Obeying The Last Commandment | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

will light up your team. And I just want to bring you a word

of encouragement this morning. And you know that it's it's Mission's month, right,

and I thought we will be very practical about it and you know the

verse really, so we'll do that a little bit. But for now,

I'm thinking, maybe can you find a partner where you're sitting right now?

Just yeah, someone next to you that you're going to do something, wait

for a shot while Okay, can can find a partner? Find a partner?

Right? Find a partner? Just yeah? It turned around. If

you don't know your neighbor, this is a good time to say hello.

Can I be your partner for the next one minute? Okay? Okay,

find pinnerady not come, not be participated with. I don't see you will

fall asleep right before lunchum are okay? Okay? Find someone? Find a

partner that you have a great great okay, young people, that's right,

going for it. Okay. If we're gonna do a sales peach, okay,

hey, I'm how many sales people here are? Yo? I've only

got one person with the rest of you would train you la how to do

sales. Sales very important. Right. We are in a business of selling.

Did you know that? Oh oh yeah, very loud the salesman say,

only the salesman believes in it. Right, It's all about the sales,

okay, it's all about marketing and sales. Now. I want you,

in the next thirty seconds to convince your partner. Right, thirty seconds,

ony la, very fast one, give them at least three reasons why

they should go for missions in the next six months. After thirty seconds,

then you switch to right, you try and convince your other partner. Okay,

okay. Are we ready got your salespeaech ready, ready sales spash reddy

okay ready the partner number one, you can start your sales speech right now.

Okay, go thirty seconds, ony okay. Time to switch partner,

Switch partner thirty seconds five, four, three, two one okay, okay,

okay. Your practice session over, practice session over now okay. How

many of you are convinced to go for our mission trip in the next six

months. Let me see your hands and the rest of you fail your sales

switch cars okay, leap chicken okay, one, don't three how many of

you are convinced to go for missions this year at least the next six months?

Okay, I have that this left side very good, This lefts like

very good, this side not very convinced? Lah? Yeah, okay,

well done, thank you, thank you, thank you? Okay? Yeah?

Can I hear some of your convincing sales speech? What are the reasons

why you say? You know? How did you manage to convince your partner?

Lah? Tell me tell me, ah, listener, If you don't

go, then you'll be like jonnah and then you'll be solid up by fish?

Ah? Okay, that one convince you? Is it? Rachel?

The one convince you? Is it? Okay? Okay? Don't want to

be solid up by a fish? The reason? Okay? What else?

What else? Oh? It is God's Holy? Are you subscripture? You

listen to him? Is it? Okay? Okay? Well done? What's

your what's your name? Tristan? Young men there managed to convince cocorder to

go mission? Threat? Well done? Well that it makes you go?

It's just not your lip up your hands? Wanna God? So you know?

And we have both to evidence, ha ha ha ha caught you,

caught you? What else? What else? What what what does some other

reasons that you gave to convince your partner? What else? What else?

Sorry? Food? Oh go because there's good food. Okay? Anyone convinced

by that? Only if you go to Thailand? Right? Our bank?

God? Who wants to go? Bank? God? Okay that I want

you all want to go? Okay? See, the thing is right.

We can give a lot of reasons, and you know, try and convince

someone there is a good reason to go, right, uh, and you

know we have the ultimate reason. It's God's word. And yet or less

would say yes. But you see, the thing is right. You know

when when when you are confronted with this question, when you're trying to convince

someone, I don't I don't know how convinced you are in the first place.

True, right, you can just do it as an exercise, right,

but how convinced are you really? And these are some of the reasons

right why? I think in my own hand and at least it's true for

me some parts of my life of why we can go. Right, let's

go through some of it. I don't have time or leave you stuff already,

go holiday, staycation, I don't have money. Are you go?

Mission treat must spend money one No, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

what else? It's not the important la, right in my season of

life. You know, I just got married. Come on, you ask

me to leave my wife and go for mission? No, I say bring

her along. Someone else can go. Good for them, well done,

neighbor, and the neighbors are very good at They're all going to you.

Guys are cheering them on, right, Okay, okay, I know.

I know my children are too young. Oh okay, I had young children

at one point. They're growing older or I'm too old. You're not not

on yet. I see all of you here for young people. Right.

