Peace of God | Pr Phua Seng Tiong

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

will light up your day. When when I was transferred from this school in

Kuchalama to uh Skua Jinjiang, those of you who know and know what Jinjng

is all about. So, but it's not Jinjiang Joe. But uh so

I remember one of the students from uh this Kuchalama school wrote to me and

he said, dear sir, because he was very concerned. And then I

don't speak uh Chinese, I likes or Chinese with them, even though I

can uh, they must only speak to me in Vasa and English, and

so it was tough going. But uh finally some of them really pluck up

enough courage to speak to me in English. So this boy wrote to me,

knowing that I'm in the different schooler, so he said, dear sir,

I hope you're in the well. He's England not so good. I

hope you're in the well because I'm also in the well, and and we

all together in the well. So I hope you're in the well. In

the well with a lot, I mean, halee louisah raise a lot.

And so when when a Jew greets another and said, shalom. It means

I hope you're in the well. Yeah, because you see, I'm at

peace with you if you're at peace with me. And that's what shalom is

all about. But you know when we go around different places and so on,

we understand that, Yeah, in recent times, there's a lot of

suddenly and these suddenly can hit us. I mean, I don't know how

you feel about the family that suddenly, you know, in the rain and

so on, in j the trees just come over you all. And then

so I remember the guy taking that that videos. Oh you lucky, I'm

not damn. And but you know, we know things happens on all our

situations where suddenly one of my friends last Saturday, you know, actually his

church member just talking to him, you know, some of the others are

talking to you, and then he's just sitting on his sofa and then he

just just didn't even say goodbye, just stop stop breathing. Yeah, and

uh, and we have friends who yeah, some of you also I've heard

about past Timothy loo Is talking to some of the people and then suddenly he

just went off like that. So these suddenly puck us up. Help us

to understand that we need to how never we know Psalm ninety, verse twelve.

He says, that teach us to number all this so that we can

live wisely. And I pray that this would be so for you as you,

as the Lord teach you how to live each day. Let's be urgent

in the things that got is asking us to do. And so, in

the midst of a lot of situations like this, a friend what said me?

He said, you know, I it's been difficult. He's also about

the same ages me. I won't tell him my age, but can I

can tell I'm actually seventy eight already going to be seventy nine. Yeah,

okay, but it's just it's just it's just a number. So that's why

you need to to see that. You know, one day to the Lord

is a thousand years and a thousand years one day, so I'm living on

that one day, but not a thousand years lot. Okay. So but

in the midst of all this kind situations, I remember this guy, what

said me? He said, you know, he's been serving the Lord.

He said, I want to complain, but I do know how to complain,

because I complained means I have to rejoice in a lot. And so

it was difficult because he had three surgeries done and he couldn't even stand properly.

He has to sit down time here to be attended to. He said,

he's so you know, down, but you know in the down he

wrote, and just express his heart. But just said, I really thank

the Lord. I rejoiced in the Lord and I and so for me,

for him, it was Jesus. He's our peace, He's our hope.

I pray that this will be so. Paul, writing to the Philippian,

says like this in Philippians for seven. He says, the peace of God

which passes all understanding, or guard your heart or got your mind in Christ

Jesus, that's who whom we believe in and understand is all. His name

shall be called wonderful counselor all right, mighty God, and what else,

Prince of peace. So he's our peace where has broken down every world of

hostility. And so we need that piece in this time of We need that

hope in this time of difficulty, and so on when we hear situations,

you know, there's always there today it's always uh a fake news galow so

everybody and then start faking again, you know, and then we forward fake

I have. I'm guilty of that. Sometimes then sudden news it passes day

is not true, you know. Oh you better check the but oh yeah,

just true. Sorry, man, how to confess it, because you

know, pass on to so many people already quickly one by one, delete

delete, delete, delete, delete deleted, so that they that is not

fake news. And so we will. But you know, it is in

this kind of situation we need that hope from the Lord. In Romans fifteen,

verse thirteen, this is what Paul says. He says, made the

God of hope fill you with joy and peace as you trust in him and

overflow with hope by the power the Holy Spirit. And it is in such

times that we need that. Tim Keller died of pancretic cancer last year.

He is an amazing Bible teacher, apologies, et cetera, et cetera.

He speaks very well, and he's very intellectual person. And this is what

it said as she was getting through stage out, the stage of deteriorating health.

And then he knows because pancretic cancer is very rapid, and so he

says, all death can do to Christians is to make their lives infinitely better.

So I like that, yeah, because it means that that's the hope

that we have in him. Amen, praise a lot. And so as

we have that hope, we need to declare it. Amen. Yeah,

just not try to get you old. Praise the Lord over all. But

you all, I don't know. I didn't look back. But if I

do a selfie, I don't know whether you are with her or not,

but I think you should be with me. Yah. You see the crown

of tons, it's meant for the Lord Jesus, but you see the crown

of gold, it's also the Lord Jesus who is what as Revelation in nineteen

sixteen says, he says the person riding on that white horse in the room

and honest tie written king of kings and lord of lords. Amen. So

we couldn't declare that, all right, So let's rise. We cannot declare

sitting down? Are you ready? Just yeah? If you already are?

So if I say Jesus is king, then what do you say king?

Okay? Ah, all right, let's just I understand as can shot very

well, so I hope so, but it's it's okay to shout in chess

Ah. It's okay. Now do you know that? Because the scripture says

shout alata way. If you don't shout alone, you're not following scriptures.

No, you understand that. No, okay. And then when you when

you go to heaven every day, you're gonna say holy, holy, Holy

without stopping. Now you ever see you, ever see you read revelation?

