Unpacking the Vision of Acts Church Session 5 | Celina Tan

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Know, sharing with us the tree else, who can remember

the tree l's that he shared about. Give a quick

shout out. It's the first one. What's the first L?

Nobody remember? Oh man? Why why is the first L?

The loss?

Okay?

The second one? Leader, the one eleven? Yeah, very good.

Okay.

So last Sunday Joe shared on this tree LS the lost,

the leader, the eleven. Okay, so we all know what

the loss meant. Okay. It's not you go for shopping,

you know, and then you lost your way. No, it's

not that loss. Okay. So all of us has a mandate. Okay,

we are called to seek and save the lost.

Okay.

The loss is basically the people who have not heard

the gospel, the people who do not know who Jesus is.

They are the loss, and our mandate is that we

have to go and reach out to them, to bring.

The gospel out to these people. Okay.

And you know, Jesus last common for us is what

we always mention this right, go therefore and make disciples. Okay,

Seek and save the loss is part of the journey

of discipleship. We want to bring the people one step

closer to the Lord.

Okay. And then the second l the leaders.

Okay. So a lot of times when we hear the

word leader, the first thought that comes to our mind

is the title. Okay, but you know last week Joe mentioned, right,

it is not about the title, but it's about our action.

Right, So who are we leading?

The questions that we have to ask ourselves and where

are we leading the people towards? Are we leading them,

you know, towards climbing the corporate leader? No, our job

is to lead the people one step closer to the Lord,

regardless what leadership position that you may be in, whether

you are a leader in church, whether you're a leader

in your workplace, whether you're a leader in your campus,

regardless where you are at. Remember, your job is not

only to lead the people to excel in the things

that they're doing, but is to lead them one step

closer to the Lord. Okay. And the third l the

eleven Okay, it basically meant the discipline of stepping out

of our comfort zone. Okay. So we are called to

be the agent of change. We are called to be

the one to make a difference wherever God has planted us.

So do we want to be comfortable at where God

has planted us doing the things that we love, doing

the things for our self? Or do we want to

be the agent of change doing the things that the

Lord has ask us to do? Right? So, remember all

of us here on earth. Right, it's not so that

we can achieve our own ambition. As much as we

have our own ambition, as much as all of us

have our own dreams, all of us have you know,

the goals that we want to achieve.

And that is not wrong. Okay, that is not wrong.

But ultimately we have to come back to the position

and start to ask ourselves what is our priority while

chasing our own dreams?

What is our priority?

They God put us here on earth so that our

name can be glorified? Or did God put us here

on earth so that his name can be glorified? You know,

a lot of times people who have very sharp goals,

they know what to achieve. You know, they will chase

after it, you know, do all things to to run

after it. But many of us, a lot of times

we do not know what exactly we want to do.

But let me tell you today whether your.

Goal is as sharp as you know this is the

path you want to take, or you do not know

which way to take. Ultimately, come back to what Jesus

have telt us to do. Seek and save the loss,

make disciple, and that is our goal.

Okay.

So we have been through how many weeks one to

tree for five? Five weeks? Okay? This week is the

fifth week? Right? Correct? One?

Three? Yes?

Correct, yeah, I lost out of my way okay, So

we have been through so many weeks of this unpacking

vision and then probably you may be asking, HOLLYO, why

why do we need to know the vision? Okay? The

vision is so that we can be clear and remember

our purpose here.

Okay.

So the vision that God has given to ex Church

is not so that you know the kind of name

will be glorified.

It's not.

Every vision that we shared with all of us here

is so that we can continue to do the world

of God. And we have heard for the past few weeks,

and then a lot of us come to this point

where you know, after Joe has shared, you know, we

have to go out, okay to seek the laws okay,

and then we have to go and save them. We

have to go lead them closer to the Lord, and

then here we are go back home, and then we

start to you know, think about it, and we will

have all sorts of reasons not to do what we

are taught. Okay, why I say it's reason and not

excuse us, because sometimes these reasons can be very very real. Okay,

what kind of reasons that we are so caught up with?

You know, our busyness Okay, those of you who have family,

young children, Okay, you will be very busy with your kids,

you know, bringing them to school. Maybe your kids are

not well, then you have to take care of them,

you know, their school, have a lot of homework that you.

Have to help them.

