Jesus Is King | Pr Alvin Keng

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

will light up your dam. This is a message I've that the Lord has

given me, like a few weeks back, you know. And the message

is this. The title is this, Jesus is King. I then you

repeat that again, Jesus is King. I don't think everybody here has called

it yet. Let me just say it one more time. Jesus is King.

I'm not saying it just for amens, though. Let's relook chapter four.

The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to

preach the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken

hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the

blind, to set at liberty those who are pressed, to proclaim the acceptable

year of the Lord. In some translations, it's to proclaim the favorable year

of the Lord. Where did Jesus read this passage from? He read it

from Isaiah thirty one. Let me talk a little bit about this Jesus.

Jesus came and he fulfilled all not some not ninety nine point nine. He

fulfilled all the prophecies in the Old Testament, all, what's the significance of

Old Testiman New Testament. Well, a lot of things written, you know,

in a span of a thousand old years, but they still consisted.

Right, Jesus came and he fulfilled all. And he spoke this in Isaiah

sixty one, verse one to eleven. Let's turn to that. If you've

got your bibles, we're gonna read it. Isaiah sixty one. It's the

whole chapter. It says here, the spirit of the Lord is upon me,

because the Lord has anointed me to praish the good tidings to the poor.

He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to

the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

to proclaim the acceptability of the Lord. And the day of vengeance of our

God. Wow, they are vengeance? Are quest scary? Right? You're

not? A vengeance is right to comfort all who mourn, to console those

who mourn in zion, to give them beauty for ashes, or where poetic

beauty for as I think it is, the song, the oil of joy

for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. That they

may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord that he may

be glorified. Do you know why the Bible used the term tree, that

they may be called tree? Why tree? Why not something else? Do

you know that when you plant a seed or when you have a tree,

right, when you come back tomorrow, the tree is still there if no

one cuts it down, you come back ten years from now, the tree

is still there, but bigger. That's a tree, right, you'll know

what the tree is. Would the trees any move? No? Right?

In fact, that if you leave the tree for a long long time with

the right amount of water and sunlight and all. I'm a little bit into

gardening, okay, a little bit, okay, um, it will grow

big. You can be confident that when you plant a tree today tomorrow you

will still be there. Why tree or righteousness? Because it does not change.

There is consistency. It is the same. Next week you come here,

examine, it's still going to be here. You can be confident about

that. If they're not here, they'll let you know that. But you

can be confident. You know, you know how how important things that are

confident. We wake up in the morning and we expect the sun to rise.

Imagine if you wake up in the morning and there's no sun, you'll

be freaking out right. Some of these things we take for granted. You

go through your work the next day and you expect it to be there.

We have more confidence in things that won't last in redder than in things at

last. Do you know that God and Jesus their message has never changed from

last time until now? It has never changed. You know? Our government

changed many times a day, right, Church culture also changed many times?

Really right? The songs also changed many times. Ready, yesterday insult one

of my leaders sang a song. He saw all this old song I sing

in my college. None of us knew it. We were like, oh,

very old. Uh, okay, A lot of things have changed,

but Jesus has not changed the message that he's carried. What we believe in

us, believe us is still the same. You know. You know how

significance is that your parents are so huh the advice changed all today like that

tomorrow like that. I remember my mom used to tell me don't drink so

much, soya been If not, there will be hormones and all that kind

of stuff. And then I'm like, okay, you know, years down

the road, right, She's like, what's wrong in drinking? So you

have been? How come you change one? But Jesus never change, the

Gospel never change. Jesus is still king. Jesus is still king. You

catch it one? Do you know that your life will change you by your

God never changes? Do you know how much comfort we can have knowing that

no matter what happens in your life, no matter what you do, redemption

will still be there. Do you know that? So wonderful that no matter

what happens? You know people, people also will change them. People can

also change one, hopefully change for the better. Luck okay, but people

can change. Love can change. Marriage just changed, sadly selling marriage change.

