Obey - That All May Know | Dr Jill Ling

You're listening to a message to go from EX Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. The title of God's message for us today is

obey that all may know. Okay, So we know that the theme that

God has given X Church for twenty twenty four years, that all may know.

That's right. And so God has been speaking to me even through my

own personal life on this theme. And there are many ways that all may

know, and so this is one of the ways. But it's definitely a

key and important way as well. Obey they all may know. Okay.

Let's go on to the next part. So growing up in high school now,

I studied in Convent jb anyone from Convent jb Here Scola Menahkabangsa and Infant

Jesus Convent Joho Barru Jalan yahyah. I still remember I did my primary and

my secondary school. There any convent girls, yeah, iven not from jb

Okay convent from where Alo Gaja I'm Bleaca Bato gadja okay. But Paya Batu

gadja para okay. Yes, Souline convent girl Alva Maria Epoh. Yes,

that's famous, super famous, they say along a lot of languages come from

there and whoo ooh, that's what my friend from people from something used to

tell me. He's a guy like oh Alva Maria ray lang and ray lang

yeah still lang right south Lan. There's like soap lang sock lang. Okay.

Yeah. So I I studied in convent for my primary and my secondary

school. Uh and in high school we were all made to sort of like

try out different sports to play. Uh And so I landed up in softball.

Yeah, not volleyball, not netball, not key, but softball.

Anybody know what softball is? Anybody you've played softball before? Okay, don't

be shy, okay, okay, Gabriel alright, nant Lorena Okay, so

softball. So yeah, so I landed up playing for my school in the

for my school softball team. All right. Softball is not a softball,

Okay, it's a misnomer. It's a misnomer. Uh So. Softball is

something like baseball where basically you've got two teams and then one is a betting

team, one is a fielding team, all right, And so there's going

to be a team that will, you know, pitch the ball and then

you're supposed to bet it then there's the catcher behind, and you're supposed to

run you know, the bases like a diamond and your goal is to you

know, score a point by running one week round and hitting home again.

So so I played in my school softball team. Uh, and I actually

became the vice captain and I played the catcher role. Yeah, Gabriel or

your catcher picture. Wow, Okay, I know, Gabriel catch you Gabriel

pitch and then Lorena catch. That's the way it goes, right you you

true, you're fishing rod. And then she took the bait, right,

she caught the bad Yeah. Anyways, Yeah, so that's softball. Okay.

I played for my school and in my school softball team, I had

a good friend and her name was called Ching Ching, and she was the

captain. She was the pitcher, so normally someper I don't know why,

there's a certain chemistry between the pitcher and the catcher. And she was the

captain. I was the wise captain, and we were good friends. We

played for five years for our school softball team. I know I don't look

the part right now. Oh but thanks for pregnancy and ash. But yeah,

so I used to play a lot of sports and then but also we

were good friends. We were not only in the same softball team for our

school, but we were in the same sports team. Yeah. So we

were from Saint Michael's, the yellow color team. Yeah. And we were

in the same class for five years. We were. Yeah, so we

were pretty much, you know, in a lot of the same things.

Like uh, and so she we if you put us together, we would

kind of make up. Maybe you will call that perfect all around the student

because she was she was like the school sportswoman and she was she was like

the schools you know, socialite. Yeah, and I was blessed in studies

and I was also leading our prefectorial board. So you put both of us

together, you get really, you know, someone who's going studies, in

sports, in prefects, in social everything. Yeah. So we were almost

like you know, like, yeah, that two halves brought together that whole

student. So we were good friends and after high school we she went our

own separate ways. Okay. The one thing that was different about us was

I had the privilege to know Christ earlier, so growing up I actually had

the privilege to go to church and to grow in faith with our lot Jesus

but her on the other hand, she had a different faith at that time.

So after for five my family moved to Malacca from JB and I came

up to KO to study A levels in Sunway College and that's how I later

came to ACTS and the rest is history. So changing. On the other

hand, she went to Singapore. So there was a common trend with all

my JB friends, most of them will actually study in Singapore more than KL.

So I was kind of like one of the few odd ones out.

