Staying the course and preparing well | Pr Sandra Chin

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

will light up your day. I'm entitled this morning sharing, staying the course

and preparing. Well. Okay, so you know, if I were to

ask you, uh, do you have or would you know other names that

you would call like Jesus has other names to his name Jesus. We also

Jesus, right, amen, but there are other names that us are also

used to uh have to call him? What this? Or well to describe

him? Can you think of any bread of life? You just studied on

the Bread of life? Yes, yes, any anything else that comes to

mind? Yeah, so I'm not man, what else? Good? Share?

Put? Oh? God with us? Amen? So many right right

morning star? The Alpha and Omega man? Wow? Yeahweh So there's so

many and you know it just God is so big, right and this is

our privilege to know the Lord. So I wanted to share with you some

other names that I found out. Well, I read in the Book of

Revelation, and I'm sure you know this too, So I just give you

two verses Revelation chapter three and verse fourteen, Revelations three and fourteen, and

this was now this of course this passage is was the Lord, you know,

the apostle John on the island of Patmus. He was there, like

you know, yours his jail lot, and they just threw him there because

he was a follower of Christ. So they just threw him there, you

know, like you just go and waste the way. But the Lord was

speaking to him, and he wrote the Book of Revelation. And so this

chapter, chapter three was actually the concern on the church in Laodisha, all

right, the lukewarm church. But I'm not going to talk about that today.

I just want to look at this verse. Is this versus these things?

Says the Amen, the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation

of God. Wow, so many names the Amen. So every time you

say amen, you're actually saying the Lord Amen. It's so important to open

your mouth and say amen la when people pray amen amen nah, why because

he's the Amen. Hallelujah. Sometimes you know, if you're so tired or

we're just like bothered about we always say amen, say amen Amen because that's

the name of the Lord as well, like a description of him. The

Amen. All right, and then faithful, he's the faithful and true witness.

He comes riding on the white horse. If you were playing racist,

ah, you would want to bet on the white horse. JA. But

we are not la. But anyway, Jesus comes riding on the white horse.

Okay. And this is the one who sits on the white horse,

the Amen, the faithful, and the true witness, the beginning of the

creation of God. This is Jesus, whoa all right white horse comes in

Revelations chapter nineteen, verse eleven and twelve. I think, and it says,

now I saw heaven open, and we hold a white horse. He

who sat on him was called faithful and true, and his name is called

the Word of God. Wow. You know this is just a portion of

the name of God, the name of God, or the name that we

would describe Jesus. So I and all of us want to be like Jesus.

Min a right. We are all followers of Christ. We follow Christ

and be like Jesus. So one of the qualities I see here that we

want to develop and grow is faithful. Because my Master is faithful as his

disciple, I too want to be faithful. Amen, and he's true.

I can't be the Word of God love because Jesus the way of God.

But the Word of God lives in me and in you. Hallelujah. Jesus

lives in me and in you. So to two of these these these words

faithful, the true witness, the Word of God. Wow, that name

and as and and so as I looked at that name, we see that

you know that that this is our Jesus. He's faithful. And I think,

bloom, the theme is God is faithful. If you saw that just

now, God is faithful. Amen. Oh my goodness, you are not

alive, are we in ex church? You are so dead because I'm here

today. You are so dead? Why? Because I cannot let you keep

quiet? On? You make noise, makes our noise? All right?

Yeah, all right? Our God is faithful, hallelujah. Amen. And

you're gonna be talking about that at bloom and we we and adverse. They

taken it out from his second Timate to thirteen. If you were to read

this, it says that you know, we might be faithless, but the

Lord is faithful because he cannot deny himself. I'm you grateful for that.

Wow. If we all are faithless and I let you down, and sorry,

Eric and Cheryl, we let Chloe down one day. But the Lord

is faithful, he will guide Chloe. Because we are a man, sometimes

we will slip and yo, sometimes I'm faithless. But the Lord is faithful.

Amen. So we want to look at this faithful. So it's one

very clear quality of Jesus that he is faithful. Amen. And right from

the beginning till the day he returns, he remains as the faithful one,

the true Witness, the living Word, the beginning the end. He is

our creator, harleelujas. So what does it mean for us? What does

it mean for us if he is faithful? And so as I was reading

there, and as I'm going through the Book of Revelations slowly slowly, I

haven't gone and done big studies. I'm just reading it through again. This

is many times I've read. So this is another time and this is what

I spotted, and I wanted to bring it forward to us and to share

this with the church. Okay, So in Revelations thirteen, I think I

wrote the wrong word. It's Revelations thirteen, I believe, and verse fourteen.

Let's see if I got this. Okay, it's not Revelation three,

it's thirteen, all right, So you can turn your Bibles if you want

to check that. So Revelations thirteen, and it's verse ten, not fourteen,

because I cut and paser. Okay, it's Revelations thirteen and verse ten.