Nobody get married now with the intention of divorcing or nobody. But why

later on, why a few years down the road? Why why people go

through things like that? Because things change? But we can have solace that

Christ never changes. Christ never changes. Christ fulfilled the prophecies of his coming

and we've and he followed through. You know, do you know he followed

through what he needed to do all the way to the cross. He only

had one time where he like, okay, God, maybe you know if

you can take this cut from me go ahead, but if not, it's

okay. That's that's only one time, right. The rest of the time

he stayed all the way. Do you know that when he was in that

day, I think we were doing doing a Bible study in office. And

I find it way interesting because when he was trial, if you read the

Bible, he never defended himself. Do you know that he had all the

right but he never know he just kept quite all the way. You know

what was his response, Jesus, they claim you're the king of the Jews,

they claim this is it? Then you know he said it is That's

what they said. That's it. That's all he did. The only time

he made any noise was when he was, of course screaming and all,

and at the cross he said, it is finished. That's it. He

never defended himself. Why he followed through everything he needed to do to redeem

us? Amen? Why am I saying that Jesus is king? How is

it significant to us? We got to remember, and maybe I'll read the

scripture so that hopefully we'll get some clarity there. Romans Chapter eight, Romans

chapter eight, Verse thirty thirty seven say yet in all these things we are

more than conquerors, true Him who loved us. Are you a believing here

today? Let's read that again. Yet in all these things we are more

than anchor us, true Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that

neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,

nor things present, nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor

any other creative thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God,

which is in Christ. Jesus, our Lord, Why is that promise

important to us? Whatever you did in the past, whatever your friend did

in the past, Remember I said, the boss that you don't like,

then we were cruel, the family member that you cannot stand. Because always

mess to be people, God's love will always reach them, no matter what

you did. You can be confident, like a tree, that God's love

will reach you. You might not feel it now, you might not see

it now, but you've got to believe it. Because Jesus never changed.

He has changed many people. He has transformed the lives of many. Talk

to any of the leaders here, Talk to any of the people that have

driven I don't know how fire your driver. Some of you stay over right

or something like that, just to make it some of you, I don't

remeber you'll still rent a place just to come on weekends. Okay, crazy

right? These people still ran a piacecount of weekends, don't. It's like

me, renting in pj Pja is very expensive. I read a drive,

it's very expensive to rent. I did consider that. I'm like, okay,

more expensive than my house, you know. So it's okay. We

are more than conqueress friends, We are more than conquerss. It's not about

what you've done, it's not about where you are, it's not about how

you feel. The truth is Jesus is king. Jesus is king. He

is king that came to conquer and set people free. Why the significance of

a king? Why? Why king? Why not Jesus is savior or he

is savior? But why king? You know why? Established him as a

king? Why not established him just as as like a boss, or establish

him as a brother. No? Why king? Because kings come and they

take land, and once they take then the land belongs to them. And

do you know what is the significance of it? Let me give you this

picture. I explained just now that before you guys were here, it was

probably a different authority, spiritual authority. But because the Church is here now,

the Church has taken over the spiritual authority and were brought light into the

darkness. So the significance of king in your life is so important. Non

is our life full of light or darkness? Do you know that when kings

come and take over, they come and take over, it has to follow

their rule, It has to follow their arraign is to follow their loss.

Everything goes according to them. When you go to you know, it's like

when you come to nature, you use the password. You have to follow

militia law. When you take your past one and go to Singapore, you

have to follow sing apoll or you'renna say oh, I'm sorry ya you cut

the red light and you're like, you know, the Singapore police come and

you say sorry, I didn't know. You will get jailed. Man,

don't play play you got Thailand. Same thing the moment you are in a

different kingdom, you have to follow and abide by the lass. That's why

the significance of Jesus king, because are we following and abiding by the laws

of the world or are we abiding by the laws of God? And who

is king in our lives? Let me give you the benefit of Jesus being

king. He came to set paper free from their bondages mentally and physically.