You know, we are busy, not busy for no reason,

busy for a good reason. Or maybe some of us

has been like you know, doing a lot of things

and then you do not have enough rest, and then

you just say that you know, all I want is

that on my off day, I just want to have

a good rest. Don't ask me to go and meet

anyone else. You know, all these are good reason, okay,

because ultimately we cannot run on empty right. We need rest, right,

So I'm not saying that these are bad reasons, and

I won't even say that it's excuses. But do we

want to let this reason dictate our life and neglect

the work of God?

So yes, we have reason.

But today I'm just going to share with all of

you that inas much as we always say that, oh,

you know, I wish that one day got thirty six hours,

or someone ways say I wish that one day got

forty eight hours, I'm just going to lead us back

into this principle and the power of tithing. Okay, tithing okay.

And then you may be saying that, yeah, Selena, what

about tithing that can help me have forty eight hours

a day?

Okay?

Let me share with you from Faster Kenneth experience first. Okay.

So one of the secrets of past Kenneth's success in

life is the power of tithing. Okay. So we all

know that tithing means giving a ten of our earnings

for the cause of Christ and his kingdom. Right.

Tidying is giving our ten percent.

Okay. A lot of times when we talk about tidying,

we think about giving our money, right, So that's tiding okay.

So tidying is something that we set aside for God.

Okay.

And that is untouchable because when we say we set

a side for God means we don't touch things that

belongs to God. So the question here is why is

tithying important?

Okay. Tidying is a way.

For us to show faith, trusting that when we give

to God, you know God will honor respect. Okay. It's

also a way to show that we can trust God.

God say, Ma, give and hl be given back to you.

So do we trust God? And then tidying also is

important because it's a way to show our gratitude to

God by giving him the best of our first ten

of our income, okay, and to say that we put

God first, a birth, anything else that is tidying. So,

but cannot share with us that you know. Tiding started

in the Garden of Eden, and you all know the

story the Garden of Eden when God gave every thing

to Adam. And if God says that you can have

everything except one thing, do not touch and do not

eat the fruit from the from the white, from the sea,

from the sky, from the tree of knowledge of good

and evil. But they Goda say you can have everything

except that tree. Don't touch the tree, don't eat the fruit. Okay,

So God gave us everything, but God only asks us

for something which is the ten percent. Okay, which is

the ten percent? So God say that, you know, yeah,

I give you the ability to make wealth. Some will

make better wealth than another. God gave you a lot

of ability to do a lot of things. But God says,

there's only ten percent that I do not want you

to touch.

Okay.

So when God asks us, you know, don't touch this,

don't do that, he wants us to hear it and obey.

You know, I mean teaching young children for many years

and kids being kids, right, the more you tell them

don't touch, the more they will touch. The more you

ask them don't do it, the more they will do it. Okay.

So it's the same like us. As much as we

always go the kids, right, I told you don't touch

the hot pot, right, Why you're gonna touch it? Right?

The more we tell them don't do it, the more

they will do it. Same same like us. Okay.

But God wants us to exercise self control. Okay.

So when we hear from God and God say don't

touch this, don't do that, we need to obey because

why obedience is when we acknowledge that he is God. Okay.

So what I said here.

You know we have heard a lot tithing, you know,

tiding money, tithing money, tiding money. Okay, but remember that

tie is not just about money. It's about acknowledging God

as God. Okay. And what I wanted to share with

all of you is tiding that does not only for money,

it's also for your time and for everything else in

your life.

Okay, that you are.

Setting aside the things that God has given to you,

the ten percent for the purpose of his kingdom. God say, man,

you can do everything, you can have everything. The money

you earn ten thousand a month, yes, you can go

spend it, but I only one your ten percent for

my kingdom. God says that I've given you twenty four

hours a day. I've given you breath to wake up

every morning. You can do everything within the twenty four

hours except the ten percent that I want you to

give it back for my kingdom. Okay.

And when we give God the ten percent, you.

Know we are telling him that care Lord, you are

important and I'm going to use this for you. So

when we read the Bible right, we know that the

principle of tiding start is started as the law that

God has imposed upon the Israelites. We all know right

why God asks them to tithe to ten percent is

actually given to the tribe of Levi, who is being appointed,

you know, to help to take care of the temple,

to do the work of God.

So it's to help them.

But ultimately, as the time goes by, God do not

want to see that. You know that we do it

because it's just a law, but God wants to speed.

See the spirit that is reading us. How much do

we care about God, how much do we want to

honor him? How much can we obey him with what

he has given to us. It's the spirit that the

Lord is looking at. When our spirit is right, we

will naturally obey the law. But if our spirit is

not right, we will do it because the law says so.

But we will do it grudgingly.

