The Just shall live by Faith | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. My message to day is a judge you'll live

by faith. First point, this is the devil's power in the Gospel.

Friends, I pray and I encourage you today the word is let's dig deeper.

Because Paul starts out by saying, for I'm not shape you and I

need to come to a place whereby in all aspects of our walk in life,

we shouldn't be afraid and a shame. The only reason why sometimes we

are ashamed or shy is because we really do not know whether it fully works

or the product labor says A, but we are not fully convinced that the

product can deliver A. Sometimes we are shy because products that I can do

everything, but in our own journey, if we have not experienced what it

says. And that's why sometimes we are shy. Right for example, like

when there raised a phone call to say that there's an evil spirit in my

house. As every believer, you have the power to cast it out.

Someone say amen, But normally, what do you do you call passing Daniel

as conversing to be a passing already the wife saying no. The wife said

no, no, no, you called Daniel. Daniel, I got a

problem while my homies house called evil spirits. So could you come and gouty,

cast it out, splash on the oil, all right, and all

the water shed this one time in one church plant someone from the church plant,

I could be a potentially They say they just use holy water. And

when like sister or brother, you need to go back to the foundation of

Christianity. All right, But here's the thing that shouldn't be. Let me

call up Daniel, let me cop out Sandra and find a solution. I

shouldn't it should be Once you received the phone call, I can go okay,

I got a tough crop here, so with me, all right?

For for earth not to be ashamed, we have the first to believe.

See the very moment where by oh, this is one hating, I can

pray for you, nor a problem hated because you know, hatting subjective him

my right not mm hmm. You pray it ready after that, whether you

got healing with let's the phone call ended. Let's it. But it was

spirit, very different though it was spirit because of when the moment the person

goes back there. It feels the presence over there. What happened? We

can't call you being shouldn't. Please make sure make sure you be a Christian

since you're bond right, so you got more, you're more annoying thing.

It can't be just be dead friends. So there for friends. Paul is

encouraging. Number one, it is that it starts with us believing the world

of God. There is power in the world of God. It starts with

us believing there is power in the world of God. Hebrews Chapter Forwards Truth

says that the world of God is living and powerful, living and powerful for

us to believe and not a shame of the Gospel. We need to dig

deep and ask ourself do we believe in God's world? He has to mean

more that God bless me and my business, because the same God who can

bless you a business is the same God that actually can deliver you from illo

spirits. The same Lord can give you creativity for a workplace. It's the

same Lord that can heal marriages. We need to come to the place whereby

we can't to believe that this God that is so good and reaching someone,

it's able to heal somebody as well. Some of us may be young.

So I was talking to someone an we're just talking about life. You know,

once you pass a certain treasure of age, right, all you talk

about is not how much you can get there anymore. Always say that once

you reach eighty. We prayed that because still more properly Gold use the toilet

properly and without any help at any age. I was talking to my friend,

my age, and were just exchanging notes, and what happened is that

I found it. I was were ended the conversation by saying this, let's

go all the way trusting and believing in Jesus, because everything else doesn't matter

anymore. So Hebrews chapter four worst twelve says that the world of God's living

and powerful, sharper than any two ages sort meaning friends. That sometimes in

our lives we think that our faith is so limited to this, but the

world of God challenged our heart to stretch it to believe more some overse here.

Really, I want to encourage you if we have never ever went from

missions. All right, if you think the missions the greatest challenge for you

and mission trip is the toilet, friend, it has to be bigger than

that. Seriously, the fact that having to use the river as a toilet

your life. He's like being my own bathtub. I'm sorry. I'm sorry

for that, but you know he has to be bigger than that some of

us. Fred's For me, the greatest challenge for mission trip is not the

toilet or the food. Really, the greatest thing for me in a mission

trip like this in the rural setting is what do you preach to people who

just depending who's dependent on what they grow from the one can grow from the

land. All this message right now is very urban. When you are there,

they are worshiping or playing a guitar without strings because that's all they have.

And I remember what my right first trip, the guy was just tiding

me, Oh, I just want is my vegetables to grow? Oh?

I just want it's my vegetables to grow without without any insight consuming it.

As a preacher, one, how are you going to preach that trust the

Lord? The Lord will bless you hungry percent so and you shall correct all

these But at the context of that, for me, that's migration. The

toilets very easy, my friends, just go to the toilets, praise God.

