Walk The Talk | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. I just got this message only because doing the

devotion, my devotion, I was just reading the word of Galicians, and

I thought I just kept to my mind the scripture that says that if you

live in the spirit, therefore you're also walking in And you know that in

life is not always a straight road in life. Is never a straight road

in life. It is never never turn out the way we want it to

be. And when things don't turn out the way we want it to be,

sometimes you get very frustrated, very angry, very agitated. I'm not

sure what you go to. Maybe you say, okay, you know,

I'm used to it, you know, and my life has was like you

know, never never a straight line. So it happened to me just you

know, with the journey of moving off from the village, right moving off

from our current venue to another place. One day pass it just look at

me and just you know, passes very good. But just want to let

you know our pastor see the past, foe the past. The past is

very good at empowerment, very good. Lo look at you, hey,

would you like tack it up and you know, do I have to say

no the past wana So anyway, so would you just help me to oh

see the whole move in case y'all didn't know, like you know something,

you're new to our church. We saw the announcement just now, right was

DVCC. Well it's about thirty thousand scraphit close to thirty thousands graphic. We

are moving into like a like a twenty thousand scraffe but separate floors, right,

and we are squeezing everything, everything for the past nine years into a

much smaller unit. So if we ever move house before, you know how

stressful it is. Most times you move from smaller to bigger place to la

hallelujah. Right, if ever decided to downsize your place from a bigger place

or smaller place, the nie years of accumulation, you understand what I mean,

nine years of couple accumulation, nine years of with all props accumulation,

nine years worth of sound system accumulation. We say, one day we use

it again. One day we will you can use, don't choose, you

can use, you'll keep it one day we'll need it one So it is

very stressful really to move everything, So past ask me, okare could you

help me to oversee the project? Okay, see, no problem. So

only yesterday we kick into gear no because the school is coming in and made

the teen uh to the place and we have to get the place reading by

May tenth. So study work tomorrow and we are trading four our ship.

Finally, I have to manage the different stakeholders, the school stakeholders and the

stakeholders I'm saving ship with two. I'm like, wow, I wish really

that we have extra space, but we don't have. I guess God has

a plan on really and every day. So anyway, if so, it

so in our mind. It's one thought process, but execution is another thought.

So which leads me to the scripture of those who live in the spirit

also walking in. So there are days, friends, I want to let

you know whereby dealing with different stakeholders can be very challenging, very frustrating,

like, ah, don't you understand my point? And after half an hour

conversations you don't understand? You go like, you don't move? Also,

can you see what die? You move? Also you get samis you also

die? So leads me to this scripture? Right, So therefore if you

have a Bible. My title miss message walked the top, walk the talk.

Okay, you know, Okay, I'm so sorry for this such cheesy

title. Okay, I'm not very good, Titus. This is my second

attime in my entire fifteen years of preaching coming out with titles. So I've

never had title for my message. And so anyway, it normally comes up

on our devotion and come up with my challenges in life. All right,

So Romans Chapter eight worse one. Romans, it was what you know this

scripture. I think Rachelle spoke about this scripture, so Romans it was one.

Now, therefore there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Amen. So therefore there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

who do not walk according to the flesh, A man who do not walk

according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. I want to solve

with this scripture because sometimes in our journey of a Christian faith, we feel

that we're supposed to do something, but we don't do it when you're pressured,

I know, when you're pressured. Sometimes were always default to the quickest

and easiest way to find a solution so we can get out from the pressure.

Sometimes it's good decision, but most times it is bad decisions. If

we ever reflect on some of the decision you make, I wish that I

did not say certain takes raise my voice, make a certain decisions that caused

you to be like ah, man, I wish I could respond better.

So I was in this position whereby uh, in this place whereby sandwich,

and sometimes I go like, oh, maybe I could have handled that better

a bit. So in the midst of everything, right, so today start

our spo retreat, planning retreat, a plan mission retreat. Don't think retreat

as you go to the beach and have so our meetings. Right comes from

starts at night, m in the morning, finish about ten pm and night

we lunch break and did a break. So it's about a twelve hour shift

altogether. And in the midst of everything, you know, the the challenge

is this that you got the deadline to me to move out from DBCC by

May the Tief. We have to move everything out by May the Tief.

So I told the Subjaya service. Really next week when you come to church

on Sunday, don't be surprised. One side of the glass wall that we

have is all plyw It's all ply woe because I have to remove certain things.

I'm trying to save money, right, I remove the glass pander for

one side, shift it over to the other side. So you understand what

I'm trying to say, how difficult it is, all right. So anyway,

so I will say the place whereby like, man, I wish I

could have done something better. I wish I could responded better. So sometimes

I felt, like, you know, having a title of a church elder

and moving doing stuff like that is very hard, if you know I'm trying

to say, because it's sometimes it's easier to do things if you do have

a title because you school after you have to put So I'm so sorry if

you're new to me. I'm just very honest with my sharing, all right.

So some so something's very easy to do certain things because you love a

title anyway, So I just want let me just share this with you.

