Secret | Pr Daniel Chong

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will light up your teeth if you have your Bibles turned to it, if

you can remember recited by heart. And this is what we're gonna do together.

Amen. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He

makes me lie down on green pastures, and he leads me beside steel waters.

For what he restores my soul. He leads me in the path of

righteousness for who his name? Say? Okay, you're a black y'all know

the Black Church? Ready? Go, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will

fear no evil. Why why with me? With what? Rod and your

staff they comfort me? But how you prepare a table before me in the

presence of my enemies? My head with all this was what Eli was saying

earlier. And my cup runs over so much oil, and you run over

what else? What else? Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the

days of my life. That's it. That the well in the house of

the Lord, forever, forever, forever. Amen. Amen. Man,

Today I'm gonna share about the word secret. My wife was asking me.

We were talking every time I'm scheduled to preach, I always like have a

discussion dial out with her. And then she asked me, what what?

What is? What they got place on your heart? Or you gonna pach

what I said, I'm gonna preach about secret, don't tell you so today

I'm not gonna tell you too. But I'm gonna invite my friend down.

Victor. Can you come, I'm giving my hand, give him my hand,

and I'm gonna borrow your cue. Is that okay? Is there?

Okay? Uh? And and what I'm gonna do is gonna mix it,

mix it and he's gonna attempt to solve it. Okay, okay, all

right, so here I go. You makes it? Okay much bandai?

Okay? All right, come Victor, go solve They give you a hand,

give your hand. Shame on? All right, you can do it?

All right? There you go. Look he solved it. Why are

you laughing? Sold you? All right? You mentioned my shirt? Okay?

Thank you? I keep on the disc Can can I hold on to

this? No? Okay? Hold litterally true back to me? Can they

take to me? Okay? Then when you go back there, see,

Thank you very much, Thanks Victor, Okay, So what he just did

over there was he solved part of the Rubik's cube, right part of the

Rubik's cube. And sometimes in life it's like that. Sometimes in life,

our life is such a mess. There's so many things going on in your

lives left right center behind, and you try your vest to solve it with

all your mnd in front of pressure. You try your best, you solve.

You use all kinds of strategies, you use all kinds of technologies,

use all kinds of wisdom, but yet you are left with one side that

it's solft. Maybe sometimes on a better day you got tool sides, three

sides, and then suddenly you trip and you fall, and the whole Rubic's

skull fall on the floor and you get scrambled up again and you have to

really start the process again. Can I say this that life without God is

like attempting to solve a Rubik's cube that cannot be solvet I actually wanted to

take the Ruby's cube and pluck out one one one cube and put another color.

Then as you to redicate solve it, we can't. We just can't.

We'll read you from Sums ninety one and we're gonna talk about this thing

called the Secret Place, all right, the Secret Place, the little background

on some snenty one. The writer is unknown. We don't know who wrote

it, but it has the patterns of David, you know, the ways,

the style. But he has the content of Moses. So you don't

know, because Moses rites some ninety So we don't know who wrote some ninety

one. But it's okay regardless of who wrote it. But if the style

like list King David. But we're gonna read. We're gonna read. If

you have your Bibles, can you turn with me to some ninety one and

we shall read the Word of God. If you're there, say yeah,

yeah, the word walk, true value, shadow. Yeah, here we

go, Here we go. Verse one, He who dwells in the secret

Place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the ninety. I

will say the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God.

In him, I will trust continue. Surely he shall deliver you from

the snare of the fowler pa stilance. He shall cover you with his feathers,

and under his wings you shall take refuge. His truth shall be your

shield. And Butler, let's go on. You shall not be afraid of

the terror by night, nor all the arrow that flies by day. Let's

go on, know of the pestilons that walks in darkness, nor the destruction

that lays ways at no day. Come on to get tired. Now a

thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand,

but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look

and see the reward of the wake. Come and pick it up. Because

you have made the Lord who is my refuge, even the most high your

dwelling place. No evil shall before you, nor shall any plate come near

your dwelling. For He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep

you in all your ways. In your hands, they shall bear you up.

Lest you dash your foot against a stone, you shall tread upon the

lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent. You shall tremble

under foot. There we go fourteen. Because he has said his love upon

me. Therefore I will deliver him. Come on, getting softer, now

I will set him on the high. Because he has known my name.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be

with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him with long life.

