Live In The Light | Pr Daniel Chong

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We hope this message will light up your day.

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The United States of America, they were they thought they

were winning. Uh. And then suddenly the Japanese came and

bombed everything and brought fire upon the harbor. The pot

because it was such an important part, because it controlled

all the roots in the sea, in the sea, if

I believe the naval roots.

But you know that that show was so mind opening, eye.

Opening because because of the show, I went and you know,

do further study what happened to Japan after that.

It was such a dark age they were living in.

Can you imagine the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I'll tell you what.

One time you're in the toilet, you're looking at your hands.

The next moment, your hands just disappear. Can you imagine

put yourself in the shoes of the Japanese. You don't

even know what's coming your way, and suddenly we want

You're just minding your own business, doing your own stuff,

and only the next thing you know, your leg is gone,

and then your hand, and then you're just you're gone.

They can't even find the remains of some of these people,

they just disintegrated because of the nuclear bomb, and some

of them who survived, some of them wish they were

dead because the survivors got it even tougher because they

were reading. They are living in a radioactive state. It

was such a dark moment, dark history. We think it's

very long ago, but it's just a couple of years

ago compared to the two thousand years ago that Jesus came. Right,

But it's such a dark age they were living in.

How many of you here remember the economic recession that

happened in nineteen ninety eight. Maybe some of you here

did not experience it. I personally did not experience it personally,

but my father did give some stories. My grandfather gave

some stories. I asked our dear brother Edward for some

you know, some insight, and he shared with me that

it was so tough that he had to find, like,

you know, extra part time jobs from the tree said somewhere.

And he said he was.

He had to He had to find actual job just

to get by. And it was such a dark age.

How many of you know made the teen? Oh made

the teen? You'll know this this day made the teen?

Did I get it right? Made the teen nineteen sixty nine. Right,

it's such a dark day where the Malaysia had to

go through and it was so you know, there's documentaries

online showing about how bad the situation was. It was

such a racial tension situation. Uh, and it was so dark,

you know. Can you imagine living in the day where

suddenly you suddenly I Haffy bridging and there's emergency broadcast saying, okay, everyone,

there's curfew because people are killing one another because of

racial tension. Can you imagine how dark the days are?

And then, you know, I don't know how much of

you remember that there there are young people get thinking

that left right center, you may may think that, you know,

maybe maybe the days are better, you know, not so

dark anymore.

No, open open your eyes. Look around you.

They're young people taking their own lives at the age

of twelve, age of eleven, the young people going missing,

their pastors getting adapted. You know, they are just getting kidnapped.

Left right center, they are planes going down. I don't

need to continue to to bring home the point that

the world is a dark place.

Right. I just saw and God bless their soul.

I pray for everyone who is affected, but the plane

crash in Jedu Airport.

Just think about that.

It's if we think that we still have time, if

we think that we are still in a place that

we can continue to be like lust sure about our faith,

especially the believers in the House of the Lord. Those

of you who are not believers, I pray that you

will be blessed somehow, but especially to the believers, and

speaking to the believers in the house, if you still

think that we're in a place where time is not

of the essence, I want to remind you again that

the world is a dark place and at any given time,

something can happen to either us or those around us.

So we're going to live on I would live as

if it's our last days. We have to live as

if we are on the age of our seats. At

any given time. We have to continue to remember that

the world we are living in, even though we are

off this world, we're in this world. We're not off

this world, right, Okay. So that's why Jesus had to

encourage us. And in the Book of John chapter eight,

verse twelve, that's where Jesus came in. You just spoke

to them again, saying I am the light of this world.

He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but

have the light of life.

How many will follow of Jesus in the house today?

Come on? How many of them? Try this again? How

many followers of Jesus in house today? All right?

I hope that you know you feel excited to call

yourself follows of Jesus because you know what, some person,

that one person that wasn't excited was Simon, Peter or other.

Maybe it was because of his fear. You know, how us?

Do you know this man?

No?

I do not know him. Do you know this man?

No?

I do not know him. Do you know this man?

No?

I do not know him?

Cuckoo? You know that's that's the story. And we and

I pray that even as we we go into our life,

we shouldn't be shy to call ourselves followers of Jesus Christ.

Follow us of the way, I won't believe us. We

have to stand up if the believers in this house

do not stand up for your faith, and who will?

Amen? Men?

So friends, I am not ashamed to say that I

am a follower of Jesus Christ.

But I hope and I pray later on you you

will hear a little bit more.

I hope and I pray that it won't just be

in this fall works when I pray and I encourage

you that you should go out of this force.

Amen.

So Jesus said that he is the light, and he

who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have

the light of life.

So that's Jesus.

You know. Some of you may say, Okay, that's what Jesus,

that's what the disciples. If you have a bibles, open

your bibles to the Book of Matthew chapter five, verse

fourteen to sixteen. And I pray, and I pray that

you have your bibles because it is important. It's important

to help you. I wills today I have the scriptures

on the screen, but not for long.

Maybe we won't have that privilege. What is this? Okay?

So met chapter five, verse fourteen, and if we can,

let's read together fourteen to sixteen at account of one,

two and three. You are the light of the world.

A city that is set on a heel cannot be hidden.

Nor do they light a lamb and put it under

a basket. But on a lamb stand and it gives

light to all who are in the house. Let your

light so shine before men that they may see your

good works and glorify your Father in Heaven. We gotta

go a little bit deeper.

Okay.

You know what, as a believer, I have grown from

strength to strength, glory to glory by the grace of God,

and I've have a new found love of going deep

in the word of God.

I hope you are not bored whenever we go deep

the world of God.

I hope you are excited and and and and empowered.

How can how can you read one verse for the

entire day? You can, in fact, you can read the

entire mond if the Lord continued to inspire you.

But today we're gonna go deep dive. He said.

Okay, friends, you're gonna go deep dive in this tree versus,

and we're gonna study a little bit more on why

Jesus said what he said.

Now for context.

This was the first sermon that Jesus preached UH to

the masses. He first addressed it to his disciples. He

started off with the beatitudes. You know, their phrases that

that that some of them were not accustomed to.

Huh, Blessed are the poor in spirit, Blessed are the

mean what is this?

But Jesus came and he came to fulfill the law,

and he came to shake up our world. You know,

we just sang it earlier, right, shake up our traditions.

Is that the lyrics, uh, and you know, things that

we are accustomed to. Jesus came to shake it all

up because Jesus is the Way, the truth, and the life. Amen. Okay,

so Jesus said, and he started by saying this, he said.

You notice, Jesus said, he said, you are the light

of the world. What does that mean? The word you?