What is a mental health issue? Isn't it an issue of the mind and

the heart? What does the Bible address? A lot of the times when

you're doing your Bible study, when we're talking about you know or what did

Jesus mean by that? He always addressed the mind and the heart. So

don't you think. And again I'm not saying that you know, therapy,

no good cleaning us like no dory, you wouldn't run off a job.

Okay. This is that people are being attacked right now in those areas because

of online in full social media. Whatever you say, lah, Okay,

But I believe that the Bible is an answer, and I believe that Jesus

an answer, not because of sound spiritual, but because it has to do

with the mind and the heart. And Christ came to do what affect our

mind and heart? So who is king in our lives? So he came

to see people free from their bondages mentally and physical, bondage addiction. God

can there are many many stories I wouldn't share here. By the many many

stories about how people was free from addiction. Just like that, He came

to free us from living a life of sin and the destruction. What is

sin as well? Sin? Where there's a definition here, let's see sin

sin sin? Yeah, what is sin? Sin is a word deed or

designed in opposition to the eternal God, or as Scripture says, sin,

it's a transgression of the law, going against God. That sin, not

following God's will, that is sin. But he came and overcame sin so

we can be righteous, following his ways and submitting to his will as king.

And this is the thing about sin. You know, the Bible says

the devil comes to still care and destroy, right, how does he do

it through sin? Do you know that sin? It's not a metaphorical or

physical death whereas his physical death. But it's not metaphorical nor if you follow

the flaw of sinner, right, you were any in destruction on anybody that

allows himself to go in that lifestyle. When I say sin, life side,

it could be a lot of things. Okay, let's keep it simple.

Maybe it's gambling, Okay, maybe okay, I'm just doing these words.

There are other ways lying whatever. Whatever you call a sin right,

Eventually you end in death one. Unfortunately, if you follow people's track record,

eventually, if you look at how people finish or end their lives,

whatever whatever way you follow, from the beginning, it always starts to sing

on and it always starts with the small things one, and it becomes bigger

and bigger and bigger and bigger, and then it ends in destruction. So

Jesus came to Salistrate from dead, Chris God, he came to Salistrate from

dead so that we can have a different perspective when we look at these things,

so that we can know how to submit ourselves. Oh Lord, I

surrender to you. Surrender to the King. Don't surrender to yourself. He

came to free us from living a life of lies and deception. Trying to

see if I can explain this lies and deception. You all know the facts,

right, The facts is the facts. But the wonderful thing about believe

us is that we know the truth. And that's why even though the doctor

gives you that report and that diagnosis, we can still pray because we know

the truth and the truth of set three and the truth says that Jesus can

heal, and many instances we've seen healing that baffles doctors because we know the

truth. Right, So what is the truth? What is lie? What

is the truth of your life? You are a child of God, you

are precious? What is the line that people are telling all that? What

is the lie that people are telling you? God brings truth in the situation.

God brings truth in our lives. God gives us freedom, amen,

free from living a life hurt and depression. You know, Jesus says low

right, I mean it just right in the Bible that love God's love.

You know the world shares a student can't love. But if you want to

know what true love is, you go to the scripture that all the wedding

might to use one right first core intance the teen. Love is patient,

love is kind, love is song suffering. Can I chat this before you're

not long suffering? Long suffering means a okay, see might tell you what

The person never changed now the thing that irks you the most? Right?

The person will never change until there you die. Do you still love the

person? Yes? See is thinking twice style. You know what that is?

Long suffering. Long suffering means the person you love even though they don't

change you still love them. Isn't that long suffering? Don't you think God

has long suffering to us? You think about it? You know something we

think about you know, loves. Everything has been perfect? No, no,

actually it's not perfect or no. Long suffering is painful. But if

you're married, you know I have suffered long because there are things that you

know that's not stuff that I like personally, it's preferenced that. Okay,

But you have to submit and die to self and long suffer long because that

person will never do this for you. So you find other solutions that okay,

about good solutions? Amen, Free from living a life sorry, free

from living a pointless life with no vision. Where am I pulling all this?

I'm just pulling all this from Luke chapter four. I'm paraphrasing, okay,

recovery of sight to the blind people who have no sight in their lives.

