, social media. Last, I

don't have no tice board. No this board. Make sure

the notice board is beautified. Christian Fellowship put all the

right now say they still got those your timers say,

is on same school as me, my junior, So must

put up the board you know and put everything you

know dada. So it was called cut and pace, yes

and pace, decorated, share inspirational stuff. And so I did

that in as a committee member, made sure you look great.

People would pass by, if they were down, they would

read it. I will find encouragement and a lot of

things I would do for the board. I know what

you call that bot now love anyways, some communications, all right?

So I did that and this lady and this sister,

she discipled me, went through Bible study with me, took

me through, guided me, and taught me and to him

as a whole team. But somebody at least took a

chance with me. I'm grateful because that was my foundation

with many other older sisters in Christ in the CF

that helped me grow my faith. And then as I

moved on, I had the chance to go to church.

My my assistant pastor took me on to disciple me,

teach me foundations again lay a good foundation. And as

I moved on, then my father got saved. I followed

him to the church that he was attendant, which become

my home church. There, my cell group leader became my

harder leader, my discipler. When I went through rock bottom,

they had to pick me up and and help me

and tell me the truth, you know, deal with this issue.

Stop moping around, da da da. Okay, we needn't do

very well for Form six, so Losersama Sharaka. And but

my cell group leader, you know, actually I found her

in Dan You're only two years older than me. Yeah,

two years older than me only, But they were so mature.

They were discipling me how to overcome in times of challenge.

So the resilience was grown, the faith in Christ was grown,

and and then I carry on. You know, my pastor

would disciple me so forth until today. I have to

lead other people, but I cannot say no one disciples.

There were people significantly in my life. I may not

have said thank you to them. You know, over the

years they forget. But sometimes then then then whenever I

told my president. One time I got to meet her

and I said, you know, Nancy, thank you so much

for sewing into my life, you know. And she's like,

look at where I am today. Did you think I'll

be a pastor one day? She's not a pastor, but

I am a pastor now did you think? But you

took a chance. So, but you know, that's what discipling does.

It helps you grow in your faith and you grow

stronger and stronger and go deeper deeper, build on the rock.

We don't want to build on the sand. That's what

discipleship does. And so therefore Paul also encouraging, Hey, come on,

have a Timothy. You need to look for faithful men,

and the faithful man that you have find the others. Now,

the others could not yet be Christian. That's why we

do sharing the good news. That's why we go and

share the good news to people so that they can

be disciples into the faith. Slowly, slowly, Amen. So it

is a cycle, and we want to learn from this

and we want to teach it and practice it so

that there will be a next generation. Hallelujah. Hey, we

cannot live for ourselves only because this group will move

on in life. And where I want to see young

people always in our churches. The day. You don't have

young people in your church. Church, we are in trouble.

We have forgotten the young, the youth. Now we have babies. Yay.

Not easy. You lost two years of your sleep, but

one day payback time, all right. So you lose two

years of your sleep when you have but the fact

that you have children, you have teens. This is a

chance to disciple. Parents. You are discipling your children. They

are imitating you in your faith, in how you deal

with your marriage and how you deal with oh rock

bottom situations? Does dad give up? How does mom does it? Parents?

Your children are watching us, your children. I don't have

children on my own, but I have my leaders. My

church members will see how we are going through different things.

They won't tell you, but they are observing. Life is

like a fish bowl. You might say, I don't want

to in feasible. Too bad, You're in it already, all right.

As long as you are in Christ, you are in

a visual Everybody is watching us trying either the devil

is watching you, trying to trip you up, but Jesus

is over watching you and he's trying to lift you

up all the time. Amen. So discipleship, what does a

disciple of Christ do? Or what does a disciple of

Christ look like? First, we are we're obviously a disciple

of Christ. And then and and as we are disciples

of Christ, because we are followers of Christ. We also

have our people, our leaders, who are our harder leader

or our disciple who's also teaching and guiding us. But

what are these things that we are learning? So I

only have three simple points the whole Bible of many

things are by three three three versus that Jesus says,

you are my disciples. All right, we just want to

hear that you are my disciples. So first one, the

first one is a abide a abide in Christ's words.

Abide in Christ's words, because Christ is the living Word,

and we're abide in him, and we all have and

have the living Word. I know it's a printed COPI

I'm not saying this is Jesus, but this is the

living Word, and Jesus himself is the living Word. Amen.

