Miracle That Leads To Faith | Pr Matthew Chang

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

will light up your day. Turn with me to Luke chapter thirteen, and

I will be great if you have the Bible with you, because I will

need you to really open up your Bible. But if you look at Luke

chapter thirteen, you can see there and there's quite a few different titles subtitles

in the chapter in the book, isn't in this particular chapter. So you

can see one, two, three, four, five, six or seven

different titles, seven different sections okay, in this particular chapter. Now if

you look at the first subtitle, you see what's the title there? What

does it say? Repent or perish? Okay? Talk about the second one

parable the fake tree, and the third one a spirit of infirmity, then

the fourth one. I like this group already, and you guys are okay,

hop out with faith one. Okay, we stopped there for a while.

Okay, Now, when you read your Bible, do you connect all

this or do you read them singularly or separately? Usually singularly, isn't it?

But what if I tell you that they're all actually connected? Wow?

You know it's like sometimes sometimes you don't really get the story until you reach

the ends, like, oh, all these different dots or these stars tend

to align and to connect, isn't it. And it's pretty powerful because I

always believe that, you know, when we come before God, right,

we always say God, I need to do a miracle, I need to

show up, I need to answer. Then I will believe me of you

know, we have gotten into that type of thinking mentality before. Not not

today. I don't have that faith, you know. I know I haven't

read the Bible, but I really need you to come through, you know.

And we ask for signs that we ask on wonder so that God may

increase our faith. But sometimes we don't realize what we ask. We don't

realize what we demand, and you know, sometimes when we think back for

a while, you realize that it's actually quite I would say, let me

immature in a way to ask like that, because if we are able to

really label a bit in the world of God, and we're asked with a

bit of faith God to open our eyes and a bit of our understanding,

you will see that even inside the world of God, there are so many

miracles, miracles that not just are happening in the past, but miracles that

will speak directly to you right now, in this moment, that will just

increase your faith. How many of you are looking for a breakthrough that will

increase your faith? Only a few people? How many of you want to

increase your faith? How many of you want to believe with the least burdened,

you know, with the least strain and ephiicide Lord, I just believe

you know that feeling. It's like I believe you know, it's that you're

going to watch, whether it's Manchester United, I believe they will win.

But sometimes when they have a horrible record, right, it's like I believe

they will win. You know, there's a type of faith that takes a

bit more energy. But when Manchester City is like I believe they will win,

you have a live Your faith takes a lot less effort, isn't it

the type of faith? You know? How many if you wanted to have

the type of faith that's just so effortless and real and then Golord today,

I believe, I believe you know. So that's the type of faith that

we want to have, the type of victorious faith that we want to have

as well. So I start here with the first part it talks here says

it repent or perish. Let's read, Okay, I'm going to read here

from verse one and it says there there there were present at that season,

some who told him, okay, told Jesus about the Galileans, who whose

blood pilot had mingled with us sacrifices. What in the world is this?

Okay, I'm okay with miracles and Jesus healing, but suddenly talk about blood

and mingled with sacrifices. This is weird, man, Okay. And in

verse two, let's go on first and verse two it says that and Jesus

answered and said to them, do you suppose that these Galilians were worse sinners

than all other Glians because they suffered such things? I tell you no.

But unless you repent, you were all like wise perish. Now, just

to give you a very quick context about what they are talking about. You

know, sometimes when you read the news, right, you read news or

very weird incidences. Isn't it very weird or very tragic news? You know

what I'm talking about. You know, I don't want to go into that

advice. It's just very tragic news. And this is one of those you

wake up in the morning and if you're out with Jesus, and then you

heard the news and you tell Jesus, this is the news of the day.

You know, something tragic happened in the land, in the place called

Galilee. And what happened, you know, what happened is that they know,

the Romans and the Galileans clashed, getting their clash because of tax uh

non text disputes, and so the Romans wanted to text the temple, okay

at the temple and so that whatever you collect from the people, you should

give what is due to Caesar. But the Jewish people say that, no,

what we collected is sacred. Why should we give it to you.

We only serve one king and one lord, and there's God himself and not

Caesar. And so because of that, Romans were upset because they dependent on

the money to build all the infrastructure, including the equedocts and including their military

as well. So what they do is that they infiltrated into the temple and

they started to cause you know a bit of riot and a bit of disharmony

that culminated in sort of like a black bath, and people or far and

people some of them were murdered inside the temple, okay. And so you

know, basically what happens is that you know, when you have spilled blood

in the temple is considered unholy and desecrating the temple as well. And so

when the people were offering their sacrifices, they're spilled their blood, you know,

some of whether it's jew or Gentile, they're spilled there. And to

the crown and to the Jewish people, you know, this is unholy,

this is the secretion. And those who die okay, were probably considered you

no, you know, unfortunate. Okay. But more than just then,

you got to understand that there is a cultural view okay, there's a cultural

review that is prevailing in the society as well. And what is the cultural

review? Okay? When you wake up in the morning, okay, or

in your younger days, right or any day you wake up, did you

ever wonder why you are Malaysian and not an Australian, that you're Chinese or

Indian, you know whatever, nationally, but you're not a Brazilian, you're

not a Mexican. Have you wonder you are in PJ and you're not in

in Sabah? Why are you here and not there, and sometimes you and

then some people who are poorer or richer, more healthy and less healthy,

who are more educated and less educator. Have you wondered, how did you

roll the dice in your life? Have you under did you get to choose?

