Always Give Only Your Best To God (Part 2) | Pr Alvin Keng

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We hope this message will light up your day.

God has given to our church. So if you call

ex church, I know exper is new two years, but

actually be a while for being around for a long

time time. You hear you maybe were from other church

and you came to plant and we are church planning

church right. And God has given to our church a

lot of things that are unique, you know, I will

say unique. One of the key things that unique is

of course discipleship. Well, actually it's not really unique. It's

just the way where we do it. It's unique. Uh,

And sometimes it can be uncomfortable, sometimes it can be wow,

so serious. I have to meet up, you know, every

other day. I have to talk about life, you know,

have to grow. But every church. Friends, if you didn't know,

and if you're a believer, let me tell you today

that we're all following after Christ. Amen. We all follow

off to Jesus. So the bottom line at the end

of the day is to follow Jesus right, to be

a disciple of Christ. So even as our church we

go into disciples ship, we talk about values, we talk

about different things. You know, the ultimate goal is to

be more like Jesus, to look more like Jesus. Amen.

I'm not asking the ladies here to start growing beard,

because that's how we think Jesus look like. Maybe some

view your head like Jesus, Hella. You know he used

a lot of hat and shoulders if you watch those series.

More like Jesus, not just the look, but the conduct,

the spirit, the value your your cash had they miss? Ultimately,

we should look more like just We shouldn't look more

like church goers, you get what I mean. We should

more like Christ. We should want more like oh you know,

I come on, yeah, yeah, you come to church on Sunday.

But that's not the ultimate goal. It's not just your tenant,

it's not just how you dress. It's to be more

like Christ. Amen. And one of the unique qualities I

believe unique okay about our church, or more like values

that we hold close to and something that I personally

believe in as well, is always giving God only your best. Okay.

So we're writing notes, and I'll encourage you to write

notes because a short pencil is better than a long memory. Right,

Always give only your best to God. Part two. And

the last time I was here, I talked about the why. Okay,

oh you know it is just ex no, no, no, friends,

it is from the Bible. It is biblical that we

should give our best to God. It is biblical right,

and you can go and listen to that. I'm not

gonna go too deep into that, but I just do

a bit of a recap. Okay. So the first thing

we got to know is that it is a heart matter,

not a law matter. Do you know that it's a

heart matter? Do you know that everything that Christ addresses

in the Bible is talking about the heart right, talking

about what you believe in, talking about the inside. It's

not a law matter. It's not about all of you

must follow tennis. All you must look at a way

addresses is the way. No no, no, no, no. Oh,

but then pass away why. Sometimes we care about their why.

Sometimes the leaders talk about their why. Sometimes you know,

we are quote unquote forced to use that. Nobody's forcing

you here, friends, So please don't use their word. Nobody's

forcing you to do anything. It's a free country. You

can walk out the door if you I pray you're

not offended by why I said. But anyway, yesterday in

Elder I learned as leaders we just preach what God

gives us and then the holy spray of convict your

So how you feel right now is in a way

not my problem, right, corn, Now we learned that yesterday. Right.

My job here is to disciple and share how you

receive it. It's your problem, not my problem. Right, It's

not just your probably, it's the holy space problem. Now,

So I pray you receive it. Well, Okay, again, I

know I hope that you know that I love you,

that I'm telling you these things, that is. But it

is a heart matter, amen, It is a hard matter.

A lot of things is a heart metter. It's not

just about action. So friends, please don't be so preoccupied

with the law. Don't be so preoccupied with Oh this

is how you're doing. Oh you're so squala. Actually space

for a squaler, right, No, you don't be preoccupied with it.

Because out of the heart, the action follow. Out of

the heart, the action follow. So we have to touch

the action sometimes have to one. But it's not about

the action. So don't get too legally stick with me,

because I'm not being legal legally. Stick with you. You'll

get it. Okay. It is the hard issue, And do

you know that only God can save your soul. Only

he can. No one cannot. You know, I not because

he's the one that created it. You didn't make your soul.

I didn't make your soul. The devil obviously didn't make

your soul. I pray he doesn't touch your soul. Right, No,

no one. Only God made your soul. Only God. And

because he's the one that made your soul, only he

can save it, no one else. Amen. And this blueprint

for a redemption plan has always been to save our souls,

to save us to not not to save our status,

not to say, save our belongings, material wealth, not to

save our achievements, not to save the things that are

on this earth. Do you know things on this earth

are temporal? Recently I was talking to someone. They're like, oh,

while you go in gym, has suddenly change your life

and and everything. You know, when you face death you

reflect on a lot of things. Do you know when

you face death, when your life was going to end

or end and you have a second chance, you tend

to reflect and re decide on a lot of things

in your life. You tend to not take things slightly anymore.

Not to say, before this you were now. I remember

the first time I had a first encounter with with

with death. You know, I know we have kids here,

but don't worry, I won't go to gorey in it.