Okay, come, are you ready? Jesus is King? Not good enough,

the roof hasn't come down here. Come on, Jesus is King,

Jesus is King, Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah,

hallelujah, Thank you God, bless you. Please. Yeah, I

like that some some king or kings. I'm not imitating you are. So

if you are one of those, and just tell you, hey, king,

lord kings, come on, speak it out loud. Okay, raise

a lot. So my question is I must ask myself as I ask you.

Is Jesus really King and Lord in my heart? In my life?

That's what it is? Is in it? Why? Because in Philippines two

verse nine to eleven, he says God has given him a name that is

higher than all other names, and the name of Jesus, every medi must

vow, and the name of Jesus, every one must declare who is and

so on, whether on earth below or in heaven. And that's who Jesus

is. And I hope and I pray that he will constantly be king and

Lord in my heart, in my life, and so on. And so

when Paul, as I share this with you, you know, Paul was

a kind of a turnaround terrorists. Why because he prosecuted Christians. He's someone

who who is very righteous and said that, you know, no one should

say anything other than Jehovah. And so when they hear about them talking,

all these people who are Christians talking about Jesus and so on, he was

very angry, and he went about putting them in prison. He got every

credential, every order, a warrant to take them and put them in prison

and so on. And yet when we know he had an encounter as recorded

for us in Extra nine, as he had encountered at Damascus, and when

the Lord came in a shining light upon him and he became blind and so

on, and all he could do was just to let people take him in.

When he was so confident about going everywhere, catching the Christians and so

on. And then he asked who are you? And Jesus said, you

know, Paul, why do you persecute me? And then he did know,

of course who Jesus is. But when he reminds it, those Jesus,

and you know, suddenly he not only came to his census, but

he also had an assignment and so on. So from being a persecutor,

he became a preacher. From being a pharisee, now he becomes the apostle

to the Gentiles, people who are non Jews, whom he will never have

any contact with. But you know, now God wants to send him.

You know, God turned him around completely. So the scripture tells us in

Acts of nine, verse twenty, he says that, you know, immediately

he went about telling people about Jesus the Son of God, a message which

he was very angry about, which he wanted to tell the people, how

can you speak about Jesus the son of God? And so on, And

yet now he's speaking it. He went about proving to people he is truly

the Christ, the son of God and the messiahs. So when we read

in verse twenty two, he says, like that too. And so he

says, it's like this, this Gospel of the Kingdom, this gospel,

this gospel, this good news that I have received, it is like a

It's like it's like a bomb, you know. Is that it's a dynamite

is do know what I mean? It is exploded into my life. And

I'm not a shamed I'm going to go everywhere even though people say, hey,

you used to get people, get Christians into the prison because of this,

and now you're speaking the same language like them. And one yeah,

because I'm not ashamed of this gospel, the gospel about Jesus, the gospel

about Jesus dying on the cross, the gospel about Jesus rising from the day,

the gospel that if I believe in him, I will be safe.

And so he went about sharing this with so many because it happened in his

life. He suffered for it, he went to jail for it, he

was whipped for it in every way. As you think about this, then

you realize that, wow, he was not only convinced one hundred percent.

He wants to share with all. I pray that this is so for you

and for me too. Who is it in your in your in your family

that hasn't come to know the Law? Are you praying for them? Are

you passionate to bring bring them to come to know Jesus? And so on?

Because why it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone.

And so even as you do that, and like Paul, he will go

anywhere and everywhere to do what God wants him to do, even to places

where people do not seem to have brought Christ to the message of Christ to

them. You know, somebody asked me passive when you go through heaven.

Remember, it's not if you go to heaven. When you go to heaven.

So I know my time not very long, my dear. So that's

why I must live wisely. So when you go to heaven, what is

one thing you don't ask Jesus? Besides all the hot questions in a Bible,

I said, when I see Jesus, hot questions anymore, no need

to ask any more. Those things they don't matter. But I want to

say, I want to know who is a person who went all the way,

whether from America from UK. Mostly I don't know who these people are

who went all the way to a place in China called Fuking, province,

and to this hooking province to grow people who speak the fucking the Hocken dialect,

which is specific in tune. Anyone in tune or no, I don't

know her, because these ancient people very stingy, not stingy, very trifty.

So I said, I want to know who learn in tune. Must

have been so difficult for them to learn in June and enough to be able

to share the good news with my grandmother's family so that she came to know

the Lord. And now I am the third generation, my children are fourth

generation, and my grand children future. I want to know who is that.

I want to go and thank this person for making that sacrifice all the

way. You see, this is what it means when we are passionate about

Jesus. We want to go to places where God wants to put you in.

Yeah, it may not necessarily be oh see, it will be places

where you don't like to go because you don't like to go, God says

you go lah, because so when I used to teach in a dung link

Bible school in Manila, and so after that they will ask me, you

know, pass after this, are you going to spend time in Philippines.

I said, yeah, I'm going to a place called Aabwanga in Minda.

Now, huh, why do you want to go there? I said?

Why? What's wrong with the place? He said, that place all terrorsal

Ausa. People who know you might get kidnapped, now say you're dangerous for

you don't go there. I say, yeah, So don't go there.

I said, I have to go there. Why do you have to go

there? Because you're not going? So we go there, You go on

the basilanda where they all keep the kidnap victims there. No, yeah,

yeah, and so uh they say, how can you go there? I

said no, If God wants me to go there, it doesn't matter,

because that's where God wants people to come to know Jesus. All right.

So I'm saying this not because I'm gonna go I'm saying this because when we

went there, we actually were oblivious to the danger. Yeah. Really seriously.

