The Importance Of Knowing and Serving Your "CALLING" (Part 2) - The Called | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

will light up your day. The importance of knowing and serving your calling.

All right, now, you know, all of us are Christians, and

that's why we're here because Christians are called to come to church. And the

Bible says in Hebrews ten, do not forsake the assembling of yourselves, especially

when you see the day drawing near. So, you know, there's a

funny story I once heard where a man who was supposed to be in church

couldn't wake up, and he was tired. He was a little bit like

bored to go to church, and so he was still asleep when he should

be awake. His mother was a little bit concerned, so she went to

his room, knocked on his door and barched away in and you know,

began to shake her son to awake, and she says, son, you

got to wake up for church. And the son was so, you know,

sort of arrogant and frustrated. He turns to the mother and says,

give me one good reason why I must wake up for church. And the

mom says, you're the pastor. And it sounds funny, but the fact

is that you know we are called, and just because we are called,

that's what helps us know exactly what we need to do. If you're a

mom and your children are crying for food, you can't say, but today

I don't want to be mom. All right? Maybe grandma will be mom.

Maybe my next old neighbor can be mom. Maybe my maid, my

nanny can be mom. No, you're a mom, and a mom will

always be a mom, no matter how all your children are. Yes,

I can see some moms nodding your heads. It's true. Father's husband's wives.

That's your call. That's your role, and your role defines your call

a pastor. All right, I do sometimes I must confess to you.

Do get tired and I go like this Sunday can miss it? Not all

right? And then the Lord just have to remind me who are you?

Passer? Who are you? Helps you know what to do. There are

too many people asking what should I do? I always tell them first ask

a question, who are you? You see? It's not because you like

Chinese. The year that saw you this you celebrate. It's because you're Chinese.

That's all you celebrate. Nobody is celebrate Chinese? Do you just because

you like and nobody celebrates Christmas just because you think Christmas has got snow.

No snow in Malaysia for your information. Okay, you go like, oh

I like Christmas. I really like Christmas. No, you celebrate Christmas because

you're Christian. Before you ask what you should do, you ask who you

are, because who you are defines what you do. You say, Okay,

uh, should I study? Are you a student? Yes? Studier?

Should I study? Are you a student? No? Then there's your

choice. You have an option. Are you okay? Not? Guys?

You know? Should I go to work today? Are you the are you

the business owner? You know? Then you don't go to work. I'll

lead your team now. So this is very important because too many people are

going around crying saying I don't know what to do. The real question is

ask yourself first who you are. I'm a Christian, I'm a servant of

God, and I am a pastor in this church, so that defines what

I do. So pastor wake up. The mother says you need to go

to church. He says, give me one good reason. You don't just

need one good reason. You just need to know who you are. This

is calling somebody, say amen, all right, so let me give you

the next slide, which gives us the foundational scripture for today. All right,

and says in Romans eight twenty eight, we know that all things work

together for good to those who love God, to those who are the call

according to His purpose? How many? How many of you have seen this

verse before? Yeah? All right? Three? The rest for God to

bring their hands. This is a very very good verse to memorize. I

love this verse. I love this verse especially when things go wrong, because

when things are going right, we never quite memorize this verse. When things

are going wrong and things are not certain, we stand and we claim God's

promise. We know that all things. Somebody say, all things, thank

you for bringing your mouth work together for good to those who love God.

Do you love God to those who are the call according to His purpose?

Now, sometimes some people I hear, and I've done it myself. We

quote this by memory, and we say, and we know that all things

work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called

according his purpose. They say, very well, they memorize it quite well.

Accept that they forget that the Word of God does not say call.

