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On Your Mark - Get Set… (Part 4) |Pr Yvonne Chong
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You're listening to a message to go from ax Church. We hope this message
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will light up your team. I want to begin with this, you know
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I'm going to see it, uh as as I mean, I know,
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with with some disclaimer as well. All right, Sometimes it's actually easier right
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for us to to answer what are we giving to God? You know,
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how are we you know, ordering God? How are we living Him?
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But you know, today I want us to you know, base us drawing
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from past us travel and you know story in chang ma as. All right,
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today I want us to ponder and think about what are we actually giving
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to each other. Sometimes it's even easier to give to God sometimes, Laha.
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That's why I say a disclaimer. Sometimes it's hard or sell to give
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to God. But I feel as human beings, the challenge is also to
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be able to give to each other, especially to the paper that you know
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irritates the thinking out of you. I shall not use that center, but
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you don't really they really drive you up the wall. And and to give
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to that person it's tough. And you know, if you look at our
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five ws, right, I have it on a on a slide or so,
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out of the five ws that mix us who we are as like church,
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you know, we have worship, more worship work, warms, work
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with witness. Right, three out of this five experience is actually about others
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and four others as well. That's who we are, you know, ex
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Church and and today you know, this final part of the series, right,
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I'm gonna be talking about how because we're talking about you know, running
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this race, and this whole theme that I started on, right is you
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know, on your mark, get set, you know, any race,
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you know, you have to be on the line first, right, and
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it's the first thing that you hear the person shouting before the gun goes off,
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so one a areas and it talks about you know, getting different body
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parts, different parts of our life, you know, correct. So today
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I'm going to be touching on the sixth and the seventh part. If you're
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gonna listen to the earlier ones, you can just go to the MTG yes
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uh and and you know get a catch up from there. So I'm going
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to start this with the illustration. I'm sure all you'll here has watched movies
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of like criminal movies crime and then there's like a scene of in the court
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and you know, different things is going on. And then finally, you
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know, the judge has to make a verdict, no verdict? Was that
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thing? Judgment? Yes, it has to make the final judgment. Right,
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they have a panel of judges, right, is that a lawyer here?
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Oh? Yes, you're gonna help me with all the technical terms and
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and and so I got sorry, pardon me, I'm using a lot of
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layment terms. All right, but hopefully you'll catch what I mean. Then
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you have the convict, right, the criminal on the stand, and then
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he listens to what has been I don't know right to him, and to
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know whether he is guilty or not guilty. Right, that's the only two
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things we always look forward for, whether the persons found guilty and not guilty.
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And and once the person has found guilty, what happens. Usually there's
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some police, some guards, I don't know what you call them, some
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fellas laha that will come and escort them away. But before they escort away,
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they will actually calve them, right, right, that's a process calve
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them. And and and you know I'm gonna be talking about that. You
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know, this guy, this criminal wants he used to be free, He
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could do whatever he want until he got caught lack all right for either any
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crimes LA could be see b BD so I think cbdo, So you'll get
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CALF criminal breach of CBT trust, yes, and and and and so you
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get carved. So he used to be once a free person, but because
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of the decisions he made, you know, rob people, lamored the people,
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whatever not, it has cost him his freedom. And and once that
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judgment is given, he no longer is a free man. He becomes a
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prisoner now and a calf itself. You know, his handcuff, I don't
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know. It depends on the sentence. Some people just vary a few months,
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some for life. And immediately you know he's no longer a free man.
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Immediately he's bound. And that would lead me to talk about our hands
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today. That would be the sixth you know, are in a life that
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we could actually align and or not aligned. Okay, so I'm going to
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use this word later, recommission our hands can be recommissioned. All right.