Did you get to vote? No? Right? But some people,

but so people had to reconcile what they experience with what they see. Why

that person is richer than me? What did I do? And if you

are richer, you start to help to do a different view. I'm richer,

I'm better, I'm healthier because maybe I listen to God more and you

don't. Maybe I'm not that better of a sinner. And you were born

as a sinner, your parents were a sinner, and you were born in

sin. That's why you are paying that price for it right now. And

you know what I'm talking about here, that type of cultural view. Sometimes,

you know, if you believe in reincarnation, you know you believe that,

Hey, you know, if I'm not human, the next life I

would be I don't know, a guinea pig, you know, a dark

you know, maybe you know if I'm eagle or there's an upgrade, you

know, so you think about this life. You know, you know it

must be me, something wrong with me. You know that I'm deserving of

that. That's why. It's something I did something wrong. Maybe I lie,

I cheated, you know, I'm I'm unworthy. That is why I

got into this car accident. That is why you know some that is that's

how you reconcile worldview, you know what I'm saying. I'm saying, that's

how you reconcile. This country got go awkway, there's country god tsunami.

That's why. Because they did, they did, you reconcile your worldview.

You know what I'm saying. So there is this prevailing review that something happened

to them because there's something wrong with them, and I'm okay, because I

did something right, and you have a superior view, okay in your worldview.

Okay. So they had this kind of view, and they brought this

to Jesus, and that's why they asked this question. Okay, you know

you know then to which Jesus reply to them. Do you suppose these Galileans

were worse siners? You know what I mean saying, because Jesus knows what

the disciples were thinking. They were thinking these people suffered this fate because they

might have done something wrong. Okay, but what did Jesus reply? What

was Jesus's worldview? But Jesus said, told them said the word. He

said, I tell you no, it is not because they were worse sinners

or anything. But all you need to know is that unless you repent,

you don't have to worry about them. But unless you repent, you will

perish like them. What did Jesus mean to that? It is not your

job to reconcile what is happening in the world, but it is your job

to reconcile your relationship with the Father. And unless you solve that, you

were perish like them. You are so busy body trying to tell how the

world is, but you have not looked at the problem in your life.

Ah, you know how saying here we are so we are sore righteous to

tell the world what we see things, but you are so unrighteous in your

own life. Wow, you see what I'm saying here. This is what

Jesus exactly telling them. He said that, I tell you not, but

unless you repent, unless you recognize you are simple, unless you recognize you

need the forgiveness of God, you will likewise perish. And then he says

on inverse for all those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed

them, He talks about this is one news, and another news is that

there are eighteen people got crushed by this tower that fell down on them.

It was a tragedy. Okay, So we know, we know, we

heard many tragedies before. Just recently there is a plane that literally crashed from

the sky and hit people, you know, on the main street. It's

a tragedy. But how do we reconcile this how worldview? Is it because

there were worse sinners? No? Did Jesus say that? No? Do

you think there were worse sinners than all other men who do in Jerusalem?

I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all, like what

he is, perish When something bad happens, and we like to focus on

others, on them, isn't it where there's in your own family, whether

it's in your own circle of friends, in the in the office, whether

it's in the church. When something happens and you're always like, ah,

that person's wrong. The person did points so much, ninety five percent of

your energy and your righteousness is spent on pointing others fault and what their lack

is. But Jesus said, you can do all that, but unless you

are reconciled with God, you would likewise perish. Ah everybody, Okay,

so far, I'll be up to a good start here. Okay, well

everybody is scared. So but this is interesting. So Jesus is telling a

worldview, but how does it connect to the next part, Because it's so

interesting, isn't it. Jesus is one part trying to correct his disciples worldview

and get them to have a proper godly spirit as my disciples, you ought

to have a godly spirit. You should not be judging the world and focusing

on the things that do not matter. There are things that are not what

of godly importance? Okay, this is what he's trying to do that.

But immediately after that, he talks about a parable that is very unique,

almost like it cannot It's like, you take this plot, I cannot plot

to the plot pointing it doesn't think it looks like it's a uk plut plot

to the Malaysian plot. It cannot. It doesn't seem to connect. And

then what is this parable about? He talks about the parable of a barren

fig tree. And it's it's quite ominis now it's quite dark and threatening type

of parable. It says here he spoke of this parable. A certain man

had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on

it and found none. Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard,

look for three years, I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree,

and I found nothing. Yeah, you planted youdren. You found nothing after

ten twelve years. Okay, cut it down. Why does it use up

the ground. But the keeper answered and said to the man, sir,

let it alone this year. Also, give it one more year, okay,

and I will dig around it and I will fertilize it. And if

it bears fruit, well that's good. Okay, that's what you desired.

