Giving God My Best | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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will light up your day. If you have your Bible, the mark chapter

twelf right, and and we'll see how the Lord taken from that point.

All right, mark chapter chield, verse twenty eight, and really amplify.

Then one of the scribes came out and listen to them disputing to one another,

and noticing that Jesus under them fitly and everybody. He asked Jesus,

which commandment is first and the most important of its nature? Very important for

us to ask ourselves, which of all the commandments is the most important,

because in the church life everything seems to be very important, like coming to

the church and least important. Giving the church is important. Everything is important,

friends, there's no such it's not it's not important in church. But

describes us Jesus, which of all the commandment is first as most important?

And wordship twenty nine. Jesus answered, the first and the principal one of

all the commandments. Here all Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord.

The Lord our God is one Lord. Point number one is going to

be this, And just let me just briefly, just go to point number

one if only to hear my explanation, you can actually listen to it again.

But before we could give our best to the Lord, we need to

make him lord. Before we could give our best to the Lord, we

need to make him Lord. What do I mean by that? Many times

in our journey of our Christian faith we make him lord the very first sabay

In writed Jesus into our hearts. Subsequently after that, if you notice our

journey right, we never truly know whether he is Lord? No one,

what do I mean by dad? Because there will be days in our life.

God will place situation and circumstances to reveal actually what's in your heart to

reconfirm whether he's still or not. Doesn't mean one time you make a decision

to follow him, to make him lord, whether the baptism pool or in

church, that he's going to be loved forever. That's why Mary copples more

than just saying the wedding wholes on the mad wedding day, I do,

I do? Oh? We feel love? Hey? You no love for

John? The wife looking at you already? Sure it more than just like

you know, people plan months for the wedding, right, man spend thousands,

if not millions, of some people can afford it millions for the wedding,

for the one day. How may you know that one day is not

sufficient? The one is saying I do is not sufficient. I've never heard

a wife telling the husband please stop saying I love you. Already you tell

me one to go Ready, I'm satisfied. I've never heard a wife say

that, please stop saying I love you. If the wife say, please

say to him daily, if your wife will saying amen. True. So

my wife was expected for me every day I see I love you. I

wanted to really recover my voice as an alarm clock, alarm clock every day,

I love you, I love you that if she fed up? Way,

she casoos me a what's kidding this? Me and my wife? Okay,

we have with these really weird jokes, all right, but it's born,

and just say I do I do that. That's it. No more

saying I love you, no more declaration. God will always give you circumstances

to reveal what's really in your heart. Because unless we make a commitment that

he is Lord, we never truly after the first commitment we make to follow

him. But you never truly know whether he's Lord or not, because God

will always want to make sure that he is Lord over your life by revealing

to circumstances and situation to test things and fire he reveals friends. All right,

So do you trying to beat up the sixth word? Ten? I

gotta word quickly, I gotta go. And the Lord your God will bring

you into a land which He swore to your father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,

to give you, with great godly cities which you did not build,

houses, four of good things which you did not feel sistant, heal,

love which you did not heal, wing your and all the three which you

did not plan. And when you are eating and full, When you eat

and full, then beware less you forget the Lord Fritz. If God has

provided everything for you, If God has provided everything for you, once your

taste of his goodness, the Bible says, would you still remember him?

Not? You told me Chapter six. It is really a good reminder for

us. The greatest test is not during the time of life, because in

the time light you're desperate. Man, right, remember those exam times,

exam times, exam times. We say, God, if allowed me the

passes exec I will follow you I'll serve you. I'll become your missionary.

I'll become your full time I'll become a youth pastor. Right right during exam

time you we make, we cannot answer the people. You don't You should

fail what you know. You should fail one at that right the very moment

at the exam hall. Come on, if you're honest enough, you actually

say God, if you deliver me from this exam, if you deliver me

from this exam, I will serve you for the rest of my life,

and surely you pass. Isn't it true if we actually forget what we make

the commitments for. Come on now, come on now, if go deeper,

right now, the Bible here says you me chapter sixer. When you're

hated and full, after you mock on everything, readio, don't forget.

Don't forget first, because human has a tendency to forget. If you don't

think, if you don't see in the life of a commitment to the lot.