In Greek it means hum ice? Okay, humans, I may

be butchering the pronuncation. One fun fact is that I

hope one day I'll be fluent in Greek and Hebrew.

There's a hope, a big hope trying to get there.

But you know Greek.

In Greek it's who mice, Yes, and who mice means this.

It's not who the mice is, who mice? It means you.

It basically means you and you alone.

Yes. You.

You know, sometimes when we uh listen to a sermon,

often in our minds, and this is true for myself,

often in our minds we will be saying, oh, yeah,

it applies. You know, my wife needs to hear this.

My husband, I need to hear this. I tell you

what my son hai yo, I wish he was here today.

You know, friends, Jesus when he was preaching this and

he was sharing the disciples, he was essentially saying, no, Matthew, no, Peter,

no John, no you James, yes, you you are the one.

I'm talking to you. What it means in Greek? It

doesn't mean that you can look to the left. Ah,

I tell you what, just when this were you are?

You better open your ears, don't don't shut off her

and then you alone, they're going to scroll your social media. No,

she is saying, pay attention you. You don't get it wrong.

If anything at all, it is you. And notice what

he continued to say after that, He said, you are

You know when someone says the word are, what it

means by that?

If I say, Rachelle you are my wife? What does

it mean?

Does it mean that today she's my wife and then

tomorrow she's no longer my wife? Does that mean yesterday

she's my wife, but today she's no long my wife.

Let me say yesterday.

Let's say it today I can't say you are my

wife and the next week I say you are my

wife again. It means the word are here represents a

present tense. That means when Jesus was saying it was

applicable to all his disciples and all they were listening.

And when we read it now, it's applicable to us today.

Because some of us like to say, some believers like

to say the Bible is not applicable for us. The

Bible is for the old days. Imagine the context. Well,

you have to read it in context. You have to

read it in its surrounding. You have to understand the history. No,

when Jesus wrote this book, it is the word of God.

It's applicable to us yesterday, today, and forever more.

Amen.

That's why it's very particular. He didn't say the disciples

today is the light. No, he said you are the like.

What's the purpose of that is because when we open

our Bibles today, we know that he's referencing.

Yes.

And when he reference us, he did not just reference

you and your people around. You know, he's pointing it

directly at you. So it's important for you to open

the Word of God and read it because when you. Really,

it becomes personal. It no longer becomes just Laura's or

just Andrews. It becomes personal to you as an individual.

You are you are, Jesus continued by saying this, you

are the light of this world. What does that mean?

If I put both words together that have just explain

you and are, that means essentially that you are the

only light.

Of this world.

In context, read it as if it's directed to you.

That means do not worry about what it just means

the lot of Well, that's her problem. You are the

light of this world, present, tense, and without you, there

will be darkness in the world that you have influence over.

Because there are times where you are the only light,

and if you choose to switch off that light for

that one instance, an accident may occur. Correct and once

an accident occurs, it doesn't matter whether you se shore

the light after that or before that.

It has happened. Something has happened.

We should not wait until That's why, Jesus continued, That's

why the first thing that God did right after creating

the heavens and the earth was that he created light.

So that we can see, and without light, we cannot see. Friends.

So you are the light light. In Greek, the word

light is the word force. Okay, it's not forceful or

it's not for, but it's the word force us uh

spelled p h os. And that's where we get the light.

The word photography, that's where we get the word photo.

That's where we get the word photograph.

That's where we get the word photo synthesis and in

to do with light, that's how we get the word

And I tell you what if you put it in context,

you put it into in this totality, it says.

You are the light of this world. What does that mean?

Jesus is trying to say that we are supposed to

be a clear picture of who Jesus is to this

dark world. That means if someone is looking at you,

they will be able to see Jesus in you. Now,

I put a picture of it because it's such a

nice picture. Right, it's a picture of our family. It's

a picture of excta commoning and that that was taken

at our recent camp. But it was such a nice

I can see every grain of hair on that picture.

Because you're such a good picture, you know.

But let me give you an example of a picture

that maybe it's not so good, but some of the

young people think.

It's very artistic or very nice.

Okay, next picture. Now, this is an example of a

picture that I go like, what is this even doing

in my phone?

Right?

Like?

Why are you trying to show? Is it?

Is it a trend now to think aren't focused to pictures?

I pray and I pray that when someone that is

not a believer, someone who's not a Christian, looks at you,

I hope this is not what they see. Is that

Jesus how come looks like him? But then got two

horns that are red color, and the hate on how

comer and it's almost at a batch that is red

color and got two horns and then got a pitch fork.

Besides this, how come got such a club that that?

How come? How come?

They they call themselves the devils. You never walk alone? Ah,

and you never walk alone? You know that's a joke.

That's a joke.

But we are supposed to be a clear picture of

who Jesus is in this dark world. A question that

we should ask ourselves. Are we out of focus? When

someone look at our lives? Do they feel that we

are out of focus? The pictures out of focus, like

they can't even see properly. It's the picture blur and

not showing the truth. If you look at this picture,

you can't even tell who they are. Right.

If I didn't even know Joyce was in the picture,

apparently she is.

I thought that was my ra, but she revealed to

me that that's her in the picture, the one on

the far right.

For those of you who know, you know, uh, But

that's just the fact.

It does not show the true picture, the true truth

about the picture. Yet they are people. Now here's where

I need you to pay attention. There are people I'm

talking about people that are in the darkness. It means

they are they're not they're not known to the truth, okay,

And they look at us. Do they get the clear

picture or do they see something else? Or do they

experience something else? So this is something that I want

to ask all of you today, and I pray that

you can reflect on this, right because it's good. It's

good to reflect as we go into a new year.

You know, things that are already be old, but we

have to move on. But in order to move on,

we have to understand what we are doing in our lives.

Right, what are we doing?

You know, like you know what we're saying with our

mouth is the things that we're saying with our mouth.

This will reflect who Jesus is now life. There's a

number of things.

Number one, it reveals the truth, right, it reveals the

truth things you that are already there, but yet in

the darkness you may not know it's there. And number two,

it exposes the darkness. Now, I'm going to give you

an example, a true story, a real story, story time,

and it will bring home the point across. I hope

you know what. I have a cat now, I have

a Maya mao. Yes, next night I'll show you some

amazing pictures of her.

And look at that. Wow, so cute, right, so cute.

Look at that.

These pictures are taken by my wife. Only she can

make them. The pictures look so nice like that.

My pictures.

On the other hand, it's just her digging her nose.

But her name, I call her the Legacy cat. You

know why, because I found her here. I found her here,

I found I found out that the owner abandoned her,

so I took her in. I didn't really name her yet,

but on the first day, on the first day, that

I got her in the car in the box that

we found.

