How to Build Anything for God | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

will light up your day. This is a very cute title. When I

first opened the Word of God in Exodus chapter thirty six, and that's where

we're going to in a bit. But just look at the title. First.

It started with me just wanting to encourage all of us to build a

house of God. But then as I look into the five principles that are

about to give you, or the five principles about to give you, as

I look into it, I realized we can build anything for God using the

five principles, anything for God using You can be your family, you can

be your marriage, you can build you know, your business, You can

build anything that the Lord has put on your heart to build. So that's

why I went ahead with a bit of boldness to put this title, how

to build anything for God. Okay, so let's get ready for the word

Exodus chapter thirty six. Please, Exodus chapter thirty six, Verse one to

eight. We're going to read the Word of God. God. Here we

go verse one and Bazaliel and our Holy up and every gifted artisan in whom

the Lord has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do. All men

of work for the service of the sanctuary shall do according to all that the

Lord has commanded. Then Moses called Bazaliel and a holy up and every gifted

artisan in whose heart the Lord has put wisdom, everyone whose heart was stirred

to come and to do the work. They received from Moses all the offering

from the children of Israel and had brought for the work of the service of

making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him free will offerings. Then

all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the sanctuary, and they

spoke to Moses, saying, so Moses gave a commandment, and they cause

it to be proclaimed. Do any more work? Were restrained from bringing sufficient

for all the work to be done. Indeed too much. Last verse,

Wow, blue purple and scarlet thread, ay man, thank you so much

for the support. I mean, the Lord add his blessing to the reading

of his precious, precious word, including Bazalel and a hold up. Let's

look at point number one. What's the title again? The title is how

to build anything for God? How to build anything for God? The first

W I have five ws for you today. The first, w is the

word word is the word word. So the Bible says in Acciodus thirty six

that we've read verse one, shall do according to all that the Lord has

commanded. The Lord commanded, and that's why they're doing it. It's a

very good reminder this morning to build according to God's word. We all need

some reminders sometimes because in our lives there are many voices, both good and

not so good. But there are many voices, many voices, and even

sometimes you know, when you are going into internet, Instagram or Facebook,

you even get messages from there, and sometimes they sound very good. You

know, they give scripture and they sound like wow. You know, this

sounds like it's from the Lord. But I want to encourage all of you

that God is a good God. He is your father, and he wants

only the best for you. So what he does that he will put a

word in your own heart that it's personal to you. It's like a ramma

to you. It's a word that might not be easy, and usually it's

not, but it's a word from the Lord that you need to hold very

dearly too. You know, there's another scripture that says, like John chapter

fifteen, verse seven, if you abide in me, and my words abide

in you. My words have got to abide in you. You will ask

whatever you desire and you will be done for you. Can you imagine?

You can build anything, You can ask whatever you desire, and you'll be

done. But the prerequisite is abide in me and let my words abide in

you. My question to all of us is, is the word of God

abiding in you? What is that word? What is that word? Show

the word of the Lord to Bazeleel and our Hohler. Actually I should back

up a little bit and say the word of the Lord to Moses was built,

and so God was going to provide. God was going to provide.

And we'll see that in a bit. Okay, so the command of the

Lord is really really important. Let's start with that. Now, let me

go into about four scriptures very quickly. I'll just read it and show you

that in life, the Christian life, there can be situations whereby we get

a word from the outside that sounds really good, and then we also have

a word on the inside that the Lord has given us. As I said

earlier, that we tend to compromise because the word on the outside sounds so

good, better even than the word inside of you. And the word on

the outside sounds so reasonable, so normal. The word or the inside sounds

so crazy. The word of the inside sounds so radical. The word on

the inside sounds like fiery revival. And you're scared. And now you're looking

for, you know, some kind of confirmation or some kind of people around

you to tell you something else besides what God has told you. Okay,

So I'm going to read this and we will find it even in scripture.

Men and women of God. Actually most of them are men here, if

not all of them men of God have actually had a conflict before. But

at the end, you know, God wants us to be true and faithful

to the world. So let's start with David in first. Samuel twenty four

will read the word of God, and I will just comment a little bit.

And the more we read, the less of comment. Okay, that

the men of David said to him, this is the day of which the

Lord said to you. Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand,

that you may do to him as it seems good to you. And

David rose and secretly cut off a corner of Saul's row. Now it happened

afterward that David's heart troubled him. And I wonder why he felt so trouble.

Well, I'll give you the answer. He felt trouble because there was

another word in him that was conflicting with the word on the outside, and

so he was trouble. The rest were not trouble. The rest were like

ready to share it. That's the money that God delivered David's enemy to the

cave, and he was easing himself, and very easily David could have killed

his enemy. And so they said, the word of the Lord. You

know, God has delivered. They even used the name of God. God

has delivered to you your enemy. All right, now kill him? Right?

And David tried, but he went only as far as cutting the rope.

