Thank God It's Friday! | Pr. Sandra Chin

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All right. The verse I just want to read some

scripture with us first. Amen. So this is Second Corinthians,

chapter one and verse three to five. And you let's

read through this, okay. It says, Praise be to God

and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of

compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us

in all loud troubles, so that we can comfort those

in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves has received

from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow

over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort

over flows. Amen. So it's praise God, yeah, because he

has such compassion, and it is the Lord who comforts

us in whatever time of need. Amen. And then whatever

that we have been comforted, we can comfort others. Amen.

So when we go through different difficult trials, remember the

comfort of God is for you, and he goes before you.

And whatever the sufferings of Christ has flowed through into

our lives, so that through Christ, you know, we are

comforted and His comfort is overflowing through us. This is

our our This is the promise that is given to

us through Christ Jesus. Okay amen. And this only happened

because of the Friday, one blessed Friday more than two

thousand years ago, our Lord went to Calvary. And then

in Hebrews chapter four, verse fifteen, so we're talking about

all these comfort well, God's comforting us. And then the

comfort I comfort others or comfort comfort comfort, Wow, so

many comforts? Right? Why because of this Hebrews four fifteen said, is,

let's read it together, For we do not have a

high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,

but we have one who has been tempted in every

way just as we are, yet without sin. Amen, hallelujah.

You know this is a This verse helps helps us

to know that we have a Christ. We have a

savior who is our high priest, who doesn't have to

sacrifice any more lambs rams and goats anymore lambs rams

and goats, because he was a sacrificial lamb. Amen. And

so he is the high priest that has has able

to understand your pain, understand your challenge, understand that life

is complicated. You know that we have nobody understands us not,

but Jesus does because he faced all these challenges, these temptations.

But in every way he was tempted, he never sin Amen.

So the question is why did he have to come

to earth. He could have just come one day and kaboom,

everything was done. But he came for thirty three years.

He walked as you walk. Yeah, he went through all that.

It was so easy for God to just hey, just

send him now and kaboom and and everything's done. But

our father, our heavenly Father, did not have that plan.

He sent his one and only son, whom he had

to hard ways to come into an earth that was

so messy. All the other plans failed, and so he says, so, well,

oh well, go, I guess I have to send my son.

And the son could have said, no way, man, no way,

O say, the earth is so terrible. But he stepped

out of heaven on to earth, which was so messy,

so full of sin. God's plan was not for us

to have full of sin. But so it has happened.

It had happened, and Jesus had to come and live

with us and lived among us. You can read that

in the Book of John Chatter the one he lived

among us, and then he couldn't recognize him because he

didn't look like a king. Nobody even knew that was

Jesus love. Can you imagine he had to be betrayed

by a kiss because they didn't know what he looked like.

He looked like any other John down the street. If

your name is John, sorry, oh John, John's better looking

than Jesus. Come down, guys, come down. So okay. He

wasn't looking like any other Joshua. There's a Joshua. Oh boy,

let's choose a Hebrew name. He didn't look like. No,

I don't have got opened. I had it. So he

walked as we would have walked. And he went through

all these all the temptations, all the I don't know.

One day you're gonna go to heaven and you can

ask him all the questions you want to ask. Maybe

you won't have any questions because you feel too loved.

Everything would have been washed away in his love. Amen.

But but he walked. He went through all things. He

he had highs, he had lows. He was hungry, Come on,

he was hungry. He fell asleep, he was tired. He

had a little pillow in the sailboat. Right. He got

angry when people made a mockery of the temple, you know,

so he got upset. He was hungry, he loved to eat.

You know. He wept. Jesus wept, he was betrayed. People

left him. If he planted a church, I can tell

you I don't feel so bad because all of them

left him, and only twelve people left, so oh Lord,

that is in John chapter six, verse sixty six. They

all left him. So, by the way, if you think

we are bad church, plannters, at least here God something

you know, ranga. But but they're no. Jesus left with twelve.

They all left him, so he's probably felt what kind

of ministry is this? I feel right, No, we go

to so much. I want you to know, Jesus walked

at every pain that you will ever ever have to

go through, and and and and he went through it.

He just went through it. But he never sinned, okay,

and come to the cross. So the journey to the cross,

there were several details of the challenges which was prophesied

in earlier before the birth of Christ, and then when

he came it was fulfilled. And I just have a

little schedule here for you. Okay, didn't didn't? Yeah, okay,

all right, all right, this is what happens when you

know Master's right, you just do all these things. Yes, okay,

So the screenshot everybody, because these are beautiful promises. They

are found in the Old Testament and then fulfilled in

the New Testament. And these are details of challenges where

Christ when Christ went to the cross. Now, anyone here

ever had a betrayal of a best friend? Come on, well,

Jesus went through. It was prophesied in the Old Testament,

New Testament. It happened. If you've ever been forsaken by somebody,

Jesus was forsaken. They all left him, all right. Have

you ever felt forsaken by anyone who could feel more

than Jesus himself? False accusation? Have you been ever accused

falsely or wrongly? He was falsely accused of And they said,

you know what he told us, we shouldn't pay our

texes to Caesar. How wrong was that? We knew he said,

who's face on that coin? Caesar? Then pay your tax

to Caesar. But they began to accuse him of different things.

