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Do Not Be Deceived - You Reap So As You Sow | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

  2. will light up your day. Galacious, Chapter six, verse seven. Galacians,

  3. Chapter six, ver seven. The word I got was the word is

  4. that, don't grow weary, don't go tie it, don't go exhausted,

  5. don't grow at the place wherever you feel like fainting giving up because the coming

  6. days the world is challenging, it isn't it true? Right? The rising

  7. cost is really occupying a lot of our hearts and mind. And I was

  8. talking to one young working a doubt because I'm in food time for the I

  9. mean, I mean food time for almost twenty over years really, so I

  10. lost touch with a lot of corporate stuff. So I was asking this you,

  11. okay, dot, how do you beat inflation? How do you how

  12. do you beat inflation? You know you'll have bonuses us, Like I say,

  13. food time. We don't have bonuses, all right, And that's a

  14. lot opens up the windows of favor, but that we have direct access to

  15. the lot of no. I say it that how do you beat inflation?

  16. Just a general question? Is it that I've come to a conclusion, all

  17. right? After working ten years, investing in a lot is I come to

  18. one conclusion. You cannot out be inflation. All right, there's no no

  19. matter where you put your money, there's no one sure bet, safest bet

  20. nothing at all. He said. The best thing I have learnedly say that

  21. if the Law hasked me to give, I'll just give because I know in

  22. obedience is a written I know in obedience is a written And that's why he

  23. told me that this years and you will see giving. The Law asked him

  24. to give us some that He's like, sure, not a lot to say

  25. yes, just give and he sold. He sold that mound of money.

  26. Then five months later he got another bonus with the same amount. Just want

  27. to let you know, God knows what we go to and you know at

  28. the end of the day, because I just thought about it, it's true

  29. right that unless you believe, you will now come to the world to experience

  30. right. So Galacious chapter six, verse seven. Galacious chapter six, verse

  31. seven. I shall read it from the New Living Translation. So if you

  32. have any other translation, you could just follow true with me. But the

  33. New Living Translation says that do not be sled. Do not be be sled.

  34. Okay, I think this is or deceived. Do not be be sled

  35. at one translation, New King Jameson, do not be deceived. You know,

  36. sometimes we look at the scripture that you cannot mock the justice of God.

  37. You will always howards what your plan. You always read what you saw.

  38. I think as I look at this scripture, I thought to myself that

  39. maybe, and perhaps after the journey of being a believer for some time,

  40. we think that we one minimum effort, maximum return, minimum effort, minimum

  41. sewing, minimum giving, maximum return, because why wait, after all,

  42. it's between you and the Lord. After all, it's between you and the

  43. Lord. There is no policeman right now. There's good to the world is

  44. whether you give or you don't give. There is no one's going to the

  45. word is that our host. It's not that terry yet, all right,

  46. hold offering back, But then you put in the offering it hey where you're

  47. like, oh hey, just like a bit more? I think the Lord

  48. can should the Lord speak to you right now? Right? No one know

  49. what? No one knows, no one. No one is policing how much

  50. you give, how many times you serve, or whether you could do or

  51. quiet time or not. There is no police. There is no prefect guarding

  52. over your life. But in our in our innocence, in our understanding,

  53. sometimes we think that doing a five minute devotion would give us a maximum return

  54. of one hour Bible study. A five minute somehow already a really scripture for

  55. the day from your daily Bible app would enable you to have a better understanding

  56. of the Bible. Now we can come to a place whereby whereby we are

  57. rushing for different things in our life. I understand. But if our attitude,

  58. if our approach to the things of God by thinking, oh, maybe

  59. I just do five minutes, Maybe I just pray for five minutes, right,

  60. and therefore I have access to all the God has promised me the scripture,

  61. do not be be sled. I think it's good enough for us evaluate

  62. our own hearts. Have we come to a place whereby we are deceiving ourselves?

  63. This is a really tough crowd exclaim. Have we come to a place

  64. whereby we think that by doing this that minimum, that we can get a

  65. maximum return. Because deception is that I think I just do enough, or

  66. I just The word is that I just do a bit, I cow up

  67. with the rest. The word is I cow with with spiritual lingo. So

  68. that everyone know that I am still on fire for God and many times our

  69. journey, if you're not careful, we think that by doing that we can

  70. get God's attention. God's a blessing. But the Bible here is whatever they

  71. do not be misled. You cannot mon the juice for God. What you

  72. will always hawers. What your plant, you will always harvest what you plant.

  73. The scripture here says that you and I and the words that you and

  74. I need to plant something to harve us. There is no two ways about

  75. it. You have to plant something in order to harvest. But the question

  76. here is this is that what are you planting in your life? What are

  77. you sowing into your spirit? What are you so going into your mind?