Guess what she decided to do. Guess what, man?

She decided to bomb my car with an amazing smell.

Just as we were about to enter into our house.

Russia look at me and said, then I smelled something off.

I'm like, oh, after a while, we hit your nose.

I'm like, I'm not going to have this in my house.

And I thought it was just pee and I look

in doing it, I saw a nice little black, squishy cake.

So it's so when you look at her, she looks

so great until what comes out of her, then you're

no longer that great.

It reminds us about It reminds us about us.

We look like we're all we have it all great,

but when we really what really comes out? Sometimes people

look at us and say like, hey, are you even

a human being? How can you even say such things?

You know, being a bastard. There are certain things that

I say sometimes with my wife that she may even

look at me and say that are you Why are

you say such things? I admit it sometimes, you know,

as a as a husband, there are days where actually

be more loving. Their days were actually be more encouraging,

but sometimes life is life, and you know, you start

making excuses for yourself and it's.

Like going like, no, it's not acceptable.

You ought to love your wife, you ought to love

your family, You ought to love those around you regardless

of how you feel.

Amen.

If that's not the case, Jesus won't say you are

the light. He will say you are like sometimes no,

Jesus said you are the light. And what does the

characteristic or the light is? It shines, It shines and

it reveals things that are supposed to be revealed.

Now I'll tell you what. So the back to the cat.

Her name is Snuggles name after my late hamster Cuddles,

because she loved the snuggles or at least struggle, or

at least we thought that she likes to until we

see her shoe color.

So when we were having.

Her first few days, we're like, oh, okay, all great,

all nice, until I tell you what the deciding factor

when I got really upset, at least I think my

wife got really like frustrated. It's when we start seeing

the next picture. We start saying, hair all over the

cup bed, all over the place. She decided to bomb

my cup bed bomb my sofa with her her spitting

out of her hair that we call it a hairball.

And it's so fastating to see this, right, But the

thing is, it's there all the world, ever since she

came in and lived with us. The hair was already everywhere.

It's just until the day when we decided, okay, it's

time for spring cleaning. Yay, it's time to clean the house. Yay.

Then we're on the.

Light and we go like, oh AMG. You know, it's

the realization. And that's what lightness. It reveals things that

are already there. It reveals things that are already in

your life that is not supposed to be there, the

junk that is in and around our spirits sometimes, the

things that we decide to say, the things that we

decide to do. Until it, unless the light gets shine,

we won't be able to see. Let me backtrack a

little bit. When Jesus said you are the light, she

also said you are the soul. And some characteristics of

a salt is this, what does it mean? You are

soil like white white salt? Why can't say msg? You

know you see why why some criter your salt sat?

It adds flavor? How many of you agree, how many

of your coat without putting salt. No, there's no replacement

for salt, honestly, And you know what the another another

thing that that that that I found at about salt,

that is that it has a name. His name is

called nasal. That's the name of salt. Nasal nasell n

A C L sodium chlorid.

Uh So.

It adds flavor. You need nascle in your food. Without nassle,

you won't have any flavor. It's not nice. You need

to have it.

Correct.

So when Jesus said you are the sort in the light,

it means that you are someone that It means you

have to add flavor.

You have to be someone who adds you. Now, another

thing about sort is that it is small. All right.

Jesus did not say you are the rock, you are

the stone, you know. He said you are the salt.

And what does that mean? It means when I sprinkle you,

when Jesus decides to thank you and sprinkle you into

this world, you are able to enter into.

Any hole, any part, any ministry.

We should stop saying and stop normalizing the fact that, oh,

this church is not for me, Oh this ministry is

not for me, Oh, young people are no hope?

Mol Hello.

If everybody is said that, than how are the young

people are gonna grow up? How are they gonna grow

into fine young gentlemen if we think that they have

no hope?

Hello?

You're all well once young people, Okay. And someone had

to make that sacrifice, sacrifice in order to disciple and

to bring you up even though you didn't want to

hear and listen to them. You are the song and

loved this. And the last thing about salt is that

this in effects when you have an ulcer and you

want to heal us. That's the old saying to put

salt on your O. Sir, I don't know doctor, I

don't know help doctors in the house. I don't know

how scientifically and great it is, but I think it

helps that it helps kill the bacterias. All right, salt

this in facts, and then you put salt on the

wound that's already there. It will hurt, It will hurt.

But sometimes you're asking us, then how you know do

I go like a loud hailer and gore no in

my company or my company needs me to speak the

truth at all times, or if they are doing bribery,

I actually speak up.

Let me remind you friends, you're hired to be a worker.

Do your job.

Do your job, and then know your friends, know your

colleagues and know them in love. I mean, you know

them in love and express their love towards them. Then

they will listen. So I say it speaks the truth,

but speak the truth in what in love?

Amen. So there's some self correct deis gonna give you

about salt.

But back to light, back to light, you know, in

back to Matthew, he says, uh uh, you are the

light of this world, and you are a picture of

what Jesus is.

You should be a picture of what Jesus is.

A question that I want to ask you today again

A reminder is that when people look get us two questions.

Are we revealing the truth and are we exposing the darkness?

When people look at us, or or where people look

at us, they go like, huh, you gotta say, men,

you gotta do this, man, you gotta say cannot men

or never hear you say anything before you're drink until drunk,

you'll never say anything. You never say anything you said.

You don't say that we shouldn't be drunk. No, you, I.

Just drink and I'm drunker?

Or are you the type of person When they look

at you, they go like, uh, you know what, let's

keep our drinking to the mineral because he's here.

Well, I would rather be that person. I would rather

be the person.

When I'm around them, they will stop cursing because they

know that I don't curse. We are the sort we

reveal the darkness. We should stop worrying about offending other people.

In Genesis one, verse only seven says is so God

created men his own image, and in the image of God.

He created him male and female. He created them. When

we read what Jesus said in Joint of the Eight,

he says, where he is the light of this world.

And when we put it together with what you're said

in Matthew five, when Jesus said about us, you are

the light of this world. You know what, it makes sense.

It has to make sense because we are created in

his image. And this was before sin. When God created us,

his original intention was for us to be created in

his image. What does that mean when people look at us,

they see Jesus. There was his original intention. But when

we decided, when mankind decided to take off their fruit

when clearly instructed not to darkness came into a heart.

And that's so Jesus had to come and be the light,

to show us the way and to make us white

as snow.

Amen.

Now, Jesus is the light. And analogy in our world today,

there is a source of light, right, and the source

of light is the the Sun, the bride s u n.

How many of you know Jesus also the sun. Jesus

is the s o end. But in analogy wise, let's

refer to Jesus as the s u n. Okay, he

is the bright shining star, that is the shining the light.

