First to Prayer, then to Missions | Elder Terence Atkinson

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First to prayer, then to missions. First to prayer, then

to missions. Remember the old butter advertisement, First to better

then to school. How many of you are old enough

to remember that? Some of you don't want to put

up your hands right because you don't want us to

know how old you are. But anyway, there there's a slogan. First, yeah,

but now we're not going to go, but you're going

to go to prayer before we get to missions. So

you know, we saw this scripture on the screen just now,

Matthew twenty eight, ninety to twenty. And it seems like

every time I come, I'm sharing something from this scripture.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing

them in the name of the Father and the Son

and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all

things that I've commanded you. And lo, I am with

you always, even to the end of the age. Why

is it that we constantly are talking about Matthew twenty eight.

Why is it? Do you have a sense that the

world is in need of you and I to fulfill

what Matthew twenty eight is because Jesus is coming soon,

and he's coming back real soon. How many of me?

And I don't mean to scare you, I don't mean

to make you lose any sleep, But do you know

how close this world is to World War three? Have

you any idea you could literally go to sleep tonight

and tomorrow world War three has started. That's how close?

Because we have a lot of crazies in charge. Yeah,

there are a lot of crazy people in charge of

the world at this point of time who have only

their own interest at heart. Do you need me to

name them? Not necessarily? Not necessary? Throw a stone and

you hit one. That's how it is, all right, So

God knows what he is talking about when he tells

us to go therefore. You know, we have never really

or how often? And I'm just thinking of doing my

hand watching too much Donald Trump? But you know now

this head okay? Yeah, how many of you know that

this word go therefore therefore is very important in our

lives and we sometimes miss out and the importance of

some of these simple words. Therefore, what does it mean

to go therefore? Let me break it down. Go in

spite of in spite of your troubles. Go because of

your troubles, Go in a fantastic time of your life,

when everything is coming up, roses and birds are singing

in the air, Go and life is so wonderful. Go

and you've experienced the best, Go and you're experiencing the

worst even more so. Go so go. Therefore, everything that

we have ever learned and experience up to this point

of time makes it worthwhile for us to go, to

go and do what to make disciples of all nations?

You know, how is a disciple made? A disciple is

made by teaching, teaching from your experience. It's not theory

that makes disciples. How many of you know that theory

does not make disciples? How many of you want to

learn the theory of music? Go to a piano and

you will not be able to play a single note. Craig,

you may know the theory, but that doesn't make you

an expert in the instrument. I mean, I have got

music theory until grade six. Yeah, all distinction passes. By

the way, grade six. My piano playing haven't even taken

a grade yet. I learned grade one. So ask me,

why is my music theory grade six and my piano

playing grade one. This is what you call insanity. But

you see, because I know grade six piano, does it

mean I can play the piano up to grade six? No?

So you see, when you make disciples, it's really not

about your theory. It's about your life. It's about your experience.

My problem with learning the piano was my teacher used

to say, you're cheating. What do you mean, say you're

not side reading? You know, sight reading means you see

the notes that you play. Right. I don't side reading.

I follow and the moment I played once from that

time onwards, it's in memory. So how my teacher discovered

this as there was one song I was playing in

and I was playing the wrong thing all the time.

Then she she she's second, pray this again. So I

played according to However, that's not how you played. This

is how you played. So when she put her hand

on the piano and she played the ribbit from that time,

I got it right. She says, you're cheating. You see,

for me, I learned not from hearing, but I learned

from other people's examples. So go therefore and make disciples

of what all nations? How many of you are here

from Malaysia. Okay, how many of you are not from Malaysia? Wow,

at least twenty percent. Guess what the twenty percent that

come to Malaysia to you? It's go therefore to all nations.

You are not in all nations at this point of time,

you know? Do you realize that? And God has meant

for you to use whatever experience you learned from wherever

you came from to help the community. Here we were

in x Men devotion last Tuesday and we had no

who was it? No, no, no, it was past the

Palace last week's missions conference and we were in the

workshop and he said, you know, those guys that came

from they were brought in by the PM to Malaysia,

you know, and the whole nation were upping wrong. We

have our own people and you're not helping them. You

bring these guys. He had such an amazing point of view.

