The Persecuted Church | Pr Matthew Chang

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So turn with me to Revelations chapter two. I've been

doing a series on the seven churches in the Book

of Revelations, but I'm not gonna do it in sequence.

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna jump around a bit

depending on how I feel, not exkuding, I just feel

like I want to do this particular church. I'm gonna

start with the second church, the persecuted Church, and it's

called the Church in Smyrna. We're gonna read here from

verse eight to verse eleven. Okay, Revelations chapter two, verse

eight to verse eleven. Okay, I'm gonna read a few verses.

I'm gonna pause for a while. I'm gonna share some things,

and then along the way I will continue. Okay. Now,

the title here reads the Persecuted Church, verse eight, and

he says, and do the the Angel of the Church

in Smyrna, right these things, says the first and the

last who was dead and came to life. Now let's

pause there for a while. Okay. Now, when you go

through the seven churches, and especially a lot of letter

the format right. Normally, the letter will begin with what

we call it introduction, not just an introduction for the

sake of writing introduction. This introduction is about introducing the author. Okay,

who are you so like? For example, if you read

in the Book of Romes, you will see Paul introducing

himself servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so sometimes

he can write a very short paragraph in the but

in the Book of Romans was a lot longer as well,

talking about his status and all where he was. He

was adeptor, a slave also to Christ, adeptor to both

Jews and Greek, and so on and so forth. Now

the introduction there is not just formality, okay. Introductions are

serf and in a very important way of giving us

a hint as to who this person is and the

content of this letter. Now, when you read in this

particular letter, it's a very short letter, okay, and we

know that the person who was writing it is Jesus himself. Okay,

Jesus himself. And if you read in different churches, all

these seven churches, Jesus introduced himself differently, very differently. It's like, huh,

I thought, Jesus is just Jesus. Lie, you know why

introduce differently. But if you read each a different letter,

they are introduced differently. If you read in the first Church,

in the Loveless Church in Ephesus, it says in verse one,

introduces Jesus as he who holds the seven stars in

his right hand, and he who walks in the midst

of the seven golden lampstands. So you know, it's like,

why is it just flower decorations? You know, no, there

is a reason why these are all introduced. But if

you read at the first one, they say he who

walks in the midst of the seven golden lamon stems,

it introduces Jesus as who as a priest. Oh, let's say,

for example, I go to Sunway Medical Center and doctor Daniel.

Irony is that he is a doctor and he's my housemate.

Also say, for example, okay, and I know him. You know,

I've seen him walk in his underwear on the corridor skating.

Some of you have seen your roommates, you know, our

housemates were there. I know he's so well, you know

we're best bodies. Ready, you know so well. But then

I got into a car accident and I admitted myself

to the hospital and I'm saying, hey, I need to

look for my not my housemand my look doctor Daniel, okay,

because he's a doctor. And I went in the room

into some medical center and I saw a person dressed

in a white rope and with a stethoscope, with a

clipboard and medical reports. And look at him. He looks

like Daniel, speaks like Daniels. What like Daniel? But is

it Daniel? Now walk closer. It is Daniel. But he's

not just Daniel, my housemaid. He is Daniel, the doctor.

You know what I'm saying here is different. And so

you must understand who this person is. The writer is John,

but the actual author, the person appearing in his vision

is Jesus. And when he sees Jesus for the first

time in this revelation, he couldn't recognize Jesus. You know.

That's why in the chapter one he will say that

the person that looks like the son of Man. He

didn't say Jesus. He said like the son of Man.

Because all this while for the tree and a half

year suspend with Jesus, he recognized Jesus as the teacher,

the discipler, the healer, but in this vision, Jesus was

manifested in a different glory. Ah. When Jesus first comes

to earth, how did he disclose? How did he manifest

himself as a child, but also as the servant king

he came to serve. But the second time that Jesus come,

he will no longer come as the servant king. He

will come as a king, but he will come as

the conquering king. So every time Jesus comes, he manifests

himself differently in different seasons, and so it's very important.

So sometimes then will appear to me as a leader.

