Reach out to the unreached | Dr Daniel Kong

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We hope this message will light up your day.

Just wondering, as just to start off as an introduction,

how many of you actually watched the news or read newspapers?

Just curious?

We need see the newspapers are traditional okay, newspaper your

physical or digital whichever?

Okay?

Now what when you read through these news, whether it's digital,

social media, et cetera. What moves you when you see

what's on news?

Move you? Just curious?

Badminton Okay, I knew that is of coming out the Olympics.

You know, sports, you know that moves people?

What else? Economy?

Uh?

The numbers? Woman loves numbers. So yeah. Of course other

things will move us as well. You know, lately they

are not so good news as well, right, war, a

recent attempt or assassination attempt, Things like poverty, you know,

can sometimes move people. You know, you feel like, you know,

I want to do something about it, or somebody will

do something about it. Persecution maybe even in other other

forms of you know, not so good news. Right, And

of course we also celebrate the good news as well,

but generally people are more moved with the negative than

the positive in general, don't you agree?

Right?

Okay, Now, if you understand this, sometimes in Malaysia we

are also red sheltered from certain kinds of news. It

means you feel for it maybe for a couple of minutes,

and then later either you forget or something else takes over,

like you know, an important meeting on Monday, and then

suddenly you sort of switch over or change frequency straight away.

Right.

And that's generally how we are, unless you're really really

affected in a direct manner, so indirectly, what I'm trying

to say is that if they're indirect sort of relationship,

you will not really feel too long for certain types

of news, don't you agree? Yeah, So now the question

is generally, like I said, Malaysia we are quite okay,

We're quite sheltered. You know, everything is peaceful. You know,

we're allowed to worship freely right here, and and there

is a freedom of speech as well in what we

say most of the time. Most of the time. There's

also you know, basic stuff that we have. You know,

economy is quite okay, you know, it's not it's not

I mean, regionally we're not the worst. So we have

something to be thankful for.

As well.

Climate is quite okay for us to do certain things.

Some people complain, especially in the western countries where it's

very cold.

They don't like the cold. They'll complain about the cold.

And so I see sometimes a lot of foreigners come

here during winter, et cetera, et cetera. What I'm trying

to say here is, you know, we are moved, definitely,

but there is a greater problem that sometimes you do

not see right, and this bad news is actually like, like,

how is now we felt that not there's war, people die,

We don't like it, right, But what if I tell

you that there are more people that it is not

dying in that direct manner, but they're dying for eternity?

How would you feel when you hear those news again?

A bit far removed because either you're not there yet

or you do not know somebody in that category in

a direct manner, and that's why you don't feel as

much for that person. Okay, I hope you understand I'm

coming from. Okay, So the news of hearing billions of

people dying in a natural sense, if you take a

country at war, you will feel for them, But billions

of people around the world dying when they die, they

we don't go to heaven that kind of dying.

How would you feel? Okay? So that's the perspective that

I want to start off with. Uh.

And so the title of my message today is really

simply reach out to the unreached, and.

I explain what that is.

And any organization, as you know, the first thing you

have to do attack right, especially a global organization. You

have to look at what the challenge is, what you

need to fix, and then you deploy strategies right to

address a certain thing. And then of course you then

deploy strategies that may be different in different regions, even

if I'm talking about in an organization perspective. So we

know our God is big on people, right, you know

at home? Its recently what do we learn about our

last commandment? Yeah, first priority, But it was the last

comment that Jesus gave before he went make disciples of

all nations, right, all people nations meaning everybody right.

So again looking at the same.

Problem, the everybody means covering the entire globe one most

like if you don't mind, so the that that perspective

in color code, it looks something like that. Or by

the way, if you want to look up all this, Right,

there's an entire uh what because database that is set

up by this group called the Joshua Project group that

looks into all these stats. They even go drilled down

to the countries, what sort of people group that's represented country,

how many people group they think is represent Malaysia hundreds

and actually thousands Actually if you look at it, if

you go to the stats, it's amazing because we're also

talking about people that are living and residing in the country,

so it's quite amazing what they have. But again from

the from the from the I guess the practical sense

to do things, you have to understand the problem and

then you go and fix the problem. Right, so as

you can see a lot of it, uh.

The unreached.

Now, the reason why we have to talk about unreached

is because most people think the unreached are the ones

that are lost, those that do not do not believe

in Jesus.

They think that's unreached.

But as you we understand this context and reach is

actually the people group they've never heard of the gospel before,

not just the non believers. We're talking about the non

believers and perhaps those that unreached, but so so some

of the unreached can be in the yellow zones or

even the green zones. Okay, so green meaning to say

a lot more opportunities to be reached. Right, it's in

fact they're all reached. Yellow is in between the traffic

light signaling, and of course writ is where you see

predominantly you have a lot of unreached people.

Now, guess where Malaysia is. Is it a RIT zone?

Is it a blue zone? No, no, it's not blue zone.

You look very carefully. Is in the RIT zone? Did

you ever know that we are unreached people group and

reach nation?

