Get Your House In Order | Pr Matthew Chang

You're listening to a message to go from XS church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

Let's turn with me two chapter the Book of X,

and we're gonna go through chapter one, verse fifteen. Okay,

chapter one, verse fifteen, and we're gonna read there all

the way until verse twenty six. It's a very unlikely

scripture that you would choose to preach, but there's gonna

be a lot of interesting lessons. Learn to be here, okay,

Chapter one, verse fifteen X. Chapter one, verse fifteen, and

it says ya. And the title is written Matthias chosen,

and he says ya. And in those days Peter stoop

up in the midst of the disciples. Okay. Altogether the

number of names was about one hundred and twenty. And

said men and brethren, this scripture had to be fulfilled,

which the Holy Spirit spoke. Before the month of David

comes named Judas, who became a guide to those who

arrested Jesus. For him was numbered with us and obtained

a part in this ministry. Now, this man purchased a

field with the wages of iniquity, and falling headlong, he

burst opened in the middle, and all his entral gashtam

very okay, and it became known to all those dwelling

in Jerusalem, so that the field is called in their

own language a kail dama that is filled of blood,

for it is written in the book of Psalms. Let

his dwelling place be desolate, and let no one live

in it, and let another take his office. Therefore, all

these men who have accompanied us all the time that

the Lord Jesus went out among us, beginning from the

baptism of John to that day when he was taken

up from us, one of these must become a witness

with us of his resurrection. And they proposed to Joseph

called Barsabus, who are surnamed Justice and Matha. And they

prayed and said, you, old Lord, know who know the

hearts of all, Show which of these two you have

chosen to take part in this ministry and an apostleship

from which Judas, by that transgression failed, that he might

go to his own place. And they cast their lots,

and the Lord fell on Matthias, and he was numbered

with the eleven apostles. Okay, today we're gonna talk a

bit about family. How has this got to do with family?

Someone hanging on the tree and the amus posting how

has this got to do with family? I tell you

there's a lot to do with family here. Okay. First

of all, we've got to understand a bit of content.

The key person in this chapter here is who of

course always about Jesus, but the sside character, very important character,

is Peter. Now what is the setting. The setting that

before the few paragraphs before that was that Jesus, they

just met them, Jesus has reason from the dead, has

given them the Great commandment okay, the great commission. Sorry,

and then he was ascended to heaven right before their eyes.

And what was Jesus commandment to them immediately go and

preach immediately? What was his very specific instruction to them?

Anyone knows, it's a question. What was his specific instruction

to them? Terry in Jerusalem? Do not go anywhere? Okay,

it's a very very important instruction. They don't go anywhere.

Wait in Jerusalem, okay, because why because they have to

wait for the Holy Spirit. The things and the commission

that they were about to do cannot be done without

the Holy Spirit cannot be done. Okay. In fact, actually

I can talk about this important ascension, and they are

pentagons all the way back to Exodus. Okay, the same

way that Jesus was raised to the heavens, Moses also

went up the Mount Sinai because the people were scared

thunders like, they were so scared. Then they want to

they don't want to call Moses. You go, you go,

and you go. We wait here, you go, you go.

Then then Mos said, don't be afraid, you wait for me, okay.

And then they came down and I waded their song

muddy Moses a golden calf. And people died three thousand

and den of them died on the same day. But

Jesus in the same manner, ask them you stay here

as well. Don't go anywhere, don't turn to the left

under the right, especially they don't build a golden calf.

Stay in Jerusalem. And it was a very important obedience.

And so when Jesus is like a type of Moses

for shadowing, but Jesus comes to display a better Moses,

a greater commandment, a greater law, a greater grace. And

the disciples had had to go through the same test

that Israelites did as well, to wait faithfully for Moses

to come down and to and in this part to

wait for fully, to wait faithfully for the coming of

the Holy Spirit. Yeah, as a people before they go

to the promise that they needed God in their presence

to enter the interview, the same way the disciples to

be to be able to take the message of the

Gospel to the ends of the earth, they needed the

Holy Spirit, God's annoyinging, God's blessing upon them as well.

And it's a formal one as well. And so they

did wait, isn't it. Eventually? We know and the day

of Pentecosts. You know, what does Pentecosts mean? Pentecos means

what pentha in Greek, it means one five fifty days. Okay,

Penta means panta cost fifty days later. Fifty days later,

the Holy Spirit came, okay, exactly, So they waited Pentacoste.

P of course, the Holy Spirit came on them. Three

thousand got safe in Exodus. Pentacost came as well, three

thousand died. Same reversal, very very important, you know, I

mean right when you know, when you know, when we

choose the way of the flesh, when we choose the

way of the spirit. Now, this was all the setting.

