The Great Commission- Walking by Faith or Sight | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day if you have your Bible with you. Right now,

we're going to turn to mattin Training eight something. You may think that

your only turn to this poshal scripture when it comes a mission, Well not

really. Matri Train eight was sixteen metro train. It was sixteen. That's

about the great commission. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to

the mountain which Jesus has appointed for them. Friends, it is really good

to go away to be with Christ. It's also really good to come to

church. It's really good to experience God at a camp. But how many

of you know mountaintop experience is not a permanent resident or permanent address. Mountain

top experience are not for us. Although the view is very beautiful, the

experience is very good, the weather is nice. But God has never intended

for us to make a permanent structure up at the mountain. At the mountaintop

experience at getting away with Christ always comes with instruction, always comes with a

purpose and a direction. It goes to same verse severity. When they saw

him, they worship him. Isn't it good? To worship the Lord,

Friends, isn't it good to worship God? But the Bible hears it sound

doubted. Friends. To know whether a person down is to ask ourselves whether

are we walking by faith or by sight? In Second Corinthians five, verse

seventeen, it says that we are called to walk by faith and not sight.

The moment we walk by sight, that's where sometimes fear comes in.

Peter could have walked a water for too long, because when the moment he

saw the winds and the waves surrounding him, fear after his heart. That's

what happened. If you continue to walk by sight. Why why do you

think the Lord introduced to us missions and going out there? Is because at

the field, at the place whereby you're not comfortable, at the place whereby

they don't speak the same language as you, eat the same food as you.

You have to what by faith? If all of us here are cop

right now you are in an around Usley Gadrick, what would you preach?

What would you say to encourage them? What songs would you introduce to them?

Because a lot of things you do, it's very urban. It's very

us over here, very comfortable with it. But the moment you transport yourself

to a place wherever, it's totally very different. Everything else doesn't really matter

after all, because all we have is our faith in God that he'll move

in the midst of his people. That's why sometimes we doubt, because the

longer we stay in the particular place and don't go out at exercise faith,

we will start doubting. One the longer we don't exercise faith and we stay

very comfortable, continue to just worship God in heaven, we will have doubts.

It's not the amount of money. So in the offering back today,

it's not whether you got full attendance for homes or prayer service. It's our

lifestyle whether or not we exercise faith at the end today. Because why some

doctor is because they cut to see by sight. That's why Thomas told people

that if I see Christ, has I look at the imprint of the nails,

If you can put my great descriptive, if you can put my finger

to the whole, I will only believe. And many Christians sometimes are like

that as well, show me and then convince be, then I believe.

Convince me, then I believe. Sometimes at the few when you go from

missus it's there is no such thing. You're given opportunity to convince, and

all of a sudden you're tim Lena say, I want you to preach right

now into the midst of in a school. You go that, but I

do not know how to speak. Don't really just go and speak. Those

are the time when you exercise opportunity for faith. But many times we doubt

only because that, oh, if everything, everything confirms on the exterior,

then I can believe you will find that in live. Friends, there's it's

very suddent that ever happened that way. You want with church? You want

to start a building project. If it's nice, friends, it's expensive.

Think about it. If it's nice, if everything is all well cupted,

everything all air, cons all that they chant, all that, it is

expensive. Most good will lead us to the place, you know why,

to a place Whereby's is cheaper because he wants us to use faith to transform

the place. Never let us to this place everything is all nice and it's

cheap. No, So, friends, I pray that you're allowed God to

speak to you and ask, And the word is that asks yourself, where

are you at with the journey of faith? Right now? Now? The

month of August, have revery, exercise faith? Or have we been very

comfortable where we at at the mountaintop experience we're shipping the Lord. So we're

seventeen, now we's eighteen. Then Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,

all authority has been given to me in heaven and in earth. Whereas

I think go, friends, why sometimes you find it very hard to go

is because we've never fully understood authority in our life. You never fully have

the word full understanding or experience the authority of the crisis given us. So

right now, let's say, for example, some of you have rented a

place or maybe bought a place right now, and you experience there is another

presence in the room, in the house. What would you do? What

goes? Bust? Run away? Okay? What would you do? Huh?

