Believe | Eld Wong Kien Yiak

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Anyway, Yeah, CNY is coming up, and I hope those

of you are traveling this travel safe, all right, drive safe.

Pray for journey mercies for everyone that's other vehicles that's on.

The road all right. Uh.

I pray that you know you remember to exercise discipline

during the c n Y in terms of your foot

intake or calorie count.

Hallelujah. Amen.

For those of you who don't look forward for your

reunion dinners because of the questions you may get, May

the Lord give you wisdom and answering every question that

your relative may ask you pertaining your future right life

partner and stuff like. For those who are married, if

they do ask you for the your child, may God

give you wisdom as well and patient in replying them.

Amen.

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All right? You know, as as as we step into this.

New year, really right, going into twenty five years of

our church, really it's you know, it is nothing shot

by America. That's why we are here and maybe started

the church. It's not because that we had the degree

of like you know, how we start the church We

just had a simple belief. You know something, when God

give you something, right, we just have to believe. The

belief is just these friends. It is about reaching the

people around us with the message that God has given us.

That's it all right.

So we grew ub an environment whereby came from a

youth group. There's peak and love leaders. But that the

heat they are working stage, already working life. You know,

they sort of a fizz it out and something that

give up on the faith turned to different directions and

different encouragement, different pathway and for saying God and our

heart goes out for them. Really just our heart goes

out for them, and we just wanted to reach the

word is is that no, God, would you use us

to reach back our friends?

That was just it.

And you know those of you are born in the

seventies before eighties, you know that you're from this generation X.

The alphabet X, right, that shows how old you are.

And we wanted to turn the X generation, Anon generation,

THEGNEMA generation, the generation whereby so I've lost in between

two worlds, right and to acts Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit

Field generation. So twenty five years have gone and passed

really only because of the goodness of God. And with

all the challenges that we have went through, and not

just in terms of finances alone, it's hard to know. Hard,

it's very challenging when you I'm sure Souvill went through it,

when you buil up something without resources right, you know,

like not like David prepare for Solomon. You know, give

all the letters right where every country goes to the

letters to get resources to build the temper ours is

only the Bible. Praise Hallujah, thank you for the Bible.

And I'm with our belief that God is bigger than

everything that we have we're going to face. We just believe,

friends believe, and I do pray that right now that

all of us say we belief.

Really, you know, in these days, in this form where.

We are living in right, sometimes we get we have

a lot of future in our life. There's a lot

of fult in life. The way we see things, the

way we experience things, the way we look at things right,

and we go to a.

Lot of futer.

And that's why sometimes we finally had to believe, we

finally how to receive, we finding.

How to work.

It is that to know that this God that we serve, right,

who's so faithful when we are a college student, will

be fitful to us in our working life, in our

working world, and sometimes in our journey of life.

Friends, you be tested and God allowed testing. I'm going

to show off towards to reveal.

And God always uses the experiences that we go, the

decision that we go to to reveal. So the Bible

wants a reminder us in mark up the NI version

the tree. Jesus say that if you can believe, all

things are possible to him who believe. Right, if you

can believe, and I thought to myself, like everyone can believe.

It, right? You think about it? Right?

I mean, if I've asked us right now in this

you always see a belief a God. We do right,

we do believe right, we do believe there is a God.

Right we do.

The question I think God is asking is deeper than

just a belief in you all the words. This is

that uh, something SuperNature being out there is to go

deeper in our life, whereby the belief translates into action,

translate into the way we leave our life, Translate into

the decision making, translate into value system that we embrace,

translate into the natural circumstances when we receive, we don't

just accept the natural. We look for the God factor

in the natural right, So it is not just about

friends getting a nice piece of land. If you know

the story between Abraham and Lord, the situation whereby they

were arguing they will strive, and Abraham, being a bigger

person at heart, say to Lord, why don't you choose

first for yourself where you want to go, and I'll

go the other direction? Normally is the doubt. They choose first,

and you know the leftovers. You understand, right, But here's

a situation whereby Abraham allowed and gave the honor to

Lord and said, Lord, would you choose? And Lord chose

for himself the best place, for his hurts, for the cattle,

for everything else, the best place. And you begin to

discover that when we begin to choose things for ourselves

and not embrace God's value, that you will find yourself

getting drawn further and further away from your direction, from

your destiny. So when Jesus said, if you can believe,

all things are possible, so I guess, and I'm trying

to interpret these is the belief have to go deeper

than just seeing a bigger, powerful being out there has

to be translated in the way we believe our life,

because all things are possible to those who believe. First,

there are things in our lives and we face goes

beyond money, goes beyond education, for example, our self esteem.