Oh he said this, Oh he's he's you know, bringing

up an incision. You know he's this, he is the

and they lied and there was a false accusation. How

about the silence before his judges Herod asked him questions

and asked him, and he just was quiet silence. He

never argued back, never tried to defend himself. I can't no,

I will defend myself. But he just just silenced himself

and kept quiet. Wow, people just judged him. He will

bring up proven. I don't want to being proven, not

bring being proven guiltless. He was proven guiltless. And when

they saw that, you know he had that, they couldn't

find anything wrong. So in verse first John, chapter three

and verse five, he says that if you turn to

first John, chapter three, it is a beautiful verse because

you can read it in the Old Testament, but in

the New Testament. In first John, it's a verse that

we've read before, and we want to read it together.

Verse John three and verse five, which says, and you

know that he was that he was manifested to take

away our sins, and in him there is no sin

amen in Christ, there was no sin, thank you so

much xtv, no sin at all, and so proven guiltless.

But you know what lots of accusation. He was even

being included with the sinners, you know, So it was

prophesied and then it came up, and then it happened

because he had two robbers hanging with him on the

right and on the left who actually worked criminal house. Yea,

so he was even with the sinner. So have you

ever felt that you were such a sinner? Like, ah,

I've seen I'm this lousy, crappy person. Hey, Jesus was

with them. He was not a shame of them. He

was going to be crucified as well, and he was

included with the sinner. Then he was being crucified. That

was also prophesied that he would be crucified, and then

it happened, all right, the mockery of the spectators. People

were saying, hey, if you are the son of God,

come on, bring yourself down, and you know, come on,

you can do that. You said this, you said that.

They mocked him, Now show us your power. And all

of that was prophesied ahead of time, and then it happened.

So he was terribly mocked. People, would you know, just

say things. And these were the same people who probably

came and asked for healing These were the same people

who waved the palm trees and said Hosanna, Hosanna, blessed

be the name of the Lord, or he who comes

in the name of the Lord. They were the They

were there, you know, waving yay. And this happens in

a crowd, It can happen to us. We might be

crowd follow us. That's why we say our salvation our

personal walking crisis a personal while it is, it is

a personal conviction of faith is personal. You can follow

a crowd, but when you are left alone, will you

stand for Jesus? Will I stand for Jesus? It's a

personal faith. And I tell you we're all working out

our salvation and that not that we're doing anything very

but what meaning we're growing in our fath we're walking

in our favor, we're going throughout, we're tumbling and we're

standing up again. But because it's easy to be in

a crowd, it's easy to jump and be with everybody,

But when we're alone, Jesus was alone, people mocking him.

He you know, you got like I good to tell

you I'm not, but just silence, and he just took

it right. And then he was the taunt of non deliverance.

You know, people just say, Comela, deliver yourself. Well you

don't deliver yourself. Come on, man, come on, maka. You know,

keep saying like that to him and just siland right,

the gambling of his garments. So I don't know, I

don't know. Someday if you read the Gospels, I think

it's in Lucas. Every year I read the Journey to

the Cross, and so I read this year as well.

And then he says, they put on him a gorgeous robe.

And what does that mean? Like is it silk or

was it? No? Is it leppard skin? Not to know, right,

But but there was this gambling. They wanted to throw

dice and say, oh, who have which shall we take?

They say, no, don't tear it. Seamless. It was a

seamless robe. And so that was also prophesied. And then

the prayer he prayed for his enemies, he said, Lord,

forgive them, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

What mercy? What a heart that that that that that

was just shown. People were mocking him, they were taking

him down but to China town. But you know he

was He's like praying for them, you know, like you know,

can't even breathe. He's he's been beaten, he's been whipped.

His whole face has been disfigured. His body is in

tremendous pain. He's hanging on the cross. He can't breathe,

he's having fever. Likely you know, when you cut your

finger or just that already can get people, you know.

So this is his whole body is just beaten and

stripped and then you know it's exposed and bleeding, and

there he is saying, Lord, or give them because they

know not what they do. Wow. You know, so have

you ever felt like, you know, your enemies were just

at you, and did you ever say, Lord, forgive them,

or you like kill their men? Right? So you know

you ever felt that way. Jesus went through that. But

what did he say? He said, Lord, forgive them? Okay,

because he's Jesus. Okay, yeah, he's Jesus. But he was

very much a man at the time hanging on the cross.

