Please God to Find Your Calling | Pr Daniel Chong

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. Change is inevitable, But what else do we

need to change our lives? Okay? What else do you have to change

your life? Today? I hope to give you a word right or sharing

that will cause you to change your perspective of what God's will is really for

us? Right, because a lot of us today, especially the younger ones,

maybe the older ones. You're more seasoned the walk that has been oil.

But I don't know what is my calling in life? What am I

supposed to do with the breath that God has given to me? Every day

I wake up feeling like I don't have a purpose. Yes, I've earned

the millions and millions and millions of dollars, but what do I do with

the millions and millions of dollars? Yes, I've given birth to twelve children,

but what do I do with this children? Do I form a football

team? What is God's plan for my life? Oh? I can't feel

God's presence in this church. I need to find God's will for me in

another church. I can't feel God's presence for me in this company. I

need to move away from this company to find God's presence and God's plan and

God's future for me. Because the Bible says that God has a plan for

each and everyone of us, right, not to destroy us, but to

give us a hope in the future. Right. So sometimes we call scripture

we think that, ah, God must have a will. Today, I

want to share with you what really is God's will for you? At least

from my perspective and my interpretation, all right, because I feel that this

question is asked a lot today, a lot. But Daniel, can you

pray for me? Why? Oh, can you pray that I discover my

calling. I need to know my calling in life. I'm seeking for my

calling. Okay, all right? So if you're your Bible you should Why

don't you turn to this scripture Romans chapter twelve, verses one to two,

and we're going to read it together. Amen, here we go. I

beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you

present your body's a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which is your reasonable

service. I also read verse to and do not be conformed to this world,

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove

what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. In two weeks

time we will touch the verse the second verse together. But today our focus,

I want to point you to the first verse of chapter twelve in Romans.

First point on how we can actually discover our will in our lives.

God's will for your life is the word position. Okay, position we have

to all or what have we done? You're done with the aeroplane? Can

truth to me? Yeah? Fly trailer? Wow? No better? No

better? See it's now no longer a paper, it's not aeroplane. See

even that has to undergo change. Right, So they's changed. But when?

But how how do we make an aeroplane a paper into an aeroplane?

Okay, we'll cover that later, right. So position position is my first

point on how we can actually discover what God's will in your life is.

Paul wrote to the Romans, and this were the Romans that were the church.

That was really just to him. It's like he's you know, how

many of your read Romans before? Right? The Book of Romans? And

if you can see the pattern of the Book of Romans when in chapter one

it goes like, oh, greet things everyone, I'm the born server of

Christ. And I'm so happy to bring you the Gospel. I'm so happy.

And then you can see, slowly, true Romans, his mood started

to change because he saw the filth. And I felt that actually, when

Paul was seeing these people, my imagination when I was reading this book is

that Paul was seeing his old self. You know, Paul, before he

became Paul, he was Saul right the okay, but when he was saw

he was a persecutor of Christians. He was someone that hated Christians. He

was out to just get the blood and the life of Christians. Whereas Paul

was writing, and then this was a transformation that occurred. There was a

change that occurred in Paul's life. What happened to Paul so much that when

he is writing and he has experienced when his eyes were open and he can

now see he was so enthusiastic with the Gospel. So in Romans twelve,

verse one, I'm going to to bring you through a word study today,

it said, Okay, I don't know how many of us like word study.

I know it may not be everybody's cup of tea to go through word

by word in the Bible. Let me just show you something that will give

you a little bit of perspective on what word study can look like. Just

to give you a little bit of thought taste on how Bible study can be

interesting. One verse, This is one one verse worth of notes that I

had a great I had a privilege to download from God. You know,

as I was reading, I was just so touched and so moved by what

God was doing in the life of Paul. And over here Paul started by

saying, I besiech you. Therefore, he started by saying that now the

word besiege, it's almost like a plea. It's almost like Billy, I

bet you please scat a drum set so that you can, you know,

serve more. You can practice more here it can always come all the way

to the legacy to serve that to practice you can Prectice said, home,

get a dum set, please, I bet you give you the grace and

the finances. Do something, man, Okay. So it's almost like a

beg. It's like chow, I begg you stop playing game. Right,

Like my wife always said, tell me, Daniel, I bet you please

go and wash the place in the scene, right, please pick up the

hair on the floor. It's almost like a bag, it's almost like a

plea. It's almost like a cry of desperation. How many have you been

in that position before, the cry of desperation from your hearts, out of

your hearts, there's a cry like, oh my goodness, if I tell

you what if you don't wake up today, there's no a sialam that's gonna

get sell adreable like saying, hey, what youre not coming to there?

Are you? Everybody fever? I bet you please? You come to work.

