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I AM... THE BREAD OF LIFE | Pr Sandra Chin

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

  2. will light up your tea. During the pandemic, so many people picked up

  3. the art of making sour dough bread. Men included a number of our men

  4. in ex Church was happily practicing making sour dough bread. And I didn't even

  5. bother to venture because it takes twenty four hours to make one sour dough bread

  6. and show feel I'm just not good at it right. But a lot of

  7. people were passing on, you know, a recipe to make sour dough bread.

  8. Um, and it's and it's fun to make bread. It's it's it's

  9. really I think it's very therapeutic. And to see the results of your bread,

  10. any kind of bread. Law, my husband will say, where your

  11. bread is like like the grass, I said, of course, la and

  12. this is the real thing, you know, no guardamiel bread. La ah,

  13. this is real, weird you know it bread that it's really real.

  14. But therefore, drawing out of the sourd operate, we're also into sour do

  15. bread. We have the bread of life living in us. Jesus says,

  16. I am the bread of life, a man whoa and we Actually, you

  17. know, here is the Lord offering us the bread of life. So we're

  18. gonna look at John chapter six, and let's read scripture a little bit um

  19. and and and go through this. This what he is saying to the disciples

  20. at that time. All right, So I'm gonna take us to a reading.

  21. If you have your Bible, turn with me to John chapter six,

  22. and we're gonna take it up from us, either twenty two or twenty five.

  23. I'll start from twenty two. We're gonna read all the way to verse

  24. forty. Let's give some time to the reading of God's word. Amen,

  25. Let's turn to scripture and read it. Uh, we could even read it

  26. together. How about reading it together. It's good to read God's words,

  27. celebrate God's word. Whatever version you have, you read the upper you'll sound

  28. funny. Never mind, we'll read it together. I'm reading from the New

  29. King James version. All right. So this I will open your bibles and

  30. let's read God's were Let's declare God's word. This is the church. We

  31. don't read your Bible here, and you're gonna read it right because you're not

  32. reading all right? Oh kay, come on, let's read heah, heymen,

  33. are you ready, canna we read out a loud Okay, let's declare

  34. God's word verse twenty two onwards. Ready what two three year me out?

  35. On the following day, when the people who were standing on the other side

  36. of the sea saw that there were no other boats there except that one which

  37. his disciples had entered, and that Jesus has not entered the boat with his

  38. disciples, but his disciples had gone away alone. Twenty three. However,

  39. other boats came from Tiberius, near the place where they ate bread, after

  40. the Lord had given thanks. When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not

  41. there nor his disciples, they also got into boats and came to Caponium seeking

  42. Jesus. And when they found him on the other side of the sea,

  43. they said to him, Rabbi, when did you come here? Jesus answered

  44. them and said, most assuredly, I say to you, you seek me

  45. not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and

  46. were filled. Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the

  47. food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Men will give you,

  48. because God the Father has set his seal on him. When they said

  49. to him, what shall we do that we may work the works of God.

  50. Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God that

  51. you believe in him home he sent. Therefore, they said to him,

  52. what sign will you perform then, and that we may see it and believe

  53. you? What work will you do? Our fathers ate the manner in the

  54. desert. As it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

  55. Read with me. People. Then Jesus said to them most assuredly,

  56. I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven.

  57. But my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. From the bread of

  58. God. Is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

  59. Then they said to him, mard give us this bread always. And

  60. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes

  61. to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.

  62. But I said to you that you have seen me, and yet do

  63. not believe all that the Father gives me will come to me. And the

  64. one who comes to me I will by no means cast out, for I

  65. have come down from heaven not to do my own will. But the will

  66. of him who sent me. This is the will of the Father who sent

  67. me, that all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but

  68. should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of

  69. him who send me, that everyone one who sees the Son and believes in

  70. him may have ever lasting life, and I will raise him up at the

  71. last day. Amen to the reading of God's word. Hope you got to

  72. read and declare God's word this morning. I am the Bread of life.

  73. Praise the Lord. Hey, are you hungry? We have some bread.

  74. We have some rooti okay me and boo all right, mean boo, all

  75. right. We have the bread of life living in us. Now. The

  76. background of Jesus saying that I am the Bread of life before he said it

  77. comes from the first chapter of the first verse, where there was the miracle

  78. of the five loaves and two fish. Five loaves and two fish, any

  79. one of you have had five rooty china and two sardins. Well, the

  80. miracle happened with the five rooty china and the two sardines that multiplied and fed

  81. five thousand men. Then there were other women and children, so there was

  82. more than five thousand. They fed everybody out of these five okay, right,

  83. this round bread, they're just little bread. And they fed all of

  84. that, and then there were twelve baskets extra okay, the crumbs were worth

  85. twelve baskets. That's amazing, right, And then they were fourth, and

  86. then they went off. Then Jesus goes out, sends the disciples off,

  87. said getting the boats go over to the other side. But he went to

  88. pray. And then after that he had to show do action walking on the

  89. water and coming on the water and you know, hello, people, and

  90. they opending is that a ghost? But it was Jesus, and uh and

  91. they and he said to them, don't be afraid. That was great wind.

