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I am tied it. Let's kop come on, let's keep

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But I am not doing no K pop for you today.

Let's KP pop okay, because that's just like my tofu.

This is just to help you remember the points. Amen, hallelujah,

Let's K pop okay. And so I have a question

for let's keep up okay. Am I gonna share who

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people except for bts but not got new benzod, no

new names. Yeah, you don't know who. So I cannot

tell you about the K pop people, but I want

to tell you about somebody else. Amen, let's keep up.

So a question for us? This is a good this

is a good reminder message. I feel my role all

the time is to remind the believers, like Paul, to

remind the believers, are remind you and just want to

build our faith to go deeper and grow stronger and

in my time without tofu, but be tough, tough, top tofus,

top tofus, Okay, All right, I have a question. Are

you constantly looking behind? Are you constantly looking behind? All right?

That's my snake slight? Please? Are you constantly looking behind

as you are moving in life? Do you look behind

all the time? Look behind all the time. You can't

have that guid, it's not yours? Okay, he girls, forget it.

I don't know who is he anyway? Are you constantly

looking behind as you move in your life? Or are

you pressing forward? Are you pressing forward? Going forward? Right?

Like these guys? Are you pressing forward as you and

I journey to this life? Amen? And that's the question

I want us to think about, because sometimes we say

we're okay, but actually you're looking at life, looking backwards

all the time, looking behind you all that, and then

it's hard to move forward. It's hard. So you stay,

you stand it and say I'm okay, but actually you're

not okay because you're constantly looking behind you? Or are

you pressing forward despite what's behind you? That your past

seems to want to catch up with you? But you

press forward? So that's our message today, And we're taking

this from Philippians chapter three and reading from verse ten

to fourteen. Amen. So if you've got your bibles. Turn

to Philippians chapter three, verse ten to fourteen, and I'm

reading it today from NLT New Living Translation. Amen. Okay,

so breaking down the English a little bit today. So

Philippians chapter three, verse ten to fourteen, are you ready

to urch are you with us? Amen? Here we go.

I read for you. Huh. I'm reading from New Living

Translation today, it says. Paul writes. Paul writes apostle Paul,

Saint Paul. I want to know Christ and experience the

mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want

to suffer with him, sharing in his death, so that

one way or another I will experience the resurrection from

the dead verse twelve. I don't mean to say that

I have already achieved these things, or that I've already

reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection

for which Christ first possessed me. Amen. And then Paul says, no,

dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it. But

I focus on this one thing forgetting the past and

looking forward to what lies ahead. I press on to

reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly

prize for which God, through Christ Jesus is calling us

amen to the reading of God's word. Shot a few verses,

and this is Philippians. Now you could read the whole background,

the whole chapter, but I'm pulling out this with and

our reference back and forth. Paul wrote this letter to

the church in Philippi at the time when he was

in prison. It was time of suffering. And yet the

Book of Philippians, you see, it ends with telling the

believers rejoice, and again I say rejoice, and again I

say rejoice, rejoice, while having chains both on his feet,

probably in the deepest of darkest dungeon. I don't know

Paul was in prison, but he tells all of us

to rejoice. He's telling the church in Philippi rejoice. Despite

all that he was going through, he kept encouraging the church. Amen.

And so you know he says in this whole verse

from the ten to fourteen, he speaks about what he

you know, even his own faith is doing that same thing.

And that's why he says, I want to know Christ

and to experience the mighty power that raised him from

the dead, and I want to suffer with him, sharing

with his death. So I'm gonna go through these verses

and that these were gonna be my K pop and

and so the first point I am taking from the

verse uh is the first verse ten, which says I

want to know Christ. I wanna know you more. I

wanna know you more. Amen. We sang that at homes

I want to know Christ. Paul says, you know, and

that's our first k That's where the K pop comes from. Now,

when Paul writes this whole scenario, he's taking it from

an athletic background. CG. You're you know, you're in sports.

