If You Believe | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. This morning, I got a word from Roman

chapter and we're sixteen, says therefore, I'm not ashamed of the good news.

And many times in our live friends that you know, do you lose

a word a shame? Right? It's because there are people around us that

the word is that we are not comfortable in revealing what we but hold on

what we trust and what our values are. Isn't it if you are by

ourself where ceo we are shaving? For example, if you there's something foolish

right and nobody's looking at you, very seldom you get the words a shave

or right shy. I remember what I was cycling when I was young.

I don't know what I was doing, but I decided to do. When

you're young, you want to be The word is that you want to be

adventurous, you want to be brief. You do a lot of silly stunts

just that you know. The word is that just the experiment. I remember

what I don't know why I did. I decided to cycling. To put

a stick in between my bicycle spoke. They immediately jam up the whole by

and then turned upside down, and there was so embarrassing because like embarrassing we

need because that I didn't expect that to happen, but it happened. But

because there was nobody around, right, I just got out and conducycling again.

Now contrast to another part whereby there were in a primary school. When

you are friends around you, you did something foolish. Half the time is

the embarrassment is the one that sort of like brings you out. So the

gospel here the moments play was six is safe. I'm not ashamed. I

guess the word is that I can only identify with this feeling when we have

to review what we had to If we are alone, right, eating not

a problem. But we are with friends sometimes just to say that we are

Christian, to say we are believer, that's where sometimes we struggle. God

knows where we are with our journey and friends. This is not a message

of condemnation asking you to where your cross loud and proud, But really the

word is to bring awareness for earth that where are we right now with our

own expression of faith? So the gospel here's the Bible here says we are

not a ship of these good news? Now, what is the Gospel of

Christ? And some people are the word is a shame to identify with?

What is the Gospel of Christ? And some people the word is that you're

shy to reveal that you're a Christian. You know, every year we have

Chinese your year and sometimes your relative don't understand you asked you to eat the

food that was actually presented the author before and the stuff like that. And

sometimes you know, we'll make a lot of reasons why we do an ab

are fasting. You know. Also the day you decide to become a vegetarian,

it's because the words that we have to explain to people after a while

that you know, I don't think this is because you offer up to your

ideas and stuff like that. But what is it about the Gospel of Christ?

And some people are a shame of the Gospel of Christ? Is really

it's about the lot. It's about Jesus, all right, the words that

you have to acknowledge that He came for us so sometimes experienced people, but

Jesus coming for you, he knows human Like we show up at the cinema

right because someone invited us. There was an expect there was an invitation for

him to become or for you to come. But this Jesus came or a

served without your personal invitation or a certing that Jesus, you came for me

by the invite you right now, it's also about his existence, his lordship,

and his resurrection. To tell people to accept me up, there's a

concept of Jesus that he came, but to share with people that he died

for our sins and he was resurrected is a concept whereby some people may not

be able to understand and to tell people that we believe in this person called

Jesus is something after what people like, are you sure that he was really

resurrected? I watched a lot of YouTube videos really and they say that it

wasn't true. He was hiding in another place. And after while you're going

to debate there, sometimes there were to be second guess our faith, second

guess what we really believe in. If we watch enough videos out there,

you tend to doubt, really like what's all about at the end of the

day, And that's why sometimes we believe, but we seldom show it right.

It's just like when you're dating, you remember the first time you date

your parents, don't date, don't date. But there your parents saw you

at the supermarket and you're holding your good friend's hand. I've seen a lot

of guys just through through the good friend's hand away, like I've seen seriously,

literally they just okay. Because I'm a elder writer, I see partners

go out there, right they think, okay, I'll fight. It's okay

to date on your friends. All right, it's yeah, right, it's

okay. I know their parents are okay. I know that you said that,

Ashley made What age of your daughters could date? I asked a mom

recently, I said what at what age can your daughter date? She said

thirty years old and a birth she was thirty years at in the bom nothing

below yes, nothing below that. Right at the same time, I asked

the father, the father, right, this is the mom, or ask

the dead, So at what age canno fifteen years or sixty years can date?

