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Matthew, chapter nineteen, and we're reading verse sixteen. Now be whole.

One came and said to him, good teacher, what good

thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?

So Jesus said to him, why do you call me good?

Because no one is good but one that is God.

But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.

So Jesus saying, are you calling me good? Because then

you're calling me God. See that's why he says, do

you know who you're talking to? You? Actually, if you

call me good, then I'm God. But he wasn't aware

of that. So he says, if you want to enter

into eternal life, keep the commandments. And so this young

man said, which ones Jesus said, Well, you shall not murder,

you shall not commit a you shall not steal, you

shall not bear false witness, and honor your father and mother.

And you shall love your neighbor as yourself. And the

young man said to him. In the Matthew nine, verse twenty,

it says the young man. It was a young man,

and he said all these things. I have kept from

my youth? What do I steal lack? Why is this

young man asking? Why is he saying? What do I

still lack? I've kept all these commandments and this, and

there's this hunger? He says, what do I still lack?

And Jesus said to him, if you want to be perfect,

go sell what you have and give it to the poor,

and you will have treasure in heaven. And come follow me.

And but then the young man heard that, saying man,

he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. He

was sorrowful after the one who is good. And if

you call him good, he's go. God tells you, hey,

come follow me, Sell everything and follow me. And he

went like, shucks, I can't. He went away sorrowful. He

came in very hopeful, but he went off sorrowful. Now

look at Mark chapter ten. Let's reference to the same

passage in the book of Mark chapter ten. If you

look at some verses here. So in verse sixteen of Matthew,

he says, one came. Behold, one came to him and said,

good teacher, what good things shall I do? In Mark

chapter ten, if you look at verse seventeen, Mark chapter ten,

verse seventeen, it says, now Jesus was going out on

the road, and one came running and knelt before him

and asked him, good teacher, what shall I do that

I may inherit eternal life. So this is how you

do a Bible study. You reference all the scripture, the context.

And so in Mark he says he came running, and

he actually he knelt down and said, good teacher, And

he said what might I do? And Jesus told him

what he needs to do. And then he said. In

verse twenty of Mark chapter ten, he says, teacher, all

these things, all the commandments I have kept from my youth.

So he really is a very conscious, very godly I

suppose you know, he's aware. He's very self aware of

him following the commandments of the Lord. And so he says,

I've kept them from my youth. And then verse twenty

one in Mark chapter ten, verse twenty one, then Jesus,

looking at him, loved him, loved him and said to him,

one thing you lack, go your way, Sell whatever you have,

give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

And come take up the cross, the cross and follow me.

Wow a little bit more depth to the Matthew nineteen

verse that this young man came running. There was an eagerness.

I wonder how many of us will come running to Jesus,

come running, you know, to the Lord with eagerness. And

this young man came to the Lord with such eagerness

to want to know how to have eternal life. The

fact that he came is because he must have heard

the message of Jesus prior from different people or you know,

the news travels through the great buying no handphones, but

I don't know how messages get through and the news

of Bethlehem. Maybe the newspaper in Bethlehem News, Bethlehem News.

Jesus tells us that eternal life comes through. Okay, So

now he gets a chance to see Jesus. So you

gotta put a picture, have a bit of drama in

the reading of scripture, so that you identify with this

young man. Is anyone here who's hungry and just desiring

to have eternal life to walk with Jesus?

We come running? Do we come running to Jesus?

And you know, kneeling down before him, so humble, So

humble was his heart that he was so ready to

receive that answer. But we all read at the end

when Jesus said one, because in mat Matthew he says,

what do I still lack? I've kept all of this

like I'm good, you know, And then Jesus is, well,

what you lack is you need to sell everything, give

it to the poor, Take up the cross, Take up

the cross, and follow me? Which was he suffering with?

What was he struggling? Take up the cross? Follow me?

