What About Christmas | Pr Kenneth Chin

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We hope this message will light up your day.

I actually had two different messages, because you know, haven't

been here for six weeks, right, I had two messages.

One was on faith, and that's right, Pazza Daniel. I

have been taught by the Holy Spirit to live by

faith and it has become my one of my favorite subjects.

And I think all of us need to, you know,

be encouraged in our faith. But you know, as I

was preparing that, there was another message that came and

it was a message on example, and I thought that

was a very very important message, you know, to live

as examples for the Lord in this life. But as

I was doing my quiet time, I read on that

day Josho twenty four and Joe, thank you so much, Daniel,

Josho twenty four. So I will put the first slide

up if it's not up yet, and thank you XTV

for helping me. Thank you, Sonny. We've got to read

the Word of God, okay. So first, first of all,

before we get into the Word of God, Joshua had

a final challenge to the people, the people of Israel,

and he was old Bible says.

In fact, Bible said he was very old and he.

Wanted to leave the people of God a legacy, a

word in season. And so as he was coming to

the end of his life and he spoke what was important,

I thought, as we come to the end of the year,

that would be similar. What would I say to you

is what Joshua said to the people of Israel. So

in conclusion, I did have a better title. But in

conclusion you say, passed. Why do you save this under

the twenty ninth of December, Well, training of December, I

speak in xing Apare and that's why. So this would

be my final Sunday with Exctamuning. And then I tell

you why I'm going to x Upop because in Xapore

they have about seventy people and half of the church

in Singapore a Malay and during this time they all

come back to Malaysia. And so Pastor John, our pastor there,

you know, he had to chair, he had to worship,

lead and speak. So to be able to go and

encourage him because I know that as the company will

be in good heads and you guys will be here

and you know there'll be enough speakers to go around

enough chairpersons, enough worship leaders, so we just go and

support whoever it is that needs our support. So bass Andra,

I believe will be chairing in XL for I will

be sharing in XL four and.

Passa John will be worship leading.

Okay, and I think we will be speaking to real

Singaporeans there, you know, yeah, finally real snoleprince. There are

some singleparence who call it self single parnce of who

not you know? True, I was born in Spole, so

I can say that. So anyway, the conclusion, okay, let's

read the word of God. Joshore twenty four. Please turn

to your by because I did not put the scripture up,

because all of us are supposed to bring our Bibles

to church, so please yeah x TV before you put,

don't put the scripture up.

Don't spaill them first. Later you can okay, later you put. Okay.

I want to see everybody trying to turn to your

Bible for the first time.

Is here come?

No, of course, of course not first time, second time maybe,

but the not the first time? All right, Joshua bub

door plum part a yatrapa yah Joshua the plom part

i at blast card plow.

Daabasan.

So you when you're thinking I'm speaking tongues, especially maybe

Philammon from Hong Kong and Kong Me gong Ma brother

Philammon's favorite posting. He follows me on social media. He

told me my favorite, uh Instagram posting that you have

posted is the idea in Cantonese. Do you know idea

a Cantonny's posting that it goes like this, gong jaw

lim tang tang jaw lem bang meng.

Jaw lem Joe cho jo yo chou chow Okay. So

let's not let's not go de preay there.

But anyway, that's that happens always are in church. So uh,

after you preach at gong da tank okay okay, So

please I I calm you tank okay uh, and I

pray that you mean oh okay and after you mean

you joe okay. It just means that when I speak,

you listen. If you when you listen, hopefully you understand.

After you understand, hopefully you will do be doers of

the word not yes, hear us of the word Okay.

Let's go into Joshow twenty four, verse fourteen to twenty now, therefore,

fear the Lord, serve him in sincerity and in truth,

and put away the gods which your father served on

the other side of the river, and in Egypt.

Serve the Lord.

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord,

choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether

the gods which your father served that were on the

other side of the river, or the gods of the

emirates in whose land you dwell. But as for me

and my house, oh we love this, don't we. We

have it on our wall, in our kitchen, in our bathroom, right.

I mean, someone's have it everywhere, because such a good word.

Let's say it again. But as for me and my house,

we will serve the Lord. So the people answered and said,

far be it from us that we should forsake the

Lord to serve other gods. For the Lord, our God,

is he who brought us up, brought us and our

fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the

house of Bondage, who did those great signs in our sight,

and preserved us in all the way that we went,

and among all the people through whom we pass. And

the Lord drove out from before us, all the people,

including the Emirates who dwelt in the land. We also

serve the Lord, for he is our God. Now verse nineteen.

But Joshua, I'm laughing because this is this is so

different of Joshua. Josha said to people, you cannot anyone

say you cannot do it. The militiary, you cannot. You

cannot serve the Lord.

Are you why?

For he is a holy god, he is a jealous God.

He will not forgive your transgressions, know your sins. If

you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he

will turn and do you harm.

Somebody say, ouch, Sometimes.

We think about a loving God, a gracious God, or

forgiving God.

We think that you will never do any harm.

Cannot change saying this is the word of God, saying

that God will not forgive number one and he will

do you harm. So it's possible, and we don't want that.

Everybody said, we don't want that. We don't want that,

not for ourselves, for our families. We don't want God

not to forgive us. We don't want God to harm us.

I mean, I rather Satan harmers than God hammers. You

know that, says you if you rather, because when you

fall under the hands of God, man, I tell you

what you know, even Satan runs away, God gets angry.

Are you with me?

So you don't want to fall under the wrath of God?

You don't want to fall under the harm of God.

You don't want, you don't want, all right? So in

verse twenty he says that if you forsake the Lord

and serve foreign God's then he will turn and do

you harm and consume you after he has done you good.

I love that last line.

It is after he has done you good, meaning to

say that when we say this, now, God is good

all the time, all the time. God is good. It's true.

Somebody say, amen, God is good. He's very very good.

But after he has done you good, he might do

you harm if you forsake him.

Okay, So I know it might not be.

The happiest Christmas message. It's not a Christmas message anyway.

Wait for Wednesday for that. But I thought I gotta

leave you some godly advice as you.

End the year and start a new year.

All right, So what are the three things that Joshua

advised us?

What was the three things? Number one?

Fear the Lord, I don't know how many of you

in this room actually know what that means.

Something is be scared of God.

No, a gloving father never wants his children to be

scared of him. When you look at the dictionary and

look for the fear of the Lord, some will say

it's respect, respect the Lord so much that you do

what it's right.

Some will say honor.

Yeah, So the fear of the Lord, whatever it is

that you.

Define it to be, it's so important.