You? Really half the age? Fifty percent discount there ever ready that

because the imagine right now the daughter sixteen years asking the father more and say

asking a mom. But here's the thing. Sometimes the word is that when

you when you see somebody so how you did it before? Right, you

see you see somebody because you know that you're supposed to keep the straight and

narrow. And you told your parents I will not date. But you see

your mom. You just hurt nothing. Right, you show the hand away,

you're walking the desert, you run and hide behind the pillar, or

you tie your shoelace. But why were these something? It's not because you

are was being found out that you are part of something when you know that

you're not too And just this is what pause writing to us, that people

are ashamed something to identify the associate with Jesus. Christianity is one of the

only beliest friends. I believe that there are certain things that we're not supposed

to cross the line. For example, like sometimes in our faith expression of

faith, you're supposed to forgive. But it's so hard peoples to get even

something is supposed to love, and it's so hard to live. And many

times in our journey I will express people say why are you? Why are

you doing this? You can easily just follow the wolf's Fayma, don't need

to forgive this move one, but God ask us forgive because you know anything

our hard that's stopping us to receive from the lorda, we have to deal

with it. Right, So if first Colosius wanted in the forty seas and

four, he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred to the

kingdom of his dearest son, who purchased our freedom, and forgive our sins.

Friends, if you want to believe in the Gospel of Christ, the

Gospel of Christ is about him rescuing Earth from the kingdom of darkness. Now

to say that we refused to be associated with the kingdom of darkness is almost

I think like, you're so bad that you're before you know Jesus. You're

bad to tell that the people you go like, but I'm good. I've

not done anything wrong. I've do not rob the bank. I wasn't part

of the scamming team, the scam peoper's money. Those are bad stuff.

But I've just been a normal person. I go to school, I got

good grades, you know, and in times you hear people's testimony. Right,

Wow, this guy used to do all those bad stuff him to know

Jesus, and now we can share testimony. Whereas tree utter of us here,

surviving our example is our biggest challenge at tests. I think our parents

food the same fool for every day was another test that we have to face

right and not rebelling against our mom Uh. Those are our only challenges that

we know. Right. But other people said, I did drugs, I

spoke under the batlah right, and I can know Jesus a part of gangsterism.

First, we don't even know gangsterism in back then. OK. So

the word is that we were just interested in studying to get our results,

to make sure we get into a good university and go out there and earn

some money. That's it. That was our main life challenge. D.

But here's the thing that to tell people that God has rescues from the kingdom

of darkness. It is strange how many of you know that before we accept

Jesus as it was the kingdom of light, we are part of kingdom of

darkness. How many we want are to acknowledge that in our in our journey,

majority of us wasn't the kingdom of darkness. I didn't do anything bad.

We just the words that we just don't know Jesus. So first collisions

Our collisions. Chapter one. The thing says that for he rescued us,

first he rescues or the kingdom of darkness and transfers to the kingdom of his

dear son, who purchase our freedom from sin. Here's the thing they were

by the concept of sin. Sometimes the words that to acknowledge if we have

sinned is something which is hard. Come on right now, excellent, don't

lose me. Right now, I just got another time to preach. Sorry,

timomeas to preach, and then I love other stories. Many times,

isn't it true to say that we have seen? Right? Is to say

something that it's it's hard to gather from our lips. The Bible says to

confess or sins before the Lord. But how many of you know that to

sin the concept of sin God I've seen against you. We think sinning against

God is actually just like you know, the word forsaking his name. You

know, never acknowledge shame. But really that if we don't follow the world

of God, sometimes we fall our own way. The Bible say as well,

and many times our journey right to say that we have seen that,

No, I've never seen that. I go, I go to church,

I keep my tithe, I'm all right, I go to homes right,

I join the prayer service and all that is good friends, but really,

what's God really after our hearts? Because if our hearts is not in the

right place, let's where somethings we struggled to understand what God has installed for

us. And many times God would just put us in the place we are

by to reveal really what's in our hearts? So the worst exposed, what's

in our hearts? Because once thinks are the worst revealed, we have awareness.

