Hunger | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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Met Chapter Tralve versus The tree says that EI don't

make the tree good and it's fruit good or else

with the tree bad, and it's true bad for a

trees done by its fruit. Immen, your and I know

this scripture. Every tree is done by its fruit.

Right.

The question is is that no one starts off with

life making the tree to bad bad fruit.

Think about it.

No one starts up in live making the tree that

you have produced bad food.

I don't think so.

You look at a particular tree, rather it is a

mango tree. I want you to produce bad food, okay,

because I don't want to share what I don't either.

You look at the banana tree and they say, don't

bear fruit, please, don't bad food. I just want you

for your leaves to I don't care about the fruit.

So I don't think anyone starts off with life like that. However,

in the cause and the journey of your life, in

the cause of the pressures of life, in the cause

of the challenges of life, we attempted, and sometimes the

word is that persuaded that another way, another life, another

approach is better than what God has for us.

And that's why sometimes.

You look at this scripture you go like, okay, I

never start off in life with the intention of making

my tree to.

Produce bad fruit.

But through the cause of pressure, through the cause of

time frame, meaning you say you have to make decisions immediately.

If not, you're passed the window.

For example, if you're doing shopping, shopping will always have

a pressure of a window.

The sale is closing soon.

Right you go to a shopping app, you see people,

there's a countdown there, and it's the thing that you're looking.

For for the past six months. It's not like you

need it. It's also not like you don't need it.

It's nice to have, very subjective nice to have, but

not really that important to have. It's good to have it,

but don't have It's still okay, but it's good to

have it if you're constantly under the pressure and needing

to make those decisions.

And sometimes if.

The word this is that we are coming, we can

come to a place whereby you're put to a place

whereby you the word is that you will make adjustment.

It's a nicer word than used the word compromise. You

make adjustment to your conviction, You make adjustment to your belief,

and you also make adjustment to what you hold. It

is prescious and valuable and the end of the day,

friends that it is a choice.

Don't we recognize it?

It is a choice that you and I, that God

presents on a daily basis, whether or not you add

in good fertilizer or path fertilizer. It is like eating

jump food. Although you are feel yet empty. The corbook

tastes so good at the first bite, you can't resist

a second cropo, isn't it?

Okay?

Not many cropo lovers decide by decide yes, okay, right.

These are the people like to stack. These are the

most serious eaters. He all right that it fuels up

your stomach, but it's so empty on the inside, and

the more you eat, the hunger you get. And sometimes

life presenters with the choice. It's not that we want

two byes's nice too, And we're pressured, and that's why

bad food produced because of choices in life. Do we

would understand what we're putting it into our life? Come on,

do we know what we are putting it into our life?

The Bible says in the next scripture, verse.

Verse thy four you bull of vipers, not calling anybody

else quota committing that.

How can you, being evil speak of good things?

How can you be evil speak of good things? Friends?

It's just basically mean that this process under deception. Think

about it being evil speak of good things. Maybe the

guy don't even realize that his path or he chosen

his lifestyle is killed to us the dark side. I mean,

if you know that you're evil already, friends, if you

knew that evil, you would even want to, first of all,

speak of good things, because there's a teen imitation.

To live your life very differently.

But if you're evil and speak of good things, sometimes

you're under deception. We think it's all right, acceptable, that's

the normal norm in today's living. We we tell couples

that's going to get married. We interview every couple because

they ask for premierge counseling. Right, We talk to them,

We ask them every other question, and one question we

ask them, are you're staying together? We know because of

life choices they make in life, they want to save money,

so therefore they stay together before they get married, separate room,

but stay together and we say that could you could chew?

Could chew next eight months, constant just shifting out, shifting up,

fighting a place all right back while really shifting out

and stay somewhere else, because you one God's blessing over

your marriage more than anything else. By doing so, you're

not doing it for the church. You're doing it for

your marriage. That you are making a choice and telling

your future partner that God's blessing is above anything else.