It was put as the number one criteria for a

man who is dying Joshua and has seen the goodness

of God on Israel.

Time and time again. He's giving them the.

Secrets to continue in this blessing, to continue, in this breakthrough,

to continue if you really want to see the hand

the good Head of God on your life. To continue

even even if and when Joshua is long gone, when

all the elders are gone, when all the seafoo in

the faith is gone, the seafoo of Seafoo in this scripture, Joshua,

who have seen God even stop you know, the sun

from moving. That's the power of God that Joshua has seen.

He said, Son stands still, And the sun did move.

For a whole day, and Joshua is just saying, I'm

going to get give you the secret. Now, Fear the Lord.

Fear the Lord. So for those of you who want

a better, easier way to remember what the fear of

the Lord is, I'm going to give it to you then,

chin version, because this is the way I live by

the fear of God.

And it's been working somewhat. Okay.

A man who has no salary for the last twenty

nine years is blessed in many ways. And you've heard

my testimony over and over again, and I've got even

new testimonies. But I want to tell you that you know,

the Lord taught me to fear him early in.

My years as a Christian.

And this is the definition, the definition, my definition, and

I give it.

To you today. Easy to remember is this? It is next?

Light will tell you.

First and foremost, what does God think about this? That's

how you define the fear of God. When you're about

to complain about something or somebody, think, first, God, what

do you think about what I'm about to say. I

don't care what my friends are saying, I don't care

what my supporters are saying.

I want to know what you think.

I'm about to leave my job because I don't really

like some people in my office, and so I want

to do things, say things, and the people are saying, yeah,

you have every right to just complain. I don't worry.

You know, you are doing something natural. You have supporters

supporting you as a Christian who fears the Lord. You're saying, okay,

thank you for all your opinion. But God, what do

you say? Up in your marriage and you're thinking about

ending it, and your friends in the.

Bar is telling you, yeah, that kind of WiFi left

along ago with that kind of husband.

I say, the friends of the wife and the salon

when she's having you know, this steamer on the head,

and they're all reading their magazines Ten ways to leave

your husband. You know, they say, you know, they say,

you know, they say, hi, may Hi, all it's okay.

You know, the stats for Christian marriages and the stats

for Christian divorce it's about the same as the world.

In fact, the latest stats was that Christians beat the

world by one point. So if the divorce and the

divorce rate of the world is fifty percent, the last

one I heard was Christians was closer to fifty one percent.

Why must it happen?

Because if the Christians are not careful, they start to

do things.

Like the world.

But if you fear the Lord, I tell you, I'm

married for twenty nine years now, and there are days

where we are happy. There are days where we are

very happy. There are days where we wonder why we married,

you know, Yeah, I'm telling you. Yeah, I see how

the ladies all laughing. So the guys don't they laugh

as though?

Love at home? Laugh at home, laughing my buff room.

Don't even show my wife that I even understand what

past again is saying, do you?

I don't even understand what he's saying. I love you.

I've never thought about that, you know, never ever thought

about that. Yeah, only when you're sober you didn't think

about it.

But when you're drunk to you know, really not just pray,

but fast and pray. Lord, why my husband's like this?

So you you've got people telling you that it's okay

to say this, to do that.

And then you have one more thought before you decide.

The thought is God first and foremost. What do you think?

What do you think even if I think I'm right?

What do you think even if I think that you

know I've been the best husband.

What do you think? God? That's why? What you do

you think God?

Best employee, best supervisor, best boss? God?

Do you think God be'st Malaysian citizen?

You know you should get a What what do you think? God?

I don't.

At the end of the day, it's not doesn't matter

what other people think. It matters what God thinks. Is

it important? This is the fear of the fear of

the roads. They having this constant question in your mind?

Is God well pleased with me? See, ladies and gentlemen, brothers,

this is God is first. He has to be first.

Some of you might say, pastor, when Revival actually comes

to Malaysia and it sweems across Malaysia the fire God

takes over every heart, what will happen?

I tell you what will happen now.

What will happen when Revival actually comes to Malaysia is

that every Christian, every person will put God first, first,

before your favorite sport, first, before your job, first, before

even your family.

First. God will be first.

And I tell you what, you don't even have to

wait for the revival fire to come down. He can

be first even today, even today, God is first. The

young people are here. You know you will fall in

love and maybe out of love for or falling in

fall out because the thing is not about falling.

Amen. You don't need to fall you just.

Need to see all the young people, all the patta

at the back. Okay, good, good, All right, they're listening.

Yeah they're excited. Yeah yeah yeah. Don't share, don't share,

don't need share, no share? Yeah right, all your freedom.

I'm talking to the ladies that you see my freedom

of your fee that's going on.

He's like, do touch me? You touchally.

I don't know why we heppen up that God is first,

not my girlfriend, no, my boyfriend. God is first. I

tell you if you want to see what a child

under revival looks like, the child when they put God first,

that's a child under revival.

You want to see a teenager under revival? What does

it look like?

A teenager that says mom, Yeah, I'm I'm I would

like to go to us to study, but I want

to know what God thinks. You know, you loo kind

of stuff. All my friends are going to UK. I

also know.

Hold on, yeah, I want to go.

But what does God think when you when you hear

a young person say that that you know something is

different about that person.

There's there's a fire.

And then it goes on to young adults and young

okay adults, and young families, young families that have their

first child. Right, everybody says, with the first child, you

don't have to go to church because so difficult to

take her, the first child. So you know, take six

months off. You know, you just got married. Take eight

months off. You know why because we're just falling in

love now falling in love, and we want to spend

all this time. No, I understand all your friends say, no,

it's okay.

You know.

I go around the country and I just had a

conversation with Rachel. Rachel and and she went to Chang

Mai and they had a like a little workshop to

speak about young families. Throughout the whole country of Malaysia,

young families are not serving the church in big numbers.

In ex church, I would like to report to you

over ninety percent of our young families are serving over

ninety percent. I want to put it one hundred, but

I just humbled myself as okay, is above ninety Every

young family in this room, every young family, no excuse me, no, no,

excuse me, Why why should we stop? When God is first?

God will give you the strength, the wisdom that everything

to be able to bring your child together with you.

Right.

But when I travel is become a norm. Not only this,

young families ask for it the pastor you.

See my wife pregnant.

So can I can I have six months off because

I you know from playing the guitar, but you're the

only guitar is yeah, but you know my wife will

need me, right, So six months easy become one year easy,

become two years yes, because habit. Then by the second

year the second child comes, so repeat now four years

not serving then the church, gentlemen, So so God is

not first? Is is either your fear of not being

a be handle your child?

