Pearl of Great Price | Pr Kenneth

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We hope this message will light up your day.

Okay, let's open with the first slide, and the first

slide would tell you our topic for the day. Perl

of great price, the purpose of the irritant, and there

are many irritants in our lives. Sometimes it's in the

form of people. Sometimes is in the form of problems,

you know, could be financial problem, health problems, and we

want to speak about that because I really believe, and Joel,

I think you led the way by confirming this message.

I actually gave another message to x TV. Thanks Matathias

for helping me. And you know, I thought I was

going to speak about that, but I was as I

was driving here, so ID says, no speak about this

and then you, you know, war ahead and shared what

you shared, which was, you know, definitely one hundred percent

confirmation that God wants to give you this message today.

All right, Praise God. So let's look at some scripture.

First one Matthew thirteen forty five to forty six. Again,

the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls,

who when he had found one pearl of great price,

so that's where the title is. The pearl of great

price went and saw all that he had, while he

gave everything for the sake of obtaining this great pearl.

So this is Jesus words. These are Jesus words, and

we want to take heat to it now. Second second

scripture found in Revelation twenty one twenty one. The twelve

gates were twelve pearls. So when you get to heaven,

there's gonna be twelve gates, and each gate is one pearl.

I don't know why you can even imagine a gate

one gator, one pearl. No, that's a huge pearl. I

don't even know how you open it. How do you

open a gate with a pearl? Like do you press

a button and then the pearl opens up in the middle?

How does it go?

I don't know.

I don't know. I'm not even sure. Sometimes when the

Bible speaks about something is like a idea or a

concept or analogy. You know, it's not necessarily a physical pearl,

you know. So I want to suggest you now and

even later that when we walk into heaven, it could

be that our life is a pearl, and the way

to enter is that the gate the way to enter

the gate of heaven is that your life, in my

life needs to become a pearl. So it's a pearly gate,

but it's not a gate that is physically a pearl.

Is the fact that people who enter our pearls is

what I want to suggest to you. There is no

scripture to confirm that, but I want to suggest to you,

recommend to you that the way that Lot deals with

our lives is that he's trying to make all of

us into a pearl. And you will fit in the

gate because it's a pearly gate, and a gate a

gate that only allows pearls. So think about that for

a moment. And of course the street of this of

the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. Now pearls

are precious, therefore so precious that a man would find

it and give his life for it.

All right, it's priceless, it's powerful.

The next light will tell you that I believe the

Bible considers pearls as precious because of the way they

are formed.

The Bible doesn't really talk about diamonds.

The Bible doesn't talk about you know, many other stones,

but it speaks about pearls quite a bit. I wonder

why God chose pearl above many of the other maybe

even more valuable, more talked about, more popular, you know stones.

I believe it is because it's the way pearls are

made that impresses God, that causes God to say, I

choose the pearl because of the way it was made.

And so we want to consider two questions. How is

pearl formed in our lives?

Number one? How is a pearl formed in our lives?

Number two? How are our lives formed into a pearl?

Okay, so how are pearls formed, and how our lives

formed into that pearl? That will allow us to enter

the pearly gates. Okay, we gotta fit. As I said,

we gotta fit. So as soon as the pearl and

it comes to the gate, the gate sort of opens

because the gate recognizes the pearl.

All right, So let's look at three types of pearls.

Now, are you ready? We're gonna do some pearly discussion.

But I am not a pearl expert. Turn to your neighbor.

Now it says he is not a pearl expert.

Okay, but I think I know a little bit just

from research, and I think you know a little bit

and maybe you know more than a little bit.

Maybe you do know about pearl How have you actually

own the pearl?

Yeah? Yeah, anyone else? Yeah, pearls and nice My wife,

My wife it loves purlse uh and uh, you know,

it's just it's expensive and uh. One day I actually

got to buy her, you know, a necklace. I bought

it from Borneo. It's called Borneo Pearls and it's a

real thing. You know. I paid about just about a

thousand ringit for it, you know, but it's I don't know,

of course, the thousand is like is it is? It? Is? It?

Is it really pearls? But I was just walking out

of Borneo because I had gotten a love gift after

a conference and I had that much, just one thousand

ringgit in my hand. But I saw the pearlse and

my wife is worth more than pearls. Yeah. There are

some things I would I would like you not to

tell her, but this is one you can, Okay. So

I brought it back and you know it was not

totally white, it was you know, yeah. Anyway, so she

liked it. She liked it because I bought it, you know. Uh,

and she wore it once and anyway, there's three types.