I want his presence, and therefore I need to leave

my life right to honor his word. And therefore I

would It's going to cost me for eight months, but

this money that I've got to spend for eight months,

it's valuable for the sake of my marriage.

So we tell couples that we love that we.

Just say, hey, it is hard for us to conduct

a wedding, ask God's blessing upon this marriage and this union.

If there's one thing you can't do, this one thing

you can't do, I say, it is almost like a

like it's almost like living a deception that you one

God's blessing, God's best over your life. But yet.

So this cripture you see that how can you be

even speak of good things? It come to a place

where it.

Is acceptable that generation.

Even in the heart. But yet when they see and

they speak differently, and then why the heart believes? And

that's why sometimes there is no power, there is no

alignment with God, there is no breakthrough because there is

no consistency. And many times every couple that we speak

to they say, I don't do the PMC or rather

I don't do the pre PMC interview.

A team of us does it, and.

They will tell us that, yeah, you're right, because we

want gods say more than anything else.

We're going to find a way. As difficult as it is.

And you know how the it is to rent a

place for eight months, and difficult it is, we'll try

to move out, crash somewhere else. That's just for the

sake of this marriage that we are going to have.

And everyone of them who know, we know that we're

taken this path, their marriage is stronger because this commitment

they may is not to us admit to the Lord

who cannot be seen, but yet they choose to obey.

How about us right now?

Friends? Have we been consistent with our life? So it's

one encourage you as you look deeper. Friends, this is

not a scoring session. All right, this is a reflective year.

So the Bible says, out of the abundance of the heart,

the mouth speaks. Out of the abundance of the heart,

the mouth speaks. So, friends, before the mouth could speak,

you have the deposit in the friends, before the mouth.

Could speak, you have to deposit.

And sometimes in our life we pick up a lot

of stuff, not realizing we pick it up. Every repeat,

every speak it because we deposited inside. And God this

morning was asked us to reflect back.

What have we been taking in?

Some of us in this modern generation, we are very

used or very good at calorie counting. You count your

calorie or your food packaging? Right, you look at your

foot packaging. You see the word sugar e e w right,

my wife does it? Don't buy this, hey, DearS. Only

one for tree grams of sugar only not good for you.

One forres of sugar. Hoe that So I need to

go house visitation, right, So why I cannot eat my

own house? I can eat other people's house because it's

rude to refuse the food that served in front of you.

Everyone say hallelujah. All right, I got friends, see it.

So therefore we look at the packaging, we look at

the content, right and before we consume, how about our daily.

Life, our heart? What have we picked up from? What

where we hang out?

What have we picked up in our daily life and

our work and our college, acceptable lifestyle and this stuff.

Like that, you know.

Being one of the being doing church for past twenty

four years, friends, one of the things is that as

we look back at all photograph, we look at people

journey readers from the start, from the start.

And where we well, let you know, we have touched.

At one point in time, I think we had a

campus event about four hundred and fifty people came out

of four hundred and fifty people cheer, hunger with you

to church, travel with you to church. We spend a

particularly event five thousand bringing it to hire about ten

buses around the whole. It was well of those crazy

things that we did. You know Rachel was on the

dance group. I think, yes, I shure ah photograph, you say,

wow O, the place don't show it. So that's why

you don't want to miss our twenty fifth and new

sery because was all the old photograph. Albert didn't used

to look like this. Albert used to look like Rachel

that size. I think fatality, right. I used to have hair,

I used to right faster, Daniel used to be still

the same now right now now now cooler and now now.

New glasses cooler. Right. But so all the photographs is

going to come out. You really don't miss it, Okay anyway,

so going by or photographs, So we touch a lot

of people. A lot of people came to our doors.

Good people. I mean some of them work in other

states in the country. Praise God. That then other church

praise God. But there's a group of sections of them

actually gave out on the faith, gave up on faith.

We have one person that left a bag of books

in front of our church office and one prayer service.

All the Christian literature that I don't know who these

percial is ever own.

Please, I think someone else can better use for this.