And even cutting the rope, he was so uncomfortable. Why because the

next line says this he said to his men, And sometimes we also had

to say to our men around us, even though they think like, oh,

you know, thus says the Lord, Hold on a minute, Hold

on a minute. I also have a word from the Lord. And this

is the word. The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my

master. He's calling Saul, who wants to kill him, his master,

the Lord's anointed. Wow, I mean, there was no right thinking men

around David who would have called Saul anointed. I'm quite sure if you said

Saul was not anointed anymore, you'll probably not be wrong. But David looked

at Saul, not with his own eyes, not with his men's eyes,

but with God's eyes. And in God's eyes he chose Saul. And so

David says, forbid, God forbid. He is God's anointed. I cannot

stretch out my hand against him, seeing he's the anointed of the Lord.

And there is a scripture Bible that says do not touch the Lord's anointed.

So there's two conflicting words now, one in David and one with his men,

who say, yay, David, the Lord has delivered. Use the

Lord's nama. The Lord has delivered. You come on, take him down

now, and you be free. But David that he will never be free.

Even after he took down Saul, he'll probably be more bound than free.

Are you with me? Bound by guilt, bound by regret? Bowm

by. I shouldn't have because I knew what God's word was. I knew

what God's word was my friends go say whatever, leave church LA, or

don't serve LA, or they can say whatever. But what what does God

say to my own heart? So that's the first thing I want to say

to you. Well, the next verse I think he just he just says

this, right, what was The next verse says, so David restrained his

servants with these words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And

Saul got up from the cave and went on his way. So you will

say, oh, you're wasted. Lah is never wasted when you're obey God.

Never wasted when your bay God. Next one, let's look at the

Man of God, the man of God in the Old Testament, who did

great and wonderful things. If if you really on your own time, you'll

see that this man of God came and when he spoke, you know,

things happen in a reckless way. Okay, so much show that the king

invited the man of God back to his house to eat. Let's look at

first Kings thirteen seven to twenty four. All right, the king said to

the man of God, come home with me and refresh yourself, and I

will give you a reward. But next verse, the man of God refused,

why because he already had a word from the Lord. The Man of

God said the king, if you were to give me half your house,

I would not go in with you, nor would I eat bread, not

drink water in this place. Next one. For so it was commanded command.

We were starting with the command. According to the command, we build

our house. According to the command, we build our church, according to

the command. I build my marriage. According to command, I build my

family. Somebody say, amen, So there was a command from the Lord.

You can't go and eat bread, drink water. Don't even return by

the same way you came. The Man of God had a word next one.

So he went another way, did not return by the way he came

to Bethel. Wow, he rejected the king's invitation. How many of us

here will be bold enough to reject invitations from high level men and authority,

you know, just because of the word. It doesn't make sense to your

friends. Hey you gola, you go you get contract, Hey you gola,

you get you know, favor, Hey you gola, you get money?

Hey you gola. You know they will they will, they will remember

you the next time. But the word of the Lord, it's God,

It's not me I would like to go normal circumstance. I will go normal

circumstance is the way I will lid church. Everybody else leads church. No,

I want to lead according to the command. So let's go on now.

An all Prophet dwelt in Bethel, and his sons came and told him

all the works that the Man of God had done that day in Bethel.

They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king next

one. And their father said to them, which way did he go?

For his sons had seen which way the men of God went who came from

Judah. Then he said to his sons, said the donkey for me.

So they said the donkey for him, And he wrote on it and went

after the Man of God and found him sitting under an oak. Then he

said to him, are you the man of God who came from Judah?

And he said I am. Then he said to him, come home with

me and eat bread. And he said, I cannot good on you.

Good on you. You're still faithful to the word that God gave you.

You're still faithful. I cannot. I cannot go. I cannot return with

you, nor go in with you. Neither can I eat bread nor drink

water with you in this place. Next one, for I've been told by

the word of the Lord. Amen, you shall not eat bread, nor

drink water there, nor return by going the way you came. Is it

doesn't make sense? How if I'm thirsty that however, I'm hungry, that

doesn't make sense. But what did the Lord tell you? You want to

hold onto that word? Next one, he said to him, I too,

am a prophet. So now an all experienced profit comes to you in

a form of a person or a book, or an Instagram posting or a

Facebook and or three minute message. Wow, this old prophet, I know

him, he's really really famous, popular, And the old prophet has something

else to say, and you get so caught up, and sometimes it's very

dangerous, or to go after one posting after another, posting after another posting

is very dangerous because you're now freeing up your mind and your heart with things

that may not be from the Lord and maybe totally different from what God has

showed you. So I to him a prophet. So he's lying. Now,

he's lying about God telling him no angel he uses now And I want

to tell you right now, even if an angel came and told you something

opposite then what God told you. Please be very very careful, be very

very faithful to the Lord. Bring him back with you to your house,

that he may eat bread and drink water. All right, lying, he

was definitely lying. Okay, so a prophet can lie too, sadly that

God was using him. And the next one says, so he went back

with him. Somebody say, I you because right after you read this verse,

you know what's going on in And there are a lot of times in

our own lives we have a verse like this. We know the end of

the story. Of course, thank God that he's merciful, he's gracious,

He's a god of second chances, so we can come to him for mercy.

