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The True Light | Pr Jonaronson Nagarajah

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from ex church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Today.

  4. I have a very simple word for all of us.

  5. Something.

  6. You're gonna let me start off with a context here.

  7. She can't even so whatever.

  8. You know that I've been serving here for fourteen years.

  9. You're the Citizenian.

  10. I basically from a Monday to Friday, you will see

  11. me in sub.

  12. So you'll think she think she and uh.

  13. From a Friday to Sunday and sometimes until Tuesday, you'll

  14. see me here in Ely.

  15. So you also since she currently joy and.

  16. We planted the church here because God told us.

  17. To women's sUAS who's our woman? And we wanted oh God.

  18. So most of me and my team here. We don't

  19. stay in el.

  20. So you know what, Terry Waters, you know.

  21. We will travel most Sundays prayer services homes true different means.

  22. I put on the chatting South since romanly life, and

  23. sometimes it can be challenging to our faith that help.

  24. It can be a real test of patience.

  25. Nice in the Koyan, because we are all flesh and blood.

  26. Your migrant doses who rod we do suffer from fatigue

  27. in Cham we.

  28. Do suffer from lack of encouragement.

  29. Chase our goo leader's also in cham.

  30. Sometimes leaders we give so much, but we don't see

  31. a lot of encouragement coming.

  32. When you get you run the goody.

  33. And for twelve years until twenty twenty two, I have been.

  34. Traveling so you.

  35. Eat the jam the light way, until one day the

  36. Lord opened the door for me to say that it's

  37. time to increase your stick here in your.

  38. Life downs in Gyaoyo.

  39. So you was he put it in my heart to

  40. buy an apartment.

  41. Here was my my eating.

  42. And to cut along story short, by faith, I obeyed him.

  43. You soon for the sun. I saw his breakthrough for me. No,

  44. you cannown how we will too poor?

  45. And now I can walk confidently around NELI to say

  46. that I'm a pastor in the line because I have

  47. a house address in your.

  48. So you know since then, okay, and the household nel

  49. you know you lightly.

  50. It makes all difference to me. Actually I talked to people,

  51. but oh, you stay in what you're doing in your lightly,

  52. and I'll tell them, oh, I'm called here who But

  53. this is it's different. Since I thirty, I'm a passing

  54. you because I also stayed in there.

  55. You know it's any line.

  56. So I have a stick here, so well you ego.

  57. That stick.

  58. Also one day when you're buy house, you know like

  59. you also have to pay assessment text, so.

  60. It's my full neggar. The local counsel just a sweet.

  61. So that speaks about stick. So to me, I took

  62. the step of faith. So since in tattoo, I took

  63. a step of the ownership. No, it's a tattoo you

  64. don't see, and world will tell you put your money

  65. where your mouth is.

  66. So what I need the sound. It's a very worldly

  67. principle yoga hunt.

  68. But the thing about it, as Christians, we should put

  69. commitment where our faith is.

  70. So in some way you who know the scenes in

  71. the fantail.

  72. Because it's easy to profess, but it's often challenging to

  73. what the commitment of faith in women the way faith

  74. can only grow and work if we put it to

  75. test things.

  76. In somewhere and your woman and go in your bath,

  77. fun in a downtown.

  78. If you don't put a faith to test, we can

  79. never grow.

  80. You go mammy about in front another can and the moment.

  81. If you don't put faith to test, we can never

  82. experience all that God has in store for you.

  83. You got mammy, since you know Francis down downtown, he

  84. saw you.

  85. I remember the days where I will come here early.

  86. So would you Without a place to stay, I will

  87. hang out in Mesa more.

  88. Your defunct, So how would you someone usual place will

  89. be Starbucks defunder She has in baker Starbucks man thing

  90. in that area your so she a defunct like being

  91. what does the coffee.

  92. Bean gout you? It looks stylish, right, you take out

  93. your laptop, you work there and kuman, you're busy now

  94. seventy five you go for homes?

  95. She didn't, so did she homes.

  96. Because right before the owner actually arrive home.

  97. No not Also, and truth be told.

  98. The place has been a blessing to me because it

  99. is also my place of rest.

  100. So you know what it's the defunct. Can see the defunct.

  101. This is I don't have to jam one and a

  102. half hour. Yesterday actually took one and a half hour

  103. just to come to the line the traffic push. But

  104. this is I no longer have to endure the jam.

  105. No, since I know push like she turns negative side because.

  106. Of working hours and I usually lunchtime Friday, I will

  107. come and go to my place work, and then go

  108. to homes and different engage.

  109. You come to the bitch wrongly. Heye s I need ily, but.

  110. Doesn't come without a price because I don't show about

  111. the comfort thing. When you buy house, there's also a

  112. term called monthly installment.