I will satisfy him and show him my solvation and can take a their

breath. Okay with our Oh God, bless you. I'm done. I'm

done. You can go. Okay, such a nice passition, re right,

such a heartwarming ends with God showing us his salvation. Let's explore a

little bit on the word salvation. Can we do that? Do we have

a slide for that? All right, let's keep it there. But before

we get to salvation, if you have a Bible, I love to turn

the Bible whenever I preaf because you know I'm not dead. You know well

versed with my grammar. So I use the Bible to make my grammar better,

because the grandmar of the Bible is perfect. Right, So let's turn

to Genesis three, verse seven, and we shall see what happened there Is

he on the screen somewhere or else? Actually, we can help me with

the verse so that people can follow along. Okay, here we go.

Then the eyes of both of them were open, open to what and they

knew that they were. Are you naked in in the in the States,

are they will shout out naked? But in Malaysia, somehow naked like yourn

they and they sued thick leaves together and made themselves coverings. Why why why

did they do that? Do you know what led to this? Okay?

What led to this? There was a commandment that was given, an instruction

that was given, do not partake off the fruit of the tree of knowledge

and good and evil? Right, do not, for if you partake of

it, you shall surely say okay, okay, So you shall surely go

six foot under at that time. I don't know how who defines six foot

okay? Anyways, you shall surely die. There was a commonment instruction that

was very clear and was given. Okay because dam if now before you go

on the line and saying there, Adam and Ila, they are the one.

Because of them we are here today. No, I would like you

all to reconsider that thought, because if you, Adam if, I think

you so were failed even way worse than Adam did. Okay, So if

you have, I could have thought that if I was in Adam's place,

I think all the ways in heaven. Yeah, you wish, you wish,

okay, you wish okay, So what will we separated from? We

were separated from God? First thing, the moment we partake of that fruit,

see the language amusing. We we right, because we are all in

the size of Adom, right, besides being signs of Abraham. But we

we partake of the fruit, and we lost the intimacy of God. The

moment we party on the fruit, we were cast out of the gunner Eden,

no longer being able to be near God. We were shameful. We

will we will. We felt that we were naked. It's not that we

were not naked. We were naked, but the realization that we were naked

was what caused the shame. And we were separated at the instance. What

else will we separated from? And Adam and Eve eventually died because you were

said that they shall surely die, the soul will be separated from the body.

So not only we lost a spiritual death, not only we gain gain.

Not only we kna spiritual death, but we can now physical death,

or so it's a thing now in the days of edyth. And if there

was no such thing before they partaic off the fruits, they don't know what's

the meaning of death, right, But physical death is now a thing.

Spiritual death is not a thing. Eternal death is not a thing. There's

an eternal separation from God. It's no separation from the presence of God.

How many of you are parents in this house and you own a kid or

you have a kid, you've been blessed with a kid below the age of

ninety nine? Okay? And then how much of you here our child children

and you own you have ever parn Okay, everyone, everyone, Okay,

now imagine this. You are now separated from your beloved. Okay, You're

gonna use Rachel as an example. Belived Ariel. How long can you be

separated from Aero four? Not long? Not long? You will miss sir,

you will miss her. You will long to be in the presence of

Ariel. You will long because it's a love. It's a joy that comes

with having a child. Right, and imagine being separated forever? Okay?