But many of us have this line, simple line. This is one

of the shortest line we are reading. Bye enough of me, because you

know the end from the beginning. He went back, of course, the

prophet, because one other word came and said, Noah, I don't think

so, lie. No I also heard from the Lord. Many of our

regrets come from that place of actually not going to God first and checking with

him first. It comes from a place whereby oh, I see oh,

just because very famous name all prophet, very famous. Lie Ah. He

caught me and told me, you know no, even then you must take

it back to the Lord and double triple check with him, say Lord,

the man might have a good word, but I need a God word next

one. Now, it happened as they sat at the table that the word

of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him back, and he

cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, first,

says the Lord, because you have disobeyed the word of the Lord and

have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you. But you

came back and ate bread, drank water in the place of which the Lord

said to you. Eat no bread, eat drink no water. Your corps

very set. Sometimes it's not physical death, that it can be spiritual death.

It can be death to a dream, that's to a destiny, that's

to something that God actually wanted to give you. But we shot changed him

and shortcut and shots circ ated you with me. And because somebody sticks so

long, you but God it takes so long. So I think Abraham and

Sarah also saying sorry, right, sticking so long and so Ishmael gets bored.

And the trouble we are in today is from there, right, the

whole palatine in Israel, it's from there, Ishmael, How long must I

wait? And what did a lot tell you? So here we go,

Your cops shall not come back. So so it was after he had eaten

bread and after he had drunk that he said, the donkey for him,

the prophet whom he had brought back. And when he was gone, a

lion met him on the road and killed him, and his cops was thrown

on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood

by the cops. You know, when I literally this last part, I

still see that God still honored the man. He had the lions sit on

one side of the man, donkeys sit on another side. The lion didn't

eat him up, didn't carry him apart, you know, killed him,

But you know kind of I mean, you still can give going away honor

to people who are going away are and people who are whatever, you know,

leaving the ministry or whatever. We can still honor them, bless them.

Listen, death awaits us who will go far away from the word of

the Lord. I know now it's a great quietverybone's getting very quiet because no

one wants to talk about death, right, But it's the word of God,

and it's so heasy, okay for me, the precious Yeah, because

it's very important. And again it's not physical death. Sometimes it can be

death to so many other things. All right, let's move on. There

is Jesus, of course. Oh, I love it every time we talk

about Jesus. Jesus in Matthew sixteen, twenty one and twenty three before twenty

one to twenty three, what happened was Jesus just commended Peter because he said,

to the disciples, who do men say that I am? And no

one could answer except Peter. Peter said, you are the Christ, the

son of the Living God. Wow. And you know what Jesus said,

He commended Peter, He says, and you are, Peter, And on

this rock I will build my church and the gains of hell shall not prevail

against it. Wow. Commendation and praise by Jesus himself in front of all

the other disciples. But how quickly it can turn? How quickly? Maybe

Peter was a little bit big headed after the commendation, and from that time

Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer Christians

would like to hear about swan. You don't like to hear about death,

but it's the word. Suffer many things from the elders and cheap priests and

scribes, and be killed all out. Jesus the savior of the world,

the king of kings, a lot of lords. The plan of God for

him is to die on the cross for our sins. But for the people

around him, they didn't know the plan. So let's look at the next

verse. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, far

be it from you, Lord, This shall not happen to you. So

the Bible is very clear that Peter rebuked the Lord. Anyone in this room

have ever rebuked Jesus before? I don't know. I'm not sure. Maybe

in your worst moment, you're very down, you're out of your mind,

and you scolded Jesus. What lie you? All? Right? Do you

even care? Right? But Peter, after he was given commendation that you

are the rock right, you have authority. Oh and now now I will

speak to you as that authority. Listen here Jesus, listen here, what

are you talking about? Nonsense? Now you know I'm just putting in words

that nonsense. La. You gotta stay on for one encouragement. You gotta

stay on forever. Okay, read us? No, no, look at

look at me, look at what look into my eyes? You good looking

man. You will never stop confessing, stop confessing death. And there are

times for that. There are times you must advise people to stop confessing death.

But he might also want to advice, because you know he's now his

very spiriture, very spiritual. Jesus, don't say that again. What do

you think the other guys are thinking? You know, you them feel so

down? You talk about death from to the always stopper. Hmm. And

what did you say Jesus after commending him, praising him, they had this

to say? He turned, He turned and said to Peter, uh,

now a lot of people have a different kind of commentary, and eat the

petition about this, they said. Jesus actually didn't speak to Peter. He

spoke to Satan about you know, when I read scripture again and again he

says it. And he turned and said to Peter, So I don't know

how you can go around he said to Peter, get behind me, Satan,

you are an offense to me. Wow, early on I was a

defense. Now my offense for you. I'm not mindful. This is so

important, ladies and gentlemen. If you're listening to me, listen to my

heart. I'm encouraging all of you to be mindful of the things of God,

not the thing of this world, not even the things of what other

Christians are saying. Praise God knows that they can encourage you. Take it,

but take it to the Lord in prayer. You are mindful not of

the things of God, but things of men. Okay. Final one,

Paul himself, I want to show you a consistency in scripture so that you

know that Oh Pass just showed us one scriptourney and knows started to build his

whole doctrine on this. No, no, no, it's more than one

time. And even in your own life, you know it's true. And

I as I'm sharing, I know some of you are quiet because he's tugging

in your own heart saying yeah yeah, actually, actually, either you know

somebody or it's you, and God loves you so much so he doesn't want

you to He's not looking at your past anymore. Today you're here by his

grace, by his mercy. He's look at your future. He came to

give us a future and a hope. Paul in Acts twenty one ten to

fourteen. And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet name Aghaboots this