God causes to be overcomers, whereby we go to ourselves like, no,

it's hard, it's hard to forgive, it's hard to let go,

it's hard. The word this is that it's hard to

exercise grace when when you're so pressured, it's hard to

exercise patience.

Friends, I can guarantee you this, Cny.

Some of your relatives will just keep on asking you

and asking you you and toil the point whereby you

just want to come back home as quickly as you can, right,

And I pray that you know you you look at

this scripture and just say that God, is this something

that you're speaking to me about? Because when God says

all things are possible to him who believes, it goes

beyond an education system or monetary breakthrough. It goes into

the core values of our hearts. Where God asks you

to take a step of faith, he gives you a talent.

We have to believe that God gives a talent for

a reason and for a purpose right, so all things

are possible to him who believe. But friends, is one

thing to just believe. The other thing is to take

the step of faith, to walk the land, to walk

the ground, to live our life. You know, doing church

for past thirty five years, I've seen people who just

believe God really.

And people who really believe.

And many times in our life we can go to

our life just believing a God, believing a being.

But after that no break through.

So if you ever grew up in the seventies and eighties, friends,

the Christianity back in those days were moved by science

and wonders. A lot of testimony that goes around where

by people pray, healing take place. Now days it's more

towards the word, is reasoning out and try to the words,

try the reason of faith. Now there's a space, there's

a space for that. But we should always give space

for the Holy Spirit to move. When God does speak

to you and say to you.

To go, would you go? Really?

Make many years? I think was it the fifty year

or sixth year of our church? You know, CNY has

always been a very challenging time for any church. Just

because you know, granted, everybody goes back and celebrate, but

the church has to run, you know, you know what

I mean, Chesse, you has to run very suddenly shut

down the church for Chinese deer.

There was a time whereby I think.

Past, we spoke a message what happened if really Jesus

come back on the first day of CNY. Just and

this is a football thought defends it's not it's not

autology discuss anything like that. It's a foot for thought,

what happened if Jesus returned on first year of CNY?

Would we be ready for it?

And it's a tought only because many times where we

we love the time with our family and relatives and

stuff like that, the challenge has always been if God

does something that really that that that that challenges our

our call belief in terms of like, but I don't

understand God, you know times first day of CNY, I

haven't done my uncle collection yet, my rounds. I don't

even know what that means any more. Friends, I was

just like, I'm married. There's no more unble coming my way.

It's only outflow, no inflow anymore. Those are real who

married you understand, right, But those those good times and

times that you can call it, those were really good times.

Holy have good memories.

Amen, Steven your last year ready anyway?

Anyway? Amen? Right?

And if my point of God comes on the first

day of CNY the words that when we tell God

that say that God, would you can you just delay for.

One more day? Let me enjoy first? Right?

And this is the thing that God always and we

always like to use this statement. God, you understand. Come on, God,

you understand.

Right.

And sometimes the lot would speak the other way. My

people will understand, My people will understand. That's why anything

is possible to those who believe friends. And many times

why this is so hard, it's because the path to

believe friends is not a natural path. Abraham and Sarah,

the Bible says in Roman chapter four, Right, God calls

those things that were there as though they were alive. Right,

So you speak a word, a word to Abraham, right,

a word to Abraham, even though this body that you

shall become a father of many nations. So the word

goes forth right now into Abraham's heart and Abraham's spirit.

The word has went forth. Now.

Abraham, the Bible says, has a choice to receive the

word and believe also receive the word, and they say, oh,

thank you so much for the word, and I'll frame

it up, I'll put it on Facebook, I'll put it.

I'll right down on my journey. And then when we

close the journey, that's it. But the Bible says he

really believed that he'll become a dad. But the Bible

also described the Abram's body was way past a natural

child bearing age. Think about it, so which meets friends

every morning he wakes up. There will be challenges. If

you have never aged before in your life. I want

you to know. Right this year, said to say I'm

turning fifty, hallelujah, I would say said, I'm embracing it

big fifty. I can go to myself, Wow, I got here.