  92. And so Jesus walking on the water and he made it to the other

  93. side, and he jumped on the boat with them. And then comes the

  94. scene where the people are looking and saying, we saw the disciples going to

  95. the boat, but Us didn't go in the boat. Where is he?

  96. And then comes this part where we now hear Jesus saying, hey, if

  97. you're looking for bread, I am the bread of life. Okay. So

  98. that's the scene they ate the bread that multiplied in the hands of the disciples

  99. and they were quite I mean, I don't know a lot if five thousand

  100. men. Look today when we have a lot, a lot of people,

  101. and if we are in the front, some people at the back have no

  102. clue where the bread came from. They're just the oldest bread that we eat.

  103. Actually, the miracle was happening, and it was just five loaves and

  104. two bread, no idea. No. Sometimes people are like dead la and

  105. no PA systems. Say hello, we have five loaves, two bread.

  106. We're praying that this will multiplied. No PA system. But maybe you know

  107. the way people are saying, and then you know, to our baskets for

  108. So there was this miracle that they experienced, and so Jesus said, hey,

  109. you're not looking for me because you you know you saw all this,

  110. but because you ate bread. And so then they said to him, hey,

  111. our fathers aid, manner from heaven. Moses fed us with manner,

  112. all right, So what you're gonna do for us? What you're gonna do

  113. for us? A gang stoller. Jesus said, no, no, no,

  114. no, no, no, no, yeah, it's not from Moses.

  115. My father fed you the heavenly bread, all right. That manner was

  116. just you know, just a little little way first, and they said,

  117. so he showed us a miracle, then we will believe. But Jesus said,

  118. hey, you know what, I am the bread of life. So

  119. this morning I think we want to remember again that we actually have the bread

  120. of life living with us. Amen and uh? And and what is this?

  121. What is he worth in our lives? Are we listening to this bread

  122. of life? Are we eating the bread of life? Because in John chapter

  123. six, verse twenty seven, as we read, he says, do not

  124. labor for the food which perishes, but for food which endures to everlasting life,

  125. which the Son of Men will give you, because God the Father has

  126. set a seal on him. Friends, what are we laboring for? Are

  127. we laboring for things that are not everlasting? What are we laboring for?

  128. Are we worried about a lot of things in and not really looking at our

  129. bread of life? Jesus, this is an assurance to us to say that

  130. if you're laboring for something that parishes, stop because I am your bread of

  131. life. I will give you everlasting life. So we're worried about many many

  132. things, stop this morning and ask yourself, am I eating out of the

  133. bread of life which is Jesus, are we running around worried many many things?

  134. I ask myself as well, Hey, am I am I truly just

  135. relying on the bread of life Jesus, because many times, like Isaiah fifty

  136. five, verse two, Isaiah speaks today and he says, you know,

  137. the Lord spoke to the people of Isael and say, hey, why do

  138. you spend money for that which is not bread and your wages for what does

  139. not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good, and let

  140. your soul delight yourself in abundance. You know. For those people who are

  141. real how you say, they really go for the original la. They will

  142. not eat guardania. No, why do you spend money on guardanier that is

  143. not real bread? Whoa all right? People who make bread at home will

  144. sell real bread like real bread. Will not buy guardiania because not good for

  145. your health. Law, don't eat it for too long. But if you

  146. make sandwiches, okayla alright, So here the naughty saying, why are you

  147. spending your money on that which is not real, that which is not real

  148. bread? So stop eating your gardenia, la loo all right? Get some

  149. sour dough, all right? So expensive to buy. So that's why we

  150. gard. Okay, right? Well? What God is say to us is

  151. what are we spending our money on? What are we working for? Are

  152. we working to build you know, our wealth for what that will not last?

  153. And are reminder to us if we are what are we building? Or

  154. what are we spending our money on? How are we raising our children?

  155. Oh? Come on, we spend so much money sending them here there?

  156. I know so many parents do that. But have we honored the bread of

  157. life for them? Do we read the word of God with them? Do

  158. we feed them the bread of life? Are we feeding them? Guardamil?

  159. Are yo? All right? So? What are we spending our money on?

  160. That which is not everlasting? This is the invitation that God is giving

  161. to all of us, Believe us and the beloved of the Lord in this

  162. room today, the Lord is reminding us where are we spending our time?

  163. If? What are we eating? Whereas our money going? Is it towards

  164. that which is everlasting? Which is He gives to us ever lasting life?

  165. And in John six thirty five, Jesus offers to us and say I am

  166. the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger, And

  167. who he who believes in me shall never thirst. Are we hungry? Friends?

  168. What are we hungry for? Because He says, if you come to

  169. me and take of me, eat of me, you will never hunger.

  170. And sometimes we hunger for you know, for recognition. We hunger to get

  171. wealth before thirty, you know, I don't know a lot of people time

  172. dad. And then after that, what don't work anymore? If we are

  173. meant to work, you know, God put Adam in the garden to tend,

  174. so we all have employment. One you think nobody wants to hire you,

  175. Jesus will hire you. He will hire you to tend to his garden,

  176. to his work. Amen. So what are we really hungry for?