And so the verse is John eight, John, chapter eight,

verse thirty one. So Jesus says to his disciples, Hey, guys,

if you abide in my word, you are my disciples. Indeed. Amen.

So I'm picking this up, I myself learning, and there's

this abiding in his word, and when you abide, you

are disciples. I chose that picture because that's what we

look like. Christ is. Come on to me, right, come

as like a child. We are children. You might be

eighty years old, but you're still a child. Member. I said,

anyone under one hundred, you are young. Amen. After one hundred,

I'm sorry, you're old, all right, but very advancing age,

they say. Joshua was very advancing it. He was one

hundred and ten years old. Moses, very advancing age. He

was one hundred and twenty years old. But your hundred

yng all right? So we come like this is a

picture of that's how God sees us as children. You

might be forty, you might be twelve. You are Why

was it? There's this child like faith, not child dish.

If I had a child and the child did that

to me, baby, I will give you fireworks. Stop it

can with the headless when you got it, wouldn't would

That's right. I cannot stand on this. Stop it or

not child dish, but child like and in your child

like faith. And so many of us just can't see

this because we we we we we may not always

have had a relationship with our earthly dad. And some

of you have very good earthly dead relationships some some

may not have had. Where your dad always embraces you.

You know, you fall, you fall down, whatever, So your

father will you know it's okay, you know. I remember

when I had my first an accident and when the

lorry hit me and I was flung into the drain.

The lorry driver panicked, he got out and he picked

me up, and he was just next to my house.

I was in the days where I say here, took

me home and then I could have died, but again

got spared my life when my father came home. H most,

I think some dads, how are you? How you cross

the road? They more time out there huh spink. And

then I don't know, have to ansella because dizzy and

and like hit by a yeah, hit by a truck,

like you fall in love, you hit by a truck.

This was not falling in love. This was hit by

a lorry. And so we scart to tell that, you know, mom,

you know what this you know? So maybe we don't

have to relate to Father God then, but I want

to say Father God and our Master Jesus will not

say you never see me. I believe you will just

draw us in because we already know we are wrong.

We don't need to be told one hundred times. We

know we have. We were blind. We didn't see. I

didn't I didn't do left right, left right, left right,

and I did start free road, man smart road, and

we come to the Lord. Abide. So for action plan,

I just want to share with you how I abide. Generally,

on a normal day, I'm up by six, and I

get to brush my teeth, and I go off and

I abide. And so I have a space in my

house where I will sit. You do I sit, and

and I abide with Jesus, and I open the Bible,

and I have a follower reading that I do my

own reading. And I sometimes if I'm not reading, I'm

worshiping with my own broken song. Can't sing Brandon Lake's song.

But I'm grateful Jesus, Thank you Lord. Or I declare

a versus some some one hundred trees my everyday verse

I say a hundred times. I'm just declaring God's work

by saying, Lord, I bless a lot of my soul,

all that's within me bless your holy name, Bless the lot,

Oh my soul. I forget not your benefits, who forgives

me of all my iniquities, who heals me of all

my diseases, who redeems my life from destruction. Thank you Lord,

I would have been in destruction, and you crown me

with your loving kindness and tender mercies, and you satisfy

my mouth with good things, so that my youth is

renewed like the eagles. And thank you Lord, Thank you.

I love you, Jesus. Thank you for loving me, for

being so kind and merciful. And I'm abiding. And that's

what I do every day. I don't I don't have,

I haven't begun to pray for any needs. Yet, I'm

just abiding. Sometimes don't say anything either because I've failed.

I'm sad. I'm just quiet. Sometimes I'm just singing any song,

maybe the old songs come out of I remember you know,

I make move for you, do whatever you want to Kila,

Are you want dead spacer all? Jesus? I want my part. Okay,

you know my story of my leg we say, but

so so No, I can't lend my pond to anybody.

So what is God saying to us. We abide, We

come and remain and we stay with him. And this

word is living. He's speaking to us. Give him your time,

abide with him. He is the living word. So that's

how you start your day. All you want to end

your day, all you want to do in the middle anytime.

But I start the day. My abiding is like that.

But I have a very big baby. Now I realize

I can totally understand. Moms. You cannot abide because we

be crying one foot this big baby. I'm gonna help

because can I walk on now? I'm not better ready,

But the last three weeks was tough. Man. Can you wait?

He waits for six to wake up, actually wake out

ready because usually wakes like four or five. So you wait.