People who they in there are it's the same thing. Do you know

there's so much purpose in your life? You might feel that all Nola,

Maybe I'm not famous. It's not about being famous or rich. Purpose is

not about being famous or rich. Purpose is about knowing that whatever you do

in life has meaning and it brings blessing to someone else. That is purpose.

There is a reason why ximony is here. There is a purpose why

reason. It is not just to make people's life easy and make it convenient.

No, there's a bigger purpose right, There is a purpose. He

came to do that. He also came to grant us God's favor. Let

me share you something I've learned from young Antan. Now and as I have

the opportunity to also lead ministries and plant church, I realize this is something

very important that I read. I am thankful to God that I've taught.

Why is God's favor important? You know, when we think about God's favor,

always think about Okay, God's favor means you'll be blessed. God's favor

means you'll be rich. God's human will be famous. Katie is the man's

way of thinking, the man's way of thinking. Let me tell you a

little bit about God's favor. Okay. When I go through life, I

constantly seek the favor of the Lord. Okay, let me share if you

what favor is design found online definition, favor is to regard with especial kindness

or approval, to treat with partiality or favoritism. Oh wow, favoritism?

How can you practice favoritism in the church? Everything should be fair, right

to support, to advocate, to perform, a favor for, to oblige,

to help, to facilitate. Do you want God's favor? Now?

Do you know that all of you here can have favoritism from God? Do

you know that? No? It's not not. Not only Stephen can the

rest it? No, No, everybody here, everybody here can experience God's

favor I give you ano perspective. I got two kids, okay, eight

and ten, and you know we say God is our father, right,

and I'm a father with two kids. Do you know how easy it is,

sir, for my kids are to get my favor So easy? You

know? You know how easy it is. All they need to do,

a guys, is to follow what that he says and to obey. Well,

I tell you I would get them anything. Man, Okay, I

know a lot of you are not parents here. You probably don't understand.

Right if you are the kid, this is the trick on how you get

favor you want you want a car from your dead? Just say yes dead

followed, don't fight with him, don't do anything, you know, just

obey any You never know something might happen. Right, It is not rare

hard to get favor from God. It is not rare hard. You just

need to follower he says, right, you just need to follow it.

We say, it's so simple, sometimes not easy to do la by simple

God's favor, right, and this is one form of favoritism. We need

to pursue God's favor. So are you setting yourself up for favor from God?

Do you know that you have to set yourself up? You know you

have to be seen by gods. No, you have to check your Lord.

Am I granting your favor? Or do you treat God like center class?

Or do you treat God like like you're entitled? Oh I'm entitled to

all these things, right, I'm your child? Right? Or do you

one God's favor? Let me share you a little bit of what favor means.

Okay, like I said, just now, X PJ has been there

for in We meet in Jaiwan, Jaiwan, in a place where it used

to be at the case a theater likes like a hall is well a little

bit a bit about this size, but we got two stories. Can feel

about four hundred people there I mean, we're blessed because that's a stage.

And all right, when we went and look for a place in Pa,

and I say, Pa is very expensive, okay, very expensive. Let

me listen prices. I can give you that monthly to meet in Armada Hotela.

Half of this sizer is five thousand ring it for a week for a

weeker. Yeah, this is how expensive it is. Okay, okay,

I won't tell you how much we pay, but way less than that in

Jaya one. So when we got the place, we were like, okay,

pray Scott. You know. We met in there's a room studio on

two upstairs right which night right now we used for X kids, right,

And I declare that soon you'll had xlis here as well. Okay, more

families are calm, you have X kids raised out, um and uh.

And we met there and I remember there's this discussion past I said, hey,

Pasta, when do we shift to the bigger hall, you know,

because not so big yet, right, because that place can fit about fifty,

you know. And I remember as I said, oh, uh,

once it hits eighty or sixty, then you shift, you know. And

I'm like, okay, La. So the first day we start church,

and we didn't start on Sunday, so more people come. We had three

hundred people, you know, no, no, no, because we got

leaders and it was on a Saturday, you know. And then the next

Hollong week is the real service, right? And I thought, okay,

la a lot, you know, maybe a few months. Okay, So

fifty came right on the next service. And the following week, right eighty

people came. And I'm like, oh my goodness, next week ready and

and and we've been there ever since. Okay, let me tell you about

God's favor. The management has changed three times, but I'm still there.