But if it's not, after that, you can cut it down. Okay.

So that basically the keeper was pleading to the master, give it one

more year and give it a chance. Maybe you change the environment, you

fertilize it, and hope that you will barefoore. Then you solve the problem.

But if it's not, we will deal with it later. How does

this connect with the first part? So interesting? Okay, this is what

we call sometimes what we call a mystery. And Jesus will talk about something,

okay, he will give a mystery. And every mystery needs a key.

Okay, every mystery in life he needs a key. Sometimes in life

you will see this, or so you'll see a mystery. You understand,

some man, the key lies in the scripture, the word of God God

opening it. I said, oh, this is the key that unlocks the

mystery. Okay, And so we see this part here. There is a

very clear box or called a mystery. But we do not have the key.

And if you try to open it interpret it. You can interpret it

like anyhow, but you will be wrong. You can mean right. You

can use a box and use it as a hammer, but is it meant

to be a hammer. You can use a box and use it as a

decoration, but is it meant to be like that. You can use a

box and put it in my kitchen and can step on it to wash my

dishes, but is it meant for that. No, the box is meant

to be open with a key. And so when you study the scripture you

need to know what is that key? Okay? And the thing is there

is a key, but it's not within this part, but it's in this

chapter. And so when you study the scripture you must look at the totality

of it. Say, God, I don't understand this part. Maybe can

you show me the key to unlock this? Okay, So we see the

key is in the next part, in the third part. Okay, the

key is come from a story. Not a story, actually something that actually

happened in the third part. Okay, it talks about the spirit of infirmity.

Interesting, isn't it that we have a back, we have the background,

the worldview, we have a mystery, and now we have a real

life event happening. It's like Jesus before he encountered this, this, this,

this, this lady, and in this synagogue he's prophesying. But he

prophesied by not giving you a revelation. He prophesied by giving you a mystery.

So by the end of everything, you will be able to come back

up again and understand what you're saying. Verse ten. Now it's says that

he will was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. Key detail

in synagogue and on the Sabbath, what are you not? What are you

supposed to do it and not supposed to do on the sabbath. You're not

supposed to work, okay, not even supposed to spit on the ground and

make mud, you know. Whatever they seem to be working, you're not

supposed to work. Okay. You're not supposed to bring in the animals through

legate, none of that. Okay. And he says he Behold, there

was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. Where have

you seen this number before? In the earlier part, isn't it wow?

Interesting? Okay? And was bent over and could in no way raise herself

up. Now I identify with how she feels, you know. And now,

everyone here, now, right now, if you could do this exercise

with me? Everyone, okay, right now, wherever you're seated, right

now, okay, try to touch your chest to your knee right now.

Yeah, try to get its close to your chair to your knee right now.

Okay. If you are disabled, peace, don't you know? Or

if you're injured, please don't do like not like me. Okay. Now,

wherever you are, stay there for eighteen years in some of you like

the moment you bend down. Okay, this is not right. Ready,

You're not ready, not right ready. You know, I know I don't

want to do this. I don't want to go through this entire service.

Just looking down like that This lady headed for eighteen years. You know what

happened when you look down like that? You couldn't see anything. But that's

the ground, isn't it. If you imagine if you walk down into this

hall and you see, you know, Daniel come and shaking your hand,

Hi, how are you You can't even look at his face, you know,

how are you going to raise your hands orso? But yet in your

life you can only see people who are straight, well, upright healthy.

You know everything is proper for them. They have what confidence? You're right,

how many of you? Sometimes you feel like, hey, everybody is

straight upset you Maybe you know you know I did something wrong. People don't

know. But people are just so full of confidence. People can connect and

talk to anyone and there seems to be flourishing in their job, in their

ministry, in their family. So well, something is wrong with me.

You know, you have this world view that connects with the world. Some

I did something wrong. Might be God is angry with me, you know,

there will she's she's she's like that. But yet despite all these things,

for eighteen years, right, she is still found today. On that

day, she was found way in the House of God. And that's a

very important thing that I want to highlight today. She probably feels unworthy for

eighteen years you now and you can feel so much, and sometimes you feel

like you have nothing already compared to everyone else. But yet on that day

when it mattered, she was found in the House of God. She took

whatever she whatever she had left. I don't have much, but today I

will show up out of faith. It was only faith that brought her here.

What other reasons would she come confidence, self esteem, promise of healing

or anything. No, she did it out of faith. Why are you

here today? Because there's a you know, Philip is what she diading.