So always remember don't just look at it as a law,

but look at it as that. You know, God, you

are important, and I'm putting you first and giving to

God what belongs to him. Okay, so we may say that, yeah,

I don't have enough time, but if we were to

give God that time and so the time, the Bible

say that we shall reap time. God will bless the

ninety percent in Writturn. I can share with you you

know about this testimony. People who know me very well, right,

they will always say, when Selena, you tell me, like

when you can meet because you're always so busy. Yes,

I can tell you that I am very, very busy.

People who know me very well they know that. No,

my calendar is always very packed. But people who are

closer enough to me, you will always hear me say this,

don't give excuse on my behalf. Tell me if you

need to meet me. I will make time. You know,

when I was so busy chasing after dadlines, trying to

complete my assignment.

Have I needed the rest?

People who know me well I will know that I

love to sleep. You know I need my sleep because

if not, then my brain cannot function. Okay, but I

will still make time. I will make time to meet

people who need me. I will make time for people

who say that, Selena, I need to talk. You know.

I will make time to do the things that I

needed to. But of course every time I say yes, ready, right,

I was like, God, can you make them concern the appointment?

You know a lot of times I will do that. Okay,

I'm just being honest here, Okay. But ultimately, even though

when I go and meet different ones, I will spend

two hours three hours, and you know, with the two

hour three hours, accomplish a lot of my work. But

usually when I meet after meeting all these people, when

I go back and I needed to do my work, somehow,

I do not know how God multiplied my time by

helping me, giving me ideas to complete my work which

was supposedly needed three hours to complete, and I can

just easily complete it readin half an hour to an hour.

Do I have forty eight hours? No? Do I have

thirty six hours? Know how many hours I sleep a day? Eight?

How many hours I spend on the road to my office,

half an hour to work, two hours back home and

a half hours back home. So a lot of times,

you know, all this time that I cannot work on,

you know, but.

Somehow got multiplied.

But if you ask me the time that I saw

on all these people, is it it?

Yes?

Because what I see, especially those girls that is under

my disciple shape. Some of them, I see them when

they are campus years and now they are mothers. They're

discipling others, they are reaching out to others. They are

being the difference to others. So is it worth it? Yes,

it's worth it, you know, So, don't you know I

always say this, don't always say that, you know, God,

I got no time now, I don't do no sew

it and God will multiply it.

God will help us.

So the principle that God put in the Bible, right,

it says here that you know when you saw, you

will reap.

You so good, you will reap good. You so bad,

you will reap bad.

And you know, when I was looking at the scripture right,

this was something that I read from the New Living Translation.

I just want to read to all of you.

So this principle of you saw what you read is

taken from Galicians chapter six. Okay uh, And I'm going

to read from Worse two Gay chapter six.

Worse two.

It says here from the New Living Translation, share each

other's burden.

And in this way obey the law of Christ.

If you think you are too important to help someone,

you are only fooling yourself.

You are not that important.

You know. When I read it, try, I'm like, ouch,

you know, okay, God, I hear you. So you are

telling me that yes, I need to reach out to others.

I need to help other Okay, reaching out to others.

That it's not just going up to your friend and say, hey,

you must have Jesus and if not, you'll go to help. No,

we have to be relevant to the language of the

people in order to show them what love of Christ

is all about. You know, I just wanted to take

this time for a while, you know, time time or

from this passage to say a big thank you to

all of you. Okay, for those of you who are

here every Sunday last year, you will have seen an

old man sitting in front here. My dad. He passed

away slightly before we enter into new Year. I just

wanted to say thank you to all of you who

came all the way for the Whig service, Okay. And

what I wanted to share here is that my dad

is not a believer. He's not a Christian until to

the point where he gave his last breath. And I'm

still not sure whether did he ultimately on his last journey,

did he say that, you know, Jesus, I'm coming back

to you. But that doesn't matter. But what matters was

that when I first became a Christian. He really, you know,

very against going to church. You know, sometimes I forget

to take my water bottle or whatsoever. I say that,

you know that, can you bring it to church for me?

He will bring it to outside the door at the

roadside there and he said, you come out and take

I say, no, I'm serving on stage. Can you bring

it inside the church and pass it to my friend? No,

I'm not coming in. It's that bad, okay. He will

wait at the roadside until I finished serving on stage.

Come now put my thing, go outside to take him

right away. That's him. But for the past one year

you saw him with me here in church. That is

a miracle to me. The second miracle was that he

cannot really understand English. So a lot of times when

you're trying to speak to him right he will just

look at you as smiled because he cannot really understand.

