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Heaven Rules - How Do You Prioritise Your Life | Pr Julian
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You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message
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will light up your day. I'll start off with with the story that happened
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probably like six seven years ago. Uh it was. It was the day
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of the birth of my first son. We got three boys. His name
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is Levi h so so contacts. You know. We were Laura and myself
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were like, you know, his young couple and then really anticipating our the
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birth of our first child. And and I remember I remember the day before
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Levi was born. It was yeah, we had Indian food. I remember
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which restaurant also in Tamantun. I know, like yeah, yeah, yeah,
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maybe you should share. So those who want to like give deliver fast,
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right, I tell you this restaurant in Tamantun. You know you want
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to maybe to come out tomorrow. You just go there, ordered the none
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and ordered the tune to confirm come out. So I remember what I ate.
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I remember the place, and I mean, of course, when we
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were having having dinner there, we didn't expect the baby to come out the
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next day because um Levi came out about two weeks each early. So typically
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UM a lady is pregnant for nine months or forty weeks and then the baby
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comes out on the fourt eighth week, right, So that's like biology science
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to y'all. Um and and so so the first time, you know,
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young couple, we weren't expecting anything, um and and thirty eight weeks,
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I thought we didn't go to this mark and mark. Okay, there's all
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irrelevant information. I don't know why I'm sharing this, but okay. Basically,
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when when there's a very important eventue a life, like you really remember
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all the details for some reason, and and the next day, you know,
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went to work like normal. Laura went to work like normal, and
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then she tells me in the morning, like, yeah, I feel like
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I got stomach egg like I need to go to the toilet and must be
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the food I ate last night, like you know men that in the rest
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round. So but h but lo and behold, it wasn't a stomach egche
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but it was like what do you call it? Contractions? Contractions, So
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signs of the baby is ready to come out on weekday eighth right early.
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So I rushed back from the office, She rushed back from the from her
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office back home, and then because it was for me early, like we
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weren't prepared. I think like we took for granted, you know, two
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more weeks. You gotta gotta chill a little bit more, a lot more
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things to do, still going to work and stuff like that. And then
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I had like so many things in my mind which I wanted to do to
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prepare for the baby to come, So things like washing the bit shit's preparing
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the preparing the what you call it baby card, uh, all this kind
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of stuff like you know, baby clothes haven't washed, so like, oh
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my god, you know, so many things to do, running around the
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house and then and then and then Laura was like, okay, I'm having
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contractions. I'm just gonna sit on the couch. I remember the couch of
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those same couch we have at home now. And she's just sort of like
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buming the contractions, which is what m a mom expecting, you know,
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to deliver a baby. Just um. And I was running around the house
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like a like a hey, let's get chicken, just trying to get everything
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done so that we are prepared. Yeah, and you know, like things
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okay, like for example, we haven't even put the baby seat into the
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car so that we can bring the baby back from the hospital. Right,
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I'm thinking about all these things, so many things in my mind, like
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you know, like what Atlisha had this morning, our devotion, like a
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lot of things that we need to do in a such a shot time.
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Right. Uh. So I felt like I was doing my part in preparing,
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preparing the way for the baby to come. I remember after putting in
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the car seat into the car, I know, first time fixing is so
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fixed into a car and then of course the baby. The baby seat came
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in a box because we bought, you know, a new and I brought
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the box to Laura like, Laura, what should I do with this box?
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I'm like, you know, should I recycle? Should we keep it?