  177. I hope we are hungry and thirsting for the things of God or what God

  178. offers to us and be used by him, you know, to be a

  179. blessing and to bring to those who are hungry as well. So when our

  180. teams go out the church, So when God gives you the bread, what

  181. do we do? We take it to others and we share it. And

  182. and part of that is our part to really respond to the Lord who says,

  183. go and feed others with this bed of life. Amen, What are

  184. you hungry about? I mean, are you hungry for just your own me?

  185. Time? Hello? Church today the language is my time, me time,

  186. me and myself. Hallo, hallelujah. But then the pastor pasta,

  187. you do everything love pasta, do the mission pasta, do the visitation pasta,

  188. do pray for healing, Come and help me lah. Come on,

  189. guys, what are you and I hungry for? What are we eating that

  190. will give us the satisfaction were where we were? Never hunger and thirst again?

  191. I believe it's such a reminder for us. You know, if we

  192. if we declare our theme, Heaven rules, Heaven rules is God. The

  193. word heaven rules, the word heaven means God rules, is God ruling in

  194. our hearts and lives, easy above our everything that we put first. Okay.

  195. If you put our studies first, then God is second. If we

  196. put your children first, then God is second. If you put your work

  197. first, and God is second. Third. Four. If you put you

  198. know, making money first, then everything else is second. If you put

  199. you know, our boyfriend first, then then God is second. Wife a

  200. husband first. No, he says, I am your bread of life.

  201. Man. If you have the bread of life, you will never have need

  202. of being hungry. And it's not just physical hunger. It is all of

  203. us seeking to be filled, to be assured. So many people have problems.

  204. We've identity. We are hungry to be recognized, we are hungry to

  205. be you know, loved, and then we seek relationships and never fulfill.

  206. Hello, my dear friends, I was there too, thinking that a man

  207. will fulfill my needs. Sorry, I married a wonderful man, but there

  208. are days I can still feel alone because I have to go to my own

  209. journey and feed from the bread of life. Thank God that we can turn

  210. to the Lord and not just to a husband who will fail me in many

  211. days. He fails me because you got no time for me serving the kingdom

  212. of God. Yes, not wrong, I chose that path. But it

  213. was Jesus who filled me. Fill my hunger, fill my need for recognition,

  214. fil my need of security. Film I need to tell me who am?

  215. I so many of us. As a young person, I also,

  216. before I came to know Jesus, I didn't know who I was. I

  217. was desiring to find who I am, to be somebody, to be loved,

  218. to be known. But until Jesus came into my life, I was

  219. very lost. Seriously, I didn't have the assurance of my family. I

  220. was just seeking. But when Jesus, the Bread of life, came into

  221. my heart, he restored my identity, He restored my worth. That I

  222. didn't have to just pass exams to get recognition because I had to please my

  223. mom. Love. Yeah you get ninety three? Why none get hundred?

  224. Right? You get it. It's still not going now, You'll never be

  225. good enough. But that assurance after he came to Jesus set me free,

  226. Set me free friends. I just I just joined every club in the school,

  227. just go involved with everything. Did Aaron. My mom was scratching again,

  228. say why you're not taking tuition? I don't want to go to tuchtion.

  229. She saved you failure from five you did okay, Jesus be helping and

  230. uh and did everything. Join everything that was in the school, to be

  231. part of the CF Christian Fellowship, part of drama society, part of this

  232. part of dad. Just played and did everything. At sixteen and seventeen,

  233. I felt my life was full. I wasn't just stuck with my studies.

  234. I felt God said to me, I am the bread of life. When

  235. I come into your life, you have life and life more abundantly. That

  236. is the life you and I want to live more abundantly, not just abundant,

  237. more abundantly. And he comes to us, I am the bread of

  238. life. Are you listening? Come out? You come to church every week

  239. for what to take the word of God and practice it. Don't just eat

  240. it, yeah and then out? Okay, eat it yea, and practice

  241. it. That's how we grow. Otherwise, don't come to church, be

  242. sent to the mission field. Go out and feed the arang our sleep,

  243. Go out and visit others. Because if we sit here and eat the bread

  244. of life ourselves and give to nobody else, you will rot, you will

  245. grow fat, and you will expire. Use by date coming up twenty fourth

  246. of August. So yo, all right, we don't want to be there.

  247. We want to eat God's bread of life. And God use you in

  248. your marketplace, in your university, in your school, in your community.

  249. Be sent out by the Lord. That's why we come every week to celebrate

  250. Him, to testify, and then go out again and encounter the power of

  251. God. Amen. So number one, he is your sustenance, Amen,

  252. sustenance all right. But Simon Peter John Chapter six, verse sixty eight.

  253. Simon Peter answered him and said, Lord, to whom shall we go?

  254. You have the words of eternal life. All right? When you read John

  255. chapter six, okay, I will tell you Jesus was really not very successful

  256. in growing his church. After he told them you have to eat my body

  257. and you got to dream my blood. What is this? What are you

  258. talking about? Cannot eat? Of course, God will not ask you to

  259. be a cannibalist and eat the meat of your body or flesh and your blood.

