First to Prayer - Then to Missions | Elder Terence Atkinson

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First to prayer, then to missions. That's the title of

today's word. First to prayer, then to missions. You like

the slides, Okay, Praise the Lord. I do too. You

know it's so good when you learn something. This is

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got the same slides I've been using for the last

fifteen years. So praise God. There's something new and it

looks nice and color it matches right. Okay, Praise the Lord.

I did not work that, but it so happened. Okay,

let's get to it. Matthew twenty eight Versus nineteen and twenty.

Go therefore, go therefore and make this of all the nations,

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of

the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to

observe all things that I've commanded you. And lo, I

am with you even to the end of the age.

So go therefore, after everything that has happened, after all

that you've seen, after all the heart ache, after all

the blessing, Jesus says, go therefore, so your life and

my life counts for something. Everything that you have gone

through has a reason. Wow, the bad stuff, especially the

bad stuff. The good stuff. Yeah, but you know why

we don't concern it the good stuff because the world

is out to get us, and quite often we experience

more bad stuff than we do good. But if we

experience a lot of good stuff more than we experience

the bad stuff, praise the Lord. But if we don't,

it's okay, it's normal, all right. So after all these things,

Jesus is now saying, go therefore, Hey, why are you

so frustrated? Why do you think you can't handle it?

Because you feel go therefore? Uh, things work out well

for you. Go therefore, and so that becomes a mission statement.

So how many of us know that when we are

building things? Building things? If you are in a construction industry,

there is a mission statement. Your company usually has a

mission statement. But do you know that for building and

making things and progress seeing there's also something else which

is very important. It's called the method statement. How many

of you have heard there's such a thing as a

method statement? Okay, at least one praise the Lord, because

you cannot accomplish a mission without having the method you see,

because the mission is the order, this is what you

need to do. But just saying this is what you

need to do doesn't mean it gets done. First, there

is the what you gotta do, and very important is

the how you're going to do it. Many of us

stop with the what are we going to do? And

then from there I don't know where to go. You

know those days that there was no ways we had

this book, this stick for kl thistic big book Singapore

is a smaller book because Singapore very smaller. Singapore's book

was smaller than this scales book very large. And you

know what's the worst thing about that book? It will

connect you from page one to page sixty, C ten,

page sixty and you go to page sixty, then you

look at A ten and then you see the word

from C. Sixty. When you needed to find your way,

you had to spend one hour studying the map, first

flipping from one page to the other page and connecting

the road, and very often that the roads did not connect.

You don't believe me, how many of you have tried

to find SS two stroke seventy two? Have you tried?

You can find SS two stroke seventy seventy one, seventy three,

seventy four, seventy five, seventy six, all on the left side.

You know where's SS two stroke seventy two in SS nineteen?

Do you think I'm joking? You go, you go and check.

SS two strokes seventy two is in section nineteen? Is

in SS nineteen. I know because I used the book

trying to find it and I couldn't get there. Praise

the Lord for ways because now at least and ways

also not so great. Okay, Ways is okay if the

road is traveling on the straight road. But very often

ways will tell you to turn right, but actually it

doesn't tell you the road right goes like this, when

you've taken the wrong road, then ony your eyes, I'm

the wrong way. Okay. So what it's got to do

with a message absolutely nothing. Okay, does doing make us

successful or not? Just because you do what you're told

to do, does it make you successful? We have to

consider very carefully what we do because doing doesn't necessarily

make us successful. It just makes us do us. But

it's okay because scriptures be a doer of the world.

So you just do there some blessing. But whether you

get that level of success is really questionable. But having

said that, scripture says go. Therefore all right, and what

does it tell us to do? Well? There are some

tasks involved. Let's take note of the tasks. Firstly, scripture

tells us to go. When scripture tells us to go,

it does not tell us to stay. You gotta understand

go means get up out of bed. A lot of

people stay in their spiritual beds. They don't get up

and go. Do you know, as long as you walk

out of the house, you qualify. As long as you

get up out of your bed and walk out of

your house, uh, you qualify. You see, many of us

think missions is uh, you know you have to go

to a different place. Well, eventually, that's what you must

aim for. But it has to have a starting point,

and the starting point is get up and go. If

you stay in God's blessing, it will not remain a

blessing for too long, you say, because God's blessing is

never stagnant. God's blessing is to take you from one

glory to the next. Because when that blessing has seen

its lifespan, you need a new blessing. If that was

if that was not the case scripture was would not

have st from glory to glory. You see, we need

to be filled with the spirit. We need to move

from one level to the next, so we need to go.