No one is going with me alone? La. My friend never signed up.

No, how can I go alone? I'm not called to be a

missionary? Come on? You know? Calling on? No, this missionary

thing must be must be a gift. My gift is staying put. I

can't speak the language of a bas are very difficult. Oh, I can't

teach kids. Worst. It's like I don't like kids because every time you

got mission trip right, Oh, here's kids ministry? Correct? Okay?

And funny thing after the service, when I shared this with the other church

plan, someone came to me, it's actually right. None of the reasons

apply to me. I'm like, oh good, are you going no because

I don't like the te toilets. I'm like, ah, yeah, I

didn't put that up I didn't put that up there. And then she said

another thing, oh a reviewful like she she said this other thing. You

know, She's like, I don't like going in teams because it's so structured.

La. You know, you know there's always a program to follow.

I just want to do my thing in my heart. I'm like, okay,

it's holidays. Are you looking for a holiday? You're looking for a

holiday? Then I guess this is not it, La. See. The

thing is where we can come up with multiple reasons why we cannot go yes,

all of us, all of us. And when I'm speaking this to

you, I'm speaking this to myself as well. I'll be the first to

admit it's not been easier. It's not always at the foremost of my thoughts

as well. Right, let me ask you another question. Okay, honestly,

are you answer honestly for yourself? Does it matter if someone hears the

gospel at least once in their lifetime? Does it matter? Ask yourself that

does it matter? Okay again, hate answer is yes correct? Hart answer

don't know? Yeah, I don't know. Right. We can answer all

correy answers here right, just like how I can answer all not say all

corre answers are to get exempt questions right. You can answer and you can

pass. But I wonder in this test of life, when God really comes

back and asks us, what will we answer? Right? Did your neighbor

here the gospel? Did you share it at least once with them? Right?

Does it matter to God? I think we know this right, And

I'm going to read this so that you will all memorize it into our hearts.

Matty twenty eight, verse sixteen to eighteen to twenty. Let's read this,

okay. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain

which Jesus had appointed for them, and when they saw him, they worship

him. But I want you to take note of this. But some doubt

it. Jesus can be here right now, and we could have worshiped him,

but some would have doubted. And Jesus came and spoke to them,

saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Let's read this together it was nineteen. Go therefore and make disciples of all

the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have

commanded you. And Lo, I am with you always, even to the

end of the age. Amen, even right, I don't know how many

of you. You'll probably be hearing these a lot more times, so I'm

preempting you first. Okay, just memorize this already, all right, Yeah,

you'll be hearing it next week as well, and also the last week

during Michel's come friends, because this is what Jesus said, right. And

as I was thinking about this, I became a bit curious. Okay,

I encourage you to be curious. Can we do that. I don't want

you to just take it and say, oh, yeah, this is what

she said, Because what's gonna happen. It's gonna go like that, and

go like that before you walk out here in the next thirty minutes, right,

I want you to engage your heart in your mind and ask Scott,

what are you saying to me right now? So I became heres and I

wanted to know what, how did the other gospels record this right, because

we only know Matthew n Usually do you know what mark En Luke says,

I don't know, right, Okay, let's go to that. I do

the homebok for you. Okay, let's read Luke twenty four. This is

the end of the Gospel of Luke twenty four, verses for forty six to

forty nine. It says this. Then he said to them, this is

Jesus. Thus it is written, And thus it is. It was necessary

for the Christ to suffer and to raise, to rise from the day the

third Day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His

name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of

these things. Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you.

But terry in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high.

Amen. So this is what the end of Luke twenty four. This

is the end of the gospel. And this is what Jesus said. What

what what is the what is the commandment given by Jesus to us that we

should go in look at this verse? What should we do? What should

we be doing? Look? Look at this verse. Even give you answer?

Radio answer? Is there? Answer? Is that bold and underline?

Okay, a very good teacher. Okay, bold underlie, give you answer?

What should you be doing preaching repentance and remission of sins? Correct?

Is it written in the Word of God? So what what kind of message

should we be preaching to our friends, our neighbors who don't know him yet?

Repentance and remission of sins? Wow, it's so hot. They never

teach me this. Never mind, you are here to teach you now,

right? And you are what? What are you supposed to be? Witnesses?

