WHAT'S IN A NAME | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

will light up your day. Isaiah nine. We're gonna read verses six and

seven. Here we go. For unto us a child is born. Ah,

that's right, child with a big sea. So you know who that

is, Jesus. And to us a son is given. Whose son,

God's son? So God gave us a child on Christmas Day and gave us

his son. And the Bible says the government will be upon his shoulder,

and his name will be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince

of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace. There will be

no end upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order it and

establish it with judgment and justice. From that time forward even forever, the

zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this. All right, So a

very simple message for us today. Let's begin in verse six when the Bible

says his name will be called. The next slide ask a question, and

the question is what's in a name? What's in a name? We played

that game at our Christmas at homes KK one Holmes, and we've you know,

we had to give the meaning to our names. And my wife's name,

Sandra means help meet, Angie wes Angie Angie said messenger of God.

And then we had someone's name Peace was that Erin's name? Can you remember

Erin's name? And then you know, someone with a Chinese name saying it

meant something, which was very nice and glorious. And then Bassandra, you

know, she had to ask me for the meaning of my name. And

I'm very embarrassed every time someone asked the meaning of my name. And so

I said to her, no, no, no, no, it's okay,

uh no, need to know, no, need to know. And

May whose son is Kenny which is also a form of Kenneth, shouted out

handsome. Yeah, that's what he means. And that's why I embarrassed,

because I haven't got there yet. All right, what's in a name?

What's in the name? All right? What's in the name? Well,

number one, it's your identity. It's your identity. Your name is who

you are, it's your nature. So when the Bible says his name shall

be, he's not just talking about a name like Jesus. Jesus Christ's talking

about his identity. And his nature. That's why I believe in Eccidents chapter

thirty four, when God said that he was going to reveal himself to Moses,

that he said to Moses, you cannot see my front, my face,

otherwise you will die. Why because our God is such a holy god

that human beings are not allowed to see his face, because his face is

just too holy and too glorious for us. So he kept Moses alive by

saying, I won't show you my face less you die, but I'll show

you my back. And so God, if you remember Exodus thirty four,

God hid Moses, and he came down from heaven, and God began to

walk. And as God walked past Moses, he then lifted up the veil

and Moses was able to see God's back, God's back, and then the

Bible says God declared his name. And when God declared his name, he

began to say things like, I am the God who is slow to anger,

you know, quick to forgive, the God of righteousters, the God

who will punish the sins of the people for four generations, and yet bless

the people who are righteous. You know. God began to declare not just

his name, but his nature. It's very important to understand that, you

know. Another scripture tells us that when we are faithless, God remains faithful,

and then he says he cannot deny himself. Do you know what that

means? Right? He cannot deny himself because that's who he is. So

his name shall be called. And I want you to understand that. Then,

no matter how you are, he will always be the same. Can

I hear? Good? Amen? When you are faithless, he is faithful

when you are down, He's always up when you are you know, sad.

He is the one that will become your gladness. God doesn't change.

That's who he is. So when we say that's his name, that's who

he is, and that's his identity. And the next thing it means when

somebody gives you a name, the name also is prophetic. Prophetic means it

speaks about not only the present now, but it speaks into the future.

It is prophetic, a declaration of what is to come. So maybe you're

not feeling it today, Maybe you ever experienced it this week, maybe even

this year. When I said it's a good year, you said, really,

it's not really been a good year for me. Maybe not for your

finances, maybe not for your investments. I don't know. But when the

Bible speaks about a name, it speaks about identity that cannot be changed,

a nature that no matter what changes around you, you remain the same.

Like, for example, many years ago, I was told that a person

took a pig and made it a pet, and washed the pig, you

know, and put perfume on the pig, you know, and even dressed

up the pig. And then when the door was opened, the pig ran

out and looked for mud. And the pig just began, you know,

to bathe in mud, because it's a pig, and pigs like mud to

bathe in. Mind, So no matter how much you have cleaned the pig,

the nature will always look for mud. And so the nature of God,

no matter how you try to ridicule him, put him down, say

you're good for nothing, I don't need you whatever. He is still God,

and he's faithful, and he never changes Hebrews thirteen, verse eight.

