The Importance Of Knowing and Serving Your "CALLING" (Part 3) - 5 Needs For Calling | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

will light up your day. I embarked on a series called Calling, and

this is very important. I think we need to be refreshed with this message

maybe once a year, that life really, at the end of the day

is measured by our calling, meaning to say that when you appear before God

at the end of it all, God is going to ask us about what

we did without calling. We are called to be Christians, Praise the Lord.

That's why we're here, called to be children of God. What and

how have you lived that? Some of us are married, We're called to

be husbands wives? How have we lived that? Some of us have children,

We're called to be dead and moms. How have we become dead and

moms to our children? So ours are blessed? To be bosses? How

good have we been bosses? To our staff and to the people that God

has brought into our care? Some of us have called to be leaders?

How well have we led? Okay, I'm gonna give you now the five

needs of calling. Okay, let me turn you to efficients for one to

three, for us Efficians for one to three. Let me read the word

of God, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk

worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all loneliness and gentleness,

with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep

the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. I love this scripture

is very, very strong. You don't usually see anyone using those words prisoner

of the Lord. What do you think? A prisoner is one who doesn't

really have his will. His will sort of has to be put aside.

He's in chains, he's definitely behind bars. His freedom is limited. But

even though it's a lot of negative gives, Paul proudly called himself a prisoner

of the Lord. And I want you to understand that if you understand the

power of calling, you will understand that calling actually is supposed to imprison us

to the will of God. And I know some of you don't like that,

you don't like to be a prisoner, But it's very very important to

understand the power of being a prisoner of Christ and to be in chains to

the Lord and his will, so that we don't find ourselves doing what we

want to do and what we will to do for our own selfish ambition.

But they we are so tied in and tied up with God that we do

his will. So I want to bring you through five needs for calling to

thrive. Five needs that you must have that you must consider for calling to

thrive in your life. Number One, calling needs concentration. Calling needs concentration.

You know, we are very destructed people. There was an old writer

who wrote something and I saw it, and it's a quote, and I

think he made so much sense. He said, the goal of the devil

is to create so much noise on the earth that you will find it hard

to hear the voice of God. Don't you love that? It's so true.

He doesn't even have to get you to not believe God. Say that

Jesus didn't come to die on the cross. He doesn't because you know a

lot of these things that the devil does or says, we won't believe it

anyway. But it's not about those big ticket things. Jesus is not Lord.

He didn't die on the cross. Those are big tickets. He just

needs to create so much noise, so much noise, so much you go

into the news, so much noise. Haven't finished Russian and Ukraine. Now,

God Israel and Hamas and you know that it would end so the notice,

So the devil send his demons. Demons, don't need to do anything

else. Don't don't even spoil that. The theology because some of these Christians

are so strong in the theology, so strong in the doctrine, they would

definitely will rebuke you when you say Jesus Christ is not long, they will

rebuke you. And you don't want to be rebuke in Jesus name because you

would definitely be rebuked and you're definitely be cast out. No, just go

around, take some pots and pants, planned blank blad. You just go

around those Christians and you just oh, oh new iPhone. Sorry, I

didn't want to go into that black black line. And you know iPhones every

year changement and if you are the time that race after chase after the kind

of things are flag black line. You know what else? Oh, you

know, elections, new government, four prime ministers in five years, like

black right, COVID ninety right, like Louday Louday. Because the Christians are

not distracted yet distract them. You know, sell, you know the four

letter word sell, sell one sale after the other. Yeah, after you

got sale fifty percent. There you got best buys right, and then you

know you got children? Okay, then one child, client, two children,

three gods on the whole house is now tops TV. Right now you

are games, you know new games PS right now? Five six coming.

