Mission and Sacrifice | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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I won't speak about you.

I won't speak about missions, but from a different perspective

in terms of not asking you all to go for missions,

right because they obviously understand we need to go for

missions and stuff like that, but really understanding why sometimes

missions is important for us. I want to talk about

the words sacrifice, which I think always understand the word sacrifice.

If you've been a dad and a mom, you understand

your sacrifice a lot. When you're working adult, if you're

still singer, you also make a lot of sacrifice to

get to where you are at, and always understand the

word sacrifice. These sacrifice to get our education, to get

our degrees and stuff like that. So I al would

have some form of understanding about sacrifice. So Isaiah fifty

eight was one. We all know this scripture by heart.

The readio actually not behalf but very familiar to this scripture.

Isaiah fifty eight worse one, so I know fifty fifty four.

Apologies fifty four sorry as I fifty four Verse one

say sing o baron you have not born, break forth

into singing and cry aloud. You have not labored with

the child for more of the children and the desolate

than the children of the married woman. So the Bible

here says us first of all, to sing, right, to

say the right scripture, to sing when we don't have yet.

I think many times in our journey, in our lives, friends,

is it not true that we have.

Allowed situation to pay what we sing.

We have allowed circumstances to decpict how we should what

we save in our lips. We have been on the

journey whereby it's never easy, and sometimes the uneasiness or

sometimes the challengers causes us to say, to do, to react,

to confess things differently. This morning, the lot was remind

us against to sing, oh barren. You know, it's very

hard to sing but you don't have something. When you

don't have a breakthrough yet, when the things hasn't come

your way yet, when you were hoping and praying for

something and it hasn't come to pass yet, it's very

challenging for us to lift up my hands to say

God is still faithful when things hasn't come to pass yet.

Just an a am Mandarin service.

Earlier on, there was a girl that shared her testimony

about how God's been so so faithful to her. It's okay,

how God it's so so faithful to her. She has

a sight income, so she set up shut up venturing

into I think probably mutual and this stuff like that,

you just share a testimate, whereby I just started this

only because I wanted to give into the missions for

and God asked the given amount.

And I think second year.

Or third years starting to stuff the yearl ready do

you want to share with the church and stuff the

ye already been praying that I hit my yearly target

in the first quarter. So as she was sharing the testimony,

when I spoke the time, I say that you know

many times you hear the good parts, which is the

break to moment, which is God coming true. But some

of you may not know. Because I know this person

as well. The first four years was a lot of labor,

a love, prayer, a love crying out to the law,

a love, a love of God, show me the plan

God helped me, God crying out to you. And this

worst one speaks a lot about that single baron sing

old barons. Sing when you are not full yet, sing

when you have not received yet, declare the goodness of

God when you have not received it yet, I think

many times in our life and I will challenge you aloud,

write the environment to de pate, to declare, to cause

us to be said to be down, to be in

a place whereby it's got even real, it's got even true?

Can I even trust a lot?

Not? And this morning that was remind us again to missions, friends,

two missions, that it is really about sacrifice at the

end of the day. Do you know when you are set, friends,

it is a sacrifice to come out from the place

and to declare how good God is? Do you know

it's a sacrifice for us to actually come out from

what's familiar right to a place we are not familiar

these days and at used to work comfort because comfort

has very different level theseays. For example, some of you

may not find this comfortable with the chairs right now.

These are not comfortable chairs, you know, right, So we

find all this really is really comfortable chairs. Maybe some

of you'll find right now the aircon is not cool enough,

right you wish it was colder. So I don't want

to use the word comfort. This is because, like I

say again, comfort means a lot of things with very

different people I was just telling the eight Am that

you know, these days when you go for missions, right,

you're so used to having a two horse power air

cont in your room, all of a sudden you downgrade

the one horse power and it's.

Not cool enough and stuff like that.

These days is very different for us back in the

days whereby sleeping on the cement floor is actually quite nice. Okay,

none of you, I'm sure that there's one of you

I have set on the cement floors trying really nice

back in those no, no, no, when you're older than

when you're older, you find you can get up after that.