The second thing that Scripture is telling us is to

make disciples. Scripture says, make disciples. Can you make disciples

even before somebody is saved? Praise the Lord? You say yes,

because it's true. And I will share some testimonies where

I made disciples long before they became bla. So you

need to make disciple. What is making a disciple? Making

a disciple is sharing the ways of Jesus and encouraging

somebody else to follow those ways. How many of us

like to follow the right thing? How many of us

like to follow the wrong thing? Truth be told, it's

fun to follow the wrong thing. How many of you

used to love to eat vegetables all the time. That's

the right thing, right. How many of us know that

the worst tasting vegetables are ours best for our help? Unfortunately? Yeah,

you know, have you heard the statement A spoonful of

sugar makes the medicine go down? Trust me, I know

exactly what that means. You know, I had this skin

disease when I was young, you know, it was like

an egzeamer. And then this somebody told me, Okay, I

told my mom, you got to buy these three Manilla ducks. No,

these two Manilla ducks. Manilla ducks are ducks that are big, okay.

And then you divide it into three portions, and then

I'll give you all the herbs. Then what you're supposed

to do is, every day, for three days, take one

third of the duck, put one third of the herbs

into this big pot and boil it. You start boiling

in the morning, and by evening it will be ready.

You know, one big pot, this big down to half

a cup by evening. Oh my goodness, the medicine was

worse than the sickness. It was horrible. I cried. I

was ten years old. I cried and cried and cried.

My mom had to bribe me. That's how bad it was.

Making disciples, what has that got to do? Well, sometimes

you don't have all the facts in line. But what

you do do is you do what God tells you

to do. Make disciples. Next, baptizing, we just heard testimony

about baptizing. I was baptized in the temple part River

Templess part not exactly the cleanest place, but I live

there's a sanctifying, you know, anointing. As we went down

into that water and came up. I don't know how

many people were up at the top, you know what

I mean. But now you get baptizing pools, right, how

many of you will go to Templess path to get baptized?

Baptizing And the next thing is teaching them? Teaching is

something that is you know, do you know that we

are all teachers, but you know that teachers are very

special calling. Every time you are helping someone, what are

you doing? You're teaching them to get better? So stop

fighting it. Scripture has already told us that we are

to do this, we are to do Oh I'm not

a teacher, then you're not a human being because you

know that as long as you walk, somebody is learning

from you. The thing is are they learning good things?

Or are they learning bad things? So, whether you and

I realize it, we are teaching. So is there something more? Oh?

This is very good? Thank you so much. You're following

following me? Okay? So is there something more? Is there

something more than the mission statement? There is? And you know,

the lovely thing about Jesus is he doesn't lead us

and leave us. When I say, you know, have you

heard the song? He didn't bring us this far to

drown us. There's a song you know. He doesn't lead

us into the water and then after let us drown,

ask Peter. Peter will tell you Lord, if that's you

can I walkwn. You know. The one thing you can

say about Peter is because he was impulsive. He did

many things that nobody else ever did. If you need

to be impulsive, be impowers, say on the side of

listening to Jesus, because then you will experience much more

than the paralysis of analysis. Have you heard that one?

You analyze and analyze all the other apostles are so

busy analyzing you cannot walk on water us. So they

didn't know. But Peter was okay, here I go, and

he walked. But don't be like Peter who turns his

eyes away, because then you get into trouble. Okay, there

is something else that Jesus told the disciples besides the

mission statement. Do you know that Jesus also gave them

a method statement? Are you aware? Look at the first

chapter of the Book of Acts, reading from verse four

and five. After a after being assembled together with them,

he that's Jesus, commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem,

but to wait for the promise of the Father, which

he said, you have heard from me. For John truly

baptized with water. But you shall be baptized with the

Holy Spirit not many days from now. And then it

says in verse eight. But you shall receive power when

the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall

be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea

and Samaria and to the ends of the I want

you to know that unless we have the method statement,

the mission statement will not have its full impact. When

I first became a believer and I started sharing the

Word of God to others, I only knew so much more.

People came to the Lord quicklyar with this little bit

that I knew, than with now all the many years

of studying, because scripture says go I went. After I

got saved, three months later, I was baptized in Holy Spirit,

and then after that I had to go to Singapore

to study. It was kind of scary because you know,

you're alone, right, that's the God partner. So sometimes when

you go there's nobody around you those days. No internet,

Well you find it hard to believe. There was a timer.