was the other to air bus I'm kidding, came down from Judea. When

he had come to us, he took Paul's belt, bound his own hands

and feet, and said, first, says the Holy Spirit, So shall

the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owes his belt and deliver him into

the hands of the gentiles. Listener, this one, I don't know whether

he can work today. You know, because this prophet actually came in Josh.

He came in and he took Paul's belt. No, you know,

wearing bella? Where the next time? How to do in a station?

I don't touch any of the girls. I know they're wearing belts. My

wife, my wife, you got wearing bella? Why are you pointing there?

I know you wear bell but this is this very you know, very

not kosher. Right today? You need halla tabido lua it too profit?

You mean bell? Now? Can you imagine if it's a bell. It's

tight. I had to think out then, probably like, hey, wait,

what you're doing? You? I pressed into ah your day? Okay,

so so and he takes out the belt. Well, the profit of

all those days are the very gar take the belt and then buying his own

hand, buying his feet. They long belt, and you are so slimmer

he can't buy you canna read buy one Hanney like you're so slimmer of Josha.

If you take your beler, he gets only buying one handey, But

if you take my beler, you can buy hand, feet and neck.

When you go to Jerusalem, they will buying the man that owns his belt.

Okay, what else profit? Hey, the prophet? You know the

prophet has spoken now, not only the spoken, we all who are his

companions. When we heard these things, both we and those from the place

pleaded with him not to go to Jerusalem. Remember when I said to you

earlier, voices a lot even good intentions, good intentions, good intentions.

The prophet is very right. He's very spot on, because they finally bound

Paul when he went to Jerusalem. He's pot on. So what do you

do, Paul? Just forsake the plan of God. So this is what

Paul said. What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart? For

I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem

for the name of the Lord Jesus. I have to go. It's not

man who wants me to go. Is God wants me to go. There

is something there for me. Yeah, of course they're suffering. Yeah,

I know, even Jesus, they're suffering in front of me. Yes,

but I must go. There's a lot of work, there's a lot of

work, but I must go. Oh, it's very inconvenient, but I

must go. It's gonna take a lot of your time, but I must

go. And finally, so when he would not be persuaded, they see

saying the will. They see saying the will of the Lord be done.

That's what we need to do today before we go, the will of the

Lord, God's will be the how to build anything for the Lord. Make

sure the word is intact, clear, and if it's not clear yet,

don't move. Seek the Lord for clarity, and then hold on to his

promises. For his promises, yes, and their amen. I know some

people even struggle with that word. I understand. But God is a faithful

God. Can I hear a good amen? He's a good, good God.

So let's move on to the next light. The next light says this

right, It says about the talk to you about the DVCC story. Am

I right? So what I tell you a quick story DVCC is our beautiful

premises that we moved out from about ten years ago. We raised that money

from the church and spend one point one million bring it to right away the

place. It was God's place for that time. And then last year,

about a year maybe fourteen months ago, the Lord said to me, Kenneth,

get ready to move out of DVCC. I say, why, Lord,

Every church needs up their own building, my every church needs their own

space. I know. It's like a place we're calling home. It's a

like a hey, what there's God, you know, and it's so beautiful.

And we spend one point one million, and God says, Kenneth,

I'm not going to talk to you about your past, even your past glory.

I am the God of movement. I'm not the God who's stagnant,

and I'm not the God who laughs or cries over past glories. I'm the

God who gives you a future and a hope, and he's ministering to me,

and I catch a word from the Lord, you need to move,

and so I wait upon the Lord. It wasn't, you know, the

child man, It wasn't the eleventh month, it wasn't the fifth month.

But like a pregnant lady will tell you when they're pregnant one day or so,

they're pregnant. When they're pregnant nine months, so they're pregnant. Okay,

that's no little bit pregnant. Have you gone to a lady four and

she's pregnant three days? He said, are you pregnant? Little bit as

such? Saying pregnant on first day is day one? Fantastic, Praise the

Lord. You're pregnant with the word. All right. So this was the

thing. I began to be stirred as months went by. Kenneth, you're

moving out, right, Prepare, Kenneth, you're moving out. I kept

struggling, Lord, the school is here, Victory Academy. Oh Lord,

Yeah. When the more I walk around DVCC, the more I can see

the beautiful things that we have designed and developed, and the Lord's voice can

move, And so finally I couldn't take it anymore. I knew it was

God. The baby was ready to be born. You know, when the

baby in you, the spiritual baby, the dream, the destiny, the

word of the Lord that is germinated in your heart, is ready to be

born that you can't stop, you on, you cannot, you can abort

it. You shouldn't. So if by natural means is just going to be

born, the baby is not going to hold back, he wit laugh for

a while. It's holding on to the umbiliga called okay, okay, okay.