I think sometimes memory verses it says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,

today, and forever, everybody. Okay, this is very very important.

Sometimes moms understand that know, Mom, sometimes you can be hurt by your

children, maybe a hard word, a harsh word, and yet you find

next morning Mom still has got the Milo on your table. And two you

know half well we call it half ball eggs, but I know that that's

not right. You can the egg cannot be half boiled. This is proper

English word is soft baill eggs. But the thing is so you know,

the soft ball eggs are on your on your table. And Mom, you

know you just argued with her last night. But Mom is Mom, that's

her nature. Dad is there, you know. A Parssener used to tell

me that her dad always had Milo on the table, even until Parsenro is

like twenty two twenty three, going to work and Dad still because Dad wakes

up at fourteen the morning to do his quiet time and that he makes Milo.

And so my dad, father in law, has passed on. Now

he's with the Lord since March eighteen and so now what how many months?

Now? Nine months? Yeah? Uh, And and we miss him because

he's that kind of a faithful dad who is always there. You know,

I tried to come down earlier than him. I do my quiet time about

five five third. He does his quite dife fort d So I cannot beat

him, you know. So I go down I go downstairs. You know,

the curtains already opened. You know. Uh, different things are done,

you know. Okay, now when I let him do that, I

let him do. Now that he's gone, I have to do but you

know I do it by probably about five thirteen in the morning. You know,

the curtains are drawn. Turn off the lights, you know the stuff

that I see, like the lights, so you turn on the whole night,

turn it off and blah blah blah. Okay, but that's how faithful

you are. Are you are you with me? That's nature of dead.

Huh, that's the nature of a dead. There's the nature of a mom

no matter how. And I tell you what, as we are growing up,

but we do hurt our parents, we do and they get cut,

you know, like you know, like like Bill Cosby, you know,

we laughed and he's uh the way he talked to his son, no,

because his son was rebellious on on television and on television he says, sign

I took you into the earth, I can bring you out. You know.

That was so funny. Uh And and yet you know that mom is

there, Dad is there. But this is a God we're talking about,

not just any dad, not just any mom, everybody. Okay, nature,

prophetic, Okay, So God remains the same. He remains the same.

So now let's go into his name. There are five names given,

all right, simple message today, simple, but you know, and to

us a child is born. Merry Christmas, everybody, And to us a

son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder, his name.

How faithful is this God? No matter what happens. See, the

years can change, and the years can be very different. One year very

good, another year not so good. One year financially good, another year

of financial crash. You know, you know, people whether even even whether

I tell you yesterday he rained four times in we're not complaining. We're not

complaining, but thank God for rain. But you know, sometimes a bit

to watch, you know. And I said, wow, my word from

morning tonight, you know, and the heavens cried uh. And So weather

can change, people changes, and governments change. But his name, his

identity, his nature, his prophetic proclamation of who he is, never changes.

So five things, five things. Number one, his name shall be

called wonderful, wonderful. Let's talk about this for a moment. When do

you ever use this word? Come talk to me. When do you actually

use this word? Uh? Oh, I thought you said when it's a

sale. I thought spoken like a true young lady, like in a sale

wonderful? No, no, no, in an essay? Okay, how

how what do you mean by that? You? You? Oh, you

need fancier words to make up as so you don't use chetd GBT right,

all right, well done? No, yeah, thank you? Yeah,

you want to You want it to be more wonderful, more flowery, more

bombassaica okay, okay, cool, all right? When when else do you

use the word wonderful? I don't know how many you stepped into the the

legacy, saw the Christmas tree and say wonderful it is, it's a wonderful

tree, wonderful. When else do you use the word wonderful? When the

baby came out of your wife, you say wonderful? Yeah, oh you

see your wife is wonderful. One more baby becoming? Yeah, why if

you're wonderful, one more wonderful? Ah? He said? Amen? Is

it? The other word for wonderful is amazing? Amazing? Has God been

wonderful to you this year? Sometimes I use the word wonderful when I when

I see a good work done. You know, I said, wow,

wonderful work. Sometimes I go into a hotel, you know, very nice.