So therefore, there's no condemination for those who in Christ Jesus who don't walk

into the flesh but the spirit. All right, The study point our Christian

faith is Jesus come on the studying point of our Christian faith is Jesus.

Many times is our journey. Friends, we actually can forget where our studying

point is. I want to let you know, the very first day you

accept the Christ, that is your studying point with Christ. The Bible says

Roman was one. Now therefore there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ.

So your studying point and my studying point is in Christ Jesus. You

and I today, friends do not need to think like, oh, where

is my studying point or where do I start? Where do I start my

faith? Because as long as you are with Christ, you start your journey

with God. And we make him our lord and our savior, your friends,

So one day of accepting Jesus our life that most of us do.

The other part is that we have to make him our lord and savior.

And the hardest part is became a lot and savior. Is that we need

to come to the place of surrender. We need to come a place of

human reality. Need to come to a place like Lord, have your way.

So a couple of days ago, I was you know, we we

normally plan out some of your plan out your day, like you wake up

the morning you know what to do, you know what to do. You

know a certain time you want to do this, after that, a certain

time you want to do that. But when that schedule get messed up,

when that plan get messed up, when you thought you're going out and heavy

rain followed by a traffic jam followed by a road accident, and you are

laid for appointment, right, and you and sort of you and you're you're

you're just stuck right and you just we and I'm not sure have you ever

come to this place? I wish if I wake up a bit earlier,

I would have avoided all of this. If you stay even by, you

go to the morning and you know the amazing traffic, right, it's very

unpredictable. So the days we have to be at a church office before seven,

I thought, I leave at six twenty, You get out there twenty

minutes, you get there on time. But last Tuesday left my house at

six twenty to forty minutes to get to work at six twenty in the morning,

and I'm supposed to open the door for the school that day, and

I was driving there in the traffic jam that yeah, look at my wife,

see it'saw your fault. You have to put the blame on somebody,

right see saw your fault. I told you wake up five minutes earlier radio.

I woke up, And what I actually did wake up a five forty

five with them for me fifty minutes to get ready. That look at my

wife, you said you allum at five forty five, five fifty five,

five fifty five fifty five six o'clock six or five six ten. I said,

you have to choose you this day. Wish alarm you on the wake

up. So I put the blame everything on her. Driving there was very

angry, like, oh no, there's a deadline. I'm supposed to people

depending on me to open the door. And right now I feel in my

responsibilities. All your falls, like you know, messed up the whole morning,

and stuff like my wife's I'm sorry. The next time I'm going to

leave without you, you just drive your own car. You'll just drive two

cars to work, and this stuff like that. We tend to actually forget

our Christian life and the Christian war starts with God. No matter how we

messed up, no matter how things don't go away, we are still if

Christ Jesus. And that's where I wanted to bring us us today that walking

with God changes us. Come on, walking with God changes us, because

many times in our life if there is no change, if there is no

change, then the scripture said, now therefore there's no condemnation for those in

Christ Jesus. So your confidence comes from Christ. Your confidence come from transformation

in Jesus. But if we don't allow God to walk in our life and

work in our life, then there is no transformation. That's why God is

very interested in your journey. Christian has never been about the destination of heaven

only. It's always been about a journey with Him. And I truly believe

that all of us here on the journey with Christ because you and I God

wants to transform once, to change from the inside out. You know that

if you don't get transformed, don't get changed, offense, you will miss

out a lot of things that God's promises and go show you afterwards. All

right, next part is that now therefore there's no condemntion for those who a

in Christ Jesus. When we are walking in the spirit, come on,

The condition is that we all we want no condemnation in Christ. There is

a provision, a requirement that we have to walk closer with him. See,

many times we want to experience the forgiveness, the blessing, but we

do not want to walk with him, or maybe we attempted to walk away

from him. Maybe the other thing that's a bit more glamorous than Jesus.

And many times it presents ourselves in such a way whereby coming to church on

Sunday. Now, no, I'm not saying this to make you come to

on Sunday, right, it's your own personal choice. But coming to Jude

Sunday is a commitment. Waking up on a Sunday morning when it's raining is

a commitment for the very first out, sorry, for the one day in

a week you can sleep in without any commitment Monday to maybe Saturday's read You

have the week up very early ready, and Sunday is your only day to

sleep in without anybody telling you anything. And you remember this committment to Jesus

to come to church to worship people together as a family. In the preious

chapter in the Romans, chapter seven, Paul was crying out in frustration about

his righteousness about his place, asking who delivered him from the body of death.

Paul was crying out God please help me, help me. I have

the things I want to do I don't do. Come on, the things

I want to do I don't do. How may have you been like Paul

before? The things I want to do I don't do. Right, I

always joke with my wife, you though I really want to buy you something,

but summer. Rather, it's a thought that comes right. The things

I want to do I don't do, like, for example, oh here

God, things you want to do? Or come on? Like serving always

here, like to serve one, come on always writer, the todd of

serving God and actual serving God. There's a huge CHASMLA. Right, the

things I do not want to do I do come on? And Paul right

now is caught in the place. Have you been like Paul before the things

that you do want to do? You do the things that you don't want

to do, and you automatically just do on like you tell yourself, I

will not get angry. I will not get angry. And the next thing,

you know, poo. Another version if you come out right. And

Paul was in a place he was frustrated. There was a conflict in Paul.

