BE POTTERED OR BE SQUARED | Pr Daniel Chong

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

will light up your tea. I want to encourage you to stand right now.

When we stand is read the Word of God together, and we just

acknowledge the word of God, you know, because the word of God deserves

the honor and the authority that he comes with it. And let's read the

World of God. If you have your bibles with me, turned with me

to Jeremiah verse eighteen, and we shall read from verses one to six.

And I hope that you have your bibles with you, your phones, and

we're gonna read and respect the Word of God together. Said okay, Church,

is that okay? Is it feel weird sending to read the World of

God? Now, let's do this together, a man at a count of

tree. Let's read, in whatever versions you have, verses one to six,

one, two, and three. The word came to Jeremiah from the

Lord, saying, arise and go down to the Potter's house, and there

I will cause you to hear my words. A man, you can be

seated and God blessed. The reading of his word is really really good to

not occasionally, but once in a while, be on your knees when you're

reading the Word of God, be on your standing up while you're reading the

Word of God. It just gives you the honor. And it's not like

you're lying down your beard and you're reading the Bible. It just it's the

living word of God and it has power with that. Now, as we

enter twenty twenty four, I'm pretty sure that all of us here in fact,

if you're not it's okay. If you're a new believer, or if

you don't know who this Jesus is, it's okay. But for us believers,

and as we have read, listen, prayed, and imbued in our

spirit, I hope that Heaven does indeed rule. Amen. I hope by

now you know that Heaven rules. I hope by now if you if you

until now you still doesn't know that Heaven rules. I think the preachers have

done a very bad job at it. Now, how many of you know

here there's that no responsibility, or rather not all the responsibility should go to

the poll pit. It is your responsibility in your life to also know that

Heaven does indeed rule in your life. Amen. Today we're gonna go through

a little reflection on our lives, you know, into the scene that God

has led Jeremiah. The portion of scripture that we're just read is a partial

scripture that tells us a story of how Jeremiah was led by God to a

place to see the work of the potter. Okay, how many of you

into pottery? Put o your hands? Wow, amazing. That's a grand

total of zero. Now I'm also the fan of pottery. I don't even

know what's pottery. Uh, I do very recently, so I had to

google. I had to watch videos. Uh. And I'm gonna put a

before before I'm gonna get xtv's helped to loop a video. Now. Of

course, when I look the video, please don't just don't just focus on

the video. Uh. And and don't look at me look at me,

and and and and hear what I have to say. But the video is

just for your visual It helps you to visualize what's happening. Okay, visualize

what's happening. Now, can I get my slights up? When I introduced

the topic of today, No, the slides, it's not it's say you're

a stink peak snink pik. Now he's not unwrapping a bunch of it looks

weird, but it's not. It's not. It's clear. Okay, col

Can I get my slight s up? Okay? Yes, I preview a

very long Wow. Sure how many of you feel satisfied watching that? Is

it just me? Or I feel look at it? Okay, went all

the way to the last light? Okay? Please first light? Please want

me to end that quickly? Any spoiler of the spoiler first slide, first

light, thank you, Jack errogate a hand to Jack. He's trying his

best. First slider. This is last light. First slide says anytime now.

Wow, Hey, you're giving a spoiler to the old church. That's

why that's the last sentence I was supposed to say. But now that you

know, where's my okay? Oh? Wow? Wow? Everything you got

through? Wow? Way okay, here here's the here's the topic for you

today. All right? Be pottered or be squared? You know you know

how you know how you say be there or be square? Yeah? So

the topic today is be potted or be squared. Now I will ask you

a few questions. How has your start? Now? Xt you can follow

after me. Okay, some of the questions are there already. Next light,

all right, So How was your twenty twenty three? How was it?

How was it? Hey? Only here's some one just in this place?

How was your doing? Any tree? It's all you just like,

hey, come on that. How is your twenty twenty three good? Great?

Elititen? You got married in twenty three? Right? Please laugh?

You should be celebrating. I got Mary the face Come on, okay,

because it can is scared? Okay? So twenty twenty three was good?