He was not on supernatural power, all right. He was

very much the man like you and I are. The

pain is just shooting up constantly because of being nailed,

being forsaken by God. This is the only time when

the father and him were separated because the sin of

all men was on him, of all mankind. That's why

he said Eli lamasabahtani, because he says, my God, my God,

why have you forsaken me? The father had to turn

his face because of all our sin on Jesus, and

God is holy. So Jesus is saying, I'm separated from

my father, and they've never been separated. Of course, he

came to earth, but he was always communing, But at

this time he didn't. Have you ever felt separated on

people that you loved, you know, have you ever felt

alone in different things? Jesus was very much alone, separated

from his father, the one that he loved and the

one who loved him. And if you ever been through that, friends,

look at this. This is every detail here many of

us have gone through when we're on our own. Then

the yielding of his spirit into the hands of the father.

So some people say the Roman soldiers killed him. Some

people say, oh, you know, the leaders of Israel killed him. No,

he decided when he was going to go down to Chinatown.

He decided when it is finished, when he saw all

things were in place, he breathe his lass. He said

it is finished, and then he bowties it. So no,

the Romans didn't kill him. The Roman soldiers didn't kill him.

He laid his life down. He laid his life down. Amen,

some of you lay your life down for your family,

for your friends. You chose that the timing, timing. Everything's

about timing, isn't it. It had to come to that

timing for Jesus to go to the cross, and he said, Lord,

if you could take this cup please, because he knew

how horrible it, the pain, the terribleness. This man was

not hanging with a little loin cloth. He was hanging naked.

This is my and your savior, how naked. It's the

most embarrassing thing. The death on the cross just remind

us every year. Was the most humiliating death that the

Romans prepared for those who were criminals. Else Jesus was

treated like a criminal. If you ever think about criminals

ministry in the prison, how they come to know Christ.

They felt I'm a criminal. Someone us feel like criminals

because of the way we might walk, and I walk

with Jesus. But Jesus was treated like a criminal, so

he knows how you might feel. And people in prison

come to know Christ. We cannot say they don't have

a right to know Jesus. Amen. Everyone has a chance,

but they have to choose. Never write off your family

members and say this person God never can Never. One

of our church members when I was in another church

plant and having lunch, and he said, because I shared

a message, and they say, no, Pastor, I want to

tell you I have a family member, a family I

have a family member on my mom's side or noll side,

and we are so ashamed of him. We're so ashamed

of this whole family, this uncle, or I don't know what.

And we say, I don't think you'll ever come to cheese.

I don't think you'll ever pass. He's into the spiritist

world and doing all the lockhow you know the oh

yeah you say in English, so you know where the

spirit goes takes over what is you call it possess

possess and then you know they can give you number,

you know, lucky number, lucky lucky number. And so he

doing all this, all this worship, right, he goes into

all this spirit world right that that side. He said, no,

I just said I wrote him off, you know, And

he said, then one day the news came that he

passed away, as I thought, heay, the least I can

do is go for the funeral. So he went for

the funeral, and he said, Fast. I was so shocked. Yes,

who was doing the funeral? Your friend? My friend? Yeah,

fast sway And so, my goodness, what happened? I also

asked what happened? His son got saved and then he

got saved. Oh, my goodness, isn't that amazing? Nobody should

be wiped off? Wipe off whatever there you'll never write,

you know, in DearS. He said, I'm so ashamed of

myself because I wrote off my uncle and thinking he'll

never he'll never. But even at the last hour, you

accept Christ. Look at the criminals hanging. He said, today

you will be with me in paradise. Oh and so

this church leadered. The brother told me, your pastor never

write off anybody, even to the last, to the last.

You know, I gave up on this uncle. But how

his son got saved. And so he then got saved,

even through the sickness that he was in terminal. But

then he accepted Christ. And then here is this your friend,

the pastor doing the service. Because the sun attends this

church and this pass is very good ministry with elderly people.

She came to minister and so he said, I'm not

I learned a lesson. See, Jesus was treated as a criminal,

but even criminals can accept rice. Everyone has a chance. Amen.

And then his bones were not broken, so when they

were going to break his legs, and then they saw, hey,

you're gone. Hey, because he knew that his spirit, I

choose to lay down my life, and so they never

broke his bones. So that's already prophesied. And lastly the

burial in a rich man's tomb. Wow, you know here

he is a criminal, treated as a criminal, hanging there,

and usually that's it. Nobody cares. They just throw them aside.

But Joseph of Arimathea came, who was part of the council.

He went to Pilot and said, can I please take

the body? And Nicodemus, who they were all scared of,

the of the of the of the these leaders lost

so they never said that they followed Jesus, but they believed.

And you see, God will provide. Come on, come on,

if you feel like you're stuck, you don't know where

your provision's gonna come. God provides, And this man, Joseph

of Aramathea came and said, give me his body, I'll

take him. And he placed him in a tomb that

was in a gud and it was a new tomb.

It was for the rich. Yay, only rich people got

toomb loud. Now we all know, right because we all

want to bury. It cannot bury Singapore. You let let

no bury now burn, you know, they have no place

to bury. That's it, that's it. You know, all your

ashes will fly up one day. But in Malaysia we

still can't bury. You know.