You with me?

And there are a lot of excuses all across not

enough examples of That's why I'm glad. You know why

a lot of young families serve in X because they

have examples.

They look up.

Oh hey, that person got three children also serving the Lord.

I only go one is so he keeps on going

because you've got examples. A lot of churches up north Kadda,

down south, Joho, Klantanrano you know, naw, not only the

not only the parents or the soon to be parents

are asking the pastor already very understanding. Hey, I can

see that your wife, you're pregnant, so take off now

we are giving that.

I will not say that in this church.

I will say what did God tell you? I will

ask what did God say?

Pregnant? Canoser of the Lord? First child? Can the Lord

second charlt third child?

You know we've got God and daughters who's never stopped

serving the lot after five children? Right and and and Okay,

so I'm not this message not but children. I just

got passionate there a little bit because there's so much

more that we're missing out, so much more that God

can do, so many more testimonies that we can build

to show it can be done. It can be done

with God. All things are possible. God is first question

as you come towards the end of the year, is

God first?

Is God first?

All?

Right?

Let's look at Luke twenty three thirty nine to forty one.

This one I give you mercy because I knew idea

that as I get into the message, you know, it

gets longer. So to wait for you to turn to it,

my ad to the time so that one of the

criminals you remember this who were hanged blespheme him saying,

if you are the Christ, save yourself and us. But

the other answering rebuilt him, saying do not do you

not even fear God? A criminal on the cross, towards

the end of his life, before he dies.

He comes to that place. See.

The reason why I even bring you this scripture is

because some of you in this room, maybe you feel you.

Messed up past. I messed up, you know, my first kid.

As you're talking, I feel like I want to shrink

because with my first kid, so I didn't say the

lot with my second kid, or so I stop serving

a lot again, So I feel condemned.

No, no, this message is not for you to be condemned.

His message and the most is for you to be

convicted by the truth and to make sure that you

don't guess and the year well, but start the new

year better.

Okay.

So this guy, the criminal on the other cross, had

a messed up life, but towards the end.

He was promised paradise.

And I want you to know in this room, no

matter how messed up you've been, no matter how much

regret you having your life. God is God second chances.

He's a good God, as you said many times a day,

and he has paradised waiting that will overcome all your problems,

all your pain paradise.

But it took the fear of God.

You see, the fear of God starts right and from

that start you begin to.

Make good decisions. See. I don't know whether the criminal

really knew that this was Jesus, the Son of God.

But because when you have the fear of God, I

guarantee you you will make the right decisions.

That is what I'm saying to you. You want to

pass it by, I don't know.

There was no proofing, okay, but if you have the

fear of God, your next few decisions are going to

be right. That's what I'm trying to say to you.

You plan a church has the fear of God. You

are very scared because you know about the future. If

you have the fear of God, the fear of God

will determine your wisdom. That's why he says the fear

of God is the beginning. That means a wisdom doesn't

even have a chance to begin until there's a fear

of God. Wisdom begins. The first step that wisdom takes

in your life is because of the fear of God.

That's Proverbs nine to ten. The fear of God is

the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy

One is understanding.

Proverbs one, p. Seven says, the fear of God is

the beginning of knowledge. Wow.

Even knowledge comes from the fear of the Lord. Eyboy, Okay,

But as we study this scripture, I want to show

you something. He starts with the fear of God, and

then he says, seeing, you are under the same condemnation.

This is what the fear of God does to us.

It causes our eyes to be open to see. If

you don't have the fear of God, there can be

a chance, a huge chance, that you will be blinded.

So there who was blinded the rest of his life.

Why I say he's blinded because he's done all those evil,

bad things, whatever they deserve.

The cross.

Now on the cross he finally sees and he starts with,

do you not even fear God?

Seeing?

You mean you saw something? I want to guarantee you

this if you fear the Lord. Towards the end of

the year and the beginning of the next year, you'll

be able to see what you couldn't see. And he says, seeing,

you are under the same condemnation. So I underline the

words same. Why because I tell you what the fear

of God does. It actually allows us to see a

situation and understand that you are the same same. Okay,

this is how I'm gonna show you. So for example,

I'm telling these young people here stop using your handphone

when the service time, when the preacher is preaching. All right,

and then you find that when I'm bored, I also

go to my handphone.

The adults in this room who try to teach young

people to do.

The right thing are also doing the same thing, except

maybe they're doing private.

Hopefully nobody see.

But I say, you realize that in our lives, you know,

like for example, we pray for government that is not

cut upt and then we still pay the policeman when

we get stopped.

Actually, yeah, we are same.

It's true that the prisoners that we seeing that we

are under the same condemnation. That's why Jesus says those

of you without saying, cast the first storm, because we're

all the same same. Stop complaining, stop trying to put

someone else down, and.

Make him look bad.

Actually same, same, same, why that person knows self control?

Same.

My father in law used to tell me, Kenneth, some

people are they think are. The people's is bigger than gas.

But if you're bitten by a big snake and bitten

by a small stake, a small steak and hungry snake,

small snake, big snake, small snake, big snake.

Both will kill you.

But sometimes we want to look at other people's snake

or log in the eye whire you got this log

in your eye, Jesus says, look at the lock in

your own eye.

Maybe it's the lock in your own eye.

It's causing you to see that another log because the

log is here, So you see another lock there by

shee is your log.

And you're trying to remove.

But the lod says to remove the lock from your

own eye first, and you remove.

Actually no more.

How come your log was Actually the lock was always yours.

Same we are under the same cold. Fear of God

opens your eyes wide. So when you have the fear

of the you say, oh, hold on a minute, before

I put before I run this guy down, before I

do something bad, I got look into my own heart.

Am I that righteous? Am I? That nice? Am I?

That kind? Am I? That forgiving? Do I not also

have anger issues? Do I?

Also, you know, do stuff that I shouldn't be doing.

So we were kinder, we're kinder. We're more merciful blessed

than the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But same yet.

Different, because the eyes with the fear of God is

not only open to We are same, but there is

a difference because we he said, we receive our due reward.

But this man has done nothing wrong. I love it.

I love how our eyes are opened to that we

are all the same under the same curse, under the

same contination. So please show some mercy to each other.

But hold on a minute, same, while different. The eyes

of yours and mine will open, the fear of God

will open it, and we go like, hey, actually, I

realize that everybody's complaining about this pastor. But this pastor

has not complained about anybody. So how could it be

that this pastor is bad? I haven't heard one bad

word come out of his mouth against the people that

are saying bad things about him. So same, same, but different.

