Session 4 - Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church | Joel Loi

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So we're gonna touch on the loss. Okay, I think

that's the first plan the loss. Yeah, is it? Maybe?

Yes? Yeah.

The vision of AXCES has always been about the loss.

Twenty six Aniversaridis year. Twenty five years ago, I stepped

into ex church. It was around September October twenty five

years ago, and from the moment I entered the church,

I hear it repeatedly, you know, from the leadership from

Pasacana and the different leaders who speak about guys, do

you know why we're here in SS fifteen or not?

Because we're right in front of thousands of campus students.

So from the start when church was established, the conviction

has always been about reaching the loss. Everything we did

was about the loss. We had something called mid Week

service for you know, some of the students are like

after Sunday, they're like yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, like

I love Jesus, I love you know, like I'm gonna

change the world, you know. Then come Monday, assignments and classes, Tuesday,

I hate everyone, you know, and then Wednesday, you know,

they're being crushed by the world. Then like, hey, never mind, Wednesday,

you get refreshed. We got something called meat Week service,

so you get reminded again. Or so they come for

meat Week service and they're like yeah, revived by the Lord.

Then Thursday, you know, they're like crushed by the world again.

Then Friday, I hate everyone around me. And then never mind, Saturday,

I got you know, service, and Sunday got service again.

So we had things like mid week Service, we had

outreachers called gig get into God. Everything that the church

started with twenty five years ago. From the start, it's

always been about the loss. Everything, the investment, the pros,

always been about the loss. So the vision of our church,

you all play a part in it as well. We

want to reach the loss. Now, who's the loss? Who's

the loss? We need to know the who behind the

why of what.

We do.

Because sometimes in church, right, we already know the why

God told us tumor you know chapter twenty eight, God

told us go forth make disciples of all nations. God

already say that's the why. He told us to be

the visires of men. Who one or the f Already

that elder mentioned last Sunday, we know the why we

know the what. Also, we know the what we do.

We come up with all these programs. We come up

week service, getting too God. We come up with Campus

City where all the campus students can hang out, ex

teens get together.

These are all the whats do We know the who.

Because sometimes in church, right, we can ourselves on the

back and they're like, oh, you know, like I'm reaching

out to this friend of mine, this colleague. They're like,

oh okay, okay. But the first is actually a Christians know.

They're like, oh, okay, why are you inviting Christians the church?

Thelready go to church? Man. We got to know who

the loss is.

And the loss is people who don't know Jesus, people

who have never been to church, people who had no

opportunity unless someone invites them to either experience God in

your workplace or to come to church. Yeah, these are

the loss. The loss is not just the ten to

fifteen percent in our country. The loss is the ninety

nine percent in this country. That's the loss. Why is

it important to know who the loss is? How many

of you have been fishing before, gone fishing before? How

many of your gone fishing?

Yeah?

H a see some hands huh have you gone fishing,

but you don't know what you're catching. Huh yes, sah, yes,

you know in my experience, right, every time I go fishing, right,

and that's probably like seven times in my entire life,

we know what we're gonna catch. We know in this

pond or in this lake that's gonna be catfish, that's

gonna be uh, you know, tall man, curly. You know

this is all Bahasa names. I don't know why is

it in English?

You know? Catfisher?

I just talk catfishes, all different types of catfish, brown catfish,

black catfish, silver catfish, all types of catfishes. So you know,

why is it important to know what you want to

catch when you go fishing? Because you need to get

the right rod, you need to know what the line is,

and you need to know what the bait is.

Correct.

You get the wrong bait, you ain't gonna get what

you want to catch. And if you get the wrong

rod and line, guess what I went fishing before, trying

to catch tho man. I don't know what thoman is

called in English? Yeah, huh catfish snake hate wow, so violent?

So because it was not the right rod and the

right line, guess what when the minute the fish caught,

the big swim away and then you can hear the

lines like that, and the next second the line broke

because it was the wrong line, the wrong rod for

that fish. So when we want to reach out to

the loss, guys, you gotta know who you're reaching out to.