He will appear to me as a doctor. Sometimes he

appeared to me as a roommate. But how he presents

himself it is very important because it gives a clue

of the season that we're in. I'm saying at the

time now say is suddenly, Matt, I'm not talking to

you now as a roommate. I'm talking to you right

now as a doctor, and I'm telling you you've got

a serious injury. So you stop, because he tells me

like that way, I start to take your information and

your advice differently right now. So it's very different. When

Jesus appears into you. We always think that he appears like, hey, Jesus,

lover of my soul. You know one one one only

you know it's I always heals on lever of my soul. Jesus.

I will never let you go. There's only one version

of Jesus. Oh no, I want to let you know

that the Bible depicts Jesus very differently, very differently. And

so you got to understand that when you read the Bible,

you got to read and understand the Bible as it

is not according to your box lit the box, not

according to your worship song, you know, and suddenly you

play I don't know, Bethel or elevate song like, oh,

this is Jesus. No, no, no, Jesus is according to his revelation.

So how did Jesus reveal himself to the prosecuted church?

In verse one and verse eight he says these things?

Says what the first and the last who was dead

and came to life? So all the titles, Jesus choose

to manifest himself in such a way to the church. Now,

how many of you agreeing that this letter has suddenly

become very interesting, very interesting, right? Because oh, I didn't

know there was a key to unlocking more and more things.

Right now, So you got the first key, Okay. The

first key is Jesus manifesting himself as what the first

and the last, and who was there and came to life.

Of all things, he choose, he choose to manifest himself

this way. Why We're gonna understand why by reading further

what they go through, and when we understand the situation

they go through, the desperation, the persecution and what they

are facing, then we realize why Jesus had to appear

as that person. You get me right? If I'm sick,

if I'm having stroll or very serious injury, I don't

need then to appear as my roommate. I need to

appear in my life as the doctor. Why to give

me hope or give me a warning? What I need,

not what I want? Okay, everybody, Okay, so far learning

take Okay? Now verse nine and he says, here, so

does Jesus, who is the first and the last, who

was dead and who came to life. What did he say?

He says, I know your words, your tribulation and poverty,

but you are rich. And I know the blasphemy of

those who say they are Jews, and they are not,

but are a synagogue of Satan. And in verse ten,

that's on further. But do not fear any of those

things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil

is about to throw some of you into prison that

you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days,

be faithful until death, and I will give you the

crown of life. Okay. Now, so Jesus firstly says, okay,

I know your works, your tribunations, and your poverty. So

first thing, Jesus reveals himself as someone who knows everything

that happens in our lives, your tribulation. You know that, yes,

the fact that surrounds you, and how you feel towards yourself,

how you feel compared to the world, how small you

are compared to the world. And in this case, the

Christians were feeling that they were that they are persecuted,

they are poor. But then it brackets there and it

says that but you are rich. He say that this

is what you are surrounded and this is what the

conclusion of your present situation. But I'm letting you know

that I've come here right now into your life. My

presence is here, but I'm going to review something greater

than your present circumstances. I'm going to reveal to you

that you are actually rich. How many are you right

now today that you want a revelation from God, A

revelation from what. It's not just a future knowledge, you know.

A revelation from God is about how to truly see

where you are right now? You know, I mean right

Sometimes you look at yourself as that you are poor,

but God said, no, you are rich. You can say, oh,

you know, it's only a problem is you don't need

any prophet or on you. It is God himself speaking

into the situation and revealing you are not poor, but

you are rich. And he says, and I know the

blasphemy of those who say they are juiced and are

not but are Satan. Not only I know who you are,

I know your enemies and what they are trying to

do to you. Okay, what they are trying to do

to your So God reveals in your life. And God

also reveals into the areas and the works of the enemy. Okay.

When God reveals her, there's only two reactions, you know,

Either you stay in the light or you hide from

the light. Okay, there's always too I need to insist

for us. We are trying to. If you're believer and

you are consecrated, you are pure, You're nothing to lose.

You stay in the life, said Lord, Examine me, search me.

If I'm wrong, let me know. But I know there

is nowhere, nowhere else I can run to except to you,

even even when we are guilty. Where do we run?

You alone have the words to eternal life. You know

what I'm saying. But to the people who are evil,

who even they themselves call themselves you know, a servant

of God, they will hide, they will deny. Okay, Now

that's examine a bit about why do these Christians call

themselves poor? How did they become poor? Okay? So, uh,

I need volunteers for volunteers. Anyone want to volunteer, for volunteers,

to come up and stand with me here for volunteers. Okay, good, come, come, come,

don't worry, I won't I won't hurt you for volunteers.

