Principle of Leaving | Elder Wong Kien Yiek

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If you have a Bible, would you turn to Hebrews

chapter six. Here we go, I got slights for you.

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All right? Amen?

So Hebrews chapter six, Verse one says, therefore, leaving the

discussion of elementary or principles of Christ, let us go

into perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from

dead works and of faith towards God. Hebrew six reminds

us again about leaving the discussion for elementary principles. I

won't speak firstly about the principles of living. The principles

of living. It's important for us to understand, really there

is a season of time whereby we need to exit

a particular face to enter into a particular face. We

live in a time whereby we exit college enter the

working world from from singlehood to a merit person, right,

and we go to different phases of our lives because

of age and stuff like that. But as believers today,

I want to courage us to really to think about

leaving something behind so we can move forward. Sometimes why

we don't leave is because we think we have a rife.

Think about it.

Sometimes why we don't leave is because we think we

have a rife. You know, it's it's very hard something

to encourage someone which you leave this state of where

you are right now and go on to embrace something new.

And sometimes it's very hard because if you've been in

church for some time already, you realize that there are

a lot of misconception thinking of where we are as believers.

For example, the moment do you remember the day you

accepted Christ and there is an assumption next week when

you come to church, you know to worship, pray, give,

and read the word of the Lord. If you multiply

that by number of years that you believe in the

lot right, our foundation is not popularly late. Our foundation

is not popular late and what happens that we have

this skilled or rather how false foundation we think is

what we think christian is. And that's why sometimes when

we encourage people to serve, when we encourage people to give,

to go for missions, and this state we always come out,

Let me pray about it first. Well, sounds very Christian, friends,

but I've never seen Jesus approaching the disciples. Follow me,

let me pray about it first, serve me. Let me

pray about it first. I have never seen the disciples

having that that that that tech line. But yet in

the modern day Christianity that we have right now, sometimes

why we don't live is because we think that we

have arrived in our particular Christian journey, our particular Christian

faith that we have right now. Have you noticed that

how many of you know that we do have Bible

classes running every Wednesday? Some of you knows that we

don't know, but you know. One of the greatest challenge

running Bible classes is this is that our tendency is

very low. Some classes only got four. Our churches about

maybe about the nine hundred to a thousand, but.

Very low. Four five sakes.

And there are days whereby we have to close some

classes down because nobody signed up. Now, I understand different

people got different schedules and stuff like. So I'm not

knocking on the schedule of people's business, all right, But

I'm asking us to consider a point here whereby how

is our foundation? How is your foundation in Christ? Doesn't

mean that we have four Bibles with different translations that

we are knowledgeable in the world of God.

Right.

There was a story I just heard recently. A famous

author one time went to see a friend and he

was quite surprised that he saw some of his books

on the library shelf and said, wow, I didn't know

that I'm your friend.

I was sorry, you're my friend kind of thing.

But as this in just step off from his office,

he picked up some of his books and he realized

that although the books was on the shelf, it looks

brand new. Then he realized that none of these books

will ever ever open. Sometimes we celebrate the image of

having a nice library, a good library, right.

But the books will never open.

That he decided to write in his book, or rather like,

you know, thank you so much for supporting and stuff like that.

He picked up another book brand new again, and he

started writing, Hey, by then you finished this book called me.

Right, gave his full number.

Right if famous author gave his full number in there,

this author is John Maxwell. He gave his full number

in there. So what happened was that he didn't get

a phone call. He says he did not get a

phone call from his friend. It came the conclusion that

was sometimes it's nice to have the book, but the

book doesn't have any power if it's not open.

So like it's the same with our hearts as well.

If our hearts are not open and we think that

we have arrived, you know, sometimes we think a rife

that we are not open to anything at all, and

that's why it's hard to leave. So the Bible encourages

in he Rules, Chapter sixty sees that living the discussion

of elementary principles. So when was the last time you've

been challenged to leave a certain mindset? When was the

last time you've been engaged to leave a certain place

of comfort? That's why sometimes when we go for missions,

we can't challenge. You are asked to do Cheurist ministry,

But I'm sixty do Churish ministry. Someone could be young,

could you talk to the older gentleman about he's like

my grandfather's age.

