Miracle That Leads To Faith | Pr Matthew Chang

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will light up your tea. Turn with me to look chapter thirteen, and

I'm going to read from verse six onwards. Okay, verse six and it's

the title there, it's the parable of the barren fig tree. And okay,

now is Saysia in verse six Jesus, okay, saysia. Jesus also

spoke this parable. A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard,

and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Then he said

to the keeper of his vineyard, look for three years, I've come seeking

fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down? Why does

it use up the ground? But he meaning the servant, okay or the

keeper answered and said to him, sir, let it alone this year also

until I dig around it and fertilize it, and if it bears fruit,

well, but if not, after that you can curect down. How many

of you here do gardening? Some people have a garden, but they don't

do gardening. If you know what I mean, right, They have a

garden, but they don't do gardening. How many of you really actually plant

one? I'm talking about you really like think you wake up and you sleep

thinking about gardening. One No, one times have changed, I really you

know during MCO time a lot of people plantings one. You know, everybody

either go up new pet or a new plant. You no, seriously right

there after that after em now I don't know what happened to the plant ready

now become gravey already. My wife and I we always try to plant,

you know, a great ambitious you know, I think we can imagine.

We stay in the corndle. We have a small balcony. They say,

I think you'll be a beautiful garden. You'll be beautiful, it'll beautiful.

Then you'll buy these we'll buy there. But now I tell you it's still

a balcony. Okay, there's no transform into a garden. It's all the

plant the things that they have planted. Actually, my wife plant most of

the time. And I never tried yet. Okay, say every time you

buy know heaven heaven haven't turned too you know green, or it isn't grown

bigger. You always somehow are we mismanage it or never water, not enough

sun as well, So it's not easy. But my dad is a very

good gardener. You grew up planting chili in a rubber tapping all sort of

thing, Durian mango. So back in my home in Cibo, my dad

we have a quite a fair bit of land on the side there. My

dad will basically do he laid his own foundation, so anyway he will somehow

get soil and then he will will actually before we settle the soil, right,

we will actually pulled out the wheat by hand. My goodness, it's

like two lorries word for soil. To go through by hand is a lot

of work. We spend about a month and just weeding out that thing,

and it's always weeks. There's always these roots. Now that after that,

then instill getting a tractor or a roller to roll and settle the soil.

My dad would ask me and my brothers to sit in the car and we

make sure our own steam roller and roll f let the land and the soil

using our pajaro. That's you know, that's how you think on your feet,

and we planted what do you call it? What do you call it,

queenie? You know, it's a type of our mango surrounder. It

can be either very sour or very sweet, very more pungent and sometimes they

even their mango as well. Very popular. Our Queenie always sell out,

you know, people sometimes you will eat the fruit will actually perch out from

our fencer, and people will actually wear outside there. It's like, why

are you waiting outside my house? How many of you know what I'm talking

about? Some of you have your fruits? Are your neighbors are extra friendly?

Laha, No, your neighborhood extra friendly, not because of you,

but because or white grows in your garden. Okay, you're like, whoa,

why are your house so nice? But actually they are waiting for that

fruit. Then one day you wake up your realizer, dead mango or dead

rumble ton is poaching out of your thing. It's gone ready, my goodness,

gracious, who are so hungry? Who is so hungry to go and

take away your fruits? So that that is, you know, planting,

my dad is very good. And then he will know the fertilizers, where

there is the sea, where there's the weather, where is the water ring

very familiar. But we see here in this passage that it's a very interesting

parable that Jesus highlights out of nowhere, and a suddenly he talks about a

parable about the barren fig tree for three years. Okay, three years.

This master was looking for fruit. How many of you will actually go to

a tree for tree years looking for fruit? One year you don't get your

cut down ready for three years or no, that's very patient you. Now,

if you plant a mossun king for three year's not for breadth? Food

would used to keep it? Hey, one year we get a few harbors,

one and all. Now it's now it's during seasons in there in my

house here, very chipsunking Indea, I saw twenty two get on the pequilo

cheaper than everybody else, a cheaper saying the pjas stud they've got quite cheap

Juliana. But now they've got to the tree. Seasons they can bear,

you know, but this one three years don't even bear at all. Three

years you'll be looking at all your neighbors and all your friends are how can

your tree grow so much? My tree tree years never grow. So there's

a lot of disheartening that is happening here, A very fair expectation. By

the way, the Israelites are, the Jews, it's very common for them

to plant a fig tree behind their backyard. Okay, it's sort of like

a national tree. It's a very tree there is very close to their hearts.