That's the source of the light. And the light gives

the earth the four seasons and the XTV too us

to us spoiler. And if Jesus is the sun, then

what we are we?

What are we? What are we?

Because we are reflecting the light of Jesus, we are

the moon? Okay, God, Jesus has made us white as snow,

and now we are white. So therefore the moon is white,

and therefore we are we are the moon. There is

some energy here. I'll ask you a question.

The moon does it or does it have its own.

Source of light? No, how does it have light? It

reflects the light? When in any point of time does

that not happen? Okay, the picture is spoil it out. Okay,

so thank you XTV for this light. But this is

the only time that it doesn't happen. You know, the

Moon does not able to reflect the light because it's

covered by the Sun.

It's the lunar eclips by the Earth.

Sorry, when the lunar it claps happened for a short

period of time, the Earth gets between the Sun and

the Moon. Yet it and it then makes the Moon

not able to do its purpose, its function to reflect

the light to the Sun. Some of us under the Earth,

some of us today may be at a place where

we are allowing that to happen. We are allowing the

earth to get between us and.

Our father in heaven.

The world today, that's full of darkness, that's full of negativity.

It's full of their thoughts, you know, their thoughts about LGBT. Now,

we love those that are in LGBT, but we do

not condone their actions. It's clear because why the Bible

says so. And I'm not afraid to do that to

say that.

But if an algebraty person comes in.

If any one of you here in that field, I

would say, I will love you or inviting into my

house at any given time. But I should always speak

the truth. But I can only speak the truth if

I get to know you first, right. But sometimes we're

allowing this world, this present evil age, to continue to

to block what we see and block our vision of

our father in heaven so much so that his light

will no longer reach us, and we are unable to

shine that light. And I tell you what, in that

given moment and in that given time, you are no

different than the world, even worse. In this analogy, the

world is getting the sun, but you are the one

that is staying in your closet, not saying anything about

the truth. Okay, So some of us today, if you

are experiencing a lunar eclipse in your life, I pray

that it will only be temporary, because even the lunar

eclipse is temporary, it's not permanent. Come back to the light,

Come back to your waist. Even the moon has to

come back to the light. It doesn't stay in the

darkness forever. Okay, So if you are there to day,

I pray that you will be convicted by this, you

know Romans til Us who says this, And do not

be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the

renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is

that good, acceptable and perfect.

Will of God. Now the word world over there, you know.

In the Book of Galatians it also says, who gave

himself for our says that he may deliver us from

this present evil age. I preach about this before. The

word world and this present evil age is actually synonymous.

It's the same thing.

So when we are allowing the world the earth to

get between us and the Sun, we are allowing this

present evil age to come between us and the Father. So, friends,

I pray and I pray that you would you will

really reflect on this, especially especially as you start the

new year. You don't want to go in the new

year with all the junk that you have in the

last year, the previous years. No, wipe that all away,

you know, even if it's there, wipe it all away

and come back to the Father. Okay, come back to

the light now you may. You may be wondering, so,

so what about this world? What about this present evil age?

Jesus give us an example. So of you here well

thought you know the parable of the soa? Are you

not aware of what the barrel of the so heard

about this before? In that it is the Jesus taught

in parables, and he gave a parable or the sower,

and the sower was someone who sought his seeds, and

just said that when the sower sowed, some of the

seeds fell by the wayside.

The birds came and devoured them.

Some of them fell on the stony side, did not

have much earth, and he didn't he didn't make it true.

And some of them it fell on the tawny places.

They immediately buttered up, and the torns came and strangled.

Damn. When the disciples heard it, this was like, why

what you're talking about? Oh? Praise the Lord.

Jesus decided to explain, explain his variables, and in the

explanation that he gave in verse twenty two, much later,

we're gonna focus on the tons.

He said this.

Now, he who received seed among the tons is he

who hears the word.

Oh okay, all right, that sounds good. He sounds good.

He who hears the word and the cares of this world.

He didn't stop there.

He who hears the word, and the cares of this

world and the deceitfulness of riches choked the word, and

he comes unfruitful. I pray today that in this house

not it won't be your desire to be unfruitful.

I pray everybody here desire to be fruitful.

In your life, desire to multiply your talents in this life.

This decided to multiply yourself in this world so the

artists may experience the light of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

So the first thing that would really, maybe you know,

cloud our vision is the cares of this world? Are

we allowing the cast in Greek is imma. I'm just

gonna use maniima. But sometimes humanima too much anxiety, right

humandima too much worries in this world, the cares of

this world, the world is allowing to creep.

Into your life.

You're allowed to struggle into your life, to take the

place of the sun. You're allowed it to the son

to take away your focus on the sun. No, believers,

can I be honest if all you today you know

sometimes we really worry too much, worry too much, We

really really really really really really really, really really really

worry too much. Can I tell you one thing, It

is not good, it's not good to worry too much.

But it's not that we cannot worry. Jesus actually teach

us what to do about that worry. But we worry

too much. We worry about our self. We worry about

our heart. We worry about our children. Ready they're go

enough to the clothes to way. We worry about our

children where they are you know, sleeping well. We worry

about our job. We worry about our dog. We worry

about cat, whether she's go enough food to eat, worry

about whether she's go enough water to drink. So much

so at times we forget that God actually exists. Can

I be honest with you today, because if you know

that God existed, then why are you worrying day after

day and night after night, like as if there's like

I see the God.

Sometimes we worry so much.

You know, you're in a place where you feel like

your your your your boss is doing something unethical and

like actually I actually saying or actually I shouldn't do it,

or because it's my boss and he's paying my page check,

and then I'll kill I will just you know, I'll

just not not not say anything, and I'll just listen.

There you're going, bright people, Why because our fear maybe

I'll lose my job, and it's real fear, it's real fear.

Maybe I'll lose my job, maybe I will lose my livelihood,

maybe I'll lose I'll pay.

And then you worry, worry, worry, ray so much and

then you don't do it.

But do you know one thing, The same God that

gave you the job will be able to give you

another job.

But you gotta continue to speak the truth.

You can live in the light, because if you don't

live the light, you continue to live in darkness. And

one day when the light shines at you, my goodness,

don't be surprised at them a gun that is in

your life, don't be surprised. So sometimes we allow the

cares of this world instead of being worried. Instead of

being worried every single day, Jesus thought this, bring that

worry to me, co to me all who labor and

are heavy laden, and I will give you you can't worry,

but don't worry every single day. Jesus even say that

let tomorrows worries worry for yourself.

You wire experienced worry. He did say that they will

be worried tomorrow.