Thank you so much. Okay, Uh, Joel, you stand Okay,

the tree of you face him and you face towards them. Okay. So, okay,

I'm gonna explain to you how the Roman Kingdom works. Okay,

So Smyrna is one of the town's Okay, and it's

actually like a very new town. It's not like a

Malacca or a pin Malaca considered old cities a lot

of history. Smyrna is like or a cyber very new city. Well,

what's the difference between an old city and a new city?

Better for it? M I think, I think she's I can't.

I can't reject that. Also, it's best question. It's quite

true that. Okay, So the older it is, the better

the food is it. Let's put let's put that to

the test. Okay, yes, foo is one. But the other

is that. Of course the older cities they have their

own heritage history. But when you are new, you less heritage.

You are new. But the good thing of a new

city is that you don't have you're not constrained by

the past infrastructure, traditions, any things. So for example, Putrajaya,

they can build, they can plan from the very beginning.

That's why if your good project is totally different compared

to Binang and Malacca. The streets are not one lane,

you know, it's like everywhere it's green, so much green

on the left so much green on the right, everyway

is green. Of course you plan it like that. So

Smyrna was a new city, and with the new city,

that could plan. Okay. So one of the things in

the planning was there they introduce a new religion or religion,

a newer religion okay in most of the kingdoms, in

around Roman Kingdom they are so then would represent the

community of pagan believers, the Romans, the Greeks, you know

what they're believe in. Its use Jupiter Athena, not so

many gods they're worship. Okay. He will represent the majority

of the people there. Okay. So we have also here

the Greeks answering, the Greeks, the Jews. Okay, the Jews,

they are a lot of them in different places, uh

in in uh around in our Rome, not as many

considered the minority. And then we have the newcomer Christians okay.

And then we have this very powerful guy. Okay, uh

he's Caesar, El Caesar. I mean, if you're watch going

to watch Gladiator too, man, Denzel watching Tennessee, do the

Donzel Donzel. You're having too much fun, bro, all right? Okay,

So imagine that he is Caesar, okay, And so what

happens is that before all these different communities they could

practice their religion and so, but then a new religion

came out and it was instituted by Caesar. And what

is what we call the imperial cult? I mean, have

you heard with you before? You can go in Wikipedia?

What is the imperial cult? Imperial cult is a tradition

that has been practiced earlier on by the Greek. What

do they call it a culture? But some emperors do

with some emperors don't. But what basically emperial count means

the worship of kings. So kings are no longer representatives

or leaders. They have ascended to another level of being

gods themselves. Okay, sounds familiar. So another type, it's like Pharaoh.

Pharaoh considers himself as the god over all other gods

as well. So when you go and see the templax, right,

the last is the firstborn okay, the firstborn my because

Pharal is the first one of the god ah. So

actually the templace is actually defeating all the all the

different deities in Egypt as well. Oh there will be

another time, okay. So it became the imperial cult. Worship

but the instituted in different places in different degrees of authority.

Some places they will is a must, some places no, Okay,

it depends. But Smyrna was one of the new places

that institute. They buy to be by law because it's

like the new city, the new kid. So people can do.

Have enforced a bit more things there. And so what

did Caesar what is Caesar wanted? You must understand that

although there's a lot of people there, everybody are very centralized.

You buy your food, you get your license, pay your taxes,

get financing mostly from the marketplace. They don't have Tesco,

don't have Gia grocer, don't no, no, no. Everything was

one central area. Okay, So imagine with me like this

is you guys at the marketplace. Everything you do, you get,

you live. Okay's basically in the marketplace, and there's an

entrance and on my right said there is a there

is a group of soldiers of battalion soldiers. So if

I want me, as any of them want to enter

into the marketplace, there's something I need to do, okays,

as the people's money, I need to go in front

there and beside me there will be two altars, one

of the altars will be chackal fire. Okay, it's like

hot Korean barbecue. Imagine with me, okay, Korean barbecue. And

on the other altar is incense, powdered incense. You know

there was China powdered incense. They actually use a scoop

and then they drop it one. Okay. So before I

go in in front of the soldiers, I will take

a pinch of the incense and I would drop it

off the chuckle there and it will not and the

inctance will be lifted, and I will say Hell is

God as an allegiance before the as a sign of

faithfulness and good faith before the soldiers, and I will

be able to walk in. That was how they did it, okay.