All right, let's it. The RealD just bring everything downright. No,

not to where you are. There's enough volume of water to wash everything

away. The same place to you where you do your stuff. It's just

the same place that you mathe. So as long the water just constantly flow,

you don't have an issue. But what happens is that sometimes you allow

yourselves to limit ourself. Oh, I can't do this because this for the

radical few friends. The Bible says the just shall live by faith, the

radical shall leave by faith. We have allowed the urban Christianity has allowed things

to be the words categorized. Or if you want to believe God for let's

say, for example, you want to go for a missionship, you got

no money and you're believing God for that provision, or you must be a

radical Christian. There's no such as a radical Christian in the Bible. It's

either you believe or you don't believe. Either you obey or you don't.

But we allow us radica Christian as a leader. You must be radical one,

nor leader nor radical friends. The Bible did not say the judge shall

lee by radical faith. The jad shall by faith. Faith is faith friends,

So it would say piercing every division or so in spirit joints and marrow.

And it's the discerner of thoughts, intense of the heart. Friends,

if we're honest enough, our heart is really selfish. It's true we won

the best for our self if we won the average for other people. Someone

say, a man really want the best for ourself and other people. O

killer as long as it works, ballet as long and it can Jealan can.

Why do I know this because when we did a toy collection back in

year two thousand and five, No. Two thousand and three toy collection,

we collected toys to give to the Aphanage. We will sorting out the toys.

A firetruck came in three views. Three views still can balance my the

person who giving is still can balance. We collected clothes. The color of

the clothes. Can do off shoulder one sil can use my see okay one

okay, cover the whiter parts. Shoulder is not considered private part, so

you can do off shoulder. You know what I mean. You understand what

I'm trying to say, right sometimes, But this is the thing, This

is the Christian community who's giving us this. Because the appeal was made to

all the churches around in subang Jaya, where we go south there got stain.

We're talking about stain. They cannot be washed off. Why is because

I say again, our heart's in the place whereby we are self preserva.

Should we taken out our self first? Anything we don't want the other people

get as long as he can use so. The word of God says living

and powerful. Because it's living and powerful comes as Zaire fifty five, Verse

eleven, Isaiah fifty five. We quote this verse all the time on because

you say the word of God shall not return to him? Why it was

ishall go forth and accomplish, Go forth and accomplish many times our own hearts.

Friends. The word is that we are so wrap up themselves we can't

even see the world. Is that when God wants to challenge us, challenge

us to move out from a place of comfortable but to a place of this

world discomfort. If we find it very hard, not just talking about Christian

human in January. It's hard. It is hard to serve community, it

is hard. The word is to obey God, it is hard. But

we have come to this place where I, like Pausy, I'm not ashamed

of what the Bible stands for. I'm not ashamed for all that he has.

I was, so, I had another conversation, just don't read friends.

I don't have a composition with anyone of your quantity, and so on

my composition with other people from for other services or my age. It's okay

because after you pass a certain asia, you really don't really care about what

other people thinking. After all, So we will just because once you do

a life after a certain psychle right, you will understand. You ask yourself

what's really important? What's really important? I was talking to non Christian and

ambassist. I was, so, we're talking about life and destiny? Is

it? I think I own my maximum lifespends about sixty he is fifty two.

I say, why do you say that most of the people I like

the word. They said, most of my family members don't leave up past

sixty one. Don't don't leave past sixty someone whether we die about sixty sixty

one, sixty two, one of three, each of you you're you're always

looking up thinking about like have you maximized your life? Here? So everywhere?

Actuallyging I say the way I'll pray for you. I truly believe that

this God I believe in will help you and you'll see that hell, he

will come true for you. We have to believe, friends and not The

word is not not a shame. My wife is very good at it.

Every person she meets, every person she meets. After a while, you

just say, I'll tell you what my God shall heal your son. I

just told recently somebody I know the son had a basketball injury. Lost the

vision of a right eighty percent. And could you made it? One day

you could see the very one just because a basketball incident, eighty percent of

eyesight, eighty percent of eyesight couldn't see just we didn't twenty four hours.