There's so much running involved, right, And Paul is taking

this whole, this whole a teaching and lesson through a

spotting background, the athletic kind of scenario. But it starts

with him saying I want to know God. I want

to know God. Right, is there a deep desire for us,

a deep desire to pursue Christ Church to actually say

I want to know Christ, I want to know God,

I want to know you more. Hunger And thus I

asked myself this question, do I hunger? And thus these

are real? These are you know, illustrations of words that

describe our desire for the Lord. And Paul says, I

want to know. I want to know Christ. Do you

want to know Christ? So he says in this verse,

I want to know Christ, and I want to experience

the mighty power or the resurrection power. Amen, because the

same power it was the power of Christ, the power

of God that raised Christ from the dead. Then he says,

I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death.

We just saying I want to suffer. Right the song

just now right share and is suffering? Wow, how many

believers in Christ will say that? So that one way

or another, he says, I will experience the resurrection from

the dead. So, the beloved of the Lord, as you

sit here, if you want to go deeper, we have milk,

but we need to have meat, and I'm gonna throw

you some steak today. Okay, you want some cap pop? Yes,

you go. The key is to know God. So the

to know God really is our highest goal. If you

sit down, think about it. Okay, I don't mean to

call you by name, but Rogers, you've taken another step

of your level of faith to know God. How God

has come through for you a little bit more. You

don't know everything, but become a little bit more closer.

Or this is the God This is not only God,

He is my father. He provides on the eighth of May,

if number of new beginnings come on. You want to

know Christ not only in the power, but also in

the suffering. It's a tough time first, then to go

through with your dad in your own journey of faith.

That is your suffering. Because it is not easy to

take care of a patient or a parent who has

lost his mind already. It is a suffering. How do

you do that? How do you handle that most of

us one day will have to take care of our parents.

You cannot run away from it. It feels like a suffering.

It feels. But see Paul is saying, I don't just

want I I want to experience the power, but I

also want to experience the suffering in order that I

may know God. Amen. So if you remember my to

ful series or just a story, it was about resilience,

isn't it. This is where we have to be resilient

in times. I need to know God so that I

am stable in Him. Amen. So our ultimate priority is

to really know God. Amen. Is to know God? Is that?

Your priority is to know God on your everyday life.

I want to know God, Oh, your highest priority is

to you know, to know someone else, to know our

you know, topic of the topic that you're studying, the

topic or whatever, your you know, your work. But is

your highest priority is it to know God? Because we

want to know Christ more. We want to know Christ

better so that you and I can be like him. Ultimately,

this is this whole thing about disciple ship, is that

we might know God so that we can be more

like him. To know Christ and to be more like him,

to be like Jesus, to be like Jesus. All I

want is to be like him. Wow hard to sing

that song because I'm not like Jesus. And that's why

a lot of believers I don't even want to use

the word Christian. I want to say, believers, if you

are a believing, a follow up Christ. We will find

his shy to say, follow Mila as I follow Christ.

Paul was so brave to say it. Was he perfect? No,

he was a man. I think he was also a

high deep person. Right. He wanted things done and done now,

so he wouldn't put out with John Mount you left

us you bye bye? Right, But Barnabus probably was a

high s or a I ain never compassion comes out non.

He's like the painholer. Yeah. Between me and I'm an eye.

He's eye, but very compassionate. Never my life, I say no, no, no,

mean no. Are we perfect? We have all our personalities,

but we don't live by personalities. We live by character,

the character of Christ. I can be this, you can

be that. It doesn't matter. Paul had his thing. I

think he will lose his temper if you've laughed at him,

will slap you. All right, he was quacky one of

the things done this way. That's our personality. But our

character is a character of Christ. That's what he's asking

you to follow, not his personality, his character. And you'll

see that at the end of this versus later. I

want to know Christ because as I know Christ, I

will be like him. So my encouragement to us is

for us to desire to pursue Christ. Amen, Judge, whatever

you're pursuing. Were just saying, we can gain the whole world,

and we lose our soul. We've lost it all you think,

taking to the grave, all your goal and silver. I'm sorry.

Your child will inherit it. I hope your child will

inherit it. We build for our next generation. That's fine,

we cannot take anything, but what we will have, as

we will read later, is Christ and eternal life. Amen.

So the person is giving us eternal life, that is

whom we should know more and more, more and more

so that as you know Christ, you know how he works.