The exercise is leg in the dark. Now the cant

already have to go toilet and before that I used

to help. Now he's okay ready, so I can't away

go and you know, do my thing. I attend to

the to the husband first and whatever I need to do,

and then only I go and do my quiet time.

We have to do all the things because last time

is free. You know, anytime I can just run off

to my prayer room. He will be in his pare

room right right now with the extralla to take care

of someone. So moms understand, but carve out time for

yourself and Jesus. Or even when you're feeding your baby,

you sit in the lot. Amen, remain. It's so important

to start with the abiding if you want to be

disciples of Christ. Amen, because he says, then you are

my disciples. See you follow Christ, followed by love one another? Amen. A.

And then el ll love one another. I know that

you know that, But why is it so hard? All right,

Jesus says in John chapter thirteen, verse thirty three, is

it thirty four to thirty five? He says a new commandment.

I give to you that you love one another as

I have loved you, that you also love one another

two times. There By this all will know that you

are my disciples. If you have love for one another

three times. If he said it three times means it's

very important. Are you to love one another? So I

know your askings to love everyone buster kind of, But

it's so hard, Jesus said love. He didn't. You don't

have to like them all the time, had to like

it like you like to spend time with them right,

but not everyone. You like one, but you love you

love by Christ's love. You love to Christ, love, not

your own. Love unconditional. And then you say, but I

not God. You're right. We are not perfect, We are progress,

work in progress. But Jesus already have given us his love.

That's why he said a new commandment. I give to

you love one another. I want to say to us church,

you should, we should practice this in the household of faith.

Bible tells us to love for another in the household

of faith. First, many times, we all want to love

people outside because they know yet no Christ. And then

you despise your brothers and sisters because you know them

too well. I know this your love like dead la Noah,

you caring no. But the Bible says love our brothers

and sisters in the household of faith. Love them. You

may not always like and agree, but Jesus didn't say

like one another. He said love unconditional love. You may

start with filey you love, friendship, love, but God's love

will grow in us. Amen, So love one another. It

is not easy, but three times it's mentioned because it's

important that as people see how you love, they will say, hey,

you are a disciple of Christ. How we love, and

that love means there's forgiveness, that kind of love. It's

not love because I'm so full of love. Peace to

the world, and love world, peace and love the world.

I love the world. No, it's love because I forgive.

I choose to forgive that person who has not said

nice things about me. I choose to love when it's

hard a man. So this love one another begins in

the household of faith. Because we're so close, we will

step on each other's foot. Sure one you thought I

don't respect you. Actually you are so close. I just

forgot the respect. It just come. Love loves They so

rude and so be patient. We have to learn to

love because people are watching your love. How you you

love God's house? How do you love God's people? How

how do you love God's the things that God has

given us? But there's things, right, But you're not to

love things. We have to love people. We use things,

but we love people. Amen, use things. Don't use people

and love things. Oh you, oh you hurt my what brand? Okay? Lord?

You are nor Man? No? Ha, yeah you're not Norman.

It's okay. So the love one another? Amen, then people

will outside will say, oh, there's something different about this

person in your workplace. How do you love difficult colleagues,

bosses that are unkind, that are unkind to you, that

are just just unreasonable. It's hot. We're not saying for injustice,

and I'm just saying that difficult. Then you pray for

God's love so that you continue to stand firm on

God's love and God's abiding word, that you will shine

for the Lord. Amen. And then the A B and

AA L. And then the last one is the B

which is a bare fruit. Bare fruit. Okay, bear much fruit.

Not only bare fruit, much fruit, just barefruit around a

lot on it. Now he must bear much fruit? Okay?

What where does he say? It says in John chapter fifteen,

John chapter fifteen. Jesus says, I am, So let's go

up a little the verse above that, which is verse five.

He says that I am the vine. You are the branches.

He who abides in me and I in him, Ah

bears much fruit. How are you gonna bear much fruit?

You must abide. You cannot bare fruit without abiding. You

have to stay in Jesus. That's why I started with abide.

Now we're ending with the bee bear fruit. Also, he says,

you cannot beare fruit unless you abide. Right, So he

who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit.

For without me you can do nothing. But we don't

have to do nothing. Man, we want to do something,

so we abide. Amen, hallelujah. So then for verse it

says by this, my Father is glorified that you bear

march fruit, so you will be my disciples. Again, I'm

just pointing out the three verses I'm giving to you today.

