Shaken Not Stirred | Joel Loi

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They can not stir Wow double O seven from tiam No,

we're not gonna learn about James Bond today, but we're

gonna we're gonna look at someone from the Bible, and

we want to see how this someone went through the

journey of his life to so much shakings. But he

was never stirred, never stirred off course, continue on with

his with his journey in the Lord. Okay, now, when

was the last time you're had a good shake? Huh?

When was the last time you had a good shake?

Yeah?

Milk shake, shake, shake? Can everyone stand? Everyone stand? Yeah,

everyone stand, Okay for the next five seconds, let's shake.

Loosener of it, relax.

Yeah.

If you see your neighbor chans, shake them shake your

neighbor chack chack, chack, hake, wake them up. Yeah yeah, yeah,

all right, Okay, if you're done, Sha, take your seats.

Thank you so much for participating.

That was all.

See you next Sunday. No, no, no, no, no. So it

gives me a lot of excitement to share God's word again.

And uh, you know, I think as Selena preached last name.

If you guys hit the message. You know, we're going

through this whole season of speaking about revival. Yes, fantastic.

And the last time I shared God's word, I mentioned

that revival is not accident. It doesn't happen by accident.

There is an order to invite and to welcome revival

into our lives and into our church. So today we

will look at the Book of Joe, all right, the

Book of Joe. And I know when I say the

Book of Joke, some of us must be thinking, like, oh,

why why look at the Book of Joke? All right,

because you know it's the weekend. The last thing we

want to look at is at something called Joe that reminds.

Us of Job. Okay. It's the Book of Job, not

the Book of Job. Okay.

So we want to see how God brings us two

different shakings. So that's why shaken not stir. Joe went

through a lot of shakings through his life. If you

read the Book of Job, you will know you will

understand the story and what he has gone through. All right,

So it's gonna be good. Look to your neighbor and

say it's going to be good, all right, fantastic, Thank

you for affirming that. So there are two types of shaking,

two types of shaking. One is the shaking that builds,

and one is the shaking that destroyed. So the types

of shaking that destroy. Of course, you know, whenever I say, uh,

top of your mind, you're probably be thinking like earth quakeler,

you know, shaking destroy, destroy, destruction. Okay, So earthquakes produces

both horizontal and vertical forces, leading to foundation failure, structural collapse.

Yeah.

Who say you don't learn new things at your Yeah,

so that's the kind of shaking that destroyed. Then there's

another kind of shaking that we're probably all very familiar with, Okay,

because how many of you have experienced earth quaick before?

Oh Jude, all right, well really okay, more hands than

I anticipated.

Okay, But there's another time.

Of shaking that we're all probably more familiar with and

all probably have experienced before. You know, when you grab

a you know, bottle of soda fizzy drink, then when

you shake the bottle, something happens, right, yeah, let me

tell you what happens. The shaking disturbs the liquid. See

all two starts forming bubbles in the drink. And those

tiny bubbles as new creation sites, causing increase internal pressure

and the feezy messy explosion will take place. All of

us have experienced that before, Yes, all of our experience

that before. But today we're not gonna focus on the

shakings that destroy. We want to talk about the shakings

that build. We want to talk about how we can

prepare our hearts and our lives for revival. But one

thing is for sure is that all of us will

go through shakings. Look to your neighbor and say, you're

gonna go through shakings. Okay, We're gonna look at Joe

all right. If you can turn your bibles, there'll be

great joke chapter one, verse one to five. I don't

think I have that on the slide joke chapter one,

verse one to five.

If your dare, say yes. If you're not there saying.

Hold on, okay ah wait ah, wait ah wait all right,

everyone there say yes, okay, okay ou I'll go Joe

and his family in Ooz, or some people say, oh, okay.

There was a man in the land of Ooz whose

name was Joe. And that man was blameless and upright,

one who feared God and shun evil and seven sons

and three daughters were born to him. Also, his possessions

were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yokes

of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, haven't count the male yet,

a female ready of one hundred, and a very large household.

