God's Stage, Satan's Sabotage | Pr Daniel

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We hope this message will light up your day.

God stage and Satan's several touch. You know, whenever God

stages something in your life. And this message the central

truth is that if God has allowed something to happen,

Satan world and can take advantage of it. Now, this

central truth was shared to us the hah One, the

hard one, which is basically the ones that are under

discipleship with Basta and Bassendra. A few weeks ago he

shared this truth with us and I actually wrote to Pasacadama.

I said, hey, Basta, can I actually use this guy sends.

The church needs to hear this because sometimes in our

lives we notice that there are things that happen to us,

bad things, right, not so pleasant things, and sometimes it

even happens in the context of God's plan in your life. Right,

sometimes we feel that, hey, God has allowed certain things

to happen. God has directed me to this job. But

how come in this job there is a boss that

doesn't understand what I'm doing. I give my best, but

yet every week, every day he seems to be giving

me a lot of problem. You know, I'm doing this,

but God I thought you spoke. I thought you put

me in this position. I thought you put me in

this company. But how come yet time and time again

I seem to be not able to perform to form

my boss. Right, we tend to question ourselves. And the

truth was this when Pastor had this heal bone fracture,

in fact, it was a broken heal bone, he questioned.

He questioned why him? Because you know, if you know

Pasta right, he is one to actually go around and

he really cares for the people and he meets people

almost every day. But now being confined to this space, right,

it can be quite demororizing. So he actually did question

why why did this happened? And you know, the devil

is scheming, miss don't even mischievous. He's a scheming evil

being and he just wants to still kill and destroy

a hope in future. So he will use this opportunity

and he will. He can and he will, all right,

he can and he will. And today I'm just gonna

share a little bit on that hopefully you'll catch something

from it. Okay, So I'm going to share a personal

story first before we start. And uh, I don't know,

it's my wife, but she's supposed to be here. Uh

is she outside somewhere? I need her? Actually I didn't

tell her about it, but I need her. Rachelle not there? Okay, anyways,

I'll change story. So uh, I'll change story. So when

I was younger, when I was nineteen years old, I

had a dean to my knee. Okay, I had a

dan my kney, so stimilar to us a story. Why

I got reminded by it because I was reminded of

my own journey. So I thought, all my meniscus muscles. Okay,

you don't know if you know meniscus, but if you know,

then there's a clu is it hey, anterior interior, and

then there's the post posterial a cl mcl and then

there's the meniscus muscle. So the maniscus was torn while

I was playing basketball. Hey, I was. I'm a very

uh every basketballer. I used to play basketball every day.

When I was younger, I used to run from my

house as a warm up to the basketball court. There's

about three point five kilometers away, and I'll run there

all the way. I'll sprint all the way as a

warm up. Then our warm up by doing that, and

then I'll play basketball for I think three hours. My

longest I play it was four. I was, I was

so excited. I don't have a ball. I didn't grow

up in a wealthy family. I didn't grow up with

much money. I used to get ten ring money as

my allowance, then ring it a month. My lot was

to ring gate a week. So I'll be I'll be

so happy when it comes to the month that has

five weeks, and hey, I can get more than eight

ringate a month, so I'll have that. And I don't

have much money. So because of that, I don't have

money by ball. I love basketball, but I don't have

the ball. So I'm going to play basketball in the ball.

Can you imagine? So I always come early at for

the dBm. Right, I will be there by for the

d rain or shine, to wait just in yearning for

someone to turn up with a ball. So when I

find someone finds a ball. We have a community, right,

I got to know friends. And that's how basketball was

last time. Right, you just go and you play a stranger.

I remember, I don't know you all can relate to this.

But you have to shoot to should to enter into

a deep So the one that enter will get to

normally the captain and they choose the players. But if

there's no captain, right, then the first five to go

in will be part of a deep, then the rest.

So it's quite it's quite skewed. Last I can you

imagine the first five they're going is a you can

actually shoot the ball nicely, and you group all these

people together to fight against the people that cannot enter.

It's quite it's quite quite imbalanced, in my opinion. But anyways,

there was that I played basketball from four or eight

o'clock right, and at eight o'clock I will run back again.

That's me. That's my life. So can you imagine I

used to be quite fit, la, I used to be

quite fit, very fit. You know. I used to also sprint.

I participated in races four times hundred one hundred meters

and I think my record timing, if I'm not misking,

was chop point one four hundred meters chop point one.

I think that is quite Okayler, listen, I don't know

whether that's considered fast, but chop point one is for

a guy. The record holder is nine point four nine.

You know you're who's saying bot around there, right, nine

by four, So about chop point one was my record?

Uh and I so I used to be quite fast.

I used to be quite fit. He asked. My wit

wife was also to be here so that I can

ask her to basically celebrate my story. Where if you

go to my house, right, you got my stairs, there's

all meadows and all the way my wife, my mom

hanging all the meadows at every at every U, what's

that the step in your got real reel and then

you just hang all the way up. So I used

to be very fit. That's a story. Right. So one

day when I was playing basketball at nineteen years old,

I I didn't realize this, but I was playing, playing, playing,

and I don't know why I can still run back.

I think it's just adrenaline rush or something. But I

felt something like I felt something. I felt a lout

pop pop black right, and then I was running as

I was. I didn't feel anything, so I kept playing.