I'm not sure that breaks your heart, but that really

breaks my heart to know that we are doing church.

We want to cheer you on all the way to

the very end. We want to cheer you on all

the way to the very end.

So the question here is is that what have we

been putting in the heart that strengthens earth? Come on

that strengthens you, because out from the bondance of the heart,

the mouth speaks first. You will only know what you

put inside when you speak.

You will only know because many.

Times in our life we say that it's okay, the food,

it's acceptable earlier morning service. I say that because we

are Malaysia, we are very used to or where we

know this drink right, everyone, I understand I say the word.

You have an idea of picture or what and how

it tastes like. But when you go overseas.

After four days, after five days of Americano or long

black or flat white, you just crave for a day

array and you will take your chance of the Malaysian shop.

You'll take your chance of the Malaysian shop that sells

the word data and just say how old vision? That

can it be? Isn't it? You will at least like

even is four pounds.

You would say, I just want to connel one time

because you know that you can another ten more days there.

Yeah, you pay for the drink. The drink looks color

looks close, not exactly close.

After it's milk and tea friends, how far of the

color it was not the pink color of friends?

Got a bit of foam, but one sip.

You know, friends, it is far away from how it

tastes like. Then when you get friends overseas, we see

in Melbourne a few times they say this is the

best luxA here in Melbourne, and I want to say

that it's something.

I think it's better than Malaysia. I want to reminder

person to remember you where you.

Came from, because there is no way it is better

than Malaysia, because we have all the freshness of ingredients

here right, but.

It tastes better than back home.

This chalk have first, this chocolate tale in Melbourne close

and I want.

To say something is better than pinang.

Bold proclamation, very bold, friends, But what happens You can

become so familiar with the taste over seas it's acceptable.

But until unless you speak it out, you don't know.

You just consume me, consume me. Then your taste but

gets adjusted. Come on, your taste, but your language get

adjusted unknowingly.

Friends, your life style gets adjusted unknowingly, and it becomes

where we sat.

After all, when you speak your legals feels different, feels different, friends, unknowingly.

You change.

So when I studied there for in Melbourne, for a year,

came back and me and my girlfriends use.

The thing that religious churches are so boring.

We are still stuck in the generation of Hosenna integrity song.

Songs from Don Woe is still being sung in churches

whereby in Australia remove on the huge song already.

But in those days they were both.

Progressive beasts and all here it's still the oldiest celebrate

Jesus celebrity. It's still sung over twenty old years right

and all day it's more for we have the power

of your love. The soul was so nice, so meaningful,

so ministrying to my soul and my spirit. Why can't

the Maligian churches then the past and Australia is so

good to put the arms around.

You say, say you are a legend.

And a felt that you can overclimb every mountain, every wall.

But over here the passes. Over here, you're not doing enough.

You'll come. You must worship, Okay, I'll see you are.

Right.

Oh that the more caring.

But here it's like great to Chinese school every Sunday,

like that your lingo change. You didn't go there to

cheach your lingo friends who went there for six days

a holiday, came back. We're Australian accent. Australian accent. After

six days strands and say I want to I want

to my grade after six days of holiday.

I love the how is there? Yeah? The house looking?

I love everything there, the weather and when you take

photograph the sky is really blue. Malaysia is pale blue

and stuff like. And they begin to change the way

they speak.

Friends. You see, we did start off our life with

the intention of going there. I want to change my

ex Okay, we'll pick up this excit. No, I didn't

want to go to Australia to pick out different with

different mindset. But subtly you just change out from the

bondance of the heart. The mouth speaks, why do you

deposit into your life? You get so drawning, drawn in

until your lingal changers, friends, your legal changers, and just

say that first, well, what happened to the past in Malaysia?

Who walks to you when you feel like giving up,

when the whole will feel like crashing because you broke

up with your girl friend who cried together with you.

We are really good leaders here, I cry with one

brother here. Friends, at twelve am in the morning, twelve,

Verse he was hugging me in the car. Police had

to put a touchlight inside. What are you guys do doing?