But bring that worry to me, and I will give

you rese Instead of being worrious, Instead of being worried

with the cares of this world, why not you be carrious.

Of the world.

Next, like we'll say this, why not you be carrious

of the word, carriers of the light, carriers of the

truth in and around your market places?

Amen?

Or maybe it's not this one. Maybe it's not the

cares of this world. Maybe it's not the worries of

this world. Let's go to the next one. Maybe it's

the deceisfulness of riches. He says, it's in the verse earlier. Friends,

I tell you what. Money has a way of deceiving

us into thinking that the more we have, the less

worry we will be true.

Not true.

Sometimes we have so much money, you know, and we

thought the worry can buy away all our our troubles.

We thought worry can buy away all of our depression. No.

I can tell you what, if you're depressed today and

you get one million to work today, maybe you won't

guarantee that your depression will go away.

You wouldn't you won't guarantee that all your troubles will

go away.

We may think that one million is a lot of

money until we receive it one million and we just

buy a house everything that, Oh, actually one million is

not much. I need to earn my next million. Oh,

I need to earn my next million. It will continue

to happen until if you continue the Lord over money

and make money your God. You will continue through Lord,

and one day and decide, and one day you will

you'll realize that, hey, actually it doesn't really solve what's

in the heart. And you know what does that? The

light does that, the truth does that. I'm gonna share

if you're a story of Abraham and Lord. You know

they were struggling over land, and not really struggling land.

They were trying to choose the land. And Abraham be

the one tension I'm bever facing. Okay, lot, you you choose,

You choose to wish land. You one. And Lord looked

at this wonderful, blissful garden, nice heels and nice land,

and he said, wow, it's so green. It's so green.

It reminds me of what egyp is. And Lord said,

this is where I'm gonna lie down. This is where

I'm gonna lay. And then Abraham settled, settled with Canaan.

You know this, right, And and sometimes we live our

life thinking that the grass is always greener at the

other side. That's where the phrase come from. My relief,

Lord's like, oh it is this grass so green? I'm

gonna stay here. You know what happened to Sodom and Gomora.

We know what happened right after that. Because something as

long as something that is not off the Lord, it

is not good.

It is not of the Lord.

Some of us here we are so worrying, we are sold,

we are so being so deceived by the ways and

patterns of this world. Instead of choosing what is off

the Lord, we choose what is off Lord.

Okay, don't allow.

Your brain to start thinking and worrying so much, so

much you're worrying, You're worrying so much until you choose

what is not of the Lord. So instead of being

constantly deceived by the regions of this world, where we

take away the deceit. Next like we take away the deceit,

what we are left with is the fullness of his riches.

Because when we take away the deceits of this world

and invite God into the picture.

What we are left with is the riches of his glory.

Amen, take away the lies, take away the lives of

the enemy. That money can solve everything, and you were

left with his richness.

Amen.

Jesus continued to say this, you are the light of

this world. He said, a city that is set on

a hill cannot be hidden. The word hidden in green

also means secret. You know, I find the fact. When

Jesus was saying this, Jesus was actually on the Mount

of Olives, and right opposite the Mount Olives, you know

mount this is in the vicinity of Jerusalem, the temple,

and right opposite there was a city that is also

set on the hill.

I'm not sure the name, but it's set on the hill.

And when I believe when Jesus sharing Zebels, he was

actually pointing.

He was pointing to the city. He said, like that city.

You say, what from that distance, in the far distance

north of where I am, there's a city there, said light.

He's saying, disciples, followers of the world, the followers of

the way, this is the way. If you are a

city on the hill, you cannot be hidden. And in Habako,

Chapter three was nineteen. He says, the Lord God is

my strength, and he will make my feet like year's feed,

and he will make me walk on my high heels.

So woman in this house is not wrong to have

high heels.

Okay, it's not wrong to have high heels in your wardrobe,

because Jesus wants you to walk on high heels.

Men all the best.

But then aside all of us, we are placed on

a place whereby we are able to see what we

cannot see previously, because we are in a place where

we are in this world, but a moment where we

accept Jesus Christ into our hearts. Jesus elevates us into

a place where we are on a heel and we

are able to see. But when we are on that hill,

we must remember that as you can see people, people

can also see you.

I wherever I am, I can.

Still say ding when they decided on their legs, and

night from where I am, I can say conding. They

can see you, and I pray when they see you

they don't go like, oh, that healer not desirable. That

healer I hear his same like miela I gamble. He

is a gamble I smoke. He is so smoke. I

tell lies. He is a lie to me every single day.

But on a Sunday you go to church, maybe there's

a lie.

To you know.

Sometimes we are living in this life where we are,

we are, we are, we are, We've forgotten the rightful

place of children of God, the inheritance that we are

about to inherit. The Holy Spirit interceding for us almost

every day, every single day, every single working up with

His interceding for us, or behow us to in heaven

that we are children of God.

We are as of God. Amen.

So we are set on a hill, and a city

that's set on a hill cannot be hidden. Therefore, this

also means that there should not be any James Bone Christian. Okay,

what's your name born, James Bone. I'm James one Christian.

I am M I six, M.

I seven special Forces Specialist by Christian. Huh, operating on

a special mission for the Lord. That nobody my marketplace

when you look at me, they were even think that

I'm a Christian because I'm Special Forces special spy.

Only come out when it's necessary. Hello, Jesus didn't say that,

just say that you are city on a heel.

I'm losing my voice today. All the best. You are

a city on a hill. You cannot be hidden. There's

no such thing as special forces Christian special lobs. No.

If anything, you are public force. Everything you say, everything

you do is under the microscope. People will see you.

People will see you, people see what you do.

So be careful.

Christians, believers in the house, I encourage you to employ

you today. If you are, if you're already away from

your the road of righteousness, come back, come back ready

like the moon.

Come back to the light.

Stop staying in the darkness, Come out and shine the

light of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

A city that said on the heel cannot be hidden,

Nor do they light a lemb and put it under

a basket or I can read hear some whispers in

my ear bassardan basket god holes so you can see

the light.

Allo.

When you read the bibord, you're reading in its original language.

The word basket in Greek means more deos, which means ball.

Okay, it's a ball.

So when you take a ball without alls, the basket

ball and you cover the light, the light won't be scene. Correct.

I wasn't trying to speak, but sometimes why why Christians

in this house? If I can, if I can ask

you today, why are you afraid of showing your light?

At times I had to ask myself in my marketplace,

why am I afraid of showing my life? And these

are the questions, These are the answers that I came

out with again, maybe you can't relate next night. Fear

of not being included, fear of being singled out, fear

of being loved that, fear of being questionianed.