Look at sometimes our relationship with our parents. Our parents pay a huge

price to raise it up, made a lot of sacrifices, a lot of

the dreams and aspiration they put on the whole For the sixth of children.

When it's your sixteen to fifteen, fifteen, sixteen something, I want to

tell our parents what to do. You don't understand, Mom, You don't

understand that if you're very strong Asian parents, can I employ your children?

Please don't ever say that. Chances you hate with air and sixty degrees.

It's true. My mom is a very strict mom. The moment I say

I don't like why you're cooking for luncher, that's it. No lunch,

no dinner. Nos. I put nothing at all doing the very next day,

right, because you're the raise three three monkeys up and the very close

age. Me and my brothers are almost only thirteen years apart, fourteen years

apart, the fourteen months apart, forty months apartly, sorry to excite forteen

months apart. So both we'll see our skill in the house and gave you

will fight every day. We'll climb the window panes, we will crack everything.

I actually played the swing machine on the skin before and stuff like that,

all right, but rescued myself at times when after all the providers,

somebody will complain, complain, complain every time we next e mean it echoes

Sanctuaria no boringer even Makato move out radio complain complain, huh, same thing

again. I used to hit steam chicken until now I don't know how to

appreciate steam chicken. I was so I grew up. I grew up.

You share this story with you. I grew up. My my parents grew

up in in the Campong area. Right, so a love well, a

lot of freeway, chicken, free range, something even black color. Do

you understand right? Black chicken? All right? Threewache chicken? Come really

chicken freewage shout how you ask by? I'm a question. They like to

steam it steam chicken, right right? Mom? What do you dip fry

the chicken? My mom said, you crazier, such expensive, you can

win diffry steam chicken and nice to eat one dep fry crunchy skin, crunchy

bone. Never understood it, never, never not appreciate it. My mom

said, you eat what's on the table. They like to make chicken soup

off from the chicken to my My dad's family had a chicken farm. So

the chicken or fat one now right, there was a fat boys soup,

so oil leave soup. I hated it. I think the soup I speed

out somewhere else. Let's be so. My mom said to me before.

When there's food on the table, you be grateful you eat it. I'm

sharing this you because when you eat it and food, please remember who provided

for you and many times. Because we never make him love, we actually

can forget. Because we never make him love when we go, when we

the world, the moment we exit the fire, we can actually forget.

She who's Laura? Right? So you try me? Chapter six is reminding

us of this. Why this is very important? Why is this so important?

Genesis chapter two, verse fifteen. Jenus chapter two, verse fifteen says

this, the Lord God took men and put him the garden of Eden to

ten God and keep it so, friends, work is ordained by God.

Verse sixteen. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, you may freely

eat of every tree in the garden. Someone say amen, every tree you

can eat verse seventeen. But the tree of knowledge of good and evil,

blessing and calamity, you shall not eat. There has to be one thing

in your life that not the gaostable. Friends, there has to be one

thing in your life that knows the gaotiable. There is your commitment to the

Lord. Everybody say, oh, I can skip churech on Sunday, but

you say cannot because church to me is important wherever I go, whether holiday

in Malaysia, outside, I got to find your church to belong to.

I gotta worship the Lord. Many times in our journey as a church,

we always tell people if you don't make a commitment now, other people and

other things will make a commitment for you. If you don't make a commitment

now, we tell campus, if you don't make a commitment to come to

church to worship God, I we can guarantee you when you hit the working

world, the commitment outside will determine how you serve the Lord, because if

you cannot make a stand as when you are the campus citon, you're never

going to make a stand when you are young, working adult. And many

times why we don't have testimonies and breakthrough is because we have never allowed God

to develop us, to experience his goodness and his faithfulness. That's why it's

so important you and I this morning to know that He is God. Everything

can touch except for this. A few couple of years ago about selling us

Ago, we had this world Chagus conference. One of the guy that came

over with us from Indonesia. He learned he runs already. He manages a

huge uh Pyro equity fund. That's not the most important thing. But what

we did asked him was this successful businessman, show us your clender. Show

us your calendar, because there's a lot of successful businessmen around. Shows your

calendar, Show us your clender. He shows his clendar. Then he explains

his clenar to us. You see these days Tuesday, it's preyer service when

I can. When I'm around in Jakata, I'll mixture at ten months Sunday,

I make sure I'm be found in church. I can be rich.