No internet, Yes, no internet, no social media, no social media.

When you went you were alone. Maybe a phone call

which is very expensive, or a letter which you would

write and receive every one month, two months, three months,

if ever you wrote. But unlike today, you run into problem.

What's it? Hell, I need somebody help. But those days

it wasn't it was. It wasn't like that. So I

went to Singapore. I didn't know very much, but I

did know this. I didn't know my Jesus, so I

shared with people. I told them about Jesus. I told

my friends about Jesus. I stayed in a church hostel

by the way, a very holy yeah. I stayed in

a church hostel every night. This is after school. My

school was about one and a half hour's bus ride,

so I stayed in Jurome. But my school was in

Pye Labor area. But he road think one and a

half hours. So I go to school in the morning.

I reached that at seven. I'm in school until seven.

Because I took part in every activity known to mankind.

I was a school tennis coach. You know, I left

at seven, reached back my hostel at eight thirty, have land,

have lunch, at dinner, you know, wash my clothes, do

my studying until about midnight. Then midnight I go back

to church. You know why because we used to pray

for deliverance crases. So I will be praying with the

pastor from twelve to maybe about three four o'clock, get

another two three hours sleep, go back to school the

next day. And I was doing this every day. So

every day when I went back to school, I was

telling my friends about how the power of the Lord

had saved people, and how people were being delivered and

how people were being healed. I used to tell him

this every day, and you know, they get so free,

which is very good because with fear they begin to

Then I can tell him, hey, fear the Lord. It's

more important to fear the Lord. And then I share

with them. There was one particular case where this guy,

he was charmed by three priests. So when he was

being delivered, the three priests came to the gate of

the church, and the three priests a moment they stepped

foot to try and come in the church. All three

of them fainted the ground they got up and they

read this. I saw her, they got up and he

ran away, and of course, needless to say, the person

was delivered. So I used to tell this to my

friends every day. I had no idea that this was

going to have any impact on them at all. See

you and I, we don't know whether we're going to

have an impact on people when we share the word

of God with them. We think, I, you know, just

tell the word of God. That's the end of the story.

But do you know that wherever you go, whoever you meet,

whatever you say to someone has value. If you want

to know, if you've got to believe it so that

when you speak it, you know your speaking life. Many

years later, this is thirty years later, I connect with

one friend on the internet and then he tells me Terrence,

guess what what? He says, I'm a pastor. Ah, you're

a pastor? How did this happen? Then he told me

you are to blame. Huh, I'm to blame? What do

you mean? He says? I was alone on my yacht.

By the way, he was a very rich guy when

we were in Singapore. He was the only eighteen year

old that owned his own car. It was a Nissan Bluebird.

So he was really rich, okay, really really rich. He

had his own yacht. How many do you know what

a yacht is. It's not a boat. A yacht is

like a house on the sea. So he was on

his yacht and he said, something happened and I was

about to die, and I remembered something you wrote in

my autograph book. Do you know what it is? I said,

are you kidding? It's been thirty years. Do you think

I can remember what I wrote in your autograph book?

He says, this is what you wrote. If ever you

run into trouble, called on the name of Jesus and

he will come and help you. At that moment, when

I was about to die, I called on the name

of Jesus, and he came on the water and he

helped me. When I got back to show, I gave

everything up, and I decided to follow him and become

his servant. So today he passed us and he's given

up all those riches is not important to him. I

only found this out thirty years later. I had no

idea that simple word was going to have an impact.

But you see, I was teaching them about the Lord

every day there's another friend, this guy I lived. This guy,

his father and mother found me such a great influence because,

let me tell you, when I was in why I

was also late going back every day because every day

I would teach my friends. I call all of them.

You don't know, come come, come, let me teach you.

I will help you. I will, you know, do what

I can to make lively. So I used to teach

them every day. And this this guy's parents thought I

would be a good influence on their son. So they said,

why didn't you come and live with us? So my

final year I stayed with them. And you know, I

tried to help this friend of mine. Do not do this. Okay,

what I'm about to tell you, this is just me.

He came up to me one day he said, Terrence,

I'm going to fail. So I said, what happens if

you fail? So if I fail, I'll have to go

into National service and then I can only study again

two and a half years later. I don't know if

I can do that. So I said then no, no, no,

so sorry, I got it the other way from me.