Now what does that tell you?

We've seen some way churches around here, right, so many

people you know, Pastor's movements revival.

But why are we seeing rit there? Again? Our population

such is quite high.

Okay, Just to show you some of the other stats,

and I'll drill down our next light place, next light

countries like Japan, China.

Right.

I used China because you know, it's good to talk

about China because the actually in terms of unreached, the

propulace unreaches here, it's only ten percent. Me to say,

in one form or another, they have been exposed to Christianity.

Why do you think the number is actually so low

in terms of unreached because many missionaries in the past

have sent specific mission missionaries to go into China to

share of the news.

Again, they may not be all.

Christians, but they have heard of excess to the good news.

So actually that's quite amazing. The sorry see's in our

previous chart, even though the believers are there, and then

there's actually a lot of.

More rich people that than the unreached. Japan is the

total opposite.

You think that Japan were more excess, but Japan only

has weapon dori dori at the stats here as well,

Japan actually has UH ten ninety seven point nine percent

unreached ninety seven point nine, So there's almost the whole

country that's unreached. Okay, where do you think Singapore is borderline?

You think so?

Okay, seventeen point seven unreached. So generally there's a lot

of exposure, all right. South Korea, you know all these

big Christian nations zero point nine percent unreached, so again exposed,

and of course you know the revival that's happening in Korea,

but it South, not North. Okay, South Korea, North Korea

is almost one hundred percent of reach. By the way,

if you look at the stats, say you have sets

like that as well. So let's hold into to to

Malaysia if you don't mind. P Posipulem. Malaysia is a

large one. So that's the way I mentioned population and

reached which is.

Quite high unreached.

Okay, miss Half the people in our country have never

heard of the gospel before, have never been exposed to

the gospel, Okay, So the reason why it started this

as well. Sometimes we think missions, you will say, let's

go out abroad, but we also have opportunities here, right.

And guess where the largest population of unreached is in

terms of the two sides of Malaysia.

Peninsula.

Yeah, peninsula side has more unreached than actually the Borneo Islands.

Okay, fun fact.

Right, And then there's why sometimes you must as an

urgency for us to really focus on the strengths of

the Borneo. The population in Borneo is there because you

know that there's also a lot of things that's happening

on the brainwashing that's happening in that part of land

that will also decrease not just the unreached, but then

you'll decrease the influence of the Christian uh influence within

the Bonnie Islands. That's why we always say that we

need to ensure that that doesn't happen. Okay, So again,

just to start off the contexts. Okay, hopefully I understand

where I'm coming from. So the first question I have,

and I think I've sort of addressed some of it,

is a question about who is the unreached?

Okay, who is the unreached? Okay?

So the unreached again, for those of you who didn't

get what I just said earlier, it is those that

have not had access to Christianity at large or the

good news, not the loss. So again, sometimes you say, oh,

our missions field is at our workplace.

Not wrong.

By the same time, those are not the unreached, because

why you're there, You are there to give access to

that people group.

Okay.

So and in the very generic contexts Okay, in the

Malaysian context, at least a lot of urban states are fine.

Is the non urban states, which is mainly the unreached.

Okay.

So I hope you understand where this is coming from.

So the likelihood of people or the Gospel reaching those

places will not happen unless there's an intentional missions the

going to make disciples literally has to be going right,

otherwise it will never happen, because why they don't access

to the gospel. Now, in the global context, the unreached

in general, they roughly calculated based on the current stats

on the Josha Project platform is three point two billion people.

That's the numbers. Staggering, okay, staggering numbers. Those are in

the picture earlier. It is the red zone. The areles is.

Simply call them the rid people. Okay, yellow people is

not Chinese, by the way. Yellow people is the one

that has a bit more excess.

Green is. You know, at least they have a lot access.

But the Rid people, right, it's.

Actually a very small I mean it's it's the map

size wise, it's actually not so big like the others

put together.

But the population is actually quite high.

Okay they so far okay, so but you know, of course,

with the wonders of modern technology, et cetera, et cetera,

now we have a bit more opportunities to even sometimes

go in a remote sense. You know, we either use

ways like digital ways to do so, not just that

you know, to travel even it's more possible, okay, but

it doesn't mean that.

It's it's automatic.

You have to do something about it, okay, Whereas in

those other days, in the previous times, it's harder. Like

you know, the missionaries of the early you know, the

early nineteenth century and all that, they really have to plan,

you know, from the state, from the west, they go

all the way to the Asian places. They really have

to travel for days, weeks of not months to reach

a lot of planning. So what I'm trying to say

is that sometimes our modern day kind of missions trip

is somewhat easier. Not to say this there's no cost

either for time or monetary side of things, but it

is somewhat easier comparatively to the previous couple of decades ago. Okay,

So what is the problem. Why are we not doing it?

Is because sometimes, also like the video was telling us,

we focus on those that are already sort of reached.