I still want to serve the Lord. Not to go show. One of

our business people decide to visit him in Jakarta, just to see whether not

you followed you, because sometimes you can show calendar, but now we do

wanna. Why not show doesn't mean you can have like all the study by

bird that you can buy in Malaysia doesn't mean you actually live out the word

of God. Right, So Flo to Jakata away to visit him. Sure

enough, he was serving as a host. He well, technically, because

you don't to some many people are busy the reason why do want self?

Love? Right busy? He said, No, I got to serve the

law because it's the law that enables me to get wealth. Isn't it worthy

of my service? He decided that some things in life you will not compromise,

will not allow the world to touch. Do you have anything in your

life that is similar to this, ned, Well, you can touch anything

except by commitment to the Lord. Not going to touch it. Tithing is

one of them, one of the one of the younger adults in our church.

Share this with me, say other. I was struggling to give for

any gift, struggling. I don't believe in it. God, feel like

giving, don't banet participate. So I decided to one year not to participate.

Just give casule leader, do to participate at all, say old.

God spoke to me in a mount to give. No, I refuse to

hear it. Six months later, not your normal building. Six months later,

I incurt a bill which is the same amount as what I was supposed

to give, same amount. I knew I had to check in my spirit.

He told me. I checked in my spirit. He shared this with

me. I knew I was supposed to give this amount, but I didn't.

I thought I was smart. God, I already give my tide designed

separate. I don't need to. When God speaks to you, friends,

please don't negotiate with the Lord. After I say, elder, I've decided.

I've decided in my life. If God asked me to give, how

we give. So early this year he gave. God spoke to him,

he gave, He gave it. A month said, now given this give

because I know I heard clearly from the Lord. He given a mount.

Then three months later Boss calls him into the room and say, here,

here this boness for you. He got shot because you know that COVID after

boness one. Right when you open the thing right, he was shocked to

see the mound not just similar, but just to my extra. He come

back to me and just say this, Elder, I have decided the best

form of investment, any strategy of investment, is to hear the Lord what

the lot wants. Now, I'm not saying this has been to ask you

to give more. I'm sharing this to you because there's somethings in your life

you cannot negotiate. One. There must be a tree. You got it,

because everything can be touched that you a lota. If everything in your

life can be touched by you or then you are lord. But there's somethings

in your life. Friends, they say, this is set apart for the

Lord can or touch that he's got in our own schedule on calendar, is

there a date that you say this is for the Lord? Because if it

season, then you notice that. Ah, then you are lot. Very

potfuls realizes. Okay, that's why God reminds Adam. But the tree of

knowledge of even blessed academy, you shall not eat. The day you eat,

you die our spiriture. Death encurs when we begin to compromise it.

It's kayla, after nobody's watching, ma, that's all. It's between me

and Jesus. Me and Jesus are best friends. We think it for granted.

We think Jesus, me and Jesus the best friend. Let me show

you to scripture, right, The devil took him up to very high mountain

Chapter four? Was it? The devil took Jesus up to the very high

mountain and began to show him the kingdoms of the world, the glory,

splendor, magnificent, per eminence, excellence of them. This is not showing

you are a property bullshit twenty four by seventy five. This is not showing

your property bullshit. This showing you a kingdom. This showing you stuff you

can never buy even though you got money. Think about it. I'm not

saying that temptation resists chucktail with no friends. I'm sharing with you because if

we don't make a commitment in our hearts even before the temptation comes, our

answer will not be swift and quick. We will struggle with it. If

we don't make a commitment even before the testing comes, we will struggle with

it when the challenge comes. Mean every every everything else sounds spiritual. After

that. You know what, if I get the kingdom, I can pre

the word of God to everybody. Or if God bless me, it really

be so much I can do more for God's kingdom. Hear me now,

the devil brought Jesus up. All this I'll give to you only if you

bow dow to worship me. Friends, this is not a bonus of twelve

months or even two years. This is set up for a lifetime or five

six generation don't have to work anymore. When we see the cat of wealth,

the kin of power, prestige. It's not a simple no. If

we do not make a commitment earlier on and many times in our life,

God is reminding us again. I got to be a lord away your life.