Was bad for some of you? Up and down? You know? It's

was so messy and full of like jug sometimes full of gold. I don't

know. How is it reflect? And how is your twenty twenty four going?

So far? Wow? Amazing? Praise a lot, eve Li and

sbm is gonna go great? In the name of Jesus, all right,

So twenty twenty four, how is it going for you? Sofa? It's

been three weeks? How is it going? Is it any different from twenty

twenty three? Has something changed? Next night? Next TV? What could

you testify for God? What? Maybe can ask yourself this question? Right

now? What can you testify from twenty twenty three all the start of twenty

twenty four for God? Let's say, for example, you meet with someone,

a family is coming up, hallelujah, praise a lot. It's not

just for unpou collection, definitely not for me. I have to give unkpow

this time. Ah. And what can you testify for God in your to

your family members, to your friends, the houses that you usually do.

Don't just go there and pray my job, right ah? Pray my jong

you know, twenty one or tidy uh. You can just do that,

right, dring shandy. Okay, we don't. We don't encourage it,

okay, But what can you testify for God? How are you in your

journey of faith? We've got I think there's a serious questions that we have

to ask ourselves. Sometimes I can yebble and babble until the pigs come home.

In front of you, friends, certain serious for a moment. If

Jesus was in front of you today, every one of you will follow your

knees, every one of you, teens, campus students. If Jesus,

the King of kings, a lot of lords was in front of you right

now, transfigured shining in all its glory, all of you will drop on

your knees. Some of you even not because you want to drop on your

knees. But because the presence that is just so heavy. If you experience

the reality of God, you will know and take key to what I'm about

to share. If you want to experience the reality of God. A lot

of your pastors, a lot of your leaders, they are trying their best.

In fact, we live our lives. I wouldn't say the most perfect

either. We got our own flaws, we go through our own trials.

But at the same time, whenever we share, whenever we try to bring

across what God has been speaking to us, I pray and I pray that

you catch the heaviness and the reality that comes with the word of God.

Amen. This is not just something for me to say and make you feel

good, make you feel like your heart get taught a bit, strings get

done, and you go back home and you do the same. The most

important thing of what we do is what we do when we go back home.

Adults are like in the Gospel, we does say that there's a story

about the adults, the disciples, and the little children in Matthew. Some

of these people were bringing the little children to God, to Jesus at the

time to be prayed for. And the disciples at that time were like we

are in the midst in the middle of our ministry. We don't have time.

You had to take your rightful place. You have to take your place

as king. What are you doing? The disciples decided to tell the little

children to go away. What did Jesus do? Jesus rebuilt his disciples and

said that bring the little children to me. And if you want to enter

the Kingdom of God, you have to be like a little child. Jesus

just told his disciples a chapter go Now in the Bible is a chapter.

Well, we don't know where. There's a day, an hour, a

minute. And yet the disciples can go along their day and turn the little

children away, taking for granted what their Messiah has just tell them not to

do. I don't know how many always here can relate. We can hear

one thing today and then tomorrow we'll go and we will say, oh,

but God, you're not there. But you just heard it today. You

just hurt. God spoke to you. God is the same yesterday, today

and forever more. How will he change? He has just told you that

this is not for you. Then the next day you ask him again,

here's the more important thing or the most cary thing? Do you know that

the passage right after that was the passage about the rich young ruler. Did

the disciples turn the rich young ruler away? Food for thougher? Why turn

the little children away but not turn the rich young ruler away? Why the

disciples was just concerned about what is it in for me? Kning Jesus come

and save us, take your rightful place on the throne. But Jesus is

interested for what's in that, what is in it for them? And that

has been the ministry of Jesus all the while Jesus has heaven. His whole

ministry is centered around people, doing things for people, not things for himself.

He even washed the disciples feet that he was about to be betrayed,

he was about to be denied, and yet he still did things for people.

Just want to encourage you that your journey of faith God is none other

than yours, Lord. It belongs to you. It is not for your

wife to bring you to this journey. It is not for your husband to

bring you to journey. Come on, it's not even for your children to

bring you to this journey. Some of you bring your children to church and

get inspired. Holly, do you appraise the Lord. But however, don't

anchor your faith on someone else. Don't ancher your faith on someone else.