I don't have to deal with questions.

I already got my own wordy I someone have to

answer the question no fear of offending others. This is

my own reflection. And it happened the Moviefore and I

and I and I just sat down and I just

looked at the Lord for a while. The Lord just

dropped this in my heart that sometimes I am too worried,

or we are too worried about what artists may think.

We often forget what the Lord thinks. We often forget

what the Lord thinks. Next night, we say this, we

are too In other words, we are okay to be

consumed by the fear of men, but we're not. We're

not Okay, that means we're so afraid. We're so afraid

of this world, what they say, what they think, and

any effect our actions. But how about having fear of

the Lord in everything that we do, everything that we say.

The question has to always be what does Jesus think

about this? What does Jesus think about me participating in

actions or activities that I'm not supposed to participate in?

Because I know that if I participate in those actions

or those activities, I may result in not glorifying how

feigend Heaven?

Right now, I don't drink.

Some of you notice, some of you maybe even make

fun of me because I don't drink. I'm not saying

that you shouldn't drink, but the Bible clearly says that

you should not be a drunk. That's what the Bible

clearly says. I know that if I drink, I will

get drunk, So why don't drink?

So I don't refrain away from that.

But do you know what, in the past ten years,

I have been challenged a few times.

In my work. There are a lot of drinking, trust me.

In the construction line, a lot of drinking, and sometimes

in order to get the you need to drink, and

sometimes I am tempted, you know, or just one glass

of this wine, I will get this job. I have

to make a stand because I know that if I

start drinking because I get drunk over shandy. I know,

and I start drinking, I will get drunk. And then

when I get drunk, then I'll be against the word

of the Lord.

I I that's my own personal conviction. And that's why.

Hence why even though I want to drink, even though

I want to be part of that.

You know, I don't. I don't. Yeah. And also God

has blessed me. I don't like a taste.

So sometimes even instead of having fear for mankind, why

not have fear of the Lord? What does Jesus think

about my actions? Tewod Timothy one seven says, for God

did not give us spirit of fear, but of power

and of love and of a sound mind. How many

sound mind people in the house today, Lord help us,

we are even a spirit a sound mind. We are

not created to be someone who is so fearful of

the ways of this world.

But having the fear of the Lord is important.

If it's just four fifteen says this, But speaking the

truth in love may grow up in all things into

Him who is the heat Christ. Jesus continue by saying this,

you do not put your light under the basket. Put

your light, you know, shine your light. And he said this,

but on a lamb stand. Take the light, put it

on a lampstand and give and it will give light

to all of to all who are in the house.

The lamb that has light, which is you, and you

are reflecting the light. Don't hide under your insecurities. Don't

hire it away for none to see. You know, Jesus

was so particular and is that he could say, just

let your light shine, but he did not.

He said, take your light, put it on a stand.

Why because understand it's in a high place, and you

will illuminate the entire house instead of illuminating only one

part of the house.

So catch this.

Everything you just say is intentional. And when he said that,

he didn't he particularly said. And when I read this,

I went like, oh, wow, you had to start with

the house. You had to start with the house. How

many of you here today in the house. You are

not a Christian in the church, Hallelujah, hou Zenna, praise

the Lord. But in the house you are no longer hallelujah.

In you are no longer giving all glory to the Lord.

In fact, instead of speaking up for the Lord, you're

speaking down on the Lord. You're participating in things that

does not bring glory to the Lord. But the Lord

was very very very very very very particular to say

it gives light to all who are in the house

of friends.

You've got the first start with all who are in

the house.

First dimity tree four or five says this one who

rules his own house well, having his children in submission

with all reverence. For if a man does not know

how to rule his own house, how will he take

care of the Church of God. How so, Father's in

the house, man in the house, I had to speak

to all of you.

First. You got to lead your house. You got to

lead your household. That means, even if your own wife

is not in alignment with the Lord, lead your house

and allow the Holy Spirit to convict the partner. That's

why it's important to be equally yoked. It's very difficult

if me and Rochelle does not have the same beliefs,

she will go like, oh huh my. But then if

you're not feeling too well, then don't have to go

to church and all to stay at home and rest. Hollo.

If you're not feeling the more, I should come to church.

The reason why I didn't come to church last Sunday

is because I was very infectious. Okay, you touch me,

you're gonna get chicken pox. Maybe maybe there was a

doctor's instruction. So sometimes you have to do what you

have to do. But a little bit cove li No,

sometime's coming to church, even if you wake up late,

even if you didn't didn't wake up on time, Just

come anyways, come and experience the glory of the Lord,

because sometimes the way to experience your break through is

by coming and by putting your faith into practice. I

don't feel too well, but I'm gonna come anyways because

I believe God. It's gonna move in my life. Amen,

I believe God, it's gonna move in my life. And

from the house to.

The House of God.

As you create, as you live in your house, as

you do it well in your house, then take it

to the house of the Lord, and it applies to

the house of the Lord.

Also, when he says, oh, it's not say only.

My homies, only my cell group, member, I will be

good with the rest.

All can go to fly kite. No, he doesn't say that.

He says, oh, your light has to shine to all,

even the past that you don't like. Okay, know him

in love and then speak the truth faster.

You know what. I've been walking with you so long.

I got to know you. You know what.

I still don't agree with certain things that you say.

But get to know the person first and speak the

truth in love. But if you're not in love, then

how you're going to speak the truth?

Amen?

Honestly, at times you don't have to say much. You know,

at times you have to say much. Just allow the

light to reveal what the world chooses to conceal and

let God more in your life. Sometimes you don't want

to say much. You just got to continue to be

the light. Have stands for the Lord.

Amen.

Jesus went on to say this, let your light so

shine before men. Wow, where else have you heard this?

John three sixteen for God so love the world? It

really portrays God's love for men, and he exemplifies the

nature of our God, the God that desires all men.

Amen.

I repeat all men to be saved and to counter

the knowledge of the truth. Not some men, not three

quarter men, not ninety nine percent men, know all men.

This is our foreign heaven.

He desires all men to be saved and to calm

to the saving knowledge, the saving grace of knowledge of

Jesus Christ.

That shining alone is not enough to describe what Jesus wants.

It's not enough. That's why he had to add an

extra What do you call it? What is the word so?

Is it a verb? See?

That's why you have to study My English is very bad.

Emphatic verb?

Okay?

Here to add an emphatic to the sentence. And he said,

you let your life so shine, not so what? So

every time people like to do to young people, especially

very rude, you give the exact advice, all on until

you're the until you wonder, you call for blood.

Didn't you look at you and say, so what? That's

why I used to do with my mom. H so

what the word so in Greek here means hutus.