When was the last time?

When do you have to be uncomfortable with a different

cuisine that you're not familiar with? And some of us

here this morning, I pray that you go deeper. All

right now, philipp Is ufter Tree was stroussais that not

that I've have already attained all am I ready perfected.

But I press on and I lay hold for that

which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. So

Philippus Tree reminds us again that we have not arrived yet. Amen,

you have not arrived here, so that it's not about

how all you are as a Christian, and no matter

how all we get as a believer, we have not

arrived yet. There's so much more for you and me

to experience God, our God that we serve, is a

God that doesn't have the last page for us to

say this all that you have, Okay, you're only a

tree page manual, a tree page book.

If you go to our history of your journey of friends.

If only you knew I'm writing already, I'm developing a

message right now called are you ready to look for

your donkeys? From first Semuel chapter twelve, Saul went not

to look for his father's donkeys. How many of you

know that in the midst of looking for the donkeys,

God was preparing Saul to be king, and Saul wanted

to give out halfway. He went up and down different

mountains and stuff like that. And this is what Saul

said to the servant, Let's go back home. I think

my parents will be worried about us more than the donkeys. Ready,

But it was the servant that say that here, I

know a man of God in this city.

His name is Samuel.

Let's go and find him, and let's go and ask

of him just.

A bit more.

And Saul had the divine encounter with God. Well, Saul

was looking for the donkey, God was preparing Samuel to

annoying Saul. Many times our lives, why we have not

have a breakthrough, it's because our mindset stop us from

going one step further, and we go that I've done

all this. I went through the mountains to look, I

went through the redings to look. I couldn't find And

Philippin's tree reminds us again that not already attained or

a really perfected and if our mindset thing that oh,

I'm all right.

I'm a believer.

I'm okay, I got no trouble and maybe and that's

why sometimes God was go do something deeper, do something

deeper in our lives so that we can we can

know more of Him. So I pray that this morning

that you open your hearts and really go deeper with

the lot.

I got this.

Message because I was in Osaka about three weeks ago. Now,

for the past two years, friends, I have not applied

for a single leaf.

So I love to work. Work is leave for me,

all right.

My wife say this that if I did day I

stopped working, I took leave, I'll fall sake at home

and and stuff like that. So and the day I

go back to what my wife saying, Oh, you look

so excited to go to work, like you know, it's

like your holiday like that.

I say, yeah, sort of stuff like that.

It's not what I just want it a bit differently.

So pass put me aside and say, hey, you've been

working very hard with this on the school project and

this stuff like that for two years, no break at all.

And sometimes you know, about twelve thirteen hours just to

finish the school project renovation project, and it's good for

you to go for go for a break. Okay, I

know you may not you may thinks you mean you

may not need it. I didn't think I needed a Breaklaba,

but there are sites I could see. Your patient is

running thinner right now? You want answers quicker than not

earlier than not later. Right, You're you're not very approachable

when people take the time to give you and answer

the kind of thing, right, I say, no, passive and

want to do things more efficially.

Ma.

Right you ask ABC, you just perceive the ABC. Don't

tell me all the dramas behind it and stuff like

why you choose A, what you choose B what you

choose see and say, well, if you don't think you

need a break, your wife needs a break.

Your wife needs a break.

And I go like, yeah, she can go on the

holiday on her own, right, No, yeah, past I say, ok,

I was very dangerous to send your wife on the

holiday on her own. She would either come back with

a lot of stakes and your and you find your

money missing or stuff like that. But anyway, so so

pass say why do you visit extra soccer?

And you know and and have a time.

So I was there, right, I was there my very

first time, me and my wife being there. And it

was one of those days whereby you know, the very

first day, so you've been to Japan, you walked a lot, right,

so for the very first time, I mean the first time,

but one of those rare occasions. We clok about twenty

four thousand steps in the day and just I couldn't

feel my legs.

And I was in one of the small little.