You go to the other urban places, or you partner

with other churches, et cetera. Again, nothing wrong with that,

don't get me wrong. We also partner with other churches

as as ex church. But again back from the bigger

picture perspective to really reach and cut across all nations. Right,

we are not quite applying the right strategy as a

whole Christian population at large. Why because every thirty you

say to the reach you need said one. Okay, So

I just hope you understand the sense of urgency. Okay, now,

but why you know the stats, you know the facts

of why are we doing this? How come we're not

changing things? Is it because our perspective of certain things

is maybe a little bit different or maybe skewed or

may need a bit of fine tuning.

Let's talk about it. Okay, all right? So what happens? Okay?

First, same we said this already, Matthew, Training eight is

what we are the motivation of why we do this, right,

But let's flip the idea around. What if you do

not follow true to the commandment, or in other words,

what if you don't respond to God's call to actually

go out and make disciples, et cetera to the unreached?

What will happened? Well, they will not be reached there, duh?

Right?

But what happens to them? Will this three point two

billion people? Are they doomed to die for eternity? You

know the answer?

Do you not know?

Answer.

Let's just talk about it, okay, because some people feel

that maybe it's still okay because why they don't know, ma,

they don't know what ignorance is bliss. And some people

believe that right if you don't tell them, they it's

okay because they don't know, they still have almost like

a free ticket to heaven. Maybe maybe again, I'm just

covering this so that we at least discover whether it

is true or not. Okay, okay, okay, Now, all of

us are very passionate about justice, right, generous speaking in

the movies. You know, when you feel for certain things,

you know, when something is that's ingesting it. You know,

the person dies for no good reason, or if the

person is thrown into uh you know, captivity because it's

wrongfully uh you know, or judged no, or they suffer

because they're not supposed to suffer. We feel the injustice, right,

and this is exactly what may be happening as well.

They are doomed, but we don't feel it, right, Is

it because we are too busy with our own things?

A lot of us are, you know, in that mode? Right,

It's always about self preservation. We live or we survive,

you know, put food on the table, et cetera, et cetera.

Make sure that whatever needs to be done is done

in the practical sense, and then we think about the secondary. Okay,

and sometimes you know in church we do this as well.

Oh you know, how come it's so hot today? A

condition is not on someone not pay the bills. Or

I don't like the speakers here. I think we need

this sort of speakers. Again, not knocking some of these things,

but this is exactly sometimes how we in this self

preservation or self focus or internally focused. Not just looking

at the whole outward looking stuff. Just facts, okay, not knocking,

just facts, but why why? And again even monetary that

we collect. Again not trying to guild people into giving.

Et cetera.

No, you know, you pray about it. Whatever got puts

in your heart, you give. But just the stats and facts,

even the wealthiest nations in the West, all that is collected, right,

the stats shows it's talking about one percent that's given

outside to that reach. Okay, you know, all sometimes you

talk about poverty. You know, if everybody or to reach

people will give, et cetera, you know, we will solve poverty.

It's enough to feed everybody. And again this is also

the same kind of approach that if everybody would do

their part, we will see the nations of all tribes,

all tongue will be reached. So essentially, the problem is

not the plan. The problem is probably the execution. Or

maybe maybe some of us are not fully on board yet,

or maybe you're ignorant, we're not aware, or we are

too distracted, or other reasons. Okay, but let's dive into

what happened to this people? Okay, now again I'm talking

about rid people here. Okay, what does the Bible talk

about these people? Okay, because sometimes we feel, like I

said in just right, how can they die because they

don't even know? But the Bible tells about this group

of people as well. Or by the way, we're gonna

look at looking at a Book of Romans today. So

if you have your Bible, turn to Book a Romans.

We're gonna go through a few chapters in Romans, mainly

from there. But if you don't, even though you don't

have a Bible, that's fine. You know, I've got some

of the slides on on screen. But let's look at

the first first Romans read from Versus eighteen Okay, it

says in eighteen the wrath of God is being revealed

from heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of people. Okay,

So godlessness is the people group who do not know Christ,

or let's just call them the unreach or the rid people,

all right, So that they referred here as this group

of people, since what may be known about God is plain.

Okay.

Now I've used the NIV version because the NIV version

uses literally plain English. They used to work plane right here, okay,

whereas some other translations. For example, here in NKJV it says,

make known of God is manifested in them. Okay, so

a bit more deeper English, but in simple English is plain.

It's very simple, it's very easy. God is known to

them true his creation, so when people see his creation

even they recognize that there is a God.

Okay.

So all the qualities in the visible qualities is eternal powers, defined, nature,

et cetera, can be clearly seen and understood. I've highlighted

all the keywords so that people are without excuse. Okay,

but okay, you added but okay twenty one. For although

they knew God, so they knew they know there is

knowledge of God. They neither glorified him as God nor

gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and

their foolish hearts were darkened. Okay, So first point on

the rid people is they actually knew God. Simple plain,

They knew God. Okay, so yes, they may not be reached.