We went to one village this this. I was going to just talk

a little bit more, but then suddenly somebody came to whisper to the pastor

who brought me there. He said, then he said, I think we

must go. No, I say why, why say I'll tell you in

the basa, and so tell you in the vehicle. So when he got

into the vehicle, he said, somebody asking who are these people? Ready

to kidnap them? No, So so two of us was how much money

we can give you lu But they all away, they spread so anyway,

So what I'm trying to say is that, yeah, Paul was willing to

go places where Jesus would his name will be declared and so on as we

declared the name of Jesus and so on. So I like the way when

he was in prison he wrote this letter. And this letter is called the

Letter of Joy because you if you count, I think almost twenty times,

you know, rejoice, glad, glad, rejoice, you know, and

and and and all the time. Uh Sukati sukati, you know every time

you will write it. And where was he in prison? But you know

he's writing the people rejoice in the law always and so on. So when

when I visit prisoners in in uh in the Kajak and Subah, I say,

rejoice in the Lord first. Sometimes they all him. He said,

your head rejoice. You know why we are all, I said, But

you know when we start doing it, Hall lo holl hallelujah, praisey.

The Lord choir is almost like you know, someone's singing different different, uh

what do you call it? Different? Not different? Like also different languages

as well, but they can sing seconds or six seconds. Yeah, way

man. So when the whole place or ringing with hallelujah. And and I

like this guy who who was taken in brother you into Memma prison and then

look at him and said, oh, you look like a priest because so

so they asked him to do. There's a shriner and this is really recorded

in the hemley Man book. It's a shriiner. And he they say,

you you chant because you've got the rest all in Mema. They're all Buddhists.

So he started chanting, what do I chant? I don't even know

Mamma language and so on, so I know I know the language I haven't.

So he said challenges lay loo yeah, lou yeah, lou Yeah.

You got everybody say oh hey Louiah, hey Loujah, hee luah, chanting,

changing channing. The one hundred and fifty people came to know the Lord

because say, hallelujah, you are hey, that's I don't know how you

and somehow we were praying at that time for him to come out. You

don't pray for me to come out, because for one hundred people, one

hundred and fifty people here already. Yeah, he just need to make them

say more times Hallelujah and so on, even though he and so when when

I look at it and I read the pause letter to the Philippines and so

on, then I know that something that happened. Come on, let's all

read this together, one to go, being confident of this, that He

who began a good work in you were carried on to completion until the day

of Christ Jesus Philippines. One Si. If it has anything that you missed

out on, why I say, never mind. Just make sure you memorize

this, huh, so that you're hid in God's heart. And so if

somebody asks you, hey, what did you hear this morning? Don't unders

speaker simply talk here in there? But being confident of this, Ah,

being confident, why are you confident that he who began a good work in

you? Tell your friend God has begun a good work in you. Come

on, tell your neighbor, tell your wife, tell your husband, Hey,

don't your husband and say good work are you alamah ah okay. So

we'll carryed on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus, hallelujah. So

if he has done that, he has begun to do the good work.

Now you know that at different points in his life God must engineer in such

a way that he understands the good work that God wants to do even in

his life. So Paul in his second Mischiine journey, studying from Antiochy,

he moved on and so on. He was so gung ho, no,

he wanted to go to different places and so on. So he wanted to

go to Misier and into Bethenia. But then if you read in Acts of

the sixteen, God told their Jesus told him, no, there's no entry

for you. You got to turn the other way and so and but how

do I know that you got to turn the other way. So as he

was sleeping, then he had a vision, and their vision he saw somebody

saying, come come over to Macedonia and help us in Acts of the sixteen,

verse nine. And so when he heard that said, wow, no

wonder we couldn't go there. But now we are supposed to go to this

place. And the scripture tells us he understood that, and he obeyed.

And because he obeyed, so he was this thing happened when he was in

Triest, and so when he was in Triest this was told to him.

He obeyed, and so they moved forward. And when they move forward to

where Flippi, see, God doesn't just God knows Flippi needs a church planner.

So that's why you need to go there. Troy's yeah, okay,

go there. And so he enabled him to see things happening. So at

Philippie, what happened. There was a lady called Lydia and her household all

listened to what Paul shard and then they were baptized. There was a first

group of new believers and so on. Then suddenly, you know, as

we were walking around and so on, and there was this girl, the

slave girl, who was taken in by people because she has the ability to

predict future et cetera, et cetera. Okay, and so she she started

telling people that you know, or you know, if if she was in

Malaysia, maybe predict uh by cola, okay, how to how to strike

her and so on. But you know, so these people who were catching

sort of catching, I mean who was taking her was earning from her,

you know. And so but she she was somebody who also seemed to can

can declaine because she's demonized. And so these are people what you reading,

uh extra the sixteen. They are the ones who would talk to you about

God, et cetera, and so on. And it seems like she was

a nuisance to Paul and Silas, and so until one day Paul and Paul

couldn't hand anymore, he says, she turned around and said, in the

name of Jesus, you know, come up from her, and the spirit

the DeMont came out of her. Suddenly these people's job, the rizziky all

gone deep because cannot you see her anymore? She said, oh, well

okay. And then so what happened? They created a riot. And because

they created a riot, Wow, these two guys, Paul and Silas,

were caught and said, you are the one you are, You're you're instrumentally

causing us to lose no only our job, our our livelihood, et cetera.

And they created the right. And so they were taken in and they

will whip. They were put into stocks in the inner cell, if you

read it. So as they were inside there it passed the center. There

also praise God. Then every brain praise. So they were doing this,

all stuck their praise God every so you read except the sixteen verse twenty five.