He said, why are you so upset? You have an

opportunity to reach these people whom you would have no

opportunity to reach out to if they remain in their

own land. So, guys you're coming from overseas, you are

now in all nations? How many of you are from

different states? One, two, three, four, five. Okay, five of

you from different states. Guess what you qualify? You are

in all nations? What Slanger is not a nation, it's

a state in a nation. Right. You came, You came,

all right, so you see as long as you go.

Let me put it to you a different way. If

you get out of bed and you leave your front door,

you qualify. The only way you and I will never

be witnesses to all nations is if we stay in

our bed. So God has meant for us to do

something great for his glory. Go. Therefore, this world therefore

really makes sense because now you are special. You have

it insight and experience that nobody else has, and God's

going to use that experience to help somebody else. You know.

When I went to Singapore to study, I stayed. I

think I've told this you, but it's worth telling a kid.

I stayed about one and a half hours away from

my school. I stayed in Jerome. The school was in

Pirela by area, so I would take the bus every

day at seven no, no, I'd have to take the

bus at six o'clock to reach my bus stop at seven.

School start at seven point thirty, and I would remain

in school until seven every evening. What was I doing there?

I was the head prefect, I was the tennis coach,

I was the basketball class player. I was the class debater.

The question is what was I not? So you know,

I stayed in school and I was And for my

free time, I would be telling my friends, Hey, you

guys have got problems with your studies. Come I'm here.

I'll help you. I'll teach you. I'll teach you. And

I did this every day and I don't know why

I did it. I don't know, but that was me. Now,

i'd go back home at seven o'clock. It means I

leave school. I leave and catch the bus back at seven.

I will reach my hostel about eight thirty in the night.

I will have a quick shower, go for dinner at nine,

come back study from about nine thirty, do my homework.

Finish around twelve and guess what I do it twelve

I'll go to church. Yeah, because my hostel is a

church hostel. By the way, church hostel through a gate church.

So at midnight I would go to church and I

will pray with the pastor for deliverance cases people who

were possessed of evil spirits and all that will be

praying for them until four in the morning. I catch

two hours no about three point thirty, I go back,

catch about two hours sleep and do this all over again.

How could I do it? How the Holy Spirit helped me?

But one day, one fine day, it was a weekend,

so I told my friends, I'll meet you in Orchard Road,

that was our favorite hangout. I'll meet you at ten o'clock.

So I was there at ten o'clock. I got out

of the bus and I'll feeling so sick, and I

told my friends I can't continue, so I'm not going

with you. Ten fifteen I caught the bar. I got

out of the bus, told them goodbye, got back on

the bus and went back home. I just about got

up the fourth floor to my bed, and I collapsed

in the bed, shoes on, you know, all my Saturday

clothes that I went out in. And I woke up

the next evening at six pm. I was out for

almost twenty four thirty hours. I was. I was out

for about thirty hours. I got up, there was about

five or ten minutes. I quickly showered, rushed to catch

six pm service, so I don't miss service on a Sunday.

But you know that was all I needed. I was

completely rested. After that, I was fine. But this was

my life. You know what I do? Every morning I

would share with my friends. I would tell them about

Jesus and about how he had delivered so many people

from the power of evil one. And I did this

every day. I would go to school and tell so

they will say, so, what happened yesterday? Yes, sir, yes,

I said the power of God. They were hooked. But

you know, nothing happened. They didn't accept the Lord, at

least most of them didn't. There were two that did,

two girls they did, but the others didn't. But years

later they did. So the thing is this, go therefore,

and you know what the Bible says, you teach them.

So you say, I'm not a teacher, right? Wrong? Do

you know that as long as you walk out your

front door, you're a teacher because somebody is learning how

to do the right things all the wrong thing. So,

whether you say anything with your words or not, somebody

is learning from you. How many of you have seen

people make mistakes and you say, well, I'm never going

to do that. You can see your heads. Did they

tell you don't do this. No, you just saw them

and say, hey, I'm not going to do that. Did

they not teach you? Yes they did. How many of

you seen carsgoing holes? Well, praise the Lord. Some car

went in the hole. You didn't because you saw the

cargoing hole. It taught you to avoid that place. Say you, guys,

you got to realize that because you have this power

to teach, get with the program. Teach. Oh, we don't.