Three. You know, when some of you that know just know me,

or you know you're seeing me for the first time, you may be thinking,

like, wi is Daniel being so harsh on all of us? No,

I'm whenever I'm sharing this, I'm talking to myself. Twenty two three

was not an easier for me. It was really very tough. I was

faced with many, many trials. I was faced with many many yep,

you know, babbels in my years, telling me that I'm not good enough,

telling me that who in the world does he think he is to be

a pastor? Does he have a Bible school house? Is what with Christ?

Hey, I've faced all that in twenty twenty three. Some of it

I share my wife. Some of it I keep it in my heart because

if I share everything with her, she's gonna come out looking like a cucumber,

you know, so frown, frown until the frown no more already.

But sometimes twenty twenty three, at times it was really tough. I had

to juggle between work and ministry, making sure that we come out with materials

on time for teenagers to go through the materials. Don't just drop from the

sky. I don't know how many of you here written books before, but

try to write a book about your life. You may think that it's easy.

Try try. There's this thing called writer's block, and no matter what

you do, you cannot get understuck until you really pray. And that was

my journey. That was my journey the whole twenty two ury. I only

written three topics. Now you may look at me and laughing at me,

but it's tough because work was eight to five, eight to six, eight

to seven, eight to eight. The only time I have to write was

after that. But I have people to meet all this doing ministry, doing

what God is intended for me or what I or I've been praying for.

But at the same time hearing all the negative feedback that came my way,

feedback even from other churches. Sometimes believers may say things about you that you

may be like, but who is your God? Twenty twenty three is hard.

Everyone is entitled to their phibia. I'm not saying it any one of

those beds are not real. They are entitled to their feedback. It's how

you really react and respond to it. One question and asked you today is

have you heard from God recently? When was the last time that you heard

God spoke to you or felt his presence that is so tangible that your knees

are shaking. When is the last time that you had that encounter with our

Lord Jesus? When when is the last time you were inspired by the Holy

Spirit? You don't have to lift up your hands right now. It's a

question that you have to ask yourself again. Remember I said earlier that your

faith is yours and yours alone. So when is the last time you heard

from God? It's a question that we have to continue to ponder on.

Is it yesterday you? Is it the one that hurt yesterday? When it

hurt last year? A day different? No, all of you are alike

in God's eyes, But when it's the last time that you have for It's

a personal question. And hope that you can begin to ask yourself the question.

Right now, Arise, go to the Potter's house. It's how Jeremiah

eighteen started. A rise and go on a highlight two very important words to

you right now. Arise and go, not just a rise, but go.

But you have to arise first. You have to arise. Jeremiah was

a prophet, a very known prophet, but from God, and he was

hearing from God. This is chapter eighteen, mind you, this is that

chapter one, chapter eighteen. Jeremiah has been hearing from God for a while

now. But one morning, just assuming this morning, the word came to

Amia from the Lord, saying a rise. There was an instruction. There

was a word that came to Jeremiah. Some of you have received that word

from God. Some of you, how, no matter how young you are,

no matter how old you are, no matter how wise you are,

no matter how foolish you are, some of you right here have received the

word from God, a very clear instruction from God. And it can be

very simple. Stop doing what you're doing. Take your eyes off that young

and beautiful girl and put that on me. Okay. Some of you,

maybe the instruction is fast to laugh or you're waiting for green. Ask the

girl out load, okay, But some what is the instruction that you have

heard from the Lord. It's gonna be quiet here last, big Passelien,

tell me a church, your church. He come on, guys, you're

gonna give some no in the house of the Lorge respond to the world of

God. Arise, arise, go. There was an instruction given. Now,

imagine if Jeremiah crossed his hands and said, huh today, do you

feel like it? Like God, don't go Alizia are Chiliah? What?