  113. You need to pay amazing food. If you buy a.

  114. Condo, there's a term called uh monthly maintenance fee.

  115. You need your food maintenance fee?

  116. What the electricity you like? It's not free?

  117. You just a nice thing invader.

  118. So all these expenses that constantly remind me of why

  119. I'm here to increase my stake and put an investment

  120. in the time say that. So when I moved in,

  121. I always observed there's this special occurrence in my house,

  122. which I believe it may also appear in your house.

  123. Time what time.

  124. Or something? You can't then go to the.

  125. Sometimes in the evening, when I turn on my very

  126. nice orange lights, I will randomly see one or two

  127. bees flying around. Have you've seen this in your house before?

  128. Get attracted to the light and you just for some

  129. reason will knock to the light and then knock again,

  130. and knock again and knock again.

  131. It's actually trusting, So I let them be you tal

  132. is that.

  133. This actually from my house? It's not the moon. If

  134. it's a moon, you see this, you're better run man.

  135. And the next day they all died. You know, it'll

  136. be lying on the floor, lifeless and motionless. And it

  137. sparked curiosity in me.

  138. You're not how chissing.

  139. I wanted to understand what is the scientific reason behind it?

  140. It's like pay who is so much curse shater in you?

  141. The super spiritual Sometimes over spiritual people say, oh, this

  142. is my land flowing of milk and honey.

  143. Face, So sa lunar, you need the tea that you

  144. can be.

  145. Somewhere with a lot of honey.

  146. How can I how cann from your own do?

  147. I know? There must be a scientific explanation.

  148. Because you have to curshiter in you. So it's part

  149. my curiosity.

  150. So those of you who have insects and whatever always

  151. coming to your house, I think you may know the

  152. reason if you're not very good. But most of you

  153. I think don't know.

  154. So you know what will tell your towns the bottom

  155. face something you know? However, you don't raise your hand.

  156. I don't know.

  157. However, you don't know. All right, we come to science class.

  158. Face that would take a curse youer curs so I did.

  159. I wouldn't say research. I did a simple finding life.

  160. So just is it next time?

  161. We explained nicely. So it turns out that bees, like

  162. many insects, are naturally attracted to light.

  163. So Nat she had a gang.

  164. You can see a behavior known as positive photo taxis.

  165. So the Chi guang sing just pay you. Certainly the

  166. finding that she paid gang.

  167. She see in the when they respond to light, it

  168. actually helps them in their navigation system.

  169. So you take fining around time.

  170. And she bund hung the ego because in daytime they'll

  171. they'll rely on the sun.

  172. The way morning high gang, they'll.

  173. Rely on polarized light patterns in the sky to find

  174. their way, so they're guided by lights.

  175. Don't and I see the nearing gang like she mostly

  176. she bunked her function.

  177. So in the evening, when you turn on your lights,

  178. it's basically not real light from the sun, right, it's

  179. an artificial light.

  180. Soon as I turn so she's a cigarettes out.

  181. So it can confuse them to fly towards these lights instead,

  182. it's a flighting home. They get attracted to the lights

  183. in your house.

  184. A mi so no face for the neggarans out the

  185. guangip So.

  186. Then when they follow an artificial light, it often becomes

  187. catch this word, disoriented and ends up flying around the

  188. light sauce endlessly. That's what you saw in the video.

  189. And she's like, yeah, out facing the thing that likes

  190. you's facing.

  191. So tonight, very restless.

  192. So it's im shuicy. Can I find food to it?

  193. Can I find rest shoesy?

  194. So what happened was it eventually exhausts itself, leading to

  195. its death by morning. So just.

  196. So it died because of exhaustion pleading. So when I read.

  197. This right, it's like, wow, yeah, there's a revelation that

  198. I felt God gave me that too many people exhaust

  199. themselves leading to death chasing the wrong light. Just three

  200. and I say, you know, when I had this understanding,

  201. I look at the motionless b I look at my

  202. life like, well, almost similar.

  203. Kind of surround me from.

  204. Because sometimes in life we can go after the wrong light.

  205. Town. So one more issue negarang.

  206. Not knowing that it ultimately leads to a form of death.

  207. Norman without woman.

  208. That's Christians. We should always chase after Jesus.

  209. So you know, so much to know. Yes, here is

  210. the light of the world. It doesn't the guang, then

  211. you will have life, no need you hear.

  212. John Chapter eight was twelve. Jesus spoke to them. That

  213. means he spoke to the Pharisees again saying, I am

  214. the light of the world. He who follows me shall

  215. not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

  216. So that you have for impatants. So the gang cons

  217. world that you put that heir and need to gang.

  218. So just now while you in prayer time, you say

  219. Jesus is the Way, the truth and the light.

  220. So he yes.

  221. But the scripture is Jesus is the Way, the truth

  222. and the life. So yes.