I got to be lord away your sleep. It's okay, five more

minutes. Only I can guarantee five becomes ten, tens become fifteen for sure.

One if if you're avay of snoozing, it's o kill. Nobody is

watching, after all, it's only it's only the treat. The devil doesn't

want the material stuff. He just wants a worship. The dere were really

definitely doesn't want your bank account, doesn't want your car, doesn't friends,

doesn't want your house. No, he just wants your worship. That's why

the lord has to be first in your life. Some straighty verse seven.

Some trust in and both in charists and some in horses. It's true you

don't have the if the law is not the love of your life. You're

both of charish and horses. You're both of your connection. Of how how

smart you are the degrees that you have. Do you know I got enough

degrees that can plus the whole world or not? That's why sometimes people are

so proudly showing their degree. Every name cut has bachelors, their masters and

PhD. They don't know what else. All right, But friends, it

is not about there. At the end of the day. Some put that

trusted all that, But the Bible here is explained to us in some trading

warse seven. But VI real trust come on church, vivial trust, and

both in the name of our Lord, our God. You must understand this,

true, friends, before I go on the next point, because many

times our journey in these days you hardly hear testimonies anymore because you know why.

Fear has overtaken out faith. Fear has overtaken out faith and the spo

retreat. We just told all the true plant leaders. Friends, you gotta

be. You gotta arrest assured faith, alrights fear. If there's any businessman

that walks up to you say I'll give you this X amount of money,

give me a place where I can make these you tell the person nicely can

keep the money, because our dependency is of the Lord Frands. This is

not the first time we have businessmen coming up to us and we will donate

to your building fund only if allow us to allow me to dictate how you

should run the church. First, if you're a church for of other business

people, then you say, don't need that. But if you're cheer for

campus students four of campus students, you know what I mean? Fourth campus

students. And here's a business guys, say that I'm willing to give you

half of your building fund. Only allow me to be part of the decision

making board. Tempting, of course, let's stress, ma, let's stress

go right now, come on, let's stress, ma. But as a

church, we say no, thank you God, let us true. When

we start the choose with nothing, God will lead us to victory all the

way. You can't be confident in your life, friends, God is the

one that's gonna lead you. When you know, if anything, God's gonna

lead you. When you're a type of plenty, you cannot say that,

oh God, only only it is with me this time. Then the other

type is always help someone else. Some trust in chariots, some in horses.

But we will both and put our trust in God. Very important,

friends, because you'll be tempted to build connection two help you when you're a

time of problem. There are days whereby your connection cannot save you. The

days are where your connection cannot do anything. Your connection with the Lord is

the most important. Friends. The point number two is is that giving your

best your crige. You're awe. Giving your best requires your all. March

up the travels twenty nine. The Lord our God is one lord. And

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, out of it,

with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. First of

all, love is a choice, isn't it? Why not? Love is

always a choice. The one can say that God asked me to force me

to marry someone else. No, it's a choice. Come on, is

a choice. It is a choice. You have a choice to choose who

you want to marry, who you want to love. It is a choice.

All is a commitment to love with all your heart. It is a

commitment. To fall in love is easy. To stay in love is a

commitment. I've heard the love of young people say, oh so nice to

fall in love, and all of us those are marriage say yeah, video

get married, because after it's all but coming men, it's very it's very

nice. Before I love my casual dates, movie nice, say goodbye.

Then after that move on to texting each other. Right, very nice,

very nice, feeling very it's nice to the is. It's nice to be

loved, the feel love. Right. But when problem happens when you get

the argument disagreement of where to eat life and definitely know that one seriously.

I've seen couples agree for one whole half hours, are in a car just

anywhere to eat in the Lena McDonald's where to eat very important friends, But

all requires church. Without commitment, they will not be all. Without commitment,

they will not be all. You see, the problem is that we

want to love the Lord, our God. We all want to love God.