We cannot have just awarenesses by reading what we need the awareness by allowing

God to just to bring us to a journey in our life. And that's

why sometimes we'd like to go for road trips because in the road trips you

can awareness of different culture, different food. Right, you get a different

exposure. But once with the awareness, you get understanding of what to do

and what not to do. But many times our journey is that we want

to go the extra to say that we focus a lot of the extra you

know Roman chapter twelve, verse one, to to read the scripture. Recently,

at homes we like to present our bodies and living sacrifice first. And

many times I have found out that when we want to get right with God,

we always do all the physical. First, we got a weaker earlier

to do my quert time, I'll pray more, I'll do I'll give more

to you everything. Oh, it's all on the external, right, because

we think the external work. The words carry favor with the Lord, Come

chick with the Lord after that. But God is really then Roman chapter twelve,

verse too says, but be transformed by the winning of your mind,

which means to say threads. It starts internally first before you do the external.

Because if you're external, which is just wake up early, dude,

praying more, read the Bible more. Sometimes I know that when people will

dedicate their life to the Lord, they're emiliated by another Bible. So to

make sure they want to start the fresh that a new clear up. But

all those external world is good. We will not last if your internal doesn't

support your external. When your internal motivation needs to be in line with your

external exploits. Do you understand what I'm trying to say? But many times

we all are weaker early. I'll do it early, and that's why sometimes

when you feel our exam we're putting the extra hours. But putting the extra

hours is good. But if really the word is that we really don't have

a mind and the appitude trying to understand. We are just trying to memorize.

I know, students really trying to memorize. I got I think this

in our church that a new one person I know who lock herself in a

room to study on coming after school, yourself in the room, never come

out by iddia bread and two to water, two flowers of water. There

eat blame bread and drink water. It's just study and memorize. Of course

you get nine, but just pure memorization. And this is they choose sometimes

in our life by just doing the external. We never have the internet application.

I was sharing this at one homes Friday. I say how many we

do just that was right? I say, how many still remember your at

admeats at mat Sorry we call back the days that you hit the your mats

come out and remember your emats, your d Y O d X or something

I had. I don't know. I don't I can't remember after I really

can't remember. But here's the things that I say. That we studied for

two years admets, okay, remember we really suffered to the two years.

Some of you love at mats okay, But I say that right now,

how we really apply your admeats already in your line of you actually apply at

mats, they say that majority of THESA, No, we actually the moment

we reach our examit actually totally forgot what it is all about already. So

how may we still remember how you use the function calculator, that scientific calculator

that we are so power when we reached from four we purchase one. We

are so happy that this is the latest calculators. This was our iPhone back

then. All right, right, this one has memory function. Okay,

youse entry level might speat level accounting, and somebody get envy as of your

friends who are slightly better and more chungy calculated than you. But right now,

how we see we remember how to use this calculator. It's only because

when we don't apply and we don't understand fully the mechanics behind it, right,

we're just going by massive memory at the end of the day, and

that's why the motivation, interneal motivation is not there to carry it on.

So Coalitions, Chapter one, verse thirty to forty reminds us again the purchase

our freedom and forgive of sin. God has to take a sin in our

hearts before the external can be seen. He has to take the things in

our hearts, friends, before the external can be produced. But many times

we want to produce the external. I'll do more for you, Lord.

And while those are fantastic, the word is exploits. But internally, if

our hearts is not in the right place right, those on the external will

seize right quickly. One. That's why people who are into spots get motivated

the first one month, buying new gears, buy new shoes, new attires.

Everything all look very good. But how many of us right now we

still have stuff in our closet whereby we only use once twice, three times.