So as Jesus came with a center to heaven tells

them to wait right, a very important figure came out

and this person was not under them. Peter. Now to

Peter right. You must understand this guy. It's quite unique

and has a lot of ups and downs. We know

that he has moments of glory, you know, great faith

where he believed God. You know he heard and he

what they call it launch. He's spoke into the middle.

Catch a lot and I follow Jesus moments where he

believed and moments where he fell and he did not

Jesus three times he got It was so this delusion

that you know when you when Jesus, even after he

rose again right tells them to wait right, Jesus. What

did Peter do? He went back to fishing. When you

go back to fishing, what does that actually mean? It

means that you go back to the things that you're

done before. You know what I'm saying. You go back

to doing the things that you're done before. It's a

sign of depression. When you are depressed in your lass,

when you're confused, what do you do? First? Two? You

go back to the things that you used to do before.

You might not like it, might not enjoy it, but

you are familiar. People go back to their old flames lound,

go to the old sins lound, all their old videos

or their old habits. They go back to the old things.

Peter did the same thing. He went back to fishing

something that he knew, to the place that he was

that he went and fish, and said, when he went

and fish, the rest also followed him. And instead of

waiting on Jesus faithfully there and guiding them, he felt

as a leader. He felt as a leader, said Jesus

died already. Now going going to a center. He entrusts

the whole disciples to a guy who's depressing serially. Probably

you know, is some of it like this guy probably

got an alcoholic problem, drug problem, depression problem. Not like

going back. He's depressed. And Jesus had to go and

minister to him, showing up, Oh you're going back to

your old places. Let me go and busy you as well.

So when he caught again, he caught so much, Jesus

asked him again, you got one football of a fish.

If you want to leave, you can live, and I'll

tell you I will send you off. I will give

you one year's wait as well. It's like severance packager.

You want to leave, can someone God will send you

with crazy moon. No, if you want your severance package

all the money you go, you can won't go. You can.

But I want to ask you one thing. Do you

love me? Yeah? I mean right? Do you love me?

Because what It's not just that question now, because it

really goes back to the question to Peter, what is

truly irreplaceable in your life? You can fish again, but

from the time that you met me, has your world view?

Has your life changed? What is irreplaceable? That you followed me?

You know what I'm saying? No, what is truly irreplaceable? Peter?

And then it is when on those moments when you're depressed,

when you're loss, when you're confused, you're angry, better and

stuff like that, it comes to the reality how small

and patty you are to miss to differentiate what is

truly irreplaceable? What you have is truly irreplaceable. There is Christ.

It is in what you know. And this is the Peter. Okay,

so now there has past ready and now he's seeing

Jesus rising ascending, so caught up with it. And then

the angels will come down saying, hey man or Galiley,

what are you watching? The same way Jesus rides up.

It's the same way he will come down again. Why

you caught up? Okay, imagine with me not Peter and

the disciples come back to Klang already. Okay, okay, Jesus

is just a sender to Heaven. Clear, transition has happened. Ready. Oh,

it's like suddenly we had the change of government. So

what do we do now? You know, what do we

do now? Peter is in charge? You know? And it's

say easier then we read in verse fifteen that Peter

stood up in the midst of disciples and then it

says what the scripture had to be fulfilled? You know

what this marks. This is the math of Peter's true

leadership changed. He stepped up. It's very very important, very

very We missed it so much as I was reading

it or doing it on my own, I know, cause me,

I know. As for the Holy Spirit asking me to

stay on this passage for quest, I was like, what

is there to learn about this? It's just facts? Appointed somebody,

let's move on. Okay, No, said stay there, It's said,

why said? Notice the transformation, ter change. Peter was not

the same Peter anymore. He was not the guy who

was entitled thinking, oh you know, let me see you

at the right hand, goud, where are you not all

the growing? So when Jesus clearly centered in means and

what Jesus sent it to into heaven for what not

to say bye bye, no more, Hey, my job is done.

Now Jesus centered into heaven. It is like he used

to be in state government, now go to federal government.

He used to bend baza. Now he's prime minister. So

the prime minister role in the Bible is called what

the high priest? It's the high priest. The high priest

is the federal government. When he rules, he's intercity on

behalf of us. But the state government, the curacy is

m dina. It's not given to the disciples. So here

we run the the state government right now? You mean right?