We'll talk about the importance of reaching, but they also

knew God to some extent from seeing creation, from seeing

God's divine nature, they knew God. And it says here

clearly seen who God is. But the most important thing

is they knew. They knew, So every single one, whether

you're reached and reached, all of them new.

But of course in this context it's more the unreached. Okay.

Second observation, which is next verse here they knew God,

carrying on from what we've read, but they rejected God.

That's the main thing. Okay, So they don't acknowledge or

believe in God, which leads to the second thing I

want to talk about is pretty much saying that they rejected.

As you can see in twenty one Next Life, they

neither glorified.

Nor gave thanks.

Okay, and if you read on further, they exchanged the

truth about God for a lie. They swopt God's truth

if lies, they worship and serve created things instead of

the creator, God himself. So again this is evidence evidence,

time and time again all the Old Testament and even

in practice, people do do these things.

It's quite common. Okay.

So again we're talking about the rid people here, the

unriched group. Every single one, including the rad and also

including the yellow and also including the green people group,

all every single one have actually rejected God to some extent. Okay,

heart truth are okay, can I it's too hard to

just let me know a toe down a little bit, okay.

Next one, none, no one, sorry, no one. I mean

to say, day and us is innocent before God.

Okay.

And this comes from the next part here. Now, just

to give you some contexts. Again, if you read through

Romans one to two to three, you know, the first

part on Romans is actually quite quite sad on you

you read it. It talks about the sinfulness of people

in general, whether it's the Gentiles, which is the non

Jews that means the let's just use the word the

non Christians, okay, and then the Jews God's people versus

two Sorry. Chapter two and three they talk about God's people,

even they those that know God, it's still not innocent

before God. Okay, so this is shown in even expressed

in chapter three. Okay, if you read chapter three, let's

read from there. What shall we conclude? Do we have advantage,

whether the gentiles or juice of advantage? No, no as advantage.

All under the power sin everyone all? No one is sinless.

Okay. There is no one righteous, even one.

There is no one again highlight or no one, no one,

no one again, no one understands, no one who seeks God.

All have turned away. They have together become worthless. This

is how God sees him, sees them everyone. There is

no one who does good, not even one. Very strong words,

no righteous people, not even one. When you read that, right,

it's very sad. Whether it is all writings of Paul, right,

you know Paul, and I bet when he's writing all

those things that he's like probably crying out right, it's truth.

It's hard truth. So now the question is meantime we

say that what will happen to those that do not

know God? Will they be will they die internal death?

Unfortunately that is the case, even though it's an innocent man,

innocent child, born to this earth. They are in this category.

That's what Paul has actually mentioned. I know it's very sad,

but it's the truth, okay. And this is why it

is also important to understand his context, because sometimes we

have this biasedness. We feel our God is a very

evil god, very it's all God's fault. Why can't he

just make it easy? Why can't accept everybody as they are?

He does, but also he has some standards, right, and

he's just making it very clear to everybody right here.

He's not unjust. In fact, you know his character. He

cannot stand sin. So he's just being very honest.

In some sense.

You are all not innocent, including those unreached, and therefore,

whether you're green, yellow, or red, you're guilty before God.

It's a simple way to put it. Now, why is

this importance because sometimes we feel that, oh, since everybody's

like the said, you don't know border or don't want

to try to talk to the people, But actually you

have to.

You have to have to understand as well.

That's one thing, But the more important thing is that

the next point, everyone is accountable for rejecting God. Everyone, Okay,

Romans three nineteen to twenty. There it says, I highlight

some of the points there. The whole world is held

accountable to God. In the NKGV Bible, it says the

word guilty before God again talking about the same context,

is sad. There is no one that will be declared

righteous in God's sight, whether it's by works of the law.

Rather the law we become conscious of the sin. The

meaning say, no matter what you do, you do a

lot of good or so right, can I help it?

Someble in this world believes that the more good you

do you can undo all the bad. Right, But unfortunately,

under God's perspective, can I help it? Nothing can actually

help it? Normal to how much no amount of good

can actually overcome the guilt that God sees in people.

That's why again we rejected. We're just sinful in nature.

Ever since the fall of man, since Adam and Eve's time,

it's always the case. Okay, so again, not just the

rates are condemned to death, even the rest are condemned

to death.

Do some makes sense thelema?

Yeah, So if you ask me from a logical sense,

whether there's a chance for a non believer of someone

who's not exposed, whether or not, uh, they they are

going to go to hell. Without this earlier a few

points I just mentioned, right, I would say, yeah, they'll

definitely go to hell.

I mean they'll good, they may even go to heaven.

But because of this clause, if those are likes contract

law and all that, because of this clause that we

are sinful, and that's why we are. We are going

towards the whole health portion of things. So again, it's

not about it's not about the whether or not they

know or don't know. They know, I don't know. So

that is the destiny. Okay, they're condemned because they're all rejected.