And that's it only because it never fully are convicted and convinced this is

the right path. My wife is very the word is, she's very diligient

when it comes to exercising, very deligient even tend to day at night she'll

do it another half an hour before she sleeps. Very the words that she

never When I was talking to I say, well, the motivation behind it,

right, is it? Because to look, the word is to keep

a certain weight and stuff. I know I'm preparing myself when I reached sixty

because I reached sixty sixty alwards. Right, I need my master to protect

my bones. So I'm doing all my research right now, eating all everything,

because there's an internal motivation bright that I've reached. There many times Christian

needs to be like that as well. We need to look a bit further

than just right now. The external thing. I just want to get free

only, but without having a picture at any mind, our external exploits will

come shot very quickly because today's raining a hiah a lot. You know,

I want to go out to exercise. Right, we'll make also exclude to

day a Lord you read, Oh, thank you Lord, the pillow is

nicer. Then we start goggling out, saying, on our bit, here's

the thing that I wanted soon to remind us again, God give us of

our sins. Now it goes out that why should people why sometimes we struggle

First Corinthians one to twenty. So where does this live? The philosophers and

scholars and the world brilliance debate us. God has made the wisdom of this

world to look foolish, the wisdom of this world to look foolish, the

wisdom of this world to look foolish. And I realize that recently, there's

on your YouTube free there's a lot of people philosophers out there explain the way

and the world. Is that the way to live, the way to debate,

the way to explain. While all those is good, the Bible here

says that God has made the wisdom of this world to look foolish, since

God, in his wisdom saw to it that the world will never know him

to human wisdom. We will never know God to human wisdom, the Bible

says, and many times in our exploit and our journey where we gain a

lot of humanism, which is good. But to know the Lord, to

understand God, to know of his gospel, it takes faith and belief.

And many times the journey we do, we try to explain Trinity. We

draw an egg in this. We try to explain, but they have the

day I realized that isn't it true that you and I need to believe that

you and I need to trust God more. The Bible says that you know

so, and you reap so, and you will reap That's a principle,

right, But how many times in our journey right we try to understand it,

but we never we understand the concept, but to take action on the

concept. It's hard. Those that way the part of the Lord. We

knew their strength, but we know the concept. But it's hard to understand

human concept. But wait upon the Lord, meaning what just wait at home,

rechart like a Tesla carlor, just charge yourself in the battery and the

power bang. What does it look like? How does he look like?

Lord? And sometimes our human wisdom we don't have the picture until unless God

reveal that to us in spirit. And God wants encourages this morning that sometimes

when we go with human wisdom, we'll get tired and we will get disappointed.

When you go with human wisdom, you'll get tired, we get disappointed

because it doesn't use satisfaction that our spirit needs. He reminds us again,

since God saw in this wisdom of this, says God in this, in

this wisdom saw in this world, we're never knowing to human wisdom. He

used the foolish, our foolish preaching to save those who belief God uses things

that the world is carr words it. You're not good enough to save those

who wants to believe God will use things for his glory. And that's why

Paul has the right. For I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ because

many times in our journey sometimes the words that to trust God's almost like you're

supposed to be strong, but yet you show yourself meek. You're supposed to

get angry, but you show yourself you're forgiving. And this morning, the

Long ones to remind us again, for there is power of God. That

it is a power of God at work. The Gospel of Christ is the

power of God at work in our life. For those who believe. If

you understand what the Gospel of Christ is and what he has done, wise

has promised us that you and I know that in God there is no such

thing as it did end. There's always second chance in the Lord. And

many times now journey friends, the Lord wants to remind us again, no

matter how many times we fail, how many times we disappoint we think this

is disappointed the Lord. We need to confess our say say God, I'm

messed up. I won't get myself right with you again. I'm messed up.

I want to get myself right with you again. Because understanding the concept,

understanding that that what God wants in our life give us a hope in

the future. Someone say, man, it does give us a hope and

future, because many times in our journey right, we pick up dirt in

our life. That's why God is asking us this morning that the Gospel of

Christ is power of is the power of God for those who believe. In

Romans, chapter one was sixteen that you and I today need to believe.

Friends, So how therefore, how do we believe? Is it? Just

what your believe is? Jesus is? How do we believe? Friends?

Is it? You know where you talk about believe, Everyone hit a different

definition. I believe it, I believe it right, different definition, different

understanding. What I begin to discover is that believe it is not just mere

commitment by showing of hands or putting an indication on the form. Believe means

there's transformation and the way we live and how we live our life. Believe

means that it also involves our entire being in the way we live. If

we say that we believe God, it must change us from the inside out.