It kind of a cross the hitler. Okay, right now, So what

that was the eternal separation that we had from the presence of God? And

that place is in hell? Okay. In health in Efficiency says that only

by grace that we are saved. I'd been saying amen to that, for

by grace you have been saved true faith, and not of yourself It is

the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. So

if you're not catching this yet, it is only by grace that you have

been saved. Only by grace that you have been saved true faith. And

here's an important part, and that not of yourself. It is the gift

of God. So does that answer the question of why do we need to

be saved? If you're a believer. If you're not a believer, just

think of a child and a child that is so innocent, but one day

unfortunately that child will. Let me tell you a lie. And where the

sea picked up from. We don't know the mysteries of this world. But

if we as believer us, we believe that we are born inherently with sin,

that the moment we took that fruit, sin entered us and we could

not be with God. And without the presence of God there's a lack of

holiness, and without holiness we are then we're no longer if we good,

since sinest part of our everyday life. So gonna share you three phases of

salvation. Here we go. Not gonna take too long here, But the

first phase of salvation is this word called justification. Now it's a very you

know, big word, but it actually comes from a passage in the New

Testament. It says, as such were some of you, but you were

washed, you were sanified, and you were justified in the name of Lord

Jesus by the spirit of our God. Justification is essentially the past. Okay,

something that has already happened. I have been saved from the penalty of

sin. Come on, okay, someone say amen to death. I have

been saved from the penalty of sin. But now the righteousness of God,

apart from the law, is revealed, being witnesses, being witnessed by the

Law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ

to all and all who believe, for there is no difference, for all

have sin and fallen short of the glory of God. This morning at eight

fifteen, I illustrated by getting some people to help me do there with the

time for that. But I asked the church that if there is the serial

uh uh uh put it, let's just do it. Rachel, come,

let's just do it. Rachel. Come, you stand over here. Okay,

And Rachel is sorry, it's but I'm going to I'm going to create

the imaginary thing. So there's an imaginary triple tower between Triple Tower in Malaysia,

which is the highest in the world. And you were in charge of

the plane that crashed into the tower. Okay, as you are, okay,

Albert Albert. Okay, before Albert Albert, send the meddow. I

need I need someone that looks very nice. Uh, okay, Rich Rachel,

come rachall yeah, sorry, Now some browning point is coming on here.

Okay, okay, she shall represent Jesus. Okay, come Jesus then

here okay, okay. And Albert has a son, okay, Albert's son,

all right. And Albert is an evangelize. He's an evangelist. He

goes around preaching the world of God, and he shares the Gospel, and

many will save three thousand and five thousand, he said. He speaks his

mouth, opened his mouth straight away. People for down because the prayer of

God is so great upon him. Okay, But here's a child. And

his child was in the Chip Tower building which was recently gone. And uh

he's in he's in devastation now, okay. So so with this being Jesus

and that being the person in charge of the the whatever and the deaths of

many others. Where should I put Albert? Where should Albert be? Should

they be somewhere around here? Like I mean in your eyes? Come on,

you need to help you. Is it here here, here or here

nearer the Jesus? Is it? Okay? How much? How much show

saha, sah somehow somehow? Okay, okay, okay, So this is

your final this is I all agree. Okay, let me show you the

actual answer. Come here, I say, your wife, okay, she

wish it is not your wife, now, okay, she is the one

in charge of the loss of your son. Okay, that came out wrong.

But but but but this is the this is the reality. This is

the reality. Let me read again, For there is no difference. For

all have seen and fallen short of the glory of God. There's no difference.

No amount of work, no amount of faith, no amount of will

cause him to deserve Jesus. Jesus was the one who came down to this

earth to die for their sins. That's what happened. That's what happened.

Okay, thank you very much. You can have your sins. That is

what happened. No amount of work and there's no difference. Okay, I

have been saved from the penalty of sin justification. The next one is scientification.

Wow. Another very hard to pronounce it. I practice at least ten

times. Okay. Centification basically means that I am being safe from the power

of sin. Being safe, you're currently in the process of sanctification. Let's

come that a little bit later. But glorification is a third point. I

will be safe from the presence of sin. Remember earlier that we were separated

forever from the presence of God. This is what happened when God sent his

one and only begone in son down to the earth to die for our sins.

We've been justified, centified, and glorified in the name of our father,

Jesus Christ, and we will meet him in heaven. And that's when

the glorification process is complete. Until then, we are all all sinners alike.

We are in the process of scientification. Okay, So let's go to

the next light. Wow, this is not an offeringresson. Okay. Oh

my, So from birth you're born with sin and now you're being delivered into

the glorification in the now. It's the scientification process that is why we need

to constantly work on our salvation. A lot of people like to ask me

this question, can you lose your salvation? Can you actually lose it?

I would say that I don't know. The Bible says that we won't lose

it, but I don't know because I have not. We have not gotten

to the place of meeting with our creative face of face. That's when it's

secure. Everything that leads up to it is a process. So the Bible

is actually saying that if you follow along this process, you're maintaining this path,

you continue to abide in Me as I abide in Him, then you

won't lose your Your certification your salvation is that clear. No more works will