  260. But he was bringing a picture to say that I would have to die

  261. for your sins. You partake of my life, my body, and my

  262. blood shed for you. But because he spoke it, they will remember their

  263. culture. They would have understood what he said. We're not Jewish, we

  264. have no clue this is a Jewish Bible. We just got accepted in love

  265. adoption, all right. And he said you have to partake of my body,

  266. eat of my blood. And they said that's it, Jesus, the

  267. congregation, we're leaving you. So John chapter six, verse sixty sixty six

  268. says they all left Jesus. So if there was a church and you thought

  269. it was very successful, he's not very successful. From don't know how Big

  270. six, Chapter sixty six says they all left, who left words remainder the

  271. twelve disciples, And Jesus went up to them and say it, so,

  272. do you also want to go? I'm cool? And then that's when Peter

  273. said in verse thirty and sixty eight, he says, Lord, to whom

  274. shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Amen. Amen,

  275. you have the words of eternal life. Nobody left around me. We

  276. are not just going to follow the crowd because they left, Jesus, we

  277. were sticking with you. Because you have the words of eternal life. He

  278. is our sustenance. Friends. You and I who have found Christ have found

  279. eternal life. And every day that you partake of God's word when you do

  280. your quiet time and you read, this is your eternal life feeding you.

  281. This is the written word, the logost word, all right, And as

  282. you read, God will reveal his word, the Raymar word that you need

  283. for each day, for each season. Amen. So where do you go

  284. for sustenance? Simon Peter said, Jesus, you have the words of eternal

  285. life. Amen. Okay, Please, you cannot find eternal life in anything

  286. else. You want to try and find it in party and go ahead because

  287. you can get your concert canceled. Nineteen seventy five failed, all right,

  288. last night mus that Want also failed? All right? Oh all right.

  289. So people are trying to find eternal life, fine, are you? I

  290. cannot believe in Jesus. How silly we are when we say no to Jesus

  291. when he offers us eternal life. Nobody has ever offered anyone else eternal life.

  292. So he is our sustenance. John chapter one, verse fourteen. John

  293. chapter one, verse fourteen says, in the beginning was the word the word,

  294. and the word was with God, and the word was God. Who

  295. the word the word is Jesus was God was with God. Here is the

  296. word, and the word became flesh, and he dwelt among us. We

  297. beheld his glory, and the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,

  298. full of grace and truth. Hallelujah, friends, Jesus is the living

  299. Word. He's living in you and me. He's not like we sank something

  300. a long time ago. We sang this song. My Jesus ain't no souvenir

  301. hanging on the wall. He's real. He's living inside on me. Whoa

  302. whoa, My Jesus is not a souvenir hanging on your neckles O the cross

  303. there, Okay, he's hot. He ain't no souvenir. He didn't just

  304. put your cross on the wall. And that's my Jesus. I'm a Christian

  305. hallelujah. No, he's real, He's living inside of you and me.

  306. He's the Word made flesh. He walked on earth, he went through every

  307. testing temptation that you and I would ever go through, yet without sin.

  308. And then he goes to the cross. He takes the payment due for all

  309. of us, so that we never have to die eternally but have eternal life.

  310. Amen. The Word was made flesh. Friends, sometimes as believers,

  311. we need to remember again, you're not just living on your own. You

  312. have the Word of Life in you. And then you walk into your hospital,

  313. when you work, into your workplace, when you walk into your business,

  314. when you walk to pitch a deal, you walk with the Word of

  315. life. And you're not just selling your product. You are bringing Christ into

  316. your workplace. I work in a place where all of them are Christian,

  317. but I still have YEA. Hopefully they got saved, They got saved.

  318. After that, they got saved those So the nonbelievers who we employed, we

  319. were I have to walk in every morning and not just think these are I

  320. got to come in there and just say, wow, Lord, what can

  321. I do to bless my team? You know how, I'm gonna say good

  322. morning to them? They never say good morning to me, So I schooled

  323. them Hello, say good morning la minus they I signed their checks anyway.

  324. Yeah, but I'm walking with the world of life. You walking with the

  325. world of life. You do what you do with the world of life.

  326. You are in your family with the word of life. You you know you

  327. the jobs that you do are amazing. But make it double double amazing when

  328. you bring the Word of life with you to going to school, go in

  329. a classroom. You know. I we used to have a movement when when

  330. when when he was a student, when Albert was a student, we said

  331. bring your Bible to school and put it on the table. People ask you

  332. what is that. I say, it's my bottle. What's in it?

  333. You want to read it? And they put that Bible on the table.

  334. All the Taylor's College students years ago, and they would do it. They

  335. would say, I'm a Christian. For a second student, the word of

  336. God's living in us. When you walk into the workplace tomorrow, see yourself

  337. carrying the bread of life with you. You can bring sour door, bread

  338. that you may praise the Lord, hallelujah. But you give them a little

  339. bit more. Double double up that sour door and bring them the living Word.

  340. Amen, hallelujah. Also this is good for you and me, Joshua.

  341. Chapter one, verse eight. The Book of the Law shall not depart

  342. from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that

  343. you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For

  344. then you will make your way prosperous. And then and then you will have

  345. good success. Amen. Yeah, this is the verse you should memorize.

  346. So all the students in the house, you memorize your history, You memorize

  347. your formulas. Can I ask you to memorize God's word? No, come

  348. on, memorize God's because your brain is better than mind. Mind going away.