I mean the first time I went to Sutra Harbor many years ago.

Uh, you know, even the four year of Sutra Harbor hotel, right,

wonderful. Then you know the owner of the hotel is a Christian,

so he put us up in the suite, opened a suite. Wow,

wonder you know, just it's just the wow wow. Has God been wow

to you this year? Has God been wow to you? Because that's his

name? Yeah, yeah, yeah, wake up? She said wild?

Has God been wild to you? I don't know you can answer that.

Wow God? Another word. I like this. I'm giving you some s

words today, and the first one is just the sweetness of God. Everything

God does is very sweet. He doesn't want to judge, he doesn't want

to punish, She doesn't want to send us to hell. There's the sweetness

about our God. And we say in the sweet name of Jesus. Sometimes

there sweet. Sometimes your husband might say, oh, my wife is so

sweet. Sometimes a wife is saying my husband is so sweet. It just

means that's a there's a wonderful part about that person that does no harm,

that doesn't hurt you. Our God doesn't hurt us. God doesn't harm us.

Our God is a wow God. Wow God. Wow. My uncle,

I remember when my auntie gave birth. He he had no words,

he only had wow. Right, And then he admitted after that, he

says, I think because all these years, my uncle said, all these

years I've heard that the man is the stronger gender. After I saw my

wife give birth, I think the woman is the stronger gender. My uncle,

I give up, Man, how how did how did that? How

did that baby come out of my wife? He was there to see it.

Wow? Wow, God. They're quite a couple of wholes. This

year for me, the Lord told me, Kenneth, to finish your renovation

and back. You know, you've taken ten years too long. And so

I said, Lord, I don't have money, and God says, I

have you just do okay. And so I remember when I talked to the

contractor. I said, I'm going to do it. He says, okay,

I just need a deposit, you know, twenty nine ring it deposit.

I didn't have that. And when he sent me a bill for the

deposit. I lore the bill and I just said, I just said,

God, you ordered, can you please pay? I said, God,

you ordered, can you please pay? If it's God's will, it's God's

bill. And so I said, God, pleaser, I don't have And

you said you had, you know. And I remember when someone sent me

a banking slip through I think it was telegram or I message, and the

slip was there, Kenneth Chain banked in money, fifty thousand ring it.

Yeah, that's right. I went wow. I went wow. I went

wow. And another bill came after that for another so many ring it,

and the second check for fifty thousand ring it came in and I went wow.

Now my story might be different from your story, we might have different

testimonies, but how many of you have actually experienced a wow God moment.

He's wonderful his name, you see. So if you allow God to be

who he is, he's gonna be who he is. Are you ast you

with me? And if he is a really wonderful he cannot be not wonderful.

But sometimes we don't allow him to be wonderful, we don't obey his

voice, his word. I asked you to me. This is very important.

Allow God to be who he is, Allow God to do what he

does best. Allow God to fulfill his nature and his identity. All right,

now, how many of you have tasted the sweetness of God this year?

Say? Amen, God is sweet. He's not here to push pressure,

force, hurt or harm. There's a sweetness even in this room.

And I pray that if you have not yet discovered it experienced it, that

in the coming year you will. If you believe it, say praise God.

Just a few of you believe it. Let's move on. Let me

try to convince you. Now, okay, his name shall be called counselor,

all right, counselor. Another word for counselor is advisor. All right?

And then the as word I want to give you is smart. How

many of you have tasted God as your counselor this year, one who has

walked side by side with you through some very difficult moments and some very challenging

decisions. How many of you have tasted that God is smart? Don't grow

quiet on me now, don't grow quiet on me now, ex church,

And how many of you have discovered this year that God is smarter than you?

Because sometimes we actually the way we live shows that we are smarter.