I believe as a church we have gone through different homes notes right,

we have shared about how can you be a witness and basically witness? What

are you witnessing about? You're witnessing about Christ when two thousand years ago?

You're witnessing about Christ now? And how is Christ operating now? Holy Spirit?

In whose life? Your neighbor's life? No? In your life?

Hey, guys, When you're witnessing, you are witnessing about what God is

doing in your life? Can you do that? No? Do you have

a story to share? More than a story? You have multiple stories.

The thing is what are you sharing? What are you sharing? Those of

you who are a lot on social media? Right, come on, come

on right now, tweet it saying we should be doing this. Tweet it's

not not so young people? Right a TikTok it. I don't know why

are on it? Something? No? No exit? Right change nor mouth?

The third is exing it. So what are we doing actually with what

our resources? What are the resources that we have? Right now? Everyone?

The last I check, you still have a mouth? Yes, oh

god? Oh God? Everyone still got mouth? Still got voice? Or

not? Oh god? Law? Then we can do something about it,

right, we can use it. We can use it for God's glory.

You got your finger, your keyboard, your phone, and then use it

for God's glory. I don't know. Sometimes we are so quick to pass

on different things, right, I don't know what you pose on your social

media? Is it preaching about repentance for our SUSA? Like, how do

we become witnesses? Witnessing is easier about your life? Right? What God

has done for you? Now? I think what's more important is who gave

this commandment? Okay, this one y'all should know the answer. Who gave

this commandment to go and make disciples who who gave the commandment Jesus. Yes,

how many here say that you are a follower of Jesus Christ. Can

I see you raise your hand? You say you are a follower of Jesus

Christ. Okay, most of you. And if you believe and you profess

that Jesus Christ is your lord, then you gotta follow him right, Yes,

And following him and being a disciple of Jesus Christ means obeying him.

Yes, you know. It's like parenting, law, parenting, parenting.

Okay. I speak to many parents here. And if you tell your son

go and throw the rabbish, okay, the son can say, I love

you, mom, and then you sit down, son going through rubbish.

I love you, mom. I'm praying to you. I'm worshiping you.

You know, you know, I'm doing well in my school. I'm getting

all straight a's, mom, can't you see? And Mom's I say,

lo, day throw the rabbish. Laugh, and you're like, but I

love you? How how is that coherent? Do you see that? And

many times we take God's work like that. God says go very clearly,

go, and we're like God, I love you. I come to church

every Sunday, I'm going to church. Okay, that's for step. But

when you come to church, see the test is this right? So for

me, the test is this. If I take God's commment literally as something

that he wants me to do. The only way I can tell God that

I mean it when I say I love him is when I obey. Yes,

parents, your son or your daughter can see anything to you, But

until they obey you, there is no evidence of that love. Correct,

there is no evidence. It's just works. Anyone can see anything. We've

seen so many weddings lately. Okay, we've attended many weddings looping on myself,

and it's so nice on the wedding day. I love you to the

morning back you know. I will buy you snack at two way I am

got out in the avousona you know, truth, pick and thin. I

will be with you. I will play video games with you. Woh was

so nice on wedding day. Wedding day, three weeks later, three years

later, how about thirty years later? Will you still do it? Or

is it just empty words? Profession We are very easy with words, lah,

but words in that sensor, if unaccompanied by action, is worthless.

So Let's not have faith without works. And that's what James says, right,

faith without works is dead. You can say I believe you knew Jesus,

I believe you can cast out demons. I believe you can heal,

but then you don't do anything about it. That's not taking God at his

word because you don't believe what he says. Because if you truly believe God

can heal. Right, the moment you hear of your colleague or your family

member who's sick, what would you do? You're going pray? Right,

you will go and pray. Can I pray for you? Know? I

believe my God can heal your cancer? Do you dare to profess that?

Don't just say you believe? Would you act on your belief? Would you

act on your belief? Right? Because at the heart of it, you

know, when I was praying to go out, how how do we want

to bring forward this message? And it says it's just obedience. It is

a heart of obedience. See the things right? The church can have many

things. Okay, we have things in stuff for you. You can serve

in church, you can go for a mission strip and all that. But

this is just a platform for you to exercise obedience. It's a platform.

If the church doesn't do it, that I don't know what we're doing.