I mean, they've all rejected God. So no free pass

to heaven is probably the simplest way to put it, all, right,

And that's why sometimes we need to uh say it

as it is, right and because otherwise you think, like, oh,

they don't tell me if I'm if I'm unreached, don't

come and tell me. Go stay five from me, because

if you come to me, I know, then I've got

to do something about it. Right. So if that's really true, right,

the strategy for Christians should be, uh, do not make

disciples all nases. Don't tell anybody, because if you turn.

Anybody are cursing people to death? Right, don't go to

family Matt downstairs, or if you do that, make sure

you close. The strategy will be a you you can

tell if you feel confided, tell but this person, you

should go and cover the person's is.

Right, because why tell me?

No? No, no, no again. Back to the whole thing.

We're all sinful, Okay, so don't blame God.

It's just his character.

So regardless whether or not the person has heard not heard,

they stand guilty before God in sin and deserve an

eternal separation from him.

They are condemned.

And we've seen this before. I think some of the

earlier days, you know, younger days, you have this goddess tracks. Right,

they show this to uh what they call it the

two that's a that's a that's a pit the chasm

kind of thing, and to two ends. Let's say this

is where man is, this is where God is. There's

a big uh pit, right, right? Cha chasm? Right, it's

the wrong thing. That when that that that that that

the lubang the big hole again, the big hole. Okay,

I should have put some illustrations there, but you understand.

So what separates man or humans? From God is yeah sin, wow,

somebody pay attention by Sunday School. All right, yeah sin

sin is that big hole? That big pothole actually is

very big. Okay, that's why I said nobody. Okay, and

the next foine, next point, next point.

Okay.

So the important point is that if all this bad

news is, that's that's the reason why we need to

have some good news. And if you remember those tracks, right,

they'll put the cross there in the center that bridge

that allows people to walk across, and that is Jesus right.

And this is exactly the type of good news that

we need to share to provide somewhat a solution, because

if we do not tell, they don't know the solution.

Okay.

So again, the motivation is not because whether they know

or not, it will condemn them. No, the motivation is

that the good news is important to share. And I'll

talk about about it in the next couple of points.

So far, all right enough, if you get a bit

lost for it's a bit too heavy, it's not meant

to be.

It's meant to be very simple.

But yeah, God loves them, the people, the red people

that He made a way omits some provisions or a

solution for their salvation, right, and what's that?

What's that? It's found in the next part.

So, like I said, the first few chapters we talk

about the sinfulness of man. I can so imagine right

when Paul was writing this in verse twenty one on

verse right, he's probably like crying and then suddenly he's

like tears of joy would have come out when he's

starting to write this. Okay, let's read verse twenty one. Uh, okay,

So but now apart from all the law of righteousness

of God has been made known. This is all the

law and the prophets testifying and all that. This righteousness

is given true faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

So again, the righteousness is there, the redemption part, right,

is given true?

What works? They say it works? No, right, just faith,

faith to to who, for who true Jesus. Yeah, but

for who? All Right, there's no difference between jew and gentiles. All.

It's included, not just God's people or lose you try

to say it, not just the Christians, also for the

non Christians as well, because right now we're all categorized

as gentiles doing that.

That that what they were saying. But let's just say that.

Yeah, non believers and believers as well, for all have

sined and fallen short, we know that already established earlier right,

but and all are justified freely or free.

Who likes three things, Malayians?

Of the three things are the three things, okay, by

his grace, through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Of course, the next part talks about, you know, the

sacrifice that Jesus made through the shedding of his blood,

and we receive it by faith, okay. And then all

the sins that were committed again, we're all guilty already

has been paid, has been already paid forward. You're free,

right in the legal sense. It's like somebody coming to

you and saying, okay, I go into jail for your

kind of thing, even though I did nothing wrong. You know,

definitely those stories, right, you made hatelines, and this is

definitely the haitlines we're talking about. Right. So righteousness, true

faith is the hitting of that portion of Romans in

some of the Bibles.

Okay.

So God has made a way for this three point

two billion people, and that's what we.

Need to share. This one.

You tell them because otherwise they don't know if they

don't know. They can't act. They can't. It's like giving

It's like we have three coupons, but nobody know there's

three coupons. You know how it likes like you know,

you buying shopping or whatever, you look for those free deliveries,

et cetera, those those vouchers, right, but sometimes you don't

know then you uh, I mean you didn't maximize the

benefits of what is entitled to you to the next time,

all right, not asking you to give coupons, but even

unless just use the context of you know, when when

we had the problem of the pandemic, et cetera, there

was a solution that is, use the word vaccination.

The vaccination has to go out somehow.

How are they physically gone out through mobilizing different people,

groups or different professions to actually do the work. Otherwise

you will not fly itself to some of the places

that unreached and we should, I guess, look at the

gospel like that as well. Again, now asking to go

to Africa, if God places Africa, and go for it.

If God places Japan, heart go for it. Let's just

look in Malaysia first. That is a large opportunity of

unreached people. Okay, they need your vaccination, they need your

free coupons. Okay, how we gonna see it?

Okay?