I pay you double. You know, when when there's a desperation,

when there is a cry, when there is a there's an urgency to something,

you would definitely act in a different way. Right imagine right now,

everybody's calm, everybody's like that. But suddenly you get a call and there's

a family ehen you see, you won't even borrow a Pasadaniel says, you

walk out shre the door already go it not because there's an urgency. There's

an urgency to especially when it covers your love once. Right, if it's

someone across the street and that fellow gets banged, let's say you mention it.

You open the window right now, someone of the growth get banged by

a truck. Will all of us get out our seats and go and help

the follow that got banged by a truck. Let's be honest, we won't.

Maybe let me change the question. Let's say's your father, so where's

the wood? Okay, let's say someone that you love? Can you imagine

this? So when Paul was saying, I beseech you and I beg you,

can you see the love that Paul had for his people. Can you

see the love that Paul had for the children of God, even though they

didn't know who Jesus is, even though they are well rebellious against God.

Paul used a word such as pc which there was a bad There was a

cry of desperation to Paul ISAs every one of them with family, because they

were all brothers and sisters in Christ. In Paul, that was the desperation

and hence why he was able to write this. I won't be able to

say the same if someone that doesn't matter to you, Right, So you

can see there's a reason there's a connection between Paul and these people. Why

does Paul need to make such a big deal on top of all these people

that actually matter to him. Why this, Because I feel that this was

the only way that Paul could view Christianity. Right now, I want to

ask you a question, what could be the opposite? What could be the

opposite of this? Why Why didn't just Paul say I beseech you, therefore

regend. I don't have to tell you this. You know that as long

as you become a Christian, as long as you accept Christ, you need

to offer your bodies as a living secon. If that is an expectation,

then Paul does not need to besieged anymore. Paul does not need to come

up to your face and say, hey, please, I beg you,

because if you don't do this, you're gonna die. You're gonna die,

and you're not gonna get that eternal life that I know comes with accepting Jesus

Christ. So it was a big deal. When I read this verse.

I didn't read it as I besid you therefore brethren, the mer says,

oh God, you present about this. I did not read it away.

I read it that as I besiege you, Gabriel, I beg you please

offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, because I know if you don't do

that, what's gonna happen to you after So it was a big deal,

all right. It was a big deal now, And I believe that at

that time another reason why he had to go to that extent was because it

was not happening. Can you imagine me, does your mother you'll tell you

to wash the place? If you already wash the place? No, right,

maybe your mother would go like, hey, so I washed it.

Okay, it's like the halfway, can think. But Paul finished it.

He finished writing, something must not have been happening. Can you see that

something must not have been happening. People will being disobedient to God, people

were not offering their bodies as a living sacrifice, people were worshiping idols.

There's something that's not happening, and hence the urgency. Amen. I hope

you're getting something. I just I just pray that you know, as you're

hearing this, just hear it if it open heart, because when I was

sharing it, I tell you, I told my wife this, I said,

I feel very afraid to share this today. I feel very afraid because

of the backlash or whatever that may come my way. But at the end

of the day is the truth, and the truth said you're free. Amen,

So let's move on. Therefore by the mercies of God verses I beseech

you therefore regen by the mercies of God. What is the mercies of God?

You know, whenever we read scripture, we have to read it in

context. We have to see what's before and what's after. We have to

see what's around right and what happened right before. That is Romans eleven,

verse thirty six. He turned to that if you can't, the worse is

on the screen. For of Him, and true him and to him are

all things to whom we glory forever. Amen. Friends, We're not just

saved by Jesus. We are also saying for Jesus. We're not just saved

by Jesus that you can live your life. We're saved by Jesus for Jesus.

Sometimes we feel that we do not have the connection with God because we

accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior, but we do not worship him

as our Lord and savior. We accept him as a Lord and savior.

We expect the miracles the blessings that come with accepting Jesus Christ and the Lord

and Savior. But all we do is except but we do not exercise our

faith to match our belief. Can you see that, friends, we're saved

by Jesus, and not only that we're saved for Jesus. And therefore Paul

was besieging the believers by what the mercies of God. In order to know

the will of God for your life, you have to understand the position that

you are in. If you do not understand that you are a child of

God, if you do not understand that it's not by your own works that

you are saved, If you don't understand that salvation at least the justification process

is free and attainable to all who believes in the name of Jesus Christ,

then how are you going to discover your will? How are you going to

discover your calling as a child? If Gabriel, you do not know that

you are in that family, in Garnish and Emily's family, how are you

going to know that you are going to inherit things that are from Ghanish and

Emily one day? You need to first know your position in that family,

and then you are now secure that yes, I am Guannish, your son

Ghandish at his own, my dad at his own out of the goodness of

his heart. Maybe he would leave me something, Maybe there's something for me

to inherit. But if there's buster Daniel, how can I expect Ghanish to

wait and Ganish that he's gonna give me something, some of his guard he's

gonna give to me, or the bowder in the family order. Everything I'm

gonna get. No, my position is Daniel Toung. Your position is Gabriel,

and therefore you can get the inheritance. How are you gonna discover God's

will if you do not know your position in Christ? It's by the mercies

of God that Paul is beseeching the Brethren, the people, and he's trying

to tell them. Guys, even before I tell you what you need to

do, you need to realize your position. Some of us are so caught

up with God. Tell me what to do? Now, tell me where

to go? Now tell me what job should I take? Hello? Have

you even recognize your position as a child of God? You have to change

that mentality. You are first and foremost a child of God, and that

is with that position everything else will fall into place. Amen. I don't

have to I don't have to employ Albert and Rachel to take care of Shaye.