From PJA Life Arts management too. During pandemic they had to close down the

PJA Life Arts and I deal now directly with Jaya one. The person I

deal with, the coordinator of the location now changed four times. I'm still

there, I know, and they're asking me for advice. Now, So

what do you doc? I don't know. You should be telling me what

you are. You are the supplier, right, you are asking me because

I've been here longer than you. We've been there and we don't feel any

and there's still favor so much away from them. Recently, we organize a

heart's festival, right, and I can't give you pricing? Okay, not

so good, but let's just say that it was very good law the pricing.

You know, it was at least ten times less than another venue that

we found favor of the Lord. When you God's we have God's favor in

your life? Are you also cannot explain? How do you get so cheam?

I also don't know why the person's so nice to you? Are I

also don't know the person don't believable? I also don't know. Maybe God,

maybe God's favor Why your boss is so nice to you? Of all

the people? You also don't know. It's not like you work extra hard

to you know, bodiate your boss. It's not like you you know why

God's favor because God's eye is on you, His favoritism is on you.

That's God's favor. So look for God's favor, guys, right, Look

look for God's favor. Don't just look at the end result of something.

Look for the favor of the Lord, and then you have peace with you.

Right. You might think that you are shot change because there's something nicer

and better out there, But the grass is always greener on the other side.

So I don't look at all these things anymore. Or no, I

don't look at how big the hall is, or how I look at God

favor or not God favor or not God favor or not go favor than I

do, go no favor. I don't want to do. How nice or

so how nice you package the package? I got no favor? I scare

because when go no favor, I go in. Now I'm going to have

more sleepless nice right, And I'm speaking from my experience. Then when you

get too excited but the God's favor is not there, and you do it

and like, oh Lord, for six months you cannot sleep. So I

rather have sleep. Amen. When we rely on our own strength and methods,

we fail. Okay, well, you might not fail to get what

you want, which is actually quite scary, you know you think about it.

When you rely on your own strength, you will fail, but you

might not fail to give you when you do, you get that because what

we want might not be what is good for us. Case in point,

why I just share of you. Oh I want it last so good?

Right? This business deals so good? Ah, let me get it on,

let me get it. Everything looks so perfect but no favor. Then

you do, and then you realize, oh my goodness, this is the

worst decision I made. Yes, I still get what I want, by

why I want wasn't good for me at all. Amen, God has what

is good for us. That's why we've got to come to this place.

Can we declare that Jesus king in our lives, not by not by power,

but by my spirit. Says a lot relying on God's spirit. Okay,

I give you more examples. Okay, So let's see our way of

coping your challenges. Okay, our way men swear men say of coping each

other. So what do we do well every time we got chlenge life?

What do you do well? Stress edema? Then go and do Guilty pleasures

are shopping? Maybe it's always when we stress we eat more. Right,

as can see, you know what, it's my guilty pleasure. And nowadays

I don't know my last time. When I was growing up, there's no

option like that, But nowadays there's so much option, so much ado option

where people harm themselves. And he's so scary. Right, these are all

sin related items. And sin was introduced by the devil because he's here to

still kill and destroy, as said in John ten ten. So man's way

of guilty pleasure is self harmed. Whatever you may say, you indulg in

the flesh, right, that's how we deal with it. But Jesus came

to overcome sin. He came to overcome all these things. He came to

say, hey, come out of it, so we can be righteous,

true He's ways, not anyone's way about ways, and submitting to his will

as our king. This is why declaring that Jesus king is important, because

someone has to be in charge. Because if you put yourself in charge,

well we all know how that happened, how that will go, and something

you might even feel, No I can, I can, I can manage

He's fine, then then you try. But if we put Jesus in charge,

we will experienced the more of God. Romans, chapter six. You

can read it yourself. It's too long. I don't have time. No

one can be made righteous true his own work, but only true Christ Jesus.