His mind is thinking that I will not do this. I will worship

God. But his body is in and it's in another mode, another operating

system. And hence, therefore, won't you be in a place of frustration?

Come on, won't you in the place of like conflict, in a

place like is it all worthy? In a place whereby like, what's the

point of following Christ? I made a commitment like say, for example,

like you know, I will not I will not lose my anger. I'll

not lose my anger. Only you find it very ten minutes later. Right,

God, enable you to go, you to put you to a test,

and only to find that you lost anger. After that you'll be very

angry. And that's why Paul is right. Now, therefore there's no condemnation

for those who in Christ Jesus. Therefore, friends, if we read properly

right, there's no comdamination means there's no judging of guilty of wrong for those

who are in Christ Jesus. Friends, Paul state must leave no room for

a tiny bit of condemnation to sneak in the word no is one hundred percent.

No, it's not fifty percent, it's not maybe it's not like oh,

and many times, can I just encourage you and just to let you

know that many times, even though we know this scripture, there's no combination,

but we feel that we are not good enough. We feel that many

times that we feel God. We disappointed God, and therefore we're not worthy.

When we ask people to serve, why don't you serve? I'm not

worthy enough. I'm not sure where the talk came from and where where it

does come from. I want to encourage you. That's not from God.

If you ever call yourself saying I'm not good enough, right, there's condemnation

thoughts there, and maybe we should change the way we think. If next

week, if you call yourself saying that, ah, the other person is

better right your comparison, and that's not from God. I want to encourage

you. Really, there's so much more that you can experience ive God.

Next statement is going to be this transformation happens during the journey. Come on,

transformation happens during the journey. No transformation has ever ever taken place When

you're stationary. You cannot work out. When you're stationary, you can't.

You have to live with like what you saw from the video just now.

I truly believe that Daniel would be at least zero percent fat by year twenty

twenty five. Right, you cannot transform by remaining stationary. You have to

commit to the journey. And that's why friends, I was two weeks ago

I had to work with a KAPA student. He was just asking me about

life and this stuff like that. I was just saying that, you know,

the church offers a very good place for you to for you to grow,

because there's no other organization the world that gives you a place like like

this. You have from infant all the way to superseniors in our church.

The ability to serve them takes christ likeness. If we have never served different

age good before, I want to let you know it is very challenging.

I'm going to be for the nineties year serving kep US students. That the

music preference is all different right now? So your music reference right, you

can't say that No. Last time, no, I listened to a supply

m hm m hm. And so you're like younger one's there was a supplier

od right. Your your music references all different, right, Your examples are

all different. No, when I was young, right, no ipet.

But we imagine today it's like no I pet mes, no life. No

internet means no life, no connectivity, nothing at all. You mean you

actually buy magazine to read. There were days that's the only source of materials,

magazines and newspapers, and now it's in the hand. So it's different,

friends, right now. The pressure, the pressures are also very different.

Back then, our pressure is like thinking that what we're going to study

and maybe the fire girlfriend in secondary school and stuff like that. This is

pressure to get social media likes, pressure to earn money, younger pressure to

be a millionaire. Younger pressures are very different, but it's never easy,

and God has given us the opportunity to transformation comes when we step out from

our comfort zone. Come on, step out from our comfort zone and begin

to ask God, would you help me, help me? Would you help

me to serve? Would you help me to love? Stepping out in a

different language group, it's also very different. So my wife served in the

memory community and everyone in the mandary community, so I could understand Mandurin and

speak Mandrine, only to in horror any shout to find out that I don't

really speak Mandriine. And if I do speak my intunations all out they all

love and the way I speak Manriine. So I told I told my wife,

is okay, because I don't inspisee this culture. I don't despie the

language. I love the language. But you know I will try my very

best. So there was a China student two weeks ago set beside me,

try to trying to communicate with me, and I looked at him, and

they say, but it's all right. The thing is that would you allow

God to bring you out from the comfort zone just because of a different language,

different color, does mean that God cannot use you. Come on,

you see, use the opportunity to transform you from the inside out. Come

on. But many times it God, you don't understand. If I step

up, I messed up. If I messed up, I feel so condemned.

So I'd rather not be a burden. I rather not be a burden.

Therefore I don't do so at least I don't disappoint people, and I

don't feel condemned. Hear me right now. But the Bible says, therefore

there's no condemnation for those who Christ Jesus right, do not walk in the

flesh, but walk in the spirit. So walking is an action word.

It's only for only way there we no by faith that won't feel condemned.

It is we we walk with Christ. So when was the last time you

allow God to stretch your faith and extend your hand? Say God, would

you use me? Where was the last time would you allow God to say

to you that, Hey, I may not know football, but I want

to serve with Albert, I wur coach. Albert fantastic person, amazing guy.