Let's just get on. I don't know why. She only

was why anyway, three types of pearls number one, natural,

number two, cultured, number three, imitation pulse. You all know this. Yeah, yeah,

I'm not evenna I'm not even even going to ask

my sister what kind they are because when I saw

saw her face, her head went up.

She looked rich. So I think it will be the

natural ones.

Uh. When I preseas message in export the Communi for

the first time, this is the second time preaching it

export the Communi for the first time. When I finished

the message, I walked out and the one lady came

up to me and says, past, I got pulse, I

got post. She purse around her wrist. Wow, you look rich,

you know. Then she said no, no, this one is

uh uh by one, get to and she showed her

her daughters were in the same around that risk is it? Okay? Okay?

And now I understand which one you are? You're having

by one? Get to one? Okay? Natural culture and imitation?

All right, okay, now here we go, here we go?

Uh So this how is made? I understand that in

a in a shell like an oyster or a clam

or a muscle.

Uh, and irritant has to go in.

Okay.

Uh.

Sometimes people call it a dirt, a little pebble, a

little stone goes in.

And actually, when you do research, they will tell you

that the.

Proverbal proverbial dirt in the oyster is not always true.

Is usually a parasite, you know, it's usually a parasite

that enters the oyster. And the way the oyster protects

itself and all of us got to protect mechanism, or

we've got defense mechanism when people want to hurt us away,

you know, when people want to score us. We when

people want to uh, you know, just do anything to

harm us. You know, we we immediately. Some of us

guys here don't like to fight one but if anybody's

gonna harm my wife or harm our children, you better

be sure that that fight will come out of that man,

even though he might look not like a fighter, but

you will come out because it's a defense magazim. So

the oyster has a defense mechanism, and it's called an

it's called knacker n Acre knacker. And this knacker is

already in the shell. It's already in the oyster. But

it is while it's very precious and very very valuable,

this knacker, it doesn't get released until there's a parasite.

It doesn't get released until there is a problem. This

knacker that we just heard in Joel Lly's life didn't

get released until he went to Quantan and KL Quantan

and KL and wiped his father's face. Although he was

angry with his dad and helped his father in the hospital,

even though he was upset, and even though things weren't

settled because the father couldn't say anything, couldn't say sorry, son,

but that wave was enough. There was something that was

released out of Joel and out of a lot of

us in this room, if not all of us. Only

when there is challenge, struggle, the heat is on. Otherwise,

whatever that's in you, that got put in you, that's

very very precious, will never get released. In good times,

comfort and happy days, it doesn't get released. But it

is the very knacker that puts value to the perl

without the knacker nor Perl. So it's a defense mechanism

for sure, but it is a wonderful defense mechanism. Okay, anyway,

let's go to the next light. I want to just

quickly tell you that there is a market for all

three all three natural pearls, cultivated pulse, or even image.

That's a market. Otherwise they won't do it right because

as a market they do it. Okay, Now, the main

difference is found in the value. Agreed. I mean the

main difference between natural and cultivated and imitation must be

the value. Okay, So we agree on that. We agree,

and I want to say to all of you in

this room, all of us have a value, okay, and

I believe that we can even be more valuable than

we are today by how we respond to this message.

I really believe that God sees potential in this room.

He loves you, he sees potential in this room, and

he believes that as long as you have life, you

can be better than you were yesterday. You can be

you know, you can shine brighter, you can have a

better life. You can you can have a better testimony,

you can have a better you know, just just a

better impact, a greater impact on this world that we

live in.

Okay, So the value value. Let's look the next slide.

So the differences that makes the differences are three things.

So the difference is the value. But there's a difference

to that difference why and what actually makes that value

become that value? Okay, Time, environment and rarity. Okay, So

this is what happens. Right when the dirt or the

parasite goes into the shell, it releases Necker as a

defense mechanism. And what Necker does is Necker goes around

the dirt or the parasite to protect the oyster. It

goes round the parasite once, and then twice, and then

three times, and then four times.

This is what gives the pearl its coating.

And the more the dirt or the parasite gets quated,

the more valuable. Is one quoting it is cheap. Two

coating is better than one, three, ten, one hundred, a

thousand times it quotes. That's the value of the perl.

Are yours doing me so in our lives as well.