I say, it's okay, better, he's just went to a

back bank up. That's already. We are really good leaders

over here, or do this. They don't have the extent,

but they are really good hard But we'll get so

drawn in friends, So huh, I'm really in my introduction

only you know, Okay, okay, I gotta go, okay, go

all right.

Verse thirty five.

So a good man out from the good treasures of

his heart's bring forth good thing. Come on, a good

man out the good treasure of his heart, bringing forth

good things. Friends, focus on the word good treasure. Please

focus on the word good treasure. Do you know a

good treasure? When you see or your is your treasure?

Just go silver, ruby, sapphire, that's considered treasure. Anything else

out from this thing is not a treasure. So how

do you find good treasure?

Friends?

To you in your life? How how do you identify

a good treasure? I want to let you know, being

a community of faith like this is really good. It

is a precious thing. Friends.

You cannot find it.

You can't even the ones that there's no money you

can buy, you can't pay, then then I'll give you

ten thousand B my friend. You will be your friend immediately.

Don't have to, but if you want to, you can

give to you. I mean committee of faith. So I

told the other service. I met a brother recently. His

parents got retired and his parents are retired. I see

what so that do because of what I depent to

my dad. So I a mean of concern would with

the seniors. I say, what does so what your dad

do doing?

Timing? Watch TV every day?

Watch TV having like Wow, catch you out on his

season every season one, two, three, four, night Rider?

Sorry friends, you're y'all don't know and you don't know

you know what? You know what? Right?

All those because they all have to give up all

those watching tv MA because of for work and stuff

like that. So they'll catch up all the old TV

series law like TV, all the TV B series of

SUDD they catch up.

And stuff like that.

Now, the worst thing is that I prayed that Nope,

no retiring going the ky drama after gone, ready after that.

But I say, so what else beside watching TV? What

else beside watching TV? Once evening go for a walk.

After walk, come I watched more TV. I say he

has the church, right, yeah, a very big church. That's

a very big church in PJ. So I told my dad, say,

I told my parents, look for a community, look for

a community. I then explain that, I say, community is

really important, very important. I say, my dad went for

a seniors retreat about two hunger of them in sixty

seventy eighties. The preacher their friends.

The first I heard the but I said, oh, the

preacher preachure is a good word. I see. What was

the word about going to heaven? Serious? Pretty about do

not fear you go to heaven? This is sixty I say, wow,

that's one way are preparing them. He came myself encouraging. Hey,

you know that you shouldn't feel I say, yes, I

know that. Some said the tree.

Yes, I know that. I know all right, as you

were just talking. And the word is that the community.

It's like a good treasure. Come on, it's a good treasure.

So this birthday, you know what this friend of mine,

his parents is just watching TV. I asked him to

go to a church. He attends to church, but don't

get involved with the community. He is at home. I say,

how are you guys coping? Frost and sisters, how you

guys coping? We just can't wait to move out. We

just can't wait to move out of the house. We

can't stand it. Every day say the same thing, complaining

a good man of the good treasure of himself, brief

of good things. So what's good treasure to you? Friends?

Because you've got to have good treasure in your heart?

Homes is a good treasure? The community or I want

to let you know this community or homes really we

have really really, I've I've been around different church, just

talk to different leaders. I'm not trying to break or

anything that we are really good leaders who just call

you friends and ask you how you're doing. They're not

trying to be busy body friends. No one paid them

to do it. They just call you and say, hey,

are you doing well? And they see it's just last Sunday?

Is there anything I could pray for? I mean, first,

you think about it, because they can do so many

other things like being on shopping here because E level

level seal was coming up, but they took time off

to connect with you all. And many times in our

life friends, you think that all your wife, you're so

busy body, and we reject that. We reject that, and

that's why our heart. Therefore, when it's empty, what do

you feel it? You feel it substitute, substitute, whereby it

doesn't satisfy. That's why even though you have fellowship on

the outside, but it's empty conversation that doesn't build up,

got nothing to look forward to. So I want to

encourage you friends, think about the good treasures you have, friends,

and the word is that keep it. Come on, keep it,

keep the good treasure, no matter how difficult do you

think it is. But how there you don't understand I

go to homes. When my home lead the teacher, I

fall asleep.