Okay, don't be scared when I read this or don't like Oh,

okay, wait the Bible, all right, this is true, this is

truth. Okay. So I can't read the whole thing, but I want

to capture something. I'll give you the background. So Revelations thirteen, verse

ten says, he which is Jesus who leads, he who leads into captivity,

you're going to captivity. And then he who kills with the sword must

be culled with the sword. But here is the patience and the faith of

the saints. New King James Nlty says, this means that God's holy people

must endure persecution patiently and remain faithful. Okay. So the scriptures before that,

before this is about you know, the beasts. I don't know who

this beast is. It is going to be something somewhere, someone or some

AI. I have no idea. Yeah, there are three beasts in the

in the revelation. I just realized, not one, not to three.

Okay, but they all come connect with each other. So there will be

a great persecution that will happen. There will be great challenges that will happen

as the time comes towards you know, the end times, and we are

still going to be here likely, uh, Hannah, things are going to

happen very quickly or no, maybe not quickly or solo we ud be quite

a while. So this this, these challenges, these are persecution, persecuting

times are going to happen, and uh and uh and everyone, every time,

every tribe, every nation are going to be challenged by the beast,

all right. Don't think of the beast like hurt bad dragon. I don't

know what it is that would be a dragon, but it's a picture.

When we see it in the coming days, it won't be just a dragon.

It will be something someone government. I don't know, it will be

there. But my my, my thoughts is, don't worry about whether it's

a best dragon, snakes or whatever. It will be something, all right.

But it's going to come against the people of God because we choose Christ.

So therefore the verses, whatever is going to happen, whether we will

be challenged, whether we will be killed, whether we will go through starvation.

Whatever he says, this means that the God's holy people must end your

persecution patiently and remain faithful. Next, so I've got my verses all mixed

up. I think where my cutting and pasting. So anyway, the next

verse is actually fourteen, the revelation fourteen and verse twelve. That's the next

the next slide. I'm so sorry, I think in my cutting and pasting,

So Revelations chapter fourteen and verse twelve an NLT. It reads, so

it's following through how these the beasts or the or the enemy of God's people.

Following through that there will be a lot of things that will be revealed

and comes really very shocking stuff that will happen. And this where the introduce

where they will introduce the mark of the beasts. And so we don't know

what the six six things will look like, how it's going to be.

Uh. They say that this mark will be either on your hand on your

forehead. Of course, if they tell you a loud like some ugly looking

thing, nobody want to take la. But you know it's gonna come.

It's maybe it's under your skin. I don't know, it's already happening so

there will be this mark. And if you don't take this mark, if

you don't want to take this, because we're all going cashless now, they're

just preparing us, our friends, all these casualless systems, don't touch this,

don't touch dead. It's only preparing us to force us to nicely eat

into the whole cashless system and society. And then we're like so easy and

as sometimes we as believers might forget that what is it? But you will

know that is something you have to make a stand forall. Okay, So

I'm not predicting and saying anything. It's just what the Bible wrote. I

just want to focus on something we can build on now. Birst Child says,

here is the patience of the saints. Here are those who keep the

commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And Nolty says, this means

that God's holy people must send your persecution patiently obeying his commands and maintaining their

faith in Jesus. Amen to the Beloved of the Lord this morning. Here,

if you have come to know Christ and you are walking with Jesus today,

I just want to encourage us with this. It will take faith.

It will take the faithful next light, and it will take faithfulness. It

will take your faith, it will take your being faithful, and it will

take faithfulness to endure all things. Now, we are already going through hard

times. Different ones of us here have different challenges at your work, law,

at your studies, and your family and your married life. In our

country, you know, our health. We already are faithd with different challenges.

But the challenges that are coming in a due time in the future could

be more thorough more worse than this. But if we don't learn to go

through things that are now still bearable, if we don't, then maybe when

that time comes, we may just melt down and cannot stand the difficult times.

So I want us to. I want to encourage us, I want

to challenge us. I want to challenge my own heart. I'm speaking You're

not because I made it a hallo. I'm still here with you, all

right, Okay, I'm I happy like my dad already, you know,

recently passed on our thank you la un before Usler, you know. So

he's he's there, you know, and he wanted so much to go back

to meet Jesus. And it's difficult. And if I can serve Jesus anymore.

I can't go to prison ministry, I can't play my guitar, I

can't do anything for the for the House of God. I want to go

home, he said, because he couldn't walk anymore. It was such pain

and really the lot to came home. WHOA, So he's finished his race,

but you and I are here. I'm here. So I need to

be faithful to finish my race again. And I want to encourage each other

to finish the race, the race of our faith. So we will take

faith. Do we have a faith? Amen? Are we going to remain

faithful? Whoa? Whoa? But then when he becomes so enduring, long

haul, you need faithful next then to pull us along, you know,

take us the long journey. Faithfulness. Amen. So I as I am

bringing this across to us because I want us to just remember some of these

thoughts when the time comes. And the verses in Revelation, especially the chapter

fourteen it starts from thirteen to fourteen, it does bring about a certain challenge

that will come again. I cannot tell you how it will look like what

it is, but there will be a challenge against the people of God who

choose to believe in Christ, who choose to want to follow Christ? Amen?