I see a difference. I also me very very important.

Everybody Okay, let's move on. Let us hear the conclusion

of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments.

Well the conclusion.

Now you know why.

The title I gave the message in conclusion, Fear God

and keep his commandments. For this is man's all. This

was the end of the life of the wisest man

that ever lived on the face of the earth. His

name was Solomon, and this is what he wrote. He says,

I can count the stars, I can do great things.

There is no one richer than me. Okay, Elon Mass,

you know, will probably be one of my servants.

You know.

I wipe my sweat, you know, with one hundred dollar notes.

Chinese will say, I gaggle my mouth. Was that.

Each was it? Okay? Whatever? Okay? Something expensive? Fish river?

What was it? Quite English? Not shaffielder?

Okay, So I gargle my mouth with chaffeel How my dad,

I'm so rich.

I've gained it all. I've seen it all. I've seen

it all.

And yet this is my summary. Not please go to

Harvard Business School and get a master's because education is

so important. Oh, the wisest man on the earth never said,

never ended with you've got to get a degree. Okay,

the younger ones, I should be excited. Notice, not make

more money, not get married. You must get married. If

you haven't got married, touch you again, so what that's

your second city. Don't truch you don't touch them? Oh

the parents happy, will bring mother bring who?

Touch him again? Touch him again? He touched me. Amen.

This guy just loves his guitar. I know, I think it.

Don't know wor g is his wife? Okay, yeah, get

a wife, get a husband.

This is man's all. This is man's all. You'll be

all you be, really all the all, the whole matter.

The conclusion is fear God and keep his commandments anyway, Okay,

this is not Kenneth chained his bible. What is the

motivation behind the fear of the Lord? Motivation behind is

not fear, perfect love cast out fear. The Bible says,

it's not fear. It's all the kind of being scared, shivering. Oh,

my father's gonna wallop me. No, the motivation is in

the next slide, and the next slide is a good word.

Second Corinthians five nine.

Therefore, says Paul the Apostle, we make it our aim.

Someone say aim whether present or absence, to be well

pleasing to him. This, my friends, is the motivation of

why we fear him, because really we want to please him,

because really we know that he loves us, Because really

we know that he gave his only begotten son for us,

and there is nothing that he will never do for us.

God is good, and he's good all the time. And

because he's so good to me, I don't want to

hurt his feelings. I don't want to make him disappointed.

I don't want to rob the smile from his face.

I want to see my Papa smile, my father in

heaven smile now and forever. I want to stand in

front of him and hear him one day say well done,

my well done, my well done, my good and faithful servant.

As you're standing before the Lord, it's hard to see

someone that you love frown said, very hard, and God

who loves you.

And then you see him and then he's like, you know,

do you want to do that? You come before the Lord?

Then he doesn't really, he's not me and angry finally

made it to see him because of Jesus, and then

he goes in. However, you have seen that before and

like you are friends with somebody, and then every Sunday.

You see, hey, right, Rachel, can you hey?

And then one day you come in and then try

to afford a smile and you know something's wrong with you,

something's wrong. Then you will go up and say, hey,

what's wrong man? Because you're smiling every time you see me,

and then that day you didn't smile. Our goal, our

goal in life is to live to put a smile

on God's face.

Everybody. Okay, what else did he say? Fear the Lord?

What's the second one? Come on, what's the second one?

Fear the Lord?

And the second one is serve the Lord? Okay, this

is again advice from a man of God called Joshua.

And he said fear the Lord. And then he says,

serve the Lord.

I guess you can fear the Lord without serving him.

That's why God has to tell you, or rather Joshua

is to tell you. Many people here in the church,

in the world, they say they fear God and yet

they don't serve him. I really believe that both of

them are connected. Okay, So as we close the year,

I want all of us to be encouraged with serving

the Lord. Let's look at the scripture Joshaw twenty four fifteen.

And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord.

You know, when I read this worder, I was a

little bit surprised, although I read it before.

How can it be evil to you? Even as an

evil word. Evils not a very nice word to hear.

But Joshua is saying to the people, if it seems

evil to you to serve the Lord, then still you

have to choose.

Now, I got a me for you.

I'm sure you know it already that whether or not

you serve the Lord, you're going to serve something.

Or somebody.

We were made by God to serve, and we will

never be.

Satisfied until we serve either we are.

Serving our own desires, serving our fears, serving our passions,

serving our masters, serving money. We are going to be

serving somebody or something. If you agree, say amen, it's true,

it's true. You take your eyes of the Lord, you

put them on your family. And now your wife could

be your idol, your children could be your idol. And

now we say what does God think?

First? You say, what does my son think? First? What

my daughter think first? What are my wife things? First?

So this is true. So Joshua is not letting them go.

He says, you know, guys, let me tell you truth.

If you know what the Lord, you better choose who yourself,

because you're going to serve something anyway. And so this

is why he says, choose for yourselves this day whom

you were serf, whether the gods which your father served

that were on the other side of the river, or

the gods of the emirates in whose land you dwell. Now,

this is very important to understand. What Joshah presented to

the people of God was two choices. He says, you

choose whether you serve your past or whether you serve

your future. You know, I recently, in my quiet time,

understood something from the Lord that some of us could

be doing what we're doing and driven to do what

we're doing because of a past event or someone says

something in the past. It could be your fear, it

could be a drive that you know, you saw how

poverty affected your family, so you never want to be poor,

all right, So you're not being driven by the Lord

by his love. You're driven by not wanting to be poor. Now,

while that could be nobler, it's not God and that's

why sometimes God might even ask you to change the

good for the God.

What we want is what God.

So you know, I tell you when Passandra came into

my life, I looked at her one time and I thought, wow,

I like this one.

I like this one. I don't know why from Yamada.

I like this face.

I like this our faith. Yeah, not quite much. Salais

not quite Chinese, not quite anything. Just international. That's what

she wants me to tell you. I married an international wife.

When we passed by the immigration of Italy one time,

they didn't stop her. They thought she was Italian. No

playful pricess went now. She wanted her passibort to be stamped,

and a lot of us made me travel. We went

our passible to be stamp. She was so angry, you know,

she walked past it. Then the guy yeh this so

she wal would be fun.

They're like why. Then I thought I could work with

my wife. So I thought, no need to stay passon.

I walk here you Italian Italiana from the Chinese side

of Italy.

Yeah, I use as a spaghetti.

Did you make it one time?

Me?

Of you? Only one time? Okay? You you hey stand passport?