When you know Christ, you know how God loves you.

You won't go with like that. God's gonna hit me.

I just did the wrong thing. Oh I sin, No,

I failed. God's gonna hit me. No, He's not like

that kind of a Papa God, Daddy. God, He's not

like that at all. He is so generous, patient, like

a zillion times patient, not even one hundred and one

times a zillion times patient, with the whole generation of

mankind his creation. God does not take us down to Chinatown. Yes,

I told this in another service, and I said, why

do we pob We say take us down to Chinatown,

And my friend was sitting, so we say, you're the

lady behind it, because there's tofu in Chinatown. God is

that kind of a God, a father who is beyond

our earthly father, which we will never understand. And sometimes

we look at our earthly fathers and see lack. But

God is a limitless unlacking God his fullness. Amen. So

that's for therefore we want to know Christ. We want

to experience God's resurrection power. But even then, Church, you

don't even go close enough to experience his power. You

suck it. You don't pray for healing first. You go

and see I'm not wrong to go see doctor. All,

go see doctor, But you not pray first. When you

have a circumstances in your life. Do you seek God first?

Because you know He is the ultimate He is the

ultimate answer for you already and Dan, he will direct

a path to which doctor to go right, not simply

any doctor. Love, Let's go to the right one it

will help us, or to that person, or to that company,

or to death, whoever, what is right? I want to

know Christ. Have you even experienced the power of God?

Come on, judge the power of God, the power of

Christ to heal you, to open doors for you to

see him, give your new beginnings. Amen to God. I'm

saying I really want to move in the gifts when

a minister to people, I don't want to be lifeless

and powerless and do ministry for what It's not just

for me, for each and every one of us, us

in our workplace. When someone tells you they're not well, you,

I hope we have the brave heart, the brave heart,

mel Gibson, brave heart, and say, can I pray for you?

Can I tell you how Jesus heal me? But you

both tell because you boer right, You're not there. You're

not there with Christ. You're seeing all right? You you

when you don't experience, you only theory. But we want

from the head to the heart. We cannot give theory.

But then allah believe I say, I need no theory.

I better not saying thing. Come on, let's move from

theory to practical, right and on you you don't know.

I know Christ, but I don't really know. If you provide,

then pursue him, then pursue him. When you next get

a headache, pray first and test whether the headache will go.

Pray one more time now, Rynod, Rynod, can first time

you met Emilia? First time she said yes to human? Yes,

I don't know. I don't know. Okay, you try again? Right? Ah,

we have you have to do more than one time? Right,

But I want to know you more? How can I

know Christ more? Number one? The king in my pop

to know Christ, to know Christ, to come deeper, to

to to experience both the resurrection power, and of course

we're talking about there's so much suffering. Hey, Jesus suffered

for us too. So when he went to the cross,

everyone thought this is a loser. He talked about, you know, raising,

healing the sake, da da da he could you know,

uh in three days time resurrect They couldn't see it.

The followers or his followers were like, isn't he the

king was gonna, you know, get give us back the kingdom,

the Great Grand Kingdom that David and King Solomon head.

They lost faith, they probably regretted following this man. Many

walked away on that faithful day, faithful day, not faithful,

but faithful day. There was Jesus suffering also, He also

suffered while he walk people. Not everybody likes him. You

think everybody likes liked him? Now, so if nobody not

everybody likes you, it's okay. You say I'm like Jesus. Okay,

not everyone likes you. Then you say I'm following Jesus,

I'm like my lord. Amen. All right, Yeah, So if

you know we want everyone that like us, all of

us want somebody like us, not desirable. Oh yes, Jesus

did not look like Charu Khan.

Yah.

Yeah, he didn't look like some French Francois. You know,

he looked like his common guide and nobody could recognize.

I don't know if you and I met Jesus where

we even passed him by right, because he looked like

nobody exceptional. Maybe I have some exceptional looks, maybe you know,

maybe you know mix blood. But God brought a very

common body to hold, to carry his son. Jesus offered love.

He's canalla his own. People say, no, I don't know

what this willow gopned the son? Do? You and I?

As we mature in our faith, my encouragement is experience

the power and continue to experience the power and let

the power God flow through you because Holy spirits filled you.