Six am in the morning he comes to DVCC to load the van with

football and jersey and beep. He drives alone in the morning to the field

unload everything, only to find out that they cancer his booking. How we

need w Gunner because MPSG needs to use the field he got. He got

all the gears and everything holding him. He's a big sized guy. Only

the final that cannot use have to replan and restrategize. Never one time I

heard Albert complain why me? I want to let you know, right,

we have amazing people out there. Never one I say for me like this

extra sake or one thousand people, but only one Albert loud there serving.

I have not heard him complain. He's passion for this community, his passion

for the ministry, passion to see what God can do to the lives of

the people. Hasted him said that, no problem, God, if you

can use anyone, use me, rain or shine. He's there. So

when was the last of you? We allow God to use us in the

journey. Friends, in that journey, In that journey, God can reaffirm

his word to you. Sixty verse twenty four. Then Jesus said to the

disciples, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself,

take up his cross and follow me. Let him deny himself, take up

the cross and follow me. So the prerequisite of following Jesus is humility.

Come on, humility. Now, before you think that humility is about selling

everything that you have, you know, no, it's all about that.

It's really starts a posture of our hearts. Come on the posture of a

heart. For example, all of us here got a special seat that we

like to sit here, and you have I know, I've been just old

enough. You have a particular location you like to see. What if the

hose asked you whould you like to see in front? Come on, right

now, imagine the host coming up to you. I'm so sorry. Right

now, would you like to relocate and sit in front there's an empty empty

see here next to doctor James. Whould you join him in front? Most

time we say tequila. This is for the leaders on it's akuila. This

is for the holier people. I'm not I would see this because these are

the reasons that that told to me before. There was a time whereby our

hose back then there was no empty seats in between. Its hardest to reach.

So during worship, people come about how we're doing worship right, so

empty season, so we a should be put in there. So doing worship.

A guy was lifting up his hands, so the host but likely I

said, I'm so sorry, So could you just go in a bit so

I can news people can sit at the corner here or if not, you

just come out let them see it's like not. The church partners said to

the host, I worshiping God. I was having a connection worshiping God,

and you disrupt the connection disrupted at the moment, seriously there was so the

host was just sharing the story. The police chich partners are very and you

are the red gum, you know very fears are very fears on worshiping lift

up their hands, are and and and and just way so sorry. They

need to go inside there. Wait until I finish worship. Friends, if

anyone desires come on to come after me. See do deny himself? Come

on, someone in the midst of the worship. We think liveable hands is

the most important. We think that you know everything is no the first you

deny yourself. It's not denying that I'm not I'm not pass not denying your

name. It's not denying that your male or female knows all about that.

It's the posture of your heart. It's a posture of your heart. Friends.

Many times in our life, friends, we we think that we're already

and chill, God puts us into the test. Come on, we think

we are already, I do God put us into a test. I share

this with two services, a ready two weeks ago, and I say that

you know, just because we can eat doesn't mean our teeth is in good

condition. Come on, just because you can put food the mouth can chill,

we can function. We think that we're all right, only to discover

that we got cavity building up. Come on, and when was the last

time we saw identity? I wish I downloaded a sound of the instrument and

played with your for at least thirty seconds. Know the drilling sound in the

dentist one, I'm not you know during the waiting area that you wait for

the dentists, right, so we don't like to hear this reeling sound is

in it. I've not heard anybody. Although I love the drealling sound,

you know I hear the sound. I'm so excited. I can't wait for

it to to be my turn. I've not heard that. Have you seen

the series that the dentists use. It's longer than usual one. And the

funny thing is after they jet you out tell me say they say pain and

not pain. So if you're that, please to give me a right.

But just because just because we can function doesn't mean come on, doesn't mean

you're all right. Just become become to church because the homes doesn't mean a

heart. It's humber. God will always want to reveal because you know he

loves us, come on, he loves you. To the Bible here says

Matter six was trying to talk about we all desire to come after the lot.

I really truly believe none of us say would say the elder, I

don't desire to come after lot. You all desire what we all want to

come closer to God one. We all want to want. But the pred

here is that first of all, we need to deny ourselves. And there's

no better community than the church to help us to understand what denying our self

me and take up the cross. There is no better environment but the church

setting the teachers what it is to take up the cross. When you when

you if you're serving express, you're serving expressal. Friends, you ran to

buy the food plate up nicely right? Taking that you can imagine right now

when people eat your food radio say wow, so nice, the play thing

like master chef, like they're so nice, the food eat wow, so

good, only to get coming like well what you see one? Who buy

one? And there you are serving no one knows that you pay the price.

We can suport the money, making all the arrangements right or need to

discover some of these these things. I've been there before. Friends, you're

the only one paying the price, and you thought you're paying the price for

God, only to get commands like that. Who choose the color for legacy?

One? Right? So if you have a problem, I pray that

you just kept the Lord. Please we will neon colors is better right,

I don't know. But who chooses or who chooses come on? The environment

of just reveals friends. When you start something reveals where our heart is.