He said, I can pass. I can just pass, but

that's it. And then two and a half years later

before I can move. That's so I just told him,

then fail. I said, you're allowed to reaseit. He says, yes,

I'm allowed one year. Singapore is a strange placer. You

have eleven years of education. You can fail every year.

You can start in Standard one and fail every year

for eleven years, but you will not go up unless

you pass. So there was one guy in Standard six

who had failed five years. How old was he He

was from five years from five, you know, in terms

of age, but he's still incented six every year. Don't pass,

then the final year they will tell you please leave.

So I was under alall of stress because I had

started very late. I could, I couldn't. They did not

allow me to fail. If I fail, I'm out. My

friend was allowed one time to reason, so he actually failed,

but then he studied hard. He did better. He went,

He became an officer in the navy, and later on

he became a millionaire. Now this guy, I realized and

just connected with him a few years ago. He's in Bangkok.

He was a very selfish guy when I knew him.

But when I went to Bangkok, he says, Terrence, I'm

now a Christian. This is you know what I do?

Is it When I build my factory, I buy a

plot of land by the side of it. Then I

put up a church and I gave it to my pastor.

When I went to meet with him, he had put

up fortunes and he had just finished school. He just said,

you know, Terence, I was so sad. I wanted enough

money to buy the land, but I had no money

to put up the school. But then I got an idea.

So I went around talking to my friends and one

friend said, now mine, I'll pay for the whole school.

So put up the whole school, gave it to the pastor.

When I went to meet him for the first time

after twenty five years, there were seven students. Last year

there were twenty students. Then he told me, Terrence, I

bought a product land up north Bangkok in Thailand. I'm

putting up another church. So he showed me pictures he

put up the church. When he showed me the pictures,

three one years later, he's got twenty people. And these

are the guys that every day I was sharing with

them about what God was doing. And he told me

that I had one more friend who who another well

to do guy he was a high performing alcoholic. His

own words, his own words, high performing alcoholic. What does

that mean? It means he get up at nine in

the morning taking whiskey. You take coffee, eatake whiskey, but

his business booming, goes running after running. You take cook,

he takes whiskey. He didn't feel so good when he went.

He found out he had cancer of the os vegas. Uh.

He was already stage three when they found it on

stage four, and this particular operation, only twenty people survived.

Twenty percent survive because they have to operate from the back.

Too many vital organs in the front. They have to

cut him open from the back to get to that cancer.

When they cut him open in the back and they

got to the cancer, they found that cancer had spread.

So he had to operate all through his arms to

remove the cancer. He was dying on the table. When

he was dying on the table, he heard gospel music

and then the Lord appeared to him and say, Haha,

your time not yet. I'll go work for you. That operation,

which should have killed him, because he did at one

point of time code.

But.

He came out of it in two weeks. He walked

out of the hospital he called his subordinate. He says,

the business. Now I give it to you. You run

the business. I got other things to do. So now

he is a missionary throughout Southeast Asia. Do you realize

the impact you have on people? And we are worried

to go out on missions? Why is it we are worried?

Do we feel we are inadequate? Yes we are, Praise

the Lord. It is much better to be inadequate than

to think you're adequate. It's much better to be able

to say, you know, God, I can't do it, but

guess what lot Because I cannot do it, you can.

So it's already if I fail, but with you I

can succeed. You know when I share the word, this

is what I pray. Every time you think eloquence makes

a difference, it does not. Eloquence will tickle the hearts

for five seconds in moments you walk out, It has

no impact on your life. But when you realize that

because you can't, God can. The Holy Spirit is the

one who do it. There is a mission statement. There

is a method statement that follows the mission statement. To

every given task, there is a how to how do

you do it? Hey? Well, in my case it was

just do it, not before Nike the time, No, Nike,

just do it. What did I know? I only knew

what I saw, and every day I would share it.

I would tell somebody about that. The very first people

that came to the Lord were because one week after

I got saved, I told him. They were walking together

with me, and I said, do you know this, Jesus

loves me. You don't have to worry. It was dark,

sky gonna pour any I said, don't worry, you're with me.

I have prayed we will get that dry. But every

person that goes to the destination and reaches the destination

after we set foot through the front door, will be

soaking wet. It thundered it. The sky was black like this.

Do you know not one drop? We were dry. The

moment the last person in my team stepped through the

front door, it poured, and everyone that came in after

me was thoroughly And these two young guys who saw

me and said, hey, it's true what you prayed. I said,

that's who God is, and he will answer our press.