I had a friend who he you know, same age

with me. We went to kindergarten together. And there was

a story in the Bible, and some of you might

be old enough to notice where three youths to save

someone they passed away in KKB they drowned three One

of you is my friend, and and we kind of

well not really lost contact, but we still want to

keep contact. And I remember finding out about his demids

and I went for his weak service. You know, he

was a key youth leader, you know, different church, but

I went for his service, and I remember staring his

face as a teenager. Well, I tell you it's really

then I had to have some existential thing happening with

me at that time. When you face that, when you

realize that things are temporal, you will have different perspective. Really,

But when you have not or when you're still young,

then sometimes we tend to take things for granted. Sometimes

we tend to sometimes other things that are actually not

important one not become more important. And we kind of

lose track of what is the real deal. So, friends,

why we need a renewed mind. We need to ask

God to renew our mind right because the reality is

we are living in the natural world. You know that

we are living in a natural world. And for those

of us who are living here, if we apply the

logic of the natural world to God, we are going

to be confused. This is why I have given up

trying to figure out God and why he does what

he does. I have given up. I'm not God, but

I spend more time studying his word to know who

he is. Read it and try and figure out what

he does. Yo, You'll get that because knowing who he is,

then I can understand slowly why he does what he

does because I know who he is. By giving I'm

trying to Oh, you know, God, you give me a

promise about this, and then why it's not happening. Maybe

I'm not doing enough, not okay enough, you know, Maybe

I'm not you know, combing my hand. I don't know

what is your challenge. If God has given you the promise,

then seek him. Don't seek other things. Why do we

see other things? Oh? I don't understand well you won't understand,

because do you do? Friends? Do you are you telling

me you understand that when the Bible says lay your

hands on someone and they'll get healed, you understand how

it works? Please tell me I want to learn you

mean when I when we believe in it right Christian,

we believe in it right, someone is not well, we

lay hands anyway. For those of you have been praying

for my son, he's fever brook today. Thank you so

much for braying lay hands are and then get healed.

And we've heard of healing tes simonies before. You mean

it's logical. No, it's not logical. It's supernatural. We believe

in a supernatural god. We believe in the God of

the supernatural. Why are we trying to figure him out

and stuff him in the box When it comes to

our life. We can pray for supernatural things easily when

it doesn't know about yourself. If God can heal cancer,

don't you think he'll be interested in your job and

your life? Don't you think he'll be interested in who's

your next? I don't know if you're believing for a

life partner, a renewed mind, Friends, it has to be

a renewed mind. Why do I believe in healing because

I've seen it happen. Why do I believe in God?

Why do I believe in reconciliation because I've seen it

happen to my own life. So I'm here. I'm not

trying to convince you because I know more or mostart No, No,

I have enough life experience. We've got to know how

he works. Praise the Lord. You can ask us as

Steven the process of planting xbu it is a step

of faith. You know. I can confidently tell you he

understands how faith works. He understands how scary it is

to sometimes just say, okay, I think I feel I'm

praying and God is asking me to do this, but

I'm not seeing any open door. John Chung didn't suddenly

come and say pass the Steve and here's a million dollars. Okay.

I purpose you see, because I know he will one

day he one day ah more than one million to

be able to give aay ah more more. Not just

one million, okay, must be more like you take one

million and then give bro friends. You need a renewed mind,

and this is where faith comes in. This is where

faith comes in Hebrews eleven one two days Now. Faith

is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of

things not seen for by it, the elders obtain a

good testimony by faith. We understand that the world's were

framed by the word of God, so that the things

we just see we're not made of things which are visible.

Please remember that you worship a supernatural God, and please

remember that it's very hard to try and logify him

because you are like stuffing him in a box when

you do that. Oh this how God works, all these

how the church works. Friends, you don't know. I don't know.

Why does sometimes tragedy happen? I love how passit? Cliff

Nectar answered that question apologies, you know what's his answer?

I don't know, because that's the truth. We don't know

why tragedy happens. We don't know why bad things happen

in our life. But do you know that God See

I don't know why it happened, but I know that

God can turn the tragedy into a testimony. So we

shall more brought them to know. Why are? Why are? Why?

Why this happened to me? We won't know, but it's

better to know it. Even if it happens, I can

call upon God. That to me is a more important

knowledge and practice. Yeah, it don't make sense, don't make

sense at all, But after a while, you don't make sense. Okay.

So we're talking about always giving got our best? Okay,

and for fun, right, let me ask you this question now, okay, okay,

we got a Hayby stuff. Now we go hopefully fan stuff. Okay,

what would stop us from giving God our best? What

do you think? Okay? Let me ask you what will

stop John? What will stop us from giving ours and anything?