We don't realize just how much of power God has

given us to do things for His glory. Teaching them

to do one. Observe all that have come under you.

So God has commanded us to do some things. You

know that not everything that God commands us to do,

we do me if you know that, So don't worry

about those things you haven't done yet. Teach people to

do the commands that you do do, right or not.

You know that God expects us to teach someone the

things that we ourselves understand. Because remember what I said,

it's not gary that makes the difference, it's the experience

that backs it up. And Lo, I am with you

even to the end of the age. Amen. So God

has not left us in the lunch. So does doing

always make us successful? This is the thing I need

to ask us. Doing something that God tells us to

do always make us successful. Truth be told, not always,

not always. Peter said, God, if that's Jesus, if that

Lord is, if that is you call me to come

in the water. And Jesus said come, And he got

up and he walked and he walked and he walked.

Then he saw the waves and he sank and the

Lord helped him. You gotta love Peter, Okay, don't look

down on him. He was an impulsive guy, but his

impulsiveness caused him to risk to achieve many things. In

the Lord, thou art the Christ, the son of the

Living God. I was thinking about this this morning, he said,

do you realize it? And it's true. Did Jesus ever

say he is the son of God? The scripture ever

say that Jesus said he's the son of God. I

am the son of God. Do you know that there's

sixty five there's a majority situation in this world who

always says, if you can show me one scripture that

says Jesus Christ saying is the son of God, I

will become a Christian. Have you heard that guy say

that I don't want to say which name, and then

he laughs to himself, Oh he's got the Christian. Christian

cannot say anything. Hey, let me tell you something, right

Jesus And this is what as I was driving the

Lord minister to me, Jesus expected or not expected. It

was God, the Father who would give a revelation people

about the sonship of Jesus. Bless I use Simon Barjona

for flesh and blood. It's not revealing you, but my Father,

who is in heaven, Thou or the Christ, the son

of the Living God. You know that it is we

who have to acknowledge Jesus as the son of God

and as the Savior, not Jesus himself. But let me

break down what scripture has said. Aren't you gonna tell

them to keep quiet? They're praising you? And what did

Jesus say, if they do not praise me, the stones

will praise me. Was he not saying he was divine?

Because you thou shalt worship the Lord God and him only.

Do you know that the Jews and this other group

of people believe only God can forgive sins. And that's

why when Jesus said, your sins are forgiven. The Jews

got upset with him and said, who are you to

forgive sin? Only God can forgive Seid? And what did

Jesus say, But just so you know that the son

of man has the power to forgive sins, take up

your bed and walk. And the guy got up and

he walked. So Jesus said that about himself. So he

may not have said specific words, but he acknowledged it.

So if you choose to reject it, then you're a fool.

This is what I'm thinking of the guy. You said

these things? So God expects us to acknowledge him as

the Lord and Savior. There is a man who has

to acknowledge him. He doesn't have to acknowledge himself. He

already knows who he is. If you've seen me, you've

seen the Father. Hey, how much clearer does it need

to be? Yeah? So this doing always make us successful? Well,

we have certain tasks, right? What are the tasks? The tasks?

How we have to go? I told you that we

have to get out. We have to go. The next

thing you need to do is we need to make disciples.

How do we make disciples? We make disciples? Bye? We

make disciples by teaching. How do we teach? We live?

We live a christ Like life, HM, so that when

we say the words, it ain't just theory, it's backed

up by our lives. You know what, one person wrote,

the greatest Bible, or the greatest word that some people

may ever read, is the one that they read through me.

That's the only Bible some people may ever read. Is

that the one they see in me, that was said

by Come and Come and the come and the Gospel musician.

You know what? What? What an amazing statement to me?

So you know that a lot of people will come

to know Jesus because of the life you live, not

so much the words you say. And then the name.

Next thing, you know is go baptizing. Why is baptism

so important? You know? You know, I was baptized in

the river of Templears Park, not exactly the cleanest river,

because when you are being baptized down here, you have

to imagine what people are doing in the water up there.

But praise, Praise the Lord. I am alife. I survived.