They always plant one the back end. It's very important for their fig

tree to actually bear fruit, you know, as you know, the fig

tree will actually represent Israel and the fruitfulness of Israel, and also for their

own family. But this tree has a problem for three years not bearing fruit,

and the owner wants to cut it down. But then the servant comes

along and say that, no, let's do something about it. Let's not

cut it down, but let's change the fertilizer and water it again. Why

does the sermon want to do that? Because you don't know whether the problem

is with the tree or with the soil, true or not? How do

you know? Can you go there and then put a doctor scopa and then

here all I think the tree or heart problem? You can't, isn't it?

So you have to use a method of deduction. Okay, let's single

out whether it's the soil. Let's change the soil and if the tree responds

to the change in the soil, then we know it's the soil problem,

isn't it. But if everything around that tree, the surroundings change and the

tree doesn't respond, it's like if you go to a hospital and then they

try everything you know. The problem is not know they're done. They're done

as much day. The problem is deeper, is with the tree. The

tree is really have a problem. So the only thing can do is to

cut it down. Makes sense or not? So I think the governor or

the servant is giving you a very fair analysis and chance to really treat this

tree. Now, this is where this is funny about this story. Is

there? That's the end of the story. Jesus didn't say anything after that.

That's the end of tip. What can we learn about this parable?

Why did Jesus stop there? That is where you must read finish your Bible.

You cannot stop like that. The story and the catch and this lesson

for this particular parable is not in sight this script not it's in this passage.

It is in the following passage. Sorry, so let's read from verse

ten. Okay, So the first part you gotta hold it for a while.

It's like you watch episode one, You've got to hold it for Wow.

Now I'm going to go through episode two, and then when after you're

done with episode two, I'm going to come back to episode one again.

Then you will start to see and understand the meaning of this parable in the

fuller context. Okay. Now, in verse ten, the title says,

here a spirit of infirmity from a tree to now a spirit of infirmity.

And he says in verse ten, now Jesus was teaching in one of the

synagogues on the Sabbath. Okay. Underlying the word sabbath, there okay,

and behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen

years, eighteen years longer than you elishah, okay, longer than you imagine

that your whole life, yes a tena all life, fourteen years have informity,

and then another formal years. Oh, she ever knew was this spirit

of infirmity? And what was her like? What was what was she like?

It says that she was bent over and could not he could in no

way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, okay, he called

her to him. Okay. Underlying that, Jesus called her to him and

said to her, woman, you are lose from your infirmity. And Jesus

laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.

Okay, Now, let me stop there for a while. Now it

says that that Jesus was teaching. Jesus was always teaching in the synagogue on

the Sabbath, and there was a woman with you know, they had this

infirmity for eighteen years. And wherever you are right now, could you do

me a favor. I'd like to be active engage you guys to with this

message as well. Can you guys right now? Okay, wherever your sister,

try to touch your knee, No with your hand, but with your

chest. You're like, you're imagine it right. Okay, if you cannot,

please, I don't do it. I don't want to. Suddenly I

cannot move you back up. Okay, but if you can, if you're

young, okay, if you're less than forty years old, okay, try

it. Okay, just try it and not be over touch your chest to

your knee where I see the older ones doing it, but the young ones

are not doing it that ready, Okay, stay there, no, no,

just keep there and stay there. Okay, remain like this for the

rest of the day. Okay. Wherever you are raging, you're touched there,

and then you try to look up, and then you look to the

next person. On your left say hi, and then to look to the

person next to your right and say are you comfortable? Okay, thank you

so much. Everybody, imagine eighteen years of your life like that when you

come to church our what would you be looking at? Would you be saying,

I know, maybe you know our brother Edward and shaking, taking out

He's hand to shake you. Then you're like Hi, walking in, walking

in. Everybody here in escorta Comuni is straight, they look healthy, but

you you are always looking at the ground. We can only see the ground.

Even when they say you can only much. You strain yourself. Everybody

is so well, everybody is so happy. They feel like they've got everything.

Have you ever walked into a room with feel like you're the smallest person

in the world. You feel like everybody has got their life right. Maybe

I'm not. Something is wrong with me. You know. She is in

the synagogue and they say that they know that she's had the spirit of company

for eighteen years and she has never stopped coming to the temper or the sync

to hear the teaching by the teachers or by the temple teachers. And Jesus

was there at that very day, even though she's not made straight, still

bending down, but she still comes. It's not easy. You know,

how many of you would still continue coming to the House of the Lord even

when you are afflicted with any informity besides just looking down. Maybe it's your

finances, when there's your health, whether it's a family or relationship. You're

not right. Everybody is straight except you. It's not easy enough. Just

now you're trying to bend like that. Everything you do, you feel like

that. It's not easy. But then one day out of the eighteen years,

when she went over there, she heard a voice. I'm not sure

she can't even really see Jesus enough. She probably know that there's this guy

who was called Jesus was teaching there, still looking, but there was something

different. For the first time, Jesus was actually calling her. And she

responded, isn't it even when you can't see fully see who Jesus is.