I kept playing. I think I won matches more than

I lost that day. Then I ran back. I ran back.

I went into the shower, and that's when I realized

something is off. Something is off, because I did a

shower every time I moved my leg. I hear pop

pop pop top top pop cock like non stop, you know,

like like I felt like suddenly, oh nowhere, the the

energy just left my right leg in the show and

I fell down. Fell down in the shower. That's where

I realized something is wrong. I screamed to my mom.

My mom come and helped me, helped me up. I

realized I cannot walk, I can walk, I was left leg.

Can I walk? How did I even get back in

the first place? So it was such a I can't

explain the pain. It was the worst pain I've ever

experienced my life. Just played that way, okay. So then

got to the doctor's uh got it checked true enough?

Corn maniscus uh And it was at the knee, right

knee that happened. And there was the time that I

actually and context. I also grew up a Christian. My

barls for Christians. I grew up a Christian, but I

wasn't really a believer. That just play it that way, okay.

Uh So when the doctors doctors tested it, doctor said, hey,

you want to repay it? I said sure, don't say, okay,

how much nineteen thousand at that timer, afterty four now

years nineteen years old. This happened so quite long, nineteen thousand,

just to do the reconstruction of the manuscus muscle. And

I was like, I can't. We can't afford this because

you can know it number you can no insurance, no

medical insurance enough to cover that. Even on top of

the insurance to pay even more. The doctors say, it's okay,

it's not a cl ACL. You need to get it fixed.

You don't get to fix you it for life. I

don't know who else got ACL injury before you work

and relate to me, But uh, manuscus, okay, you will

here by yourself, but you will never be the same again.

You will never be the same again. Doctor to me,

you will never you will never be able to play

basketball combatitively again. And I used to be paying competitively

represent the district MSSD I was playing for that. I

was a center forward. I don't know what you know

what that means about a central center player. And I

used to also be a point guard. Okay, basketball terms,

point guard is shooter. Okay, you shootn't so uh. In

order to be an effective point guard, you need to

be able to use your knee right. You need to

be a run and dictate play center. It's just tend

the middle. So from nineteen it took me a year

a year just to be able to walk swoofully again. Now,

not to make matters worse. When I was healing from

this injury, When I was healing from this injury, I

was basically in a season of if you know my story,

I was in a season of just abusing drugs all

my life. And I was just in a very very

bad stateler right. I was in daylist at that time,

and I was trying to do my day lists South

Australian Matriculation and I was failing at ITLA. I wasn't

doing well. There was one day I was waiting for

my mom to pick me up. Right, I was on

the phone. Now, I'm not missed. I was on the phone.

It was not missing, and I was just using it

and I was just watching some thing, reading some things

like that time not much internet, right, I was just

watching that. I think my no K three three one oh.

He can relate then. Oh, by the way that three

or I stole from someoney be Anyways, besides the story,

very very bad person, okay, very bad person. So three oh,

I was using it. And I tell you what, with

the right knee that wasn't really healed yet, I took

a step back. The next thing I knew, I cannot

bang by a car bom. Okay, it's quite drastically Okay.

I dislocated my right arm. Okay, and dislocated my right arm,

and it was just it was just a tragic year

for me where things bad things kept happening, bad things

kept opening, and not just I lost my right knee.

Now I lost my right arm. So I can't really

play that well anymore. Okay, Ever since nineteen ideas old,

I basically the only thing I knew how to do

and was good at was number one spots and spots.

I wasn't going to studies the other s I wasn't good,

But sports I was quite good. Esports I was quite good.

Uh And all I had left was the result back

to esports. I couldn't play sports anymore. Okay, none, uh

not no me got n but me or functionally properly.

The arm dislocated, But dislocation is not that it's not

that bad. Actually the doctor popped it back on the spot.

Oh my gosh. I never ever ever wanted to feel

that pain again. Why I'm telling you all this is

because I went into a spiral. After that, I started

to gain a lot of way. I started to stress

eat very very fairly. I still remember my stress eating

procedure was. I think you'll know the break the kimba spaghetti.

I think five hundred grams, but my wife told me right,

one serving is about a twenty sen coin, okay. I

used to eat I think three times of the twenty

cent coin for one serving, and not just eat a

normal time, but eat it at three am every day

every day. With the kimbal spaghetti sauce. That's my favorite.

I could eat that every day I eat and then

sometimes into me double going the low. I'll eat a

wagg what twenty two twenty three, I was fat. I

used to be fit, then I went away replaced the eight.

I was fat after that, fat so fat, the stomach big,

but then the face still scrowny Sama beat. Then as

life went on, I continue I continued to be I

was so fat to the point where I think I

wrote down over here nineteen years old, I was about

seventy kg. Twenty five years old. I was looking through

my old pictures. I think roughly if I cannot, I

ne remember wrong. I was eighty something eighty to eighty

five CAG. Then when I was thirty four years old,

I got not got married, but married for four years.

I hit my greatest Witkay, my greatest wit, which was

ninety four point seven kg, clean waiter right away, no

check out, no nothing, clean weight, ninety four point seven.

I'm not I'm not proud to tell you all of

this law because honestly, I didn't feel good, la, I

didn't feel good, and not to mention that eighty five kg. Right.