Many times we believe with our lives, but never with our hearts.

And that's why sometimes when fire comes, we struggle. That's why when challenges

comes, we get disappointed. James Chapter one, Worse two. I think

county all joy my bedroom. When James wrote the book, he was directing

it to the believers of the church. We can only have joy when we

go to challenges only because we have Jesus. We can only have a smile

on our face, no matter how difficult our lives is, because of Jesus.

Isn't it true something If we go through life by ourselves, with our

phone calls or re context, it doesn't the world is. That doesn't give

us peace? And God this morning wants to remind us again you can count

it all joy when you fall into trust and challenges only because you have met

in the boat. That's why when Jesus was in the boat with the disciples,

but when there were storms around the boat, friends, he could be

at peace because his presence is there to stabilize the boat. Our live journey

as well. Friends, it is the same. It is a power of

God at work for those who believe. If we don't believe, friends,

we will miss out on the power of God at work. You know life.

So therefore, how do we believe? Let me turn you right now

to Mark chapter nineteen, Mark Chapter nineteen, Verse seventeen. We're going to

read until Mark. Chapter nineteen was seventeen. It says here that one of

the men in the crowd spoke up. I say, teacher, I brought

my son so that you could heal him. He was possessed by evil spirit

that will not let him talk. And whenever the spirit seesus, if he

will join wildly under the ground and form the mouth and becomes rigid. What

a challenge right now. Friends, if you have you know somebody who possessed

by it was, you know that money cannot find a way out for this.

There's no way you can pay the spirit. It must argue with fifty

ring, can you go? It's hard, right, It's not paying somebody

to move a car, asking somebody to move a car. There will be

this our life whereby our natural resources cannot resolve the issue. Marriages is on

the rocks. It's not twenty more money to save a marriage because while that

is a temporary solution, but it's not the fullness. That's not a full

solution. So God will allow us to a place whereby your nature resources,

your contexts, all right, will not be able to resolve it. And

God, this one who wants to remind us again. There will be days

in your life whereby situation will come in whereby there's no other way except turning

to the Lord. He says here in worse I think it was eighteen whenever

dispiraces is him. So I asked you disciple to cust out the ivor spirit,

but they couldn't do it. I asked your disciples to cust out the

evil spirit, but he couldn't do it. Then worst night, Jesus said

to them, say the disciples, all you faithless people. Now, I'm

not sure how many of us will receive that. Really, well, think

about it. I don't sure how many of us received that. Where there

you are at your home, quiet type you're praying God please help me.

I tried it, really, but it doesn't work. I try, really

doesn't work. In your quiet time, A stew small wars speaks into your

heart, all you faithless people. I don't know how may always actually will

receive that statement where or not, because I know that it's hard to take

it. But God knows where we are with our journey. Friends. He

does because He really knows whether we believe or not. At the end of

the day, He really does know where we are at with our faith,

our journey as well, because our expression, the way we live, reflects

our internal conviction. So God says to disciples, you fearless people, how

long must I be with you? How long must I be with you?

You know that Jesus ministries was only three years, not ten, not thirty,

but three years. So I only can presume and make an assumption that

this is the timement to Jesus was the disciples maybe a year and to a

year and a half. We should be to say that friends, to trust

and believe in the Lord's not rocket science. Yesterday we have a youth um

Thanksgiving, and you know we had the eight year old boy coming up to

the stage. Hit you over, a really cute year old boy. I

think you just asked, I said, did you enjoy the old lighter?

He says one word, yes, it was good. Just that phrasing,

yes, so cute, just the words enthusiasm, very genuine. I enjoyed

it. Not rocket science. He's not break down. What what he the

day? You know what was discussed. He just enjoyed a moment. And

many times in our own Christian work as well, that our faith to believe

God is not supposed to rocket science. That's sorry. Jesus said faith as

small as a master's seat, because when you use the word small, it's

achievable. If Jesus said your faithness as big as an oak tree, you

go like, wow, that take many years to grow. Faith as small

as a mustard seat. Friends, it starts with a decision rather than It

starts with a decision to want to exercise faith, rather than a lifetime commitment

in terms of like to achieve the faith level you need. Friend, it

starts with a decision today. And that's why Jesus said the disciples, all

you faithless people, how long must I be with you? Because Jesus know

that he's not very sure the more time he spent with the disciples whether their

faith to increase or not. Could you imagine right now she just spend him

more time with you without faith increase. So it's reminding us again, friends,

how long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to me?