The Word of God says the call. So as I study it, I

go like, Wow, there is call and there is the call. What's

the difference? Because it's not Kenneth Chin who's giving you this scripture, It's

not me who wrote it. Is the Word of God, and the Word

of God added the word the so we need to study it. The next

light focuses focuses on the word the call, and I would like to bring

this teaching to you humbly and tell you that there is a difference. The

next light say is there can be a million callings in this world and there

is the call. What do I mean by that? I think you don't

even have to be a Christian to know your calling. You can ask your

brother who's not Christian. He said, oh, you know, do you

have a calling? Your brother might say, yeah, I've I've been called

to be a doctor. And there are many good doctors not Christian. There

are many good lawyers who are not Christian. There are many good engineers,

architects, some of you know, the nicest looking buildings in the world are

not created or designed by Christian. But those people know they're calling, and

you know it very well. In fact, they work very hard because you

know, to go up the Twin Towers. And I don't think the Twin

Towers was created or designed by Christian. Maybe they, I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just saying probably not. But they must have done

such a good job because today is still standing, you know what say they

must have been drawing and making sure that you know, and I heard the

Twin Towers was build in such a way way by they can they can sway

at least by how much? I quite a bit no, So I went

up, you know, I went up and I went on the bridge.

Do you know, I went on the Twin Tower bridge and Byzenra and I

after about a couple of minutes, our legs begin to shake because the wind

came and the bridge actually moved, and we're like having to hold the site,

getting a bit giddy. Uh and uh the engineers, the architects built

it to be able to withstand that. Not Christian. But because you know

you're calling, you're committed to your calling, which I'm going to talk about

next with a continuous series about what UH calling needs and there are five needs

of calling, and I'll, by the grace of God, I'll speak to

you to to you about that next UH but today I want to let you

know, maybe you can shout out your favorite sportsman, Roger Federer. I'm

not sure when it's Christian, but if you went up to Roger FEDERI he

probably say I was called to be a test player, and he gave his

life to it and became the best. One of my favorite players, actually,

my favorite player many many years ago, was John McEnroe. I grew

up with John McEnroe, and I began to not only play like him,

play here. You know. I didn't really mean that, but you know,

try to play like him. But I didn't. I didn't only try

to, you know, play like him, but even my my words.

And so it was f here f there know and uh and I thought it

was cool following after macn roll and then you know, Roger feder If you

ask Tiger Woods, he probably will tell you I'm not Christian. But the

passion, the calling, the commitment, the hours spent on the grass,

uh and on the field and on the lawn what do you call it?

Anyway on the fairway? Amusing okay words to make you think that I know

golf uh and and uh and uh on the greens yeah, uh and and

uh if you ask Elon Musk, who's the richest man in the world now,

right, are you Christian? Well? I think the question was asked

before and he said he didn't really answer the question, but you know,

he went like how Elon must usually answers questions. You know, it's like

you're in space, but you know, amazing commitment to what he believes in.

I think if you say, are you called, he will probably tell

you, yeah, I believe I'm called to send people to space at a

cheaper rate. If you ask, uh, jack, ma, Jack what

ma? Correct? Probably not a Christian, you know, but totally committed.

And sometimes when he speaks he sounds like, you know, he's preaching

the word. So you don't have to be a Christian, I guess to

be knowing your calling and being good at it and being so focused that you

do so well and what you do. But there and and even among us,

there can be people who know our calling. And I want you to

run with it. Just go and do do well. Yeah, teen's pastor

here, pasta Daniel, he's called to the teens and uh, I was

just talking about his wife to another person. Was it yesterday? And uh,

you know, don't don't worry that the wife, you know, may

not be here, uh listening to this now, I'm just kidding. She's

just sid it right there. Uh. And uh, you know what we

said, I said, I said, uh, Daniel took this up as

the teen's pastor car like you know, he was thrown on him from heaven.

And I said that his wife used to say that, no, I

don't want to be part of Uh oh she said that. Okay, all

right, all right, all right, yes, yes he whispring here that

his wife said over my dead body, and uh yeah, and now he's

now his face and now his face thirty rad his face thirty right, all

right, all right, okay, okay, all right, healing what happened?