And therefore let us therefore get ready prepare? How can we walk further

and faithful before the Lord? Okay? And if there's one ingredient, and

we said, you know, the best ingredient nasillama is the symbol, then

the best ingredient in our faith will have to be faithfulness. It will take

only the not only faith faithful, but faithfulness to walk with the Lord.

Because we are because how Jesus is called the faithful one, we reflect our

savior. We too need to be faithful. Therefore, let's start with what

we can do. Are we a faithful friend? You know? Are we

faithful to the Lord? Now? Can I be counted as a faithful friend

to somebody? Am I faithful to my calling? Are you faithful to your

calling? Yeah? You know? What does it? What are the things

that needs to show faithfulness? Are you faithful with your child that God has

given you? Right? We just prayed. We have to be faithful with

what God has given. Don't just okay your problem? Right? Are you?

Oh? You know? Like? Oh yes, study, study,

don't study, barlay. You have to be faithful? Are we faithful with

the gift that God has given us a child? You're gifting your voice?

Or is it your business? You know you have the gift to make money.

Praise the love because the Bible says God gives you power to make wealth.

So are you even making wealth with what God has given you? Or

you're just quandering iron at my lond only are you? So? We be

giving what we have? Now? What do we have now that we can

be faithful with? And you can think about what you have now? Is

it the home that God has given you? Is it the school that you're

You know, you're faithful to your school? You payful with your church?

Are you pay for with your gift? You're faithful with this little car that

you have? Maybe then you'll get bigger car. Are you faithful you know

in taking care? Maybe even oh you you're serving somebody? Are you faithful

with that? You know? They say, you know a long time ago,

I used to serve these speakers that come. I will carry their bag,

I will sell the books for them, I will help do whatever loud

I mean it goes. Nobody say yes, yeah, I was a young

working adult, I was a college to I would serve them loud. Help

you sell see, I'll start, Oh, so they can hear the speaker

for thing or selling boat or or whatever you do. Carry the bag,

bring the water, Lisa, Yes, small small thing loud? Right?

But am I faithful to what I was given to do it? Because if

we're faithful with carrying the bag of the speaker giving water to the preacher,

one day God will give you real treasure. And mind you, real treasure

may not just be. It's not just money, lives lives, and if

you have a child, that is a treasure, real treasure. How to

raise this child? Amen? So can we therefore take it from where we're

at now? If I can learn, faithful nurse, some of us have

difficult children? No when they hit teenagers? I don't know. Yeah from

now? Very cute? No, you're what an angel? Sweet baby?

Right? Sadly? Sixteen years old? My mom? Bye? Then you're

like, you're not angel? Lord? You know? Are we gonna continue

to be faithful? Parent? Do faithfully parenting? Am I gonna be a

faithful you faster through? Parent? Is difficult? Teenagers speaking my life difficult?

Okay, we start from where we are now because it takes faith to

believe that God has called us that I have. I'm a follower Christ.

It will take my you know, for me to be faithful to follow Christ,

and I need faithfulness to see it through. Amen. We've got to

do it what we have and I believe we're not all there yet. But

God is transforming us. That's why we're in a journey, Amen, journey

this morning is I walked into church today, you know, and friends,

some of you are at the beginning of your faith journey. Some of us

are in the middle. Some of us I'm getting closer to the other side.

I'm lesser years to live than I have more years to roll down the

hill. So but as I came into church this morning, I just thought,

you know, sometimes we think you're many things on my baby, my

child. I'm thinking, oh, dear, I've got spo retreat tomorrow.

You know, I'm going to Osaka. I haven't finished this, I haven't

done so many things to prepare, things to pray about, get ready to

mix the planning for twenty twenty four and a lot just stopped me and I

just as I was standing with you worshiping, and just thought, Wow,

God just put this impression. Be thankful with your church. You have a

church to come to worship, You have church family to worship with you,

to encourage you. It's a happy day. I look forward. Do you

look forward to come to church on Sunday? I always do. I always

do, even though I can be really tired sometimes because a long week,

but I always look forward to the church and this one is coming here.

Something you don't think about that I can actually go to church because in some

places you can't even walk up to any church. You stay in your house

love, or go to some gonner. God has bless us that I have.

I could actually come to one World hotel and join a service here.

Wow. Don't take church for granted. People don't drag your feet to church

and say are you a church again this Sunday? Don't take it? Are

you? Say? Friends? We are not made for every day to have

black pink. You know, not every day you know you pupeter right,

and not every days? Oh my god, oh my god. You every

day want something newer. There's not a real life love, because real life

I ask the Father, the new Father, Jonathan. You every day have

to wash the poop, isn't it? Every day? You fit? Happy,

happy feeder? But the next minute is poo pink, you know,

at the same time, eat and come on, eat and come all right?

Are you you know, being a parent and these days like what did

I sign up for? I ask for marriage but not this parenting? Is

it fun? Friend? No? Way? Man? First time, y'all

are y'ah y'all yo? Second time? Like then on the one day they

have ten times? Way, well, nothing else to do? But why

poop feed white poop feed white poo? You know, is there is that?