There's power to share the gospel, to heal the sick,

to do your work, to have wisdom, to be able

to do amazingly well. God gives you power to make wealth.

All of that, but also when you go through the

tough times, if you've never experienced failure. We're talking to

a doctor yesterday and the boyfriend said she's never failed before,

so she has no clue what it means to fail.

She's like laughing, haha, it's brilliant student, top student. Right,

but when you fail, Wow, you understand the other person

who fails. It's not bad to fail. It just means

your next step is success. It does when you don't

keep looking at the failure, Amen, and you get better.

So there is suffering. But would you want to know

dwelling a bit longer? Because the foundation is to know Christ.

To know Christ at any stage of our lives, whether

we are younger, older, there's no old, and there's no young,

there's just younger and older. Yay okay, Amen, right, and

Christ wants to build this relationship with us. Amen, So

to know Christ, as Paul says, I want to know

Christ so that I can be like Christ. I can

be more like Jesus a man to grow to mature

were in our personal growth. Paul was all about encouraging

everyone to grow in their personal growth. This is our

desire to see each and every one of you grow

in your personal growth. And it will. It will show

a fruit tree that bears fruit. Everyone can see. Tell

the dury and stop bearing fruit. You Tryler cannot cannot.

I have to bear fruit you when you are growing

beautifully in the Lord, despite the resurrection powers, all the suffering,

you will grow and people will experience Christ's likeness through

your life. Amen. Again, judge stop judging each other. We

are not perfect and think the greatest judgment we get

is in the church actually really not outside. We judge

each other very heavily, to the point that we have

no courage to show up. We have no courage. We say,

oh you, my brother sister would judge me. And so

we stop sharing testimonies, we stop sharing our pain. We stop.

We are too afraid and a shame. Jesus says, if

you've never ever seen and you take the stone and

you stone dembler, we are so afraid and a shame.

So when I do share pictures of my life and

my past, I don't know. Some people like to TM

I DM I, But the TMI, the difficulty, the failures,

the arrogance, the whatever, is to help someone see that

even through that, Christ is here for us, not against us,

to transform our lives. Amen. So my key in the

pop is to know Christ. I hope you remember the

k no go deeper intimate producing the life of Christ

in us to know the word in Hebrew to know

is to have intimacy so deep a relationship that it

produced Adam knew Eve, and it produced. When you know

Christ and the intimate, intimate walk with Christ, you produce

christ likeness, the fruit of the spirit. Amen. If you

have no fruit, you and I cannot see the fruit.

Maybe we're not going intimate enough with the Lord. Amen.

We need to want to merge our lives. The urge

too much. Don't love in an not human being, urge

too merch with Jesus. Cannot, cannot, cannot know the young

people in the room, Amen, what what what you are

to merge to get into the life of Christ. Amen.

Number one is to I want to know Christ. Second,

also today was from verse ten, to know to experience

his resurrection power and his sufferings the next point number two.

But I also want to say, I think it's part

of the song that we sang when you want to

know Christ, the share is sufferings. Is the other thing

I wanted to say from the song as well, is

we take up our cross, Take up your cross and

follow Jesus. Take up your cross and follow Jesus. Cannot

run away. You don't want to take up your cross,

you cannot follow Jesus. What's your cross? What's your cross? Brand, Sisters,

that thing that challenges you? Take up your cross and

follow Christ. You know, sometimes your cross could be your shyness.

I'm very shylah. Sometimes your cross could be the challenge

that you're going through in your family, in your life.

What's your cross? The cross could be the persecution that

just because you are a believer and the only believer

in your family, that's your cross. But would you take

up that cross and follow Christ? Amen? Take up that cross?

I think we sang it. Take up across and follow

Jesus because it matters more. Nothing else matters. All that

you think everyone will judge you in this world, it

will mean nothing than to see Christ at the end

of the finishing line. If we were looking as an athlete,

there will be a finishing line which brings us the

point too, it says in verse twelve, Paul says, I

haven't achieved it yet. I'm not there yet. I'm not

perfect yet. But I'm being perfected. But what do I do?