I want to know more about this God. One of

them is a pastor today another one these two teamed

up and they shared with a friend of mine. No,

he shared with my brother. My brother couldn't stand me, Okay,

couldn't stand me, so he fought with me a lot.

I couldn't get through to him. But these two guys

got through my brother. My brother became a Christian. And

then these two guys shared with my good friend. He

became a Christian today is a pastor. That guy shared

my younger brother. My brother came to the Lord and

now he's a pastor. So from that, just that incident,

three past us, six people got safe. You know, my

first audio job one not one of my first audio jobs.

I used to ride the motorbike to the place he

was in Quota Damansara. No no, no, no, well somewhere there,

not Quota Damansara, but it was Damansara, some place like that.

I know, someplace like that. Anyway, every time and again,

thank God for the rainer. Every time I reached the amry.

The moment I stepped through the front door, it paused.

So there was this audit assistant, the girl, she said,

you always missed the read. I said, because I believe

in Jesus, And I say, I tell you what It's

going to rain all day but at the time I'm

about to leave, blue skies will appear. And it happened

every then, she says, Can I know this Jesus? She

also came to the Lord to every given task. There

is how to God helps us and equips us to

do that which he has instructed us to do. You see,

is it me? Do I have some power to stop

the r I have no power at all except believing

that Jesus will do for us what we ask of

him in faith. So you're worried about going on missions?

Why are you worried? You don't know how to do?

Praise the Lord. That's the best position to be in.

I don't know how to do. So God, can you

help me to do my pleasure? He says, always his pleasure.

You know a lot of people who know how to

do things get very little done because they don't need God.

So if you know how to do things, then you

don't need God. There are many, many people who ever

come to so much in their lives. But I'm not safe.

They don't know Jesus because they are self sufficient or

your self sufficient. There is one thing you'll never be

able to do. You'll never be able to save yourself

that only God can do, only Jesus can do? Do

you know that God wants us to succeed? So you

do not know how to go out for missions? You

don't know what to do. It's all right because God

can do it through you. I mean, did I know

what I was doing was missions? I have absolutely no idea?

Do you know? Missions also is going to help people

who need help? Not necessarily what you think you know

how to do, but what they want you to do.

We ran in a mission strip to the X number

of years ago. Do you know what we were told

to do? We were told to help sell secondhand clothes

to raise funds for the school. That was missions? What

head of the church going to sell closer? Hey, look,

do you think God is looking at me and saying

this is Elder Terrence. God does not look at our titles.

He looks at our heart. So if we can submit

and do that simple thing which we were requested to do,

God looks at it and it's pleased. Do you know

that there were some people in our party who were

not pleased because they started saying, oh is this missions?

In the missions? I've gone before? I pray for the sick.

I pray for this. I pray for the dead. Ay

ay ay aye aye aye aye. There's no place in God.

But if you have to go and pray for someone,

pray for them, they will be healed. If you have

to go and share with somebody, go and share with them,

they will receive your word. But if you have to

go and sweep the church, then sweep the church, because

more people will come to the Lord seeing you sweep

the church than for all the words you can say.

Do you know I saw I saw you sweeping the

church just now because there was some marks. You know

what I thought, a man after God's own her? Do

you realize this is what Elder mabeled in myself? If

you and I'm not singing songs about what we do,

but I'm just telling you what we believe. Cannot bend,

the knees are so stiff, get down, cannot get up.

But if you remember dvcsre if we see something on

the carpet, struggle, struggle, struggle, we will go down and

we will pick it up. Because you know what God looks,

and he likes neatness. So if you can like neatness,

because God likes neatness, and God sees you struggle, struggle,

he will give your strength, your niece strength now to

bend down someone to help pick up other rubbish. He's okay,

So is he going to make a difference now? No,

But I do know that one day I'll meet someone

in heaven that says, you know, I came to the

Lord because I saw you bend down to pick a

piece of death. Because at that point of time, I

was thinking to myself, who would even care? But when

I saw you care, something spoke Jesus to my heart.

That's what we are failing to understand. But each and

remember I said, you're teaching. Whether you see, whether you don't.

God wants us to succeed. Do you know that God

thinks big. He believes you I we can do it.

That's why he says go. Therefore, then he says, hey,

you're not alone. It was not Michael Jackson was saying.