You haven't followed him anywhere. You have only been in this temper, and

you're only known looking at the ground all your life, but you hear and

experience the voice of God. And she responded, how many of you like

sports? How many of you like football? Who's your favorite player? By

the way, or you don't play it, but you said you like football,

or you like sports. Okay, any any football fans, basketball fans

here, basketball fans basketball? Okay, yes, I like basketball. I

played basketball. You know how many of you know Messy? You know MESSI

yea, some of you are so I like sall. I know a player

until so much, and then I know that for a basketball I know whether

he likes to go right, whether he likes to go left. If he

goes right, he will always go to the basket. If he goes left,

he will always should know from a jumper, you know, if he

fakes you, he would get three times almost you can. And we are

so good nowadays that we can analyze the player and know everything about a player

so well enough. If I got if I talked with Albert, I probably

can quote my favorite player statistics, you know, and how many championships he

has, how he compares with other players, and stuff like that. Guys

can talk about this for a long time. Some of you are golfers can

say Tiger Woods is the best. Oh, no, Jen Nickerson is the

best one. You know. You can talk about it so well. He

can know a player so much. But still don't know the person. You

know what I'm saying here. There are many Christians who know Jesus so well.

They can quote every verse, every statistic like a player, like a

fan and all. What a real genuine from you got Liverpool ship? Yeah?

No, do all really the greatest fan? And you still don't know

the player? You see? I mean right? You still don't know you

Have you ever texted the person? You can know all the best statistics,

you know better than their family members. I'm moltimized, but you still don't

know the person. Amazing, isn't it. I can tell you I can

know Lebron James so well. I can know my Coulse. You're doing so

well. I'm younger. I still don't know him because I've never had a

personal encounter with him. I can know him, but does he know me?

It's different and all. It's so different, you all. I may

not know every statistic, but if I had a dinner with him, that

changes everything. It's better than the biggest fan in the world. If I

get one dinner with Messier, I tell you back what you had dinner with

him? What? Yeah? Do you know? Fob, I don't know

much about football? But I didn't know with him. He beats everybody you

know in Life's like that, isn't it? Church is like that, isn't

it? You can come to church, are not the best thing. You

can quote by advisors everything. You can be the biggest fan. You can

go through so many camps, so many premities, or you can be the

biggest fan and sharing buying the first class seats. You can be even at

the manager taken of a site, but you still don't know's that's a scary

thing, isn't it. Can go through life just being just a fan,

but you don't have an encounter, you ever met him face to face.

But this woman was different. Heard about God for eighteen years, but for

the first time she heard God calling. And the thing is that God doesn't

call, it's a big invitation or Hey everyone, I'm gonna call you.

You know, I'm gonna call you know. At that moment, even in

her infirmity, she came faithfully for so many years, I don't know how

many years, maybe for eighteen years. She was in the temper for so

many she was there, but that very day she heard Jesus call and she

responded, actually, yeah, for all of us are. We don't need

a big invitation from God. God has always been working in your life,

when you drive, when you sleep, and everything. God has always been

working in your life and inviting you. So as the thing is, do

we miss that moment for her for eighteen years? Sir? Maybe it's a

fair excuse for her to miss visiting that temple on that day. You know,

maybe that day I don't have a very good teacher, and preacher you

stop, Pastor Kenneth Laha, sorry, it's just me or someone else,

maybe a teen who is speaking right. But because you lack faith that God

can work in the smallest you always see God as the God of your neighbors,

but you never see God in the smallest of things. You know,

God is the God of big and God is the God of the smallest.

You don't realize that you know God of the small and so when you've missed

it, you're like, wow, what could have been? And this woman

was in a perfect example of what we always try to put God in a

box in her that God only works this way, but God works in a

different way for this lady. Okay. And he says here that Jesus called

her and she came and he said to her, woman, you are loose

from your infirmity. The moment when we come to Jesus and we respond to

him by faith, not know only what to expect you now, but you

just respond out of faith. Sometimes faith can only take you one step,

not ten. That's fine, but the fact that you take one step,

that's the power of faith. You're taking that one step, and you realize

that God comes so much more because you took that one step. A lot

of times saying how why do I take that one step? Because it requires

them, and no, you take one, you'd be surprised when you take

one that God comes five steps towards you. Wow. God is so generous.