get you there, but believe in fact, belief in Jesus Christ will get

you there. Okay, it's a process. So now that we understand or

have seen what is the phases of salvation, let's turn back to our favorite

chapter Sounds thirty one. Okay, why the wyman talking as if I'm giving

a presentation? All right, client, Okay, so let's go to Sound

steady one when we read somes that you want to be ended with God assuring

that He will show us his salvation, immen. But how do we get

there? Let's see Number one, dwell He who dwells in the secret place

of the most. He who dwells dolls basically means to abide, to remain

any emphasize on the meaning of dwelling. Okay, you you won't. You

won't consider your house a place a dwelling place unless you come back to it

every day. Right. Let's say Albert go to Thailand stay in a anjob

hotel for two months. Do you call that your dwelling place or your temporarily

residing place. Your dwelling place is still home. Your dwelling place is still

where your family is. And in our in our case, God has prepared

a dwelling place for us. In fact, when Jesus died for our sins,

our heart, our center of our being is now the residing the dwelling

place of the Holy Spirit. He has made us, this sinner, his

dwelling place. But what does it take to reach the end? Remember the

enna he will show us his salvation. Let's see what it takes to twell,

to abide, to abide in where in the secret place, in the

secret place? What does the meaning of what's the meaning of secret. But

let me tell you a secret. Yeah, there's a secret. Will you

know the secret if I don't tell him where the secret is? What the

secret is? No, right, it's you will only know when it's revealed

to you. Hence why God revealed it. In Psalms twenty seven five and

Psalmstdy one twenty says that God has a secret place for his people. You

now know. You now know what else besides dwelling and secret? We shall

abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I'm not going to go into too

much details, but the Bible does cover this word shadow as a place of

covering, as a place of protection, as a place of security. Okay,

shadow of the Almighty. It was a fourth thing. I will now

say of the Lord. He is my refuge and my fortress, my God.

In him, I will trust, My God. In him, I

will trust. So let's cover a little bit of the verse in Psumsy one

one to two. It basically speaks of the condition, the condition of receiving

this thing called salvation. Now you may be going like, what we cannot

work, we can work. No, I'm not asking you to work,

I'm asking you to be just be there. In the presence of God.

The other place that you can find is is in verse nine, verse nine

of Psalms ninety one, and he basically says this, because you have made

the Lord, who is my refuge, even the most high your dwelling place.

You have made you have made the Lord your dwelling place. So that's

the condition. Let's talk about the commitment. Okay, the commitment. Now,

God's commitment to deliver, to protect and to cover his people is second

to none. We see that is this clock working, it's working, right,

Okay, We see that in the entire book of Psalms. God is

constantly one thing to protect you, constantly wanting to bless you. In fact,

I was just looking up sums and their day. I was quite downtrodden,

and I found out this very particular way or a truth that actually if

you google and now this is this day and google, right, So if

you google a heart wordler for example, what's the heart word? Can someone

show me a hard word? A heart word? Oh, my God,

not the heart work like like way distress distress. Okay, that distress distress.

Psalms. It will come out, it will come up. The Psalms

teaches us a lot about God's character and God's longing for us. Amen,

God's commument is second to none. For you shall worship no other God.

For the Lord whose name is jealous, He's a jealous God. He is

he longs for you. He wants a relationship with you. A few years,

a few weeks ago, a few months ago, I shared something along

the lines of for Heaven to really rule in your life and heaven rules come

from Daniel six twenty four. I shared that for six twenty four to be

true and real, four to six must also be upheld. I we're thinking,

what is four two six? Matthew four twenty six must also be upheld

that no one can serve two masters. No one. You cannot serve God

at the same time. You cannot go and serve Meymon, you cannot choose.

You have to choose either one. If you are in the middle,

then Heaven does not rule in your life. Okay, Now I didn't share

this in the earlier service, but I'm gonna go into something a little bit

different now. So for those of you who are aged fifteen week can start

to pay attention. If you're not, I would I say that the church

is in a theological crisis. The church is in a theological crisis. What

what do you mean by that? There is a sense of the lack of

understanding of the Word of God in the church today. There is in America,

the States, in UK so called great nations. They now think,

and I'm going to get a little bit, maybe you get a little uncomfortable

now, but they now think that same sex marriage is okay. Now,

I'm going to preach from the Word of God. In the Word of God

is my authority, and I'm not ashamed to shy away from that. I'm

not saying that you can't feel attracted, but do you have to act on

your feeling? Do you really have to act on that feeling? The Church

is in a theological crisis at a place, in a situation where the people,

God's people needs us the most. We are silent. We are quiet.

