For I am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. If you have your Bible with you, would

you turn to Roman Chapter one was sixteen Romans Chapter one was sixteen all right.

Roman's one was sixteen Seed. So I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of

Christ. For which is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes?

For the Jews first, and for the Greek Amen was seventeen says that

if in the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as is

written the judge, you're lived by faith. Amen. So this oneing I

just want to share briefly, or rather this might take on this particular scripture,

For I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. The word not shame.

Sometimes I don't think anyone here is a shame of God. Right.

However, we are very selective of what God does. Meaning to say,

if you look at the word Gospel of Christ, right, we have to

look at the life of Jesus. So if we look at the life of

Jesus, we like what he did on earth. He ministered to people,

he brought healing right, he read to heal the sick, castle, demons,

help people, help people's mother in law. Uh, he brought the

literatures to him, he took, he gave Miracus. Right, I courage

people to the walk of water. Could you imagine passes ask you the walk

of water? Right? I mean you won't, You won't want one to

attempt that. Right, But that's what Jesus did. He came to encourage

people to leave. But yet, at the same time, the gospel is

not a full gospel until we talked about his perfect obedience to the Father.

While the hallmark of Jesus is his perfect obedience to the Father, very seldom

talk about or spoke about in church. But really, all that Jesus did

was in perfect obedience to the Father, nothing else. All. Right now,

we can't say that how'll it? We can't say that we just liked

what n't know what he'd do that the children? Right? He fed people?

Come on, could you imagine right now the ability to feed people with

five love and two fish. If we have this ability, we have no

more problem of inflation with our cold. Imagine my wife loved to eat.

My wife loved him, And when she eats every half an hour, she

says she's hungry. She's not pregnant, but she's constantly hungry all the time.

Right, and I remember what I bring it to bouffet. Come on,

guys, you understand right when you go prob buffet, you eat to

your maximum food capacity right now, right, the world is to get your

money's worth. So my wife does it all the time. I finish.

I think she's a continuity. But one hour later, one hour later,

I am hungry. Now it's it's the word is that you got to yourself,

like, what on earth is happening? Right? So the ability to

turn five love and two fish into a never ending food supply, it's a

real good gifting. Now we love that, But how may we do the

same, Jesus, we celebrate about this life? Also address the religious teacher,

and also address the people who the word is struggling to believe, or

rather they have a very stiff neck, you brood of vipers? Could you

imagine? Right now? Passes Stephen again, I'm using him an example all

the time. He's because it's a passer here, you brud of wipers,

right calling the chest partner's dead? All right, you faithless generation, I

think none of us will put on Facebook and just well today it passed the

Steabords for a really good message. He calls a brud of wipers, that

faithless generation. Amen, hallelujah. I mean none of us he will be

the word is very happy about it, or we rejoice about it, or

rather that we'll take it. Oh here, that's me. I'm faithless.

That's me. You know, I'm like a snake, that's me. I

mean none of us would actually go down the pathway. In fact, what

we struggle with is like, how are you so hot? On? Right?

There was no don't you know what I went through? I have to

breathe trough this morning, a very nice, finally cold Whether to come to

church after weeks of hot weather for a very first step on the Sunday rain?

Lord, is this a sign that you asked me to stay at home

and watch online church because I've been struggling with wave all the time. It's

true, Come on, I mean, it's natural, right something. We

do think about it, But we can't say that that we like what one

part of Christ and don't like that the part we actually not ashamed of Christ.

What we're ashamed of some parts of Jesus whereby it's heart. Some parts

of God is more confrontational, some part of Christ where by suffering right,

but the good part of Jesus feeding the poor fantastic. We all live feeding

the poor. We all do. I'm not sure something who we're doing for,

but we live it because we like that part of helping people. But

when God was addressed our heart this morning was to ch our hearts, We're

like, Lord, it's not for me. You know this hardness, if

only you understand why have go to so some some of it it could be

comfort now that God has not think against comfort, but by comfort robbed us

from a conviction. That's where we have a problem, where where where we're

cover robbers of whether or not we can leave after massurrey from scripture again we

can live without it. That's where we have an issue. Now. If

you look at the life or Christ, we have to speak about his suffering,

very seldom thought in church, various alas spoke about in church. And

we rejoice in the big We do the concert, the big States, stage

LIFs and South Food band right people who can sing in perfect peach, We

rejoice on that. What the could you madge? Right now on a Sunday

where by the backup vocalist couldn't sing in tune, and by fifth too singing

I went a ship plan not today, but I won't say when the backup

vocally is really like I reashed that there was anto tune somehow a button because

the wuship singing a key. I'm tone death, really, but I can

even tone them. I could recognize what's wrong key, So that's bad,

really, right you imagine? Right, that's that's that's quite bad. If

you're a tone death, you can't recognize someone singing wrong, it's really out.