I remember when I was just fifteen, right, and I

look at people of fifty.

I'll never get there. I don't know.

Have you ever sit there before when you're much younger? Right,

I don't tell I'll look that. Oh right, But once

you are here, you do also realize that that it's.

A bit more different in terms of your ability. Right.

Well, the spirit is still very young, friends, your spirit

is still a life.

Is you rare? But the capacity to do what you

need to do. It's just a bit different. Right.

You hear a bit more cracks and sound sometimes that

you walk, you do one you do right? Right, you

recover your recovery rate from every bumps and every The

word is that cuts takes slightly a bit longer than

what it used to be. Right, friends, no longer young

food will be already, snacks will be something you look

forward to.

Right now.

Your half of your fish is fuel with supplements. That's

what aging does you So, could you imagine this is

modern day aging?

What more? Abraham? Friends, what more?

Abraham whereby he looked himself in a mirror, if he

has a mirror back.

Then God say I'll be a dead.

Think about it. God say I'll be a dead. And

he tells you why. The wife would just probably say

that you got out.

Right.

The wife we just look at Abraham, Sarah, just look

at Abraham saying you must be a bit naughty, that's

all you're just you just want it right. No, but

God said I'll be a dad. I want you to

put yourself in Abraham's shoes. Right, and just imagine for

a moment if God does speak something to you to

a situation.

That's date as though they're alive.

When you receive the world, when you have the world,

what is your top process? Because many times as believers,

I find the challenge here is this is that, yes,

I know God's word is true. God's word is good.

But many times our journey then there's always the other part.

But how where I allow this to change my life?

The way I walk, the way I carry myself, the

way I believe, the way I serve, the way I

live my daily life. And Abraham the Bible says, did

not focus on this inability to reproduce. He did not

You're in Romans chapter four. Okay, my friends, this is

not even my message. I haven't gone to my message.

I'm so sorry, right, but I.

Want to lead the foundation because I find this is

very true whether or not. Friends, you are a young

Cristian or the Christian, or your parent or you're not parent.

Yet the truth of the matter is this that we

have to move from just belief in the context of

just being out there to a place whereby God, that

this word must change my life.

I share a true story.

I heard the story about a mom one day was

praying a mom one day was praying then decide to

skip school. The son decided to skip school and decided,

for the very first time in his.

Life, right to watch a movie.

This olveraysee story I watch a movie and while the

mom was praying, God spoke to the mom. Now, I

want you to go to this cinema because your son

is there.

Thing.

God spoke to the mama, I want you to go

to cinema. Your son is there. She drove off the cinema,

opened the cinema door and shouted, John, are you in there?

I want you to.

God really does move in mysterious ways all in all one.

No, the prayer of our mom is really powerful.

Friends, I want you to I want to encourage you

because many times now joining in our life when we

pray it doesn't doesn't mean that it hasn't changed immediately

that God is in denial. So Abraham decided not to

focus on it's his inability to reproduce, but focus on

his faith, focus on God's goodness, God himself. So I

want you to contrast another character called Thomas in Joint

twenty Thomas, you know, dubting Thomas right, No Thomas, friends.

So the Thomas's very interesting character John twenty verse twenty four.

So now Thomas, called the twin one of the trail,

was not with them, and Jesus come right. You gotta

imagine this, okay, this is after the crucifixion. Jesus appeared

to other disciples. But so happened that Thomas was not

with the disciples all with his friends verse twenty five.

The other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen

the Lord. And so he said to them. Now this

is Thomas not believing. This is Thomas not believing unless

I see in his hands the prince of the nails

and put my finger. Come on, put my finger into

the print, very descriptive. Not just see that. Everdence is

one thing, but I could fit for myself and put

my hands into his. I will not believe. I think

we come to a place whereby we want to see first.

We won't got short first before we could believe, before

we could believe. And many times in our journey, in

our life, friends, there are sudden circumstances whereby we know

that we have and that's why we believe. But there

are many circumstances in our life we have to believe

first before we see and verse twenty six, after it

days stress, after eight days where Thomas demanded four an

evidence his disciples will gain inside and Thomas was with them.

Jesus came the door was being shot and stood still

in the midst and say peace to you. I think

the question is is do you believe in all your

heart even though you were not there?

Come on?