  223. So just not mean.

  224. But it wasn't a mistake, although to you it seems

  225. like a mistake. For God is confirming the message something

  226. that she shared. What is so often because sometimes speaking

  227. we're also not sure what to share, like should share,

  228. shouldn't share? Then Sally, she said, You're the way, the

  229. truth and the like, thank you Jesus.

  230. That there often hear scripture is Jesus is the Way,

  231. the truth, and yes, just sim people gwang, that's teachang.

  232. And he says, he who follows me shall not walk

  233. in darkness, but have the light of life.

  234. Or to put that hair and little chapter.

  235. It was a context when the Pharisees caught a woman

  236. in adult tree.

  237. So it's like you have forintipat singing the phony.

  238. Adult means basically a man and a woman had a

  239. relationship outside of their marriage.

  240. So the sing any fast and so.

  241. Back then, according to the law of Moses, whoever got

  242. caught in the eyes of two or three witnesses, that

  243. particular individual will have to be stolen to death.

  244. So she thought out.

  245. All these pharisees called the woman, said to Jesus so

  246. and they say, Jesus, this is the law. You remember what.

  247. Jesus did, MoMA.

  248. He stood down, he wrote something on the sands you.

  249. Don't see.

  250. Then he did that the second time, and then he says,

  251. he who is without saying, casts the first stone.

  252. How do you see Niman down?

  253. So Niemann, people who accusing this woman all left, one

  254. by one, so nice.

  255. That you conca because they knew they were seen in

  256. their heart seen they knew they have committed seene as

  257. well down to Jesus being the perfect man on earth.

  258. If according to the law could have picked up the

  259. stone and stoner.

  260. Because your negative another sutology time.

  261. But he asked the woman, where are your accusers? How you.

  262. Nice concourt? And they all left the chamber and Julie Kyler.

  263. Then in verse eleven, Jesus says, neither do I condemn

  264. you go and sin no more.

  265. So we're putting to be outside.

  266. That was a context before he says I am the

  267. light of the world. He who follows me will not

  268. be in.

  269. Darkness him right Shiko.

  270. So in other words, darkness is often associated with sin.

  271. Jus, Young dalk you consider later read.

  272. A scripture that would let you know that men love

  273. to live in darkness rather than coming to light.

  274. So they say, you don't think, can't Jesus he down Son.

  275. In John chapter three, verses sixteen to twenty one, it says,

  276. for God so loved the world that he gave his

  277. only begonden Son, that whoever believes in him should not

  278. perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send

  279. his son into the world to condemn the world, but

  280. that the world through him might be saved. Was eighteen.

  281. He who believes in him is not condemned, but he

  282. who does not believe is condemned already because he has

  283. not believed in the name of the only begotten Son

  284. of God. And this is the condemnation. That the light

  285. has come into the world. And men love darkness rather

  286. than light because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing

  287. evil hates the light and does not come to the

  288. light lest his deeds should be exposed. But he doesn't.

  289. But he who does the truth comes to the light

  290. that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they may

  291. that they have been done in God.

  292. Thanks Solsten. I shouldn't sudn't singman singin Guang like other

  293. Sergain shouldn't inter I hate and think hamadri juicides fans

  294. or the pin Gang Guang kmart Bay.

  295. So remember Christmas is never about Center. It has never

  296. been about Mariah Carey as well. Christmas has always been

  297. about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus. Y

  298. between the book of Micah, which is the last minor

  299. prophet to the Gospel, was the span of about four

  300. hundred over years.

  301. Sooner time mea shot out since the senior.

  302. So for four hundred years the children of Israel lived

  303. in darkness.

  304. So down in the townsilatedt the middle hote I hate

  305. any men. That's why when.

  306. John the Baptist was in the wilderness proclaiming the way,

  307. they asked whether you.

  308. The like you actually Neggar attaches to Neggar the Baptist

  309. points to Jesus. Now, so you hand right, she thought

  310. the years souize.

  311. So this December, which is today city December. When you

  312. wish people merry Christmas, you are basically telling them hope

  313. has come in the form of light.

  314. Sometimes like she shrink power Wang eating light.

  315. That light can the true light can only be found

  316. in Jesus.

  317. You're not eating light. You're not gonna.

  318. Chris. Since we knew this, Jesus redeemed us from the

  319. kingdom of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of

  320. His love, which is His light.

  321. So to know years to have powerment Downtown writing, and

  322. then we.

  323. Should count you abide in this light. Take we abide

  324. in this light? Were abiding in God. And we must

  325. live a life that is righteous and full of truth

  326. a quant because if we don't, that will mean we're

  327. living outside of God, and that will mean we are

  328. entering into darkness.