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So, like like this criminal right when he was living his life freely,
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sometimes he took probably have taken his freedom for granted, and he went creative
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and decided to break and band the law. And that's how you know,
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he ends up being guilty of or breaking the law. And and and you
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know, sometimes like us, that's a lot the way God has given us
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the freedom to leave. And you know, we can get distracted by different
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things sometimes and we lose track as a runner as well. Right, they
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can be running and they look like wow, God, ice cream stand there,
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I shall stop by and have ice creaming, uh, you know or
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whatever not like whatever distraction, then you lose sight of the course and you're
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supposed to be on. And after that you get bound by it. You
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know, when the attracted attracted that you get bound by it. And and
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and the word recommission just not mentioned it on our hands then CASTI bery commission
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is that's not the end, because you know God came to Satis free right
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and and to experience that freedom again. So but it takes the recommissioning of
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our hands, all right, So why I said God came to Satis free
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gose when God came and and you know we have been commissioned in our lives
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as believer right to lift out you know the different things that God has commissions
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to do so and says, you know, it's mission's mine. You know,
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one of the greatest commission of all is is Matthew twenty eight right to
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go into all the world. So we have been commissioned to do that and
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we lost sight. And and you all the word recommissioned itself, right,
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if you look into the meaning of it, it actually so any for example,
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any old building, any any architects here and old buildings are you going
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to bring restoration? Usually they use the word recommission, okay, unless it's
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totally decommission ready, miss cannot aid them there to bring it down and build
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it out again. You can recommission, for example, submarines as well a
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lot of different things, or recommission at pieces. They also use the term
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recommission also. And for me, you know how I understood it that in
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general, right, it's seeing either the thing put being put back into his
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original state or be made better. When you recommission something at all, either
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you try it closest possible to put it back or make it better. All
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right, So these are actually the fall areas that you know, how our
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hands can actually be recommissioned for God. And I'm sharing this because I really
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believe, you know, God wants to remind us, you know, if
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you're going to talk about missions. You know, our hands definitely will be
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involved in it as well. All right, first area, the recommissioning of
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generosity and giving. Wow. One of the most very important principles in the
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Bible is the idea of being able to give to others and especially giving to
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people that's in need. Yeah, there are several passages so giving not just
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in terms of finance, laha, in our time and our treasure and our
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resources. All right, there are several passages that encourages all of us to
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be generous and to share our blessings. You know, whatever God has given
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to us, even you know, God has blessed you. If one ring
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it extra, share it. God has given you, you know, five
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minutes extra hopefully you know I mean not so you you'll get what I mean.
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Right, You don't get two hours, twenty four hours and five minutes
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extra, but five minutes extra of your usual time. You know, what
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are you're doing about it? On one hour lunch that you get? You
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know, why what are you doing about it? Uh? And you know
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I'm going to turn us to these two scriptures here prop Proverbs chapter eleven,
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verse twenty five and Second Corinthians chapter nine, verse seven. I'm gonna get
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different ones here to read, and we can start with the people from the
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back can reach the caper canna awesome back, and then we'll move all the
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way towards the front. Yeah whatever, by version, by both versions that
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you have, you can read it. Oh, they look like they want
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to do a duet together there, So you do one verse that you can
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pass on to the next person of Proverbs up, we can do Proverbs eleven
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twenty five verse Yeah, all right, Proverbs eleven twenty five. But generally
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men will prosper. He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. Yep,
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super good. Second Quarrinthians nine seven. Second Quarintians, chapter nine, verse
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seven. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give,
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not reluctantly or under compulsion, For God loves a cheerful giver, hey
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man, So based on this versus, a recommissioning can happen right in the
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area of refreshing others, of generosity, in the area of you know,
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not giving grudgingly, but giving cheerfully unto God, you know, giving cheerfully
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until God as well involves our time, our treasure sometimes it's easier to part
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with finances. Sometimes gets to stick out a note and dropping the offering and
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say done. But you know when your leaders starts challenging you, Hey,
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on Sunday morning, can you wake up at seven I am and come and
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serve in church? Wow? You know, although it comes from your leaders
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in church, right, but you know that when we serve it is unto
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God. Right. We are all here as a church to give the platform
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opportunity to or like, Hey, you know we have a combine combined workship
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service, you know coming up for our missions weekend. What's the date twenty
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seven twenty seven? Right? Would you like to serve in DVCC. Wow?