They all were praying and they're worshiping and singing, and all the other

prisoners listening. Wow, they're singing a cause an earthquake, you know,

not because of their voices are but because God did something, because this is

something He has begun a good work in you. So there's an earthquake and

then earthquake cause you know, the jailor he wanted to kill himself. He

said, because well they all run away. I'm in trouble because he would

be killed either, so myself kill myself. Then he sudden heard stop,

don't do it, and then why because we're all here, and he checked,

yeah, it's true, they're all there. And then he asked an

amazing question, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe in

the Lord Jesus Christ. You be saved, you and your household. What

an amazing statement which many of us took that step. Believe in the Lord

Jesus Christ. You and I would ask, is your household believing in Jesus

and so that night he took them in bathe them, clean them up the

very wounds that they have, and then immediately they were baptized and a new

church plant was done in Philippi. I can't imagine when they're all like what

uh, Brother Daniel said, just now, you know, when what do

you do at prey service? We share testimony, got stories and so on.

I'm quite sure this guy will share good story. Actually I was a

onner who jave pollen silence. I was going to kill myself actually and you

actually actually actually then the girl, the girl was demondizing. Now well actually

I was doing this, you know. Yeah, so many amazing God story

for that church plan to grow, and no wonder Paul was so touched by

them, and he said, I'm writing to you, I'm praying for you,

and I say God has done a good work in you. Now you've

got to carry on. Yeah, because why God Jesus will completed for you

and so on. And so my question is what is the good work that

Jesus has done for you and for me? And I want to run through

some scriptures with you so that you appreciate the good work that Jesus has done

to enable you to come to the Lord. All of us cannot come whenever,

we don't qualify even to come to the Lord. But you know he

made it possible for us. Number One, God demonstrated. When he says,

God demonstrated, means dear, they put to Joe, they check up,

and they begin, Okay, so if you understand what I'm talking about.

So God did that so that he sent Jesus, even when we're against

him, even when we're enemies with him, he died for us. Jesus

died for us. Amazing, praise the Lord for that. And then he

says, you know, all of you, many things that you have all

stolen from you, many things that you have all taken or killed, many

things that you have destroyed. But here one but I, Jesus said,

I come that you may have life, and they have life in all his

abundance. When you take that step to accept that life, what is going

to happen. What is tolen to be restored, what is kill will be

given life, and what has been destroyed will be built back. And why

because it is because Jesus can give that abandoned life. This abandoned life is

alive in all his solness. You know when whenever I go to Bangladesh and

I pray for them, so I try to use you know well, so

he said, oh you you you get your life. He said, how

do you know that. I said, yeah, because it is in a

Bible. He said, miss off life and so on. And I want

to say to you, this is what we are asked you to do.

And at the same time, you know, just like the people in Philippine,

they were walking indukness, they were doing things that were against the Lord.

But yet Jesus said, when Jesus came and told his disciples, I'm

calm, I'm the light of the world, and those who follow me will

not walk in darkness. But do I have the light of life? And

sorrier, I do know what happened to the light, But the darkness is

still there. Okay, I hope your darkness is still there. It's still

not no no more there, but it is a light. Huh. Yeah,

Well, I like this guy who was telling me pastor you know last

time when I was out there, I said, what did you do in

prison? Why do you come to prison? I say, I kidnapped people.

I said, so, your card said yes, I was called,

so, I said, when you kidnap people, were you a Christian?

He said, yeaha I was Christian, but he spoke to me in Mandarin

and said, what hunt you leak? Hid? And so a long time

I left Jesus. That's why I mean darkness, but today I mean in

prison, I mean the light. No, I said, very confusing.

You're you're confusing me, he said, but no, no, no,

I tell you it's right. Is you know, light doesn't depend on the

absence of darkness, but darkness depends on the absence of light. Oh he

like, I said, very him, very deep. Nough. I promise

everywhere I go, I'll tell you I will share your thoughts Kenna, So

you repeat for me. That's why now I'm he's all stuck here, you

know, Yeah, yeah, I hope I don't. You know, in

our church we have the Methodist Senior Fellowship MSF. So memory slowly fading?

Yeah so, but I hope not when you member scriptures, he shouldn't be

MSF. Okay, so darnkness to light. It's on. You know what

else did Jesus? What good work did he do? Wow? We were

enemies, but now he says, come be friend. Reconcilation is friend again

man. So when a friend again is reconciled. Yeah, and that's why

he says, we are all reconciled to him. You know. In two

Corinthians five, verse eighteen to twenty one, he says, God, who

knew Jesus had no sin, made him to be sin so that we'll be

righteous before the Lord, so that we all be reconciled. Amazing. Now

you had the ministry of reconcilation, you have the message of reconcilation. And

in verse twenty he says, you are now the ambassadors. Can I fill

in the blinks of reconcilation because that's who you are? And I prayed that

this. So it is from enemity to reconsolation. Wow, what a work.

Just he was done the good work in you. That's the good work

that God has done. What else did he do? He bore your sin,

my sin, in his body on a tree, so that we might

dye to sin and live for righteousness. By his wounds, we have been

healed. So it is from righteousness and made righteous and made whole, not

just the body, the whole being of us. Jesus saves us whole completely,

and so on of the mind, of the heart, and all the

emotion and of his spirit and so on made righteous before the Lord. And

so that's why when Jesus spoke to Mother before even he was high, before

even as she was crucified, and as she as she looked at her because

she was so distraught because of less us death and so on, and he

stated this to Mother, I am the resurrection in the life. He who

believes in me, though he dies, yet surely live. And those who

believe in me will never die. Question is do you believe this? Ask

your neighbor, do you believe this? Are okay? Because if you believe

this, then it is from death to life? Amen? All saying to

with me, death to life, death to life. We were dead in

sin, now we're dead to sin, all right, That's what Romans sic.