So that this man was the greatest of all the

people of the east. And his sons would go and

feast in their houses each on his appointed day, and

would send and invite their three sisters to eat and

drink with them. So it was when the days of

feasting had run their course that Joe would send and

sanctify them, and he would write early in the morning

of a burnt offerings according to the number of them,

all for jobs. Say, it may be that my sons

have seen and curse God in their hearts. Thus Joke

did regularly. So we understand a bit more about Joe.

We understand the man that he is. He's a man

that is.

Rich.

This guy is loaded loaded, all right. You know when

I when I when I did a quick like, try

and see how rich this guy is. Right, I love

the answer that came. You know when I when I

like did a quick Google. It's like the Jeff Besios

of the East. I'm like, whoa, this guy is rich man? Okay,

and he also had a huge family and a lot

of live stock. What is not written here is that

there will probably be a lot of hand you know,

back then they call it servants to take care of

the children, to take care of the livestock. Yeah, haven

mentioned grandchildren yet? Na, These have only mentioned children only. Okay,

so we know that huge family everyone. Okay, so far

we understand a bit about joke. So first point that

we're gonna touch on the shakings that build our lives.

First one is that remove the gaps. The type of

shakings we go through in our lives. The first type

of shaking, the shakings that remove the gaps. How many

of you bake a cake before?

Okay?

All right, not time for confessions, Selena big a cake before?

Yeah?

So you know, after you mix everything, you know, what

do you do? You give you a bit of shake,

You give you a bit of tech. All right?

How many of you mixed concrete before? Ah?

More hands than I anticipated. Okay, So after you mix everything,

what do you do? You give you a bit of tap,

You give you a bit of shake. Why so that

it sets so that it settles. What else, one word?

Just now for.

The air bubbles to come up. All right, I think

it's going to be on the next slide, so we

can see the difference between who say you don't learn

new things in church?

All right? So on the left is.

What happens to concrete that did not go through the shaking,

did not go through the tap, the gaps was not removed,

the air bubbles remain trapped. And on the right is

the one that sets properly. Okay, let's learn it. Let's

try and see what God is gonna teach us today.

So the shaking causes the air bubbles to rise and escape,

causing the gaps around to feel properly. It bonds and

it sets and it settles. And for concrete, you know,

because there's rebars, you know, those iron rots, so that

it will it will stick together with the iron rods

and it will be strong. And then for cake, so

that it does not collapse. Yeah everyone, okay, so far.

So many times we complain that when we go through

different shakings of our lives, right, God causes to go

through different text things, challenges, situations, trials, shakings. But we're

very quick to not take it in a positive way.

We're quick to look at God and say, God, why

why am I going to challenges? Why me?

Why me?

But I think the question we have to ask ourselves

this morning is that if we want revival, and if

we want to crow, and if we want our hearts

and our lives to settle nicely and properly, we need

to allow some of these gaps to be filled up.

How the gaps get filled up?

Shakings, shakings, Yeah, you know, God does a little tech

in our lives so that those air bubbles can come up.

Don't be too quick to complain, don't be too quick

to run away. You know, sometimes God brings us to

different situations. I don't want, I don't know. Want two

difficult to challenging change ur two difficult to challenging change company?

Here this marriage two difficult too challenging change marriage. Hold,

We're not like that. Okay, those are other church buying X.

But in X Pang, I think everyone is like challenge,

bring it on, man, no problem, trials, Yes, no worries. God,

I'm ready for the gaps to be filled you know

that that kind of attitude. Yeah, So I think we

need to watch ourselves the next time we go through

different shakings of our lives, because you know why, when

the shakings happen, the air bubbles rise and it bops.

So can you imagine, God, I don't know why you

bring this kind of shake into me, but chick chick, chick,

chick chick. Before you realize that chick chick chick, anger

rises up, anger is gone.

Chick chick. Shake, shake, shake, shack shake. Oh, you got

a lot of problem. You greed.

You know, greed, Ah, the greed rises up from your life.