One. I won't say anyone here hates loving God. We all want

to love one. But we still loving God with all we make exception.

Come on right now in stell of loving God with all, we make exception

exception and we are we are. We have a PhD making exception when it

comes to Lord, we are very good O the Lord. And then you

statement the Lord understands. Come on, he's a living God. He's read

for giving one. He understands. He understands. It's okay. One see,

without the commitment, the film commitment going all the way there's always exception

true or not. If there is no firm commitment going all the way,

will be what come out, There'll be what exception correct. The Bible has

many, many people living their life term with me right now. The First

King Chapter three, First King, Chapter three, Verse one. Solomon made

a treaty with Pharaoh, king of Egypt, marrying Pharaoh's daughter, brought her

to the city of David until he finished building his own house in the House

of the Lord. The war around Jerusalem verse two. Meanwhile, the people

sacrifice at the high places because there were no houses built for the name of

the Lord until those days. Worse Tree and Solomon loved the Lord walking in

the statue of his father, except his sacrifice and birth instant at the high

places. Many times with our journey, we're like Solomon. We love the

Lord. Love we jiner with the Lord. All right, accept accept.

I have discovered these friends that if you do not keep hot with the Lord,

you're always trying to keep up. What do I mean by that?

Many times the Law is asking you it's either we become hot or cold,

but not never lit warm, littwarm is always trying to keep up keeping up

friends, It's not about the attendance in church or in prayer service. It's

not It's never been about the attendance. It's been always been about when you

can we used to do or not. There will be days or Sundays we

will occupy guarantee it and there'll be days. But when you can't come to

church, will you come to church out? Or you say, God,

you know what I'm becoming to church about maybe about fifty fifty times really to

Sundays. Lord, just let me slip in after I can just turn on

the online worship and still lie in bed and still worship. It's still worship.

I'm still receiving it. Right, the picture is preaching. I'm just

lying now, I'm just receiving it. Hello, we actually made a lot

of exception, true or not. God, I've done so much with you,

and let me. I had to deal with one someone serving in church,

Elder, I want to take six months off from serving six months off

from serving a nun bulan? Do you want to serve God? I say

why? Or I want to diet? Yeah? Seriously, you want to

die prepare for a weightlifting competition? I say, what does relifting competition?

Diet has to do with serving God. Ah, so you go put on

calorie and you serve the Lord. You see what I mean, we make

exception trying to justify everything. It's okay, it is all right after God

understand. I thought, this is my expression of love to the Lord,

solemnly, the same thing he loved the Lord walking in the sex in the

statues of his father David, except he sacrificed a bird. Incent at the

high places. Many times, if you're not careful, we allow things.

That's why I've got no room for the Lord. We have no room for

the Lord. Classic example. I'm gonna share this with you. I share

this. We've opened our cupboards. How many take away to poys do we

have? Stop out up where? How many? We have a lot,

too many, a lot hoping one day we'll pass out to our children the

day Mammy saved this for you as a power of the legacy becaides all the

worthly money. I'm gonna give it to you. I also gonna give you

this tap where I kept when I was young, Right, people, I

told I arrived these paperbags, paperbacks, you know, come on these some

of your ladies have to repent right now. Paperbacks every time you go uniquely,

you get a paperback, you keep it. One day you say I

can use it to repid get present away. I go one cover four paperbacks.

I was chickly telling my wife one day, I said, when you

pass away, when you go, calls you home. I will bury this

together. Reviewer. We kept. We keep a lot of stuff. That's

why there's no rumor every completing or no more room, no more space?

Are you so full like we need one more cupboard extra if we need extension,

we need a bigger house to a cow. They want multiples. Come

on right now, that's what exception does. It's okay, And so I

come to chic It's all right. Sunday coming month is fine? But the

lawd has there been a lot of sundays? What but your weekdays? Have

you been following the law on the weekday? And your colleague, I shed

this earlier one service in the earlier service, will share this with you,

all right, This is a bit more on. I got a college boy

comes up to me, say, temptation on all sides, because the girls

are wearing less temptations on all sides. I look in front as a girl

bending down, I look behind and now the girl wearing less left and right

got the same temptation. Here's me, what should I do? Correct?