So I say, my wife, your wife, Melie, and then

then she got his pass words step oh sorry, thought

I thought, excuse me, I saw you Italian spaghetti, blazagna.

Puttuccini.

Okay, so uh yeah, So what was I saying?

Wife? Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so my wife. You know, very I was,

I was, really I was. I was just you know,

I had to ask the Lord. I said, Lord, is

it you?

Is it you?

And the Rod says yes, and then all asked me

another question. I said, do you like her? Course, for

the past six months, I've been saying, Lord, you will

be done, says Kenneth. Just stop being so spiritual for

a while. I asked you one question because you like her,

not because I won't force her. You Mary, you, I

won't force you to marry her. Oh yes, I like her. Okay,

let's start there first, okay. And then I said, Lord,

you will be done.

Now. What happened to us? Every time I prayed? I

felt like I was sinning. I tell you why.

I because when I was six years old, I really

believe in kids ministry. When I was six years old,

my Auntie came around, is it Kenny cousted me. Kenny,

you know I'm think of playing the saxophone. No uh,

and I say I can buy one from China that

I just had to blow the thing placed by yourself.

I just pressed the button on Kenny G. Kenny G.

And then Kenny C comes.

Out six years old and my auntie said Kenny got

girlfriend now.

And there were other cousins there and they're all like

playing a food.

Auntie.

I don't know why I took it seriously like no,

and then she says, wait, Auntie, you're.

Bigger than you like girls, you like girls. I will

never like girls six years old, I will never like girls.

So no girlfriend until this one. No girlfriend.

So some girls were after me because I owe them

money and all that stuff.

So sorry. I would finish my sentence.

And it says no no no Malay girl, Chinese girl,

Indian girl, you know Malaysia muhiba No no no, because

I I didn't want to ever break my vow six

years old, I made no Rachel. That's how powerful exekids mainstream.

When you want the lord, you want the lot, he

can go foreveryone. When you don't want so, so no,

then you are why. One day my father asked me

know when I was twenty four years old, Trade three

for Kenny. Everything okay with you? They told maybe I

was a little bit too happy, you know, to last

m I said, yes, Dad, I have my hen and

I grew up heard and I just to show that, say,

you know these days are they do it?

So? So I said, I am, I am, I am

right now.

When I really liked her and started praying for her,

I really felt I was sitting and then the Lord

told me, Kenneth, I'm going to put you to rest.

Even if you don't end up with Sandra, you still

have to break the vowel because the vow is not

from me. That was a perspective. The perspective was not

I'm breaking a vow to get said no. The perspective

was whether or not something good and beautiful happens in

your life.

What is wrong, is wrong, is going to be broken.

And so I don't know what you're driven by, guys

in this room, but you have a challenge this morning

from Joshure that says, choose either to worship the God

of the past that has still been your God, whispering

to your ear, pushing you every time you want to

make a decision.

You hear your father's voice.

You know, maybe it's also pass on many years ago,

but your father boy is just telling you, don't ever,

you know, be embarrassed in front of it. You know,

so you don't you You're you're fearful to be embarrassed.

Don't ever, you know, drop your waterface whatever you know, uh,

in front of don't ever be poor?

Don't ever. And you got.

This, this god of the past. Choose will you continue

to be driven by the past fears or will you

be driven by your future desires? The god of your

father's or your own gods of the future. Be careful

because if you do not choose the Lord, you're going

to serve one of these. And you better choose. Okay, everybody, okay,

And of course Josh was saying, as for me and

my house, we will serve the Lord. What are you

serving today, guys?

What are you serving?

I'm doing my doctorate now DBA Doctor of Business Administration.

I was and I was encouraged.

To do it. I'm doing it. It's so tough. It's

so so tough.

I want to tell you all the promises they made me,

all all wrong. Passal Kenneth, You're going to give you

a doctorate because you got thirty five years of experience

in your ministry. So you just wipe right according you

will help you, will help you.

It's gonna be easy.

I tell you, t ip you, you know, t ip you. Ah,

So I have to work out with my supposed to

move eyes. I said, why so hard one? Your promises

are not yes an amenment, he's doing hidding. Somebody have

got stressed, you know, just to do chapter two literature review.

Why you know? I thought you wanted my experience.

Now I have to read other people's experience literature review?

What do I get myselfing to?

You know? But every morning I said, Lord, I will

only get through this DBA with you, and let me

be reminded to me again and again. It's also only

for you. You got you gotta what drives you. And

I don't want this DBA to ever stop me from pitching.

Because some people are thinking the master's a want six

months off. I don't want to do my DBA and say, please, Pasadenia,

I don't have to serve for six months. I don't

know what kind of thing is that? Who has become

your god? You borrow a god for six months from somewhere,

I said God, I'll come back to you when I'm done.

Then you know what happened because you didn't submit it

to God. When you finally get it, you will use it.

Not for good as you see.

But if every day you submit to God, say God,

this b I don't need it. I am already completeing you.

But when I get it, use it as you like.

I'm now getting some calls from from the government and

saying passa, would you like to know advice in this?

Advice is that? And sometimes the doors are not open

because there is no title. So I say, God, if

you want to use it for that reason, use it

for that reason. But I don't need titles. I just

need a testimony. I don't want to go home to

be with the Lord with a thousand titles. I want

to go home with the Lord with just at least

one testimony. I serve the Lord, and I was faithful

to God.

To the very end. Everyone, Okay, are you getting something

of this? Matthew six twenty four.

No one can serve two masters, So you will serf

you will. I'm telling you right now, you will. You

can I get into your spirit. You're sitting down here

Oh you know I'm not serving the Lord.

No, no, you will. You're serving something.

Most times yourself, but yourself can't get you to Heaven,

and yourself, you know, can't get to hear God say, well,

do my good and faithful servel when all is done.

That's why he says it starts with fear the Lord

put him first. What do you think, God? What do

you think? Ah? Okay, okay, that's why some people get

really like, huh, how con perse Kennedy Dodd?

How can you be ready? Starting a change fifty two years old?

In case the communiting? Where he has got all this? Why?

Because God? What does God think? What does other people think?

What does he think? And today you see all these

beautiful faces because he started it. I don't wis I

won't be able to see your face. Some of you

probably won't won't come to Schumang. Ever, thank God, because

I get to see you now. I get my own

sister serving the lot in this in this church. I

get my mom serving law, I get my family serving

the lot down here in this church?

You know? Are you with me?

So when God tells you what he thinks? I tell

you you're always a winner, always a winner.

All right.

