The purpose of Power of the Holy Spirit | Pr Steven Soon

You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

The word I have for you today, the title is

called the Purpose of Power. All right, Look, your neighbor,

I say purpose of power, all right, and specifically power

of the Holy Spirit. So I'm going to lead us

in a little bit of a Bible almost a Bible study.

But don't worry, we won't go too deep, because there's

time and space for that, all right. We can have

our own Bible studies, but just a general understanding. And

hopefully from this general understanding, we understand the truth of

the power the Holy Spirit, and that will inspire us

to leave the right way when we have the power

of the Holy Spirit. Okay, As an introductor, I want

to ask us a question. How many of us here

have had the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I have,

someone's have, some some of us may be not sure.

What is that? Where did we draw the baptism of

the Holy Spirit from? It's actually from the bow of

Acts right of how when the one hundred and twenty

gathered at the Upper room, right because Jesus instructed them

wait upon the Holy Spirit, for I will go and

I will send someone to you. And there was a

holy Spirit. So the one hundred and twenty gathered at

the Upper Room and prayed, and the Holy Spirit came

upon them. That is what we call the baptism of

the Holy Spirit, all right, came upon them, and with

it came boldness, courage, came gifts of the Holy Spirit,

which we will talk about later. And we will see

also what happens after that. Okay, so that is the

baptism of the Holy Spirit. About half of us here

have had it. I will encourage us. You know, you

can desire for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And

when there's the baptism of the Holy Spirit and it's biblical,

there is it's very hard to explain. I'll share you

a little bit of my personal story of what how

I got my baptism on the whole spirit, all right,

a little bit, a share more in a little bit now,

if it's not baptism of the Holy Spirit. How many

of you have clearly experienced for yourself the power of

the Holy Spirit? Well what does that mean? Okay, let

me make it another, make it easier. Let me rephrace this.

How many of you have experienced the Holy Spirit. Okay,

some yes, some know, some probably not sure, Okay, but

I will teach a little bit on this, Okay. I

hope we believe in the Holy Spirit. I always think

that among the Trinity, probably the Holy Spirit is the

one that gets forgotten the most, sadly, right, we always

talk about Father, God and Father, and then Christ the Sun.

That Holy Spirit. I don't know. Maybe some of us

have a perception that is the lesser of the tree.

I hope you don't think that way, al right, He's not.

It's part of the trinity, all right. And the tree

that God the Father has his function, Christ the Son

this function. Holy Spirit also has its function, all right.

And I pray that if you've never experienced the Holy Spirit,

that you would desire to experience the Holy Spirit, because

it is true, the experiencing of the Holy Spirit, that

we are empowered to live our life in abundance in Christ,

the abundance that God has installed for us. Okay, Okay,

I got only two points for us today. When you

talk about the purpose of power, we're going to talk

about why. What is the purpose of having the power

of the Holy Spirit in us? Okay? Many of us

probably have the conception or concept, and it's not wrong

to us a certain degree that the Holy Spirit is

here to help us. How many of you agree the

Holy Spirit is here to help us? Yeah, okay, maybe

I can get a little bit of participation. How does

the Holy Spirit help us? Can just shout it out.

How has the Holy Spirit helped you? Sorry? Pretty your conscience,

I said, oh, should be here. Conscience is here, Yes,

it should be. Yeah, you know whether you're doing right

or wrong? That's good. Anything else? Guiding reminding you of

God's word? Okay, very good? Yeah. That we always say

that when we read, we have to read scripture. All right.

It's not that God will suddenly you don't read Bible,

or God will give you every single verse of the Bible.

God doesn't do that. It's only true the reading of

the word that in the normal moments where God wants

to speak to you, the Holy Spirit will remind you

of God's word. All right, guiding us, giving us guidance?

Very good? Anything else. Discern truth, that's very good. Yeah,

discern truth right where there's so many versions of truth

in this world. It is the Holy Spirit that will

lead us to discern truth anymore. Sorry, assurance Yeah, giving

us a confidence and a insurance and with it also

a comfort. Right. I believe in tough times we always

say Holy Spirit help us, God help us, and Holy

Spirit becomes our counselor our comforter. Right. All these are good,

But there are two points that actually the most important

that we didn't mention. Yeah, all right, And this is

something that is in a way expected because of where

the global church is at. You know, there is there

is a trend of thinking that the Holy Spirit's primary

function is to help us help ourselves. We may not

say it, but most of the time that's how we

perceive the power of the Holy Spirit in our toughest times.