I have the wife that I have the ability to sing off peach like,

uh, let me see what's song? Okay, happy? But I

can do the happy birth. I can do all that. My wife say

that please please don't sing. But because you don't know why, I recognized

the one time I was in a pastest fellowship, the pastles one was saying

like that, oh my, and I couldn't wullship. I was laughing internally.

I have to repent right now before you she was giving her best year.

I like a very similar accurity, but very similar right various, I'm

assenterity, but very similar in tune. But I couldn't worship because I was

so distracted. Now we can't. We can't, we can't talk about I

like this part of Christ, a loving, the caddaling, putting around,

arms around you Jesus. But when Jesus has to address a particular person,

I don't like the Bible says in Romans. For I'm not ashamed of the

Gospel of Christ. So when you talk about Christ, you have to talk

about his foolness or totality. You can't see you're you're in love. You'd

like the good part of the wife or the husband. Oh you're married video

or you're adjting. I thought that. I thought your wife is somewhere at

the back here, okay, but you can't see. I like my wife

nice wars which she screamed me good morning then, because I like her voice,

and put her her voice as my alarm claw. After after one month

in marriage, finally I realized why I put out of my alarm club because

I cant silence her good morning. Excoosee to you. I can't do that

in real life. I'm not getting in trouble, but I can do that.

I guess loose. You know, we can't see that. We liked.

I like her cooking, but I just don't like her looks. I

remember one time and the chess was my younger. I was spoking the one

person say, I like girl Ay, she looks really sweet, really sweet,

but she has an angry issue. So I like Gerbie. She may

look has has the same look as good Hey, but her temperament are so

good. Made me feel so like encouraged every time I talked to her.

I talked to Girlie almost like fighting like that. But Gerbie, it's so

encouraging, so forgiving, good, so confrontational. But Girbie don't have the

same looks as good Ay. So I spoke these xpjs. So that's so

I say that you have a problem with this guy. So if you,

I say, if you're a girlfriend to this guy, okay, please reconsider.

Okay, she's no can know the guy. But yeah, so you

can't. We can't say that we talk about Christ not it's suffering. He's

suffering at the Cross, what he did for us at the Cross, being

spent at bashed up by people. Right, I'm not asking us a seam

to be bashed up. But sometimes leaders we get bashed up. We do

we do that's what nobody wants to as leader, Maa, we do get

bashed up and really like the word is like misunderstood sometimes the mids about commitment.

It's true commitment, right. And you have done this as well at

the workplace where you go so much things to do on the summon, my

remake decision. We just make decision to get the things done. There's some

people say, oh, it's all about work, La. You never ask

me how I feel. You never asked me whether I ate or not.

You never ask me how my family is doing. All the time I received

message from us, hey can you fall up or not? Can you call

this person? Can you do this? Not never one point in time take

a moment to say you are you free for a cup of coffee to encourage

me? So we can't talk about we can't say that we have to truly

embased Christ. And if we talk about the cross being bashed up, I

mean if that was a pre prerequisite of one thing about being a leader,

I'm not sure how many people is really to be a leader to lead to

be accused uncompassionate while you confront me or you're so uncompassionate about Stephen. Huh,

don't you know I'm going to right now my finger is no time to

cut my finger nails, and you're asking me the one more thing. It's

exaggeration, but it's true. When you are in the midst of death.