But I came up because my family was moving up north, so it made

more sense for me to be in KL rather than Singapore, and she went

to So we both went our own ways after from five and we kind of

got busy with life and we kind of lost touch. And then down the

road years later, I heard from a mutual friend that her mom had actually

passed away in a tragic car accident. So the mom was visiting her in

Singapore when she was still studying in college or UNI, and while the mom

was crossing the road, there was a careless driver that came her way and

accidentally hit her. Yeah, and it was a it was a really bad

accident that you know, she she passed away. So there was really very,

very shocking and saddening for me to hear and to even say it out

now. I honestly I do feel it still when I have to say it

out. But so that happened, and I felt, you know, to

reconnect with Jing Ching at that point in time when I heard this really tragic

news, but I didn't. I couldn't bring myself to reconnect with her because

we were already out of touch for a number of years and I just felt

like, hmmm, it's a bit you know, like awkward to suddenly get

back in touch. Yeah, So anyway, I left it at that.

And if you ask me if I could turn back time, you know,

this would be one of the regrets that I would like to live out differently,

that if I could turn back time, I would have liked to reconnect

with her at that point in time. But I didn't. I mean,

I was also going through my own journey of you know, growing up and

faith as well, So I didn't because I felt shy, like, oh,

I haven't been in touch with her then suddenly reconnect with her, you

know, to send up my condolences, And yeah, I felt like it

might have been a bit awkward, so I just left it at that.

Then two years ago, two years ago, in twenty twenty two, I

had a dream about Ching Ching. And I remember this was one of our

SBO retreats. Yeah, and oh no, no no sorry, this wasn't

in one of Spuil trees. This was before that. So I had a

dream about her. And in that dream, I dreamt that she was with

me in kl but in reality she's actually in Singapore, okay, And I

dreamt that I in that dream, I was trying to invite her to come

to ext church with me. Yeah, and then she said okay in the

dream, and then the dream ended. So that was my first dream of

Ching Ching after twenty years. And then I again I felt the nuche to

reconnect with her after that first dream. And guess what I didn't. I

know, unbelievable, right. I think most of you would have la,

but I didn't. I didn't wire because again I felt shy. I felt

like, man, I have been so out of touch with Ching Jing.

Maybe that dream was just a coincidence. You know, it'll be awkward for

us to get in touch again after so many years, twenty years, never

mind, God I'll sit on it. So I did not reconnect with her

at that point. Yeah, I told some of your right, I'm just

gonna wash my dirty linen out here. Two years ago or two years ago,

I was leader in ex church. I'm supposed to be, you know,

fairly matured in my faith. But yet you know I still, yeah,

didn't obey God at that point. Okay, then, but God,

it's so good. You know, we can be like stubborn meals before him,

but he's so kind to always give us chance after chance after chance.

So I don't know who I'm speaking to. Maybe someone here. God is

calling you to obey him in something with someone. Don't be like me,

Okay, obey him at first call. Don't be like me, you know,

reject first time, second time. Now, let's see. Then a

few months later I had another dream about Chinching. This time the dream showed

me a little bit more about her life. So in that dream I was

in I was down south either is it felt like a JBL. So the

first dream she was in KL. The second dream, I was in JB.

The first dream it was daytime, the second dream it was nighttime.

So the second dream I was in JB. It was nighttime and I was

driving a car and I was actually bringing Chin Chin to church at night in

jb okay, and we were talking in the car. And then as we

were talking, I felt le to ask her how is your marriage? And

she took a while to respond to me, but she said, actually,

my marriage isn't doing good now. Just to backtrack a little, I know

her husband because we were all the same group of friends that went to Tusian

together. Yeah, so I knew a husband. Uh so. And and

and when I you know, follow her on like social media, I see,

Oh, they actually ended up, you know together, and they they

got married, they have a kid. I'm like, wow, this is

such a like a per fact fairy tale, you know. Yeah, child

sweethearts ending up together and I hope they live happily ever after. But in

my in my dream, she said that she was actually struggling in her marriage.