Then the colonia the day and he starts at ten pm. Hey, imagine

if you need that, this whole chapter is not there. You know,

at least the children of Isfield had a chance to hear the warning from God

before God took it all away. But if Jeremiah did not listened to the

world of God, no warning would be given. In fact, God would

have chosen someone else. Do you want God to walk past you? But

he will he will. If you don't take heed of his word, you

don't listen to him, he will choose someone else. But it wanted to

be his first child. Come on, friends, A rise, A rise,

Get off your seat, get off your bed. A rise. Now

I'm not talking about physically, so you're gonna go shoe It's not I mean

ready not seeing that. I'm saying in your spirit, a rise, spirit,

a rise in your heart, and not just the rise, not just

wake up, but go and do it, Go and do it. It's

not enough to get out of your bed. It is not enough just to

stand up, but you have to pick up your mat and walk. Come

on, Your miracle is awaiting your friends. Twenty t be four is just

begun to not allow it to beg begin badly. Please for the for the

love that has is stored on us by our Lord Jesus Christ. Please take

heat. Now, I'm sure Jeremiah went to the people issuant. He was

like that, he was animated like that, taken't re hand in the name

of Jesus. I don't know Jesus yet, but uh, I'm sure Jeremiah

was very, very very animated when he was passionate when he was telling what

God has been speaking to him. Now, what is it that that that

God told him to do? Arise and go to the to the potter's house

Isaiah sixty four, verse eight. Carry the verse are Isaiah sty four,

verse eight and KJV. Please thank you x TV. But now, oh

Lord, you are the father. We are the clay, and you are

our potter, and all we are the work of your hand. So who

is the potter? Who is the potter? God? Now bring us back

to a rise and go bring us back to the rest and go thank you

x TV. Arise and go down to the Potter's house. I'm not sure

if you're catching it yet. When you arise and when you go, where

are you going? God's house can be church, it can be your marketplace.

It can be in your heart. Where are you going? Where are

you going? Are you supposed to be going to niniveh or running away?

Where are you going? Where are you going? In your life? When

God tells him to lose something, do it? Obey? Obey. You

may not see yet. Jeremiah did not know what God was about to say

to him, but he obeyed. It was so simple in the sense of

Jeremiah. It was a physical obedience. Get up from bed and go to

the Potter's house. Think about it, and then what happened after that?

And there I God will cause you to hear my words. If you're struggling

in twenty twenty four, or you're struggling all your life to hear what God

is in store for you, then maybe the first thing that you have to

do is obey that still small voice that is within your heart. It's better

to obey and fail than not to obey at all. It's better to invest

your talents than you'll hide your talent in the ground. By hiding your talent

in the ground, you are still expanding your effort to dig up the ground

and put your talent into the ground. There is something that you have to

do now. I'm going to bring you through something about pottery. Is it

okay, judge, how have you here experts at pottery? You know what's

the steps of pottery? And neither do I? So here here you go,

video video video on those seven Thanks for living. This is not a

sponsored promotion. Uh, here we go, Here we go. We're gonna

give you a few steps on what happens in port right now. Videos there,

but I see, okay, whenever you want, just look now what

the potter is doing right now. Actually, I'm gonna need to help you

need your help to speed up at certain times. Okay, But what the

potter is doing here is he's essentially preparing a clay. Now, if you're

taking notes, I have slices actually, but you can lift the video up.

The first point I want to give you are all in ease, and

I s E for emmanual and I for I. Okay, So first point

that I want to give you is exact exact versus insecure reality. Okay,

exact versus. If you can bounce between my video and slides, there will

be amazing XTIV exact versus in security. A block of clay is measured down,

okay, cut down into a smaller block of clay. Now, they

don't just deliver the clay. Nah, this clay for you to make,

this flouer part, this clay for you to make. No, the clay

is what up. Give him the whole big clay, the whole block of

clay, and the potter will have to take someone like a saw a string

and begin to measure down to the endry degree, and he has to put

it on a measuring scale and ensure that it is of the correct weight.

God has made us in his image, I mean that. And he knows

exactly what you need in your life. He has made you exactly the way

you are evening. He has made you exactly with three hundred thousand and seven

hundred and sixty five hair for a reason. And every day he knows that

two hundred hair wire dropped. He knows all of these numbers are accurate.