No, I'm telling you I can I prophesy? Can I prophesy? Can

I prophesy? PS? Six? And the Christians just create enough noise so

they can't hear God's voice. Distraction, so we miss out calling. When

I went to the shop opposite my house, so many biscuits, especially the

one with the cream on top, the sugar, so many colors. Why

can't they only make one color? Because of children like me who get distracted

so easily. We bite the sugar, throw away the biscuit. Yes,

su go's one side biscuit and another side. So is the noise. The

noise, noise, pollution has been there for a long time. And can

I tell you it's gonna get louder. It's going to get louder. Concentration.

We miss out calling because we're not focused. Next slide says focus as

simple as that. You gotta focus. You know I told you last week

right the man couldn't make up in the morning, and the mother came to

the room, son, get up, you got to miss church, and

the song was so frustrated. He said, give me one reason why I

need to go to church, and the mother said, you're the pastor.

I knew I'll get a laugh from the pastor. Yeah, we forget sometimes,

okay, is that the only reason you have? All? Right?

Proverbs Training nine eighteen. Oh, I don't know how much time I'm going

to spend on this, but this is so important now. I pray God

help me because I don't want to over well, you know, overspend my

time on this. But this is I'm so lately, especially, I'm so

convinced about this scripture. Where there is no revelation or vision, people cast

off restraint or people perish, But happy is he who keeps the law.

I tell you why, I'm passionate because I've been working with young people for

thirty three years and many I've seen, you know, go from zero to

hero by the grace of God. Many were quiet and didn't know where they

were going, maybe even lack of confidence, and then now are standing preaching.

You know, we've seen a lot of that. Of course, we

also have seen some failures. What he said, maybe one or two even

committed suicide or you know, it's life is just so crazy. And yet

we continue to love the young people because God loves them, continue to preach

the gospel reach them. You know, when I was younger, I was

as slim as Olivia. Yes, but because of ministry. All this is

love those day tatics and they won't they won't open their hearts to the first

day that I don't know why, why might it be the seventh day that

they don't need? Is it by reary pastor? And it's only took it

in the morning and we want to go back right, I think it's done

because he's not opening up now. It's like it's like the seventh one that

is the is the one that caused the person to be drunk. I got

to tell you something. I need to tell you something now. And it's

gone on for ten and night all the way to two in the morning,

and now only he starts. All right, So this is opasional, has

it? And so please hear my heart because some of you might get rubbed

the wrong way when I say this, I pray not, you know,

let me explain this to you. Also when I was in school. I

come from a school called Scholar am minodin Baki. A lot of people laugh

about that, you know, actually one of the top schools now, but

my time, it was a gangster school, so people laugh. And I

grew up without parents. My mom left the family when I was one.

My father was on drugs, so he was absent almost all my life.

And because he was on drugs, you know, people thought that Kenneth,

I think you're probably gonna go that whila. I didn't see grades or drugs.

But God's grace was so strong on my life. He gave me a

love of sports and made me at one time the top running in my school.

And because of the joy and filming I felt in winning the four hundred

meters, winning the four by four, winning the four by one uh and

became one of the top runners in my school, I I I wanted to

keep that that, you know, that for filming, that that fulfilling feeling,

and so with that, I decided not to smoke, even though at

six years old, I was lighting the matches for my father's ganja. And

you think to yourself, a six years old lighting up a ganja bottle for

my dad six to nine, about three four years. I did it almost

every day for him, and not to even suck it myself. It's a

sucking emotion, you know, out of a bottle. I'm not teaching you

how the drugs, but you know it's crazy. Sometimes I even had to

cut the papaya stemp for they use that, and then they put a foil

and the end. Again, I'm not teaching you, uh, and then

and then and then sometimes he's with me or I'm with him in the car

and he goes to the back lane and there's this short midget you know,

who comes and sells him, sells him the drugs. And people were calling

him say, how come you can take your son with you in the car.

You know. He says no, no, because if you have a

young kid in the car, the police one thing that you're doing something.