And then the dream ended. So this was like the third time I

felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit reconnect with Ching Ching and thank god I

did. This time. I could not ignore God's nutch anymore. It was

just such a strong feeling like I had to reconnect with her. So I

found a way to reconnect with her. I used Messenger and I, you

know, I reached out to her, and it took a while for her

to respond. So I was like, oh, man, you know,

what is she thinking? You know and all but lo and behold she was

actually traveling out of the country. Yeah, the story. She took time

to respond, so it still tested my faith, right, but when she

responded, it blew my mind away. So I started by like, hey,

you know, high Chiaching. I know it's been so many years since,

you know, we've been in touch, and how are you doing.

I just want to let you know that I've been having dreams about you and

I feel that, you know, it's time for us to reconnect. And

she responded very very openly, positively, and she said, okay, let's

take this offline. So we exchange our numbers and we continue our conversation on

WhatsApp, and so we were texting each other, chatting, and I chared

with her about the dreams. I say, oh, this is the first

dream I had about you, and in this dream, this was what happened.

And then I was supposed to actually get in touch with you then,

but I didn't. I'm so sorry. Then, I had a second dream

and this was what happened in the dream, and I felt I could not

ignore this anymore. I had to just get in touch with you right now.

And she responded saying that I cannot believe your dreams because it is exactly

what I'm going through right now. Two things, One, she says,

I have been going to church, but it's just off and on. Yeah,

I'm not really regular. And the second thing was that my marriage is,

you know, struggling. Even as I am typing right now, we

are actually in the midst of getting a divorce. Yeah, And so she

broke down. She broke down, and I just say, changing is really

not me, It's really God, because I have no idea what's going on

in your life. It can only be got to show me what you're going

through and leading me to reconnect with you, because you know, he loves

you, and he's going to give you the strength to go through what you

have to go through, and he's a great plan for you. And she

just broke down, and yeah, So I supported her in that time as

she went through the divorce, prayed with her, you know, just support

her, encouraged her. And then yeah, at the time, she still

hasn't accepted Christ yet. Yeah. So then there was twenty twenty two towards

the end, and twenty twenty three came. We got busy with life.

Twenty twenty three was a very busier for me. I don't know about you

guys, but men just flew by like that for her as well, and

so we weren't in touch much in twenty twenty three. Then twenty twenty four

came, and you know, so we have our monthly Saturday X leadership trainings

and all the leaders here will know what I'm talking about. So once a

month, the first Saturday of every month usually we will come together for a

time of training, whether it's decentralized in church plants or combined once every quarter

or something like that. And leaders, you remember we had an opening a

warmer activity during our AsSalt training. What was that all about? Can you

remember? Text someone? Yeah, and offer a prayer to that. But

of course before all that, pray first, lack so pray yeah, listen

obey, So I was facilitating the last salt and so yeah, So together

with our leaders in X Cyberjaya, we took time to pray and then to

listen to God who you want us to text in our phone book, and

we actually did it. So I knew that there were follow up actions to

that first opening activity because I was facilitating it. So I knew that that

if I were to choose this person, I have to be able to have

a conversation with this person that I text and I pray for down the road,

and during that conversation too, you know, stir up their curiosity for

God and hopefully lead them to Christ. So with all these expectations, right,

I tried to think of people close to me. I was thinking of

the staying next to me. I was thinking of the other neighbors staying down

the road. You know. I was trying to go logical, like God,

If I'm supposed to have a deep conversation right with that person that I

text, it should be someone close by. Lah makes sense mon that I

can meet up at a young child, you know, and and talk.

So her name actually came to my mind. First, I pushed it aside.

I tried to think of the anti that person, and then her name

came back again, So I knew I had to obey. You know,

when God shows you something more than once, you better take notree of it,

whether you're awake or you're asleep, okay. And so I was like,

okay, God, I don't know how this is going to work out.

She's in Singapore, I'm here, but I'm just going to obey you.