One day you could see the next thing like you're semi blind. And I

was just telling her the story. She didn't tell me. She immediately contacted

the person of Christian contacted person and just say, hey, I heard about

this from my husband, and you know, I want to let you know

I'm praying for you and praying for your son. I look at her,

what are you so capable? One? Why are you so busy? Body?

One? I'm just releading a storyboy, like the word, it's like,

go off the way, leave a voicemail and tell her that you're praying.

You left to tell Ama she no, I believe Ma, because this

will help her son, not just to come to book, to a place

of believing except Christ, this will help us Sun. Don't you want her

son to see? Yes? I want, but you just like you know

what I mean now like go there like almost eventualist like you understand what I'm

trying to say. So my wife is very good, So she's she kept

the visit this place whereby the scripture is so true. Let me just bring

your next next verse matth nineteen was twenty six. But Jesus look to them

and say it with men, this is impossible deliverance. If you don't believe

it's well, but all things are possible. But we've got all things are

possible. You are I got to come to this place and believe with God

all things are possible. So if you were to do like like a homework

right now in your own life, what do you believe God for one column?

And then a column? What do you find it very hard to believe

God for one column? You say that, oh, I believe God can

bless me at my workplace, bless me with this, But what is it

that you find very hard to come to this place of surrender and belief.

The Bible says we God, all things are possible, not half things,

not quart to things, but all things. What is it in your life?

You find it very hard? How do I find it very hard to

sow, very hard to give, very hard to trust God? Fully?

Ask yourself why? Because we have to come to this place where eyes either

we believe that God will come true for earth. Because you don't want to

be in a place whereby let's say, for example, if this is your

greatest challenge that we got all things are possible, you do want to come

to a place whereby God will bring you to a place whereby force you to

make a decision where I say, forcibly dis it could be a soulf of

you. Your greatest challenge is health. For example, health you do when

they come get the report? Uh? This is it? Treamres you to

three more years to leave. You don't to come to this place whereby God

the time that I believe that all things are possible. Because the training ground

starts now. The training ground starts now. Every day God will present your

opportunity whether or not you believe him that all things are possible. Your training

ground starts now. All that you have in your life, that God is

building up your faith. That's why I paused, or I think the just

shall live by faith, because if your faith is not growing, then your

faith is tgnant. We have to believe God that God is able to provide

for earth more than the carp up. Most Christian activity their faith either for

carp up for taple reservation. Right, you got to restaurant there, you

want it, so I put soper. Okay, you brought your loved one,

your girlfriend. You've got to make booking. You went there, so

maybe people in the queue there just because you and your wife or your girlfriend

only right two percent easy to fight. Table to compare to a table of

compare to a party of five or six. You woke up there by faith.

Table for two sometimes allow you to see country for this one, friends,

our faith has to be bigger than then booking a table. Right now

that all carp up a round? Few rounds after that, said God,

please prow a carpat in Jesus name. Amen, we use Jesus name for

kap up. I mean nothing wrong with it, all right, that's perticular

and a lot of friends. But it has to be bigger than than that.

Really you think about it, right, our faith has to be bigger

than just carp up at table, reservation or even bonuses really like you know,

bonuses and stuffing. It has to be bigger. Our faith must be

able to heal marriages because if our marriage is at stake, God, please

intervene, Please intervene in our marriage. We have to believe God friends us.

All things are possible. The Bible does say God, it's only a

god finances. There's God financiers. Let's say everything findays. He's counting for

you when marriage. Sorry, he's not an expert. He has to be

beginn than their friends. Some of you may not come to the place whereby

you're needing God to to heal this. But don't you think we need to

get ready because in our journey of life you definitely should heat one. There

will be days why you don't understand your husband, she don't understand your wife?

And then then is something I should not repeat the days why you don't

understand that? What do you do? Friends? It's like that or she's

like it? Correct, she could be like but God can come true.

Some of the husband a mischief story we or um there was there was somebody

that came to know, I came to know and she was having a problems

with the marriage. So me and my wife I went to talk to her

and you know, she was just studying that. You know, their day's

husband and Christian. So there air days where by the husband like to go

drinking alcohol, drinking alcohol and does a drink at home, but goes to

pups are to drink. So if you know Malaysian pups, say no,

right, not talking about this the urban pups. Okay, these are ktv

mm hm ah. All right, you know how cleaner and cleaner. This

is like right, these are this is this is a your typical bangs.