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Doing it? Telling later? And then she was on the couch like,
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oh, like tell me about what you want to do it. She's
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like what yeah, yeah, whatever she said, I can't remember, but
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I know, I know, like, oh, okay, things are in
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context now. I have better perspective of what's happening in this situation, what
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is important now and what is not important now? And uh and and of
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course I just threw the box away. I quickly took a shower because I
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was really like sweaty. Yeah, the shower. Manna gonna get ready for
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the book in the count stop. Okay, yeah for good that. Yeah,
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I didn't stop my hair put on. I actually I actually wore like
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a nice nice shirt like a black muse, a black white button up button
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up. Shit, No, she's gonna con um. And and then we
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quickly clearly drove her to the to the hospital. And I mean basically the
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story ends. Well, you know, I think I think Levi came out
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that night itself. He was pretty smooth. But but but today I want
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to talk about one world. I mean, there's one word ringing in my
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in my spirit, and the world is priority priority. Yeah no, not
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the box, not the hairstyle, not the shirt, not the bitch.
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Sh it's but you know, right because because you weren't prepared um that night
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after the Levia came out to go back at like one am. Wash the
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bitch, she's prepared. Come on, man, come on man, that's
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guys. If the day coming up, let's play a role in in everything
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as well. I don't, I don't. Mum's carrying most of the heavyweight,
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but you know, right, all of that's out there, so you
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know, I had to come back one am. Wash and I hang the
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clothes, and I think I stapp a three o'clock to me, Yeah,
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but I slept. I stapped really well. Though it was preparation for the
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weeks after day, I like taking care of a newborn. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. So the word priorities, priorities in life. Okay, I'm,
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you know, the team of our church this year's having rules, right,
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having rules? And and I've been asking myself the question like what does
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it mean? Like what does it mean being under Heaven's rule? So I
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feel God leading me to go through maybe a series I don't know of,
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just the parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. Right, So so it just
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gives us a glimpse, a perspective, a picture of what living under the
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rule or the kingdom of Heaven Heaven is like. Right, Um, so
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today we're gonna just cover one one parable and let's talk about the word prioritizing
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for a while because that day when we were not prepared, and as usual,
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we have so many things on our on our mind. I mean it's
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not that's very critical, right because Bby coming on. But you know,
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everyday life it happens. Also list of things to do to do this,
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which one text priority? So I wanted to go into this world a little
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bit. Let's go to the next light. Yeah. Prioritizing or the importance
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of it is critical when two or more demands compete for your attention. Right.
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Um, it's not required when the demands are singular like super obvious.
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But what I'm trying to say is in life, right, like, you'd
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be much easier if God Tolsky just do this one thing, right, Just
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go ahead and make as much money as you can, right, or just
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take care of this child for the rest of your life or you know,
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but that's not how it is, right. We have many demands, expectations,
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requirements, needs that trying to get our attention or trying to take our
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energy or you know that we need to be there and you know, so
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how do we prioritize our life? How do we prioritize our life? Let's
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do some fun stuff because church is fun, Okay, I don't know,
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you just gotta do some fun stuff here. Um, a bit of interaction.
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I'm gonna say, I'm gonna show you a series of pictures and I
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wanna just get your answers on which one takes priority, which one takes priority.
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So it's not it's not political, it's I mean, it's it's just
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my fun for us to get context of how do you make decisions? Right?
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You know, how do you put importance on one above the other?
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Okay, first picture? Okay, there are two pictures here, right,
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The first one is the baby crying. The next one is a bag of
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potato chips. Okay, which whichure text priority? You think? Oh oh
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yeah right, Okay, if it's funny because all the moms are giving us
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the wrong I'm still like, yeah, yeah, I mean when you're face
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me, when you're face me these two things obviously, you know, like
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if the house is a fire, settle that first, right, If the
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babies crying, still that first, the backup jeems can wait, I would
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think, I mean, but the moms, I think have different perspective anyways,
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Like everyone has their own priorities and perspective on life and importance, right,
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so to each be her own next be shot is more important being street
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smart or book smart, treet smart? But it guess it is SPM.
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Result just came out right, like, you know, do do we want
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our children to finish their education? Get a degree, get a master's or
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do you read it they go through the school of life and you know,
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mhmm hmm both. They're gonna gonna choose one on it. There's only one
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thing on top of the list priorities, right, be trying is more important?