I don't have to do that. I don't have to do that.

They do that automatically because it's their child, their position as a parent.

They will know what to do. Amen. Amen. Scripture to say in

James Chapter two, verse eighteen, show me your faith without your works,

and I'll show you my faith by my works. Hold on a minute,

and the Paul was saying that works can't save you. How come faith by

my works? Now? I want to show you that scripture does not contribute

contradict scripture. If you look at the screen right now, there are three

verses. James is essentially saying that if you have the faith, you have

to have the works to back up that faith. You can't just accept and

do nothing with that acceptance. And Paul did not contridicte that in any way.

Read in efficients to stand for we are He's workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

For what for? What for sleeping? For cursing other people, for

telling other people? Is this your grandfather's rod? I just did it yesterday.

Wish God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Titus threat eight.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I want to affirm you

constantly that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain what good

works. So, as a believer, do you think you don't have to

work? Now? We can't assume that just by getting saved, a godly

Christian life will be lived up. We can't assume that. Right. As

long as you get safe, I will live forever godly until the digits come

back. Salvation is free, and salvation the moment you attain it, you

will never lose it. That's my personal belief. But you have to understand

what does the Bible say about salvation, because if you do not understand what

the Bible's position is about salvation, you will not know exactly what it means.

And if you live according to your own position, you are never going

to be able to understand or fully comprehend what it is. Amen. Oh

but Master Daniel, perhaps that whole living a godly Christian life. It's not

for me. It's not for me. See, salvation is free, right,

It's free, isn't it? Being safe? Is enough? I get

this question a lot. I really say the sinest prayer, and by the

way, the senest prayer is is a prayer the Bible teaches us to pray.

Okay, the sinest prayer is not the one and only ticket to salvation,

right, It's just a guide for us. It's a prayer to Jesus.

Is the accepting Jesus that leads us to salvation? Amen, So sacrifices

are men for leaders of the church only I was, I was across this

young person, and the young person just say to me, I think sacrifices

are men for paster Kendeth and passenders. Daniel, you sacrifice for me.

I'm not ready for that yet. Oh, but I'm ready to accept Jesus

by not really to sacrifice my life. I have more important takes in my

life right now. I admit I give to him because he was at least

he was honest. He knows that these games are more important than God.

Because it was only recently that when I opened this book and I realized how

much I can't even explain it, how much permits from it. And I

pray that as a believer, every one of you, I prayed that one

day or if you're there, I will encourage you to continue to run that

race. That whenever you open this book you feel a sense of peace,

you feel a sense of Wow, you saw your wife for the first time

when you got married to her, when it got the veil that wild times

a hundred, you saw that thing that you love so much. You even

just got your s mem results. You saw you go so happy, exhilarated,

oh so happy. This should be the feeling that we get out this,

my bol You need sets news that Jason as well. Hallelujah, Praise

the Lord. Right, the surgery was good, right right, The blasting

was good, right, blusting, blusting, Yeah, and and and and

and you are looking forward to your son as well. I'm pretty sure right

tomorrow there's something right, uh and and you also want to you maybe there's

a little bit part of you. Yeah. You you mentioned as peace,

but I think that's also DELI like, oh God, I need a surrender.

But the moment you receive that break to you go like wow. Right.

Let me share something with you about salvation to be honest personally, and

I know this is true because it's in scripture. It's a package. It's

a package. Friends. I'm gonna show you some words that are in French.

But salvation is a three part process that involves the first French word which

is justification. All right, Justification, scientification and glorification. All right,

these are three French words that you need to know. Uh. And the

first French word justification is regarding our past penalty of sin. So Jesus has

came God is sin, is one and only begden son to die for our

sins, and that is free. I agree. There's nothing that we can

do to ever change your alter or deserve that Jesus done for us. We

cannot. That is pure mercy, pure grace because we are filthy beings.