Holy Spirit is there to help us, to empower us,

to help us overcome our challenges. But I'm gonna help

us dive into scripture and see what is actually the

first mention of the power the Holy Spirit in especially

when the baptism the Holy Spirit came upon the decyples.

What happened. We're gonna do a little bit of a

walkdow of history, okay, and I'm also gonna do a

bit different. Usually I will put the scripture on slides,

but today I want to encourage all of us to

open our bibles to read together. Okay, this to get

us in the practice as well. To flee our bibles.

If you have your physical bibles, if you, which I encourage,

you know, bring our physical bibles to church, do flee

open with us. If you don't have the worries, you know,

you can use your Bible app to look into scripture.

But I encourage us to bring our bibles to church.

All right, Okay, we're gonna read now. Okay. The first

point before you go into scripture is this the first purpose,

the primary one, the primary purposes of the power of

the Holy Spirit is for us to serve the body

of Christ, in other words, the church. What really, Yes,

we're gonna look at scripture. We're gonna look at First

Corinthians twelve four to eleven. If you can flip open

your bible, I'm gonna do that as well. First Corinthians twelve,

verse four to eleven. If you're there, say I'm there. Okay,

it doesn't sound very enthusiastic, but it's okay, okay there, Okay,

can I get maybe John, if you would to just

read for us First Corinthians tral four to eleven of

the spirit even to.

Each other, each one for the prophet of all, even

the word of wisdom.

To another, word of knowledge.

Another to another, the working of miracles to another, prophecy

to another, discerning of spirits another of another. But what

the sperience works.

All the.

Teach as the man got blessed reading of his word.

Thanks John. The emphasis we we've read of this scripture before,

and of course it's spiritual gifts, right, talk about spiritual gifts.

Spiritual gifts. Were to look a little bit what is

actually the again, primary purpose of spiritual gifts. I want

to bring us to look at one word that's mentioned

quite a few times in this portion of scripture. The

word is all right. There is an emphasis of all

okay for example, and I'm going to look for it here. Now, okay,

there are different kinds of working verse four, but the

same God who works all of them in all men,

I'm reading from the NIV version in NKJV which just

now John read is that they're diversities are gay, but

the same spirit the differences of ministries. And then in

verse eight, sorry where was I just?

No?

Okay? Verse sick? Sorry, And they are diversities of activities,

but it is the same God who works all in all, okay,

basically saying that God works true and in us, all

of us. And you may be thinking all can mean anyone, right,

It can be in different communities. We are in our workplace,

you know, we have this sputual gear for us to

operate in the workplace, for us operated within our families.

But I would be like to differ because if you

look at first Corinthians twelve twelve, which is right after this,

it talks about unity and diversity in one body, and

it Saysia twelve twelve, for us, the body is one

and has many members. But all the members of that

one body being many, are one body. So also is Christ.

It's talking about the body of Christ. And what's the

body of Christ? The church very good. So in this

context I believe we can draw the truth that spiritual

gives is for us to operate in church and during

this time if you I mean, the answer is in

the title of the book itself. Who is Paul addressing

this to the Corinthians. All of Corinthians can respond, one,

don't worry, can respond one the church of the Corinthian Church.

Paul was writing this letter to the Church. It's not

writing to every single person that dwells in this city

of Corinth, but particularly the Corinthian Church. So when Paul

was talking about this spiritual gift that the Holy Spirit

has given unto us, he's talking about how we should

use this gift for the edifying of the church. We're

gonna look at the next light. This is a list

of spiritual gifts. If you're wondering what in the world

is spiritual gift? Here you go, all right. Apostleship, prophecy, teaching, evangelism, exhortation,

discerning spirits, speaking in tongues, interpreting tongs, mercy, leadership, giving, faith, healing, miracles.

Where are these located in scripture? You can see for

the rest of chapter twelve. You will be listed. Okay,

the moment you accepted Jesus and the moment the Holy

Spirit has come upon you, you will have gifts. This

is promise, this is guaranteed. Okay, all of us have

different gifts. We don't have all of it. We have

some of it. But because we are a body of Christ,

we are all hall to contribute our gifts to one

another in the church, that we may support one another

and defy one another, serve one another. Take a moment

to think which one you may have. Okay, okay, John,

what do you think you have? I love this? Yeah?