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You all? Yeah, godless a cheerful giver, all right? Second
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one? Second one, I knows yeah, little y'all start stoning me already.
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Okay. The second one the recommissioning of laying of hands for the blessing,
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for blessing and for healing. This is something that which we are seeing
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a bit lesser these days. And I really hope and desire and all that
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all of you in all students here as you go back to your campus,
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right, I'll go back with the authority and confidence, like, hey,
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you know, my hands can be used to lay hands on others as well
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for blessing and healing. Let's look at X chapter six, verse six.
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That's one portion. So one person reads that, Mark chapter ten, verse
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sturney to sixteen. The next person reads that, then X turning eight,
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verse eight to nine. Another person reads that, Okay, okay, X
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chapter six, verse six. They presented these men to the apostles who pray
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and laid their hands on them. So this verse, yeah, it's the
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laying of hands to commission right, you know, yep, to commission these
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seven people so that they can actually go out and make the needs of the
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community, all right, Mark chapter ten, Mark chapter ten, verse thirteen
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to sixteen. Then they brought little children to him that they might touch them
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by the disciples we built those who brought them. But when Jesus saw it,
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he was greatly displeased and said to them, let the little children come
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to me, and do not forbid them for off. Such is the Kingdom
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of God. But shuretly, I say to you, whoever does not receive
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the Kingdom of God as a little child will by no means and the it
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and he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them and
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blessed them. Yeah. Next chapter twenty eight was eight. And it came
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to pass that the father of the palace lay sick of a fever and of
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her bloody flanks, to whom Paul entered in and pray and lay his hands
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on him and healed him. Was nine. So when these was done,
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others so so which had diseases in the island came and were healed. Yep,
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amen, so right, if you can see her, you know,
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the laying of hands, it's the be re commissioned so that you know,
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we can actually see if you look at explan it it'sself right, what uh
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Paul did he want to lay hands? And you know the yeah, father
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was healed, and then the others around the island started coming to him with
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diseases and they were also healed. You know, I want to broaden our
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I know today here are a lot why I was here, as you know
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in the office, I know work and it's a very different environment in the
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office. But you know, imagining that you are able to practice this gift
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of healing as well to the laying of hands, and you all blessing people
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and people are like, oh wow, you know this, this is God
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that they actually self Israel, and they will come to you, and not
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not just receiving healing, but at the end of they be given the opportunity
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to know who the healer is. This is Jesus, right, and it
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gives us the opportunity to share the gospel with them myself. So second point,
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the recommissioning of the laying of hands for blessing and healing. I got
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more on to the third one now, the recommissioning of our hands to help
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others. First John, chapter three, verse seventeen to eighteen. The next
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person carry that Proverbs thirty one twenty and then Galicians six, verse two.
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Oh. First John, chapter three, verse seventeen. If someone has enough
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money to leave well and sees a brother or sister in it, but shows
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no compassion, how can God's love be in that person? Oh, dear
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children, let's not merely say that we love each other. Let us show
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the truth by our actions. Yeah. Amen, Proverbs thatty one twenty.
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She opens her arms to their poor and extends her hands to the knee.
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Thank you. I just want to just possible for a while, right,
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All those proverbs study one refers to a virtuous wife. You know, last
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time I was younger, I was like, yeah, it this only is
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for the wife, the married woman. You know, it's not applicable to
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me. But you know, the word virtuous right here refers to you know,
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a person who is honorable, who's good, who's righteous and worthy.