  329. So hey, any just putymen. So the first part.

  330. I wanted you to understand that as Christians, we are

  331. redeemed from darkness and now we live in His life.

  332. So thousand ye hey down on June true light.

  333. But despite walking the light, if we are not careful,

  334. sometimes we can be tempted to walk in the artificial light,

  335. and we become.

  336. Like the be So you know, puts us in. So

  337. each hon runs out, Qan young.

  338. Not every light will lead you to the true path,

  339. and not every light will lead you to life.

  340. And I see the quanan.

  341. When the apostle Paul wanted to address the church in

  342. corinth the church that he birthed, his uncle and jose.

  343. Firn as so whole, he.

  344. Need to address a particular situation where a lot of

  345. false apostles were entering into churches to give false teaching.

  346. Seems don't see In Second.

  347. Corinthians, chapter eleven, verse twelve to fifteen, says, but what

  348. do I do? I will also continue to do that

  349. I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire

  350. an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in

  351. the things of which they both For such are false apostles,

  352. deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, and no

  353. wonder for Satan himself transform himself into an angel of light. Therefore,

  354. it is no great thing if its ministers also transform

  355. themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according.

  356. To their works. Tenchines are run the way Taman saw Corsook,

  357. not the reversity the in wal so it had a

  358. tai Erong way, the tai Shuan Citi. You put on

  359. Citi time and the jip runs out the time in

  360. the same way.

  361. And an era where information is easily accessible at our fingertip,

  362. so you know, just just a sin. In an era

  363. where you have TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, uh Instagram, you have

  364. access to a lot of information.

  365. The India down on the care you're put on. The

  366. surg can do the susine.

  367. Many of the more mature people here when they were

  368. growing up, when in church contexts, they only have access

  369. to their pastors, their selected few leaders, or the books

  370. that they read.

  371. Two thousand.

  372. Today, when you get connected to the internet, you have

  373. a whole library of people teachings that you can.

  374. Have access to. Book on social model, don't okay, And.

  375. I feel very strongly that a lot wants to remind

  376. us that we should be careful in what we receive.

  377. So you know, because Satan transformed himself into an angel

  378. of light. Paul associated the Four Apostles to this.

  379. We're not communist teaching women false.

  380. Teachings actually will draw you away from God. But you

  381. are thinking it's the life.

  382. And then and I said, hold now, who run it

  383. like you?

  384. You wait, let me give you a few examples. There

  385. are some teachings that will promote you only repent once

  386. and you're saved and in your for all your future scenes.

  387. You don't have to repent.

  388. It's not and it's so fun. Need to push it's

  389. very dangerous. See face Someway center.

  390. Because the Bible tells us that if you confess your

  391. sins to God.

  392. And also omen moments the tree in the Lord's.

  393. Prayer when you read the structure, give us this day

  394. our daily break and forgive us of our sins. So

  395. confession is meant to be daily.

  396. And the fun.

  397. But if you're not careful, we'll take the grace of

  398. God for granted.

  399. She Downranda that I.

  400. Would live my life how I want to be, because

  401. the grace of God is with me.

  402. And you know what she saw?

  403. What until even if I break his law, even if

  404. I break his commandment, he will still forgive me me?

  405. Or like she finds me, how hides her?

  406. Now, be careful of hyper grace.

  407. By pander. So we think that, yes, there.

  408. Is a God who forgive, and we think that because

  409. he forgives, we can live our life anyhow we want,

  410. disregarding His law and his commandment.

  411. Soon consul, if you.

  412. Actually follow the Bible, what does being righteous meaning? So

  413. about also meditating His law day and night?

  414. You jure the down high word in your heart? You

  415. why it turns I need the single men? What about

  416. the prosperity teaching? The tel down each Hong Kong the jailtown.

  417. That people come to God because they think that God

  418. can make them prosperous time.

  419. I like also the main changes in WI. So in

  420. case down on each.

  421. Hong Kong, Jesus didn't die so that you can become

  422. a multi millionaires?

  423. Yes, how womans around.

  424. Jesus died so that he can save us from eternal condemnation.

  425. Yes, Jus.

  426. Someone just can affect teachings because I interact with people

  427. in church and outside of church.

  428. Told the ja can tell her you don't you put

  429. on the gold home even the way you give your

  430. offering this morning, Jesus getting the function as a whole?

  431. Are you giving out of a posture of worship? That

  432. God I give you because of worship? And even if

  433. you don't bless me in return. I just want to

  434. let you know that this is an amount that represented

  435. my heart.

  436. This thing by the cern says a certain you're too fully,

  437. she don't have any high sud rank consern So so

  438. what the thing by the scene that you are from sinking? Oh?

  439. Are we giving really really expecting that God will give

  440. you beyond beyond measure?