I also have learned the test ifore leadership and discerning

of spirits. You agree, those who have worked with John,

I agree. I agree. For me, the discerning of spirit

is very true. Whenever I talk to John and we discussed,

I can really see that he has a gift of discernment, right,

And for me, that is not my primary gift. My

primary gift is actually faith. That means if God as

we do something, I'll just do it. Sometimes to the

detreatment of other people because they were, like you ever

prepared us? Yet I say no, God say so let's go.

Let's just do it, all right? So I actually lean

on John's gift of descentment. I'll talk to him sometimes

and say what do you think about this? John?

Uh? And?

And John is our assistancy PC, so I will lean

on his strength of this all right? Okay, Josiah, what

do you think you have? Also? One of our leaders

a worship coordinator, mercy and mercy and giving. Yeah. Agree,

Josiah being a very generous person in my intern I've

known him for years and it's true. He has a

heart for people, mercy and giving, very generous. Adrian is

another one there has a gift of mercy, I believe

west Adrian probably counting excids. Okay, so yeah, doing his

host role, he has also a gift of mercy. He

has a lot of compassion for people that I also like, Man,

I want to learn from you. He has that gift,

so I really lean on him on gifts on this give.

Sometimes I go like Adrian, I'm finding hard to connect

with this person. Can you help me out and go

and connect? And Adrian will do that. You'll go have lunch.

I know Josiah also does that very naturally. You'll meet

out with people, have lunch with people, and catch up

with people. All right, And that is right. There a

gift of mercy to help to encourage. Okay. And there

are actually tests out there to help you. Okay, so

you can go online. You can say it's there, Okay,

it's available. It may not be one hundred percent accurate, Okay.

It does not determine who you are. It's just gifts. Okay,

I just want to put it out there just because

you don't have the gift of mercy doesn't mean you

are a merciful person. Just want to put it out.

They're okay, you you can still have compassion or that.

It's just that some people have it more. They have

better I'm going to use a corporate word, more aptitude

for it, all right. That means they are more it's

more prevalent in them. They do it a lot easier. Okay.

But that does not mean you are unmerciful. You still are,

all right. It's just that the gifts, the gift things

show that they are better at it, uh than average. Okay.

So just a little fine for us, a little activity

for us, just for us to know, okay, what are

our gift things? And when you are failed again, when

you have received the Holy Spirit, you will have gifts.

It's guaranteed because it has been promised. It is biblical.

Even though it was said to the Corinthian Church. It

is not just for the Corinthian Church, because in other

letters you will see Paul addressing spiritual gifts still to

other churches. I believe in First Peter it was also addressed,

and First Peter was written by Peter. So it is

from this biblical understanding. You would know that it is

not just men for the quarantine church. It was meant

for the body of Christ, all of us. All right,

And again I want to remind us that the spiritual

gifts is not for us to keep. If you read

the Bible, every single gifting, spiritual gifting that God gives

us is always meant for other people, not of our

own glory or gain. It's meant to edify and help

one another. Pasa Kennev has this saying, all right. He

says that if everybody wants, nobody gets. But if everybody gives,

everybody gets. So as a church, can we be such

a church that we are not just here one thing things,

but we also hear the gift because that is actually

what the church is also about. And we're going to

look at a later x chapter two, how the church

came together in operation of the gifting of the of

the Holy Spirit. What they did? Okay, okay, So this

is spiritual gears. Are you okay? So are catching something? Okay?

Now with spiritual gears, there's another side that you can

also go and do a little test to find out,

is called the five fold ministries. How many of us

have heard of the five four ministries. Okay, uh, what

are the five four ministries? For those who have Do

you remember I love the loud it Today I didn't

take my ears, so I can't hear. Okay. Apostles, yes, profits, evangelists, teachers,

and pasts. Very good. Okay, we also okay, as we

talk about these, lets also see where it's mentioned in scripture. Okay,

efficients for eleven to thirteen. Okay, can flip up on

your Bible and go to ephicients for eleven to thirteen. Okay,

once your day there, say I'm here. Okay, Okay, Joe,

can I get your help to read this?

Amen?

Bless the reading of his word. Thanks Joe. When we

become a believer of Jesus, Christ gave some of us

to be apostles, some of us will be prophets, some

of us will be even list some of us to

be pastors, and some of us to be teachers. You

see that in Scripture all of us are accounted for

for this. It does not mean a person has to

be a pastor to have the gifting of all the

calling of a pastor. Okay. This is talking about the

heart and spirit of a person. Okay, it's not the position.