I actually went to sign for a Jim Hey Jim

and at the gym session, I went for a BT

personal trainer. Right. I told a person trainer all my

injuries law. I got a knee I cannot do. I

cannot ben my knee that much at that time, and

I really couldn't. And the gym fellow right, and the

way he whacked me up, he is in bublinger, you know.

So I tell you can't even do ten push ups?

What a loser? I got so scarred, you know. I said,

I'm paying you money and you're doing this to me

hello for me? Will leave me more respector push higher?

Push more, push more. Don't lose it. If you don't

do it, you can't come back, okay. So ever since then,

I got a very very PTSD from GIM PTS. Sorry,

that's what the PTSD stand for pt Personal Trainer, it's

not it's PTSD post trauma. That's what they gave me.

And I was so reluctant to go with the gym

of read I tell you what. After that, I even

got into an argument my wife one one one day

where my wife got like, you know, trying to encourage

me to go to gym. Then I just, you know,

just came out like I tell you, I don't like Jim.

Can you start asking me to go? Jim? I cannot

take it anymore. It's a very very internal hurt, you know,

very c gim. I cannot take it. But I tell

you what, I tell you what I was. I don't

feel good myself. You know, my weight. You know, when

you're carrying such a weight on your hit and your stomach, right,

you won't feel good. And I do you feel good

about myself? I felt so terrible. I feel like no,

I feel like nobody wanted me, but my wife wanted me.

I didn't know why she shows me despite of my weight,

despite of my empty promises. I always tell her, right

every year, I'll lose it, I'll lose it, I'll lose

it that She's like, hey, okay, i'll lose it. I

tell her I'll lose it before we get married. You say,

I'll lose me again. Weight happy. So ninety four point seven,

I didn't feel good to myself. I made a lot

of empty promises. I was lithargic all the time, litargic

because I tell you how bad Ichla. I tell you

how bad ichla. You know one hundred meters. I used

to be like, like, I tol you actually once again

my record, right, I couldn't even jop one hundred meters

at my prime prime of my weight. Okay, couldn't even

jop one hundred meters. I diary, how many of you

here can talk a hundred meters? Hey, come on loud,

guys can right on hundred meters? Can write fifteen meter?

I was diardy fifteen I die it ready, That's how

bad it got. And I and I got so tired.

I was doing ministry at the time, exteens, and I

was like, oh, you know, I cannot I cannot leave

boxes I bend now. Also, my knee hurt, back hurt, everywhere, hurt,

my back hurt everything, forward hit everything. I cannot okay.

Point being this, it was such a bad season of

my life, and I really really really continue to think

to myself, I can never lose weight. I can never

lose We now, before you think that this is an

MLM about something that I want to sell to you

about losing weight, No it's not. It's not, because let

me just let me just give I'm giving you the

testimony first, and I'll share you just one point. I

never close, Okay, just one point. We were close. But

the story is this this year, this year, I felt

like it's time. So I think in January I did

share all of you that I want to account to

the church that I'm going to start my journey to

lose some weight. I didn't know at the time how

much I will be able to do because honestly, with

all this internet hurt, I say, I cannot, I cannot

do gim anymore. So my prayer, my prayer was this, God,

please give me something that I like doing. Please give

me something, Show me something that I like doing. Yeah,

you'll know, pick a ball. So I started. I started

by picking up the balls. But I eventually found out

that I can get I can play a little bit

like not not too good, but at least to lose weight.

And now I would like to report to all of

us the s of yesterday. I'm eighty four kg. Eighty

four kg ten ten kg loss uh in two months,

ten kg loss in two months. But so there's a testimony.

But the journey of getting there was filled with Satan,

said a touch Phil. Satan used the allowance of God

for me to get there. You know, God put me

in a season of testing, of waiting. And I just

want to share a few one story of how I

actually journeyed from ninety four, not just in weight, but

the self identity, the identity of not feeling that God

can use me because I'm tired all the time, right,

I am douging all the time, and I'm not able

to protect my wife in case of anything. You know,

if that's they're gonna rob my robber, right, I think,

how am I going to chase out the robber? Use

my fads? It's my fat. But so that that's the

conviction that God put my heart. Now I'm not gonna

I'm not putting out anybody here if you feel that

you're not fit. But I just want to encourage you

that your body is the temper of the Holy Spirit.

You got to ensure that you take care of it. Okay,

all right, So back to my message for today. I

have a few things to share with you, but I'll

only share one point. But I want to draw into

a to a certain truth. And if XTV can can

do this for me, can you with me to the

point where it says, when God allows testing Satan tries

to twist the truth? Can you go? Can you go

to that point? If you want to know the rest

of the sermon, you can refer to the first service

you can read watch our MDG. But I just want

to zoom in on one point, one point, which is

when God allows testing Satan tries to twist the truth. Okay, Now,

if you can turn your Bibles to James one verse twelve,

there will be great and he says, blessed it's the

man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved,

he will receive the crown of life. Amen, he will

receive the crown of life. My next light says, this

next light, what is testing? Turn with me to Genesis

chapter eighteen. Sorry, Genesis chapter twenty two. Genesis chapter twenty two.