Sometimes, ever, SMO becomes a really big issue. Right, we cannot

talk about Jesus unless we talk about his ascension to have a resurrection. When

the preacher will always something that come on, there is resurrection power, and

some of us can go like, uh, not for me, I'm too

date. Really not for me. It's only for those whos and we split

hairs Radica Christian and Christian. There's no distinction. Either we are believer or

no. There's no such as radical believer. And then they did you have

one more category believer, then fifty percent believer. There was no there was

no category. So either we believe in the resurrection or we don't. Right,

we cannot talk about the Gospel of Christ. We all talk about the

Holy Spirit because after we went to heaven, the Holy Spirit came upon us.

There was a gift from God to us. So far, I'm not

ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. And many times it's our journey. We're

going to see afterwards. Right, it's not that we are a shame of

the fullness of Christ. We're not ashame of Christ. But there's some part

of Christ that we really don't understand, and that's why we don't associate.

We only associate ourselves with things that we believe in, true or not.

We wear a sudden type of clothing, whether it's branded not branded, because

we believe in that. To sound overse here, it will not be clothing

for me. Clothing is not an issue for me. Is cooking stuff,

pots and pants my cryptonite. I tell my wife, whatever you do,

do not buy down the road the big warehouse with the blue and yellow one

kitchen wear because it doesn't last. Because I want it to last until eternity,

until Jesus comes back the cav Right. I love kitchen equipment so much

I won't bought myself an ice cream maker, the same one you see a

master chef the one day, carry on the table one right now, and

you chinned the ice cream. I love the equipment. I chinned man time

the ice cream, and I fell in love with it. I bought myself

an industrial induction cooker. My wife said, are you cooking? Are you

opening up a restaurant, or are you cooking for me? I say,

you want the best, if you want the best, so my crypt So

one day, one day my wife decided, so I loso love coffee,

right, so one my crypt is is really a good cup of coffee.

And before I came here, I made about one point three three leads.

Ready it's in my car right now, consume about fer email already so I

can another six hunger email in my car, Priest hollidayer to last be true

half the day. So one day my wife decided to produce man one of

my cats to put on an induction cooker, and she forgot to take it

off. Ah, it's almost like it's almost like you know, like you

know if you have PS five then that your your girlfriend actually pulled beer water.

This is bill water near it, not not on near it. You're

angry, right right, almost like I want to leave her really right,

It's true, like you know like this this this is this is something that

you the word is that you work so hot for. Right then my wife

left it. Now that my my my goose neck catter got a bit disfigured,

disfigured. The time I was like Lord, this is my wife not

it's true. Friends, it is true. We had argument for one whole

hour. I give her a bashing, like you know, who do you

cannot do this? You know that you'll compromise the taste of the coffee and

friends, it is only the outer outer layer that that that that that got

effective, only not the insight. But here's the thing I wanted that you

know the scripture right mark chapter eight was thirty six mark wasty six. Again,

for what profit the man? If it gains the whole world but loses

its soul? So what profit we have? Again? Every free mission like

a fault, but lose my soul in the process. So what profit does

if you get everything? So God doesn't have an issue with people gaining stuff.

Some crisis said, oh Gods, it should people getting rich and prosper.

No, first, God doesn't have that. But if that gives,

if people decide use that to give identity, to give worth to an individual.

God has a problem and meant that we accumulate human we lift accumulate how

many of us here? I have accumulate free measuring spoon from every power the

milk that you buy last time on you know, I mean the measuring spooning

you buy one. I don't know if this measuring spoon that you buy that

you buy some oats or something they have a measuring spoon inside there, right,

I don't know how we always accumulate those measuring spoon or can I just

say this, however, accumulated? Take away to press right now? Fust

right now? Huh okay? We accumulated all right after a wow? Right

after wow? What happens? We just accumulate stuff that we don't really need.

What profits are might we accumulate every think of we container the hippersons by,