Of course, we try to feel it administrative and administratively

in those positions. But it's not necessarily that all of

us here, some of you, I'm gonna say it, some

of you are apostles, even though statistically apostles are the

least Have you ever wondered why? Okay, relat it for you?

Apostles are. Apostles are basically people who pave the way.

Can you imagine if everyone is an apostle, we'll all

be going different ways, all right, So statistically, globally in

the Christian body, apostles actually the least. All right. Pasa

Kenneth has apostolic gifting. That's why he can pioneer things

very fast, right. Can you imagine if all of us

we came operate as apostles, We'll all say something and

nobody is there to help, all right, So statistically, interestingly,

God has also made it that way. Some of you

here are prophets, even though you don't have a prophit title.

Some of you here are evangelists, even though some of

you don't have the evangelist title that goes around the

world organizing rallies and preaching in rallies. Some of you

here have the calling of you know already in the

five food ministry. Pastoral ministry is your ministry, even though

you don't have the title of a pastor. Some of

you here have you know, a teaching ministry even though

you're not a teacher. I'm my teachers are very simple.

I call these five fingers. It's not four fingers. In

case you're hungry, five fingers. Okay, I'm gonna teach us

how to remember the five foot ministry. Okay. The first

one is a postle. This to help us remember why,

because it touches all the other four apostles have to

work with all to make God's vision come to pass.

All right, help us remember, okay. The second one is profit. Why?

Profit points the way, points us back to God. This

for us to remember, okay. The third finger vengeance. Why, Yes,

it's the longest finger. I know some of us may

be the ring finger longer, but most the middle finger

is the longest. It means we event journies will reach

the furthest reach the most. Okay. The fourth one pastor

Why married to the church? Yes, all right? The pastor

h it souls in the church. Ala married to the church.

And the last one teacher, why it gets into your ear. Yeah,

I can remember. This will help us remember. Yeah, this

will help us remember ries all as well. Okay, this

will help us remember. Okay, five four ministry okay. And

I also want to tell us that this five fold

ministry is in the context of the church. It doesn't

mean you have this that means you have to go

out only, okay. It is also for the edifying of

the church, right for those of us. So for me,

I just share my gifting is actually my primary one

is teacher, the first one, my secondary one is actually

a prophecy profit, and these are my top two. There's

also a test that I've done a few times and

he has all pointed to this tool. Okay, and all

of us will have different results. Again, it does not

determine your position, okay, just because you see, I'm a pastor,

but my pastoral is not the highest Okay. So these

just tell you you don't need a title to operate

in your gifting and calling. Okay, you can still do it.

So some of us here again our teachers, some of

us here are profits, some of us here pastors, some

of us here. EVANGELI is very good and sharing the

gospel and bringing people, uh you know, to the gospel

some of us here? What do I miss up? Teachers, pasts?

I mentioned all right, past us Okay, yeah, So I

just want to share this and on one point, I'll

focus the first twelve. What there's the first twelve say

for the equipping of the saints? Who are the saints us?

The body of Christ? Again, if you have any doubt

what all this calling is for is for the Body

of Christ and the edification of Church. I have another question, Okay,

when do you operate in this giftings and callings? Is

it only for a season when we are a little

bit freer in our schedule, or when we are more

financially stable so we can travel more to evangelize more.

Let's look at verse thirteen. Worse the teen says this. Okay,

I'm trying to find Verse thirteen. Okay, Verse the teen

says this, till we all come to the unity of

the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,

to a perfect man, to the measure of the statue

of the fullness of Christ. What does this mean. I'm

gonna be very blunder until we diere because we can

only become have to have the statue of the fullness

of Christ when we reach eternity, when we reach so

called perfection. We are very clear that we can never

reach perfection now because they's sin right, So let me

translate that for you. It means from now until we die,

you have to operate in these giftings. Not when you're

a bit freer, not when you're more available. It is now.

So if you ever prayed this prayer, God give me

a sign when it's time to serve, you don't need

a sign anymore. It is now. And I also want

to say, right, every time we encourage ourselves to serve,

we encourage you to serve. It's not so much for

the men power only. Of course, it will help those

of us who are serving, but that's not our primary desire.

We want you to leave in God's calling, God's will.