Now it's not on the slide. But if you can

put the scriptures up, there be great Genesis chapter twenty two.

Are you there all right? Actually we can help us

for those that doesn't have the scriptures. All right, scriptures

on the screen. Now'll read with me. Now, I'll just

read along with me. I will, I will read, and

you can read in your heart. Okay. Verse one. Now

it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham.

Everyone say tested, and say to him Abraham, and he said,

here I am. Now I want to introduce to you

something called the principles of first mension. Okay. Whenever we

want to identify what a specific word in the Bible means,

we often go to the principles of first mention. Meaning

if you want to identify what worship means, you go

to when it was first mentioned in the Bible. And

then that's when you identify a Yeah, that's what God

actually intended for this word. Now, the word tests were

here in Hebrew where the Old test Man it is

written originally is basically the word nasa. Okay, nasa. Now

if you know space nasa, No, it's not that nasa,

But nasa basically means to build and to reveal. So

when the word tests is used in the case of Abraham,

when God, if you know the story, God promised Abraham

a child from his own body, right with his wife.

And you know, eventually he received Isaac, right, but at

this time God wanted to test Abraham. So when he

tested Abraham, the word tests over here basically means to reveal.

So if you read the verse again, you can really

as God wanted to reveal something to Abraham, something, want

to reveal something to Abraham's heart. Right, So God tested

Abraham and he said, here I am. Then he said,

take now your son, your only son, whom you love.

Fun fact, the word love over here is also the

first time that was mentioned, okay, the first time it

was mentioned Bible. And go to the land of Moriah

and offer him there as a burnt offering on one

of the mountains of which I shall tell you. So

this story goes on where Abraham took his child Isaac

early in the morning, and they when and sacrifice, and

as it was about to sacrifice Isaac, the Angel of

the Lord appeared stopped him. Okay, oh, the story you know,

But I want to zoom in on this word tests

and in First Corinthians ten thirteen, if you can turn

to it with me. Now, I like turning to scripture.

I hope you like to do that too. So First

Corninthians ten the teen says, therefore, let him who thinks

he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has

overtaken you, except as is such that it's common to men.

God is faithful who will not allow you to be

tempted beyond what you're able, but with the temptation will

also make it a way of escape that you may

be able to bear it. The word temptation in verse thirteen,

the word parasthmos in Greek, and parismos and nasa is

basically the same word. Okay, once Hebrew one is in Greek.

So what does this actually mean? What does this actually mean?

It says over here in the later stage of the

verse that he will make it a way of escape

that you may be able to bear it. The word

here is bare. That means that there is pain. That

means that it's not just something that it disappears like

my meniscus muscle tore right, and then you pray to

God and God say, okay, I'll help heal you. No,

the word here is you're able to bury. What does

baron mean? Bare means that if I were to apply

pressure to you and put a needle. Do you know

how when the nurses say, hey, just close your hand

and the hand for I'm going to I'm going to

put that needle in your your race. Right. There's a

funny story where my not so funny. Actually it is

quite quite quite me in my dad when he was

diagnosed with cancer right and because his veins were so

hard to find, the nurse actually to choke my dad

right on the left hander to talk until the Wholtington

blackmail because cannot find a vein. We went to see.

I said, Dad, put your hand. So the nurse tried

to try to find a vein. Cannot find a vein.

I'm down. I'm no, I'm down, I'm down down. They said,

I cannot bury anymore. Then he switued the right hand.

I tell you there's the word bear. The word bear

is that God will allow you to testing. But that

doesn't mean that it doesn't come with pain. It will

come we are a certain amount of pain. One of

my favorite verses to quote is Second Corinthians, chapter three,

verse twelve. He says that those who desire to leave

the collly Christian life will suffer persecution. Right, that's one

of my favorite verses to quote. But that means that

if God gives you the ability that you're be able

to bury it, that means that the pain is there.

The pain will not go away, the pain will not disappear.

Some of us sometimes when we go through testing, we

tend to think on equate testing as when the pain

ac culture testing that God is not there. But when

the pain is there, that's when God most the most.

I want to encourage you that when you go through temptation,

when you go through trials, that's when God will move

the most in your lives. Jesus was obedient when the

Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness to be tempted,

right led him to the Holy Spirit was one who

let allowed. So sometimes we must understand in our psyche

whenever something challenging happens to us, it's not that God disappears,

It's not that God doesn't love you. Anymore. Is that

because God loves you that he wants to test you

and tests you, not to put shame to you, but

to reveal to you what really is in your heart?

What really is your heart? Then, my dear, my dear,

my dear Rachel, even if you go through all of

this world, you still worship me. Testing truths what is

really in your heart. Testing builds your faith. Imen, testing

builds your faith. But the good news is this that

God is faithful. Go back to your verse. God is

faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond

what you are able. So that's what my encouragement to you.

You will end your pain, but it won't be the

pain that you wondn't be able to end it. Until

you give up, there will be pain. So when God

tests us, when God allows testing, what Satan tries to

do is he tries to twist the truth. He tries

to twist the truth. That's why James one Child says

that blessed is the man who ends yours, tentation, end yours.

There's something beautiful about enduring. There's something beautiful about waiting.

There's something beautiful about testing. So testing is not punishment.

Is God's way of proving, refining, and strengthening of faith.