It's like he's like shaking because we have a really nice chairperson waiting and doctor

Daniel. Why are you here? Really? If you are not well and

you have everything against in your line, why do you even bother showing up

today? And do you even believe that God measures and takes notice of you

what little you have? Even you're grown and you're dragging yourself. Do you

feel that God will measure and take notice of you. On that day she

showed up, and he says here in verse twelve, But when Jesus saw

her, Jesus could only see her when she shows up. You know,

it's very important, isn't it? He caught when you show up, Jesus

can call simple as that. Especially Jesus saw her. Jesus caught her,

and Jesus said to her, hey, woman, you are loose from your

infirmity. And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made

straight and glorifying God what little she had. She showed up, not expecting

Jesus to even be there. And who is even these Jesus who will come

and say to her and call her and say that you are loosed from your

infirmity? And she was here? Amazing? Isn't it? On this part

alone? It should tell you the importance are of sometimes how powerful your little

faith is? You know, don't despise you know, but I'm not calling

when we come to church. We don't have to be one hundred percent of

right. Shous on it. You come and you are, and you depend

on God. You have me right you show up because you are fully dependent

on God, not because anything else because you feel like it, not because

you feel like, oh, nothing to do, if anything in the world,

it's not even have to do with you, you know. But it

comes down to the finality that my faith is counted by God, then you

will show up like Abraham. This is what the faith of Abraham is.

No, it's not because it's powerful, because even though it was little,

he gave and it was countered as him as righteousness. Okay, so that's

the first thing we learn. But then we have a separate response that comes

out a different response. And they says in verse fourteen, but the ruler

of the synagogue answered with indignation. Okay. They were indignant, you know,

indignified, ecectionable, unified. They were indignated. Okay, but Jesus

had healed. Because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, they were upset.

On one part you see someone rejoicing, and one part you see someone angry.

Angry, not because Jesus healed so called a sinner or he did something

because he healed on the sab because he broke a law from God. And

he said to the ground, and the teacher said to all the crowd to

whom they all saw the miracle. There are six days on which men ought

to quoting the law and quoting the specification and all everything that God says.

It's not saying. God says. Therefore, come and be healed on them.

Don't come on, don't come on this day. There are six days.

Why are you Why couldn't you even focus on obeying the simplest of the

law and heal on the other day, but your heal on this day.

Come on those days and be hill and not on the Sabbath day. And

immediately what did they do? They immediately overrite and cancel and overwhelm the miracle

that was right before them, isn't it? That's why they do it.

Immediately overrighte and cancel everything. Now, then the Lord answered him and the

teacher and said, hypocrites, does not each one of you on the Sabbath

lose his ox or donkey from the store and lead it away to water?

It so not this woman being a daughter of Abraham, underlying their daughter of

Abraham, whom Satan has bound, think of it for eighteen years, be

loose from this bond on the Sabbath. Wow, now, why was Sabbath

so important? To the Jewish people. I mean, if you know why

why is Seba so important to the Jewish people? Okay, Sabath is not

just on the week. If you read the old testimony, you will know

that the scripture talks about Sabbath on the week and Sebbath over the years as

well. Now, the reason why they emphasized so much on the Sabbath is

because God has actually judged the nation of Israel over their disobedience of from following

the Sabbath. Okay, uh, maybe you can turn with me to Liberticus

chapter twenty five. Okay, let's go through this. Liberticus chapter twenty five.

I'm gonna read from verse three to seven. Okay, so then you

know what I'm talking about. I'm I'm not speculating here, Okay. Liberticus

twenty five, Verse three. Okay, you're not talking about the Sabbath of

the days, but the years. Okay. He says here six years you

shall sow your six years. If you're on the land, you shall sow

for it for six years. And six years you shall prune your vineyard and

gather its fruits. But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath or

solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. You shall neither

sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. What grows on its on court

of your harvest, you shall not rip nor gather the grapes of your untended

vine. For it is a year of rest for the land and the sabbath.

Produce of the land shall be food for you, for your male,

for your female servants, your hired men, and the stranger who dwells with

you, for your lifestock, and the beasts they are in your land,

All its produced shall be for food. Now quite radical, isn't it?

You See? The world is trying to solve economy. You know, maybe

we raise interest rates, Maybe we have i mel loaned these long deadlae.

Maybe we start introducing cryptola new economic policy text the rich, you know,

free the poor, all sort of thing. What does God say if you

own land, sow for it for six years, on the seven year you

keep it for free? Now? How is Why did the Israelites you know,

struggle with this keeping this law? How many of your own lands and

your plant things on the land, How many of you? How many of

light to plant things? Okay? Great your planet? What your planate fruits,

vegetables and stuff like that. How many of you are have plant things

are at the edge of your fencer or outside your house? Well, you

know what I'm being Right, when I grew out my house, my my

my my family's house, we stayed in the corner lot. And my dad

is a great he's good at planting. And we had this nice mango tree

at the corner there and and it's a it's not mango guini okay type of

mango, a rounder okay, more pungent uh any hiss, that particular seat

was very good, Okay, what's very fragrant. You can smile even from

like fifty meters away. The smell, you know when when he reapons is

very powerful. Uh. And a lot we give it a lot to people.