I press on, I press on, come on, tell a neighbor,

press on, press on, tell you all the neighbor. Press on,

press on, press on, Amen, to press on, to pursue, Yeah,

you can show the slide to the word here means

to pursue, to speed on earnestly when you're on the track.

If you, if you, if you're like boom straight away

at the two hundred, three and four hundred. Sometimes even

a marathon, you can't. You got to speed on earnestly, steadily.

You're a a marathon, a marathon of life. We're not

doing hundred meters in life. Hundred meters you're going to

heaven really Alilujah, but fortunately not happening. But it's a

marathon of life. You put your now and you're like sprint.

Now you're not sprint. You run so weekly one hundred

meters we a marathon, you lose it all, you'll just die.

But to press on, you know, is there's something that

there's some challenge, but you gotta press on and you

keep running. Okay, okay, slower slower some days, a bit

faster other times it's scroller, but you still move right.

You want to finish the race. Amen, It is to

pursue right to know God. You want to pursue to

speed on earnestly, to speed on, or to move with

with speed, not not just stop all right, No, to

just pursue, to speed on, to take it steadily. Amen.

So pauses I press on? I press on using the

pictures I said of athletic race, a race, a foot race,

a marathon. You keep on, and it says here I

press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus

first possessed for me. Hallelujah. Amen. So you press on

because you are going forward despite the challenges in front

of you. Going forward. James chapter one, verse two to

three says, counted all joy when you encounter all sorts

of trials testings.

But all this will produce perseverance, Amen, will produce a

fruit of righteousness. But while you're going to the trials,

are you how to press on? I might as you

just give up, but you press on. Your faith is

of great value. Your faith in Jesus is of great value.

Amen. I hope you're writing down something. I hope you're listening.

My k and my pop is to know God. My pin.

My pop is to press on, press on. Amen. Amen,

you just have asked a lot for joy to face

the trials of life not easy when you're going through

the tough times, and it's testing after testing after testing,

no fun, not nice. The exam. Of course, the joy

will be when you get all asl No, yeah, all right,

receive it all right. We keep the focus on the

finishing line, and we just until I see the finishing line.

Then it's done. Jesus is said, the finishing line. So

it's a it's there's no real finishing line on earth flower,

but it's it's a it's a spiritual finishing line that

when we see the Lord, whether he comes back, when

he returns and we get caught up with him, or

if we go first, then we go into the presence

of God. Fingers crossed a man follow Christ all the way.

But we press on big. Pressing on means there's some kindreance.

So you need to press on. You need to keep

pushing amen, because there will be a lot of things

that will try to stop you. And so I want

to go to point three, the point three, and I

have to end so soon. And the point three that

I put there is forgetting the past. Now where's the

O in the forgetting the past? So I use a

word called oblivion. Oh, just needed a. Oh, so I

chose the word oblivion. All right, look at dictionary, look

at it. I find out what can closest explain my

forgetting the pass. Well, the word oblivion can mean simply this,

You just forget love, just just just forget it. Just

it's over, it's the past, Let it go. I've got

words like care. One sing is to press forward, is

to you know, leave things behind, to cast off, forgetting

the past. And my oh, in my pop means oblivion

meaning you actually have to make that effort now to

make it oblivion. I don't want to remember my past unnecessarily. Okay,

let me come to this is very important if we're

going to to really move forward, if we're going to

live the abundant life. Everyone in this room give me

a wave. Yeah, your man for abandoned life and more abandoned. Amen,

not just abandoned. God says, I came to give you

life and life more abandontly, So I want to ask you,

are you living the more abundantly life? But the one

thing that will stop you is if you keep the past.

We are to forget the past. So Paul says here

in verse thirteen, I've not achieved it none of us

have reached. We're not perfect, but Christ has gotten the

perfection for me. So, but I focus on this one

thing verse thirteen in the NLC. But I focus on

this one thing, focus on this one thing. What is

his focus? He falls? He is forgetting the past, He says,

forget the past and look forward to what lies ahead. Amen, oblivion,

to be forgetful. Now, don't be forgetful about your appointments

and duties. I forgot love, I didn't pick up the child.

I'm sorry, wife, I forgot the child. Okay, don't do that.