I survived Templess Park baptism. Why because I acknowledged to

the world then I'm a believer. Why is it that

a lot of people. You know, when you you first generation,

you've heard this said to you before. Yeah yah yah,

go to church, yeah yeah yea believe, but don't get baptized,

you know what, because even the non Christian knows the

baptism is a death to your whole life. You are

the same anymore you somebody knew. And lastly, teaching them,

like I said, teaching them. You know that there will

come a time when your words count for something. But

you know that your words will only count for something

when people have seen the word alife in your life.

People will respond less to your words than your life

after they have seen you live. Then when you speak,

they will listen because they've seen you live it first.

So when you speak it it bears witness with your spirit.

But I want to ask you, is there something more

to this? Is this all that we have? How many

of you here are engineers? Any engineers? Yeah? Okay, there's one,

there's two. Okay. You have heard of a mission statement, right, Craig,

How many have you heard of mission statements? The Great

Commissioner is a mission statement. Go therefore into the world,

make disciples. Mission statement? Right? But how many of you

in engineering have a mission statement without a method statement.

You know what is a method statement? The mission statement

is a what to do? And the method statement is

a how to do? The mission statement go and build

a building? No method statement? So what do you use?

Sticks and stones? Use paper cups? Is that right? No?

You will tell you we will build. What is the

method statement? You used to best steal and it's going

to be done in accordance with this grade. And it's

got method statement. There is a way to do. You

know that Jesus also gave us a method statement, and

they should be exciting to all of us. Means we're

going to be successful. It says here in Acts chapter one,

verses four and five. And being assembled together with them,

he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to

wait for the promise of the Father, which he said,

you have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water,

but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not

many days from now? Did you realize that there was

a mission statement to the method statement? And I'm going

to show you how important this is. And in Acts

one of it it says, but you shall receive power

when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you

shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all

Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

I was pondering on this word witnesses. To me, it

sounds incorrect, It sounds grammatically incorrect. You shall be witnesses

for me. That sounds better you because you know you

shall be witnesses off me. That also sounds okay. And

you shall be witnesses to me. So I thought about this,

and there's two things. God will consider you or Jesus

will consider you a witness. You will be to me

a policeman if you wear the badge, get it. You

will be to me a witness because Jesus considers you

a witness. That's one. And the other one is in

the meaning of the word witness, because there is a

sense of worship in the word witness. Do you know that?

Because when you are telling of the glory of God,

when you are telling about the wonders of the Lord,

what are you doing. You are worshiping? And who can

you worship? Only Jesus. So you will be a witness

to me. You will be a worshiper to me. You

will be someone whom I will call witness. So that's

what it means. Like okay, and and the old spirits

for me, you shall be to in Jerusalem where they are,

in all Judea, in their country Samaria, and to the

ends of the end. Let me break it down. You

shall be to me a witness in Clang, in slang

or in Malaysia Samaria you include Singapore and Indonesia, and

to all the earth. You see. It has to start somewhere.

It starts with your little circle, and then it grows

a little bigger and a little bigger, until you're out there.

Some people God may call you go straight away, but

for most of us, you start where you are. Okay.

So to every given task there is a how to.

To every given task, there is a how to. And

you want to know something. God helps us in. It

whips us to do what He's instructed us to do.

You're not alone. You have an answer. Who is that answer, Jesus?

I mean when I shared with a guy, I mean,

when I asked, Lola, what do I share with this

guy who's always said no? He said, talk about badminton.

You know that's a really funny thing, isn't it. Badminton

is going to get somebody sayd well, he did because

the guy understood God will equip you. I just learned

that my aunt has cancer. She's eighty years old and

she's in Australia, and I was wondering, Lord, what do

I do? So the Lord said right to her. So

I wrote to her. And in this message, you know,

the Lord is telling me to read it, so I'm

going to read it. I was struggling with whether to

do it or not, but you know, God has for

have his way, and this is what I wrote to her. Hi, Auntie,

I read this with sadness that I can't be there

physically with you. I continue to pray and believe God

for your healing. And then I talked about my sister

when Jennifer cancer. I asked this question, if all else fails,

are you ready to meet Jesus? She said yes. A

week before she went home. She even said to me

in whispers, Terence, I do not know what else to do.