Time allows for this substance that's already within within us

to continue to develop and to continue to surround the problem,

the irritant, the dead, the trouble, until that trouble is

no longer trouble, that trouble, that that trouble that once

was trouble has become treasure. That's what Joel was talking

about as he ended his message was that God turned

his trouble into treasure, and now he has a treasured

memory and a testimony that blesses all of us, and

many many more to come, as he will be speaking

more often in the days to come. Hallelujah, Praise God. Amen. Uh.

There's a thickness right, and and the and the thicker

the courting, the more the value number two environment. So

how have you know that the ship of the pearls

also very important? So pears can come out like a

little bit more like what you call it over shaped

la or I don't know, it's all odd shapes. But

what they want is the real round, perfect circle. They're

looking for that pulse. Of course, the color and all

that all matters, but the shape, and from my research,

the best environment for a round shape is in salt water.

That's why cultivated pearlsa may not ever achieve. They're trying

to get better at it, and I think they are

getting closer to manipulate. But the best kind is in

salt water, meaning to say that it is the environment

of salt, sweat, heat suffering. It is in that environment

that we become the perfect shape that God wants us

to be. It's in salt water, it's in tears. Tears

are salty. No, sure you've tasted tears before. I have

right because it comes down to your mouth and oh yeah,

stub yeah, it's in undisturbed waters. That's what they say,

you know. They they say that you cannot keep disturbing

the waters because that will disturb the formation of that

perfect circle. And so I when I read that, I

thought to myself, you know, many of us, when we

go to times like this, even though our wives are there,

our husbands are there, our family is there, our children

are there, our grandchildren are there, our best friends are there,

we still have to go through a time alone or no,

the many things. Though there's family around that, there's some

suffering that we go through alone, and it's undisturbed. You.

If you try to disturb your friend all the time, uh,

he won't be achieved. I want to be very honest

with you. Sometimes even about church, and uh, there is

someone in church who is going through a tough time.

I would rather that person stay because God is doing

a work. But if you or I are too quick

to go to that friend and say, hey, very easy,

and you're suffering this church. Just leave that right. So

what we're doing is we're disturbing the waters because God

is doing something in his life. So we truncate or

we pause, and I'll tell you you're ready to be

careful what this is, because we are answerable to God

when we come before the law. One day he says

that you know, your friend was about to be made

a pearl, and he had to be in salty waters

and he had to be in undisturbed waters. But you

keep disturbing him every week. Why are you still here?

Why you still hear? Why you still hear? Why you hear?

Why you still hear? Why you still hear? Why you

still hear? You should change church? Not knowing that in

their church or so, if God really wanted to make

him a pearl, he would go to the same thing.

So as friends are, be there to support, be there

to pray, but don't keep disturbing and saying, I'm here

for you. You know, let me take you, know your

trouble for you know, nobody can take your troubles for you.

Nobody can take your pain for you. Are you still

with me? We have to go treat one. Thank God,

for church, thank God for people who surround us and

pray for us. But there are things. Come on, ladies

and gentlemen, you understand what trying to say. Joel had

to go through that alone. You're right many times, I'm sure,

and even when you say goodbye to your dad and

not somebody's listening to you, there are things that you're

going in and I'm sure when you're driving driving back

to kl their thoughts that you could be sharing your

sisters and sharing your mama is still your own. And

I tell you many times Jesus was found alone as well.

With the Father, he had to go through stuff. In fact,

he asked the disciples to come and pray with him.

They're all sleeping right, and he sweat blood? Uh, and

then he can can't you wait me for me? One?

Can't you wait with me? One hour? This will sleepy?

And Jesus likes, okay, I'm not gonna blame you, and

I don't go say just because you can't stay away,

I forget it, forget about dying for you. Man. Come on,

you know it's ridiculous. Are you can't even stay away?

You want me to die for you know? Thank God,

there's not responding to other people's you know, support or

non support. He just knows that he has to do this.

He has to go through it alone. Jesus is the

one who went before us. He's showing us the way.

The man. No one else could go to the cross

for him. He had.

So that's why the Bible says, carry our carry out

across It's not a fun thing, it's not a pleasant thing.

And then finally rarity. The difference in value is in rarity.

