Missions - Babel | Pr Matthew Chang

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What is again? Everybody needs to respond? Okay, I come

to the middle a bit, okay, so that come nearer

to you, so that I can force your hand ask

your day. What is the estimated world population right now?

Seven billion and eight billion? Who says, hands up? Okay? Okay.

And the reason why I'm asking all these questions is

to help to break some of our assumptions. Okay, so

we have eight billion to eight billion people, if you

know what I mean. Okay, Next one out of the

world population, what is the percentage percentage that Christians make

up percentage? Somebody say thirty percent, somebody say ten percent,

less than twenty anyone else going on one's going twice

twenty three or Michael Jordan okay, nobody going with decimal

tweed three point one, so competitive? Okay, the percentage is

the thirty one percent. We are actually number one. Oh,

we are actually the highest there including Protestants and Catholics. Okay.

Number two are the majority faith in Malaysia. Number three

is are the people who identify as atheists and agnostics.

Agnostics white meaning like not people that, yeah, there is

a God, but we can't really know him somewhere. You know,

every religion leads to God. Those are people who were

called to agnostics number fifteen percents, Hindu and other, and

then there are also Buddhism stuff as well. Okay, third one, okay,

out of the whole population? Okay, how many percentage do

you think are not reached by the gospel? Yet? How

many percent of the whole population has not been reached

by the gospel? Anyone getting harder? Right? Who says fifty percent?

Forty percent? Fifty what else? Forty percent? Oh, you guys

are very closer seventy percent. I know people who say

ten percent. You actually believe that forty percent? Seventy percent

people have not been rich? What are you doing here?

If you believe there isn't here? We are really gave.

It's what you're doing here if you really believe because

there most of the people in the most of what

they call the longstand increased gents believe that it's probably

like ten to fifteen percent. And we've done a lot.

You know, you're seeing that, you know, social media and internet,

we are gone. But actually, what's the percentage I think

it's forty two percent population. Oh okay, am I starting

to break your assumptions. Right now, forty two percent of

the war population is still unreached by the gospel. You

put it into a number, there's about three three three

point four billion people that has not been reached by

either gospel. Now another one in the past ten years. Okay,

let's say, why is the Do you think that the

number of missionaries have increased or decreased over the past

ten twenty years. Who says increase, increase? Who says decrease?

The rest agnostic? Huh, don't know, don't know, don't scare.

You must have assumptions. And my point of challenge is

I want to break your assumptions. Okay, for challenge, assumptions

increase a decrease, Why do you say decrease? COVID, why

do you say decrease? You don't see faith on the

streets anymore more. People are more preoccupied with their own

self know TikTok ah they talk. That's why normal and

normal missionaries are imagine last than all the all the

missionaries sent to eacha TikTok done already. We won't we

won't have rubber won't we have railway, we won't hospital,

won't have schools already done for already. So the number

of missionaries he has actually decreased in two thousand, just

about estimate about one point one million missionaries sent worldwide.

In twenty twenty one, the number has reduced by half

or less than half, to four hundred thousand, okay, and

we still have a lot more people to reach. Hey,

next one, do you think that most of the missionary

what is the average number of years that missionaries stay

to work in the mission field? Who says three years?

Three years? Five short? Short? Five years on? Missionaries go

for a long one? You know, most of the missionaries

I know, I stay very long one ten, twenty thirty

years on. You know, so some say three years, five years.

What do you guys think? Weft site very quiet? Seven years?

Number of perfection is it? Okay? So seven years okay?

The average? Okay, more than fifty percent of the what

they call it missionaries serve and stay less than five years.

Means half of them stay less than five years, which

is not the plan. Not the plan, okay. And the

major reason why most of them drop off after five years, okay,

is lack of support from the home church and lack

of connection with the home church or their based church. Hey, now,

why do you think we do missions conference to make

ourselves feel good? To shelter the world? Hey, we are

to do our duty to tell the world there's a

real stats here. You know. And this is not just

from montre this is from every career all around the world.

Doing missions is hard. It's hard every Sunday. Not just

the fact that even though you are tired and you know,

can you come to church and everything is prepared you

turn around. At least you might not know the whole congregation,

at least one or two persons who will shake your hand,

whom if you need a prayer you can steal pray.

It's not perfect. No place is perfect. Some people will

shake your hands. Some people might not share your hand.

Sometimes people will. You know, the person who is in

your meet in the church happens to be the guy

who just honks you outside of the road. Oh that's you.

I'm just saying hi. I'm just saying hi. I'm not hunking,

I'm just saying hi. Yeah. Right, And it's not perfect.