Lah. So I texted Ching Ching at the start of our assought training

Saturday afternoon, and towards the end of the training, I checked my phone

and she actually answered me. Before the training ended, I knew, like

a few leaders had to ask our leaders like, hey, how many of

you you're You're the person you texted actually responded to you, and a lot

of the leaders in our group actually say, hey, that person that I

texted has responded to me. This was before SALT had actually ended. So

when I saw her message before the end assault, she said, Jill,

I cannot believe you're texting me again. I'm really going through a tough time

at work right now as we speak, to the point that I'm thinking of

leaving my job. And so then we got the conversation going. You know,

even after SALT, I continue to converse with her and I showed her

I will keep you in prayer, and the next day she felt led to

go to church, so back track a little bit. She has been before

this, she believed she had a different faith. And in the last maybe

one or two years, she's been visiting church once in a while, once

in many months, and each time that the church and singer throughout the Salvation

call at the end of the service, which I'm glad they do just like

us an as she would always find it very, very tough to respond.

She would always be fighting with God because her mom passed away earlier in an

accident, and she she couldn't understand why God would take someone so precious away

from her. Yeah, and so she's been struggling to actually give a heart

to God. So that Sunday, the very next day after that salt in

January, she went to church. She felt led to go. I didn't

ask her to go, nobody asked her to go. But it was the

Holy Spirit that drew her to him. And when she went to church that

Sunday morning in Singapore, she really felt like the word from an unknown,

unfamiliar preacher to her was speaking to her life that very point. Every word

she said whole it was so spot on for whatever I'm going through. It's

like this person knows exactly what I'm going through and what I need, and

she was just in tears. She broke down in God's presence in his house,

and at the end of that service, she decided to give her life

to Jesus. Praise God. Wow, God, I'm still stunned until now.

And she and when she came back, she she Coqulick get texted me

and said, Jill, you know what. I ran to church this morning.

The word really spoke to me. I cried my heart out and I

decided to give my life to Jesus. And she shared with me on why

she decided to give her life to Jesus. At that very point, she

said, you know, I've been struggling the past one or two years when

I visited church because I just couldn't understand why God would take my mom away

from me. But the fact that you, he kept sending you to my

life over and over again at my lowest points, showed me that He's real

and he cares for me. And that's why I decided to give my life

to Jesus, because He's showed me his love through you. And I was

really encouraged. Uh and and and and now I am so I mean trying

to help her grow in her faith, to help her to pray, to

help her to read the Bible. You know, I use the thinger it's

so easy to just tell a new believer, ah, you just read the

Bible online full stop. Man. So I learned that with my friend,

right, I had to actually show her. Okay, this is the app

to download. I to screenshot the Bible app on my phone. This is

the app to download in your app store or play store. That I thought

she can find her way, and I say, okay, you read the

Book of Martha's in a New Testament. Yeah, it's a simple book to

understand the life of Jesus and his teachings. But she couldn't find a book

of Mark. So I had to screenshot every step of the way of the

Bible app. Okay, this is the first opening page. Then you click

on this type errow, you go to the next page. You click on

that type circle, then you go to that page. Really wow, it

was It was very actually eye opening for me to walk a really new believer

through even using the Bible app, which she takes so much for granted.

So did that with her, and then we're still in touch, you know,

and I'm looking for a Bible for her, a hard copy one.

I say, can I would you allow me to give to you a Bible?

And she's said, yes, definitely, there will be a great privilege.

And so I'm in the midst of looking for a very nice, suitable,

yeah, hard copy Bible for her. And next month I'm actually going

down to Singapore because Expo has invited our linette team to do a training with

their leaders, and I'm going to speak at the Sunday service. And I

say, changing, I'm coming down. I've got to see you, and

she says, yeah, I've got to see you too. In fact,

she was thinking of flying up to kl just to see me as well,

because there's so much to catch up and you know, past, present,

future in the Lord, right, and so yeah, this is really a

fresh testimony out of the oven over twenty years of our lives. But you

know, God is able, and from this story, I'm going to share

with you for learning points. And they're all beginning with the letter oh,

because we're talking about obey, right, yeah, so to help us to

remember easier. Okay, today's learning points are all in oh. Everybody says,

oh not oh, And there's a different Oh. Okay, So drawing

from today's story and also title, the learning points are going to be drawn

from the life of Abraham. Abraham. Okay. Now, the first all

is origin. Everyone say origin, Okay, Origin? Where do we start?