Who is asking And I tell you when you go

around the world, according to researcher, people who are dealing

with pearls, they are asking for rarity. People who know

about pearls, who are willing to pay millions of dollars

for pearls, they are asking for rarity. And God is

not looking for copies in this church. He's looking for

everyone here in his room has a story, you know,

and your story doesn't have to compare another person's story.

You don't have to have a Joel Loyal story or

can you know? I think I told you my story

for about my dad in the hospital and how I

do wipe his behind after he went the toilet because

he couldn't be head stroke, And I don't think any

father wants his son to wipe his behind line. I

don't think so nobody. He couldn't, He couldn't even reach

and I had And not only that, the Holy Spirit

told me, don't just wipe ones, wipe until he's clean.

So I went the second time, the third time, you know,

the fourth time, I'm like until I couldn't see any

marks on the tissue. Are you with me? It does

something to you. But you don't have to have your

dad in the hospital before you can experience rarity. Every

one of you in this room, your rare treasure, precious

jewel in the sight of God. God is at work

in your lives. That's why you're going through what you're

going through. I tell you right now, that's why you're

going through what you're going through. God is allowing it.

I I asked God first time. I said, God, why

you allow me to You know, I just went to

Singapore preach your word to your church, you know, and

then the guys want to fellowship because past you just

come here and then you spend very quick time with us,

You preach the word, then you leave. Could you just

spend a little bit of time to follow yourself, of course,

or you guys are precious, why you know, And I

think I will remember twenty twenty five in a very

simple way. It was, it was, it is, and next

day I will say it was a year of recovery.

But in my time with the Lord, because couldn't go anywhere.

This one time, I couldn't even walk. I was on

a wheelchair. Don't know, you've seen that photos of me

on you know. It's terrible to except at the airport

is actually quite nice. Worry, you know, they push you

from the plane to the Yeah, I think I could

have bought anything in my bag and gone true, you know,

to just push you and then the immigration officers custom

oh yeah you no man in the wheelchairst's tack you

know whatever it is? Wow. I know I didn't carry

any drugs right there, but you know I just felt this,

this is the time to be rich. But no, no, no,

I think we shouldn't, you know, flout the system. I

actually didn't want to take the wheel chess us because

it didn't look good. Huh that's not muchore No, But

what to do? What to do? But you know, I

want to tell you now right now, k L I

A airport has the best best wheelchair service. Seriously. Yeah,

those people who know what to do, I know they

really you and you know there's a book like that, whoa,

you know, they just know they know what to do.

I was pushed the first time. I think, I think

it a wheelchair tree, maybe four times. The first time

was a small, little tiny lady. I can't even point

to anyone here because she's tinier than you, and she

knows how to use her like, you know, like power.

I felt it my back. Who thank you very much?

Uh and uh, you know it's it's it's you know,

us asking God, God, God, why why? Why? Mean? Why now?

And yet in my quiet time because I couldn't go

anywhere else, my quiet time increased from one hour a

day to about two hours a day, you know. And

and in that time, I downloaded so much. I look

at my notes. I got about fifty new messages, fifty fifteen.

I don't even know when to share it because there's

only fifty two weeks in a year. You know. If

you want to hear it in a year, you've got

to have me preach every Sunday. No no no, no, no,

no no no, because Joel is going to take the

other half, right, all right, So rarity you are rad

turned to a neighbor and say you are a rarity, okay,

and the rare thank you you. And your rarity doesn't

come from good times. Your rarity comes from hard times.

What are you going through? The Lord loves you. Okay.

Let's look at the price in the market for the purse.

Are you ready? Let's wait? Imitation imitation. It takes one

to seven days to make an imitation. Peerl wonder because

they have a certain paint. They just take a piece

of I don't know, metal or marble, marble, they said,

use marble, and they paint. They paint a certain pearl paint,

pearl paint. And the pearl paint comes from the mother

of pearl. Have you had a mother of pearl? And

so they can't do something to that, and they and

they make a paste out of it and they make paint.

So it's just one to seven days is pain and

then dry.

All right, one to seven days and uh, it's about

ten years dollars at the most, depending on what you buy.

But it's cheap. And the way they said to test

out imitation pearl is take it and to rub it

on your teeth. I've never done it before because obviously

I don't have imitation pulls. Obviously I don't have no polls.

Yes, that's the truth, all right. Ten dollars, ten dollars,

ten dollars ten.

And there's a market. There's a market because it's quite

fun and young girls like it, right, you know, and

sometimes they sell it in the Barbie doll set or whatever.