Okay, you go that type of Okay, these are like the mbi uh

okay. Some of you were like what is that? Okay, So the

wife say that, no, if I don't go with my husband, then

someone else might goal Okay, she really hits the place. So one day

she said, I'll tell you what, because I love you, I'll go.

She prayed about to give her the piece follow her husband. She went

in. Don't like the environment, don't like the place. Set down with

her husband. Now you know this guy of places, right, it's very

dark and stuff like that. Not just the emost doubt, but not just

that the physically doubt, but spiritually is right up, sat down, So

people serve ALCOHOLA the waitress as are you the mistress? Are you the wife?

Upfront? Are you the mistress of the wife? She said, I'm

the wife, and this ratress got shot. Normally wife will not accompany husband

in this place. Normally it's a mistress. I've said, I've served so

many customers that it's normally the mistress who accompany the husband. Well, she

is there right, she's seeing everything. She thought to herself, Oh I'm

not good. I don't drink, she says, husband's drinking. So she

decided to talk to every almost every waitress she can talk to, because in

this week she's like, I can become the mother of this ratress. She

says, because you can, and I can imagine how older I can become

a mother of this reatress. So she went to almost every watress telling her

telling them I won't to let you know. Okay, I know you made

some bad choices in life, but Jesus can help you allow me to pray

for you. See, either we believe it or we don't. You know

she's so convinced though, so she was still having some problem with married.

She said, what to do as surinded to the Lord. The Lord will

see me true people bes leave your husband, leave her husband. No,

unless a lord tells me to leave, I'll just be contributed. I'll just

calling you do what I need to do. You see, we can't to

believe that our faith is bigger than the word is. Our faith can carry

us true in the midst of the stormb So she meets one waitress says it.

She said that she was telling me, and my wife said that she

was just saying that it made a bad choices ship. I won't let you

know that I also made bad choices my life. But when I received Christ,

he showed me. He let me. I call this piece. I

would not be here if God didn't allow me to come here. But I'll

let you got this sluss piece. I know what kind of character my husband

is. You have to come this spiece. Why we know that our God

does make a difference on friends. If you were the wife of your husband,

know what I'm saying. If you're married, the major writer now of

your marriage and one of your your other half goals. One drink, and

so I ask you, everybody comes to bring mistress here one you also will

be boiling with because the first thing you suspect you must have a But she

went with the assignments that I'm going to just turn this around, say I'm

going to be I'm just going to talk to people, just telling them about

how what God has done in my life. That's it. So friends,

with men, it's impossible, but we've got all things are possible. I

don't know what you maybe you are with your journey of life, but you

need to know that our God really does give a second chance. Right do

you know that it works in your life as well? You know in the

NY chap that worst they do, those who know their God shall do great,

and might they exploit. Those who know their God shall do great,

and might they exploits. Many times a lot of Christians say, I know

God, but knowing God has to be translated to great exploits, because it's

impossible to know a great God and not have great exploits. When I said

great exploite, friends, when I talk about great exploit, I'm not asking

us to clear land to build castle. No, I'm not talking about I'm

not talking about you know the word is that you give ninety percent of savings.

No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about obedience. I'm

talking about obedience at the end of the day. Because many Christians the words

that they don't have problem with faith, they have an issue with obedience,

because you can't talk about faith without talking about obedience at the end of the

day. Because a lifestyle of faith is a lifestyle of obedience. I'm gonna

say a lifestyle of faith, it's a lifestyle of obedience. Many times you

want revelation, but we don't obey what God review to us. And what

happened is that we get stuck in our faith after a while. You know

this is not in the scripture. You know the story except the true the

lame man at in front of gay beautiful. You know the story right majority

You know the story. There was a laymen lame by at birth every day.

He was really a gay beautiful and in front of the temper or beautiful

asking for money. What I realized is that the moment when Peter and John

walked in front of the laymen and then he was asking money from Pitt and

John. You know this guy has come to this place whereby he stopped believing.