Uh, A couple of young families score for young family's music, okay.

Uh. And but you know this ends well, like ends well,

ends well. Uh so so he said. But but Rachelle uh uh rose

to the occasion and and said that, you know, I'll support you,

Daniel. And uh, the person sort of already knew where I was going

with this, And I said, and look how she's turned out. She's

turned out to be such an amazing teens leader with the teens loving her to

bits. And she was like made for it. See that's where you use

the word calling, made for it, born for it. God carved you

out out of a place where you never even knew you were just a seed.

Uh And and God formed you wonderfully, beautifully, fearfully made. Amen.

And and she's such an amazing blessing to the teens ministry. Now.

Uh So there is calling, and then there is the call. There is

the call. And I need I need to I need to bring you through

this because I think it's important. Okay, so let's study. Let's study

what this means. Huh. All right, let's look at Romans one one.

Romans one one will give us a sense of where I'm going. So

this is Paul the Apostle writing an introduction to the Romans of who he is.

And if you study your Bible, you will realize that this is not

the only time. When you go into Corinthians you will see Paul writing very

first verse. In fact, we know it's a verse, but it is

a letter. So we should say in the letter that Paul was writing,

he always starts by introducing himself, and more times than not he will say

I am called to be an apostle. Call calling. If you understand this

starts the whole letter. Calling starts the whole book. So you think about

that for a moment, weigh up. It's as important as that that calling

starts your day. Calling starts your week. And today Sunday is the first

week of the sorry, first day of the week. I pray that where

as you, as you hear a message on calling, you will realize,

yes, let its start from there. Let it start not from pressure or

demands of your children, demands of your family, demands of your marriage,

demands of your work. If you start there, you might go into a

place that you don't want to go. You might be pressured to do things,

push to do things. You might be forsaking the priorities of life and

just going with the pressure of life. So Paul is giving us an indication

with every letter he writes that he writes with a sense of identity and calling.

I love that. And if you can start your week the first week,

the first day, I a should say Sunday, starting before Monday comes

and say I now know who I am, I know what God has called

me to be. I know this is what God has put it within me,

and I am confident in this. And then you start your Monday and

you go all away the Friday being led and guided by a call of God

that is clear in your life. And if it's not yet clear, then

make it clear. Everyone in this room, I encourage you. Make your

calling clear. Find out what your calling is. Okay, So Paul,

he says, a born servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle separated

to the Gospel of God. With just this verse, I want to give

you three points, three points on what the call means, not just calling,

not just any calling, but what the call means. Number one,

it means you and I are servants of God through love, not just servants,

but born servants. Now, those of you who might not understand the

difference between servant and born servant. A servant is one who has been bought

by the Master. I'm talking about old days, uh slaves servants. The

Master comes and chooses you. Maybe you are a servant in this church,

servant of God in this church, and you were chosen uh you to be

uh you know part of ex teens you to be a singer with extreme you

to be you know uh PC head or PC, and I can go on

and on. Okay, you to be so you you you, you get

chosen. That's a servant. And when people get chosen, it's good.

But it always it doesn't always mean that you will rise up to your full

potential because uh, you're chosen to do a task, and when you do

the task, uh, you will just come on time, do it,

uh, do it well hopefully and then go home. And so you will

called to a task and it doesn't mean that you will do it in all

your heart. It doesn't mean that you will grow or develop. It just

means that you are serving, just like anyone else is serving. It doesn't

even have to be the church. But you are serving and you're just doing.

That's why in ex Church we don't call it duty roster because we don't

really like the word duty because when you just come to do your duty,

you come, do it and go home. So ex Church has been taught

by the Lort many years ago, don't call it duty, call it privilege.