And so we have now how does they implicate all

the different communities? For them, you got no problem because

you do it. It's part of the Greek and Roman society.

They do it for all the different gods as well.

No problem, live with that. For the Jews, it was

a bit more of a problem because they are basically

uh mon atheistic theocratic type of government. Their religion and

their and their community and their government are one. Okay.

The laws come from their religion, and they do not

believe that. They cannot accept that the Caesar is God

because they only believe in one God. So to believe

that is to undo themselves as well as a people,

as the whole entire history. It's a huge implication, you

get mean right. It's very rare because we isomolation. We

sometimes don't understand because we are Malaysian, but we are

also Christian. But for them, there's only no such thing.

There's only one. I'm in Israel like I'm a Jew.

You get mean right. It's very different, very very different

type of faith. Okay, so they couldn't do it. But

how do they circumvent this or get exempted from this? Okay?

There are few theories. Some people say that there was

an arrangement between the Jews and the Roman Empire and

emperor to collect texts before so you are exempted. But

they are allowed to collect texts from the Jewish Temple.

Why the Jewish Temple because every year all the Jews

must travel to Jerusalem to do their Day of Atonement worship.

I'm talking about millions, and not just visit. They have

to offer worship and sacrifice. One you know, that is

why they have money changes and animal sacrificers, so you

don't have to collect any places. You just have to

collect at the temple a lot of money, a lot

of money. The second theory is because they knew the

Jewish people were known to be very badly as as well,

so they wanted to avoid a lot of insurrections, so

there was an agreement. Likely it is a combination of

both as well. So the Jews, okay, we're exempted from

this worship. Now we have another trouble person there, so

can you step up a bit here, Pretend like you're

Pretend like you are like a black sheep. You know,

you're like a you know, ostracized. You know, you see,

as a Christian, you are the new king in the block.

You don't worship the Pagans, don't have the pagan belief

like the Greeks or the Romans. You don't identify fully

as a Jew. In fact, the Jews hate you. The

Jews actually send people to go and chase and put

you to prison because of all so much, or they

actually crucify your leader. No Jesus, you know, you know,

I mean right, really king. But yet a lot of

the Jews at that time, actually were in Jerusalem when

Pentecosts happen. That's why there there are in Smirna in

Rome as well. But you witness something that you could

not deny. You you could even sprobably speaking tongues for

people say well, you go to a new country, learn

different language that can speak of any reasoning. It's like,

oh so unique not but you cannot. And then now

you have a worship of the emperor. But if you

you can't you So you're in every direction, in every corner.

You are stuck, you are cut off. They hate you,

they hate you, and they hate you, and you can't

and you can't, and you are placed with this dilemma,

what do you do to be integrated into the normal

society and the normal human life? You know what I mean? Right?

And not only there, you're not just ostracized economically, socially

ostracized as well because people are trying to find out

who are the Christians. They were finding out because you

do not worship, you're causing trouble for the city. And

not only that because of their religious belief when you

don't offer sacrifices. They really believe at that time that

if there is a drought, if there's a poor harvest,

if there's an earthquake. Everything is because the Christians were effort.

You can't mean right, everything in the world was the

Christians fault. Okay. The Jews they were hunting you. They

totally do not identify with you. It's that you're a

Malaysian stuck in Australia but without a passport. But not

only there, you don't even the Malaysian is this avowed

you will know you're not Malaysian. We don't want you

as well. So you're stuck and all you're like a

You're like a refugee without any passport. No country wants you. Okay,

it's no, it's and because of them, you don't know

who to trust. You can't trust them, can't trust them,

can't trust them, And so how do you live about that?

How do you live? Okay? So imagine that I'm a

stranger okay, and you are there and you need food

to feed your children. You're so poor, and know what

you do? Imagine it's like, oh, you heard report that

I'm a christianis firl But because you're in the public space,

you can't go to me. Hey, are you a Christian

and hey, can you give me some you lend me

some food. You can't do that because you don't know

who to trust. I could be anyone of the agents, right,

So what how would you communicate with me? Sign language?

