Please Don’t Send Me to “Nineveh”! | Pr Sandra Chin

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

will light up your dam white stoping. Please don't send me to quote and

quote say niniveh niniveh, all right, say no what NINNI? Okay,

no niniveh? All right, everyone say please don't send me to Okay,

I put that quote unquote. What's your Nineveh? All right? What's your

Nineveh? Okay? Way the world is Nineveh. So we're gonna be looking

at the book of Jonah today and Jonah. Anybody here is like a Jonah.

Do you know what Jonah did? Wow? Jonah ran away opposite direction

from what God was calling him for. So let's look at Jonah chapter one.

And we're going to read now Jonah chapter one. And I'll just read

chapter one. I will read from verse one or the way to verse seventeen.

He said, okay, the Riga's word verse one, and the word

of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amitai, saying, arise,

go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it,

for their wickedness has come up before me. That's what God spoke to Jonah

verse three. But Jonah arose to flee to Tashish from the presence of the

Lord. And he went to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tashish.

So he paid the fair. He went down into it to go with

them to Tashish from the presence of the Lord. Verse foll. But the

Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty

tempest. It was wow, terrible storm on the sea, so that the

ship was about to be broken up. Then the mariners were afraid, and

every man right out to their God all right, and through the cargo that

was in the ship into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had

gone down into the lowest part. Everybody say low us, oh, come

on loud to low us parts of the sea, and lay down and was

fast asleep. Wow, he was sleeping so peacefully in the storm. I

wonder why all right verse six. So the captain came to him and said

to him, day, what do you mean, you sleeper? Arise,

Call on your God. Perhaps your God will consider so that we may not

perish. And they said to one another, come, let us cast lots

that we may know, that we that we may know for whose cause this

trouble has come upon us. So they cast lots, and the Lord fell

on Jonah jag jag jag all right, and they said to him, please

tell us what did you do? What is this all right? What is

your occupation? All right? Where do you come from? What is your

country? And what people are you? Coolly and calmly, Jonah answers without

a fledge. He says, I am a Hebrew jay, and I feel

the Lord and the God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.

So the men were exceedingly afraid because they've heard of the news about the

Jewish people from the story of Exodus all those years until now they remember,

and they said, are you why have you done this? For the men

knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord because he told them what

this boya tell the Jarthausa. Then they said to him, what shall we

do to you that the sea may be come for us? For the sea

was growing very tempestuous. And he said to them, picked me up and

throw me into the sea, then you and then the sea will become calm

for you. Just throw me in the sea. Also still very calmer.

He wasn't panicking, all right, So I know that the great tempest is

because of me. Nevertheless, the men wrote hard to return to the land,

but they could not, for the sea continue to grow more tempestuous against

them. Therefore, he cried and out to the Lord and say Therefore,

they cried out to the Lord and said, we pray, O, Lord,

please do not let us perish for this man's life, and do not

charge us with innocent blood. For you, our Lord, have done as

it please you. So they picked up Jonah one, two three, threw

him into the sea, all right, and then the sea seas from it's

raging Verse sixteen. The men feared the Lord exceedingly, and they often a

sacrifice to the Lord, and they took vows. They began to pray.

Okay, Now the Lord had prepared a great fish, by the way,

not a whill, because they always say edem in the fruit they say is

apple, maybe durian, okay, but no, a great fish. Don't

know whether it was a will to swallow Jonah up. And Jonah was in

the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. Amen to the

reigning of God's word. Amen, okay, please don't have me to ninive

Why number one, God's heart was for the people of Nineveh. Who are

these people? Well, Nineveh is a city in the kingdom of Assyrians.

The Assyrians. Maybe today they might be somewhere Iran, Iraq, that area

they were, you know, the enemies of Israel. So God said,

please go and tell Ninive one of these cities, uh, that I am

going to destroy them unless they repent. So go tell them. Then Jonah

forget it, he said, don't send me to Ninive. He refused.

So Jonah refused. What did he do? He he went from where he

was all the way to the west. He went to Spain. Tashi,

she was in Spain, and he went to have some peanut colada and the

okay, he ran away. See he was from Israel. Gath Heifer is

where he came from. Gath Heffer casey, Dad, and God said,

just go over to Nineveh, which is northeast, very near right. Guess

how far he ran dot dot dot dot dot dot on the way to spin

Olah. Okay, so he's I'm gonna have peanut golada. I'm gonna be

at the beach. You know, it's summer times, summer time, and

I'm gonna not do what God told me. To do. And so in

the story, as we read this guy, Jonah decided, no, have

you ever asked why Jonah ran away? Anybody? Have you read it?

Have you considered why? Okay? Why anybody? Why did Jonah run away?

Yeah? Aisha, anyone else? Okay? If you read the whole

book at the end, you will see that Jonah is very angry with God

at the end. All right, So why because Assyria is the enemy of

Israel and they were going to some difficulties. God saw that. You see,

we're talking about omissions. God's heart for the world, for the nations.