It adds an extra emphasis on the verb that is

coming after the word soul. So when God said, for

God so loved the world, God is love. Sometimes it's

enough to say for God loved the world. No, he

had to add an extra soul. It's it's a barrel

that I want to draw to you. So when God,

when Jesus said, let your light so shine before man,

it means you got to take this seriously. Not just shiner,

but so shiner, shine and deal you cannot shine anymore?

Okay? Shine and de your what does that mean? Shine?

And do you reach a grave? And even in the

grave you can.

You're shining because of your legacy that you leave behind,

because of the memories that you live behind, because of

the wonderful good works that you have done.

And what does it say?

Let your light so shine before men that they may see,

that they may see your good works. If you do

not have light, how are they going to see?

Catch this.

That you're like, So shine before men that they may see,

may see what your good works?

Huh?

Why does he mean? Why does he say good works?

Why can't he say faith? Isn't it more spiritual? Isn't

it more nice? Like so shine before men that they

may see your faith? No, faith is for you. Faith

is inwards. Faith is something that only you can feel

that by faith you are safe. Amen, you are by

faith in Jesus Christ, you are safe because faith can't

technically be seen, especially to those who are not believers.

They're not followers of the word. Faith is internal, especially

pre believers. You know, they can't tanchnically see your faith

if you just treats and he sayss that crist may

dwell and your heart's true faith, that you being rooted

and grounded in love.

Romans eight.

Dan says, is Christ in you to the body is

there because of seeing the spirit's life, because of righteousness

Galatianus two twenty. I'm crucified with crimes, and it's no

longer I who live, but crimes who lives in me.

You can see, You can tell their faith is an

internal thing. But you know what they can see. They

can see our works. They can see the works of

your hands. They can see whether you greet them good

morning every day and not. They can see where they're

kind individual. They can see your good works. And because

your life is shining so brightly, they can see your

good works. Amen, for by grace you have been saved,

true faith. They're not yours of yourself. It is a

gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast,

but for we are His workmanship.

In Christ Jesus for good works. You're created for good works. Amen.

Next night, I'm gonna draw a Beryl follow you today,

and it comes from these two verses. One verse that

you can remember until you die. I hope you know

all the children by world class. And one verse that

I'm introducing to you today. He says this, for God

so loved the world, for God so loved the world,

let your light so shine before men, that he gave

his only begotten son that they may see your good works.

Now, I'm not trying to create a new verse here, okay,

but I'm trying to.

Say that because God so loved this world, he gave

his one and only begun his sons.

So what so what so that he can come and

take our place.

And when he come and take our place, we can

see the people around can see the disciples were were

impacted by it. They will people who were saved the

same way. How that whoever believes in him should not perish.

But however lasting life. Jesus came to fulfill his purpose

here on earth, and he did it. But the fact

is the fact that he is no longer physically here

on earth, and he cannot no longer do this because

he has done it already, and he left behind the

power of the Holy Spirit for the disciples and all

of us to continue this task. And so Jesus had

to teach us, and he taught us to let our

light so shine before men, that they may see how

good works, the work that has been completed on the cross.

They will continue to see it today, not just looking

back at the cross, but as they see you, they

see the cross not just on your neck, but they

see the cross in your life.

Amen. And finally, is this.

That whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have

ever lasting life. That whoever sees your good works will

be pointing towards the Father in heaven or eventually and

glorify the Father in heaven. Because Wow, because of what

you have done, my dear friend, because of the picture

that you've painted about Jesus Christ, I now can see

what Jesus done for me. And I give all glory

to our Father in heaven, not all glory to you,

but all glory to our Foreign in Heaven. That because

of what you have done, I can see and now

I know that I will no longer perish as long

as I believe in Christ. Jesus as my personal savior.

Are you catching his friends? Are you catching why Jesus

decided to use the words so out of a singular words?

So we can draw this perile.

It's important to read scripture in his totality and draw references.

Why did Jesus say this? Why does God put us

in this place? Why does God put us in a

place where we are full of a mess. There's so

much mess, there's so much chunk in our world. But

sometimes when we are a mess, you know, we see

the place, the surrounding, the dumness that he's in and

around us, and we tend to shy away from the

mess and decide to do nothing. Now, I tell you what,

whenever there's a mess, there needs to be a message.

And whenever there's a message, there needs to be a messanger.

When Jesus came, he was the messenger of the message.

And when he did it, he did it in his come,

in his surrounding. And it's his instruction. In Matthew twenty eight,

verse nineteen, he says, go and make disciples in all nations.

Amen.

Continue When you see a mess is an opportunity for

you to bring a message through a messenger to the messes. Amen,

stop shying away, Christian believe us, follow us of the way.

Stop putting a ball over your lights.

Let your light so shine before men that they may

see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven. Amen,

for the earth well be filled with the knowledge of

the glory of the Lord. As the water has covered

the sea, I hope this is not just something you

remember as our ex churche.

No, it's God.

God wrote put this in the Bible, and it is

his desire that thrue the works of his believers through

the light that is so shining, so brightly true, his believers, true,

the followers, He followers. People will be able to see

and experience the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

Amen.

As the waters cover the sea, which part of the

sea is not covered by water?

Which part? It's all so much, oh so much now.

The Bible also says that our of the abundance of

the heart, the mouth will speak. And it's important to

understand and to comprehend what this means. You know, it's

important to have the form of godliness. It's important when

people look at you. I hope they can they can

recognize that you are carrying the form of godliness, you're

carrying the image of a Christian. But it's also it's

also very important to remember that it's not just that

you can't just have the form of godliness but deny

its power, because when you do that, when you do that,

essentially what you're doing is that you have the form,

but you do not have the power.

Now, I'm going to give you an analogy and ask

you a question. What is this?

So it has the form of a torchlight, right, okay.

But if I were to put this on.

And switch it on, can I ask you why it's

not working? Why I have the form, I have the

form of a touchlight, but because I deny its power

and it's empty, it won't work.

Amen, it won't work. Get it.

There's no battery inside, all right. So if the problem

is the battery, let's put the batteries in. Okay, put

the batteries in. Now. By the way, my lovely assistant, uh,

that has the form of my assistant, but also the

power of my assistant whole that Sae. She's my wife

and she should have put the energy, the energy in

the energizer, the energizer that represents the energy in it

this way or this way? Say okay, so it should

work now right, okay, drum roll, Oh it doesn't work.

How come.

You're like you're like thinking like this on all? You

think what your child is to try tricks. So I

have the form of godliness. I have the form of

a touchlight. I don't deny it's how anymore. I put

its power in. But yet it still doesn't work. Why

because this battery doesn't work finishally the juice. So go

ahead and put your new batteries, thank you very much.