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Open open questions. Next, Okay, this is a picture of a
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guy who's really reached with a lot of money, or someone who has complete
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peace. No, no, no, I can I got you? So,
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which one? Honestly? Like? Which would you which person would you
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be? You can't buy peace, man, you can't buy Okay, a
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few more. This is for fun, right, for fun? Nice?
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Nice? Okay? This is this is a This is an interesting one.
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I mean like so so material and GC both recorded BM probably x five and
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a holiday every month? Yeah, I mean, I mean which do you
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value more? Experience or materialistic assets? I mean really, it depends on
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a person, right, it depends on a person. Experience, Yeah,
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experience? Last one? Ah? Bible? All right? Okay, okay,
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So a picture of someone doing he's or her devotion and someone scrolling on
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the phone. So Bible lad right? Bible? Lah? Okay, fine,
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okay, let let's move on. We pursue what we prioritize, and
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we prioritize what we treasure. So from the pictures we saw earlier, whatever
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we deem important or what we treasure, it's what we prioritize. Right,
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It's very important to us. It's number one. I think that it's of
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great value to me. I would chase after it and therefore prioritize it.
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And if I prioritize it, I will pursue it with all my resources,
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meaning my time, my money, you know, I will run after debt.
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Okay, So we only have one one parable we're gonna look into today,
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and it's from Matthew Chapter thirteen. Matthew Chapter thirteen has a lot of
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parables. I think that's four or five in there, so we just go
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through each of them in the coming weeks. But this is a pretty like
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very simple one and just over a few sentences. And I've always sort of
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like sort of scheme over this parable because like, I don't know, it's
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so straightforward, but God's been bringing me through this and I want to just
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share a little bit about what I learned. So let's read Matthew Chapter thirteen
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Versus forty four to forty six. Right, the Kingdom of Heaven. Again,
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we want to get a glimpse of what the Kingdom of Heaven is,
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right, the Kingdom of It's like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in
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a field. In his excitement, he hit it again and sold everything he
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owned to get enough money to buy the field. Next again, the Kingdom
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of Heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. When he
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discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it.
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We all noticed it's it's It's in the Book of Matthew. And I'll
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quickly summarize it in a table because I'm an engineer, so I get to
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see how clear it is. Yeah, next life. Okay, So what
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is the Kingdom of Heaven like? What is you know? What does this
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scripture gives us a perspective of what God's kingdom is like. By the way
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in the Bible um we often see the words Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of
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God, we can sort of just use it interchangeably. It's just basically how
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God rules and his dominions over his people. And we often say, you
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know, the Kingdom of Heaven may come on earth as well, so not
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just in eternity, but even on earth, his power and his dominions and
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his kingdom can be in our lives and among our church and in our families.
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Okay, so a few key words. So what is the Kingdom of
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heaven? Treasure? We see the word treasure, so that's it's something very
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important to us. We must see the Kingdom of God as something as very
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important, valuable, worthy, should be precious, not previous, deserving of
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our priority. Right, Okay, so very straightforward. I think sometimes we
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forget lah that what we have, right, I think a lot most of
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us are Christians, the salvation and position that we have in Christ. We
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should not take it for granted. We should always treasure that because I mean,
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if if we are constantly being in it somebody, we take it for
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granted. But really it's an honor. It's a privilege to know the Gospel,
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especially in Malaysia. I mean, we go to different countries where getting
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the Bible or reading the Bible or being open about our beliefs it's not possible,
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but we have the honor and privilege to really treasure the Kingdom of God
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in our lives. Okay, treasure discovered there was a seeking there was a
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looking out for there's effort required to discover the Kingdom of Heaven. Okay,
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hidden again, it's not very obvious or easily found. Excitement, there's the
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Kingdom of God. Bring your excitement. There's coming a judge. Bring your
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excitement. That's doing God's work or living out his calling. Bring us excitement,
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brings out passion, jaw, enthusiasm, anticipation. They sold everything,
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right, so it requires great sacrifice, and they bought it, so they
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paid a price for it. Okay, So this morning I have three points
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for prioritizing the Kingdom of Heaven. And again we can use this as prioritizing
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in general, right, but the perspective today is prioritizing the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Okay, first point, pursue. Pursue this first point. Okay,
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let's go through the scripture again. So we read the same scripture, the
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Kingdom of Heaven. Go after pursue. Let's go to Matthew chapter thirteen.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that man discovered hidden. So he
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he went looking, he seeked, he pursued something which he deemed valuable.