Even though Assyria was very evil and very wicked. Yet God wanted them

to know that He is the Lord, and if they would repent, he

would forgive, he would save them. So that's why he sent Jonah.

He said, Jonah, you go and tell them they are very evil and

wicked and wickednesses come up to me. I cannot run ready, but tell

them if they don't repent, I'm gonna destroy them like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Yeah, why did Jonah run away? Because he said, like, why

should I even tell them? These guys will come into our land and kill

us and take us. I will not share with them. They're not worthy.

They're not worthy for us to tell them that God loves them. Ask

us a question, have we felt like that sometimes that maybe a particular nation,

a particular group, an ethical ethnic group or culture is not worthy for

us to go to. They don't deserve to hear the gospel. The church

sometimes can be like that, a bit you know, indifferent. No,

No, they're they're no. They shouldn't even get a chance to know Jesus.

See, no matter how evil we are, God shows us. No

matter how evil that nation was, God wanted them to have a chance to

hear the good news that He wants them. But they need to repent.

And h and Jonah is someone who walked with God. He was a prophet

of God. He served during the time of King Jeroboam the Second in Israel.

You read that in the Book of Kings Second Kings, and he said

I just know God do well. You will read that at the end in

chapter four where he says, I know you, la God, you always

like that one. You love people so much, you will forgive them.

I know you will do that. And then if you forgive them, then

they will come, and and and and and and and charge our land and

take us away. I don't want them to win. I don't want them

to repent. They're not worthy. And that's why he ran away, not

because he was afraid, but because he was. He was just like they

don't deserve to hear the gospel. Church. Sometimes we may have that the

church, the church not not not saying us here particularly, but Church at

large, sometimes believe us we can be indifferent to a particular people group.

Perhaps that people group may have persecuted us, but perhaps certain a culture group.

You know, it's not kind to us. And there we say,

why should they even hear the gospel? Why should God even forgive them?

But is it for us to judge? No, if the Lord tells us

to go, we need to make some moves. Right. So you look

at this boy he ran away and this man he ran away left? How

far You see how near Ninive is. Sometimes we can run away from God,

very very far. Actually the January shot need to nine. But he

said, no way, Jose, I'm going to all myself there in Spain.

So he was out there. He paid the price, even though it

was maybe very expensive to go on the ship. He took the boy or

even took the ship anyway, and then then then the adventure started. So

we look at the next thing that happened. He goes to jo Per so

you see, uh, gaff Heffer is above jo Can you see the map?

Right? Okay? So go to my next light. What does he

do? He goes from he goes down from gath haffer to to the ship.

All right, so I didn't put jo there, but Joa from gath

Haeffer. He went down to Joper. Chopa is A is by the sea,

all right, Joper. He goes down to from gath Haeffer. Then

he goes down to the ship. So he goes gets into the ship.

Not only does he getting the ship, he goes even lower to down someone

down to the lowest part of the ship. And God brings the wind and

tries to show him and he knows that's why he was sleeping so calmly in

the ship because he knows. I know, God, you're trying to get

my attention forget it running away from you, and you will not. I

won't die because I'm in the ship. Nobody's gonna die but the but the

sea is gonna rage. He went down Can you see a journey of going

down, down, down, down down. When you say no to God,

be careful. So he goes down to the lowest part. And then

later he says, just throw me. I'm really the reason, right,

just throw me. Like he still no, Then God ain't gonna let him

go. So I drow him into the sea, and from the into the

sea, God spoke to a big fish, and the fish swallowed him,

and he was preserved in the stomach of on the belly of the fish for

three days and three nights. Down again. Whoa, whoa, Oh man,

this is tough, right when you go down down, when you're trying

to run away from your calling. You see, God is a very merciful

god. You and I are scared. Sometimes we've all rather we feel like

we are not worthy of whatever God's forgiveness because we're so bad or whatever.