  349. Really, But when you memorize God's word, you are partaking of God's

  350. word, and it is life. It is life. The word of God

  351. is living in you. It is meditate on the Word of God day and

  352. night. Then observed to do it, and then it will make your way

  353. prosperous. Do you want to be an a plass student and not having to

  354. do everything your friend does meditating God's word? I'm an average student. I'm

  355. not like you, Evelyn. You are, I'm not like you. I'm

  356. not like you. I'm an average student, top class, in the top

  357. class. Everyone else very clever. But it happened to be in the top

  358. class. But I'm really nowhere there. But when I came a Christian at

  359. sixteen seventeen, and I meditated on the Word of God, I memorized scripture.

  360. I studied as well, but the Lord led me to study chapters,

  361. study things that I didn't even know why I was reading them. They all

  362. came out for the exam. I taught my school obviously a signed student,

  363. but I taught my school in literature. I'm not a literature student. Actually,

  364. as I told you the story, the teacher said, Center, just

  365. give it up and give it blah blah. You failed the trial's exam.

  366. Just give it up so bad, she said, just give it up,

  367. because you're already failing your trials. But I said, no, I need

  368. an extra I need an extra. A from somewhere because I'm really bad in

  369. maths. Maths, so I did that. Really, the Holy Spirit helped

  370. me in every subject. I'm an average student. I did not be top

  371. student for all subjects, but I definitely taught the whole school as a literature

  372. best student, which I'm not a literature student at all. So everybody thought,

  373. this, mad woman, how come you got a distinction for the book

  374. prize student? I tell you what it works. So if you're memorizing songs

  375. by nineteen seventy five and bts and fifty fifty and you know, oh my

  376. god, oh my god, blue jeans, big jeans, blog blog,

  377. whatever jeans, Oh my god, oh my god. Now I'm gonna say,

  378. oh my god, would you memorize scripture? It is a song?

  379. Oh mg? Yeah. So we're all memorizing these onnges because I know you

  380. can sing it. Most of the Korean groups and the Black Pink people encoded

  381. languages that again, see memorize and what do you get death death metal.

  382. I'm asking you to have the word of life. You want to be the

  383. best student, start taking scripture. You read like you take vitamins one vitamin

  384. C three times a day, right, forgot. Can you rememor I don't

  385. just forgot to olive the world? And the scripturella the beginning of the fear

  386. of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy

  387. One is understanding ah right, and the Holy Spirit will teach us. I

  388. tell you, if only Christians would take hold of what is truth and apply

  389. it, we would we will be walking on sunshine. Yeah. Yeah,

  390. now you're walking on fifty fifty. Put the Book of the Law before you

  391. meditate on it. Can I challenge you church, not only our students,

  392. because you're playing the games anyway, Like your eyes are coming square like the

  393. computer that you're playing, and you're just you're killing everybody. Why don't you

  394. just slay the giants that are demons that are killing your friends to suicide and

  395. to depression, right, and you're playing. You sit there and play the

  396. whole day. Your eyes look like the computer screen. They're square. No

  397. power, And here Jesus is giving us the power, which comes to my

  398. next verse. He's the power sauce. Why do we live less? Ask

  399. myself? Why do I even live less? Why do I succumb to the

  400. garbage that other people are saying about me, my church, my country.

  401. Why do I not live in the fullness of His power? And I believe

  402. even as we do this and have been walking in it, you will see

  403. God work. He's the power sauce there is then said to him, what

  404. shall we do that we may work the works of God? John six twenty

  405. eight. People were asking what shall we do to work the works of God?

  406. We should be asking Lord, what shall we do to do the works

  407. of God? What are we doing the works of God? How are we

  408. doing it? Where we are at? Jesus said, well, believe in

  409. me that the Father has sent me, and I am the son of the

  410. Father he sent me. That's the question you and I should be asking,

  411. what shall we do that we may work the works of God. I think

  412. we live under whatever that God has for us. Friends. Heaven rules,

  413. and we are moving towards the finishing line. We ain't gonna hit nor finishing

  414. line if we live under the power. The Lord is standing with his hands

  415. open to us, saying, hey, peopaul, here is my power,

  416. and you use that power in the Holy Spirit to do the works of God.

  417. I'm not saying come to church, you know, I'm saying go out

  418. to your marketplace, in your businesses, in your school, in your university,

  419. in your wherever you are. Even when you and I go to carry

  420. I learn so busy. I have another message and talk. Are you even

  421. aware that God is there? Are you even aware? But I'm so aware

  422. of other things. I'm so aware of other things, like I'm hungry.

  423. I want to fall in love. You know, people want to fall in

  424. love, but whenever aware that God is there with me and his power is

  425. ready for us to to to exercise the power of the Holy Spirit. Students,

  426. you want to do well. The power of God is within you.

  427. Why do you succumb to the garbage that is on Netflix? Mother? Sign

  428. it off the power that's in you with you know, a young person that's

  429. filled with the Holy Spirit and working in the power of God. My goodness,

  430. you don't need no souvenir, no Netflix, no TikTok. You would

  431. just be the TikTok right, You'll be talking the tick ticking and talking.

  432. Yeah, what do we do? Come on? Any person, not a

  433. young person, no old person. Wow, and a power God. You

  434. lay hands, you pray for people, They get saved, they get healed.