That's the reality. No matter how hard you try, you can't.

So let's learn, right, if I trust it most you know, all

of us here believers, So let's see how God teaches us to cope.

Challenges. First point, he's trusting God. Proverbs chapter three, verse five

to six. What do they say, trust in the Lord with all your

heart, and lean not on your own understanding? All? Well, what

does that mean? Now? Don't trust yourself? Trust God? Don't trust

yourself right in all your ways? Acknowledge Him and he shall direct your path.

This one I want to talk about a little bit. What does it

mean I acknowledge him? I use this example in when I was sharing INPDA.

So I'm married to a beautiful wife. Her name is Jessica. Right,

and imagine now if you want to talk to pass it Alvine, you

want to do anything, we pass it Elvina. I will acknowledge my wife.

You want to stand right, I will acknowledge her one way or the

other. I will bring her in the picture. I will say, oh,

you're Mimia Stephen. Hold On, I checked my wife, Vera,

you know, let me check, cannot I acknowledge her? Right? Every

time I wanted to commit to something, I acknowledge my wife. So that

is what he means by acknowledging God. Are you all getting me? When

you do something, especially when you make an important decision, Are you acknowledging

God in the situation, or do we only acknowledge God when we're in trouble?

Oh? Lord help me. We had a quiet time as our Bible

study in homes and it was quite funny because half the time when you ask

the question of like how do you talk to God, they say when I'm

in trouble, you know, they say oh s, and when you're very

nice to my homies. They use nice verse like oh s and when And

then when they give the example, it's like, oh, you know I'm

having stressed at work and having a problem that ask God? Yeah, only

when we probably ask God. But if we can trust Him with all our

hearts, if we can acknowledge Him in all our way, not some of

our waysa all our waste. Acknowledge God. See, acknowledge is not necessarily

asked for mission. No, it's just acknowledged, you know, like a

Lord, are you here? Are you with me? Can you please guide

me? I'm going to make the decision now, can you Well maybe you

won't tell me whether okay or not, but can you lead me please?

If it's a bad decision, can you please close the door? And do

you know that God is kind? You might think, oh, Norma,

God's kopma. He will let me, he will, he will definitely guide

me. One. But do you know that God is so kind to you

that if you want to really do what you want to do or He's not

gonna stop you. That's the true nature. He's not gonna stop you know.

But the moment you acknowledge, it's like me and my kids. You

say an example again. I mean, of course now they're younger, but

next time, when they're older, when they're teens, are in their campus,

I cannot control them. Really, they they know what they know,

what they knew to do. Really, they're all enough. But wouldn't I

be so happy they sun? They say, Daddy, what your thinking?

I plan to buy this car? What do you think? Just by doing

that? I'll be so happy. They're acknowledging me in their lives if they

do that. Right, So can we acknowledge God. That's God's way of

coping. Remember I said, set yourself up for God's favor. Second point,

go to God and he will give you rest. Manthew chapter eleven,

verse twenty eight to thirty. Come to me, all you who will labor

and are heavy laden. And I will give you rest. Right, take

my yolk upon you and learn from me. If I'm gentle and lonely in

heart, and you will find rest in your soul. So I've always thought

about this word yolk. You know, you know what a yolk is,

right, you know, kurbau oxen. You put that thing on top,

and it's yoke. And then wherever wherever the farmer wants the oxen to go,

they will have to follow the yoke. That's how it works. So

when but isn't it like how to sayah um? I don't say counterculture?

Isn't it like counterproductive? If you want to give me rest where you're gonna

put your on me? Jesus, it doesn't make sense. And you're saying

that you are gentle and lowly and I will find rest, but I will

have to work right, No, guys, let me go deeper. Take

his yoke? What does that mean? Humbly do his will and allow him

to guide and direct our lives because he is gentle and humbled in heart,

and he will lead you to rest. That's why you take on the yok,

not because Jesus gonna give him more problems. Because by taking on the

yok that Jesus leads you will have less problems, you will have more rests.