I see the Bible say if your constus seen you dig dollar, I didn't

see that. I wanted to say that, I just shd this to here.

I say, you know, friends, But I say, it's a

choice. It is a choice. It is a choice. You stop making

an exception. Of course you got Lukla, I'm sharing real stuff with you

all know, church, it is a choice or admiring God's creation. It

is a choice. Hello. And many times we don't understand it's a choice.

We think, oh, it's Okayla, it's okay, it's all right.

No church. No Solomon allowed, even though he seems to be.

You know what happens in the end. This is why I think Solomon happened

to Solomon. The longer we live it exception, the more we think we're

all right. But actual fact, we're under this illusion, illusion, deception

thinking there we're all right, you know, thinking that it's okay, alright,

illusion, no illusion, friends. Illusion in the end then out to

be nothing. You think about the Solomon. To work with the law,

you need to make some sacrifice. Cary, so all those prices have been

paying a no return because you know why, Now we'll do with this.

You'll be coming to church every Sunday, every Sunday, coming to church,

giving, offering, giving tithe, worshiping God. All this is nothing if

you allow exception to happen in your life. So you becoming fifty two weeks

paying the price we came up early, maybe serving the Lord, dressing up

for all this nothing because the exception, like Solomon, what happens to then

you become frustrated law case. You know, I serve you, I wish

I walke with your set to you? Why would my father David told me

I walk with it? Yeah, but Gossai, what about the exception?

First Kings eleven, verse one. But Solomon loved many for women. I

appreci this streak o baa say whoa. Someone said, nah, and all

the ladies is streaking about. Look at here and just say, brother,

repair love many fire women. The daughters are pharaoh womens or mobiles ever knights

the Mites see the knights hit tights friends. Those are married one to Codia,

it will say yeap, just because she's peaching you. Okay. They

were from every nation whom the lords say to Israel, you shall not mingle

with them. Neither they shall mingle with you. For surely knows, For

surely they will turn you your hearts away after their gods. God already knows

human victnurse, he knows, he knows our hearts, He already knows friends,

He already know your heart. Say, don't put yourself in such position.

Don't don't damp yourself in such a position. You really know that you

That's why, no matter how tough the guy is, find the right woman.

That it becomes jelly. After that, the lady will turns his heart

away. That's that guy. Find the right wife. Find the right wife.

Guys, if you're married, really pray after that, find the right

wife. If not, the ladies who turn the heart away friends itself.

You wanted to serve the lord, or then your wife start crying. Okay,

okay, I don't go to church. I don't go to church.

Okay, okay, I follow I go to the temper. Okay, okay,

I'll eat my word that's presented before the author of the idels, one

step after another step to keep peace. Here's what the Bible says. The

word sreet Solomon seven wives and princesses, three hunger concubines. His wives turned

his heart away from God. Could you imagine a one thousand ladies there,

everyone's serving, everyone's serving a different God. Do you know how fun how

the words, how this service heart will be not everything and the worship a

different God? You know? To please one one thousand ladies? Okay,

every one thousand ladies, one thousand gods. Imagine that one thousand gods.

Okay, even you say right, five hunger gods one year, gotchralist sixty

five days, he'll be like, oh yeah, worship this word. He'll

be here. He's poor Solomona right a choice, friends, Solomon made exception.

Solomon make exception our heart to be tempted. We think that we can

manage O. Hey this now we think that we can manage can ma?

It's okay, I can manage this. On after I'm king, mat you

can manage my think about it. He's king with friends. In other words,

I don't like you off your head. I do not like you off

your heat. He thinks he can manage all these ladies. But an actual

fact, all these ladies manage him exception and many times in our life the

same look. We think we can manage. We can manage first, I'm

not even talking about commitment, just coming to church or so, just about

worship subversa. We think you can manage. Un forgiveness. Unforgiveness we think

can manage. It's okay, I can manage it. After I compartmentalize in

my heart. That's ap one. I can guarantee you you can never hunger,

compartmentalize and forgiveness. It will speret to another part of your life.