Do you believe in all your heart even though you're

not there? And many times our journey, friends, as we

go through live, we hear people's experiences. You heard the

testimony just now that someone's eyesight was restored. Did you

believe even though you weren't there to see it? Or

we just believe? We need like mess? I say, okay,

but really dipped down in our own heart. It did

not register. Thomas was like that as well. Thomas was

a person.

Friends.

The Bibles did start his journey adopting. Thomas did not

start his journey as adopt And many times in our life, friends,

we do not start our.

Faith journey adopting one.

Come on now, and I think that none of us

here we can say that we did not start our

faith adopting Your God maybe not real cannot be so

good like this on we always omit our faith, believing

but true the journey of life and different circumstances that happened,

different experiences, right, we doubt you know we allowed things,

I mean, we allowed things to hijack our heart. So

did you know that Thomas's are very courageous believer, very

courageous believer. John chapter eleven. Okay, John Chup eleven, John

chapter eleven. All right, this John Chup eleven is on

the screen here, I'm gonay for verse five. Now, Jesus

loved Martha and the sister and lazarrous. Okay, this is

there's a background the story. So when you heard that

he was saying Leisures was sick, he stayed for two

more days in a place where he was Verse seven,

after he said to the disciples, let us go to

Judea again.

Now let us go to Judea again to visit Lazarus.

But the disciples said, Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to

stone you, and are you going there again?

Now?

The disciples was a faith because they might be killed.

I'm not sure how many times in our prayer as well,

Like Jesus, if you're going down this path, you're going

down this road, right, I want to follow you because

it's really really America that we say we want to

die for Jesus. Right now, let me true really really

like you know, if it's really really difficult, right there

was true of disciples say Lord, if he's asleep, he

will get well, because you say legends all.

There, he's sleeping.

So the disciple just interpreted as if he wants asleep,

he'll get weller. Like majority of us Asian believe that

if you're not well, just go and go and sleep.

By then you wake up, you'll be well. Ready the

perfect remedy for every sickness. All right, Oh hey, the

I just sleep for a while, you'll be well now

verse sixteen. Now Thomas caught the twins said to his

fellow disciples, let us also go that we may die

with him for these kind of friends who really pray

that he's not part of homes. Think about you. You

want to do something you do on your owner, don't

rock the boat. Think about you. Here's here's a disciple.

Here's is Thomas saying to the rest of the people

that look, if Jesus going there, he might be stolen,

might be killed.

Let us go together with him.

Then we's such an honor to die together with Jesus.

Friends.

I know, friends, really, unless you're totally convinced and convicted,

unless you're on fire, friends, you and I will never

say these six Lord, send past to Stephen. Please, Lord,

after you answer your full time call, you know you're

just your sheep. You know he's didn't you say the

shepherd was first to face a front line?

Right?

I mean in our journey, friends, I just want to

explain it in our journey, friends, in our journey, in

our journey, in our work, in our journey, very seldom

we say this, but here is Tom will say that

I want to die for you.

Do you know how hot this is? Really?

The word is unpacked. So recently me and my wife

chanced upon a particular magazine not from her country. I

think it's printed in Taiwan, and it's just very interesting.

It was high I think a particular.

Story of our person who happened to be who's from China,

who came to know the Lord. She's a successful lawyer,

came to know the lot in the journey, keime to

know the Lord.

And she said that.

Once you come to know the Lord, friends, it's either

you believe all the way or you don't. And she

gave up her her career as a lawyer, a well

to do, a reasonably well to do lifestyle, for the gospel.

She was.

She was jail at least four times sharing the gospel

in the midst of the pandemic, and she was so happy.

She went to Wuhan just before lockdown and she was

there sharing the gospel, and they found her her and

put her into prison. This is a secular magazine, it's

not even uh a Christian magazine. And she's just sharing

her journey about some days in our life, in our

in our faith, you have to give up everything.

For the Lord.

I'm not sure that prayer how many of us and

I don't I know askers. I don't want pro pressure

on us, but I just want to show you there

are people like that who will just say that if

let's go all the way for Christ, it's not easy.

That's why they're the minority. And Thomas right here, see,

let's just die for Jesus. Imagine it's hell good. Right now,

Come on, guys, off or not. Okay, tomorrow we're going

to We're going to take car, We're going to go

to the parliament and go.

Say, Jesus is Lord, Jesus is King.