What do you think will stop us from giving got

our best? Problems in life? Problems in life? I may

ask Sharon, what will stop you from giving got your best?

Or if not you your friend? Counting the cost? Counting

the cost? Very deep? Ma, what do you mean? Please

please explain? Oh, the cause is too cause is too

high on giving our best? Okay, okay, let me ask

you Siah, Yeah, what will start you giving got your best? Disappointment? Disappointment? Okay?

Let me ask Adrian what wastop you from giving got

your best? Scene you're seeing or this sun you're hockey? Ma?

After this? No? Okay, for funer. I wrote down some things,

and I tried to put everything and see, Okay, I

share you. Okay, Again, this is not an exhaustive list. Okay,

there are many many things that can stop you from

giving out your best. Okay, but you know, just I

I wrote down some things. Okay, and again, if you,

if you friends, know that I love you. If you,

tarasa is not mere because I didn't go to your

Facebook page and I didn't do a background check on

you to find out that you're gonna come here and

then share this so that no, no, if you feel

anything really the Holy Spirit, because I have no idea

who's doing what? Okay, I don't have that cow six

sens on Okay, I wish I have sometimes, but I

don't have. You know what can possibly stop us from

giving our best? Comfort?

You know?

I know we are creatures? Friends? Can can I share you?

This is? But Noah, comfort is not bad. I want

to be comfortable, right, and and it's okay. You know

it's okay to be comfortable. It's okay to look for comfort, right.

We are creature's comfort. We want to be comfortable, right.

Who wants to be anxious all the time? Nobody wants

to be anxious, so please, I'm not knocking comfort. However,

if comfort becomes God, your catch that if comfort becomes

God too, fara passa Steven want to walk to one

you now?

Yo?

Why does serve is so long? One? Stop? Blah talk

so long? So young?

Hey?

Hey, we're boring, lah, very boring. This is not as happening.

I want to go to the church down the street.

More happening, right, entertain me? You know this done? Suit me? La? God?

I don't know why you will ask me to come here.

Comfort comfort can stop us from even got our best

like you're not a word, okay, I try very hard

to put to see. Okay, it's not here a caare

You're right here? Change change, spare change? Do you have

the spare change mentality? It's very uh total countercultures towards

sharing shared just now cannot give too much? Right? Do

you have speach change your mentality? Nah? Just give change change?

You need something of this God, you need something only

got two minutes? Spare change mentality, spare change? You know

what else can stop us? Commitments past that? Having commitment important.

I'm committed to my wife, yes, yes, but other commitments

who is your God. Do you know that that can

stop you from giving out your best? Because when we

talk about God, love the Lord, your God with all

your heart, soul, mind and strength. He covered every area

God first, everything else second. That's other commuments can stop you. Sorry, Yah,

too busier, I won't be able to do and and friends,

can I can I share this with you before you'll

go the other you know, let me let me finish

this list. I will talk about that point. I'm busy ler,

there's something important to need to do. See, it's not wrong,

our friends, I'm not knocking that you have other commnments,

but it's got first, that's the question. And to be

really honest, if you put in first, all the other

commuments will be taken care of. There is a promise

that I will tell you. Do you know what else

can stop us? Complaints? Have you met someone who complain

all the time? Not fun? Right? Do you think a

person that complains or them will give their best? Noah

the fifth one? Well, this son, I don't know you

can understand that I wrote you combat trauma. Huh. I'm

trying to put everything in Okay, basically past bad experiences

with church, with leaders, with Christians, just the same one.

They only want us to give offering big, big money. Huh,

same one. They want us to be model Christian in

the church. Friends, I'm not interested in that now, and

I think you can talk to past us. He's not

interesting there as well. It's not about that, So don't

get too preoccupied with the law. It is a matter

of the heart, right and again, non exhaustive. You can

think about anything anything. Maybe you have your own unique challenge, Okay,

put it there, but let's not focus on the negative.

Let's focus on the positive. So we're gonna talk today

about how do I give got my best? How do

I give got my best? Okay? A bit hard to

think about these Christians sometimes, so I rephrase it a

little bit, Okay, I rephrase it to how do you

love God the best? When you think about it this way,

it changes your perspective right, a little bit, right, And

it starts with love, correct, It starts with love. That

is the first motivation. Do you know that it's very

hard to give your best to someone or something you

don't love. It is so hard to give your best

to someone you don't love. It's tough. You don't want

to be there you hear a job, you think you're

gonna give your best. If you hear a job, no,

you want right? Have you been motivated by love before? Right?

Some of you here half and are still being motivated

by love? Praise the Lord? Right? Uh? You know you

you still remember? Not for those of years who fell

in love before first time? Then the boys will say,

I let you whoa non stop every week every day

talk when no, no, not poto not texting right last time?

Me and my wife is like two hours every day.