Is that something very exciting? No, it's really oh my god,

oh my god. Right, it's not like, oh my god, my

god, this is my day. No, this one, my this is

so difficult to go through. Do we say forget your baby, I'm walking

out. We don't write your job? You think every day is fun?

Now every day got a new dealer? No, see your same face boss

there? You know the boss will smile you. How you walk out?

Man, if you have to put bread and butter every day on your family's

table, you cannot walk out your job. No, those of you can

walk out anytime, maybe because your father can help you. But the most

of us. I couldn't walk out on my job when my boss face,

I work anyway, work and earn the small little money back in the day,

back in the day, which you will never earned this day. You

only even work for that kind of money. But I lived in when the

dinosaurs walked so little. But you're still right because it wasn't exciting, not

every day, but there will be days when it's Maybe you're a firework,

right, I don't. It's not just not having any fireworks. It's just

worrying. Do you walk out? No, we don't, you see real

life. We don't want. We have to endure a law. Right,

we have to see your face of every day. Right. You cannot marr

every day from your parents. So you you you stick, you, you

just you just your faith. You're faithful, and it takes faithfulness to see

it true until God makes that change. When that happens, I don't know,

but he does. He does. Some things don't always turn out.

Friends, you think you know, I also got my own challenges. Friends,

it's tough. It's tough. I have my own challenges, and you

know I'm still waiting. I got your child war a faithful So the way

where you still put me to this thing? Why why like that? Never

change so no answer means what carry on? Yeah, carry on? Fair

fight fight fight. Hey, I don't like it. I don't like No

answer means I know already as a child God, carry on, carry on,

faithful, just do what you know you have to do. Amen.

So that is that is what really is for us to to to be transformed,

and God is slowly transforming us from the inside out. We can sing

songs, but when you're going through the real difficult tears, very difficult,

right, you get you sing from the inside out forget you right, but

yeah, heal song all write those songs you sing? You sing that now

you're going to We can sing, not can singer, not all you you

know tough, but that's where your faith goes through the heart. Grill meal

everything, grill you like crazy, but you still come on stand the faith.

Amen. And you know the one, the one, the sound of

the voice of the Lord that you want to hear as you enter into heaven.

So I'm giving you a future. As I told you, Earth is

not permanent. You're just passing through. So if you're going to invest anything,

make sure you're investing in your eternal life eternity, because when you get

to the purlygates of heaven. You want to hear? What do you want

to hear? Friends? Some or you can tell me, yeah, well

done, good and faithful, servant, not well done, handsome boy,

well done, wonderful investor, No, well done, good and faithful.

So that all depends to you. What do you think Jesus is saying well

done, good and faithful? Or he didn't? The word faithful is there?

Or why? Because our Jesus is faithful. So if I'm going to

look anything like my Jesus, because he's my master, my father, I

guess that will be a quality he's going to be looking out for. Amen.

Come on, the father's here, mother's here, where you birth your

child? What are you looking for? You see your face? La your

child? My child, not a she's not my child. How you gonna

sing this song? Billy Jean is not my child? Yeah, yellow,

you're gonna get Billy Jean right. So you you you want to see yourself

right in your child? Don't you think heavenly Father birthed us in his spirit,

washes in his blood forgiven us, gave his life for us. Don't

you think he's transforming us to look like him? And one quality out of

so many there's so many la But right now we're talking about let's make it

and finish the race when you enter, you know, not wonderful songs you

wrote, not you're ong No, I love every girl's playing like wonderful playing

love of music. But that's not even what he's gonna say. What is

he gonna say? Good and faithful, thank you for using all that I

gave you, and you're faithfully doing what you're supposed to do or whatever I've

told you to do. Amen. What that faithful means to you is to

you and to me. But God is looking for faithful people, faithfulness and

your faith. Amen. So we look at Matthew twenty five to twenty one.

Remember this verse. Yes, we were talking about talents, talking about

the money that was given to these three guys to go and invest. And

you know, again Jesus talked about money a lot. But that line that

I want to capture is these are the words he's going you're going to look

forward to when you go in. Is the first things I love you just

said, my good and faithful servant. Man. We got to get ready

to be doing what we ought to be doing, so that we hear this

because anything less, I'm sure we are going to cry. But the first

thing is we made it to have and then we have to hear this word

ready. And if you didn't go to the polygate, send me not there

means gone, okay, then you really cry. But we want to make

it and that's what we want to do, encourage one another. So we

long to hear these words. And it does mean faithful. What is the

revelation versus that I read with you just now? To endure to everything?

It's God's people must endure and your patience patience, But what does that mean?

Being faithful? Right? Being faithful? So coming to church sometimes can

be like God, no new exciting things are Sorry, love friend, I'm

not here to entertain you. We are here for one audience and it's God

alone. And I tell you He's not bored with the same song you sing

every morning for my quiet time. I sing the same song. I know.