Then don't I mean?

There are ways to stay away, my friends, There are

ways to stay awake. Volunteer yourself to teach the expect

that we spot. Okay, the rest of the people here,

I did not they did not pay me. Okay, right,

all right, last scripture, last, last scripture of Genesis. Okay,

just jump to Genesis Genesis chapter twenty five. I think

we've gotta talk about Esau and Jacob. Okay, he saw

and Jacob? All right, Yeah, Genesis chapter the fifth, twenty fifth,

twenty five, to exceit, not to extend, to finish the message,

all right, Jenesy twenty five or twenty nine is Jacob

cooker stew and he saw came in from the field.

He was very please, then worse the ticket He's said

the Jacob, please feed me with the same rates too

before I'm very come on, please feed me with the

same redsto.

I'm really I'm tired, I'm hungry. I need the food

right now.

When we give it to our hunger friends, we demantics

immediately went think about it. When we want something, I

want it now. You're very impatient. I want it now.

Maybe it's a great missa okay, maybe because rate all right,

maybe it looks like great curry.

Friends, Kim could be still correct. I was about saying

that the labels is the rate will be. But why

were these trends. It was so tempting that the word

this is that I got the heavy right now?

Friends, help me of you know, friends, it's not when

you're strong the temptation comes.

It's when you're when you're tired. It's when you're weary.

When you went to Betters, when you went to a

lot longer of comment, Haia, just let me have this

one bowl? Right, But Jacob was that you want to say,

sell me your birthright as of this day? Come on,

you want the stew, you give me the birth right,

you want the food, you give me your birthright?

You want this? Sell your conviction? Very suttern, isn't it

very subturn because to Jacob this opportunity for him to

steal and rob the birth right from Esaul. Now look

at it's a boy friends, well say to it's all say, look,

I'm about to die.

What's the but what's what's what's the purpose of a

birth right? I'm about to die. What's the purpose of

the birth right? And many times I've seen a lot

of people make this should add how do you.

Don't understand if I don't get a good friend right now? Now,

we'll get a good friend in my life.

This is so I went relating this story to your

friends because I deal with a lot of students like

albust Age back then, right, and many times we sit

out with them.

How there you don't understand. I gotta study this relationship

right now because if these girls goes bast I do

think I can find another girl I'm like, I love compsations.

I'm about to die it what's the purpose of by

birth right? I'm about to die? Was my birth right?

I'm about to die? What's the purpose of keeping do

this conviction? I'm about to die? Why did you want

to come to church to most exactly day? I'm sure?

Go to diary myself, I mustoll think this, have to study.

And many times we make our decisions, our choices because

we think they were about to die.

Come on, I want to let you know, friends, he

saw was still in the compound of his family's compound.

Think about it.

I don't think he's very far away from his parents

even one to this, he can't survive with the foot Friends,

I know that in every fridge in every family there's

always food in the house. One where there's a slice

of bread expired, Maggie me, what can of big beets

should have a staple one?

If not a flying eggs?

Eggs must be in every house, so therefore you never

go hungry.

One.

The question here is is that why didn't he go

back to his father's house. Why didn't he so go

back to his father's house and enjoy the food? Yet

he made a pit, stop to his brother's place and

just say that, look, you are a very good cook, Jacob,

and won this as I try to close this. Many

times in our lives we make decisions because we think

that we don't have enough time, don't enough resources, and

therefore we make adjustment in our lifestyle.

I'm not sure how many people we view.

And I know that sometimes sunic is a commitment to

the Lord right, and sometimes we make decision opportunity church,

opportunity church, opportunity church. We give up on our birthright?

Why did he's all give up on his birthright? If

you know your birthright, you won't want.