The church is the ministries right now? Is that? But

Jesus is our high priest? Okay, So Peter is the

minile person, very clear, it's the mainstre person. So what

does he do? And it's very important for every one

of us as leaders as a household to understand what

did he do? The first thing he says is that

men and brethren, this scripture had to be fulfilled. I

never hear Peter say that. You know, they never hear

this scripture have to be forfilled. He's quoting scripture. You

get mean, right? So, when Jesus is not around anymore

and you have someone to lead, whether it's a church,

where the it's your hopes, where is your own family,

where there's your business, what is the first thing that

is called off a leader? You must know what the

scripture calls. You must know what the scripture calls. And

I will tell you, in other word, what this message

is all about. When I say family, it means this

whole time messag about get your house in order, get

your house in order before the pentagons come, before the

Holy Spirit comes. Peter knows he has to step up

to get his house in order. You need to get

your house in order. My question is that how many

of us realize whether our house is in order? Your

own house, your own children, your parents, your wife, your husband,

is your house in order? And what are the importance

work must we do to get our house in order?

What are the consequences when we don't get our house

in order. You know what I mean, right, So this

is a very important thing. You even so much before

God use this apostles whose words will be literally scripture.

You must understand these peoples are writings are going to

be scripture before they are launching that kind of so ministry.

They had to get the house in order, so important

and not you mean right even for doesn't mean and

they are going to be used that they are. Yeah,

the house can be messy, No, I tell you are.

Even if you're someone like Moses. If you don't get

your house in order, God we'll not use you. I'll

give you an example. Okay, you know I'm what I'm saying. No,

if your house is not order, you can't be used.

God will not use a corrupted and dirty vessel because

it's not about you, it's about Him. Very clear, very clear.

God can use whig vessels. Yes we are whig, but

make no mistake. We need to really get our act

in order, get our house in order. We need to

be not like the ten would foolish foolish virgins. You

no empty oil hems. You know you get what I'm saying. Now,

we need to get our house in order, Each and

every one of us in your domain, whether you're a business,

your house, your children, your spouse, and reading, you are

responsible to get your house in order before God do

any work. It's very important. So the first way and

then you need to know to get your house in

order is that you must not scripture. Why because the

first requirement for any leader is to be able to

clearly divide what is right from wrong. You see all

of us here as humans. We bear an image of God,

not just an image of God because we look like him.

We don't look like him. Okay, God is spirit God,

it's not flesh and blood, but we are. But the

image of God comes in other forms, and one of

it is intelligence, morality, and all such also stuff. But

one of the things that we see in Genesis that

God exhibits, that we also obtain is one dividing things.

As God separated the light from darkness. We are called

to one to divide right from wrong. You see what

I'm saying. We're called to divide right from wrong, to

write the waters from the land, to divide the world

from the spirit. It's very very important enough when you

don't have the ability the world of God clearly divide things.

What happens? What happened When things are not divided, as

in Genesis, chaos formless. Anything cannot be called out because

it's chaos. For example, in the family. One of the

most important qualities of a man, what is that. It's

not that he can provide. It's not because he is

you know, six parts or whatever. It's whatever you want

to call him. No, the first quality of a man,

most important quality is that he can divide right from home.

When you ask him, is this the right thing to do?

He cannot tell you said, you do whatever you feel.

There is no leadership. That's the first requirement. You cannot

say that. You must you know, it's the most important requirement.

When Abraham asked, when it was confronted by etcetera, should

you should we use Hagar as a vessel to have

a surrogate son, everyone said, you do as you do

as you pleaser. Oh I don't. Maybe God's who word

promise for me is not through you. Maybe it's true Hagar. No,

you misinterpreted wrongly. You should have said clearly yes or no.

You don't just agree with your wife. Your wife is

not looking for you to agree. Your wife is looking

for you to be strong, true or not. Women, It's

true strong, not because you're stubborn, strong because you clearly

divide right from wrong. Most important holiday, don't say do

up to you. Then when things go wrong, Ah, the

woman you gave to me, God made me do it.

You been gossole. You cannot do that, you say, I'm

saying no, and cannot do that as well. We've lost

men and not men who will not put down their feet.

It's clearly divide right from wrong. They're not looking for

me to agree. Oh yes, we listen, But I'm not

saying that the man must be a strong, loud. There

can be the softest man. They might not earn the

most matter. But when it comes to spiritual things, we

must go yes, no compromise. We must pray. This thing

we cannot solve by just by thinking and stressing out.

We must pray clear as clear as this not. If

not what happens I tell you, in a family singly happy,

there'll be chaos. Chaos because everybody did what it's right

in their own eyes. You know what I'm saying. You're not.

But when it's but the man as the design, they

must be responsible. You say that, where's the scripture that

backs it? Then you must be saying the wife you

look at you, Hey, you go do quiet time? One?

Are you sure you hear from God? On? Sure? I

mean right? You take on this relationship she's submissed to you.

You better to know that you're really hearing from God.

You get me right. Doesn't mean that you can lare

over her, that you really hear from God, because as

much as you say it right and wrong, God will

also look to you as well. So Peter is in

the same role as well. That's why he said the

scripture says you see her. As they were waiting for

Pentacos to come, Peter realized that I am leader. I

can what my responsibil is to prepare the church. My

responsibility is to prepare everybody ready. It's not just to wait.