But again, how many thousand and thirty forty thousand for

a piece of burial land, you know, And so Jesus

may have been stripped for and that we could be rich.

But at his death he was. He was buried in

a rich man's tomb, and that was prophesied as well.

And there was Joseph who took him into this tomb,

the Garden Tomb. Honestly, they if you ever get to Israel,

they're supposed we were. I've been to the Garden Tomb. Unfortunately,

Baba Saiety couldn't afford to keep running it, so they

closed it. But that's where they believe that Jesus was made.

There are a few tombs of Jesus. One they feel

this is the one. There's one somewhere in Jerusie. I

don't know where, but because of the way they look

at he had to die outside of the city. So

this is the bearings Simeon Bearings. Oh and then you

get there and the beautiful garden too. I had that pass,

that opportunity to be there. It's just amazing, you know.

And so you know the whole details, the challenges that

Jesus took the last week of his life, he was

still preaching. He knew was going to go, but he

kept his eyes on the Lord, on the on the mission.

He had a mission impossible, and he was not Ethan

whatever his name is, but he was keeping his eyes

on the mission to to to finish it. Amen. And

so I wonder why am I bringing this as a reminder.

You can read this, of course, but it's just so

that we will not be little the cross and what

Jesus has done. And once a year we have our

forty days prayer or twenty one days of prayer, and

we call it lend. And I think it's actually a

good practice because we forget two hundred and sixty five days,

we do everything we want on our own, and then

suddenly forty days we get too fast, or twenty one days.

And then if you get to read, go back to

the gospels, you follow right. And so the encouragement before

I go to the point that I want to bring

is that if you think about where you're at and

what you're going through, look at these points, and we

could have fallen into any we could be in this.

We know life is complicated. Things happen. Life is even

going to get more complicated with what's happening in the

world today. We need to brace ourselves and know that

everything is about God's timing, not your timing. Not your timing.

God's timing so important. I also have to learn God's timing.

Don't rush it then, cannot be too slow, then cannot

be too fast. Don't run ahead of God, don't run

behind him. So far, Let's walk with him, just as

how he walked with the two with klop Us and

the other friend to the road de mayors. He walked

with them, and he listened to their complaints and their Ah,

your disbelieve, that is Jesus who is here and then

finally he opened the scriptures to them, but he walked

with them. Don't walk, don't walk too ahead of Jesus,

don't walk to behind Jesus. But let's he says, I

call you as friends, abide with me, and let's walk

with him a man. What encouragement to us as believers

in Christ that Jesus walks with us as you walk

with him? Amen? So I just want to bring a

point before I go to my to The points I

want to bring in is in Matthew Matthew, chapter twenty seven,

just just the moments before he laid his life down.

And I want you to sense the love and the

commitment that Jesus made by saying, yes, I will go right.

So here's a man who's been beaten, he stripped, he

has no face anymore. You have to imagine that. I mean,

we can't even I can't even imagine. I'll never know.

I'll never know how much it costs. I'll never know

because I'll never know the pain that Jesus went and

he doesn't expect me to go through it. I'll never know.

But there is this man who hung on the cross

without a face, bleeding, naked and this is I want

to take this back a little bit. Before he hung on,

before they nailed him to the cross, he was carrying

the cross. And then they came to god Gotha. And

then they they said to Jesus Matthew twenty seven, verse

thirty two, verse thirty three. When they came to a

place called god Gotha, that is to say, the place

of a skull. So if you go there, you look

for the skull, then you notice where Jesus was. They

gave him sour wine mingled with gall to drink, but

when he had tasted it he could not drink. Then

they crucified him. So before they crucified him, and probably

is a practice to give the wine, the sour wine

and the gall to them so that it acts as

a so you don't feel the pain. Was that were

and a numb aestet? Yeah, anesthesia name, that's somebody's name.

I can't even pronounce the word so hard. Anyways, before

they crucified him, like for everyone else, they gave this

drink and when he tastes that, he knew what it was.

But he was so committed to take that pain he said,

no you sure, so no numbing, No injection because I

tell you, I'm a scary cad. I cannot take pain.

So they give me numbing cream to do some stuff,

and I'm like, I feel the pain. Just jab me,

and I kid you not. Once they jabuer, everything is numb,

you know, and you can take all the pain later

you that's it. Like, okay, So Jesus said no to

the numbing medication or drink. You just just hit me,

man with your best neil. Okay. So he did not

compromise in taking your pain. When they nailed him, I

think it just sent shock waves to his body. How

do you nail the legs? The feet put together and

nail we already touched little bit. So I don't know

it was screams or what. Oh he just so I

say that Christ didn't just have a happy, go lucky

down there nail me. It was painful and he was

not numbed. He felt and he took every nail. Every

time they banged and hit the head of the nail,

it sent shot waves. That was the pain that you

and I would have had to taken the death of

our sin. He took it for us. He went through that.