Or sell all your goods? Okay, all right? So which

was he struggling with? So my topic for today is

who or what possessed you? Or what possesses you? Who

or what possesses you? All right? So as we close

the year, we want to just even reflect what it

has been like a year. As I reflect, what have I?

What has possessed me? Has Jesus fully got a hold

of me? Did I withhold anything from the Lord? So

we have this story. So let me take you through

the verses and then let's identify. Let's identify with the

whole message here. Okay, yeah, okay, there was one rich

young ruler. He came running, So let's note and yeah

he came running running tells you that there is an eagerness.

There is a I've been searching, and he searched. He

was really wanting to hear from Jesus. His next question

was what good thing shall I do that I may

have eternal life? He even asked, you know, what is

that that I can do to gain eternal life? And

Jesus then tells him next script, next slide, Jesus tells

him to obey the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, the ninth,

and the fifth commandment. Wow, all right, he just didn't

go back up, you know, to the This is the Lord,

your god, worship.

Him and no other god.

He all of these involves people. Are you doing all

of this? So he says, yes, he must be such

a righteous young man that he's never stolen, he's never

covered to her. You know, he's never committed murder, et.

Cetera, et cetera, and he's he.

Never bare a false witness. He's honored his father and mother,

and say, I have kept all of these. So there

you have a young man who really has it all

together once to have eternal life.

And then he asked the question. In Matthew nineteen twenty,

he had.

The he had the depth to say so I've kept it,

So come on, Jesus, tell me, he says, what do

I still like? Your s of usn't gotta search? What

do we still lack? What are we lacking that if

you are not where in a place where you say

I'm living the fullness, if you're not living the fullness

that Christ has promised us, you know, to live life

and life abundantly, then what is it that I'm lacking?

And so Jesus then looks at him with love. Even

when he said I can't, Jesus still loved him. Amen,

do I amen? Come on, hallelujah. Hey, Jesus still loved him.

Jesus looked at him and loved him. Mark Chapter ten.

That's that's the that's like a you know, extra information

there that says loved him, loved him. God loves us.

He loved him and said, do this and then take

up the cross. Follow me. Amen. So he went away

sad and sorrowful. Because you know, it says that he

had great possessions. Perhaps some people say it wasn't that

he had great possessions. Great possessions had him more like

the possessions held him than he had. Because if you have,

you have the choice to give it away. Right. But

when something else is taken or holding you like this,

then you cannot let you cannot move Ah, because if

he had, he could have every right to give it away. Right.

So my question we could ask, We could ask ourselves

what was it there was hindering him? And this brings

us to the whole issue of discipleship, because I speak

firstly to believers in the room, speak to myself. A

disciple of Christ is one who follows Christ, not only

follows Christ.

If he you know, he.

Does whatever that Christ tells you to do. So this

is where we get to reflect the bit as the

year closes. If I'm a disciple of Christ, have I

been doing you know? Have I been living my life

as the Lord has led me to live this year?

As I have I been following him? Yeah? And when

the Lord said go go or give or don't go

or reach you know, you know, do this or do

that things that already written in His word? Have we

done what is in the world? Now?

You can only do what is in the word of God.

If you have been reading the Word of God, and

in other times you're praying about decision making, Should I

do this? Lord is this the one is this? It

is this the job da da da, and the Lord

leads you. Then you cannot say you can't hear, because

the Bible tells us in John chapter fIF John chapter

fifteen that the that the sheep hear his voice. John

chapter ten, that the sheep here his voice. Are we sheep? Yes,

don't say you're not. We ain't Gold's right, but we

do want to be. But yeah, we we sheep right

with God's sheep, and we hear his voice. They recognize

and it takes time to recognize. So every time you

do your quiet time, you every time you spend time

with God, you recognize. So really, I would like to

look at the angle of this message or this passage

of study. As he was already in the family, so yeah,

he's in the he's a jew, right, so he knew

all the commandments, but still lacked war, still lacking. So

I like to turn this to look at in a

way the angle of a disciple. We should we already

are hearing, but yeah, what are we lacking? All right?