Toilets that Japanese quite well known, the smaller what they

call it the bathtop all right, now, it was designed

for the height for their size, okay, I asked passa

Benji there, So how do you squeeze a person like

me into the smaller the bathtup? Where do I put

my legs?

Older? What you do? You squat inside there? You just

squat said that it would be very relaxing.

And I did what he asked me to do, all right,

And I could only last for twenty seconds because my

legs was cramping already. And I was just sitting in

there for a short moment and I was just thinking,

true about some things that went through for the past

two year. Two years so I turned fifty this year,

and what I realized is that you know, although the

age is like, wow, you reach fifty, but I also

do realize a couple of things I noticed. Number one

was this is that the inability to read more than

five pages at a goal, That inability to read more

than five pages or any book or the Bible sometimes

at one goal without reaching out for your handphone or

grabbing a drink or being distracted by anything else. Before

the challenge trends. I thought to myself that here, I remember,

when I was much younger, that reading like twenty page

easy ps not problem at all, just because I could read.

And I think I could open the book and.

Just start reading and just hand for trail out the window,

the kind of put it aside, right, what handful?

Right? Yeah?

And said, so.

We grew up with I have we understand what it

means to having the book just to read?

And we used to.

I used to buy books last time every four the

just pick up a book and read three pages. Couldn't

survive get distructed by so ma anything else. Just because

I could walk, I thought, what, it's twenty four thousand

steps easy, ma, right, just because I could do certain things.

And I realized I had the mindset that I thought

that I've a really arrived that just because that I

could walk, eat and stuff like that, that I'm all right.

Only to realize when I when I go to the test,

when I have to put to the paces, when I

have to climb the stairs in Osaka, I climb down

the stairs with our luggage bag.

I go up to my wife the why did we

choose this country? Again?

It's only when you go to that test you realize

that you have not arrived here. And that's why God

will always give you and I opportunity for us to

understand where we are with our journey. Come on, God

will always give you an opportunity. Friends, It's not easy

to serve in a group. It's never easy. So I

told you earlier. Working on a music production album, do

you know that it's so much easier to produce a

single language album?

Easy, super easy because everyone speak the same language.

But when I start sharing people we are working on

three different languages on one album.

They say, Elder, you're crazier. I say yeah.

And the worst part of it is these friends. I

got another to other brothers with me on this project.

Passa Jack and passa Joe, right, passa Jack is Albert's brother,

and pass Joe is in Melbourne. One guy who's not here,

but I'm on call with him for one hour a

day sometimes just to talk to a bad album.

This to a.

Musically inclined they know about music and stuff like I'm

here chapioning a project.

I do not know anything about music. I don't know

what key is. People. Are you guys playing just now?

So if you have a perfect hearing one, friends, please

don't stand beside me, because I will make sure when

I sing friends, you'll be so distracted. One time is

so next to a person with a perfect carrying one?

She said, Olderkay, you're not saying.

Can you not sing? Because I want to worship God?

I just I just can't lift up my hands because

I don't Your tone is flat. Your I don't know.

I can't say very distracted. So can you stand further

away or something that I understand what she says. Again,

my wife does that to me as well. I can't

clap in the same beat right, And I asked God,

I asked past the Passa, why you asked me to

champion the project? Because I'm not Passa. Daniels is the

better person. He can put things together, understand music and

if someone played the wrong kick can contribute.

All I know about.

Music is I got to put up Apple Music, Spotify

and try to find the kind of thing.

Right.

I know about the marketing expect right, not the music

expect The said this to me, God wanted this project,

and I know that your but you're the right person

to pull this together to pushing forward. So as I

began to have discussion with the group friends, the English

wanted a bit more experimenter, a bit more pop.

Radio friendly. I don't know what that's that that means? Right?

Then the bhasa one. First they want to do a

live take, a live version. Then the men don't want

the clarity. They wanted to sound like every other variety show,

like that clear workers, keyboard guitar, the worker is the

selling point, like wow, three different demands. It's like, can

I send the dice on you all? Like you know

all this one style out right? Cannot because reaching different group,

different group, friends, different group. And I explained these people

there was there was an assistant engineer. They say, how

don't want to give up?