That that's not whyfe Yet you know, when you're motivated

by love, everything is exciting. It's cloud nine. You know

all the bad stuffs we can all see blinded, really right?

Then after married, then you see everything. That's why we

always give you advice. Friends. When you're dating, open both ice, Creig.

When you are married, close one eye. Sometimes both eyes

also have to close. Okay, then you will be a

happy marriage. If not, now you'll be a very grumpy, grumpy, angry.

Don't don't, don't, don't know, don't don't Okay, so they

thing now, But I see when you're dating very hard

because you're in love Cloud nine, always say no, the

person can do it no wrong, you know. Yeah, let's

love God. Amen. Let me give us another thing that

I've learned. Something I've learned when I'm married, I mean

married for a while. Lay. Yeah, some you are more

longer married than me. Do you know that when you

love someone, you can love someone your way? You know

a lot of us when you lost someone, we lost

someone away. Okay. I'm a person that gives excepts away.

So you know, if if I love my wife, I'll

do that. But do you know that sometimes it is

more effective to love someone the way they want to

be loved. You're you're following me or not? Let me

give you an example. Okay, I'll give an example of

these couple, you know, the wife and the us. Again

it's fake or not not Realna, Okay, so it's you

the wife. The wife is a person that loves work

or affirmation. But then the husband is like, no, I

must self serve the person. So then the husband's self

self self give their best, you know, to the wife

every day, and then one day the wife said, they

we need your talk. You don't love me anymore. When

we were dating, you used to send all the lovely

the we text to me, But now you don't do

it anymore. You don't love me, remember the way she

wants to be loved. What's her affirmation? And he's like, hey,

I sacrifice my life for you. You want that thing

I buy? I work so hard, so familiar. Please don't

raise your hand. I work so I give you my best.

What even I don't love you, I'm doing everything. And

then they frusted. I cannot think I cannot take it.

Then they go and meet John and Jen and said John,

Jan and how how and Enjoy and Jen? Because they

are not part of the emotional thing all they see.

They're like, John'll tell a guy, ay, brother, why don't

you every day you text your wife say I love you?

And then Jane will tell the wife, why not that

every day you cut the fruits for him in the

morning ext of service man. And then suddenly, a suddenly, ah,

a new breath of life in the marriage. You'll see

that it's sometimes it's not to say they don't love

each other, No, it's just the way they're loving each other.

That's something I learned so valuable, the lesson so valuable.

I learned that in my marriage. Do you know that

it works the same with God? Oh? God, I love you.

I love you, I love you. I will sacrifice and

do everything for you. Let's learn God wrote how to

love him. John fourteen fifteen eighteen says, if you love me,

keep my commandments. Ouch. Oh, how many of you feel

that if you love me, keep my commandments, and I

will pray the Father and he will give you another helper.

Who's this helper? The Holy Spirit, that he may abide

with you forever, The spirit of truth, whom the world

cannot receive because it neither sees him. Don't seem apparent

gonna boss here. This is why Christians, you are gonna

be the weirdest people on the face of this earth.

You are gonna be the weirdest people. Do you know

that your bosses and people who do not know Christ

will not understand you. They won't understand now why you

are so happy even in times of travel. They won't

understand why you're so positive. They won't understand how. They

won't understand, So you don't try the so hard to

make them understand now why you try so hard to

fit in when you're different? Because the world the Bible

say they're not They're not gonna get you. They're not

gonna understand why you're so caring, because you have the

Holy Spirit and that makes you different. So why you

try so hard to fit in the world. They they

cannot receive because it neither sees Him nor knows him.

They cannot They will not understand. But you know him,

for he dwells with you and will be in you.

And he said, he promised, I will not leave your offense,

I will come to you. You're different ready, our friends,

So don't try so hard to be like the world.

You're different. Ready, you got Holy s free in New Edema.

You're different. If people ask why you so happy, just

tell him I got Jesus. Huh maya gonya so gonya soul.

But I don't wandert Yeah, yeah, I say, I know

you don't understand. Come to church and you understand. They

don't understand because they don't have him. We have Him,

We get it. I just use the example of prayer.

Just now, how absurd it is and illogical? Is this

that we can believe the Alleyhans and prayer in Jesus

name will happen? Illogical? Or not? Go and talk to

people who don't know Jesus. They won't understand. Go and

talk to your your friends, your family, but they won't understand.

They won't understand because they don't have him. You want,

you want them to understand. You give him to them,

then they will understand. So stop trying to argue. No point.

John fourteen twenty one says, he who has my commandments

and keeps them, it is he who loves me out

and he who loves me will be loved by my father,

and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

So you want to love God, keep his commandments. Read

the Bible, Oh but passed away. I don't know his commments.

Then read law. You don't read the Bible, you don't

know the commonments. How are you going to keep the commandments?