But as you see him going down, down, down, and then later

in my next light, and I'm moving on the next light, you see

that in chapter three, I can move on. In chapter two, Jonah

prays in the fish's belly, so you can match it. Jonah, I

can go to the next light. He's inside this belly is smelling like terrible

because I don't know, bad breath or whatever the fish would have eaten the

days here I'm there. And he prayed and he said and basically his prayers

like I praise you, Lord, I thank you. I hope you can

save me. Lord, forgive me. You know, he's praying all his

prayer and then out of the belly of the fish, the Lord. Here's

his prayer. The Lord has mercy on him. And what does the fish

do at your awns? Out? What's his name? Jonah? Out from

the belly at you, and he goes into the dry land. He's there

filled with seaweed, and with the seaweed on his head. He went to

Ninivay and he started telling them, please repent, repent, for the Kingdom

of God is near. And you know he went so you see from up

he goes when he repent and say, Lord, forgive me, Come and

save me. The Lord is mercyfuller out of the three days. So sometimes

three days one day really long enough, and you mention him when you have

a pain in your finger and your tooth, Well, one day you really

want to give up two days, luggy, what's happening? God? You're

not answering my prayer. Third day, what's happening? And after three days

he's out from the belly of the fish. He was he was spelled out,

okay at you and went on to the dry land, and with all

the seaweed on his head, he walked to Nineve. It is all to

say, a picture of God, and I want us to look at how

merciful God is. God was merciful even to Nineve. God wants to reach

every person, every tribe, every group of people, even if we felt

they were not worthy, they were wicked, they were they really don't deserve

it. God wants them. But our friend Jonah, you know what is

his background on He knows God. He is so close to God. He

walked with God. He knows God's hard. That's why he can sleep in

the storm. He can just say it's my problem, Just throw mina,

just throw me. It's okay when I can, don't worry. And they're

all like panicky, No, we cannot, we cannot after we kill you

how and so they had to pray to the Lord and whoever they know about

this God, yahweh, Please don't don't lead on us. It's not out.

Don't put his blood on our on us are just forgive us how we

were throwing him? Now poom. All of this shows us a few things.

Number One, even the wind can obey the Lord right or nord the

loss say wind blow, the wind blow? Then the law said, you

know. Then the Jonah said, gets tromla, and the sailors obey.

And thirdly, even the fish can obey. The fish also can obey.

Open your mouth now and swallow Jonah in friends, These are all things that

maybe you know, God created, and they can obey. But the man's

spirit, my spirit, your spirit, my heart can we obey? I

like to bring a point across a hard word. Sometimes we are the most

difficult to obey. Hi yo, runaway some more. But if all of

this can obey, isn't an amazing that they all can obey? How about

us? Sometimes a small thing also be funny hard to obey, meaning to

even trust God that God knows what he's saying and doing. But thank God,

while all of this obeyed, and that man disobeyed, yet God was

merciful. Amen, can I he? Amen? You better speak because some

people falling asleep ready, so you need to you gotta speak up. My

preaching also good today so falling asleep, not making you laugh. Okay,

God is merciful, all right. He is merciful because he saved Jonah swallowed

up in a belly. Amen. God is merciful to ninivate. And he

said, please go and preach, all right. So when Jonah decided,

okay, laugh, I have no choice, right, it was a no

choice situation, no walking with all the seaweed and grumbling in his side.

I know. And God is very merciful. I know, and I know

one so you see, you know? From there the next light, says

Jonah reluctantly shares with the Ninevites. He actually goes in chapter three, after

God has spewed him out, after the fish spewed him out, he went

to tell the people in Nineveh that they must repent. So he did it.

He did it. He walked, he entered the city, and for

forty days, you know he I mean, he told him he had in

forty days. Chapter Jonah, Chapter three, Verse three, Jonah arose and

went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an

exceedingly great city, a three day journey in extent. Wow, I don't

know, it's bigger in singaporea cause Singapore in a few hours, you can

one round ready, So it was bigger in Singapore in three days journey.

He began to enter the city on the first day's walk. And then he

cried out and said, yet forty days and nineveh shall be overthrown, and

that you read it in chapter three. And he goes on and that the

people heard it, and then they began to repent. Even the king of

nineve went down and put sech cloth and das and sat and not just saying,

and began to repent. He even made the animals repent. They no

feeding the cows, no feeding the sheep, how loud of poor sheep.

No water to drink for one day tree, I don't know. They repented.

They repented, all right. They put on sackcloth, they put ashes,

and they declare. They declared in Jonah chapter three, verse seven,

he proclaimed and published rotten in a way by the degree of the king and

his nobles, saying, let neither man nor bees hurt, nor flock taste

anything. Do not let them eat or drink water, But let men and

bees be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God. Yes, let

everyone turn from his evil way, from the violence that is in his hands.

Who can tell? If God? Who can tell? If God would

turn and relent and turn away from his fierce anger so that we may not

perish. Verse ten. Then God saw their works, that they turned from

their evil way, and God relented from the disaster that he had said he

would bring upon them, and he did not do it. Amen. Wow,

This is a very very evil, evil city, a very evil kingdom.

And yet when they repented, God had mercy. It speaks about the

generous heart of God, the merciful God of heart of God. Wow,

and how he wants every group, people group, every person, not one

person to perish. Amen, we are so thankful, right, if we

are following Christ. He forgave you, He forgave me for my sin,

and he takes me and accept me as his child. And he wanted to

do that for nineway for the time that they repented, the Lord forgave all.

Right. But if you study in history after they well they had a

chance to repent. But later they turned against the Lord anyways. But God

had least given them a chance to hear. More importantly, did they get

to hear the word of God? Did they hear how much God wants them.