The loss is not in churches. The loss is in

your offices. It's among your friends, see your family members.

Can I can I share a thought with you before

we move on to the next point. And here's a thought.

There are some lost people that only you can reach.

Look to your neighbor and say, there's some lost people

only you can reach. Because right you know, we have

doctor Joel Edward here.

He's a vet. You know.

I can't reach out to veterinarians. I mean I can try,

But guess what in the next veterinarian convention, you know,

when all the vets around the world gather, I can't

go there and like, hey, can I tell you about Jesus?

They're like, can you tell me about animals? No? I can't.

They're not interested. Yeah, thank you, thank you. You know

I can't reach out to his community, but he can.

Some of us here are teachers you don't want to

see this guy walking to a school. Security will catch

this face. Yeah, but some of you are teachers and

you have that position and the power to be able

to speak to the students, to be able to reach

out to them. That's your loss and friends, you need

to understand there are some lost people. Only you are

positioned to reach out to. I can't, your neighbor can.

Only you can. There are some lost people in your family.

Guess what.

God places you there in that family that is your

lost people. Reach out to them because no one else

around you can. God plays you there for a reason. Amen,

catching something. Next point, leaders. Wow, what a heavy word. Leaders.

We need leaders to rise out. Everyone can be a leader.

Do you believe it? Okay, only five people now before

this point gets twisted. I think what the book is

trying to share with us here this morning is that

we're I'm not talking about titles, We're not talking about position.

We're talking about action. They're doing. What you do makes

who you are. You can go around and tell the

world I'm official, man, I'm official. Hey, Hello, I'm official man. Hey, Hi,

nice to meet you, Joelle, official of men. But if

I don't catch any fish, I am not aficier of men.

Correct.

Not. You can go around like saying I'm a like no, brother, Bonnie, Like, Hey,

you know, I'm a mountain climber. I'm an outdoors man.

I'm an outdoors man.

Oh. Okay, have you been to any mountain? No? No, no,

But I know every fact about every mountain. Okay.

A leader is someone that leads. A leader is someone

that has followers. You're not because of the title, not

because of the position. That's why you called leader. The

leader title is a result of your action, of your doing.

You guys, all right, Matthew, Chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen. Okay,

what does it say? Can we flash out on the screen? Matthew,

Chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen, Very familiar verse, very familiar

portion of scripture.

So, Kamathie, we can wait. We love you man. Where

will we be without you? Huh?

Matthew, Chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen. Yeah, there we go.

All right, let's read it together. Here we go one, two, three,

Go therefore disciples of all the nations Baptiste saying them

in the name of the Father.

Of the Holy Spirit. Wow.

Go therefore make disciples off all all It's not just

a select few, go therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

You see, when Jesus said go right, he never said okay,

those that have Bible degrees go, okay, those who have

you you you understand all the false spiritual laws and

uh you know, no, no, no, He's just said go go,

go and make disciples of all nations. It's not just

for full time workers. It's not just for people with titles.

This is the why we do what we do. Because

God told us to. All right, you are a leader,

because you lead, and we want to see more and

more people leading others. Why because of the first point,

they have lost people they need leading the world is

leading them into funnier places. But guess what God has

position you in your companies and your families and your communities,

among your friends so that you can lead them, so

that you can make a change in their lives. And

what is one of the best ways to lead people

with a vision and a plan? Haha? Okay, I have

three kids. Okay, in case you didn't know, noah Aila

and Maya. In case you didn't know, you will hear

them before you see them. So I have three kids,

and Leona and I you know we are very very

proud and happy parents of three of them. Sometimes, but

you see when when we talk about leading people, when

we talk about deciding people, it's often so close with parenting,

you know, because they are with us all the time,

all the time. And that's why I say, how do

we lead lost people? Vision and plan? We gotta have

a plan for the children. I don't parent by accident,

you know. I don't parent by mistake, you know, like, oh,

I guess he knows ABC's now. It's not by accident

or by chance one. You know, there is a plan.