And so he's hanging on the cross. He's he's saying, God,

why do you forsake me? He's talking to John, this

is your mom. There are those moments were like you

can't reef. I just was not well recently. And the

way my husband dramatized it to the k church, you know,

they all thought I was gonna die right right, because

I was so sick in Melbourne. I tell you church,

Malaysia best doctor's, best hospital. You got no appointment, you

just walk in. They will take care of you. You

know there, make appointment and I may appointments. Say what

time six thirty pm? Hey, hello, it's nine o'clock now

six thirty halve diad.

You know.

And then I couldn't breathe because I did. We didn't

know what it was. But actually this summer it was

a case of very bad guess streak due to but

it didn't happen here. It happened here. So it was

sitting on a nerve the oni in La we call

it phone ang in La, just a bag of yes

and it pulled every time, and so I couldn't reeve,

and I was in vain and I don't know what happened.

My husband interceded all night and then we I mean,

of course I went to say a doctor by the

medicine was wrong. He said I got pneumonia, Alma. I

threw up all all the medication. And my husband said,

don't take it. I don't think I think you don't

have anemonia. I don't think you have any more because

I wasn't coughing and just don't do this to do

without it, and I was having other no, I'm having

a warm thing and purging ioe everything. But doctor said

I got pneumonia. Mama, okay, So God really did the

healing so that I could fly home two days later.

This was after all the ministry was done. You know

that who I'm just nothing. There's no nail on me.

This is Jesus nail it. He is, Hello, care my son.

I think here my mother got time, you know to

say all he's words. We all like, just just hit

me now, just kill me now right, just just shoot

me then just stop it right, don't talk to me.

I just know there is thinking about his mother. Who's

going to take care? Okay, John, thank you very much,

and oh your Lord please forgive them. No, they all

they don't know what they do. He's going around doing that.

And then in John chapter nineteen, verse twenty eight, this

is though the clinches it all John chapter nineteen, verse

twenty And after this, after all that, he's laid it

all down. And after this he says, knowing that all

things were now accomplished, come on, come on, now he

saw that everything was settled. He's already walked thirty three years,

and that last one week, and then now the last

few hours. He's been hanging since twelve noon or whatever

that's happened all the way. So from the first three

hours didn't want to drink anything. Nothing he wants Right

now he goes, all things have been accomplished, that the

scripture might be fulfilled. And then he said, I the

yes day. Now you say you Thirsty's not. I give

you a drink. You don't have to drink. So we

know why he didn't because he didn't want to be numbed.

He wanted to take everything for us, right his body

broken for us to the last moments, not just the whipping,

but now the nailing. And then at this point he says,

I thirst And then verse twenty nine. Now a vessel

full of sour wine was sitting there without the gulls.

Just the sour wine, right, And they filled a sponge

with the sour wine, and then they put it to

his mouth. Bab you must. I don't think we've ever

been that sick before met accident. Letter, But pro those

who been burned had accident or whatever. You're all dry overnight.

You haven't drunk anything. You've been been jar, you've been

trialed and everything, and then now you beat me. Wow,

all this happening, I'm sure there's no more. You're thirst steeler,

you're just dry, right, And and give him this thing

and he puts it at his mouth. He doesn't take

it because when he had he just dabbed his mouth.

He receives the sour wine. And then he said it

is finished, and bowing his head, he gave up the spirit.

He chose to give up his life. So some writers say,

while I put one more thing there, I thirst. I

think until the end Jesus wants you to know he understands.

So come, so come first, dry parch nothing one more,

one more by thirst that humanness of us. Sometimes we

also get there will he understand all those fifteen things

I wrote? There will he understand? Come on, I you

thirs you long for that. The invitation is come. So

I want to say, set yourself up for God's best

plans for you. Set yourself up for God's best plans

for you. Next light, the work had the Cross is

more powerful than we think, than we know. We forget,

maybe we don't understand. But there's a slide. Could you

turn to the next light. I want us to remember

again that his work at the Cross is really complete,

and he sets us up. He sets it up with

the best plans. Amen. But those best plans are based

on his timing, his workings, not ours. God's timing, God's

dream for you. Set yourself up. You've got to set

yourself up for God's best plans by walking with him.

When he says, I does, it tells you that you

can come to him. Why because just moving up just

I'll give the overall is that you can trust Jesus.

Come on, you can trust in Jesus. You just I

don't know who you want to trust? Friends? You gotta

trust Jesus. There's no one else. I thirst, he says,

why you do, because there's nothing left. I'm as human

in this position now, but I'm gonna be raisen. You

can come and you can trust me. There's an invitation

you can trust in Jesus. I tell you, friends, we

all will have That's why I said, as a crowd,

we can all say Hosannah, Hossannah. As a solo person,

would you stand and still say Hosannah, Jossanna, I trust you?

Would you still allow yourself to be set up for

the best plans that God has for you? But you'd

have to trust him. And when I say you're trusting

Jesus moving, the next is that some days it's waiting

and let Jesus stake control. Amen, Let Jesus s take control.

And it's tough. We all want to be in control.