So we don't have a duty roster in ex Church. We have a

privileged roster because everyone who's on that roster counts it as a privilege to serve

the lot. It's not huh, you want me a preacher againer? You

know, I must confess sometimes I feel that way, especially when I've been

preaching a lot the last few weeks. But it's a privilege, it's a

privilege. It's a privilege. Passandra, you know, thirty five years of

worship bleeding, you know, still does it. And before she can worship

lead on a Sunday, she has to practice on another day. So we

have to come out to practice on another day. But I don't see her

taking it as a duty or as a chore. She takes it as a

privilege. And I pray everyone in this room will take it as a privilege

to serve the Lord. Somebody say, amen, okay, this is important.

Now I started on the fact that there are servants and their bond servants.

Now what's the difference. So a born servant is one who chooses the

master, who chooses to serve. Before that the servant the master chooses.

You born servant is you choose the Master. Let me give you a scripture

right after this as a slide, and I'll explain to you the Bible says,

and if it happens that he says to you, who is he the

servant. When the servant says to you, I will not go away from

you, because he loves you and your house. Since he prospers with you,

then you shall. This is a scripture given to the master. So

every master reads this and he says, then you the master shall take an

all and thrust it through his ear to the door. When we were growing

up, we sang a song pierce my ear, Oh Lord, my god.

This is where it comes from. And he shall be your servant forever.

Also to your female servant, you shall do likewise. So what's the

background story. The background story is a servant who's been bought, a quiet,

a slave that's whatever the master wants him to do. And then by

the seventh year, the law of God says, release him. Uh huh

is a sabbatical year. So every servant is waiting for that seventh year.

Every servant. So it's like some of you, I know, you're tie

you're waiting for your holiday, or you're waiting for your break, or you're

waiting for a time and you don't have to serve, right servants always are

you know like that They go like yeah, just enough flah, just enough

la just enough la, because you're a servant. But you're not. You're

a bond servant. A bond servant is the one who chooses his master,

who says, you know, so, for example, it's seventh year now,

and the master says, how many of you want to be released.

I'm a man of God and I have to follow the word, so I've

got to release you. And by the seventh year, you know, people

are packing their bags. Oh, waiting for this day, waiting for the

day I don't have to serve anymore, waiting for this day where I don't

have to serve anymore, waiting for this day. But you know, the

servant attitude, It says, like when is my break? When is my

holiday? Okay? So waiting for a seven year now seven year comes yay.

So they're all running out of the door right here, out of the

door, okay. And then comes a servant who's taking his time. It's

packing his bag, maybe some tears rolling down his face. Right. Actually,

my boss has been read good to me. My boss has been the

nicest boss to me. You know, when I came, I came as

a single. When I came, I came as a single, and and

then you know, because my boss was so nice, I was able to

find a wife, even while in bondage, I was able to find a

wife. My boss was so nice, even while serving and being a slave,

I was able to have kids. And my kids, Wow, they

all got schooling. My boss gave me extra money to send them to international

school. Wow, international school Jerusalem. You know. Wow, you know

they get to go. I got in those days a lot of kids.

You know, all my seven kids get to go to school. My boss

is so nice, my boss, I know, and he trusts me and

he treats me well. And he's probably having tears, you know. And

and and while everybody's running out of the door, servants are running out of

the door at the bond servant, the bond servant is saying to his wife,

and she also cries, and you know, puts her makeup away and

you know, collects her cosmetic and she looks at the husband, and the

husband looks at her drama l are and then oh on your and your okay

leave go in I know, I know is Jerusalem, cap pop okay,

Oh comes okay. And so they're packing their bags and their children are like,

no, wanting to go have you seen that children not wanting to go

pay your toys your quickly quickly. This is our year, you know,

of deliverance. This is our year being set free. And the children like,

I don't want to go. I don't want to go. My friends

and the Master's children are their friends, you know, no where we go.

So they're crying and they're really dragging their feet, dragging their feet.