In fact, we can see. Those are the cousins. You know

what I'm saying. They're strong, They're going like nobody's business in the physical

and in the spiritual. Physical means they do not stop giving birth every day,

Papaman child, because there's your way, and they're so passionate. I

admire their passion I admire because they defend the Word of God, Oh Dear

God, until Kingdom come. They believe in it so much. But the

church in a place where it met in twenty two twenty four, is then

prophesied that the days of the end is coming. There is going to be

a famine of the world. There is going to be a lack of understanding

of the Word of God. People are gonna come, people are gonna twist

the word of God. People are gonna add things in the world of God.

People a gonnadd chapters the world of God. And it's happening right now.

And the church is silent, silent, so quiet, don't even dare

to stand up for their faithor anymore and saying, hey, brother, I

love you, but this is what I believe in. No, we are

just a ti time one more and more talk to stranger, stand here,

don't don't, don't mix. We are more concern of our family then we

are concerned of the Kingdom. The Church is in a theological crisis. If

we continue this way, we are going to be left with very little.

And the Bible does say the few are chosen, many are called, but

few are chosen. And I pray and I pray, not talking to it.

I I hope they're not doing anyone here. But if I am God,

you touch the hearts of your people, you open your hearts today to

the importance of being open to the world of God, so that we can

be able to carry the Gospel on our shoulders. We can carry the Gospel

in our hearts that one day when persecution come, and trust me, persecution

will come, at least the Bible will be in our hearts. Can you

imagine if you are pauled, or if you are any of the disciples that

were persecuted and you are thrown you know the reason political One of the politicians.

I should not mention the name, but you should know who very prestigious

or young and upcoming leader. You know you see the case now court case,

and you know it's only in the public, it's only the news.

So I'm not saying anything wrong. But he was accused, he was being

judged, and there was a verdict. I think there will be some appealing

that's being done. But even this kind of statue of the kind of people

are going to be faced with persecution. They're they're talking even talking about God

here we're talking about political stance, and yet he's being persecuted. If it's

really if he really did what he did, then he will get what he

deserves. Christians, believers, hear me today. Hear me. Now,

if you're still not focusing, use young people, hear me. If this

is the only thing that you can catch on today. Heal my heart that

one day this won't be available to us anymore, not at least in this

form. And I pray that day we can look to one another and say,

hey, Genesis chapter one, come the Genesis the two. We are

all now. The world of God is living. It's alive in our hearts.

Psalms like psalms, the book of Palms cares only power when you declare

it. It has no power. If you don't know the word of God,

it has no power. So there is a theological crisis. There is

a theological lack of understanding of what the world of God actually means. And

I put up my hand to say that I'm the first to be in this

category. So, friends, I would like to invite all of you along

on the journey to study, to adore, to concentrate this word into your

heart, even if it is a few chapters, a few verses. Hey

just repeat their verse unto Kingdom kamera. But if you can, if you

want an everlasting life, you want to fulfill your calling and fulfill your purpose.

The more of Him in us, the more we will decrease, and

the more He will increase. Amen. So there's this thing called the Oliver

Discuss. You can go and google it. It's basically what happened on the

Mount of Olives, and Jesus details out his second coming. He details it

out in very detail. All four Gospels captured it. Okay, so you

know it's it is important. Okay, the end is drawing near. I

wrote over here, we do not want to caught be caught with our pens

down. Ah, we don't want to be caught with our pens down,

because the moment edmind, Eve was caught immediately. What they do? They

take the leaves, and then I saw they cover. Oh, we do

not want to be caught with our pens down. Because when Jesus comes back,

the Word of God says that he comes at an hour that you do

not know. In fact, when he was here on this earth, he

himself says that only the Father knows he doesn't know. That doesn't mean that

he doesn't know. Because he took on the presence of a man, he

had to leave that behind, and he had to subject his will to the

will of the father. But now that he's ascended to the right hand a

throne, he knows for sure. He knows when he's coming. Amen.

But when he comes, and be not prepared. In Sons many two is

say it he feel my annoying my head with oil until my cup runs over.

The should be our war, there should be our our heart's desire.

I don't just want to be anointed. I want to be annoyed until my

cart run over. What is the meaning of the cup run over? Have

you ever thought about that? The Bible says that out of the abundance of

the heart, the mouth will speak. Fill yourself with Jesus until there is

no more room to fill Jesus, so that when it comes out of you,

people can hear, people will see. In fact, you will never

be enough of Jesus. How you you have a capacity if you can memorize

one chapterday, memorize one chapter today. So that is our commitment, God's

commitment to us, and now our commitment to him. Is that we will

abide, We will dwell in the house of the Lord. Today we are

dealing the house a lot. Tomorrow we're done in the house a lot yesterday.