Not that kind of oblivion. Forgetfulness, to cast off, to forget.

It's used in a very poetic tone. Oblivion. So is

really to just forget?

Now?

Why why does Paul say this? Because anything that will

distract you and me from the goal from having a focus,

a single mindedness to what to the upward call, to

the call that Christ already has called me. Anything that

distracts you, and I can tell you many things of

our past can distract us looking at the finishing line. Really,

what most people suffer with dealing with their pass We

do because someone hurt you, because that person didn't see hollo.

Do you because this and dead, and they jittered me.

I was rejected. I'm disappointed with my pastor disappointed with

my dad. Oh, they abandoned me. I have a loss

in my life. Why I lost a child, I lost

my house, I lost my marriage, I lost my health

or relationship issues, challenges, things that have happened, our mistakes,

honest mistakes. Sometimes we make our failures, our temptations. All

these and much more that we go through our offenses.

You are offended, your disagreements. All this is your past,

but it can cling to you. If you don't cast

it off, they will cling to you. It's a spirit.

If you don't cast it off. If you don't forget

the past, you either forget and cast it off on

the Christ because Christ takes away our sin, or you

keep looking at the back all the time, always looking

Your life is always because of this abandonment. I can't

move forward because my father wasn't very good to me. Ah,

I think very hard. That's why I'm like this. My face, Lady,

is my father's face. Ladies help us Lord. It's tough, right,

but it clings to us. That's why Hebrews chap the twelve,

verse one and two and you go down. Paul says, well,

Paul didn't write the Book of Hebrews. We're not sure

about that. But the Right of Hebrews says, come on,

do away, cast it off the sin. That's so easily.

And there's so much of our past, our failures. We

we tend to bring back our past and our mistakes

and we rehash it. We rehash what we could have

done better. But we could have done better. I could

have done this, I could have done that. Now we

do that, and I can tell you from experience, you

rehash when you get your I got my results, you know,

from my last one. I'm like, at this age and

I'm doing this, I have to score a nothing less.

I had a B plus. Hurts. It hurts, Yeah, it hurts.

Cannot I cannot get a B plus. My husband's like,

it's very good. You haven't. You haven't studied for thirty

over years. And I go back and look at my

paper on because my other dmate all got a So

I rehash, likeg go back my paper, see how uh

I couldn't because it was such a beautiful paper to write.

It was an enjoyable paper, But oh my goodness, how

could I not get them.

Man.

You rehash, then it becomes your hindrance to your next paper,

which I just told Mama, I can't do the paper.

I can't. I can't. I have to write a paper

and I have the hand out this week. I can't.

I can't. So hard, so hard, because you rehash what

you couldn't do, and and you thought it's But like

I said, our shortcomings and failures should only give us

stepping stones to to now do better. That means now

I can write better because I realized I need to

look at the room bracks and follow that so that

I can do what the chack go wants, not what

I want. In your life and and our lives. How past,

sometimes we rehashed it should have should have done that?

Should you should have done this? So this part us

will cling on to us, and then we cannot go forward.

You're okay, but you're not men to live and okay

life Church, You're meant to live life. There's life more

abundantly life that's sprouting overflowing with the river of God.

There's living. It's not stagnant water. It's not dead sea.

Nothing lives in the dead sea. Cannot live. Only you

can float in it. That's it. Nothing else lives in it. Nothing.

It is so salty because no outflow, only in flow.

So anything you in flow and you keep keep, you

will become a salt sea because it's so salty. Ho hamma,

ho hamma, very salty. Nothing going out doesn't make you

an a Christian or a believer or follower of Christ.

That is actually a life. Forgive me if you feel

like pass the what you're talking about, I'm telling you

the truth, Paul says, forget the past. Man. I consider

all my gains as losses. Why because I want to

gain Christ. What are you sitting here about, friends, your

life today? What are you doing with your life at

age thirteen, at age six I don't know that at

age forty or what you know? Christ came to give

us life and life more abundantly. When Christ met me

at sixteen, I then walked into abandoned life. I walked.