But I tell you what I have this year also seen how smart God is,

How smart God is. It's amazing. You know. Recently I had

to take over a new position and I became head of the Principal's office of

Victory Academy because I saw Victory Academy going down and down and down, and

I asked the Lord Lord, do I close it? And then all says,

don't close. It's mine and I will turn it around. However,

you know that God is a master turnaround expert. He can turn your morning

to dancing. He can turn your sorrow to joy. He can turn your

impossibilities to possibilities. Someone can I hear good, Amen, he can turn

your darkness to light. So watch out because in him and by his grace,

I'm gonna make Victory Academy one of the best schools in care. Here

go amen. And I tell you what, Ever, since I picked up

that role, the smartness of God kames coming down. Hmmm. I'm gonna

change one of the courts in dv CC to a pick a ball court,

or to introduce pick a ball uh to the school. I you know we

are we're looking for a sports center, so the parents will send their children

to the sports center in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon.

Whole day full of activities, sports, arts, uh, graphic design,

painting, interior design, architecture because we have architecture people in our you know,

we're gonna have uh the leadership, development, character building the whole day.

So parents send them and and pick them up. You know, this

is not my smartness. God is smart and if you continue to look to

him, Wow, tell you what you know. We're gonna in our interior

design class, We're got to get students to actually interior design one whole classroom

by themselves, and then they go, He's very nice to go to interior

design another classroom, interior, third classroom, and the whole school. You

know. Uh, the Lord told me to declare Victory Academy as a student

run school, meaning that the school will eventually be run by students. And

so the smartness of God is coming. And teachers are getting excited because some

teachers are coming back past. You know, I know one of the teachers

science teachers say, Pastor, can I come back? Can I come back?

I said, come back, come back if you're if you're gonna if

you're going to believe in the vision, you know, because you know why

people leave because they don't believe in the vision anymore. And so when we

pill start to believe in the vision again, they come back. I've tasted

God's smartness again and again. You know. When God called me to start

a ya which became the number one youth ministry in the whole of Malaysia,

I didn't know how to run the youth ministry. I was a lawyer by

training. But the smartness of the Lord comes and turns, you know,

you into the number one youth ministry. And then we started a church ex

church with three people. And I don't know how to stuchages. I don't

know. I didn't go to the Bible school. But God is smarter.

Have you tasted god smartness this year? Come on? Some of you are

probably in positions that you shouldn't be. I see some people smiling, some

people some here you are not qualified to be in the post or in the

position like Rachel kings on head, Hey, hey you care minister t other

day She's like yes, yes, yes, me yes. And you know,

idea, I who gets the glory God? God always uses the fools

to put a shame the wise. They said, are you the principle now

of the school? I said, no, Please, don't call me principle.

I have no principal experience. What I do have is God, who

is smart, smarter than me. I tell you even Tony Fernandez is not

an airplane man. He's a music man, but can turn asia to become

what it is. So you don't really always need experience, though, but

you do need Jesus. His name shall be counselor. Let him guide you.

Do you know that Joseph was not trained to be a prime minister,

but he became prime minister. Daniel was not trained to be a prime minister,

but he became prime minister. Because there must be a cown sellor walking

side by side. I've not been here before, God, but I'm your

counselor. I've never done this before. God. I am your advisor.

Have you tasted the advisor? Come on, have you tasted the counselor.

He's with you. His name is Immanuel, God with us. Never will

he leave us, no forsake us. Lujah. Almost everything that God has

ever allowed me to touch has prospered only because He's smart. Of course,

when I'm not in it, then you know, maybe things might go a

little bit like the way the vision. It doesn't come the past. But

sometimes the Lord says, no, can I go back in there? Do

something? And I go back in there? You know what I do?