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Okay, again, we see it in the next scripture verse forty five.
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Again again, know, heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for choice
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pros. So that's the looking and this point right, the first point basically
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it's just a point of self assessment or self checked right. Uh yeah,
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next light. So what I'm trying to say here is, let's take a
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look at our own lives, mine included, and even over the last week
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or the last few days. What have we been actively pursuing? What has
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occupied our minds and our thoughts? Where do we spend our resources? You
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know, where do I spend my time? What have you have I been
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seeking? Again, I'm not perfect. I mean, I'm just saying that,
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then, Laura just say we whispered skatepark. Um, It's it's a
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good self testla to ask ourselves that question. Uh. You know, Like
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I've been around for quite a while, I mean not as long as spelt
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out of y'all. I'm turning forty soon ish a couple of years more.
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But I've just seen like patterns and seasons on my life where I'm like passionate
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about different things. Uh. You know, it can be can be like
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very very like uh worldly or materially stick things Hey, but the one thing
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that's been constant is serving God and being being in church. Um uh,
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But it's for us to really self check law. What are we obsessed with?
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That's the other word obsession, What occupies our mind? It really is
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it our kids? You know, I was asking a hard discussion, like
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how do you relax? Like you're not thinking about anything? What do you
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want to do? You know, to just relax? And she doesn't have
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an answer, right, se go go back to the kids like, Okay,
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yeah, that's why your own mom. No, no, I mean
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yeah, sleep. The point is is really the first part is what do
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we pursue? What do we pursue? Matthew, Chapter six, verse to
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any one, Wherever your treasure is, they're the desires of your heart will
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also be So what would be treasure will be deemed important. That is what
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we pursue. Matthew, Psalms twenty seven versus for the six. I think
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you guys noticed very well. So the one thing I ask of the Lord,
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the one thing, the one thing, the thing that I seek most
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is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
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delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in his temple, for he will
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conceal me there. When trouble come, he will hide me in his sanctuary.
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He will place me out of reach on a high rock. Then I
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will hold my head higher both my enemies who surround me at his sanctuary.
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I will offer sacrifice us with shouts of joy, seeing praising the Lord with
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music. So King Baby Road this when he was being pursued and his life
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was in danger, right, But he wasn't concerned about forming a weapon or
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a spear or defense against that army, or you know, he wasn't concerned
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about where he should run or hide. But the one thing, the thing
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that he's sick most, was to be in God's presence. So he pursued
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that. Right. So it's just a south check for all of us here.
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Can ask it now internally in your minds or when you go back.
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What are we pursuing most in our life? Point number one? Point number
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two plan? How do we prioritize our lives? Plan? Three piece,
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second piece plan. Let's go to the same scripture again, Matthew, Chapter
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thirteen. The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that makes that a man
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discovered hidden in a field in his excitement, he heated again and soul everything.
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So he had a plan. Basically when he found tragedy, right,
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he he didn't he couldn't like have it straight away, but he had a
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plan to prioritize the lives his life. He had to go back and big
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arrangements. Cell Staff, you know this is very important to me. Now
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I'm going to do this. This is a plan. Maybe on his way
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back he saw a nice piece of land or a house. May because you
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buy the land or men. But you stick to his plan. Right to
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prioritize what's important, Okay, if you don't have if you don't plan our
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priorities next life. If you don't plan our priorities, pressures of the world.