You know? Sometimes we think that the salvation of our friends, our

family, our love ones have got to always start with us. I must

start thinking of this person. I must start feeling for this person. I

must start praying and interceding for this person. I must start doing something to

reach out. Then only God will begin the salvation process for my love one.

I've got it's got to start with me, like I've got to think,

I got to feel, I've got to pray, ive got to do.

Then God will start working in the person's life. But I'm here to

tell you that the origin of every person's salvation, journey and story does not

begin with us. Yes, it begins with God. God is the author

and the finisher of every salvation. And my story to me pros this to

me because honestly, I wasn't thinking about changing salvation in the last twenty over

years. Maybe in high school I did when we were you know, together,

playing softball together, hanging out together, good friends together. I would

pray for my friends like Lord, you know. Yeah, But I cannot

also remember whether I prayed for her by name or I just love her together

with everyone else in my life who doesn't know Jesus, I cannot. I

cannot remember for the life of me, and after high school, until this

past few years. Honestly, her name has not come to my mind to

pray for salvation. I prayed for many, many other peop salvations, but

not hers. So I cannot claim that the origin of her salvation starts with

me. And I'm glad that I have no right to claim the origin of

her salvation because the right belongs to God. So I want to encourage you

that don't feel pressured to have to start someone's salvation journey or story. Leave

it to God. He's the one who press a start button, and along

the way he will use us, Okay. So I want to encourage us.

Don't don't feel pressured that. You know, for people in your life

to get saved is always got to be you. I know, in a

natural we carry many roles dad's, you know, moms. You know,

just even being a single, young working adult, you know, a Grandma

a lot of responsibilities for on our shoulder, and sometimes we tend to live

the spiritual like the natural or in the natural, everyone is depending on me

to start something, to initiate something, to get something going. So in

the spiritual I think it's also the same. But you know, the spiritual

doesn't follow the natural. The natural follows the spiritual. So really salvation does

not begin with us. It originates with God. And I'm going to show

you in Genesis chapter twelve, verse one to three. Let's all turn to

Genesis chapter twelve, verse one to three. If you have your Bibles,

whether e or hard copy. If not, then look at my screen.

But I want to get this, you know, into a regular habit of

even turning to our own Bibles so you can make sure I'm saying the right

thing. Ah, don't just take my word for it, okay. So

Genesis chapter twelve, verse one to three. Now the Lord has said to

Abraham, get out of your country, from your family and from your father's

house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you

a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and

you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and

I will curse him who curses you, and in you all the families of

the earth shall be blessed. Amen. So this is a very famous portion

of scripture. It's basically the start of the Jewish nation, and it's also

the start of our faith actually in the Lord Jesus Christ. And also a

lot of missionaries also, you know, use this verse for their lives because

it's also a missions call as well. Now I want to draw eyes to

yeah this day on this slide. First, okay, I want to show

you that salvation is God's idea. He's the one who originates it, not

us. Now I want us to look at two words on this slide.

Sorry I didn't underline or highlight, but look at the word families or it

means family, and the word blessed, blessed. Okay. Now, the

word family here doesn't just mean family like father, mother, children, grandpa,

grandma, auntie, uncle. It's more than that. When we study

the meaning of the word families here in it's root word in Hebrew, it

actually means nations, nations. Okay, So that it brings you to a

bigger picture, right, It says and in you, all the nations of

the earth shall be blessed. Now, word does the word blessed here mean?

The word blessed here we study in its original Hebrew meaning. One of

the meanings is actually what am I doing? Now? The word blessed means

to kneel down? To kneel down because as a receiver of the blessing,

the blessing is so heavy for you to carry that you got to kneel down,

put it on the ground. It's too much for you to carry.

So as a recipient of God's blessing, his blessing overtakes us. That's one

interpretation. But can we now turn our eyes to the giver of the blessing

because being blessed is a relationship. Early on, I was talking about being

the recipient receiving God's blessings is too big, it's too heavy. We can't

help but to kneel down and put it on the floor because we can't carry

it. But how about God when he says he blesses us, he actually

comes down to our level. He kneels down to our level to bless us.