That's what testing is. Right. Sometimes when we are when

we have faith, we must be able to prove that

we have faith. And testing proves that when I put

you through the fire, what comes out? When I put

you to the fire, Will you go through the fire?

When I put you into the lines? Then will you

go into the lines? Then it proves your faith because

if you do not showcase your faith, therefore your faith

does not have the substance. Amen. Therefore, faith is the

substance of things hopeful. Right, you have to continue to endure,

like how Jesus endured the cross word and you're here.

It's not just a word that Jesus thrown to us

for us to do, but he himself didn't do it. No,

Jesus himself endured the cross. He was obedient to the

point of death. Amen. Jesus shown us the way that

the way to eternal life, the way to salvation, is

to trust, to trust in Jesus. But the trust that

comes to Jesus comes with the building of your faith.

And the building of your faith how you build it

is by testing. Amen. It's like God tested Abraham Barasmus,

I hope you are catching something from this testing testing

amen next life. It reveals what's in our hearts and

deepened our dependence on him. That's what testing does. Scripturi

also says that out of the abundance of the heart,

the month will speak. Out of the abundance of the heart,

the mount was big. And if that is the case,

if your heart is then filled with just junk and unbelief,

then what comes out is also unbelief. And Jesus said

to his disciples, when his disciples ask Jesus, why can't

we heal or why can't we cast out the demon

from the little boy from the child? And Jesus said,

because of your unbelief, and all of this is only

possible through prayer and fasting. So if unbelief is what

we feel our hearts in the moment, something is uttered.

For example, we are going to reach massa x gotta

come morning, is going to reach master college, master university? Right.

The first thing that comes out of your mouth is

are not possible? Not possible? How can ex Gotda comning

reach campus with look around got campus with the Lord? Right?

Our Excotda companing can only reach twenty five to thirty

five years old. No, I pray that our faith will

be so strong in the Lord, not in our ability,

because if it's in our ability, then it's not possible. Right.

But if our faith is in the Lord, we will believe.

We will believe, but not just believe. You'll pray and

you're fust. I mean we'll pray first because it will

be possible to cast out demons. And some of us

things think about demons as oh, just the goals and

all that. No, it's not even even unbelieved can be

a demon in your heart. Unbelief can eat you up

from the inside. Right. It reveals words in our hearts

and deepens or dependence on Him, not on men, well

on each other. Sometimes we depend on our wife more

than we depend on God. And it is very scary,

right if all you care about is what your wife thinks,

or what your husband thinks, or what your children think.

I pray that we will think about what God thinks

in our lives. Amen, Can I have the next light? First?

Sweeter one seven says that the genuineness of your faith

being much more precious than goal that perishes. You know

goal perishes, right? You know goal in the in this

earth is so precious, right, But you know in heaven

it's actually just a street. It's just it's just something

that is used on the street. It's actually not that

not important anymore. Goal the whole the whole street is

filled with goal. If you really want goal where and

you get to heaven, you get all the goal you

want to day all right, but it's much more precious

than goal that perishes. Though it is tested by fire,

may be found to praise, honor and glory at the

revelation of Jesus Christ. Amen, your faith will be tested,

tested by what tested by fire. It will be hot.

It will get hot in your life right, trials will

get hot. So I always like to encourage the young

people and perhaps even all of us here today. If

your journey, your Christian journey, is one that is very comfortable,

I pray to it you will start praying. I pray

you'll start praying. Because in my own experience, right, my

journey in Jesus right is filled with trials, and the

testing builds my faith. And the next time something or

someone says that, hey, go and do this, Previously I

would say it's not possible. But because the testing that

occurs in my life. I will now say, hey, I

think it's possible to then Hey, let's go to then

Hey how high? Jump? How high? But in order to

get from a place of jumping or not doing it

to how high, testing is important. Amen, So testing by fire.

I pray that excodic mooning in all testing and trials

thrue fire. You will come out stronger and very ready

to go for Jesus. Amen. Next life, Joe, I'm gonna

introduce a character to you. Job. We're gonna close right

after this, but Job is a character that I don't know.

How many of you want to be jobs? Do you

all want to be jobs? Those of you who know scripture?

Those of you who do not know, don't worry. I'll

introduce Job to you. I'll not not introduce a job

for you, but introduce Job, the character Job. You know

last time funny story when I when I read this,

I'm like, how come the Bible telling us about how

to get a job. I was still wearing new I

read Job. I think this is not the character with

getting a job. But the character Job is such an

intrinsic and amazing character. But yeah, at the same time,

so relatable to the point that it's unrelatable. Why I

say that, let's turn to Job with me. I didn't.

I don't have it on the screen, But it'll be

fantastic if we can turn to the Book of Job

and we're gonna read some scriptures from the Actually, can

you help me? Just Job? Chapter one and verse one?

Can we let xcally? Can you put it up so

that we can have it on the screen? Chapter verse one?

First one, let's start the worst one. Okay, first one,

just the benefit of some of you who do not

know the character Job. Can we have first one up?

And then you just follow me? Okay, just follow me? Okay.