If you're not doing something of God's will, that means

you're in sort of a misalignment. And when you are

in misalignment, it's like a drain that is blocked. You're

blocking the blessings of God in your life. It's as

simple as that. When you don't alive fully God's will,

you are like having grease stuck in your bipe, the

water gets stuck. The floor is not all the way

and every time we ask yourself, because it is an

alignment with God's word and God blesses you. This is

not prosperity, godspel This is scripture, all right. So that

is an encouragement to us. The purpose of the power

of the Holy Spirit in our life. First point is

this is to serve the church. It's not ourselves. It's

not just for season, all right. This is and encouragement

to us. Can we take breaks heres? How many of

you here, those who have been serving her, You're coming

up to me and say, you know, blesses even can

I can I reask for this week? If I ever

say no, anyone I've never said no, rest is good.

Can restore and you don't have to serve every week.

But what I'm trying to say is, you know it's

not seasonal. Serving is not caeesonal. There's my encouragement to

you because that lies God's promise for you. When you

serve God in your gifting, in what God has given you,

the burthens that God has given you, in the call

that God has placed in your life. When you serve

in alignment to God's will. God will bless you, God

will sustain you. And such joy and fulfillment comes from

death that you'll be able to experience. All right, and

all of us see again, are accounted for for this.

You have gifts, right. It doesn't mean you are a

leader that God gives you the gifts. No, the moment

you have the Holy Spirit in you, you will have

the gifts. And it takes practice. Right. If you never

operate at all, you won't ever get to see the

fullness of your gifting. You're never able to see the

fullness of how God can use your gifting to be

an encouragement to others. Amen. Okay, so that's the first point. Okay,

I'm gonna go into the second point. Okay. The first

point is again reminder that with the power of the

Holy Spirit, the first purpose is to serve the Body

of Christ. This is the second point. With the purpose

and of the powerhole Spirit, we are to be witnesses

of Christ. So one is within the church, one is

outside the church to be witnesses. We're gonna look at

X chapter one, verse six to eight. Okay, We're gonna

flip open famous famous Scripture X, chapter one, verse six

to eight. Okay, anybody want to help read this anyone? Okay,

thanks grace, Thanks grace, our blessed reading of his word.

Jesus promised that the disciples will receive the power of

the Holy Spirit so that they can be witnesses. Again,

biblical studyer, that was what it was. The first thing

that's supposed to happen. It wasn't so that they may

be comforted by the death of the death of Jesus

so that they can do better in their career. No,

it's so that they can be witnesses. And you notice

that the disciples asked Jesus Lord, with the impression that

he will govern Israel, become king of Israel. But Jesus said, no,

I will go and the Holy spiritual come upon you,

that you may receive power, so that you may be

my witnesses. We have a call church, all of us.

We have a call. In next chapter two. You see

that right after that is the coming of the Holy Spirit.

And it did come to pass what Jesus said, all right.

When the Holy Spirit came the the disciples started to

do what you guys, remember, they started to what was

the first sign first thing that happened speaking tongues, and

not just the heavenly language. They spoke tongues of other languages.

That means the residence of the city, the people who

were there, they went out and they spoke in their language.

What is the purpose is to witness? Very good? Verse

eleven to get X chapter two, Verse eleven X. Chapter two,

Verse eleven says this both Jews and converts to Judaism,

Critans and Arabs, we hear them declaring the wonders of

God in our own tongues. They were declaring the wonders

of God. What does that mean? They are witnesses all right?

Verse twelve. They asked, whatever could this mean? These are

the people who hurt the disciples sharing right. Basically, they're saying,

why are they declaring the wonders of God? What's this fault?

What could this mean? Why is there such a fascinating

miracle that is happening. After this, you'll see that Peter

went to preach and explain what does this mean? Because

there are some people who say these people are drunkards,

they're high on the wrong spirit. But we all know

that it was the Holy Spirit. So then Peter addressed

This is where Peter preached his first sermon, and I

will encourage us to read it because if you ever

wondered how to share the Gospel, read this Peter's first sermon.

You give us the m or and firepower to share.

Peter preach that whoever caused the name of the Lord

shall be safe. Is in answer to the people asking

whatever could this mean? So Peter was saying, telling you all,

this is happening. We are declaring the wonders and works

of God so that you, all of you, if you

call upon the name of the Lord, you shall be saved.

What is that sharing of the gospel? Three thousand came

to the Lord that they and the Lord added to

their numbers daily. And this is encouragement to us, Expano Tama.

If we want to see our church grow, there are

two things we need to do right. Firstly, everyone has

got to serve the church. This is not my words.