How do I? How do you? How? How how are

you able to trust me? How symbols out symbols? Yeah, so, Craat,

I think I teach people. I think, so what you so,

what you will do is basically you will stay here

and this is what you do. You will take your

feet and then you will draw a line here and

then you move away, and then me, as a new person,

I will come around. And I was like, oh, let

me draw a sign. And then what happens is this

signed here you have the slightly you see the symbol

of the fish. Then ah, so the first stroke and

the second stroke. So she would draw the first stroke

and I will complete a second stroke from below, and

then you would come out with this one. It's not

feeding the five thousand there and all. Some people have

this on their car, but it's not buffish. But this

is actually it's not I want you come thing gie okay,

but this is basically saying that it's a crypt is

an ancient cryptography okay, to basically say, Jesus Christ, Son

of God and Savior, to show that you and I

are actually of the same thing that you can believe

as well. And that is how they actually communicate and

really live based on the mercy of other people to

get through it as well. Thank you so much everyone,

I mean, if you've done something today, so letter, we

go out while we keep drawing on the floor. Okay,

pepsi cola, Oh yeah, we go out and drow Okay,

everybody can drive. So there was the reality of your

life to communicate in such secrecy in cryptography. And they

were they felt that they were very very very poor. Okay,

very very poor now, but Jesus says that they are

actually very rich. And Jesus says that even in verse ten,

they say that some of you will be even tested

and by being thrown into prison and you will have

tribulation ten days. But the days doesn't mean literal ten days.

The day is actually referred to most people believe ten emperors. Wow,

And actually it's quite true. You know, if you moment

at that time, if you track down the different emperors,

will be the time when Christianity becomes recognized officially as

the religion in Rome as well. Ten Okay, but it's

a long time, very very trying time as well. Now

I want to move on to the second gear of

my preaching, and I will stow it close. Ready, Okay,

I'm going to wrap it up now because of what

they go through for them, anytime they could die. I'm poor,

prosecuted corner. And Jesus himself said that I probably will

die and I'll be tested. And that is why Jesus

has to come and introduce himself as well, the first

and the last who was dead and came to life.

Jesus is not trying to tell them you won't escape prosecution.

Jesus is trying to tell them whatever that you have,

I have come to you and to tell you that

you and I we will overcome. You will overcome. You

will overcome because Christ has overcome. Overcome. What death? Death?

If you're not scared of death, and nothing can stop you, nothing, nothing, nothing,

that's the only thing they can threaten you. No death,

you know, that's the worst thing that can threaten you.

But if you're not scared of that, nothing can threaten

you nothing, really, Okay, that is why Jesus has to come.

You can't you come to a person who is facing them,

what you tell them, Oh, it's okay, God is good. No,

Jesus is the first and the last, the one who

will overcome. Okay. Now I want to let you know

so that this whole thing that's happening to the Christians

is part of what we call the antichrist agenda. Some

of you will have seen many It's not easy toping

the preage on because it will touch a lot of

things some people find very sensitive. And I tell you

that this Antichrist and gender is so real, but it's

also very hard to discern, very hard to divide as well.

And the only way to divide it is true the Bible,

and you will faith if medt We face with many

social issues like that the Christians face. Do you eat?

Do you Is it okay to take a pinch and

drop it off? There? Is it okay to eat the

food their sacrifice? Is it okay to you know, to

associate yourself in these places? And if you translate in

this world? Right now, we've got so many issues, and

I'm going to tackle one particularly issue that many people

might not preach about very controversial, but let's do it, man,

Let's do it man. And I didn't. I didn't happen

to preach about it. I didn't wasn't planning it. But

Edason was talking about it. The issue of abortion, oh, poster,

what you're dared to tackle? This one is such a

controvery issue. It can divide a nation. You know, you

know that in the US they just recently have their election.

I'm gonna telling you left why. I don't care about candidates.

I'm talking about policies, and more important, just about policies.

How people are so divided over one particular issue. Let's

look at some of the things that people are talking

about and look at how the world perceives. And more importantly,

I want to equip us here how we as believers

ought to perceive and to divide clearly now, without doing

any slighter I don't want to do the legal what

this abortion? Okay, we cancel life, some at the early stage,

mid stage, some people as close as two weeks as well.

They even allow before before before birth, many different layers.