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And you know, I am sure all of us here we are good people,
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right, so if you're good people, then this applies to us as
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well, you know, to extend our hands to the poor and reach us
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out to the needy. And you know that's where that is why you know
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we are called virtuous and good also, yeah, so just want us to
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understand that galicious six two each other's burdens, and in this way you will
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fulfill the law of Christ. Hey man, if you can see these versus
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here that we have read, right, that's one recurring team, which is
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the importance of putting our faith and demonstrating into action and demonstrating to loving other
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people. And those of you who know right there are also you know,
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people with different love languages, right, different way people express it in different
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way of receiving as well. So but most of it, most of it
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also involves yeah, involves us still giving of ourselves to another person. All
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right, So the fourth one, all right, recommissioned by God's protective hands.
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Let's read this versus first and then I'm just gonna expland a little bit
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more Isaiah for the one ten, and then we move on to someone tree
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nine, then some ninety five, next person some forty one, and then
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some one tree nine, So five in total of five people reading. Oh
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yeah, oh sorry, poppable good spotting teacher, good spots. Yeah.
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Removed the last one. Asiah chapter forty one, Verse ten, fear not
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for I am, If you be not dismissed, For I am your God,
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I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. I will
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uphold you with my righteous right hand some one twenty nine was ten. Even
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there, your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me
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some ninety five verse four. In his hands are the depths of the earth
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and the mountain peaks belong to Hem Isaiah forty one, verse thirteen. Four,
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I the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to
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you, fear not, I will help you. Wow. Thank you for
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reading. And you know there's four passages right there we have read how does
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it make you feel to read this again and to hear it again? It
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feels safe, You feel secure that God's hand, you know, God his
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hand protects us, and his hand you know, protects us. It gives
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us power as well and guidance, and it speaks off his care for his
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people. So recommission, you know, is to also remember again, you
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know, despite what we go through. You know, for example of some
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Isaiah for they one it says, I fear not, I will help you.
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You know, he will uphold us in his right hand as so,
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so you know that knowing because sometimes you know, we can also be giving
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like God when you know I am blessing, you know I am healing.
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I am you know, just doing what you have come asked me to do.
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But when is it? Mind turn God? And and this is what
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you know. I wanted to end this, this the sixth part that of
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us that needs you know that we can actually work on it by even assuring
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us again to say that it all in all that God has asked us to
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do, He is also there for us. All right. I want to
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move on to our seventh part now, that which we could work on as
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we are on this race so that you know, it'll be a lesser baggage
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and a burden. Also, just how to talk about prisons being changed by
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hands, but I think in a modern times don't have the other times they
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also change them by their licks, right, yeah, the shackles. They
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I know there's calfla carfs here, right, the shackles, so they're chained
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by licks as well. And then you know, we know also they do
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not have a freedom already. They take prisoners, and I think the olden
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times more of they do it more to slaves as well. Then you know
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they become a slave to a certain master also, and and and if we
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want to talk about running this race, like uh, to be free in
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God, all these two areas definitely needs to be. You know, you
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have to make sure that's no invisible calfs that's holding you down, that's not
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invisible invisible shack goes that's holding you down as all. And and where is
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the direction that you are walking towards to today? You know, to be
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you know, when you run race the race, you know, okay,
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that's the ending line and it'll go there. But to be able to go
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there, it takes you to run right right, It can be running like
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that way. If you're not running right there, you'll run You're not another
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finishing line at the stadium maybe, but you know your your line is there,
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and and you know, let's start running right, you know, walking
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towards that finishing line. And the first point right it talks about, you
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know, when we need to go to a place, it talks about okay,
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it's that that's a direction to get there, right and and probably you
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know this area of our feet it needs to be redirected. Okay, The
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first one I redirecting our direction towards being able to wash each other's feet.