It's all first, because the Bible was saying that. Jesus said,

I will never leave you nor forsake. You are not alone.

Go to Jerusalem and wait, I'm going to give you power.

I'm going to and I'll prove it. By the end

of this you'll see that This was quite amazing. Okay,

So how does the Holy Spirit do this? How does

the Holy Spirit give us power? In John fourteen twenty

six fourteen verse twenty six, this says, but the helper,

the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

he will teach you some things. Are you sure? Because

there are lots of people say I don't know a lot.

I only know some things. So does the Holy Spirit

teach you a little bit? What does scripture say? Teach

you all things and bring to remembrance some things. Most

of the word we forget, right? Do you know that

when you are called upon to recollect the Word of

God at the time when you need it, the Holy

Spirit will bring it to mine. Scripture says, now I

read it like how it should be read. Okay.

But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will

send in mine he will teach you all things and

bring to remembrance your remembrance all things that I said

to you.

Jesus. Are you when you read the scripture? You must

know Jesus doesn't speak like we speak. No, He's very

godly the way he speaks. So I don't know what

that is to you. But when I imagine. This is

how I imagine. It's a nice, soothing, deep strong voice.

You listen. Also, if you're good, I know that. Okay,

the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

he is going to be the one to help you.

You know. Praise God for the Holy Spirit. How many

of you are not baptized in the Holy Spirit. That

means you don't speak in tongues. If you're not, come

and speak to your leaders and ask them to pray

for you so that you can receive this power which

God promised us. I want you to know. Scripture says

that God will bring to remembrance. Right, Let's look at Peter.

How many of you during the Gospel times ever heard

Peter called scripture? Think about it, Oh thou the Christ

has sudden living Got that was not scripture? What was that?

That was God inspired? It's scripture for us today. But

at that point of time he was not quoting scripture.

Right.

How many times before the baptism of the Holy Spirit

did Peter quote scripture? This is what I mean that

when I say I prepare the word, God opens my

understanding and it really gets excited, at least for me.

I don't voute you. The answer is twice two scripture

two verses once before the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

For it is written, this is he saying. In he

was actually quoting. If you look at Acts chapter one,

Peter was quoting Psalm sixty nine, verse twenty five says,

for it is written in the us Psalms, let his

dwelling place be desolate, and let no one live in it. Okay.

And the second scripture he quoted was from Psalms one

to nine was eight let another take his office. You

can actually find this in x chapter one. Okay.

So now.

They went to the upper room, because after the mission,

there's the method. What was the method? Go to the

upper room and wait? You think they just wait? I

look at you, you look at me. One hundred or

twenty of them just looking at each other. Is that

what happened? They're praying, God, you told us to do this.

We're waiting. We're still waiting. We believe what you say.

We believe what you say. We believe what you say.

After Theism of the Holy Spirit, Peter quoted ten scripture

where did he ever learn this? In Cts. Two seventeen

to twenty one X two twenty five to twenty eight

and x thirty four. Peter is quoting scripture. You must

understand that all of them learned the Word of God

as they were growing up, because that is the culture.

The culture is they were taught the Word of God.

But if he knew it so well, why is it

he never ever quoted it in the gospels. But after

the baptism of the Holy Spirit Peter started to talk scripture,

and then after that he started to explain the scripture.

You see, there is a big difference five hundred percent

more after the baptism of the Holy Spirit, five hundred

percent more two verses before the baptism, ten verses after

immediately after. Now, for some of you that means not

cause your heart to jump. For me, that's really interesting

because it is telling me there is a great and

huge difference without the baptism of the Holy Spirit and

after the baptism of the Holy Spirit. One of the

greatest powers that the Holy Spirit brings upon you, Number

one is the ability to quote scripture. So do you

know why it is important to read your word? Because

you got to get it in your head. You've got

to read it, because only when you read it he

can call it to memory. So I cannot quote. I'm

very bad at quoting scripture versus. Okay, but do you know,

I know which scripture is there, but I cannot tell. Oh,

it's you know Acts two versus. You know this, But

I know the scripture exists. So I actually have to

refer to something to help me find the scripture. I

know the scripture is there for me. That's that's the

way it works for me. But praise the Lord. If

you can memorize scripture. I have that difficulty. But there's

a big difference when the Holy Spirit gets involved five

hundred percent more. But the help of the Holy Spirit,

whom the fart you know what said in my name,

he will teach you all things and bring to your

rememberence all things that I said to you. So now

not only will scripture talk about well, he's talking to

them because they only had the Old Testament. Then he's saying,

and the Holy Spirit will help them remember what Jesus

has said. Now we have the Old Testament, we have

the New Testament. So the Holy Spirit will help us

remember everything everything. When you're in trouble, don't call Mother

Mary because she's not going to speak no words of wisdom.