People can tell you always a bad idea, whatever it is, okay,

So fearl the Lord, serve God, everybody, okay. But no

one can serve two masters. Now read this with me.

Read this with me. For either he will hate the

one and love the other, or else he will be

loyal to the one and despise the other.

You cannot serve God. Amendment.

Two words that I pick up from here that has

got to do with service is this love and loyal.

Look at the next light, love and loyal.

You cannot serve two masters because you either will love one,

hate the other, or be loyal to one not loyal

to the other. So I caught from scripture two words

that define real service. If you are serving anything in

your life, there will be two else. At least you

will love it, and therefore because you love it, you

will hate the other thing that stops you from doing it.

With me, one guy.

Told his professor, a professor, I think I can't believe

in Jesus anymore. Professor, ask him why? Or because I

thought about it, even prayed about it. And I consider everything,

and I realize, Oh, Jesus can be real. Jesus, come

you real? So the professor, who has forty years of

experience behind him, look at the student in his eyes

and said, tell me, how are you enjoying sexual intimacy

with your girlfriend?

He actually said it strongler, I'm just trying to be

kinder with my words.

And the guy's eyes open up, said professor, I'm telling

you about Jesus, and you're telling me about me sleeping

with my girlfriend. So yeah, because you must be enjoying

something so much that Jesus has to go out the window.

So it's either your girlfriend goes out the window or Jesus.

After about half an hour, he cries and he repents.

He says, yes, almost every day I'm with my girlfriend,

and I know that Jesus is the one that makes

me feel guilty for doing this, So I don't want

to feel guilty doing this anymore because I like being

with my girlfriend, so I don't to feel guilty.

So who has to go out the window?

Jesus? Jesus has to go out. He says, you haven't

thought about it. Your brain is not so big that

you can suddenly discover that this God is not real.

Your brain is small, so is mine.

Our puny brains cannot understand God, and then you tell

me that you've researched and you've read and you've thought

it true. No, I'm telling you right now something is

coming against your real desire and God's desire. So who

gets kicked out most of the time? God, Bye bye God,

Bye bye Sunday, Bye bye service. Now we can go

out there and have our conscience clear, we think, but

it's not our conscious. It is not clear. It's seared

with a hot iron. It's become dead to God.

Everybody.

Okay, so this this, this this first time I heard

the professor telling me.

That was in Australia. He said.

I just looked in him, straight in the eye and said,

what are you enjoying so much that you've got to

kick God out of the window? And okay, I know

it's quite it's quiet now. But that's why we're talking

about love and loyalty.

If you love something, you gotta hate something.

See, you're gonna hate the opposite of it. If you

love God, gonna hate sin. If you're loyal to one,

you're gonna be disloyal to the other. So you gotta choose. Okay, choose,

let's go. Then Jesus said to him away with you, Satan.

For it is written you shall worship the Lord, your God,

and him only. So this is the thing. It has

to be Him only. I underlined emboldened those words. Him only.

Shall you serve not yourself, not your dreams, not your past,

not your fears, not anything him.

Somebody said him only. It starts with worship.

Worship will bring you to the place where you serve

Him only.

Everybody good.

Last one, Number three, Joshua, the man of God who's

seen God move powerfully, says, I leave you three things, Israel.

If you continue in these three things, you are going

to continue in the blessings of God. Number three is

put away the gods. Put away, the gods put away.

Israel has God's.

Idols.

And today we might not have idols in our house,

on the altar, in our car, at the front of

our garden, but we can have idols in our hearts,

and we need to be careful about that before we

close the year. You don't know what the first commandment

is in the ten commandments. The first you think to yourself, aout,

why they go put that first up? Because it's the

thing that messes up everything else. And not only that,

God is saying that he recognizes that even those of

us Israel Israel, those of us who have seen God

tasted God, can still be subjected to this temptation to

the gods that we can see compared to the God

that we cannot see. So the first commandment is accidents

twenty verse three. You shall have no other gods before me,

no other gods before me.

Was smiling and was doing this study two days ago.

I said, God, after you cannot, can I joking with God, God,

if you cannot before you, then after you, He says,

don't worry. I got another scripture for that. And the

other scripture for that is found in the next verse.

You shall not make yourself carved image any likeness or

anything that is in the heaven.

That God doesn't even want us.

To make a calf imagure of anything in heaven, or

so you think about ever a moment.

That means He doesn't even want us to be a

calf image.

Of him, because in our puny minds and corrupted minds,

we will never be able to make something as beautiful

as God.

Never.

You will never be able to take a creation clay

stone or whatever. You will never be able to dig

something of the creation to make it look like the creator.

You will never so God is saying, don't try.

So no God before me and no God's after me,

because you are not to make any image to continue

after that. Everyone, Okay, this is very important, very important. Okay,

so let's read on. It says, don't make any cove image.

You shall not bow down to them. What is bow

down to them? You shall not worship nor serve them.

You know these two words are go hand in hand.

So often Jesus said to Satan, you shall worship the Lord,

your God, and only him shall you serve. Do you

know what the expression of true worship is service? Service

is the loyal and loving kind. I love you got

so much. I'm gonna hate the things that you hate.

I'm loyal you got so much. I'm gonna be distroyal

to the three things that stop me from being loyal

to you.

How are you serving the rod today? Love him with

all your heart, serve him with all your mind.

But the two comes together because you cannot serve without worship.

So worship first, don't bow down the bybe, says God said,

And don't serve them, don't worship them? What is worship anyway.

Worship is basically just an adoration. You know, you have

your whole attention, you have your whole submission, sacrifice. You're saying,

you know, whatever this is, I'm gonna give my old

can be your job. You know, you can worship your job.

I give my whole time to my job. My whole

focus on my job. Can be your studies. I worship

my studies. You have all my time. You are my best.

I will even give Sunday to you because you are

more important that ninety's are more important than what God

has to say. I'm telling you right now, many many

people who have done very well in this world without

even an SPM, and God continues to do this in

our world because you want to show you that, Yes,

studies are important to students. But I'm telling you cannot

be your God, and neither can your girlfriend. Neither can

your boyfriend. Don't let anyone else take the place of God.

Don't let them take the attention that only belongs to God.

All right, this is very important, Okay, I've got to

I've got to read this to the finish. You know why,

because there's something there that I always schem over and

the Lord says those schem over this read the rest.

Okay for either Lord, your God am a jealous God

understood visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,

to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me. Wow,

it's true. I didn't remember that the word hate me

was there. That means, Ah, any one of us, in,

any one of us in this rumor, who loves something

else more than God is hating God.

Ah.

It's painful, it's really out because it's not me saying it.