Guarantee I can guarantee you all right, you said your

home leader there and the rest of you will be

say can we take a different membership for another church?

Right?

But so this is Thomas did not stop start start

his journey as a doctor. But believe all right, friends,

So Thomas found it difficult to believe what othercapers have

shared because it wasn't present. Come on, and sometimes our

journey no matter what how we say it up front

here God, it's cool. You go like, yeah, but you

don't understand.

Come true for you. But but you're not. My situation

came true for me. I wasn't there, right, I didn't

do an audio of your of your life. Right.

And many times we with the words, we interpret the

situation with our own mind. We interpret the situation with

our own mind. So each time it things happen in

our life that we don't go out the way we hope,

be careful of the doors that we open that can

sold doubt. Come on, you pray for something and something

did not come true for you. For example, right doesn't

mean that the word of God.

Is not real.

Right, and many times in our journey as well, we

get disappointed by different situations, different circuits, sens of different people.

And if you allow circumstances and situation to take over,

it does drop us one. I'm not talking about the

big thing. I'm not really talking about small things. I

just want to share a story with you or I

just heard recently it's one of our partners, one of

leaders of our church came up to me, Elder, I

just wanted to say something to you that many years

ago when I first came to church, you, I say

hi to you. I just say hi to you, and

you did not respond, Elder you. I was so angry,

so angry to the point that I thought to myself

that I want to leave church.

Friends. I say, rather, I'm so sorry you could say

hi to me.

I was rushy. I was trying to do something. Maybe

there was a link somewhere, right, I didn't know that

you say hi. You know how somebody people say hi

and then their breath hi and you very soft and

stuff like that, and just really the site there happens

a friends, It does happen, not say purposely, no, it

does happen in our life, you know, and this was

I wanted the words, I wanted to leave, and I

was there was I was angry. He is I was angry.

And the point of time and the thing happened. A

door was open. Come on, a door was open. The

agent of anger was son. The seat was sown in

his life. Come on, so in his life at the

very point he allowed it to fester a bit. Oh,

this is just the action. Say hi, No, there are

people like that, friends. I'm not saying that wrong. It's

just that things happen.

Right.

If person see when el say, had good money to

your you know, just say one more time, at least

you just comfort with one more time. We purposely ignore

you and this stuff like that, right just because of

one incident, then you you formilate everything, this one so

ext you are so ection. Stuff like it does happen

in friends, and and because of that that the powerfree friends.

At the point that was angry. But then God spoke

to him and say, forgive, come on, forgive. He has

a choice, d to uproot the roots of anger, the

roots of you. Open the door, friends, you have to

shut it, friends, because the more we entered it or

everything else after that, it's all bad on friends. You

think about that, everything else after that is all bad.

It applies to church, applies to your relationship with other people.

You've done so many good in your life to for

the other person. About one time you forgot. You forgot

not because of purpose, you actually do Forgod. Forget right,

and what happens thread resentment build up and you're not

real friends. I'm not speaking to anyone down to you

all by friends. So this brother came up to me

after many many years, right now as the leader of

our church, happily married. He said to me, other, thank

God that really you know, I found strength to let

it go. Could you just imagine right now things happen

in your life. You say hi to someone and someone

did not respond. That very egg of not receiving the

respond could hijack you away from your destiny. So therefore,

can you believe even though you're not there? Think about it?

You hurt the testimony of someone getting healed? Can you

believe in your heart?

Oh? I can pray and someone be healed.

You heard our different church plants in our church, maybe

you heard before share testimony or maybe bend you by sharing.

During the conference in Japan, we never place to meet,

and they will pray. You know Japan, you understand how

difficult it is to get the place to meet and

stuff like that, so they will pray, God, where can

we meet for homes? Where can we meet for homes?

No place to meet? And God give him a very

good idea. Have it in a Cowka room. Have homes

in the Coroka room for two hours. It's your space,

it is yours. No I can kick you out and

sick as low as you want.

Hello, And they did.

They met there for homes once or twice because there's

no space.

And after homes.

Friends, one partner came up to Benji and you say, pasta, Benji,

if we shook, got another fifteen minutes?

Can I sing? Can I? Can? I?

Can I use the microphone and really sing my heart out?

Because it's all paid for. I want you to just

imagine right now, friends, as you are sharing that God

gives you creative ideas and stuff like that. So can

we believe even though we are not there? You say,

but you know it only happens in the field. It

only happens. You know that only happens when the leaders pray.