He knows what year you'll be, what height, what year you'll be what

weight. Everything that he does is perfect. If that block of clay was

off by a few grams, that ways would not happen. Everything is exact

when it comes to God. God does not make a mistake. But in

comparison to us, we are insecure. Why am I so ugly? Why

am I so fat? Why am I looking like this? Why can't I

look like that that? Why can't this look like that? Why? Sometimes

you're insecure with your life. But God means you exact. Now, to

all of you who are taking this as a bay, say, God made

us exact, so I fed like on you to be fat. Please awake

out, Okay, wake up. But God has created you perfect in his

image, in his image, and he said it was good. Come on.

I want you to catch this. I want you to catch this.

All your abilities are in accordance to God's will. Second point want to give

you is extraction. No very some of these words. I had to practice

if one of the mirror yesterday because my English is not good. But extraction

versus impurity impurity. Albert just looked at me and asked me, is extraction

a word I or is that a braid? No, it's not a braid.

No, that's not a braid. It's a clay. Why it's a

bread likes a braid. I couldn't find an image. The block of clay

will go through a process called where so after they can't ready, it'll go

through a process called wedging. The wedging is also very similar to needing.

I you go work to the video, you'll see the potter needing. Wow

on though, first all word, you'll see you'll see. Okay, this

is not a video for now, but you will. You will see the

potter needing. I look at it, wow and quan he will he will

need the Okay, now, thank you. You're trying very hard. But

they will, they will, they will need the braid. They will push

the braid. Now, what's the purpose of pushing the braid and needing the

breid? What's the purpose for you bakers out there? It's the same poet

set. What is the purpose of needing the bread straining the braid? Now,

in the process in the form of clay, it's actually to remove the

air pockets there, needing the braid to remove the airpocket. I'm not sure

it is a similar to braid, but okay, So the bakers are look

and nodding the hey, thank you, thank you. But but but it's

getting ready of the air. So when God, when the potter does the

needing action, is actually pushing out and getting you, really softening you,

getting your heart hated skull out of system. My wife is preaching on me

today, and thank God for my wife because my English is horrible. To

bring my wife wherever I go. Ah, but he's needing. I'm going

to read to you a verse from Ephesions, chapter two, verse one of

five and the VCT. We can put you on a score. Actually have

to work really hard today every time, but then you appreciate. Hey,

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And I just told them God just spoke to

me, give them the video to watch, and it was just happened this

Monday. Was whatever was what I was doing s for you. You were

dead in your transgression and sins in which you used to live, where you

followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the Kingdom of the

Air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are this opedion

Prince of the Air. The power of the air is more often related to

one and one only, which is the great adversary, and his name is

Satan. When God is the significance of the potter needing the bread to remove

podcasts off air, he's pushing out whenever that doesn't belong to him. He's

getting us. He's Daniel, take it out. How do you go,

devil out out? But yet when the needing process habase Yeah, amne alone

at home? Devil come in? Is actually what you're doing when you're away

from God's presence. You're allowing the devil to work in your heart. You

know all those jealousy, you know all those noise that is in your heart,

You think it came from God, sneering, sneering. He's pushing,

he's pressing, and that's the clay. I hope that our prayer is Lord,

Shake me, Lord, move me. Take whatever that it is not

supposed to be there out of my system. Shake me, Lord, however

that you want me to look like, however that you want me to be,

shape me. That's what the clay is doing. Believe the clay are

the reasons? Yeah, the one all your brain will be a What will

happen if you don't need the bread and you stay away? Bake the bread?

Oh, happened hard, brittle heart not nice, not nice third point.

Third point. Here we go en vision versus in conclusiveness or in the

more Malaysians leang I DK. I d K stands for I don't know,

I don't know inconclusiveness, instabability, in provability I DK. The block will

then be play so after need already, the block will be place, not

just place. If we smacked hard on the wheel, have you seen the

potter throw the clay on the wheel before? I tell you? Some of

us have been thrown to the ground. Some of us here have been thrown

to the ground. You feel that God after you need me really not enough?

You? Why to throw me right smack in the middle of the wheel?