I didn't know what abundant life meant, because my whole

life up to sixteen was just losses. Was you cannot,

you will never achieve. You are a sick child. You cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot, be, cannot,

everything cannot under the circumstances in which I grew up.

But the moment Christ came into my life, he broke

and pierced the darkness that really pressed me down sixteen

years old. That's what Christ does when he comes in.

He pierces the darkness. He breaks the curse of the enemy,

the lies that you keep playing things. I'm never gonna

be good and if I'm a ugly duckling, yeah, I'm

just gonna fail my whole life. But when Christ comes in,

he came to me John ten ten, this is a

verse I go back to. He came to give me

life and life more abundantly, and that's where God wants

us to live, to live in the abundance, not just abundance,

overflowing abundance. Amen. So forgetting that to be oblivion to

you actually purposely have to say that's it enough. Failed relationship,

failed marriage, failed my studies. I feel like this, I'm

gonna leave that. But I'm holding on the Christ and

I press on and I press on. It's so hard.

That's why the word is press, not slide. You press

on with the Holy Spirit. If it was easy and

you just slide less skate through. He should have just

said skate through life. No, no, we cannot skate through life.

We got to press on. It's tough, but I'm pressing on.

I know it's tough. I owe this memory that I failed.

I made my big mistake. I shouldn't have said those words.

It haunts you. That's why, Paul, right, come on, forget

the pass. Whether it is your victories or whether it's

your failius. Amen, come on. We have to press on.

And that's why when we forget our past, we're not

being irresponsible, you know, like no consequences. I'm not talking

about the irresponsible spirit. I'm saying that some things in

your life just doesn't allow you to move on. You

stop living. You're only You're just living for the now

and not the more that God has. The dreams that

God has for us cannot be that we serve the

thing of the universe, and that your life is confound

or confined within a little box. I think He's given

you the world, the world, the world, the plans of God.

I have to say that to me, why are you

doing the Master's Yeah? I ask my surgery every day.

But if I don't become a lifelong learner, I will

not learn more. I won't take new challenges. This is

a great challenge for me thirty years not having gone

back to going back to school now it's a great challenge.

But if I'm going to learn and grow, it can

be through ministry, taking up new ministries, doing something I've

never done before. And I should allow my age to

judge me. Because Moses was pretty old, yeah, eighty, very old. No,

but he was just a young man. Caleb was eighty

and he went and fought back the lens. So if

we are behaving like this past, then you'll be like

a Moses. I can't I but yeah, because he killed somebody,

Paul has to forget, be oblivion to the lives that

he took, he murdered, believe us. Can you imagine the

con damnation that comes back to him. The voice of

the animy says, Paul, you just killed Stephen Man. Hey,

you were the one agreeing to the death of Stephen. Hey, Paul,

you took you know, sister Barbara, and you put a

chill to sister Barbara. Hey, Paul, you know you took

Ali and you sent him to the gallows. Comes back.

He is writing not out of theory, He is writing

out of the fact that he went through it. So

he's now saying, sitting in the prison, I think a

lot of time to think on No, a lot of

time to reflect ray, reflector. So he could be yeah,

I'm here because you know I killed all those people

and murdered them. But he's not a murderer now, he's

an ex murderer saved by the blood of the Lamb

Jesus encountered him. He has to overcome, so he has

to forget the past. He has to purposely say that

that's over. I can't live there because if I live there,

I won't live ahead. Come on, come on, church. I

don't know what God is calling you too, But look

at that verse. So my own in my pop is

the oblivion. So my pe last pin my pop is

what it goes back to press on to receive the prize. Hey,

there's a prize. Read that verse in fourteen Paul says,

I press on to I press on to reach the

end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for

which God through Christ Jesus is calling us. If you

read it in the Bassa Bible Bahasa language, is this

yantuhansuda ma mangel kami there is a price He already

has for us. We just need to ex forward it.

Take it, amen, So I press on to reach the

not the pressing on you press on at the start.

Why why do I keep pressing on? Because there is

a price. What is this price? Eternal life, the crown

of life. It is more than silver and gold. Jesus

did not give silver and gold to witness to heaven.

He gave his blood, He shed his blood, his life.