They did and so that happened. So I want to encourage us the

story of Jonah, just to remind us let us not run away opposite direction.

When God is speaking to us church, God is not speaking only to

me. Because I really grew up wanting to be a missionary from a young

From as a young person, I was waiting for God to call me to

the mission field. I did go, but I did the lot then divel

you know, just change the plans. I mean, that's what I wanted.

What did God won? I have now discovered I'm here with you,

planting churches more than I would have ever done. Even when we got married

many years ago, our church was going to send us to India, and

because we were ready to go, but the Lord said, no, you

will do something else first. And that's what we've done, was to start

a youth organization. We've reached out to many young people. We've since planted

churches over the last twenty three years, but the ministry it's half twenty eight

years. So it really my heart at heart, I really just wanted to

missions, right, But this is not an option. It's not just for

the one who wants to do it. It's for all of us. Evangelism

is to witness Christ to one another, to our Jerusalem. But friends don't

run away from our nnyvays. Okay, you might have an uncle who's not

nice to you. You might have an auntie who really makes your life miserable.

They too deserve to hear about Jesus. A man is that you know?

The single ladies in the house are your Chinese new Yellow. I don't

want to go back along the same auntie go boyfriend now when you're getting married

now and they tell me, you know, I don't go back. I

really don't go. The auntie's evil. No, all right, but and

they don't not Christ yet, say Jesus, don't she don't deserve it.

Okay, so it doesn't. It doesn't matter. Head of a person is

evil, but God still wants that person as long as that person has not

the name of Jesus and the salvation plan, the redemption plan that He has

for them within our own culture and even beyond them, bringing over Samuel,

Pass of Samuel and Pass of France. Friends, you got to hear what's

going on with their lives? Why do they still do what they do,

especially me and mar You know it's gone to junta. Now it's gone to

the military. Who's the government no longer? You know, our young succhi

or whatever. It's all turned around. I tell you, for the first

during the pandemic. You know, these men who could have died of COVID,

but if it was not for the grace of God, he remained alive.

I tell you, our hearts just didn't know what we could do.

He had no money. They had no money. There was the early days,

who knew how to heal, no way, there's nothing to heal go

villa, you know, there was nothing like I think. There was just

nothing. And he was actually he called and he couldn't breathe. He was

telling us as the please pray for me. I don't know. I don't

know how long I have to live. I can't breathe. And then the

whole family kna COVID because one person came to church at COVID and a whole

church COVID. But their family Gonnard, the Mosla, father, mother,

everybody got it and they'd know what they needed was oxygen. They needed different

and there was no funds. We couldn't send money because all the banks were

closed. But if it again, can you see God's head? He's alive,

he looks very well. Someone got two baby, now a second baby?

All right, you've got God is not alive? Then, how how

can we continue doing church? The pengo just went over there. But four

weeks ago, hallelujah, they are still serving. Passes were being shot left,

right and center. Churches being burnt. In fact, one of our

churches in Shupita, I think was burned down. They need a new building.

He continued. We pray, he continued, we pray. He continued.

Every week, new young people coming to Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen.

Amen, Oh you gotta come and here. I mean, I pray he

would come and share and tell you what they have been to. You know,

so do we? Does he? Then they say I'm not going to

share with the army mility or terrible. No. If God says go and

share with that military, you will have to. He cannot be a Jonah

and run away by bye. They don't deserve it. No, amen,

So friends, it's a good reminder. Are we running away from an innovative?

Okay? God, as you go there, say no, thank you.

Some people saying one song. No, those days, those all an

argument to play. Lord. Please don't send me to Africa. Not to

say there's tigers and lions the Actually it's a big deal now right Safari.

We all want to go, oh for Safari, we want to go Holi

day. But to share the gospel. No, I'm not asking you share

gospel to lion and tigers and giraffe as you share gospel to the people there,

hallelujah. So don't send me to Africa. Why do you think it's

that bad? Oh, it can be. I've been there, Okay,

no electricity. Sit in the dove, I said the dove for very a

long time, waited and wait, no electricity. You what up? I

don't know how to do it. Cannot play games because cannot see each other,

all right? And I don't send me to Africa. Don't send me

to India. You don't send me. You don't what's your n inner way?

If God would call you to go, why you because all of us

want to go to where. Oh, we want to go to Spain,

UK. You know my first in UK. I don't want to come home

ready, you know, oh, my missionaries and you get too good.

First world country when it's third world? Can you please take me home now?

Please? Please? When can I come back? Right? Ah'm a

radam come back. So though, because our call is to reach city,

the urban and a lot of people are coming out of the compounds to come

into the city right now. That's why we're focusing the young people there.

So I don't know, you know, guys, we I just pray that

if you haven't been aware, it's good to be to awaken the awareness.

Again, that is more than just you living in the company in Malaysia.