A lot of times we're just waiting, you know, we're

waiting for Jesus to come. It's not waiting enough. The

question is not whether we are waiting for Jesus to come.

The question is are we prepared? Turn to your neighbor,

are you prepared? Prepare not just in your heart? Yes,

I believe other theology prepared in terms of your family,

your own lives. Are you prepared to receive the King?

You don't see what I'm saying. It's a very very

important theology here. So Peter, the the first thing he

has to do is to know the scripture. You see,

he doesn't know where to begin a lot of times

that God, how I know this is your will? How

can I know this is your will? God? How do

I know this is this is the right thing, this

is the wrong thing? Is the good thing? To stay there,

to work there, to move there, go anywhere. There's so

many questions, right, isn't there now? Okay, I don't hear

from the world God. Okay. So the first thing is

that you must go to a scripture. So Peter, while

he was waiting, what do you do? He went through scripture. Read,

don't know, reader, just read. And as he's reading and

he says, there you know. In verse twenty, he says,

therefore it is written in the Book of Psalms like

he's dwelling place, be desolate, and let no one live

in it. He's a ficient manner. You think he's a priesser,

you think he's a teacher. He is a fisher man

and I'm my goodness, it's like asking ab to know scripture. Okay,

but not the better Okay, but it's out of the zone.

Give me. It is completely out of their zone and on.

But yet he knows in order to get my in order,

I much read. You see a lot of times that

we don't know. We don't know why. It's God preparing.

But you can't take the first step God, I don't know,

but I know the direction. I know the direction it is.

I said, I don't know claim, but at least I

will start. I can't at least go into the direction

of claim. Then when I arrived there, then I start

step by stay you know what I mean. I cannot

say I don't know. I clearly see a sad client.

Of course, it's not telling me which direction, which lane

is like, but ellis I will go. I start picking

out and I start reading. And as Peter was reading,

He's like, oh, my goodness, this psalms. It's not just

talking about the past. Yes, I'm hearing David no whining

or maybe he's like complaining, but he's giving glory or

God there. But yeah, in this particular passage here, it's

not talking about the past. It's not talking about the future.

This particular passage is speaking to me. I'm living in

this moment of scripture fulfillment right now. I'm in it

right now, at this moment, and it's speaking to me,

and it's telling me to do something. And he said,

let he's dueling place, uh uh business, Let and let

no one live in it, and let an untake his office.

So Peter, by reading he realized that I need to

do something. It's not just advising, it's telling me what

needs to be done, what needs to be set in order.

How many of you when you read the scripture, it's

not just like hey, past and prayers, you know, the future,

but it's like speaking to me. It's commanding me to

do something right now. What I need to get to

my children? Ready? You know? It's things that are my kids?

Am I teaching my kids? You know? In the in

the ways am I spending time with that? Do they

know what? What? What it is? We know? What? What? What? What?

What is the cost about? Are they following their friends?

We're doing their way of your following God's way? What

do they value? Are these are things like that? So

as a it chums to him and he convincing in

his reads. Our house is not ready. Our house is

not ready, Our people are not ready. Why because one

is missing. So the first thing that jumps into a

person who is discerning and wise and good in God's

eye is someone who knows what is missing. Turn to

your neighbor. Do you know what it's missing? Right now?

Do you keep count of your ships? As God commanded?

Who has got put in your charge? Sometimes could be

our children, sometimes could be your home members. Judg whoere

are your ships? That's why Jesus said, if you love

my ships, feed them. Do you know your ships you

like or don't like? You have to keep them? In all,

it doesn't matter. In all, it's not up to your

preference and all it's not voting, en all. You know

what I'm saying. No, you don't get to vote. That

He did enough that your vote, your ships get delivered

to you by I'm moving on. It doesn't work that way. No,

God puts you, He trusts you. It might give you

difficult people. Why because you pray before my pray for patients. Man,

maybe a nicer person. Then go give you difficult people?

Why because they teach you to bear? Isn't it but

every make no mistake, God requires us to know what

is missing. I don't know what it is, but it's

something for you to reflect what is missing in your life.

Then it says that because of that, then what else

did you do? Therefore, he says there in verse twenty one,

Therefore one of these men who have accompanied us all

the time of the Lord Jesus went in an armor,

beginning from the baptism of John to that day when

he was taken up from us, one of these must

become a witness for us of his resurrection. Now, before

I move on on this part, let me just doubt

that a bit and focus on the part about getting

our house in order. You know that maybe we stack

the scripture here. Let's turn with me to Exodus chapter two,

chapter four, Exodus chapter four, okay, and so this chapter four,

verse twenty four, the verse twenty six. Okay. And so

this chapter four, verse twenty four to verse twenty six.