  441. That woman actual cas omens how woman?

  442. So so I know it's a very sensitive topic because

  443. the Bible did says when we give, he will not

  444. hold back, and he will give.

  445. Backing doesn't say if you look at it closely, it

  446. is a question of motivation, because she can't. She's just

  447. a negative tong lead.

  448. What is your motivation in giving? Is it giving to

  449. honor God? Or is it in giving so that you

  450. want God to.

  451. Bless or the tongue? This is motanic that's on his opinion. Yeah,

  452. she forcation cont the same time, so the way to discern.

  453. Is to have the word of God. And I said,

  454. your word is a lamp to my feet.

  455. And a like to my path on.

  456. So we need the word of God to guide us

  457. to the true like so that.

  458. We do not be deceived with artificial lives. H She

  459. taling turns, and.

  460. You and I cannot be a Christian but yet not

  461. growing in reading and understanding the.

  462. Word of God. Okay, somewhere, because the times are getting darker.

  463. And then since your hair under and in that time.

  464. Many false teachers, many false prophets.

  465. Will rise up. And hey, the time to who are

  466. you thought the other? Since yeah, you thought the other

  467. like she's th chili.

  468. And it's also a time when many people will have

  469. itchy years no where they are only drawing to people

  470. who will speak principles that they can agree in. But

  471. when people speak principles that they don't agree in, although

  472. it aligns to the Word of God, they would not

  473. want to listen. They would not want to hear.

  474. You think that, she and Tony, you think.

  475. Thou Jesus and Apostle Paul have already warn us. In

  476. the last days, many people will be drawn away.

  477. So in a year soon in kotistic omen juice time.

  478. Most of the so you are you. They think they're

  479. being drawn to god tention, not just the.

  480. Down by chilling their heart. They have been far away.

  481. Because SUI need Ah.

  482. You must develop that habit to read the Word of

  483. God for yourself.

  484. Tell you, tell me, seque you you you must eating.

  485. So I like the concept bring your own bible or

  486. buy your bible.

  487. So even cering you know people who do not have

  488. a strong.

  489. Foundation in the Word of God, you will be like.

  490. I don't have English word for this, but malaybored is

  491. lalang in the rook corner.

  492. A really the thing called so it puts to Lutheran.

  493. Lalang is like just imagine a very tall grass. When

  494. the wee tails here, you go here. When the wind

  495. goes there, you goes there. Whatever the world say, you

  496. will go, whatever teaching, you are quick to agree, and

  497. you go here, go there. You don't discern for yourself.

  498. You don't test the spirit whether this is from God or.

  499. Not downloading the content. Hi, you sound like for each

  500. or being for its leaders cup.

  501. So there are two things in my life. At least

  502. I observe whether I will I am living in the light.

  503. Or not so? Whce how times formut one.

  504. If God were to take everything away that I hold

  505. on to, will I still have like ten?

  506. Not So it's send me a townsong soil that eaching

  507. is soup for high or negative.

  508. Twenty twenty and twenty twenty one has been extraordinary and

  509. it's also challenging because of COVID and m c O.

  510. So it's it's genu you can face is neggar eating We.

  511. Our family have gone through difficult times or we know

  512. people who have gone through difficult times.

  513. Roman consuls so many Oman either omens her but to.

  514. Be the two years was also a year where it

  515. was a year of reveal, because that when a difficult

  516. situation like this come, what are we made of?

  517. Just said she said woman more like she because Jesus are.

  518. Really for told it is there will be more challenging

  519. times coming away, just.

  520. Years changing women down hosts that who you are your

  521. told searching fashion.

  522. So in twenty twenty, when the entire church cannot meet.

  523. It's so Dunstan change.

  524. That's who you all needed to participate from home.

  525. Norman, she turned you to you. Hey, the lot challenged

  526. me with a question like she tells somewhere one tea,

  527. Will you still worship me? Like how you worship in church?

  528. Johnson Jay sensible? Will you still wear your Sunday best?

  529. It's for HydroD At She try someding the tree.

  530. How will you still sing out loud? It's for hy

  531. do despite facing the screen.

  532. Jesus diy a canon.

  533. When no one was looking around mirror that condone. It

  534. was really a test. K You know, sometimes we anchor

  535. our life around different things.

  536. Down to a commander. He found that put on the

  537. sing sound. We think that we work so hard majoroman

  538. single and.

  539. Our career will give us life from not going You know,

  540. why do people work so high that wants more going to?

  541. It's obviously for many reasons that you put on the

  542. un in what a primary reason is to have money?

  543. You see your chin so that with money you have

  544. better financial standing?

  545. Hold on, did you be okay? You think then you

  546. can have a better life?

  547. Right?

  548. God is not against money. It's our certa typing mail

  549. push you.