Can we say? You know there's a song we sing.

I am not my own. I've been bought by a price.

The price is by the blood of Jesus Christ. So

Jesus gave his life for us, not with silver and gold,

but by the blood, his own blood. He has shed

his blood for us. It's not silver and gold. He

could have just given a few silver and gold and

send Joel or whatever to die for you. But he didn't,

Thank God, right, he went himself for us.

So silver and gold is not what he did. He

gave himself.

So now that we come to Christ and we're walking

with Christ, we're really not our own. But we've been

bought by the blood of Christ. And so who do

you belong to? You belong to Jesus. So I'm coming

from this angle. If we belong to Jesus, then our

very life's path is led by the Lord every step

of the way. Amen, hallelujah. So we choose not of

our own choices, but of the choice that the Lord,

or of the leading that the Lord leads us. So

we still have a choice to say yes Lord or

no Lord, and still do our own thing. Because if

we call our Jesus our master, then of course I

want him to direct my life. Now this whole passage,

a lot of people will say, is Jesus talking he's

the main point Jesus talking about money and riches. No, lie,

he's not so squarela okay, No, sue bet dealer. It's

not about the money. It's not that money is bad

or that this rich oh he doesn't like rich people. No,

the whole point of the message is about your obedience,

our salvation. Obedience leads to salvation, and that's even more precious.

Your faith is so precious. That is the very thing

that Satan wants to come against, to rob us of

our faith and to turn our backs on God and

then laugh at God's face and say.

Huh, you bite the dust.

No, we cannot let Satan rob our faith because our

faith is so precious. Jesus went to the cross for this,

went for us. Amen.

He came to sit among us in darkness to give

us light.

Allelujah. Amen. Are we grateful? Thankful? Yes? So this young

ruler I wanted eternal life, but something else was holding

him that he couldn't break free. Yet it was within

his power his choice to do it. So the question

I want to ask us, including myself, what can hinder us?

What can hinder us? So we have three piece PPPP

A person or persons a place or possession. Right, these

are things that can hinder us person, place, possession. So

I want us to think about this. Is there anything

in your life that's actually hindering you in this category that.

You're not really able to live.

The fullness of Christ that God has for you?

Amen? Amen, the fullness.

And it could be very very subtle, very very subtle,

because a young man and everything he did, everything so subtle.

He was really abiding young man who was hungry. And

I think, you know, every time I talk to people,

they'll tell me I really want to do my quiet time,

but it's so difficult. Or someone will tell me and

I talk to the old and the older aunties my

age older than me, and he's like, I really want

to read the Bible, but yeah, we're hard to get startled,

we're hard to keep going. Then I say, how do

you read your Bible? Can you actually read without specs?

And so a lot of them can't. They just don't

want to have four eyes. So they'd make the handphone bigger, bigger.

But when you make your handphone bigger bigger, you you

really can't read well because you don't know the start

the end. Now you don't know the chapter before because

it's a handphone. But at home you don't have to

bring now killer, I used to bring my bible to church.

I still do. But you everybody used to bring a bible,

right and then you turn the pages and you really

the richness of turning pages and learning chapters and you know.

Versus so speaking to this lady sixty blast, and she said,

every time I read a Bible fall asleep. I think

the print is very small. Yes, maybe it's a free

Bible or something. So I just bought her a lot

of it was very expensive, but I bought a super giant.

Words very big. I can't read without spects now loud. Okay,

this super giant I still cannot see without my spec

but he's super giant. So I thought, oh, but what

was really heavy? So I bought the one that's giant.

Didn't give it a super giant because I wanted to care.

So I gave her a giant by I just bought it,

and I said, I said, I mean, for whatever reason

I bought it, I wanted to bless her, I hope,

and you have the time, take time to read it.

It's big, big letters. She wrote back to me yesterday

and she said, I will make time to read or

I appreciate us because in reading you get to follow Jesus,

you get to you know, hear his word, you get

to not be hindered. So I just want to say,

how how can we be hindered? There's so many things.