God is so loving. God one stair intimacy, because that's who he

is. He's your father. And God comes not only just to hey,

you'll be sick for eighteen years. No, God says that today you're going

to be healed. God wants to do something greater than what we can ever

imagine. Okay, immediately she was made straight. But there's only part one

of the story. The second part we see here in verse fourteen. But

the ruler of the synagogue answer with indignation because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath.

I told you to underline Sabbath, right, isn't it. The lady

was happy, but yeah, there's another group that was unhappy. The teachers

were not happy. Why because they said, Jesus, you'll heal on the

Sabbath. And the teacher said to the crowd, hey, he said that

there are six days on which men ought to work. Therefore come and be

healed on them and not on the Sabbath day. Well, this teacher is

going to get technical. Enough, he's not addressing to Jesus, but addressing

to the whole crowd, because the whole crout saw the miracle that was a

performed. So this this teacher tried to get theological with Jesus. Don't you

read the Bible. Six days we're not we're supposed to work, and seventh

day we're not supposed to work, supposed to rest. Now, okay,

don't have time, Okay, I'll take three minutes on this. Okay,

I'm going to talk to you very briefly about Sabbath. Actually, if I

have a chance, a teacher about the power of Sabbath and why it's so

important that you set aside one day where there's a Sunday, there's a Monday,

but you set aside and obey, and you know, really consecrate the

Sabbath and how you should what they call it rest on the Sabbath. Everybody

say that Sabbath see Jesus, Bible say that a one day use what works

six days? One day Sabbath. But we come to church, I don't

feel like rest, you know, I feel like working, you know,

And so I really I think the real Sabbath is the day after church,

you know, I mean of you things like that, very quiet, very

quiet. Right, So it's not just about Sabbath, but how to celebrate

and how to rest. Okay, So there's two parts. But I'm not

having time to teach about that, okay, knowing how to observe Sabbath and

to rest on the sebb. But there's the proper way and how Jesus comes

into that picture so that we won't miss up. Now, why do the

Why is it that the Israelites are so particular about Sabbath? Why had they

always been like that? The moment that Moses saved the Israelites from Egypt,

they have always said, oh, we will always observe the Sunday, we

will come to temper and we won't do any work. They were not like

they one and all. They were not like that. Jesus even had to

put a commandment to them, and you should observe the Sabbath. Even before

they actually received the ten Commandments, when they were in the desert, God

had to tell them, Hey, on the seventh day you should not go

out and collect the meat and the manner. On the sixth day you should

collect, but you collect a double portion. So they're on the set even

that you will not work. So that commandment was given earlier, earlier than

the ten co mo months. You know, you realize that. So Sebbath

was especially holy to God and to his heart. Okay, So why did

the Israelites was so particular? Because it has to go back to the Old

Testament very quickly if a chance, I know, I'm teaching quite a fairbruy

of stuff here. If you turn to with me to Leberticus twenty five,

okay, so that you will know that it's not what I say, but

it's what the scripture says about Sabbath. They go to Lebertakus twenty five.

Okay, you will learn. There are different levels of sabbath. There is

a sabbath for the week, and there's a sabbath for the years as well.

Did you know that not only should you rest one day out of the

week, you should rest one year of the seven years. Oh, they

say, oh I should go and take a particular year. That's not what

I'm saying, Okay. But for the nation of Israel, you see,

it's amazing. Now we pass law in Malaysia or in true many countries are

true parliament and a people decide pass this law, dead lawd dead law,

you have more power, you can pass that law. But with Israel,

God gives the law. There should be the way. It's amazing. It's

not by man one en, but God gives the law directly to a nation

of people. You know, quite amazing. You know it's never been done

before in the history of man kind of know where gods such like that one.

Certainly the law is given by God personally to a group of people.

They were very special. And this law until today it is still remains here

for us to learn from. You know that a law of the law that

we have actually comes from the Bible, the court of Laws and everything actually

comes the roots of it. The basis and principle comes from the Bible.

Now, now we look here. Let take us twenty five. It says

six years you shall sow your fill, and six six years you shall prune

in your innia and gather it's fruit. But in the seventh year there shall

be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord.

You shall neither saw your field, nor prune your vinea. What grows

of it, it's on a court of your harvest. You shall not rip.