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I wanted to start with that because there was a you know, there are
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a few significant parts of the Bible that involves the feet, and one of
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it which a lot of leadership trainers who are not Christians as well, they
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actually use this example of feet washing, food washing, feet washing. I
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can today imagine what Jesus could have gone through because at the point of time
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when he was washing the feet right was before right he was crucified, and
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he I'm sure and that time he already knew that his follower, his disciple,
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would betray him. Uh and this disciples were the closest people to him,
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who was the person that would betrayed him. Yeah, and Jesus also
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washed Russ students there, and Jesus washed his feet when Jesus did the food
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washing, I think he was there. I think I'm sure he was there
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and and and expects about because when I know as human beings, right,
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when we know, okay that you know I'm just using you as Leslie has
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been gossiping, back biting, uh and and and she's gonna betray me and
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you all gossips hugely betrays people. That's what I enough for dy And I
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think as a who are made for myself, our feet table already right,
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like wash your feet uh and and and that this itself, right uh,
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speaks a lot about humility and and you know by the act of Jesus washing
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their feet. Uh, he stooped down to the level and the feet it's
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not like as clean as our feet here. There was I think one uh
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one. I can't remember. I talked about this once in Ely I think
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probably last year I preached about this. So I did the example last So
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I got different ones up on stage and I just did the feet washing.
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Uh. And while doing that, right. I was start imagining because those
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times they don't have nice covered shoes their feet it's like dirty with dirt one.
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And they don't have like tar road or cemented road to walk on.
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It's very very dirty. And I was washing. I didn't tell the people
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on stage when I was washing a fit a few of them had Hong Kong
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feet. Are we called Hong Kong feel basically smell feel sour? Yeah,
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sourish, fermented smell. I was like, God, why am I doing
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this? Why did I choose this? You know example too? And when
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I was going, When I was doing that, I'm like, okay,
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how else Jesus feeling that time when he had to do it with his disciples.
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Uh? And and I'm not just telling how a story? Okay,
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So deciding to catch you go back and read that because it's about eighteen verses
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in total. John thirteen or right, chapter one, sorry, John Chapter
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thirteen, Verse one to seventeen. Jesus himself when we talk about, hey,
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you know, our feet needs to be redirected. It talks about being
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able to serve one another, right, oh, with an entitude of humility.
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Yeah, so that that is and enjoy for that and a lot of
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times, you know, teachings of this world today psyche. The field of
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psychology is very, very big now, even even post pandemic. More you
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all a lot of like people like went through like self care. How many
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of you did psychology before? Or is a practicing psychology the self care and
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psychology itself is a study to understand human beings, why we functions in a
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way. But yeah, no one can actually entirely define. So if you
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study psychology, there's different school of talks, different theories to explain just one
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problem. So that's why I gave up psychology halfway through. Whether the accounts,
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because accounts is easy, right, It's like one plus one, it
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goes to two, and it's just balances us out and then you're done.
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And and but you know psychology itself and and the major area of psychology,
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so it's very human humanists. Humanistic involves humanism, and it's says the definition
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of humanism is it exalts human being way beyond a divine intervention. And and
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and because of that, people's like, ah okay. If there's a lot
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of counseling sections, you'll say like oh okay, this person here hurt you
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lam it's okay. You know, if you're a lying distant yourself, you
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know, you have to take care of yourself, which is good in a
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way. But if the Bible, if we go according to the word of
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God, right, God says, if the person slaps you on the right
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your gifted, Yeah, if the person's going to send you to the cross,
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you know, pos you to the agony of being crucified, right to
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wash their feet then still yeah, So you know, sometimes the word of
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God, it's a higher standard for us to leave by. And it is
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a truth that I believe. You know, humanity heals as distancing sometimes may
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not because no people will still go through stuff, but humility he's so the
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second one that I want to bring our ten second point would be redirecting our
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feet to be fully guided by the word of God. The next person can
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read some one nine zero five, not to show whose turn is it we
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need? Yes, you know that's how I already XTV allowed what to do
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today some one one nine verse one zero five Some one one nine verse one
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zero five. Your word is a lamp on Yeah, your word is a
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lamp to my feet and a light onto my path. Yep. So God's
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word provides guidance for our journey. So it's time for us to read that
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out our feet, because when it's pointing the other way, it's all right,
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you'll start going another direction. But what is pointing right means you're going
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the right direction and allowing God's world to guide us. And a lot of
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people can actually read how our feet is. Right. Those who play football,
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I know the only way to trick the goalkeeper is the direction of it.