  550. But God is against the love of money.

  551. Consider for examples your iinin.

  552. Because if you love money more than you love God

  553. means God is not number one in your life.

  554. You on the its on the e way.

  555. Those of you in relationship, you know my husband and

  556. wife tell in your spouse and see you're actually number two.

  557. But number one is you know something else.

  558. From from okay? Number one you you you can don't

  559. see be in.

  560. So we take time to build our career. So we

  561. go through the red race. We get promoted. Now today

  562. we're a director, we are ceo, we are whatever sea

  563. suite management level.

  564. No going to the and me think that it's life.

  565. Going to because people look at you now. Also you

  566. feel you're being respected to because you have standing, You

  567. have a title in front of you, down.

  568. Parent, the mean turner downtown, youg the.

  569. Car you drive is different, the house you stay is different.

  570. And if you feel good that wow, you have this status.

  571. You need to.

  572. You can't need who kinds of pampoo? Young?

  573. However, you know people who have lost everything in COVID.

  574. It's aut inside each in the business Hamerson Bin.

  575. They need to downsize their lifestyle.

  576. Downtowns and fun are being turned younger.

  577. All these things away. But if you make Jesus your like,

  578. you make Jesus your life, he will sustain you. Now,

  579. I want all of our students here to get good grades,

  580. to be winning awards, to be an example in your classroom,

  581. like Young, but your studies cannot be a platform that

  582. you feel that if you were to do good in

  583. your studies, it will give you a better life.

  584. Saw Although yes it's true, you get scholarship, you get

  585. better hiring opportunity.

  586. All this is very natural, Gonsole, but it also serves

  587. as a reminder that it can be like an artificial light.

  588. And runs out the quang Young.

  589. Right, you can get four point zero, you can student link,

  590. you can get all the a's you can. But what

  591. if in the next six months you can still find

  592. a job, Because look at does that mean God is

  593. no longer good?

  594. Now? You typo? How the sun man anchor your life

  595. in Jesus, in your party, the sermon the mouth found

  596. that year Sudany.

  597. Mean in ministry as well, to my dear leaders here.

  598. Idling Shuman.

  599. Sometimes we think ministry is life and that's all. Sometimes

  600. we love ministry, we love the church more thame, we love.

  601. Jesus and tell her Ias.

  602. So you're gotta be very careful about this because that

  603. serves that's an artificial life.

  604. Some kind of sigur ros are the guan young. You

  605. can love the ministry doesn't mean you love Jesus in

  606. any case. I so, but when you love Jesus, you

  607. can love the ministry because you create is gone. Don't

  608. be like the poor bee calling the phone.

  609. Every man, call the phone, every man. I have to

  610. bury a few.

  611. Anti girl.

  612. I don't have to bury any one of you, because

  613. it's very exhausting.

  614. It ain't even hunting right to chase after.

  615. That's why you and I will know that white people

  616. work so hard despite achieving a lot, they don't feel satisfied.

  617. You feel something is missing, cher don't. The answer is

  618. because they have been chasing the wrong Jesus is the

  619. light of the world, so that's a slight here many mistakes.

  620. I put that blank feeling the blank. Whatever you want

  621. as life, until one day when they no longer have it,

  622. they realize it is only Jesus who can give us

  623. true life.

  624. Eating the sermon and actually because you're eating tung tamon,

  625. eating sushio soil, the sotaman's high fasten years.

  626. Sometimes God will stripped everything away so that you can

  627. go through that process of humility to know that he

  628. is your ultimate life. He is your ultimate dependency.

  629. So many towns on soil don't how yees in towns

  630. on our.

  631. Way in Ganga tell us about the parable of the

  632. prodigal sun I got lance the lands. The prodigal son

  633. went up to his dad and say that dad gave

  634. me all or half of the inheritance and then I

  635. will leave you.

  636. How you gonna have a footeena.

  637. Hai?

  638. You tried telling that to your dad? Today you get

  639. one tight.

  640. Slap gets them.

  641. Malaysia, we we use tight slap means five by in

  642. the church we say five four ministry. So what this

  643. pod son did with the dad was very rude.

  644. You gonna have yahoo ye.

  645. But out of the goodness that the dad has, the

  646. dad decided to release his inheritance and the prodigal son

  647. decided to move away from the dad's house.

  648. Hides. Know how the hid time you go to he spent.

  649. His inheritance and he thought that was life.

  650. So you know what what how? And I said, hadn't

  651. In the.

  652. Modern day, it's like spending partying, meeting all the girls, uh,

  653. living the high life, spend spend until one day he

  654. realized that he doesn't even have enough, or he had

  655. he had nothing.

  656. Pay and sound to the sound, and I said, put

  657. on the sound.