It's not perfect. Sometimes you say a world or two

or that's mistaken or unintentional. Yeah, it's not perfect, but

the fact is you still at least, oh, I have

a church to go to. I have a church to

go to. Oh I have a birthday my kids. Okay,

maybe I should invite some people from a church. I

can still do that. But these people, oh hard all

alone and decide. The reason is they don't feel connected

on the home church more than fifty percent. And then

there's one of the major reasons they drop off. Okay,

and doing having a mission conferencer to bring our missionaries

is actually practiced in the Bible. If you follow my

book of X, I don't actually finish trying to Actually

it's been wrapped up ready, but the last part outside

the missionary I won't cover. But if you read towards

the end there, uh, Paul, every missionary trip will actually

come back and give his report of like a conference

one our every missionary mission trip he will give an

account where he went or what has happened to everybody,

and especially to his home church in Ntioch, and then

down the news too passed on to Jerusalem. It's done

one No, no, Paul himself does it. Why shouldn't be

we be doing it. I mean right, So we are

actually following the traditions, b bigger traditions of what is

being exalted in the Book of X. Hey, and it's

important for us to attend missions conference is not for

you never, It's for the missionaries. And when you go,

you are going there to catch their heart. You mean

it's not about Hey, how does this immediately affect my family,

my finances, and my career? You mean right, it's really

about there. You go there actually to the mission. You

have to serve the people who are serving. And that's

what I'm saying. You serve the people who are serving.

They continue, you can mean, right, it's important and know

the church must must fulfill this role of supporting the missionaries,

not just finnationialing, but communally. It's extremely, extremely, extremely important.

You goaman, right, and so by our presence, by our support,

by your prayer, when by your homes, actually by praying

and you supporting and giving and then cascading down all

the prayer requests and emails, you are standing in the

gap and you will actually help to contribute to decreasing

these statistics. I'm actually very happy with. Of course, we

asked because how many of you have been to missionary

missions at least once. It's great, and I hope that

they won't be the last time. I hope this is

a trajectory, not just one that is a trajectory. You know,

it's going up, projectory, going up all the way. Okay,

this is very, very very important to support our missionaries.

We have one more. How many Christians? How many? Why?

It's the percentage of Christians do you think they actually

go for missions in the world? Percentage? After all the

Christian population, what do you think is the percentage that

actually go for missions? Okay, it's one hour of two

hundred and nine thousand, Come and do the stats. I

think there's definitely less than one percent zero point zero

zero five percent. H and Christians make up as a

faith in the population, we earn the most in the world,

but we send the list people to go. Okay, so

have I broken some of your assumptions yet recon some

of the assumptions Sometimes that bring a lot challenging. A

lot of times when we don't, we start to feel

a missions you disconnect because there is no reality that

is truly painted in our lives. You cannot build on it.

But now that you know some of the old things

that you try to build on it, you cannot build

on God. I cannot ignore, I cannot be ignorant anymore.

You get me right, because they're understanding right now, and

you have to have a proper response. Now. Instead of

telling you all these stats, I want to share a

biblical way so that you yourself will have a strong

foundation and the reason why you go for missions and

a strong correlation how you connect missions with yourself and

with God, very very clear. It's more than just Matthi

and in the book of methiogal Of and make disciples

of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

Father that designed the Holy Spirit. More than just that.

I want to go back and down, back to the

original plan and what happens when we don't what happens

when we don't. Turn with me to Genesis eleven. Okay,

turn me to Genesis eleven. And a lot of you

will be familiar with this story. Okay. It's a story

of a Tower of Babel, Okay, very very familiar. Okay.

And I'm gonna read from there and along the way,

I'm gonna share some things and we will learn some

things from there, okay, and you can help me to

underline some things now, he says, here Genesis eleven, verse one.

Now the whole earth had one language? How many language?

And it was hockey? And okay, no' se that hello?

You know no, no, no, no, I don't know what

you did. They're speaking, okay, But the whole earth had

one language. And this had just happened from what what

had just previously happened, the great flood? Okay, and who

was in the art. How many people were in the ark? Yeah?

But how many good? Eight people? Noah his wife, and

then three sons and then their wives as well, So

altogether eight eight happens to be the number of new

beginnings as well. Oh, out of the eight they came

out and then repopulated the earth. But they were one together.

And then now as a group that travel and they

stay as one, they have one language as well. Okay,

this just happened before. And then the chapter before you

can he read is about all the genealogy, and the

chapter before the chapter Night talks about God's commandment and

blessing and covenant with them as well. But now we

are here at eleven, so the whole entire Earth is

actually truly globalized, globalized that one people with one language. Okay,

ask yourself as well, what will happen to our world

if the whole entire earth is united by one language,

one nation, and one one shared resource. What will happen

to the world. We're gonna learn it from here. What

the preview would look like. Okay, we're gonna look at

that a preview what happens when the world is truly globalized? Okay, Now,

have one language and one speech. And it came to

pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found

a plane in the land of China, and they do

out there. Then they said to one another, Okay, this

is the part where I need you guys to really

pay attention. Okay. Then they said to one one another,

come let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. Okay,

underline the part make bricks. And they have bricks for stone,

and they had asphalt for mortar. Okay, mortar. Okay, Now,

so what are bricks and mortars? These are your talents,

these are your resources. Humans have always been very resourceful,

highly intelligent, very very very creative. Okay, we didn't, we

didn't and not contrary to what you believe, we're not

coming from apes. You know, dow Win himself already you know,

don't really fully believe that as well. But because if

you come from apes, my question is, what's the next part,

what's the next evolution? The next right? Year? Can swim underwater?