  78. What are you sewing into your future? Many times you want the word is

  79. that we want God to bless us, try not come on. We want

  80. God to lead us and guide us. But the Bible heres is to not

  81. be be slept, because if we are not paying attention to the smallest of

  82. detail, then we will not give attention to the big details in our life.

  83. For example, I have got I got a message and prepared right now.

  84. It's got things I allow in my life, things I allow in my

  85. life. Now. Most of you who stay in terrace houses, you get

  86. cleaners, you get good neighbors. Sometimes true trash right along the road,

  87. and somehow the wind get blow the trash right in front of your git right

  88. not and in the midst of them the words in the midst of your business.

  89. It's o Kaila, it is only right now. The most thing that's

  90. get blown out in front of my gait is that your facial mass right somehow,

  91. oh right, there's some people show the mass somewhere, open the door,

  92. the masks felt out, Then the mass somewhere right there, the wind

  93. blow right in front of your dog git. I'm hoping that the mask is

  94. broodegradable, so I don't pick it up. But what I'm trying to say

  95. is that I have allowed different plastic men to get blown in my game because

  96. I'm so tired. I'm so tired a lot I just the world. I

  97. can walk in there and just ignore everything, But my wife can't praise a

  98. lot. That's why the lots so kind. I also know that my wife

  99. will pick it up the side I refused to look at it. But here's

  100. the thing, right, things allowed. After a while, I begin to

  101. notice that my weeds and my garden begin to grow. The world is like

  102. you're talking about being fruit food. I don't understand that we can be fruit

  103. food in reach, but not planting, not be fru food in the actual

  104. plant they want to plant. They can be your garden get me full full

  105. in reach. No, but the actual plant you want to plant. It's

  106. not for food. I got a pine apple that have grown for the longest

  107. time. I felt like killing it. Has one that's bad about food.

  108. Really, I was hoping the food to be huge so I can just share

  109. on internet say hey, look at me. You know I have I got

  110. green figures. But my min was like slightly be good than someone tumbled on

  111. it. That's all. That's all right. So I have things that I

  112. have allowed in my life that I look into my own house, the tapes,

  113. the takeaway tup wares, allowed to be kept in my house. Some

  114. of us here we got enough to take away the disposables or two generations because

  115. we allowed it. So here says that you will always harvest what you plant.

  116. So what have you been planting? What have we allowed in our lives

  117. that's been planted not by our own design but by other people Sowing's not b

  118. dc, friends, to be think that we want if we want to reap

  119. that you and I need to plant correctly. Worse it worse it those who

  120. live, those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will howards,

  121. decay and death. Those who live, those who leave to satisfy their own

  122. sinful nature. Now, what drives the sowing, what drives what you saw

  123. is the nature. Whether you're sow in the flesh or you're so in the

  124. spirit. Whether you're sow in the flesh or you're so in the spirit.

  125. It starts, friends, none of us us will start off in life we

  126. say we want to do bad things, but we never say that. If

  127. we grow up in life, you want to be the worst student ever.

  128. You go out to the working world, you want to be the worst employee

  129. ever. Right, none of us ever will see that. But it starts

  130. with the small little things that we allow in our life. It's okayla,

  131. right. And the more we think that it's acceptable, the more that will

  132. get goals bigger and bigger. So the Bible here says that those who live

  133. only to say the old sinful nature. But how is the care and death

  134. from its sinful nature. We're talking about sinful nature. But you know,

  135. to a Christian crowd and say, oh, but I'm not sinfu. I

  136. don't the words. I don't steal, I don't kill, you know,

  137. I don't. I don't jet people. But if this nature is not being

  138. renewed, if this nature is our minds not being renewed, we have come

  139. to a place whereby sin is at our door, knocking at our hearts.

  140. Because you're always going to lead us, because there will be temptation that come

  141. along your daily life. I don't know I should share this stuffout, Maybe

  142. I should look here. I'm not gonna make any reference against but so that

  143. so recently, um, there was a meeting that took place, all right,

  144. no name influential, Okay, there was a meeting that took place.

  145. And so I came back and I was given up about the meeting, all

  146. right, and uh, the ladies that way from the meeting came out to

  147. how do you know you should see you know this, This person that presented

  148. the presentation right addressing was so dast shot, right, was so low.