When I was preaching in cyber it was family Sunday, so we're kids

around and so I went to one kid and pretended I'm Father God or Lord

Jesus, and he's he represents a human And I just kneel down, knelt

down beside him and sayd hi, how are you? And then he would

respond to me and say is there anything I could help you with? And

then he responded to me as well. But can you see? This is

how God blesses us, that he will come down to our level to relate

to us, to help us, and ultimately to save us. And so

if we could paraphrase this last part of the scripture through the previous slight again

and in you, all the nations of the earth shall be saved. Because

ultimately, what is the biggest help that God can give men when He kneels

down to our level from heaven to earth. What is the biggest hel out

and biggest blessing? It's salvation, isn't it? No other blessing is greater

than the gift of salvation. And so when God knelt down, it's not

just to do small talk with us. It's not just to give us little

blessings and break truths. It's to give us the ultimate blessing and breakthrough,

which is salvation. And so from here we see that it's God's idea for

salvation because and in you, each of you, all the nations of the

earth shall be saved. God wants to save all the nations of the earth

through each of us. God gave Abraham this covenant, this call, and

we share in it as spiritual children of Abraham. Okay, now that's the

first OH origin. Now the second OH is obstacles. Everyone say obstacles.

So there will always be obstacles when God calls us to help someone to know

him. For sure, I can predict it better than the weather. I

cannot predict the weather. I cannot predict the stock market. I cannot predict

your girl, your husband, your wife, your child. But I can

predict this. Whenever God calls us to obey him, especially to help someone

to know him, there will be obstacles for sure. For sure, because

we have an enemy who doesn't want people to walk in God's ways, who

doesn't want people to know him. So for sure there's going to be opposition.

Let's look at Genesis chapter twelve, verse ten to thirteen. It's just

a few verses down what we read just now, few verses down our same

chapter haven't even changed chapter. Okay, this is what it says. Now.

There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt

to dwell there. For the famine was severe in the land, and it

came to pass when he was close to entering Egypt that he said to Sarah,

his wife, Indeed, I know that you're a woman of beautiful countenance.

Therefore it will happen when the Egyptians see you, that they will say

this is his wife, and they will kill me, but they will let

you live. Please say you are my sister, that it may be well

with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.

Wow. You know, if I had to highlight things never to say to

your wife as a husband, this would be number one true not wives,

true, not man. If my husband said this to me, you know,

man, I yeah, I don't say yeah, But anyway, you

get my point. Things not to say, never to say to your wife.

Okay, that you're not my wife, you're just my sister. But

can you believe that came from Abraham, the Father of faith, my goodness,

and this is just few verses down, you know, from God's call

and covenant to him get out, and I will you know, bless you

and make you a great blessing. And a few verses down haven't even changed

chapter or chapters. He suddenly turned around one hundred and eighty degrees. And

that's just humans. You know, one moment we are up here in faith,

the next moment we can be down here in fear. And I just

want to highlight that of all the different obstacles that are going to come away

in obeying God, probably the greatest obstacle is this one our minds, our

minds. Some of the greatest battles are not battles that take place around us,

via the battles that take place inside of us and in the workshop of

our mind. The greatest tool that the enemy loves to use is the tool

of fear. Of all the tools in the toolbox, he'll pick up the

tool of fear and wield it in our minds. And this is what happened

to Abraham, just versus down from God speaking to him, you know,

face to face. You know, couldn't be giving him such a great call

and promise. He'saly chickened out and became fearful. He could have trusted God

right if God provided me with Sarah. I'm sure God will protect us.

He chickened out, and so it happens. I chickened out too. Right

when Ching Ching's mom passed away and I heard about the news, I chickened

out. I got scared to reconnect with her. Then, What will she

think? What will she think? When I had the first dream from God

to invite her to church, I chickened out too. What was she think?