But after REVERI show, what do you do? Come on? You always

have the choice that they say, hey, you got the kevity. You

have a choice where they do treat it. A lot of the treat it.

If you don't treat it, you have consequences. If you treat it,

you feel paid. Either how farst you pay the price, pain now

or pain later? You decide. So when God says take up the cross

for deny himself, so didn I come on? It's not that easy to

deny yourself with a smile. I've not seen anybody being the worst experienced humility

with the small one, only because it's never easy, because it's part of

us. Take up the cross is ways. Do you know? If you

carry anything hevy, it changes the way you walk. If you carry anything

hevy, it changes the way you walk. To change the way we walk

is one of the hardest. Have you tried relearning how to swim? Have

you tried relearning how to swim? It's one of the hardest. I find

one of the hardest thing ever I was saw how to see when I was

young, and when my mom said, since I was such a class sized

boy when I was young, learn how to swim, I really infuriated complex

back that it was so fat. My father would tell the tailor, I

have to make my pants when I was stand the tree because I couldn't find

pants outside there. They really make pants that my father would tell the tailor

that she pustiched them are because every time he scored the tear, the pants

will tear. And at times when my pants tore right, I have to

tell the teacher, please call my mom bring extra pants to me. I'll

be hiding inside the toilet because people seema so the character. So I thought

I can swim until my wife saw me swimming. Yeah. I want to

let you know your strokes are all wrong. That look at my wife,

Dear, don't be jealous. Don't be jealous because you know I can swim

better than you. No, I assume twenty leaves swimming, you only do

ten. I say, yeah, I think you counted wrongly. Do you

know how hard this is? The really in your strokes? You say,

why don't you buy a peedal board? Every learn how to kick so I

did I follow my wife there being a good housband, I follow my wife

and wife so husband sometimes okay, take the humber, only to discover that

it's not the humility part that God wants me to learn. I went to

the swimming pool one day, I told my pallebot next to me was a

six year old girl with a pedal bot. He's a full gone a man

here with a pedal board. Next to me was a six year old girl

with a pedalbot. She was also learning how to kick. I'm like,

forget it, forget it, and so I can sweep get to the other

and touched the end of the pool. And God was asking me, how

hot is it for you to pick up the pedal board and swim. That's

why real learning how the world is one of the hardest things. Although it's

very simple now in our mind, it is actually one of the hardest thing.

Think about it, so it changes. Come on, James chapter four,

ward, sever is not the scriptures down on the screen. But therefore

something to go, resist devil, come on, resist there were humility resists

never and he will flee from you. We all we we we we need

to submit. We want to draw near to God. There's a humanly part

of us. If you want to work with Christ, experience all that He

has for you. You and I need to hummer yourself right, and to

ask what them do? I finish the service here. I'm so sorry I

have not come here very long. Then the clock. I just wanted to

say this, right. I was at XBJ last week. I was supposed

to the XBU. I was given forty five minutes. I told the PC,

I said, don't worry. The last time I follow your advice,

I've reached bundle of Tama. Right. They were in the last song.

So I sat down there for another half an hour. I say it,

forget it. Okay, this time I'm going to go by bye, by

the spirit, and I end when I want to end and tell they just

got deal worshiping the Lord. So I'll tell you to finish the service.

So therefore, Jesus model of transformation comes from discipleship. Come on, Jesus

model of transformation come from discipleship. You cannot transform without discipleship. And come

on, we all want transformation, we all want to change. You all

want to be better, we want to be more like Christ. But without

the words commit commitment to disciple ship very hard to change, very hard.

When was the last time we say that we want to lose certain way every

beginning of a year, only to mess up after second week because you never

apply yourself to discipleship. Someone holding us accountable, bring ourselves oder subberd.

Hey, if we've ever been in the gym, coach Albert, you would

definitely change right this albout here? Okay, this this coach Albert here,

you would change. Have we seen Albert ten years to go on? He

was as skinny as me, But I've seen how he worked with the guys.

Guys, this is your set. You have to do this. And

one time there was a committee boy working out of the gym and he was

doing something like he was supposed to do something like that, but he was

just doing something like that and Albut was looking at him. But you're doing

all wrong. Do it again, and that's what discipleship is. Friends.

Come on, we want transformation, we want blessing, we want to explain

the Kingdom of God. Right, we want all of that, But I

don't want to work. What's really matter of, friends, Jesus' model of

transformation has always been discipleship. The road to Amaya's two guys feelings so so

burdened, this courage walking away from Jerusalem because Jesus was crucified across by in

the journey. Jesus was walking with them. Discipleship happened. Friends, when

you go on the journey with Christ? When was last time? Friends?

You say that you may tell me that I tried discipleship before. It didn't

work. You know, my leader took advantage of me and keep telling me

the sephony, keep telling me do this, do that first, you do

things unto the Lord. I've been doing church extra for almost twenty four years.