Why can't we fly yet? You know? Why haven't all

the other animals evolved? Why? Why would you be stopped? Yeah?

Mean right? Really when we get but why and more important,

why we are so evolved? A wire were killing each other? Yeah? Right? Why? Why?

What's the next part? You know? So? Yeah, I mean right,

it's it's it's kind of evolution. It's placed there, you know,

like you know, we're talking about survivor some of the features. Yes,

you do some season of the Kingdom, but it has

its place and his purpose. It's never to cover where

you really come from. What when you can take something

in a theory and apply to all the rest, that's

what we call a bill abnormal use. Ah, you cannot.

You cannot go to your physics examment using one theory, Okay,

you know can? It doesn't apply for everything. There is

a place in the season and appointment for everything. As well,

that's what the Bible says. But when you try to outsmart,

you try to think, you know, you're very hurried to

really get a glory figuring out where human origins are.

And then someone come up, he we come on, come

on from our apes. That's very presumptuous. Okay, So they

have bricks from mortars, very resourceful. So what happens when

humans have one language, one nation, and now they have

all the resources they can do? What will humans do? Okay?

That is revealed there? What it's revealed? It says there,

and they say, come verse four, Come let us build

underline this word our selves. In some of your versions,

you say, built for ourselves. Okay, a city and a

tower okay, whose top is in the heavens. And then

it continues extended longer, let us make a name for

underlying our selves again, lest we be underlying scattered abroad

over all the face of the earth. You know where

I'm going with this? Really? Okay, how did Moses are

who wrote this book? He didn't even exist at that time?

How can he hear this? Because it's God's revelation to him?

And God is not just oh I got drones, you know,

CCTV anywhere pick up your God listens to the heart

of a man. They might not say it verbally, but

a lot of times it's implied by what you do,

by what you say in your heart. Okay, And at

that time, when you look at everything, it looks okay,

what's wrong with building a city? What's wrong with building

a tower? But then it's all about ourselves. And I'm

going to highlight a few things. What happens from here?

What are some of the things that actually the people

that time did, Actually that's seen against the lord. So

they make a city. Why would they want to make

a city. Why did they make a city? What's wrong

with city walls? Maybe they build wolves to protect themselves.

They were not enemies because they were one. Hey, they

were one. But yet they still build a city, all

the buildings, still buildings. What is there anything wrong human civilization?

Science and science and what they call it development and

being one? Good? Nothing wrong? Isn't it all sounds good?

But is it godly? Because what was God's command for them?

Let's look at Genesis chapter nine. Okay, Genesis chapter Let's

to read verse two, verse one. Okay, Genesis chapter nine,

Verse one. After the flood. Okay. So God bless Noah

and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and

multiply and feel the earth. Okay, multiply and feel the earth.

Not just the land of China, not just your city,

but feel the earth. If you don't believe me, go

to verse seven. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply,

bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it. Okay.

So God has given them a commandment. By what have

they said? They have said, let us build ourselves for

ourselves a city. So building a city was not God's plan.

But they generated this idea of building walls and this

development for their own plan. It was they are own

plan and not God's plan. It's like, you know why

this is wrong, It's because God. What was God's plan

for originally to feel the earth? To word so that

we have a lot of human populations. It what was

God's intent just to feel? When God created humans and

the very beginning in Genesis chapter one and two, What

did God command them then to do? Out of all

the creations, Now, none of them are bored the image

of God, none of them. Only we, you and I

we body image of God. And is it a coincidence

that we bear the image of God? What is so

unique about us that you deserve the image of God? Actually,

the angels will question that, so that why are humans

so deserving to bear the image of God? For what purpose?

Why to rule and have dominion over the earth. That's

always the plan. God gave us his image so that

we can rule the earth according to his likeness. Makes sense.

You are given his image so that when all the earth,

the birds of the air, the animals in the land

and the sea, all the earth will know God through

the image bearers. You and I. We are called to

dominate the earth, feel every corners of the earth, and

they shall know the glory of God. True us. We

are supposed to bear the image in glory, saying, now

the angels will look like, why you know what God's

choosing them? But now we are we we are all

living for ourselves, isn't it? So God's intention for us

has always been to rule, get to rule the entire earth. Okay,

but we are being ruled, and we see God's kingdom

and we reflect that to the earth. There's always been

God's number one plan, Make no mistake about it. That's

why I seek if as the kingdom of God and

his righteousness and all these things will be added on you.

What happens when we die? People? Nobody, anybody knows. Do

you know what's our plan? After we die? We will

retire forever in heaven? Is it sitting in the clouds?