Do you know that?

Before I could start the world, people are coming coming

to my table by by side. They're telling me what

to do one not to do. And I explained to

the individual. I said, as much as you don't like

to work with this person, God has allowed it. God

has allowed it for your maturity sake. God has allowed

things in our life for your surity.

Sick.

I don't like the word passa Daniel, but God has

allowed it, friends, for your maturity sake, so that you

and I could develop even further. The capacity grows even bigger.

If we want with people that we like to work with, friends,

you will never grow, we will never go. We know,

even know, we don't even know how to work with

one another. I explain that it's not so much we

are developing songs for the album, but the album is

what God uses to develop us, so that it reminds

us again, friends, that we are not perfected yet.

There's so much more to learn. It's so easy. Friends. Sometimes,

I guess they must like, yeah, I don't like the world.

We're elder.

I said, why, yeah, because you're not friendly, not approachable.

Every time I asked you, it's always black and white one.

I say, so easy man, you ask me, might give

you a black and white A. I see things that

I mean, I see things that way. I understand why

people trying to tell me like not approachable, rite, no

room for negotiation and this stuff like that. I could

like and passa have to sit down with me. Can

you just give a bit more time and room for

negotiation hear people out before we just say no that

you're close to don't move on to the next topic.

It's very easy.

You know, you're very comfortable with that because you're in

the element. You make decisions very quickly. You're very comfident

with that. And can you hear people out or not?

They're bringing up there they are frustration to me, pass

the say and I'm less letting you the frustration at

the point of time. And I heard them from past,

I read like, oh, these people are too much. These

people too much. First thing, they want to talk about

their frustration, about my frustration. I want you to think about.

I'm sharing you candidly because I want you to remember

these messagements. It's not that I really arrived. Doesn't mean

I really arrived. God had so much more. All these

people are easy frustration. Now, don't like pasidentiel Then you

go and see persidsidento the day I talked to persidentiel Or.

He never sparre me every time he takes the microphone.

Now he wants to school people like one Persida when

you're coming to speak again.

It's very easy to bring up frustration. It's not wrong.

You can bring it up, friends, but I want you

to just take one step further, Just take one step back,

and just see what God is doing. God uses different

people friends to remind us, to remind you. That's so

much more. I sat down with this brother first day.

I say, brother, I'm so sorry if I have not

give you a listening year.

If I was still create my decision.

I decided certain things without fully understanding your needs.

Please forgive me. I went with that approach.

I went with that approach because I knew that that's

not just the album friends, it's the people I work with.

At the end of day. God wants me.

To develop, wants me to grow up, wants me to

be uncomfortable, wants me to have another dimension. So friends,

it's not just about living friends, but it's about living, right,

come on, it's not just about living the next like

next TV see they fell a sleeper, So sorry borrowing message.

I understand, right, it's not just about leaving somebody. We

can live frustrated on your friends, you know what I mean.

I don't know what with you are, So you can

live frustrated, to live angry, you know forever cut ties

to you.

Let's see it.

All living right, living right, You exit properly, You exit properly. Friends,

earlier days of Asia, if you ever flew Asia before

this march, earlier days, the first couple of years, I

remember that even before the plane, about the lad before

start standing up ready right, just want to rush out

through the door. I remember there was a time, I

think the second of second or that you're doing operation.

We couldn't book seats back then, all right, so we

have to cure at the gate.

One.

I remember the mom telling that. I saw mom telling

that her son. All right, the kids going to open

the key right now. You slowly woke your way up

to the first of the light, and you're rushy that

don't no need to kill one, no need to kill

just right, push your way to after all your this ise.

Nobody's going to s actually line, not one.

Friends, It's not just about leaving frustrated, angry, you know

them too many people are just living the exit a

certain stage of the life, angry, frustrated, but God always

reminded us to exit right, to do things right. If

you have a book that doesn't belong to you, return it, so.

We'll always your book.

Okay, please return it back to her. Otherwise she s

here a collection. There's a missing book there. If you

have something that doesn't belong to you, return it because

God wants to bless you, but it can't bless you.