It was trainy one. How long has this been happening? Jesus asked

the boy's father. He replied since he was a little boy. The spirit

often cholling into the fire and water, trying to kill him, have mercy

on earth and help us if you can. I look at this statement,

you know, I was wondering, why did Jesus asked the father how long

has it been happening? Because if you are Jesus, because so many questions

ask, right, how long has it been happening? And I was I

was just trying to reover read into the passage of scripture, like, oh,

why on earth do you have to ask the boy how long has it

been happening? And when? When? When the boy's father replied, since

he was a little boy, I can only assume and and understand that he

was trying to help the father to understand that if the boy was controlled by

it was spirit. They tried to cure this boy. If you don't overcome

it, you will live with it. We needn't have awareness whereby it has

come to the place whereby enough is enough, enough, it's enough. How

long would you allow things in your life to accumulate to a point you get

so frustrated? How long would you alive, allow your life to live,

to continue on living without an expression of faith? Because if you don't do

it, then you have to live with it. If you don't deal with

it, you have to live with it. And God wants to bring awareness

to everyone's heart right now. If you don't deal with unforgiveness in your heart,

you have to leave it un forgiveness. If you don't deal with you

know, living your family, you have to deal with it. So I'm

making a road trip with my dad for first tip tomorrow. It's not easy.

Bringing my parents on the road trip, friends, is almost like going

back to my childhood days again. Right, all those thoughts like oh,

I was telling my wife, why don't you drive the KYD? I protected

fall asleep throughout the whole journey, and we are making preparation for the trip,

ding down here and death to my phone calls and least of demands,

not least of the demands that leaves the least of request. See, I

need use the way demand, least of request. What I need to do,

what they don't need to do. And I just look at my dad

into that, just just enjoy the moment because both of us are different adults,

different way of traveling, different way of expectation. And right now,

because I'm a doubt ready and now it's likely older, I say that you

just be at passing your kid, you'd be like me. And I was

staty us assitated. I'm the driver right now, I'll eat why I want

to eat. You know, I'll go where I want to go. It's

not it's not easy, but you know it's if you travel your parents,

you understand, right, you have the word you have to go and where

you want to go and what you want to do. You're someone who slightly

older, different different sets of requirement. And I asked a lot lord that

I over could beat myself, that I over promise myself, saying I will

think I'm dead on the road, chip, I have done something easier.

Maybe, so I'm supposed to drive down the Jib then go to Singapore still

all night. Then this is a very shot chip, just just just a

shot break for me, just to get something done to Singapole. But the

top process of a three hour car ride with my dad in a car or

something. But I think I only promise. I thought I could hack it.

But that as the as the day became a drawn nearer, right and

I'm like, oh no, what did I see here? And why they're

comming myself too? And to make it more interesting, I found out that

Hiley's grandma and Singapole is not doing really well. So my mom in law's

coming along the trip. So I got two elderly people to themselves, like

I have to kick out my dad. She's to kick you out of my

mom like in the same car going out to Singapore. I mean, like,

God, you have a way to just do the work. You have

a way the words you have really a weight in our hearts that whereby you

want our hearts in the place whereby to receive what from you. If it's

one set of the family, can easily tap out one because you say one

thing, you can tap out two adults right if you here are two different

set of family. So I am there right now, just like and you

know, driving down the Singapore is not the same as last time. You

have to apply for a lot of and I just realized that, you know

that I've got to update my my insurance at road text. Although my AutoPASS

card is ready, I've got to update it. And I'm at least acute

ready for you to be approved, which I really make ted. So my

wife have plan A, plan B, plenty and plenty all can get this

all the way down to Singapore. One So the final plan is to park

in Jamie use the uncle's car to go down, which I know my dad

will make a big fast to trouble people like Lord help me. I'm sharing

only this with you because friends, if we don't deal with someday God's review

in our hearts, we allow it. The word is to build casters in

our hearts. No, that impossible. I don't think your parents don't the

Singapore because do you know how many things you say not? You understand that

it's just the ways that a book, a place where you okay about hotel

room for you? A hotel room done expensive. I say that it's the

cheapest I could find. Oh okay, because I said that, Please don't

think of those hotels that you think out there because our currency doesn't work for