Really, I want to let you know. Yes, I have been

discouraged many times, resigned a few times to pass not worthy, to give

up my life just to serve a bunch of people that that never say thank

you, They never say you know the where that they never appreciate all that

you do. It's hard, It's it is hard. Can I just say

this, it's hard to sell for community. Sometimes you like you vacuum the

you vacuum the floor after church service, right, only discoult that someone just

decided to throw trash after that, or the very simpla you vacuum it's hard,

friends, it is hard. Can I just admitted it's hard. But

first, we don't do things friends, just because we are scheduled asked to.

Somebody do things for the Lord and some of God has his ways really

to to develop us on through every disappointment, every discouragement, every where,

every discouragement back then we use the physical keys and locks. One of the

worst duties to ever do in church is to hold the keys for the church.

The worst just I'll be honest, because after you lock up the church

really right you're driving back, you get a phone call Elder, I'm so

sorry. I left my hand back, hand back with my wallet, with

my handphone in church out of the way. Are you right now? Can

turn back and not open the church? We finished service at one pm that

back in those days, I got a phone quite close to six pm.

I really wonder why does it take five hours really to realize you have your

handbag, your phone, and your wallet with you. I say, if

you can so WI five hours, I'm sure you can WI FI eighty four

hours with it. But because you hold the keys right then wherever you are,

you have to make changes the two just to come back and to open

up the place for them to take the stuff and lock up the place.

But then again to the kind that leave, thank you so much to go

along the way, And you go like Lord, why me? Why keys?

So these days because the law has enabled me to always see a lot

of the projects, I change everything to digit a lot already the one case,

no problem. Let me give you the code, you open up your

lock up. But once share this to you only because there are moments and

times whereby disappointed discouragement happens. But true discipleship comes when we allow God to

work through our hearts. Where was last time we overcome discouragement with a positive

respond? Like Christ? Was Jesus? Was Jesus disappointed? Of course?

I think that you know everybody left him? He did so much with everybody.

I think he did with that, He rested so much his own disciples

left him. Maybe I guess there has to be a teacher. I've been

with you for so long, but he still loves all the way to the

cross. Next point is going to be walking with God reminds us that we

have a different set of values. Walking with God reminds us that we have

a different set of values. The Bible says, therefore down there condemnation for

those two Christs who do for that when we do not walk in the flesh.

When we do not walk in the flesh, Romans was five says,

for those who live according to the flesh, set their mind come on or

the things of the flesh. But those who live according to the spirit,

said the things of the spirit. So if you want according to the flesh,

you set your mind towards the flesh. First, Do not think the

flesh is always like you know, all the evil and bad stuff that it's

very off your what when we talk about the flesh, you always say that,

yeah, you're right, older, you know, phunication, all this

bad stuff. Sometimes the flesh can also means the way we respond that's not

christ Like. When we're supposed to do good, but we don't do good.

We're supposed to excess patient. But getting even is always better than forgiving.

You know that, David, When David, David King, David cut

off the piece of cloth from Saul, he felt so bad. Okay,

first ce except eighteen or nineteen somewhere around there, cut off a piece of

cloth. Now he felt bad. When I was reading that thing in my

devotion, and God asked me, have you done things like that? Maybe

not cutting a piece of cloth from your cliquler, I don't go to my

clique place. There they left the jacket. That just cut off the jacket.

It's not about cutting your colique jacket. But have you done this?

Said the mean in other words, just to get even, just to show

that you can if you want to, like, for example, you can

send the email earlier, but but firstly, just way the bit, wait

a bit longer, be whole bit, for example, like sometimes after me

you split the bill right and you and someone paid first, and you're supposed

to transfer money, but you don't transfer Auntie, you get the first a

guys, I remember to transfer the lunch money. Okay, you wait until

you get maybe second notice, only you transfer. I know, I'm sure

how many of us we'll be like David Feler, I've seen first is only

a piece of cloth, not even cutting. Now if you cut sauce,

had I understand, Okay, you're touching my right, but this is sauce

clothes. And David felt so bad, and God spoke to me. Have

you ever I said God, I have that I've done many times? Right,

you give work to so previous before I had the full time to get

even my clique. So I give work put under the whole power other people

that I put on your table Ma, because you want to get even MA,

because you will hurt MA. Friends, David, you must understand David,

he was living in a palace, everything provided for to a cave.

One day he has servant giving him food. Next day he has to eat

whever he could find. A cave. He was given bottles of mineral water.

Now he actually had mineral waters are from the cave, dripping from the

ceiling. He had toilet that works. One day he has to do his

big business at the back of the cave. You must understand the transition of

a person. If you were like David, that huge transition being chased by

your employer, King saw true a spear and David, maybe some of you

have in your midst of your anger chow a stapler you're cillicking before. Maybe,

but David, friends experienced that gives him every right to get even.

Come on, give me every right. The way is that I wanted to

just let let salt taste of what I've experienced by cutting a piece of claw.