  435. Friends, they did encourage people who are down getting encouraged. No,

  436. duh power X Chapter one, verse eight. This is the promise to you

  437. and me, all of us who believe in him. But you shall receive

  438. say the word once again. I can't hear you. There's any power.

  439. Yeah, but you shall receive, and you shall receive boom, all right,

  440. when the Holy Spirit come upon you, you shall be my witnesses.

  441. King James is both in Jerusalem, both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and

  442. Samaria and the end of the earth come on. You will receive power,

  443. what power, dynamite power urnam in the Greek dynamite, power to do what,

  444. to cast a spell on somebody? No? No, to win your

  445. game? Where I do know how these names of the games are these days?

  446. I forgot all the names. Really. My time was counter strike,

  447. you know. Yeah, m hmmm, still is they are blow you know,

  448. I don't know. No, No, not my time as a student,

  449. my time as a youth worker. And I'm still doing youth. You

  450. receive power to be God's witnesses, God's witnesses. The actual word for witnesses

  451. is matter. To die for Jesus. But I'm asking you live for him,

  452. live, for Jesus, no need to die, live for him.

  453. You shall receive power from the Holy Spirit, and you will become His witness

  454. to witness for Christ in your Jerusalem right where you're working, and also in

  455. your neighboring city, neighboring place, in some area a bit further all right,

  456. and to the ends of the earth. Yo. Ex Church is a

  457. mission's focused church. We plant churches, we send missionaries out and then it's

  458. not just them going. I want all of us to do it. Whether

  459. we are going, that's number one, whether we are giving. And the

  460. last we can do let's be praying. Every homes has an adopted plant,

  461. right, Okay, some of us just adopted one. Lah Okay, like

  462. my homes no chet la the new home. We pray for that, that

  463. city, we pray for that church plan. That's the least we can do.

  464. Number two, we can go. I think the probably the least,

  465. not even praying. Love is the giving. That's that's the least we can

  466. do. We give missions conference coming out. Have you signed up? I

  467. know, I tell you. If it was how to make money, all

  468. of you signed up. Ready. If it's about how to find a husband,

  469. all of you sign up. Bready a wife love, No but missions

  470. and prayer as long as I've lived, and we only live for so many

  471. years. Nobody wants to sign up. So I want to ask ak one,

  472. can you sign up? My homies? Law K five can Okay?

  473. Some of you are not in my in our homestead, sign up last sign

  474. Come yeah, calling names ready, I'm just being ruthless. Now sign up.

  475. Come. Oh, we're gonna have our own in house. Person is

  476. gonna be speaking, not me. Somebody in our church plan is going to

  477. be taking one of the workshops. Who you find out Read the website.

  478. You will see who from our plan is going to be in that workshop.

  479. All right, sign up for Missions conference so that you understand what it is

  480. to walk in the power of God. People said, people said, you

  481. can't plan a church in the UK. The pounds is far heavier than the

  482. rig it. We've planted three to four churches already. Rachel is here.

  483. She can't witness for you? Is here a one thousand? I don't know.

  484. It's a small church. By impacting lives one at a time, and

  485. someone else has taken up already. Another young leader after her has gone to

  486. take it out. Someone who grew up with X kids from X church month

  487. Singh. She was with us as the X Kids, X teens X Campus.

  488. She's a working adult now and she's leading X Edinburgh. So if you

  489. say we can't do it because of many reasons, I can tell you the

  490. ring it is low right now. He's on the low etiquettes are under I'm

  491. not being able to go to visit them yet because it's too high. I

  492. don't want to spend unnecessarily but waiting for the thing to drop. But still

  493. it doesn't stop us from planting, from reaching, from sending people. So

  494. I don't know who's the next person who will be send. Benji and Michelle

  495. have gone to us Osaka. Visa will only last for so many years.

  496. I don't know who's next. But there's no need to go and come back.

  497. I don't want you to stay there forever. I tell all my missionaries,

  498. please come home. Hallelujah. Let's have the power of the Holy Spirit

  499. working in our mids to be used by God and to go forth in His

  500. power the bread of life? Are we ready to feed somebody with the bread

  501. of life. You're going to school tomorrow, think of be aware you carry

  502. the bread of life. Somebody needs to have bread, bread and tell you

  503. what it's not kaya bread. It's happening real. So I would do what

  504. Okay, the film with Jesus finally and this one John fourteen twelve. Most

  505. so surely, I say to you, he who believes in me the works

  506. that I do, he will do also, and greater works than this he

  507. will do. Boom. Friends. If Jesus raised the dead, he said,

  508. you also will raise the dead. I haven't. My husband has been

  509. trying. I quite shailah. Every time we go for a funeral and we

  510. go by the cascader, he's very quietly going there and saying in Jesus name,

  511. rise up, I run awayla. I don't know him, and he

  512. will good three times, rise up in Jesus, especially if they're young,

  513. prisoner, still young, Rise up in Jesus, Rise up, I say,

  514. very quietly, write up, because if they did up, they all

  515. helter skelter, run away. Anyway. If he's a young person, not

  516. so early to go, rise up, so he triya anyway, no harm.