You know, this is not me trying to sell you a program. This

is not me trying to sell everyone. Sign up for Missions conference. By

the way, do sign up. Okay, that's just by the way,

because you can attend every conference. But without your heart being compelled by the

Lord himself, right, then that's not true obedience to God. Lah because

again who said this. It's not Pasta Kenneth. You know it's not Pasta

Sandra. All the mission's pastor is Jesus himself. So my question to you

is do you believe Jesus? Do you believe Jesus? You know his heart.

In second Peter, he says the Lord is not slack. In verse

nine, second Peter, try verse and the Lord is not slack concerning his

promise as some counts slackness. But it's long suffering towards us, not willing,

not willing. This is God's heart, not willing that any should perish,

but that all should come to repentance. Amen. Amen, Amen,

God wants everyone to come to a place of repentance. I want to touch

a little bit on this matter of repentance. Right, tell me what you

understand about this word repentance. That's the first thing that comes to your mind

when we talk about repentant, being repentant, forgiveness. Thank you? What

else? Change you turn? Good? Good? What else? What else?

Sin? Yes? Someone say that? Great? We need to know

what we are preaching people to repentance to. Right. I think that's the

ground one, ground zero. If we don't understand what that is, we

would know how to share. You know, in my years of being walking

with the Lord and reading the Bible, I've come to this place. I've

come to this place and I just want to be a bit careful when I

share the word of God with someone who doesn't know him. I don't want

The first place that I learned to is God loves you. Oh, oh

my gosh. Controversy. What you mean we shouldn't tell them God loves them?

Not yet, not at the start. You know why? You know

why because in today's world and today's understanding, the word love is very cheap.

You go to a restaurant and you have grateful, I love this food.

Right, You go for a nice ride, You're like, oh,

I love this vacation. I love this rollercoaster, right, I love it.

You know you have a very cute puppy. I love this puppy so

cute. I love you. Love has been cheapened to an experience. And

when we come and we tell them God loves you, what you're thinking in

your mind, what is going on in your mind is an experience, right,

And that's why you can hear a lot of people say, but I

don't feel God, war I don't feel him because Indian mind, love is

a feeling. Let see like that, right, I don't feel this man,

and therefore God is not real. So do you see why when we

preach God's love to people, they will just equip God to this. And

therefore, when my prayers are not answered, I want a boyfriend, Ian

boyfriend, give me a rich boyfriend. You know, I'm like forty years

old. I want a husband. I want a husband, and give me

a husband. Don't have right, they're like, but the God didn't answer

me. That means he doesn't love me. Can you understand how shallow this

love is? If you live your life as a Christian just depending on this

love without understanding the full depth of God's love is very dangerous because then you're

You're Christian world will be like that. Correct. I don't feel him,

I feel him, I don't feel him. I feel like I love you.

I don't love you. I love you, I don't love you.

Wow, young people, you cannot depend your faith on feelings. Faith is

faith. Feelings is subset. God gave us feelings. We acknowledge it,

but that's not who we are. Fully, we are people of faith.

We are not people led by feelings. And that's why I believe that the

first place that we should go when we talk to people is recognizing their brokenness

without preaching that there is brokenness in their lives, that there is a need

for God, then there is no need for a savior. Correct. Why

do you need a savior when everything in your life is perfect? Correct?

Now, if everything in your life is like, oh, you know everything

on your IG up to date, right, I don't know that the nicest

things, the coolest toys, the best vacations, Hey need God or not?

No? Need that? Everything I have? Really? Why why do

I need God? But? Do you know that as you talk to people

and you get to as you build relationship with them and you get to know

them, do you know that all of them there is a need within them.

There is always a hunger. There's always a question why are what is

all this for? No matter how many zeros you have in your bank account,

and these are zeros at the back, I'm not zeros in a front.

Okay, zeros at the bega. There is always that longing, that

longing that God, only God can fulfill. So so the repentance right is

a change of mind. It's not just saying, oh, I'm sorry I

kicked you, you know, like yeah, I kick the dog, Oh

I'm sorry I stole a pen from school. It's not that it's changing your

mind to say, not my way, not how I run my life,

but how God wants me to run my life. Amen? Do you understand

that repentance is changing your mind about things of life that is truly repenting.