This is after Moses met God. Ready he said, oh,

don't send me, don't say me. And then he finally, okay,

I will go. I will go. Okay, I will go

to Egypt. I will confront Okay, after all this ready,

verse twenty four happened, and he came to pass on

the way at the encampment that the Lord met Moses

and sought to kill him. What then Zipporah took a

sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son

and cast it at moses feed and said, surely you

are a husband of blood to me. So he let

him go, So God let him go. Then she said,

you are a husband of blood because of the circumcisisi. Okay,

how many of you are confused by this passage? How

many of you have you wondered? And sometimes the internet

has come out. Why did he God want to kill

Moses when he just commissioned him? Why this is a

very important passage. Why God just commission Moses? Okay, commission

But yet Moses did not get his house in what?

What did he not do to get his own order?

He did not circumscians his son. But like what, just

because you didn't circumcise, you cannot go ahead, go, you

cannot go to do God's ministry. No, after God dealt

with him for so long, I go back in negotiating

with him. I'm persuading this really stubborn, introverted you know,

you know gaya to go. God said that halfway through,

I'm going to kill you. You cannot go because he didn't

get his house into order. Did you guess on the

eighth day of every every childer they must be circumcised.

Because you don't understand. You think circumcision is just a religion.

They're just cutting the skiptar to those who are circumcised. No,

it's more. The circumcision is very, very important. You know,

the circumcision that was introduced after after Hagar and Ishmael

came into their life, when after Abraham did not believe.

When they had Ishmael, God gave the sign of the covenant,

which is circumcision. Before then, God already gave the covenant here.

He already made a covenant, but he didn't give the sign.

It's like I saying I love you, but I did

don't give the ring He give me right. You know,

you're saying, you go to the wedding, I love you.

The after day, there's the wedding, there's the ring. There's

a sign. God really promise. God really gave a covenant

to death, but he did not give the sign. But

during the time when they were in covenant, Abraham had

a child with Hagar through ismail, and the wife consented

to it some more so both of that and did

not believe God for the promising on. It's like having

halfway through the wedding you already caused, you're already committed

adult tree ready, it's true, Maha, it's true. And God said,

I'm still faithful to you. Thirteen years after that, God said,

I'm still faithful to you. Follow me, okay, and I

give you this sign, the sign of circumcision. The circumption

means what the all has gone and the new has come.

He learn if you disobeyed me, you disbelieved me, and

you knew that this has brought so much pain in

your life to me and you, He says, cool, and

the new has come. God remains faithful even through our faithfulness.

It's amazing though, and the sign of assumption, God renews

that coming again. It's like I'm holding your hand and

I'm looking in your eyes, say I love you to that,

and you turn around and look at another person what

I'm saying that, And then you finally look at me. Oh,

I'm sorry. God said, I still love you, and I

give you this ring. Amazing faithful God is Oh God,

so God, it's so good right, so faithful. Now it's

not just one moment. Over thirteen years, Waited held your hand.

You know, he helped Moses. He held their hands on Abraham,

even though the guy was a weak fellaw who was

up and down in his faith, and he still helped

his hand. I'm giving you another sign. Sign all has

gone and the new has come. Believe me, and all

your family, your household, those bought by you also will

receive the same inheritance through the sign of circumcision, and

that will separate you from the rest of the Gentiles.

So this was given to all the Israelites, and even

for Moses who left. You know who left, who who

ran out was a prince. Hima said, you ran out,

and I'm gonna send you. But you refused the sign,

that one sign that I gave to ever of my

faithfulness to even circumstances. Your child, why are you so ministry? Uh?

Go and focus and on with focused on ministry, grow Rea.

You forgot the ticket of your own house. Remember that

every one of us, whether you're a parent, whether you're

a child, whether you're a pastor an elder, your leader,

you represent God you reflect God. When people look at you,

there will They're hoping to see glimps and glories of

God and God in you and through you. But if

you cannot obey exactly, God's glory does not shine through there.

Especially when God wants to send someone like Moses to

go and do a great deliverance work, Moses must get

his house in order, the same as Peter as well.

God wants to use Peter again to do a great

world to establish the church again, and through this foundation

the church will bill. But yet Peter must get all

the apostles, all the all the house in order. And

in your life as well, Ask you what is that thing?

If you got it in order? I remember when I

shad this, I wander want the least it fast A

suddenly thing about my children? Do they want to even

give that tizer? We don't want to do they even

want to pray at night? Do they even believe? Oh God?

Is it my parents? Is it they believe because they

because I believe? Or is it their own personal God?

I mean right? Have I prepared them? Have I done

it much? Have I taught? Have I been an example?