but lose us the saving space in the cupboard. It's true after a

wild right, friends, and sometimes the words that we become so proud and

so associated with this process. We lose our identity when you know, and

we open up the empty container. That's why we're emptier. Sorry, I

know it's stretching it, but yeah, that's true. Many times we accumulate

stuff. We accumulate stuff only at the day of the day to give it

away. We accumulate stuff. So when it's younger, right, we like

to accumulate Stuffe's true. Um, we have an ideal mind. How our

house is supposed to look like right now, whether I do picture that when

I get money, I want my house to look in certain manner. Furniture

we want that, But as you get older, I realize you we want

it simpler because you want to downsize a way. What are you going to

do your funiture? Then you once had only a big sudden scrape, only

get fitted. So me and my wife will say that please okay, no

more buying furniture at this hrad Please no more buying furniture in fact one,

and get rid of all furniture because after what we say, we want to

belive it's in the smallest place. So what profecis a man gets everything but

loses it? So what perfect is a man? If we gain everything but

lose its meaning of life? See the problem is that it's not about accumulation

problem. Do you know your purpose of accumulating or not? Do you know

why is it that you're accumulating for? So repect to Roman sir? If

I'm not as share with the Gospel of Christ, Jesus life was marked with

the life of obedience, So it is your accumulation. It's in line with

obedience to Christ. See many times as believers. I've met too many creatures.

Oh, God has blessed me with wealth. Praise the Lord. Why

are you doing for the Kingdom of God? What are you doing for the

Kingdom of God? Because at the end of the day, it is not

enough just to put out a testiment God has blessed me. It is to

funner it for the Kingdom. In obedience, God will speak to you if

you want. One of the person I really admire was World Vision founder.

He prayed a prayer, this prayer God. I am nobody, new believer.

I'm nobody. I'm not like past, the SIV who can sink and

preach God good looks not like that? Right? But if past siven any

times, it cannot lack to Father? Who is this? People? Bunda?

Who was good? Bunda? Monkera is nicer? Right right? Right?

Right? Come on? But now t Monkera, you'll understand. Okay,

one is one anyway yuppy lifestyle. I go down to the com up

from the Columbinio. I see people all my age one. I go by,

now tell my see people with kids starting wrong. But anything possitive was

saying, No, God, would you use to be in if you do

want to sing for you. I will try to singing in my starting with

your voice. That was it's prayer. It was recorded and a mission were

just sharing that that was its preyer, and I thought to myself, like,

it's so true. Where Bunky was the same as well. He said,

I've not got plenty. I'm I'm putting planc or plent dy when when

when pass asked you, would you want to follow me? It's extra I'm

not. I'm no buddy, I'm just like, I'm just carrying chess.

This morning, before I came to x Preg, I was washing toilet because

someone decided to leave marks around my toilet boat in the office. I was

scrubbing it and I thought to myself, let's not wash my hands around to

pray for we put their foot under the power. I was watching the toilet

of friends. I'm like, who on earth cannot aim one wish of my

staff? There's only ten guys in my organization on you right? Who of

these cannot be me? Because I'm not here? Okay, see when it's

food time, all right, see when name into my mind? Right,

like who's But if it cannot be that, you know, what's the use

of being a good preacher where you cannot even cannot even wash the toilet bull,

So what profits a preacher preach on every stage but cannot even pick up

the rubbish. That's why God has a problem, because pride comes in at

the end of the day. You know why you also annointed your hands.

I cannot, friends, some preachers believe it. I'm not. I'm just

like I'll get my hands dirty anyway, I will take up the chairs,

I will vacuum the floor and nothing else. Friends, It's life at the

other day, right, So what profits? What profits a man who gives

the whole world but loses it soul? No, we were a man given

next shape for his soul. For whoever was a shame of me, whoever

was a shame of me, whoever was a shame of me and my words?

In this adultress and seinfood generation, a doubtress and seafood generation. Imagine

right now, Jesus addressing of us here in this congregation, friends, I

have not heard many preachers referred to adultress and sinful generation, because you know

what we have to make. We have understand people have choices. But here's

the thing. If we are ashamed of what Jess have said, and you

softer words, then maybe and perhaps we have to really look at our own

hearts and say, God, I understand what you're trying to do, because

some days we have to confront. I'm on right now, some days you

have to confront. If you don't confront that, we won't. We know

that the person, the individual will not be at the best. Like a

father tried to cook. The child will swim, jump into the water,

jump in the water. The child said no that they I'm afraid of water

jumping into the water. I will, I will teach you, I will

guide you. No, I'm afraid of water. That they cannot drink all

the water in the swimming pool, I will drown. The dead did not

tell the child, look, you don't know how to swim. Just washed

ten hours of YouTube video learning how to swim, and the dead will always

be by the side. Come on, I'm not seeing any dad, they

say one now, I was sim just washing YouTube. But I always say

the parents at least send the child for swimming lessons. Now the child of

age decide how the same of his on his own. Prase God. But

when the young child always say the father always accompanied the child one anyway,

so you will see generation. If you're ashamed of me and my words in

this generation, friends, the day will come whereby we have to the word.