Some people are, Oh, we're gonna do it in heaven

every day worship? Oh this is very long. I mean

I can stand here for fifteen minutes, half an hour, okay, okay,

but every day forever and ever? Oh I thought I

finished another one again. Oh no, I don't want to

gain This is what you're gonna do forever? Is this

what the Bible says? There will can be a worship? Yeah,

But what's God's plan for you? And usually a lot

of us people, a lot Christian don't know, you know,

a lot Christian really really don't know, you know, I

mean not I don't have time to teach you that.

But I have to say this, right, what is God's plan?

God's plan is to God this, why can't Jesus is

coming back? And if he's not going to rule the

earth and he don't have to come back again, you

know why he's coming back again on the first time.

He came as a prince and a prince of peace,

and now as a serving as a serving king to

serve you. Now when he comes back the second time

in the white horse, he's gonna come esther conquering king. Nah.

That's why when he wrote into Jurdans, he wrote a

donkey King's write to animals donkeys in a time of

peace and in the time of war, King's right, honor horse.

When you see a king right on the horse, he

means to wage war. Ah makes sense. And now by

there is a prince, there's a serving king, a prince

of peace, and there is a ruling a conquering prince.

He will come with an iron scepter to rule you.

Get me right. There's always God's intention, and so God, Jesus,

we're not gonna reig on himself. He's gonna get all

of us to reign with him, to dominate. That doesn't

mean that we all have going to be head crowns,

nor what it means that we now restore. We're all

now restored to our original job description. Getur your neighbor

and say original job description. You're no longer self employed.

But it's like a self employer. I want the world

remotely No this one. Ok so's already You're all are

gonna go back to your original job given by your

original maker and employer, you know what I mean? And

I who made you in his image? Yeah? Me right?

Why do you think he gave you his image? Not?

He still his image? He's not the intelligence, the conscience

and compassion in everything. The world may know God through us,

you and I. There's always been God's plan, and so

when humans fail, nobody ever saw what original spiritual men

look like until Jesus came. Nobody has seen a spiritual

man until Jesus came. That is what got intended. And

now we are called to follow Christ do as he does.

He is the leader. He is the one that we

need to emulate. So now coming back, okay, coming back.

So God's plan has always been for the whole entire people, okay,

with one with one in one group, in one language,

in one place. Okay, with resources to feel the earth,

But you cannot feel the earth and govern the earth

being in one locale. It's like I want to governed

Saba right now, but I'm going to just stay in

PJ and I've never stepped into Saba before. But I

want people in. People Okay, people, okay, okay, nine people go.

We want to rule, okay, government. But I've never stayed

in the would you trust me? You never? I don't

know what is all about. I don't have a presence there.

I don't why should I have my stay there? So

God's plan has always for us to spread out so

that we can take God's glory and build his city,

his kingdom in all corners of the earth. But man

has said in our hands, let's build a city for ourselves,

defying God's original plan. It's like, ah, although I've got

a full time job okay in this company I sign

and he's giving all these resources and salary. But right

now I want to do my own self employment work

with my main employer salary. Oh but it's true, isn't it.

Everything that we have belongs to God, isn't it? But

we are using his resources building our own jobs, painful, liching.

It's true, isn't it. This is what men has said

in their hearts. There is why city is good, But

the intent of the city was wrong. It's evil, Okay,

it is what's very evil. So you always don't let

anyone deceive you when you read, don't be deceived by

just all the effence. Go deep, go to God's original intent,

and you realize this is evil. Okay, Now what else? Okay?

So they want to build a city, they want to

draw a line, they want to feel security. Walls give

you security, the city have all the resources. When you

be a city, you're comfortable people. You're very comfortable in

our own lives. And when you go to missions are

mission is hard. Missions is coming out of your comfort zone,

isn't it? Why should I go out different language? You

know I'm going to urdp and then going to become bars.

Now what I'm like on this hypermoti really learned baside

and brush up my bas it is how work? Okay,

It's it's difficult, and you're gonna be misunderstood and you're

gonna have going through you know, difficult times. It's out

of comfort. God's plan has always never been for us

to be comfortable. To fulfill God's plan. There's never been

about comfortable. But men's natural and flash desire is always

to remain in their own comfort zone, to build their

own world, build their own peace, and build their own

purpose apart from God. Okay, And there he says that

we want to build a tower. We have many resources,

man sea, when your resources are given in your life

and they are not used according to God's glory and plan,

instead of building wider and going to places and using

this technology, this resourcefulness to build and to spread God's

words or his kingdom, all these issues have become accumulated

in one single city. When you accumulate a lot of

things are what happens? Then you start building up a

power for yourself. Don't say why I'm saying no. God

has given them oneness and resources. Oneness and resources will

build things up and you will elevate yourself. Be very

careful about accumulating things. Are are you accumulating for yourself

or communitting for the Lord? Really? You know what I mean?

Without breaks and mortars, they can't do anything, you know?

You know I mean right, they're together, but without resources.