  149. I was so distracted. These are ladies up. I don't understand that there

  150. was a guy in the meeting. There was a guy in the meeting,

  151. but he didn't even bother at all looking at the lady. He was looking

  152. at the piece of paper, and and and here's a thing. How do

  153. you train yourself not to luka? How do you treat yourself not to be

  154. distracted? Then all these ladies asked his wife, how do you treat your

  155. house will not to look at other girls? Because clearly he wasn't distracted?

  156. Is it what was she wearing? I didn't know there was cccting. Those

  157. who saw in their own seafood nature will rip, deaf and decay. So

  158. why have we where have we been sewing? Friends? Where have you been

  159. saying? The next parb scarier? But those who live to please a spirit,

  160. we are howards an everlasting life from the spirit. Those who live to

  161. please a spirit will rip ever's lasting life. The words that we all want

  162. everlasting life, friends, We want the life that's free from pain, challenges

  163. one, the life that's free from diseases. The question, therefore, is

  164. and where are we sewing? So I'm going to sell of the message.

  165. Actually that's not my message, acuity. So by the man, So I

  166. took the messages throughout the window. But you know this is this is my

  167. key's text of scripture, which I'm going to read. Do it. So

  168. this part of the scripture here says it was dead or verse night. So

  169. let's not get let's not get tired of doing what's good. Come on right

  170. now, Xli, let's not get tired of doing what's good. All right

  171. now, the word good of friends, I've come to a conclusion. All

  172. right, it's very subjective. Just like getting good food. There are people

  173. in extras I will never ask for food recommendation, never, never, because

  174. they say all this place is good. I actually went, I went like

  175. it's an over glorified mama food. Really nothing wrong. We didn't know,

  176. but I was. He built my explanation up up here. I went there,

  177. it's just like mama food on the nicer plate. Nothing wrong with them,

  178. but just that you don't people expectation up here and just being like so

  179. good is very subjective, come on, right right, not very subjective.

  180. And I realized that many times our own Christian world, we use good.

  181. We interpret good based on what we understand, now what the Bible says,

  182. we interpret good based on what we understand. But not what the Bible says.

  183. And that's why sometimes we go weary, because the Bible he said,

  184. do not go weary in doing good. You can only the world is that

  185. be refreshed if you do things according to God's definition of what's good. If

  186. you're going to go by your own strength or your own definition what good is,

  187. that's where we can go tie it. That's where if I feel like

  188. giving up, I fe exhausted because you're going all all of the way for

  189. good. But that's not what actually what God defined goods. And just at

  190. the right time, you will reap a how's a blessing if you don't give

  191. up. So there's a couple of points here, right, So one translation

  192. put it this way. One translation put it this way. Do not That

  193. means it's really to you. It's new King James. Where's the new King

  194. James? Here we go. Let's not go wory in doing go worry about

  195. doing good for a new season. We shall reap if we do not lose

  196. heart. So the key text is going to be these friends, do not

  197. go worry in doing good for a new season. You shall reap. How

  198. do we not go weary? Friends? Point number one is that focusing on

  199. God's faithfulness. You and I today need to focus in on the faithfulness of

  200. our God. The only reason why sometimes you give up is because if you

  201. look at worse seven, the earlier worst we talk about sewing. You know

  202. we can get tired of sewing. You keep doing something, but you don't

  203. see results. You keep the words that you are on the I say,

  204. for example, you are serving in church, and after a while, right

  205. truth be told, it's the same face as maybe one to new visitors.

  206. The smile, the initious smile that you have in serving becomes a front because

  207. there's no more strength in your facial masterity. Same faces, same group of

  208. paper, the same group of paper. Sometimes you will leave things behind,

  209. which drives you up the war one. So in the earladays of church,

  210. right before all the technology came in, that I will try to wig up

  211. my way from One of the biggest responsibilities ever wishes to hold the keys to

  212. the church premises. Whoever hold the key to the church premises will always get

  213. phone call, phone call to open up because some innocent partner forgot to take

  214. things back. One of my worst we ever got so one. So earlier

  215. days of church, we used to run four services on Sunday. Four services

  216. on Sunday one Sunday, and we are in church by seven a m.

  217. In the morning. We leave ches by about five pm. About six thirty

  218. in the evening, I got a phone call, Hey, eld sorry,

  219. I left my things in church. I thought to myself killer, come back

  220. tomorrow or come on Tuesday? I thought, how things are come on?

  221. When you think about people living things back? When do you think water tumbler,

  222. bible o kailler by? Should people live byble believe the world of God?

  223. In church? Right? The notebook? Their pants, friends, handbag,

  224. la handbag. I don't know how many ladies who leave their hambag in

  225. church? How those this without touch and go without You can't survive without your

  226. wallet, your purse, money, this. I left my handbag in church.