Come on, if if you know Peter and John Peter stood in front

of a crowd and three thousand people got safe, wouldn't the first thing you

ask is healing Americas? Wouldn't the first thing you want? God heal my

legs? Right, that's the first thing I will ask? What I made

friends? I have a condition my left hand because of a surgery. When

when when Haywire, You're an age of sixteen? Until now, I couldn't

do a food rotation. Now if I were, if I know a faith

healer is coming, I will ask for healing. Or the other option is

also sixty thousand. That's how much it cost to do what we do my

arm, left arms sixty thousand, Give me sixty thousand and the words try

to repair my arm at the hospital with the doctor by telling me that he

may not be a hundred percent. You may be fully you might have a

full rotation if you might bring me back on if sixty percent? If it

was, you wouldn't you ask for healing because it's immediate, right? But

the layman asks for money from the faith healers. You know the person God

is eyes of faith onto the physica. The moment a person, a believer,

a person who God is. The eyes of faith or spiriture will always

ask, take in the physica, what do I mean by Dad? I

need this for this to work. I need this for God to move.

I need this environment for people to feel the presence of God. The moment

will be shieve our eyes of faith. We will always go the path of

natural. Give me money, because money will give me satisfaction. The day

will cover by money will not satisfy you at all. You know from ccrpture

of friends, what profit does it gain for a person if it gives the

whole world but loses It's so you can get everything but lose its meaning and

purpose of living. There has to been mean. Our lives must be bigger

than just what we have. Praise God for what we have. Friends.

I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying that we have to come to this

whereby God, you are the only one that gives me meaning from Monday to

Friday. That's why when people retire. When people retire, if the identity

is the word is let onto the workplace. The moment you retire, who

am ire? Because what gives us freedom. Right every day you wake up,

let's say five to day in the morning. No, you don't wake

out five okay, sorry six? I used to work out five to day

to take a bus sorry grab okay that these generations, I used to take

a bus to work, So five today, wake up six fifty at the

bus stop. Get to work by sixty five because the next cycle is that

take the bus to six forty five. You used to work place by a

forty five. I'm sorry at least my generation. Okay, right, some

of you will understand. Right, that's that's like you know, the timing

one. So anyway, the moment whereby there's no more work, what happens.

You've got no identity after that because there's no more freedom. You don't

have to wake up. You don't have to wake up at a certain time

anymore because work gives you a reason why you put on a shirt, grab

your bag, go to a place. Remove that. You've got no reason

for waking up anymore. After that, maybe you got a garden, but

after gardening, what do you do? You got? You got sue a

two quarter of the day. For the very first time, your email has

been slashed by so your identity after it gets removed, then what happens your

first Why we need faith because God is the one that gives us meaning and

purpose for leaving without God, Friends, everything is the word is that it

is meaningless? Like I just got to move on, all right? Friends,

Chapter eighteen six or twenty eight. For what prophet is a man who

gains the whole world but loses his own soul? What were men given the

exchange for his soul? For wherever's the shame of me and my words?

It needs and now there's a sinful generation of him. The sun man will

also be ashamed. And it comes in the glory of his father and with

his holy angels. Worst today it says that whoever's a shame, whoever's a

shame of me and my words? Friends, you and I need to come

to this place whereby God, if you ask me to if you ask me

to be of your mouthpiece, to ask me to do what I need to

do, I will do it. Lord. First, I'm not talking about

full time minisia. Some of us here a promise of family. We hit

our deaths, we hit our moms. I'm asking us to love our death,

to love our moms. When I was young, I always wanted to

be the first one to leave the nest, because whoever leave the nest the

fastest to always stay me. I have to take care of mom, and

that only the found out that girl has a sixth scent of humor. I

am the one only here. My brother and my sister laughed with me taking

care of that. It's not easy. Everyone called my wife say why every

one phone call you have to say I do. I have to exp me

to my wife. My dad right now, something he remembers, something he

can't remember recently. I just founded from my CCTV he invited even Joe witnesses

into this house. I was like, that way, please stay with me.

At least I can take care of your so okay, I don't the

creme your style know that, please stay with me. Sucking so some of

us got problems with dads and moms cannot. But our faith must cause us

to love our parents. And why you in let me care for you.

It doesn't mean that just because you got faith as also you do healing County

Meady, you cannot the words that the word when you say a shame,

friends, you cannot be you cannot like somebody and hit the other part.