I don't know how long I can hold. Wait two more ones.

No, the baby's radio, come out, you come out. That's God's

dream, that's Got's destiny, that's Got's way. So finally I said to

k we gotta move. I told you this before to prepare, But now

the Lord is saying, within the ext three months, we gotta go.

So look for a place, look for know, just just go ahead and

do some research. And finally, of course you know that we have moved

from DVCC, given up DVCC one point one million renovation costs ten years ago.

And the Lord says, you've done enough. Enough souls are saved there,

enough disciples I make there enough leaders that that for that time, I've

done all I wanted to do. Now I've a new plan, a new

way for you. Are you willing? Do you know one thing about God

is let's go. Yeah? Yeah, But before let's go is let go?

And there many times we learn it the hard way. Let's go God,

let's go God. But he said, before you can let's go,

you gotta let go. And so anyway, cut a long story shorter.

We are moving now, moving, moving, moving. The new place is

looking quite good. She's not even a new place, right, it's a

renew place. Can I give you another twist to the story, so Erwa

King Yak rode to the owner of DVCC and said that though we are ready

to move, ready, so can you tell us when we could give handing

back the place to you? Can we hand back in May or June?

He said that Jesse, it only happened about a month and a half ago,

he said to King Yak. But uh, no need to go on,

no need to go now. There's a lot more story to this background,

but I don't have time for that. You know, the background story

to why we had to move or so physically, et cetera. But that's

enough to tell you. He called, and he said, can yuh take

as much time as you want. You want to leave the end of the

year, next year, don't leave also again, and then he drops the

bombshell, I will stop collecting rental from you. You know how much rental

is seventy thousand kits every month, So for an owner to say I will

no longer charge you rental when we are already on our way out. Elder

King called me on this sport. Every time I see his number on my

phone, I know to see because you he'll text me came yep. So

I say, King, Yet, what's going on? It's pass You won't

believe it. This is what happened. No more rental and we can stay

as long as you want, I say, can Yet it sounds like a

testimony, and probably for many Christians here is testimony die. But for those

of us who have heard from the latter is a testing, not a testimony.

It's a It's like Satan said to Jesus, all these things I will

give to you if you bow down and worship me. I got things to

give to you. So what you want? Free rental? Unheard of seventy

thousand every month, so I should be coming up here and sharrying you deestimony.

But the word of the Lord was so clear to me move that even

if you offered me and you know, the first man of God said to

the king, even if you offer me half of everything you have, I

still can't go back with you every boys you okay? And so I said,

King, yeah, we know what God said, right, And KAYA

said to me, yes, fast, I just want to call you.

You know that Satan wants us back so much that he's willing to give us

a world. I said, no, we heard clearly from the Lord.

We're going to move and we're going to see the new testimonies, the new

breakthroughs okay that that losing seventy thousand ringed or gaining seventy thousand ringed will will

will not be able to compare with what God has installed for those who love

him. Amen. So I want to bring this message across to you,

because you are going to be able to build anything God puts on your heart

when you start with his word. And no matter how the world changes,

and even Christianity changes, you stay faithful. Can I hear? Good?

Amen? The Word gives us our true worth. It's not a seventy thousand

rings savings every man that gives me my worth, and sometimes too many Christians

things all my worth is tied up with the value that is being offered on

the outside. No, nor it's not my life your life. Our true

worth is based on the genuineness of God's work. It is the word that

makes me a multi millionaire. It's a word that makes me a champion.

Is the word that makes me someone who breaks through and victorious? Can they

hear a gray man? All? Right? Second one work? So the

Bible after says that you know, we shall do according to all that he

commanded, or the word of God. He goes on to say Moses called

Bezilil and Hoolia, and every gifted artisan in whose heart the Lord had put

wisdom, everyone whose heart was stirred to come to do the work. And

if you read on again all the way to verse eight again, you will

see the work. The word work mentioned so many times, because this is

the thing. God did not just come here to entertain us, here to

employ us to do his work. I want to tell you earlier so that

I don't forget to tell you this Jesus. When you read the Bible,

he very seldom talked about job. He always talked about work. He says,

I must go about my father's business. Whatever I see my father do,

I do the works that he do, I do. And then he

goes on to John fourteen, verse twelve and fourteen. He says, the

works that I do, you shall do also, not job, but not

job. The works that I do, you shall do also, and greater

works, and these shall you do. I love John four thirty four because

the disciples came and said, hey, you ate the reading me. And

Jesus says, my food is to do the will of him who sent me,

and to finish his work. It's always been work. And so if

you ever want to build something great for God, number one, build it

on his word. Number two, focus on the the work that He has

given you to do. It is not a job, It is the work

of the Lord. I want to introduce to you towards very quickly before I

go on, the gifted and the givers. The gifted are people like Bezalel

and a whole app and they were gifted because they from Heaven got the designs

to be able to do linen, cloth and silverware and gold, and they

were able to didn't need they knew exactly how. And what God wanted was

to allay the goal over the ark. They knew. They knew because God

gave them that. But it was not just to make more money. It's

not just to find a girlfriend. He's not just to find a husband.