  227. This is not like after church with this like after three couple of hours

  228. sold only to realize my handbag was still in church. I went like,

  229. I've really felt that day that that that my phone didn't work. I really

  230. felt that I would say I'm so sorry, I mean lucky right now,

  231. I can't tem bag take me three hours? I want to make also for

  232. excuses, really, because who leaves hambag? Come on, who leaves?

  233. Who leaves hambag? Come on? Any of your left hambag before in church?

  234. Huh okay, okay, don't say yes, so I was tired?

  235. Are you were tired? And stuff like? But friends, you got to

  236. remember God's faithfulness in our life because that will bring the world. Is that

  237. when you start remember what God has done, why He's allowing us to go

  238. through this pathway. It brings strength. Now many times in marriages, sometimes

  239. that it's it's the next fifty years or sixty years of your life long.

  240. There are some things that you like, somethings you have to pray about,

  241. something if you have to cast out the demons. There are some things only

  242. because that the things that you like brings excitement and joy. But sometimes really

  243. the journey of it's you. You have to do it. You go back

  244. or the other part your your your wife is busy, your husband is busy

  245. that you have to attend to it. And if you're not careful. Friends,

  246. we can come to a place where about your dread. It's always me

  247. when you think our eyes focus of the Lord and just focus on our own

  248. strength. Isn't this word keep playing on our lips. Why is it always

  249. me? It's always me serving, It's always me by many times, if

  250. you don't depend on the on God's faithfulness, remember God's faithfulness, we will

  251. always draw strength on our own. And it comes to a place whereby it

  252. is not healthy and it's not good. And God this one he wants to

  253. remind us again that do not be deceived. God is not more forever.

  254. Why we're ment so you will also reap if you're continue the word is so

  255. to so in our mind it's me, it is me the other, and

  256. it doesn't stop their friends. It is me that the person not doing his

  257. job, that the leader's not doing their job. It's always picking on me.

  258. What happens, you're gonna so see its Ultimately one day you reap,

  259. which a then you don't like to eat, and many creatures are eating food

  260. they they have never they don't like to eat. So God is good to

  261. whoever keep to his word. When the journey is long, we always want

  262. to take shortcut one. Have you ever get stuck in the traffic jam during

  263. the festive season, We're always look for a shot cut because we don't like

  264. a stencil traffic. We don't like when things are going so slowly. I

  265. have a lot of friends whereby they jump for one project or another project because

  266. excitement drives them. But what I put in life wherever the excitement all died,

  267. and now it's in cruise control that you cannot forcing to go faster.

  268. What happens then? It's almost like the journey of the churn of Isuel in

  269. the wilderness for forty years, same landscape, says Leandscape. It's almost like

  270. Earth's going to work, the same traffic jam, the same kind number plates.

  271. Roughly, you know who the people are on the streets, you know

  272. what, where or what you really but it's the same. But what's our

  273. attitude in the midst of that whole slowness is to remember God's still fitful at

  274. the end of the day. Because many times we want to engineer our own

  275. escape, we want to engineer our own deliverance, we want to engineer our

  276. own break show. We want to force things before it's time. I can't

  277. wait. I have to date, says the primary school kid. No so

  278. these days, because being older, I can ask bar so what issue you

  279. allow your daughter to day that I heard my mom say that thirty years old

  280. so over, yes, thirty years old. I say, well, that's

  281. let's let's talk about it, because I know you dated at fifteen. So

  282. I just right, when the journey stop, we run, take shortcut and

  283. get Chapter six or seven reminds us that our ripping is very much dependent on

  284. what we sold. Right. So the more shot cut we're taking our life,

  285. friends, the more shot cut we're taking our lives, which God and

  286. have never asked us to. We will rip stuff that we don't like.

  287. One we'll rip stuff that we don't like. All right, Now, let

  288. me go to the next scripture worse here Romans chapter eight thirty five to thirty

  289. seven. Romans Chapter eight thirty five to thirty seven, all right says that

  290. who, okay, you can just version right, whoever separates who, who

  291. can separate? Who shall separate us from love of Christ? Shall tribulation,

  292. distress, persecution, famine, nikedness, or per or sword? All right?

  293. But in modern contexts, okay, you won't face persecution or neither you

  294. face famine. But what we face is that can our daily challenges separators from

  295. the love of God? Can the lack of money in your bank account separately

  296. from the love of God? Can being singular age of twenty five separately from

  297. the love of God. And many times, if you don't put into context,

  298. we think that God don't favor me, God don't love me. It's

  299. very important for you and me to understand the scripture. Who can separate us

  300. from the love of Christ. When you are stuck go almost like increased contrary

  301. in a place whereby you're not, there's not much excitement on the outside.