When you're younger, right, the cement floor is very cool,

you get very nice. But these days, so you go

for missions, oh you huh? You want me to slip

on the floor, right, So comfort is very different. So

I want to use the word familiar. You're very familiar

with this setting, right, she's you know, which is what

you have right now. But to go to another place

whereby you're not very familiar with. So if you have

never been to x break Fields, our death Community church there,

it is really truly a different experience, a different, different

situation whereby first of all, you won't see any instrument

except for a gamba there. I don't even know how

they can follow the readom, but they told.

Me they can.

But the lyrics it is being shown, it's not the

actual lyrics that they are signing, because the person who's

doing x TV on the day may not understand the

full signing language. They those sign by words. They don't

sign by words. They side it in a summary of words.

So when I was a couple of times already during worship,

I thought I was seeing I'm just following the sizes,

realized the action doesn't reflect the slides.

Oh no.

Then after even in the preaching, it's very different. They

don't see in this congress like that they see in

the circle so that everyone could see. So it's a

very different experience. And if you take exclaim is quiet,

that place is really quiet? Seriously, No, seriously, it's I'm like,

do you am I even getting true to you? You know,

stuff like and uh yeah. So it's a mass to

prepares slids when you go and appreciate ext big fields,

not because they want to read the words, because they

ask us that can you place in certain more pictures?

They understand pictures better than words, and stuff like that.

So it's an experience.

So yeah, the what's familiar to you right now, like

this to go up to the place that act break Fields,

Please get your permission from Jason before you decide. One

day he always just go like that, Jason, They all

just coming west, everybody. I was just saying, go ex

big fuse ma no please, all right, when you get there,

very different, you know all the the they shake their

hand and and this. It's just quite amazing. So the familiar,

leaving the familiar to unfamiliar friends. What is comfortable for

us to what's not comfortable for us. We always sit

tell people that you know, when you go to a

place where where you enjoy the cuisine wherever they serve

you first, even as Malaysians, some of us are not

comfortable with others people's cuisine. Right, I was just showing

earlier on to a bunch of sarakin. Right. You know

there's something called worms right somewhere before right right, it

tastes like butter like that, right, it does taste like battery. Right,

But anyway, all right, I get other people say that,

but out of no way, oh my dead body, or

it takes a sego worm in my mouth and this

stuff that from Sarawa. I'm like, so what's familiar and

what's not familiar? So the Bible here says single bearing,

you have not born friends. Sometimes we need to embrace

the sea situations in God. No matter what, it is

a sacrifice for me to consume, but I will consume

it anyway.

I share. Maybe I shave it a little before.

When we go for missions, friends, it's not always that

we have what we what we like. Sometimes you're given

things that you don't really like. So my recent trip

to a place I should not name where I don't

really think internal augans. It's not my best thing, but

I realized that I think internal august with with copy pink.

It's not a very good combination. I would just say, right,

internal august her Internet august, with with with with with

with copying, it's a very good combination.

I consume that. On top of that, I consumed ran

after that.

So this reird combination was working in my stomach and

this stuff like that I was there. I felt out

for the very moment I took one Internet organ Really,

I just talked a few Okay, I mean you can't

even swallow on it. Right, just swallow. I just hope

for the best after that, right tu. After half an

hour later, I excuse myself when the todilet. I just

wantitted everything out that I went back to my hotel room.

I started wanmitting again until ntil the next day they

asked me, they don't anything.

I'm still full for blast edam.

So it is a sacrifice of what is familiar to

you to what's It is a sacrifice. And many times

in our life, if if you're not careful, we just

only one what's familiar. We're very comfortable with familiar. But

God's asking us to sing. Can you sing when it's

not familiar to you and not? Can you trust me

when it's not familiar to you or not? Even when

you don't have can you just put your trust in him?

Because life is never a straight road. Although I am

as much as how you plan things to be. So

I'm in the midst of sort of fixing up my

house and this stuff like that. So I have to

move off for a short period of time to do

certain things. So I'm staying with my dad. My wife

is staying with the parents because my place is not

comfortable for two percent, So staying by dad. After twenty

years of move out and not moving back in. I

get the sort of a gleams of how he lives

life by himself.

And I realize that my dad.

When I left, it's a different Dad when I'm moving

right now, understanding his behavior better, understanding how he lives

his life. Now, I understood the man I call dad

a bit better. But it's never been a shape road

because it's asking me that what time am I coming back?

Dad?

I'm going to be fifty. I'm going to be fifty.