That's the sin nature, that's the flesh. We want to

be in control. But the moment you and I are

in control of our lives, you are going to miss

the best plans that God has for you. We have

to just surrender. And we do this on a daily

regular basis as we check our hearts, you know, great

time in the U turn checking our hearts and and

just you know, allowing God to just to search us

and bring a revival, revive us into his presence, into

his words of life. Amen. And you, you and sometimes

you because you've now got a look get Jesus and

think he was living the best plans that Father God

had for him. But that meant going to the cross.

But that was the best plan. So your best plans

will always be about the flesh and what's best for

you in your brains. But in God's brains, his best

plans for you look nothing like what you want, better,

only better. But but but there's this waiting. And then

Jesus take the wheel. Jesus take control of the car.

And then someone told me today, Yeah, I said, Jesus,

take control. But can I tell you where to turn?

That's me today. Yeah, yeah, Jesus take turn. Now turn,

I told you, Jesus, no, heye, no. Then he ain't

in control. You are, And when you are, you tell me.

And you know what, the only spit such a gentleman. Okay,

my drop And then you hit somewhere else. And I

think I'm not perfect. I'm still learning to trust Jesus

and wait on him. But I know that every time

I surrendered, those plans just fell in place. Despite the

challenges that came. I have to say there were challenges,

but I knew that I was in the right place,

at the right time, in the right season to do

what I had to do. So you go to this

story of the Cross, you look at every step of

what Christ is done for us. I think we can

identify a lot of those sections, you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah,

someone betrayed me, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ye I

took you know, I wanted to break somebody's leg Yeah yeah, yeah,

I was the criminal, or you know, man I it

was hard to say anything in my pain or whatever.

You could go through that list, and Jesus has identified

with you and me, Amen, and that's why, that's why

the power of the Cross and what was finished at

the Cross is so precious that we tend to overlook.

The fact is our lives were bought with a price,

and this price was not bought by silver and gold,

but by the blood of Jesus. I tell you, nobody

has spilled their blood for you and me. I mean,

we can spill the rabina, but they will never spill

their blood because sometimes you're holding the rabina. I mean,

not Ineny spilled you. You spilled the blood of Jesus.

That's right, Bena. So yeah, you knowbody's gonna spill blood

for you and me. Not even my husband will spill

blood for me because he can't. He loves me, but

I know he can't give his life for me. As

much as all husbands will give their lives for their

children for their wives, They're not our savior. Jesus is.

And that's why I want to encourage us today as

Good Friday, a remembrance again, God has the best plans

for you. I mean, you may think you've messed up

or like I didn't plan for this? Or are you o?

You all that and this and oh my yesterday, my past,

no today and your future. If you would take the

power of the Cross, then set yourself up for God's

best plans for you. But you gotta trust him, like

like there's no one to trust law so so still,

when I was sick that day in Melbourne, in my

mind I couldn't talk. In my mind, I was like God,

I I have no one else to heal me but you.

So you know I ain't gonna be praying in tongues

one hundred times. I'm just I'm here, but I'm in pain, right,

But I just couldn't. I couldn't. Just headache and everything

was happening, but in my heart, I said, Lord that

I have no other option. It's you. So, Lord, I'm

in your hands. Really take me home now or you

get me well and I get back to Malaysia. Right.

So there's this assurance that I will trust in you

regardless whatever that I have to take or don't take.

There has to be that trust that God will take

care of you. Friends. Has too many times we've planned

our lives according to my ways and and and then

when we get stuck, then we blame God again. What

we needn't even ask him permission? Now you blame him

very good h one hundred marks. Right. You didn't even

ask the Lord? Should I go there? Should I migrate?

Should I take this job? This? That, whatever you are

there is? I don't know so many things right, But

we never got used to coming closer and closer and

talking to Jesus that way. But this cross that he

took for us, it is not a separation, one more

one more bridge he built for us to say I first, first,

why Jesus, why you first? Just one more thing for

us to be able to trust him, because he's done

all these, all these all the audi someone like one

more thing to tell us. I first, whoa and and

and for me, I'm just thinking if I don't know

anything else, the fact that he just went all the way, Okay,

so versus it's not difficult. You don't. I don't need

to give you theology. You know God. God theology is

the study of God. God has revealed himself to us.

He gave us his one, one son, one son only

This son said yes, Father, I will go. But then

it became his. It became his to the point that

Father of you could take this cup, please do. But

if not your will be done, then He's willing now

to embrace us and take this cop so that there's

a chance for all of us to choose him and

to live forgiven and to live in it in direct

relationship with Father God. And that's why he has already

set us up for victory, because the victory is ours

the best plans too. But you know, as you step

into this, you've got to trust God all the way.

Cannot No, you have to. I got no one else

to trust. Ready, Friends, you and I are living in

a time where everything is happening. Okay, oil price is

going up, my low price is going up, my low

my favorite Okay, all right, oil going up, my low

price going up. I don't know what else price is

going on. My curry pup went up in and how

many thirty percent were? Now? Okay, so this is right?