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Pressures will determine our priorities. Right. If you don't, if you
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don't convince or set in your heart what is very important in your life every
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day, the different pressures around us will determine what's important. Then basically you'll
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be going around fighting fires, trying to try to meet the demands of everyone.
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But we know it's impossible. I mean, I love what Alista had
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this morning in our leader's devotion. The two do list is like long,
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very long, every day as someone who like Allie, who's the mom who
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runs a business, who's got a kid in school. Right, it's so
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long. How do we tackle everything what's really important? So we need to
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have a plan, right, If not, the pressures will determine what is
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important to us. You know, we use this in the office. I'm
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sure you guys have seen the next light, which is the Eisenhower priority table.
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On the top, we've got urgent and not urgent, and then you've
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got important and not important. And if it falls under the not urgent and
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not important things like social media, watching TV, video games, or eating
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junk food, which is all the pictures we soult, then you want to
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just take it out of our lives. Right, that's not important. Why
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should I spend all my time, which is our most important resource, on
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something that's not urgent and not important. But if it's urgent and important,
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like doing our work, you can put their like reading the Bible, you
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can put their discipleship, you can put their taking care of my children,
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spending time with them as a parent. That's my calling. That's urgent and
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important. So I think it's a kind of like a good idea of how
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I try to prioritize my life or have a plan at least to prioritize what's
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important. But I'll just give you a few more thoughts about plan because we
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see in the next flight. All throughout the Gospels, Jesus was also pressured
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a lot. He You think, we are very busy, right and feel
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very pressured to do a lot of things. But he was pressured by you
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know, religious leaders trying to catch him or pressure him, asking him all
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sorts of questions. He was pressured by constant needs of the crowd. So
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this is something like it kind of makes sense, right, you know,
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I need to help people. Can I really help everyone that has come to
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me with the need. You know, Jesus experienced that he was pressured by
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demons. I mean, the leads can be a long different things that he
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felt really pressured by. But he always took time to get a loan and
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pray and meet people's needs and disciple the twelf in the Bible. You also
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see that that he really I feel like you just knew the Eisenhoward table because
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sometimes right he would do things that was not that was not urgent. No,
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he would he would do think that was important, but let go of
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things that's were urgent. So so many times in the Bible. We see
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in the Book of Mark, think chapter twelve, we see that there were
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different people that required healing, pressuring him coming to him please heal me,
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I mean need. But he would prioritize meeting his disciples or spending time with
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his disciples first, because he deemed that as more important. Again, two
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different competing demands in his life. But he did one thing, or he
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would when the crowds were pressuring him, he would he would take his disciples
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away to a quiet place and spend time with God. Right, So he
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wasn't pressured by the demands of the world. When Lazarus died, he also
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wasn't pressured to straight away go and to be there. Oh when Pregan Lagers
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was sick, right, he didn't feel the pressure to straight away go and
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pray and heal. But he took three days before going. So what I'm
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trying to say is we need to know what God is calling us to do
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because we can't do everything. We can't do everything. I'm not trying to
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ask you all to like, oh, serving church, you gotta chair,
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you gotta preach, you gotta worship lead. You gotta be the Usha.
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It's like completely impossible for anyone to be that perfect. And God doesn't even
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demand that. Right, He's He's not looking to dead for us as being
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fruitful. For us to be fruitful is to just answer his call. What
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we can hear the Holy Spirit telling us and be faithful in doing that.
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Right, Let's go to the next light. Plan how do we plan?
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How do we plan our priorities in the Kingdom of Heaven? How did Jesus
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prioritize? So? Again, contexts in the Kingdom of God. If you
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want to look at the life of Jesus, how did he prioritize his life?