So what's your plan when you're leading the loss? Think

about that. We must have a vision also for the

children to see, you know why because if you know,

I'm acting funny every day and Leoni is also acting

funny every day. Guess what when we look at our children,

how will they act? They will act funny? So we

cannot I cannot look at you look at me? What

do you behave? Like?

Yeah? Why do you behave like you? Look at you?

You look at you?

Because of how we behave, our children see the vision

and they follow that leadership.

So how do we behave?

What is the vs that we carry among our family

and our friends. Do we behave like them? Do we

talk like them? It's our lingo like them? Huh Like,

how are this job?

I don't know?

Dial Also, then how is your lingo different from them?

If your lingo it's not faith lingo. If you're lingo

is not Jesus lingo. I don't know how to do this,

but I think God will help me out. Then what's

the difference correct or not? There must be a difference

in the vision that we portray, that we carry out

among the loss, so that they know what is the

right way, because if they keep following the world standards,

that's where they remain lost. So we are helping them

to find the right way. We're leading them. Look to

your neighbor. You are leader. Believe it. Believe it. Friends,

It's not the title, it's not the position. It is

what you do. It is what you do everyone, Okay,

Now the one thousand plus, I think that's the point

that we already have. Everyone should be a disciple and

eventually lead someone to the Lord. The disciple is looking

at a leader is looking at one of us, and

hopefully it's looking at all of us that they see

the disciples sees a vision and a plan, and once

they see the vision and the plan, they're able to

pass it on. Hey, guys, this is the vision. Look

at me, Look at me. What did Paul say, imitate

me as I imitate Christ. There's a vision and guys,

this is a plan. This is what you do when

you go back to your workplace. This is what you

do when you go back to your family's vision and

a plan. Everyone. Okay, Wow, it might still okay for time.

I think I am okay. Next point, last point, not yet.

Eleven eleven okay, eleven. Jesus said that the Kingdom of

Heaven is like eleven Matthew, Chapter thirteen, verse thirty three.

Eleven. Okay.

When leven or yeast is put into the door, it

begins to rise. Okay, those are the points there. I'm

not gonna read because I'm sure you can read from

the screen. Guess what The eleven gets us out from

our comfort zones. Eleven gets us out of our comfort zones.

Eleven when I google it, and I think some of

you already know, especially you have you know, good in

baking and stuff like that, right, Leven works from the

inside out. It works on the inside out. Eleven also

requires time and patience. It is not immediately. It's not

a let me put some leaven. No, it's not immediate.

Leven requires time and patience. I'm gonna explain to you

why some of some of these points is important and

it makes sense. Leven affects everything it touches. Leven affects

everything it touches. Leven gets a negative connotation most times,

because you know, when we read the Word of God,

they always say leven.

You know, it's sin.

You know, never, never let leaven enter into your lives,

you know, because it takes a bit of leaven to

corrupt the entire you know, it always says that. But

let's look at mythew Chapter thirteen, verse thirty three. Is

Jesus himself that say the Kingdom of Heaven is like leven. Okay,

so this morning we're looking at it in a different angle.

Because all of us here are called to the loss,

all of us here are caught to lee, But all

of us here are also.

Caught to leven. We are caught to leven.

So leven works from the inside out. Leven requires time

and patience some of us, right, I can't say something

me sometimes when I'm following up with someone or discipling

someone or leading someone. Well, it's hard to have time

and patience, man, you know what I mean. It's hard.

But the reality is that if we are caught to

be leven, we need to be patient. It takes time

for people to change. It takes time, if you think

about it, for we ourselves to change. So how why

should we expect people around us to change immediately when

we ourselves take time. So we're caught to eleven the

people around us. Leven speaks about two peas. One is

the purpose. No one, No one uses leven by accident

or there's always a purpose. Yeah, eleven has a purpose,

and the purpose is to you know, raise the door,

raise the door? What else to make bread?