That's what it means. You're following that on. You know, I

used to not understand. I'm like, I don't understand. Now I'm like,

oh, okay, because when you take on his yo, you are

humbling. Okay, Lord, I putting on your yok. I will do

your will, and his will is always good for us. His will is

always good for us, amen, because he really promised my yong is easy

and my burden is light. And of course I talked a little bit about

this is not about love. God's way of coping and his definition of love

is the definition of love we all want. It is a selfless kind of

love. Is a first contest to think kind of love. And that's how

God loves people. That's why I can confidently tell you here that God still

loves the boss that you hate, That God still loves the most obnoxious person

that you know that you won't want to hang out with. Godsill loves him

or her. And because of that, do you know that God still loves

you no matter what you do, no matter how you mess up, no

matter what you say. You might have says, whatever, guys, God

still loves you. God still loves you. You know, when we are

younger, things were simpler. I remember when I was young, it was

much more simpler. Now it's so complicated. Right, do you know that

life is actually where simple, but we as men like to complicate it.

Actually, I'm sharing it with something where a simple. No Jesus king,

there's something to him and everything will be okay, so simple, but we

like to complicate it. How what's the what's the da Vinci Court thing that

you know that will unlock the secret of success? And God, guys,

is as simple as this is. Following God's word is allowing God to move

in your Life's saying Jesus, you're king of my life, so I will

follow everything. Jesus kept things simple. If you read the Bible, he

constantly kept things simple. The Pharisees, the settle Sees, the leaders.

Everyone want to complicate or complicate, triple complicate, quadruple complicate things on Oh

he's the savior or men? Do you know that Jesus came not to just

save the Jews, He came to save everyone. No, praise God,

Praise God. But they want to complicate it. They want to make him

into a revolutionary. They want him to save their people. Only until today,

people still waiting for the savior. Right, God came to make it

simple. I want to save everyone. I love everybody. I'm here for

everyone. People kept trying to complicate things, but Jesus kept things simple.

All he said to the disciple is follow me. So simple. Do you

know that he didn't? Okay, I talk about this a little bit,

um. You know, we believe in discipleship here in our church right and

is a good thing, you know, And many times I like to ask

the questions, you know, like what would make them choose someone to disciple?

And I realized this whole thing about like I'm not saying it's bad,

lad say, oh, you know, I want someone that can connect with

me. I want someone that he's you know, I can have a wavelength.

But I think those are good things. But if you go in discipleship

the way Jeus did it, he never he never take them out for a

coffee. You know, he met the monia, created a miracle and he

they follow me, and then follow them just okay, I'll follow you.

Was there any like you a new feel first? And you know, see

whether a connection or not. Hey, if we follow Jesus where a lot

of things west in Bernal, but we all complicate it. And because we

all complicate it now we take very long, very long to come to this

space of freedom. Right, guys, let's keep it in Berkenna, Canada.

Let's give me see Canal. The good news is resting. We shouldn't

complicate it. So, friends, allow Jesus to be a king. It's

here a choice now, it's here a choice that you have to make.

Allow Jesus to be a king. Already, claim him to be a king.

This is my king. I find it interesting. I'm sarverybody's now.

Yesterday King Charles was coronated. Right, if you all follow the news,

right, claim him as your king and surrender to him. Surrender you know,

sometimes maybe, maybe, just maybe, we cannot claim Jesus as our

king because they are the kings or strongholds in our lives which we have not

torn down yet. He is dead, you know, he's right. Hard

you know if in Atlanta, imagine in Malaysia or two government harbits, civil

war. Man, right, you cannot have two? No, you only

have one? No, I mean you can have opposition. But they're still

one government, right, no matter what they do in parliament after they come

out, they're still one. No imagine we have two parliament Harbits. He's

gonna very difficult. So we cannot have two kings. Maybe for some of

us we are the king. That's why it's hard for Jesus to be king.