Do they want to serve in church because I serve

in church when I don't. What do they see? Sometimes

we complain, complain about companies, complain about world, compare about

our wives. We complare about church, and they hear. Children

hear a lot more than they shulgar true or not?

How many parents you know? We know? You know everything

we say about about our leaders, about our work, about

our others. They're here and because and when they grow up,

they why do you think they don't want to go

into church? Because they only hear and say bad things

about the church? One children need? True? It's true, It's true.

You know that we we we as a generation, many

many genure, we inherit many things from other generations. You know,

there's another teaching I tell you, very famous for other generations.

He said that a sad Christian you work hard first,

then after that only when you retire, you settled in

there and you're only yourself God. I can tell you

they came from other generations, came from so many years ago.

I remember it. Why Why is our generation learning the

same thing? Get God, the not the remains, not the

first foods not. There's a saying in Exodus, do not

do not boil a young goal in the in the

mother's milk. You'll heard before it sounds weird. Do not

boil a young goal in the mother's milk. What does

that mean? It's like you see ash, you know you have,

You're gonna check it out. Do not boil a young

go in his mother's milk. This is the commandment by Moses.

Do not boil a young gold in his mother's milk.

What does that mean. It's not saying that you cannot

create this recipe, this gross recipe or so so twisters. No,

what it means is this the mother's mill and the

young girl are two separate offerings in two separate seasons.

Two separate seasons, okay, and you do not mix them.

You do not mix your offerings and your givings on

one season with another season. You don't say, I use

this season to cover for this season, or I give

first and I give to the late season. You do

not mix you on your offerings to the Lord, because

you do not know when you have the seasons some

of us are. You try to give from another bag,

and it's like it's that you have your first fruits

and your second fruits. You're saying that you give by

mixing the different baskets. Know, I want to give ready,

but this one was all nice one. Now you give

us that. It's like super marketla. They don't give you

the best one. Now they put the lousy one sometimes

in front, or maybe the better I beg. I don't know.

But they're mixing on the different the different fruits from

the season, the mother's milk with the young hooks, and

then they mix it together and they give to the Lord.

There is evil, you see what I'm saying. You want

your children to give you like that? You give your

children last week's fork to day's food mixed together. You

wouldn't do it, you some of you. We're not even

give me even yesterday's left over, you know, true or not,

you will not do that. But would you give last

week's remainingful to your children? To your parents? But we

do that? To God? Do not do that. It's evil,

require that very I didn't prepare this message. It's just

I'm just preaching off the top of my head. I'm

reaching really the top of my head. Of course I've

gone through this passion by but it's very true. Okay,

So what I'm coming in stead we must understand. You know, really,

you know what what what is? Does it really mean

to get our house our children prepared? But they see

what they're hearing? What legacy are we really living there

by day, moment by moment that you are so blinded

what they do. And sometimes to preserve the right thing,

we need to suspend ourselves and hold it in our

husbands and why you need to get yourself ready. Sometimes

I tell you, me and my wife that what did

we just say in front of our children. I'll be honest,

I made a lot of mistakes. I really I have

as many inconsistencies in my life, many feelings. My quietime

is not as great as I think you think I am.

I have as well. I am far from it. Sometimes

I don't feel I'm worthy. I doubt, I double guess

God's love on my life. I do all that you think.

I want to shake for everybody. Sometimes don't so that

I feel a lesson. I want to go away. I

am inconsistent as anybody else. But yet we know in

life you continue, You know because you are able to

pursue God. Continue because you realize you're pursued by God.

That's a simple truth. Not because we are so great

pursuing God God, God pursues us. Don't see what I'm

saying though. That's why we're hanging there. That's why we sustain,

That's why we remain, we continue. Okay, get our house

in order. Okay, let's move on. Let's move on. Okay,

my faith X chapter to them. So now the question is, yes,

how do we get our house in order? The same question,

it can also identify how God do I know? What

is the will of God for my life? How you

asked for everybody want to ask God? How can I

know the will of God in my life? So this

is how you know. It's literally found in this passage,

Act chapter two, and he says, there, so what did

Peter do? Firstly, you must know the scripture? Cause I said, now,

why is this? Before I go into the two other points?

How many of you have I have a handphone or

you have right How many of you have ways and

Google Maps? If I ask you to go to Kre

right now without ways and Google Maps in a specific place,

how competent are you? How mean you? How am you?

Or you just okay, I don't want to just take

a grab right now? How many of you are competent?

If I send you to rawan right now. Specific Without

Google Maps and Waister you competent to navigate there wouldn't

there are even within your own state. You won't do it.

How much you want, I send you to Sarah, you

would be scared, isn't it? It's true? Not but knowing

the will of God. It's a bit similar like that.

You know. See a lot of times when our lives

we ask God, God, where's it will from my life?