It reminds me of a person that I used to know very early days of

So I'm not talking about anybody here. So she was singer, I was

singer, and say, you know what I like gerd A. Gird A

is very pretty, very nice. No, not very very pretty, but

she got temper. So therefore I like Gerbie. Girbie looks okay, but

she has a very nice temper, makes you feel so welcome, makes you

feel like you're a superman. But girl, ee, you don't do something

she scoes you. If only I can merge it to her looks and a

temperament. Her looks and this girl's temperament. In the end, he didn't

marry anyone with them now, right, Friends, I was preaching these at

one just marry both of them. Now were like this guy, believe her

not Cristian. Right, I say, where was the girlfriend of this individual?

Please? Okay, re consider right. But here's what I'm trying to

say that you cannot see that I like the looks, but I remember shame

of her. You cannot say that I like her temper about her looks average

Because I love God for this part, but I'm ashamed, a very shy

of God. On the other part, Love embraces everything, friends everything,

And that's why Paul is able to say, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel

of Christ. When you talk about the Gospel of friends, we are actually

speaking about I mean, just let me try and get my notes here whether

I have it. When you talk about the gospel, we are also talking

about his obedience. See, we have this picture of Jesus. I mean,

the best selling of the image of Jesus is Jesus and the and the

ships leading the ship by by beside green pasture. You're don't going to find

Jesus green lamb. Okay, you'll fight the isn't it shoe everyone that comes

to somebody, they shoe you picture of Jesus with a hat, one somebody

is smiling. One You're not going to I've not seen anybody by people buying

an image of Jesus claiming that temple and you know, with a weep,

cheezing the people out from the temper because you I have not seen that,

because it doesn't sell. But sometimes we are whired that we're as well.

We like this about God, we like this about Jesus. We like the

part of Jesus tends to the children. We like the part of the Gospels

that speaks to us about our need, but we don't like the part why

Jesus addressed the crowd. Oh you brewed a whipers first? Could you imagine?

Then you'll call addressing the crowd here right now? You brought a whiperse

you snakes. I don't know how many of you say it. Amen,

Yes, that's me. You'll be like looking at other people that that's not

me. I'm not a snake. I'm not. But this is Jesus addressing

a crowd. Oh, and we have to embrace God for who he is,

so we cannot say I'm The Gospel of christis only this, but he's

Christ. It's also the words obedience, the suffering all the way to the

cross. Think about it, He's suffering all the way to the cross.

Many times the modern day Christian have a have a struggle with what it means

to suffer for Christ, to be inconvenience, for Christ, to make adjustment,

for Christ prefer it tough. Only because that we struggled with this thing,

because like it is maybe not for me, or there's a softer gospel.

First, I'm not saying I scarce to turn off the acorn, make

up life with good a song, where as long we are suffering. It's

it's a symbol of us believing in God. I'm saying that we make choices

to follow God. There will be daence, avice easy, there will be

days to by his heart. We can't be selective. We're just all easy

all the way and there is no difficult choices. At the end of the

day. We can't say that we are followed followed Christ. It's it's easy.

I just got to go on. Friends, just let me, just

let me just so. The gospel is about Jesus and what he did,

you know, the healings Americas. But we can we cannot just stop that.

It's also of his life of perfect obedience to the Father. Perfect obedience

to the Father, friends, perfect obedience to the Father. So your life

and my life, friends, has to reflect that, the obedience to the

Father. What has God been speaking to you? V So like, maybe

it's not me. We can't talk about the gospel. We're talking about his

death. He made choices whereby he experienced death at the cross. You think

about it for a moment. Sometimes as a believer, we have not been

inconvenient to a place of suffering to death. That's a person that comes to

eight am service. Her name is Ally. She comes in the view chair.

The view chair not convenient because we know that I think she can.

She got strength to walk one but sometimes she choose not to walk. She's

in the late seventies, so we didn't really like nobody celebrates Both Day with

her. Recently the whole team got together put some money together just by her

Both Day gift. She was so overjoyed the fact that you guys, she's

a food of I think the mandrit out five. I'm not wrong, random

stranger finding love inconvenience, that people are just like kill out what to do.