One, Oh, I don't like the work with this brother, I can

guarantee you. If you don't like with this, don't like the work with

this brother, here, you've got another just the same type of brother will

be there. If you're a singer, your husband will be like that or

all for sure. That's what we share this with couples, because if you

don't do we didn't. Now, God love us so much that doesn't one

of us to remain the same. We'll bring the similar person to draw the

impurity out for us to go through the fiery fairness. So they want become

pure as go. God will do that. He will allow us to go

through that. But many times you don't like to deal with a hard one

because you know why, it's messima. We like to do as Christians.

We like to deal with other people's hut easier because I just tell you what

to do. You know why forgif law, forgive law? Feel like you

tell other people to do? No, why it's easier? Friends? Do

you know how is this? It's to deal with our own hearts. It's

like going to close this next ten minutes. To deal with our own hearts

requires humility. Requires humility to say, Lord, I'm so sorry, I've

made a mistake. I'm so sorry. Lord. I was arrogant. I'm

so sorry, Lord. I I thought it was all about me. Past

the one time just challenged the church one day early days of church. If

you can worship God with only one style, then it's not truly worship.

When pastor brought me to a love pastor gathering in Epo senior passes, all

these are senior passers or in the age of sixties. They paid the price

to plant the church in Epo pit. The price a lot of the sacrifice

plant the church people. When we were there, they loved pasts, love

past us, fellowship in both gathering right, this important The past beginning to

worship. Eighty percent of them cannot sing in tune. Eighty those can singing

in till. Now friends are twenty percent and very quiet. But those kenose

singing til are very loud. You know. All right now here Lisa,

I was staying in this next to this pastor. She was singing very loud

or off off. I say, off is really off off. She's singing

her best shape you Oh my kind all right? You under said? My

wife said, I doesn't singing off ky, very good. Anyway, I

was there, I have to confess. My first reaction was this. I

started laugh. Huh, you know what, because you are very accustomed everybody's

singing tone. She has a passive, paid the price for her entire life

to plant the church in EPO worshiping. I said a laugh, and I

realized I had to check in my spirit. Is it because she can't sing

in tune of voice? But she's not singing to you, She's singing to

the Lord. Then they are beginning to repair and say God forgive me.

Regardless whether the person can sing in on key off key, whichever key house

keys okay, whether the song I know or I do not know, we're

gonna worship the lot together. It cannot be friends because it's the moment we

start making exceptional we become very selective, selective. I cannot solomon allowed to

I can manage it. One time we were having dinner at a wedding dinner,

me and another pastor was sitting in the same table. We started making

jokes about different other different Chish leaders. Normal, that's what leaders get gets,

all the lists get together. We always make your other leaders, right.

That was Saturday night, and it started off very innocently, very innocently.

It became worse and worse. You understand it begin The word is that

it become to a place whereby you're not attacking, you're not even laughing at

the jokes anymore, you're attacking the person. After that, I just felt

there was a bit too much. I say, guys, tomorrow, some

of us here we'll be preaching, and some of us say will be worship

leading. If there is no salvation, no miracles. We got ourselves to

blame because this is what we indulged in on Saturday night, silence on the

table. You must understand, friends, exception, it's not just a commitment

to the Lord but your lifestyle, your lifestyle, I don't like. Why

has God always been after what we like? You don't understand? Do you

think God is always after our understanding? As I close right now, I

pray when we give, we say we give God our all. Friends,

it's at all, because all requires whether or not, whether or not the

environment is okay with us or not, whether or not everything is going away.

Elder terrorists. One time we shared that before it came to chich one

Sunday, his house had a huge mess. Something something happened, either electrical

water leak or something. I just bat. He decided told the wife,

elder neighbor, come to church, fust come to church first. We're not

going to allow this to rob us of our joy serving the Lord and worshp

being God, because there's nothing else you could do. Really, there's not

worry too much. He shared it with me. I really caught, really

caught a lot of principles from there. Sometimes in our life we allowed things

to rob us. Really think about it, rob us, robbers from our

breakthrough, our tests, money rob us. So they've never experienced the fullness

and the faithfulness of our God. God is ultimately in control. Friends,

He is. I truly believe he is. I've seen our church over twenty

three years his faithfulness. You must understand that this church wasn't just birth out