It could be a person, a place, possession, you know,

a place, some of us, some people maybe not people

in this room. You just want to leave Malaysia. You

just want to leave Malaysia, and you just want to

be working somewhere else because somewhere else is better. And

so that place becomes a hindrance to you, and you're like,

ayah and good for nothing, Malaysia, Please not, God, send

me somewhere else. And then you know, yes, the Lord

saying no, maybe the last thing. Start here and then

see what happens from there. Is it a place? Is

it a house that you're looking for? Is it something

a place, a city, a country, of this office, this place?

You know, can it hinder you just such arts? Yeah,

I'm so bold to say that because doing this ministry

for so long, walking my own journey, being naughty. I

know sometimes it's that place I remember when I was

a young adul just coming out of the world. I

just say, Lord, please don't leave me here in this country. Yeah,

I want to marry.

Someone else from another country, then I.

Can leave this country. What was I thinking? Ah? I said,

he send him in the country and fly me out.

You know, God has a beautiful plan for me, right,

I can't see yet, by I know he is, But

I'm saying to the Lord, I can't see anyone my

church boring, Okay, So please send somebody in and fly

me out. Not everything you get means it's God. You

got to test it. And so someone did come in

and wanted to fly me out, and I would be

living elsewhere and I wouldn't be here because it was something.

I mean, it's a Malaysia for living overseas and probably

whenever come out to Malaysia. Came met me for five hours.

He had lunch with me, and he said, I want

to marry you can okay? Thing five hours lunch, I

impressed someone so much, you my girl. So I'm like,

could this be the one that will come and fly

me out? Right? Woh?

So I got to know the person. I flew over

to the family place with the.

Parents, went for the graduation and everything. I'll tell you,

my face is on every family photo.

As you know, I'm not married to that person. They

must have burned every photo.

Because the son was so sure I am the woman,

and the parents very godly, very well known people. I

went for the graduation. I said, it's okay, don't even

to take the photo. No, you were in every photo,

every photo. And then they were very very rich. I

come from a very poor family, so disparity status. Whole

family of doctors were nothing. In that six months of

getting to know each other. While I may have said

I want to have come and fly me out, but

I have to test if this person follows Jesus. What's

gonna hinder me a person, a place, or a possession.

Is he following Christ? Right? God? No near as if

I have look like Christian love follow up Christ. But

in that time that I got to know him so

far from the Lord, so far. The family is very strong.

They're very well known, as I said, in the Christian circle,

very very you know, good speakers and all that. But

the child was just far and it was very difficult

for me to see this future. Although I tried to

build the future that when I lived there, I was

already thinking if I marry I lived there, while I'm

going to open up the home. I' when I have

students come, already thinking I was only twenty three, had

a dream because I wanted to be a missionary. This

person totally says, rubbish. You will not go for missions,

you will not do this. The whole family told me

what to do. I said this, but most importantly, his

heart was not with the Lord. And when I was

there praying every ding, my quiet time, they're in their

family house, the Lord spoke to me. This is when

I got this word. And all of you heard this.

You heard mes preacher before the Lord said, don't be

unequally yoked who you're talking to. I was in this

other country. I wasn't in Malaysia and I and I'm like,

pray again, don't be unequally yoked. I knew that it

wasn't about the faith as in Christian only, but the

faith level was so far in fact, I don't think

he even followed Christ just by name. I thought it

was gonna be a tough toughie for you to say

this to me. Show me a sign, and a lod

shown me so many signs. He was so obvious, right,

this is not it? It right? Although everything look very good,

good family, da da da, everything, but it just didn't click.