  517. Free of church, it's free to dream. It's free to declare God's

  518. word. If it works, it'll work if it's not God's will. It

  519. ain't happening yet. So he does this several times. I've seen hi because

  520. I go with him. Are you? I also like a bit, I'm

  521. like that. I'm quite by say well, I scared. I'm not scared

  522. because it rise up. I'm a bit embarrassed. Lah, this is called

  523. my flesh is still at work. I'm not dead yet. No, I

  524. said, all who in Christ died, ready, right that day I will

  525. rose up again. So Jesus said, what I do, you will do?

  526. And more I hear the sick, you will heal the sick, and

  527. more man are you? Are you? And I'm willing to believe. Sometimes

  528. we're scared. I think we're more embarrassed. We're more scared than we are.

  529. We're believing what Jesus said. So prayla. We should dream, we

  530. should dream. Right, I'm very scared. So because I everybody's open and

  531. they say, uh oh yo, radio, I cannot so I just have

  532. to say, okay, but does the Jesus take over? I was scared.

  533. But but this is why we need to preach this word to ourselves.

  534. Right, if he said it, it's gonna happen. And so many times

  535. when it always happens on the mission field. We pray for the sick.

  536. They actually get healed. They actually get healed. You lay hands, whoa

  537. down they go. They get out saying they experience something from the Lord.

  538. But we should have it more, not less. In your workplace, in

  539. your classroom. Your friend is not well. If the person, I can't

  540. say everything will happened immediately, but we should at least pray until something happens.

  541. I've prayed for people. We pray and pray until something happens. It

  542. hasn't happened yet, he hasn't healed yet, he hasn't changed. But we

  543. keep prying until something happens. Amen. Most assuredly, Jesus says, can

  544. I remind you the Bread of life living in you? Says what I do,

  545. you will do, and greater works than this you will do. So

  546. church planting is not the most difficult, then, because Jesus says, what

  547. I do, you will do, and greater things you will do. So

  548. if we need the funds, we have to pray that He will provide us

  549. the funds. And it comes from the people of God. Doesn't just come

  550. from heaven. God always uses his people. He always invites you to partner

  551. with him, to sow into the work, to sow into a life.

  552. Sometimes we say, you know, there's a need you know. In the

  553. past week, I was in a chat with the church in Singapore and they

  554. were just saying they were chatting. I didn't get involved because I don't know

  555. the person. They said, hey, there's this person from k L k

  556. L k L a visa. Don't know whether died ready or not. And

  557. they said, the guys in church, he needs a place to sleep.

  558. Can we let him sleep in church or someone take him to the house.

  559. But most of people in Singapore I don't have their own homes. They rent

  560. rooms, they're working, and the families were there already very small line or

  561. their place kan sleep in church. And my pastors like, we can't leave

  562. the homeless out right. Let him stay in judge baby, just sleep on

  563. the couch. I don't know what happened. I didn't see, I didn't

  564. hear anything more. I think they let him stay there. They took care

  565. of him and buy today today's by day, today's Sunday, so by today

  566. he should be flying back to Malitia. I don't know who this person is.

  567. No money, they know this person and wow. I mean it's scary

  568. sometimes to do something that we don't know the person. You're not sure they

  569. will stay forever. Every baby get things like that. Some things I feel

  570. okay, no, this person needs to learn to take responsibility. Others,

  571. we know it's genuine. We will help. But hey, friends, if

  572. Jesus did something, then you will do it and do more. So are

  573. you ready friends, for the ride of your life? Come out. Don't

  574. make Jesus souvenir in your life. Okay, last one, He's a sure

  575. sure promise. Just to have another sure sure promise. He's a sure promise

  576. John six forty. And this is the will of Him who send me that

  577. everyone who sees the sun and believes in Him may have ever lasting life.

  578. And I will raise him up at the last day. Friends, when you

  579. believe in Christ, you have ever lasting life. This gift is for you,

  580. but I pray you won't keep it to yourself. You will share it

  581. with others, and many believe of us. Just I'm Christian. And that's

  582. a full stop. It's not a full stop. It's a comma, and

  583. you keep going. There is no full stop. It's a comma and you

  584. keep going. Your promise is that he will raise you up. At the

  585. last day. He will raise you up. You will have a new body.

  586. You will have I don't know, a new face. Don't if you

  587. don't like your face, I don't really will change. But you will raise

  588. you up. And that is his promise everlasting life, meaning you will not

  589. have everlasting death, but have everlasting life. But we need to finish the

  590. race. We need to run this race, and we need to run doing.

  591. What God is asking us to do is to be His witnesses as well,

  592. not just for ourselves. Because second Peter three nine says says this.

  593. Peter writes this, The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some

  594. count slackness. Why are you taking so long, Jesus, But it's long

  595. suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should

  596. come to repentance. Amen, aren't you glad that Jesus waited for you and

  597. got your and got your attention and you said yes to Jesus. Everyone has

  598. to have a personnel encounter with Jesus. Amen, you have to personally accept

  599. right. Nobody is born into a nobody born in a Christian family, says

  600. you are a Christian because you're born in a conduba doesn't make you a kurbao.

  601. Born in a manger or not born in a farm doesn't make you a

  602. cow or a horse. You your child. Everybody in the home needs to

  603. personally encounter Jesus. So the question we always say, have you received Christ?