All the different things that we find challenging. Unforgiveness, I

can't forgive Lord. Then God brings us to different shakings

them through going through those shakings, you realize that, actually,

you know what, forgiving is not that hard, because when

we go through tougher situations, we realize that that other

situations may not be as difficult as we thought.

You know, you'll know what I.

Mean, because when all were going through UPSR, you thought

it's like the biggest and worst thing in the world,

right until you go to SPM and then you're like,

u PSI is nothing, man, You'll know.

What I mean.

We always think it's the biggest thing until God brings

us through another shaking. Then we realize, actually are it's

not so bad, the problem is not so big. And

as God brings us to shaking, the different things go up,

it pops, allowing room for God to feel. Because what's

the purpose of those air bubbles to go up? Not

just so that it sets, not just so that it settles,

but so that there small room for God to feel.

You know what I mean.

Yeah, if you don't understand what I mean, go to

Joho Barrow, right, You go to Joho Baru right. Yeah,

you'll see people at petrol station doing this. You know

what I mean, Joho Barrow right next to Singapore. You know,

Malaysians are laughing because they know what I'm talking about.

They go there at the petrol station checking your car.

You know why they shake that car? You know why

they shake that car so that they can feel more.

You know why you got is shake in your life

so that he can feel more, so that he can

feel more into your life. People, shake car, God shake

your life. Watch what God is feeling you with? Amen? Amen?

So God is going to cause you to go through

different shakings. Lets look at Joke chapter one, verse twenty two.

The shakings are good for you. Thanks Matthias. Thank you

Matthias for doing the slightest this morning.

Joke. Chapter one, verse twenty two.

Is it there? No, it's not there. It's okay, you know,

it's just like, oh.

Is there? All right? Joe?

Chapter one, verse twenty two. No, it's still not there.

Never mind, everyone got your bibles? What does Joe chapter one,

verse twenty two say in all these Joe did not

see nor charge God with wrong?

Oh you know what talk about wrong?

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send their regards to you please. You know, if you

are connected with them on social media, to them, you

say hi, and you really enjoyed church today?

All right? All right? Jobe chatter one, verse twenty two.

How does a guy, how does a guy with all

the air gaps in his life remove feel by God

every single day?

Look like?

Sound like Job chapter one twenty two? What happened in

Job chatter one twenty two? You have to look back

at the previous verses. Let me tell you what the

previous verses say. Okay, the previous verses. In verse thirteen, okay,

he says, now there was a day when his sons

and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the oldest

brother's house. A messenger came to joke and say, the

oxen were plowing and donkeys feeling beside them, when the

Sabians raided them, took them away. Indeed have killed the

servants with the age of the sword, and I alone

have escaped to tell you. So, if you read on

all the way until verse twenty one, you will find

out that CHOP's children all ten gone, Job's live stock

all in the thousands gone. And after all that that

has happened, what does he say in verse twenty one, naked?

I came from my mother's womb. Naked shall I return there?

The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away. Blessed is

the name of the Lord. And in verse twenty two,

what we want to pay attention to is that in

all this, in all the shaking, in all the trials

and challenges, Joe did not sin nor charge God with wrong.

How is our attitude when we go through the shakings

of our lives, when God puts us through different challenges

and situations, are we quick to complain or can we

have a testimony like in verse twenty two that says

Joe did not sin nor charge God with wrong? Eddie

did not sin nor charge God with wrong? You guys understand,

pick a name, put it there. Can we have that

kind of testimony?

All right?

Because when we go through different challenges and instability, you know,

like earthquake, right, because there's so much instability, you know,

things are falling around, things are changing.

What do we do?

Do we go first to God or do we go

to oh church, gipt or what do I do in

this kind of situation? Do we go to curus, do

we go to friends? Or do we go to God? Okay,

So the first point is the shakings that we go

through in our lives. It removes the gaps. It removes

the gaps so that God can fill us with more.

Everyone's still okay. The shakings are good. The shakings are

for growth. The second reason for God brings us to

different shakings is that God wants to determine what is

inside of us. Oh, I got some many illustration to

determine what's inside. So when you share what comes out sound,

what did team say?

Coffee?