This is what my dad did crazily, you know. I mean I could

have been in trouble right. Yeah. By the way, the midget who

show my dad ganja for about ten years became a Christian. Hallelujah, praise

God because my dad when he became a Christian, when and reached out to

him and gave him real grass the grass of life. Hallelujah, Amen,

praise God. No, the time you smoke, you know, by the

time. And yeah, So I want to say this to you. When

you have vision, it causes you not only to know what to do,

but what not to do. And that's why the Bible says the people cast

off restrained without revelation, without vision. And I've been speaking to some parents

lately, even all the way in Osaka and different places. They tell me,

pastor, uh, how do you actually stop a child from jumping from

one so far to another? He's hyper, he's active. Uh, you

know, I don't believe in stopping my child at home. I want to

give liberty to my children to open the fridge, you know, to take

out I say, yeah, But the fact is that whatever they do in

your house, they also do in other people's house. I said, this

is a problem. And then what happens is that people begin to not like

your children and maybe not even invite them for parties because they keep jumping on

so fast, jumping into the pool when they're when they are not supposed to,

opening the fridge, and taking people's drink because they think that every house

is their house. So I will tell parents and leaders and whoever it is.

This is a scripture that's very powerful. If you have a vision for

your child, you must practice be straight a parent that does not practice restraint

in their child's life. And this way, I know I'm rubbing south you

in the wrong way because I don't know how you bring your children up.

But if you don't practice restrain, you're almost saying her, I have no

vision for my child. You with me. And it's only because I had

a vision to be the top runner in my school that I didn't smoke,

didn't drink, didn't do anything that would jeopardize that vision. And this is

what I'm talking about. When you have a calling in your life, you're

focused, you're concentrated, and so there's a reason why you say I will

do something and I will not do something. And when you say I will

not do something, it's because of vision. Because I see that my son

or my daughter when he or she goes to another person's house, they will

behave they will know what to do, they will know what's right. I

have a vision for my child, and because I have a vision, that's

why I want people say no. This modern day parenthood is to let the

child do anything they want. I want to tell you again, if you

let your child do anything they want, you have no vision for your child.

A parent and a leader that has vision will always exercise restraint. The

Bible happy is he who keeps the law. So it's very important. And

I noticed that even talking about vision, because some of us have vision,

very wordly vision, like, for example, I want my son to be

exactly at me. I want my son or my daughter to be a doctor

or lawyer, you know. And it could be just your selfish vision,

but it must be a revelation from God. So when God gives you a

revelation of this, this is how your children will be. This is how

your son will grow up to be. This is how who your daughter will

be. This is how the church will be. Now I'm going to church.

Now. This is how your family, your your group, your company

will be. And if your company doesn't have vision, you let your stuff

do anything they want. But when you, when your company and when your

family has a vision, you will always exercise restraint. And the beautiful thing

is when you say no to something, you know it's because you want to

achieve that vision. Everybody, Okay, this is very very important. I

had to sit down one with one of my leaders. Once upon a time,

his son was uncontrollable and people were like, already not inviting him to

parties because you know, and then he will. I don't know why my

son don't get invited. So I set him down one day. He's one

of my my key leaders in this church. And it's very hard to talk

to a PARANOI not to say, hey, you know you please get your

act together, but because I love him and I love his son, and

said, brother, can I just tell you? You know? You know?

He actually teared because he also knows that something needs to be done,

but has no will power to do it, no will power to do it.

So I said, brother, you are a church plant coordinator. You

are, you are a good leader, but I want you to begin to

think about this. And then he said, I don't know what to do.

Pass I said, this is. I give you a very simple question.

What you allow at home, you're gonna allow anywhere else. It always

starts at home. And he says, yeah, but I don't always discipline

him. I said, there are ways to discipline, it's not always came.

And so we talked and then he went on to have three children,

and it's quite amazing because all three children are really growing up well today because

he caught the fact that if he has a vision and wants a vision for

the children, he is to exercise restrain and let it begin at home.

Everybody, Okay, so if you have a calling in life, exercise restrain.