And when I say the word repenting, it means repent yesterday, repent today,

repent tomorrow, go on repenting until you reach perfection when Jesus comes back.

Amen. Repentance is not one time. You know why because thirty years,

forty years, fifty years of living in this life, we've accumulated a

lot of wrong thinking. Correct. How we think about life, how we

think about priorities, how we think about using our money, how we think

about our careers, how we think about my great thing. I don't know

a lot of people want to my great nowadays. I don't know. If

it's a call from God, then go right? But what are you going?

Four right? Which is kind of like where I want to go?

This is a matter of your belief, okay. And Jesus was very,

very very strong in rebuking unbeliefs in our lives. All right, Let's look

at matth twenty eight in verse seventeen. This is just as just as Christ

gave the last commandment. He says this, and when they saw him,

they worshiped him, but some doubted. Remember I highlighted this already, that

there are some of us here who are doubt this. Ask yourself, am

I doubting something here? In Mark sixteen fourteen, he says later he appeared

to the eleventh as they sat at the table, and he rebuilt Who rebuilt?

Jesus? He rebuilt their unbelief and hardness of heart? I wonder how

many of us our hearts here have been hard? And heart means you know

you're probably hearing this, and you go like, yeah, but this isn't

a to me. That is hardness of your heart. Look twenty four today,

seventh stays and he said to them, why are you troubled? And

why do doubts arise in your hearts? Do you know I can't see your

hearts? But Jesus can. He can, and right now he's looking at

your heart. So just take it at this time, you're having a conversation

with the Lord Jesus. The more I think about our theme this year,

Heaven rules, you know, the more I think about God, how much

do I know of you? How much do I long and desire for your

kingdom to really rule on this earth? How much? How much? Lord?

How much do you know? We had our elections yesterday and tomorrow you're

off right, publicity, that's all we're looking forward to, right, public

holiday. No, some of you need to work. But are you worried

with the that's Are you worried with how things seems to be shaky? Okay,

some of you say no because you don't care. But I'm not from

slang or. I think it's a good wake up call. It's a good

wake up call for everyone to say, nothing is permanent, and we shouldn't

sit and think that everything's going to be okay. I mean, right now

we are comfortable. Yes, when I speak to churches chay like as do,

I speak to a lot of just like it. Anyways, when I

speak to different church plans, when I minister, I really sense that we

are a and we are we are a middle class income church. Yes,

nice ecorn, comfortable seats. You know, the team really tried, you

know, so hard to put this place really nice for all of us to

enjoy. And that's good and well, and we thank God for the provision,

you know, and God's leading in the But I find it's true that

unless we go out of these four walls, we will remain very comfortable.

We will remain very apathetic, which means you don't care. We will remain

just whatever will be will be, and life just goes on for us right

in our little world that revolves around our families, which revolves around our little

community, and we're not able to see beyond and see bigger. And that's

why when I married my husband, who has a heart for the community,

cannot help but be right off Nila, right right, It cannot be that

my husband is out. And then I'm like, oh, yeah, it's

okay. He's called I'm not remember the excuses that we can have. It's

like, okay, one person in the family, dude, right, he

will he will win the brownie points for the family or protect this family because

the husband's going out. Okay, by the way, husband's please lead the

way and go. And so he's obeying God and he's going. He's he's

a he's a man on the ground. He loves going out. He doesn't

like staying in office doing at me work, but that's what he has to

do sometimes. But he's always out. He's out. After sixteen years of

being married. I hope that has dropped off a little bit off me because

I am not the going out type. Honestly, can I be very honest

with you. I'm not not that I am uncomfortable or whatnot. It's just

there's seasons in your life, right. I'm like, oh, yeah,

I'm a mom, I have young kids. I should be home, right,

someone should stay home and hold the part together. And yes, that

was true for a season. That was true for a season. Now I'm

in a different season. Now I'm like, hey, hey, kids,

all independently de la Okay, I can go, and that means I should

go right, and and so so I began to ask God, and I

began to pray this prayer. And I think, right, many of us,

if anything you can leave from today is to say God, I want

to pray this prayer, because to even pray the prayer is difficult. As

a first step. The prayer is like this. The prayer is saying,

God, you asked me to go, show me where, show me how,

show me who. That's it. That's it. It's a prayer that

I did not pray for many years because you know, it's it's it's it's

easy to say. Everyone else going like young people go right, all the

youth goal for youth missions, you know. And then if you're training certain

things, you go out you know in fact, right, some people when

I ask them, you know, are you going on mission street, They're

like no, But my mission field is the market play. Okay. A

lot of people like to say that, okay, good good. Let me

ask you when you go out into your marketplace whether it fits this framework or

what Jesus called us to do, because if it doesn't, then don't lie

to yourself and say your marketplace is your ministry law because you're just going there