There was a man in the Lene of Us, as

I always reminded authority, the Wizard of Oz, but Lene

of Us whose name was Joe. And that man was

blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. Okay,

what a guy? What a guy around? How many of

us can say I'm that guy? Okay? But Job is

that guy? Okay? Next next verse, verse two, and seven

sons and three daughters were born to him. Wow, productive,

really good, really fruitful. You know the Bible says be

fruitful and multiply and job is fruitful and multiply definitely

next verse, so introduction job. Also his possessions was seven

thousand sheep. How many of you has seven thousand sheep here?

Three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred

female donkeys. Perhaps one of the donkeys that Jesus wrote

on is his donkey. If you survived that long and

a very large household, so that this man was the

greatest of all the people of the east. Can you

see that the greatest of all? Next night, I mean

next verse and his sons would go and feast in

their houses each on his appointed day, and would send

and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

What a happily happy family. Whenever I see Drope, I

always remember Chasing and Unice, such a happy family with

the three children having dinner. I just I just picture

their family dinners or the table, and it's just a

lovely time. I know they love to invite people to

come along and eat with them. So and very very

good people, very good family. We Praiscot Fotboll said, Unie,

I would picture them, you know, they are their long table,

all the food on the table imagine this family. This family,

really I remember this family, and all the family say like, okay, oh,

your spreads are very nice. Who else do nice threads? Are? Uh?

All of you? Okay? Anyways, next verse I'll put Richard,

we see your house one day, I want to visit

h So it was when the days of fisting had

run their course that Job would send and sanctify them,

and he would rise early in the morning and offer

burnt offering according to the number of them all. I

don't know how many, but off ring has to offer

for Job said, it may be that my sons have

sinned and cursed God in their hearts. That does Job

did regularly? See, he feared a lot so much. You know,

everything he did there is because God, God was priority

in his life. Next verse verse six, we're getting to

the cake already. Now, there was a day when the

sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,

and Satan also came among them. Okay, so this is

one occurrence. Did Satan ever go to heaven or go

to in the midst of God? Yes, he did, because

God allowed him. Did you see that God allowed him?

And Satan also come on the sons of God that

want is the angels. Okay, I'm not going to also,

but next verse, next verse, and the Lord say to Satan,

from where do you come from? So Saytan, answered the

Lord and saying, from going to and fro on the earth,

and from walking back and forth on it. Can you

see that? Can you see that? One of Satan's greatest

lines is that he doesn't exist on this stuff? He does,

and we have to acknowledge his existence because if you're

not careful, his lives will get to us. No enemy,

no devil, whinding God. That's the number one line. Okay.

He goes to and fro, walking back and forth everywhere,

he's treading his ground. Satan, wor's it? You go? What's it?

Next to me? Come on? Follow me, next to me,

follow me. Then the Lord say to Satan, have you

considered my servant? Joke? I don't know. In the in

the first serrace, I did this illustration where let's say,

for example, we're praying for a breakthrough, be something you

want to invest in the pickerball codler, okay, and you're

about to get the deal, a very good deal, and

you prayed to God, Oh God, I need my loan

to be approve three thousand. Okay? Is it enough three million? Okay?

So I need my three million loan to be approof. You,

pray to God, God please come true for me. You

can do bank officers, bank officers, one after the other, right,

and then bank officers say, okay, let me process your

your application. Hey, pray to God, God please approve my loan.

I need to make this pickerball cat coun true or

else I cannot put food on my table. Okay, access

rating here? And then God hurt your prayer. Then when

he hurt your prayer, Okay, my son down there needs

three million dollars and he needs the loan to be approof. Okay,

I hurt your prayers? Son, Satan, Have you ever considered

my son down there on the earth? He needs three

million dollars? But actually, I have you ever considered him?

Have you ever considered him the none like him on

this earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears

God and shance evil. Have you ever considered him? I

don't know what you will think if you hear God's

hurt God say that I just pray to you for

my breakthrough, and you're offering me up to the devil.

Can you imagine me for one second? Now, everything that

God does and allows, you'll say the twist truth. This

is a testing, testing for joke. And if you know,

fast forward right like how I give you my destiny earlier,

I fast forward lah Or to the end of Joba.

You know, everything that he lost he gained, he gained back.

He gained back, double triple, he game back. He gained

all back, the riches, the wealth, the blessing, the family,

everything that he lost God restored, restored Joke because he

passed the tests. But let's move on verse nine very quickly.

So Satan answered the Lord and say, does Joke fear

God for nothing? Then? Starting today, all right, verse I'm

going to go on your worst, chelth. Have you not

made a hite around him, around his household, and around

all that he has on every side? You're blessed the

work of his hands and his possession has increased in

the land verse eleven. Verse eleven next to me. But

now stretch your hand and touch all that he has,

and he surely curse you to your face. So Satan

is already he's already questioning God. You reach your hand,

you touch him, he will curse you. No, you take

away all the blessings that you give to him, he

will curse you. Right next verse first, Chef and the

Lord say to Satan, behold, all that he has is

in your power. If you heard God say that about you,

you're a shiver. I don't know whether you're a shiver

or you give glory to God. All that he has

is in your power. Only do not lay a hand

on his person. Remember the verse that I read earlier,

that God would not allow you to be dampted beyond

what you can and deal murder verse That means God

knew that the only thing that Job couldn't end all

is death. Everything else Joke could endure it. So God

told Satan everything that he has is in your power

to prove Satan wrong. And no matter what you do

to my son, Job, God knew in his heart. But

Job didn't. Job didn't know the end story. Job had

faith and that's why he was blameless. And I'm right.