You know?

Leven always has a purpose. But here's another p The

positioning of the leven is very important as well. It's

not just the purpose. By the positioning. Why, let me explain.

Because you can go around right after today's service, right

and like, wow, okay, there's a vision, there's a plan.

I want to be part of that. I want to do,

I want to take action. Yeah yeah, yeah, So you

cannot go around and like I want to eleven eleven eleven.

You know you can't go around and do that, but

then guess what positioning you are?

Just in your own room.

Money, I want eleven, I want eleven, I want eleven.

You're not positioning yourself in with the loss. You're not

positioning yourself with your family. If your friends there are lost,

that needs Jesus, so you can go around them and

like love it, love it. No, doesn't matter when you

yourself are eleven. You know your purpose. You must know

your position you are. You have to position yourself to

make a difference at that place. Everyone, Okay, yeah, so

it's not just about the purpose, it's about the position.

So you need to ask yourself this year we're starting

the year only the second Sunday of the year. Ask yourselves,

why did God place you in the office. Why did

God place you among that particular group of friends. Why

God put you in that pickleball group? Why God put

you in that community? Ask yourselves. It's to lead the

loss is to be able to be a leader, and

is to be able to leaven their lives.

Amen.

Amen, So we're halfway from okay everyone, all right, Okay,

how do we reach the loss?

Lead? Others eleven.

Hmmm, let's look at Mark chapter eleven, verse twelve to twenty. Okay,

because I don' want your to like go to chili

and then never refer to verse one. Yeah, okay, okay,

just want to refer to this book, alight, So let's

look at scripture, all right, Mark, chapter eleven, verse twelve

to twenty. If your there, say yes, we need three people?

Say yes, everyone there, I will wait for you. Don't worry.

I won't teach you. Mark chapter eleven, verse twelve. Yes, okay,

the fig tree with it ah popular story. I'm sure

all of us have read this before. Now verse twelve

say it's now. The next day, when they had come

out of Bethany, he was hungry. Who was hungry? Jesus

was hungry. Seeing from a file of victory having leaves,

he went to see if perhaps he would find something

on it, And when he came to it, he found

nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for fix.

In response, Jesus said to it, let no one eat

fruit from you ever again. And his disciples heard it. Okay,

we're continuing the next verse. So they came to Jerusalem.

Then Jesus went into the temple, and began to drive

out those who taught, those who bought and sold in

the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changes

and seats of those who sold derves. And he will

not allow anyone to carry whares through the temple. And

then he taught, saying to them, is it not written

my house shall we call a house of prayer for

all nations? But you have made it a of thieves.

The scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how

they might destroy him, For they feared him because all

the people will astonish at his teaching. When evening had come,

he went out of the city, and verse twenty will

end here. Now in the morning, as they passed by,

they saw the freak tree dried up from the roots.

God bless the reading of his words. So how do

we reach the loss? How are we able to lead?

And how are we going to be elevens? There is

a vision, there is a plan. So the start of

this passage of scripture is what anyone know. So we

we read from verse twelve. Right, they all know what

happened in verse one of March chapter eleven. Oh I'm

glad you asked so if we read verse one, it says,

now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to bath Page, bath.

Hage, and Bethany.

At the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

and he said to them, go into the village opposite

of you and as his, And as soon as you

have entered it, you will find a colt tied on

which no one has said, lose it and bring it.