He's saying, if you love somebody else more than me.

You hate me.

He didn't say, if you learn somebody else more than

me is idolatry is you know? He just says, you

hate me. You know how powerful it is anyone here

in this room hate God. That's why some people say

I still believe in God. Actually, even though I'm playing

golf on Sunday, even though I'm doing my own thing

on on you know, on Sunday, if I'm doing instead

of having my quiet time, you know, I'm having breakfast

with friends instead of praying at night before I sleep.

I finished with alcohol.

Uh, you know I I Yeah, but I still believe

you know it's very subtle, right, I haven't left God. Hello,

don't take it from my definition definition. But if someone

something else has taken the place of God in your life,

you have just said I hate you. I know it's strong.

I know it's strong. We're closing a year, you say,

past the Christmas raw Paster Christmas.

I relaxed a bit. I want to.

I want to, But you know, I have to also

tell you so that by the time you are ending

the year, as you're coming to Christmas and New Year,

you don't just drink yourself drunk. Please, and don't just

come on. You just got to get Takes Live series

because Training Tree you five. If you believe it's going

to be a better year to Traine three four, even

if you had a good year already.

If you believe it, say amen. If you believe, say amen.

I believe it all my heart. I'm looking forward to

Training Tree you five. I am it's going to be

a great year. I don't want to hate God, but

he said, if these take my place, you hated me.

Next sight says, loving something more than God means we

hate God. You cannot replace God with anything else in

your life. This is very very key, very important. Okay,

anything that you cannot give up next slight, anything that

you cannot give up to God has become an idol

in your life. Think about that for a moment, and

I don't want to just skip the slide. Think about

that for a moment. What can you give up? My

wife and I, as I said, had been married for

twenty nine years. We are very committed to ministry, so

committed that sometimes we have to be careful that ministry

doesn't become an idol. When my wife actually ran with

me to FJ to day, she had a few mortages

that she has to speak at, but she said to me, no,

I want to be with you. I think it's important

that we are a couple there at FGAKL and I

want to support you, you or my husband.

I'm your wife. I will support you.

And just giving up whatever ministry she had on that

Sunday morning was definitely very.

Pleasing to me.

You know, as a husband, of course, I don't want

to be in a big church like that without my wife.

But I'm telling you right now, it's even hard to

give up on some of these things that you love,

and it can be good, but not necessary. God, can

I tell you one thing before I close her, because

it's very very important. As I was growing up, I

was finding her priorities in my life. Yeah, very important

to have priorities. So I was fine finding priorities. And

I used to say this though God is first. Everybody

understand this. God is first.

Who is second?

Usually we will say family and correct, correct, I mean

you're right. Family second.

Third, maybe your work for those of you are working

your work, those of you studying your studies. Fourth.

Anyway, you know what price together. As I'm growing older

and I think and hope deeper in.

God's work, I've stopped.

I've stopped giving anybody second place, because that can mess

you up.

Because there are days.

I'm saying, I'm just saying days that partic Sunday she

gave up that Sunday's ministry for a husband because in

God's eyes, that was important.

So if you just.

Say family is number two, then you might get messed

up sometimes because God might say, on that day, I

want you to serve me.

I give you a story I read that told me

by Nett. Told me.

By Nett has a son called Matthew Bynett. If you

google them up, they're very famous past us in America.

Told me By that was out preaching, his son was

dying at home. They called Tommy, and those days, you know,

hard to get like. There was no handset handful. So

he got a call from the telephone booth and Tommy,

if you can't come back because your son just you know,

I think he was away for a month, but he

has this revival meetings that's going on, revival meetings every night.

People are being saved on that.

So Tommy in the last few nights, Tommy believed that

he had to be there. But his son is his

only son at the time, Matthew Bynette dying. I think

it was either two book losses or some pneumonia or

something is dying. He was only I think about eight

or nine years old, and told me put the phone down.

He said in the book. Cried all the way to

his hotel room. He got down his knee and said, Lord,

I will go back because I believe that family is

immediately after you, so I will, but I want to

hear what you have to say to me.

God, please speak to me.

He wrestled and wrestle wrestle the whole night until the

Lord said to him, will you trust me to heal

your son as you serve me in this last few

nights here? And Tommy said, I was so torn. He said,

I went back to the phone, the phone booth the

next morning and I called my wife. He said, dear wife,

I'm so sorry tell you this. My heart breaks as

I hear that our.

Son is dying.

But God just promised me that if I was finished

the next three nights.

Here, that he will heal him. He will heal a

little Matthew.

And according to the book, with a heavy heart, he

served the Lord because he was so worried about his son.

No handful, no texts, He.

Said, Lord, I trust you, and he preached his best

three messages, the last three or four messages, and hundreds,

if not thousands, came to know the Lord. And he

got into the car as soon as the last message

was preached, and he raised down like an F one

driver back to his house four or five hours drive away.

And before he arrived, the sun was here completely.

And by the time he got to his door, he

ran to the you know, he ran in, but he

realized that the sun was his son, ran out to

read him and hugged him.

And so I've learned something.

Friends, before I close that I tend not to put

anything second in third and fourth and fifty days, I

just say, God, you are number one, and you tell

me when you need me to put number two. You

tell me when to put number three. You tell me.

As far as I'm concerned, it should be my family,

but I want to hear from you. It should be

my family. But I want to hear from you. And

I'll tell you what. If you do it God's way,

you will see many more miracles than what you have

seen thus far. Anything that you cannot give up to God,

think about it for a moment, what is it?

What is it? I will never be able to give

up my job. It's such a good job.

Why And Abraham said to his young men, stay here

with the donkey the lad and I will go yonder

and worship, and we will come back to you. Abraham,

give me Isaac, Abraham, give me Isaac. This was Abraham's

own son, one and only. He got his son at

one hundred years old. He got this son when he

was old. It was a promise of God, and yet

he was able to give. And he called it worship away.

Where is the scripture, Sorry Abraham scripture. When Abraham was

about to bring his son to the altar to be sacrificed,

he called it worship. True worship is service. True service

is giving your best to God. Let's close as I

run through the last few slights. Worship is sacrifice. Worship

is sacrifice. Worship is giving our best to God.

Follow me.

Actually, worship is giving our best to God. True worship

with service is the best antidote against idolatry.

I'm gonna say it again.

True worship with service is the best antidote against idolatry.

If you don't want to have idolatry in your life,

then you got to learn how to worship the Lord

with true service.

What is true service?

True service is love and love give only your best.