But the funny thing, but the irritating thing is when it's about to

bare fruit, a lot of it will perch out from our fence to the

main walkway. And you know that people I was, you know, will

just help themselves to your you know, wonderful bountiful produce of your land,

you know, you know what I'm saying. And then when they start to

grow, and you know how people are the same guy? Way is he

walking outside my house out quite regularly? You're a laughing, you know,

because you walk there is it? You're not even walking around? So why

is this guy walking? And then he's standing there like looking at something,

you know, and you know when it gets heavy, it drops down and

robs down. Ready, the guy is planting, planning and scheming how to

get it ready. You know, it's right ours our house and on and

just before we go and pick it up, it's gone. How would you

feel if you're upsets in it? Ah? Why can't people have the decency

just to ask for me? And people just wait outside and take it?

Imagine this, you know, if you're a lander, you sow for six

years, you har us for six years. Okay, this is feed your

family and everything, and on the seventh theater your land, you're produce.

Right one morning you wake up and you open the window and you see foreigners,

rich, poor wild beasts and animals coming to take all your produce.

And you eat and they eat and they bring their relatives, they bring your

everybody. Come, you know, let's take for the free food. You

know, you know, like I know I Malasians for free food. We

wag one another. You know, buffair, we wag in all everybody's coming,

you know, having a feast at your expense. You know it's like

barbe whoa. How would you feel at that moment this struggle? Because on

that seven day a seven year, when they open the window and they see

that happening, they will say, what that's not fair? My heart,

labor we twelve and you work. It's so hot. That's not fair.

And you go a bit deeper, and you when you start to hear some

voice, those are mine. And when you come to that bottom of that

younger piece radio, and what's the last remaining is the truth and the core

of what you're really believing, and you are upset about because those are mine.

That is exactly God meets you. That is exactly where God meets you.

Is that exactly yours? Wow? You see her Sabbath? What was

the purpose of Sabbath? There was it about just keeping one year free,

one day free? Sabbath is a about what cleaning up the layers and getting

the core of our hearts? What is it all about? Do you own

the land? Do you own the Sunday? Or the Sunday belongs to the

Lord makes sense or not. It gets the core of a question. Isn't

it a core of a question that an entire nation couldn't help, couldn't own

up to be, An entire nation couldn't own up to be. They couldn't

do it. It was just so difficult, and they didn't know. They

didn't obey the saber for four hundred and ninety years, for four hundred and

ninety years. They were in the left for eight hundred years. They didn't

obey theirself for four hundred and ninety years. And now God has called them

to obey the Sabbath. You must. You are saying that for every promise

God gives, it's like a contract. Why now, if you do,

you will rip this benefit. But if you don't, you will suffer this

penalty and this consequence. What is the consequence of not obeying the Sabbath?

Let's turn to a levity twenty six, So then you will learn the idea.

Okay, let me think it's twenty six, says okay, verse thirty

three. Okay, So twenty sixth verse thy three, you can underline that

I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you.

Your land shall be desolate and your cities waste, then the land shall enjoy

its what saburbs. As long as it lies desolate and you are in your

enemy's land, then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbath. So what

is the consequence of not obeying the sabab? The Lord is literally proclaiming,

if you refuse to obey the sabbath and you refuse to honor the land as

it's intended to do, not just to serve you, but to serve the

Lord and the poor, the land will literally spit you out. You get

me right. The land well comes to you, but the land will spit

you out. A lot of times. You see this image, you know,

being used in a speed out because it taste sour bitter. You are

littwarm, neither cather hot, and I will spit you out. You get

me right. You know it's a very powerful and a powerful image. You

know, the lad will literally cast you out. And what happened. What

doesn't mean cast you out? It means you will become an exile. You

know what I'm saying that you're becoming an exile. So what is the contract?

Seven years? If you don't one year, you will rest. So

if you don't for seven years, you will all got one year or sabbath

year. So do the math. Four hundred and ninety years they did not

obey the sabbath? So how many years is the penalty? How many years?

Great finance people? Four hundred and ninety years? If you didn't pay

your summons? How much do you owe for every seven years? All one

year? Seventy? Isn't there? It's so scared. Everybody is so scared

that for four hundred and ninet years you accumulated your summons. You end up

what accummulating seventy years of eight thousand and did Israel pay for their exam?