  302. Remember that God still loves you, that He has never abandoned you. Because

  303. we like the truths, we like action. But when action or disappear,

  304. friends, remember that God is still in control. One day we will age

  305. and whereby things do not go as fast as how we like it to be,

  306. but God is still in control. You and I need to come to

  307. a place whereby God you're in control. Whether it's fast or you're slow,

  308. whether the situations can the break two are going to come tomorrow or the Briture

  309. come in in year's time. Call you're still faithful to me Lord, because

  310. why do we give up? Why we've grow tie, it's because we keep

  311. meditating. I want to break you by tonight there's some situation whereby you need

  312. to break you by tonight. But most time I know that God takes its

  313. time in terms of the right timing for us. God is never late.

  314. When he's just right on time. He knows when we need it and when

  315. the words when we can handle a blessing, He's never late. He is

  316. never late. Friends, So you and I need to focus it or good

  317. who can separates from love of Christ? Friends? Verse And yet in all

  318. these things we are more than conquerous to Him who loves us. For it's

  319. you and I can only experience that we are more than conquerous when we are

  320. in a situation, not without a situation. Many times you want to be

  321. a conquerors. We want to show that we can overcome, but don't like

  322. to be in a situation to overcome. Many many crisis say I am more

  323. than conquerus to Christ will prest a lot, But when you go through that

  324. fire, it's a different. It's a different story. After all, we

  325. claim that we are strong, but when you go to the fire, we

  326. are like thou food. We claim that we can overcome when we go to

  327. the temptation were given. You and I need to come to a place where

  328. God, if you'll lead me through the fire. I know that I am

  329. more than a conqueror, because it takes a spirit like that to go to

  330. something. Why do you think that God enable you to claim the scripture because

  331. He's a really preparing you to go treat. Now go around it, friends,

  332. many Christian please spare me, let me go around it. And God

  333. wants us to remind us today that I'm preparing you to go through the fire

  334. of your life because they come on, isn't it true? There are days

  335. whereby everything so slow right now doing the legacy project, friends, those are

  336. culture. There are days whereby nothing gets done slow, like really slow.

  337. We started this project somewhere in September, declaring it right now it's it's almost

  338. going to be one year. Friends, it's only three thousand square feet.

  339. Then they will know that three thousand to three months can count him very easily.

  340. But this is like slow. That this something my approval. So I

  341. went the number process, I mean, my proval to the local council somewhere

  342. in the I started the whole process somewhere in the October. By March or

  343. April, I got only the bomber sid I we prayed, we declare God

  344. Scripture shot of going around the local council to work all like seven times ago

  345. the walls of Jericho. Right, there are days where but I text he

  346. say, hey, how is our application? Do we like that? Low?

  347. It's in the system. You wait, And none of Christian likes waiting

  348. on friends, because we want it now because we believe God's God of now.

  349. But God's also got our patience. So friends, you and I need

  350. to believe that we are more than complas we can all come the impatience of

  351. our life. Friends, because to Christ who loves us, we can all

  352. come the anger in our life, because true Christ who loves us. So

  353. the next time, if you are in a situation whereby you want the engineer,

  354. you want the force, claim the scripture of God. I am more

  355. than conquerer. The next time, if any guy tells a girl they say

  356. that you're not good, just leave the guy. It's true. No girl

  357. should be put down that way, no one. In fact, if you

  358. said the other way, no guy should be told by the girl you are

  359. not good enough. This is could be the other way round because the guy's

  360. a more sensitive disease. But true friends, so friends. Therefore, yet

  361. in all these things come about come on, yet, in all these things

  362. we are, we are what come on, exc and you're so tough like

  363. this morning, work with me. Yeah, in all these things you are

  364. more than Amen. Come on to him who loves us. Friends, you

  365. have a girl who loves you. Do you know when God loves you?

  366. Friends, When you love something, you protect something. When you love your

  367. child, you protect your child. When you love your child, you feed

  368. your child. I think I think this is I think because I do understand,

  369. so sorry, side check, okay, I still want parents. One

  370. parent delling the child break first, Okay, what's this sausage? Sausage?

  371. What's this? Asking the dad asking Jod, what's this? I think it's

  372. five years old? What's this? It's pointing the sausage, bad food,

  373. And we're like, wow, what kind of childhood is dead? So very

  374. different right now they said cannot eat healthy? Freaking okay? All right,

  375. side check, sycheck okay, parents, and let the child a five years

  376. old sausage doesn't good for health? Okay, good for them, now right,

  377. I'll take all the sausage, friends I got, will go on,

  378. all right, Second, chronicers, so Corinthians fault? Was it to ten?