The last time I checked with your failty beings. Right, there's none,

not a single ounce of our bodies or our works that we can do to

deserve that grace and mercy. That part is free, okay. But however,

the second part, which is the scentification process, is a process of

the present power of sin in your life. Now, that is something that

you have control over. Now, I like a very I read this statement

somewhere that if all we are after is decisions or directions, meaning God,

you direct my path, God you move my hand, then let me tell

you something. The Book of Proverbs doesn't have to be written because you don't

need wisdom to make choices. Why does the Book of Proverbs exist in the

first place, Because God wants to give you a book that is full of

wisdom that you can equip yourself in order to make wise choices. So you

have to make a choice every step of the way in this process of centification,

is you making an active decision to follow Jesus. Birth is an event.

Growing up is a process. You can't just leave a baby as it

is. That baby has to grow up or else what will happen to the

baby? You die, right you die, You need to care for the

babe. You need to feed that baby. But birth is just an event.

Justification is just an event in your life. It's a significant event.

It can happen in the blink of an eye. But certification is the process

of you growing up. Now, it's this, this end there, and

this can be a whole message by yourself. You don't have time to cover

that. But the third part of Salvagian is the glorification process, in which

you are glorified by God. And when does that happen. It's only when

you come face to face with God. It's only when you can't face to

face with Jesus at his throne, you can be fully glorified. Now I

can't wait for that day because this body is nowhere near Albert. You think

your body very nice? Wait, do you see me in my glorified state.

Tell you what, everybody will have the best body that is able to

worship God with all that you have. All this sin, all this weight

that is watering us will be gone. But until we reached that moment,

you got to work yourself out. Your body is the temple of the Holy

Spirit. I got a new epiphany yesterday that I thought her, I think

I need to get better. Lah. So I told my wife and I

told my homies. I think I accidentally say this is check me in a

year, I will expect. Okay, I don't know. I don't know

why. I don't know why I say that. I think I did.

I need to think it back, but I think already come out like the

abundance of the heart. The mouth would speak like the heart was fulfilled with

a shame. That's so much so that I needed to do. Okay,

So, uh so, what is salvation? What's the three part process of

salvation, justification, centification and glorification. All right, three French words for

you to remember today. Ephicients two, verse eight to nine says, for

by grace you have been saved throue faith, and not of yourselves. It

is the gift of God, not of works. Less anyone should boast this

or this is the part that they felt. He no no works, then

the world Hello. Read verse ten. Read verse ten in your bible.

Some people like to read the Bible and stop at a bib where they like.

Oh, not of works, Oh to Haley Loujah, praise the Lord.

Read verse then read worse. Then read the Bible in its totality.

Second Timothy three, verse twelve. Yes, all who desire to live godly

in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. This was a verse that was given to

me by a lift. If you remember that story, it was a lift

that gave me this verse. Okay, a lift an inanimate object that's going

up and down. The get free is verse James Faur. Verse eight was

also a verse that was given to me by leave. God can speak to

you in any way and any ship, and I from All you have to

do is open your eyes. Are you opening your eyes? Do you recognize

your position as truing of God? Do you recognize your father's voice. When

Ghanish calls out to I don't know. I don't know. In sorry,

in the in the Chinese culture, when my mother gets very angry with me

and my full name of God, I don't know the same same thing.

Yeah, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure when he acts your full

name or in whatever chance, you will know that it is your father.

You will know. Even one came away. I think you got that.

You got that vibration, the pattern vibration. You know, you know.

But that's because you recognize the position first. I can't emphasize it enough that

you got to know your position. You got to know your position. And

this is just the first part of Romans twelve, verse one. There's joy

to reading God's work because there's so much to discover, there's so much to

acknowledge. There's so much to look good and say, Oh, I fall

so far, so short of the glory of Christ. I fall so far.

Thank God. I just want to know you a little bit more.

Guess what. I'm right here, and you can know me if you just

open your minds, open your hearts. So yes, friends, it is

true. It's true that we do not contribute our justification. No amount of

work can gain us our salvation that is compliment ardly free. But I want

to remind you that you contribute to your scientification. You do not know what

will happen tomorrow. For all you know, Jesus might thing me up at

any time. You know that there was a pastor recently that passed away right

after he was preaching. I can, I can, I can. I

can kind of relate because every time after I appreciate it, I'm all a

breath and when the heart of temet would come. But you know what,

you never know, You never know, So you got to live each second

like it's your last. You got to, you got to, you got

to get ready. And I can't And tell you what, guys, death

does not scare me anymore. I can't wait to see Jesus Christ. I

can't wait. But I know that on earth. I'm placed on this earth

and the reason why I still have breakfast because there's work for me to do.

And that's that. You can only recognize that if you know your position.

Think about how many people in scripture started well, we ended a bit

not so well? All right? Think of how many people? Why why

did God had to put these up people that were people that God said was

after my own heart. Now David was restored, all right, But there

was a point, like I asked the youth today, what do you remember

David for? Hello? The number one response on MENI meter, by the

way, is that that that that that dingy on the screen not this screen?

Uh the poll? And the first day is was sheba, are you?