  658. What says the Bible says that he then went to

  659. another region, joined with a person to feed swine fit

  660. pigs basically.

  661. Sown something so down. So had you had you like

  662. so lin like and that she wait you like? I

  663. said too?

  664. And when he doesn't enough what he what did? He

  665. came to realize? He realized that, wow, in my father's house,

  666. the servant had break to eat. But here I am

  667. eating all the swine.

  668. Food sown so us o the puran that's mess and water.

  669. So he came back to the father. So how you

  670. and the father represented the heart.

  671. Of God neye belt and have foods? He wasn't an

  672. Asian father? Yea, the footing will come up with.

  673. A gain slippery you know to come back?

  674. Now what you don't know? It didn't locked the doors

  675. to that. You don't get mean God is not like

  676. that because Roman Bis and I Anderson.

  677. So the father saw him far off ran to him

  678. and he restored him. How you full time, give him

  679. new clothing, give him a sick neck ring, which which

  680. speaks about authority.

  681. Okay, how is he sing that e not belts had

  682. a chain being.

  683. Had a celebration for his written.

  684. No, you're intot, why erst see that is the heart

  685. of God, not just that.

  686. Whenever people come to God by faith, believe in Jesus

  687. by faith, we say the entire year heavens celebrates.

  688. So she says yes to the whole.

  689. The particle son thinks that life happens outside of.

  690. The fathest house allows to society, why.

  691. Mean only to realize that true life is found in

  692. the furthest.

  693. House because finds each had a foods in a jazz hyota.

  694. Anything outside of the Kingdom of God is artificial.

  695. Like so it's the young society.

  696. Anything that doesn't promote kingdom principal kingdom value alignment to

  697. the Word of God is.

  698. An artificial run her such in support to is wh

  699. you have been reminded, so need prayer. You take this

  700. too hard? So she don.

  701. She Many years ago, I was in an event on

  702. my campus.

  703. Would you die with the hold on? Uh?

  704. It was a dance competition tell the is it PSI?

  705. We did an open area founder and working with students

  706. for a very long time, I always noticed that tendency

  707. to smuggling illegal stuff.

  708. No noses you do you illegal stuff, your alcohol.

  709. Right, you're smuggling this and that waiting so our rented

  710. sound system guy pulled me over.

  711. No, no government to mcgamma, you gotta speak to this

  712. to consucusations. He dropped my mic about the microphone, Taylor, No,

  713. the michaelphone, Taylor.

  714. It's spot no wilight. How do we settle this? No,

  715. so I say, I'm the student is there? I'm talking

  716. to the person here. I can smell alcohol directly from

  717. the coming No.

  718. Down, so you can nagarantize negotiations. You wait.

  719. San here to talk to the student. So negotiations only

  720. to find out he wasn't our student.

  721. No, just have fasten administrations brought by a friendlier.

  722. I try to talk to him to see what happened.

  723. But you wanna have fasten some.

  724. I'm so sorry it was accidental, etcetera.

  725. Ey lighter.

  726. I saw that he was a beanie beanie ca you

  727. mount that saw some scar here?

  728. Now you see what happened, just so fast in a suit.

  729. Say he only had six months to live, So would

  730. you live? You're the same because he had cancer. If

  731. you tell you that, it isn't so when he opened

  732. up he showed me here. Then he pulled up his shirt.

  733. He showed me another operated.

  734. Scar Son mount that had a mount. So you cannot

  735. if you cannot so so so LUSA.

  736. You know what Honestly at that point, right, I was

  737. fifty to fifty. So create time, whether to believe him

  738. or not to believe him.

  739. So what I said, sandcing hasancing time.

  740. Because if you if you have talked to drunk people before,

  741. they'll tell you they can fly.

  742. You're not going to you don't nice stroko clear pee.

  743. And they'll demonstrate to you how they can fly.

  744. It's a young fae. So I was fifty fifty. No, no,

  745. you are pancying by.

  746. I decided to believe his version of the story. I

  747. told him, brother, six months left, O, God, did you

  748. love them? And he told me he just wanted to

  749. enjoy his life down she sounds so had. I'm here

  750. for a party. I got six months to live. I

  751. just want to enjoy life like that?

  752. Do you like? She sound like all good Christians? What

  753. we do? How does you do? We lay hand and

  754. caust the demon out so she can't walk away.

  755. All right, We'll bring a message of hope Madrid. Brother,

  756. even if you have six months to go, you live

  757. for God.

  758. You you.

  759. Batter life for you.

  760. You can.

  761. Make that six months count hoh around me by by

  762. the water.

  763. See, the world has a very different understanding about what

  764. life of human means.

  765. Haw on you, young holders. So you're put it on

  766. the egn change.

  767. By paper of faith. We will know that life cannot

  768. be fulfilled until we find God in Christ.