But when all the resources I together, when you get us,

you build yourself. And it says, there, let us build

a name for ourselves, a name for themselves. Okay, but

we suppose what was original? What was our original job description?

To fill the earth and have dominion? It's about Christ,

It's about God. But now they want to stay inside here.

Build it up so that every morning when open window

there's a nice I feel tower. Oh we made these

we as people whoa you. Every day you will look

at your bank account. Every day you will look at

your name. Can't you get your LinkedIn? Whatever? Ti whatever

success you have, your vanities, of all vanities, all the

things that I have built, people can see and how

great I am? Isn't it is making a name for yourself.

And not only you want to be not but it's

one thing not to be to make another. You want

to be like God? Because if you read in just

chapter three, what what was the deception that the serpent

gave to If? For God knows that you will be

like him knowing good and evil, isn't it there's a

deception number one and all knowing good and evil? It's

not all suddenly have more data and knowledge, you know,

knowing this is right and wrong? I didn't many already

knew what was righting wrong? You can't mean right? Are

you saying that God's saying? No? You know? I mean right,

knowing going evil? What it truly means is what deciding

for yourself what is right and wrong? Out day one

today number six, when God created the heavens and even

to the humans. On every day, what did God said?

It is good, it is good, it is good, it

is good, it is good, and on the sixth day,

very very good, because he put his image on humans

very good. So through all these six days, what do

we learn? What did God review about himself? That he

is creator but not only the creator, but he ends

the creation every day by saying this is good. What

does this is good mean? What does it Who has

the authority? The creator and the law givere mer So

God is both creator and law giver. The law giver

takes what is right and what is wrong. So we

humans want to be like God. Not because we create,

we can create secondary creation. We want to be like

God because we want to give our own laws. I

get to decide what is right and wrong. I want

to say, like you know, after I created this, this

is good. I want to come here this is good.

When God say it's wrong, I know, I say this

is good. Want to come to the sixth day and

I see the human being very good. I decide for myself.

I am the law giver. Oh and that makes sense

for that. I want to decide for myself what is

right and wrong. It's like having a house, you know,

A say, for example, past Steven come to my house

and he brought his children. Okay, and then somehow they

mana sure to turn my bedroom into a toilet line. Ah,

I know, and then turn my kitchen. After that, you

can come to my house and this is a very

nice place. You enjoy all the services, but you also

have to abide my rules. You know. You don't get

to decide what you want to do with each room,

what you want to do, how you want to behave,

what you want to eat, how you want to sleep.

You can mean right because I am the owner. Doesn't

matter what you feel. You cannot impose because you have

no right. You are not a creator, You are not

the law giver as well. You want to do that,

get out of the house, do whatever you want. But

all the earth, where can we go? Where can we go?

What kind of creator you want to create? Oh? Lord,

now we can clone Dolly ready? Okay, God was saying, good,

but get your own ship, I get your own resources.

But we are nothing you We are so proud, you mean,

we have lost all awareness of who we are because

of just and we're taking God's image and abused it,

you get me, right, and polluted it, you all and

use it. It's the ultimate twist of the devil to

take humans who bear the image of God and use

it for themselves. That's what the devil is really really doing,

you know, manipulating, twisting, polluting, you mean, right, is what

the devil is doing. Okay. So God's plan is for

us to go and multiply and to feel the earth.

And now we have decided to make a name for ourselves,

for the city, for with a high tower, and to

glorify ourselves. And then it says here that they let

us not be scattered, lest we be scattered abroad all

the faces of the earth. They have no intention people, Okay,

they want to multiply, but have no intention to be

scattered all over the place, no intention in the city.

Why why do want to be scattered? And even now

easially didn't want to be scattered. The church in the

early part was not scattered. God had to scatter them,

the Bible says, I proper, of course, it is relating

to giving. And there is one who beholds has nothing.

But there's one who scatters, but were reaps many. I'm

paraphrasing here, gaming right, there's one who scatters, but God's

plans always becomes scared scattering. It is difficult. It's difficult.

You have to do more things on your own, off

your own strength, of your own resources. You can't depend

you come to church or not. Everything is ready. You

come back to your homes, you come back to anything.

It's not ready. It's not as it is convenient. You

have to be more resourceful. You have to really come

out of your comfort zone. Don't want to be scattered.

People at that time already knew what it means to

be very comfortable, seriously knew what it means back. But

this is very flashly against God's purpose. Okay, now I'm

going to share with you a proverbs here. Proverbs fourteen

verse four. Okay, proper Proverbs fourteen verse four. What does

it say? Proverbs fourteen verse four? Hey, interesting problem. I

love this proverb. It's not a very popular proverb, but

I think in one you should memorize. Okay, where there

are no auctions or where no auctions are, the troll

is clean. The troll means the basin where they eat

and feed from. Hey, the troll is clean, but much

increase comes by the strength of an ox What does

it even mean? Now? I think if I talk about this,

I might offend some people. Okay, but please, I'm not

targeting anyone. I didn't have any name least or look

at any people's face someone. But when I did while

doing this on my quiet time, I felt a lot

speaking to me in my heart, just ministering for myself.