I just slook to the Lord. I said, Lord, I don't have

I don't have what it takes. But you do. And his name shall

be called wonderful counselor Ighty God. So I pray that you have tasted his

sweetness this year. I pray that you have tasted his smartness. That's such

a word. He is definitely smarter than any one of us. Can I

hear? Good? Amen? Have you tasted his strength? Mighty God just

means strong, So not only is he smarter than all of us, he's

stronger. Have you tasted his? Have you tasted his? And what happened

to ex church? Have you tasted his? Amen? Thank you, praise

the Lord. Maybe it will be a way too long here, you guys

go for too many holidays a day. Come on, wake up, wake

up? How we want a church that is alive? Come on, so

thats you like to go to black churches in America and go whoa you alsho

arelive? We can be too because the same God, the same God the

blacks worship in America. I tell you I've been to so many black church

as well. Tell you never stands straight one, now, sir, what's

up? Never stand straight one? And we are like it are all like

China and China and Chinaman cannot move, one cannot move. We are agents.

There's a different God that lives in them, different God that lives in

them. The God moves on. Our God doesn't. Hello, ex church,

are you alive? Yeah? Amen, praise God. I pray that

when people come into the church here they want to join us because it's life.

Otherwise to come, he say, I didn't not a king the funeral.

I didn't know him in the funeral. Hello, some people's funeral.

It is more exciting. Passed again. Merry Christmas to you, Yes,

Merry Christmas to you. This very Christmas. Ah, you see you saw

not our next generation make some noise? How many of you have tasted his

strength? I tell you God is strong. My father in law, you

know, was dying because of cancer. But he has such such a short

runway The Lord, you know, allow him to suffer much two weeks before

he died, I was in the car with him and you know, took

him to the hospital. He said to me, you know, my father

in law has said things to me at he's not talked about to anyone else,

because I spent a lot of time with him. He says, Kenneth,

I saw a dream. It's the same dream I saw for my sister.

My sister died after two weeks of that dream. And I just saw

it myself, and I think I will be gone in two weeks. He

went in about sixteen days after that dream. My father in law hears from

God true dreams, and I tell you what. In the car, he

says, I'm ready. I'm ready to meet with Jesus. You know.

The wife was not ready because who wants your family member to go. The

daughter was also not very ready because you know she's the daughter. She was

dead. And he's a good dad, you know, maybe not so good

that maybe yeah, oh take him, but good dad. Lord, please

let him stay, you know, so that someone can open the court to

that fourth day of the morning. Strength strength for my father in Lord to

said, I'm ready to see God. You don't know many people are ready

to die but when you know there's a God in heaven is good, who

loves you, who died for your sins. My father in law is ready,

he says, yeah, in two weeks time, I might go Canneth.

You know what I did not say to him, Dad, don't talk

that I didn't know, because I already knew my heart and God take him

home. And so I just turned around and said that are you ready?

He says, yeah, God has been so good to me. Strength.

Have you met a god who gives you strength to face death? He is

strong and he's stronger. Now if you're not tasted that God, you will

taste him soon. I pray that you'll be today number four ever lasting father,

Oh, not just father, everlasting father. You know what the father

really gives to his children. Confidence? Yeah, the father was made to

be that for his children. The mother a bit different. The mother is

very courageous when giving birth, right because there's an annoying thing that comes upon

her and then the baby, you know, is pushed out and you know,

but on normal days, mom is you know, going to be very

different from that. My wife is not afraid of lizards, but when she

screams, you know she has found one, and so we don't allow lizards

to come into the house. And some people have argued with us. Yeah,

but lizies are good. You know they eat the mosquitoes, they eat

the flies. Yeah, well, our house doesn't have mosquito and flies,

so we thought that there's no use for lizards too. The amount of lizards,

I've said to Heaven, it's off, fuddy. I tell you,

I don't know why the lizards appear. Every time I'm tired and about to

rest, I hear her scream. I rush down. I didn't know anyone

is it because she won't scream at cockriages unless it flies. Lizer small eye

like this, No, no, no, there's a big big ones ah.

One time there was a crocodile. Get the crocodile off my wall.