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And I really see these four main things which we can all we can
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all like follow the example of so. He definitely prioritized his relationship with with
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the Father. Right. Uh. If you know that he woke up early
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in the morning to spend time with God before the pressures of the world came
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upon him, we know that he drew from from God. He listened to
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God. He wanted to know what God the Father was saying. Where was
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he leading? Right, he prioritized his ministry and calling, So ministry and
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calling right to Jesus. We see it very clear. He was the Messiah.
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He was there to teach, he was there to save, he was
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there to heal, he was there to encourage. Right, which is all
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a very general calling, but we also have very specific calling in our lives.
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And for some of us is being leaders in the marketplace. For some
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of us is being a mom or a dad. For some of us is
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being a teacher or a pastor, or leading a church or doing at men.
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But all of that that callings and ministries. We need to be very
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sure of it because if we try to do everything, then there's no focus
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and we'll end up not doing anything well. And it's something I'm learning over
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the years because I'm in by nature. I think I'm a person who's who's
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when asked off something, I'm I feel like I can't say no. I
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feel like I'm saying I mean, how many how many of us? Yeah
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like that? No? What? Oh? Yeah? Okay, sure you're
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changing. Yeah, we should start a support group how to say no wisely?
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Yeah, as the wife asked the wife to say no, yeah,
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um, but you know it's impossible to not say no sometimes, I mean
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we should say yes. Most times are say yes to God. Say yes
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to your leaders when when your home leaders ask you to come to homes rs
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VP, Yes, don't know when no, when your home's leader asked you
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to go for the community, Uh, say say yes, right, EUGENI
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Yah, Yeah. I mean we should have that spirit of like saying yes
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to God, right, But not every demand may come directly from God.
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Lah right, So so we need to know and decipher and have the sensitivity
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to the Holy Spirit to listen to what he's saying. Number three he prioritized,
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but I'm still at the other list. Go back once, like,
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Yeah, Jesus prioritize people that were lost, sick, broken, and meat.
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And I really see this in his life because he would stop to heal
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or meet the needs of people. And I think this should be foundational in
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how we how we prioritize that. If it's meeting a need, perhaps you
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need to look more into it. If someone is going to be blessed by
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it, we should think about it as well. Okay. Number four,
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he prioritized scipleship and investing into his disciples. So who is the person you're
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connecting with. Could be in church, could be in work, could be
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in school, who's that person that you're investing into. Who's that person that
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you're appointing that person towards Jesus? Right, that discipleship. Okay, you're
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good, have a plan. This gives us a glimse about what the king
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who Heaven is like, what Jesus deems important. Right? Okay, last
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p I'm doing good. So again you're a bonus piece. So it's price
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and price, price and price, price with a C and price with a
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z. Um. Let's look at Matthew again. The Kingdom of Heaven is
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like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field, and in his
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excitement he did it. He hit it again and sold everything he owned to
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get enough money to buy the field. So there is a price to pay.
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Let me prioritize Christ. There is a price to pay. We can't
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deny that. It's not going to be smooth sailing. It requires sacrifice.
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H Matthew six to anyone sick the Kingdom of God a birth all else and
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leave righteously, and he will give you everything you need. There's a price
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to pay. Um. See just how I mentioned about about my life and
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anything, I'll just sort of I'll be coming to a close souon we I
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mean I personally and and I believe my family. I mean as I lead
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my family that we always prioritize the things of God. Right, Um,
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we'll gain me an perfect, You're not perfect. But she had a little
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testimony of what Matthew six twenty one means or has men to us recently.
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So when, um, you know I served in the worship ministry, right,
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So we've been leading here. I think you've seen on stage and then
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recently Laura felt the leading to also come on the band to play the keyboards.
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So you've seen her here this morning and also the last previous Sunday.
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I think this is there the fourth time serving. Yeah, so pretty new.