They said, we have to decide whether not our favor couses to express,

our fave courses to express. For example, right now, some of

us, if you're power of homes, our homes or small groups, right

you'll understand, you'll be seeing the same phases of the past five years.

If you're part of any small groups and any church, you understand, you

you see the same pace of the past five years after a wild alad down

a set in right now because you know already, then you let's skip the

icebreaker because you know everybody. Uh huh m. I ton'tally understand. I'm

for that. I don't know icebreaker, man, so I skip it.

Let's go straight. Let's go straight, Okay, no need to teach or

just send it the power to everybody. Then we just talk about it right

now. What happened when you we allow we allow our faith the word is

to disconnect from its real purpose. I'm not sure it's we have touched life

current before life care before you understand the moment you touch anything that's that's the

power. You get the joke, right heart, you have right life,

caber, you know, life, not life concert life cale but right.

Then, the more we get disconnected, our heart rate goes back to normal.

But when we start to allow ourselves to say it, no, it

cannot be me. I'm not seen forward, I'm not ashamed of your words.

W But when we are selective, When we are selective, that's where

we start to disconnect ourselves from power. When we are selective, we'll start

to disconnect. Oh. I love sumps in the tree because God presents himself

as a shepherd. I love his kid. You guide me nicely, you

have you the picture of Jesus, people are selling he comes in the kin

a rot whacking. It's always coming with a nice shepherd's staff, right,

cuddling the ship. I've not seen it. A picture of angry Jesus,

you know, Oh, Jesus clearing the temper. No, it's always cuddling.

And the famous one is that that there's some there's some Jesus movie,

right. I always me and my friends like really good production, really trying

to make it the good one. The postures are very nice. The chipper

one I saw one time that Jesus came up. It's almost like like these

we're like, okay, I think he got it wrong. But now mind

so prophet is a man gains the whole but loses is so meaning purpose?

All right? Now next scripture Dennis chapter three, we mean right now the

Denier chapter three. It is not I don't have the power point for it

is because it's too many, too many, too many scripture. But Daniel

chapter three, term with me right now to Daniel chapter three, go speak

about Daniel and the three friends who went through the fiery furnace. All right?

And then the chapter three was eight. Therefore, at a certain time,

child, this came forward to see accuse the Jews, friends, even

before you do anything. Okay, this is the time whereby the three friends

of Daniel didn't do anything wrong. But the Bible here's this, Danie.

Chapter tree was eight. The child child came up the king Nebuk I begin

to accuse the Jews. Now Daniel and the three friends, and plus Daniel

did not know anything about it. Friends, you really have a system that

working against you. It's not because you have sin. It's not because that

you did something bad yesterday. You really have something against Earth's radio. And

that's why sometimes when we make commitment to the Lord, it's so hard to

fulfill because there's already a system that's causing you not to believe. Right it

says it verse nine, they spoke, They said, Oh, King live

forever you O King, have made the decree that everyone who hears the self

of every instrument shall fall down and worship the gold image. Once you hear

it, you're supposed to fall down. It's can I just give a modern

interpretation. There's always a rape button within us that causes us, whether or

not we truly believe or not. We have no issue with Christianity until unless

we get confronted with all the issues. Coming to church is now what issue

one? But when the speaker start going further, Hey, don't just start

saying things like this. Don't just come to church, but go to prayer

service. Why are you not going for prayers? If you see you believe,

ma, then you must go for prayer service. We have issue really,

because how do you don't understand the traffic gym give to missions or go

for missions? Self for missions? And the you don't unst them my schedule.

You're just telling us that we're almost like we take our faith for granted.

There's always a rape button. I would say it's quite a rape button.

It's almost like this whereby once you hear the sound, you have to

bow down. Once the preachers say certain thing or God convince your heart of

certain things, right, you choose where they want to go further with a

lot or not. Because the three friends all for the past that teas existed,

was just walking with the Lord, walking the Lord. But as they

walk with the Lord, something was brewing at the sight here. Oh,

it just takes is once you hear the instruments, was a bow down and

worship me. So what is what is your instrument? What is that sound

that causes you to not go further with the Lord? What's what's the sound

that's causing you to not fully trust a lot? Because all of us here

have that one. We have serve one more timer has scheduled four times,

really yourself the fifth we also ask me don't let me go. Friends.