And as they're walking out the front door, the Master says, why are

you so sad? You should be happy. It's a happy day, And

said Master, because in this house we have served you for six years and

we're prospered with you. We've been so blessed. I know a little bit

of it about it because about four years ago the church got me a driver,

and I had so many meetings. Every day I was meeting kre a

meeting with different places. And so they say, Pastor, to make it

to all these meetings without parking, and parking is crazy, jem is crazy.

So there was a driver, Indian man who came and a nice guy

and tried him out for three months. And uh, you know, in

my family, we treat every human being as a human being, whether it's

a driver, a made whatever, and so he drove us around, drove

me to all the meetings, and after three months I said to my eldest

I said, I don't think I need a driver. I want to save

the church this money. I don't need a driver. They said, no,

persona, you know that how you're gonna make all I'll just drive or

maybe I'll just not have so many meetings. So that's the problem, you

know, you need to go to all these meetings, and no, no,

I'll probably just choose better. So this driver drove us around and it

was quite luxuriously okay to never need to park again, you know, and

to be able to just call for my meeting. And then he's downstairs waiting

for me. But we let him go because I'm very aware of, you

know, not abusing God's funds if at all I don't need it. So

I told him, I said, brother, we had to let you go.

And when he was giving back his tag and all that, he told

Elder Shirley, he says, in my twenty seven years of being a driver,

I've never worked for a nicer boss. Shelley told me that. Later

on, she says, he really, he really doesn't want to go past

her, but I said, no, I have to let him go,

actually, because I don't think I need a driver. And she and then

he said, I've not worked for a nicer boss in twenty seven years.

I've not worked for a nicer boss wife, because she treats him a lot

of respect as well, and it's a nice testimony to have, nice testiment

to have. But we let him go, and he's still on my telegram

and he says, Boss, anytime you need me, just send me a

telegram. I will take leave just to drive for you. I said,

thank you very much. And of course he kept our shirt because I allow

you. I allow him to go. Our logo uh a y A and

ex church logo on the shirt because when he drives, it drives with this

nice shirt. So Boss can keep say, as long as as long as

you're not robbing a banger, you can you can wear it. You can

wear it. He was so proud to wear it. You don't want to

leave. So the master says, really, you don't want to leave.

You don't want to go. I chose you and bought you. Once upon

a time you were my servant. But now this servant doesn't want to go.

No, I don't want to go, Boss. Is there a way?

Is there a way? Is there way? Well? The boss says,

well, the word of God says that there is a way that if

you choose me, not just I choose you, if you choose me,

this is the way. What was the way it? Boss? I don't

know the word of God. I'm a stranger. Well, the word of

God says that all I need to do is to bring your ear to the

door. Polls yes, and think it all. What's that is kind of

a sharp object? Oh? And I'm supposed to pierce your ear. Oh,

that's the only time we allow guys to have earrings when they want to

be born servants of the Lord. Sometimes we think it's very cool, but

it's not cool, or it started as a commitment, not as a cool

thing. But people don't understand where it came from, so can't blame them.

You know. I'm just thinking to myself, Boss, have you done

this before? No, you're the first one. Boss. Slowly and we

used to sing that song piers my ear, Oh Lord my God, and

it was just it was just a song for most of us because it was

a nice melody. But it's a very powerful thing when Christian's the call,

not just call. The call makes a choice and say I'm a bond servant.

But you're not a bond servan because someone paid your money. You're bond

servant because of the love that the Master showed you. And it's not force,

there's no extra bonus promise. It's just I love you. I love

you, Jesus, I love you. And so you move from being just

caught to the call and Paul is saying, I am a bond servant.

I mean, it's not something you want to be proud about and share with

everyone that you hit your ear pierced, you know, by your Master.

But you know everywhere they went, right, people will see their ear pierced

and go like, are you a bond servant? Yes? How you know

I can see your ear everywhere they went in the market, they went to,

you know, school, whatever they went holiday, I can see your

ear piers Are you a bond servant? Yeah, I am? I am.