Friends, David felt remorse, felt that he had seen against God,

and God spoke to me. You know, have I ever been in a

place whereby getting even or letting your friends know that what you event through the

pain they put you through because it's your right, friends, really, because

you have a different set of values, because you don't want a corndity to

the flesh. The flesh is okay out because you will hurt. You can

hurt back the other person, hurt you self defense. You were taking what

is okay take So Romans says we if for those who live for cornity the

flesh set the mind on the things of the flesh, but those litho conunity

of the spirit said the things of the spirit Condition five nineteen to twenty one.

Friends reviews The motivation of Flesh yourself. You have to read the whole,

the whole descripture of the books of the flesh. But the motivation of

the wooks of the flesh itself come on the motivation of the work of flesh

itself. You get to enjoy things she can't get even. It's you,

all about you, friends, and that's why Jesus came the opposite way.

We are not here to be served. Here to serve. And that's why

serving helps us the words understanding. Sometimes our flesh. Come on, serve

me, serve me, you come, become the church. I'm not talking

about EXCOT the company. I'm talking about the church plants. You come to

church plan there you go. Serve me. Why now was saying my favorite

song? Serve me? Why not give you my favorite meal? Serve me?

Why why it's always Regent Park region cack? Why cannot be secret recipe?

Serve me kids, sorry skin, serve me ex kids, Serve me

no excuse today, Well I'm gonna do my chew it serve me. Come

on, come on, EXCT the community, come on self, the works

of flesh. It always serve me. No a con serve me. When

our church had a blackout doing a combined service, combined service, blackout,

no instrument, no sound system, no likes, not that it was pitch

darkness. We won't try to recognize Earth Day, Save Earth. It's enough

that sic TV we would it happened that this trip right for the very first

that we use a place for almost nine years. Are never chip on the

Sunday, never chip on a Sunday for nine years, and so happened that

very Sunday. The combined service is a chip. I see people walking out

already for church. Oh just too dark, too dark, cannot see anything

I say. I thought you always wanted to doubt turn off the lights.

Man, do we worship the likes of offlow skidding? Too dark? Cannot

I don't know how to sing? Let me explain the ready man. See

we explained to you already a lot of songs right now you cannot remember right.

So that's why I'm always good to remember some older songs, because all

the songs are easier to remember. Come on, how we obviously remember as

the dear pended after the water mm hmm, give thanks you remember that?

So it's always good to remember that all the sous that we can sing and

worship got no metal, but that the environment is. But when the environment

is against you, friends against you, your flash is saying that this environment

is no good, This environment is no good. First, I'm not asking

us to be an abusive place and stuff like that. But someone got allowed

things to happen. Can I just say, allow things to happen in the

midst of your when you are in the midst of rushing for everything, allow

things to happen. And that's where we have to ask ourself. Is the

flesh taking over whatnot? You get angry, you get impatience holding everybody?

Would you allow God to just work with you in you because walking in the

spirit, friends, we have a different set of values. Finally, it's

going to be this. Let's just give you one more last point. Walking

the spirit brings freedom and life. Walking the spirits give freedom and life.

Just I did need find more means with you guys? All right, so

sorry Gray four. For those who are in Christ have crucified the flesh with

this passion and designs. Come on, how are you're in Christ? The

Bible says that you have crucified your flesh? How do you cursifide your own?

Flash? Friends, when you have only a pair of hands, you

kneel one hand, who's going new one more hand for you? Come on?

Image? Do you have to imagine right now with me? Okay?

If you're a cross, you can nail your old feet all right? Technically

can knew one side of your body? Like you got one more loose arms,

one more loose hands. Who's gonna knee that someone else? Who your

chish partner? The friends. Please look at your Come on, let me.

You deserve to be nail. Come on, let me help you.

No first, no, someone God allowed things to happen. Friends to kneel

one more so that remembered for those of your whole in Christ have crucified the

flesh, passion and desires. Friends, the slash it's not just about craving

about food, but own passion. I won't desire own self interest. So

glacious of the five verse twenty five. My last scripture, if you walk

in the spirit, let if you live in the spirit, let also walk

in it. This is how I'm going to end. Living in the spirit

means just being aware of the Holy Spirit, being aware, being aware,

being aware. I think many times our life we we we You know,

when you're in the midst of pressure, we forget one. We forget one,

in the midst of pressure, we forget true story. Just want to

share this to you. So my house keys, my house keys is not

one of two keys, though I like the bundle. My house case in

the one big bunch on so it's about like ten keys altogether. My office

house kiss cokis all put together. So one key is Sometimes you lose the

house keys my right, so mine is a huge bunder, huge bunder every

a huge clip big so you drop. Also you can hear it. So

one day I was rushing, rushing, helping pass away some stuff, rushing,

so my wife was with me, rushing everything right, I couldn't find

my kid, my house key for almost five days. I told my wife,

I've now lost things before like that. I only lost one very important

to day, her wedding ringer. I see all these early days. You

can give it away, don't it. Let me buy you some other things.

It's more important, like clothes anyway. Yeah, So I couldn't find

for five days looking. I thought I left it at home. I went

back. I searched a whole house, couldn't find it. I'm in the

midst of house repair house, your innovation, and my stuff was everywhere.