Don't you just say, Oh, Malaysia is going to know

everywhere everywhere. It's not just Malayias, everywhere. Every country is

going through tough times because somebody going bang or oil

you know, and flag gone, you know, Ukraine and everywhere,

a little bit here and there, and everything is just

becoming so expensive. Right. So therefore, so where is God

in all of these plans for you and me? Where

it hasn't changed. He still says you may have eternal life,

and he still has the best plans for us. But

that plan got to seek the Lord and say, God,

where should I be at this point in time? Is

this the right time to do this or that? And

made the word of the Lord come to you. And

then you trust in Jesus. Amen, you just have to trust,

because fancy, if you're not trusting in Jesus, then you

are trusting in something else, which I believe those of

us were following our uturn reading God got so upset

with the people of Israel because they weren't trusting him.

They were trusting in an idol. So are you trusting

in your money, bill, your wealth because God said he'll

bless you to make money, to make well? But are

you living for that to the point that you forgot

about the Lord? Are you building something just about your child?

Isn't she lovely? Right? Right? Don't look at father? But anyway,

ah uh uh, you know your children. You live your

whole life for that, and then you forget that It

is the Lord of bless us with the children. And

so my life is offered up to the Lord now,

and I serve the Lord. Amen. Whatever position we're in,

whatever God has, so we trust in him. And then

there will be the moments when we have to wait

on him without rushing and let Jesus take control because

because sometimes we cannot really serious, I don't know how

to say it. I wish I could speak hockey. And

my life is so good, you know, so good, But

I don't know, and you know how to say right,

Bobian la bobian really like you're stuck. I don't know.

I turned everything and it's just Biana. There is nothing

I can do, really what to do. But but life

is not bobian Lah. Life is the Lord is my

my focus. The Lord is my guide, he is my compass.

I've gona bearing myself again, and then okay, follow this way.

We just had a conversation about bearings just now because

I said, for the life of me, I can't even

read the Google walk thing. I can't do it. I

just get lost or go around and around and around

and around, and yeah, I can't. I just can't read maps.

I'm so so bad. So but then when you're left

with that live's got compass, which is the Lord, then

you will follow there. When they are going to be

days you're going to say, really, I don't know what

nothing to do. I don't know what else to do.

I don't know. That's it. But I want to say

to us, whether we are little, or whether we are

midway or that way or closer to the grave, anyway,

you still have the Lord. Wait on the Lord, let

him take control, trust him all the way. What's the

best plens He still has Amen, And I'm very worried

when we start making those plans like it was God's blends,

meaning I decide this is this is there, I decide

this and this is it my children going to be doctor, accountant, artists. Uh, celebrity,

Are you decide everything here? Right? Everything you decide? Read?

A poor child has no decision? Where is God in

this picture? Right?

Your child has no I want to be pastors. Try, try, try, try, try.

One kid asked my husband already, time out.

I want to be a bastard like you. Why because

people give you things? You want to be a bastard

because people give him things are yours? So we plan everything.

So well because it fits. This is the flesh, it

fits us. But how did how many of you remember

reading the scriptures? It never fits. His ways are higher,

his thoughts are higher, His plans always for our best.

It never fits your brain, but it definitely fits in

the way God has a destiny for us. And there

were surprise supplies. WHOA, I didn't know this is gonna happen. Yes,

this is how God opened that door. Who you're gonna meet,

this is the person in that person gets touched by

your life, and then it goes. It just keeps going

and keeps going. Right. I want to live like that.

I hear people telling me how God speaking to this

or that, I don't hear anything. I just obey, you

need you whatever. But but some people need that, others

like me, I just obey, Are you tell me? I do?

That's it, you know, But but that's how each of

us will hear him, each of us will listen, each

of us will do. But I just want to say,

come on, still, just reiterating that there are too many people.

We are not trusting Jesus. Too many believers in the

law are not trusting Jesus. You are just thinking an

idea of Jesus, but not Jesus. It's how you you,

you have you you want to fall in love. I

don't know what's the word. You are in love with love,

not really in love with the boy, the idea of love. Yes,

it is lovely to be in love until you get married.

Then you realize, oh mg, who is this Anne? Are

you no? Right? Yeah? And nobody told us. Come on,

tell the truth, married people, Tell the truth. It's it's

not just about the sex, man, people stop in love.

It's suddenly getting you what. Don't tell her then two

months only old? Not two months old only? No? We

we we don't because we are in love with an idea,

an idea of living in sabah. But you never been

to Suba. How you know? Jungle out there? I know? Actually, no, lie,

it's quite modern. Ka okay, Saba is beautiful. Off you

go there and never come back to k already really

they go there, they never come back. Oh my kayle

friends all there forever becomes Saba. Hun ready chop sea

rim they see you know? Yeah, you Jesus have an idea.

You just idea that this is how the girl should be,

the guy should be, the house should be, the plaine

should be, the country should be, my family should be.

Two friends, Can I burst your bubble and tell you?