Good bye? Ah? Why why am I here? What am I

doing? You will have to be placed not just anywhere, but almost thrown

with much force on the Potter's wheel right in the center. Right in the

center, goes anyway other than the center the clay. We're having a time,

and it's like, who fly away? Okay. I don't know whether

you can imagine me like the videos. I was a look at that.

It looks like the clay it's not moving at all. It looks like,

whoa. Now, when I watched this, that was literally my reaction.

Wow, wow, so nice. It's just so satisfying watching something spin.

If the clay is off center, you'll be very obvious. You'll be spinning

all over the place. And there's this thing called centric viewgal force ah and

in Malaise called first central for Gussi, okay, that is, and he

causes the clay to want to spin and fly out. They say the butter

has to put his hand over there. He has to put his hand over

there. And he's not just putting his hand over there, he's actually taking

water water, water, water, wet, wet hole, wet ho spin,

wet hold spin. Know this processing how long, very long, long

enough, longer than your Netflix documentary. He has to wait over there and

watch the thing spin. And once he's doing, he's molding. He's shaping,

he's envisioning. He's already imagining what you are going to look like.

You started off as a lump of clay, but I want you to become

a vase. He's already a visioning. He already knows what he wants for

you from the day or rather the day long ago before you were made.

He already knew what he has an vasion for you. But if you cont

depend on ourself, all we get will be insecurity, in purity, instapability,

in the don't know, don't get a joke. He has to apply

a generous amount of water on the clay. What he's spinning forming, He's

pushing the clay into the center of the wheel. He's pushing us by having

Jesus at the center of our hearts. And as we drink of the living

water that is being placed, come on, we shall not toast again.

John Ford thirteen to fourteen, says Jesus. An answered, and say to

the woman at the well, whoever drinks of this water will never tout again.

Whoever drinks of this water world us again the well water. But whoever

drinks of the water that I shall give him, will never but the water

that I shall give him, or becoming him a fountain of water springing up

into everlasting life. Wow, the clay is beginning to form right now.

As you can see, this is way ahead of where I am supposed to

be. But let me give you the next point. Let me give you

the next point. Pause video, please going a bit too far? Four

point, endurance, endurance. God's plan for you some most of the time

involves dr ruins. But us as human beings, all we want is now

or later. Ah, this just I later letter, Lah, wash the

wash the clothes litter. Lah tomorrow again tomorrow, study for spm later,

La tomorrow. I can one get married and now now now what comes in

the marriage? Now? Now tonight you don't get the job, But tonight

I wanted tonight. I'm so excited. I want to get married for the

for the first night. You want things now? People want things now yesterday.

In fact, some of you are lazy. I am lazy. Ask

my wife the dish. The dishes can be in a sink for a holiday.

They're having a spout and sauna. WHOA, I'm getting soaked with the

water, I'm getting mixed with all the impurities. WHOA, I'm getting married.

Needs I washed the dishes today. Let me give you. Genesis two

fifteen says the Lord God took the man man in the house, ay amen,

and put him in the garden of Eden to work and take care of

it. Come on, man in the house and woman trying to work,

man trying to get to work, do not be idle, and do not

want things immediate, because God's timing is perfect. Psalms hundred and Pums thirty

one says, my times are in your hands. Deliver me from the hands

of the enemy and from those who persecute me. Wow, a little bit

about the clay, you know, right after it is formed, right after

the space, the usable space, the potter plays his hand. He'll create

in us a vessel looking at a time in ten minutes, a vessel in

our hands, you know, putting us to use, making use of us.

And then we have this thing called a usable space. Right that hole

in the middle, it's used to put water, put flower, be of

use. Then we have to endure. What happens after this process is a

process called waiting, and in break term it's called resting. To allow the

bread to rise, right, but it's some of the clay wouldn't rise to

thank God, Okay, so it'd be weird if the clay rises. H

But it's called resting because any too soon, if you don't let it rest

enough, it would Okay, let's let's let's cover. If you let it

wait, you wait too long. What happens if you wait too long?