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Yeah, so give her a hand. I mean, thank you all,
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thank you everyone for those who serve the house every week. Your Connie
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coming on soon as well, Um, Jenny as well. Yeah. So
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so a lot of like new faces saying yes to serving and and when and
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when Laura sort of mentioned that I want to serve because that's a need law,
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that's the need of key bodies, because she always sees me like alone
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there like playing acoustake, like so sad. Then she said, yes,
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I will lift up my hand and I'll say yes to serving God. Right,
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So so we had to figure out how it works, right because we've
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got three kids, and then what if we are all serving together? And
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I know many many families go through this dilemma of serving, especially young families,
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right, I mean all of us do. Like, for example,
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I'm gonna go to prayers EVAs on a Tuesday night, right, Like,
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Okay, how do we manage your kids? Like we got to plan something,
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and because you need to deem, let's say prayers. If it's important,
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you prioritize that they come with a plan. Okay, uh, like
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Jason goes there or Jazz goes back, showers the kids, feed them,
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bring all of them, like there should be a plan law for it to
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make it work. If not, you won't right not, you wouldn't prioritize
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at all. So so we failed to plan when Laura wanted to surf,
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because I remember the day before the first time, Laura self, I think
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Christine asked me, a what's gonna happen with the kids? Are like,
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who's gonna take care of Jayden? And that was like we played by ear
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Then I think I think Daniel suffered the first round because Jayden is ten months,
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right, and then you know he can't walk walk yet, and then
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he needs someone to carry him. So so we just saw whoever in the
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hall a free up today, please help us take care of Jayden. Yeah,
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haven't buy hi, Lune. Then he woke out his biceps that morning,
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right um. And then and then I felt a bit badl because like
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you know, what what happened is the next time Laura slves, then we
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both self together usually so I think after the ND as well. Help um.
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But but what I'm trying to say is we sick first the Kingdom of
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God and the other worries. Because this verse in my two chapter six vers
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to anyone. The verses before was about worry, was about anxiety. God,
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I've got so many things on my plate. I've got I've got to
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worry about what I want to wear or what to feed my kids, where's
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my money going to come from? So many things on my mind? What
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should I do? And and Jesus gave this verse, which is sick first,
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the Kingdom of God and his righteousness. And we saw God's grace just
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over the last three of our weeks. How Jaden could sit on his fram
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or stroller. Um, like the first time it happened during practice. Right.
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So what you don't see on a Sunday is we come at seven thirtym.
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We try to Yeah sounds a bit late. We try to come a
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sanity and we need to prepare this place, right, you know all the
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instruments and the sound equipment. Um. And then we have to practice because
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we practice on Sunday morning. And and we saw God's grace how he took
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care of the situation. Because there it's been a couple of weeks where Janden
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would just sit on the chair over here facing the stage looking at us and
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like he I mean no fast right and then and then's oh, thank God,
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no, don't to catch all Daniel or and d to carry him right.
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I mean there's one week Winson made the mistake of taking him out of
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the stroller. You never take the baby out of the stroll that he had
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to carry the whole time. It is like, so as you're gonna learn
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your lesson, he's not here today. Um, but we saw God's grace.
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He took care of what we worried about. And then he Janden started
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to be able to like sleep during worship, so we both could be on
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the stage and then someone just need to like rock rock your baby for like
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one minute, and then the guy just falls asleep all trial worship. So
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it happened today again. Or someone would help rock him and then he would
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follow asleep and then by the time he's done, we will be down.
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So we saw God's grace like sicky first, the Kingdom of God, and
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he will take care of the rest. He will take care of the rest.
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So the price me seemed to be great, but we have the assurance
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that God will take care of everything else, just from Matthew six twenty one.
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So when they put into a position of oh man, God, what
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should I do? That's the need which I feel you calling me to meet,
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or if I feel you're calling me to play this role, but I've
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got all these other demands in my life. The answers in Matthew six twenty
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one seek ee first the Kingdom of God, and you'll see it's grace.
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You'll see it's grace. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message.
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