And if you know the story, it's one of the

most sickening story I've ever read in the Bible. Sickening

because when you really you go like, oh my goodness,

how can this ever happen? To a man. Let me

break it to you. He lost his family, he lost

his health, he lost all the donkeys that he had

or the sheep. He lost his house, He lost his identity,

he lost his own con vidence, lore so much. His

health was deteriorated to the point where his skin was

I can't. I can go on. But if you read

Job you'll know the struggles that he faced. Job one

was filled with that, filled with that, and yet Job

continued to trust God. Satan tried to send messengers to

three best friends. They were supposed to support him, his

wife that was supposed to be there for him, but no.

One of his friends said, perhaps you have sinned against

the lot? What have you done? Sometimes the devil will

attack that part of you that if you're not keeping

a close account, you will you will, you will keep

on using past hrd past sin that God has already

forgiven at the Cross, and it keep on eating you

up your identity in Christ. Oh why because I'm dirty?

Oh why because I'm not worthy? Oh why because I

used to take drugs? Oh? Why because no? But because

Jesus has defeated all of this on the cross. And

we have to acknowledge that because if you do not

acknowledge that, then we will keep on going in this

cycle of your identity in Christ that is not found

in Him. And you can listen to the twisting of

the lies of the enemy that's just there to seek

to steal and kill and destroy your entire life. That's

what the enemy is after. So I pray that today.

I pray James one tune to fall over all of you,

he says, my brethren, Counting all joy, Counting all joy.

When you fall into various trials, counting all joy and

something in your life and that that that that that

stumbling block comes in front of you, the moment something

happens in you, your company, maybe you're losing money for

whatever reason, count it all joy because when you lose

money now and when you eventually gain it back because

of your obedience in the Lord, and not just gain money,

but gain a testimony that comes from their money, you're

able to give glory to God. And that's the joy.

Count it all joy because when you are chosen. Wow,

can you imagine the perspective change. I go to trials

because I'm chosen of the lot. I go through this

failures because I'm chosen of the Lord. God chose you,

have you considered my son Joe to undergo trials, to

undergo testing. So don't run away from your trials. Don't

run away from your testing, because if you can change

your perspective, then when you go through testing in life,

that means is that God toolls you. God chows you

to be tested through fighting. And if you undergo enough

of that fire, the fourth person in the fire will appear,

and Jesus will appear like how he appeared upon shedered

micheard and medical Amen. The fourth person is the fire

that will allow you to undergo the testing and not

allow you to go beyond what you can endure. In

Job's case, that was his life, and so God said,

do not touch anything. You can touch anything except for

his life. You don't touch that satan. Satan's point is

that if I touch, touch, touch, he will surely curse you.

But you know Job, he didn't ye, John, Amen, he endured.

So I want to pray that you counted all joy

when you fall in the rays trials, knowing that the

testing of your faith producers patience. But let patients have

it's perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete

lacking how can one person fall into various trials and

yet lack nothing. Guys, that's the story of Job. Fall

into trial so much, but yet at the end of

the day he lacked nothing, and not just like nothing,

he had so much more. And God wants so much

more of your life. Elijah, when he was at his worst,

he said, God, take my life before two trials. David,

when he was filled with the guilt of what he

did with Bethsheba, he said to the Lord, help me,

help me, thank you, help me, and I want to

pray over all of you. That is not shameful to

actually go through a trial. It's not shameful to actually

go through something negative like some some of us may

lose our possessions, it's not shameful. Do not allow the

lives of them because the lies on are is the

shame and say that, hey, it's because of what you

did that you deserve that. No, but the Word of

God says that no amount of work that you do

will deserve salvation because it is by grace, true faith

that you are saving Christ Jesus Amen, not true your works,

less anyone should boss not of your works. Therefore, if

positive works will not lead to salvation. Negative works will

not bring you death as well, because you are already

condemned to death the moment man decided to sit. But

because Jesus Christ has came and delivered and conquered death

and took the key from hell, the key to eternal life. Amen. Amen.

So God allowed Satan to test Job, but not destroy him.

Job lost wealth, health, and family the moment of trial.

Satan even send Job's friends like I mentioned earlier, and

even his wife to twist the truth. Job didn't sit.

And yet God allowed Satan's testing. Sometimes we may we

may think of oh, because I sin, therefore God put

me through this test. No, no, not necessarily. Sometimes when

you sin, the Holy Spirit will convict you, because it

is in the Lord's prayer, the daily, the Lord's pray

that we should pray every day forgive us of our sins,

as we forgive those who sin against us. It's the

daily it's a daily prayer that we have to pray,

that we have to learn to pray. Amen. But yet

God allowed Satan. The test show lots of children, lots

of wealth, lots of health, misunderstands, misunderstandings from friends, and

even at a point in friends this is the this

is the one I wanted to catch. There was silence

from heaven. There was silence from God. How many of

you will continue to press on running the race with

ensurance even when God remained silent in your life? Yeah,

God was silent the most for forty years. Silent maybe

because poses disobeyed God and so he had to flee.