That's more to life than just my needs. Jonah was being completely a prick.

He just didn't want to have anything to do with that group of people.

Sometimes we are indifferent that girl. People I don't share. This nation

is sixty five percent mainly sixty five percent to seventy percent actually of a differentation

from all of us. But we are Malaysians. Do we then say no,

I'm not going to share, but we cannot share it? Yeah,

I didn't ask you going hello today? You know you're going to hell.

You need Jesus. I don't ask you. Do that? Make friends law,

anyone You've got some nice sixty five percent friends? Don't make them like

someone different color from you, so you don't make friends. I have the

right to say this because I'm mixed blood jan jan jang. I have both

kinds of all kinds of blood. It's not good. But I don't know

where I am. But God is speaking to us. Amen. Genesis chapter

twelve. Genesis chapter twelve, verse one to three. This is the care

of where it all started. God called Abraham Abram out from order of the

Chaldeans, which is actually today Iran. He wrapped that area, called him

out in Genesis chapter twelve and verse one to three. If can we helped,

you can show the verse no, I would turn it. God called

Abraham and said, come out of your country. There was a leaving of

his hometown, and God said, you come out, and I am gonna

do this for you, he says. The Lord said to Abraham, get

out of your country, from your family, from your father's house, to

a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation.

I will bless you, make you a great name. You shall be

a blessing. I will bless those who bless you. I will curse him

who curses you, and in you all the families of the earth shall be

blessed in you now when you think, but that's Abraham, nothing doing me.

I'm ganish. I don't know. Same color Abraham, not never mine.

Okay, I'm swooping. I don't know. Alla, You and I

are children of Abraham. You and I are Abraham. Why because when God

spoke to Abraham, Abraham didn't have a child. He was nineteen nine years

old. The wife, Auntie Sarah, was eighteen nine years old, dried

up already, the eggs not cooking anymore. And so God said, Abraham,

I'm gonna give you descendants. Abraham like the man Allah got song alright,

shooting blanks all the time. I am i yo, howla God.

I'm ninety nine years old, and my wife. Look at her, she's

beautiful as ever. But the eggs are fried. Okay eighty nine menopause.

Okay, Then God says, do you believe? Look out in the sky

Genesis chapter fifteen. Can you count? The stars? Can count long?

One? You're so many? Love God, I can account exactly. That's

gonna be your descendants. I'm gonna change your name from Abram to Abraham,

Jim black love Abraham, Abraham, the father of many nations, and he

was not yet circumcised, meaning he ain't no Jew. But God wanted a

new generation. So before you were circumcised, God already said you're gonna have

descendants. You will have a child from your own body. And he say,

you can use my my home, my air, my air, my

servant, the one born in my house. No, God say no,

from your own body, right. And then Abraham said, okay, Lord,

I believe you because I'm Abraham now right. So he believed him by

faith, and that's why it was like, wow, you believe you trust

me, So I'm going to account to you. That means I am going

to I can't see, I'm going to give to you, and made you

righteous because of your faith. You are righteous. And therefore, because he

was accounted to Abraham accounted like credited to him, reckoned to him as righteousness.

He said, you are the father of many nations. A new nation

began and many others were born later, the descendants, and you and I

are descendants of Abraham, which makes you brother and sisters of the Jewish people.

They were not one deler because they are God's people, right. But

now God allowed us to be part of that because of Abraham. So we

have inherited the righteousness of God through Abraham. Of course we have Jesus.

Now, yeah, but how how can I'm a genta, I'm a non

you. But God says, because of you, and you shall be father

many nations. And then it says, so that promise in verse three in

you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So I want

to say to us in the short it says, you are blessed to be

a blessing. You are blessed to be a blessing the earth. The word

earth in the Greek or in the earlier Hebrew. And then the Greek means

f nos which is ethnic, which is many, many types of culture and

people. All right, you are blessed to be a blessing. So read

your Genesis chapter. You have believe us and beloved of the Lord. You

need to go back to the word of God to know where is the call

for missions. Abraham left his country comfortable there and moved into don't even know

where. God said, I will lead you to the Promised land, which

is Canaan land. Not the bookstore, please, okay, in the land,

not the bookstore, not one in PJ theok, not the bookstore,

but the land. It's called Canaan, which is today Israel. That was

a promise many years ago. Today they alas squabbles about the land. I'm

not going there, just saying that was a promise. It was for them.

Amen, as time is flying, you are blessed. We are a

blessing. Please look to your neighbor and say you are blessed to be a

blessing. Tell your neighbor you are blessed to be a blessing. Come on,

yeah, Amen, you are blessed to be a blessing. So every

blessing is for you as a child of God. You are a child of

God, as when you come to Christ, you inherited righteousness from Christ all

the way back to Abraham. You already blessed, can you? I'm seriously,

As children of God, we are very blessed already. We are forgiven,

we have second childs. We know God has given us all things.