It is a purls, right, and it's cheap. So this

this one, I call it play plays for play and

some of you older girls here also like to play, right, yeah,

play play play play.

Let's have a peer party, you know, let's have a

peer party.

Play play play play Okay, ten dollars play play, no problem,

it breaks, it's lost, no problem. Okay.

Now now now let's look at a scripture that really

is quite apt.

Okay. In the last days, there's gonna be a lot

of play play Christian. I don't want to call anybody

in this room I imitation Christian. I don't to say,

because there's nine in exam pang la Joe, there's nothing

especially after your message. They're all repented, anay, all repented. Really,

no play play Christian in extra bank. But you know,

if you had to divide the types of Christian, there'll

be trela, natural, cultivated, and imitation. I pray none in

this room. Okay, don't be cheap, cheap ten dollars. Okay,

let's not have any play play who have a form?

A form of form looks from far, looks like pearl

from far, look like Christian from far, look like you

know a person who is committed from far, look like

disciple that the first word that a fourth having a form.

These are the last day's words. You know it will happen.

It's a really been prophesied. We have a form look

like peerl but we deny its power and then from

such people turn away. Okay, so let's look at cultured ones,

cultured or cultivated ones. So cultured pearls take three to

six years, three or six years and can cause in

the market between one hundred US dollars to ten thousand

US dollars. Wow. Wow, You know why people are when

once upon a time there was only natural pearls. Actually

go into the business of cultivating or you know, cultured pearls.

Why it's very easy, right, any business man will tell you.

It's because it's faster money I get. I see people

like it, I see women really like it, and it

takes so many years for the natural one to come about.

So business men, if I can manipulate it, get it

looking like it, you know, I can get money. So really,

any thought about expediting process is for profit, isn't it true?

Because can always so long more for one pearl from

the sea. It's true, So business men is not wrong.

It's not wrong. But I pray that even though there

is some value to it, we will have no culture

Christians or culture per Christians in example, because this one

is about profit. Profit means what is it? What? What?

What's the English phrase? What's in it for me? What's

in it for me? Don't always get that right? But

what's in it for me? If it's good, I'm there.

If it's not so good, I'm not there. If I like,

I come, don't like, don't come? What's in it for me?

You give me money? Iself? You don't get You give

me accolades, appreciation you know, or uh. You tell me

something and I do, but you have to probably something else.

So the mindset of Christians like that or pulse like

that you see, I can oscillate so that you remember,

I'm not talking about pulse. I'm talking about disciples. And

God loves you and so do I. And my desire

is that we all end up together valuable a pearl

of great price that is worth.

Giving our lives too. So how the man gave his

life for a pearl of great price?

Is this worth giving your life? To all that we do?

Is this worth giving our life? So three to six years, okay, fine,

takes a bit of time, but profit, what's in it

for me? Okay? So next one natural? Oh here we

go ten to twenty years? So you know, so long,

so long? So long? Now, how do people survive ten

to twenty years? Passion? Without passion, you cannot survive so long?

So Christians who survive long through the mill, through the hardship,

through the testing. Yeah, we we just keep going. Ex

some punk keeps going x. Some punk is not a

one year church, not even a two year church, or

even a five years church. You guys have been going

on for how long? Now? The teen see Selina? Look, no,

no enough fingers were of course if you have enough,

I check your fingers out. You got thirteen fingers Okay,

well she used the toast, So going is after natural pills,

but naturally we go through a lot more in salt water.

Haven't you been through a lot? I'm sure you have. Guys,

exampun the whole of ex Church, we've been through a lot.

But you're still here. Turn your neighbor and say, well done.

You're still here. So you're not probably not patting on

each other's bad because like, hey, we talk about leaving

me by next week and horn, well, maybe this message

for you. Natural takes passion takes fire. Somebody say a

man ten thousand US to one hundred thousand years. No,

that's that's your value. You're rare. You're rareer than the

culture ones. You're definitely rareer than the imitation. Then next

night there's a there's the very rare. There's the very

rare that deserves.

The description Perl of great price.

The very rare is the peerl of great price where

the man found it and sold all that he had

just to obtain it. Now, how is this made? Research

tells me it takes forty years or more. In fact,

forty years is one life cycle. That's why they used

to say life begins at forty They used to say that.

Now I think you know, I don't know. Alla, right,

you can put your own you know, interpretation to it.

But forty years, four years life.