mainly to get a paycheck. Right, I'm not saying it's wrong. Hey.

By the way, I was in a corporate for fourteen and a half

years. Okay, I was working out in the corporate for fourteen a half

years. I'd decided decided to step out, step into something more rocky.

But my rock is Jesus. I left something a bit more rockyler the rocky.

The rock is Jesus, and he has challenged my faith in different ways.

You know, it's it's a lot about letting go. It's about letting

go of your old belief. God can provide for our familiar do you know

My husband has been in full time since we had our first daughter, And

in that sense, I was sort of like the main break winner chee,

if you can say that. But after that many years, in twenty sixteen

onwards, I had a calling a nutche in my heart, God saying I

think it's time for you to go. It's time for you to go,

leave your comfort zone. I was working with a big corporate JELC, paid

super well, very comfortable, excellent, health benefits, excellent. You're asking

me to leave this, and God says, go and do you know that

you can only taste and see the goodness of God when you obey? Yes,

because you can hear a lot of people, Oh, why you got

brick? True, why you got testimony? You know? How come you

got this? And then and you're going like, what about me? God?

Did you forget about me? Right? Did you forget about me?

And God is like no, you go take one step and I'm waiting.

I'm waiting for you to take that first step because I want to pour out

so much more until you're willing to go to the next level. Hey,

you know computer games, right? How many gamers do we have here?

Yeah? Yeah, God, God, Yeah, I'd like to play game.

I'm not knocking games at Games are good for your brains. You finished

level fifty, you want to go level fifty one? Or you two?

Cooper dy If let's say there's one hundred level, feel dedicated? Oh?

Nothing, nothing, nothing, This is game discussion going on a validated Oh

okay, okay, good games, games that train your mind, strategy and

all that. Okay, okay, do you do you know if there's one

hundred level you finished level fifty, do you stop and say, oh,

I achieve my goal. Done, I'm done with this game. No,

no, you want to go to the next level, right, oh,

some people say nola, Okay. Then the challenge is to go, okay,

go to the next level, go to because if you're playing in this

safe level things that you know, you want to play back? Level one?

Is it? Level two again? Level three? Again? Is it

where you want to play? You want to go to the next level.

So you understand this with faith is the same thing. You understand one truth

and God says, yes, I know you're very good at this already.

Yes, you honor your parents, very good. Next one, God,

love your neighbor, neighbor, Go to the next level, go to the

you build your faith. You don't straight away become a spiritual giant. Guys,

am I speaking to you here. You don't overnight become a spiritual giant.

It's your everyday decision, it's your everyday steps. Where are you leading

to? And one day before you know, you look back and go like,

whoa, look at all the tiny steps that I took each day that

were steps of faith, not of fear. Because many of this reason and

excuses is saying God, I don't believe. It's fear. If I go,

you know, I cannot enjoy my holiday. That's fear. You're fearing

that you're missing out. You're fearing that you don't have finances, You're fearing

that your children cannot take it. I tell you Rachel has brought her kids

out. I brought my kids out when they were young. It builds something

within you. It builds something for them, for them, for them to

see beyond right. And when I when I think about it, God,

You're so good. Right. Do you know God's commandments are good? Amen?

Do you believe that every commandment is good? You're like, oh no,

but you know this one really takes up time and it will, you

know, mess up my schedule, take out my weekends right now that we're

going out into the community. But it's for your own good. I realized

that it's from my own good. So I use this now as a framework

to wake up every morning. Say, God, you said to go four

things right? What are the four things? Go? Make disciples baptize on

this one. Not many of us can do every day right, but teaching

them to observe all that God commandment has commanded us to do. I used

that now as a framework for my daily life. Would you be challenged to

do this for yourself if you really believe this is God's commandment for you?