  379. Second Coritians fall it to ten. We are pressed on every side by

  380. troubles, but not crush. Come on right now, Why how can we

  381. survive and not grow tired? The Bible here says we are pressed on every

  382. side, but not crush. The ability to understand that even though we are

  383. surrounded by daily demands, it will not crush you. I pret you cash

  384. in your spirit though you're surrounded. You're surrounded by daily demands, but not

  385. crush. If you are a leader in our church, sometimes the messaging is

  386. overwhelming. It is true. I have to first of them say that I'm

  387. not very good with in some messages, especially group chats. It was one

  388. of the most evil things ever invented, ever serious act. That's me.

  389. Okay, I know some praised a lot. Okay, you help me to

  390. hand in my group chets, all right, But those are who don't like

  391. group chats. You understand. You wake up fifty messages and you're expected to

  392. read it, all right, blast all the other peoples up up, all

  393. right. But you can be pressed on all side. The moment you see

  394. an answer email, don't something the words that beef overwhelmed like you couldn't breathe

  395. and here biblesis it we can be pre pressed at all sides, demounts from

  396. work, debarms from ministry, demands from home, but not crush. That

  397. is a scripture that you and I need to claim and so into our spirit.

  398. It says that we are perplexed but not driven to despair, hunted down

  399. but never abandoned by God. Come, I explained you could be your boss

  400. could be looking for you. Also, Kay, the one wiva in our

  401. church. I say that house work although I got no breaks Sunday after service

  402. and to go back to work Saturday. It's a food days. And I

  403. can't come for prayers, I can't come for homes and everything like that.

  404. In fact, I have to apply leave to type my resonation at the I

  405. don't okay, it got this to the exaggeration point in the radio right seriously,

  406. so cut all right, so exaggeration, but I have to apply leave

  407. to a type by resonation letter. I'm sure exit resonation letter. You get

  408. this type right now? Interested with your type of radio? Right? This

  409. individual is telling me that elder, I have to apply leave to type a

  410. proper nice resonation letter, ex properly. So this maximum exeguation. Way hunted

  411. down, I said somewhere like brother, your faith, your faith, you

  412. can but so it didn't see it. Now, nothing wrong. He just

  413. couldn't see it. And sometimes that's the demand that the world puts on this.

  414. You're hunted down. If you've ever got hunted down, okay, I

  415. don't think so that. But you ever got chased by dogs before? You

  416. understand? Come on, you know your childhood days, you've got chased by

  417. dock before? Oh no, some people never okay, putting right, I

  418. got chase by Do you ever get chased? But you understand? You try

  419. to outrun. You cannot outrun the dog. You can't unless psycho. Yes,

  420. but it was sometimes Yeah, they could nap your your hue there right,

  421. unless hot dog. You can the hot dog anytime. So my wife,

  422. my wife, I keep taking her. When you see a dog coming

  423. at you, just don't move and just walk all right, trance to say

  424. now bike She panicked, She panicked, She started run. I see why

  425. you run? Then she felt out, Okay, she looking, why did

  426. you help me? I told you really don't run? I see the rule

  427. of the lawsuit applies is that if you're walking in a pair as soon as

  428. you outrun the other person, that the other dog chease, that the person

  429. of walking slower than you. But if you get will get chased, or

  430. you cannot outrun the demands of life or friends, the dogness chasing you,

  431. even your cycling friends. It will somehow whether you and you because you are

  432. in a state of panic. The Bible here says that God would never abandon

  433. you. God will never abandon you. And there's something we need to think

  434. in our spirit whereby when we are alone in our demands, our world or

  435. family, God will never abandon you. If you're having problems, you're marriage,

  436. you're crying all by yourself. God will never abandon you, never abandon

  437. your friends. He will carry you too. One of the things of being

  438. a chase that we cried to other with couples in our church whereby one partner

  439. is not Christian, who has an affair outside, a mistress outside. Sorry

  440. this to detail for your So we cry together with our church partners. I

  441. say, God will never abandon you say, I know. That's why I'm

  442. still at peace. I'm not killed my husband yet her words deside, I'm

  443. at peace right now, I'm I know, I'm angry, but to the

  444. point whereby I'm still like I know that my gods will loves me. I'm

  445. sad, I mean tears, I know my God still loves me for you

  446. and I need to come to this place where by a realization that this God

  447. that we serve and love will never abandon us. Because there are days and

  448. moments in your life you know that the bank account can never save you.

  449. You cannot show money to save a march. It can provide relief, but

  450. you never save a marriage. You can't just show money at every situation.