Oh? Every single thing I'd done and you remember me for both sheep,

just because I opened my eyes one day I saw this beautiful whoa sexy

lady on the on the rooftop. Oh, then IM going to send his

husband to wall. Come on, guys, not David's husband. But you

get the point. You get the idea why why the Bible is filled with

so many examples of people who have started well, right, full of grace,

full of mercy, full of conviction, full of calling, full of

purpose, justified right, but didn't end well. It was it was the

curious case. You know, you're not the curious case of Benjamin Button right

now. You know the curious case of Solomon. How can someone like Solomon,

a king, wise, strong, handsome, I believe, how does

he end up? Everything is vanity God, at least God lacky, at

least the energy is a God. Okay, but how how everything is meaningless?

I try everything and everything is mean? How can someone full of grace,

full of passion and up like that? So if friends, let's not

keep ourself low. Okay, let us let's let's not keep ourselves saying that

we will not be that person. Yeah, we are justified, forever justified.

Let's know kid ourself. We got to go through this process of scientification

to ensure that we reach point A to point B. Because if you do

not know, and on day nobody knows, only God knows. God knows,

God knows where you're gonna end up. But you are not God.

So stop trying to be God or today awake. I don't feel like you're

in a Bible. I don't feel like growing close to God. Do you

know that what that does? You're transforming your inner man. But in the

opposite direction, you're feeding your inner man with sin. And you know Jesus,

Si, you know what Jesus said about sin. The more you do

sin, the more you'll be slaved to sin. Sin will bound you buy

your hands with a handcuff, and he's dragging you around, and you are

a slave to sin. Wherever sin go, you follow. Wow. Can

you see that? That's what happens when we do not immerse ourself with the

word of God. Because the enemy is just out there to steal, kill,

and destroy your future and your hope. He does not need to make

you not follow Jesus. He just needs to make you follow something else.

He just need to make enough noise that you go like, ah, oh,

what's going on in this world? Distract you from your calling and your

purpose. But if you know your position again, friends, I can't emphasize

this. And if you know your position, you look straight at the devil

and you will say stop, get behind me. See, get behind me.

You are not my father. You have no right over me. You

have no right over me. You know your position. Amen. I'm gonna

give you your next point when it comes from this. The first goals that

be seeing you there for brethren, by the mercies of God that you present

your bodies. The next point I'm going to give you today, it's the

word personal, personal, personal decision. Paul did not write the verse I

besiech in an aird object called the freage. No, he said, I

besieged you. I besiech you, each and every one of you. When

I read this Bible and I read this, I go like, whoa,

you're talking to wah, you're talking to me. You're talking to this person

right in front of you. That's me. That's you, you know,

the spider man me and everyone point that's you. That's you, everybody,

that's us. It's a personal decision to present your bodies. So it's not

passa Daniel present his body then enough? Ready, Hello, this is not

Old Testament where I am the sheep like to slot. By the way,

I can't be that ship because I'm not I'm not I'm not pure. Okay,

Only Jesus is pure, and that's why Jesus took our place in the

Old Testament. Even the Jewish, the Pagans, the gentles, whatever God

that they're worshiping, the term sacrifice is something that they are accustomed to.

They know it. They know that they got to sacrifice something because they have

seen there's something inside then that needs to be pure, purified. And today

we are giving given the privilege to be that sacrifice. Can you see that

we are given the privilege to be isaacs and out of the obedience of Abraham,

a nation was born, and we get the privilege to be there because

of Jesus Christ. But it's there's a very clear difference for us. I

want to denote a very clear friends, between relying on God's strength. You

see, the enemy again can use your knowledge of scripture to trick you as

well if you are not sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit, because

a lot of things may sound godly, but it's not godly. Okay,

There's a clear difference between relying on God for strength to help us make the

choice, then expecting God. Expect God to move in your life today.

How many time you heard that today? How many times have you heard of

that? You open YouTube? Expect God to move in your life today.

Yes, expect God to make us present of what this? Have you heard

that before? Expect God to move my hand. I need to take water

from the fish. God, please move my hand now, God, God,

I'm do state Hello, No, it doesn't work that we How it

works is relying on God. God, I can't do this by my own

strength. Give me the strength, and God gives you the strength. But

you got to still move that hand. God has given you everything that you

need in order to achieve your purpose. It's right in front of you.

At times, it's in a bookshelf, at times it's in the device.

How many of us here opened this phone to read a Bible only because we

are prompted by verse of the day. How many of us here have a

habit, a lifestyle to open this book in order to extract our wisdom in

order to make an active decision to choose God? How many first have done

that? And I can tell you friends, I'm talking to myself as well.