Cycle, which is beyond passion.

It's purpose. You know why. Purpose is even greater than

passion because passion can come and go. Sometimes you're passionate

about our team, you know, Liverpool or whatever, Manchester unit,

or passionate about their wins or passion but whatever. Okay,

but after a while when they lose too many times,

are your passions will go down? No, you're loving it.

Be loud there now, I'm I don't know. I'm also laughing.

I'm like, you know, because the best way is not

to cry like this, laugh like or you cry until

you laugh. Yeah, amen, thank you Jesus. So it's exceptional

value one hundred thousand US dollars to a million or

maybe more. Now, how does one no, that is so

rare there it's been at least forty years of cultivation

in the sea undisturbed. What tests? Okay, So from research,

this is how a man who knows about pearls, when

he goes into that part of the sea that has

never been gone in before or the last time someone

went in there was sixty years ago, whatever it is.

And then now he goes in there and he finds

right now, a man who knows about pearls, when he

finds a rare perl called the pearl of great Price,

and there's been more than forty years, or at least

forty years, two things. It displays a deep internal glow

or beauty.

The word is orient, So orient just means that there.

Is this rainbow color color, rainbow color that bursts from

within that pearl. So a man who studies that pearl,

he says, no, no, no, no, no, no, hey, guys,

I have found something that I think I can sell

my house, sell my children, sell my you know, sell

my chicken, sell my you know, I sell my farm.

I have found you know. Do you know how he knows?

He takes one good look at it, and it's so

clear he sees fire coming out from inside. You know,

if you and I remember how pearls are formeder, you

know what was in the middle, the dirt. Now the

dirt glows. Now your trouble, your problems, your tears, whatever

it is that you were suffering, turns into something that

is so valuable someone can actually a master pearl collector

or whatever it is he sees, he sees God. Let's

talk about Gert for a moment. God was a jeweler

and he made a ring for you, right Joel and

some other guys. So in church he loves doing rings

for us for our big days, our occasions of wedding

proposal all that. But God is a master jewelry maker.

And uh, the reason why we go to him is

because he's such an expert. He does have to go

for a ten thousand ringed ring to make it ten thousand.

He knows how to find a five thousand ringed ring

that is worth ten thousand. That's the beauty of God.

And you know what he told me before he said,

maybe he told you this, Joe. He said, I don't

just look for market price and all that. I when

I look into the ring, I look for fire. That's

what he said. Fire Germen sounded so much like right

her bon fire. I'm looking for passaic and I'm looking

for fire. The fire is glowing from within. I look

at it and go like, this is a diamond or

whatever of great price? This one One day when you

take it to the market, they will also see they

see the value from come on, the value from inside.

You know, those of us with good looks are Let

me tell you that one day it won't be that great.

I'm not prophesying, but I'm just saying, yeah, just look like,

look at me. You know, I was one such a

good looker that my wife just couldn't take her eyes

off me. Now she keeps looking away. You'll go. But

what continues to shine even more beautiful is that from

within you are men and women who can shine greater

from with your character. Your character, your character. You know,

sometimes you get a word from the Lord, and then

the Lord tells you this is what you need to

concentrate on. Actually, he's not asking you to construte on

your hair and you're facial and you're all that right.

He's asking you to contentrute on things that will continue

to glow. You know, when when the word orient means rainbow,

colors beaming out of your rainbow speaks to me about

God's promise and his promise, His promises, Yes, an amen,

first of all, but his promise inness never fails.

In fact, it glows, it glows.

When does rainbow come? It comes after the rain comes

after all those bad weather and it said, wow, So

your bad weather will go, but the rainbow will stay

and the glow. Number two is that when an expert

of pearls looks into the pearl of great price, he

sees that on the outside of that pearl, on the

surface of that pearl, it it is like a mirror

like external shine or reflection. So when you look into

a pearl of forty years of more, you know, and

when you don't disturb that pearler, the necker keeps going around,

keeps going around. Can you imagine thatcker going around for

forty years? Right? Thatcker going around. The substance within that

oyster keeps going around, keeps going around.

You keep being quoted over and over again that at the.

End of the day you look like Jesus because the

mirror like surface is what you can see. Can I

give you a scripture and then give you a quick explanation, Savio,

I've heard this explanation before. But Jesus says that you

know the peril of the parable of the talents five

to one, So what did the five and two get

out of? You know, doubling their number is the same reward.