Most of all, he didn't follow the way of the

Lord and how he treated me, dating me to keep

to keep purity, to keep this relationship pure. No, no

going all the way. This guy is pressing me for

going all the way. I'm like, hey, we're gonna really

be make God very angry. You know, I don't want

to get pregnant and what forget you? So I said,

that's it. You know. I had to stop it because

a lot of things in are like very very very

very difficult situation which I can't say, and I called

it off. I called it off. I see, it's not

because the person is very God doesn't love him. The

Lord loves him, but God, he has to respond to

the Lord as well, because I'm sure God is also

speaking to all of us, but the Lord speaking to me.

Don't be unequally yo in this case, Sandra, I have

a plan for you. So sometimes a person, it could

be a boss, it could be anything anyone that causes

us to not fully step into the fullness of the lot.

If I took that step, I can tell you. It

would not have been a happy story. Not only would

I not have you as family family of nas I

have never known any of you, but I would also

have had a broken marriage because that person, I think

after it became a criminal or something like that. So honestly,

it is crazy because I told him, you need to

stop whatever you're doing, whatever whatever, you'd be careful. So

it was very tough, but I had to step out

of it. Sometimes there are things we are challenged with.

Jesus say to me, Sandra, go give this up, carry

the cross and follow me.

Was I willing right? Because to any tree, you.

Know, everybody's everybody's flapping about, you know, getting married, getting

me the pressure, and now all my friends are get

married and they're older than me. It was one of

the younger ones. Yeah, from the pressure right, And I'm like,

forget the pressure, man. I just want to follow Jesus

and just step out of that relationship and then free again,

no flapping wings, fly freedom.

Solo.

And I'm here today after other failed relationships, because you

make choices and the Lord has your life. Did I

make I made mistakes? Sure I did make wrong choices,

but always he loved me to look at me and say, Sandra,

would you sell this? Come take up the cross and

follow me. I had a choice, but did I allow

the person to have me? Or did I have a person?

Did I have a position a possession, or did I

have a place? Because I also didn't want to remain here,

but that God has changed my heart. I really love Malaysia.

I think it's the best country to be at. We

are the right and the best people to go out

as missionaries, to go out as marketplace missionaries because we

can adapt so well. We can adapt like just like that.

But we're so stubborn we don't go right.

So what can hinder us? So is there a place

in your life?

Is there a person in your life, or is there,

you know, just something that hinders you from actually going

all the way to follow Jesus. There's going to be

a time when we will have to make a decision

whether you're going to go all the way with Jesus

or halfway with Jesus. So this is practice time. This

is practice time to follow him all the way. So

it's very simple. Simple message is if Jesus is a

lot of our lives, then then this is who my

master is. And whom I will follow, Okay, and her

possession could be many things. Yeah, it could be a

possession anything you own. And one thing that we own

that we all have the same same is the twenty

four hours time time. You know, all of us have

twenty four hours. That's also a possession. And if that

is holding you back time time for the Lord time

to do something, I tell you the church in the

city us having a church. I'm very grateful that Jesus

saved me. I think if I did not have a

chance to know Christ, I would be very wayward and

I would have made a lot of decisions that would

be selfish and that would have cost my life and

I really would know I've lived for the glory of God.

I'm so grateful for the church that the moment I

became a follow of Christ and the church that I

grew in, and you know, wherever I was, it gave

me opportunity to learn to have people speak over my life,

to have people correct me, to teach me. And then

the skills that I learned helped me to use it

in my marketplace when I went out to work wherever

it is. So, I want to say to us, God

loves us unconditionally. Even if you say no to him today,

he doesn't look away. He looks at you, and he

loves you. He's always reaching out to us. Amen. So

this story of this young, rich, young ruler walked away,

and I pray that none of us have to walk

away with sorrow saying I can't choose you, Jesus, because

this thing has possession over me. This thing has holed

over me, This possesses me. I'm not ready, I'm not able,

And I understand for in initial stages because we're getting

to know the Lord or you know, hearing things. But

as you continue to hunger to be filled, then then

that's where you lack. The lack is to fully one

hundred percent give ownership to Jesus. Amen, that we have

to ask ourselves and are we ready to with different things?