We're in the house of the Lord forever. Because blessed is he who

watches and keeps his garments. Less he walk naked, and they see his

shame. So don't get caught with your pants down. Okay, Garments in

Revelations represents spiritual and practical righteousness. We are given the righteousness of Jesus as

a garment ascalationis yeah, not just that we are called to put on the

nature of Jesus, which is practical holiness. Paul says this in efficiens in

contrast to Adam and Eve, who tried to hide your nakedness and shame by

their own methods. Okay, in contrast, which is unpleasant to put it

nicely? Go and read take down his verse Isaiah sixty four six, and

go and read what actually God says about this. I use the word unpleasant

is to put it nicely. Okay, it's unpleasant to the eyes of God.

It was actually a very more harsher word. You know, something is

important when he gets repeated right, if my mother called me Daniel Chong,

come down and wash your dishes. Now, I think that is quite serious.

The moment she added my full name, then you're Chong. That't fuck

come down now, I'm not gonna singer. That's my name. It is

my name. Thoughtful, it's serious. And when she starts yelling in candonness,

ah, maybe that's no longer my dwelling place. So when he gets

repeated, it's important. In Psums ninety one, it gets repeated in verse

nine because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even almost

your dwelling place. No evil shall be for you. Notice this. It

does not say no sickna sir, So don't come to me and say pasadenia

I a by in God's word? How come today I still got here?

Hello? No evil shall be follow you. The devil has no touch on

your life if you're bide him. The devil has no entry. The devil

can only enter the place of God and wherever he is, if God allows

it. In joke, that's the only time where the devil come. The

devil has no strong wold the world of God. And if you make your

heart the dwelling place of God, he cannot end. The only way he

enters is when you allow it. You allow it to be confused by his

all the things that he's saying, and sometimes it also can be good things.

Sometimes they used to would have got when Jesus was in his wilderness.

The devil quote the scripture, Hey, call your angels, A call your

angelkshum. Hey, if you are not focused, if you're not serious,

if you don't imbed this world of God into your hearts when the prophecy is

fulfilled, and it will be fulfilled, I'm sorry, do not get caught

with your pants down. Okay, do not get caught with your pants down.

I'm preaching here. The devil will come to still kill and destroy your

lives. What does it mean by still kill and destroy? Or still cill

and destroy means he take my ps five? Hello, still kill destroy means

he thinks you're one and only son, lah And he tell you with it,

He say, denounce the name of Jesus right now or not he's dead.

How would you react and how would you feel? I don't think maybe

all of you can, But I was just recently placed in a situation where

I had a situation with my dad. My dad had been diagnosed with cancer.

And I was telling you to the earliest service that. The moment I

got the call and the word cancer came up, I stayed away, dropped

everything, and I say, I Panning, and I say, Boss,

I need to go now, you let me go. Now, I go,

Chao, I need away from her, Yes, Chao, and I

go to the panic. Panding in disco. So Penning right that the word

cancer has more power over the word Jesus. And yet when some people use

the name of Jesus in vain, we go like it's the culture. Yeah,

it's the traditional. No, we should we should feel something in our

hearts. We should feel that that's the same name that rolls from the grave.

There's the same name that washed the feet of the disciples, the dirty

skanky. Is that even the word uh, smelly feet, that's the same

Jesus, the servant, the servant, King, happy body. So when

it's repeated, it's important. Nor should any plague come near your dwelling.

For He shall give his angels charge over you to keep doing all your ways

in their hands. They shall bear you up. Lest you dash your foot

against the stone. The devil is here to rob you, still kill destroy

this stort, make noise, all kinds of YadA YadA. But one thing,

and one thing that I have desired from the Lord is the girl in

the house of the Lord. All the days of my life, that should

be your prayer. I'm gonna share with you three points, and then I'll

close. In verse twelve, he says, less you dash your foot against

the stone, it means that even your small little toe won't gonna stone.

The angels will protect you, okay, if you're abide in the house of

the Lord. And but but here's the powerful part. Read verse thirteen.