The proponents will say, ah, there are issues people, you know,

it's there are many people who are raped, they have

unwanted child. A lot of ladies will have pregnancy because

of health uh and psychological risk due to pregnancy as well,

And so we have to give them the right to

choose for your body. So a vote for abortion is

to give women their rights. I can tell you who

will be against that, because they will just say one thing.

If you against abortion, you're against women rights. Ture not.

They put everything into one m one namb summer true not.

And they hijack everything you know, hyjack everything. Who will

be against rights? If I come to you, I'm here,

I'm here to support your rights, every different rights as well.

You will support me. You will find no no reason,

no moral reason to reject it mean right. So what

they do, they will immediately climb and climb and claim

the first moral high ground. We are giving you rights.

You should support us. If you don't, you are anti life,

You are a horrible human being. You do not love,

you do not care, You are misogynistic, you are you

know all these things. They will label you all these things.

Isn't it so? We as Christians? But we cannot murder?

How do we reconcile this? Then some people will go

to the medical medical route. Some people will go into

the social route, go in the bay and all these

things as well. It's burn up so many people. You

go to the top universities, you go to Harvard, you

go to Yale. These students are not studying anymore. They

are spending half their time camping outside the lawn there. No,

it's happening to top the top universities. They're not studying.

They are not studying in Melbourne. I've seen this Melbourne.

You need as well. It's true, but not so far.

But it's happening all these radicalism. They target all the

top IV universities because there is where you get the

best return for the money invested. But it's true, you

don't want this is just business sense. You get mean

that you target the top I leave. I really, So

what do we do as Christians? How do we all

go against and look if of course, if we look

at one eye, we look at what they're saying. Makes

a lot of sense, you know, Okay, it makes a

lot of sense. And we as Christians living now in

further and deeper into the future, we are now being

perceived as one I just got to this line. We

are perceived. Eventually we will be perceived as the people.

There are more okay, hated, suspicious exclusive judging may be

the next like next time, next one, No, next one.

People are this one suspicious exclusive judging, corrupt, unloving, unaccepting

and cursed people. I tell you, in the end of days,

we will not be looked You and I will look

at Christians and good people. In the end of days,

we will be looked at as the bad people, and

they will really look at themselves as the good people. Truly, truly,

make no mistake, we will look at the people who

are barbarians. We will be looked at the people who

are unaccepting, unapolojective, most stubborn people. They say, Hey, how

can you say Jesus is the only way? How can

you Jesus be the only way? No other way? But

if I do go, I have got intentions. How how

can you claim Jesus or the only way so exclusive?

By that one word you condemned the rest of the

people will know. Oh, but you must understand, is not

what we say, It is Jesus saying, But the same

Jesus who say it also died for you. So how

do you reconcile the great depth of forgiveness and love

also comes with the great depth of truth and exclusivity.

So which wins your intentions? Are God's great love? You'm

to say, oh, which wins good intentions? Everybody is good intentions?

You know you got men. So the whole world will

find a very difficult time to reconcile if they don't

know God, very difficult time because everybody wants to be

morally right. You got me. I know. It's about more intelligence,

morally right. I'm more righteous than you you Christians? How

can you claim to be more righteous? We are not

righteous by our own works. You know nothing you all

is by the work of God, and all if we

If I die today, the only thing that can make

me go to heaven is because I come to the cross.

Nothing keeps me afloat except the crossing all seriously, you know,

but we will be looked at at the most exclusive

and bigoted people. And I faced it before before. Okay,

there will they were. They will call us to be unlerving, unaccepting.

How can you say that this is only the right

gender you can love? Love is love. Everything is love.

How can you say that nor there is right and

wrong in love? Everything is love? Guy gy gir girl

animal also can for eighty years old with a twelve

year old. Also, okay, what's wrong with that? Love is love?

My everything is love. If you think it's true, then

I tend to you. If you have a sister who

is ten year old, can the eighty year O come

and marry your daughter or your sister? Are you okay

with that? Someone comes to v air right now and

say that, Oh, I actually been looking at that girl

for a long time. I want to you know, you know,

bench potentially just not that, not not married and maybe

date her. You're wanting to know her. You're okay with that.

Suddenly it's a different standard, you know, So suddenly there's

a different standard. You all different standard. Nor love is love?

Then is it okay that? If you have parents, then

your mom and dad called and I have a long

six hour talk with the platonic friend of the other

sex as all love is lover Oh there are boundaries.