And they will know that it's out of love that you did it,

not out of force. They we're you okay, all right? Second one

second thought is that the call is one who submitted to God's purpose. Let's

look at the next verse, if it is for one to three. I

therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to what worthy of the calling

with which you were called. Wow, with all loneliness and gentleness, with

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

unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Now this is important.

Look at the first sentence is a very powerful sentence when he says prisoner of

the Lord. Now, when you are prisoner of anyone or anything, is

no longer your will that can be done. Oh tonight I want to eat

McDonald's, cannot because this is going to serve your porridge. You're a prisoner.

Or I want to go out there for exercise, node exercise time is

only from four to five. You're a prisoner. And many Christians don't see

themselves as a prisoner of Christ. And so the anthem of Christ is Father,

not my will, but yours be done. Today's anthem with a lot

of people young and all is Father, not your will, but mine be

done. And so a lot of people are moving from church to church,

and from you know, denomination to the denomination, finding a church that can

help serve their will. I like this music, I like this pastor,

I like this way. I don't like this way. So you keep going

and seeking for a church that can help you fulfill your will is your God's

will. But you have to come to a place if you really want to

be the call to submit as a prisoner of the Lord, saying God,

I have a lot of likes and dislikes, preferences, but I'm a prisoner

and prisoners have no preferences. I'm gonna say, Lord, not my will,

but yours be done. And in doing that you become the call.

And what happens is that the other words follow. You are able now because

it's not your will. You're able to be lowly and gentle. You're able

to be patient, long suffering, not just suffering suffering, burying with one

another in love because I tell you what you know in church there can be

a lot of things that can happen, and sometimes even politics and all that

kind of stuff. And we must remember if we are a prisoner of the

Lord, call the call of God, we are to have a spirit and

an attitude that you know that that shows what we are reading here bury one

another in love and daring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond

of peace. Let's go back to Romans one one. I want to show

you something before I move on. Romans one one says Paul, a bond

served of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle. Now, the word apostle,

to remind you, is a word sent, and it's very important to

understand that you were sent by someone who sends you. So's not to do

your will, but to do the will of him who sent you. So

in that one sentence, Paul is saying not now, not just a bond.

He's saying, I'm a prisoner and I am one here to do the

will of God, and I would do it according to how I was sent

to do it. Okay, So this is very very important. Now let

me show you the next point. And with that, I'm about to draw

to a close point number three, which is our last point, being the

call is about being a person or people who are separated to the gospel.

This is really really important for us to understand. Sometimes you can feel called,

but your calling could be like, oh, I'm a worship leader.

Your calling could be like, oh, I'm doing express so, or your

colleagues could be like oh, I'm just usher. But if your calling just

stops there, then you can rest assure that you have only come to a

level of knowing that your call, but not really experiencing what the call means.

Because the call is that you do everything for the sake of the Gospel.

And I pray that if you catch that, then when you come and

do whatever you're doing, either you're preaching or you're leading worship, if you're

not just called to lead worship, you are the callt to lead worship,

meaning that when you lead worship, you're thinking about the loss. When you're

praying, you're thinking about the loss. When you're preaching, you're thinking about

those who have not yet hurt the Gospel. When you're cooking for expresso,

you're thinking about God. I don't just want to feed the Christians and the

Christians coming up to me and saying, oh, very good food, and

you know expresso provides very good food. But you don't want to just do

that. You want to say, Lord, next Sunday when I prepare food

for expresso, Lord, bring in people who have never tasted this food,

bringing people who are lost and people who need to be coming to church and

tasting this food. So you're praying over your cakes, you're cutting your Okay,

is it God? If a person is a non believer, let eat

this cake and let the cake go into his heart. No, no,

nor to do his heart. Okay, can going into the harmas going into

the stomach. Right, Let the love from mis cake and the warmth from

miscake go into this heart. And and and let let this cake be salvation

cake. Let this curry puff be salvation curry puff. Let all these that

I've done, you know, so hard work. Right. I want to

do it for my brothers and sisters, But I also want to do it

for the sake of the Gospel. To be separated to the Gospel means to

be set apart, to be made holy to the Lord. Now, it's

very important to understand that that Christians have been set apart by God, and