I told her, there's nothing else to do, for the

devil has thrown every weapon of sickness, and you still

have the name of Jesus on your lips. Auntie, Please

do not be angry with me. My concern is that

throughout your coming trials, always have the name of Jesus

on your lips, and He above all will sustain, deliver,

and keep you. This is the best that I can

tell you because it's the closest to my heart, and

I believe you will find peace, comfort and strengthen this

Maum and Dad have prayed a simple prayer with me

as I have told them, and I always want them

at peace. The prayer goes like this, Dear Lord Jesus,

thank you for paying the ultimate price for my sins

and by dying on the cross for me. I receive

your love and forgiveness by faith in Jesus Name, and

ask you to abide in my heart as Lord and

Savior always. I have always believed in you and nothing

will ever change that. Please forgive me for every wrong

I have done. I believe you will be by my

side in the coming days. I love you always in

Jesus Name. I pray. If this does not offend you, Auntie,

please do pray this prayer as I have been. I

have seen three people with cancer find peace, also Mummy

and Dad. Also Mom and Dad have a joy too.

I will always love you because I will not be

here if not for your calm, coolheadedness. This aunt saved

my life and my mother's life, because at the time

of my birth, my mother was bleeding tremendously. The cord

was around my neck and there was so much blood

that my father just lost it. He didn't know what

to do. But my aunt, she was eighteen years old

at the time, and she was there and she saw this.

She called her boyfriend, who later became a husband, and

he came in the car and drove me to drove

my mom to Bangsa hospital. Now I think it's Pantai,

all right. And immediately when they saw me, my mom

was we into surgery and she was given a caesar

and I was taken out two weeks premature, all right.

And the doctor said if she had arrived even five

minutes later, both of us would have died. This aunt

saved my life, so I had an opportunity to share it.

You know what she said, Why would I be angry

with you? It's such a wonderful prayer. Guys. Every opportunity

is one where you can share the love of Jesus.

Every situation that comes your way. You just need to

talk about what you know and God will be there

giving you instruction what to do. You know that God

wants us to succeed more than we understand. God wants

us to succeed with our parents, with our brothers and

our sisters. He wants us to succeed in sharing the

love of Jesus with them. But you know He also

wants you to succeed in your life. How do I

love the Lord more and more? Yeah? Yeah, you know

seeing people get saved and reaching out to people. But

you know, God ministers to me and other things. For example,

I have never before fixed magnetic dologs and systems, something

that would cost about a thousand to one thousand, five

hundred dollars to do. You know, God gave me wisdom

and I did it. And I'm so surprised because when

I look at the work, I say, wow, this is

so professional, better than even the pros will do it

because you can't even see the wires. You know, every

time I got stuck, I asked the Lord Lord, what

do I do? And as I'm walking towards the the

hardware store, He'll say, you need to go hard bestore,

go back up, do this, do this, and I see

it in my head I got and it works. You know.

It is this kind of thing that the Lord talks

to me and I hear that helps me understand what

his voice sounds like, so that when people need help,

I can hear him tell me what to do because

he helps me in my daily life. He helps me

do my everyday things. Isn't it wonderful your everyday things? Lord?

What do I eat today? Eat everything? But this? Don't

eat this? But but he is saying, it's nice. Trust me, son,

don't eat it next day. I'm okay. Everybody else will

eat it not. So do you know that now? At

least an elder Mabel, when I don't eat something, she

takes note because she's seen it happen often enough. Will

you listen to the Lord in your everyday things. He

will speak to you and the things that matter when

the time comes. I mean so many things he gave me,

ideas you gave me. Just pop something in my head

and you may say, Hi, yeah, this is not spiritual.

You're wrong. When the Lord speaks to you, it's spiritual

because God is going to speak to you each and

every day of your life. He's gonna tell you, don't

take this way, take the other way. The Lord, I

know this way, trust me, don't take this way, take

the other way, and I take the other way and

I avoid traffic. Jat, how amazing is that? But you see?

Will God do that unless you speak to him about

every day life? I don't know. Do you know that

God thinks big? He believes in you and I. God

has to think big in order for him to believe

in me, because who am I am? Nothing? Wow? God

has to think really big. Do you know that? That's

what God thinks of you and I. He thinks big.