But yet people will not be able to say that.

You don't know why because they have lost their ability

to cut and divite things. I would have another time

I wou appreach about the ability. One of the most

important ability of a Christian is to cut and divide

as God divided the heavens and the earth, light and darkness,

water from the earth. Without all this, there can be

no life. You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying, No,

Without those, they's just chaos. They're just the waters. No

life can exist. It's just confusion. But we must be

able to cut there's another message. Okay, but all these things, Okay,

now we come, we face the first wave abortion. There

will be more to come. So if you look at

one eye, look at with the eye of the flesh,

you look at the eye of your world, with your

own human reasoning intelligence. If you look at abortion, I

think wrong, Ma? Is you wrong? Ma? I think they're innocent.

They're really trying to help the people who are raped,

who are not having health problems. Don't share if you're

statistic here, and they will not release the statistic until

the election is over. CDC, the same people who recommend

the COVID problems are all these things that all these

protocols are just release. You know why. It's the percentage

of pregnancy due to rape and then they aborted. You

know what's the percentage zero point one five percent due

to rape? Zero point one five percent okay, see women's

How many percentage of abortion is due to women's life

being endangered by pregnancy directly zero point two percent. How

many percentage of women who aborted was her own physical

health and psychology and psychological health was threatened three percent?

And it all up ninety six percent. Ninety five percent

of people who choose to abord aborted for either for

social or economic reasons because having a child was just

too inconvenient to ninety six percent. Seventy five percent within

there will not disclose what was the reason. Why give

a reason. There are some people who dare to tell

them it's economic reason, it's social reason. Most of them

my young people. If you go to if you go

to UNI and you have a child ready, how you

can explain to your daughter? And recently we have a

Malaysian who were very tragic news. One Malaysian was in UK.

One lady she committed suicide because she was found pregnant.

I think UK, if I not mistaken a few weeks ago,

I think two weeks ago. So sad because she couldn't

find it Outlet all the expectations. They will see you

and they will use the zero point one person zero

point two percent to hijack the whole entire reason true

or not, and they will make it the main story

when the real story is because white people are bored

because it's an inconvenience. Okay, but then there was inconvenience.

They will fall back. It is still my right. I

decide what's right for my body. Sounds empower, sounds right. Ma.

You can't tell me what's right and wrong. It goes

back to the garden or I don't tell me how

to live my life. But now we as Christians, we

cannot argue on that level. We have to not look

at the world standard and open our eyes to the

biblical standard. Let me ask you as a conclude shortly, yea,

what do you think is the opposite of abortion or

the ideology behind abortion in the Bible? Why is the opposite? Anybody?

What is the opposite of abortion? Some people say life

isn't it? Can I present to you something different? The

opposite of the abortion movement or the thing okay, is

actually communion. You know why? It's communion. Every Sunday, every

first Sunday of the week out of the months. You

come in, you take that bread and the cup, you

partake that is the opposite of abortion, and you identify

as a Christian, you partake into it. How how does

it relate to abortion. Let's look at the chart. Abortion

says it's my body, I decide for myself. Communion is

Christ saying, this is my body I give to you.

Every Communion you read that communion prayer, you pray that

I partake of this bread Christ's body for me. It's

not about my right. I decide for myself. My body

broken for you and every mind we PARTI every time

you were sick you needed something. Christ has to give

his body when you ask for him. He didn't say

it's my right. I choose what I want. God say's

not my one. You don't want, I give it ownership

of the body. My My body is mine and I

have the right to control to control it. In communion Christ,

Christ gave his body selflessly for others, even to you sinners.

You and I who were sinners use a body abortion.

Why do we do it? Avoid burden and inconvenience by

terminating the unborner. Unborner, you haven't even have a name,

yet you have a future because by de having this child,

I'm trading my future for the child's future. You can't

mean right to give up your life for this child's life.

You know what does Christ say in communion? Christ borders

burden of sins and suffering for humanity. My blood was

spilled so that you who knew no sin, can have

forgiveness while I suffer for it. Christ was sinless enough,

and he chose to suffer. We. I mean, if we

go into abortion, we were the one who committed the scene.

But others pay for our sins, for our problems. We

don't want to take for it life and sacrifice. What

does the abortion talk about? The mentality prior to priority, priority, prioritizing,

prioritizing personal autonomy. You still because you realize the moment

you have a child, your life is no longer your own.