Did they pay? They pay? Where were they exiled to Babylon? How

many years? Seventy years? Oh? Now you say, after you pay

the summon? Now you even pay a parking ticket for years after you pay

one time? Oh, you keep hoping that DBK will give you a discount,

by you never discounter you know, No, I will pay all my

summer. Oh my barking readyar you? No, not strike once you fear,

you know. And so because of that the whole nation learned. And

when they came out from the from the from their captivity. One of the

main things the Jewish Committee learn and then also the priests and then the Pharisees

came emphasizing with the whole people was obedience to the law of God. So

they insist on obeying the Sabbath to the tea. You know what I'm saying,

Yeah, obeying you know everything. You got it partially right, but

you misunderstood what the purpose of Sabbath was about. What was the purpose of

Sabbath? Was it about just one day free? But who was blessed on

that seven year? Who was blessed everyone else? But when you said that,

when you when you when you ask everyone to observe sirth, was anyone

blessed? You are saying, yeah, no one wants bless You missed the

heart of it. You completely miss the heart what God was trying to deal

with you and what what God was trying to bless other people. You know.

So there's there is the observant of Sabbath, but without the power of

Sabbath. You know what I'm saying, It's that you come back for Chinese

New Year, but then there's no power in it. You come forward reunion,

but everybody is doing their own thing. You missed, the idea,

the purpose of the of what God instituted, completely missed it. Okay,

So there's basically the teaching on Sebeth everybody. Okay, so you learn understand

what I'm saying here. So this is there's a what I'm talking about seburb

So now we know why these people are really sticky about this Sabbath. But

they missed it. And on this wonderful day Jesus healed a woman that was

bent uh and with informative for eighteen years, and now on this day the

miracle has been blessed. They now try to correct and lecture Jesus about the

law and what God has been telling them all these years. And what did

Jesus say here? Okay? Then Jesus say that you hypocrites, You say

that you are double minded. You wear a mask, but then your few

faces hidden. He talks about, that's not each one of you on the

sabbath, untie, his ox and his donkey. What does that mean?

He's saying? Is this? And no, you're saying so not work,

isn't it? But the things that are most precious to you, the things

that your life depends on. There are your belonging that are your family,

or that sustains you, your donkey and your ox, even on this day

you untie them, okay, from the major and nourish them because you care.

Okay, you will do this for your own family or the things that

nourishes you. And you take pity on it, even you know inside your

donkey and you take pity on it because they need to drenk water. You

will do it. But yet when it comes to this woman, and it's

not just any woman, but this is a daughter of Abraham? Why is

it mean a daughter of Abraham? What is Abraham known for faith? What

qualifies you to be a daughter or a son of Abraham? Is it because

you are circumcised? Are you, guys here a son and daughter of Abraham?

Let me ask you? Are you a son and daughter Abraham? Why

would you want to be a son daughter Abraham? Because you will be blessed?

Isn't it? Because God had made a covenant with God? All the

nations will be blessed because of you. Many nations will be blessed because of

you, you want to be a son and daughter? Ever, because you

will become a blessing, you will inherit the blessings of Abraham, isn't it?

But what made Abraham such a blessing? Was it because he was circumcised?

Was he made righteous before or after he was circumcised? Question? Was

he righteous before or after he was circumcised? Be before he was circumcised?

You're going and read your go and read Romans and Hebrews. Okay, Abraham

was righteous before he was circumcised. Circumstansion does not make you righteous. Circumstansion

is like a wedding band. You know, did you that you're wearing a

wedding means you're married. Doesn't mean that you're fully in love. You know.

It's just a symbol. You're not. You're not, That's what I'm

saying. It's a symbol you not. Were you in love on that day

when you're married or before before? Of course? Right? You better be

before you tell your wife and your husband? Who will dank goodness? I've

fallen in love before I got married. Man who not suddenly appeared the guy?

The guy was so nervous. I'm in love, not in love in

a woman. Also, I think I'm in love. Yes, I would

say about no, you were in love, That's why you made the commitments.

You got me saying that is why you made the commitment. You go

to the next level. You already are in love. Abraham walked before God

and little faded. He gave when he saw the start that he believe God.

He was a counter to him for righteousness. And God saw that and

gave him righteousness. And then God introduceds circumissions. Say you know what's what?

It's just a sign. I give you this ring. Yeah, men,

right, a wedding ring, Sidney Fair my love and my commitment to

you to death. The worst part it was the seal. It was not

what made you righteous. It was just a symbol. Okay, that is

what. That is what you know what? Being a children of Abram means

what? You are not a child of Abrahm because you are circumcised, you

are a child of Abraham. Listener, this is very important. Now.