My lovely assistant is trying to find the new batteries.

But while she's doing that, I have another object to

show you today. And what is this called.

It's called an alarm clock. Youna.

You wanna hear what it does? You wanna hear what

it does? What happens every morning when I go to

work and my wife is not supposed to wake up.

This is what happens. Okay, right, so you only have

the phone alarm? This is work for me. So there

was one night when I was about to wake up.

You know, these things are there ringing, and out of frustration,

I looked at it and I go like a you

stop ringing. And by the way, it used to be black.

It's no longer black because it's spoiledy because I threw

it on the floor. So now I have a new

one from Shoppy, who is purple.

Okay. So I pray for you because you will not

have a good future. Okay.

So I was so upset with the previously black alarm clock,

you know, the one from Ikia, I decided to flung

on the ground. But as I was looking at it right,

I was like, I was like trying to see what

time is in I can't see because it was so dark.

And then the Lord reminded me that it's dark because

I cannot see. And when I put in the power

and hope this works. I put in the power. I

do not deny the power. I have the form of touch,

I do not I do not deny the power. And

now hello, ah, and how it works. It has light.

It has light, Hollidaah, praise a lot. You have the

form of godliness and you do not deny its power.

And what comes out that is a light that you

can now shine at the clock that you are unable

to see previously and not able to tell the time,

and Now that you have the light shining the clock,

you can clearly tell that it's.

Time to end this message. Wow, now you know the time.

It's important to know the time. It's important to know

the time Romans in thirteen eleventh, thirteen seventies. And do

this knowing the time, knowing the time, that is now

high time. Guys, it is high time to a wag

out of your sleep.

Christians, believers in the house, you are still sleeping, Wake up,

wake up because.

The time has come. Knowing the time, that is high time.

You should know the time. Shine the light and the time.

And as you shine the light.

Of the time, it's high time for you to wake

up out of your sleep. When the alarm rings, stop

snoozing it. God is calling you wake up, be alive.

But yeah, you go like ah, throw him in the

side of the corner. No, the Lord is saying it's

time to awake out of sleep. Why because for now

our salvation is nearer than we first believe.

Alley, you a praise the Lord. It's nearer. Our time

is the Lord.

Our eventual goal, our fullness of salvation is when we

meet Jesus Christ face to face. And that's when it

is finished, It's complete. It is high time to wake

out of your sleep. The night is fast ben, guys,

stop looking at the night, stop looking at twenty twenty four.

The day is at hand. It's time to live your life.

It's time to stop living in the darkness. The time

of night is done, is fast spent. The day is

at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness,

and let us put on the armor of the light.

And when we do that, let us work properly as

in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in

newness and lust, not in strife and envy. Continue to

walk in the light, guys, continue to live in the light.

And I pray that as you live in the light,

you will see the truth, and the truth will set

you free. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen, so

friends today, and I want to encourage you. I'm going

to close already that if you are still walking in

the power of darkness, I pray, and I pray alone,

that the Holy Spirit will begin to convince your hearts.

Right now, then it's high time. It's high time. The

world the Lord says it's high time. It's high time.

What does that mean that if it's high time. If

you do not get out of the ocean, the ocean

is going to cover you up with the high time.

It's high time for you to get out of the actions,

the places where you used to be, the thoughts that

you used to have. But put on the armor of

the light, put on the armor of salvation, put on

the breastplate of righteousness.

Come on, friends.

No longer your neighbor, no longer your husband, no longer

your wife.

But you, you are the light of the world. You

are the light of the world.

If you do not need a further you do if

you still need further encouragement from this to convince you

that you are the light and not just past the

Dan or Winson or Charleen say that name because it

is all so much.

But it's not just those that are in the forefront.

No, those are in the forefront will need support too,

because our light is not the everlasting light that the

Father Heaven has. We have our light in our own marketplaces,

but we need all of us to continue to reflect

the light of Jesus Christ in this dark and transcend

evil age. Amen, there are people out there that have

not seen the light, and I do not fault them.

I really do not fault them. In fact, I do

not even believe that the only way that they should

be saved isy coming to church. No, the church, get

it right. The Church is for the equipping of the saints,

the edification of the saints. It is not for the

edification of the non believers. That's why when Paul was

you know, when Paul went on his missionary journey, he

had to come against the Jewish leaders that the Gospel

is not just men for those that are circumcised. The

Gospel is meant for all. And Paul had to go

into the synagogues, and when the synagogues rejected him, Paul

had to go to the colleges, the universities, the halls

in the public And when I say university is not

just the buildings, it's actually a plane land of grass.

And he had to go there and he had to preach.

But yet he did not despise. He did not take

for granted that of the church. The church is still important.

But yet the light that is in the church, and

it is shining, there's an order and everything. Our God

is a god of order. And he said that your

light so shine in.

The house, in the house of the Lord, and now

in his house.

And you know, one day this Jesus will come back

and he will rain, he will reign over this world.

He will take control, he will take the keys, he

will he will take everything that is his, and he

will reign as king.

And I pray that one day that day will come.

When we are before the Father, the Father looks at

us and he says, my dear son, my dear daughter, Wow,

you have lived the life of faith. Well done, well done,

well done, so fruitful, well done, my good and faithful.

So I pray that that will be our desire. But

if you continue to live in the darkness, we continue

not to allow the light to shine into our lives,

we run the risks of missing out.

You know, another thing about light is that there is.

A story in the Bible of the virgins and they

were just waiting for the Lord to come, and then

there's a group of them that decided, let me go

and buy oil. There's one group that constantly remember to

have oil in their lambs and let the fire keep burning.

But there was another group that decided, no, I'm not

gonna continue to have oil.

And what happened They missed out. They missed out.

I pray that today there won't be people in this

place that's okay with missing out for what our father

in Heaven has in store for us. And the only

way that you won't miss out is by seeing. And

you can only see if you walk in the light. Amen,

you can only see. If not, you don't know where

you're going. In darkness, you don't know where you're getting at. So, friends,

as we close, I just want to invite you to

just raise your feet. We're gonna take this opportunity to

pray for individuals, for everyone here that is at the

place of darkness that maybe you're also like me.

You're like me. You're struggling.

You're struggling to comprehend what should be done, how I

should react, what should I do?

But if that's you, I want to encourage you.

If you're in a place of uncertainty, you want to

respond to this message. You want to say, Lord, I

want to be that light. I want to shine brightly

for you. I want to stop just shine, but I

want to so shine so brightly for you. You can

respond by just lifting up your hands. Nobody looking around,

and I'm going to pray for you today.

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