The very food that is used in verse twelve, the small little toe that

is insignificant, that small little toe that is like a man. It is

worthless even that part. God wants to say. Okay, see you shall

tread upon the line in the cobra. God can use your little to kill

the strong. The mighty God can use what little that you have to trample

upon your enemy. We sang earlier in one of the songs, trampled,

right, trample, right, feed, trample, And all this song is

that. But God can use even that. What more can he use with

your hands? When your hands are pure, your heart is pure, Your

hands are clean. What more can he do with your lives? If you

allow him to work within you. It's one thing to abide, it's another

thing to choose. My first point is constant cret, your time, constant

cret. It's a place that is so secret that only you know what happens

in that room. Besides God, it's a choice. I'm gonna give you

all points in CEE three points all CC because you need to be cee ceed

in this email. Okay, you need to be ce ceed, not be

cc CC. It means everyone should know, not just b CC, you

know only Okay, So here we go. Point number one. Can have

to slide up. Concentrate and focus by choice. Moses said, concentrate yourself

today to the Lord, not yesterday. In fact, you should be yesterday.

But concentrate yourself today, not tomorrow, not next week, not when

your son turns seventeen. Children are a blessing, but they are not ours.

I'm sorry to say this, but they are not ours. They are

of the lords. The very moment we choose to dedicate their lives in front

of everyone, they are the lords. In fact, the moment they are

born. There are lots gift to you. Who are you to then say

that only when my son graduates, then I will serve the lot. Hear

me out, friends, and when you pray in Matthew says, you shall

not be like the hypocrites. Okay, for they love to pray standing in

a synagogue in church, huh like me, and on the corners of the

street. They may be seen by men only when Seener Edwards started to lift

his waits without the seeing a will he be national champion if he don't know?

He has to practice in his secret place. I think I think the

national record was broken in his secret place. La, I think sola in

his mind. He's not God La, no practice? How to do?

Say? The te turn out like me? Fat fat? And again you

think I can break national recorder? Is that a lafla? This valla go

gam one day and he then disapear a da lovela. You can laugh surely.

I say to you that they will have their reward now, I mean

think God reward. Hello. The reward here means a ap chin ap chin.

I'm pretty sure he's not pronounced that way, but basically it means technical

business and commercial word for receiving payment and food. It's just a business transaction.

Yeah, let them have the real what the earthly reward, but they

will have nothing of me in heaven. Okay, So let's see how how

else we should prayer. But when you pray, when you pray, you

go into your room. And when you have shut the door, not just

go into your roomor but shut the door. And I like to say,

lock the door. Pray to your father who is in the secret place.

And your father, who sees his secret, well reward you in secret.

No, he will reward you open me. So if you show the man,

you will get a reward. In manner you show to God, he

will reward you not only with him, but he will reward you in open.

So claim that promise. That's what you do in your secret place.

Point number two. You have to have a con system character, Okay,

a consistent character. Psalms fifty five, verse sixteen to seventy says, as

for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me

evening and morning, and at noon I will pray cry aloud, and he

shall hear my voice. How many times is that at the minimum tree?

Okay? I like the number three. The number three always popot in the

Bible? How does on Holy Great? What else do we know about this?

There was David or at least the author. And Daniel six also says

that for Daniel knew that the writing was signed. Now give you a little

of context when this was happening. This was when the decree was said that

you must worship the king, you must worship the idols, and Daniel knew.

See, every time you hear bad news, right, you immediately do

what why why that boss cannot allow you know, the people like to stand

up to me seriously last time in my day? Are shivering my pants?

Whenever did you just call me? Or I know nowadays are did you just

say something wrong? Immediately? Uh? Did you say again? I boss?

I post I pause? Then the teacher gets scary. There was a

case that uh I was from a sm sk uh. And there's a case

of a very bad beating on the hand. Then we went like it didn't

just it didn't fly anywhere, and the teacher was the one being glorified for

beating the child on the hand. Okay, now in this day and age,

you beat the child in the hand, you go to prison. Day.

I don't know whether there's trueler, but somewhat or somewhat of prisoner,

you know, or canceled. Now, this got some gen Z's lingual cancel.

The only thing that was canceled is your scene love. When justus learned

across was canceled. So when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he

didn't retilate. He went home see the power. He went home home to

wear and his upper room with his windows open towards where Jerusalem. He knelt

down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his

God, as it was his custom since the early days. Meaning it is

not today only he decided. No, it's already his attitude. It's already

his character, and he's consistent to it, so consistent that he purposed within

his heart that he shall not defoult himself of things that are not of God.

In fact, you test Mela, trust me ten days, I'll show

you the power of my God. I believe my God. And here's what's

so beautiful. And even if he does not three Hebrew boys, even if

he does not save us, I will not bow in worship, not even

Daniel. That's the beautiful part. So consistent. There's a warning in Proverbs.