You're asking me what time am I coming back?

Hey? Really? You know?

I say that, don't worry about me, Okay, by that

I come back. So my dad sees me at earliest

eight a m. In the morning. I came back home.

It's at ten pm and night. Why you ain't busy

at your treasure? I say, yes, that it is busy. Well,

you know my church is not a busy or no. Yes,

I understand because your church your nako one so friends, grand.

God's asked us to sing.

It's not because he wants he just I don't just

because he want't hear you sing, but the attitude, the mindset.

I was sharing one group with this scripture.

God loves karaoke. He asked us to sing.

And many times, friends, we only choose songs in karaoke

what we like. Those who are afreaking karaoke you know

what I mean? Okay, maybe not here, Okay. The men

all go karaoke after they only choose songs what they

like to sing. I say, have you choose song that

you don't like? You not where we had to sing one?

Very hard? I say, yeah, sometimes in life very hard.

So the power of friends is not in keeping silence.

The power is not in holding back. The power is

in the sewing. The power is not in saying that, oh,

it's hard. The only prerequisite for mission is availability.

Friends.

The only prerequisite for missions is availability, because the Bible

says go therefore in all the world friends, So therefore

threads number one. Education is not a prerequisite for mission.

You could be a PhD holder, or you could just

be an SPM holder, But availability is more important. Right,

how heavy you are, it's not a prerequisite. Although I

tell people that if you're always go for missions, to

come bit later, because three days of not your common food,

definitely you shrink a bit one. Right. Fred's age is

not a criteria for missions. The Bible nurses only the

young one go out, the older ones stay be high

or the they'll go out the younger one see behind.

So basically everyone is encouraged to go.

But the problem why don't we go is because, like

worse one, we tend to allow the environment to say

that we can't. We tend to allow the things to

say that, you know what to be a homesleader. I

see someone home leader after this, I didn't want to

step down. It's okay to be quiet one. I know

you're processing surf goal cannot one and many times in

your life we allow that. That's why we don't see

my gods seeing when you don't have it yet, be

excited if not receive it yet. For example, hello time

just now right some of for some of us says

smiling is a sacrifice already to.

Ask you to move your facial master bat.

It's hard to give a proper head shake, not the

one the finger tips only one, friends, but proper is

a sacrifice.

Friends.

God allowed environment in our lives because he does give

us opportunity for us to sing. And that's the reason

why sometimes we don't have a break to because we

have not yet believed.

You will only sing when we believe friends.

Isn't it true? You will only decide to go when

you don't have any belief. You will only decide to

step out from a familiar zone when we believe. But

when we don't believe friends, no matter how persuasive a

person is in front of the stage, you will not

do it because we don't believe. But once you believe friends,

it's automatic you sacrifice one. I have not seen any

parents they say how my child will wake up in

the middle of the nine. I forget it. Most they're automatically,

will at least try. I won't use at least try

because one time I was talking to somebody that day,

I see how your family all four? So how do you?

How do your dad react with? Oh, the first one

he stay up the whole night, the whole time, and

the stuff like what?

But second, second, and fourth he give up?

After that he asked, I asked the mummy to take

care of everything, so he was absent, right, But when

you believe friends, you will ultimately pay the price. So

let me just show you a couple of old scripture spreads.

The power is not in keeping silence. The power is

in believing. So Romans Chapter eight was thirty four. You

know the scripture already. Yeah, in all these things, we

are more than conquerors. Friends, we need to have all

these things first to know that we are more than conquerors.

It is not another T shirt that we wear. For example,

if you're into Iron Man, you finish the court, you

get an eye completed T shirt, But many times people

wear that when they're not even having to complete the costs.

Have you seen people wearing that the kind of T shirt.

I'm a finisher, but they never finish. Oh different? So

why thinking husband right different? And this husband complete? That's

what you can wear, right, But we have seen people

in this guy show can complete and not Bully Girl

can finish her right, But they're still weary anyway, because

it's it's it's something that you tell people that you

accomplish in one way or another. At least you bought

the T shirt. But friends, here, what I'm trying to

see is this that we can only say that we

are more than conquerors when there's somebody to conquer. We

can only declare that we can overcome when things to overcome.