You say you cannot do it, Praise the Lord. I

also cannot do it. But who can? He can do

all things, so that with him nothing is impossible. We

can do all things through Christ who strengthens Ah. So

rejoice if you say you can't do it, because he can,

and He will use you because God thinks big. When

God called Gideon, the guy was cowering behind a place

where he was threshing wheat hiding. Why was that? And

how did God refer to him? You mighty man of Vala?

Oh gosh, do you see yourself like how God sees you? See?

God doesn't see us alone. He sees us with the

power of his Holy Spirit. So how does the Holy

Spirit do this? We're coming to the last letter. How

does the Holy Spirit help you and I in reaching

out to somebody? In John fourteen twenty six, it says this,

but the help of the Holy Spirit, whom the Father

will send in my name, he will teach us. He

will teach you some things. You see, we live like

as if the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit is

teaching us some things. But you know what the Holy

Spirit is doing. He's teaching us what all things? He's

teaching us, what all things? That means, He's teaching us

everything we need to do and know for that given situation,

and to bring to your remembrance, some things to bring

to remembrance all things that I've said to you. I'm

going to prove this to you. It's very important for

us to read scripture every day. Do you know why?

Because you have to get it in there, you have

to put it in your mind. But then you say,

I can't remember it all. I can't. You know, I'm

the worst when it comes to quoting scripture. Probably the

John three sixteen, for God's love. I can remember John

three sixteen God, But the others. I know it's there,

I know what it sounds like, I know what it is.

But you ask me where the scripture is the quotation?

I have problems, that's me. So thank God for all

these little Bible apps, and so every time I want

to find a scripture, I know how to find it.

But you see, that's me right. But I want you

to know that the Holy Spirit will bring to remembrance

everything we need at the right time. Seen this happen

over and over and over again in my life forty

over years. When did Peter ever caught scripture? Do you

know this? Do you know that Peter. Let's talk Peter, right,

When did he ever caught scripture? The first time you

may say, ohout the crisis on legal he wasn't called.

He wasn't quoting scripture. He was saying a revelation that

God had given him. The first time recorded in the

Bible that Peter's spoke scripture was after Jesus had read

zu No had ascended into heaven. Okay, And it's found

in the Book of Acts. I think it's chapter one,

chapter two, And he quoted this once before the baptism

and the Holy Spirit. Okay, he quoted two scriptures. The

first one was for it is written the book of

Psalms led the dwelling place, let his dwelling please be desolate,

and let no one live in it. He was quoting

Psalm sixty nine versus twenty five. And then scripture also says,

let another take his office. This was Psam one o

nine verse eight. Do you know that before the baptism

of the Holy Spirit Peter quoted only two versus. It

wasn't a lifestyle to quote scripture until the baptism of

the Holy Spirit. Because the moment the Holy Spirit had

fallen on them, Peter quoted ten scripture. He quoted you

can find this in Acts, Chapter two, verses seventeen to

twenty one, twenty five to twenty eight, and verse thirty

four ten verses. Do you know it was five hundred

percent more with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, five

hundred percent more. There's a big difference when the Holy

Spirit gets involved, and you gotta ask yourself, But how

did he know it? It was in there? You know,

the Jewish people, they were learning scripture all the time

as they're growing up, never used it, maybe, never quoted it, maybe,

but the Holy Spirit brought to remembrance. Do you know

that when you and I read our Bible at a

time when it is most needed, God will bring to memory,

look through the power of the Holy Spirit some scripture

that maybe we've never quot it in our life before,

but it will be that scripture that we need to

make a difference again. John fourteen twenty six. He brings

to memory all things. He brings to memory all things.

I want you to know that the Holy Spirit is

right there by your side. And you say you cannot

share with your father, you cannot share with your mother.

You know what I've learned. I don't care whether people

get upset with me. If I need to talk about Jesus,

I will. I will share with them so that they

will not have an excuse when they meet Jesus. They

cannot say I knew this Terence and he never shared

the word with me. But I tell it to them

not because I want to absolve my responsibility, but because

I want to see them saved. I want to see

them saved. I want them to know Jesus. You know,

how do you know Jesus is true? If there's any

one of you that has a doubt about whether Jesus

is true or not. Let me speak to your heart

right now. And if you do not know this Jesus afterwards,

when you're giving an opportunity get to know him. Look

at the lives of his disciples, you know, from cowering

cowardly men, cowardly men, they became giants of faith and service.