us right now. So based on that, right, friend, don't go

to air complaces expensive. I say that, yes, okay, I will

manage all that. Thank got my mum in law anything so can on.

So if I don't deal with what God has revealed, then it will build

up a strong way in my heart. Say it's impossible, don't do this

and got many types will ask you how long has this been happening? We

know how long, but we don't. The word is that we give up

dealing with it because we've found out that it's impossible to overcome. We know

how long things has been happening in our life, and we can come to

a place where by it's so hard it's impossible. And many times God want

us to have a breakthrough because he doesn't want us to remain where we are.

That's why Jesus say, what do you mean if I can falling us?

He said, all things are possible to those who believe. All things

are possible to those who believe. Many times in our journey with the Lord,

we got to keep unbelieving. We got to keep unbelieving. Friends,

what even more so this day of age we are living in, we got

to keep unbelieving that God would never shot change us. As we trust and

allow God to lead us, he must bring us to a place where might

we depend more on him and we see a break true. I was sitting

down with one adult and we were just talking and I I was looking at

him. I say, brother, I just I just says this. I

just want to let you know is this going on? Said yes, it's

how do you know? I say, just look at you. God gave

me a word. And you know sometimes when God moves that were your worst

scared to share because us the word is that sometimes you're afraid you you can

get it wrong. You're afraid you're offended at the individual. And that's it.

That's the last light you have. This Brady already. But I'll share

with him, saying, oh, thank you so much. I'm right now

at this cross root of my life and I really needed that. Anything is

possible for those who believe. But you get to believe, and the belief

must lead to action. And this is hum. I'm going to close to

a lead to close. No right, okay here by closing time meanings.

Okay, guys, all right James chapter two. Okay, last push James

chapter two. Okay, here here we mean James chapter two. I'm going

to read from Worse twenty one. James Chapter two was twenty one. Right.

Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was shown to be right with God

by his action, shown to be right with God, by his action shown

to be right because by his action when the offer is his son Isaac on

the altar, friends to believe God. James chapter two yea, to believe

God, to believe God. Friends, there is an Isaac in our life

that you and I need to surrender. I know all of believers are surrendered

things and the altar, but it's actually not the Isaac but the Ishmael.

Isaac is precious. Isaac is close to our hearts. Isaac. Sorry,

Isaac known, I was about to say that, because you know you're not

really precious, I can surrender you the author, so you know what I

mean. It's easy to surrender something called Isaac. We think it's Isaac,

but has no close side to us. Right now, many we know right

now, if God ever does ask for a second for Isaac, and there's

an Isaac in church, you say yes, Isaacs, call you sacrifice yourself

if you will be We'll be cheering him on the sensor, right. But

if it's our old Isaac, come on, if it's our old Isaac,

I know this is to say, yes, sacrifice him, please sacrifice him.

But if it's our own Isaac, if it's your own pressures, if

it's something that you hold on too, so dearly, would you be able

to let go before the Lord? It says as well in worst too,

you see his faith. Abraham's faith and his action worked together to make it

complete. Abraham's faith in the Lord and his action work together to make it

complete. Many times we have faith, a belief, but our action it's

not there, and we have almost a half lock. It's hard, but

to complete it there has been isaac, a surrender moment in our life.

We have to surrender the Isaac. Now. First, don't think isac something

just in moneytary sense, Okay, the most expensive thing you could find and

you have and stuff like that, because that's why I know that. Sometimes

we talk about pressures, do not see from the world's perspective of pressure in

terms of Money's Monday three dollars cents, your personal dreams and visions and stuff

like that. Sometimes our Isaac could be the way we view life, our

disappointment, our hurts. You hold on close and we cannot move on.