I'm alwayship leader by I only like one song, and it's such an

old song I cannot share with you. It's so all listen from song,

so excuture song and when I sing them, sometimes sing the same song you

know, like yeah, I love you same song. It's not I write

my own songs like I just make it melody. And but I know I

realized I sing the same song. And I say this thing to Jesus every

day. And one of the things I say to him every day, because

I truly mean it, is that God, thank you for your mercies.

If it was not for God's mercy, I don't think I can walk today.

Great is your faithfulness, and I'm grateful. And I say, you

think God is bored, I realize he's not bored. You know why,

because when he writes his letters to us in the Bible, he says the

same thing. I also say, God, why you say the same thing,

But he keeps saying, don't have you have you read it recently?

Though the way it's written, it means the same thing he's writing to us.

He's reminding us and reminding us. So I also reminding God, please

don't take your mercy away from me. I really need your mercy. Amen.

And so really, friends, we must end your all things that are

going to happen to us, or if we are going to it and ask

for God's grace. Really, what is grace? Grace is something we cannot

have but the Lord gives us the strength that we may finish well and then

finish well the race. We may start bad, but please don't end bad.

It's okay. We all have very funny starts, all right. We

can have false startler you know down, game over it in real Olympics,

your false start game over ready. But regardless, we need to know that

we can make a better end. We can. We can. We can

start badly, we can look bad, but we don't have to end badly.

That's where we are preparing ourselves. Stay the cause and prepare well.

So I therefore came to this verse as my key word to encourage us.

Is Hebrews chapter twelve and verse one to two. Yes, Hebrews Chapter twelve,

verse one to two. Everyone you know this verse. I'm bringing a

reminder us. This is more simplified intense. It's not so intense when you

read revelations war intense. This is going to just help us break it down

a little bit. And you may have heard it before, but let's hear

it again. Hebrews twelve, verse one. Is it correct? I'm there?

Yes. Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great

a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which

so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurur rance the race that

is set before us. Here you are. You and I are in a

race, not in a red race to climb the corporate letter, but in

the race of our faith to keep our faith. That the devil is wanting

to rob you off. That's what he does. He does the same trick

to to make us turn our backs on God. But friends, we have

to endure, all right? And how do we do that? Looking unto

Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy

that was set before him, endured. Friends, look at the word he

endured, the cross. I don't think anyone on planet Earth will ever be

able to endure the cross the way Jesus endured. Try nailing your finger,

now, are you? It's not even the word He'll be right? Who

say all right? So you know Jesus didn't even say, I say,

you know, he's like right here and you're the cross. I don't think

it wasn't just a nail. It was his feet. He was pierced on

his side, He was crowned with the thorns of crown. He was slap

beaten, and he had already been whipped thirty nine times short of one.

That's the rule with a flagellum with little bones, to strip your skin every

time they whipped you. And and they don't just whip me, they whip

and they pulled. So his skin was all torn, his face was all

marred, normal face, normal. It's just nobody will ever go through this

ever again, because he wasn't just hung on the cross of fence. He

was first beaten, then put on the all all bare flesher, and then

on the cloak you know how painful there is, and then take it off

again, take got a little so we really right, this is this is

the whole body he endured, and despising the shame, he was left to

hang naked, and he sat down because of all that he did, He's

then sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. And therefore

for us today, as we and I have I think we should talk about

the future. And that's why you have to read the Book of Revelation.

As much as we don't understand everything, it will be revealed because and the

verses actually say pray for wisdom to discern what this means. So I'm not

here to predict, because I don't believe in predicted. I believe in what

God will say to us. But I think more importantly is how we can

prepare ourselves for that dark and doom day and maybe we might be the alone

not no friend there. But we've been doing this for many years. The

mundane, the borying, are yo sing three songs? Are you take communion?

And this? Some people say, I want something more exciting, friends,

The exciting doesn't save your life. It's the boring, right, who

likes eating the you know those days? Oh my mother made me eat Scott

emotion? Oh you I tell you it's so bad. You know, I

won't fada. It's boring right now, got nice days and now all kinds

of ju see you know that's not hair mather make you swallow? You swallow,

cannot swallow? Right? Boring? But we were all strong and healthy.

Yeah, So the narrow road leads to life, the wide road leads

to death. So we got to choose our battles now and think where do

we want to go? So number one, let's look. Number one,

lay aside every weight, and this is demisa, friends, I was sixteen

years old when I came to Christ and I saw this verse. I am

now nearer sixty, and I'm still trying to lay aside every weight because the

weight that I had at sixteen are different from the weight that I will now

have, and I still have to lay it off. What is that lay

aside every weight? Well, Hebrew says, lay aside, lay aside the

weight, every weight. And the sin that's so easily ensnares you. So

there are things that easily triples someone. What is it? I don't know

what it is for you, but that one thing that keeps making you every

time you want to start and surf, go and do something for the lot.

Every time you want to, you know, do your quiet time.