It is the work of the Lord is very important to God. And so

the gifted were gifted for the work and the givers. So there are some

people who are not the gifted once they are the givers. But both the

gifted and the givers must come hand in hand to build God's house. Can

I hear, great man? It is the work that is our purpose,

That is why we were born. Is the work of God, not just

a job. Remember me telling you before, maybe not sending pause, but

maybe said pauls heard this illustration before. So that there was two men digging

a hole, one on the left, one or right, and another man

came up to them, asking what are you doing, sir the first man.

The first man said, you can't see I'm digging a hole. That's

my job. To the other men, who knew the plan of why he

was digging, the hole. He was asked the same question, what are

you doing? He says, I'm building a great cathedral. And so I

wonder how many of you will just see your life as a big job.

And that's all to life. And that's why you see, my job is

killing me. I got so much stress. I want to retire from my

job. I want to resign. And then there is a man who knows

exactly why he's building that hole, and it's so that the cathedral of God

can be built. I'm part of the plan, I'm part of the purpose,

and it invigorates me every morning when I build the whole, Amen inspires

me. So let's go go on to the next slide. There's a big

difference between your job and your work. Some of you have heard this message

before, others have not, So give me a few minutes to break this

down. Too many of us are concentrated on our job when we should be

focused on our work, the work of the Lord. So let's look at

the difference. Now, your job is given by men, but your work

is given by God. That's what the next slide says. If you can

go to that, there's the difference. There's the difference. Someone offered you

a job. God didn't offer you a job. He offered you work of

the kingdom, work of the ministry, work of getting the gospel out to

those who have never heard it. There is a work to fill the earth,

Amen that all may know. Your job. You're paid to do your

work, you're born to do. Your job gives you find ancess, but

your work gives you fulfillment. And that's why sometimes our job can fulfill us.

He just gives us enough to put food on our table and maybe needs

to buy things that we are you know that we desire, but never get

fulfillment. N never get for fem Why because it's not supposed to be your

job that fulfills you. It's supposed to be your work. And can you

do your work in your job, yes. Can you find your work in

your job, yes, but you gotta find it otherwise it's just a job.

You can be fired for your job, but nobody can fire you from

your work because it's the work from the Lord is forever. I retired as

a senior pastor of x KL when I was fifty years old, right,

I retired. Actually, if you look at it, if I can explain

to you from a job from a day to day, and that past will

tell people who said, who will ask her, Sandra, actually, what

your husband do? We heard that he's resigned and retired, not resigning.

I just retired, And she said, well, he's still very much part

of X and he still gives vision. Because that's my work. Man,

that's the work God gave me as a pastor of his church. So I

don't have to do my daily job anymore. I can retire from that,

but I cannot retire from my calling. My work. God still gives me

vision for the church. I will not retire from blessing other churches when they

invite me to go in and speak. That is my work. Don't retire

from that, or you will totally short change what God has in store.

Are you still with me? Very important? Your job is determined by your

skill. Your work is determined by your gift. Why did God give you

the gift? And does that gift disappear just because you put in your resignation

at the No, it doesn't. In fact, it comes alife. It

comes alife more and more until you're sixty seventy eighty at the below, before

the lock calls you home. The gift comes alive, and you find yourself

stepping into your gift in greater measures. Somebody say, amen, I hate

my job. Nobody says I hate my work. You shouldn't say that I

hate my job fair enough. This job is killing me. Yeah, because

job ends up with death. And that's why a lot of people don't stay

in their job. Because you know, retirement or real resignation or changing another

job will probably save you from dying out of stress. But job does that

to you. Is death at the end of the day, no matter how

you see it. You might be doing good things, you know, producing

things, making other people happy, but your job will never make you totally

happy. But your work will everybody okay, and your work is what brings

you life. Daniel, you just gave up your job with Someway paid very

well, and I couldn't even convince you to stay on another two more months.

I said to Daniel, stay on another two to three more months to

get your bonus, because the bonus was very big. I know you could

have bought a car with the bonus. But the thing is that you said

to me. But Pastor God said this to me. I tried to remember.

I tried to stay. There's only two or three more months. But

that's what man is saying. Man is saying that only two or three more

months. But what is God saying? And so you came into this ministry,

are on fire and you have never stopped working. I don't see you

selecting off. No, because your passion for young people is the one that

pulled you into this ministry. And so you're finding yourself in this school.