Well done, My good and faithful servant. Now this is

a reward that we will all come to. Hopefully all

will come to heaven, and God will see us and say,

well done, my good and faithful servant. And then you

know what that a scripture that says, a good teacher,

what good thing must I do? Matthew chapter nineteen, Good teacher?

What good thing must I do? To inherit life? And

Jesus says, why do you call me good? Only God

is good? Only God is good? And then you appear

in and God himself says good. Now, if only God

is good and he looks at you and calls you good,

means you look like God because you've gone through such

hardship and pain and struggles and troubles, and you know,

and you got this cold thing that kept going because

you know. We can also reject this and walk away,

just like the rich young rule walked away. But we

continue to say, Lord, I I don't have what it takes.

And God says, you do. It's inside of you, right

as the Holy Spirit girl inside out of your belly

will flow rivers of living is there right there in

the innermost being. But it doesn't come out, It doesn't

get released until we face hardship, struggles, fight right, gotta fight,

fight the good fight. And then it comes, and then

it comes, and when you see that pearl of great price,

you see yourself. The reflection is so clear, says the

experts of natural Pearls. Forty years and above. One life.

So what do you think God's doing in your one lifetime?

And those of you are coming nearer to eighty that's

your second lifetime basically in the sense your second chance

at life. Two lifetimes. Amen. God is after something that

nothing else can give. So the purpose of the irriturn,

as we draw it to the last lap, the purpose

of the irriturn is to form pearls. Irriturn, you can

exchange again. Member, I just want to remember, you can

exchange the word irriturn for the word dirt, the word trouble, problems, struggles, pain, Okay,

it comes in. God allows it to come into our life.

Why to form pearls in you and to form a

pearl of you?

Why we were all made in His image.

What God is looking for is that at the end

of the day, when we appear in heaven, is that

he can see himself. Because I tell you what the

devil is definitely out to change our image until God knows.

When you come up, I can't even recognize you. Who

are you? Because the devil messed us up so good actual,

yes should say so bad, love, but he messed it up.

So you know, it's like he challenged our identity. He

challenged our purpose in life. He challenged and then suddenly

we started living for ourselves and started spending all the

money on ourselves, and then as we and then selfishness

and then self saidedness. It's all about us, right, And

then we come up not looking anything like him. You know,

hopefully we're not looking like the devil also, but you know,

there's a high chance that if we keep following the devil,

even though we don't know we're following the devil, we

will look like him. And he doesn't belong in heaven.

He's not being made a pearl. He's actually the irritant.

But God can use and turn around irritants to become

something beautiful. Someone say, amen, that's why do you understand

this scripture? Now, descripture are about to give you. He says,

do not cast your pearls before swine, because as God

is developing pearls in you, and that could be wisdom

coming from pain, understanding coming from struggles, or the pearls

are being formed in you. And in fact, in fact,

the older you get, the more the pearlse doesn't always happen.

Sometimes the older people gets I don't know what's happening.

But because people don't respond rightly to troubles and problems

in their lives. You mean so, my wife will say,

you know, the age you know of a man doesn't

make him a man. The famous sentence that was given

by Edwin Lewis Cole, the great preacher of men in

us and you know who died maybe about ten twelve

years ago or more. He said, you know you can

you can be born a male, but you're made into

a man. Nobody is born as a man. We're born male,

but we are made a man. A man has to

become and we usually men become only through the struggles.

He has to fight. For you find a man that

hasn't fight for nothing in his life. He's probably still

a boy in a man's body. And God allows us

to fight. So, now that you've garnered so much, purlse

through pain and suffering in struggle don't cast it to

swim because in every man they are supposed to be

pearls already by now. If you are thirty, you should

have some pearls already in you pulse of wisdom. If

you're forty, you should have more. If you're fifty, sh

had more, sixty shir more. Hopefully that is the way

it works. That's why we give pearls to other men

who understand the value of those pearls. And if no

one understands that, you keep the purse back because you

know how what it took for you to get there.

Don't cast your pearls to swine, meaning to people who

don't understand the value of it. That's why when we disciple,

we go like, if you're playplayer, don't waste my time.

You know. I know sometimes it sounds like wow, pastor

you're very stricter, you're very arrogant. No, I really only

have so much time, and these pearls that God has

given me are very very very very precious. Many times

it came to tears. So I only want to spend

time putting pearls or passing on pearls to people who

know how value it is. And anyone who play play,

then go for the imitation one because you know why.