It's coffee beans. He knows it straight away. You know,

got sound coffee beans? He recognizes us. Talk about this one.

Coffee toffee? What sounds that ice?

She recognized the ce You know straight away when God

brings us to different shakings, right, God wants to determine

what's inside of us. Okay, let's try and understand anyone. Okay,

you don't know what you're made off until you're given

the chance to prove what you're made of. You don't

know what you are made off until you're given the

chance or the opportunity to prove what you are made of.

Anyone can see their patient. I have a patient man.

Until you're given the chance to prove your patient, anyone

can say, hey, I'm the most courageous guy in this group. Men,

Until you're given the chance to prove whether you're courageous

or not, you'll know what I mean. Anyone can say

until they're given the chance to prove it. Joe, Chapter one,

verse eight to twelve. I think this is the one.

Then the Lord say to Satan, have you con see

my servant, Jacob? Have you considered my servant? Joke, how

many of you would like to be in a position

right that God will recommend you to Satan. Wow, I'm

like God, Please donor I love you. I'll serve you

don't do this. Have you considered my servant Joe. There

is none like him on the earth?

Wow?

Someone he you know, he's praising you in front of Sathan,

a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and

shuns evil. So Satan answered the Lord and said, does

Joe fear God for nothing? Have you not made a

hitch around him and around his household, and around all

that he has on his side? On every side you

have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions

have increased in the land. But now stretch out your

hand touch all that he has, and he will surely

curse you to your face. And the Lord say, to

behold all that he has is in your power. Wow,

You'll want the kind of recommendation from God and not

how you're like God, I love you. You know, if

you can use anything, Lord, you can use me. You know,

we sing those kind of song, we pray those kind

of prayer. And then God says to Satan, look all

that he has, it's in your power. Do what you

want with John is a blast, blameless and upright man. Wow,

but do not lay a hand on his person and

do whatever you want. So the following verse after that

we will read is that all his children were taken away,

taken away like you know, and alive, and then all

his possessions gone. That's the kind of shaking that Joe

went through.

All right.

Let's look at another portion of scripture joke, Chapter two,

verse three to ten. Yeah, so it's nicer u, you know,

like when someone you know recommends you. You know, I

can't you mention your boss recommend like, hey, every shure,

he's a great guy. Anything you need, he can sort

it up for you. Oh I want nice?

Nice? Right?

Nice feels good? Yes, But do we want this kind

of recommendation?

Now?

This is a chapter two right, Chapter two, verse three,

the Lord say to Satan again, have you considered my

seven joke that there is none like him on the earth?

Wow?

Two rounds you know of recommendation. Yeah, sometimes we get

one recommendation. We're like, you want recommend one time? This

on God recommend you two times, two times? But what

happens this time? Jobe is still blameless, still upright, you know,

after the first round of shaking. Right, God still says

that about Joe when we go through the shakings of

our lives, how we got into produce us to Satan,

he didn't do so well in the first round, but

you can try again, okay, But second round still says

the same thing. One who fears God and shuns evil,

and still he holds fast to his integrity, although you

incited me against him, to destroy him without cause. So

Satan answered the Lord, skin for skin, yes, all that

a man has, he will sure he will give for

his life. But stretch out your hand now touch his bone,

and it's fast, and he will surely curse you to

your face. Then the Lord say to Satan, behold, he's

in your hand, but spare his life. How many of

you won this kind of testimony? If you raise your hand,

pray for me. Also, I also don't have to say,

you know I'm like God. Please I will serve you.

Don't recommend me to Satan. Don't all right, don't offer

this kind of challenge. Friends, When the next time we

go through trials and challenges and testings, can I encourage

you with this? Reminded that we just read in chapter

one and chapter two of joke is that, first of all,

I mean this is a sight understanding, you know, as

I was preparing this message, is that the enemy cannot

do what he wants unless God allows it. So the

next time we go through some challenges, right, you have

to understand is that because God allowed it. God only

gave one clause, don't touch his life, spare his life

a week cler But of course I'm not saying that

every bad thing that happened in your life is because

God allows it. Some of it is because of the

consequences of your actions and decisions, like okay, I mean

if you need to reap repent line. Okay, I'm just

saying that because Joe is up there, the first line

is that he's blameless and upright, So unless you have

that criteria then okay, all right, but you'll catch what

I'm saying. Nothing better can happen to your life unless

God allows it. So the question before we complain the

next time is God, what can I learn from this?