But guess what he understood the language that you guys

make it relevant for him, which is the language of love.

That is relevant.

And he understood what the love of God is through

your handshake, you know, through your smile. And I can

tell you that every Sunday when he go home, he

will say that why your chich friend, I remember who

am I. I'm like, of course they remember who you are.

You are so special. You're the only old man that

is soul in the church. There's no one else, you know.

But to him is like wow, that is what the

love of Jesus meant to him. So for us, when

we share with others, when we tie our time to

the Lord, when we bring out the message of love to.

Others, it matters.

That's why Pasa kind of reminded us this, don't just

go out and just shove the word of God into

people who do not know Christ by saying that you

know everything we caught from scripture, Christian dragons and all.

And people don't find the relevance of it and they

will never understand it. But we we are called ex

church right the word X. We can also put this,

put it as X of kindness, acts of love, acts

of service, X of you put it and all these

are the love of Christ. Let's be relevant from today

onwards because that is what we need to do to

seek there and save the laws. So how do we tithe?

There's a lot of ways that we can tithe. And

when we tipe onto the Lord, things that seems impossible

will be possible. What we can do that is relevant

to people. We can pray for people. No one will

reject prayer, trust me, even the majority faith, even those

that cannot understand your language. When you say that cannot

pray for you, they will say yes. And when they

see something different happen in their life and they will

say that, wow, prayer works. Right. We can pray for needs,

we can pray for different ones. And what else can

we do? We can type our time by serving in

the house of the Lord.

We can serve God.

And one of the things that we always believe in

in ex church is that not the twenty percent serving

the eighty percent means are not only twenty percent of

the church attendance serving the eighty percent of the church attendance,

but the eighty percent serving the twenty percent. And who

are the twenty percent our newcomers? Can we do that?

Can we do that? Example, Let's be the eighty percent

serving the twenty percent? Right? What else can we do?

We can share? We can share with those who do

not have. We can be generous, you know, we can

be generous with our time those of us who may

be blessed with a bit more money. We can be

generous with our money. We can be generous even with

our you know, whatever God has given to you, be generous.

And I'm just gonna share this, and I always share

with the leaders. I'm always very blessed by this one

guy in Exampang. He will always go all the way,

you know, to make sure that people who need transport

will get to where they are okay. And sometimes is

really out of the way one and sometimes it will

be late at night and he's Calvin, you know. Every

time I look at the homes chat right, I always laugh.

One he will always say that, hey, I'm not serving

this figure anyone if you'll need transport, and I cannot

remember where he stays are, so sometimes I he will

drive all the way to Wansdu to fetch one, come

to kl and fetch one.

Then only he will go to Subang.

Now after they're from Subang, there will be someone who

do not know stay where one okay, So it's all

different places. Ah, he will go and drop them by

the time he reached home. Sometimes I say, oh, it's

the next day, really okay. And that is his generosity

and that is what he has and I think I

can't remember. I asked him or I asked someone else.

I said it, why not you know he and the

answer was that he said that, you know, he got comma.

It's okay, can sandma you know? For me? Right, I'm like, okay,

on the way I can Sennah out of the way.

Maybe another persona okay.

You know.

But that is generosity and that will be the very

language of the Gospel of Christ that we can share

to someone.

What else can we type?

Make disciples taken leadership, be involved in community work? And

I'm so proud with so many of the ex ambunt

partners here, who's really type your every Saturday to go

to ams and to serve the refugee that I tell you,

it's not easy, Okay, wake up super early in the morning,

go in there and teach like, don't know, sixty or

seventy young children who half of them may not be

able to understand English. And then you still have to

deliver the word of God to them. And many of

them they are really blessed, you know, they are really blessed.

Sometimes you know, our homes go in and I can

see all the kids are running. Did you anyway, you know,

did you, my boy. They just like you know, you know,

it's something that is really you know, it really bless

my heart. It tells me that these children see Christ

in you guys. You know, you are the form of

Christ that are physical in the eyes of the children,

and they will remember this for life. Okay. You can

be a part of the missions, you know, extra big

on missions. Sign up for missions straight. So if you

cannot do it like you know, every single month, do

it at least once a year, tie it onto the

Lord and then you will see the difference. So when

we type, we are not losing, we are gaining, and

God multiplies what we offer up unto him.

Always remember that, okay.

So why I spend so much time talking about this

is that you know, I'm just going to break it

down into bite size something that we need to do.