And if anyone says to you, why are you doing this,

say the Lord has need of it. And immediately he

was sending here. They went their way, found the colt

tied by the door, and they loosened it. And some

of those who stood that said to them, what are

you doing losing the colt? And he spoke to them

just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go, okay,

And then the verse goes down to verse nine. Then

those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying,

Hosannah blessed. He see who comes in the name of

the Lord blessed. It is the kingdom of our father David,

that comes in the name of the Lord Hosannah in

the highest. Then Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the

temple what story is this? Do y'all know the start

of this passage before we went to verse twelve. Verse

twelve was the fig tree where Jesus cursed it. But

at the start of March chapter eleven, it is Palm Sunday,

Palm Sunday, So Palm Sunday. They found the court Jesus

wrote on the donkey as prophesied went into and everyone

waved the palm leaves. Okay, welcome the Messiah. They didn't

recognize it was the Messiah, but it was the Messiah.

And then on Monday. On Monday was when we read

about the cursing of the fig tree and the cleansing

of the temple that happened on Monday. Can anyone tell

me what happened on Friday? What crucifixion? Crucifixion happened on Friday,

Good Friday, Palm Sunday, Monday, the cursing of the victory Friday,

Jesus was hung on the cross four days. What we

read in March chapter eleven, verse twelve, the cursing of

the victory to Jesus being hung on the cross four days.

Look to your neighbors, say four days.

Now, if I knew I was gonna depart in four days,

then whatever we're gonna read here or whatever that we

just read is important because it's Jesus' final messages, final teachings.

Jesus was not going to waste time on some like hey,

do you know a fun fact about Jerusalem.

You know He's not gonna do that.

He's going to be telling some serious stuff for the

disciples to catch so that they pass it on from

January to generations victory. Why is that important? Cleansing of

the temple, Why is that important? If this was his

final moments and final messages, let's pay attention to it.

If I had four days left. If I have four

days left and I know I'm gonna go in four

days time, I'm not gonna go to Noah and say, hey, Noah,

you want to know what's my favorite Pokemon. I'm not

gonna do that. I'm not gonna go to Aila and

say hey, Eila. You know what between Anna and elsa.

Tough choice.

I'm not gonna go to Maya and say hey Maya. Honestly,

I think the best snack in the world is I'm

not I'm not I'm not gonna go to Leona in

four days time, I'm gonna go. I'm not gonna go, Leona.

The mom mix was the right choice. Guess what I'm

gonna say, and say Leona, four days time, I'm gonna go.

You need to hear this properly. I cherish everything that

you've done for the family. Where will we be without you?

Okay?

If I continue, just gonna cry four days time? Final messages.

Let's pay attention. So what's the similarity between the two

scenes in this portion of scripture, the victory and the

cleansing of the temple? Now the church this morning, ex

ampound ex church. The church is not in the business

of creating or raising Bible toting Christians that knows the lingo.

The church is not successful if after Sunday, after Sunday

we leave church and then we go like, hey, you

know what, I know how to say hallelujah in the

Southern accent. You know, it doesn't matter. These are not

important things. The church is not in the business of

raising people that will go like, oh, yeah, praise the Lord,

and every sentence we praise the Lord. Yeah, It's that's

not success. That's not the goal of the church. The

church is not about having people in the House of God,

mastering the lingo. The church is not in the business

of just having you know, full attendance in church, it's

not it's not about that. It is about that, but

it's not really about that as well. You know, what's important,

not full attendance, full hearts.

Yeah, full of the Holy Spirit.

It's not just about fool filling the blanks, you know,

oh my blanks are filled.

Yay. No, it's not about that.

The most important thing is being filled with the Holy Spirit.

That is what the goal of the church.

So what is the similarity between the fig tree and

the cleansing of the temple? All right, you guys ready,

The similarity between both the fig tree and the cleansing

on the temple is that both had the form but

not the power. The fig tree, if you read back again,

Jesus saw from a distance it had leaves look very nice,

you know, look very healthy.

But when he came closer, no fruits. No fruits.

The temple as they were approaching, Wow, the temple looks

very happening.

Man.

A lot of people can hear a lot of noise,

a lot of people bustling. Wow, happening, very very happening.