I'm not sure where you are with your stage, but maybe you have burned

the words got burned before, mess not the nice wold burn before. Maybe

maybe you did have a good experience with leadership. And that's why I'd rather

just come to church and not serve. I just come to church and not

serve because and we like use the word let the young people do eat.

That let the young people do eat, because I did my time already.

So what's your way button, friends, let me just go on, go

on right now, worse worst level, whoever that's a faller worship shall be

cast in the midst of the fire for this, whoever that's not bouder worshiped,

cast into the fire furnace. When we do a premriach counseling our church,

you know, one once the thing that we do in our church is

to sit out with potential cuppers they're going to get married about six months to

go through pre marriage counseling clusses. Meet with them, talk to them,

go to the list of question ask and one of the things that we always

ask that there's there's a part about find answers in the questionnaire. We will

we will always ask cuppers why but one day all that you have right now

you don't have it? For example, you have a house, decent house,

you have a car, and all that you have a bank account,

all that you don't have we used to hold on to the marriage, or

will start blaming each other. It's because of your financial disition. You cost

me to be like that. It's because of you that you west there.

It's because you trust the person to returnact to you. Or will you say

to each other it's okay, we start all working. It's okay, we'll

start all working. If everything is sticking away from you. If everything is

sticking away from you, we used to follow Christ? Or not? If

you remove everything? Friends, we used to haunt to Jesus. Oh it's

Jesus is only good when you're in good health. Right, So you have

to think about it all right? I wanted to fast forward the world succeed,

then shared a benegal answer excited. Okay, oh Nebuza, we have

no need to answer you on this matter, he said. We do not

even need to answer you. They already knew the decision they're gonna make.

Number one, If you're gonna remember anything, you have to already purpose in

your heart that you want to follow Christ, even before the challenges. It's

the same as getting married. You say yes to fully. When you say

yes to fully, embrace the challengesness in front of you when you say yes

and the author you already say yes. I'm going to fully accept her that

my wife will let go guess when she's sleeping area. Sorry, I'm just

very practical because oh I don't. I didn't know that my wife let go

guess one. I'm not the friends. My wife's okay, right, you're

saying that's always stepping her wife at the back, and she knows, all

right. It cannot be friends. It cannot be because if you don't purpose

in your heart, where every time we hit the problem we exist, come

on every time. Oh so so many empty seats on her so many empty

seas cannot be. The press of commands cannot be here, not food banner,

always the same worship leader, similar songs on the not progressive of your

maby cannot be unless you proposed you can. The focus is God and you

want to worship if regardless of the song, you see worship right. So

at the end of the differends, it is not or just because it's the

King, it cannot be friends. So the three friends raised it, I

don't need to answer it because says something in your life you cannot compromise.

There's something in your life. You cannot comprom moment. We allow things accumulate.

That way, we're not tackling the issue I have. I'm reading a

message. It's called some things left in front of my house. So I

stayed in the landed property. And sometimes sometimes um neighbors trash gets blown in

front of the door. You experience that if you have a house that you

know and the days whereby you come out, you're so tired, right,

and you just say, Kailas need one piece of trash, one piece of

plastic back. I'll pick up when I can. If we leave, we

need one you know. Friends after a world that so Kayla that one piece

of plastic back. Then next thing not it's a face mask. That's not

nearby, but this it's not next week, but it's just nearby. So

Kayla is not nearby. But persons see they see one spot. They don't

they do see their spot. I kicked after a while, my wife to,

you're not gonna pick up the trash bad. It's so Kayla biodegradable.

Anyway, you we make excuses, it's true friends instead of doing the actual

work. Remember how hard is it to pick up trash? Every husband know

this La is very hard. It's very inconvenient to get up to take the

trash. It's well pray about either. Wow, that's true. Where we

have to pray about taking up the trash right by by the prayer ask of

for America, the wife area, taking away taking the truth. I know,

I know the strategy. You go to your prayer room and pray.