Yes? Do you believe this as God's commandment for you? Remember who said

it is Jesus? And I want you to come to this place where Jesus

you are telling me today right now, this is my commandment to you.

Go make disciples, baptize them, teaching them to obey. How are we

doing this? Every day? I ask myself this every week? God,

how have I been going and not just going anywhere, not just going for

a holiday. God, even if I've been going to church, God,

how am I making disciples? Because your purpose of going is to make disciples?

How am I discipling someone? God? You know, at one stage

of my life, right I was so convicted of this I actually wrote down

every day in my conversation with different ones, whether I'm discipling someone or not.

I want, I really wanted to get serious with God. I'm like

God, if this is your command and if I say that I am a

fellow of Jesus Christ and I'm your servant God, then I just need to

obey. Help me, Help me, help me. Guys, we cannot

do this on our own, stranging man. That's why we have the help

of the Holy Spirit. So every day I'm the holies Barry Hell who when

what to say? I don't know what to say. Many times there's this

girl that I'm am on message with. She has many questions about her existence

in life, you know, and she's taking all this teaching from the world.

You know. It's like, it's just your consciousness. You just have

to remove yourself from your consciousness. I'm like, what conscious nonsense is this?

Ah? But never mind. I see it as an opportunity to disciple.

So I bring in God's truth. I bring in Genesis. You know,

in my conversation, I tell you this is what God says. This

is God's truth. The reason why there is darkness and confusion in the lives

of people in the world is because they have no God's word, don't have

truth without the light of God's word. It's everything's just so confusing, no

meaning. Do you know the Bible has everything, all the answers, Jenesis

to Revelation, all the answers are there. Do we know God's word?

Right? So I find myself acting. Who can I disciple today? Right?

Who can I teach? To observe God's commandment? And as I was

driving to execate this money, I'm like, Okay, I'm going to another

land which is far away. You know, I hope to make disciples out

of you. Amen, teaching you too, observe all that Jesus has commanded

you to do, me to do. Amen. This is for all of

us. I think we cannot afford to say I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ

and yet not go and not yet make disciples. If you don't know how

great, come up to your leaders here, say what can I do?

Where can I go? How can I make disciples? How can I teach?

If that's your gifting? Right? Many of you have the gift of

teaching in the fightful ministry? Say how can I teach? And you know

the beauty why I love doing what I do. So some of you may

know that I'm a trainer and a coach as well. I love teaching because

it makes me accountable to what I teach, because before I teach it,

I need to live it. Do you know I cannot say all these things

before you and before God, before I am convicted of myself and I've repented

of my own ways and saying God, you know I used to be like

that. But I'm here to tell you God wants you to repent and to

change our thinking, to change our ways. And so this is a new

way of thinking. Yes, it's a new framework to think about you when

So that's why I say, if you say your marketplace is your ministry,

I want to challenge you to put this. As you are going to your

marketplace, are you going in to make disciples? It's a whole different prayer

right every morning. Now you're not praying, God, help me finish my

deadline, God, help me get that project, God help me to make

that deal? Is God? God? How am I making disciples through all

of that? Every day? In my conversation, they are opportunities. The

moment you pray, let me tell this, God will open your eyes.

The challenge is the problem is we don't want to pray because we don't want

God to speak to us, because we don't want to hear his answer.

You know, correct not? I know, Oh he's smelling smelling on.

God has spoken to you, because it's hard to want to take that first

step to obey. But our challenge is obedience God. God's looking for partners

in his house. Amen. And do you know you know I was thinking

about this this morning. Right, many of us young people here, I

don't know, we can be very caught up in body building, right,

Okayla, I don't know. You know, it's it's a lot about health,

it's about eating well, body building. I wonder how many of us

behind it, like yeah, yeah, body building right? Nah? Okay,

all the muscular men, as you are building your body, would you

partner? We got to build this body, amen, would you build this

body called the church to be strong? And then we need you to rise

up, man, We need you to rise up. You are to lead.