Okay, You shall not saw, You shall not prune. You shall

not rip nor gather the grapes of your untendered mind. Why you cannot plan,

cannot saw, cannot do anything? Okay, For it is a year

of rest for the land, and the sabbath produce of the land. Missa,

You might not touch the land, but the land will still produce something,

isn't it. But with or without your help, the land will produce

something. With or without your help, the land would do will just naturally

grow. You realize that some people, if I don't, if I don't

do anything to the lanna, I scare the land will not grow. If

I don't do anything to my business on a sabbath. I scare the business

will not grow. Did you realize that the land was their livelihood? You

know you might stand the landa feeds the family. You want to know,

Oh if I don't, how will they grow? We cannot imagine? Isn't

it? Isn't it? They say? And the sabra produce of the land

shall be food for you, for you, your male and your yes,

your female servants, your hired man, and the strangers who dwell with you,

for your livestocks, and the beasts that are in your left and all

its produced to your food. Now what is God trying to do here?

You see? This is you never really read liberty becous properly we look at

it. It's just a bunch of law. But you know God through the

law, just as you know a country. When you go to a country,

right, you go to Australia, you go to Singapore, or go

to Singapam. I think cannot still cannot. Right when you go into when

you see in the airplane your land up in it. You shall not have

drugs. If your found have drugs, you will be you know, prosecuted.

The moment you hear the Lord. What does it tell you? You

start to know the country, You get an idea of what the government is

about. You give mean like, wow, this country is so strict one

and all. You gave me right because you understand the law. The law

reveals the person. The law reveals the will that this sire, the character

of the person. So when you study the law, you study the person

because of the law means the things that are unchangeable about the person. Oh

okay, gave me right. The law reveals why it's unchangeable. It reveals

the nature that's unchanged about about the person is the essence of me. That's

why I'm made it a law. So that's why going and read your leberticulous,

okay, going to read your old Testament. It's very very important.

So what do we learn about God from here? So seven years? So

six years you plan and you saw, But for the seventh year you're not

supposed to do anything. I told you that we have I have a garden,

right, okay, And I told you some of my garden trees are

actually perched out and have fruits for people to pick. His name. Imagine

that there's no more offense on the seventh year, you imagine all of you,

you plant, you plan with some king, okay, best of the

best, or you export to China and one okay, on the seventh year,

God says you shall not touch it. You're not plan, do not

do anything. And one day on the seven year, you open your window

and you look out and you see a bunch of people work, girls,

servants, male female people coming to your into your garden there and start to

harvest your fruits gather. Let me ask you right now, how does that

touch your heart? You feel happy? I tell you what, knowing that

I'm also in Asia and you know business you okay, Oh, I tell

you yours. Every fruit they take, I will take a one piece away

from you, you know, every time you go away. Okay, I'm

so old man, one piece away, piece by piece, you know,

every fruit that leaves your garden, one piece being taken away. How I

work for six years gone gone? These people the piece people you know,

never touch you know, never helped me. These people what this guy are?

You know? Never wore old in my garden. You know, this

fella tried to cheat me money as well. This fella, I don't deserve

it. Taking your fruits away. You know why you feel so painful,

because deep down you feel so hot because it's a loss for you, isn't

It's this experience, as this feeling of loss taken away from you, and

you feel that loss because in your heart you say those are mine? Why

you feel it because in your heart you say those are mine? And that

is exactly the place where God wants you to be exactly there. Then God

will comes out and say, is it really yours? Then you will know

who truly is the Lord, who is the Lord of the Sabbath, who

is the Lord of your life? Who is the Lord of all the earth?

You plan that you earn it? That did you create the land?

You both for it? But did you create the land? Did you?

Did you start the sun? Start the engine? You put fuel? One?

Is it the rain or you started? How did you pay? Did

you pay anyone for the rain? You pay the rages for the workers?

Did you pay me? Don't pay anything? Right? How? That is

exactly where got one's point? What wants to catch the israel lights? You

know you enjoy for six days. On the seventh day, you remember who

the Lord is? And not only you remember who the Lord is you remember

what is the heart of the Lord, And what's the heart of the Lord.

The people, the servants, the female servants, to people who cannot

earn for themselves, let them gether. That was how God deals with poverty

in the country, Amazinger. We come out with all sorts of policia.

Hey you, you and a parliament, Hey not finance, new builder,

you know, industry, build whatever, be able to try to solve economy

and poverty. God says, what I own all these things, no,

my law and know my heart help the poor? Yeah, I mean right,

what's so difficult, you know, because we cannot we ai, we

agient, we business people will saying, but it's mine. And God said,

that is where I want to meet you. That's settle. This is

it really yours. That's why sabo are so hard to follow. Did you

know that the Israelites did not observe their Sabbath for four hundred and ninety years.