You can't make your decision for yourself anymore. You can't

do this some of you, you know you when your child'

is like, oh I want to sleep. I so can't sleep,

you know, because the child do you want to have breastfeed

the child? Your life is not your own anymore. It's

not your own anymore. You still want your life, You're

still you still want your rights over the life of

the unborn, not born man. Maybe it's still are not

alive yet, and you will disqualify everything about the child

so that you can get your rights. Christ sacrifice his

life for others, even before we believe, you know, even

before we believed in all. And suddenly when you you,

when you look at abortion now with one eyes closer,

it seems all right, seems so empowering, seems so humane

and morally high. You can never say no to it.

But if you look and you open your eyes and

you start to put what the world with, what the

world stands for, with the Bible, with Christ, you start

to see what the world pushes you completely differently, in

a different light. It's like, oh, I used to love

to eat this dish or so nicer until you watch

a video and you see that, oh, how this person

prepares this. They're not for you. They are not for

you people. The only person who really is for you

is the one who died for you. Make no mistake

about it. You see who I'm saying. You know, so

we as believers are they cannot be deceived, you know,

and say what I'm saying, No, you cannot be deceived

enough less you disqualify yourself from the everything you partake

every month the communion of God. It's so easy to

be deceived, you know, and see that. How can you

reconcile these too? There is no reconciliation. Christ has come,

if he has shown he is the light of the world.

Understand now you agree on our people. Christ is the

light of the world. The world will say, I am

the light of the we are the light, follow us,

we are morally high. But Christ says, no, I am

the light of the world. The world's evil will be

truly more evil when Christ comes. This why they hate him,

you know what I'm saying now, because he exposes them.

You know I'm saying it makes them more evil. That's

why they hate it. And I tell you, eventually they

cannot pursue their agenda while the church continues to march on.

Eventually the church must be persecuted to shut them up

so that they so that this other column will be

removed and only appearing is their agenda, and they will

look like they're the most righteous person in the whole world.

And that see what I'm saying. No, there is their job,

that's what they want. So we cannot allow them. So

what is our respond towards the end, we must know

the word of God. Whoa thank you God. That's the

first time that's ever happened to me. This is the

first man I preach half way out money, thank you,

love for your blessings. Thank you. Ah. The idea was

a you want to know this is a love of

ring someone gave to me. I completely forgot about it.

I completely forgot about it. I got it on the spot,

thank you, and I put it there and oh, oh yeah, sorry,

got it. I want to take it for granted. Wow,

how do I close this that? I don't know this

at first? But yeah, you know why. It's our response.

Our response is that you know, trust me in. The

persecution is going to go deeper, and even the elect.

The Bible says even the elect will be deceived. This

is just a first waiver, first wave. There will be

even more. And how do you, as Christians reconcile somebody?

You can see they will not. The world cannot look

at this this way because you know why, because you

can talk about all the social issues, but the main

issue is they don't recognize God. They don't recognize such authority,

such truth. They will say he didn't die, he didn't

he's not valid. It came me in right for them.

They just really want to completely remove the comparison. But

you and I, if we have this privilege of knowing

the Word and knowing Christ personally, you cannot be deceived

such a way. It is your job to protect your

own family, your own children, your own brothers and sisters.

You're spoused by being enlightened with the Word. No excuses people.

This is not the first wave. Like I tell you,

there will be more that come. And I will tell

you the more you study, the more you're open to me,

there will be more division coming. Christis said, I'm not

come to bring peace, but earth division the world and

him will not reconcile. God is coming to conquer, conquer all. Okay,

so this is a call people, we gotta wake up.

How many of you are hungry when there's a revival.

There should be a hunger for the Word of God,

a hunger like no one else. Like you read the Bible.

It's not like just reading because you know you ought to.

There's such a hunger and you need to read the

Word again and again until again until it takes over me.

It takes over me and takes over my world that

when the world tries to tell me something it cannot

it cannot come in You tell me in right. There's

a way when you read the word that it transforms

and overtakes you so that the world cannot overcome you.

You know what I'm saying you some of you you're

jumping into the water. You're still wet. But there is

a way that when we jump into the water, we

will never even be wet, or that's what God wants

us to be.

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