And I know they here many implications, but I'm not

here to offend anyone. You see when you have an oxer. Okay,

let me start with it. I used to have a cat.

I love the cat. That idea of having you know,

mcy Okay, I go out of the idea of having

a cat. Got a new kitten so cute, oh sodorable?

So howmless. Nathan was playing with you a lot fun,

taking pictures, instagramming. Then came the pooping, Then came the scratching.

Then came the Christmas tree. Cats and Christmas trees don't

go together. My wife loves Christmas trees, decorating for house

Christmas trees. When the cats sold the Christmas Trea's like

just scratch a climb and and all the decorations will

be messed up. And you know it was like the

if you just left it for one day, the cat

will just boat and shave the entire Christmas tree. Ready,

that's why we just put it inside the room there. Okay,

Having kittens are nice, and cats and nice, but it's

a chore to maintain them. Okay. An ox is way

much more than that. They eat a lot, They poop

a lot, even some places are India. I know it's

when they put people whold out their hand to hold

the poop one And I know people because you put

for a lot of things, run for manure, for beautiful

esa where they got it, motar for their walls and

different things as well, for their roofing. It's the pressures

go for them. Yes, but it's true you don't going. Okay,

but there is one. But an oxen is we got

way harder. You will spend a lot of time cleaning

up after the oxen every morning when you wake up,

Oh can I have a break, And the and the

trot is messy, the cow is kicking and morning and

then grownding some Oh you had children, how men your

parents are raise up your hands that I hope you're

not confuser. You know, I'm not asking you to identify

as a parent. Okay, you are a parent. Okay, you're laughing.

You are a parent. There's no such an identify as

a dad. They no no such thing one. Okay, your

your wife will give you a heart lesson later anyway,

So it's hot, Okay. When you have kids, when you

when your kids crying, you have to go to them.

Your kids one meal, you have to breastfeed them, grow

old already. Oh, wake up? Oh, I pray that there's

already breakfast already, there's no breakfast. I have to go

and make breakfast. I have to tell them to nag

them to go and shower themselves. I had to neate

them to clean up their room. I have to pick them.

It's very messy. You want a lot of commitment mine,

you know. See. Yeah, this is the thing. You know,

when you make a true investment, your life is never

clean and simple. I hope it gets into your mind

very clearly, when you make a true and worthy godly investment,

it is never clean and simple. The trall will always

be messy. But nowadays we are like we want our

lives to be minimalistic. You know, we want our lives

to be like Muji. You know, I want my life

to be like Marry Condo. And you know I know

I wan'ts a minimalist brand. All this as simple, clean

like an eye, like an iPhone app. You know, Oh,

I know in my weekends I wanted to be clean. No,

and then you know my room, my life clean. And

there's power when it comes to be things to be

very clean and minimalists and spacious. You can do whatever

you want. You want that freedom can that's what the

world wants. Very comfortable because it's comfortable when you're little thing,

because you can do whatever you want. When you are

feeled for a lot of things, with work, with ministry,

with family commitments, you have no freedom. It's very uncomfortable

because you cannot you're pulled by things. You cannot lead

yourself anymore. You know what I mean? Right there is

there is very difficult, is it? It's like the same

people here now. They don't want to be scattered. They

want to build a city. They don't want to be

told by someone, Hey you have to cind Of come

for this beinning. I don't feel like I don't know

it's it's oh, I need a minimum is like I

you a lot of space and this is right, feels good,

all the all the stars blinking in your life. You

can have all these things you can you can don't

have an ox and you wake up. You don't have

to clean the draw. Your life will be clean and simple,

but there will be no great reward. But much increase

comes by the strength of an ox. This is not

John cy Maxwell and this is problems proverbs. You know

Pobs already telling us how to have proper productivity in

your life. You know such important verses in it so

powerful you know that what it's the powerful and ox.

An ox can save a village. You know. The things

that ours can plow through the field can save a village.

The things that can do to build, to tear down

things only an ox can do. Some people, I know,

they don't believe in having children because the man children

will deviate your life. And you know something like if

you can't have you don't I understand, but I have

to correct. And I don't really feel that it's really biblical,

because Bible says that children are a heritage of the Lord.

It is difficult, may not mistake. I totally agree with

what you say. It's difficult and you will deviate your plan.

But what it's called's plan. Make no mistake. When you

look at people's life, you go to their houses, and

you look at their schedules, make no mistake to judge

them as less spiritual, as less organized, as less productive.

When you look at their house a bit more messy,

children is running around, They have no time for you

and their area. It doesn't mean they're less spiritual. It

just means they have chosen to invest in a lot

of things that sing what I'm saying here. They have

chosen to invest. Their rewards are not in this lifetime. Really,

your rewards are much later through an ox. So who

then will have the eyes to see, to perceive, and

to invest and to sow and to align their life

in accordance to what God has called them to. You

aren't saying here, no do you? Are you able to

really see and discern? Or are you going by your

feelings by the fear of how disrupted your life will

be in it scattering a disruption, even like how disrupted

your life will be serving in homes, I gotta be

disrupting my life going for salt. Oh so disruptive, man.