We are blessed already. It's a given. So now that you're blessed God's

it, go and be a blessing. What are you and I able to

do to be a blessing? Amen to someone else? Not so much because

we're talking about all our wealth. I'm not rich enough, so I cannot

share. No, it's not about that. You are well, you have

joy, you have eternal life. Can we share the good news that God

loves people and he wants them to know Him, to worship him, to

serve him, and that they would turn from their ways, the ways that

they did not know. So why do we do missions? It's just a

commandment of God. Matthew twenty eight, verse eighteen to twenty says, go

ye into all the world and make disciples of all nations, all right,

and you know, baptize them in the name of Father, Son and Holy

Spirit, and teach them to observe all that I would teach you. That's

Matthew, God's last commandment. Our you can say this with me, God's

last commandment. What's your first priority? It's not making more babies? Okay,

enough, okay, all right, God's last command our first priority.

But he did ass to Multiplilah some of you all very good, super fruitful

am all right? So our God's last combine our first priority. What's our

first priority? Yes, yes, yes, to do all that God has

blessed us. Do that. You are already blessed the next one? What's

that next thing? God says, go and make disciples. Making disciples doesn't

mean you have to transform everybody. You not the transformation agent God is.

You just have to let that. Did you know that? And you begin

to share that who is what God did for me? You begin to share

that testimony to your friend's Amen, hallelujah. So firstly, just a reminder,

friends, is an act of obedience. You know, Jonah could have

been obedient, but he ran away, but later he was a false,

reluctant obedience that he said, Okay, I'll just do it, Banna happy

doing it? Obedience to what the all is and the call is already given.

Nobody here. Okay, but I'm not called to be missionary. No

one's asking you to be a missionary, just asking you to be a child

of God, a messenger. Go and make disciples, God say, already,

Well, lah, there's not in my destiny. No, it's already

given wherever, wherever you are, God has called you to make disciples of

you know, people within your rich and those outside. God has X chapter

one, verse eight. I think you learned that in Holmes X Chapter one,

verse eight. Right, I'll give you power from on high so that

you can be my You can be my all right and be aware witness for

who where to Jerusalem and Judaia Samaria and to the ends of the yearth if

you read the original, it should be both both in Jerusalem, Judea Samaria

and to the ends of the earths. Can do it together. Amen,

obedience. Friends. I think God's don't asking for your obedience. He hasn't

said more, but just ask for our obedience. Amen, number two.

Partner with God. We're in a partnership with the Lord. You are not

alone. We are the whole Church. We are partnering together. That's how

because of our partnering together as ex we're able to plant churches in ten nations,

including Malaysia. Ten nations, hallelujah. And so many cities were in

uh not by might, not by power, but willing hearts. Our own

team has gone out. Others have gone on to plan as well. Hallelujah.

Praise God. People are catching the heart. Students are the ones that

have gone out to plan. Partner with God and let God guide us and

lead us. Amen, you have partnerships in your business. You are trusting

another man who will let you down. Now asking us to partner with God

man. He's not a man, He's a God who will not let you

down. When you make God your business partner, he will not let you

down. You can partner God in your work. You can partner God in

his work which is to reach the loss. Amen. And firtly you get

to see transformation, transformation, Amen, hallelujah, part and parcel of the

whole. You know, calling us to be a blessing is so that other

lives can be transformed. I don't know if you never step out of your

own you know your little circle. You don't step out, you don't see

the miracles, you won't see more. Church. We have all the mission

trips organized already, all the outreach to Ara Asley, with all the community

outreach. We're asking you come partner with God to be a blessing. Some

of you, if you don't know much about the oh A work, joined

the workshop because because someone who works with them. Listen to the stories.

What is the situation of the Ora Asley work in Malaysia? They are the

original people here and yet they are the least provided for. And if they

are if they are a Christian, if they choose to follow Christ or not

yet follow Christs, not yet follow any other faith. They are left out.

The children that we are reaching out the other day where we went to

they cannot go to school because the bus will not pick them up. Maybe

if they change and convert, they might get a bus. So we are

there two or three times a month to teach English, very very simple English.

Chan our brother brother Chan who leads three kamanga and he goes there every

Wednesday to teach mets and English. One person. He's full time with us

now, but one person with so many children because they won't take them to

school. This is why it's so difficult. There's this is this is our

country, is our people. They should be allowed to go to school,

but school is too far and the bus won't come and pick them. So

the churches in Malaysia have been doing their part to help as much as we

can. So if we can just even let our hearts be softened as we

go, as we be part of it, God will speak to us.

How how can we do more? Or where can we go? Amen?

How can transformation happen? Let's look at Jonah and just one position, so

much richness in the Book of Jonah. But I just want to read this.

Look at the comparison Jonah and the sailors of the mariners in that ship.