What was she think? It's only the second dream that God really just

convicted me, and I think it was really a God moment. If I

didn't act at that moment, I may have chickened out too. So sometimes

you got to strike while the iron is hot, you feel it in your

spirit from God. You got to just do it, because you leave it

another ten seconds you might just chicken out. Okay, I'm telling you that

all of us are capable of chickening out, even Abraham me, all of

us. No one is exempted. So we got to just act when the

call is issued. All right? Yeah, so, oh, sorry I

missed the hard check. Okay, never mind, we'll do all the hard

checks later and reason. Yeah, okay, never mind. Now we'll go

to the third point, which is obeyed. So this one, I really

don't have to preach too much to us about it, because yes, God,

God speaks to us all the time. But I just want to say,

friends, as crazy as the the obstacles are ahead of us, especially

in our minds, in our fears, we just have to obey God.

We just have to obey God. Now we jump to Hebrews chapter eleven,

verse eight. Hebrews eleven, verse eight, and this was said of Abraham

retrospectively, maybe over a thousand years after he obeyed. It says by faith,

Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he

would receive as an inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was

going. And so, friends, in the words of Nike, just do

it again, just do it. Just do it. Yes, in the

words of the Great Nike, just do it. Okay, Yeah, just

do it. Don't wait too long. Whatever God is putting on your heart

right now, right, don't wait too long, because there's gonna be a

tendency of chickening out. Okay, can happen to me, to Abraham,

can happen to you? So please just do it. Nah, do the

right thing now. Of course, Okay, the final Oh, and this

is the final point. Obedience is always a door opener in the Kingdom of

God, not just for salvation, but for everything else in your life.

Okay, but today I'm relating it to salvation. Obedience it's one of the

keys of the Kingdom that opens unseen doors in your life and the life of

others. So let's look at Matthew chapter one, verse seventeen. Matthew Chapter

one, verse seventeen. So it says, so all the generations from Abraham

to David are fourteen generations. From David until the captivity in Babylon our fourteen

generations. And from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ, our fourteen generations.

Now I want us to focus on the word Abraham and Christ first and

last line. It's because Abraham obeyed finally despite the obstacles, that he gained

a place in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Obedience opened the door for Abraham

to have a place and the honor in the lineage of Jesus Christ. If

Abraham did not obey, I believe God would have raised up another man,

maybe a man called bib Him. I don't know. Abraham bibhim. Okay,

anyways, I don't know. Yeah, but then the name would be

different. It will not be Abraham, it would be someone else's name.

If Abraham did not obey fully and ultimately, Abraham would have lost his place

in the lineage of Jesus. But because Abraham obeyed, finally I had the

word finally, because at first it was difficult to obey, but finally he

did. And I'm so glad for his example. I'm so glad that all

the great men and women in the Bible, named or unnamed, all had

that initial response and then they had the final response. So I prayed that

we would choose the latter. We all have our initial responses out of fear,

but I pray that we will end the race well out of faith in

man. And so because Abraham obeyed, his name is there written in the

Bible throughout eternity. Abraham the great, great, great, great, great

many times over, grandfather of Jesus Christ. He secured his place in God's

promise and destiny. How about you? Are you going to obey and keep

your spot in the promise and the destiny that God has for you in your

life, in someone else's life or are you going to forego that spot?

You can, you know, just posit to someone next to you, La,

but then it won't be you. Yeah. I'm so thankful that despite

the times that I've chickened out in reconnecting to Ching Ching that ultimately or finally

God helped me to take that step of faith to reconnect with her and that

is my spot, Like, Hey, I have a part to play in

her salvation. Yeah. And so I mean I'm really not after that,

okay, but I'm just saying that, Wow, that would be a that's

really a bonus memory from the Lord. Yeah. And this has taught me

a lot that really we want to see people coming to know God in our

lives. You can forget about time, and you can forget about distance.

You can forget about the crazy impossibilities or barriers that stand between you and the

other person. Because God just showed me through my own life that time is

not an issue for him. We've been separated for more than twenty years.

God can reconnect us. She's in Singapore and I'm in Kyl. God can

bring us together, So oh good? How do we connect? God can

work through it. So I'm telling you this just thraw all the logical barriers

and impossibilities that stand between you and that person, and let God just work

out that highway between you and that person. Amen, God says, I

make a way in the wilderness. I make a highway in the wilderness.