You know. The reason why I don't watch something late at night on

Saturday night is because I had to preach on Sunday morning, and a lot

of people tell me I had never mind, we will be We are used

to sleeping for three hours, right, But this is what I thought Passandra,

because Passandra once or twice she sapt very late and she had a message

to pre tomorrow, and I said, there, I want to let you

know that when God gives us the priority and sorry, the privilege to preach

for him, I want you to understand that when you're standing at the pulpit,

people are listening to you, their lives can be changed forever, and

their answers to their questions that they've been asking can be received. I say,

it's a huge responsibility to stand and hold a microphone. I want to

make sure I'm well prepared, are you also hear me. So any footballer,

even though I support Liverpool and a lot of you know it, if

they're playing even a big gamer and it's one o'clock in the morning on Sunday

morning, one o'clock, I will because I take this very seriously and I

want God to see from heaven and look down and go like I think Kenneth

is taking his calling very seriously, and guess what, He's gonna bless me.

And when he blesses me, you are blessed. So my wife said,

yeah, I think we've got to start to have restraint because we have

a vision and a vision of just one life in this room, touched by

the word of God. Because the preacher takes it seriously, exercise restraint.

If you have no vision, do what you want. But if you have

vision, then exercise restraint. I told you I was going to be tempted

to take this longer than I should, but I hope you're blessed. All

right, this is very very important. Do you therefore have a clear and

compelling vision. I put that dot dot dot because for your life, for

your health, for your children, for your church, for your cell group,

for your company, it must be clear and it must be compelling.

You know, this whole thing about trying to lose weight when you know some

of you might have vision. I want to lose weight before the end of

the year. Well guess what is two more months to the end of the

year. I hope you are successful. I've been trying O. So you

know it's very hard to lose weight in Malaysia. I'm telling you right now,

yes, sir, yeah, very hot. But if you have a

vision, then you go to ah. You know, excuse me. I

had a vision in January to lose seven kilograms and now I've gained seven.

What happened? You know? It's usually your vision may not be as clear

or as compelling for losing weight, because if it was really clear, convincing,

compelling, convicting, you will exercise restraint. Oh I know, I'm

preaching to myself, amen, and I will. Number two commitment calling needs

not just concentration, focused by commitments. That's where we come back to ephicions

for three or one to three. I, therefore, or the prisoner of

the Lord, beseech you to what worthy of the calling with which you were

called prisoner of the Lord. I want to revisit this again. You're so

committed right that you are, You're going to have to say to yourself,

you know I can't just do anything I want. I'm committed as a leader

is what I do. This is what I don't do. I'm a prisoner.

I don't do my will. You know, guys, I've been praying

for years. I say, God, you don't have to give me any

dreams. I don't need any dreams. And so how you're go, what

what do you mean? I said, because God has got dreams for me,

and you know, God's dreams are enough for a lifetime. So I

hardly ever have any dreams. I confess to you. People call me a

dreamer, and people call me one who continue his dream. Oh I got

it. Sundly you got football Academenia Sunday or clinic Sunday got Lynette's a suicide

prevention LA. And then suddenly got church. You got the common LA and

you know, never ending. But I'm telling you right now, not one

of them will my own personal dreams. Just I just be honest with you.

I don't have time for personal dreams because God has got too many dreams

for me already, and I just want his dreams. I have only one

lifetime to live the dreams of God. I you also me, So I

don't go around say I dream for a car. No, God, you

want to give me a car. Give me a car, thank you very

much. You want to you know why do you give me such a big

car? Or so? No? So you can do this? Okay,

fine, you know God you want. I only have got time. That's

only one lifetime, and you only live for eighty years. Then it's very

short. I only have time for God's dreams. I tell you this.

I say this to the Lord once a week at least. Lord, help

me to live your dreams, because your dreams are bigger than mine. Amen.

And I tell you what it's just. And every time I tell you

the truth that you live God's dreams, you know what God will do.