And then we can be here, And then you'll be

here talking to Passus Steven arguing Passus Steven about why

it's kosure and what it's not kosher. You understand that

upper it halal and upper n Christian. Can you read yourself? Friends?

The Bible is here for a reason. No, And can

I encourage you? If you don't have a written Bible,

please go and get one. Don't rely on your digital Bible.

You'll run out battery on imagine. Oh you know I

need the Bible. I go in susus sus sus such

no internet. No matter what, this one will always have

connection with God. The signal very strong. Or you need

to do is open it keeping his commandments. What's the

second thing? Loving others? John twenty one, fifteen nineteen. What

does it say? Let's read John twenty one, fifteen nineteen.

Let's learn how to love God. Imen because when we

learn how to love God, then we will learn how

to give him our best make sense? Not so let's

turn to John. John chapter nineteen is nineteen. No sorry, John,

chapter twenty one, verse fifteen to nineteen. Let me read now,

so he says heyes. So when when they had eaten breakfast,

Jesus said to Simon, Peter Simon, son of Jonah, do

you love me more than this? And he said to him, yes, Lord,

you know that I love you. He said to him,

are you that? He said to him, feed my lamb? So, friends,

after this right, what you do after church is you

go You're going to look for life. Lamb, you love Jesus. Right,

You're gonna look for life. Lamb. You buy the lamb,

and you feed the lamb. Okay, okay, I'm just joking.

If you don't get I'm just joking, I'll be very worried.

Let's read on. He said to him again a second time, Simon,

son of Jonnah, do you love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord,

you know that I love you, he said to him,

than my sheep, he said to him the third time,

Simon's son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved.

How man you frustrated? The husbands are like, can you

please stop asking me? Because I already told you ten

thousand times I love you already, you gotta keep doing it.

They need assurance trust me. I'm married. Lord, you know

all things. You know that I love you, Jesus said

to him, feed my sheep. Loving others first, John four

nineteen twenty one says we love him because he first

loves us. If someone says I love God and hates

his brother, he's a liar. For he who does not

love his brother whom he has seen, how can he

love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment

we have from him that he who loves God must

love his brother also, friends, can I encourage you. If

there's anyone of you here, you're dealing with unforgiveness in

your life. Someone says something wrong, maybe intentional, unintentional someone.

It doesn't have to be another Christian. It can be

a no believer, anybody in your life. Can I encourage you,

please forgive the person. Please, if you need to go

and talk to the person and tell the person what

the person did to get it off of your chest,

please do it. Because there's only one thing in the Bible,

and there's very clear. You know that God talks about forgiveness.

We ask God to forgive our sins, but we hold

on to graduate. God said, if you don't forgive your brother,

I cannot forgive you. That's the only condition. Same here.

It is a mockery to God. That's why the Bible said,

don't want God right. That's why the Pharisees and the

said connel from Jesus a lot. Because remember I say

it starts the heart. So deal with the heart first.

Deal with the heart first. Is it your parents? I

don't know. Please deal with it today and don't let

it continue. Amen. Don't give something. Don't give God something

that doesn't cost you. King David, a man after God's

own heart knew how to give God his past. Let

me give you a bit of a background story on this.

This this value King David, he this obeyed God. He's

sin lah. Basically, God said, don't do this, and then

he did it. And then because of that he you know,

he they suffered and king was king. There was a

king of the land, know, so you know what happened

the people. God send a plate and the people died literally,

you know. And King they felt so bad, say go

you punish my sheep, punish me, right, and then he

what what happened is, God said, okay, I will forgive you,

but you do this, you build an altar, you offer sacrifice,

and then I will cleanse the dead. And King David

at the time was in this guy's place called Corona, right,

and friends, do you know what a king is, right?

You know what king is? Technically he's a king. And

then he can't take anything you want? Right. And when

he was then he thought, Arona, I said, I knew,

build an altar. I need to offer sacrifice, you know.

Aroana said, of course, any of you, huh, take whatever

you need, Okay, take everything you need. Okay, you want

this you want that tic take okay, because you're the

king and you're know not King David said second semone

twenty four twenty four. Then the King said to Rona, no,

but I will surely buy it from you for a price.

No will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord, my God,

with that which costs me nothing? When you give unto

the Lord? Are you giving something that costs you? And

again I want to caution you. So it requires a

bit of maturity to understand this, because I don't want

to after ask we give everything, So I give everything friends,

not me a God, So can you please talk to

him because if you just listen to me and then

do whatever and say, oh, you know, puss Ellen, I

cannot sorry, I cannot take responsibility or over you believing

in Mia because you need to believe in God. So

he will speak to you what is that thing in

your life? And you will know after this I will

have a testimony and then hopefully you will catch something

from there. But we got to give God something that

costs us. Right, Oh, thank you Lord, you know for

Pussus Stevens thing I'm offering to you what John Chong

has a hello. You have to offer to got only

what you have? Long, Oh I'm offering. Let me give

you another example. Okay, for all you single guys and

girls out there, right, this is the advice that I

will normally give people. Okay, and I think for the

we will encourage people. Oh you know, when can I

get a good friend? Well, I will tell the guy,

especially if campus will say no, La, don't la, Why

don't go dating using your fathest money? LA? See this

one you understand? Funny? Right, go dating your fatherest money?