It only happens on Sunday. But friends, we have the

come to a place where why we believe it does

happen because we are a believer first than anything else. Right,

if we keep entertaining those thoughts and emotions or try

to understand the things of God with with and renew mine,

we will miss out on the things of God. Come on,

if we keep entertaining thoughts like that, with that and

renew mine, what do I mean, my dad and renew mine?

I've come to a place whereby and I do know

that sometimes we are just assumed just because you're in

church for so many years that you know how to worship.

For example, immediately.

A person gets safe, right, we assume that there is

sort of transformation of understanding how to pray and not

really realizing maybe the person really need know how to

pray or how to read the Bible, for example. We

just assume because can read any book, that the Bible

is easy to read. Yes it is in a sense

of right, friends, but we have this thought process whereby

we just assume, and what do I mean by I

renew mine? You know you need to spend time with

God really to renew your mind, for example, and then

renew mind is just these friends of mind that really

haven't been spending time with the Lord reading his word.

Now for I'm just going to share this with your

For those of y'all who like to read your Bible

at night before you sleep, Praise God, please keep up

the discipline. But I want to encourage you. Could you

do it in the morning, because after you read the Bible,

feel the word of the Lord, feel with the promises

of God and all the power.

Friends, that happens.

You put it to sleep, right you, You go to

sleep with all the promises of God, the power, the

renew mind.

You're ready to take out the world. Yes, time is

eleventh the Nary.

Let's go and sleep and you wake up the next day, friends,

facing everything that demands your attention. Whereby the choices that

you make when you're awake will determine where you go

in your life, which country you'll be in, which completely

work for.

Who you marry or not. You make those decisions when

you're awake.

Very seldom I hear people say, elder, I got married

in my dreams.

Maybe I think God I got friends.

I do believe God, I do I do believe it

does happen that you you're dreaming, you get married and

stuff like, or you wake up next day you find

your husband besides a guy besides you.

Uh, that's that's that's a different sorry.

That's a different thing altogether, right, what you understand, right,

So therefore it when you're awake, friends, you're when you're awake.

When you're awake, friends, there's so many things that comes away,

what to do, what not to do. Don't you think

that unique God's wisdom to make those decisions into deciding

what you should do and what you shouldn't do. Right,

And that's why when your mind is you knew you

know how to make at least a more accurate or

better a better choice.

For your life.

But many times when we read the Bible at night

this and night before we sleep, the mind is so renewed.

Then we just go to sleep. After that, then you.

Wake up to the pressures of the world, your emails

or WhatsApp just on your phone, the money, your attention,

and you allow the pressure to hijack us when you

are pressure for us to make a decision. For example,

you know something that's sale on your app and stuff like,

that's a countdown cloak, right, and you'll say.

To buy right now. If not, I'll miss out big time.

I could to buy right now right And things happens

in our life and we make those diseases. Sometimes eighty

percent we get it correct, twenty percent we get it

wrong right and those wrong decisions we regret to you sometimes.

My wife always tried to like to tell me that

you're just a bit more. Don't you eat? I said,

I'm trying to lose sweet you.

Then after I eat it, really, I felt so bad

after they say, see what you put away? And things

happens in our life because of the decision we make

after that. Friends, So therefore, do not try to interpret

the things of God with renew mind, because we can

never fully understand what God is trying to do. On

never fully understand what God is trying to do because

and then I renewed mind. Friends, we always look think

in the flesh afy Abraham. Friends, Come on, if Abraham

right now is alive and you got God's promise, yeah,

you'll be a father of many nations.

How would you walk and talk to Abraham?

Abraer can't share you, Stephen, God spoke to me, I'll

be a dad.

In your mind right now, you could like, hmmm, I

think so you can. Then you go. I renewed mine, friends,

and renewed mine. Let me just go on, let me go,

let me go.

The second, the second point I just want to get

to us, is this that with everything that's happening, will

you choose to believe again? Come on, with everything that's

happening and that has happened, will you choose to believe again?

With everything that's happened. When I talk about that, I'm

talking about our disappointment because Thomas was disappointed.

He wasn't there.

You can't imagine right now, friends, this is Thomas who's

part of the disciple. Where was Thomas when Jesus first appeared?