It was eventually if less see that the vase was supposed or cut, supposed

to have a handle or a base, you can't do that anymore because it's

too settled already. You can't you can't stick anything onto the company more if

it's too long, and with time it will slowly withdder and grumble. Halilujah,

prais a lot gone gone with our lives. So you're gonna be lazy,

be lazy. You're just crumbling there. But if you want things immediate

now now now, now I want to go in the oven. Now,

what happens after this is going to the oven. What happens with clay is

that they will take the clay the vessel that have been done, and then

they will put it with other vessels, okay, other vessels in and around,

and then you'll be placed in this thing called bisk firing, it's called

bis you eat bask firing, and you'll be heated up to a certain temperature

so that it would undergo the process of unification. Now, what happens if

the clay is not ready to be placed in the oven but yet, because

of your impatience, because of your immediate I want things now, God,

I want things yesterday, I want a bike shoe. Now, please send

the fire from heaven to burn down that car that just over taken me on

Gassas Highway. Now what happens is when he goes into the oven, it

will explode. It will explode, explode. Not just you are hurt,

but everyone that you care and know around you are hurt. Do you know

that when what family means, but the one person hurts, the family hurts

as well. So when you the next time you want to go through a

process in which you are doing something to yourself that you may not be proud

of about, think about your loved ones. Think about your family. The

next time you want to disobey God, the next time you want things to

be now now, now, now, think about what will happen to those

around you. There is a time, there is a place, and the

time is in your hands. But believed, do not forget one thing that

with the Lord. One day it's like a thousand years, and a thousand

years is like one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as

some counts as slackness. I gotta hurry up here. Sometimes we may think

that God is not knowing what he is doing, and it's very barren in

our lives. But the Lord is not slack. His timing is perfect.

Next point, it's examined versus indifferent. Now, Paul has a very very

specific word for these people who are indifferent, and he calls them cardinal Christians.

Have you heard of that term? There are three type of believers in

this world that those that don't believe. Okay, there's one the natural men.

They are the babies that just been born into christ Man. And then

there are those who are matured in their faith. And then there's a third

group called the corner Christians. Paul addresses the corner Christians in Corinthians, and

he addresses them by saying that if anyone builds on the foundation we go silver

pressures, stones, would hey straw. Each one's work will become clear for

the day we declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and

the fire will test each one's work of what sort it is. As the

clay goes into the oven, it goes to the process called an examination.

The fire is testing the clay, getting the clay ready. But men,

we are indifferent. We don't care whether it is our for God's plan.

We don't care what it is for. All we care is what is in

it for us. Come on, I know some of you here may be

feeling like, oh, this is a bit harsh, but I'm preaching to

myself as well. There are days where I'm indifferent. I don't care how

my wife thinks. I don't care how my father and mother in law things.

I just want thing my way and my way only. And if I

don't get it my way, I feel that I am disrespected. Come on,

I'm preaching here, I'm being real here. We're all human beings.

We all go through this process examine versus indifferent what Right after it comes out

of the oven, it goes through this process called emousion. Okay. The

potter will then take up a brush. He then put it dip into a

substance, and he'll begin to spread it across the vase or the vessel that

he has been creating. It has to be glaze because if it's not glaze,

water will seep through. Water will seep through the pottery. You know,

and when you live, you walk, the imagine water your plants and

water dripping out. You'll seep through, You'll sep true. So there's an

emousion process that has to happen versus our because versus our thoughts of being ineffective.

We are ineffective and the things that we do. But God wants to

emusify us. Some says, I'm afflicted very much. Revive me, o,

Lord, according to your word. We don't usually read from the message

version, but the message version is very interesting. It says everything is falling

apart around me. God, put me together again with your word. Sounds

like humpty dumpty, put me back together again? Is that how you know?

How the song goes, put me together again with your word. Finally,

empowerment versus interruption. This is the part where when I was watching it,

I was like, wow, I didn't know. There must be a

reason why God used the Potter to speak to Jeremiah about you know, this

is what's gonna happen if you don't repent. There must be a reason why

the story of the Potter was used. Of course, in Jeremana, it

says there was the clay was mailbile, there was there was some some defect

around the clay. But God the potter decided to use the one that's rosa

spoiler and then molly back again. Yes, that's the story, but what

is the story behind the scripture? Last point on the gift to you friends

is empowerment. God is in it to empower you. You have just went

through fire. You are gonna let me break something to your friends. You're

gonna go through it again. Each fire is gonna be stronger than the other.