Not God? Why? Why? Mean always me?

What can I learn from this shaking that I'm going through?

Eron?

All right, God allows this to happen to joke, and

God will allow shakings to happen in your life. You

know why, friends, because he knows you can handle it.

How we know that because it's written in joke in

Joke chapter one. In Job chapter two, right, the introduction

of Joke is the same blameless, upright man, one who

fears God, chance, evil, none like him on the earth.

You know how God knows Joke is like that. Not

because overnight. You know, Joe got how many children?

Ten?

So means right Job would have at least been obedient

to God for ten years, because ten children don't just

pop upmer Job had to trust God for his children,

the safety of his children because if we read earlier

in Job chapter one that he offered offerings for all

of his children, which was his custom. He's done it

every morning because oh never know when my son had

seen against God, I must offer so for ten at

least ten years that we know Joe, so somehow he

built his wealth, you know, Jeff Bezos of the East.

You know, build wealth is not overnight, Maa. It takes time.

So means Job has gone through a journey of life.

That God knows Job's character, Job's integrit d So for

us we have to see that God allows it to

happen because he knows Joe. So for us, God knows us.

That's why he allows different things to go through your life.

He created you, he knows what you can handle. He

created you, he knows what. So when I read this

verse right, you know what I was reminded of. I

was reminded of those promotional videos back by those CEOs

who sell bulletproof vests, you know, like, oh, you want

to see how good my bulletproof vest is. Then the

CEO himself will wear the bulletproof vest, right, and then

hence him a gun.

Here you go, and then it's like.

Yeah, see, no bullet went through, you know, because he's

so confident of his creation. And that's the same thing

same way God describes Joe. God has a confidence on Joe.

The shakings will come, but God knows confidently how much

you can handle, what you can take, and if not.

In First Corinthians, chapter ten, verse thirteen, if you can

quickly look there, First Quarringtines chapter ten, verse thirteen, First Quarantents,

chapter ten, verse thirteen says, no temptation has overtaken you

accept such as is common to men. But God is

faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond

what you are able, but with the temptation will also

make the way of escape that you may be able

to bury it. So God created you. He knows what

you can handle. That's why he can say what he

says about job, and that's why he can say what

he says about you. And so whatever shakings we go

through in our lives, God knows how much we can handle,

and He will always be there with us throughout the way.

So shaking right must have sound, One shaking must have

a result. One sound will come out. Then, you know.

I went to team I shaped immediately. He knew coffee bean.

Why it's familiar with it. He's dealt with it almost

every single day. So we just came bat from a

company trip. We went to uh we went to Hong Kong.

We to the company, We went to Hong Kong, had

a great time. So coincidentally, right in this trip, there

was someone you our team that has never flown before,

never has been on the flight before. So of course

we're very curious, like, let's see how this guy you

know reacts, you know, see whether he'll do any funny things.

And us we're so bad, you know, uh.

And then and then of course after the flight, you know,

we we we went like, you know, uh, Eddie, you

know his name, his name is Eddie, Like, hey Eddie,

not this Eddie.

Hey Eddie, how this Eddie? Flight too many times a day? Uh?

Hey Eddie? How was how's the flight? Your first time? Right?

The first time? Who? Uh?

Scared of scared? They're like, oh, which part was scary?

The turbulans Tabulians that time, like oh why why? Of

course the shicking. I don't know what's going on, man,

but I think it's the clubs right there, like, yep,

it's the clubs. It's the clubs. Then they're like, oh,

how was the rest of the flight. Oh the lending,

the lending, And I'm like, why what's on the lending?