The Bible says that we do not fight against flesh and blood. If

he shan't, six child says for we are not fighting against flesh and blood

enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty

powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

Recognizing that the battle we face could possibly be a spiritual battle also helps us

to make better strategic decisions in our work of Fathe. You'll catch that recognizing

that the battle we face could possibly be spiritual battles also help us to make

better strategic decisions in our work of Fathe. That's why every time someone accepts

Christ in our church, we bring them through the starter pack, and there's

a point where we have the renunciation prayer to renunciate and tear down every commument

that's been made in the past so they can move forward, right, And

you don't know some things are for us here because we're an Asian country,

our parents dedicators who don't know this diety that we've got to cut it off.

No, there, you like, how come my life unexplainable? I

always experience things that are not so go on. Well, maybe there are

some things that you need to cut off low, but if you keep holding

on, you cannot say, oh, this is king, but then you

hold on to are the areas? No, because he has king over everything,

not only King on Sunday when I come and see Stephen and but other

days no, I know it's okay. Then you won't experience the fullness of

God. Then you want to experience gods favor, Then you won't experience his

blessing. Do you want to experience all these good things? He has to

be fully king. We are human, but we don't wach war as humans

do. We don't know. So it's not about people. That's why I

mentioned again, like I said, I'm repeating myself, it is not about

the boss that you hate. God still love sehim or her. That's why

I'm so confident now when I look at people, even though people can don't

like me at all. I still look at them and okay, they're still

God's children. God bless them. I'm nothing bad to say about them.

They have all the bad to say about me. It's okay. God will

be my unique right. But with them, forgive them, Let the Lord

deal with them, because I know that I don't wish war against them or

humans. We use God's mighty weapons, not worly weapons, to do one

to knock down. So what are the strongholes? When I talked about it,

to knock down strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments? Remember,

I say, Jesus makes it simple, We complicate it. We come

to church and we have a certain picture of how it should look like.

We do things and we have a certain picture of how it looks like.

And do you know that that is a stronghole? Or only when we sing

hill Song's music, God's presence will come. Any other song not going to

come. He's a stronghole. No, I'm not saying Hills Song is a

strong whole, but I'm saying that top process. Right. Are you saying

that even the old hymns that we sing cannot bring us presence? So what

is it that brings God? Is it just a band or Jesus really say

in the Bible that there will come a time where he is looking for worshippers

who worship him in spirit and truth. Never hear anything about songs there,

So we don't fight it against trust and blood. It's all about human reasoning.

How are we thinking about it? The best way is to read God's

word and to take on his reasoning the declaration that Jesus king. Amen.

So we've got to break down the strong holes. Strong holes are things that

edified itself against God. Those are strong holes absolutes in our lives, which

goes against God's kingdom. That's why he has to be in a place of

surrender. My last points. So, friends, even as we come to

the end and maybe extreme can get ready, there are three things that we

need to do. And this is something that you can choose to do right.

Firstly, surrender to him as king. Surrender surrender to him as king.

And then you've got to submit to his ways and commit to him.

Yes, it might not be easy, it might take time, some old

habits might die hard, but well, if you want to experience the more

of God, shouldn't you surrender things that doesn't benefit at all? Something We've

got to think about whether it benefits us or not. No, because if

we know something really benefits us, then we will be more willing to do

it right if we can experience him. That's I always challenge people. You

don't believe me, It's fine, you try it out, see it.

Move you know what's got move for you will be We're excited there. We

were easy to do right because I've experienced it. And finally, when you

can surrender and submit, we can't be encourage that you are saved from the

destruction. So Jesus is King. Can we claim that today and our team

les years. Heaven rules, Yeah, Heaven rules. The significance of xi

Mania here it is so powerful because xi Mania is declaring in Uni village that

the Heaven rules. Xi Mania is declaring in this place that Christ is King.

Not depression, not problems, not other spiritual things and other principalities,

but Christ and the promise that Christ brings is freedom, is peace, it's

love, it's hope for better future. Amen. We hope you've been blessed

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