If something pulls you back, you can all wake out, lie you this

lia you that la ah some what is that scene? You know? It

could be I don't know what that sin is. I don't know what that

weight is. Sometime weight sometimes you know, burden of things or so can

weigh you down there and make you cannot pray. It's true, you know,

when you're worried about something you forgot, you cannot pray already because it's

too much and you don't even have strength. That's why we need Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit come and help us pray in the spirit. Praying tongues cannot

pray and understanding ready, it cannot really your words cannot come out right.

But we are to lay aside that heavyweight. And what is that sin that

we so easily and traps us? Is it unforgiveness? What a lot of

us are caught in unforgiveness? You know, we're caught on and we have

to ask ourself a hundred times did I really forgive? Or I'm not that

we did yet. It can be hiding somewhere in the cavity of our lives,

hiding, hiding there, wondering, and you see that person thinking,

yeah, then you know that you haven't forgiven the person that right, Yeah,

you have to go to pray against the lord. I understrender. Try

to surrender everything like that, because you don't be burdened down. You don't

have sickness, you know, you don't have some cancer some days later because

you're holding unforgiveness, you know, or whatever else that comes with unforgiveness.

A lot of things are from hurt cannot forgive, to bitterness, to depression.

All these kings come together one package or one happy family. No said

family. Happy family is different now, so there one packation? So what

is that scene? Is it? For me? As a young person,

it was always a guy? Oh my goodness, are you that's the word?

Are you always some guy trying to date me? Right? Then,

I'm like this silly girl. Well, as always said, I waited fully

for you, I'm happily dating everybody. Are you, you know, always

a guy? Why? Maybe in your you know, said the like,

you know, just wait, just trust God? Right, one came fishing

for you and all the tears that I cried because you know, like why

so do I go into this relationship? Right? Is that that the one

that's tripping me up? You know? Or is it crossing the line in

some relationships? If you are, are you crossing the line that he's also

seen? Right? Is it the bad words you keep saying? Is that

tripping you up? Is that stealing your faith? You know and causing you

to trip down? Is it? I don't know, I don't know.

Only you know what is the one that you feel that makes you feel like

I'm not worthy to come to the Lord, and yet you can come to

the Lord with the dirt, with your baggage, and give it to him.

Because Jesus came down from heaven, a very beautiful, clean place,

holy place, to walk on a messy earth and to take our sin.

So he's not a shame of us. He's not scared of your sin.

He's not scared of But we got to not keep walking in the same way.

You need to turn repent, and you cannot be compromise. Friends,

the moment you start compromising, you will never experience the fullness of the faith

of God. Sorry, I don't know think of anything in your life that

you compromise you. We cannot get the pure thing one Allelujah Amen. So

lay aside every way. What is that thing that you are struggling to give

up? We need, we need to to give it to Jesus. But

the devil also knows what is your weakness, you see, so he will

tempt you the same the same way he needed to. If he'll do it

to us and we lap it up. We think he got new tricks.

He doesn't. He has no new tricks. It's the same tricks. See

with your eyes like the thing bye by doing alama sin? All right?

So what is those things that were trippers out? I've asked myself. Yeah,

I'm gonna keep myself right before the low, holy, before the low.

Holy. It's not a bad way, it's a good word. I

know your friends say you holy cow. All you tell them where you're gonna

find a holy cow? Nila, real dealer, holy cow you Nila,

holy God Ilaze. No, I don't need some bay young can't talk okay,

okay, lives. No, it's holy, it's not it's a beautiful

word. It just means God has made you right. Wow. And we

run away every time we go with our friends and they said, yea,

are you holy girl? And you you I don't be holy. Let me

just do everything else. No, you are set apart and set apart.

People know what God's stand is, because that's just now. The revelation said

follow his commandment and dore all things follow and keep to Jesus, stick to

him. So are you and I following his commandments? Or are we compromising

because you think God is going to be okay with our compromise. No,

I've been there, done that, and really feel badly cannot compromise because God

has his dreams for us, his plans for us. He is so beautiful

that he cannot allow any dirt to be in there. That's why you become

a pearl after much irritation. Oh you are you know, irritate that oyster

until he's so irritated that you're like speed out and then you get a pearl.

You want to be a precious pearl. But the pearl will not become

a pearl if it remains compromising. Are you compromising your relationships? Are you

compromising in your business deals? Are you compromising in your whatever's hidden in your

heart? What are we compromising with? I also have to ask myself,

Rands. Yeah, I'm not talking to you like I talk down. No,

No, same sim We all have to search a heart. What are

we compromising that he didn't scenes hidden? Hi didn't thinks? Wherever? Better

go it? Lay aside all these heavyweights, heavyweights, Yeah, at the

weights that just burn push us down and say you will never make it.

You tell the devil, I am gonna make it because Jesus set me free.

Already, Get your fingers off me, Get your ugly dirty fingers off

me. Yes, that's my sin, that's my past, but it ain't

my future. It ain't your future? That was my past? I yeah,

it's whatever I did therefore works already so near mine. I had God

layer side. But you have to choose. As you choose, he will

empower you to overcome. Why do we have to lay a side. We

have to lay the side so that so that we can really focus. All

right now, he says, here, layer side is in that so easily

ensnares and then let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

Okay, so the first one is layer side everyway. Secondly is to

run with endurance. Okay, rhyme endurance. First, run with endurance.