But our heart and our spirit is not in the

right place. And many times in our life. First what

happened is this that just because we can justify our experience,

our our emo doesn't mean we are right, doesn't mean

we are right. And the law wants to remind us

this morning. It's not just about living. Oh yeah, principle.

I taught me about principal leaving.

So I leave the.

It's just like you after homes. When you exit the homes,

ask is there anything I can do or not help

the homeowner to troil, to take out the trash, check

out the toilet, make sure it's flash properly, there's no

yellow stains everywhere.

So recently I was in the Salah South homes.

And you know the host is very very kind, prepare,

prepare a lot of full of friends. Anyway, towards the end,

when we finish our homes, we will always ask like, hey,

is there anything we could do or not?

And she said, please help.

Me top out the food because I don't eat it

for tomorrow. And we always packed the food up, giving

the different students that they came along away.

I say, is there a treasure to take out or not?

I have seen people after the consumer after finish homes,

good bye, I see your next homes. Nothing wrong with that. Friends,

you can just exit that way. Nothing wrong with that,

but one step even better? Is there anything I can

do or not? I share with you before I go

and share with you again. I've knowed somebody who attended

homes you started never flash one, not small but big

one until the person who attended the home or then

the home went to the toddy one of you never

flushed out and the.

Person in the world do you know what I mean?

Not you can.

It's not just about leaving friends, about living right, Come on,

and some of you need to be reminded gain friends

that Oh I left my previous way because I was angry.

I was frustrated.

Deal with it first, right, because you're going to carry

the same frustration and anger into your new place. That

was when I was much younger, I had a problem

with one of our pastors in our church. Couldn't say,

I to a lot of things and stuff like that,

and I what should I do? What should I do?

Because really I try my best. I thought I tried

my best and said what should I do? I just

couldn't say eye to I? I felt like, okay, if

it's in this service, I go NASA much.

I'm okay.

I have to say this because you thought that this

is the reason passes ever have know this when we

are two years old, four years old as a church

could pass can just give me a very good advice? Can?

I just want to let you know, okay, if you

cannot handle this individual, If you cannot handle this individual,

if you choose to go to a different service or

want him to talk to him, ignore him everything.

God loves this too much. Leave you alone.

It's either he'll bring you a clique that's like that

or a wife that's like that, because he wants you

to grow. He wants you to grow. Passive reminds me

and from that day. Onwards, I told myself, I'm going

to try my very best because I do want to

marry the cow person. I do not want to marry

the corol person. Which area that woke out? You sleep

in this way? I sleep another bit. No, God knows, friends,

God understand, He knows, all right. Second thing that I want,

just let you know, friends, Jenny Si scept the team

verse five to seven the story of Abraham and Lord,

So Lord also when Abraham had flocks and herds and tens,

Now the level was not able to was not able

to support them, and they were they might, they might

draw together, for their possession were so great that could

not dwell together. This is a situation, a lot of Abraham,

two great men, so much stuff. This uncle and nephew

begin to come to a place whereby the land is

too small. Being a younger person, you say you're.

The old one. You you, you choose, You make your choice.

Word severe say that there was strife between the hurt

smell of abraham livestock and hurt smell of lot livestock.

Strife begins to happen. Strife begins to happen. Sometimes things

happen in our life and the Lord once reminds us

again and to see the world of the next to

the next light. So Abram said to Lord, please let

that be no strife between you and me. Please let

that be no strife between you and me. And this

is how I'm going to close on this principle, the

principle of being right. It is what Abram did. Please

let there be no strife between you and me. Unity

is more important than anything else. Many times you just

want our weigh my way, my thoughts, my preference, the

people that I like to work with, the set that

I like. You know, I understand in church that people

you got your favorite seat, You got your favorite seat.

If someone sit in your seat, really you go like

you give the depths there, I understand.

I've been in just long enough. Really, but letting be

no strive.

The Bible here is is between your hurts men and

my hurts man, because unity, pleasing God is more important

than anything else. As I close, and this, I'm gonna

challenge you. I actually got three points on. If I'm good,

then I get vited again. Now for point two entry.