It takes an active decision to choose God, to choose to present your

bodies. You still got to make that choice. Abraham still got to choose

to offer up. He said he wasn't forced, right, he was told

he made that choice to lift up that knife for that That's what whatever the

thing that was in his hand, whatever that thing made Because every everybody here

has their own thing that you have to use right to slay that that sacrifice

in your life, to cut that sacrifice down. But you still got to

make that choice. It's a personal choice, a man, it's a personal

choice to offer up your bodies as a living sacrifice. Now there's the reason

why. Uh, the word bodies is used. Okay, so living sacrifice

the next part. But we are still under the point of personal. I

mentioned earlier that even the Jewish, the Pagans, and the Gentiles they knew,

right, they knew the concert of sacrifice. Now let me just you

hear the concert of sacrifice. If I sacrifice this bottle, does it mean

that tomorrow I can come and take this bottle back? What's the concert of

sacrifice? Once I give it up, it is no longer mine. Correct.

I sacrifice this bottle to Erin, sly, I thirsty, Erin?

Can I have my bottle back? It is Erin's prerogative whether she wants to

give the bottle back or not. Right, the same way, when we're

saying, Lord, I offer my heart everything I've been true, Lord,

I offer my life to you. Lord, I offer my mind to you.

It's not God's. You have no say over it anymore. Oh,

by God, I offer you for seven or seven July, only eight of

July. I take it back. No, it doesn't work that way.

Sacrifice is Jesus came to fulfill the law. Jesus think came to change the

law. He came to fulfill the law. The concept of sacrifice is still

the same, do you know it? The Bible is consistent. God is

a consistent God, so consistent now that he can't change the concept of sacrifice.

He had to say his one and only with God the Son, because

he is a never changing God. He is God today, yesterday, and

forever more. He can't change. So sacrifice it is now gone and they

do not own it anymore. Now edding the word living with you know that

now it is now a living sacrifice that we offering to God. Not because

that we are without blemish, not because of that, but because Jesus,

what's the ultimate sacrifice that had to die for us? Also understand that it's

a personal decision to offer and to present your bodies. Your bodies are something

that is part of you. There's the reason why bodies is user not offer.

Your gadgets are not offer something that doesn't matter. Your body is matter,

and hence why you got to offer something that matters as a living sacrifice,

and it's your flesh. Your flesh has to be sacrificed. The flesh

has to be put away, it has to die. Amen. First.

Korendians six, verse nineteen to twenty says this or do you not know that

your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,

whom you have from God. And you are not your own, for you

were born at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in

your spirit, which are God's. It's a personal decision to offer up your

bodies as a living sacrifice because your body belongs to God. Jesus has paid

that price for you. Now today, what again, what are we talking

about today? We're talking about how to identify or how to actually understand God's

calling for my life. I'm giving you pointless. I'm not giving you the

direct answer to get that by giving you prerequisites that you have to get in

place, concepts that you have to get in place in order to understand the

call of God on your life. Amen, Being a Christian should be a

devotion of your life's bodies towards God, looking towards God, rather than forming

your opinions based on others around you. Christianity is not Let me give you

an example. I'm in Exsten's ministry and I form my concept of ministry around

the young people. This sound holy? Does that sound good? Does that

sound right? No? I should form my ministry around God, not the

young people. That means if the young people says they should sing so and

so songs, only Jesus will come into the room. I have to first

check with God. God, does this please you? If it does not

please you, I would rather ex teens, only have three teens that worship

God in spirit and truth than three hundred teens that only come because of the

hYP I do not need teenagers that are like that. I do not need

that because I know that God is after the heart, and I know that

if I can even reach one person that has the heart for God, that

one said, can go and change the world. Look at Paul's life,

there was one person. So, friends, whatever concept you have about numbers,

whatever concept you have about ministry, train out the window, because if

it's not of God, it is of the devil. You cannot worship God,

Ammon. You choose one's either all or the other. In the second

part, I will talk about transformation and confirmation, not confirmation or conformation.

My pronunciation is bad. Okay, So what is my colleague life? What

is God's purpose for me? What feels should I go into? What ministry

should I be? What me give you answer? Friends? Are you ready?

Are you ready for the answer? Philippines three, verse fourteen. I

press towards the goal the price of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

period. That is God's call over each and every one of you, the

upward call, not the downward caller, the upward call in who in Christ

Jesus, meaning whatever that Christ Jesus was set down here on earth to do.

The calling that was on Jesus, Christ himself was now passed on to

his disciples, was now passed on to us. Our call is the upward

call of God in Christ Jesus. Second Corinthians five fourteen to fifteen. For

the love of Christ compels us, because we judged us that if one died

for all, then all died, and He died for all, that those

who live should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for

them and rose again. Personally, I believe that this should be the ultimate

calling of every believer. The press towards that ward call is as simple as

that. You know. Later, i'll share your destimony of how I actually

walked into my full time journey. Already step into my full time journey.

But it's not it's not God. Please, God, show me the door.