Don't say it's hard for you, it's hard for them all. So

it's part for everyone hard because we don't know God. We are so filled

with our flesh, we are so filled with the world. We don't know

God. We really we think we know God. Like I said, we

think we know God, but we don't know God. If you know God,

you will know his commandment and you will know his heart. But we

don't know him. You really don't know. So we say all things about

him we presume are that we run our business, we run our worker,

We know everything our own way, out of your own string, of your

own mind. Actually, I tell you I can teach a whole thing about

the Sabbath, you know, but that is where God wants us to be.

For four hundred nineties they did not observe. Did you know what is

the punishment for not observing the Sabbath's actually in the scripture as well. Lebertakers,

twenty sixth, the following chapter. Okay, he says here Lebertakers,

twenty six Verstali Tree. Okay, that's why I say you need your Bible,

so then you will know it's not I say it's the Bible. Say

one, okay, Lebertakers, twenty sixth, Verstaldy Tree. He says,

say, I will scatter you among the nations and roll out a sword after

you, and your land shall be desolate, and your cities who waste.

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbath. As long as it lies desolate,

and you are in your enemy's land, then the land shall rest and enjoy

its sabbath. So it means fine, for every year, for every seven

years that you miss your sabbath, you will have to that the land will

literally speak you out, speak you out of that land. Means that you'll

become an exile. For seven years, you'll serve one year. For four

hundred and ninety years, they did not observe their sabbath. So if you

calculate, calculate four hundred ninety years, how long is the sentence? How

many years? Seventy years? How many years were Israel was Israel in Babylon?

Seventy years? Do you see a parallel right now? For four and

nine it goes very patient enough, waiting and waiting and waiting all the nonsense

that's happening in the land. Give me right, turn you against God oppressing

the poor for hundred and God has been asking them, do it, obey

help the people. They do not. Eventually, you know this is how

God. God works. Enough, if you know that God, can you

know it's either enough. Let me let me rephrase that. You know that

you are on the wrong side. When God gives you what, just just

what you want. When God gives up on someone and something in the Bible

war, he lets them have their own way, and he knows that it

leads to destruction, he gives it up. He will always give you what

you want, even though he will try to convince you now and that will

lead you to your destruction. He will not continue striving with men again and

again, striving with you. But I say, one day you want to

go, Okay, fine, I will give you what you want, but

I will not be there. And I'm saying what I'm saying, God will

give if this is always the case, not even in exod studies Reea,

the people will they are always seen and guests from milking a golden carfinal you

know what they God say that Fine, if that's what you want, I

will take you. You can go to the Promised land land flow meal and

honey, I've always wanted to go to the Promised land is name. You

can go, but I will not go with you. What you desire so

much, go get you can give you the desire, but I will not

be there. And what the most to say, Lord, we will not

go unless your presence goes with us. Would you be like that? You

know what I'm saying here? Would you be like that? So it's very

scary, you know. But in the same manner that the Israelites were seeing

and doing. Okay, you can do what you want for four hundred asking

you to do it. Eventually, what happened to them They got taken out

of Israel, exiled in Babylah for seventy years. Every single one of their

sentence was served. God is true to its word, Amen true to its

word and all. So people you think that we live that life no consequences,

when there are consequences for an individual and for an entire nation, there

is a consequence. So because of that and I come back okay, okay,

radio, I had to cash and rushes everybody. Okay, doing a

case. You're learning something. Yeah, So because of that, the Israelites

expected teachers. They were so scared of Sabbath, so they say that sixth

natures should work on a seventh day, shou arrest. Well, get theological

with Jesus, you know, then, how did Jesus say? This is

the fascinating part. Ah, this guy are using in a very good argument,

and all now Jesus says this, now waits I yeah, okay.

Then the Lord answered to him, okay, you hypocrite, does not each

of you on the sabbath and tie his ox or his donkey from the manger

and lead it away to water it? And or not this woman a daughter

of Abraham? Okay? Underlying that word, daughter of Abraham, whom Satan

bound for eighteen years, they lose from this bond on the Sabbath day,

as he said these things, all his adverts were put to shame, and

all the people rejoice at the girls things they were done by him. Wow,

fascinating. What did you say? First of all? He said that

you want to count to me with a theological argument. First of all,

I want to call you for who you are. You are a hypocrite.