First time flying? I remember, first time flying. I thought

we're going to crash, men, because the whole thing went

like that, you know, I thought I was going to crash,

he said, But the chili went, hey, okay, first time flying.

So you can imagine, you know, the experience that he had.

So when I hear Eddie's experience of flying, okay, and

then I look at my three children, Okay, thank you

for the introduction, Edie, I have three kids, Noah, Aila

and Maya. Okay, you hear them before you see them.

That's what I always say when I look at my

three children in the flight right, normal turbulence, you know,

lending Hey, so Daddy after the just now you know nothing?

You know why? You know why that's a difference. You

know why that's a difference. You know the sound that

my children make, they make no sound. They were at peace.

You don't know why.

What's the difference because my children have gone through it

with me multiple times, multiple times. That's why, whether good

or bad, the sound is peace and trusts Eddie never

experienced before. So we crush it because he has never

experienced it before. But Joke has gone through the journey

of life with God. That's why in Joke chapter one,

verse twenty two, you won't curse God because God saw

him through. If we so, the next time you go

through a shaking, what's the sound that's gonna come out?

What's the sound that's gonna come out? Is your sound

gonna be different from your neighbor? Is your sound gonna

be different from your past? Let's think about it, everyone, Okay,

what sound is coming out because for the last few weeks,

right globally, all of us hurd the same sound over

and over again. Oil crisis, oil crisis, straight of hormones,

oil crisis. We've been hearing it over and over again

for the last few weeks. And we heard the love advices. Guys,

stock up on your rise price is going up. Hey, guys,

if you have empty Tonga empty barrels, are feeling love

Ron ninety five, it's gonna go out. Ron ninety seven,

it's gonna go up. Diesel, it's gonna go stock up,

stock up, stock up.

A lot of advisers, a lot of advices.

If you have holidays, plan cancel it, don't go for holiday, if.

You've got money to save.

Say, how many have you been hearing advices for the

last few weeks?

So many advices? You know?

So much sound? All these, sir, reminds me of six

years ago the whole world also went through something. How

many of you remember why? It was phobe So we

went through the COVID pandemic. What were the advisers, hey, guys,

stock up our price all gonna go out of a

toilet paper gonna run out? Oh no, I us the

buye toilet paper, buy toilet paper. We heard all the

same story, guys, hand sanitizer, hand sanitizer.

Wash, everything wash.

Every day we hit the same advices, the the shakings

will always come. What's the sound that's gonna come out?

There's gonna be another strait of horm moos coming. You know,

there's gonna be another pandemic coming, you know, hopefully not allah,

but there's gonna be so many more shakings that we're

gonna go through. And that's gonna come in our lives.

But what's the sound that's gonna come up from us?

What's the sound?

Is it fear? Stock up? Stock up? Stuck up? Bye

bye bye, keep keep kip? Or is it hey?

If God brought me through COVID, I can continue to

trust in him. If God can help me through this

whole state of strait of hormones, God is going to

watch over me. You guys catch I'm saying. Job has

seen God move in his life time after time. That's why,

after his children were taken away, lives stop taken away,

he can still say God is faithful. I still love him.

I will not curse God. How is our sound when

we go through shakings? How is our sound. Let's be

a bit watchful.

Amen.

Of course, we don't want to sound like everyone else.

You know, though everyone else sounds the same during straight

of hormones and COVID, everyone sounds the same, same advice,

same warnings, Everyone gives the same sound. What is your sound?

Look at your neighbor and say, what is your sound?

Come on, guys, let's be a bit watchful. More shakings

are coming, More shakings are coming. What's the sound that's

gonna come out? Faith or fear? Praise or paralysis? Worship

or whoe is me?

Ship?

Watch out the shakings we cannot control, but the sound

that comes out we can. Shaking is out of our control,

but the sound that comes out we can. Amen. Eron, Okay,

So are you going through some shakings? Maybe some of

you are sitting here, you know, listening to this message

even during the time of praise and worship. Maybe you're

distracted because maybe you are going through some shaking in

your life right now.

I don't know. God knows.

Maybe you're going through some shacking in your career, in

your family. I'm not sure, but God is sure. I

can't tell you what's gonna happen.