Hello, say hello, I'm here. What's your name? Call out

the church elder? Yeah? No, seriously, what would you think about

it for a moment? Right? What would you do? Okay, there's

there's this extreme out, but friends, is really happening, right right?

Let's extreme. Let's say, for example, what you are in a place

whereby h the resources that you have money couldn't solve the problem, right,

your physical resources couldn't your world whism of the issue. What would you do?

So the Bible here say all authority has been given to me. Therefore

goal we would go friends when we have there was we would be fully convinced

in our hearts once we understood that authority has been given to us. That's

why I asked a question that if you sense it even presence in the room.

Let's say you stayed in the hotel room sometimes right you walk in there,

you go like, oh, I remember going for a revel revel twel

one time it wasn't typing. They we stayed in the hotel right just opposite

the church. But the sink at the tap there couldn't close, so it

produced a drip of water every few seconds, and drip, drip, drip.

The hotel is oh really, oh as oh as me for the day

years old? It's oh right. The people they give water in the hot

water flowers, the brick color hot water flower and those type. Right,

it's it's oh and I remember that you know when when when when you're trying

to sleep, you hurd dropping water sound coming out from the bathroom. It

is one of those things whereby it's either that it's okay, it's just rewater

And the worst part is that half we are sleeping. Your head begin the

words I says that there's something else in the room. What what do you

do? Passequend about Sorry, I know right now you're in PJ. I

mean typing right now, but could you pray right now? It's it's can't.

So once you understand you have authority threats, it gives you a lot

of confidence to go into a place whereby then you speak into the atmosphere and

they say, look, I know you're out there, but in the name

of Jews, I command you to leave the room because I need to sleep.

See, once you understand authority, it makes us to become to the

pleasure. By we would go with confidence. Why sometimes the one that goes

because normally at the mission's feel right, this is one normally happens. The

sick will cut the pastors at local pastor who ask the people to come out

to the front. If you're not feeling well and all of a sudden you

are this pastor or this leader. You have to pray for someone who not

just have headache, but have cancer. Because heydeck's right subjective right, because

when you pray for a post in the name of Jesus be here right,

then the bustle walk away. Right. You would't really know because it's internal.

But whereas someone had the cancer or alum out there asking for healing,

or couldn't hear asking for hearing, you were like, God, why do

you set me up? So the Lord this afternoon us to remind us all

authority has been given to me. So we don't go by own authority.

Friends, we don't go by this your leader's invitation. You're this authority to

church authority. You go with the fact it's set up by the church.

With this, knowing God has given you full authority to go into a place

and transform the place. Friends, it also goes. We go with a

purpose and the sense of purpose and direction. We do not go simply and

thinking that where we think we should go. Many times, if it's true

when it comes to missions, right, is it it true? We choose

places which are familiar to us, which we are more or less the worst.

We understood a bit of the culture, says, understand a bit of

the people around there. Very seldom we choose places that we are not very

familiar with. In fact, it takes a lot of convincing for us to

go to missions to a place whereby we are totally foreign. Where it comes

to Australia and memmer half the type people, it's just Australia for mission trip

snatchural. You understand the weather over there, you see enough pictures, coffee,

then you'll say it also God, all right, but it's very different

at the end of the day. Right, But we go with a sense

of purpose and direction because it is not us that decide, but the lot

that decide for us. Why, because there's something else He wants us to

understand when we go into the field. The word is to reveal what's really

in our hearts. Most somewise, Christian had a problem really the words we

are didn't with issues because we have never allowed God to deal with what's really

in our hearts. Why sometimes you're so stubborn, can only be deubt that

at the field. At the field you go into their friends. I remember

going through my first or athlete trip, there was a worship leader who plays

a guitar without strings. He's just player like a guitar, but he just

plays it and he really put like his fingers, like there's caught somewhere there

his worshiping God. But urban Christian whether they got no strings there's I can't

hear. But all he has is the form of guitar one. I remember

I was asking that that then after the pass away, how the would you

share the word? I'm thinking to myself what to share? All they understand

is my feel out there right now, the SAUI and my counco right now

there's no rain. Can you pray for rain? And God wants us to

go something really deeper because we are so comfortable excuse the word comfortable with the

fact that everything's provided a four and a faith. It's stuntard couldn't grow.