You use God's word to hide something, to hide your true intention. A

lot of times we do that. We use God's word to hire our true

intention. We never use another person who use God's word and gods that you

are a hypocrite. How does he call them a hypocrite? How does he

expose them? He says this even on a Sabbath day. Do you a

lot of them have their livestock, their cows they are, and all their

goals, their lamps on the sebbath day. Don't you go ahead and tie

your ops. It starts with an animoa, It doesn't start with a human.

He starts saying, you don't talk about human beings. Don't talk about

this woman. You're just dealing with an animal on a sebath day, just

an animoa. You even had passionate enough. I look at my my dog,

my chihuahua, or my beautiful catter, my cat. I don't eat

that. I also some tong like my cat and my dog was before I

eat. I think my cat and my dog would eat better food than me.

You know how many of you do that? Actually, I know some

of you. Some of you will take more for those of your cat than

yourself. Okay, who, okay, I'm just joke here. I'm just

playing a fool here. So say you even had compassion for an animal and

you were losing up even on a sudday you're not supposed to work. You

even loose it and let them drink water and they feed it. But yeah,

for a woman, for this lady, you will not even lift a

finger. For eighteen years, she has come to your temper, and she's

never been healed. Think about it, eighteen or more years our game.

I could be preaphrasing for so long she has never can be healed. Have

you ever laid hands on her and prayed for her? Or is she one

of those persons you consider as sinful? She was not right. She has

to deal, She has to get her life right before God. First thing,

for a touch he wow, huh. You will do that for your

donkey and your cow, but you will not need to do this for this

woman. But this day she has experienced a miracle. And what do you

say, suppose not supposed to work? Seriously, what a hypocrite, isn't

it. It's like you will pay yourself you don't work, but you pay

yourself a high bonus, you know, But yet your worker works very hard.

You will not even give a one bonus and you will sting with them.

What kind of standard do you have? And you use God's word to

justify yourself. See, the hearts of men are very evil. One evil,

isn't it evil? To the coroner? You could just to get what

you want, just to think and validate who you are evil to the core,

But you are God Jesus called you are a hypocrite. You will do

that for your enemals, but you will not do that for her. But

I tell you who is this lady? She's just an ending the lady she

is the daughter of Abraham. Why did Jesus suddenly ship to call her a

daughter of Abraham? Why is a daughter of Abraham? By the way,

because she's a daughter of Abraham. What is Abraham known for? What is

Abraham known for? Faith? How did he obtain his righteousness? Did he

pay God a lot of money? No? He obtained righteousness because he believed

God when he done it. But did they have a son? He didn't

have it where he was oh age, when he was poor. He believes

God. So who is a son and a daughter of Abraham? Those people

who have everything? Who is straight up? Who teaches at front of the

temple? Are they the son and daughter of Abraham? No? The son

and daughter is when they are poor. But yeah, they still believe God.

You get me a right, That is the true meaning of a son

and daughter of Abraham's No, a sound daughter of Abram? Because you are

a circumciance. You know you're a son and daughter of Abraham. Because you

believe God despite all your circumstances in this world. You believe God. And

she did she believe God? Eighteen years infirmity? Did she believe God?

When Jesus calls out, she believed? And so she is called the daughter

of Abraham. She has created them, all of them. Amazing, isn't

it Jesus not and Karl or Donkey anymore? But standing right in front of

you, she is a daughter of Abraham. God has bounded that Satan has

bound her for eighteen years, and now she is loose. A daughter f

Abrah has been saved. And you was want to reject her and reject the

world God in her. Then when people hurt this out, why did they

celebrate the understood, the real teaching that gives life. They are teachings that

just tells you and binds you. They are teachings they give you life.

And then when they're hurt that those people who were poor, who were destitute,

who was who couldn't get themselves straight up? Who walks in, who

can't look at it anywhere? This is how they didn't realize. As long

as I believe God more than anything in this world, I am a son

and daughter of Abraham. That's amazing thing, you know, that's why they

all rejoice. Now at last parts a closer. Okay, give me five

minutes. Okay, really rushing here. Now go back to that first part.

Ask you this question. You see the tree, the fig tree,

three years asking for fruits the soil. What does the tree represent? Who

is that tree? Who is that tree? Go back to episode one again.

Who is that tree? Is it the lady? Is he Jesus or

is it the temple teachers? Why everybody's so scared? Answer? Who is

it is? If now you realize that, hey, Jesus may have talked

about the parable, not by cob incidents, but Jesus has always been intentional.

Who was the tree the teachers? Isn't it? Were teachers for three

years they were looking at Jesus was looking for that temple. But there are

no fruits. You can teach and teach ten cheese at all you want.