Wouldn't you harded together? Because they hadded together because they

were afraid that the Jews might find them want to

kill them. So they were afraid, so they went to hiding.

But where was Thomas in the midst of people were hiding?

He was, I like, so disappointed because God, or rather

Jesus wasn't resident directed.

And he wasn't there. Things happened, So many things happened.

Sub commentary put there that he was doing business somewhere else.

He missed opportunity when Jesus first came. But whatever reason

it is that the Bible says that he just wasn't there.

And many times in our lives, friends, we miss out

because again, like the first point, we allow those things,

those pressures to draw us away from God, from what's

really important for the break through, from what's really key

in our life, the moments whereby we need to be there.

We were there. But here's the second.

Well, Thomas missed the first appearance God, or rather Jesus

did not allow Thomas to miss the second one. You

think about for a moment. He did not allow what

was thomas request. I got to see the nails. I

got to see the prince of his hands. I got

to put it at there, to touch it, to see

the way it's real, not it just could be c G.

I so sorry, right, I gold put at the sight.

There so many demands, so many things that he put

in front of the Lord. Then only I believe. But

even with that, when Jesus said, come, look the questions

that we still believe.

Do you know why?

Sometimes I do feel that we finally had to believe

again because the trust was broken so much, almost beyond

repair humanly, humanly cannot repair. That's why we cannot overcome it.

There's some relative I know I experienced it, but they

cannot see eye to white until now they're not talking

to each other.

The herb was so.

Deep, so deep, that they cannot see beyond, so deep.

And many times in our life the hurt was so

deep that we cannot see beyond. The disappointment was so

great that we cannot see beyond. Maybe maybe and perhaps

sometimes in our journee of our life, we are like

Thomas as well that when people say that, you know,

when people say to him, we sold the Lord and Thomas.

Here's Thomas Frengths. There is the other disciples who said

to themselves, God, if you couldn't die.

Can you can we can we be excuse?

Here's Thomas the person that says that, Jesus, you've got

to die. I want to die together with you and

God appeal to other people and not him. Disappointment can

rob person, no friends. But here's the thing I wanted

to remind us. God always uses situation in our lives

to reveal the genuine wist.

What this hard? What to say? I'm you understand?

Okay, I really really have problems pronouncing this word with

my tim on the friends. But you understand, okay, how

genuine your faith is? Okay, I die, I see this word.

I always reminded myself of the world is guinea SUNI.

I'm sorry. I don't drink for a matter, I don't.

I don't, I don't. That's the truth. Okay, you asked

by wife, I get drawn by roy chocolate.

Really, yes, I can, my my my lowest already, my

my my even.

Rice wine chicken.

Even after you boy alway the alcohol, I still cannot.

So that's my okay. Anyway, God always uses the situation

to reveal how genuine a faithe it's come on.

He doesn't the words I used to say that. God

allows it. You know.

God uses because the choices we make determines. The choices

that you make determine the outcome of friends. So why

would the outcoming rather you like it or not. God

uses it to reveal our faith.

Come on.

Sometimes you are disappointed in different situations or different things

are friends. So God uses the disappointment to reveal Sometimes

when we are happy, every thing's happened. God also uses

the happiness to reveal, really, what's in our hearts, our faith,

because our faith sometimes it's just anchor, for example, in

the event, but the event doesn't happen. Our faith is

not alive, right, But God once bring us through a

place whereby he uses that to reveal what's in our faith. Friends,

let me just turn to your first Peter Chapter one,

Verse six, Uh, I go answered, really do, I'm really really.

Good, and so I know.

So you've got the rush of all for meals with

your loved ones, with your relative But allow me just

another fifty moments, all right, So indeed you're really rejudge

for now for a little while. If you need to be,

you begree by raverus trials come on raious trials, you'll

be grieved verse seven that the.

Okay, skip it word.

I'm sorry if I pronounce it's okay, you'll be laughing

all the way all right. The genuwiness of your faith. See,

I can really get the focus, okay, to say the word.

Of your faith. Much more pressures than go as their perishers.

Although it's tested by fire, may be found to be

praised with honor and glowing at the revelation of our Jesus,

of Jesus Christ whom you have seen, where who having

not seen you, Love, though now you do not see yet,

believing you rejoice with you. Rejoice with joy inexpressible and

the full of glory. Our faith, friends, is what.

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