What does my disciples mean? Then? Liesl these treet points

on me A L B. You got a friend name Albert.

It's half of Albert's name Albert, all right. You got

a friend called Albert's Elbert, all right? So you can

remember what this pass the pree today you think of

your friend Albert half his name is Elbe okay, So

a abide in the Lord. Amen. Love one another, and

not with our own love. Our own love is very little,

but love because Christ has first loved us. And that

love has to do a lot to do with forgiveness.

That's why we can love people we like. There's anyone

can do that. Even our enemies will love the people

they like. But it's to love those who have made

difficulty for us, who have treated us and unjustly. Sometimes

I'm kind to us. How do you? How do you love? Right?

But I cannot love? But I say, okay, I put

on Christ. I put on Christ, and Lord helped me

to love. I may not like this person and have

coffee with them every day, but I just love with

the love of Christ. Christ will enable me to see

the best of that person a man. So the love

then then the bee or to bare fruit. So this

bearing fruit here, it is very important because without abiding

you cannot bear fruit. All right, All the business people here,

or the finance people in the room, or entrepreneurs. When

you when you're when you put an investment, when you

are someone who invests in business, what are you looking for?

And returns on investment are old? I if there is

no returns and after three years to five years, five

years very long? Rely, I think it's three years. Usually

I don't know those people who invest money. I don't

what you call them. There's a name I forgot. So

after a few years, cannot are you? I will pull

back already because losses lost lost, loss loss three five

years cannot have to pull back. Our father has invested

his whole life in us. All he's asking is just

enjoy the good fruit of your life. Oh that's my

daughter's ad. Oh, oh, that's my son Wilson. Oh. You know,

he's looking at the fruit that will come forth from us,

because he put the seed in us that we can

bear fruit. He put his seed in us, and we

are a bie with this vine. Here, Lord, you are

my vine. I am the yes we spoke on Donkami. Okay,

so we we we are abiding. Therefore he expects to

see good fruit. Now, good fruit glorifies him more, our

fathers glorified, and then they will know that you are

my disciples. Amen. So what the fruit you want to want? Lemon, cherry?

You don't have, jerry formegranate, grapes, whatever, throw belly all right?

So the fruit? What fruit? What kind of fruit? I

think we God says he's looking for He's looking for

the fruit. And these fruit have to do without the

fruit of the spirit. Patience. All our lives is filled

with this. Either you're full of love, you're full of

joy a man, you're full of patience, You're full of kindness, meekness, faithfulness,

self control. You know you're feeled. You're bearing this fruit

some but you know some trees all take longer to bare.

Fruit don't grow very long, very long if you want

that fruit very long. So patience is like a durientry. Huh, patience,

I think very long. No, wait, wait, give me patience

the next thing. You know you so, but we still

have to bear it because patience is one of the

virtues of life. We be patient like your moms and

dads always tell the child. Always your moms and dead

tells the patience, boy, patience, I want to eat now. Patient,

Mommy making me all right. Patience is a virtue, and

it's not just a virtue. It's a very character of Christ,

the fruit of the spirit, and we are responsible to

bear that fruit. You can't say I don't want to

be faithful. Unfortunately, it is part of the fruit. It's

not one fruit, one fruit faithful. No, no, it's not fruits.

It's fruit of the spirit. These nine fruits are there,

and it's not just the ninth fruit of the Indus. Fit.

There's so many other things that God is working through

your life to bear fruit, you know, being hardworking, being generous,

being you know, stand for those who cannot speak up

for themselves. All these are fruit that God looks for,

especially if he's given you that gift to do something,

and he's given you a gift and he's empowered you

to do something. You you you bear fruit for the

glory of the lot, he says, to glorify his name.

Bad much fruit, be fruitful, you do one, you bear more?

You can do. Oh, now you can lose this XTV.

Wow that honey, you can play guitar. Oh, bare fruit again. Oh,

I can sing singles every red fruitful, fruit, every fruitful. Huh.

But in order to bear the fruit, you have to

sometimes cannot trim a bit, like anybody who wants more fruit.

You have to trim. Then you get much fruit. We

bear fruit, then more fruit. Trimm then you want more

much fruit. Trim again. Huh. So they say, they say,

did you know? Did you know? If you didn't know.