To give it up.

The Bible says the blibical birthright the first born. Guess

double inheritance? Think about it.

Why would you want to give out a double inheritance

for a both of soup unless you did think it's important,

unless you think that you can get it back later.

It's only words, say a right. So we will come

sider a couple one day, I'm going to get married.

Last couple of years ago, as they were sharing, sharing,

and you know we're talking to them by sharing, the

wife to be say this, I'm not one hung percent

certain that my marriage would last all the way. I'm

not one hundred percent. I say why because sometimes the

wedding wows are just words because her family had.

A divorce situation. It's just words.

And many times now in in our walk with the Lord,

sometimes you think it's just only words. But there's way

in the words. Come on, there's way in the words.

And that's why if you're if you approach, approach our

friends this life like he saw, it's only worse birth

right after all. I just say to you, Nima, I

can get it back later, you and I will miss

up big time. Because Jacob as bad head, as bad

as Jacob is, he understood that the birth right was

given to him.

He saw, can I get it back? Think about it? Okay,

no matter how bad Jacob is. Okay, but he understood

once the birth right was released to him, he knew

that he had the inheritance.

How much more earth, friends, Why would God deposit the

good treasure in your life?

Life?

As I close, friends, the good treasure got deposited in

your life, don't because of short sightedness. I'm going to

die already. What's the purpose of this birth right? I'm

so all well, we worked already what will be coming

to church. I'm drowning with my school work already, you

still want me to then next teens And a lot

of reasons we can give forever of these friends, but

sometimes it is a birth right that saves us.

As I close friends. I want to.

Encourage all of us here today you and let me

not know the importance of what we have until much

later in life. Why we got deposited in you, the

community around you. There was a particular partner in our church,

very cute, very cute lady. She she had a friend

that once in a while come to another plant once

in a while, not regular, once in the hour, maybe

once in every six months to eight months. So during

the high COVID everything like that, she had COVID and

she was part of the homes, and the homes send

her a care back, something simple, a couple of whiteman seas.

And and and some food and this stuff like that.

She was so touched by the gesture by the act

so minister too, very simple gesture that someone cared for her.

She started a picture of the food and she turned

to a friend that's not regular, not regular, not regular,

And to a friend you have this not I tell

you why you don't have it's because you now come

to church. You never come to homes. Well, I say,

if I say that means I have the chiche go already.

You see.

That's why you must be committed to church. It's a

good community. You must be part of it. They're very genuine.

She kept this, you know, I think now she reminds

us once in a while, as like close friends. Do

you know what's a good treasure that God has given

to you? Even your birthright?

What you have oway here. I'm gonna say this is

a booth right. But you understand what I'm trying to say.

The community, people praying with you, joining together with you,

crying together with you, celebrating together with you, playing kept

them both together with you, or net bought together with you,

bellaging your wounds.

After that, Yeah, treat all friends. We're still here each other.

Out from the balance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Why is it some of us have so much good

thing to say about, for example, homes, where some just

focus on it's so boring. I'm not saying it's your friends.

I'm just trying to understand people. It's because sometimes our

focus it has been on the things that's not very good,

and we keep keep drinking in and we can't tend

to forget that very We didn't prayer request one. What's

that message away, bam the whole just know about it,

praying to get forgive together with you as the close friends.

I'm not sure where you are with your journey, but

I just want to encourage you. Really go for the church.

Chem You will change your life. My life will changed

by a cam be part of the community because you know,

don't don't don't do, don't do, don't be a lot ranger.

Use the hanger that God has given you to pursue

his goodness, to pursue his truth. To understand there's a

reason why you're here in that church. It's not because

it's one of the only church you go the company.

In fact, there's knowledges across the street. Though if you

want to.

There's a reason why.

There's a reason why you're here, friends, there's the reason

why understand this, friends, there's the reason why you're here.

Something trouble from afar just to be here.

When you must recognize that you hold onto that friends,

because God is doing something special in your life.

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