And for forty years he was in the wilderness with

jatro but in law tending to shape. After forty years,

God's fake God may be silent in your life. Silence

doesn't mean that God is not there. Silence just means

that God is testing you and testing produced patience. Are

you patient and a lot? Are you resting? And a lot?

Are you waiting? Resting also means not to do nothing.

But resting is to eagerly, earnestly wait. You know, even

the creation, even the earth, even the plants, stay earnestly

eagerly wait for the return of Jesus. Even the earth

does that. Unanimated objects also do that. We can read

that in I think it's in Romans. I pray that

that's all desire, that we're earnestly for the return of Us,

saying he meant he will come back. He will come back,

and the days is drawing near. But we don't know

the time or season, because only the Father and Heaven

knows the time that Jesus will be back. But Jesus

will be back in the name of Jesus. We know that.

We know that. So let's eagerly awake. Awake. God is watching.

Satan is twisting Job two nine. Job Job too nine says,

curse God and die. Curse God and die. That's what

Satan wants Job to do. The enemy wanted the job

to abandon his faith and identify based on his circumstances,

but yet Job stood firm. Later on, in Drop thirteen,

he says, though he slay me, though he slay me,

Drop thirteen fifteen, Though he slay me, yet I will

trust him. Can you have that faith? Even if God

slays you, you will still trust him. He reminds me

of the faith that Abraham had. Even if you take

my son, I will still trust you. Therefore, that's why

Abraham appeared in Hebrews eleven, which many of us call

the Hall of faith the hall of fame, but the

hall of faith by faith. Abraham offered Isaac I'm going

to give you some closing thoughts, and we're going to

end the message for today. I want to encourage you

to stay sober and to stay watchful. Friends, Stay sober

and to stay watchful, because the enemy is constantly trying

to twist the truth, and because the enemy doesn't want

you to be free, he twists the truth. Because only

the truth shall set you free. He meant, and the

truth is the holy scriptures that Jesus has left behind

for all of us. Satan often even uses scripture to

twist the truth. When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness,

Satan used scripture. Satan knows the Bible, but not in

an intimate way. He knows it in an intellectual way.

He's the Bible scholar of Bible scholars, but yet he

doesn't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That's what

we have. The Holy Spring minister to all of you.

Stay sober, guys, stay sober, Stay sober, and stay watchful.

Like the ten virgins, stay sober and stay watchful. Be

the five that is sober enough to say, Hey, let

us always have oil in our ms, let's keep it burning.

It's not just a child song. Okay, all in my

lambscape it burning. Yeah, I pray to that will be

our prayer, that our lambs will always be filled with oil.

Sober and watchful and not not when the when the

Lord comes, and when you knock at the door and

the Lord says I do not know you, Stay sober,

stay watchful. Amen. First Peter five eight says, be sober,

be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, walks about like

a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. The enemy

wants to devour you. I gave an analogy of the lion.

You know. The lion can be the lion of Judah,

that's God. But this line is different. This lion is

just someone that is just there. It's either you stay

sober and watchful and slay the lion with your bare

hands like David did, or you stay not sober and

not really vigilant, and the lion will devour you like

a roaring lion. The enemy, that's all he wants to

do in your life. He just wants to devour your hope,

your future, your identity in Christ. But if you continue

to stay sober and vigilant in the Lord, he will

know who is and what is being said. Be sober

because sometimes the words that may come in your way

may sound like God. But the thing about God is this,

God is the same, yesterday, today, and forever more. God

doesn't changed his mind. God loves you. God send his

son to die and across for you because he loved you.

For God's so loved the world, he gave his one

and only begone his son. And when God says that

he loves the world, and Satan tries to whisper that

he doesn't love you anymore, that's a lie. Because God

is ever lasting and it's never changing. He never changes. Amen, Amen, you do.

I have a next light about to close. I think

it is the last one to give you some call

to action. The first thing that I want to encourage

you to do is discern the season you're in. Friends. Yeah,

you may be a young teenager, camber student, maybe blooming

young working adult about to enter into your first entrepreneurship ability.

What season perhaps studying a new company, whatever you're maybe

you're retired, maybe you're you know, at a place where

you're waiting for what's next? Is it waiting? Is it testing?

What is it? The season that you're in. The second

thing that I want to encourage you is do not

make permanent decisions based on temporary pressure. Yeah, you may

be pressured to do something, but do not make a

permanent decision based on the temporary pressure. Because what builds

you is through the fire, melting in the fire, forming hardening.

That's how the clay gets formed into a nice object, vessel,

and we're all vessels for His glory. Amen. But in

order for the clay to become a vessel, it needs

to go through fire, not just once, but twice. You

can read it, and Jeremiah, I did a study about

this as well, not just once, but twice and for

hours and hours and hours hours and hours through the heat.

Don't allow temporary heat to affect permanent heat, because when

you allow and make decisions based on the temporary heat

and you go to a place where you are devoid

of the presence of God, that's when you end up

in the permanent heat, which is hell. And Hell basically

is the place where God's presence is devoid of God's

presence is not there. Do not make temporary decisions based

on the nominations, based on temporary pressure. Amen. Finally, I

want to encourage you to invite the Holy Spirit daily

in your life.

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