And that's why God wants to go out. So, friends, we go

out with the sense of purpose and direction, not my own agenda. Not

because after missions there is this tourist destination. You can do right, go

and visit check my after they can go and visit coffee places. Right,

you can eat fright, I'm love with crap row inside right all that,

Friends, it's not because of a nice brochure. We go there with sets

of purpose and direction because God has a plan for the land and for us.

So therefore we go therefore and make disciples. The problem is that we

not. It's not that we don't go. The problem is that we go,

but we don't follow on true because making discipers, baptizing and teaching requires

time. And you know that while of the greatest commodity on earth is time.

Really, oversee, we wish we have extra time, no extra pair

of hands, but extra time. We wish that thirty six hours in a

day, right of all everything you think about it? Right, friends,

money is not the issue. No, time is an issue. Money is

now an issue about missions, but time because money you can raise. Time

it's something you cannot buy. Yes, you can write a few people.

Can you sponsor by mission tree? People do give for mission trip, But

what about time? Can you sponsor your time? Please? For me?

Really, there's not enough time. Really all that we need to do right

now after creat friends, oversee working at four jobs at one one goal,

with amount of emails, you have to handle something, go families, you

have to hand your family. You got a wife handing your wife or your

hand their husband. Right only at eleven pm when you can get to do

your own thing. Right? Not enough time, But the Bible says that

go and baptize them. Friends, it requires time for you to teach what

baptism is all about. It requires you teach them to observe. All things

requires time, preparation, time. God wants to challenge all of us,

see our friends, that he's the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the

end. So that was He is a god of time. So what we

cannot achieve with the lack of time, God can achieve it if we understand

the authority was given to him. Many times we try to the word is

the word is. We tried very hard to get the lifestyle we want with

our own strength. We want those lifestyles by own strength. But God has

a different plan altogether. Maybe because and for the eight really after that,

you got another another for the more years that eight eight. Sorry it's so

blak, and for it this year, another for the years eighty eight really,

but I live for the eight years of my life to that. Yeah,

after a while, you're reaching fifteen. I think I was really meant

after that, not because of anything. I realized one thing, friends,

all the pursuit of things is not wrong. It is not wrong. Right.

Everyone has an idealized something they want. But all the pursuit of things

come. I have drawn to this conclusion. If you go by our own

strength, our own strength, we might achieve it. We might not achieve

it, we might be disappointed, we might rejoice, but there's always a

price to pay. But if you allow God to dig deeper into our own

life. I was reading the Book of Job. The Bible said, hears

everything, but in the midst of everything, God allowed things to happen in

his life. The word is for him to go deeper. And I and

I read the last chapter Book of Job got restore back, you know right,

restore back right for more. I thought that the job he hit his

wife or not good because God restore back everything. Maybe he got a new

wife of that. No, no, I was just I was just reading

the Book of Job, like, h that's kidding, all right, Those

stole me right now. I love my wife, my way, don't don't

don't stole me right now, those store me. But it just caught me

thinking that what happened if everything was taken away from us? Really, what

happened? All that you have right now the word is removed remove and there

you are standing, How are we going to continue living. During the PMC

session of pre marriage concil session, I will ask coupers what happened if one

of you will make the wrong financial decision. Everything is just taken away somethings

you do and we make the wrong decision. All right, make wrown decision.