This pressing on to the heavenly price is our salvation,

the fullness, the eternal life. Amen. Amen. It is an

upward calling, not a downward calling. All people, It's an

upward calling, not downward calling. If you find yourself going

down dead, ain't Jesus there's an upward calling. We keep upping,

not keep downing. No, we counted the street called downing

streets is downing all the time. Ah. We want to

be the upward street, upward high street, going up, going up.

Because God does not call us to go down. He says,

come up, an upward calling. New King James version upward calling.

So that's why Paul says in the chapter three further

versus up, Oh that I won, I counted lost I

look at my gainser like they work out, done, done,

not a word garbage. All your accolades, oh that you have,

It's nothing compared to the glorious price of the glory

of the Lord that is yours and mine today and

the days to come, today and the days to come

worship team Callelujah, Amen, Kay Pop? Why do I even

give the funny names? So now you remember? You know?

You're not glory? Can't remember? Not? Kay Pop? Right? The

kay my kay and my pop is know God, my pain,

my pup is to press on my own and my

pup is to be oblivion. I make effort to forget

the things that are harsh, that are terrible, that pull

me back and keep pulling. No, I'm pressing on. But

I have to and run if I share if like

if if we get a guy, right and the girls

are all pulling at you, right, but there's only one

woman for you can't marry everybody while you have to

let your whole jacket go. I run forward like the

all the girls want me. No, you don't want all

the girls. You only want one right, men, only one

woman met us right just like let go let go back. No,

you're like wow, like I run away. That's what it

means to cuss off. Don't let them leech on you.

Don't let your past leech and suck the blood out

of you. I know, you know want that happened. You know,

when you're past the leech and take all the goods.

That is the work of the pit of hell. That's

what the devil does. He tells you every day what

you did last summer, last winter, last spring, last whatever.

We don't have four season, just summer, so every summer

he reminds you, Hey, I know what you did. So

speak to my master, Master Jesus. He's forgiven me, and

I have repented. I turn around already. So k pop

people to know Christ, to know his resurrection and his sufferings,

the power of his resurrection, the power that you experience. Wow,

the wow days. And then there'll be the days when

it's tough. It feels like why am I here alone?

Why I'm the only one doing this? Why is it

so difficult? I tell you, I just don't past. Then, guys,

we all will have our alone days. When I alone

with my father and hospital, I'm thinking, why I'm the

only one? I got siebling word, But I'm still there.

But that day I had to be alone because stebling

head classes it's hard to walk through and give up

different things, different pleasures in life, just because you are

needed there. He felt like a suffering and all of

you we cannot love each other sufferings. Of course we

look at you alert, you know, we was alert, but

actually the alert for that person it was tough. It

was tough. So we walked to that a man, no Christ,

then a man press on, press on because you're not sliding,

you know, you're not just skating around. You actually gotta

press on. It's tough. Why because all this passa trying

to pull you. You know, come on, come with us,

live with us. I don't want to live with you.

Let go take it off, amen, and you just go

with the promise. The focus on Jesus, focus on him.

The one thing is forget the past and focus because

there is a finishing line in the spirit. There is

a finishing line. We want to see Jesus at the

end of that line. Amen. The oblivion, just oblivion simply

means you actually have to take that pass. And you say,

it's the past. I can't win. I can't bring back

that life. I can't. I can't earn back that money.

I can only do better Now I repent, I apologize,

I consequences. I have to go to jail. If I

kill him, I go to jail. I made a girl pregnant. Guys,

you don't go to jail, but you well marry the girl,

raise the child. If you cause the girl to abort,

you got double jeopardy on your life because not only

you made a girl brandnant, now you can take the

life also, So even that can be our past that

will haunt us. When that even that, when you say, Lord,

forgive me, Father, forgive me. Jesus forgives, the world won't.

But you have to move on. You have to forget

the past and do better. That's why we know Christ,

so that we can be more like him. We need

to give space for believers to actually transform. We actually

need to give space for people to change and not

judge them on one failure, even two or three, because

God forgives at all times when we repent. Amen. And lastly,

there is a price all that you're doing, friends, because

there is a price, and that price is eternal life. Eternity,

the crown of life in Christ Jesus Amen.

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