He will cause your little dreams here and there to be also fulfilled. It's

true, it's true. But but we go after God's dreams. But too

many people, too many Christians, are so busy with their own dreams that

you have no time for God's dreams. I you also me. I'm talking

about calling so we want to be a prisoner. Lord, put chains on

my hands so I don't go doing whatever I want. Put a bar,

you know, close the door. Lord. I know myself, I'm very

tempted with many things. I want to travel. I want to see the

world. You know, I've traveled almost half the world, but it's never

been on just a holiday, you know, wanting to or this is my

bucket list. Santorini, Italy. No bucket list. I said, Lord,

you take me wherever you want to take me. I tell you what

he's been doing. That, I tell you is even more. Is better

to go to a holiday with a little bit of purpose than jess only a

holiday, because if just on your holiday and you come back from the holiday

neating and then the holiday, but when you go in the Lord, you

will go really fulfilled. You come back from Osaka saying hallelujah. He was

only five days or six days in Osaka. But you know I got to

also eat sushi. I don't worry about it. Don't worry when I when

I travel, I get a little bit, you know, maybe when I

go to Melbourne, I get a little bit of hot chocolate, a little

bit of Australian breakfast. You know what I'm saying. What accident is that,

but I'm a prisoner of the Lord. How many of us can catch

a glimpse of a deeper meaning of what a prisoner of the Lord means?

And maybe even ask the question, am I a prisoner of the Lord?

Am I a prisoner of the Lord? So a prisoner? The next Slight

says is what Who's chained? Are you chained to the Lord? Chain to

his vision, his dreams, his desires? Are you rooted? Are you

saying, not my will but yours be done? Or are you saying,

not your will but mine be done? What is your anthem in life?

A la lujah? I'm excited to serve the Lord? I am, and

I'm talking when I say it is. Some of you might think, oh,

he's very arrogant, but I want to tell you in all humility,

that's been my life for the last at least fifteen years, when I caught

a glimpse that God's dreams are bigger than mine and I only have time for

his dreams. But you know, when you fulfill his dreams, he will

also fulfill yours. So surrender your dreams to the Lord. You know,

talking about routing, A lot of Christians will understand the power of rooting and

being rooted, and therefore we always move in our feet anyway we want to.

But you know, a tree, you don't see it running across the

field. Love, Christians are trees with legs, you know what I'm saying.

But you know why trees grow and trees bear fruit, not because they

are running from one church to another church. They root no matter what happens.

They roote, they say. Finally, even though it's not a perfect

church, I choose to root. I change myself as a prisoner of the

Lord, because the promise in the next scripture says, those who are planted

in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the cause of the Lord of

God, of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age.

Oh, I'm hearing those with a little bit more age to your number and

number to your age saying Amen, praise God, because of course we want

that. You know, when I read around starting churches in the early days,

all young people, campus students, young people from the schools caught the

community is so different. Someone else laughs at the back there, cause the

community is very, very different because we have older youth. And my wife

looked at me and said, hey, what's God try to tell us.

God is trying to tell us to revive the older ones, you know,

because you're not done yet, and God is not done with you fifty five,

sixty five, seventy five, eighty five. If he's done with you,

you are in heaven. No in quota, the communing or the quota

coming sometimes gonna be heaven unless the gem comes. There is a little bit

of hell. But uh, hallelujah. So I look at my wife.

My wife say, how come the young people so few? I said,

no, yeah, just old the young people, all the young people who

have got young hearts and they want to serve the Lord, got children,

got families. But I tell you what this church EXCP quota communing especially,

I'm gonna tell you what, It's going to be very powerful because we've got

older young people who have two young hearts, but the ability to experience,

the wisdom, the capability to do more than a young person. Yes,

and so you're not done. Then to everybody say you're not done, the

best is said to come. Yeah. Hey, So saying hey, I'm

well done, No, lie, your medium really well, I'm cooked.

I'm fried. They shall still bear fruit in old age Hey, please,

people take this promise because in ten more years are you'll be old. I

finally use that word. I just want to be honest. Oh, you

know, politically correct, it is older. Okay, we'll be all.