Read X chapter two. They all came together, fellowship, broke,

break together, serve were one another, serve one another. Nobody

was in lack. Remember what we say about when everybody gives,

everybody gets. That was happening in X chapter two when

the Christians so called Christians came together, they were doing that.

That was the church. And my encouragement is this serve

the church because it is biblical, not because we say so,

not because we need the manpower. So that's the first point. Remember,

if we want to see God growing our church, first

thing is to serve the church. Everyone has to serve.

And secondly, everyone has got to be witnesses outside the church.

These two has to happen if you want the Lord

to add to our numbers daily. If you read the scripture,

that was the so called formula, right, that was what's happening,

and the Lord added and added and added. If simple equation,

if we are already have a limited mouth people serving,

do you think God will keep on adding hundreds upon

hundreds to us? Because it's pure logistic reason. We are

not able to feed everyone, we are not able to

minister to everyone. But if everyone serves, don't you think

we're able to meet every need? Where God brings people

through these doors, every tribe and tongue, we're able to

reach them. We're able to disciple because we all work

together to serve one another. So it's simple mathematics. God

won't give unto us if we ourselves have not been

faithful with what God has already given. If we are

not being good stewards. And that's the question that I

ask myself as well, being part of X bu am

I stewarding my team? Well are we serving God as

how God has intended? Right? The purpose for the power

I'm coming to an end purpose of the power of

the Holy Spirit. It's not just for him to be

our counselor like we talked about in the beginning, or

just comfort when we are said, or wise advisor when

we want to advance in our careers. The primary purpose

for the Holy Spirit's power upon our lives is to

empower us to firstly serve the church and secondly to

preach the gospel outside of the church. There is no

hierarchy in this. Both have to happen at the same time.

Both are equally important and in conclusion and coming to

an end before we can be entirely convinced. Maybe I'm

saying all this and you're like, ah, yeah, maybe it's

for me. Maybe it's not before we can be entirely

convinced of why even when we talked about going out

sharing gospel, why missions I don't bring our attention to

missions now because we it's missions emphasis month and we

only do this one month a year. But that does

not mean we only do missions one man a year

and we focus on missions one month a year. Missions

is our lifestyle. It is our call as believers. But

before we can be entirely convinced of why missions is important,

we need to first fully understand this Number one, is

missions work biblical? I'll leave it to you if your

answer is yes, if it is biblical. If you're saying yes,

I read it, and every time read it it confirms

that missions work is biblical. The missions is truth, and

we are called to live by truth. Secondly, are we

called to missions? Maybe it's a missionaries to job. Black

passa Stephen and he likes to go for missions to

very free. I goola, I don't need a lot of

things to do. Matthew twenty eight nineteen to twenty Go

there for and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing

them in the name of the Father and of the

Son of a Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all

things that I have comme under you and law. I

am with you always even to the end of the age. Amen.

Jesus's last words to every single believer. It's not just

for Peter, it was for every single believer. Are we

called to missions? Yes, every one of us. If you

call yourself a believer of Jesus, turn on. Is it

a urgent for us to answer the call? Maybe next time,

very busy missions next year after I retailer and fifty

fifty five. I'm gonna give you some statistics. This is

drawn from last year statistics I would at a missions

conference and this was presented. And this is just in Asia.

Just to let you know, just to give you a

quick stats. The laborers are really few. How few? I

give you the number and pass the man actually share this.

Four hundred and twenty nine thousand out of eight billion

of population. If you're thinking of numbers, it can't really

click in your hair. Now this is billion, okay. Look

at the amount of digits after that. Okay, four hundred

and twenty nine thousand. It's this, sire. You see the

differences in number now, and these just talking about the

majority faith in Asia, okay. And the numbers are dropping

more and more each day. If you look at all

the different what we call the unriched groups and not

accepted Gospel. I'll break this down very quickly for you.

This is the population or in the hundreds of thousands,

with the majority faith being the highest in Asia. You

have the unreligious right, you have the others, the tribals,

the Buddhists, percentage of world population. If you combine this,

are you a realizer? It's largely the most populated region

in the world is Asia. All of this you look

at a number of missionaries reaching out to these groups.

I don't know if this rings are lambells for you,

because the population is growing every day and our missionaries

are depleting ratio missionaries to the unreached. Basically, what this

means is one missionary has to reach how many people?