But if we've got the plate safe, meaning you say

that within our own boundaries and all understanding, then there

is there is not much need to express that we

are more than conquerors. The Bible says, yet in all

these things we are more than conquerors. So if you're

in a situation right now, declare the scripture we are

more than conquers. It also says it look chupter one

was that he said with that, for with God nothing's impossible.

For with God, nothing's impossible. First, the scripture sounds so nice,

so good. But if there's no situation to declare that,

that becomes a very nice statement on a wall, a

very nice declaration in our house and God. This one

wants to remind us again, it's either that you just

came out from one or you're going into one situation.

Life is never a straight road that we can plan

out like ways like that. There's always different turns and

last minute. Also, you get a blog accident and actually

did to it so recently our company a ya extra,

she went for a stuff retreat, any full time stuff.

You know it. This is right, praise the last like

a chef leader. It was so when you when you

weren't retreat. You you thought, like you know, you know,

refresher you wake up at night o'clock, right, well, we

wake up earlier about eight thirty seventy in the morning, full, full,

full day. The first day, friends were out in the

afternoon sun about two pm, all the way until six pm,

about five pm plus sunburned, everything like that, Christian becoming Christian, right,

having to run a race in Pinang and stuff like that,

looking for clues. Whereby, at the other day we asked ourselves,

does it even really matter because Jesus is out of

the price, right, always feel like not plague and the

stuff like that. But Freds it got to a place

whereby we were like I thought, it's supposed to be

a stuff retreat felt like a boot cam because the

next day there was cycling involved. If you ever use

a rented bite, that's not your size, right that the

chains keeps sleeping after every ten minutes and were cycling

under you know, from eleven pm all the way a

petty feud and stuff. For me, It was all right

for the rest of my other colleagues, right, they came

out by bumpas because the sea was very small. But

what I'm trying to see everything else, everything else, all

these all there were renting experience and just stuff like

my friends, the extreme.

Sports that we went for.

Right, I could see people coming to the place where

by just give we ready to go back to work.

Then the stuff retreat.

Also, because I think majority of people aging readio friends

we join by ag they're they're there. They're in the

thirties and forties and fifties. Right, So so something may

not as a pew if you're in your trainees, go

for it, and your thirty just give us a more

time to sleep, that kind of thing. But we say

that for God, for we've got nothing's impossible. So we

have to work in groups and in teams and you know,

with with other people, do you know how child? So

the greatest challenge is not to love your enemies. I

will tell people this. The greatest challenge is love your

brother and sister in Christ. Because loving enemies is quite simple,

but loving your brother is in Christ in the team

is not that simple. When we're trying to decipher clue

of friends, it was so challenging because everybody's running to everywhere.

One participant that read, I'll tell you what youre think

this school. Let me go hit first. Okay, let me

go hit. Let me plow the land, let me survey

the land first, so by time you wish there. Right,

you al really got the clue. But we're doing but

we're supposed to take photograph together.

If now you'll be disqualified.

Why am I sharing all this because I do not know,

because I don't let it out somewhere. But were it

was really a good time, my friends, really really a

good time. Right, But first for we've got nothing's impossible.

While we were there, we met that we passed plan.

He was just sharing with us some stories about how

he was. He was in Taiwan. He was the hit

of I think the chairman of the Baptist convention. So

in Taiwan, the Baptists have a lot of land, a

lot of land. The founding the founding fathers quite the

land and the stuff. But when they left they pass

it on to the new generation. It's still of developing

the land for the Kingdom of God. They were all

fighting for the peace of that life, fighting after inheritance,

like how to sell to make money and this like that.

It just got me taking friends that how so much

that you know the word of God said asking us

to sing when we don't have, but when we have,

we don't even want to sing. So there's a situation

right now when you don't have, God's asking you to sing,

right But if you have, do we even sing because

it's always a sacrifice to sing, friends, whether we have

or we don't have. And many times when we don't have,

sometimes we do sing loud one friends, But the time

when we have, we actually can stop singing because of

dependency of God is lesser because we we we we

have it, We've got in made, everything is provided for.

And that's why God reminds us again that the more people,

the more people. That is not having a child, that

people with a child, because God wants us to be

an encourage for their missions. It's all about going there

to encourage another person. Friends, It's never asking us to

remain where we are comfortable.

And stuff like.

First of all is the sacrifice point number two is

this that friends, It's not just any form of sacrifice.