But look at that. There is a promise for the old. Huh,

the Bible is not politically correct. I can't see. They shall still bear

fruit in older age all means older. But there's a promise for the oil

you bear fruital me, the promise of Sarah. Come upon you, cay.

I magine your grandmother ninety years old, pregnant. I'm a massie.

Ah back pain a no, no, pregnant. Gain they shall be fresh.

Oh do you know it's very hard to get fresh things these days?

Huh. You go to some market you want fresh, he's already been the

freezer for two months, and tell you as fresh vegetables. Hey, but

this the Bible says you will be fresh. Listen to a neighbor against it.

You will be fresh. I know this is a harder. Yeah,

smell smell smell them, smell them. No, I'm kidding, gidding,

Ah fresh, This is the promise of God. You will be fresh.

So how you could be tired? Today and like, oh, you know,

I need a holiday, right, But the Bible doesn't say a holiday.

It says plant yourself in the House of You know why so many Christians

these days are very tired after holidays because it's not the holidays only, it's

the planting of yourself in the house of God. And these are not the

words of your pastor Kennochine. These are the words of God. But we

refuse to be branded. And ever since Asia came about, I tell you

you're buying air the kids are at all times just because he's wondering it.

You don't even check the days yet by verse, so what right you cannot

go there? And where's one ringular? Right? Someone said before Asia has

got a lot to answer God. Or you're very quiet now, right,

and another airline would have come in, and I wanted to do even more

for us. In course it's enough enough, right, And guess be cool,

be cool? Yeah, instead of checking with a check lender, you

know, we just go, We just go. I'm not sure whether we

are planted in the house of the Lord or where are we planted? And

that's why we're not fresh, and that's why we're not flourishing. And that's

why we don't bear fruit where Okay, while your pastor is preaching today,

all right, holding back nothing but giving you only the best. I want

to bear food with my old age. And the answer is to be planted,

be rooted, be a prisoner of the Lord, can or not?

Otherwise you got to be a prisoner to something else. I'll guarantee you you've

got to be a prisoner to something else, simply as that make yourself a

prisoner of the Lord. Okay, where are we now? Character calling means

character. I therefore the prison of the Lord beseech you, besichd means what

I asked back, with urgency, ferv and see, I beg you to

walk worthy, balancing the scales of the calling with which you will call with

all loneliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another in love

and darvoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

You know what what worthy means. If you don't know that I explained it

to you there in red, it just means balancing the scales, meaning like

this, meaning like this, Ah, God has already given you a calling.

Let's let's say this is my right, my left hand, and God

has given you this calling. The calling is from God. The calling doesn't

minimize, maximize, The calling doesn't have h one like, for example,

are oh, this is baby calling. Anyone here got a baby calling?

You're reading for your calling to grow up? No, a calling is mature,

completely intact when it came from God. So if the calling is like

this, this high, you are called to be a pastor, you are

called to preach the gospel. The calling is high. And so what the

Word of God is telling us to do is to what worthy of that calling

means? Rise to your calling. The calling will never be a baby calling.

You will be a baby Christian, but the calling will never be So

when you receive from the Lord, it is a full intech calling and you

are to discover your calling. You are to grow into your calling and one

day match up to your calling. And what matches up to your calling is

character. Character, because the Bible says what worthy means. Balancing the scales

means, Ah, if that if this was a scale and that was high,

I've got to make sure that I come up to level with my calling,

and so that the day will come when it's balanced. I've got to

measure up and match up to my calling, which is my character. A

pastor asked me recently because he said, wow, Pastor Kenneth, it seems

that you are commissioned pastors in ex church quite like you know, We've never

seen it before. And this person said, in our church, we have

to go to Bible school. That are a lot of stuff. So I

had to explain to this pasta. I said, a pastor, I want

to explain to you what God told me is to commission leaders in this church

who are ready. And then he said, yeah, but uh uh that

going to Bible school for three four five years is part of being ready.