All right, sorry, have you ever been the place whereby

you allow your preference to stop you this is that

you must understand this story I've heard. I've seen this

situation player in so many times in church. It's not

me who's causing the strife, but my the on line

is causing the strife. I'm okay with. But as a

person that's been put to lead, you have to make

a choice. So if you're leading your own life, you

have to make a choice today. Friends, do we have

a mindset that we have a really a rife or

there's so much more that God wants to do. However,

with this test, save it for the next point. So

this year is my fifth year after I did my stent,

So I have to go from a city scan on

my heart again just to check whether the first operation,

how how what was the condition like on my first stent?

So I was prepared, all right. I was nervous, but

yet prepared because for the past five years I've been dilegioned,

delegient with my diet. Ten salary sticks sometimes for breakfast.

Ten salery sticks, Okay, not salary right as in money, right,

ten green sticks. Right, salary sticks for breakfast. Blend it

be water and just drink it. Amen, hallelujah, taste very good.

I want to let you know, right, couldn't find salary

something is bit root. Just blend the bit root with

water and just drink it right, very good. After you

eat that first, I guarantee you can get empty anytime.

But because you put it's all right color you tell

a doctor and just put your color.

I got show why by can you give me emty

the rest or? I just kidding.

So I was very diligion for religion, okay, cutting down

on my favorite roast park and trust you and this

stuff like that, cut down all right, follow my wife diet.

My wife is very very very strict with her diet,

very strict. Right any any any portion of fact she'll

cut out, including if you serve yu a five meat

and stuff like that. A for meat, she cut out

the fat from the yu. I just see you colorut

the fed that's nothing to eat the video anyway. That's

what she did in Japan as well. So very very

diligion okay, I mean all right, oats every other day

and you understand that, okay, and supplements and stuff like that.

So I thought, okay, I'm going to go in for this,

can come out victorious, come out with a testimony. Just

waiting for the doctor to say that well done, my

good and faithful patient, You've been dilegient, You've kept your

diet streak, and just stuff like I wanted to hear that,

because come on, who doesn't want right Anyway, I went

in for the scan and I know I've been because

this my second time.

I can't know the drew a ready.

Friends, if they do your if your results do whatever issue,

they won't call you into the room one the scanning room.

The moment it be so o heay coming into the

scanning room. For a while, I knew, right, I was hoping, okay,

fifty to fifty. I was hoping that so I couldn't

find even no more, really no, God has something that

I'm also hoping to hear America testimony that the more

stands I couldn't find the sandymore looks like it just

grover the natural, the kind of thing don't have.

Four friends don't have.

All I heard was the first time we did on

your fantastic very condition, just like we put it yesterday.

I said, Hallelujah. However, I'm like, there was this one

party here. We're not very sure. There was a massive

narrowing My heart just sang, all those months and years

are taking salary in the morning. Come on, so if

you pay the price, man, you pay the price for

doing so many things I think, come on, none of

us enjoy you think.

Robby in the morning one. It's not my favorite thing.

But I just I just do work at the do

with our friend. There one part that's narrowing and looks

quite bad. We might need to do and understand on you,

my heart sank. I was so disappointed. I went look

at my salary, saying, you guys are rubbishler from the

Trump today almost e KFC. I just enjoyed myself the

kind of thing Rose pot here. I can't forget about you,

all right, this is the most Rose, the most organtic

old friends that truma not since all right, friends orgaining.

Or anyway stuff like that.

So I want you to come in for an angelgram

to for us to investigate further, my heart sang. And

I told Passe about it, I told my wife about it.

I go like, oh no, another go through the whole

view again and then what did I do wrong with?

Like which part of the fact that I add its cover?

You analyze everything because you want to put which occasion

you've messed up. I thought I really arrived, good clean

bill of health and stuff like that, because every other

couple of months I do go go for my blood

tests and just to make sure I'm on the right path,

right path. Cholesterol level pretty good, LDL pretty good, one

point eight, two highs of two point four, the kind.

Of thing never touched for one, medication supplements all the

way got new. I was afraid.