Says. We're dead, We're dead now, We're dead to sin,

but alive in God. And I pray that this will be so even so

for me. That's why every time I do I said the first service.

I don't why they say wake service, because this gry or red timer.

Why wake service for what? Wait? For all the Maybe we wake up

for all those who still haven't died. Yeah, yeah, that's what happened

to one guy. Ah, he refused to believe in Jesus. And then

I told him, I said, because I was doing the wedding for the

Sun together with one of the girls in our church. So I asked him,

what about you. Your children all believe. Oh, you put a

handle it. I said, why. He said, it's only for them,

not for me, because he's very rich. It's a self made men.

Three years down on nine, I got a call from the doctor in

law. I said, can you speak to my father in law? I

said you already? See he doesn't want to, so I say, wait,

see so he's in the hospital. So I went there and went to

see him. And as I went in there I opened and he said,

you remember me? I said, how to forget? And then he said,

do you think I have a time? I said what he means?

The doctor says, I have three months to live. I said, whow

three months? Long time? You know? Yeah, because there's one person

only one day besides Jesus. And Jesus said he believed, So today you'll

be with me in paradise. So come on, you still got three months

a long time, you know. So I share with him very simply.

He accepted a lot. I said, so how now what so how now

believe? Lah? Ah, now live for Jesus. But I'm three months

going to die. Don't worry. Everyone who comes you tell them your story

that you you put hand like that to me, and now you you accept

Jesus. Okay, so your hand like that, lah, you invite them?

So yeah, I went, so when I did his funeral at the

service and so not wake services, wake up the people. Oh lord rich

mend there, you know, because he's very rich. So I just I

just said, if you want to play golf with him in heaven, you

better accept Jesus. Yeah. So because you know why, because all of

them have questions mark on their face, you know. Yeah, So I

said, all of you are question mark suddenly some of the I say,

you don't need rocket signs to know that. I say, you know you're

asking this question. Since when did this guy become a Christian? Yes that's

true. Yeah, but now from death to life, praise the Lord,

hallelujah. So this guy said, I like what this guy said. If

you say his reason, then stop living like he's dead. Yeah, come

on, Jesus is alive. Amen, is he alive. Yes, if

he's alive, then hallelujah, live live because he is alive, and so

on. So and then you know, John writes, since on as many

as receive him to them, he gave them the right to become sons of

God, even to those who believe on his name. Wow. So the

dog is open for anyone to come. The door is open for anyone to

believe. If you haven't come to know Jesus, this is a good morning

to believe in Jesus. You know why, because it's from from being a

sinner. Now you are sons of God. And when your sons, you

inherit what God wants to give to you. So it is life that is

everlasting, ett and so on. So that's why Jesus told the disciples,

because you said, very sooner, I will live here. And then some

of the asked you know you, you said, let not your heart be

trouble. Believe in God. Yeah, also believe in me, because why

in my father's house there are many mentions if I would, if I go,

I'll prepare this place for you, and when they come, I'll take

you with me. And where I am you be also, and he said

but you never give us a gps MA. Then Jesus looks it. I

am the way you follow me. I am a truth you believe in me.

I am the life you live this life with me. Then, because

you are a son, now you can go to the presence of the Father,

because that's who he is to you and to me. I pray that

this is a good work he has done. So when this guy you know,

smuggle four hundred and twenty kilograms into our country of aramin Iv, he

was caught by the Interpol and he was arrested and given the death sentence.

And when he was given the death sentence, I saw him and I met

him in Kadjant prison. As I saw him, he looked very sad,

and so on. When he joined us in our group and so on,

and then but one day I saw him, he smile and say hello,

Pasta. I pray for you, know, I said, whow how comes?

Certainly you pray for me. Earlier you look very sad because somebody gave

me the Bible, and this Bible I read because in the prison we got

twenty four hours, cry you so twenty four hours one hour come out around

the twenty three hours we are staying in our cells. I said, well,

very good, yo, got you got single rumor? Yeah? God

you got a test battlemoso, yeah, everything all our four meals a day.

You no way, God man, you don't work. You you got

bored and lodging everything all. Uh So I can go out with them now.

But earlier, when I met some of them, I dad, I

don't know what assa because he said, because this guy say, passa,

you know why why I'm here? I kill my friend? Oh Yo,

When when do you meet a murderer every day? So Colla A lot of

murderers, you know, because when you hate people. Jesus said, you

murdered the persona okay, So I'm not going to ask you, okay.

But this guy, so he started coming to me. She said, I

pray for you, and jo I said, how did you? How do

you come to know Jesus? So I keep reading, reading, reading,

until one day I saw this was seek me and you'll find me, and

so I lo, look, look, then I found Jesus, and then

I wrote it myself. Today I'm forgiven. Today, I know Jesus.

Today, I know that I'm a child of God. Today I'm free.

And he told his other guys. You know I'm free. You know you're

mad now in the prison. You see we have when they say you are

a gillah means what you know means mata ah yep. So so he said,

that's why you know all already. You know, you simply talk way,

you're free. We we're all same, insa. But you know,

six months down the line at the Court of Appeal, three judges asked the

DPP, so any anything else you want to charge as well, because he

already admitted Gilma, He's already given a sentence to death. And yet the

DPP said, sorry, we dropped all charges. And when he then he

looked at the judge and the judge you can go freer, real my things

in the prison. He's still thinking about prison. You know, he didn't

know how to be free. Can imagine that. And so when when Mervin,

when he came out of prison long story shot, I met him and

then he said, God wants me to do something. So God in the

process, you know, during the pandemic, he you know I did.