And if the fires are stronger than the other, then you know something

is not quite right. Yeah, something is a litleit off your The second

firing that has happened is this thing called soda firing. Soda firing a much

longer, a much hotter session, way way hotter than it was before.

Why. Why Because the paint that was just glazed around the something that was

just glazed around the clay has to be burned and become glass. And that's

why your pottery, you know, if you'll drop it, you know there's

glass. There's actually a thin colde of glass around the vase. It has

to burn, it has to set. But the only way for it to

set, the only way for it to burn. I was asking God,

what is the conclusion of this all? And I was led to descripture in

James Chapter one was to the four and we're gonna read it for all of

you to hear. He says, my brethren, count it all joy when

you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

But let patients have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and

complete, lacking nothing. Why do I have to burn? Lord? Why

do I have to burn when I've already been through the fire? Why why

does trials keep coming my way again and again and again and again and again.

I think of it as a triangle. So we have the first part,

which is preparation. God is moaning you, God is needing you.

God is getting you into shape. God's getting the air pockets out of you.

And then he's preparing you. And then finally the trial comes in the

center of the triangle. The centerway is the huge, the tip, the

pinnacle, and you are getting burned and burn and burn. Trials is coming

your way. Faith comes by hearing and hearing of the world of God.

But if you're not in the house of God, if you're not hearing from

God, then where is your faith? Oh, ye of little faith?

Come on, try it, try and try again, tryal off the trial,

temptation of the temptation, suffering after suffering, and it will produce It

will produce faith, it produce patience. It's perfect and it's complete, and

it's lacking nothing. And then you come to the end of the triangle.

And that's where God is letting you rest. Right after the first fire,

He's letting you rest. He's letting you rest only to burn you again,

only to put you through another trial, only to put you on another the

temptation. The Lord Jesus himself was tempted. There was the first order of

business. God, I'm ready, Father, I'm ready to do your work.

Use me. Lord. The spirit let him into temptation. That was

the first thing that has to be tested. Right after Jesus was acknowledged as

the son of God that the Father was so pleased with, he had to

go through that temptation. He had to go through that trial. And finally

the spoiler, who all of you have so already. But now it gives

a little bit more context. Right, a very famous book writer that wrote

the Book of Narnia. I just found out, and he is also a

very man of faith. He writes a lot of books and he says this

we right now when I want to come, says this. Those are two

types of people in this world. Okay, those that say that will be

done God, and then those that God says in the end die will be

done. It's either your way or his way. You can't be both.

You can't today my way tomorrow his way. No, there's only two types

of people in this world, and not that C. S. Lewis say

that in the end. In the end, when you are face to face

with God, what would God say to you. You want to hear well

done, my good and faithful servant, or you want to hear be gone

with you. Wow? Come on, they're living in the last days and

age here. It's getting a bit real. It's real. Reality is coming.

Science is happening everywhere. The Book of Daniel is coming to pass,

Matthew is coming to pass. And yet some of us are still on our

seats. Some of us are still not wanting to arise and go down to

the Potter's house. It's not just a physical place, but the kind of

emphasize the importance of the physical church. But it's not just a physical place.

Where are you in your heart? Friends? Who has the priority in

your life? Will you end up being a vase or will you end up

being clay, be bothered or be squared, because if you don't get pottered,

you will remain that block of clay which is a square, which is

technically not a square. It's a cute friends. Just want to encourage you

today that the journey of being bothered is not easy, but it's worth it

because what comes out of it is so beautiful. Have you seen a beautiful

wase in your life and you just look at it and you go wow?

But it's so delicate at times that if you just kick it, it will

break down and it will fall and it will break, but it's such a

beautiful creation. And that's who you are. We are like that, pressed

down. You know, we will be persecuted but not shaken. That's who

we are. Friends. This is my encouragement to you. We hope you've

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