Abraham gave his best to God. You know, there are

days I think our Malay friends do this better, and

I say it. I say because I'm not talking down

about them. So I'm very free and bold to say this.

If I have camera, our Malay friends understand this a

little bit more. Sometimes I remember when there was this family,

you know, we call him the Zeton family. Zyton family

are Chinese but Muslim so they started this cytone company.

Oh did so well? Remember you know that all the

ads Guna Tampas was. I remember Gunna Tampa was was.

Excuse me.

They're Chinese multi millionaires. My father had a dealing with them.

So they invited my father to the house Syton Industry bungalow.

I went with my dad. We partner car in the garage.

They have three story garage and one story garage can

take probably about twiny cars. So three story garage in

the basement of the house and you know Ferraris and Porsche.

This is very rich.

So we had to walk up the body gout, came down.

There's a lift going up to their house. So I've

never seen such a bungalow before in my life. So

he walked in and the whole Zython, the chairman and

his sons all Chinese, but I didn't know they were Muslim.

And you started to have a meal, yeah, and then

suddenly Zython.

Chairman stands up.

Old men at the time, Stone chairman stands up and

he goes away, and then the rest of us continue

to eat. And then my father had to ask one

of the sons, actually where your father go because he

went it's gone for like at least a good five

six minutes.

Or my father he doesn't miss. He doesn't miss his

prayer to.

He can be in a board meeting and as soon

as his prayer time, they're five times in prayer. Chairman

of the board gets up and goes and prays. It

doesn't care your carry on. I've got to serve God.

And I think to myself, Wow, I mean, I don't know.

Some of you might say, oh, well, this sounds very religious,

But I'm saying to you that there's an understanding with

some people when it comes to the fear of the Lord,

the service of God and putting all gods away to

make sure that him only. We will serve him only,

we will serve him only, we will serve. You cannot

serve the Lord, said Joshua. Why we read that right,

You cannot serve the lot.

Why?

Because God is holy, God is jealous. He will not forgive,

He will do you harm. Do you think God really

doesn't want to forgive us? Do you think he really

wants to harm us? No, but he is a holy God.

He's a holy God. I want to turn now to

the last three slides, and then you can look up here.

Holy means only for him, only for him. If I

take this bottle and I dedicate to the Lord, Lord,

I dedicate this to you, this bottle has now become holy.

You cannot take this bottle open and drink. You cannot

think this bottle right now and what the plants. You

cannot do as you please with a bottle that is

now holy because he's been set apart.

It's only for him. He's being made.

Clean by him and for him.

So anything that is made holy is the Lord's. If

you have dedicated your child.

To the Lord, and some of your parents have dedicated

your children, you cannot dictake where your child ends up.

You can say, I want you to be a lawyer.

I want you to know.

You can say, Lord, I dedicated him to you twenty

five years ago.

His future is in your hands. You tell us what

you want him to do.

So Para, after dedicating their children also want to have

a say in their children's life. So this is where

you know things get messy.

It's holy.

That's why josh I said, you cannot save the Lola.

Don't don't, don't talk nonsense. No, we want to serve

the lot.

No, you cannot. You don't understand. You think so simple men,

you think so simple to sell the lot? Man, he's holy?

You know? No, no, no, we want to say.

No you can, I know? Please, don't dream. Cannot you

cannot save the load everyone in this room. You cannot

sell the lorda you think what he's chin chai wanna.

He's not a chin chai God. He's a holy God

and he will not forgive you, and he will harm

you if you turn your back against him.

No, no, we want to serve the Lord. Are you sure? Yes,

we want to sell the lot? Are you sure?

Yes?

We want to serve the Lord. Only him will we serve?

Are you very sure? Don't mess around? He's holy. He

will have you although he loves you, after he's done

good to you. He won't forgive you if you hate him.

If you hate.

Him last night, jealous, you're a jealous God only with him.

If I have a wife and we have a marriage bed,

I cannot sleep with any other woman, only my wife.

We are married.

Only, So God is jealous. God like a husband would

be jealous, a wife would be jealous because you are married.

You're only for each other only. Don't mess around don't

play a fool. You've made a covenant before the Lord God.

You're a jealous God. No one can share the bed,

No one can share. No one can take your place.

No one, not my job, not my money, not my future,

no my family, nor my children. No one can take

your place. He's jealous. He says, you are for me.

I am for you. I bought you with the price

I gave you my life. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. No

one else should take his place. You know, even a

mother will bring her baby to you and say, oh,

so cute, so cute, and you can play with the baby.

She'll allow you to carry, caddle, being shared. But as

soon as you act like the mother, the mother's going

to take her back. Because you can do anything with

a child as him, play with a child. But you

cannot take the mother's place. You cannot take the father's place.

You just cannot take God's place. God will be very jealous,

very very upset. Father, in the name of Jesus, our

time is up, long time ago. But I just want

to pray as we close, Oh Lord, let your word

go forth and not return to your void. Your people here,

you love them so much you love them so much.

Come out.

Send to your feet, everybody. I think you've said for

a long time, send your feet. Thank you, thank you,

thank you, thank you. Oh. I wish I had more jokes.

I wish I had more laughter. But you know, I

have to leave you this because I believe we've got

to end a year well, and I believe we've got

to start the new year well.

Amen. Thank you Jesus. Number one, what is it? Number one?

What is it? Number one? What is it? Number two?

What is it? Number three? What is it? Put away

other gods? I'm gonna do you one more time? Number one?

What is it? Number two? What is it? Number three? Father,

the name of.

Jesus, We lit up our hearts, we lit up our

hands before you.

We know that you are a holy God. Yes, you

are holy.

Take your sandals off your feet for this holy ground.

We take our shoes off.

As Eastern citizens, we take our shoes off into people's house.

Why because we respect them.

The lady of the house had cleaned the house so well.

It's clean law. We don't walk into the house with

our shoes. We respect. God is a holy god, clean God.

We respect him. We respect him with all our hearts.

We don't want to mess around. He's a jealous God.

No one should be able to take his place, husband's

don't don't let any other man take your place. Be

a good husband. If your wife wants to talk to you,

talk to her. Don't let another man talk to her.

Come on, listen, you don't understand this. Sometimes, don't let

another woman take your wife's place.

Wives, be careful.

If someone else is talking to your husband more than

you are, and you to be thinking why, maybe because

you are not talking to him. So listen, don't let

anyone else take the place, the rightful place.

Husbands, wives, children, fathers.

You know. Yeah, we can play with you, we can

laugh with you, job with you, but you cannot take

the place. You cannot replace, and you cannot replace God.

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