Everybody is sacrificing.

But the problem here is is that are we sacrificing

you know, buiness to what got once here?

What I'm trying to say Worse two.

Worse two in fifty ISA fifty fources enlarge the place

of your ten. Come on and let them stretch out

the curtains of your dwelling.

Friends. First part of worse two is doable.

We enlarge, we enlarge sometimes, friends, when you talk about

enlarging your ten, for example, we always think that maybe

X renuation push push the lamp all the way to

the I mean, push a building all the way to

the end of your property lines and stuff like that.

But can I just also give another description to your

there's something at Larging your tent also means clearing out

some things in your house that you never use anymore,

never look at it anymore, never visited it anymore.

Earlier on, once one.

Guy said, although I still skip my primary exercise book,

I asked, why are you keeping it? I don't know?

Are you going to refer to it again? We should

get hoping that yeah, I should have. I'd say that

I can get a food mark. Here is study eight

years old. We are still keeping staff.

Friends.

Many times you want to enlarge, right and sometimes gods asking,

even if you at large, how will you use your space?

Even if you at large? What are you going to

put it. See, Friends, we don't just keep a mean

A lot of times we like you said that we

keep stuff that's valuable, which is true. But stuff that's

valuable that we keep is very few because it's expensive.

Stuff that's inexpensive, not very valuable. We keep the raffia strings.

How many ruffia strings have we kept saying that one

day we use it? Yes, I under said, please keep. Okay,

but a deal with the Bundy can you can sells

one packet to really friends? That thing is a bit

liber really live the with top on friends. I'm not

I'm not saying the tap brand, but just friends does

odd ship We're still keeping it nothing. But what I'm

trying to see here is that Gods ask you us

to enlaunch our ten. Yet at the same time God's

ask you what we're going to how we're going to

use and large space. We also, God, please and launch

my influence for what purpose? Lord? Please this bless me

Lord with a great job. For what purpose? Because God

can launch your ten? But what are you going to

feel it up with? And many times we are filling

out with stuff that we never look at, we visit.

It's nice to have it, of course, it make us

look like you know, we are studios. No, the library

of books that we have very nice, but honestly, but

we have not touched the books before.

We can't buy books, but we don't read the.

Said is actually buying a book friends. It is there,

but we are accumulating I myself with one of the villains. Uh,

we're accumulating books. One day we see we'll read it.

So recently I have to give away a lot of

stuff away, just asking my wife, do you still need

a vanity table because your bodies rendity table when you

got married, you never look at it one time is

almost a prered. While we get married, you have when

table like that. I say that, but if you're using

it occupying space, you just give someone else who need

it more. I give away a coffee table. Say there

was our dining table. We used it for a while,

but now you stay hoping one day that we use it.

Maybe we we we maybe we have we create some

ideas how we do use it. La indien that Jeddy

just occupy lot of space. So we give we give

effect things a bit away, right, stuff that is not

going condition. We tray the but we give what I'm trying.

Here is is gods and large of ten? How are

you gonna use the space? Are you gonna put it

with more? Take away to powess one day that you

use it, or you're large of ten for a purperson

for a reason. The second part of words source rit

and potter facts. Let them stretch out the curtains of

your dwelling, Let them stretch out. There's certain things you

can do, but there are other things only other people

can stretch you. That's why I'm gonna tie you back again,

serving God, missious keys, because it is the damn that

stretches us. Many times you ask us, Solf, why can't

I do it? Because we have never allowed ourself to

be stretched. You have never allowed ourself to be stretched.

We need other people to stretch our capacity. I share,

but the stuff we treat, yes, it's it's my teammates,

who I call brothers and sisters in Christ that stretches

my capacity for patients. It's true, friend's under the hot sun.

Everybody got a different idea how to win the price.

I'm like, then you get the older people like me.

So it's not all about the reading. He says about

I want to go back to my hot and enjoy

the aircon. I don't care about being forfeitter and just

go shot to the econd. I want to play the

game anymore.

Take it.

No, we have to win, and then of course that

you can't. But then you get other people like your LOGI.

But you get to heaven.

God know that's going to say welcome. You're the first

person to arrive in heaven. But friends, I'm trying to

see all these friends, but all the sacrifice. But the

question is what are we sacrificing?

Is it in? What is it what God wants?