that we are called to be holy. I once spoke a message in the

Acts, many many years ago, uh, And the question was, is

love, uh, the greatest thing that will last for all eternity? And

is it the one that we are to focus on when we come into our

you know, into eternity. And I remember reading from Revelations, and I

go like in Revelations. I look at it and I realize that love is

not mentioned as many times as holiness. And there's one part at least that

says holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. And I realize

that one of the greatest things that will last, and one of the greatest

things that God is looking for in Revelations when we meet with him face to

face is not so much just our love, is our holiness, and it

is very important. Holiness just means to be set apart. And so we

must remember that as Christians, being set apart is what's most important. And

so I want to look at the next scripture. Now, then we are

ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you,

on Christ's behalf, we reconcile to God second Corinthians five twenty. So

we are see what notice what we do. We are turn your neighbor and

say we are ambassadors. Yeah. You know, as I draw to a

close, I'm just thinking about what a lot of us are following now the

news on Israel, and I remember what's his name was being interviewed the Secretary

of State for US and they ask him, sir, is what you have

seen like nine eleven and the Secretary of State said it is ten times worse.

And he said, I've seen photos and visuals videos. I hope this

hasn't upset any of you, but maybe you've heard it al really, he

said, I've seen photos of babies filled with bullet holes. I've seen people

without hiss beheaded. I've seen photos of young people charred because they were burned

in their cars. He says, there has not been such evil. I've

not seen such evil come upon a situation. And you know, I watch

Israel very closely because God really told us that that's the alarm clock of the

Last days, so I watch it very closely. But I pray. I

pray for the piece of Jerusalem every day, and I'm praying for peace in

the Middle East. I'm praying for peace upon the innocent because both sides have

got innocent people both sides. So you know, but you know what's going

to happen, right. We heard this for thirty forty years and those of

you have heard it before the Last Days. The man of peace will be

revealed, okay, and he will be the Antichrist, but he will need

something to cause the world to warn him to arise, and so it's got

to be really really bad. The situation has to be really really bad in

the Middle East and concerning Israel for the world to accept the one world economy,

the one world government, the one world and the one leader, and

ones that leader comes about is very soon. Then you know that that's already

the end. But of course also the Bible says in Matthew twenty four of

US fourteen that the end will come when the Gospel is preached in every nation.

And you know how it's going to happen. It's going to happen when

those of us who are called begin to realize that we are not just called,

but we are the and when we are the call, we are separated

to the Gospel, meaning to say that no matter what happens in the Middle

East, and no matter how what happens with whoever it is that rises or

false, our job and our focus should be to be witnesses for the Lord

and to share the Gospel. That is what the court means. Number one

bond servant in love. Number two totally submitted to God, and number three

submitted for what submitted and separated for the Gospel. Now next year's theme.

I can reveal it to you now because I just reveal it to my leaders

yesterday at our leaders meeting with one hundred and thirty HOMES leaders. There,

I revealed to them that from Daniels four seventeen, the theme for next year

is that all may know, and the focus that the Lord and the urgency

I must say that the Lord is putting on our hearts as a church is

that no matter what happens, everything points to the end and is drawing very

near. But your job is not to be alarmed. Your job is not

to be afraid. Your job is not to ask a thousand and one question

when how who? What? Your job and my job has always been,

no matter what happens, is to shine for the Gospel of God. That

means people need to know the Lord. People are getting more and more hungry

when things are happening all around them. People are getting more and more hungry

to know the truth. And we are people of the truth. So as

I close, I want to say that there is a difference between being called

and being the call, and the promise is not to just anyone who's called.