Unless it's Jesus in the house, Jesus in the center

of it all. I don't know where you're saying it

with such conviction. She used to say, the center of

it all. No turn on Jesus. Yeah, Jesus there, the

center of it all. No left now, Jesus left. Please

don't sing, that's all. Don't sing it. Then we don't sing.

Then quiet y'all better know you've got conviction after that.

But God, Jesus is the center of you know? How

come you decided on ddy? I decided and then you

dare say fast? I prayed about it. Jesus said, don't go.

They want to get the pass. Say, oh, Jesus told you, Okay,

five years down the line, he Jesus, you don't know

I wrongly? Oh you hurt wrongly? M I my ears,

your ears or my ears, I don't know. But this

is this is the reality and the joke it's it's

it's it's It's not so much how much you know,

it's how much you're experiencing on a day to day basis. Amen.

And the Cross is not a joke. The Cross, it's

not a legenda of the Cross is real. That's why

we have faith and we believe that Jesus done it

for us. All and all he's saying is I'm here.

You can trust me. Come, I've done everything. Just come

and I'll guide you and I'll lead you. I'll never

forsake you. I'll never leave you. If we're broken, Hey,

Jesus was broken. Law. Amen. If we feel like we

know someone, just backstep you. You're so a watler, you know, Yeah,

So you really have to. You gotta look at those

fifteen steps. There's just fewer needs, so many things Jesus

went through. If for those who are church planters, you

feel like, oh my goodness, I lost all the sheep.

You know the movie that is, Honey, I shrunk the kids,

this buster. I shrunk the church. You know. One day

it was one hundred, tomorrow twenty and what happened? What

happened to the seventy? We're the senior person. Whatever that

you won't scold a person's it? What do you do right? Right?

Like I s strong the church. Let's start all over again.

We ain't scared. We just had to work again, correct

whatever we made wrong, and then just that again. Because

Jesus strong the church by telling them what you must

eat my body and drink my blood, you know, and

he wants sitting together day be talking. You made the word.

He lost his head. That's it. We're not following Jesus

because he's talking about eating blurred, drinking blood, eating flesh.

That's not God at all. But that was the new

covenant in his body, the new covenant signed on it

by his blood. But they couldn't see it. Sometimes we

can't see it that God is actually doing something so different.

But we just only know one way I know Jesus

is one way to get to yes. One way Jesus.

But the one way that you are seeing is the

one way that you created your life, your vision of life.

But you haven't allowed yourself to look at the bigness

of the generosity, of God's bigness of his plans for you.

And the cross is not so small a thing so small.

It's a small so anyone can do it. Jini's more

small the cross the world. No, it was a big job, nobody.

It was like, you know, some Italian big job and

rob the bank or whatever. This Jesus had to rub

all of all of hell so that we could have heaven. Amen. Amen.

And so that's victory is yours already. Amen, Church, Amen,

Ala and Lujah, we have glory to God. Amen. Amen.

So you would come. You know, before the world began,

he has created all things, He has made all things

for us. But Jesus stepped into our world. Nobody else

has stepped into our world. That's the hope for each one.

You may sit you. I don't know what you're going through.

I don't know what your doubts are, I don't know

what your plans. I don't know. But the Lord knows already.

And my encouragement is you can come to him. You

can trust him to lead you. You can also trust

him to guide you through the plans that you already

have set in motion by you willing to surrender and say, Lord,

have I done the right steps? Amen? Or maybe you're

in a circumstances you find it very complicated and you

don't know how to get out of it. Also ask

the Lord, Lord, this is a very complicated situation. Is

it my fault? Is it the circumstances which I'm in?

But Lord, you said that you are the way, the

truth and the life, and then show me the way. Then, Lord,

show me truth. What is it that I'm missing? You? Lord,

lead me, lead me because you are my life? Amen,

a man. Church, every need that we have, it just

cannot come the way we want it. That's what I'm saying.

It just won't. For I want church to be in

a certain picture and a certain way. But then look

at all your faces. Are you in a certain face? No?

Everybody is different? In my mind, this is how how No,

in my mind as zero. Actually planting a church was

like zero, blunt chee. Why love? And then this is

what we have today? Right, we have churches everywhere. But

then God had a plan and he brought different ones

into our lives, and then we just had to say, Okay, Lord,

we take care of the sheep. We take care of

the sheep the best we know how as you lead us. Right,

so you can write things, but but the lot will

then lead you every step of So that's what I

encourage you. It's just to say, God Jesus is saying

to you you can trust him. You can't trust him.

You can because he didn't numb himself, He took the pin,

he didn't run, He didn't ask angels to come and

take over and take his place. The angels already I think,

come on, God, let just don't hold me back. Michael, okay,

pro like, no, no, don't don't hold me back. Let

me go. No, no, Jesus is I'm gonna do it.

So this price that was paid, it's really worth every

Let it. Let it just sink into your heart that

you are worth every ounce of his blood. You are

worth every ounce of his blood, his bones, his whole being. Amen.

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