because we have a Bible degree. It was just birth out of just wanting

to follow the Lord. The moment. One day it just will share one

story. I'm I'm sure pass to share this with you or not, but

I won't. We passed. For almost close to twenty five twenty six years

of my life. I've seeing God's hand upon the ministry. One day,

the church was about five hundred six hundred. We are stuck at this number

for the past eight months, nine months, not growing. And when the

is not going, first, you've gotta asks a why why. There's always

a reason why. Maybe the Lord's trying to arrest something, just to bring

ourself attention. Pass a pray, and the lords say that you know now

you're a decisive Maybe you don't need me anymore. Maybe you don't need me

anymore after you know now finds when you're twenty you're crying out almost on daily

basis, God go the church, go to the church now fire hungry with

you. Maybe you'll killer right, don't need me anymore? But no,

no, we need you, we need you, you really need me.

Then we get we get to support one time in our church for about ten

to twelve thousand ring it our renter back then level two or ten out ten

to twelve thousand ring it. If you're believing, we're rented for a couple

of thousands and then ten thousands a lot of manila. Oh when when I

have to write a check for ten thousand gets here past it? This is

the first and biggest check for rent. A lot of money, you know,

especially when the church is small. No, don't have a lot of

you will get out no business men to this supporter comes in, helps a

lot with the salary, with the rent. If you truly trust me,

why do this supporter say that, thank you very much? Please stop?

Really got you must understand if we give out the supporter, how we're gonna

pay rent, how gonna pay sellary? How we don't even have enough?

God? We will still follow you, We worship you. We do what

we do a praise mariton. Whyever is except don't touch this lord? Pass

the struggle with the pass wrote the letter, but put the letter for three

monthses in case hurt wrongly that's our founding, Senior Pastor. One day,

even when you gave the letter to this supporter, pass was hoping like Isaac,

like that call up give say give Keith Radio saying please take back please

tho supporters. Then you guys said no, no, I'll double the support.

Was one of those Isaac moment. Remember you are to offer the sacrifices

that God said, no, now you are my good, faithful servant.

The supporter was angry and see wow, so ergan no, no, no

no, God said cannot. God said cannot. When Pastor told me what

he has done. Really, after that, I took us a wow.

Next month, I'm not sure. Yes we can last for two months,

three months? Not sure? Not sure? Not sure? First because fear

too taking a woman, for sure, you make first making exception, that

is one thing, you know, but biking exception. Where are you?

Where are you? Where are you think about that? Solomon Kurd rejected.

See Solomon Curt rejected all this for a woman. He said, access to

every other one that allows him to. But human being is the autoto proceed

what the loss? It can help you want that one? What the law

say? Can you do? Want that one? I remember when said that

I was, I told Passa, we have review, but always are crying

because we truly do not know where the money will come from. The first

week after Passing Day that the church grew by another thirty to forty people.

More than that, one of our church partner had a bonus. Never before

we received a check for thirty k. You know, life back then,

that was a significant moment in our church because I truly know that the Lord

is with us. Hear his voice one hand. We give that up our

obedience outlets, I'll follow you. There was a period whereby God, where

are you we could all be worshiping her and saying his Lord, he'll come

and provide. But honestly, in the said God, if you don't come

to for us like Moses, if you don't come to for us, are

the fellow arm He's going to work us. The very moment I tell you,

when we all counted offering friends, when we counted offering, we say

God, thank you Lord that we could pay. See until unless we put

ourselves in that place and that shoe of friends, we never truly know that

he is Lord. W you know, because everything else we're in control of,

everything else is in control of Why does God wants to give it all?

Because when you give out all, friends, if we listen half after

the ex cool, the community will never be birth and we never get a

peerage of knowing you all. Never Because of the one obedience, friends,

many other step follows, and we are here today. I put you are

encouraged by today's message. More than that I put. Your heart is just

one thing to serve the Lord. Say God, here I am. God.

Help me not to many excuses, not to make any exception, But

Lord, help me to make you Lord I my clenor. You must be

Lord in my clendor. You must be Lord. There has to be something

that's not negotiable in my business. Lining you have to be Lord. There's

a lie that will not cross, I will not cross. There has to

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