Or maybe it's the first time were hearing the gospel

even and you've never heard this story before, You never

realized before that you know, we are all doomed, we're

all sinners. Right, Maybe this is something they need to

hear that you will never measure up. I will never

measure up past the Kenneth, will never measure up any leader,

even the great Christians, the mission, even the Billy Grahams,

they will never measure up. They will never measure up.

Only one person so far recorded in history. And even

he did the missions. You know, he came down, left up,

you know, left heaven, came down, sat down by God

the Father, and he did his missions right because he

paid the price for sin that you know we can

never repay. And not just that, we know that he

doesn't deserve to die. Okay, But that's not the the

sad story part of things, because he also rolls victoriously

after you know, conquered death, not just conquered death, conquered

sin as a whole after three okay, And that's something

to shout about.

Okay.

And you know a lot of religions right again, not

knocking region religions, but there's a lot of you need

to attain something, you need to do some things, and

sometimes we view it as like there's a toll order,

there's something you climb to reach a particular standard or achieve,

attain something before.

The gods will bless you. This is the total opposite.

You know, Jesus came down from up there to down

here to tell you there is redemption. And again it's

not sometime it's very hard for people to accept because

you don't to do anything freely, free couponts freely.

All you have to do is just here and believe.

Okay, okay, But the next point I need to say

mentioned time, okay, justified true faith in Jesus. That's the

next point that means they cannot come to God no

other way, only true Jesus. And there's something that we

need to communicate that is the heart of the good news,

only true Jesus, nothing else, only true Jesus.

Okay now, verse twenty seven.

Verse twenty seven says I'm going to read okay, now,

it's because of the Lord that requires faith. Sorry, sorry,

let me decide all over, where then is posting? Is

it excluded because of what law? The Lord that requires works?

No dances, No, not works. I said earlier, No matter

how much you do, you can never repay. Okay, because

of the Lord that requires faith. Before we maintain that

the person is justified by faith apart from the works

of the law. And again it states again, or is

it God, the God of the Jews? Only No, it's everyone.

Is it the God of Gentiles? Two? Yes, Gentiles two

verse thirty, since there is only one God who will justify. Again,

this is to say circumcise. Are those Jews love?

Okay? Because in that time they need to be circumcised. Okay.

So for the Jews by faith, they are saved. For

the uncircumcised, or quote unquote the Gentiles, they are also

saved true faith okay. So or justify true faith both categories,

or in other words, everyone everyone is is saved or

the righteous is true righteous is true faith? Nothing else

how true? Jesus, that's all only one one. I remember

the song one way, Jesus, that is the song that

you sing. It comes from their love. Okay, okay. And

coming to that all right, we can only be saved

from sin by faith in Jesus, only Jesus. And if

you look at Matthew seven, I'm going to move away

from Romans a little bit. You know, you remember the

party talks about the narrow and white gates. You don't,

I'm gonna flash it on screen. Enter through the narrow gate.

For the side is the is the gate?

Uh? Sorry?

For why is the gate? And broad is the road

that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But

the small gate is narrow, and the narrow road that

leads to life, and only if you will find it.

So again, it tells us that not many people will

find the gate if you do not point them any

We got lost before. By the way, how do you

solve the problem?

You cry? Okay? Men in this nature, I don't know what.

You only cry loud, But most men will not ask

the directions, right, it's just innate in this I don't know, right,

we won't.

We will try to get lost a few times. Try, try,

try and try to.

After all, you can check the GPS, please, you know,

even though as because the GPS is a is opposite

gender voice. Uh, and that's why we don't want to.

But anyway, that's not the point. That's not the point. Really,

you know, you need to have somebody lead you and

point you to the direction.

Okay.

Uh. And the next part, the similar amount continues on

to talk about this. In verse twenty four, it talks

about again just shot some Maria. What's shown up here

is don't be foolish. Just choose to ground itself in Jesus.

That's the nutshell of this particular portion that makes you

build your you put your foot on solid foundation.

Okay.

But the whole two road thing is back to this,

the whole story about how you know that's that's that's

a gap.

So everybody that is their gilt.

No, they're gonna go into that pothole already literally, but

they don't know of how to navigate across that pothole,

that big porthole.

Sin Okay, so what are we to do? And this

is where we come in. We come in. I got

a very interesting sign. Can you show that please? Yeah?

So we were based in Australia for a while and

when I first went to Australia, I thought, there's a

very weird sign to have. And if you look at

those signs, right, this sign is only visible if you're

going in the wrong direction. If you look at the car,

the direction of the car, so you see that sign,

and it's everywhere, every highway, every turn off, you will

see that. It means they have the regular sign to

show turn left to this suburb, right to that suburb,

but on the opposite side you'll see this wrong way

go back.

Why do you think that's the case.

It is because maybe people from different parts of the

world that are used to driving on other parts other

side of the road probably have done this before.

Okay, and this is to avoid what.

Accident. Very practical, right, very practical. So again what I'm

trying to say is that if we are not there

to point people to the right direction, where where are

the people hitting down that that chasm, that that hole,

that porthole?