Or say, okay, Lord, I'll give up my time to

meet somebody. We'll give up our finances or is it

giving up?

In my case.

It's my late Crusae pot. How hard I save to

buy my late crusy pot? If elder can has to

borrow it, I'll say no, he might send.

It back to me scratched. It's a French made pot.

Heavy, steady, makes a good curry, makes a good stew.

It is just you know what they call the Mercedes

of all cooking pots. Lake usay, this pot is just

a pot. Come on, lend it to him.

No, he'll kill it. How hard?

I save bought it in single at a sail and

carried it back how heavy.

Then the Lord is going to ask me what possessed you?

The part? The part?

So it can be little things like this that can

possess us that we we cannot let go.

All right.

He could be a child in your life, your child.

It could be I don't know a thing, a possession anything.

And I tell you what the plans of God for me.

I'm walking in his eternal plans right now. Until today,

the day I stepped out of my confusion and said,

that's it. You know, all these relationships has been my weakness,

meaning the tears that you've tried always been for.

This guy, that guy there. I just said, that's you know,

it's okay to be so low. I have your head

be so low.

So my church remembers who said you cannot be so low.

Keep sending me guys. So I'm really louier for us

you know, but I think I'm just a piece of

girl that anybody can marry because I'm female.

Hello, right, sending me Hey how about this? Is hey?

How body?

Hey?

Very rich?

I tell you, it's not about the rich or the

word or the Is he after God's heart?

The number one on my list? Is he really after

God's heart? Because of the things that God has put

on my heart as well. So I had to say no,

and they all get angry with me, so picky, I say,

my face so ugly. I can not find her myself.

What possesses us? What's a fear? What's what's it that

keeps us from trusting God? One hundred percent? And now

I want to say, as the Lord said, take up

the cross and follow me, lay it down, lay down

the relationships and said yes. And then I could just

see the day I laid down my job. I worked

in this area, this is called the Golden Triangle. This

is my playground for five years corporate. Before Kelsey was up,

it was just a hole. Every day I walk and

look at the hole. I'm thinking, what is this? What

he doing? Was the race course? The race course. When

I was growing up, it was a race course. This

whole girls this area. Every day I will walk past

girl see is bordered up and it's a hole to

my office just around the corner. But they were digging deep.

I suppose yeah, and uh and and and then with

time came and got said. I waited so long for

Jesus to call me to leave my corporate job. I

thought he forgot me, you know, I thought he forgot

me and that I could just marry it and Tom

Dick and Harry because all the jokers that came into

my life, I know, Chaser, they chased me right. But

the day you laid it down and said no, I'll

take up the cross I gave. I said I'm ready

to go full time. I'm ready to be a missionary.

I laid it down and as I stepped into it,

you know, I have a family that needs my support.

Both my father lost everything, my mom's babysitting. My brother

still had to go to education. But they said, no,

we believe this is God's calling for you at this time,

and so I let go everything. I didn't have a

job because I was off to the mission field. I

trained as English teacher and then I went off to

the field in East Europe. Eastern Europe. As I stepped

into it rather than sisters. That marked what we call

life and life more abundantly every step of the way

until I met past, and then it got even clearer

the vision. And here I am still seeking after the

choices for the Lord. Amen. I'm not saying you have

to go full time. I'm just saying for me, that

was my call. But what's your call? Right?

What is God saying to lay it down and take

up the cross and follow me to.

The things that He has for you? Amen? So it's simple,

it's I mean, it's not easy to do it. It

takes time to get there, but we must be at

least aware. Is the thing that possess you the Lord

as your master? Or is it the wealth? Or is

it the person or a place you have in mind?

What is it? Okay? We have to reflect on this

carefully as we step in because we want to live

every day for Jesus every day. So it's about our obedience.