And you know, some religions mock Jesus and mock his believers. Ah.

The Bible was written by so many different people. Ah,

so what is only men? Let me just tell you this.

If Jesus was not real, their lives would not have

been changed. They would still be cowards. Look at Peter.

Three times he denied Christ. I don't know the men.

What's the matter with you? I said, I didn't know him? Right, Hey,

I don't know him. Then the rooster crowed and he

was very sad. From that coward. You know what he became.

I'm not worthy to be crucified the same way my

master was crucified, So you can crucify me upside down.

That was church history about Peter. From cowdly men who

were not seen when Jesus was being hung on the cross,

James could be stabbed with a sword because of his

faith in Jesus. From a murderer of Christians, Paul could say,

I for me to live his Christ and to die

his gay and his head was chopped off. What made

the difference? Can you see? It was knowledge in Jesus.

It was acceptance of him as a lord, and say,

he is real. So don't let anybody put your faith

in a box by speaking so many unnecessary things, by

trying to confuse you, by trying to belittle your Jesus.

The Jesus I believe in is not fake. He's real.

So we start So what does all this have to

do with missions? All these things that are said? So

what is it got to do with getting out out

of bed and going out there and face the world. Well,

we first must start knowing Jesus. So if you don't

know him, get to know him. We must start knowing Jesus.

We listen to his command to go. Jesus commands us

to go. There's a song it's by Keith Greedy. You're

go and listen to this song. It's amazing. Jesus commands

us to go. You know, He's provided us with the

help that we need. We aren't alone. He didn't just

send us. He didn't bring us this far to leave us.

He takes us. He provides us with the help that

we need, so that we may know what to say.

The Holy Spirit will always bring to memory what to say.

The Holy Spirit helps us record and recall his word.

Please please please read your Bible. Get it in there,

and one day it will save your life. We speak

of what we know. We speak of our experience and

what we have seen Jesus do. It's not theory that

will get people saved. It's the practice of faith in

your life that people will see and learn from. And

I leave you with this John twelve thirty two, And

it says, and I, if I am lifted up from

the earth, will draw all people to myself. When I

shared Jesus with my aunt, I wasn't talking about me.

I was talking about how he helped my sister find peace,

how he helped my parents find peace. And she knows

about them. So now that knowledge will speak to her

heart and make it soft to receive the word of

what I'm trying to get through to her. Guys, for

those of you've got parents who are not saved, don't wait.

Share Jesus with them, and you know how you'd share

Jesus with them. Don't fight with them, just tell them

how much you love them. Start with that. Start with that,

and that declaration of love will break through walls and

they will know. What made you different is your faith

in Jesus and it will open many doors. So, guys,

with that, I conclude today sharing because I just want

you to know what I had on my heart was

God provided us a way with which to do that

which we are supposed to do. And the Holy Spirit

is not a small help. He's mighty, He's amazing, and

the way he changed the lives of the disciples can

make you and I different people. You know, I'm no

longer worried about my face or what will people think

of me, or you know, if I share with them

and they say they don't want to know, I'll be

so hurt. No, I won't If I share Jesus with

someone and they say I don't want to know about him,

does that make me feel sad? No? I still know

my Jesus. See I am doing something good for you.

I cannot force you, but it's good for you. And

if you don't see it, I pray that one day

you will. But for me, I'm still gonna be happy before.

I'm still gonna have the joy of the Lord, because

the joy of the Lord is my strength. I will

not let you and your failure to see who Jesus

is rob me of the joy because I know Jesus,

and I pray that one day you will know him too.

Can we have our keyboard is come up and our

extreme music leader come up, have some of that gusto

piano playing, even as we praise and we worship the

Lord and thank him that we are not left alone?

Isn't that what scripture said? I will never leave you

nor forsake you, and lo I am with you even

to the end of the age. And we always forget

to see this word a man. A man means it's settled.

It's settled. You and I we know Jesus, it's settled.

It's settled.

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