Okay.

So this vision when passa Cannot first shed to us,

it was in year twenty twenty one, okay. And then

it was the year that we have passed our twenty

years mark. Okay, twenty years old. We passed twenty years

mark okay, and that was the time Pasa Cannot received

this revelation from God. Okay. So the first twenty years.

It was the year of Joseph. And then after twenty years,

the Lord declared that you know, ex church would be

the Church of Daniel, which is the vision.

Okay.

So when Pasa Canna received this revelation, it was also

the time when Malaysia experienced a government change.

Okay.

It was the very year that we saw the government change,

and that this was the reset year for Malaysia, right

because we have been having this government for the longest

time and then there was a change of government, and

that give us a perspective that you know, is a

reset time even for us as an exchange reset of

what reset into something that's greater, Reset from the year

of Joseph into the year of Daniel.

Okay. So the next twenty.

Years, starting from twenty twenty one, the next twenty years,

it's the years that we have to prepare and see

how God's going to use us to move powerfully at

where we are planted. So we want to see how

we can catch on this vision and make a difference

at wherever God has places. So I can see across

the board here, majority of us are at the marketplace, Okay.

We are called to serve in the marketplace. Some of

you who are studying, you are called to be in

the campus. Question to us is dead. How can we

make the difference at where we are planted? Okay? So

how are we going to break down this whole vision

that you know that Bassa kind Off has caught for us? Okay,

So Bassa Kennev has break this down into four category

knowing what is God's diet?

Okay.

God's diet is basically what is God telling us to do?

And then he's dailibreated.

Okay, what when God tells us ready, we want to

download it from God to know in bite size. Then

after that our tithe onto the Lord re uplook back

and say that, Okay, God, this is what I want

to commit to do. Okay, After we tie onto the Lord,

which is the Leaven, are we ready to step out

from the comfort zone? So don't think that, Yeah, this

is the vision that Basa Kenneth has received. Okaya, Basa

Kennef and his top leadership do it? Can already? I

just come to church every Sunday, listen to the word

of God, and then I go home and be married. No, okay,

So I'm just gonna share with you from Ephesients, Chapter

four ward sixteen. Here it says, from whom the whole

body join and knit together by what every joint supplies,

according to the effective working by which every part does

its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying

of itself in love. So what is the keyp on here?

Every part means everyone has a role to play. Everyone

does its share causes growth of the body, which is

the Church, which is the Kingdom of God. Why do

we want to grow the church? Why do we want

to grow the Kingdom of God? So that everyone will

come to know the saving knowledge of Christ? Okay, so

remember every one of you, everyone including myself, has a

part to play. So it is not just Passa kanev.

It is not just Passasandra. It is not just El

the game yeah or Basak Elder Shi No, Everyone, Abigail, Eddie, Joel, Minjoe, Annabelle, everyone, everyone, okay,

has a part to play. So in your boat you

can see that there is tree level here. So I'm

just gonna go with us step by step before I

go into what is ex abun row.

Okay, So what is God's started?

Okay, we know that at step one God has told

us that from Habergo to fourteen, it says that for

the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the

glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Our job is to fill the earth and to have

dominion over the things of the earth.

That is God's died.

God want us to feel the earth, okay, fill it

with what the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

Okay.

And then from here we know God wants us to

feel the earth. How by making disciples? Okay, that is

his daily brain. So how can we make disciples? Our

type is to start with who we have, where we are,

and what we have. That is our tithe. And we

can only give tithe based on things that we have.

I cannot go to Eddie's bank account and take out

He's ten percent and say that's my tithe under the Lord.

Can we do that? No, right of course, I have

to go to my own account, take up mine own

time percent and tie this onto the Lord.

Okay.

I know.

In the boot it says that, okay.

Examples singing our in house songs. Okay. So one of

the things that God has blessed extra with is the

talent of writing songs. And during that time basa cannot

want us to type what we have unto the Lord

by asking the Extreme ting singing the song that we're

written in house and not just taking our neighbors songs

in all for overseas to worship, because God has given

us what we have and we want to use it

to worship unto the Lord. And when the Extreme team

did that, we saw a breakthrough. So do you want

to see breakthrough. If you want to see breakthrough, you

type using what you have, okay. So what you have

to do is to look into your own hand, what

do you have and how can you use it and

tie it unto the Lord in order to make disciples.

After you tipe what is eleven is to be sent out.