Come on, it's about our obedience. Our Christian faith is

a faith and a walk of obedience. As you say

yes to this, then you wait on the Lord and

he take to you the next step yes, and the

next step. Okay, Amen, it's an obedience, it's our salvation

and and there comes a whole package of the fullness

of God. Brother and sisters in Christ, we are to

live to the fullness, to the abundant life of Christ.

There is his promise. But if you are living the

lass or the lack, I want to implore you to

look to the Lord Jesus Christ and ask him, Lord,

what do I still lack? And he let him reveal

to us, to you personally, what is it so that

you will walk in your abundant life? God is not

The abundant life is the complete freedom to walk, to

freedom to walk, and and you know, not having anything,

no need to explain yourself. That's why for our our

foundings in your past, he never explains himself. Bad things

can happen, good things can happen. He never explains himself

to try to explain to you why you should believe

in this. You see it, you take it because there's

nothing to hide, there's nothing to hide. You can blame

it on him, you can say this and that, but

he walks in just obedience. And that's why the things

we do we're so strange sometimes and why you want

to grow small, to grow big. But yet the church

started in house of the house of the house of

the house. Why this is why he doesn't walk with

anything on his shoulder, you know, looking back behind our

pastor walks just I know because I live with him

so hard. You know, everything news, No, it's like a

below can no no eyes again, no, no, thank you Gods.

But but I can't see I live with him. If

you ask me, does he do it quiet time? Oh,

my goodness, for hours. I'm waiting more. I want to ask,

so so I cannot. I want to know, so are

you every girl? Because the door is closing on me

and peep through door. Now he's decided to close the

whole door because I pep hours already I did my

quiet time, love, but not for love to want to

because I'm the wife. I have to do a house work,

I have to make the breakfast ready, I have to

do all these things, you know. And he says this,

he leaves it. He's in his quiet time. He does it.

If I hear him pray for the church partners, the

prayer list that comes out on our telegram. Praise. That's

why I love for hours. I too, I didn't pray

for everybody. I pray for some by one. Sorry, I

shall reflect on this. He prays, worship, reads and listens

to the reader the Bible. What you audio as well,

worship done this, he's just gone higher. He's just taking

it up. So I cannot disturb him because he's talking

to Jesus. So I have to wait. If you live

freely without any anything to hide, you don't explain yourself.

You live the truth every day. You live in the

plans that God has, you don't have to say. Oh,

you try to explain why you do this, trying to

make an excuse, or you think what you think is

a reason. But if you're clear, you're clear, crystal clear,

it's nothing to explain. You take it or leave it.

This is what you get. That's what Jesus is saying

to him. Just go sell everything. You're saying what you

lack because you lack me. When you give up all this,

you have me. You know, there's an old song we

used to sing. You remember, but I wish you Jesus.

I wish you everything. Every time I wish you Jesus,

I wish you everything in Christ is everything. I can't

remember the song now, but I remember singing it all

the time. He says, wed, I wish you Jesus, I

wish you everything everything, and that's what God wanted. Jesus

wanted the young man to experience everything. But how to tell, right,

So we have to tell him. I go tell everything,

take up the cross, follow me, and then experience the

fullness of Christ. And that's what I want all of

us to experience as well in our own faith work

with Jesus. Amen, Jesus calls us to come and follow

him to be his disciples. Simple, right, it's not very

difficult message, right, you can get it. But what possesses

you that stops you from fully surrendered, being surrendered to

the Lord and to live every day with Jesus. I'm

not talking to you like I got it right. Yeah,

I speak to because of my own adventure and journey

with Christ. Of yeah, I really let go of the pod,

or you know I have to, or just sometimes afraid

of different people. Then sometimes I really don't want to

see someone because it's so difficult to handle the conversation,

but I need to, so I allow fear to possess

me in too. Therefore I don't reach that person. So

we have many fears or many things that can hinder

us from overcoming the lack. Come on, Church. This man

had a right question. He asked the right question, what

do I still lack?

If you've done everything already, you should be the freedom.