Use your money? LA? Means you have to earn your

money for a sir, con all the death's here? You

mean you want to let your daughter go and date

some guy that he's using his fathest money? You read it?

He worked right? Of course about the value. Right, give

God what you have. I think this is another very

important point that we need to understand. Don't give God

comparing to others. You know, it talks about the lady

with the two mites, right, the lady the two mates

gave all that she had, and of course people around

my see oh you know, yeah, she's so little, you know,

look at all that people will give so much. You know. No,

it's not about about the amount. Now, although that happened,

Jesus said, truly, I say to you that this poor

widow has put more than all. Let me let me

tell you something that I'm very proud of. For XPU,

I can see that your worship team, although you don't

have million dollars sound equipment, you're giving got your best.

And do you know that when you give got your best,

God can use it. You know I've heard this and

I've had conversations before with some young people. Passelvin, you know, uh,

you know, you say we must give go our best, right,

So come, let's let's buy the million dollar sound system.

Let's roll out a red carpet. Let's you know, all

the chance we go. Let's take the million dollar and

put it all in these things and we can have it.

Then we are giving God our best sound. Correct? Are

you telling me even if you have one guitar you

cannot give got your best? Are you telling me that

you need the red couput only you can start giving

got your best? Friends? Can you don't think this way? Oh?

You know in just that MPJA they talked about then

you reminded me that I have not cooked for them

in a long time. And right, I'm doing how cerevitions.

So I say, okay, I promise after it's done, I

will I will cook for your I invite your own

and you can come. You know, this whole value about

giving got our best. So it's so unique to our church,

I feel sometimes because we know how to, you know.

And I remember when I was and he reminded me

of the days where you know, I was a home

leader in bu right not be sorry, Katie right, and

uh at the time, Sharon not around okay, so she

she don't know, right, But what I did was I

started homes and I tell you, if your homes is awesome,

my homes is okay. Because I was the only one

that know the values that we practice and everyone else

is new. They were all learning. And I remember going

to a campus. Know, I said, okay, guys, you know,

let's not tap our food. Let me cook for your okay, right,

And then I went to this person's house and then

I found out how in equipped a campus students' kitchen

is friends, let me tell you how equipma. It took

us one hour to cut tomatoes because the knife was blunt.

That day we started homes at nine thirty no turning back.

Day the next one, I'm like, okay, you know what

I learned. Ready, I learned my lesson, but I still

wanted to say, guys, we need to give our best,

and we want to give you your best. So this

is why I did okay, and until today they all remember.

And again now, I didn't do it to be proud

of all. I did it well. I did it to

prove a point. Okay, because when we are leaders, we

always want to teach. So what I did was I

roast the chicken for them, meaning I packed mine and friends.

I wasn't thinking about logistic I wasn't thinking, to be honest,

I wasn't thinking of all these Oh lord, you se

how I'm like, okay, no oven, I got oven. I

bring my oven. I put in my car, and we'll

bring the oven there and bring the bird there and

then roast it for them. I did it until today

they remember, and you know, the fruit after that. I

don't know why. After I left the home Star, so

many of them can cook suddenly, you know, then all

join the Expresso, you know, and I've never been an Expresso,

but they caught the spirit of giving got your best.

They saw how it was done. I only did it

once and I never do it again. Guys, we got

to give got our best. Amen, got to give got

our best and give God what you have. Oh no, no, no,

I must have these nice merceard, these bends card them. Yeah,

I can start driving people around. Oh no, no no,

I must have a nice million dollar kitchen down here,

can start cooking people. Friends, don't think that way. So

small minded are we when we think that, what do

you have in your hands? Do you know they can give?

Got your best? With that you can? And that's why

we believe in our church. That's how we encourage Oh

past I remember this young doubt who said, you know,

I want to join Extreme, but I'm gonna go for

exchange program in US and then later and I come back.

So now I gotta ask are you going to surf?

Damn saying when are you going to go? It's in

two months time. I'm like, then, what are you doing

in the next two months or nothing? I'm like, do

you want to serve? Yeah? I want to by wait

la damn, Like, wait for what? Just join the whole

team now for two months? Can I? Yeah? I can

just join have a good time meet people this young

did that because of that. Now they plunged into the

church now and then after that came back straight with

joint extreme because people know her day or I used

to her. You'll probably know who this is. You've got

your best friends, you've got your best Let me share

a testimony with you. So ex church in twenty ten, right,

I was married ready and maybe we can put the

picture up. Okay, yeah, yeah that's me my wife. Okay,

we were marriedie or I had that nice car. I

don't know why. I am my dad. This is my

first guy. I love this car. My dad bought this

car for me cost the time, no money yet. Sorry,

I have to use Furthest money by car, although I

say we use Farest money. But it was a can

of my name and I do. It's really good car.