Look at those numbers one to sixty thousand one, two

hundred eighty thousand, one to seventy thousand, one to four

hundred thousand, one to two hundred thousand. I'm sharing this.

I don't know. Maybe some of you have a call

to be a full time missionary. Please answer the call?

All right, many of us here, Some of you may

not have the call to go for long term missions.

These we are talking about long term missions five years,

ten years, A right reaching the people groups really reaching them.

You may say probably, I don't think this is me,

but you know that we can help them out if

we reach the people around us, if we can commit

to going for one mission treat a year, three days,

four days. Some of us here have kids, understand, but

I think it'll be a pretty cool exposure for your

children to go and see you reaching the loss in

another place. Fourth thing, and I'm coming to an end.

Can I just do missions where I'm at? We love

to say this as a church, and I think we

need to be very careful now when we say this. Oh,

God has places to be the sort of light to

where we are at, so we reach the people. Are

sounds very right and very good, But do you know

that if that it was really just the plan of

God when x chapter one it says you shall receive

power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and

you shall be witnesses to meet in Jerusalem and in

all Judea and Samara and to the ends of the earth.

If that was really the plan for us to just

be the sortin light at where we're at, don't you

think it would have stopped at Jerusalem. But yet Jesus

says you shall be witnesses to meet in Jerusalem and

in all Judaea and Samarah and to the ends of

the earth. Someone's got to go right for that happened.

Being sort and light where God places us is very important.

I do not discount that, please do. But it requires

intention and not chance. Okay, I go God. If someone

talks to me and share a problem, then I shall

I help her. Even being sort and light requires an

intentional response from us. We have to decide today. I'm

going to talk to this colleague. Today. I'm going to

approach this person. Lord, you point to me the person

that you want me to talk to, and I'm actually

gonna take action and go and speak to this person.

I'm gonna actually buy lunch for this person. It requires intention.

But as a church, I've noticed a trend that we

say all these things, Ah, let's be a blessing where

we're at, but we leave it to chance and there's

no intention. We need to play a part. There will

never be a better time to serve or go to missions.

If that is your reason, I want to tell you this,

there will never be a better time. Every time God

prompts you to serve and to go it's always the

most inconvenient time. Do you realize that? I realized that

for myself. It is a pivotal part of our daily

Christian work to go for missions. If anyone has ever

told you no need to go for missions, just sur

where you're at, that is unbiblical. I want to tell

you this, There is a lie we have to go.

We may not be able to go long term, leave

our jobs and all that, I understand, but I believe

we can commit one mission trip a year to reach somebody.

God has not called us to be Christians so that

we can be marry in our own little circle. God

has called less to go and make disciples of all nations.

I want to share the story of the Baptism of

the Holy Spages very quickly. This was in two thousand

and fifteen. I was backsliding already from God, not really

participating in church serving and at that time I was

a leader youth leader, and at that time Logo Sop

came to Penang. I was in Penang. I went to

volunteer just a few days because I had free time.

But I thought that's it enough. But in one of

the nights I just felt led to worship got in

my room, so I just played. I didn't even play

guitar or I just played worship music. I said, remember

the song kind Sali Moo came on. I worship along,

and I felt the Holy Spirit walk into my room.

I had the burning Bush moment. And that was when

I had the baptism on the Holy Spirit now in church,

in my own room, and God spoke to me. I

was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I got the baptism

of the Holy Spirit then and then the first thing

that God asked me to do was to go for missions.

It wasn't just ah, slowly get back to church, uh,

maybe start serving school. And literally I went. Even though

I had plans. I missed my graduation as a valedictorian.

I had to give that up because God's sick. Go.

That was the first thing that God asked me to do.

I got baptized the Holy Spirit and it's alignment in

the scripture. With scripture, it gave me the understanding that

when we have the power of the Holy Spirit, it's

not men for us alone. It's men to serve His

body and to go and reach the unreached. I pray

that we will take courage today right Wesley when he

shared at homes recently, our latest homes, not his on missions,

and he said a very good thing that struck me.

We will always have reasons not to go, not to sir,

always inconvenient, always not enough time, not enough money. But

the question is no longer where you go, but where

you still go, where you still serve, regardless of a

situation and my record of going in for missions, I

tell you this every time when God asks me to go,

when I'm prompted to go somewhere, I at that point

I didn't have the money God provides, so we have

to respond first. Then God will supply. God will never

give you enough. Really, the only you go never. That's

where faith comes in. Amen.

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