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The usual common way is like that, right, and people know,
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okay, the ball is going to go straight, but there are tricks that
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you'll turn that away, but you get still kicked another way. I don't
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know how your footballers do it, but the feet itself tells where you're going
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on. Actually, yeah, so why did I get to that? Okay?
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Yes, guided by the word of God. Third one redirecting our feet
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to taking grounds all right, Joshua, Chapter ten, verse twenty four to
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twenty five. Chapter ten, verse twenty four to twenty five. So it
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was when they brought out those kings to Joshua that Joshua called for all the
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men of Israel and said to the captains of the men of war who went
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with him, Come near and put your feet on the necks of these kings.
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And they jun near and put their feet on their necks. Oh,
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sorry, continue Okay, Then Joshua said to them, do not be afraid
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nor be dismayed. Be strong enough of good courage. For thus the Lord
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will do to all your enemies against whom you fight. M So, if
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you read this two versus itself, what does it tell you? Our feet
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actually is a representation of conquests, right, conquest, conquering a ground.
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It's a symbolic act of victory. Also right at the side Josha killer,
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imagine it for a while, feed on the necks of the people that they
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have one victory over all. Right, So redirecting our feet to taking grounds?
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So what are the grounds that God is leading you to take? Grounds?
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In all that you know? There is you know that needs God's presence,
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in the grounds that you know needs the Gospel to be in there,
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you know, and and and the grounds of why was again here? You
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know? Your company is your offices? You know? Are you taking it
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for God? Yeah? Uh? Are we usually just students that are you
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just showing up in your campus? Are you just showing up in your office
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taking grounds. You know, it's very every evidently seen all right, when
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there's victory, that's conquests you know, Okay, this ground belongs to a
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new person. Now, so is it evidently seen seen in Nottingham University and
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that this ground belongs to God? Yeah? Can people see it? Okay?
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You know, just a quick quick story campus level yea, I've heard
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of it. And and and we used to have a small little college in
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your life, cop Katt. So campus ravel that's or started by this girl,
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so Katt. They for Malaysians. We used to have JPA scholarship,
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right, I think now I don't know what they call it already, they
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and the government used to have a lot of money. We used to send
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students, a lot of students overseas, so Katti. They sent all the
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medical scholars, the dentistry and pharmacy scholars. They are to do their A
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levels. And it's a totally abandoned place, just one role of shop,
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lots, two stories of classroom, and then three and four is their hostile.
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So everyone just stays in a block and it is in the middle of
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nowhere. I want, okay, in the middle out of nowhere. And
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they like but this girl. She started campus Ravel there and she did it
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every day alone and got told her to climb out to a small hill across
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your campus and want you to stretch for off your hand and pray. So
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long story shot, the campus Ravel grew to about forty people thirty forty consistently
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every morning, like there's so much effort to climb out hill. But they
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did that. And what happened was they were then they were done with their
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A levels. They saw a lot of miracles happened on campus down A levels.
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A lot of them were sent to India to study, and there's deep
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place to study medicine. And because they have a lot of cadivers three cadivers
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that you can just fly apparently the students when there's sometimes by the roadside,
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they just left there so you can just pick up and then bring back to
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the lab and they start. So that's the best place. So yeah,
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yeah, and they have people who need to earn extra say the Google dig
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graves as well for the for the university dig grace and take the body in
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for whatever not okay, anatomy sessions. So India, and what happened was
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because you're talking about taking grounds, right, so when there's students they were,
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they caught everything they did in Malaysia wherever they went to different parts of
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India, they started campus wherevel there. So it grew to a point that
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every single Malaysian student when they know like I'm going to find number of Moneipau
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University in India to study, immediately they know that you know there is a
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campus ravel goes. So for example, in Manipaw in India, they had
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seven if I remember career or seven groups. There's a hundred of old people
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on on their campus level. And every single Malaysian students go there, they're
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like, okay, we need to get in touch with this campus level people.