I say, yes, I agree. I'm not arguing with you, but

can I tell you this? And this was the sentence I want you to

hear, I say, pastor. This was in Pinang, say pastor,

I have seen more leaders for not because of the lack of knowledge of scripture,

because scripture you will continue to learn for the rest of your life.

I've seen them fall because of the lack of character. And so in this

church in acts, I told the pastor in Penang, we look out for

people's character first, because learning the scriptures is a lifetime and if you think

that you can do it in three years of seminary, you must be kidding.

And yet we base our calling based on three years of seminary. And

the real test is character. The real test has always been character. And

you need the character to measure up to your calling because too many people have

fallen, not because of knowledge or lack of it. It's always been because

of integrity. You know, honesty, humility. Are you with me?

Character? So your character or the right form will support your calling for the

long haul. That's what the next slight says, your character or having the

right form will support your calling for the long haul. Number four comforter,

Oh, I don't think I need to preach too hard. Comforter means the

Holy Spirit. And the reason why we fail in our calling is because we

go by our own strength, we go by our own wisdom, We go

to a seminar and we think we know it all. No, it's the

spirit of God that enables us. So I'm going to give you three and

gonna I'm gonna move on Zechariah fur six. So he answered and said to

me, this is the word of the Lord. To zero bebel not by

my nor by power, but by my spirit. Somebody say, amen,

you and I are going to measure up to our calling. Not because we

are so smart or so strong. No, we need the Holy Spirit,

and so I call all of you draw closer to the Holy Spirit. Want

more of him. Speak more in tongues. Really, if you have the

gift of tongues, pray more in tongues. Why are you so quiet?

You know, pray more in tongues. In fact, maybe set yourself a

goal five minutes a day praying tongues. You know, I'm trying to set

ten minutes, you know in my prayer time or raba kashanda because I get

edified. You know, I'm aware of the Holy Spirit and he's He's aware

that I need him. Next next scripture says but the Helper John fourteen twenty

six, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.

He will teach you all things. Wow, how good is that? Is

there anything you need to know today? How you should live your life?

How you should be a better husband, How should be a better wife,

How should be a better parent? How you should be a better son and

daughter to your parents. He will teach you all things and bring to your

remembrance all things that Jesus said to us. The Helper will do that eye,

okay, And that's the reason why I think a big reason why people

don't measure up to their calling is because they don't have the help of the

Holy Spirit. They don't even depend on him. We want to depend on

the lot more and more on the Holy Spirit. Somebody say, Amen,

find out scripture on Holy Spirit, John sixteen seven. I thought, as

I read this time and time again, that this is such such a telling

verse that Jesus would say, if he doesn't go, the Holy Spirit won't

come, almost telling us that you need him more than you need me,

almost almost saying to you that he can do more for you and I,

individually, as a person walking on the earth, can do for you.

So I must go, And if I don't go, he won't come.

I want to make sure I'm reading the scripture properly. The Helper will not

come now it is it cannot, will not, will not. So Jesus,

who knows that it's better for us to have the Holy Spirit living in

us, because there's so much that he has said to us that can only

be accomplished with the Holy Spirit's help, he had to go. However,

you think that if Jesus remained that he would die. I think the Son

of God can be alive until today. If you want to do two thousand

years later, you know you're still using two thousand years latter. Is more

than two thousand eight, you know, Yeah, I think is twenty thirty

year past or twenty thirty three. I mean that the world is celebrating two

thousand years since Jesus, because he was thirty three when he died, and

so twenty thirty three tree is two thousand years, all right. And if

one year, one year, one thousand years is a day to the Lord,

so a day has gone after a thousand years, two days has gone

by the time we finished two thousand years one day. Two days is the

third day that he rolls up. So a lot of people are very excited

about the entry entry into our third thousand because it's the entry into the third

Day. So there's a quiet right through the years of where is Jesus?