Because you need to allow other people to stretch you

to discover one, you need to let go first of all,

how do you let other people stretch you? The one

you have to trust other people, whether you like them

or you don't like them. Friends, it's other people that

stretch your capacity. It's the other people that's going to

shape you. We have a choice, it's how we want

to respond. But if you don't let the others to

stretch first, you'll not get the scripture that the promise

of that a worse three that you extend to your

left and to the right. See, there are others that's

involved in our development friends, where we go for missions,

the key thinking is that you're serving a group that

may not understand what your cuisine is, but would you

allow them to serve you to stretch your capacity. You

may not be familiar with chearing ministry, but as you

go to the field you have to preach, you have

to serve. Would you will allow them to stretch your capacity?

And say, God, if you want to use you can

use me. We have Sidney's prayer before where we're growing

up as a youth, as a teen, as a campus student, God,

if you can use anyone, can use me. But as

you grow older, friends, that use me comes with cer

the terms of condition. Use me when I'm free, use

me when I'm available, use me when I have my

back to already, but what happened to the point in

time when.

We say God, just use me, just use me?

The sacrifice, the power of sacrifice is not in this

is the doing, friends, because everybody just due. But it's

also in the attitude. It's also in our attitude. Would

you certainly said, okay, you asked me to serve everywhere

the sera for example, right, But attitude is not right, friends,

It's almost after all people ask you to serve that

you give people masam like that, right, you give you

our face. Let as you say, constant face to face

all the time on you. You play in instruments that

will smile. Come, wait for the preacher to end the message,

to go back home, which are good to end very soon?

All right? Yeah, I mean you just can't wait to

go back. And this is not the place you want

to be. But that the same. See I'm showing up,

I'm still serving. I'm but friends, is that really what

God wants from us? Just an action? Asked me to

give a gifler like that? Also, God re haavy people

in our church. I just give la just to keep

us quiet. Friends, It is not about keeping us quiet?

Is pleasing God? Adare of the day? See the wadow

with the two mis You do have to turn to

the chapter. But the wadow with the two is God

not say the people who give from the extra from

the wealth is wrong. God, that will say those people

who are rich and give extra gift from the from

the surplus is wrong. They just give her But there

is no power, no change. But the lady with the

too much, she give all that she has because of

the act of secretary to please the Lord. And many

times now journey friends, there is always going to be

a choice whether or not to please him or not

to please him. It is a choice, and there whether

or not we want to or not. And the way

we please godfriend, is not just because it's an action.

God someway advise we won't be blessed, But it's how

much we know Him. To the degree we know God

is how much we want to please him. It is

not about doing more for church. It is not about

going for missions really, and the day is the heart

issue God. This one wants to remind us again, friends,

So if I would ask you the fashion Christ in

your mind, how Christ look like? When I say fashion Christ,

meaning to say that you know, a lot of times

people say that.

They believe they are Christian.

I think the thing I want to challenge people these

days is that when you say your believer, what kind

of believer are you?

When I say, what can't believer are you?

Because many times we assume, just because we are believer,

that they have the same conviction.

For example, when you and when when.

The person gets safe right after one week, we think

it's automatically a person know how to worship the Lord

because you see other people doing just lift that behind

this thing you sing right number one, We think that

the individual know how to pray after one thing, they

accept Jesus or read the Bible.

And that's why God this morning wants to remind us.

Again and again. Friends, how are you ship? Are you

shipping Jesus according to your lifestyle? How are you shipping

Jesus according to the world of God. I think many

times a lot of believers have shaped Jesus according to

the lifestyle hashtag blessed hashtag You know, God provides.

And we are fashioning in the sense of like. And

they say, and we know. It's a scary part of friends.

Scary part is I call this the theology of the

gym only because when you go to a gym, right, friends,

people first time do not know how to live weights.

They they are how to live weights.

Right, you understand, seventy percent out from the noise of

seventy percent, they're passing down to a new new be

they just joined you. Let me teach how the carryweights.

I've seen it before. The person was in the gym

after three weeks teaching other new people to use the ways.

After the person the person from it is not even

correct yet. No, friends, haven't got the fun. Please do

not think I'm hitting out somebody, all right, So we

were thinking that who was dipsed talking about my personal

observation I've beat the gym before and teaching, So we

were like we were talking about from being gym.