When people bang me, they cry. Not I cry nowadays

different Now now you're buy expensive car, you cry. I

know this is awesome and and yeah I was newly

married married in yeah, actually twenty ten. You know what

happened was for X we wanted to get a building.

For some of you old enough you might not this

wanted to get a building and it was gonna be

an awesome building. We believe that a lot was leaders

there and it was gonna cost thirteen million and always

going to meet there. You know, it's gonna be a

big maga church. You know. Of course, now you know

we don't have a lot, but we're gonna do that

and we're going to raise up ten percent one point

three million dollars, and a lot of us are we

were we were younger dos and we believe know and

we say God, let's do it, Let's do it. Okay,

let's do it. And everybody was giving. I wanted to give,

you know, my wife gave and friends. The Lord called

me full time. Can I say that full time is

if God didn't call you better not do it? Prepare honest, Okay,

please go and do make a place. A lot of

things you have to learn, and a lot of things

have to grow in and and I must say that

I know it's all full time. No money not true

when you say yes to full time. God provides not

the way you understand. But God has provided, and he

has continuously provided me. He's never shot changed me here.

But I'm just sharing this testimony just to tell you

the sacrifice, or more like the and I so I

wanted to give and say, Lord, okay, I want to give.

Give what can I give? What can I give? Because

not much more? Right, I'll give you a bit of

a give. And I remember God telling me give your car.

I'm like, huh, but it's an old car. Sure not,

it's an old car. Lo God married day. Let me

check my wife first. So I went my wife. I say, dear,

I think God wants me to give my car, sell

my car off and give it to the building fund,

you know. And I'm hoping my wife will say, hah,

dear Nola, let's pray about it. You know, we just

got married, just got married, No, just got married. You

know your full time. I'm starting my career, Nola, Nola.

We need two cars, you know, to go to work,

and all don't do, don't do, but lo and behold

you're not. My wife said, you've got us who do doula,

And I'm like, okay, hallelujah. No planner, friends, no planner,

no planner. Believe that got us to do. So I

saw my car. I got three thousand, and I gave

everything to the building fund. Thankfully my wife had a car.

We had this car and then she had the toss

that I detests with all my being. I am meet Okay,

I don't like that car. She knows it as well.

And we dropped the car for a while. Okay, and friends,

you know this time rights, I will probably tell you, Oh,

someone came up to me gave me keys to a

brand new Mercedes. Know that didn't happen. So I had

to drive. We so we we We survived Wanka. And

at that time my wife worked in somewhere near Ikia.

There I stay in Quarta governing. My work is in Subang.

So you know what happened for two years and we're

newly married. Now I will fetch her to work, drive

to Subang and then going back drive to where she

is in Ikia and drive back to go the comning

along with going for all the other meetings and everything

that's happening. For two years, we did it faithfully, right

every day on the road, three hours, three hours on

the road. Harley lay, I think I thought PJ just

and I think I think I was preparing me to

plant PJ at that time. I was doing it happily.

You know, come to Pja, go there, you know. And

I also think that God was preparing me to plant

X Katie, so you know, ex maybe extually one day, okay,

Quota da Masara homes because I also used to at

that time. He said, oh, I'm familiate the road, so

you never know where God will leave you even though

you're going through trouble now right, So I ran, we

did that, sold off the car. And I'm not sure

I shared you with you here before. But many years married,

I've recognized that my wife have the gift of this sunmon,

especially when she dreams about something, it will happen when

if you can remember, so I remember, but this is

the first year marriage, so I remember. She one day

told me, she said, you know, she woke up and

then we were not really I mean we were kind

of looking for a car, but not really you know,

finance and all. And then she is only one day

woke up and said, yeah, I feel I have very

weird dream that I want to show you. Like what

now said, I think we're going to owner uh silver

color Toyota ViOS. I'm like, huh so specific. I'm like sure,

bokay whatever I know. And at the time like, okay,

you know I I I thought about it. Now like okay,

maybe I start looking for a color. And then since

my wife dreamed, then try to try, you know, uh,

look for look for Toyota viosa mzi be silver. No,

not really, I don't really care about the color. I

thought I wanted black, you know, easier clean. And then

I told elder about it, and then he helped look.

And then somehow, uh we went and there was a

there was a potential car. Follow our budget. We went

and see and this is what we saw, a silver

color toyotabos. So this was our next car, exactly this car.