It is only the Holy Spirit. It's a bad joke.

Those of you may some of you may not know

the song. Okay, it's from the Beatles. You don't know

the Beatles. It's about okay, So how do you know

Jesus is true? And this is where I think we

must remember. Jesus is the only one who has changed

lives so completely that people were willing to die for him.

The disciples before they knew Jesus were cowardly men. Peter

denied Jesus three times. When Jesus was taken away, none

of his disciples showed up. None of his disciples showed up,

none of his family showed You know how alone Jesus was.

His brothers and his sisters did not go to plead

for his life. There's no scripture to say they came

before Pilot and say, please don't kill my brother. There's

no scripture that which says Mary came and pled for

the life of the sun. Nobody. He was totally alone.

But do you know that after the baptism of the

Holy Spirit. Look at what Peter he quotes the scripture

that he says that same Jesus who was such a

good man. You killed, you did bad things to him,

and it cut their heart? And what did they say?

What should we do? Repect that day? Five thousand came

to the Lord. You know, whenever in this world has

got a nasty way of trying to make it seem

like your Jesus and my Jesus is irrelevant. You know that.

Look at the Olympics. Now, I'm not one that bothers

too much with paintings and statues and stuff like that,

because we don't believe in that. But you see, what

they did at the Olympics was a symbolic act of

ridiculing Jesus. They tried to make Jesus small. You know

why because France is a country that does not like

anyone to have a faith in anything other than its government.

So in a way, it's quite socialistic and communistic in

its beliefs. So it is trying to tear Christianity down,

at least that's what I believe. But the fact that

the matter is that they can never make Jesus irrelevant.

They cannot make Jesus irrelevant because when people come to

know the Lord, when they get baptized in the Holy

Spirit and endued with that power from on high, you

cannot scare him, just like you couldn't scare Peter. After that,

what if Peter say, I'm not worthy to die the

same way my Lord has died, So you want to

crucify me, do it upside down? For then I see

the world right side up. History tells us these were

the words of Peter, even as he was crucified upside

down he and his wife because he refused to die

the same way Jesus died. He did not want to

ridicut jesus death. This was a man who denied the Lord.

But now standing up and say you killed him. It's

you you shouted for his death. Repent very bold. It

wasn't only Peter, it was the other apostles as well.

What made the difference? You see, unless the understanding and

belief is true, you will never submit to it. If

Jesus was not true, the apostles would never have given

their life. Why did they look at Paul man? Paul

was killing the Christians. In the end, he says, you

want to take my head, go have it, but you

cannot have my heart, my soul because it's to the Lord.

So you have my head. So what and he gave

his life for Jesus. Look at the change lives of

the disciples from cowering, cowardly men to giants of faith

and service. So what has all this got to do

with missions? Let's sum it up. Okay, all these things

that I've said, what is he going to do with missions? Hey, guys,

we start first knowing Jesus. Right, how many of us

here believe us? Okay, almost all the hands went up.

We start first knowing Jesus. You like the slight fish,

nice fisher. After we know Jesus, we listen to his

command to go. Get up out of bed man. Every

place that is not your home is a goal going

into all the world. You know, when we go to missions,

we go to other nations, we go to different places.

Why do we call it mission because it was part

of the Great Commission, the mission statement. So you go

and after we listen to his command to go, always

know that he provided us with the help we need.

So you don't know how to do it? Praised You know,

whenever you don't know something in the Lord, Praise the Lord.

It's the time you're going to find out. You ask

God to help you. There is no way you will

not learn. Yeah. Now, we may not know what to say.

We may not know what to say. I can tell you.

The other day, I met a man, first time I'm

meeting him, and I prayed before I went to see him.

These were my first words to him. You are a

person of knowledge and authority. You have worked in the

highest capacities of organization, and you don't like people to

tell you stories. So I'm not gonna waste time with you.

I'm going to tell you what the Lord put in

my heart, and the Lord put in my heart. This

you must forgive. First time I'm meeting him, these were

my first words to him. You must forgive, I say,

because I'm also older. I got no time to waste,

so we understand one another. He appreciated that, you know,

because really, I got no time to waste. I come

to tell you something that will help you. I did

not come to listen to what you have to say,

because I did not come to get help from you.