That's school, every school. So you're good now, of course, person,

and I put a little bit of bricks. You also care for your

health, for your marriage otherwise, otherwise in your houser you'll be louder and

louder. As you said. No, No, you're the only one that's

not talking, right. I don't know why he said that. Why Yeah,

Russia, Rochelle, I'm on your side. Okay, we know who's

a lot one. Just kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. Your work gives you life. He does. Step into

the work of the Lord, come alive, energize. You can see it.

Of a job, never mind, but make sure you have clarity of

your work. Jesus never talked about his job. The next Light says,

he always talked about his work. As a job, he was a carpenter,

but as his work he was Christ. That was his true work on

the earth, to die on the cross for our sins as the Messiah.

He gave up his carpentry job. You know, some people like to talk

about how you think Jesus was as a carpenter. And Bassendre and I have

had this conversation. He said, I think Jesus, because of his passion

for God and his excellent spirit of excellence, he must be a very good

carpentor must have been a very good competitor. And bassender said to me,

he don't think he's very skinny. No, Marcello, she said, I

imagine Jesus are having to carry the cupboard. Ah carry the cupboard. No,

because Auntie so and so ordered the cupboard. So he No, he

learned from his father and so he did a very good job. He doesn't

want anybody to carry because those days, no grab, no panda. So

Jesus is carrying and then when he comes to the house, put the antie

high and he you know, kind of brushes off the dust from his hand,

and then the auntie could see the six pack, No purposely when actually

because he lifted up the white, the sweat, and he said, ooh,

my lord, that's right, that's who I am. Yeah, so

my wife only ladies think I'll do it was very strong bicep tricep, bicep

on bicep, tricep on tricep. So when it was hanging on the cross,

how we see it's very skinny man. Maybe it was not, Maybe

it was no Ah. Jesus, Jesus, it's never changed. Adam,

I gave you a work, not a job. Be fruitful and multiplied.

That's part of our work, not just biologically, but discipleship. That's why

Jesus is go and make disciples same you know across the board. God never

changed his mind about your work. And then when Adam failed, he rose

or he raised Noah. And to know why he gave the same work,

not a job. Work. And throughout all of history up until today,

we are all trying to find our work. Is it good? Can I

encourage all of you? The next light says, I encourage all of you

to go to work on Monday morning, even as you clock in for your

job. And when you go to work, or rather you clock in for

your job. But Monday, this Monday is differently because I found out that

in my job there's work. And so I smile at my colleagues. Why

is he smiddy? He never's my line. My work is to do the

will of Him who sent me, and to finish his work. I smile

at you because I don't want my frown to stop you from asking me why

do you smile? And when you ask me why I smile, I can

tell you it's Jesus, that's why. And I see everything in my job

different. In the angle of my work, I am not just a job

seeker. I am a worker for the Lord. If you are with me,

say amen. So we have the ornaments and the offerings. That's what

the gift that people did. Ornaments. They made beautiful ornaments. And the

people of God, who did not have to give, they were the givers.

So they gave offering, and the ornament and the offering came together to

do the work. But let me draw this towards the last lap. First

one is the word, second one is the work. Yes, third one

is the wisdom. So now you might have caught a word from the Lord

and you got yeah. I understand now, it's not just building another just

building. It's not just building another gym, It's not just building another cafe.

There is a work that I have to do in this cafe. There

is a work I have to do in this gymnasium. There's a work.

There's a work, not just building anything so that Christians look nice and fellowship.

Moment said no, no, no, there is a work. Yes,

Lord, I found my work. And then you go back and you

go like, oh, but now what do I do? How do I

start? And the Bible says he gave wisdom to a whole up and to

Bazilla wishdom from above. I really wanted to go Bible school when I was

younger, and the Lord didn't allow me to. He said, Kenneth,

I will teach you. And so the Lord has been teaching me all this

time, doing ministry for thirty years, and so I can only give him

the glory. I don't have any paper on my wall except for the law

degree. But I don't have a degree anything, no paper, you know.

And I would like all of you to consider going to Bible school if

the Lord, you know, is putting that on your heart. Bible school

is good, it's great. But for me, God had another path.

So how did I start X? God? How did we plan fifty features

in ten nations? God? Because I don't have I don't have my own

wisdom? How does a person know how to melt down goal into something that

can be used and shaped? There was no book you know about melting gold

and shaping it before? There's a letter before I holdever, no book.

They were the book. They were born for such a time as this.

This was their work, not there's a doob, and God bought up wisdom.

So I'm going to declare this before I close. May the Lord grand

you wisdom, and may the Lord grant your staff wisdom, and may the

Lord grand your team wisdom. May the wisdom of the Lord come upon you

to know exactly where to start, what to do first, and let him

guide you all the way. And I tell you what. You can only

give him all the glory. You can't say, oh that book I read,

No, No, give him all the glory that Bibruscu I went to.