So I'm living technically out from my bedroom and only lot. My bedroom.

My living room is all my brown bar and stuff like that. So doing

all that means of repair, after like staying there for almost like nineteen years

or fourteen years, really finally save no money to repair some things. But

five days couldn't couldn't find out. I searched an face. I searched the

car. I researched the car. I researched the office, couldn't five for

five days, five days, couldn't find And I thought to myself, that's

one big bunch of keys missing. Only the final friends. My wife kept

it for me. She put in the midst of that business, of that

changing of cars, helping. She put inside her another back. She was

carrying them back to work every other day. It's not one, one,

two keys. I understand, this is a huge bunch of keys, so

I should be. I've got at least fifteen keys there lima blast keys there

with a huge clip, huge clip. The question is, I said,

why, why aren't you aware? You got the key in your back?

And just a few days before she was lecturing me, see, I told

you, really, you're getting old. You're forgetting some stuff right now this

scripture. Then God spoke to me, not now about my wife. So

I spoke to me right about just being aware of the spirit. If you

live in the spirit, I think many times, right in the midst of

your business and rushing right, are you aware do you have the Holy Spirit?

Do you have the Holy Spirit within you or not? Are you aware

that you have the Holy The Bible says the Holy Spirit. I help,

But are you aware that you have the Holy Spirit? Because sometimes you can

carry stuff? Right now, I'll tell you my wife, how come you

know? But it's very deep love the pocket, very deep, very deep

the pocket. I han't been very deep, but I say, my keys.

When he shakes, it creates a lot of noise. Are you aware

that we have the Holy Spirit? The midst of the rush? Because if

you're not aware, you know what will happen. We always look to what

we have physically when your connection everything else. Now to say that is wrong,

I'm not saying this, but there's something better the Holy Spirit. There's

something better the Holy Spirit. Maybe you're aware of the Holy Spirit. So

therefore the next the next psture of the comput say, therefore walk in the

spirit. Awareness is one thing, all of a see it. Right now,

we're aware that we are believers, we are Christian, right, we

are aware, we are aware, we know, we know, we know.

The second part is this that to align, come on to align.

Do you know how hard is it to walk if we don't align? For

example, after church, right now, someone say let's go to a place

to eat. If you don't align with the destination, you go somewhere else,

you go back home. You don't even people people call you only Oh

I didn't know. See aligned first awareness is one thing. Oh ovious.

Yeah, yes, elder, I know, I know we have the Holy

Spirit, but alignment, friends, alignment when God speaks to you. I

was rushing yesterday. So we have very very very busy period. So sometimes

we got five thirty in the morning, leave the house at six fift,

didn't get to work, just a lot thing to rush. Hm. So

yesterday was one of those crazy days. Food day for me. So I

really hate sorry the word. I really hate it when my my wife's mess

up my timing. She knows this. I really really hate it because the

type of guy that you say, sixty thy leave the house, sixty tea

must leave the house. The kind of the kind of guy my mom said,

he I was growing up, you myself becomes secrety up because you like

to be punctual. You first open the door and everything like that. Durhen

I was very young anyway, So yesterday someone's leave the house at eight o

five. My wife said, I meanings onima, but by interne they messed

up. Really, they get out to Kasas Highay, I'll believer Cassas Highways.

It started to rain. You know when it rains, Friends, every

traffic slows down drastically. One no only way God accident war. So I

can imagine you, really, I'm late to do my my for my first,

for my first ut I'm late? You really that push everything else?

Push everything else? Then God just reminds me of this scripture. This scripture

is so real to be friends. Yes, I know that you have the

Holy Spirit? Would you allow me to lead you in the midst of the

chaos? Not because life has never been about a straight line that we planned

and we walk in it. When you know, no matter how much your

plan, it's very hard to be on the straight line because life always shows

you a curveball mixed changes. But when the moment comes, then God reminds

me it is not about your connections or your physical You have the Holy Spirit

within you. Would you ask him for wisdom? Would you ask him for

guidance in the midst of the pressure, would you ask him to lead you?

God, I just want to surrender this imperfection right now, it's beyond

my control. I only got this one scripture. Really, if you live

in the spirit, therefore walking it. That's why I say walk the talk

because I think a lot of us here we know the Christian jargon. Really,

but when life really, you know, when the robber bes, when

life really happens. I want to encourage you. The Holy Spirit is there

to lead you, to guide you, to show you, to reveal God's

truth to you, God's plan for you to clear you know, there's no

more condemnation for those who in Christ. Jesus to give you confidence when you

do your lowest point in your life. First, it's a close right now.

I just want to pray for all over. Sorry for taking up extra

time, apologies for it. But many times in our journey, in our

life, friends, you're driving out from your house only to find that you

already know what you're going to face. The pressures are really there's very real,

and we go like, how am I going to manage this? Friends?

You have the Holy Spirit? Would you align yourself to the Holy Spirit?

Would you align your heart to God? It takes humilities to God.

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