So while you lay aside, you need to run with endurance. Houla run

you know, don't walk, walk a hole slow, Run away from the

devil, run away from the dedation. You like girls standing right, you

have mama, but you run. You don't touch, not yours, don't

touch. Okay, ah, okay, don't hut. Run with endurance,

run away from temptation. Don't say I think I can. I think I

can. I'm strong enough, and then you go. But that's the thing

in life. We think we can, but actually we can't, because we

will end up again. The word is compromising. You cannot mix dark and

light, and dark cannot not because the people are better. No, it's

just that's how God is. He told you something, follow it. That's

his command. Have you been reading his word when you read him, If

you say this to you, then you follow. So he says, don't

let this sin that will so easy and snare you. But let us run

with endurance the race that he set before us. Now rin with endurance.

Also means this, while you are walking your faith, your faith, and

you're walking in your faithfulness, in your being faithful, then the difficulty will

come right, the challenges will come to try and pull you. So that's

when you have to run with endurance or walk your faith with endurance and your

yes temptation, don't turn, don't turn, don't turn, don't turn,

don't look, don't don't look at that new card. Don't know, don't

know, No, no, don't know. Oh that package do you don't

know? Just I know that Christis called me to do this, So I

gotta go there. Unlessen this is what God. You know you look at

Christler, But first of all, you got to end your meaning. You

need faithful nurse to get through the challenges to get through the many difficulties.

Friends, many there are in life we do have. It's so many things

that are thrown at us to discourage us. Why why do we have to

drive endurance? Because every fiery that of the enemy is to discourage us,

to cause us to have doubts against God and to finally get us to turn

our backs on God and walk away from his promises and walk away from what

God meant for us. And that was my story that God had a calling

today. I'm here, friends, I might not have I might not be

here. I would not have been here if I didn't make those choices.

Then I don't know where I would be if I didn't say no to that

relationship, that relationship, that relationship because I just wanted to get married.

Because God had a better day for me and a better plan than what I

thought. I gave up on God's plan that I would meet someone you know

or whatever. I want to be missionary right so already, but I think

no, likee, God forgot me and I was going to settle for the

first guy, second guy, the kid. But the Lord knew that I

would be here today with you. I couldn't see it, and so I

had to go through that heart breaks, heart aches or whatever they had to

go through to finally go very narrow and then finally meet that man, mister

Chin, and then to walk together. Right, And this was the dream

I've always had, but I never saw it. I couldn't see it here.

And time was sticking, biological clock is sticking, getting older, so

late, already late. And he's not married. I know the boys can

connect, but the girls will and and then your panic, and you panic,

and then and you just set And I was just going to settle.

Not wrong, to get married. It's not the wrong I'm saying. What

was God's plan for me? I could not see this. I've never saw.

I never seen this. I wanted to be a missionary, but I

didn't think God would call me, so I would settle. But but you

see, you have to run with endurance. What was ensnaring me had to

be let go, but go ahead to put all this here, so that

I had to go everything and keep running with endurance. And then how do

we rhyme with endurance? Looking onto Jesus, focus on Christ, focus on

Jesus, the one who who who captivated my heart in the first place,

and that's what we all need to be captivated by that. Friends, I

don't know what persecution you and I go to. Some of you have gone

through persecution when you became a Christian. While your parents say no means no,

you better deny Christ now. So you just tahn on. You know,

Conar left right, But you kept your faith. Some people in China,

Wow, they gave their life to keep their faith. I don't know

how they did it, but I remember this story. The the I think

the soldiers or the government came in and this is back then, you know,

back in the day, and they bushed into a church and then they

said stop all activity. And then they took the picture. They had the

picture of Jesus, and they told everyone, you come and spit on the

space of Jesus, and if you do that, you'll be saved. So

the kind leaders that church thought, to the sick of my members, I

will go in spit. So they went in speak thinking that this is to

help my church, right, And then came one one other guy and he

said spit and he said, no, I can't, why not? You

will die? I can't. This is this is this is the God that

I worship. This is China and said, well, so they are going

like, oh, no, he's gonna go. You spit now or you

will die. Do you know that? He said, no, I can't.

This is this is my God. And so they finished everything. They

shut up the thing. They I don't know how it went, but what

happened was they finally actually took the lives of all those who sped on the

face and sped the ones who didn't. That means there were others who haven't

speed yet, right, but there was this one who wouldn't. He was

sped and was so with the rest. But the ones who did, they

said, if you can spit on if you would spit on the Jesus face,

that means you can spit on Mazi Don's face. Look, you're not

faithful to your leader. But this person was so faithful as leader. I

believe he can be faithful to the government. That kind of persecution almost to

death. And then there are others there others in Iran, in Pakistan where

you know, young people come to Christ tell their mom so happy, and

the father will saying that the one story was you give up your faith.