Tomorrow. But I know who holds tomorrow.

So you could be sitting here and you could probably

not be listening to everything I'm saying. But at least please,

we can't control the shakings, we can control the sound.

Are you gonna praise God? Or are you gonna be

paralyzed in fear, in doubt, in distrust, Because as we

go through the shakings, God wants to draw something out

from you as well the sound that comes up. God

wants to minister to other people around you as well, know,

through the sound that comes out. Amen, everyone, Okay, we're

gonna close sooner every day. Okay, all right, what a

short message. Wow, so happy?

But yeah, I mean I I.

I whatever situation you're going through, you know, whatever shakings

that God is allowing you to journey in right now.

If God is if God has brought through all these

you know, figures in the Bible through the most difficult

times of their lives, He's able to do it for you,

He's able to do it for me.

Amen.

Yeah, So don't don't be afraid of the shakings. There's

a reason for the shakings. There's a reason for it.

God wants to hear the sound that comes out. God

wants to draw something up from you.

Amen.

And God wants all the gaps to come out, all

the gaps, you know, all the air gaps that should

not be their anger and forgiveness. Doubt that he rise up, chick, chick,

shake nice and let everything set and settle nicely.

Amen.

Okay, last point, last point, We're gonna look at Hebrews,

chapter twelve, verse twenty six to twenty seven. He Bruised

Chapter twelve, verse twenty six two seven. So the third

point is that as we go through the different shakings

of our lives. Okay, God wants to reduce.

All the gaps.

God wants to determine the sound that comes up from you.

But God also wants to see what remains through all

the shakings. See what Let's see what God's words say.

He Bruised, Chapter twelve, verse twenty six to twenty seven.

Is it there when God spoke from Mount Sinai his

voice shoot the earth? But now he makes another promise? Oh, okay,

God makes another promise. And God's promises are okay, two

of you say yes and amen. God's promises are oh,

but the one the promises that I'm like, huh really

are don't promise this are But God makes another promise,

you know, once again I will shake not only the earth,

but the heavens also. This means that all of creation

will be shaken and remove. All of creation will be

shaken and remove. Not some of creation, all of creation

will be shaken and removed, so that what only unshakable

things will remain, only unshakable things were remain. Now have

you seen those cartoon characters? Are you know, we grow

up watching cartoon. Have you seen those cartoon characters? Are

where we hold where the character who the cartoon fellow

upside down and then starts shaking. Yeah, and then all

the different things start falling out thing dung dm dung

dm dm. You know, all the things start falling out.

Yeah.

And after that, of course, whatever that remains was what

that the fellow wants, you know, or the last thing

that comes out is usually what the fellow wants.

Okay, I think this that kind of shaking when I

read it.

I don't know why I thought of the cartoon, but

this is the kind of shaking that is different from

the past. Why because last time the shaking was only earth,

but this one is earth and heavens also, So we

really read from here that this coming shaking, this is

a future. This is God promising you are I promise you.

I will shake the earth and the heavens. It's what

God is promising us. It's going to be more intense,

more intense. So the author of Hebrews here uses the

historical earthquake at Sinai, all right, because everyone remembers the

historical earthquake to warn the readers that the shaking will

come again, but in a far more significant manner, because

it's also the heavens, and to remind us that the

only thing left standing are the unshakable things. If God

is shaking you, okay that the cartoon characters, what will

remain in your life?

In my life? What will remain? Shake?

Shake, earthly possessions, bring bunk house or falling out? Tring

shake shake, shack, fame, popularity, shakes awful? When God is

shaking you and I, what is going to fall out?

What's going to remain? Because it's what remains that matters? Amen,

what remains that matters? Can I tell you all the

story as we come to a close, okay, okay, extreme

thing most we can come out Radio Okay.

Let me tell you all story.

In nineteen twenty three, there was an earthquake in Tokyo.

In nineteen twenty three, there was an earthquake in Tokyo, Okay.

It's called the Great Canto earthquake. Great Canto Earthquake. That's

a picture of what happened after the earthquake nineteen twenty three.