God show me the letter. A ya, show me the letter full

time. Now on your end the full time. No, God doesn't work

that way. God gave me a verse. As I was at the peak

of my performance at work. I was view for promotion, a big bonus.

Used to say, and buy a car. I on the correct that

cannot buy a car, depending what color my viving. We can. But

it was something. It was I was so strong in my marketplace. I

felt like, why now my wife thing about me? You know? When

I brought up to my wife my wife, I don't know how she reacted

like I forgot how she rerected it, but I just felt like, it's

like, you get to do the noble thing, you know. I don't

know whether she felt that way right, I don't know, but it wasn't

that way for me. I didn't want it. I was already walking.

Remember this, I was already walking in my calling as a youth foster.

In case you're forgotten, I was already doing it a but I also had

my job. So I now, I'm not saying that you cannot work and

sir God, okay, but this is personal again what's the point person now?

So I was already in that call. I was feeling like I can

continue this someone, God, if I continue this job, I can get

this money and the money I can. I tell you what. The only

drive was money, la. Let me just tell you that. Let me

just be very straight and honest. The only drive was money. I loved

that job. But for already in my heart I felt there was an emptiness.

Every day, say from computer, then drawing these sign here signed there,

Hello Hello, every time, same thing over and over again. Construction

industry every time it's the same thing. Or protest designing of ECN is the

same. Okay, there's all the friends. So in my heart, yeah,

personal geneer's out here. Don't cuss me. Continue. That is your

calling. Continue its personal? Okay. God had to address it. God

gave me a verse. He got and I tell you what got loves to

do this with me. God loves the number twenty three and twelve. I

can tell you what. He loves it so much he gave me a verse

Matthew twenty three, Verse twelve. Those who are humble shall be exalted.

And if you're full of arrogance, for of pride, full of ego,

you will be humbled. So I saw that verse and I knew it was

personal because it was my birthday. Again. I okay, God, Okay.

So the God gave me a thurter moment to join Asian Youth Ambassadors.

No, God gave me a tough moment to address the mind, the being

that had to be not gila but transformed. We are transformed by the renewing

of the mind. I won't cover that too much today, but I had

to be transformed, and only then I was able to step into my colleague.

Can you see that it is not stepped into the calling first? No,

it's obey first. It's obeyed first. That's sorry. There's a verse

that says obedience is better than sacrifice. That does not mean that you don't

need to sacrifice. You obey first, and we've got obedience. Come the

sacrifice, and then you walk into your calling. Oh God, So I

besiege you, brethren by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies

as a leaving sacrifice. I'm going to just stream through this because I don't

have time. Already, I realized that I got another three more pages.

Holy they are principle, But I'm going to finish it very fast, and

then I'll do this aeropela ending. I mean I not even do that.

Okay, So third point, sorry, don't ah that point holy and acceptable.

It's essentially thisler pleasing God. Pleasing God. You will only identify your

calling in God if you please God? Is that rocket scignce to you?

No, it's not. You want to identify your You want to identify your

calling. You please God. Question that you should be asking yourself is are

you pleasing God? And how do we please God? Abel and Kane offered

their offerings to God. One please God, one didn't. Can you see

that? Can you remember that? Because one was given out of priority,

the other was given out of ego. This is my best stop, but

the other one is this is my first stock. Is it pleasing to God?

Is it wholly unacceptable to God? Holy means set apart, sanctifying and

without blemish. It is to match my condition on earth with my position in

Christ. A lot of us are walking on this earth not matching our position

Christ. We are walking out of popularity. I'll tell you what. If

your friends are surprised that you're a Christian, you're probably doing something wrong.

Huh, you're Christian. Now why every day you can see you there?

You're Christian. I know more Bible than you are we pleasing God. Romans

one seven says this to all who are in Rome beloved of God called to

be what called to be saints. Now this is the beautiful thing of the

Bible. Don't read in English, Okay, you readly in English verse,

then find out the context the word saints. It's the same word in Romans

twelfth, verse one, which is wholely same word. We are called to

be holy, we're called to please God. How how do I know if

I'm pleasing God? How how do I know? Guys? Can I just

ask you this? It's sex before marriage? Holy? You all know this.

You'll need me to tell you. You don't. If you have been

walking enough with God, you know what is wrong and what's right. You

do not need Macedenia tell your what's wrong and what's right, because you have

the book called the Bible. You know. If you're spending enough time with

God. The Holy Spirit is in you, and the Holy Spirit is living

in you. And do you think the Holy Spirit will not prompt you?

Maybe because we have been ignorant. The voice of the Holy Spirit. We

have not been listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit. We have been

living in sin, and therefore we become slave. Listen, we're not living

in Christ. Because if we are living in Christ, we will know.

So, friends, you will know. Here's an asset test. All right,

here's an asset test. If you're doing it purely for people or an

object or our ego and not firstly from God, you will get better.