No, no, no, no, no, I've maybe could be by

shall I say?

Right? But I've seen before people teaching other people when

they don't have the full understanding of the purpose of

why they stand in the particular way, how they live

withs and could you imagine right now? Same with Christianity,

if you don't understand the fullness of it. We are

passing on and down to a conviction that's based on

our lifestar conviction rather than God. The conviction and the

danger after a while is the next few generations we'll

take after that. If you look at songs these days,

you get a girl of people saying that God.

Will come true for me.

Then you get a small selective group of people write

the right songs.

God.

It's all about sacrifice. God, I'll give you my life,

I will sacrifice you pay the price afterward, refashion God

in the way of our lifestyle. And sometimes it's very

dangerous because then we only have a very limited view.

Because if God says and we like to enlarge our

tents right now, come on, we like to latch your tests.

The second part of the scripture say, would you let

allow others in your life to stretch of the criticism

of your dwelling? Come on, would you allow others to

come into your life to stretch of the criticism of

your dwelling.

It also says it worse to do not spare? Do

not spare?

And many times in our life, friends, we're very generous

with our self, but whereas less we're very stingy with

other people, or maybe a raised generously other people, restive

with yourself, which I will weigh. But God said do

not spare, And this morning God wants to remind us

again in worse two, lengthen your costs, strengthen your stakes. So, friends,

if missions is about sacrifice, then the sacrifice is about obedience.

And finally here is these that friends, why is it

important for us to understand missions? It's because the power

of dying to self. I just want one one las scripture.

I share this.

You are right, John Chap The Travels twenty four. Just

turn me right now, jo't chup The Travels twenty four.

Good turn your do there, John Chap The travel Verse

twenty four says, here.

Is this that most surely I say to you.

Unless a grain of wheed falls into the ground and dies,

remains alone. But when it dies it produced much grain.

The power is actually is in the seed. The seed

has everything to multiply and to grow to for much grain.

But the challenge is not in the seed, friends, The

challenge is this to be buried in the ground. I

have not seen any seed, they say, I want to

be buried. I have not seen any sea. They jump

into the side by itself. You buy the seed from

the farmer, it's in the packaging.

No seed.

You open up the packaging, you solve like we decide

to just take its own seat life and just jump

into the grounder and be buried. What happens? Friends, you

understand what I'm trying to say. You've not open the seat,

jumping by itself and decided to just be buried into

the ground. Friends, The seed has to be placed in

someone's hand to be buried. The problem is that will

be with the friends because we didn't us. We are

fashioned in the image of God. So if the Bible

says for God so love the world friends, they give

his only son. The same capacity that God can love

the world is the same capacity that God has given

us as well. We have the capacity to love because

we are fashioned in the image of God. But the

challenge is, is that not because that we have not

discovered the capacity fans, It's because we have never allowed

ourselves to be buried? See we one worst treat in

NA fifty four. Expand the left and to the right.

Come on, true or not? Who whoever pray God, this

made me the tail? Another hit? Nobody pays. Always say

it makes me the hit. Another tale. After all you

go to you go to any shop, it's FISHI carrier,

no FISHI talma, I mean it's fish you think about.

It's should carry all the way.

I'm not given you any shot by the fish tail,

because every part of the fish can be eaten. But

it's fishing carry fish still carry. But it's still it's

severe anyway. But but anyway, this beside the point. The

point here is the first. If the sea requires to

be buried, requires to be buried in order for the

capacity to grow. And many times in our life, as

I would bring it so close the next ten minutes,

is that we have never allowed ourself to be buried.

We have never allowed ourself to be in the dirt,

to be in a place whereby vulnerable, to be a

place whereby.

God.

If you want use me recently point the question, we

just say this, but if Abraham sacrifice Isaac and Isaac

never returned, Abraham sacrifice Isaac and Isaac never returned, will

you would Abram still live the lot? Not if our

lives with Isaacs in our life, we don't sacrifice. I mean,

if you sacrifice, if that Isaac now returns, will we

still love the lot? Because it's always a challenge. Friends,

because many times our surroundings, everything that we have right

now gets going for church, there's a place to stay

right now. You've got the band that's ready to leaders

in the worship. You've got the picture on Sunday. You

got any problems, You've gotta just part coltinated that looks

and cares for you, that's on call for twenty four

to seven. You got amazing Jason Martinez, who's who's ever

ready to to to walk? YouTube stuff one, But what

with all that is not there? For example, will we

still love God? Because in our life and our journey friends,

as I close soon it is it is always a challenge, friends,

to sacrifice the problem. I think I always understand if

you're if you're published region Underseid sacrifice. Probably not in

the sacrifice alone. The problem is in the obedience, whether

we sacrifice it what God wants, what God wants. Come

off our comfort zone, Come off a comfort zone. Invite

of friends to church, right, pray with someone, walk along

someone is something is very easy to be the same community.