He says, whoever walks out in integrity, whoever walks in integrity walks

securely. But he who makes his way crooked will be found out. And

so trust me, if you're not consistent, you will be found out.

Last point, center your life around Christ. Christ centered the Bannian Come out

now as we begin to prepare to worship and pray for some needs. Center

your lives around Christ Philippians one twenty one. For me, to live is

Christ and to die is Gain. Earlier I said about Albert losing his You

know, uh, I'm always using Albert. I'm not I'm not saying anything

bad about you, Okay. We just an example, Okay, just saying

that when the Antichrist does come, and we will place in a place of

persecution, and when we are and the Bible says we will, we will

be tested. At least we will know what to do because if we are

in this secret place, locked up in this secret place, abiding in Him,

we will then understand that death is not the final goal. As soon

as we accept the truth, and when the day comes, at least we

can say that even if I'm separated momentarily from my child. I'll be reunited

with him in heaven as brothers and sisters, because he is not yours,

his God's. So let God do what he wants with my kid. That

is surrendered, And that can only happen if you abide in the secret place.

If you're outside of the covering of the secret place, there is danger.

But I can pitch outside the covering of your calling, there is danger.

So if you are outside of the calling Jesus comes back, you get

caught with your pants down. You're not seriously the word of God. And

when in this place, and when when Jesus comes back and you are faced

you ever, cities don't come crying to God. Why don't I have the

strength? Because abiding in Him is the commitment that we have to make so

that He will show us his salvation. Center your life around Christ. I

have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but

Christ who lives in me. Relations two twenty. Put that in your heart.

Put that in your heart. I think this is the verse I'll recite

whenever someone can persecute me. Give up your father, give up your mother,

give up your wife, give up your life, I am now crucified

in Christ. This is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives

in me. Whatever pain you take, take, do it, but it's

no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And you

can only get there if you are in this secret place every day consistently as

much as you can, crying out to Him, glorifying Him. And it's

only by this shall your heart be filled with the power of God, that

you can use the power of God, the power that has been given to

you by the Holy Spirit that comes upon you like the Holy Spirit. And

with that power that is within you, you can resist anything that the devil

comes you. Devil shows your way. Amen, I want to share something

and then we'll close. Notice how itsums and it sounds that you want.

Let me just read to you. You shall not be afraid. Ten thousand

may fall it your side, and he shall not come near you. And

with your eyes you shall look because you because you no even shall before you,

for He has give his angel charge over you to keep you in all

your ways. Notice this, it is you. It is individual. It

is not plural. Okay, it is not your family. Okay, it's

you. Everybody has an individual and personal journey with this world of God.

It is customized to your calling. So find it calling, find it assurance

in the world of God. Do not center your salvation around someone else's salvation.

Even if your husband and wife be equally yoked, be equally yoke in

Christ, Jesus and your salvation and your blessing. It may sound very selfish,

but it is indeed personalized for you. Jesus died for your sins,

not It is your decision. It is your choice. So if your husband

or if your wife is every day in the secret room, and if you're

not there, don't go and say I do mean though his No, you

make your own secret place and then you will received the blessing. It's very

bad. It's very unhealthy to preach about the grace and mercy of our Lord

Jesus Christ without without preaching about the revival that is needed to take place within

your heart to establish to access the blessings of God. Abide in the house

of the Lord forever. Last thing before I close, I want to say

that when we reac hareful. When I say this, I want everyone you

close your eyes right now and begin to reflect on one about to say,

this is my statement. I don't need a passa Kenneth, I don't need

Albert Link. I don't need a Russia one. I don't need a John

and Erin, which is my parents in law, to tell me to clap

my hands. I don't need it. Why do I clap my hands.

It's because I want to clap my hands for God. I want to praise

God. It is a personal and intermit decision that you have to make.

So don't wait for the worship leaders to tell you to clap your hands.

Don't wait for the worship reader to tell you to lift up your hands in

reverence until our Father in Heaven. Don't wait for the past to preach.

Then you move. No, you make that move. You make that decision

and make it yours. It is your secret place, not but the kind

of change secret place. He has his own secret place, and he shall

receive his blessing accordance, in accordance to God's will for him. But today

I want you to be bold and claim your secret place, your blessings for

your lives. Concentrate yourself unto our Lord, be consistent in your correct and

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