He was an ambulance driver for one of the our and Joe set up you

know, and uh he said, I was bringing people to death and bringing

them to life. I said, what are you talking about? Some people

die, so I take them, take them to the create, but it

all must wear all the pipe or pepe whatever you know. So and and

he said, but I got a job. So but after that he didn't

have any job in Sord. But God should work out in such a way

he who has become a good work starting in the prison, having him got

caught in the UH and for for these drugs and now then given the freedom

to be outside. He was reconciled to his family for thirty five years cut

off. But God should be so good. And so the last last month

he texted me and says, please pray for my sister. I haven't seen

her for over twenty years and she's a backslided Christian and now I want to

bring her to church that was on resurrection Sunday. And so this is what

God is doing. I said, since you want to do God's work,

yeah, go and join tumbling seminary and seminary he graduated. So I was

so happy for him. Today he's trying to share with people about Jesus and

so on. He says, I will never turn away from Jesus because I

understood what love is all about. And so Paul In writing in Roman verse

thirty five to thirty nine, he says, you know who can separate us

from the love of God? Okay, can trouble, can hardship? We

all go to trouble, hardship, persecution, things present, things in the

future, height or that, angels, demons, All this or anything any

powers can separate us from the love of Jesus. We are more than congress

to Him who love us. And so as I share this with you,

I want to encourage you to know that if you have received this love,

which is unstoppable, which is inseparable, which is something that you and I

as we share this love, as you receive this love, share with those

who have yet to come to know Jesus and this love. So this love

is in your heart. I pray that he who has loved us. That's

why Jesus told his disciples after washing their feed, after washing the guy who

would deny him out, washing the feet of the guy who is going to

betray him, washing all those guys who run away when trouble, and so

on. And yet he washed the feet and he says, as I've done

this I've sent you an example, but the best thing that can ever happen

to you, because in verse one or chapter thirteen in John, she says,

when Jesus knew that his time was shot with them and so on,

what do you do? He loved them completely, And that's what he said

in verse thirteen, verse thirty thirty four thirty five, A new commandment I

give to you. Then you love one another as I have loved you.

By this, all men know, how do you prove that you are his

disciples? You have loved one for another, so you can love others.

Two. That's what it is. As we carry each other's burden, so

fulfill the law of Christ. And law of Christ is love one another.

Galatians six, verse two. So as you begin to understand this, I

like the way somebody put the song like he said, he said, my

song is love unknown. My saviors love to me, love to the loveless

known that they should lovely be Wow, a bit, a bit poetic,

a bit, but this is a himna. If you don't sing him na,

then you miss it out. Okay, whatever it is, So let's

all say this, how do you live? We live because of Him.

That's why ah come hid khatiba ah. So you see, So when I

go to the Muru people, I say, como Muru mino mati. That's

why they almost all became extinct. But God must do a good work among

them. And then suddenly something happened and then the whole tribe was rescued.

Can imagine that God knows it? And so when I went to the Panance,

it's the same thing. Then Goddess should revive them and get them or

we live kit ah krona. Yeah. And so we live because of him.

And I say that again, we live because of him. And if

we live, because it's because of the good work He has done for you,

of the good work at the calvary, of the good work at the

resurrection, so that you and I can receive this life that he says,

I come that you may have lived and have it abundantly. And so if

he said, you see, if that is what it is, then we

all work in progress. Amen, Tell her, Tell her the neighbor,

you are still work in progress. Okay, come on, we're all still

working progress. Are you? Are you still working progress? Yes? Because

God wants to do a new thing, and every and so a lot of

times when I see this picture, you know, he reminds me that you

know, this all just stones, Okay, I said, in the first

service, when I look at the tones, Yeah, it reminded me that

when I proposed to my wife and he said, must get engaged. Now,

I said get engaged. So how you say, must have engagement ring?

So okay? So engagement ring? How much? See any ring?

No? No, must diamond ring? No? Or diamond ringer? So

I went to see see the jewelers and so on, first time ever seeing

go to the jewelers, man, so good there and see how much is

this diamond? I see the smallest one. You know you said thousands,

over thousand, over two months Cealaria that time my salary on his six hundred

myth teacher. So whah, I said, huh, I don't even have

that much savings and so on. But if you love the girl that you

want to propose to, better give the diamond. Ah. Okay, So

she's still wearing that. I don't know what's still wearing her. I don't

know need, no need diamond. She's a diamond man. Okay, okay,

but you know you know these stones, huh, something must happen.

You know it is on first any of us real what aniversary? Who?

Somebody just now I'm not here? Oh okay, So you know these tones

all need to be faceted. Me a mastercraftsman, need to do that so

that it becomes a brilliant diamond. That's what Jesus wants to do for us.

He looks at but potential. Every one of those huh, he chose

to for his to be his disciples. Actually, every time I read that,

I'm reminded if they would apply for a job the ce. We all

cannot know because somewhere angry hold on heaven and bring fire against people. And

one guy will always talk before he thinks. Yeah, another guy, you

know, take money all the time. Maybe two guys I do know?

Yeah? Never is it if I don't see that, I don't believe,

you know? So it these are the guys Jesus chosen to be apostles.

You know why not? Because Jesus sees the brilliance of the diamond in them.

When they will touch by the Holy Spirit, Oh, breakthrough, when

I touch my Holy Spirit, encounter, when the touch my dolars with,

Oh, they go places. It's not that they are completely perfect. No,

there have many issues, but wow, they were fearless. They were

unstoppable, because why something has happened in their lives. And so on.