The promise In Romans eight twenty eight, can we look at Romans eight

twenty eight. Again. Oh, thank you for that, thank you for

that scripture. Yeah. Oh, since we are there, can we just

very quickly go into verse six, and then we read one verse after the

other, just very quickly, so you will hear of wars and rumors of

wars. Do you hear it? Now? See that you are not trouble.

Am I talking to you from scripture or just for myself? Don't be

trouble. For all these things must come. Nation will rights against nations.

Is it happening now? Russia, Ukraine, Kingdom against Kingdom happening already,

famines God on Pestilians COVID nineteen, and earthquakes in various places, happening,

happening, happening, happening, Everything is happening. Verse eight. All these

are just the beginning of sorrows. Wow, someone asked me a puzzler,

if this is just the beginning, what would the ending look like? I

know ten times words Verse nine. They would deliver you up, this is

the word to the Jews. They would deliver the Jews up to tribulation and

kill the Jews, and the Jews would be hated. Already a lot people

hate the jewser, I'm like Christians will hate the Jews. Very sad,

very very sad. When Christians start hitting the jewser, I don't know better

than Christian anymore. But it means you don't know the word of God.

You be hated by all nations for my namesake Verse ten. And then many

will be offended. Yeah, that's true. Even the Church will be offended

and will betray one another and will hate one another. Verse eleven. Many

false prophets will rise up, and you see many is happening already. Verse

twelve. And because lawlesses will bound, the love of many will grow.

Call. Many Christians were like a yeah, forgetti la ayah, forgeila,

I know I church need Okay, people will just grow call you get so

fed up. You get so fed up. So many voices don't know.

We want to believe you get so fed up. Okay. And then verse

thirteen. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. So the

Bible already gives us one and only one answer to how we're going to be

safe, and the answer is you must endure. That's it. Do I

need to go for another Bible study? That's not answer? Do I need

to pray another two hours prayer. That's not the answer in the Bible.

The only answer in the Bible to be saved at the end, when all

are so confusing and all are so uncertain, the only answer is you endure.

If you and I endure to the end, you and I will be

safe. So the answer is in endurance. The answer is not in Bible

memory verse although that's important as well. And your and your everybody, okay,

and your run this race with endurance, finish it. And then verse

fourteen. Everything culminates everything, the war, the rumor of wars, the

pestilence, every single thing colminates to one verse. And this Gospel of the

Kingdom will be preaching all the world as a witness to the nations. And

then the end will come. So the end will not come because of tsunami.

The end will not come because of war. The end will not come

because of COVID twenty. The end will not come because of anything else.

The end will only come when the God Gospel is preach. Now you see

how important the gospel is in the plan of God, that it becomes the

autumnate as it tests to the whole earth's sustenance. Amen, and let me

show you the last verse and we will end. I'm just gonna ask you,

guys, you know, as you prepare with me to to get ready

our house, to pray just just just you know, if you go,

like when I leave this room, what would I leave with? I pray

you will leave with the urgency of the times and leave with a sense of

no longer my will be done, but God's will be done. I pray

that you will leave with a sense you know that you are a born servant,

that you are committed to Christ, that you are you choose God.

Not just God choose you, but you choose God. And you prepare for

the last days, which is you go to be more tough than the days

that has passed. But with your focus on the Gospel, you and I

will endure to the end. Okay, let's look at the last verse.

But you are a chosen generation. Let's read it together. Shall we read

it together? One? Two three? But you royal his that proclaim called

there's only one reason why you are a chosen generation. And you are again

we're talking about you are. It means this is your identity, this is

your calling. And again you do what you are, You celebrate Chinese Year

because you are Chinese. You celebrate Christmas because you are a Christian. You

do what you are. Young people here, please don't just keep asking God

what should I do? God will remind you who you are, and so

your question of what you do is answered by telling by understanding who you are.

And this is who you are, a chosen generation, a royal priesthuit,

a holy nation, his own special people. All this forward that you

may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into his marveless

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