When you believe like Abraham did, when you do, you are a child

of your father. When you do exactly as your father did, Listener,

why why why, why? Why? Why? Why? Is Jesus the

son of God. Whatever he does comes from the Father, and between him

and the Father, there is no variation. You're a son of because of

biological. You know, in the ancient times, when your father is a

carpenter, you become a carpenter. When you're a fisherman, you become a

fisherman. There is why they says son a bad jo or Simon's son,

or something like that, because they identify the father. What the father does,

the son does as well. And when Jesus comes, like whatever the

Father says, I do, my will is to do that. My food

is to do the will of the Father. I am his son, in

a son of in Bilgica. Sense I am I come from him. I

am his. He is my source. His DNA is my DNA. Imprint

is my imprint, because I do what he tells, I do what he

pleases. I do exactly as who he is. So when you believe like

Abraham did, even when your faith is so little, like this lady,

she was filled with informaty for eighteen years, but on that day, out

of a little she believed, she believed like Abraham, and and when Jesus

saw her and caught her, she received righteousness. That is why Jesus say

that she is the daughter of Abraham. When you come out of faith to

here today, you are a son and daughter of Abraham when you're in your

home offices, when you choose to believe out of the little fasure, you're

a son and daughter of Abraham, and Jesus recognizes that there's a profound truth.

You know. You don't say what I'm saying here now, everybody get

Let me ask you a question again. Are you a son and daughter of

Abraham today? Yes? Or not? I don't gonna say. It's such

a big title. You are people not because you've got a sur name,

but because you believe like Abraham believed. Amen, Amen are okay? Now

it says here whom Satan has bound for eighteen years? How did Satan bound

her? How do you bind? Faith will try to bounce when you put

things that are filled with unbelief, things that will discourage you, things like

an infirmity, things like sicknesses that make you lesser from people around you,

makes you feel like something is wrong with you. The culture will make you

feel small. Your circumstances, your family, your sins will make you feel

small, and you will try to bury every single little faith that you have.

You know, not when God didn't come to you are to looking for

anything that you did right now, he's looking for you. Do you believe

out of faith? And sometimes when you're sore, beaten up right, you

don't want to show up because you completely lost faith, isn't it? And

Satan binds us and cause us to be prisoners by discouraging us more than anything

else. But the fact that you guys showed up this morning means what you

are willing to be set free by the word and the love of Jesus Christ.

Amen. You came by faith, you shot by faith. That is

why parents, you know you know in young people, you come here,

it's no small fit. You're coming here is a defeat to the enemy.

You know understand what I'm saying. You coming here and you're bringing your dragging

your child here, It's a defeat to the enemy and the victory for Jesus.

When you draw your child here, God can call her, God can

summon them and him and her. God can touch them, and God can

heal them. But don't even show up. What can God? Do?

You know what I'm saying here? You must as believers, as families,

as parents, we must continue this truth to do what is right. So

then we surround ourselves and our family with blessings and possibilities. You know you

are the safeguard of your family. Amen, okay, okay, Now say

whom sat the bound for a be loose from this bond? On set of

he said that you treat Okay, you got hypocrist with your own animals.

You took pity on them. You too, pity that you were watered down.

But this lady, who is more precious than your donkey and your oks,

who in the eyes of God is a daughter of Abraham, you deny

her. You are a hypocrite. Makes sense. You're a hypocrite if you

want to condemn her, Why didn't you do that to your own anymore?

Hey, donkey, you're thirsty today's sabbath. You needn't do that. You

are a hypocrite. You say one low, but you didn't apply the other

way. So what you displayed today before everybody is not your observance to the

law. What you displayed to the world that is known is your hypocrisy and

your favoritism. You are not a follower of the law, and the law

will not recognize you. Wow, that's why have you heard of you?

When you studied the home study, I am the door ship. The door

is the word, isn't it? Scripture? Isn't it? You say what

you say are but is it true in your heart? But if your heart

is hypocritical, the door keeper will not recognize you. Okay, now everybody,

okay, so far, let me draw to a close here. Okay,

So what happens when Jesus expose them completely and utterly? Right? All

his adversary says were put to shame, and all the people rejoice at the

glorious things that were done by them by him? Okay now, and he

said, okay, now, let me go to the scripture here. Now,

so we've seen one story. Okay, let me to a close.

How does this story connect with the mystery box that we had in the beginning?

Do you find a key here? Okay? So this story, entire

story is a key. Now, let's go back to that story again.

A man with a fig tree. Okay, he says, here, for

three years I come looking for fruit and found nothing. Cut it down,

But another person says, no, give it one more year. Put fertilizer

around it and maybe it'll be Okay, Why do you do that? Why

do you dig around and put fertilizer? How do you know? How do

you diagnose her what's really wrong with a tree? You go away stetoscope,

and how do you know? Is it the sea? Is it the insect

a disease? Is it the weather? Is it the crown? How do

you know? It's very hard, isn't it? The truth is very hot?

And so what you do, as a doctor will do they slowly isolate

the problems. You know, if you have a song called isolating the problems,

you isolate, Oh what is causing the favor? Is it because of

it? So you isolate. So what this keeper is trying to tell the

owner is, let's isolate the problems. Let's change one variable, one varian

and see whether it makes the most. The variable that we can introduce is

change the fertilizer, because I see the weather and then everything. Okay,

maybe it's the fertilizer. And if the fertilizer works, then the trees goes.