You can get it. You can get it for ten

dollars or steet. Still with me? Okay, Now, ir returns

will either bring out the promise or the problem in us.

You get that ir returns will either bring out the

promise or the problem. Okay. When God tests her, we will,

He will be seen and we will be found out.

While every oyster muscle clam has the potential of creating

a pearl, not everyone will.

That's stats. So the stats is.

Only one in ten thousand actually create a pearl, and

only a small percentage of that make it to the

top jewelus. Okay, this is by research. You think that

every human being, every Christian, every disciple you know will

create a pearl. According to stats, only one in every

ten thousand. So I don't know. I hope that more

of us make it to heaven, but it looks like

that may not be the case. I pray to everyone

in umbumdo we'll make it a man? Praise God? Now,

last few slides. It all depends on how we respond

to irritants in our life. Somebody say, a man, and

how we allow others to respond to us as Irritans.

It's true because we can be Irritans. True. Allow for others,

give them time. Don't keep telling them to change church,

change homes, change huddle, change you know, country, right, because

then we keep running away from the heat. All right,

last few, we are scriptures, and we'll close being confident

of this very thing, says Philippines one six twenty nine thirty.

What must be what must be confident about that he

who has begun a good work in you will complete

it until the day of Jesus Christ. Amen. God has

begun a good work in all of us.

He has and he.

Will complete it for to you it has been granted

on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him,

but also to suffer for his sake, having the same

conflict which you saw in me and now here is

in me. Next scripture, Second Corinthians four seven. But we

have this treasure. Everybody in this room, listen. We have

a treasure that's in us that will only be released

only true testing that the excellence of the power may

be of God and all of us. We are heart

pressed on every side. Now you see this scripture. You

got treasure in Earthen vessels all of us have. But

why you probably never knew this. Why did this scripture

have to add on? We are hot press on every side,

yet not crushed. We are perplexed but not in despair,

persecuted but not forsaken, shut down but not destroyed, always

caring about Now, why why must treasure and trouble be

in the same versus? Now, you know you will never

see the treasure until you overcome the trouble. Tests will

turn into testimony. But the first four letters that has

to be used to spell testimony has got to be

test You can't have a testimony without the first four letters.

And I know you know that. I know you know

that as we close. Therefore, we do not lose heart.

Second Corinthians four sixteen to eighteen, We do not lose heart.

Somebody say, man, don't lose heart even though our outward

man is perishing. That's right, That's why I just told

you this. Now, even the most good looking actors and actresses,

you know, yeah, it's a fact of life. We don't

look like the way we looked when we were forty

or twenty. But okay, it's okay. Why because the inward

man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction,

which is but for a moment, is working for us

a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While

we do not look at the things which are seen,

but at the things which are not seen. That's right,

you can't see it. It's insight, it's so deep. But

God is gonna draw it out. For the things which

are seen are temporary, but the things which are not

seeing are eternal. Let me prophesize something to you before

I close, And I just want to say this. As

I was worshiping together with you, the Lord told me

to tell you this. I prophesy that your year will

end strong, stronger than you even imagine, because maybe some

of you are in the midst of such trouble and

heat and stress that you can't even see the end

of the year. You can't even see Christmas. I'm dealing

with this. I know a member in our homes, Kka,

got the communing eight. Her grandfather had or has cancer

all across his body now all across spread, all across

to the brain alzo and so he's now in coma.

And so they're in tears for the last three days,

even when she was coming to homes. I could see

tears in the eyes because they love their grandfather. Grandfather

is eighty seven. Grandfather was coming to our church for

months before he was bedridden. Now he's in comma. So

do you think about Christmas at this card times? Not? Really,

can't even think about anything else. So I don't know

what you're going through. But God loves you and he

has given this message to you today. It is going

to end well. You are going to end better than today.

You're gonna end stronger, and you're going to end brighter.

But as I prophesied, I want to put a butt

to it. It will not come true just happy times.

It will come throue the way you handle whatever times,

especially the hard times that you have right now. Whatever

struggle it is, maybe it might not even be you directly,

your family, maybe a distant relative, but you feel for him,

you feel for her, maybe she's in hospital, or maybe

it's your finances. Whatever, Why don't you close your eyes,

bow your heads as I draw us to a prayer. Hallelujah,

Thank you Jesus.

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