It's what God brought to us. We would just love anyway. Inconvenient,

there's and there's there is a death community with us, not that there

words not always not the easiest, but it's inconvenient in the sense that you

have to the words be mindful. You have a growl of people that don't

speak how we normally speak, interpret a bit differently. We have to be

mindful of that. And because of the inconvenience, sometimes It's like it's easy

for us to plan to hate. They just follow while we say no,

we want them to be involved in the service. We want them to be

involved in the service. So, friends, we cannot talk about the gospel

of Christ. We're not talking about the resurrection, from his resurrection, from

the date his essession to heaven up pointing of the Holy Spirit. I got

a close sooner. Really, So the purpose of power is to transform and

mobilize us. Every power of friends that God has given us is to transform

us. Joshua one, was it be bold and courageous? Josh Chapter one

was say saying, you are supposed to be bold and courageous. So the

word of God is living and powerful. Once we believe in it, there's

transformation. So therefore the greatest challenge from a believer is this is that we

can't say we believe, but no transformation. Even every marriage, every marriage

from year one all the way to how many years, there's transformation. One

you would change, yes, for good of a better there's a separate story

about you would change. You would, So we can't say that I believe

in the power of God, but there is no change. So josh Chapter

one was it be bod So this book of power for your mouth, but

you should meditate on it, and you shall be strong, courageous and should

prosper right for the place. I think chapter three and it was eighteen.

If I'm not wrong or something, eight is it? I can do all

things to Christ and strengthens me. So Friend's power comes to us for transformation.

God doesn't give power to us to start in a battery pack on.

He doesn't just recharge the battery. He transformed us, help us and make

us. The word is that to understand what it means to be Christ on

earth. Really, I was um so recently I was I think, I

don't know if I should share this story or not, but yeah, yeah,

so me and I know my wife was just talking about h um.

There is this a lady that though she's quite high up in the organization,

not for more church, and she was just she just felt the need.

Really, the word is that to help people. So she said that a

medicare thing. And as she said, they said no for pastors. For

pastors, I would actually underwrite it for pastors. I will underwrite the medica

check out. Only because she felt and the words so convinced and the word

is so convicted that God has put me in this place to be a blessing.

As as I heard it, I'm like, I just want to ask

her. If I could to meet her in person, I will ask her

a question that who deciphered you to come to a place wherever you can make

a decision whereby it's okay for pastes underwrite audio medica check out only because isn't

She's go so convinced. So there was a staff that works under her attends

our church. She said, yeah, I gotta. We're encouraged. She

we can go Byble School, said I've never heard a clear job about boss.

I said, you want to go Byble School? Can? So I'm

hearing some of these things like wow, you must be convinced. The words

transform you're you're you're so transformed by the power of God, whereby it reflects

Christ in you and the end of the day. So I'm not sure where

you are your journey on how far you have been. But if there is

no transformation in the past years, saying God, maybe my power has been

in a bank whereby I have not tapped. If you ever actually touched a

live wire before, you know that it brings you a bit sensation, run

and you it'd be electrocuted before you understand what it means. All right,

but power transformed and mobilize, extrap the one will say that you shall receive

the holy spirits might be by witnesses. See, power doesn't come just demonstrate

or I'm superman. That's it, And and my whims in my fancy,

I want to help with that help friends, there's no such thing as a

superman Christian. Then you just see when you want to help, you help

when power comes to our live friends. At the end of the day,

it's about obedience. This is how I'm going to close, and just want

to encourage all of us. Many times you speak about faith, grow of

faith, you know, and stuff like that. But I want to bring

a different anger to your all. You know. In James Chapter one was

to say, county, all joy when you fall into various trials and tribulation,

right, you know the scriptures when you when you are when you are

in a situation whereby you are challenge all the time. So when you're in

the challenge, we always look for a way out correct enough. We want

we want the shortest and quickest solution for our problems. But sometimes no matter

what we do, the problems is still there. Means it's a bit more

term. Here's the thing that I wanted to just challenge us and just remind

us that just shall live by faith. When the next time you find yourself

in a problem, ask God, God, is this something I can learn

from here? Because the word is obedience because it takes a believer whose who

wants to please God obey God. Understand you have to go to this journey

and testing because at the end of the day, the Bible says, the

testing of your faith produces. You can't produce if you shot cut. You

can't produce if you shot cut the process. And what happens when you do

shot cut? For everything you find yourself maybe what is supposed to be a

cake becomes something else. So obedience is your quiet when you are in that

situation, because Lord, it's so tough. Lord, I want then then

when every time someone gives you a way out and immediately there has to be

God's answer for me. But if God never tells you to take your way

out, you don't escape first because the every day the testing of your faith

producers endurance and if fullness you'll be complete lacking nothing. Many times our journey

right, friends, we don't have see if we can deal with problems.