Temple looks very nice so far, but upon approach, closer approach,

what were they doing? They were not praying, they were

selling wares. They were selling wares. They were not doing

what they were supposed to be. Nice form no power,

Nice form, no power. You want to know how to lead.

You don't know how to go to the loss and

be effective. You don't know how to leaven the people

around you. Don't just have the form lacking the power,

have the power and change their lives around you. Amen,

So what's the vision? What's the plan? You can invite

the Extreme Team up so Fasa I can go for

lunch day. You can write the Extreme Team up guys

this morning, right, I know we're going through a book.

I know you.

For the last trees, different sundays, different speakers have come

up and say, Hey, I'm packing a vision.

I'm packing a vision.

But you know, as I prepared the message this morning,

it feels like we're not just unpecking a vision. I

feel like we're unpacking our lives as well. I think

we need to be able to learn how to be

vulnerable in the presence of God and say God, I

don't know what I'm doing with my life. I honestly

don't know how to reach the loss. I'm scared, I

feel maybe intimidated, and I think that this morning, we're

not just unpecking a vision. We're un packing our hearts.

We're I'm packing our lives. Friends, we can't be going

after the loss if we ourselves are lost. If we

ourselves are finding our way.

It's hard to lead the loss.

We can't be leading others if we don't know who's

leading us. Oh, I just do whatever I like, lead

my life, my own way.

How is God.

Going to entrust us to lead lives if we are

not being led by the Lord? You can't be eleven, friends,

if you don't allow the good eleven to enter you.

It takes time, it takes patience. The eleven changes everything

it touches. But the eleven works from the inside out,

not the form, not having the power from the inside out,

so you are transformed from within.

Okay, it's not about the lingo.

It's not about filling all the blanks, it's not about

the titles. Real change, guys, We're talking about real change.

New year, new you, new discipline. Yeah, amen, you can

go ahead and bow yours. Close your eyes I'm gonna

pray for all of us. I was deeply ministered to

when I read the scripture about the fig tree.

And the temple.

Sometimes when I read that, I'm like, oh God, am

I like that temple sometimes looked like loud and happening,

you know, so much noise. But upon closer study, when

if I allow the Holy Spirit to come and take

a look in me, is that prayer? Is that surrenderedness,

is that sacrifice? Because these are all things that happen

in the temple, you know, we are the temple of

the Holy Spirit. And think about the fake tree. It

never bore fruit again for the rest of his life

because Jesus cursted it.

You know.

Oh. When I thought about his friends, I'm like, is

my life okay? When Jesus walked pass me and he

sees me from far, it's like, oh, Joel looks okay.

Not upon closer inspection, hey, no fruits?

Luck?

What is this guy doing? What is this guy doing?

I gave him the rain so that he can grow.

I gave him the sun so you get the nourishment,

but no fruits. What is he doing? And even as

we bower hit and close our eyes, I think it's

time to unpack, unpack our hearts, unpack our lives. We're

not just unpacking a vision. Some of us sitting here wondering.

I don't know where to go from here, Joel. I'm

not like past the Canneth. I'm not like Selena. Can

I be the first to tell you that it is

not because of what they do as well? They will

be the first to admit that it's not their experience,

not their strength. They will be the first to be

vulnerable to you and say that, Hey, I so need

God so much to do what I'm doing. If God

can do through Selena and through passa Canna, God can

do it through you as well. It's not you think

it's not me, think it's not duel thing.

It's not.

Oh it's only for a specific group of people. No,

it's not. It's for you.

It's for me.

So everyone here in this place, if you let God

lead and leaven you wild friends, the fruit will come,

The lives around you will be changed, the loss can

find their way.

Hallelujah.

We want to be a sole, winning disciple making leader,

producing church. You and I play a part and making

that happen. It's not just about the facade. It's not

the costume. You know, what is seeing on the outside,

it's the character what is seeing on the inside. We

want to have both the form and the power so

that friends you and I. We can lead the loss,

we can lead the people, and we can leaven the

lives around us.

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