I need it? I need your direction. I need to

tell me take this highway, exit this one, take a

new turn, take a right turn, drive another fifteen minutes

again left right, see this sign. Oh okay, that's my place.

Then no need we imagine Gods for our lives is

like that? You know, you understand I'm saying, no, show

me God signs. But a lot of times the way

we leave our life in according to God's wool. It's

not like that money. Our life is like a phone.

And no, it's not like always taking instruction from God.

God texting you every day, Julian, make sure you take

youre with the kids one by one. So every moment

you let you're looking at your phone text text, text, text, text,

text text text, This is how you leave your life. No,

we don't live our lives like that, isn't it our

lives we need? But how do we go and navigate

in life? We use an app? Isn't it? You go

the waste? Said, I want to find the best buck

with it, this particular shopping plank. Well, this place is

not registered even in ways you know, so oh no,

it's all special, so legendary. Cannot not even register there.

But pos you want that? Maybe? But it gives me

a rough estimate where until at least one hundred meters

two hundred meters there? It's like that. But why is

an app? An app is like a body or a

framework of code, isn't it? So you download an app

into your forma and you key in there whatever it

takes you as far as you can. Maybe, don't give

you the name, give you a rough estay, give me

that take me to its heart of plan. Then from

there you at least you will get to quite near

or at least in the vicinity of clan. This is

how the word of God works in our lives. We

don't work live our lives as if that Every day

a unique direct text from God telling you how to

live and stuff like that. What our role to be

able to download an app in our body, in our

in our lives. Now, what is an app is to

be able to download and to form to construct a

body of Godly knowledge from from the type of God.

Download download, download, download download d d D maybe version one.

Version one can take you fine enough because by the

word of God you will tell you shouldn't do this,

you shouldn't do that. It may not give you the

specific instruction, but close enough, you get mean right, closing

enough for you to take the first step, enough for

you to do all the due divisions you need to

do on your own part. Then when you come to

that final leg, the final meter that you cannot there

is where God's grace or God's final grace adds to it.

You get what I'm saying, Enough, it's really one. Then

let me demonstrate how this works in action. You're seeing

so in verse twenty one, Okay, Peter, after acknowledging that

there's a scripture we must fulfill, he's like, hey, where

do we find another man an apostle and on an

apostle whose words could be scripture? And you're just a

two gene and the leader this person's writing will be

in the Bible for ages to come in. Off, How

where can we find such a man in a god?

Do not tell me this one? What did he do? Therefore?

He says that what you need the first instruction is

there after the world, you must comb through everything in

your house. Okay, right on the first thing. You must

calm through, calm through everything in your house. How did

he come through? He said? He listed down all the

men that had accompanied us all the time of the Lord.

They're winning and now among us, beginning from the baptism

of John, which is the beginning where the ministry jices began,

until what until when he was taken up until the end,

all the men we must identify, do a stop check.

That is how a godly process is done. Due diligence.

Do we ex Christians do proper due diligions for your

own household, for your own life, every year, count every man.

You don't know where to begin, take stim but someone

us the one. God, Just tell me the one right now.

We don't want to do the work. Man, God, your

soul good, it's so powerful. Show me the one now. Oh,

we're bargain with God. We use his name, We use

his glory and state you should you should know best, man,

tell me the one? Why should I do the work? Accounting?

Going to everyone? Who are you? Who are you really?

Who are you? Who has the loss? Why are you?

God is in heaven, you are here? Why you make

such a demand. You may not say it, but your

whisper in your heart? Why are you to make such

a demand. We try to make sense of everything. Just

because you don't understand why you stop? You cannot you know?

We need absolute proof for everything. The said has starts.

Stopped you from from breathing, from driving a car, from

going to stick, knowing that whether you can wake up

tomorrow or not? No, how are you? So you gotta

do your due diligence. Come through everyone, even if it's

one hundred, two hundred hundred, comb through, List them down

one by one, because you will do it because the

fear of God is in you. You get what I mean, right?

You do it because the fear of God is in you.

You'd better do it, not because of anyone, because you

fear God. So Peter did the right thing. She was smart.

He must understand. It's quite amazing transformation from a guy

who rejected Jesus street times and went back to his

all fishing waves. Suddenly he's like the best or detail,

he's like the best, you know, business manager, go through

one by one. We need to go through one by

one every man. And then what they said, and they

proposed to Joseph cod So they did. They work no shortcuts,

work every want. I don't know how many hundreds of

thousands then listen until they do that part until too

How many of us, when in pursuing God, pursuing his will,

have we narrowed down the hundreds to the two before

we say God? We don't normally or we short cut

said God, I just need you your will for my life.

Don't know God disappointing. We don't see that in Peter,

you know, we don't see that in the Disciples. You

know you can mean and you want to experience grace

in your life, want experience God touched in your life.

