Parables of the Mosquito | Pr Dave

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If a mosquito a tiny little.

Mosquito, just think about it.

If a tiny little mosquito, I doubt the mosquito that

I don't know if you know, took me down. I

doubt the mosquito is going like, Wow, that guy's so big.

I'm so small, I'm not gonna even try. And then

he just goes home to his cartoon mosquito home somewhere

in the swamp. No. Then the mosquito she is away

like I'm just doing what I've been designed to do.

And my smallness is not a disadvantage. It's advantage because

I can sneaking to this person and then bite him,

maybe in the crack between his knees, and then he

won't even realize it until I've taken his blood, and

then it becomes itchy.

Can you imagine if God.

Created mosquito to be the size of a dog, like

the mosquito as a species. I know some of you

are like a horror movie. No, no, no, but if

if the mosquito was the size of a dog, would

they would go extinct?

By them?

Because people will see them and they will run. Ah,

the mosquitoes are coming run, you know, but because they're

so tiny. So if you're taking our notes my first point,

I got three points for us today to encourage us.

We can learn something from the mosquito right Part number one.

God can use you in spite of you, in spite

of you.

You know, oftentimes you think that God.

You know, I can't public speak, and you asked me

to preach the gospel.

God.

I'm not much of a reader, so I really struggle

to read the Gospels or to read the Bible, and

yet you ask me to know your word God.

I feel like, you know.

If church was a classroom, you know, and enjoy Lay

will be the star student.

You know, uh uh, and and and and and and and.

Selena will be the class monitor. I'm really just the

person at the back. Have you have you feel that

way before? I'm just the the disinterested student at the back.

Or maybe someonet are thinking and I'm the guy who

likes to play to and sometimes you know, uh, sometimes

I come to church.

Sometimes I don't come to.

Church, and and and then when you do come and

and and and God's presence gets thick you feel condemned.

Sometimes I'm here to tell you that, you know, God's

kingdom is different than what we understand. God's kingdom is

not a classroom, and God works in ways that are

above or understanding.

And I'm here to tell you that in spite.

And despite how you might feel about who you are,

God can still use you.

God can still use you.

Some of you might be thinking, I don't have, you know,

a formal education in or my God can still use

you and I'm not good a public God can still

use you. Maybe he won't use you to speak, but

he can still use you.

He can still make you.

A blessing and you can still have a part to

play in His kingdom. You know, I'm still single. God

can still use you. I'm already married.

God can still use you. I have a lot of cheating.

God can still use you. I have no tudor.

God can still use you, you know, for anything, for

ex kids, for for us to serve in church, or

to even bring church outside of church, if you know

what I'm saying, outside of the foremas. And this is

not just you know, me trying to hype us up

and give us like a positive.

Feel good message.

This is in the world of God, And so why

don't we turn to First Corinthians chapter one, verse twenty

five to twenty nine. If you're there, can hear good Amen?

And then maybe x TV can help us flash it

up as well. Our First Corinthians one, yeah, twenty five

to twenty nine. Men were as a church, we love

encouraging people to bring their bibles and to use their bibles.

And so First Corinians chapter one, I'm also just using

my Bible and First Conciance chapter one, verse twenty five

to twenty nine, twenty five to twenty nine.

And if you're there, you know, can't here good Amen? Amen.

If you don't have your Bible, it's okay. God loves you.

We have it. Flesh out on scream.

We're gonna read from twenty five to twenty nine, just

four verses, right. And then there is the apostle Paul

writing into the church in corinth Right. It says this

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and

the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For you see your.

Calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh,

not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God

has chosen the foolish things of the world to put

the shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak

things of the world to put the shame. The things

that are mighty, and the base things of the world,

and the things which are despised. God has chosen, and

the things which are not to bring to nothing, the

things that are that no flesh should glory in His presence. Amen,

And all glory goes back to Him. And so you

have the apostle power here saying you know, how you

know some some churches, you know, I don't know, you

watch them on you two or something in that you know,

maybe you know, you know, maybe Formulasia, maybe not from Malaysia,

and like you get his young charismatic pastor go like, ah, church,

I just want to tell you that God loves you

and you're a masterpiece, you know, the kind of fly.

You know.

I don't even know whether the accent is like Australian

or American like you know. And and but and when

we hear they go like, wha, how come my past

is not like that?

You know? No, and not teacher Selena to just len

be like why you're late?

But but but that person muster, piece of muster, muster

your pece anyway, so that I don't even know what

that means.

But but but it's not her being mean.

But this is the possible possible, says, She's saying that, hey, hey,

you guys are called you know.

And he doesn't means his words.

He says that did you know right that that the

the foolish.

Things of God? You know?

It says the foolishness of God. It's our God. It's

not a fool by saying that. But but even if

he's usually hypothetical language, but even if God is perceived

that the seemingly foolish things of God, even that is

better than the best genius on planet Earth. And and then

what you perceive as God's weakness, even though God doesn't

have a weakness, but what you perceive as his weakness,

that's the stronger than than anything in all of creation.

And then he proceeds to say that those of you

who are called you know what I'm talking about. He

says that that that's not many of you, and he

goes onto countlight, not not name, not shame them, but

he says that but those of you you see your calling, brethren,

Not many are wise according to the flesh.

Not many are mighty, not many are noble, you know.

And God has chosen the foolish things of the world

to put the shame the wise.

God has chosen the weak things.