Right it might be actually engaging Psie and said, but here's the thing,

threads until unless you're purpose in a heart, no matter what, no matter

what, I will not give up on God, no matter what, it

cannot be good health, praise little Hallelujah. But when you hit the health

issue, it's not very real. So that's why Paul has to write,

for I am not a shame after gospel. He doesn't the full Gospel of

friends, not the partial gospel. Next thing that the friends sit was this

that for in this case, for verse seventy four, that is the case.

Our God will say, whose we serve is able to deliver us from

the firing for the fiery, burning fullness, sorry for the burning fiery finnesce

all right, not only the purpose in the heart. They choose to believe

God is a god Americus see our faith needs to be activated. We cannot

the word is that we cannot just lie the words dormant or the way.

He was just thinking that, yeah, no, when we when we after

we finished education, we got to work. Right, there's a progression.

Then you want to climb the couple of ladder or you want to this progression.

But I'm thinking to myself as a believer of what it's our progression as

a believer in physically, when you got the couple of world, you start

as the here, then you let up somewhere. But as a Christians believer

to what is because Jesus does say, the higher you climb, but you

say the greatest one is a civil of all, the greatest one was the

Civil War. So as a believer, the moment you believe, friends,

we're supposed to serve and serve because Jesus was our role model at day of

the day. Right, So it cannot be friends the faith that this free

friend has said. They all say that we will not defile our God.

You're not bow down, they went on, continer, try showing us into

the fire, we will leave. Try putting us in the fire for this

we will survive. Our faith requires their friends, in is an expression.

We can't say that we have faith in God and not express it friends.

Expression of faith can they say, this is not how how high you jump

or how loud you clap, how loud you can shout, because the day

will come your strength. We all fail, but people can see passion and

belief and fire readiness. One. It doesn't mean when you are seventy years

old, friends, that because there's no more catolytion on your knee cap,

you cannot jump miss your less passionate. It means to say that it was

a seventy or you're an eighty year you see, I see one go formistions.

I know an individual eight seventy eight when to meet the Asia for Missions,

had a major accident after the parts of Doctor the very in bad.

Yet at the same time he went, I'm like you, Guila at seventy

po people look at retirement and just were for missions inconvenient see your favorite expression.

You can't say that I can't go for mission because there's no toilets.

It's the modern the modern amenities and sometime rob what it means to really do

words, think the gospel, Think the gospel, and go into another couture

don't fully understand. And sometimes this house we subs you go to this place,

you can't experience this. We sell a good part of it so that

people get convinced. I know for a fact that a lots or people know

about it. In our church like to go to some white cloud for missions

because during the during season you are invited to every household. Every household has

has a set of trees durant trees every every house and they go to that.

I remember sure my wife was like that. She went for she was

the first thing they went in. They say, because nothing MU should offer

except for mosunking. All right, please accept. You know you can't miss

a pray for us. This is our behalf. They were from one house.

In the house about five to six families all served mosuking durante. By

the time they left, they say, we are so blessed by your ministry.

Here's two GOOONI sect of Duran's. Please please take you back and share

with your They share on themselves flow right this at this is how I remember

the time people say I want to go to my cloud forget about Kahka.

I want to go to my cloud forget about other places I want and after

isn't it true? Then it cannot be that, because there's more king,

that's where God's presence is. It can't be. My friends, there hasn't

been the same passion. The same passion that wants to good in this area

must be sim passion one good in another area. And the three frest is

that our faiths would helping. Try putting us in the fire. You see

relief, Try putting us in the fire. I was speaking the Elder Terrents

and Elder Terrence he spoke can many times before his expression of faith. Man

I could learn from him. He would tell every problem. I remember one

time he's his company. He was retired and he's working full time with me,

right with us right now. He would He was working for one company

and they were they for school and they maxed out the capacity. They were

looking at another another place. God told him that maybe this is the right

place for you. So he went to ask agents and he said his voice

was like, no, you can't afford it. He was so worked up.

No, just wait, you see see I kind of afford it.

We kind of He went straight up call I said, how do you if

you get to connect? Because you know for us, if you see this

to let's sign up some comprobuties and not to let sign out there and see

how one of you mentioned get up there. Why would I make about telephone

costs just co one co one. This whole property department asked for this.