Our greatest challenge is dealing with people. Dealing people is the toughest and the

hardest because we always say that this guy needs to change it. If only

God can just reveal to him how bad his heart is, if only God

can just understand. Look, God give him a mirror there where everything he

wakes ut brushes Steve though he can just see what kind of anger he has.

But sometimes God peo around us to develop a heart for other people.

My wife knows this about me. For the longest time, I got almost

like the words zero epathy one. So she knows this because she sees me

how I deal with pastoral care. Someone tells me are a problem, I

just say, go and pray about it and phone call. We didn't tell

the second scouting problem ready, I give a solution. Solutions are prayer.

My wife who cry with the other party, so reasonally she went for a

counselation. Then leader was her. She went into the room. She told

me after that this person is a new leader because or not not not with

a new leader, but not so much experienced counseling. This because she forgot

to bring the tissue paper. The moment she went into the counseling room,

she brought tisue paper there already, and the moment she opened the door,

she saw the leader and the other person crying. I said, I've never

been to any counseling as a person. I bring tissue paper, share with

them before. No, right, you bring this should be you couldn magine.

Not. That's where God develops the empathy. I say, how do

you learn this one? After all? You know? One more? I've

done these things so many times. Really, when you're counseling somebody sugar tears

on, you need to shoot people, I say, guy, ready for

a guy, just just deal with it. Suck it up. Come,

don't cry, don't cry. Don't cry. You hear Jesus, Jesus.

They cry for something else, okay, not crying for suffering. Okay,

you did see Jesus cry across all right, skinny, Sorry, that's just

me, all right, So I kind of close it. I get the

closes, so so yeah, epathy. Then they resolicious said that wow,

not better. Now at least a few for people. This is what I'm

trying to say a close right now the josh I live by faith. Faith

is a lifestyle, not to just a one off event. Faith is not

I'm just about giving ninety percent, about giving more money to the offering back.

It is not. Our faith also deals with our hearts, our hearts,

our hearts. The word is that we are in a place whereby sometimes

it's not it's not good. We need to value our hearts. Our faith

was a deal with our perspective of life, how we see life. It

has to be bigger than what it's it's just going to work on a Monday

to Friday. You must be bigger than that because the moment we become the

retirement age, that what happens up there no more, no more, no

more expected. It has to be bigger than there. Because they gives you

a purpose, a meaning when you wake up friendships, there was there was

something that there says a purpose Otherwise I like this because so many friends I'm

talking about another friend, my friends. To me, I just don't want

to leave to eighty years old. I see why eighty to couple the eighty

eighties enough for me because I think enough. I see if God was to

prolong life. No, I'll ask take me home at eighty. I see,

you must have a purpose. You must have a reason, man,

because if eighties is you're looking forward, then you must not go home.

Now there's no difference. There's that's me. There's no difference. I come

on the next two me and my friend. I said the next day,

two years of your life. There has to be You can't just wake up.

It did some every day, but you cannot just go to He has

to be more than that, I said, you must wake up to say

God, what is it that? Who does it you want me to talk

to encourage? Blessed? There has to be more there. Who do you

want me to fetch to serve? Who do you want me to encourage?

Why is it not in my life that I need to change? There has

been more than their friends, Because the day will come friends whereby everything after

we come to disillusion. Our faith cannot be just be dominant. Our faith

cannot just be just because we are faith. We just come to church.

It has been more than that. We Our faith must bring us to communities.

Look, I gotta I gotta tell you about Jesus. I got to

show you, I got to teach you English and teach you math, because

at they of the day, Friends, there is no greater joy than being

obedient, than being obedient to the Father. There's no greater joy than the

finish Gods work here on earth. There is no greater If God asked you

to build something for him build, I've got asked you to bless somebody,

bless I've got asked you to forgive somebody forgive. It's God ask to love

somebody you love. I've got asked you to go for missions. To go

at the day of the day is not just the amount of money you put

an offering bag, or your church attendance or prayer surveys. While all this

is good, at the of date is God. If you want me to

I'm here because I am not ashamed of the Gospel. The same God that

blesspeer I will place shall bless in my community work because the just shall live

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