Malaysia is the second largest producer of palm oil. They

say that the palms from the day you planted it

can go on giving you fruit for twenty five thirty

years on the same ground. That's why it is a

good crop to crow. We all are will live more

than thirty years lost right in our Christian fa because

we not no Christ from Bibima, we will need no

Christ when we become the year's age of understanding. So

will we bear fruit for Jesus into our old age? Well,

apparently some ninety two says yes, we will bear fruit

into our old age? Right? Why? Because God will satisfy

your mouth. Yeah, satisfy you with good things, right, satisfy

your mouth with good things, so that your youth will

be renewed like the eagles. I claim that every day,

so youthful. I carry the energy for each and every

one of you. If you don't have I have, I

give you now all right, no energy? All right, your

for nurse right away, because Jesus gives it to us.

You abide in his word. If you abide in his word,

then the Lord working he's working in us. Amen. Life

life has there's a strength. Not easy. I've had three

I've but a month now just working from home. A yo.

I really like driving my car going to work and

come back every day. And now I have to cook

every day three meals. I've never done that in my

whole thirty years of married life. Never. I only do

one meal. No, I really go. I'm like, all right,

plus do my plus do my studies. How just for me,

just a biler, just just do a Nila and abiding Chrysler,

praise the Lord. I don't as I'm really tired already.

I just I just go because I have to do it.

But I have to draw strength from the Lord. A man.

I have to be busy and I can't cry. Who's

gonna help me? I couldn't do this and I'm the

only one who can do it. Amen. But you abiding Christ? Okay,

I don't tell you something, but I heard this lentence,

and I want to say to you, and please don't

say this. Don't use this when you're going to a

hard time or you're gone through any come out and

then you tell your leader, you tell your friend. I

felt so alone. Of course you are alone. You think

Steven's gonna come next to me or Sharon, don't hold

my hand. No, you'll be praying for me. You are

alone in that time, but you are not alone yourself

because you've got the Master with you. Don't expect the

others are going to come? Who can? Who can? Mommy

is here in the room, Mummy, Mommy, mom Cary is

a new mummy. You feel alone sometime because your baby

crying and only not there to carry the baby. David's

not there. David's carrying the baby. Right, I'm not there

to pray with you. But you feel alone. There is

not the fault of anyone. Don't You said against your

judge and say I felt alone? Bro? You go toilet?

Also aloner? You mean wife, your bambam? Is it? Come on,

don't be silly. Grow up, mature, mature resilience. You will

go through life alone. When I did not pass my

Form six very well, I was alone only I felt

it sometho much racket. But this is where you're abiding in.

Christ tells you I will not leave you nor forsake you. Amen.

You are always surrounded by the presence of God. Do

not expect men to be there. You have a discipler.

If you don't tell, they will know they are not God.

They're not omnipresent. Sorry, I not omnipresent. Sometimes Holy Spirit

will say, call Eliza, okay, hello, Eliza, how are you.

She might just say I'm fine, even though she might

be going to something. It's up to you to tell, right,

and even after you tell, what is my best shot.

I will pray with you now, I will come now,

but I cannot be impacting. Don't say that people. Why

we disciple you. We disciple you to rely on Jesus.

We disciple you to abide in Christ. We disciple you

to experience His love and people will come around you.

But at that moment in time, I cannot fly to you.

You need to abide. You are not with me. Brandon's sisters,

you will sympathize with me. But I'm so sorry to

hear this. Oh you, thank you. I have no ex

used to say. Are you so lonely? Of course I'm alone.

I'm the one going through it. But Jesus is with me,

and I tell your prayers. That's why it wasn't that bad.

At the end. Discipleship addresses those issues with you. Now,

I say, girl, yes, you were alone, but the Lord

did not forsake you. We did not forsake you. We

just couldn't beep there in the flesh, but we were praying.

If we know, discipleship takes you to the next level

of maturity. Imitate me as I imitate Christ. Our teachers.

No one's to be blamed. We cannot go around blaming.

Discipleship tells you, hey, guys, we've got the Lord. First

number one person to go to. Let him be the

first person you complain to. Number two had the leader,

maybe your parents, maybe your husband, maybe your poor child, mama.

You know, that's why we need to have the abiding

We need to experience God's love so that we can

love others, and then we bear fruit, even in the

midst of the storm, even in the pressing, even in

the tough time, you think that your fruit is going

to come out of past the circumstance. Now wreck is born,

there gone ready, Now can a walk? He will have

his own testimony or what God is doing and has

done and has protected. So always giving thanks right, that's

what discipleship does. It teaches us, Amen, why why I

and we this have to end now? Second Corinthians three eighteen.