Right now you have an opportunity to study in Oxford you are going to go

And he said no, I'm not going to give up my faith. He

took the daughter and threw her out the window. I don't know. You

call it a waste. I don't know. Persecution, that's the persecution for

the stand for Christ. We have a different kind of persecution, perhaps in

our country. I don't know. We haven't gone face to face with it

yet, even sometimes telling our relatives, you know, Chinese background, we

go. You know, I'm sorry, I cannot. I cannot do the

bye pie and all the I will stand there, Kanda, how can Tana

not? Can you end up? These are I don't know. Some of

you have gone to very difficult persecution for your faith, for your faith,

and when some hours never had to go to that. I mean, I

really didn't have to go to a lot for my faith, not until that.

But some of us have, and some of us may never understand why

others would suffer that kind. And I can tell you we are going to

go through even worse challenges because it won't be it will be other things,

and may come from within the church. Just to be relevant, we may

compromise. So I don't know. I just know that each of us are

will one day have to stand before the Lord at the judgment seat of Christ.

I don't know why he's going to ask you and me, but I

sure know I need to finish my race. Amen. Come on, guys,

whatever it is, you're gonna left right, and sometimes you are alone,

and you're first of all lay aside. If you've laid aside everything,

then now you just have to endure. You run with endurance the Pullah.

Nobody understands me about my stand or my belief, And how do I run

with endurance? I must look unto Jesus, the author and finish of my

faith. I cannot. I'm not as brave as many others. I hope

to be brave like them. I've not gone through the worst yet, but

I prayed I will be brave at the time when it will be needed for

me to be brave and to stand for what I believe in and not back

down because of fear. So I don't know what those things are hit.

If you read the Book of Revelation, you will see a lot of pictures,

and yet the scripture says, ask God for discernment, what is it

for us? And look at the signs of times? What we're going through.

So what should we do now? We need to prepare well and we

need to stay the cost. You've got to know that Jesus is worth following

and serving and stay the cost. And if you and I have compromise on

any grounds, please do something about that compromise. Bring it to the Lord

in prayer. If you can let it go, let it go. Whatever

is a compromise, you know, I don't know. I'm just saying.

I'm saying ahead of time things that have not yet happened. But when it

does come, you need to know you are following the King of kings,

the Lord of lords, and you want to go all the way with Jesus

because this is his word, and the word is in revelations just now.

It means that God's Holy people mustn't your persecution patiently and remain faithful and remain

faithful. This means that God's Holy people must end your persecution patiently. Again,

it says obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus. Okay,

So even if someone else in your family has compromised, doesn't mean you have

to compromise, because you are you and you have to stand before the judgment

seat of Christ. For us who are believer us in Christ, we will

go to the judgment seat of Christ. We won't go to the other,

the great white throne. Judgment is why you never accept Christ. This is

what we already accept Christ. So now he will ask us about the things

that we were supposed to do as a child of God. Then did we

witness? Did we use our gifts and talents? So what do we do

now? Now? As I said, is to be faithful with what you

have. Now, as I said, I'm not the predicator. I cannot

prophesy what I can't prophesye, we will have persecution. But what can we

do now to only grow our face strong and to ask God where you should

be at the right time, at the right place, because we have to

run with endurance, and if you at the wrong place at the wrong time,

you will be sucked in. It's not so simple to follow the crowd

people, because this very really means about following the crowd. At the end

of the day and all this, everybody's going there, more popular, you

go gone. Man, if that's not where God wants you to go,

you are also compromising. You need not seek the Lord, all right,

so I feel that we are at a time and stage in our lives when

we need to prepare well, prepare your heart well, prepare until we see

Jesus, look forward to hear the words, my good and faithful Servant.

That's what you want to hear. That's what you long to hear, and

and and and you know we can only do that by just saying, Lord,

I want to be walking my faith. I want to be faithful,

and when times are tough, it will take faithfulness to go through it,

the faithful faithfulness to go to it. A man church, it's for us.

If you don't know Christ yet, well, you have other things that

you may be going through, and it still takes faith in where your faith

is. There's a question lack even for us who believe in Christ. We

also have to put our hearts right before the Lord so that we can remain

faithful. Amen. And please don't throw in the towel, but take the

faithfulness of God that's over your life, and you also have that faithfulness in

where you're at. Amen. Don't don't give up so easily. Really,

that's what we're saying, right, don't give up so easily. Whatever it

is, just end're with patience and your and your miss Dahn and go to

it. Maybe no one else will understand your tears. Maybe you feel it's

unfair, but it's never about whether it's fair or unfair. It's always about

doing the right thing, the right thing, Attract God's presence in your life.

Attract God's favor even when nobody else favors you. We must stand and

don't follow the crowd when they tell you, Jesus is there, Jesus is

here, here's the latest thing, here's the latest that. If we do

that, you will never know how to make a stand for yourself. Amen.

And that's where the boring sometimes is what gets you to the finishing line.

The boring, but then it's like that long because that's why people don't

carry on, like this is boring, But you carry on, you will

see the light at the end of the tunnel. Amen. We hope you've

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