Look at the comparison. This man Jonah, very cute. Prophet's a

Hebrew who knows of God's faithfulness. He really knows. You'd have to read

it with some imagination. That why he said just throw me, like,

please, don't throw me? Said throw me, I don't care. Because

he knew God is faithful, so he knew the God of faithfulness. The

gentiles who were the sailors were gentiles who didn't know God at all. They

don't know God. Are you all? Who's this? But we heard that

he's a mighty God. We are scared, but we don't know him.

He worshiped one true God. Who did they worship many false gods? Okay,

all kinds of idols. Spiritually he was insensitive and hated in the opposite

direction. He ran away. But what about these guys sailors who worship idols,

worship false gods? They were spiritually sensitive? Why because they prayed like

like, hey, pray Lord to your God. We are praying here to

our God to stop the stop the tempers. How come you sleeping, Wake

up boy, dude. Right later, they also sacrifice and took vows like,

Lord, please forgive us. We're throwing Jonah away. Please forgive us.

I know you're mighty, God, Please forgive us. Don't hold his

blood on our heads. You know they were sensitive spiritually, amen, many

of us. I was not a Christian forever. I was a Buddhist.

But we were made sensitive to God. But I'm worshiping something else every day.

I pipe. No, I think I pipe more than sometimes when we

become Christian because God is so cool and easier, cannot see anything like wake

come on, he on peace God. Wherever you pipe, bye, what

you take? The stiller, you clean, the altarler? Now are the

altars wall? Rightever? You are your heart? When actually, when we

are not Christian, we I was not a Christian forever, we were very

sensitive. Now we become Christiana. God is so cool and easy. I

don't need to dress, uh, don't need to change under way. I

just got on and talk to Jesus in the morning, right right, don't

go children or no mind. He forgives me and praise the Lord. Yes,

they were veritely sensitive. He just insensitive. I don't want to do

what you're telling me. He was indifferent towards God's will despite knowing him.

He knows, he knows that God will forgive. He knows that God wants

the loss to be saved, but he was just indifferent. I just don't

like that people. I don't like it. And they don't speak my language.

A different color, they different size, they're different everything. They don't

eat you know, curry puff like me. Whatever. On the other side,

these were concerned before God in the spite, in spite of little or

no knowledge of him. They didn't know him yet they say a pray load

your God, prayler. After that they're gonna throw him. Also they say

sorry, God, Sorry, there's a certain inc they were being sensitive.

Next point, he was very He showed no compassion to what in any way,

no way. Look at the sailors. They were compassionate to him.

LA don't row, let's roll, let's roll, and until they couldn't row,

all right, they showed great compassion. Can see that again in John

Jonah chapter one. He was rebellious and he needed to be disciplined, though

he was not destroyed. What happened to the sailors they acknowledge God when when

the tempers stopped and they worshiped him the transformation. People just need and encounter

with God and they will worship him. I don't know how long they will

shiping or serving. That's there that they're gonna have to tell God later.

But God wanted to show up right and even in a difficult situation, God

showed up, and these prebelievers saw the power of God. And immediately we're

able to acknowledge that there is a God. And so sometimes the church can

be like that. We can be so indifferent, we could be sleeping,

buried and bothered about our own needs. Within No, there is many many

more tribes that have yet to be rich in this world. There are many

many more tribes. Some of us have grown up with knowledge, some of

us never. So I'm telling you now are there are a few blocks are

unreached. They are called unreached people's group. And I don't have time to

tell that. And this group of people are within the ten forty window.

The ten forty window is called the Sagittarius line, and the when you look

at the map right, there's a divide. So anyone starting from Europe all

the way to eat east to Asia, West Asia, East Asia. All

these are people who don't get that means, including us. But Malaysia is

a rich nation. We can now reach our own and now we can send

out missionaries. And we actually Malaysians make the best missionaries because we can speak

any language. Very good to learn language. Come back from Australia two weeks

a home? What does it? Oh? What? What? What?

Would they always say? No? I know that's not my name? Nine?

All right, well we can say how long you're how long you're living

in Australia. Oh, just you know? Four years? Four years?

Whoo? Malaysians learn language very well. We can pick up Mandrein. We

can pick up Demo. We can, we can. We're better than Singapore.

Wait, we can't. We eat any guy our stomach like rubble upper

you mark a mole, stay inside there and rah one like are you Jerry

Bery? After one time? You you who? They? All the bacteria

is good? Just one time, I tell you, one time you go

to India. You all of us gon now one time at least one time

after that, all very strong, and then I can go back to India

several times. No problem with Jerry Berry already no more really because got the

bacteria there inside. Huh, you just get to eat. We go on

an asley, I'll go one time. You you just mark on the wild

bow one time. Oh you can after that bully. Yeah yeah, So

so many trips I've made. I used to quiet quite right, go on,

it can't pussu eat. Look the qually right, it's now. I

saw the dog lecking from there. Then after they they served me the wild

boar, and I'm it pusserves the best wild bore swallow. Don't even choose

swallow, but you have to, all right, because it's so big,

hatter, and they served me like that. I have do swallow quickly,

and thank you, I tell you. I mean, there's the amazing part

about us going to a different land, a different language, a different group.