  451. Money will solve every problem. It can provide relief, but never solved the

  452. heart and colt issue of things. Knowing that our goal would never abandoned us

  453. helped us. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. The

  454. Bible says friends, even though you get knocked down, you're doubt on the

  455. floor, but you're not destroyed. I'm taking my time with this message because

  456. it's so important for us to understand it. If we have never got knocked

  457. down before by a car, I did. I was cycling back from school

  458. trying to cut a fallen just like that. Then halfway though, I thought

  459. there was no car halfway a proton came. I banged the door. I

  460. went bump up a few times. Everybody looked at me. I was all

  461. right, I was instead of shot, but I really thank god there was

  462. no on coming cut on my lane. The Bible says, you can get

  463. knocked down, friend, but you don't have to stay down. It's not

  464. a nice feeling to get nut down. Friends, think about it. None

  465. of us here. If you ever play a physical spot to get nte down,

  466. it's now a nice one. So recently I was talking to a non

  467. Christian um UH contact of mine. She was telling me that her son uh

  468. was playing basketball and trying to get the ball from the individual. The guy

  469. just lift up. It's hid it bang. Uh. My friend's son's eye

  470. hit and uh. He didn't think too much about it. He was in

  471. pain by continue playing. Didn't think too much. It was so he started

  472. rubbing his eye, rubbing, rubbing and stuff that after for eight hours it

  473. just felt exclusiating pain. Exclusiating pain. It's called a mom. Mom My

  474. eye right now is in pain. I think I need to doctor. The

  475. mom said, what happened to you? Then describe? You should have saw

  476. a doctor immediately, bought the son. Do see a doctor. Doctor,

  477. just say, look, I got set news for you. Your son has

  478. lost eighty percent of his eyesight. Eighty percent of his eyesight. Now every

  479. were the individual receiving the news, I felt the whole the whole word just

  480. crushed out you right, just collapse on you, just like what I was

  481. telling this. My friends said, I know, I understand the feeling.

  482. One day, twenty four hours ago for eyesight, twenty four hours later,

  483. eighty percent gone, but almost like almost blind new on one side, twenty

  484. year old. So I told this to my wife. My wife takes her

  485. and just say, look, I'm praying for your son. Just want to

  486. let you know. The next day she got up again, she prayed for

  487. the sun, say hey, I just want to let you know I just

  488. finished praying for your son, and I know your son's going to see full

  489. up doctor, praying for at least America to happen. Came back after that,

  490. saw the doctor, after hour, saw the doctor again. Doctor said,

  491. look, right now, I saw recovering out your sons at least for

  492. forty five percent to fifty percent of eyesight, but it's going to be a

  493. long process. When I saw this lady. She said, please thank your

  494. wife or praying for my son. Not Christian, please tank your wife or

  495. pray for my son, because I really appreciate the prayers, because I don't

  496. know what to do. Friends, you could be knocked down, but don't

  497. stay down. And too many Christians, I've been burned before. That's why

  498. I don't do it. I tried this before and I don't like it.

  499. And because of our experience, that's why we never experienced the other problem.

  500. Scripture not destroyed. We get knocked down, way stay down, but we

  501. never experience the fullness of the Scripture. We see that, but not destroyed.

  502. We avoid, we get known down, we woid. But friends,

  503. christ was abuse by the rare people he came to safe. He still went

  504. all the way to the cross in his hometown rejected him. But the healing

  505. also was meant for his hometown. You and I need to understand that we

  506. get knock down, but please don't stay down. Exclaim please don't stay down.

  507. Some of us I stay down in our spirit, but please don't stay

  508. down. I trust the past before and I got hurt. Please don't stay

  509. in the place the Bible here says we are not destroyed and true the suffering.

  510. Our bodies continue shared in the death of Jesus, so that the life

  511. of Jesus can be seen in our body's threats. Friends, you and I

  512. want the life of Christ, but do have the life of Christ. Our

  513. ambition has to be surrendered. God have your way. As I bring this

  514. to a close the next ten minutes, I think I'm supposed to end there

  515. m lamentations. Wow, this is the first ecuady From Lamentation Limitations Treat twenty

  516. two to twenty two to twenty three. We said, you know where limitation

  517. is like something the old testiment. All right, he's like looking would from

  518. Limentation before Limitations Treat twenty two to twenty three see anyway, okay, stays

  519. that the faithful love of the Lord never ends. Come on, explain the

  520. faithful love of the Lord. Oh you can read from the NLT Okay,

  521. and that it's easier to understand. Right, The faithful love of the Lord

  522. never ends. Is mercy never sees? Come on, the faithful love of

  523. the Lord never ends. That you and I as a close friends, how

  524. do we not grow weary and grow exhausted and continuing? Good? Is this

  525. that remember that the faithful love of the Lord now ends, heals our life.