So really, I never ever ever thought it was ever possible for God to

use me to help my friend to know him. But he just did against

all odds. Israelly, against all odds. And so I want to pass

this blessing and anointing to each of you as well, that God will help

each of you. God will use each of you to help someone else know

Him. This year, I want to prophesy that in thirteen thirty we're going

to see fresh souls, not just church service transfers. Or this is too

early for me. I'm coming to thirteen thirty, or not just church transfers.

I ah, you know to Father for me. Yeah, that one

is twenty five minutes, not twenty minutes. I come for twenty minutes distance

from my house. No, thirteen thirty, you will see fresh souls,

new souls, new lives that are saved in Him. But our part to

play is to just do it, to just obey. Okay, So as

you close. So just very four hard check questions. This will help you

to put whatever you're hurt into action. Now master trainer Katrine, she will

tell you you cannot just listen. You must do something about what you listen.

What's your take hold action point smart goals? Yeah, okay, so

I'm learning from her. Yes, and so these are four heart check questions

and this can be sure the first heart check question, Okay, who the

first one? If you want to take notes, you can at lesten just

put a whole question mark. Okay, who has got places in your life?

Who needs to know him? Maybe you already know, or maybe you

don't know, like me, I didn't think of my friend. Right.

Well, if you know someone, then you you kind of quote it work

at someone. But always be open to God and say God, is there

someone else that you actually want to use me to reach out to? So

be it leave room for God. Right, we sang the song I will

make room for you when it comes to helping others to know him. Don't

be so fixated on our own goals and our own plans. It's got to

be this person, and I go to do it this way within this time.

It's like trying to get that job promotion, that that new card,

that holiday, the new girl like that. But no, God doesn't work

that way. Leave room for him. Okay, second hard check question after

God has shown you who or it sounds like life partner? Okay, like

you can probably apply this to finding a life partner as well. Yeah,

but okay, so what obstacles are ahead of you to help that person?

Know? God identify what are the obstacles ahead of you? For me,

it was my fears, my logic. Basically, my mind was my obstacle.

I was like, I cannot want to love God. This doesn't make

sense at all. Even if it makes sense, I'm too scared to do

it. You see me, Like what outgoing person you know in leadership role?

I tell you I have my own fears so so, and I just

washed my dirty linen out before you, right, but so that yeah,

we can all be make cleaning in the Lord. So I do it my

own fears. You asked me if I will do this over again with someone

else, I would, but I would still have some feels. But having

these examples to fall back on, I'm like, Okay, God, it

can happen, so let's do it. Again. Yeah, okay, So

you got to identify what the obstacles ahead of you, simple things as not

enough time is real, put it down, because only when you identify what

the obstacles are then you can pray and work at it. Yeah okay.

The next hard check. So, what is the one thing or the first

thing that you need to do to obey God this week? In that journey

of helping let someone to know him? Do you need to pick up your

phone after this service and text someone? Do you need to lift someone up

in your prayer during your quiet time tomorrow morning? Is the someone that you

need to make time for on your calendar? Hey, let's meet up.

It's been a while I've been thinking about you. What what is that something

that you need to do to obey God this week? Don't talk about next

month, next year, I'm talking about just this week. What do you

need to do now and this week to obey God? It could you could

expand this even to other areas of your life as well that you're trusting God

for a break truth? What is that one thing that you could you need

to do this week to obey God? The final heart check, Well,

this is not really a heart check. But this is a promise to say

that get ready to see hearts and doors open to Jesus as you obey,

as you take that one step this week, that door is unlocking further for

someone to know Jesus, or for your breakthrough to be opened unto you.

You could be trusting God for a breakthrough in your health, your relationship,

your finances, your business, your ministry, your life. Same principle.

God wants you to experience your breakthrough and your blessing. There will be obstacles,

but you've got to just obey and see doors open. So I know

I'm talking a lot about salvation today, but we can extend this to every

area of our lives because His Kingdom principles are timeless and ever green. It

applies for salvation, it applies for every other door in our life that needs

to be open. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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