One hundred thousand deaths, widespread fire, urban collapse. That's nineteen

twenty three. We're in twenty twenty six. Many years have passed, guys,

many years. How has this earthquake shaped the modern Tokyo.

Tokyo now has wider roads and better city layout. Many

of Tokyo's main avenues, you know, main city area, were

intentionally rebuilt to prevent fire spread. Reinforced concrete became a

standard in all of their structures. Annual disaster preparedness became

a culture. So Japan now holds nationwide disaster drills every

September because of this event, nineteen twenty three Great Canto Earthquake.

It's a shaking that happened in Tokyo that changed history

forever for them. Tokyo today is one of the most

earthquake prepared Mega cities in the world. Because of what

happened in nineteen twenty three, Tokyo still experiences earthquakes often.

Do you all know that? Still very often? Yeah, their

experiences earthquake. You know when it was the most recent

earthquake Tokyo experience April first, That was just eighteen days ago.

That's how often it gets. And it was a five

point zero magnitude earthquake. Soon not a small one, it's

quite a big one. But did you hear of any casualty?

Did you hear of any structural losses? When was the

last time Tokyo had an earthquake that suffered major structural loss?

Any guests major structural loss? When was the last time earthquake?

Tokyo experienced major structural loss from an earthquake nineteen twenty

three because of that shaking that changed its history forever. Now, Friends,

as we're close, God brings us through the shakings of

our lives, not to fail us, not to fail us.

He wants to draw something out of you, He wants

to draw something out of me. God wants to strengthen

us and prepare us for revival. How can we welcome

revival in our lives and in our city and in

our country.

If there are different air.

Pockets in us that still undealt with, still hidden't if

we continue on what's going to happen. The concrete will

break because of the air pockets. The kick will crumble

because of the air pocket. Our lives will not be

strong because of these air pockets. In a book of Joke,

God doesn't test Joke because he's curious about Job's character.

God really knows Job is upright. He tests shops so

that Job can discover the death of his own faith.

God allowed Job to go through all these shakings so

the Joke can discover the death of its own faith

and grow into a version of himself that could never

have existed in a life of comfort and ease.

You know what I mean.

When we go through life comfortably and ease, right, we're

never ready for challenges.

You know.

All these different things are never drawn out or dealt with,

and we think everything is okay. But the next time

the shakings come in our lives, Let's ask God, God,

what can I learn from this? Why are you trying

to draw up from me? What do I need to

deal with? I want revival in my city, in my family,

in my life. I want revival. Deal with this because

I don't want my life to crumble either like the.

Concrete or the cake.

You know when God brought the Israelites into the wilderness

for forty years instead of eleven days.

Now, y'all know that story, right.

God brought the Israelites to the wilderness forty years forty years.

God's intention is not to fail the Israelites. You know.

God wants them to go where the Promised Land. But

what is God trying to do? God wants them God

already managed to get them out of Egypt. God wants

them to go through the windness so that Egypt can

get out of them.

You know what I mean.

So the shakings that we go through. God doesn't want

to fail us. God wants us to go to the

Promised Land. But God just wants all these things that

need to be dealt with to come out. Chick chick

chick shack, anger, hit chick shake, shake, and forgiveness h

Chi chi chick shake pride. I don't want to serve

you God, My schedule.

Is too full.

Come on, friends, He created you for greater things. He

knows what you can handle. So don't ever say that

you can't take the shaking. Don't ever say you're not

ready for all that God has for you. He's shaking

you not to fail you. He's shaking you so that

you don't suffer future structural losses.

In your life.

Friends, Tokyo is Tokyo today because of what happened in

the Tokyo of the past in nineteen twenty three. Is

that going to be another earthquake in Tokyo?

Yes?

I can confidently say that, and not a prophet. Will

Tokyo be okay?

Yes?

I can confidently say that because I can see over

the hundreds of years nothing has happened to Tokyo. How

about our lives? Is that going to be another shaking

in our lives?

Yes? Will you be okay? Will I be okay?

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