You got to narrow this down on your own. When

you step out that take that first, that God's grace

follows you. You know what I'm saying, I'm asking you

to completely save yourself. You can't save yourself, but God

blesses you when you step up. God. I don't know

how to listen to my children. It's okay. Whatever you can,

whatever you are able to do, you do, and you commit,

you do, and you commit. I can't, but I do.

I don't know my children will listen to me. I

will step out. I don't know whether I will manage

on the step up. You know what I'm saying. And

this is how it works. We always want God to

provide us. We always step on. No, this is not

how the Bible works. Very clearly, narrow it down to two.

Then what did they say? And then they said, and

they pray, Lord, you know the hearts of all. When

you're down to two, you really cannot see because there's

one part you must acknowledge where our limits are. We

cannot see the hearts of men. I don't know you're sincere.

You want to block me. I share your hand. I

don't know what you want to do. Either you mean

evil or go for me. You don't know me. I

don't know you as well. So that's a part we

must go until in our lives. We must go until

the very very very and before we relieve. And they say, God,

only you can do. You can't mean we need to

do our parts, you know, okay, and they say that

you know the hearts of Oh sure which of these

two you have chosen to take part in the ministry.

This is the earthly way to know the will of God.

Don't go around and say, God, I have not done

anything God. This year will show me in your clouds

you see a sign there. Once a while, God can

give you a God can stay. But every time you

asked out like that, God was a You need to

do your partner, You know what I mean? Right? Don't

go and test God and all Susie. The Lord is

not to be tested at all. We already have seen God.

We already have heard God. We have the privilege. We

should not be like new or young believers or unbelievers

who go out and test God. Who would requires science

and want this before we believe? You know, makes sense.

Let's speak quiet here, makes sense. Don't go and go

on testing none. Actually a lot of you know, actually

I really believe all of us. Year. Actually, in my

own life, all the times I was like, oh God, actually,

actually I could have done a lot more. I could

spare myself on my lot, but I could have been

more diligent in my own spiritual walk. This is the truth.

But are we honest enough to say, are you diligion

in your own walk? Are you religion in your family?

Diligent to see and to separate and to divide and

to narrow onto that's part. And he says, here and

then you know personally, if I to take part in

this miniature apostleshit from which Judas by transcripsion failed, that

he might go to his own place verse twenty six.

And they cast their loss and the love film at that.

So the casting the loss, you say, oh, I need gambling,

I need no okay, in the problems, I can't remember

which part by referend, by casting a loance is actually

a scriptural direction that you can do to determine the

will of God as well until you have done your part,

you know, I mean right, it is appropriate at the

tail end. It's like you cook career, you don't act

sometime at the beginning and let you want to go

here you add, what's the end after finishing? Some things

are meant at the writing place at the right time.

On you know, you know what I'm saying. What I'm saying, No,

you don't just sprinkle who you know, just be forgot.

You must know when to apply clearly, dividing clearly, knowing

how to add and to do that. Okay, And they

cast their lots, and the Lord fell on Matthias, and

he was numbered with the eleven apostles. Then in the

next chapter, the Day of Pentecosky, how many of you

want to see breakthrough? How many of you you want

to make sure that your life is aligned? We've got

so important that we're alive. You're not missing out there

were not that we're that, you know, it's we're not

It's not because of our own stubborness. It's not because

of our own you know, thinking you know, we you know,

thinking of the always you know, taking on the the

old you know sometimes could be outdated. And it's not

even godly teachings that we insist on it. But if

the scripture is true, how the apostles prepared, isn't that

how we ought to prepare our own families? What do

you think is the checklist that God is asking you

to go through right now? Are you prepared? It's your

family prepared? Are your children prepared? It's the church prepared?

Are your homes prepared? If not. What are you going

to do if you build a body of knowledge in

your life to at least get you to eighty percent

or ninety percent where you need to be someone you

can't because you only have a phone. But not at

no app you don't have a body of knowledge. Every

day you come to church, you're just asking for prayer.

Nothing wrong with asking prayer, but a bit wronger when

you can download it but you don't want to download it.

You know your pastor will take you phone and say, hey,

you can download this to go somewhere and want and

a true or not, but instead you just want to

be prayed for. God show you one direction this is

you not be like that. We need to be better.

You see how I'm saying. We need a body, a

healthy godly body of knowledge in her mind that we

can use to clearly divide and write and wrong, that

we are fully equipped with the armor of God, building

the sword of the Spirit and the word of God.

You know I'm saying, you know it's not being lost.

I'm here. You know, no tax tax tax text text

and you say oho signals can already? Oh do not left?

All right? Righty? No discernment, no skill, no maturity, but

we got to grow up. Amen. Come, let's stand together, Layah.

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