Who's the first one to go the head of the family. If your

family don't want to go, you go first, and you lead the family,

just as my husband did. He went out recently the X mean mar

He recently went there for a mission trip just to look at the ground,

to pay the ground so the other teams can go in. So if he's

leading, then I need to follow, right, because I want to be

a faithful disciple of Jesus. And I'm saying, okay, if you can

lead the way, then I will follow. So just a quick accountability of

how I've been stirred up to obey God early this year in I work right

now with Aya, you know, although we are with this training company,

but it's under Aya, and and you know, there's been opportunity to go

out into the community, and so there is this something called Ansana, right

Ansana in USG one. And so one of the coordinators just came and say,

hey, you know, could you do something for this group of students

for nine weeks. I'm like, one, nine weeks is a long time

away. Every week go out and spend at least an hour and a half

with them, and that does not include your preparation time right going you know,

yeah, going out one hour, but you have to prepare treat hours

of materials or more. You ask all your teachers, excess teachers. They

don't just chew up and say hey, I teach you something. There's all

these things to prepare, and I'm like thinking, wow, there's a lot

of commitment on time. It's not on my job description. By the way,

some people think food time is all your job, right, No,

No, this is outside and that means if I go, I will need

to make up forilla at different time, right, we work at all that,

and so you can see that these are the kids and the precious people

that we are reaching out to young and we don't preach Christ. We are

trying to add value to them. And so what I do with them is

to teach them financial literacy. Right, And you'd be surprised at the things

that they will ask you. You'd be surprised to just look at their faces,

you know, when you come, you know, you know, right,

we start at four o'clock three fortify I read they're all waiting outside.

The door is too close, you know, the gate is locked. They

are there and they're looking out for the car. And at the moment they

spot the car, JACKO, JACKO. So eager to see someone come and

just have fun with them, teach them something of value. That's that's nine

weeks, you know. And I had time a good time with them,

just just getting to know them, being out. You know. You know

why I say this, it's because it's not good for them, it's good

for me. I needed to do this. I needed to obey God.

It's not about being such a great blessing to them, you know, It's

not about how great you are it's just about how obedient you are. And

God called me there. Another one is this that we are still going.

This is DJ, They said, Ama, Jerry, have you heard of

this? You've seen this right and saw me and the team started going out

with to this home in so Many. And this is a long ride from

Subang to so Many is at least an hour. So we take an hour

drive there, spend an hour playing games with them, spend another hour talking

with them, spend another hour doing devotion with them, spend another hour driving

home. And that six hours of a day. And we used to do

this. I used to do that Ansana on Tuesday DJ on thursdays. Wow,

quite a lot of commingment, I have to say. But why am

I sharing this with you? It's not two make you feel guilty for not

going. There's no condemnation here, yeah, guys, right in the Lord,

there is no condemnation, But there's only conviction. Because I don't know

what the going means to you. What God is asking you to go away.

God is asking you to go It's not gonna look like this, It's

gonna look different. And that's fine, and that's fine. Yeah, But

the question is this, and I want to leave you with this thought.

Would you dare to pray the prayer and asking God? If you say,

go and make disciples and baptize them and teach them to observe. Would you

dare to say to God and pray? God? Who is it? Would

you reveal to me? Amen? I want to read to you a final

word of God. And this is taken from Romans chapter ten, verse fourteen.

We are to preach the gospel. Amen. We are to preach the

gospel, and that is our calling them, It's our purpose in life.

In Romans ten fourteen, he says this, How then shall they call on

Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him

of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written?

How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,

who bring let hidings of good things? But they have not all obeyed the

gospel? For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? So

then faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God? Amen? How

will they believe if they cannot hear? How can they hear if you're not

sent so right now, X Kota Kamuni, we want to send you out.

You are sent. You're being sent just as Jesus was sent to this

earth. You are now being sent out to reach Kota Kamuni, your friends,

your neighbors, the shopkeeper, I don't know who it is, the

bus driver. You are to preach the gospel. You are the feet that

will bring good news to those who really need to hear God's would. Amen,

this is the end. This is why we are here today to send

you out, to equip you, to prepare you so that from your Monday

onwards. No, it's not just a holiday. Ask God, God,

what do you want me to do today? Bake the cake from my neighbor

so that I can bless them? What is it? Don't don't just use

it as another holiday and let it pass you by. Every day is an

opportunity to go to make disciples, to baptize, and to teach them to

observe all that God has commanded us. Amen. We hope you've been blessed

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