For this, Bam talked to the owner. We save no agency fee because

she menained the agent how much she lost up. He said, if my

God say yes and no one can say no, I helped it. I

look at the space and I say, just show way the two water coolers

up there, and you create foods or courts because you don't need them,

he told the engineer. And you just say cannot you need them? And

no, no, just put it on the other side. You can't.

The engine looked at it. Oh yeah, you're right. Is it all

this? I got no degree in engineering. I just know that the Lord

is with me in this. Friends, your fifth needs to confront this in

front of you. Finally, the next pub scripture is these friends, I

got the close radio, got the end shoe fifteen right, because you say

there's not true to his words? Eighteen okay, what's eighteen? But if

not, let it be known you o King, that we do not serve

your God, nor we wish what's it was eighteen? No was seventeen In

case it's say our times like excite our God home. He serves able to

delivers from five bunny five funness, and he will delivers from you. Okay,

But if not, let me know, they will not serve you.

At the day of their friends, whether they come out alive or not,

they're really determined. I want them to confront you chose and see God who

delivers. If doesn't deliver, it's okay at the other day. And this

is how I'm going to close. The just shall live by faith Romans Roman,

Chapter one. The just shall live by faith. If your faith has

no expression, they were not fully living it. Mass on whether not God

come true for you for your contract or not. That it doesn't matter at

the other day, because God will come true. If it doesn't, he

will open another way the end some reason this God gets the glory the end

some way of this God's get the glory at the other day. Because there's

too many, too many times in our life, friends, that we have

allowed things to rob us, to manipulate our faith. The words that you

get desensitized this sense of tife for what faith really is. As you grow

older in life, friends, we go sometimes download in our expression I said

expression. I'm not talking about in church jumping and lifting and our expression.

You know what I mean? The zest of life. That that that that

the vibrancy that you're looking for for to live your life fully. I call

this living in a moment because truly sometimes we don't. We don't with this.

I want someone encourage you Church, do not end the day without determine

your hearts to God. There are moments in the life. I was so

ashamed of what you asked me to do, because I know that if I

would take this step, I would look very foolish. Could you imagine the

three friends God Nebuk you put in the fire. They actually did went through

the fire. We just read words on you, but the emotion of it

being dragged fire in front of you, You're being dragged to go in.

I'm not sure whether the expression or if you have a video of them,

they'll be they walk willingly into the fire or not, or they really do.

I'm sure took very small steps. God, please are before going to

fire, wiping out, wiping out, Lord wiping out Lord, cause rain

to come, cause the roof to crack everything. I'm sure the steps when

slower and slow as they pushed the fire. But even as they read in

they realize their faith was sealed in the sense of like God, you may

come true for us, but we are ready to see at the day of

their friends. As I closed right here, that's one encourage you. It's

not a message whereby it's supposed to put the downess on our heart and our

spirit to come down a standing as you are not good enough. But really

it's a message. Just want to encourage you that just shall live by faith

as believers. There's so much more power in Christ. Not just power the

cumulate wealth friends, a lot of type christis I'm going to talk about for

a cumulation, but really the power to leave our life, to overcome,

to have a great marriage, to a great relationship with our parents. Really

the power to restore the power whereby every time we keep saying no, it

cannot be done, it cannot be done, it cannot be done. Recently,

I was feeling another brother and you're just sharing elder. You know,

we were in this project for the government, and he was and they would

look at a model and say that me and my professor just test out the

model and everything off filed that their presentation. We're supposed to present a got

nothing to present. The professor to look at him, just tell them you

need more time because nothing works. As he was driving to work, God

gave him an idea how to approach the subject matter. He went in there.

First thing he did was he described at his office. He went to

the model. He look at the result, looks okay, presented professor.

Professor say it looks all right. Presented the people who ask for him,

this fantastic are presented the government. He said, all glory to God,

because if we have tryed weeks everything failed. Friends, that's what pause reminding

us for I'm not ashamed of the power of the Gospel of Christ. Sometime

God would just say, come on, sir, come on, believe,

come on, give, come on go. Where are you at your journey

right now? And we're just being selective, just just you're the image of

Jesus just cuddling beside you're holding you by Steve Waters. Jesus is more than

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