I went in for the for the androgram. I was

lying down there. What really doesn't help is that you

know when the doctors are operating on you, right, you

heard you heard the doctor just say, nurve faster, please faster,

and you're operating on you. Talk what happened all the

operation operation table?

Right?

He went in there checked to say, mister one, let

you know all right, it's indeed there's a narrowing on

your vessel because I think your vessler has lightning has decreased,

therefore causing causing the vesser to be inflame a bit

and causing there's a narrowing or passage there. But we

won't do anything, all right. Let you be for won't

do anything. And you just wanted to your diet. If

you have chest, pay, come look for me. I want

to tell you if I got chest, peare my diary. Y.

I was in the hospital by just thinking true everything

that has happened. Did I like like what the Bible

says that wash my hands in rain? I have done everything?

Follow everything? Did I do everything?

You mean? Right? All the supplements you paid for? Right?

You consume everything that you could fight anything that said

lower collection, you just go and take you understand? And

Lord just reminded me it's not that you're already a rivee.

And just because the result comes up this way doesn't

mean that you're on the wrong path. Come on, just

because the result come out this way doesn't mean your

wrown path. Just because you're serving in church and you

get disagreement you couldn't want with one brother, doesn't mean

that you're wrong path in terms of you about the mission,

about that mission because it's too hard not working. But

you never know what God is trying to do. He

wants to bring you deeper, work deeper so you can

exit right. I left the hospital after an over night stay,

and I told my wife this, I'm going to be

even more disciplined. I can be more and more discipline.

I got set things right. I'm superraying for America, but

I got to set things right because it's not just

about living fast or living And I could have left

the hospital frustrated. I'm telling you five years of eating

salary for breakfast, frustrated, I have to give up nail

amount friends for breakfast.

You think about it.

I put clary stick in front of you about who

wins nast amount, show me one samba and beat real

both riklos, about who weeds come out? Who weeds, of

course wins friends. As I close, I wanted the challenges

you right now. It is that don't abort the progress

that God has started just because you started well and

you find disagreement a bit. You started all right, just

because you got conflict a bit, we avoid God do

something deeper so that we can mature and let us

go on to perfection. First, if you understand about the

word perfection, it's not that you're starting off something of

perfection means you're you're doing minor tweaks, small little changes

to get it right, small.

Little changes to get it right.

One of the things I learned in Osaka was just

this that I've been reminded again that I have allowed

myself to come to a place whereby I cannot even

pick up a book to read because the film was

was more.

Addictive.

It's easier to look at pictures and videos than texts.

I've allowed myself. I begin to consume a different and

the Lord just begin to remind me, remind me. My

wife say, huh threty four, this step you cat pain udia,

Who so weak are you?

And what doesn't help? They have to see on the floor. Friends. First,

I sat on the floor in the Japanese Tami. Friends.

After thirty seconds, my lick cramp. You can all sit

on the floor, man, so easy. Ma, My wife does

stretching every other night, friends, so she's very flexible.

I don't do. She stretched my patience a bit.

That's that's all I can just say, right, I may

stretched on the other and the other aspect, okay. As

I close, friends close, and and she just reminds me

of gain. You got to walk properly, going on to

perfection like no time to go to the second point

with your just a deposit perfectionists tweaking the smaller details.

She said, you're not walking properly. That's why. That's why,

that's why you're having back aches. Your leg is in pain,

your master is in pain. You're walking with your head forward.

First.

I don't know about you guys, but you have your

life partner beside you every other time telling you that

stands straight, your your net, your years supposed to be

in linement with your shoulder right. Every once in a while,

she would just break my shoulder. Put it straight a bit.

Your shoulder is bending forward. Right. I want to eat.

I want to eat my parks. You say, make sure

the fact is not there. Okay, make sure the fact

is not there.

Right.

If we eat KFC with her first, please, if we

eat CAFC her you enjoy it. She'll take out the skin.

She put the skin aside to scrap up everything that's

yellow colored like looks at fat. She ordered rights. You

only take like two tablespoon and the rest you believe.