So we went and bought butterfly nets. So a bang you know at d

I y a bang. Well, don into rama ramaga said bokan ch chichatle

banga because of the butterfly dead, I said, lad at us the night

the d susa mao sampie tabby butterfly net be sad if there was a camera

on me, I said, you guys would have a good comedy. Huh

hah. Two butterfly nets. One listen. My wife was pray read by

God until the tin is finished, and we are also finished. Let by

gods be by gones. That's why they said the lizards are dying. Praise

the world for aw Covid Trent d mm hmm mm hm. Father And actually

I don't complain because if my father in laws to your life, my wife

would called him. Actually, and I don't mind. So my father knows

very good with lizards. He doesn't thin a butt fly anything hand glee mh.

My wife has such sharp eyes them she can see lizard. Pooh,

there's a lizard, pooh. I said, yeah, I've seen it before.

No, that means there's a lizard. It's a good if followed the

trail, yeah h ah. Confidence daddy equals confidence daddy. Shoulders are strong,

that is, biceps are there somewhere, some very clear like mountains,

some berry under thewater. Have you tasted of God's sweetness this year? Have

you tasted of God's smallness, how smart he is, how he can turn

things around? You know, if you haven't watched my latest chinup show,

please watch it because I have on my cheinup show just done last week.

A former senior assistant director of Customs Radah Balah, head of operations for Kanga,

Head of Operations customs for Police Big before that. You hear from the

testimony when he was a superintendent Bradah Balah Bathera Ballah. When he was a

superintendent of the customs, the police came and arrested him for corruption. He

says, I'm innocent. My wife knows I'm innocent. My boss, my

immediate boss knows. I knows I'm innocent. They took away his car,

his driver, his house, his house loan that he used the government house.

Don't do buy another a house because he was staying in the government house,

so he didn't need to stay in the house that he bought, and

so on and so forth lost everything for fifteen years. You hear the testimony.

He worked four jobs seven thirty starts the first job two thirty in the

morning. He ends the last job. Four jobs to feed his wife and

his three children every day. But brother Ballah will be on the newspaper before

that because he caught all kinds of criminals. Top But maybe he caught a

criminal that had connections and they wanted to teach him a lesson fifteen years until

he reached the federal court and they said he's innocent. Wife cried, He

cried. But before that he said, I was a staunch Hindo. I

used to wash my idols. You know. My wife. You know,

this is all in the testimony in in the video you can watch the wife's

it. One day I saw my husband watching the idols and then one idol

dropped into the water and then she saw not deal that. She said to

husband, my God cannot drown. My God cannot drown. And the husband's

a you know, my husband loves the wife. The wife loves her husband.

And then they're praying you no every day, you know, and the

husband says, one day, I need to try this Jesus that you have

and God gave him such peace. God Kate gave him such a strength to

face whatever he was going to face, and they prayed. Well. He

said there was a week whereby there were He says, there were four major

things. I can't remember. It was, yeah, I think it was

a government loan ask him back for seventy thousand ring it. Then there was

the lawyer's fee seventy thousand ring and then another thing and another al together one

hundred and ninety thousand ring it he's a past. I only had two hundred

git in my pocket in my bank to four hundred in git this one one

hundred and ninety thousand ringgit, all in one week. So long story is

the God, the everlasting father that he found gave him assurance. So he's

not just a father like my wife's dad who we love so much, who

will die and has died. But he's the everlasting father who will always be

there for you. Can I hear good? Amen? His father that gives

us confidence even when the world stops believing in us. Yes, he said

every he said. His own family members rejected him. His friends rejected him

because corrupted. You know, those of you who studied law before. It's

innocent under proven guilty. Sometimes in Malaysia is guilty under proven innocent. Sometimes

even in Churchiso, don't don't do that, that's not right. Spirit innocent

and treated innocent under proven guilty. But everybody thought he was guilty. He

knew he was not. His wife knew he was not. No wife prayed

like crazy Brata Balai. He knew Jesus he put his hands on the bills

and said, God, please one day allow me to pay all this on

hundred ninety thousand ring it back with my own money. How he was going

to get your own money? Do you know then when he was vindicated by

the federal court, highest court of the country, you know what happened.