That is the discipline. When we have the discipline and

keep doing it, God will be pleased by our giving

because when we are giving our best with what we have, okay,

he will give us back okay, what we have given

to him. So remember, making disciples can be very challenging. Okay,

let me tell you whatever it is. Even though it's

level wanner, Okay, it can be very challenging. Don't give up.

Keep doing okay, keep doing it until it becomes a momentum. Okay,

don't say that. Yeah, okay, I call this person to

follow up. Okay, this person don't to answer my call,

or this person keep on, you know, break the appointment, Keller,

I don't do it. Regalar Selena asked me to follow

up with this persona follow up with another person. I

also do wanna because after people keep on, you know, uh,

don't want to answer my call whatsoever. No, don't don't

give up. Keep doing it because ultimately, when you keep

doing it, you will you will rip the fruit of it.

Okay.

So that is the first level, okay, which is to

fill the earth and then to have dominion. And then

the Lord also downloaded to us again saying that okay,

we are to be the church of one thousand times

one thousand.

Okay.

So that is what God has revealed to us. It's

not something that we pluck from the air. Okay.

One thousand times one thousand.

Okay. So we have one thousand people, we want to

multiply it to another thousand. So what is the deliberate

how do we multiply it to another thousand? Which is

to take stock of the one thousand people that we

have in ex church. Take stock means are not to

every single Sunday to see, okay, who is coming to church,

who is not coming to church. It's not that, but

is to make sure that everyone is being discipled. So

at that point in time, we have to one hundred.

And fifty leaders.

So our type is that these two hundred and fifty leaders,

we will have to disciple the seven hundred and fifty

who are not a leader yet and make them a leader. Okay.

So and how can we do that is to make

a list, coming up with a strategy, okay, creating a system,

putting up a schedule, and then go out and reach

out to these people and to sol in the world

of God in them.

Okay. So that is our eleven. And finally, what.

Is God's diet, what God is showing to us is

by twenty thirty we want to hit ten thousand people

and we have how many more years to twenty thirty

four more years? Okay, So we have to work hard now, Okay,

ten thousand is not just a number, Okay, is our

commitment unto the Lord. So these ten thousand we are

looking at. It's not church transfer, not to go to

another church and say the ex church better you come

to ex No, what we want to see is that

ninety percent a new believer. How do we achieve that

every one of the one thousand partner reaches out to

one new soulce every year for the next nine years,

which is back then in twenty twenty one, and it

will be nine thousand okay, So now we have four

more years left, okay, So don't look at the ten

thousand couse. Later I'm going to break this down for

ex umbug okay. So remember these are all of us

have that one to reach. So what can we do

the eleven which is to look and pray for an

opportunity to show God's love, display.

His power, and point Jesus. Point them to Jesus.

Every day, every week okay, and then share it together

with the community. Okay, we are the community and appull

it onto the Lord. So remember this. Sometimes we say

that very hard, very hard to show people, you know,

or very hard to.

Share the gospel to people.

But the matter of fact is people are hungry to

hear the message of hope. People are hungry to see

miracles in their own life. People are hungry for prayer.

All we need to do is to be sensitive to

the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Why don't starting from tomorrow?

First thing, first we wake up in the morning, rather

than reaching out to our phone, Let's wake up and

say that Lord, I commit today unto you. Show me

who is the one person that I can pray for?

And then we committed to the Lord. We do it.

We hear be sensitive. And then let's see what is

the breakthrough that we wire. Sometimes it may not achieve overnight,

it will take some time, but don't give up. Keep

doing it and make it a momentum. So we already

know what God's diet is. What is our daily brain?

So the question is what is our daily brain? What

is our type unto the Lord? So, like I mentioned,

all of us have different tithes. So look at our

hands what we have and give it unto the Lord.

So when we want to break all this into bait

size for our own self, let's start looking into the

list of friends that we have. Okay, write down the

names okay, take stock okay, and then start calling them

and then start investing our time into it. So what

you can do, like what I usually do, I every

time start my week by looking at my calendar when

do I have free evening, and I'll start calling hello,

free for dinner. But my priority is usually for those

who are celebrating their birthday, because at least, if I

cannot meet you anytime of the year, at least I

meet you once a year.

Okay.

So that's always my priority. And then the next and

then the next you can try to. And then when

you start to see that when you start investing time, okay,

you will reap something beyond the time that you invest. Okay.