You're walking on sunshine? Yeah, yeah, sunshine so so N

s H I N E sun shine, not as u

N s O N. You're walking on sunshine, the freedom

of God and just experiencing his you know, his faithfulness,

his beauty, his fullness, he's healing, his his grace over circumstances.

We all have difficult circumstances, amen, I mean not a

man ouch. We all have difficult right and I know

family to take care of. I had to take care

of my dad in his last days on earth. I

to take care of him for months years. I have

to take him to the hospital, you know, I have

to work in the hospital and wait with him. All

of us will have one day to take care of

our parents, one way or another. So it's a privilege, right,

But it's tough. Sometimes you are alone going to the

hospital with your parents. Sometimes you don't have anyone to

support you. But because people are busy, you can do it.

So you do it. I could do it, so I

did it. So out of saying is the Lord has

the fullness for us, And with every step of the way,

there is a grace of God for you to walk

in that situation. And that is what we want you

to experience, the grace, the generosity of God. That's what

grace means, the generosity of God to give you a

sufficient strength to walk through that circumstance. Amen. Amen. So

as simple as that, just think about what is it

that is stopping you, holding you back from your full

ability to experience and open heaven place person possession. And

sometimes it's tight to you know, the age old problem.

I can't forgive. I am offended. You gottally deal with it.

Luck is in come to the Lord and ask for

strength to let go of the offense, to forgive, because

it is a promise that we must do. As crisis

done for us. He forgave us so graciously, so we

too can buy the strength of God forgive those who

have very very badly hurt us, offended us, stole from us,

robbed from us. I don't know, said all kinds of things.

It's so hard, like they don't deserve my love It's okay.

You forgive, you then can receive God's love to give love. Amen. Amen.

And so it was a good question. Sometimes we should

ask ourselves, not quiet time, Lord, where do I lack

the anything that you know? And you know in your

heart what you like love? It's small or bignessn't matter,

you know. But it's just asking the Lord. And I

tell you he will whisper into your heart. And you

know he will whisper with gentleness and kindness and guide

you through it. Amen. Hallelujah. So may we all step

into walking with the Lord as his disciples. This really

is a discipleship, a discipleship message. Whose disciple are you?

If you belong to the Lord, the Lord, you're following Christ,

then whatever Christ does, you and I will do. If

he if he he fed the poor, we feed the poor.

If he if he touch the leopard, heal the leopold,

we will do that as well. Do we dare? Do

we dare?

Take God at every step of his word.

I have to do that. I'm praying for healing, you know,

for a particular thing. I'm just asking the Lord, the Lord,

do I go and see the doctor for this to

remove this this or do you wait? But even if

you send me there, it's still the Lord who has

to do the final healing. So you know, I believe

that God is my healer. Amen. I believe that He's

the one who provides for me financially or whatever that

the need is, or to take care of the situation

that I'm in. Sometimes we forget, so sorry, remind you

the Lord never forgets, and the Lord Love will look

at you and love you as you speak to him.

He loves you, and even if you say I'm not ready,

he'll still love you while there is time. But don't

wait too long to do the bidding that means to

do the Lord's ask you to do. Do it when

there's time, because there will be a common time and

there won't be the grace anymore because we have to respond.

And I pray that we choose Christ every day, choose

Jesus every day to follow him. Amen, hallelujah, So may

our hearts we open to the Lord as we can

the year. As you step into a new day in

just a couple of weeks, would you want those things

to possess you or do you want to be the

one who says has a choice to say no or

yes to do something. Don't let things hold you. You

should be the one that dictates to the thing, so

that doesn't dictate your life. Amen. You have the right,

the authority in Christ to say no. I don't have

to step into that. It just says I had to

choose to say no to those that relationship, that relationship

because the Lord spoke, I had to listen and I

didn't have to say Nola. It's this whole culture, this

whole pressure. Am I allowing a peer pressure to pressure me?

Or do I step out and go like no, I

don't live under peer pressure. I live under the Master

Jesus Christ. So the choice is mine. Amen.

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