  526. One preacher put it this way. You know, Christian sometimes we forget

  527. what it means to be a Christian. And he described this as Genesis chapter

  528. two said men are formed from the dust dirt. Dirt is just dirt,

  529. la right, But because it's God forming the dirt into man. God has

  530. ship and modest. God did not shape the tree through his fingers. He's

  531. spoken the thing came out animals, and he said, God shippers with his

  532. fingers, right, he said, is that the dirt became life and got

  533. brief into the dirt that you and I too, they need to understand.

  534. And God breathed in those becomes alive again. We have a soul in us

  535. and we become alive, a living being, not just being a living being.

  536. Because God give his breath to us as we remember the faithful love of

  537. the Lord, the words, it gives us a breath. God loves us.

  538. When you know God loves your friends even though you go through tough time,

  539. that you know that she never abandoned you. Physical abandonment is very real.

  540. Me and my wife. Sometimes you look at how preacher ministers in different

  541. settings, and one of thing she was highlighting to me was these that you

  542. know in the Mandarin circle, in the Mandarin language circle. She was saying

  543. that a lot of preachers like to use this word as they're praying for people.

  544. Is that the preacher will pray that people will experience the love of God

  545. and the often often spirit feeling abandoned, feeling it all by himself, being

  546. an often often spirit would be replaced by the adoption spirit, because many times

  547. a lot of people's just I'm just I'm just often I'm just all by myself.

  548. I'm just nobody cares, nobody loves me, I'm just neglected. And

  549. seeing the manusircle is very real. A lot of times they feel neglected,

  550. they feel all by himself, trying to find their own identity. We're so

  551. outworking and just go out there the world just to get money, just to

  552. put forth on the table. But insights so empty, and God wants he

  553. remind us the faithful love of a lot never ends, his mercy, never

  554. is his worse than the tree. In my last scripture from the day,

  555. great is his faithfulness, I want to exclaim, great is his faithfulness,

  556. not great, this is his power which is fantastic. But great is his

  557. faithfulness. How do we not go weary? Remember that our God is a

  558. faithful god. His fitful in his healing. He's faithful in his provision.

  559. He's also faithful with his protection. He is faithful in leading and guiding you.

  560. If only we allowed it, he says, His mercy begins afresh each

  561. morning. Very important for us to grabs us like close and one encouraged exclaim

  562. when we understand his mercies are new every morning. Friends, it's like having

  563. a reset button. God, thank you so much. I can have strength

  564. to start all work again, to face the fears that it's in front of

  565. me. See until unless we come to a place whereby we understand this are

  566. sometimes we can go tired. Same thing again, simboltine against simple So the

  567. Bible is encouraging. Do not go weary in doing good, for in due

  568. season you shall reap. That promise of ripping is not from the word of

  569. a man, but from word from the Lord. In new season you shall

  570. reap. I have a friend I know was praying for his parents salvation for

  571. almost thirty years of his life. Thirty years of his life, and at

  572. the end of the thirtieth year, the parents came to know the Lord.

  573. Thirty years friends, praying the same prayer everyday. God, please my parents

  574. who come to know you. Shelley, when she accepted Christ was in the

  575. ten started paying praying for a parents' salvation about I think ten years ago the

  576. mom came to know the Lord during Easter. The father true, the whole

  577. series of health came to know the Lord. Now it's at least open for

  578. Shelley to pray for him last time doing than anything. Way now is open.

  579. Friends. It may take a while for prayers to be answered, but

  580. it will surely be answered as a closer. Now, I want to encourage

  581. you sometimes the words that I said this, this is this part whereby there's

  582. a tightness in our spirit really because like or maybe I've seen the chest setting

  583. before, I've heard the same songs before. I've seen it before, I've

  584. done it before. Now I've been older already. Maybe it's for the young

  585. crowd, But if you cantinly have this mindset and this approach to what God

  586. wants us to do, we'll miss out a lot of stuff. So what

  587. is it that in our life that the word is that we have stopped doing

  588. which is good? What is it that in our lives we have stopped doing

  589. which is good? Because the Bible here says, did not go weary in

  590. doing what's good, for in due season you shall reap as I close right

  591. now, I know the scripture you have. You have did it many times

  592. before. But if you soon, if you keep sewing good seats, you

  593. shall reap good harves, good seed, good harvest. Friends, There is

  594. no two ways about it. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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