It's so scared, you know, it's the scaredest thing for met For

most of us. Toilet toilet is the worst thing. Wow, no toilet.

How I used to be so afraid. You know I've overcome that as

a single young person. My parents are so clean. You cannot know,

like this cannot. Okay, So you'll raise your kids very good, like

anything's okay. Step in the sands, okay, okay, right in the

sand. Ever, I'm like, okay, right, we are grown up,

like, don't touch it. Don't then we grow up, cannot go

missions? Why toilet? But I tell you go what time to Sarawakaki went

inside the lupang? No are you go so dark? Cannot see the slowly

Washler? The next time, bring touch those there's no end phone we touch

like must bring touch light ladella ladla, eat whatever they give you, just

just to change the mment after deta can really anyway, I can just just

find us. You hold a sarund for us, get it. I tell

you. The first thing is the adaptation of the the environment. That's why

we're so scared. We don't dare so the nearest, I Suggestler, before

we go to India together, let's go to orang Us together. Yeah.

Yeah, so we bathe in the stream. Whatever's up there just don't look

like just pay for nila floating items and identified objects. Yeah, so they

say you don't go up there and popa come down here. So those are

things that are culturally different, but that shouldn't stop us from saying, let's

go. It's much better now, already much better now, much better.

Went back then twenty years where we used to go much better. Already it's

just a fear, the indifference for hire. Let someone else do it.

Let the missionary. No. No, I see people sign up that sign

up for Change, My sign up love for becas sign up for Sumatra.

I hope you're sign out. You know, we go right. I don't

know what other doors are going to open for us as you want to go.

You want the first of all, I think I'm going to England with

Mila. Cannot afford the etiquette. Now the etiquette problem go they do what

was then it's like, yeah, go ahead and serve the people. They're

going, yeah, yeah, cook for them. I cook for the students.

That's what I do. I go to cook for the student and I

can't cook, but I have to cook there. My husband was saying,

whoa full stun you cool? Well, you never cook chicking car before any

packet, your packet. When we do so much, God changes your heart.

God changes your heart. I told the church last year, if you

remember this year, who wants to go to Nepal? I'm getting I'm being

invited to go this yell. I don't know if I can because of the

clashing time. But the stories that they tell us about. If you remember

the story I told you that the children at the children's camp Palen and sister

story I went to. The children have no food, so the funds that

we sent was able to feed them. And and when we eat egg like,

we eat egg like nothing to them. They look at the egger so

precious. You'll eat half, keep half for the other younger brother, sister,

do you need one good meal a day? Your funds helped to feed

them. But whatever, we collect it and we are supporting the work.

They're true. Our missionary connection with PASSI balance to especially since sure it's amazing

our hearts would change. It's a lot of money to go, but you

can't buy the experience. You can't buy what God wants to speak to you.

That's why we must allow. I spoke a few weeks ago. Make

room for God, give room to God and let him move in our hearts.

It's not just for another person. It's not somebody else's job. It's

ours together. Maybe we cannot all go together one shot, but we can

pray, we can give, and we can plan to go in time because

we need time. Amen, let's not let's not be a Jonah and run

away there. Let someone else do There's no someone else to do, There's

only us to do it. Amen. And again I'm saying, I'm not

asking us to all hang up. We go and be missionaries. We are

all missionaries. We're all called to have a mission and do the missions right

at our doorstep, Amen, right at our doorstep. Have this week's Holmes

notes. We'll be able to discuss further on this. But yeah, guys,

we just need the obedience. We need to partner we've got and allow

yourself as your partner we've got. You will see transformation. You will see

transformation. It excites us. And and you know how I got got the

heart of this by just going for one trip you know where we're not even

or Aslee, No bentm Bentm Durian placed Bentong where just to go to a

smaller church and have people then and to minister to them. I don't know.

That's who I just caught the heart. They're just to Bento. Before

I went to other places, I tried to go Indonesia. I'm telling you

they departed me. You know, they took my back and sent me home

because pastport job. I check my FastPort. So any years ago, good,

I got deported, a big job, deported to Malu. But you

know I want to be there. God take me, send me back.

Then Indonesia was very difficul very difficult as well. We're challenging, but we

got to just make ourselves available, obedient partner with God, and you will

see the transformation bit by bit, slowly, slowly, little by little.

Amen. And that's why we always say, don't be a Jonah, but

we then go out for Jonah for his examples, so that we are reminded

that we don't have to run the other way. We can go with the

vision that God has called us to. Amen. We hope you've been blessed

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