Right?

So, really, sometimes sharing the good news is really just

be that signposts about telling them where they're hitting and

what is a solution or turn around. So if you've

not never heard Jesus before, how can you put your

faith in Jesus? Right?

So sometimes we need to tell them because they don't

have an opportunity to do so.

Kay. So our mission in life is ready to steer

people back to God because God wants it. God send Jesus.

He wants it, but he cannot, I guess cheapen the

entire requirement. But there is away, but we had to share. Right, Okay,

let's move on Romans ten thirteen. Here this is the

good news part. This is how all right? How can

they be redeemed? Everyone who calls on the name of

Jesus will be saved. And as why sometimes when we,

you know, issue a salvation call, we say that you

need to call the name of Jesus. Is where it

comes from, right, You need to call on the name

of Jesus because as we said earlier, he's the only one,

the only gate. And if you skip a hit to

the very end. The faith comes true from hearing the message,

and the message is heard through the Word is heard

through the word about Christ. So it's very important. And

I managed read the rest I think fourteener. How then

can they call on the one they have not believed in?

And how can they believe in the one of whom

they have not heard? How can how can they? This

is the rid people? How can they here without someone

preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they

are sent as written as it's written. How beautiful are

the feet of those who bring good news? Okay, so

it's a very practical thing. It's a very clear message here. Okay,

you can't put faith in uh of Jesus in people

if they have not been given the opportunity to understand

that faith, all right, because why they've not heard.

So again it's more so it really burdens you. You

need to tell them about them.

So this is the part where I'm going to ender

the last slide and it's probably one of my last

few points. The the action in your part, I call

it the balls on your court. Yeah, Jesus actually left

us here to tell them everyone the lost, the not

just loss, but also the unreached, all nations the good news. Otherwise,

you know, we'll activate a plan ejection. You know, you

go straight to having the rapture plan executed straight away.

If you don't know what rapture is, you know you're

going to look it up. But but yeah, becau's not

really yet. That plan is not really yet. Why because

there are still people that needs to be saved and

Jesus wants to save. But simple logic, right, we read earlier,

if people do not hear, then how to believe?

Right?

If you don't know if this great chocolate out down

the road, you wouldn't go there naturally, Right, All Malasians

look excited about your side stuff. Right, You go with

the moment you hear, even though it's a rumor, you

will go and find out whether it's true or not.

Fry not.

You queue up for a sale, you know, even though

you don't really know where, but it says somewhere in

social media.

You just go.

You follow you, you said, because why you heard? If

you didn't hear, again, you wouldn't even execute that plan. Okay,

So now back to Matti trainad right before Jesus went

to heaven. What detail is Followers make disciples of all nations,

all nations, not in one.

Place, multiple places, multiple places, multiple people, multiple nations, multiple people, group,

ethnic groups.

But the key word is everyone, all all has too

here and you need to be witnessed till the ends

of the earth, geographically literally all corners of the earth. Okay,

I'm going to read Romans their thin and look at

it again from a different perspective. Just let me show

you the same verse that we read. Right, these are

all the practical points that makes it happen. Right, but

you really in reverse order. Now God's centers so that

we can preach. The word preaching is not literally like

this kind of preaching, you know it's not. It can

be just sharing testimony or like I said, there's signposting

pointing the right direction, living living right is also all rights.

It's also preaching to people. In fact, it's actually more

powerful than this kind of preaching. Right when you are

said by God, if you preach, then they can hear.

You don't say anything. They cannot hear. Right when they

hear what happens, they believe, and when they believe, they

will call upon Jesus or the Lord, and then they

will be saved. Very logical, right engineer like that, and

it doesn't help you, Okay, next light er. Our one

direction is a group God's send right, you your job,

you you you preach right, preach can be interchange. If

all those words there not a bit small, sorry, you

can share, you can you can point.

You can proclaim we used the word disciples so you

can disciple people. That is a form of preaching.

Of course, exchange that word with whatever else you can

do effectively to show them God's love.

Right then't they hear? They believe? They call and in

God saves see everything there?

Right?

Does it involve you?

Except for one point one portion, one one job, one intervention,

one particular junction, you can do something.

The rest you don't have to worry about it. So

where is what is the potential failure of this plan?

That's right? Unfortunately? Right, so some could Milady is stuck.

It's stuck sometimes on our part, right, and therefore we

need to again have this understanding that we doubt this,

it will not happen.

Now we've covered this in homes as well. Let me

go to the next light. Oh, thanks for blowing it up. Amazing.

Okay, the revelation talks about how it will be a

great multitude okay, when great mountain is a lot of

a lot of people, Okay, that no one could count

for every nation, tribe, people and language standing before the

throne of God and before the lamb.

Okay, wearing white robes and all that.