Everything secular away. In the other words, what you thought you had

the savings nor more savings, what you thought was security, normal security.

How are you going to lead this marriage or are you going to fight and

divorce? Because if you cannot come to this conclusion whereby it doesn't matter as

long ago each other we can overcome. And then our advice. A couple

maybe want concerrate not getting married because it's better to live in how many than

to fight every day because there's not enough money on the table. I said,

what happened with every days we remove away from you? Right? Are

you going to blame God or are you going to say God, if you

can give it to me in the first place, you allow me to have

it again. That's why I say it's either we work very hard with our

own strength. God, you do the over times you would late at night,

but at what price? Oh at this place, say God, I'm

gonna trust you in my career. I'm gonna trust you in my life because

if you can bless someone, you can bless me as well. I gotta

learn your principles. It's okay if you don't get it now. Some of

you went to Pavilion to the worst test drive TESTLA car. But as you

were there, right, people were like the worst they were testing the car.

I was so happy. I was waiting to watch a movie. So

I just told my wife, just going to just check it out. Nothing

to do but just waiting there. It was very nice and everything that people

that I look at the countermad they place, the booking people are just exploring

it. And I come to this conclusion. Friends, it's nothing wrong to

own a vehicle like that. The question is that do I therefore go with

my own life? Yeah, I can make it work. I can make

it with my friend answers or God. I'm just going to surrender. If

it's not my time to have it right now, I won't. I won't

pursuit. That's why it's very important. Friends. When God says, go

therefore and make discipers of all nations, he's reminding us again time. It's

not what you have, but I can give you time to make discipers.

As you take care of my kingdom, I will take care of your life

and your family as well. That's why I met two Chapter six was to

detreat sicky first, the Kingdom of God first. The Bible is reminding us

and everything sick him first. Sick him first, because you need wisdom for

the problems or the child you face at a work place. You need wisdom.

You need and understanding how to resolve issue at your workplace whereby the world

has not seen before. Could you imagine Joseph being asked by Pharaoh, could

you lead this nation? I know God has spoke to you seven years of

plenty, seven years of famine. Now if you were Joseph and I am

paraoh right now, I want you to lead this nation because it seems that

God is speaking to you. What is your game plan for seven ways?

What is your game plan? Conquer more land more? Maybe maybe femininely happened

in Egypt. Okay, let's us take that. Maybe somewhere else there's more

for thought. No, there's no feminine Perpetually there's food. It's like one

of those cash of clash of plans games. Sorry, old reference. I

do not blame games, so I don't know, all right, but you

understand I'm trying to say, if you were Joseph, Friends, what would

you tell Pharaoh that actually I have a game plan because the world is looking

for a solution and the only one who has a solution for the problems that

the world faces, God has a solution. That's why when we go and

baptize, when we go and the words teach people to observe, God is

reminding us again that I can work. Show you to change someone's else's hard.

The hardest thing for an individual to do is a change life. Very

hard. You can change economy policy, but it's very hard to change people

mindset. It's very sustart to change people mindset. It's very tough. So,

Friends, we don't go with our own purpose and direction. We go

with God's agenda, God's purpose. Friends, treating God auss do make disciples

baptized and teaching them to observe. At the end of the day, Friends,

discipleship is the way to go to live our life. Discipleship is the

way to go to live our life because in our daily living we can forget

about what's really important. And all this I just spoke of in the past

half an hour was not in my message. I'm gonna go to my first

point sooner. Really sorry, Right, it's number one, No number one,

Okay, just recapt Okay. Authority needs to be understood by earths first,

before we go. You need to know that God has given the authority

to us. So therefore you can speak to the family issue, your finances,

your marriage, your life, your future, your sickness, your illness,

and as well as the baggages you've been caring for the longest time of

your life. All authority has been given to us. But therefore, friends,

even as authority has been given to us, we need to express it

out by faith. There's one part I understood authority. That the part is

the avenue to express it. The avenue to express it is that we go,

we do life the words we step out. Jesus says that you are

like of the world. Let therefore let your life shine before men. To

shine your life requires faith, requires faith. It takes faith to be generous.