  769. Because Terence, So I leave it at that. So do

  770. you hate us? Founder? Okay?

  771. So back then there's a thing called newspaper. You know

  772. what newspaper is?

  773. That's hold on you.

  774. There is no one read newspaper, right is so at

  775. my at my table usually our family we have newspaper

  776. at the stuff.

  777. So it's when the chali you material.

  778. The start in my daily routine is usually I don't

  779. look at the headline. I've always turned behind why because

  780. behind is a sports hit line.

  781. First, no, you can't do yo, she found out.

  782. You know you can't sports. Then you turn to classified

  783. linked to the comic section and had you t know

  784. you put on on the but there familiar with the newspaper,

  785. there is always that obituary section. Object section is basic

  786. section where there is an announcement that this particular individual

  787. has passed away. This is a week says, this is

  788. their parents, this is their related family members, and it's

  789. that that's called oborituary.

  790. So in the.

  791. Thousand so one, particularly as I flipped over, I saw

  792. this individual that looks very familiar, and I saw his

  793. name Matthew Paul.

  794. No, no, you're eaten. You like you found out about

  795. those you cannot taken.

  796. SUSI he didn't make it, have I? And I don't

  797. know his final state.

  798. We mean tell to you the cheeses the younger, but

  799. I knew.

  800. And that encounter God gave me. I presented to him

  801. an alternative.

  802. Town Neggar, take the change. And if you don't know.

  803. Jesus, you don't have to live without an alternative.

  804. Let Jesus be the option for you too. But you

  805. push your tea your.

  806. Years and sometimes as Christians, because of our familiarity with church,

  807. familiarity of how we do things, we think we are

  808. in Christ. But at the deeper level, if you were

  809. to reflect, are we really in Christ?

  810. And the times so much into those majes see O

  811. don't see in Hawaii now like spurn the attack, we

  812. really in the light, turn the or we in the

  813. form of light. But it's not the true likes.

  814. The teeth does not come except to still kill and destroy.

  815. I have come that they may have life, that they

  816. may have it more abundantly.

  817. The confunction.

  818. John one one to form the last line that the

  819. extreme comes up. In the beginning was the Word, and

  820. the word was with God, and the word was God.

  821. He was in the beginning with God. All things were

  822. made through him, and without him nothing was made that

  823. was made in him life and life was the light

  824. of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and

  825. the darkness did not comprehend.

  826. It unease the instal.

  827. I have to encouragement for us group of people to encourage.

  828. So your igoman first one is to my fellow brothers

  829. and sisters. Here the thing you're Christian to walk in

  830. the line now sings negat be Discerningah like you neggar.

  831. Don't Charlie, use the word of God to test every teaching.

  832. How you like? She needs you use the word of

  833. God to test every advice?

  834. And why are you like? She linked the jolt.

  835. Good advice doesn't mean godly advice, and una how the

  836. how the the t Godly advice will always stem from

  837. the word of God.

  838. And it's your son Susan like the ten trying to

  839. go and so you.

  840. And a reminder for all of us to be careful

  841. of false teachers.

  842. It will make teachnal and false teaching that sad. The

  843. other how are you?

  844. The second girl I want to encourage is people who

  845. do not know Jesus.

  846. So the other to be hyper years.

  847. So by coming to church this morning is an opportunity

  848. for you to know that God really loves you. Tell something,

  849. He has a plan, He has a purpose for you.

  850. Who are you.

  851. If you would have opened your heart to just sinking,

  852. you just don't need.

  853. To see your kindly sing that you shin chot Han

  854. to find for him that she shines out town, you

  855. will be able to encounter him out town.

  856. Remember the light that God shines and darkness cannot conquehend years.

  857. So conner hey, and like she does. Maybe we have

  858. been living in darkness, couldn't he?

  859. And we can't seem to find the way out without

  860. too low. You're tormented by fear in pains the tree park.

  861. But today prophetically I speak to you and your.

  862. Spirit hapen since in scene like you don't need a

  863. linen So that.

  864. Is your calm to the light of the world Jesus,

  865. Just like that was years to the men. The darkness

  866. that is hovering away your life, we have no choice

  867. but to cease.

  868. And I said, and down it happened the daughter.

  869. Remember when the earth was dark, void and without form

  870. a lot say.

  871. Let that be like hey and p and t sun

  872. so ya gang gang, So let that be light all

  873. your life, so round like the guang, be light over

  874. your situation, round like hunting men, just like the prodigal sun.

  875. Friends, it's never too late.

  876. To come back to God with ours the same.

  877. Every day is a good day to come back to God.

  878. Without We hope you've been blessed by this message. For

  879. more information on our church, please visit X Church do

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  881. We're believing that this week is going to be a

  882. good week. I hit for you.

  883. God bless