I came to help you. So I shared with him,

and he agreed. So a door is open for us

to work. There was another man that I met and

I said, did the doctor did the doctors tell you

you're going to die because everybody doesn't talk about it.

So I told him, well, the doctors did say you're

going to pass away soon. Let me tell you. Jesus

wants you. Do you want him? And you know he

had said some things, so I said, Lord, he said,

he wants to see you before he goes. So what

do I tell him? Said Badminton? Huh Badminton? Say yeah, Badminton?

Thought for it. Well, then I understood. So I went

to see him and say, hey, you like badminton. Yeah,

I like badminton. Okay, Jesus always served the shuttle to you.

He's waiting for you to hit it back to him.

If you don't hit it back to him, he's got

no way to respond to you. Game over. Now, I

ask you, do you want to receive Jesus christis Lord

and Savior that is serving the shuttle back to him.

He said yes, he accepted the Lord. Recently he passed away.

He went to be with the Lord. This is God.

This is what he tells you to do. The Holy Spirit.

We'll give you the words to say that. He helps

you recall the word. I mean, you know, the word

is truth. Jesus loves you, man. He wants you with

him in heaven. For God to love the world that

he gave his only book concern, and whosoever believes in him.

She's not perish, but ever lasting life. Do you want life?

You know you can be straight with them. We speak

of what we know, I experience and what we have

seen Jesus do. There was another man dying of cancer,

and so many people had witnessed to him. He did

not want to receive the Lord. So I just told

him as if my sister had cancer. Just before she

passed away. She said, Terence, I do not know what

else to do. I said, You've done everything you need

to do because despite your pain, despite everything you're going through,

you have not denied Jesus name, and you still have

Jesus name on your lips. And when you go and

see him, he's going to receive you into his kingdom.

And my sister was comforted. Then I looked at this

man and I said, this same Jesus that received my

sister into his loving care wants to receive you. Will

you give your life to Jesus? He said, yes, this

is what I tell people. Now, you got people who

need to be saved, and you're having difficulty with them.

I don't mind coming to help because I will just

tell it like it is. I got no more face

to lose. After sixty years, I've lost so much. Your

face now skin and actually doesn't look like skin and

bones but really bones. Now call the face gone. It's okay.

It's okay to lose face. God never asks us to

keep our face. He ask us to keep up faith,

not to keep our face, you know. So you just

need to tell what you've seen Jesus do in your life,

that's all. He's not asking you to create something that

has not been created before unless he has asked you.

But he's just asking you to wit about him. So

when you go for missions, why are you afraid? God

saved you? Right? You only need to tell that to somebody.

He saved me. You got nothing else to save. That's

all you got. That's all you need. Do you know that?

It's not profound, right, nothing spectacular about it. Hey, Jesus

saved me. He'll save you good enough. Now, that's the

truth one. That's what witness is all about. That's what

missions is all about. Because the prophet is never welcome

in his own home. So the reason why we go

for missions is because you see the people around them,

but they don't want to listen. They want somebody from

outside to come and tell them exactly the same thing

these people told them. But because the people come from outside, yes,

I will believe. Isn't it true? Hey, My brothers didn't

come to the Law because I was sharing with them.

They came to Lord because somebody from the outside shared

with them. Isn't it weird? But that's just the way

it is. Not So please missions man. It's not that

you only go for missions during this time. Missions Man

is an emphasisman where we try and we will share

with you about missions, why it's important to go. And

if you get the opportunity to go, go man. You

don't need to worry about what to say, because the

Bible says, in that very hour, God will give you

what to say. In that very hour, He will tell

you what to do. You don't need to tell somebody

else's story. Tell your stories. Just tell your stories. Tell

what you've seen Him say and do for you, and

that's all the Holy Spirit will convict. And I'll end

with this John twelve thirty two. And if I am

lifted up from the earth, will draw all people's unto myself.

You see, when you are talking about Jesus, what are

you doing. You're lifting up his name. You lift up

his name because you're sharing with someone about the law

of lords in the King of Kings, and because of that,

he will help you reach out and people will get saved.

Praise the Lord, and with that that's the end of

the world. I hope it blessed you as much as

it bless me to share it with you. God is true,

God is true to his word, and he will do it.

Praise the Lord.

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