Like if this is disappointment hurt, and you carry this poop wherever you go

and you tell people, hey, you know, I was disappointed many years

ago and stuff like that, you know, by these people, and no

one let you know, just be extra careful away. Then you go to

another circle of thread. You know how that person. Don't trust, okay,

he will hurt you. And sometime this becomes our Isaac. Because you

carry wherever you go. You cannot let it go before the Lord. And

what happens that you can't have a break true until unless God, if this

is what you asked me, a break true, which is the surrender by

disappointment, give me strength and let it go. Give me strength to let

it go. Faith with action we will make it complete. Faith and action,

we'll make it complete. Friends, the U and I today, Why

there is power in the gospel. It's only power when we believe and believe.

It's not saying that God I believe, but believing leads us in the

place of action. When we believe in a heart, energy is being reproduced

to carry out First, I have not seen anybody any photos out there of

people putting out about a battery. We am a battery's capacity, but the

potential of a battery. I always see people taking photograph and putting people of

action, finishing the crossing, the finishing line, eating a buffet. There's

always an action. There is no there is no like putting a picture on

the all there right, and it's just kept the worst capacity of potential of

a battery. As I close right now, I just felt the word for

your is this that without believe, without the word, is that believe there

is no expectation. Coming to church is good. But we have to believe

because that creates expectation. God, you have to move in our life.

You have to move my family, you have to move my situation. You

have to believe God to move at your board room because sometimes the pressures and

the situation is not something you ever that way before, the ways that we

have to ask God to just reveal God what I need do I need to

do here? Because many times you say, oh, just give me another

contact, help me to resolve the issue. Just give me another contact,

help me too to overcome this. Just give me another chat to to be

able to overcome because it just finances and just all these things. Right then,

a life is different. But God, I truly believe what God wants

us do not just the extent deliverance, but the deliverance are the hearts.

Because everyone of us here today when God give you life, gave you life,

it's more just life just exists a space of time in history. I

do I truly believe everyone here has a purpose as a reason. It can

be that our reason purpose. After we finish our secular work. Right in

a phase of retirement, we look we just look towards for homegrowing. It

can be, I mean, neiving the fifty, I begin to realize that

it can be that you know at this age right now that actually I'm not

begin to understand. What do people look forward to the next place of their

life? What do people look forward to the next place of their life?

There has to be it has to birds. He has to have internal purpose

and to only understand the internal purpose is to trust God to lead and guide

you. While speaking. The one brother I met in the x mend emotion

and he when he was sharing me, he said, there, well,

let you know, I started going for the gardening. I never knew he

had green figures by old. Let you know, I started producing crops in

my home. That's okay, I said, brother, I never knew you

have green fingers. He said, yeah, all these I have grown figures.

Means it? Why way you touch dies? Why were he touched every

plants blooded die in the stuff tide? But right now out there, I'm

great, okra, I'm going to rain joy. I'm just doing everything.

You know, he found the words that he found excitement and the words said

didn't realize the fullest potential that I met so much more than just my daily

job out there. And God wants to remind us today it is the power

of God at work for those who believe. First, you and I got

to believe, because the power is only at work where we believe. It's

not completely yet, friends, Remember whether you are sixty seventy, you could

be twenty two. God is not done with you yet. He is not

doesn't mean you're a family right then then that serio you just come to church

and take care of a good family. God doesn't applied for every family.

I truly believe. It's so unique X saying, or so many kids and

so many family here, so productive, so full full here. Maybe perhaps

you're you're called to be models and no encouragement to people whose family right now

are being challenged. Remember why God gave you the first place. And when

you remember that, that's why the power of God is at work at work

in your life, in your community, at work. Amen, so believe,

friends, Chris X expectation We expect God to go. Friends. I

want to encourage you That's why James Against say that County all joy when you

fall, because it'll bring your faith to a fullness and maturity. No longer

you'll be tossed to and fro like literature and button that ways God wants to

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