The customs Royal Malagian Customs came up to brothera Ballah and said, you go,

will have back your job and all the promotions in the fifteen years that

you should have had. We will give it back to you. And all

the pay for fifteen years that you lost, will give it back to you,

almost a million ring it And from superintendent became senior assistant director and head

of enforcement, Head of enforcement. No, that's where you can get money

in. But they put a righteous man, They put a clean man in

that place. Are you alsoing me? God restores, He's a sure god.

Confidence comes from him. He's a pastor. I wrote a check for

one hundred and ninety thousand. I paid all my debts from my own money,

then bought an iSER house in Patani and now serving the Lord, serving

the church full time. He and his wife listen to the testimony if you

can find no one. His name shall be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. All right, let's close with this one.

He is the Prince of peace. Do you know that this world really

needs peace? Peace. Peace allows you to sleep well at night. Peace

allows you to take care of your family. Even those situations around and in

the future are not you know, are not certain, but you are certain.

Why are you so certain? Because it's peace in your heart and he

is the Prince of peace. Let me say something something to do very quickly,

just in case you don't know. In the Bible, a prince is

higher than a king. A prince is always over a territory. So the

Prince of Persia, if you ever read that, is a prince of a

territory a huge and under him are kings, Okay, even Michael who was

called a prince the angel Gabriel prince Okay, off the air. They control

more than just one kingdom. They control a whole territory, maybe the whole

of Southeast Asia, maybe the whole of Asia. All right, you need

to understand. So when he's the prince, he is the prince of peace.

Means you know he is above all, So I tell you, I

tell you again like this, A prince is over a variety of kingdoms and

a variety of kings. So when you say he's the prince of peace,

means all kinds of peace comes under him. Peace for your mind, peace

for your heart, peace for your marriage, peace for your family, peace

for your finances. He is the prince of peace. Let me know where

I discovered. I discovered that the word piece also means wholesome, wholeness.

You might not have ever heard of peace defined in this way. Wholeness.

Another word for wholeness is complete, is complete. So complete means if I

take this stand, and you know how complete means, and I maybe take

this off where we come off. Yep, yeah, yep, sorry you

guys, I detached this well right, So now this stand is still a

stand, but it's not complete. It's a whole, and that many people

living like that. They look okay, it looks usable, they look happy

just standing there by themselves, but it's not whole. It's not complete.

And you can take this out and I can do a lot more things.

I can take this one out and now it's just a stick. And you

say, Daniel, I love you. You're the worship leader. Use this.

And that's how we live our lives on a daily basis. We think

we are complete, but we are not, and there is no peace.

That's what it means. We're not whole. And so we carry on our

lives, you know, being dead, being mom, being brother, being

sister, being son, being daughter, being boss, being supervisor. We're

going out out, but there's no peace. We come back from work.

How come I don't feel whole? What's going? What's missing? What's missing?

You know? And then God comes into your life and say, hold

on, I'm the Prince of peace. Do someone are you see? I

give him this sticker, he said, wanted to detest the stick some more.

Okay, go ahead, come on, come on, fix fix me

up, God, fix me up, God, make me usable, make

me usable? Oh thank you? Looks like something now, looks like something

now, and God is in the business of making you an I whole?

Okay? Who else can help me with this? Wow? Look at that?

You know what to do now? Okay? Oh wow? So you

also know what wholeness look like because a lot of people, a lot of

us, know what wholeness looks like. But don't have it. We actually

know the look of completion, but we don't know how to get there,

and yours do me. Now, I hope this one doesn't fall. Okay,

got it, got it. I just wanted to illustrate, just wanted

the illustrate. We all know what a happy family looks like, a happy

marriage look like, and we go like, how do I get there?

Who's gonna help me? Who completes me? Well, the Prince of Peace

makes you whole, makes you complete. And so the s word as I

close is sound, just soundness. Second Timothy one seven. Let's turn to

that. Second Timothy one seven. I'm drawing to close in the next three

minutes. Second Timothy one seven, I'm just gonna read scripture with you.