He who began a good work in them, He who became a good work

in the Philippines, He who has begun a good work in exchange couta community.

This is what God wants to do, asking you to follow him.

As you follow him, you know what he wants you to do. As

you follow him, you respond, as you respond, what is your response

to him? And so to me? Our respond as we live because of

him. So if we live because of him, then we live in and

with him. Say that with me, we live in and with him.

Say that again, we live in and with Him. In other words,

we're always in We're not out of Christ. We're in Christ. And because

we in Christ, we are with Him all the way, following him,

and so on. And so when we live in Him and with Him,

then this is what Two Corinthians five seventeen says. If anyone is in Christ,

he is a new creation. And what does this entail. It means

that you are constantly in Him. You continue to be in Him, and

you continue to follow him and so that the old will go, so that

the new will come. And we know that when the old is taken out,

there is something that is empty that needs to be felled, and we

be feeled just like I shad with you. And in Romans five thirteen,

as the God of Peace will fill you with all joy and peace. Romans

five five says that you know God's love is shed abroad in the heart by

the power the Holy Spirit. And so as you begin to understand this,

then being in Christ is actually for our own good. Being Christ is for

our own sake, so that then when we empty the things that are that

beset us, then we can feel in in the empty spaces. It's on.

And so this version puts it this way. Whoever is a believer in

Christ is a new creation. The old way of living. The old life

is now disappeared. I pray that it is so, but the new way

of living has come into existence. Therefore become Christ. Like I remember my

friend, he says, I've been trying to share with my father about Jesus

and so on. And I said, hey, but I think I remember

you told me that you cannot forgive your father for what he has done.

Have you forgiven him. He said, how to forgive my father? I

said, but you still want him to know Jesus, you cannot forgive him.

And you pray every day the Lord's pray forgive us of our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespassed against us. So I said, your forgiveness

cycle is not complete. He's stuck somewhere. So much is what unforgiveness,

and your unforgiveness because not the complete cycle. I said. The day you

forgive your father is a day that you will see your father come to know

the lot. And that's what happened to my friend. And when this happened,

he says, wow. And that's what Christ like this is all about.

You know why, because when Jesus hung on the cross, he's the

first words that came out from his mouth. He said, oh your opinion,

Nola, A lot of us are like that. Man. Are you

suffering a No? Father, forgive them, but they do not know what

they are doing. Father, forgive them while you're yet sinners, as I

die for them. Amazing And I said, look at what Jesus done.

That's what for us is transformation. It's not just you know, a change,

it's a metanoia, a transformation from what we used to be to what

we have never been. And so the Gospel, as I could in the

first word, he says, is Jesus Christ coming to earth to live the

life that we should live, and die the death that we deserve. And

I say to you, no, we need die that die like Jesus so

that we can live like him. Why because that's what he said in Luke

ninety three. If anyone really really want to follow me, if anyone he

didn't, even I'm just putting the paraphrase, even if you think that you

cannot walk properly, even if you think that you are still you know,

half done, even though you know, yeah, you know, yeah,

just for for you all like to do fun thing, he said, you

know, you know why when he when Jesus takes you back, when you

come back to to the Lord, when you meet him and you've done a

good work, he says, well done, good and faith, you servant,

not medium done. How many of you eat take beaver, so you

know, don't do the way is well done and it is complete trans submission.

And that's why he told the Philippians he said, praise God, you

are the God has done a good word. Now you continue to work out

your salvation with fear and trembling. And as you do that, this is

what He is going to work in your life. And so on. And

so we are his masterpieces, crafted all the time by Him, and so

on, as we draw near to Him, as we remain in him.

You know, we need to be remain in Him all the time. If

anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. As you remain in him,

then you were bare fruit. And you were bare fruit. No,

he just bare fruit, bad lasting fruit. Don't don't don't he listen?

Yeah, okay, and so but we have a lot of issues, challenges

and so on. And the challenge is being influenced by the world. And

I said in the first service that when when when when Paul told the Roman

the Christians in Rome in Rome, he said, I want to tell you,

don't be influenced by the world. Be transformed by the renewing of your

word. Uh, don't be squeezed into its pattern, because that's who that

I'm going to make do the new things in your life, and so on,

and so that you know what is My will for you. And when

you know the will, then whatever that burdens you. Whatever they beset you,

you know what it means to cust it off and how to cut it

off. The way that I saw the whole growl young people the banance something

like what four hundred and before The pastor was saying, God wants who use

you go on to do to to bring you to a high level. But

a lot of you, you you have this habit, you have this and

so also he started naming what the people are doing, and even as he

was naming them, he said, if you want all this to be cut

off, he was standing on the platform. He said, come up to

the platform. I've never seen something like this. It's just because of revival.

They all ran up to the platform, and I said, stood there

and then waiting for the Lord to just help them to cut off all the

things that hinders them and so easily beset them. What is it that so

beset you? And so on? Transpersions said, if God wants to do

a new thing, he must undo the old things for you so that when

he does, and the way they're undoing, then you become ground and good

work for new work to be done. And so on. So let me

just skip on because of the time. So we need to have a growing

and transforming relationship with the Lord step by step. So we live because of

him. We live in him, and he's in us and with us,

but we are. The God's plan is that we will be more and more

like Jesus. And if we have more and more like Jesus is because we

continue to grow in him and we continue to follow him. And when we

do that, read this together with me. We live for him and we

live like him. Said it again. We live for him and we live

like him. Right, it's just two sides of a coin. If we

live for him, it's because we live like him. You cannot say you

live for him and not like him. Yeah, so because we all that.