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You know, when I'm this unique, you know they are amazing people
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I get connected to and staff. So talking about taking grounds, so what
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is your ground known for the ground that you're at all? Right? Last?
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Am I on the last Yes, I'm on the last fourth second last
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fourth one redirecting our feet to worship Revelation, Chapter nineteen, verse ten.
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Probably I'll just read it. And I felt his feet to worship him.
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But he said to me, see that you do not do that. I
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am your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus,
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worship God for the that's me of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. So
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what happened here was the story is John. He's the author of revelation.
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And the person that was actually talking to him was an angel. So he
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saw the angel. He was so wild and awed by the angel. He
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fell and worshiped the angel by the angel told him worship God, do not
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worship me, all right. And that is a very crucial part for all
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of us because sometimes when our fee is not a right direction, we get
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distracted. We can be worshiping other stuff than worshiping God, or something that
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seemingly appeared to be like God, it'll be super good. We can be
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worshiping it. And what worship means basically, whatever that you're worshiping takes priority
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over God and and and so if our fit is redirected to worship God,
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then our life revolves around them. And it's very evident to the people around
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you. They know, like, wow, you know Bend's life, he
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always makes decision and puts God first. Because when we put God first,
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you know, uh, there's a form of worship as all unto God right
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when we give him our best. That's a form of worship to him.
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Ah. And yeah, so the fifth point the last one. And then
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I am going to close, redirecting our direction to have beautiful feet where we
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can get someone to read this verse Romans, chapter ten, verse fifteen.
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Whoever that is closest to the mic can Yeah. Romans chapter ten, verse
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fifteen. Romans Chapter ten, verse fifteen. And how can anyone preach unless
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they are sins? As it is Richard, as it is written, How
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beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? Yep? Amen?
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So? And how shall they preach unless they are sent right? And how
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beautiful are the of those who bring good news? So redirecting our fit to
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be beautiful fit you know Paul or the apostle. Paul, he always you
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know what, it's really big. That's why he's the apostle. You know,
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he brings the good news everywhere, and and the impounters are proclaiming the
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Gospel and day on day. Even as we start off today with the mission's
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month, right, let us be reminded again our hands and feet can actually
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be mobilized for God's use. When our hands and feet are free, God
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can use it and and and and and we can be sent out to reach
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Yeah, and you know the I connectors saying it's like okay, you know
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there are people who are planners, they're thinkers, who are dreamers, and
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that are people you know who are hands and feed right, so whatever it
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say like, oh, we are the hands a fit meaning you know,
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we get the work done. We get a job done. So today,
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you know, if you're going to talk about missions, you know, can
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we then be the hands and feed for God to use for mobilization? Closing,
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I can invite extreme up right now the commission that God has given to
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us in Matthew turny eight, that is to go into all the world and
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make disciples, not to go into all the world and save people and then
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bye bye. By making disciples requires us to invest, to spend time,
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you know, to be present. So how many of us here you know
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today we are ready to do that. You know, missions it's not just
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you know, giving our money, you know, going out to the poor
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community and do something for them. Because I don't know whether you'll know that
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many more energy as and organizations are way more better at charity that is actually
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just charity, you know, but for us, what makes us difference as
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Christians when we go up, when we reach out to communities, right,
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how would they know whether we are Christians or not. Ah, that is
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something that I want to leave us to ponder on. Doing charity is good,
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but doing Christ is really different. Being Christ to people is very different
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both seas, but it's on our opposite end. You know, when we
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say that Heaven rules in our life, you know God is the King.
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You know he rules in my life. We hope you've been blessed by this
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