But when you have a community whereby an individual or

no job, helping to find a job, walk through the process,

or helping to understand some shortcomings, helping to walk to

pray to with him. It's a journey. Friends, It's never easy.

But that's what God asked us to do. At the

end of the day, before coming here, brother came up

to me, I just resemb my job yesterday. So I

just resemb my job. I got some of the plans.

I say, let me let me come back from my

for mo what I need to do. I say, we

see that we pray together, Well you'll see it true.

I mean, will you allow other people to stretch your timing?

Because it's never easy, friends, it's never easy. So it

starts with missions and sacrifice. Sacrifice, it's about obedience. Finally,

it's understanding that we have the capacity. Were like a

seat that needs to be buried. We are like a

seat that needs to be buried. Because if you don't

bury the seat, friends, the multiplication won't happen. If you

don't marry the seat, Friends, the worst three expand to

the left and the right one won't happened. We love

the expansion, we love the hit, and that we love

to be blessed. We love all the But the first

step he who desires to come after me, ms first

deny himself and take up the cross and follow me.

The Bible says in Metri six to the three says,

sicky first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness seek

him first. Do you know how hard sometimes for earth

again to trust? To trust? We say again, before we've

got nothing is impossible. But if there's no situation, there

is no application. When there's no need, there is silence,

but there is an understanding behind it. That's why sometimes

in our journey, in our life. We can say for

we've got nothings impossible. Friends, it's a closer And I

want to courage your friends. I do not know where

you are with your journey, but I just want to

courage your friends as you begin to go in your

Christian faith, as you really growing church and your own

walk with the Lord, until the time the Lord costs

you home. Friend, there's so much to learn about the Lord,

so much to learn how he fashioned you, how he

made you, so much to discover that you know that

you're not just made for a singular purposonally just to

get the job and stuff like that. But really, in

the Kingdom of God, Friends, there's so much more you

could do. So pass a publishing with us. A story

in Taiwan, that girl of young people in regardless of

the denomination de said to come together and turn a

place whereby what used to be a hotel, like a

like a college, that they turn it around. They turn

it around, they come together, they raise it own funds

from different denominations, raise it own funds just to do

up the place again, to give glory.

Back to a place that they turned it to a

Bible school.

After that girl, young people without much, but believe God

has called them there for a reason. Try do not

show where you are. Virginia, say again, but would you

allow God, friends to even stretch your capacity? Really to

stretch your capacity? But I can't really? Then go back

the worst one single barren when you can't afford it,

that's when you should sing. You keep saying no, I can't,

I can't. That's where you should sing. And that's why

you allow worse to to come in and large place

of your tent sometimes and enlarging means letting things go.

Then you your place is a largerity.

Our lives is cluttered with too many things, too many

past experience, too many, too many.

Hurts and pain we need to let go.

If you don't let go, fans, if you're a community,

more space, even God in large your ten, you're going

to fill up with more hurt, more pain. But something

larging me to let certain things go, to clean up

your things, to let to bless other people with not

with your heart and pain, bless other people with with stuff,

so that you have more space. Finally, is this that

we need to be buried to understand the capacity God

created as we are like a seed, I got this

word only because one day I was just thinking about

it and people tell me they're not They've reached the end,

they can't do it anymore.

They God reminded me of.

The seed that needs to be buried, and how in

a seat everything is there. I'm not asking us to

do more and it says I fear up your calendar

with church word. No, I'm asking us God, would you

help me? I got this response. Would you give me

wisdom all I need to do or not? Would you

enable me to help me to understand the solution for

this problem? Hit not because if not, we always go

with our own human wisdom. And there's only so much

we could do. And we've got friends. Truly, nothings impossible. Friends.

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