Try it out. Oh, I serve this church every day. I tell

you what. Every time, come here seven o'clock. Every come Thursday,

come practice. You're not every single Thursday, every single Sunday. I don't

have my off day. I preach those the recess Monday. I don't get

the rest. You'll work five days. I work seven days. You'll work

at night. You get the rest. I have to go and see teens.

If you're doing it for God, you won't get better because you are

doing it for God. Period. You're not doing it for the result of

the God. You're not doing it for the result that God will give to

you. Because you're doing it for God. Period. Is it pleasing to

God? You don't have to please God, please the church, and please

man. No you only need to please God, serve the church, and

rich the loss. That is what you need to do. But you only

need to please God. So everything you do out of this place, ask

yourself is it pleasing to God? And the final p that I want you

to give to you today is the word preserve, Preservire, perserve Lord,

people give up halfway? Perserver how many people started well and didn't finish well?

Perservire Right? What does it say? It is a reasonable service.

Reasonable service in the ESV says spiritual worship. In Greek, the word reasonable

means law, geek costs. It's a logical, reasonable and agreeable position that

you are in. Persevere because it's logical to do this. It's logical to

offer our bo this as a lyric sacrifice in order to achieve to in order

to attain the calling that God has for me. It's logical to do this.

Do not at the sight of trouble you give up. No, you

got to persevere. You got to keep going to the end until you hear

what my good end for seven friends? You know this, you know this,

but sometimes I got to preach it into your soul. And this is

just from one verse that Paul is imploring each and every believer it is a

reasonable service. It is a reasonable service not because of your own strength.

It was because Chris, It's died for you, so it's reasonable. It's

loggy costs another word for loggi. Cout is in first the two too,

and I'll end with this. The bank can come up now so that we

don't waste time. But first me the doo woo says this, as you

want, babes, desire the pure milk of the Word that you may grow.

Do you know which part in this verse is the word loggi costs.

It's the part pure milk of the word. The entire thing is loggi costs.

You need the word of God in your life. The word of God

enables you to worship God in spirit and in truth. Without the Word of

God, you won't be able to worship Him in spirit and truth. So

what's the conclusion from all this? I can't fully conclude this message share because

there's a second part of it, obviously, and I'll share that in two

weeks time. But what is the conclusion from all of this? If I

can summarize the entire message into two words, here we go, Please God,

Please God, Everything in your life has to please God. Everything in

your life you have to ask God, God and mind pleasing you. Am

I doings? Am I walking in spirit and in truth? Stop trying to

ask questions such as God, give me my calling? Instead, ask questions,

instead, say prayers such as, Lord, I just want to know

you a bit better. A lot of us want to know our calling without

doing the work, and the work involves getting to know God on a deeper

level. You will only identify your calling if you know what God is saying.

And everything can be found in this book called the Bible. Amen,

friends, I want to employ is as simple as that. If you have

not found your calling Christ Jesus, and if you have, start by reading

the Bible. Start by spending your quiet time reading the Bible. Just read

the book, the Gospels, the Psalms, read how the world was created.

And don't come to a place of ego where you say, I read

the ready guys, and nothing is happening. Friends, I can tell you

something and we break something to you. There's hope, you know why?

You know? In Romans chapter one, when the people were so evil and

Paul was just so angry, the book actually there was verses there were scriptures

that actually wrote that how much God's wrath was upon these people, and God

actually gave them to a defamed mind, the deformed mind. It was because

they were living in sin and God said, you are in sin. I'm

going to cost you because there was God's rough. Here's where it gets interesting.

Do you know that the people that were in Romans chapter one were the

same people that were in Romans chapter twelfth, the same people. So there's

hope, guys, there's hope that because of the death of Jesus Christ and

the resurrection, that we can now transform our mind. There's a transformation process.

The minder is now defameed, that minder is now deformed, that minded

is now just so filled with filth. You can transform it, but you

can transform it by the renewing of your mind. And that requires the renewing

of God's word in your life. And it's not by mind and not by

power, but by this spirit, says the Lord. So, friends,

I hope that blesses you today, and I can tell you what you are

like this aeroplane. I wanted to end with this. All right, You're

like this aeroplane. Every day God is just forming you. You start off

as a paper. There's no meaning. Cannot fly just be written on stepped

on. Right, you know how many times you're stabbing these paper with your

pen. If he has feelings, it's very painful. Right. But God

can create something or nothing, and now you can fly. Right. If

I asked, can you create me a truck? I think she can.

She can definitely fall into a boat full in the ship. Right. But

what you do when you allow sin to enter your life, what you are

essentially doing is this, And now you're just nothing but a power of trash.

And that's what sin does to you. God makes you into something that

you can do. You're calling your purpose. But if you are slave to

sin, you're just going to be trash. Amen. Friends, So just

be encouraged that you can. There's hope, and the hope is just by

relying on the word of God. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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