The old lady is my my grandma. I don't know

why she likes to take for those of us and

cars and houses. She purposally said, you'll stand here, and

I don't know, I don't know any of you have

Grandma said do that. But yeah, so God provided this.

It was according to a budget, and I love this car.

We draw it for very long you'll be thinking. Ah.

In Western testimony Wester testimony. Friends, Sorry this is the testimony,

but if any of you here feel compelled to Sunny

give me Mercedes, I will freely accept. Did joking ja

jo king, But God provided provided. Sometimes we do things

are and we expect something to return. But when you

love someone, right, shouldn't you just give freely? And God

has never shot changed me, you know until today. He

has never short changed me. Right, she has never try

to change me. Oh, and can I tell you another thing?

The building? Right, we lost it? How foolish we sell

off your card gift to God and then you lost

the building. Yeah, you know, I will beware honest to

share you this because we are very familiar with church

sometimes when church bugs on this cant project. And again

not to say that every church is foolish or whatever,

and it doesn't happen a high chance of the percentage

the church was split on high chance. But for exa

we grew because we all knew that it was not

pass Kenna's idea. He was God leading us and somehow

God didn't give us the building. If God gave us

the building, I wouldn't be sending here, you know you're not.

I'll be doing I'll probably still be doing XTIV, right John,

John probably be PC or something or host host host.

But do you know God told past and during that

time Pastor went through a tough time. He wanted to resign,

you know, but he was very honest on stage because

that lot Takana, you asked us to do this, and

and I remember, we came to the point where God

gave us the vision, and now the vision is reality

where we are a church planting church. It was not

one building, it's not a monument. He was a movement,

and access a movement. How small minded are we that

we put God in a box. Oh we didn't get

a building. Pasta must be doing something wrong. Let's all leave.

I had no comes again past it. If I tell

anybody that sorry, they'll be like you, borto. But I

have the Holy Spirit. I gave because God asked me

to give, not because Pasta asks me a give. And

yes we lost the building. I lost lost the car,

but they really lose the car. No, I gained so

much more. I gained so much more, not in the

ways that men think, but only in the way that

God leads. Amen. See it's interesting. I mean I have

been in ex so long, lady, and God has continuously

done things again and again and again. And it's not

just for the leadership, No, it's for all your benefit.

Do you know that? Why do we need to give

God our best? Can I challenge you in this to

give God your best? Why it is for your own good?

You know? Do you know that you giving got your

best wouldn't affect us in any way? Well, in a

way it does that. This is why I told the

PJA this morning. I hope you guys catch this. I

want you to give God your best so that you

can experience God for yourself, so that you know how

to hear God and how to obey him. Do you

know that that when that happens, you will have less problems?

And do you know that when you have less problems,

me and pass Steven will have less work. And that's

a good thing because then all of us are hearing God.

You'll see the power in that one. That's why we're encouraging.

I'm encouraging you give got your best experiencing for yourself?

Or is it just about law to us? Ask about again?

After he's gonna you know, put up offering here, you know,

start doing sign up? Both? Are we so small minded? Friends?

It is about the heart. It is between you and God,

not mere. I don't get anything always like I say,

maybe maybe more time my family, No, I really have

a lot of time my family ready giving God your

best and can I challenge you with this? I don't

know whether it's here by challenge the PJ group just

now I told them, have we come to a place

where we have taken God for granted? Do you know

that worship on a Sunday it's not for you? Do

you know that you come to worship to worship God?

We all know that now. But then why sometimes we

can be selective, only come for the word and not

the worship. A challenge PG I said, can we not

take God for granted anymore? You're not coming here on

Sunday morning worship for you? You know? Yes, you will

gain something. Yes, the Lord minister to you. Yes he will,

because in the presence of the Lord, that is freedom

and liberty. So we will experience. But we don't come

here to worship our freedom and liberty. We don't come

here to worship the men on the stage. We don't

come here to worship any of these things. We come

here to worship God. So don't take him for granted.

I think we have sometimes as believers. I speak that

to myself as well. I have to remind myself I

don't want take you for granted. Lord. I don't want

to come to this space where I become like a

bastardor just walk in. Okay, I did I did it,

just not so I apologize I didn't worship that in

after wordship and sit down and then just you know,

share the word. Okay, I did it here, so I

can't say I eat back my words. Friends, brothers and sisters. Here,

people who call yourself partners of the church, why do

we use the word partner Because a partner gets involved

a member come and use the facilities right, Sorry, XP,

you got no facility Monday through Friday. This is a

rented space. We need partners. We want to see people

experience God for themselves. This is why we are sharing.

I'm sharing this. Let's give God our best today. Amen,

Let's give God our best today. That's the only we

can give. The least we can do really next week

is to come early and to worship God. That's the

least we can do. I challenge you. You do that

and see God moved. You start putting God first on

and then you see Him more in your life. I

challenge you. So there you're experiencing.

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