So but I kind of share with us from Luke,

chapter thirteen, verse six to nine, about this warning okay,

And this scripture says he also spoke this parable. A

certain man had a victory planted in his vineyard, and

he came seeking fruit on it and found none. When

he said to the kipper of his vineyard, look for

three years, I have come seeking fruit on this victory

and find none. Cut it down. Why does it use

up the ground. But he answered and said to him, sir,

let it alone this year also until I dig around

it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well good.

But if not, after that you can cut it down.

Okay.

Then maybe those who have not responded the last few

years that you have been trying to reach out, but

God is still counting them in. He hasn't cut them

down yet, Okay, So don't give up.

Okay.

Just like in the scripture the person said that, no,

don't cut first, let me dig around and fertilize it.

Okay.

Even those that you have been discipling. You have been

reaching out okay, and you have not seen fruit, Okay,

don't give up. Or maybe those whom you have been

discipling okay, are they are not saying yes to everything

that you challenge them to do. Don't give up because

there are still chants. Give them another chance, continue to

sow into them, fertilize them with the world of God.

And if it doesn't bear fruit, then only you say

bye bye. Okay. Remember everyone deserves a chance, but you,

as the farmer okay or the gardener, you shouldn't say that. Okay, Lord,

give this peron another chance and you do nothing. What

did the scripture say, dig around it and fertilize it.

So you need to put in more effort, okay, to

fertilize the plan so that it bears fruit. So if

let's say you feel that you are the one that

is not bearing fruit. I want to challenge you this year, start,

you know, to grow yourself. Start to allow yourself to

bear fruit. Remember the principle of tiding. Start giving what

the Lord has given to you.

And you were a bad fruit.

Okay. So like I mentioned just now, okay, we've seen

the tree. Started make disciples, Okay, which is to fell

the earth one thousand, one times one thousand and ten

thousand by twenty thirty. This is what I've broken it

down for x Unbound. For those of you who read

the book of Nihi my Yea, you know when Nihi

Maya went back to to.

You know, to his compound to build the wall.

Okay, he assigned is family a part of the wall

to build.

Right, all of us have a part of war to.

Build in God's kingdom, and all of us here is

considered one family.

And this is the part of the.

Wall that we have to build, which part the heart

of care, that is our part to play. Okay, So

don't say that x park is you know, Selina's job

has nothing to do with me. No, if you call

x Ambunk your home church, you are part of the

family to build this part of the wall. So X

Church DNA is that to grow big is to grow small.

Okay. We do not want to be a monument.

We want to be the movement, because a monument will

just remain where it is, but a movement is able

to go out everywhere, every corner, every highways and byways

to look to sick and save the lost. That's why

we never want to build a big church, a cathedral,

but a movement where we can go out. We don't

want to be an elephant that is moving slow, but

we want to be the end that will be able

to go every corner. Will you be able to see

elephant anywhere you know around you?

No, but you will see ends everywhere.

Right. We are supposed to be like that everywhere so

that people will know the gospel, will know the message

of hope. All right, so x Church DNA. To grow

big is to grow small. And every church plan this

is the God died for us, is to grow to

one hundred and twenty people. When we grow unti one

hundred twenty people, we multiply again and for every homes. Okay,

So if a church of one hundred and twenty people,

and then we want to have twelve homes. In a

church plan, there will be ten people in the homes.

So that's why we always tell the homes leader. Once

you grow ten people or twelve people, you multiply, you multiply, Okay,

So how to do that? Okay? So God died for

us is one hundred and twenty pressures souls attending x

unbund faithfully. So what is his daily break for all

of us? That our kpi? Okay, I'm talking the language

of working about our KPI is to reach out for

one soul. Okay, to reach out for one soul you

needed one. So our regular attendance now on on a

on a good Sunday, it's about sixty people, okay, But

if I want to take stop off everyone. Actually ex

Umbound has over eighty people. But I'm looking at regular only.

We have sixty people. Sixty people, one person invite one

got how many? Anyone know your mathematics?

Very good?

Well, then I'll give you a sticker later, okay. So

if every one of us reach out to the one,

we will be one hundred and twenty by now. You know,

one of the things are that really touches my heart

is the children next door. You know, when we were

giving out the invitation cut to all of us to

invite our friends.

The kids actually ask how come we don't have?

So usually when kids say how come we don't have,

we will be thinking that they only want to take

it as a toy, right. Actually no, they wanted to

use it to invite their friends. So what I did

with them is because we ran out of the star

imitate car actually did a joke one okay, a fake

one okay, which is kids' version with them, and I

asked them, you want to use this for what I

want to invite my friend? And they started writing their

friend's name on it. That is the faith they have

to them is once I write the name, I'm going

to give it to my friend and this is the

very friend I'm going to invite. But of course we

know kids in my kids, if parents say no, the

kids won't come last. But it's the spirit, you know,

when we take the card, do we even do that?