No, no, give him all the glory or that mentor No,

no, no, no mentor good good to have mentor. But it's Jesus

wisdom for the work. That's the next light. Remember it's not just wisdom

to make money, wisdom to do your work. So keep reminding yourself there,

why is this work? Why do you God give me wisdom to do

the work? Finish the work? Next one, Oh, this is going

to be very good. Please listen up. Before we close, I'm going

to talk about willingness in people's hearts. Many families fail because there are people

in the family who are not willing to pay ball. Many companies fail because

even though the boss has visioned, the board members have visioned, the staff

said too much. You're overworking us, you're exploiting us. And so what

happens is that you go You've got a leadership that wants to do this the

work of the Lord, and maybe a people that don't understand, or person

you don't understand my board won't agree, or person you don't understand my leaders

will never buy into this or pass you don't understand. I understand totally because

I've been there before so many times. But what keeps coming through again and

again is if because it's God's work on God's word, then you will find

God's wisdom. And then this one was so good you will find God's stirring

people's hearts to be willing. You know, after doing this church plan for

twenty four years, I found so many people who told me before, I

ain't gonna come. I'm not going to step up, I'm not going to

sign up. I'm not going to do this. I'm not you don't know.

You know, I've been burned before, hurt before. I'm not into

this. I'm not into leadership, all kind of stuff. But I pray

as it Lord, you gave me your word. I hold on to your

word. And then you gave me your work. I hold on to your

work. It's your work, God, not mine. And then you give

me wisdom. And so we are having some success. But the true success

is you see everyone stirred up, even our young people, and how of

you can see our young people in this church are quite stirred up, and

I thank God for that. But once upon a time, Pasadena, it

was all I did. Sometimes the young people fund themself, dragging their feet

because they were confused. Is this the right way to go? Is that

the right way to go? Confuse? But because we knew that this was

built on the word of God, we were confident that God would come through

for us, and he stirred the hearts of people in the church and made

them willing. So let me prophesy and pray over you right now that everyone

here who has a dream from God, a destiny from the Lord, a

word from the Lord. I know that some of your fears is that others

would not follow, Others will not be stirred up, others will not be

revived, they will not follow. But let me say to you, according

to God's word, the five ws here that we see in scripture, it

is the Holy Spirit there will stir people's hearts. And if he doesn't stir

the hearts of some people, let them go. Maybe they're not supposed to

be part of this. You can try again, try again, But after

seventeen times or talking to them, you realize that they're not God's choice for

the plan moving forward. So with a heavy heart you let them go.

Don't fight it, because God is the one that will stir people's Somebody say

amen, He will make people willing. Now, if you have to force

yourself to make someone willing, you must know don't not do it because it

won't go well. Or so I stayed on because passa Kennet gave me some

money. I stayed on because Passa Kenned gave me position. You know it

won't last. It won't last. You want the Holy speed to do the

work of stirring people's hearts. And finally, the last w is when all

this is given to us, make sure that we make a beautiful product out

of what God has called to do. Now, after everything is set and

done, as we have moved from DVCC to the peak and to the bridge,

my next thought is just this. As I walk around, I just

now tell el Kaik, Yeah, you've done a very good job in three

weeks. You've done what people do in six months, day and night.

Okay, I was there until last night that he only left summit at twelve

o five midnight because LK has really sold out to the work, not just

to a job. See, when you do a job, you starcounting,

You do the worker. You don't come on because you find fulfillment. And

so I said, K, yeah, you've done a very good job.

The next thing I want you to do and concentrate on is to beautify this

place. Don't just finish the job, oh finish Sometimes you got to get

editude. When the Lord has called less to do something for him, make

it worthy, make it beautiful. And that's why in verse eight we read

they made scarlet thread, and they made blue and purple, so a holly

up. And basil El had one task towards the end was not just let's

just get the building up blah. No, it was let's get a building

up that will be worthy of praise to God, worthy of people singing his

glory, our place, worthy for the loss to be found, and for

the dead to be resurrected. So, Father, with the time that I

have already overspent, wanting so much to bring your word of encouragement to the

people here, I really don't know what the people here are going through individually

privately, but God, you know. And some of them could be stuck

at one of these ws. Maybe the first W we said, God,

did I do this at your word? And God might be speaking to you

and say, if it's really my word, hold on to it. Or

maybe it was not my word. You thought it was my word because somebody

else told you about it. Then repent and ask God, God, get

me back on the right track. That's why there's no breakthrough, because it

was not founded on God's word. Or maybe you have the word, but

you have been distracted from the work, and after a while he has become

Wow, pride and joy, and wow, look at my building, look

at this, look at that, Look at what I've done, and pride

comes in. We don't want pride. We want to keep our eyes focused

on the work of the Lord and see God use this work for his glory.

Or maybe you have the word and the work, but you are lacking

wisdom. James Chapter one, verse five says, if any of you lacks

wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without

reproach, and it will be given to him. Lord, I pray that

wisdom will come from Heaven Throughalt the next few days and weeks and months,

wisdom not from man, but from the Lord. The fear of the Lord

is the beginning of wisdom. Amen, Lord, give your people wisdom.

Now we have the word, we have the work, we have wisdom,

but we don't have people, or we are scared that people won't follow,

people won't buy in. Well, let me remind us all again, is

God's work, is God's word, is God's way. He ordered he will

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