You can say, you know God, you know you're not but no fruits.

Like Israel as well, can follow God about no fruits? One you

know, can send prophets, can send judges, can even send Jesus chriser

By. They've repented, only some not all yet, but where's the fruit?

Okay, so the tree is the temple? Teachers? The second question,

I ask you, what did Jesus change around the temple or around the

tree the fertilizers in it? What does the fertilizer represent? What is the

fertilizer from their story? What change the lady has been sick for eighteen year?

What change Jesus? Isn't it the fertilizer. You can say two things.

I can equal to it is Jesus, or I will say the miracle?

What is the purpose of a miracle in our lives? In the Bible?

What's the purpose of a miracle? When you see a miracle happened?

Wow, somebody care cancer, somebody die for five minutes, woke up with

there suddenly your leg You know, can know what's the thing here? What

does it tell you? God is good? But for an unbeliever they will

say there is a God. No, God is just good. God is

real. Every miracle there has been performed. Miracles are miracles? Are performer

to what? Miracles are used as a pointer to all of us. Miracles

are witnesses, you know, to point to all of us. There is

a God because it's defined when you see God healing the feeding the five thousand,

turning water into wine, healing a woman, and even through apostles from

the judges, from the earlier ones from Moses. Why they say there is

a God so that the pharaoh of Egypt will know there is a God as

well. There's only one God, and he's the Lord himself. There is

a God. When you experience a miracle, it's not just God is.

You'd be scared, you'd be fearful, you know. You know why you're

scared, real scared, you know, and why God is? God is

watching you know, boy, once you're you're right, suddenly, oh there's

CTV around me. You know, God is real. God is real,

and God means business. You know, feels that there's real fear of the

Lord striking you. You know who God is all around God, it's surrounding

you. That's the purpose of the miracle. A miracle changes changes people,

Okay, but miracles also have it's a double edged sword. Why I said

that miracle can be a blessing in a way that if you are truly a

son and daughter Abraham and the miracle happens, right, you believe God,

you have for fear of God that makes you run towards God. But if

you are evil and you're heart hearted, the miracle will serve as a judgment

against you, because a miracle will expose who you are the same way Jesus

perform a miracle, isn't it. So he was looking and watching who will

believe, who will celebrate, and who will condemn. It was clearly the

woman and the rest of the people celebrating because they desire God with a pure

heart. But the same miracle produced nothing in the teachers, but expose them

for who they are. Sam and Right. So everywhere Jesus perform miracle,

you realize that it's like a knife cutting through, cutting through, separating the

ship and the God, separating the ship and the gold. You know what

I'm saying. That it's like ching chang jing the miracle and not separating those

people who celebrate that those people who are angry, who plot Jesus to die.

Isn't it even when Jesus raised from the dead, those people who believe

and those people who don't believe. Every miracle serves as a double edged so

those it will save and those it will judge. That's why end the end

of Dasa. The end of Dasa, Jesus will come to her to judge

the world as well. You always, so if you want to pray for

America in your life, think carefully. I'm not saying you cannot ask for

America. America is not just for the healing. In all, healing out

is good, but eventually we will all die again, you know. But

it's it's not so much to heal the thing. But God gives and delivers

a miracle to his people in order that they may believe. Understand now,

in order that you may believe, so that your household, your family,

your friends may believe in your healing, that you may be transform That's the

purpose of the healing, to witness it. Aw But when it see,

when you change the fertilizers are a good tree will respond. But it was

clear that this tree was rotten to the core. Said that you need to

change a new heart, need to change your name to God. Is we're

still living them, you know, it's not final. It's a judge.

It's not final yet. But God wants to save them as well. So

my question to you guys that when you read this story now in its full

completion, what do you learn. What do you feel? You know?

From Sabbath to a miracle, I'll tell you God, God really works.

God's real, No heaven rules. You know you'd like it or not,

with or without you are heaven rules. You know. God's miracle is everywhere.

But which side of the bench do you see? I'm not literally talking

with bad on the lady's side, daughter of Abra or the religious side?

Do you see? Do you hear what God wants you to hear? Yeah?

I mean right. We can come to church every day and it becomes

a labor. But until we become like this daughter, Yeah, say to

God even if my day is bad, my life is not right, and

stuff like there are. I'm poor, I'm broken, I'm wretched you all.

I know. I'm distracted, But I still come. The fact that

you come at even though whether there's a still a good worship service, you

feel like giving or not, you feel like listening to this preacher or not,

you don't know whether you feel the awesome presence of God or not,

you still come. That is faith, That's why you ought to come.

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