We take and say that, yeah, we want to invite

our friends, but do we even know who is the

one that we want to invite? Do we have the

faith like the kids and start writing the name of

our friends on it and really give it to the

friend that we say that we want to invite a

lot of times we actually fail in that because number one,

we skeet rejection. Number two we skeet to offend people.

So this year, I just want to encourage all of us.

Don't do that. Okay, don't do that, misa, don't fear.

But let's take the step of faith and start by,

you know, making friends, remaking re friend your friend. How

should I put it? You know, because the day in

my homes Jude was saying that, yeah, he thought he

really wants to invite his friend, so he say, yeah, yeah,

will come. In the end, none of them came, because

he said, it's really like those insurance agents where you

never you never keep in touch with your friend and

then out of nowhere, hey what you meet up about?

And then your friends say, are you trying to sell

me something? Sometimes we're as a believer, we are like

that one. You know, you know, we don't keep in

touch with our friend until are Yeah, the church leaders say,

must invite friends, then we wally start calling them. Don't

do that, start following up now, start being their friend. Now, Okay,

keep in touch. Don't be the last minute, because I

need to invite someone, then only you call them. Okay,

we start swing now, start showing our friend that we

are their friend. Now, okay, so when we need to invite,

then they will come. Okay. So from now until twenty

six and it was already you got three weeks, start

being friend. First, Hey, John, let's go Duran. Okay, let's

go yourta Okay, start being their friend. And then when

you invite, they will come. And when they come, this

is where you pray, Lord, I want to seal the deal.

I pray that this friend of mine will ultimately say

that yes, I want Jesus to be in my heart.

So as I close, as I invite extreme team to

come to the stage, I.

Just want to encourage all of us here.

We have heard the vision, and today it's the fifth

Sunday that you heard it. With everything that you have heard, okay,

maybe you've probably already forgotten session one to session four, okay,

session five, and then you were saying that was Selena.

You shad so many things. I cannot remember everything. I

only want you to remember one thing. One thing. Our

job here is to save our friend who do not

have Jesus in their life. Really, nothing else matters.

It's this pressure soul that matters. If you say.

That you love your friend, make sure they say the

sin is prayer, the salvation, prayer, one thing to come

to know the Lord. Don't wait until it's too late.

Don't think that there's tomorrow. Man. Let me tell you

to be honest, I can't even sure if there is tomorrow.

Live every day as every day. Leave it as if

like today is the final day that you will see

your friend.

Leave it with urgency.

If the Lord prompts you to pray for this friend,

don't say withit like God, I'm going to see my

friend three days later. No pray now.

If God give.

You the sensing that you need to call this family

of yours, don't say that Lord with one week later

I call her.

I'm very busier this week.

No put down everything and call because you know why

we share all this. It's not so that X church

will be packed to the brim with people and then

we can celebrate that. Wow, look at ex church. There

are so many people. What's so happening this church? No.

One thing that I always remind my leader is that

I don't care whether our hall is pack or not packed.

What I care is that whether the heart of the

people that comes to Umbunk.

Really give it all to Jesus.

Because if the whole is packed with people and their

life does not reflect Christ, it meant nothing. If the

whole is packed and when they live that door, their

life is no difference from those who do not know Jesus,

it meant nothing. If the whole is packed but their

life is not transformed after hearing the word of God,

it meant nothing. I would rather to have just one

precious souls and say that you know Jesus here I am,

take me, use me. I would rather that one soul

after leaving this door, started to go out and share

what the Lord has done in her life. You know,

in our SJA ten thirty, there is this one lady

who came to church and he hear the word of

God and say that, yes, I want Jesus to be

in my life. And on that day, after she received Jesus,

she asked the leader what can I do? And all

the leaders said to her was that go and share

what the Lord has done in your life. And she

did up till today. I still read the testimony, and

the reason one is that she together with one of

the tenants in summit Usja went and visited a friend

in the Rombahn, I think, and the friend, after hearing

the testimony, gave his life to the Lord. This is

the people that we want to soul into. This is

the life that I pray that all of us, including myself,

will live. Because ultimately it's not the word that I

just wanted to hear. After hearing what's next, Let's be

the world of the world of God. Amen. Can I

invite everyone to stand even as a close in prayer.

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