I tell you you think every so I want to

go like whoaa, this is the glory door. I want

to go. You think I want to go all the time.

There are things that so many flesh. I tell you

half of my fresh don't want to go dragging myself.

This is true, but doesn't mean what I feel. I

must follow you get mean right? You know what I'm

saying here? Now? Do you think that I see everything

all completely? No? No, but sometimes I know, I say God,

even though it would disrupt, it will scatter my life,

even though it will make my throat a bit unclean,

I wish you because I see the great reward. I

don't see a single event. I see the whole. I

don't just look at this ox only know how to

put blah. I see what the ox will bring. You

know what I'm saying. When you see the only one aspect,

one department of a ministry, of a family of work,

you want to understand the whole picture. You know what

I'm saying. You know you see what so there is

way it calls. There's probably cause for wisdom, you know,

to be able to see that there you that's why

you bear with certain things. A lot of people won't

bear with one department, but they miss out on the

whole reward. Ah makes sense. It's your parents with one

thing that gives you the whole reward. There is not

I want this, I want this. You can have half

an oxer. I want the oxen and never poops. That

fits itself. That is productive. Get a robot that maybe

why don't such things? Want to know people? But you

bare children? Oh? I want children their I was like,

you know, wake and all, We'll give me an hour

eye return on the first day. I didn't want people

children as children now, but you bear. But and we

have the capacity to bear. Okay, Okay, I have enough

on that already. Okay. I hope I have not offended anyone.

But this is this is wisdom makes sense or not

makes sense. So I hope you all would invest in

an ox. Okay, Okay, turn your neighbor invest in an ox.

It's a bull market. Okay, market just came out. Okay,

So God, what happens that God came down and saw this? Okay?

In verse five, okay, let me draw this quickly to

a cross. But the Lord came down to see the

city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

And the Lord said, indeed, the people are one, and

they have one language. And this is what they begin

to do. I told you what happens when the world

is united into one language, one people, one nation, and

they have all the resources they build for themselves. People

deviate completely away from God. There is no likeness of

God in them anymore. There's no fear of God in

them anymore. Okay, now you're not a media globalization. Oh,

let's do it. Okay, it's never about globalization. It's about

God's kingdom. Okay, It's always about God's kingdom them. I

will preach another time. Okay, that's verse seven. Come let

us go down us meaning why the Trinity go down?

And there confuse their language and they may not understand

one another's speech. Okay. So when humans come together, they

forget their all job description, and they have all they

abuse all the resources that is given to them, and

they abuse all the communications in our internet, Wi Fi

laptop they have been given to them, and they decide

to use it to build their own bank account. What

does God do take them to hl take them in

but judgment and God's judgment is what how does judgment

come confusion? When you start to get things for yourself,

you start to do things out of court, description and plan.

Confusion comes confusions, non confusions life that they're gon confusion.

Confusions may be confused a bit, but you know, but

there's instead of the judgment, confusion, lack of understanding, fracture

and dispersion. And they are dispersed from judgment and know

not out of obedience. You know, they disperse are because

they no longer trust each other. They cannot understand. They

don't have the real heart for their neighbors anymore. So

they only bonded together because they have one language, nothing else,

nothing else bring them in common except to build a

name for themselves. So it was evil that brought them together.

Ah ooh, let's hope our nations are the whole world.

Don't don't band together for an evil causer. You know

what I mean? Right? It's true or not? So when

just because you know, families stay together, just because, not

because you know you're different. No, we fight, true, but

it's love that binds us as believers. We might have

a bit of differences in denominations, but what brought us

together is what we are brought here by the blood

of Christ. That's what I'm saying. Blood of Christ, not

global gender people. Blood of Christ brings us together. There

was judgment on them, confusion like go understanding, There was fracture,

and they eventually they dispersed. Okay, So the disperson was

a judgment on them. Okay, so now we see what

is happening on Babel. Now how do I link it? Commissions?

So from the New Testament onwards, God's plan has been

to reverse Babel, reverse Babel. Let's see this child. Okay,

I have the small chilt here. Okay, Yeah, the tower

of Babel in Genesis eleven. So there was a confusion

of time because of God's judgment. And in Pentecosts, what

were disciples doing. After Jesus ascended into a heaven. They

were gathered in the one room. They handled their details,

their their administration. They appointed a replacement, and they stayed

there as Jesus had commanded. Jesus commander said stay there.