It takes faith to be generous. It takes faith to social community.

That's the thrilled than us. Last week I was past a get event to

get ready to support Albert Law for our church football club. Really really weird.

If you have never been to event like that, I want the courage

you go at least once. It will change your life. One. It's

very interesting to see something like I've been there with there's no fun, but

it's very interesting to see Albert the midst of a community that doesn't look anyone

like us. Maybe I did me and then I was there. We pasted

it. But because both was a big sized people thinking we have a big

tieul know something like like this big chinaman committed support the football team like but

website is very nice because it's such a privilege to be in the midst of

the community and to see them God using Albert his gifting, his strength.

Really and the boys want to let you know our church football team are so

well groomed by Albert and this whole coaching team. Seriously, when they greeted

me and Pastor, they shook our hand. They kiss our hand as a

sign of you know that the respect they've given us. Then after when they

lose of football match, they woke up to us. They say sorrier Batha,

apologizing to us because the loss of football match. Have never seen any

in any football team apologizing to other people. And to see this is the

years of sewing into the team, our team that will fight. There was

no there was no physical fight among the team members. Will respected the other

team. Really, he has such a word. It's as such an respect

among the other football team. And that's why the Bible says, let young

therefore shine before men. It takes faith to see that God can turn something

around. That's that's why you are great with purpose and direction, making disciples,

baptizing and teaching them. Finally, my last point is going to be

this. The Bible here says it was twenty meter twenty eight was twenty eight

teaching them to observe all things have commanded you low and you always friends.

When God says He's with us always, it's a promise of the Holy Spirit,

except the one was. It says that, but you shall wait for

the Holy Spirit. You shall wait except the one was. It says that

you shall wait for the Holy Spirit. God has given us the Holy Spirit

within us. This is the thing I explained my homes last Friday. I'm

gonna explain to you when it comes to power, when it comes to power,

powers right? Addictive? Isn't it? Power is very addictive? We

have never said less power one even Christian songs more power. We have never

this thing about it's true power in itself is very addictive. The position of

power is very seductive. Was all I mean? You see that the moment

you get you sit on the chair, you feel like with them everything right

with one word, things get done right. Power even no chest but Fred's

is it more power than we need? Because more power for what? When

God says and review always for what? Thank Gods and review always? There

is a purpose why God give us the Holy Spirit? And this with this,

I'm just going to close the challenge with us. Many times in our

lives we want more of God, more love, more power, But what

for Where does it flow out? After that? Just flow up to our

own family or beyond that. Many times in our own life we ask God,

I want more? But are you using what you have in the first

place? We keep asking God for more, but our bank reserve, or

rather our reserve or God's presence always very high, but there is no outlet.

And that's why sometimes the word is that we get stuck because it will

be what we have we never use, isn't it. Sometimes we get frustrated

because you want more. You want the field, that power. You understand

that you want the field, the presence you're on the field, and anointing.

But if there is no faith to exercise anointing, God's asking is that

I pull out two awasser that there was no flowing out. Many times in

our life in a church, if we continue to keep being our four walls

alone, do only what we want, it's very hard for God to bless,

very hard. I've seen it many times for the past twenty three years

of doing church. Very hard people, individuals who just keep to themselves and

not pull out, very hard to experience. And that's why sometimes in their

own journey and their own life, we gets stuck like why is it like

that? And God this aftermost remind us again low and review always to the

end of the age, because God expects us after we understand authority is to

go and make discipers. God wants us to remember that in the midst of

your time, your busy schedule, don't forget to put in something called missions,

because it takes time to baptize, to teach people to observe. In

the midst of your busy schedule of friends, to remember that God is still

in control. He's the Alpha and Omega if only we allow God in.

We are called to walk by faith and not say. We are called to

belief and not doubt. We are called to walk a coin of God's world.

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