Okay, we've read that in homes right, Remember, so that

is the endgame where there's so many people, so many tribes,

everybody almost most majority are there. Now again, how can

it happen. We look at the bleak stats earlier. How

can it happen by executing what you're supposed to do

in step number two? All right, if not, but but

be happy. That's at least the what God is giving

you a glimpse of what the end would look like.

But it really is up to us to do what

we're called to do. Don't leave it for the one

or two for the right.

Everyone has to do it.

And again not talking about just your workplaces, your schools

do that, that is good, but we also every now

and then need to look outside that regular circle to

the unreached, not just to reach and esphy. Sometimes missions

right is very powerful because you go with this selflessness

and again it's right. It's not so easy to reach

your friends, but they have heard about it before. Let's

just try another different group, right, that actually really needs

to hear because otherwise you know it will never happen.

So again, the breakdown can happen with us, and some

of us actually we are used to a stronger way here.

We might refuse to go.

Refuse refuse a very strong word, but actually not going

so refusing them? Why you're not convicted? Don't you get

the brief. The whole company is moving forward, right. We

need to do this for the sake otherwise the company

with tank you know like in the in the in

the normal uh, you know, like a worthy kind of talk. Right,

everybody is all hands on deck to make this work.

So either we are not for it. And it's sometimes

you say like get out whatever I find out the job.

No, you cannot. You are a child of God. You

need to get on this. You cannot not proclaim the

good news.

Because God has already sent you, like I said earlier,

first point, God has sent you. So again, the potential

breakdown is really when we followers of Jesus say no,

and then the gospel can't go out or the good

News can't go out, and we sometimes wonder why are

we still stuck in this situation? Okay, now I'm gonna

invite extreme to come up again. I put up some

slides after this. Initially when I wrote, when I put

this together, it was based on these two slides. So

you can take a photograph of that if you want,

because I may have time to go through it or

actually it'd be good. Nice seven points. But again it's

more than these sympos it's largely due to this. Okay,

I'm just gonna cover them a little bit. Really, everybody

is condemned and without the Gospel, we are doomed. All right,

some references there. Again, some of it is not covered,

but I've expanded it. But really we cannot accept this

notion that people will get safe because they don't know,

or people go to heaven or get a free pass

to heaven because they don't know. That is a misconception

that we need to fix. It's really really up to

you to do your job so that these people reach

otherwise they are condemned. There is the urgency as well.

We don't know how much time we have left. All

of us are given X number of years here. If

you don't do it, it's the burden of somebody else.

We need to understand that, you know, the vital message

of Jesus has to be shared. People need to know,

and that's all found in those verses over there. Number two.

Faith in Jesus is essential. Remember that only to Jesus.

Number four role of the believers. We are commissioned to

do this. You are tasked to do this, you are

empowered to do this, you are encouraged to do this.

It is your anointing to do this as well. So

you know it's easy to sing those songs earlier, right,

this is really what it means to do it. So

number five negative side. If you break down, if you refuse,

you're reluctant, the gospel will not get out. So you

must understand that that importance, your role. You're more important

than sometimes we think. We don't realize. If you don't

do it, it will not happen. That one person will

never know. And of course the consequency in action is

you know, you don't never hear. But I think the

last point I'm going to end here really is God's imitation.

Sometimes I always wonder why God use human We are

so flawed. Why can't he just do some mumbo jumbo,

have romans all written on the skies. It's so easy, right,

you see that you believe, But He choose to want

to work with us, and it makes me wonder why.

But really, you know, it is our role. We don't

question that.

You can ask him later when we go up to heaven,

but it's really our responsibility to do so, to share

the good news. So remember, at the very start I

talked about all the bad news, the things that we

that grippers, that we feel for the three point two

billion that has never been given an opportunity to hear

this good news, such a great injustice.

Something to end with this particular slide is.

You know we sunk earlier about surrender, We sung earlier

about making room for God.

This is my surrender.

Right?

Your way is better?

Right?

Is it?

Do you really believe it? Because if we are, we

will say this kind of prayers. Dear God, I will

do whatever you call me to do, no matter the

cost is a big thing, not just financial cost, but time, effort, disappointments,

but really whatever means whatever.

No, we don't think about it. No streets attached. God.

If you ask me to unpacked, I'll unpacked. I'll go

if you ask me to you know, stay single, I

will stay single and do what you called me to do.

If you ask me to move to this place, this

new land, I will do whatever the costs. If you

ask me to to try something new, I will try

something new, just because whatever decision that you make, it's

one step closer to that other person that you're supposed

to be reaching and supposed to hear from from you.

The good news can happen. So again, costs simply means whenever, wherever, whatever,

the gospel needs to go out to everybody, men, women, children,

It's really up to you. I'm really done here, but

just a reminder again, have we actually done all this?

Can we boldly say I'm quescious someone's have said those

prayers before? But can we again pray like that boldly

on a daily basis? And you never know what God

puts in your heart because it's the very start before

you can move up. Because as I said earlier, he

sends right. But if you don't want to be sent

even before step one, you don't pray that kind of prayer,

then maybe you might miss it.

You might hear from him.

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