Now what a second Dimity one seven say? It says for God has not

given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love. And

a sound mind means a complete mind, a mind that is whole. Look

two fourteen speaks about, you know, glory to God in the highest and

on earth, peace and goodwill toward men. Okay, Merry Christmas, everybody.

His name is called Wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father. Prince of

Peace. The reason why God sent his son and a child was born two

thousand years ago. In fact, we keep using two thousand years ago,

it's more like two thousand and thirty years ago. That's why in the world,

when it's two thousand and thirty three, two zero three Tree, the

Christian world is going to celebrate two thousand years since Jesus died two thousand.

Then he died at thirty three, so to zero three Tree, the whole

world, the Christian world, will celebrate that as a big date. So

I hope that we are still alive at two zero three Tree. It's not

very far away. Right ten years from now, Lord, I pray that

you, Lord Jesus will be to all of us in this room wonderful.

Then, even if we haven't experienced the wonderful God this year, may we

experience this wonderful God and go, wow, I've tasted the Lord and seen

that he's good. Maybe you have not yet tasted the counselor the one who's

gonna walk next to you, always with you, your adviser. You know,

as a lawyer train in law, I know that some of the clients

like to say when they are in trouble. Speak to my lawyer. That's

what we teach them too. Don't have to answer anything or you might be

incriminated, So just say, speak to my lawyer. I like that.

I like that because Jesus is also called our advocate, and I love the

fact that he's our counselor. He's our advisor. He's our advocate, and

we can speak to him because he's smart. He knows what to answer,

he knows what to say, he knows everything. If you believe he say

amen, he knows it all. He knows what you need to do.

He knows how you need to decide. Some of you here in his room

are having to make a very important decision before the year ends, or maybe

the first week, second week of January. You have to make a decision.

I ask you to turn to your lawyer. Yeah, Jesus, your

counselor. He's with you every day. I pray that you will find the

counselor and how smart he will give you an answer. His name is called

wonderful counselor Mighty God. Is there anyone in his room who needs to experience

God's strength? Though I'm weak, he is strong. Every day I'm depending

on God's strength because I know my weakness. I won't be able to lead

Victory Academy without his strength. I know. I know my own strength.

I know my weakness. I need the Lord God is good. Hallelujah.

His name shall be called Wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father. Is there

anyone in this room. Maybe you don't have a good relationship with your own

father on earth, and you don't know how to respond, how to you

know how to react, how to engage with his father. He is an

everlasting father. He's here to give you confidence. Be confident in the Lord

God. With God, all things are sure. You don't ever have to

feel afraid. You don't ever have to do this alone on your own.

He's everlasting Father. He's our confidence, he's our assurance. With him,

you're always sure. Hallelujah. You know, sometimes I felt my body really

sick, and then fear tries to come into my mind, tells me you're

gonna die from this. You know what I answer, Because of the Lord,

my Father. I said, it doesn't matter. I will die anyway.

Death that's not doesn't worry me. And you know the day comes when

death doesn't worry you. You know you're free and that your eyes are on

God, who has your life and your eternal life in his hands. Don't

be afraid, the Lord wants to say to you right now, don't be

afraid, don't be scared, don't be afraid of twenty twenty four, because

I am your ever lasting Father, Prince of Peace. Is there anyone here

right now? You've been trying so hard, trying, trying, trying,

trying, and yet there's no peace. You don't feel complete, you don't

feel satisfied. You feel like you know there's a nagging feeling in you saying,

oh, I think there's something missing. There's something missing. And Jesus

comes to you this morning as the Prince of wholeness, the Prince of completion.

Let him complete you today. Let Jesus complete you today. Let Him

be your soundness, your sound sound mind. You're complete. Everything is there.

There's no lack in your life, no lack in your life, no

lack in your life. When you have Jesus, you don't have to have

lack in your life. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For

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