  604. Have you encountered Christ and experience a transformation? This is why God is

  605. waiting and not straight away comes and Jesus, but he's partnering with us,

  606. inviting us to reach somebody. There's work, friends to do, There's work

  607. to be done. You feel not employed. Jesus wants to employ you because

  608. Adam was employed and he worked in the garden. All of you think you

  609. have retirement. Sorry, God wants to implore you. Re fire, Amen,

  610. re fire. Serve the Lord. Amen. Serve the Lord means many

  611. things to so many. I don't know. If you can only let your

  612. imagination fly, you can do a lot of things that can serve the Lord's

  613. purpose. Because only you will see a need and you will you will respond

  614. to that call. I may not see what you see, but God has

  615. put a vision in your heart, a picture in your heart. I may

  616. not be a feed the poor, but you can. I can't cook,

  617. you can, yeah, I can't. I can't do maths very well,

  618. but you can tutor or astley kids. These are things you and I God

  619. can use in small ways, and it opens up bigger doors and other things

  620. for us to do. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise. Continue

  621. to pray for our loved ones who have not yet known Christ. Continue to

  622. pray that they will come to know Christ. Because the Lord says, be

  623. my witnesses, I do not desire anyone to perish. And his promise to

  624. us is a sure promise that he will receive us, that he will raise

  625. us up in the last day. Amen. So may you come into the

  626. sustenance of the Lord. Hallelujah. Let him be the fool that the bread

  627. of life and bread of life. So I really ask us, lah Ah,

  628. you know what are you feeding us? House? What are you spending

  629. your money on? Makeup? Throw it? Oh? Is there no money

  630. to give the mission? You don't buy one mascare on hundred dollars. I

  631. just found out he's one hundred dollars A branded one la, a good brand.

  632. We won't kill your eyes. I can't go because Saturday is my time.

  633. Will spend more my time to yourself and while others perish. Sorry,

  634. I'm ruthless. This is God's word to us. He says, I am

  635. the bread of life. I'm here to feed you so that you won't hunger

  636. and thirst. Then bring this bread and sell it and sell it full and

  637. shade with others. And don't just give them guardenia every ball give them so

  638. do all right, hallelujah. He's assustenance, eat of the Lord. Spend

  639. money on what will give you eternal life. Turn't buy bread that is gardenia.

  640. I'm just joking. There's a power, sauce. Where is your power,

  641. sauce? It is the Holy Spirit. He give you power from one

  642. high. The Holy Spirit is your power sauce. You asking what can I

  643. do a lot to do your works? He says, here's the power.

  644. You go. You go, and I will be with you. And he

  645. is the sure promise. When you're working and you're busy serving, you're doing

  646. stuff, you turn it behind him, look and say, God, are

  647. you with me? He is, and he is your sure promise that he's

  648. being with you, and he will raise you up in the last day.

  649. He wards you. Amen. But the sure promise is also that no one

  650. should perish. So if God can lead you to someone, you're not out

  651. to convert anyone. You're out to share the good news to someone, to

  652. share with them the bread of life. Seriously, I can buy sourdo and

  653. I say, and doctor Andrew, here's you can take it or you can

  654. leave it. But that's what I should be doing, sharing it with you,

  655. sharing it with you, Sharlene. You want to take it or leave

  656. it, but at least I tell you this is how I made my sourdough,

  657. all right, and this is where I got it from. I've been

  658. so blessed eating my surdo. Can I share my surdo with you? So

  659. I've been so blessed with Jesus. Can I share Jesus with you the bread

  660. of life? And there's so many ways in which we can share the good

  661. news. Amen, hallelujah. So friends, if you haven't been eating from

  662. the bread of life, it's time to eat from the bread of life.

  663. Stop eating, you know, things that don't give you life. Lah,

  664. all right, stop eating garbage. Stop stop picking from the ground and picking

  665. up rubbish. When Jesus gives you the best bread. He is the bread

  666. of life a man. He is the life that you and I are walking

  667. in and living in holy spirits, living in us. Number one, he's

  668. your sustenance for life. Number two, he's your power source. You need

  669. power to overcome to do something. He's your power source. He's the one

  670. who equips you. And he's the Holy spirit living in you a man.

  671. And every time you get frightened to do something, remember Jesus said you will

  672. do what he did, and greater things you will do. Wow, you

  673. get excited, friends, And he's your sure promise. If you feel like

  674. do I will Jesus remember me? Yes he will. He will remember you

  675. because He has given you eternal life, ever lasting life, because you believe

  676. in him. But remember also that God loves every person. He does not

  677. want anyone to be lost but to come to his saving knowledge. Would you

  678. feed this bread to somebody? Would you break bread with somebody? So the

  679. breaking of breads because in those times the word bread was made round loaves.

  680. People would break bread. So when we break bread, we share, We

  681. break bread, we share. Would you break bread and share your experience of

  682. Jesus with somebody, share a little bit of yourself in your encounter with Christ.

  683. It's for anyone of us. As long as we know Christ, you

  684. can share this bread with somebody. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

  685. For more information on our church, please visit x church org. We

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  687. to be a good week, a hit for you. God bless