If fitting to the clicks as I close, friends, as

I close, I get to close right now, then many

times I could be angry.

Stop telling you what to do. I can walk. I'm

an adult because we can get the point in the

point beamer.

Just because you can get from point A to point

B doesn't mean we're walking right. Come on, just because

we're attentions we understand a bit about God doesn't mean

our theology, even our foundation is even right.

What how how does it get right? Is when we.

Allow ourselves to go through a process of discipleship or

hard the system, then we understand, Hey, maybe it can

go deeper if you, if you ask us as I close,

if you, if we were given a choice, we'll go like,

maybe maybe missions is not for me too hard? Six

hours car right to unknown place, go Indonesia. This is

why would they serve you?

You eat?

Sometimes it could be cold and you're so used to

hot food, different cuisine, not used to it.

Given the choice, you won't.

And it's like sometimes we live a Christian life like

how we and what we and we just want we

eat for lunch or this place is not good and

we don't do that.

Friends are close, don't do that? Allow God to work deeper.

Came back from the trip, friends, I just been reminded

again and again get the fundamentals correct, re learn how

to work again.

So I'm seeing a phaesio for my back. I am,

I am.

I had a very bad master pain, not because of

the trip for the longest time.

Already my wife.

Keep telling you, no matter how many phases you go

and see, it's the same problem I've been telling you.

You're not stretching in the morning. You're not stretching in

the evening. You're not walking properly. You're using your hit

to walk. They miss leaning forward when you're walking right.

You're not standing straight, carrying to haavy stuff. You can

lose some belly fat. Always a very good advice. But

if I will get angry, stop telling me what to do.

Don't don't don't tell me I can walk, I know

to eat. I'm all right. Come on, it's only one

roast chicken nanima once a week. It's only one piece

of serial onima every other day. It's like close friends.

When was the last time we are bought it? As

I asked extreme to come on the stage? When was

the last time you got so angry you exhibited right fast,

frustrated you bought the process? The Bible says, let us

leave the elementary discussion and go on to perfection perfections

about twocking, the the small tod details to get it right.

You're already doing it right, but it can we can

get better as a close friend. When was the last

time you'd be challenged, should be challenged? Go deeper, not

so much study the word deeper fast. There's too many Christians.

We study the words so deep threads. They're not willing

to help, not willing to serve, not willing to go.

When was the last time we said, God, would you

work in our hearts?

Some of you are frustrated with one another in church.

You are don't understand why these brothers like that, why

the sisters like that?

And we allow that to hijack us.

Come on, we allowed the frustration to hijack us, to

bring us to a place whereby we never got, never

want wanted us to go in the first place.

And this wanting the Lord want to set you free,

set you free.

So before I ask you to stand, we just take

the next day seconds really just to.

Be in the bathtup situation.

You can't go anywhere, but just allow yourself just to think,

how did I get here? How come I'm so easily triggered,

how come I'm so easily frustd?

How come I'm not excited for the things of God?

How come? Since where my Christian faith? Since where my

Christian faith.

It's shallow since where my Christian faith it's only Sunday.

God wants to move us out, move us out from

being comfortable to the uncomfortable. I got so many stories

to share with you all, but I don't want to

leave you with today the principles of living and living right.

Don't exit frustrated, don't get angry. Be like Abraham. Don't

be like Lot. Lot allow his hurtsman to guide him.

But Abraham said, look, unity is more important. You choose

the best of Lene. I'll choose the other side because

I know you have. You got this hurt man. They

might get angry. You choose and I'll go the other way.

Let's tand right now I want to close in prayer.

I want the other time not shure where you are

with your journey. But I want to encourage you. Really,

I rey want to encourage you. Want to go deeper

with a lot this year. Don't end the year, friends,

don't end this year. I'm only you, I know, But

don't end the year by just saying like no to this,

no to that. But with the things of God, with

the things of God, go deeper, Go deeper. If I'm

angry with someone in this church. Frustrated, maybe you don't

like the leadership of the church. Say God, would you

help me? Would you help me Lord, because I got

to overcome this, because it's not about the leadership or

not the people, but our hearts.

Amen.

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