It's a reminder why, pastor, why is your why is

ex always talking about the discipleship because Church? Look at

that verse, So all of us, this is pastor Paul,

apostle Paul saying, so all of us who have had

that veil removed the veil that blocked the entry into

the Holy of Holies. Jesus went to the cross. On

that day when you say it is finish, the veil

taw and now we all enter into the personal presence

of the Lord direct excess. So the veil removed and

can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And

the Lord, who is the Spirit, makes us more and

more like him as we are changed into His glorious image.

This is the big picture, that we will look more

and more like Jesus, more and more like Jesus. I

tell you very hard to sing one song. You know,

it's called to be like Jesus. To be like Jesus.

All I want is to be like him. Really, I

shy to sing. Gods, I sometimes don't be like Jesus.

So hard. But that's the ultimate goal is to disciple

one another, to be more like Christ. God has given

us the responsibility to disciple, make goal, make disciples, teach

them what I taught. You, do as I do, and

reproduce again. Amen. So we have this saying here in acts.

Ultimately we are to be like Jesus. We are to

do like Jesus and make more like Jesus. Disciple others

to be more like Jesus. But it starts with one person.

It starts with a Paul, then Timothy and Untimothy, to

faithful man, and faithful woman, and faithful man, and women

to other women other men. Amen. Right, it's a cycle,

but it's a fruitful cycle. It's the economy of God. Ultimately,

we are to be like Jesus. Do like what Jesus do,

and make more like Jesus, make others, disciple them into

knowing Christ, and their lives transformed. And therefore I end

us once again with this inundated verse Matthew twenty eight,

nineteen twenty that says, go therefore and make disciples of

all the nations, baptizing them the name of the Father

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching

them to observe everybody, say things that I have commanded you,

and I am with you always, even to the end

of the age. That's you are employed. You have a job. Amen.

All of us are employed, and we all have a job.

Don't feel like on no job. You have a job.

Jesus employed you to go and make disciples of all nations.

In Malaysia, we have the nations at our feet. So

many are coming coming from overseas to study in Malaysia.

Ah praise the Lord. China, Lah, Indonesia, La, I don't

know where else from Africa. Yeah, so many now keep coming,

keep coming. We have a chance to make disciples of

all nations a man. Either we're going or they're at

our doorstep. Don't miss it. Friends, This could be our

brother and sisters. This could be our family members who

don't know Christ. Yet I know they will judge us

the most. We judge ourselves each other. The worst lot.

The worst is we judge each other. But I just

want to say, yet, God says, show love in the

household of faith. First, be kind to one another. Ah,

forgive me if I have not been kind, if I

have not loved you enough, because I didn't know better.

But I'm learning as your sister in Christ, as the

servant of the Lord, as your fellow servant of the Lord.

We can only learn to be better, learn to love.

Might not always like I don't know you, but can

love amen. But we want to abide firstly to start

the love. You have to abide. Then you you embrace

God's love for you, and then you love others. And

as you are abiding, you also bear fruit. Has to

have fruit. Nobody keeps a tree that is fruitless one

unless you just want to shade. A lot of leaves

doesn't mean fruit. Don't you cannot kid yourself. Got a

lot of leaves? What Jesus, Jesus say, I'm not looking

for leaves. I'm looking for fruit. What is the fruit

in your life that you're bearing that will glorify your father?

That's what he says. You are my disciples. Amen. We

can't run away. If I don't talk about discipleship, I'm

not teaching you the full gospel of the Word of God.

They have any things to teach, healing, but also one

topic is discipleship. So don't be upset. Okay, if we

ask you now you're being disciple, decide church, are you

going to be disciples because no discipleship, no fruit, very hard,

nobody's going to correct you. You carry on bearing leaves,

plenty leaves. Where's the fruit? I want to be touched?

Don't touch me. I'm an island. Nobody grows as an island.

God said, no fellowship. That's why the Bible says, don't

stop coming together, even just coming together like this already,

it's very good. We're coming together, we're learning. And then

ask you to serve out, then you serve. Then sometimes

you're not Alama. Forgot this, forgot We tell you. Please, sisters, brother,

can you do this? And you but you learn because

we want to get better. I just want to present

the best until the Lord. Amen, hallelujah. Yeah, we want

to abide. Amen.

We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

information on our church, please visit as Church RG. We

are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

this week is going to be a good week ahead

for you.

God bless