And he keeps telling us that he's coming back soon. So within a very

short time we will enter the third thousand and the third Day. So they

are now calling it the Third Day movement. The resurrection, the coming of

the Lord, and then you see Israel. You see all this right,

and you know it's coming. So people, please, now is not the

time to you know, just dream our own dreams and have our little thing

and you know by all the etiquetes we want so that you know listen,

I know, please go for holidays, Please do whatever you think you need

to for your family. But listen to my heart because I'm telling you about

some things that if you didn't consider, you will not know that it is

so close and so real. Everybody, Okay, So Jesus, I have

to go because the Holy Spirit has to come. And so with that I

will close that point and come to the last point. Choice. And this

is the easiest of all five and yet the hardest. Easiest and yet the

hardest. Why because you can be called, but until you choose the calling,

even if it's from my Angela, even if it came down from Heaven.

Stand in front of you, Oh, Michael, Oh Gabriel, there's

a Gabel here. That's why I looked up to him. And this is

what the Lord has called you to be to do. It's still a choice

yes or no, and God wants us to make a choice. That's why

Matthew twenty two, verse fourteen says, many a call, but few are

chosen. Tell you why. It's not because God chooses us or not.

Many times, if not all the time, we actually make the choice ourselves.

You know, I told this to some of my leaders once upon a

timer, because through the years, I think I've been an employer now for

quite a few years. I started being an employer at twenty five with my

first staff, and now we have thirty three staff in the church office and

another close to sixty staff for our school, et cetera, et cetera,

So anywhere from seventy to eighteen ninety staff. And through the years, you

know, people have come in and gone out. I've recognized this though,

and some of you have employed people. Are you recognizing that people are Yeah,

so let's call when they first started a job, but they're calling.

They were called into the job, they had a awful letter, and then

through the years, don't know what happens. Some will do very well and

some will not, and some will actually be dragging their feet to work.

And then you say, hey, why are you so late that today?

A yeah, I know, woke up later sorry, La, boss,

Sorry, La, I won't do it, Agala, And then late another

time, late another time? Why are you still late? Uh? You

know my football team last night a lost heir, you know. Or my

football team last night, Warler, you know, and I was celebrating with

my friends. Okay, okay, forgive you know. And you know how

hard it is a in normal companies, okay, in church, very hard

now, very hard to release somebody, you know, very hard to even

scold somebody from Monday to Friday. Passa. I don't know. I'm sure

you understand this. A staff to scold the staff and then to preach on

Sunday. Let's start a Jesus loves you very hard, I tell you,

very hard. But the truth is that before you are even given the letter

of warning or finding the letter of releaser, you already chose. Many of

us already chose her to be released. We choose by our action. We

choose by our unwillingness to come early to work. We choose by our attitude.

We choose by us not being able to work with our teammates, not

being able to be a team worker, team player. We choose, and

people are nobody was a sec you. Nobody was there, but you know

every day you're saying, choose me. I want to go. I want

to be late again to worrow. Choose me. Sack me? You know?

Come on, why haven't you sacked me yet? Choose me? Hello?

Can you can you see it? I'm totally uh. You know I

had no regards to your to your authority. Choose me? Come on,

why you haven't given me the first warning letter? Choose me. I have

tomorrow. I'll come late again. Choose me? You understand? Do you

understand? So many God calls everyone, God calls all of us, but

no, we choose every day by our attitude, by our unwillingness, by

our stubbornness. You're saying, choose me, God, I dare you to

choose me, Choose me and take me out of the equation. I don't

think you do it because you are a good God. You are a loving

God, so you'll never sack me. Choose me. So many are called,

but fear are chosen because we have already chosen to not be included,

just by our actions. Father, in the name of Jesus, I know

my time is up, but I want to pray that every single person here

understands. The next slight says all of us are called to something, but

it's choice that seals it. And the last light says, I might be

defined by my calling, but my destiny is determined by my choices. You've

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