I'm gonna send you, but I want you to stand

there in case. Stay there for the Holy Spirit. And

the Holy Spirit came. They gave tongues. So in Babel

tongues confused everyone. But on penticons the tongues brought everyone

there were in Jerusalem into unity because different people were

coming together. I understand that. I understand that. I understand

people were understanding, you know, the same common language giving

glory to God. How are they doing that? You get

me in right? So there is a judgment, But in

Pentecosts it was a blessing. Tongues became a blessing. Amazing,

isn't it God reversing babel obedience. I remember, if we

have obey, we have scattered are and we still have

been one language whnot or one tongue and one language

are But God can even use the different tongues as

a blessing as well. Amazing, how amazing it is. Number Two,

God scattered the people in judgment to the four corners

of the earth. They were scattered because they were judged.

Then you want to go now forced to go? Okay?

Number two, people will scatter willingly. Even the Church and

Jewisdom have to scatter as well willingly to spread the

Gospel of Christ. Instead of taking all the resources, all

that we had and building a tower, which is what

initially Israel did, they kept the ten commandments. They kept

the temper and everything all for themselves, and the gent

house could only look from the outside. But God said,

you will be a light for the gentile house. You'll

be a light for the gentileuse instead of taking these

resources and building up a tower, You're gonna take all

these resources. You're gonna scatter all over the place, and

you get You're gonna take all this and put it

in the hands of another. Let them build, let them

exalt the name of Jesus, instead of exalting our name.

Makes sense, You know, amazing, isn't it. Instead of taking

breaks to build for ourselves and our lives, but we

take that and give it to someone else. There is

why in the book, in the Book of Act they

shared everything common. They gave it to another person so

that you can build something in your community. You can

go to missions to go the on India going to

it and all these places. Forty plus percent people not

rich giving the ricks going there, give it to them

so that they can lift up the name of Jesus.

Languages used to promote a human agenda. Let us make

a name for ourselves. But language is not used as

a sign to announce the mighty work of Christ. Okay,

so I want to say about the works, so we

know before that we know we want to build use

all our works. And the chiefmney to say, God, you

know we are like you. But in Penticaus with this commission,

what what? What? What has God given to us to

make disciples of all nations? But baptizing them in the

name of the Father and the sign of the Holy Spirit.

What does baptize mean? Baptizing me means you no longer

identify with your own You're no longer identify with your works,

with your power. You identify with Christ. You get me right.

So now see in Babor people try to reach their

heavens with their own bricks and mortars, with their own works,

and making a name for themselves in pentecause they identify

with Jesus. Jesus is the one who raised that from life.

So when you are baptizing him, you will be raised

with him to the heavens, not because of your work,

but because Jesus work. Ah completely difference in here. God

is never intended for you to reach the heavens on

your own renown. It was always through here makes sense

or not, And we ought to do preach the same

thing as well. Everywhere, people, where are you building your

own tower of Baby? Christ is the opposite of Baby.

The Cross is the opposite of Babel. Greater than any

bricks and martyrs you're gonna say saying. And lastly, it

results in this unity in Babel, but in relastly it

results in unity. Every tribe in town will come and

confess that Jesus christis Lord. Amen. So every one of

us please understand that missions is not an elective subject.

Never ever. It is completely ingrained in our job description,

in our job description, it is a core subject. Okay,

oh okay, okay, Yeah, they threw me off a bit.

So it's very important because a lot of times we

have a mindset that missions is for pastors. Mission is

for a certain group of a certain calling. Wait in

the Bible, did God tell us to draw that line? No, people,

if you draw an ungodly line, you build an ungodly city.

This is what happens. Judgment as God judge bable. We don't.

We don't want to be judged like that. You know,

I mean right. Don't build your resources for yourselves as well.

I know you. We all have family commitments, we all

have things. I'm not asking you to immediately go back

and hack your walls down, and said artist is past

the message and going to unroote everything, and then go no.

But remember spiritually there are not walls there anymore. Yeah. Right,

we are hoped to step out, really really, to really

step out. Say God, I have this resources, if I

have built a tower, forgive me. Let me disassemble some

of these things. My family, my career and my work.

All this needs to be for you this year. Can

I start by at least encouraging attending emissions and then

hearing what the missions missionaries are doing and look at

their lives, say I am responsible, I am connected with him.

I cannot say no, I cannot say that because I

have that cannot no. I have to identify with them

because of their work, because they are doing the same work.

I will pray you get me in right, We're all

laborers in the same vineyard. People, And I say what

I'm saying that we're all liberals in the same vineyard.

Cannot cannot disconnect one and all. I must connect, and

I pray and I will support. When you travel overseas,

I know some people tell me, hey, when I go,

I don't want tell people. Don't want tell church. I'm

not asking you know, Oh, I just want to follow

my itinerary so that maybe someday I can squeeze a

bit more time for my itinery plan. I'm not asking you.

I'm trying to be legalistic. I'm just saying that, you know,

don't think. Don't draw unnecessary lines in your life. Really,

don't draw unnecessary lines in your life. If Jesus was

to walk past your village where he said that, oh

this is the line. I'm not going to get involved

in the household. No no, no no. Stop living inside

our own cities, inside our own towers. Get out, Get

out as God has always intended. Scatter yourself and you

will receive much. Amen.

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