That's why when we live like Jesus is because Jesus. Just like what

I was sharing with this group of people, I said, Juddy, Jesus

caputa America. Juddy, don't be anything else. Be Jesus to the people

that you are bringing this message to by your life, by your deeds,

and by your word. It's all. Whoever claims to live in Jesus must

live as Jesus did. And so if we do that, then your life

becomes authentic becomes something that is real, something that only God can do.

When you say, for me, to live is Christ and to die is

gay Paul writing to the Roman Church and so on, this is what he

said. This is how I see my life. If I live in chapter

fourteen, verse eight, If I live, I live for him. If

I die, I die for him. Whether I live or die, I

still belong to him. Wow. Is it how your sense about being in

Christ? We live for Him and we live like him. And if we

do that, then it's Christ's love that compels us all the time to live

like this, no longer living for ourselves, but living for the one who

died and was raised again. And I want to encourage you as you love

God, as you love people, as he says, We're just saying this.

Now, love the Lord with all your heart, with all your mind,

with all your strength, and with all your soul. And because that's

why the second is like unto it. You must love people as yourself.

And when Jesus said this to when Jesus was having a discourse with some of

people that he was talking about, and they and they all understood what he

said. Then this is what he said, Do this and you will live.

And when he shared with them about the good Samaritan, the story that

you know who is our neighbor, or the one who helped the Samaritan guy

who helped the victim, then this is what he says, go and do

likewise, you see, our lives can be only authentic when the love of

God is span out in practical terms, it's on. And that's why we

need to love. Means living out His commands, no matter whatever the causes.

And you and I understand this more than anything else. When we have

to suffer for people who cannot seem to catch it but still blame you,

still accuse you and so and some of us go to that. And as

we come out of all this, like Jesus example, he came out of

his comfort zone to become a servant, to die for you and to die

for me. He came out of his comfort zone by being from being rich

become poor that by his poverty we can be rich in the Lord. And

when that's happened, let me just go to Okay, So this is what

you and I would need to understand. There are many people out there who

are hungry. There are many people when I say hungry. It just doesn't

mean just food, hungry for love, hungry for care, angry for any

attention you and I can give, and so on, and so when they're

hungry, when they're thirsty, when they they feel rejected because as strangers,

when they they are naked, when they feel they are so vulnerable, and

so on. When they are sick, when yeah, we're they're sick in

the mind and heart and and and the body. When they're they they are

imprisoned by their sin. I like what this prison says past you? And

I say no, I said, yeah, of course I'm in prisoned.

You're in prisoned. I say what I mean? We're in there. When

I was out there, I was already in prison. I was in the

prison of my sin, hatred. I was in the prison of my sin

creed. And we are all in prison, so imprison And so they asked

Jesus, when will you like that? And this is what Jesus replied them.

He says, because when you do this for any of these least of

my brothers, you have done it for me. As you live like Jesus,

you live as Jesus to them. And so if you live as Jesus

to them, then what will he do? He will carry it on and

complete it at the day of Jesus. He's the one who will count him

for you. He's the one who will wrap it up for you. Yeah,

but we live that life that will honor him, so that when you

have arrived at that place, well done, thou, good and faithful serven.

As we see the good work is because we live because of Him.

As we live in him and with him, we will see the good work

panaw. And as we live for him, as we live like him.

Then it is something that you and I will continue to see happen again and

again in our lives. There are issues, Yes, there will be challenges.

Nobody is say there's no challenge. It's just like when when I was

speaking to this whole growl and then suddenly there's power cut. So no need

PowerPoint anymore because no point. Yeah, okay, okay, man. So

what did I do? I stood there, I look at all the people,

thousands of people in uh in the very open kind of even across there's

a roof lap but you know, all around all open space. How do

you speak to you? So? I said, you didn't make it?

Make me a teacher? And principal for nothing. So when I started speaking,

there was silence and everybody, I said, the riot, the basic

okay, okay, okay. Then I look at them, I said,

I look at you, sum mass Allah. I said, you know why

because power cut So everybody all like we all came out all hungry, you

know. So I said, mass Allah, mas Allah, mass allah,

ad llah mass allah. And so this is God's time to speak to you,

and He's gonna do something even greater. And oh God did something,

So like Paul, I press on it all the Philippines, come on,

Let's go on, Let's go on, Let's go on, Let's go on,

come on, because you're completed. There, Jesus the goal for the

price or the upward call of God in Christ, Jesus, So stand for

my brothers and sisters, because why the situation will get worse. But I

am not an alarmist. I'm just telling you God would turn things around.

If you believe in Romans eight twenty eight, then you believe that God would

turn things around. Who would think that Iran will have the fastest green chest

today in the worst of situations. Who would think that in Afghanistan there are

so many more believers, even Talibans, have come to know the Lord.

How is it possible? Impossible? But God, our God, is a

God who specialized impossible things. And so if you believe that, then you

will also take that stance that he who end yours to the end will also

be saved. Because why you're always doing what God is asking you to do,

because you know that the labor for the Lord will never, never,

never be in vain. So how do we live? Then? How then

do you live? Martin Luther was a reformer, and he had many challenges

and many times he was very discouraged. You know. When he was asked

how do you live your life each day? He says, I've come to

understand this that every day as I live, I live as if Christ died

yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back tomorrow. So I live

urgently live wisely. Would you do that? Because you are a twenty four

seven full time follow of Jesus. And when you are full time followed Jesus,

then you live because of Him and we live in and with Him,

and then we live for him and like him, and he will bookos everything

for you, ah, because that's what policies he books for me, I

thought the good fight. He bookos for me because I finished the race.

He boo goos for me, I've kept the faith. Would you do that?

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