But if the fertilizer doesn't work, then we know can properly confirm that

the tree is bad? Isn't it? You cannot do anything to help you

anymore, isn't it? Then you cut it down now, which is a

very very fair thing to do. This thing you isolate, give you a

chance, then not you cut it down. Now my question is this,

who is that tree? Remember the keyer, what's the key the story?

Who is that tree? What is the fertilizer? Who is the tree?

Us? It's a fig tree. The tree is the Israel is basically Israel

themselves or when you look at fake normally represents the real. But in this

case you're not just Israel, but specifically the teachers, the ones that God

has appointed and ordained, the temple system, the priests. There was supposed

to what to bear fruit? Isn't it They received from the law their bare

fruit, and people can eat and enjoy from it. True or not?

The trees but bare footman a church is called barefoot? True? Not?

But this lady for eighteen years coming to there has she been healed? Even

when she was here as she was being ridiculed? All what fruit have they

shown? And not only that? What is the fertilizer? What is the

fertilizer? The fertilizer is the miracle? You see how when you experience a

miracle in your life? What happens? I mean, if you experience America

before right before personally or right in front of your hommy of you experience America

before. What's the exact feeling that you feel? Tell me, honestly,

what do you feel? Hallelujahes praised the Lord. But if someone is raised

from the dead right in front of you, and if God restored your food

leg if you be amputated, what would you feel? He praise the Lord,

isn't it? But I can tell you before you praise the Lord,

you'll be fearful. You know why, because you realize God is real.

God is so real, God's eyes on you. You feel with the fear

and the reality of God. Yeah, I mean right, miracles. Jesus

has performed miracles for what so that people are touched? Yeah, miracles are

done. But remember now the people keep asking Jesus for more miracles, but

yet he denied them. You know why? Why is it that Jesus will

perform miracles in certain places with certain people, but in certain places he will

not do. Why touch money? If you do, amraca more lives,

My Jesus get done ten more times than miracles. But why do you not

do? It has to come down to the purpose of miracles and the effectiveness

of miracles. When you miracles, that's one thing, and one thing.

Mainly, it is to point people to God. When you see a miracle

feeding the five thousand, raising a man, why's the thing that is about?

Oh Jesus, can you know there is a God? There is a

God. God is real. When you when a miracle it happens to your

unbelieving, unbelieving family, what strikes in their heart? Your God is real.

There's a God, and God looks at us. God pays attention.

All this time I thought that God doesn't care. He cares. All this

time, I thought that God doesn't judge. He judges. You get me

right. Suddenly you are disarmed in all by the miracle of God, because

God is really not you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you become completely

disarmed by the reality of God because of the miracle. But yet there are

those when they see a miracle, it has no effect, you know why,

No matter what miracle happens, they will choose not to believe. And

to them, even a miracle as great as someone who is eighteen years boundary

heal you will have no effect. And that is that tree. That tree,

No matter what forty lies are you put suppose to spur, supposed to

produce the fruit of God will not have an effect of the tree. But

yet to those who believe, what did Jesus say, it's like the next

parable, the parable of the mustard seed? What did he say? In

verse fourteen? And he said, what is the Kingdom of God like?

And to watch all? I compare it like a fig tree that does not

produce fruit. No, it is like a mustard seed, the smallest of

seeds, not a big glorious tree, you know, the smallest of said

your men have put into his gather, not even without forty lighters, you

know. And it became a large tree, and the birds of the ant

nestor in its branches. So a woman who has been sore, pushed down

by society, pushed down by the very temple she visited. But when Jesus

comes and touches her, her faith grew her great. Her faith sprouted because

in her what goodness? You get me? Right? She was not like

the Pharisees, She was not like the teachers. When she saw the miracles,

she glorified God. And now for life comes not out for life the

producers. This tree is able to produce fruit, and everyone around her was

blessed to glorify who glorified God. And then the last one he says it

in verse twenty, and to watch or I like in the Kingdom of God.

It is like the leaven which a woman took a small leaven, as

small as it is, and hid it in three measures of meal till it

was all eleven. So what is the gist of all? After all this?

You see? What? Now? Do you see the mystery box being

unpacked? Right now? The mystery box is about judging what the teachers and

the pre system, and they are found to be fruitless. And when they

are fruitless, even when the miracle was performing, they will be cut down.

Which is what exactly happened. You know, the disciples came and took

over. But the testimony of the warmer will forever be remembered because she believed,

isn't it The testimony of the woman of a little faith for generations will

be remembered even until now. That is why when you read the Bible,

and sometimes you see God I need miracles, any miracles. When you read

the Bible as it is, don't you experience the reality of God right now?

Where you assisted? Do you believe? Do you realize that your faith

matters true or not. Everything is in the Bible. People. You get

excited because when you read it, it's like the miracles jump out into a

reality and sits in your heart. God, even though my life has not

experience better, I believe according to your word, and my life starts to

change without the job promotion, whatever it is. God, God's work is

more powerful than my life's circumstances. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by

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