And so instead of if you're trying, you know, ex

calling for something and that, you know, and Apostle Paul

is speaking, he'd be like Church, some you you're too

scared to make a difference for the Lord. And you

should notice some of you are weak, some.

Of you are stupid.

You know, He's not going like, no, no, no, You're not

that stupid what you say.

You are stupid.

You are weak, because it's literally like not not clever

to the standards of the world.

You dumb. You know, like to the standard of the world.

You're weak. You know you are weak. Men.

You're talking to brothers, and okay, imagine you know, wow,

he's like super weak men, damn men, you know, foolish things.

But thank God for But but God is to God.

Who uses these weak things so that oh glory goes

to him. In other words, your weakness is not a

weakness for God.

Your foolishness, it's not a hindrance to God. And God

can use you in spite of you.

So the next time the devil tries to get you

down and goes that you don't have a talent, you

don't need to serve in church, you are too poor,

you don't need to give, you have nothing to offer

to the Lord. Sometimes we've been told we got to

resist the devil.

We should, but.

Sometimes we can take a page from the apostle Paul's

playbook and go like, when the devil whispers you are weak,

agree with him.

Yeah that's right, I am weak.

Huh No, no, no, no, You're supposed to like wrestle and

I'm supposed to bring you down. You're supposed to agree

with me. You know, you louse ego for nothing. I

know what you did last night.

Yeah I know. I don't.

I know too, And God knows too why I did

last night? How fell short of his glory time again and.

Again and again. But he can still use me.

But his grace is still new every morning, but tomorrow

is still a new day. I might have very little,

but I can still give. And that's why Jesus applauded

the widow who gave her two nights. And that's why

we marvel over the testimony and the miracle of the

Five lows and two fish, because even though they only

had a little boy, go like, they only enough have

lunch for me, But God, lunch for me in your

hands can be lunch for everybody. And so the next

time the devil tries to go like you're not good enough,

you know, pack it up and go bury your talent,

say that no one. I might have only one talent,

but God can use me. I might have been inconsistent

to truish, but God can use me. Now, don't misunderstand.

I'm not giving you a license to be inconsistent. I'm

not giving you a license to sin. But I'm saying

that despite your shortcomings, despite your sin, God's.

Grace is more than sufficient for you.

So don't count yourself out when God does not count

you out, and and and and allow God to work

with you from where you are at and see the

incremental growth, the incremental testimony that can happen.

Amen.

Maybe you're thinking the Lord is impressing upon you to pray,

you know, for people who are saying I don't even know,

so so start somewhere, No, start incremental. No, Maybe you know, like,

oh God, God, God, you say you're gonna use me

to to pray and to to no hear people. Yeah,

start where you're at, start incremental. No, don't go walking

into um hospital and go like all right, doctor step aside,

you know, shouldn't I? And no, it's now you're What

you need to do is like where where am I at? Home?

Who do I have me?

So the next time I feel unwell, maybe Lord, I

will be reminded to pray first before I take that panaldon.

Just start with panado stuff right before you you heal pneumonia,

Start with panal door and then go like God the

next time you know I'm having whatever had?

No is my goal to which is panal doll? Isn't

my goal to? Which is? Like? Whatever it is? Right?

You know whatever you know, ointment, you put, you know, essential,

all you put yourself. No, just go back before that.

Let me lay hands, let me pray, let me claim

God's healing. And then even if you don't feel the

fever leave, you immediately ask yourself, Emma, is do I

feel better?

Yeah?

The longer I lay my hands here feel better. Maybe

it's the position of the hand. No, no, no, it's the

Lord I was getting better praise God, and then you

walk away remembering, Okay, I lay hands by faith. My

fever improved by fifty percent. It didn't go away one

hundred percent, but thank God for the fifty percent. So

the next time I'm gonna next time, you have more

faith because you go the last time, I pray fifty percent,

now maybe seventy five percent, and then before you know it,

you'll be like wow, wow.

You know, even if.

God just gives you just one anointing, you know, I

don't need to raise the day. Sometimes I pray, God,

just give me the anointing thing that whoever has a headache,

I pray the head goes away. Just give me just that,

because that alone is enough to put your gospel. That

alone is enough to bless someone.

Amen. So so God can use you. Amen.

A man learn from mosquito. No, the mosquito does not

have you know, he does not size envy, going oh,

I'm just a little mosquito. Wish I was the size

of an elephant. No, it'd be like I'm a mosquito.

I'm built for this. I'm created by God for this.

So he let me cost some havoc. But let's not

cast heaven in church, just cast havoc in the kingdom

or darkness.

Amen. Point number two.

God can use what is inside of you. You see

the mosquito, specifically the eighties mosquito or the malaria or

whatever it is. They are so devastating, not because of

their size, only their sizes allows the delivery, but they're

devast stating because of what they carry. And so the

mosquito is deadly. The mosquito put me in the hospital

because it was carrying a load of virus. And so

the question I asked us this morning, friends, what are

you carrying? Because God can use you, but you gotta

carry the right things. If you walk around and you're

still carrying unforgiveness, God can't use you. If you're still

carrying you know, I don't know, like like your uh,

your old emotional baggage. You're gonna get rid of that

before God can put his anointing upon you, before God

can give you a double portion of His Holy Spirit.

But for some of us here, you know, maybe it's

a reminder that I do have the Holy Spirit within me,

and and and then and the Holy Spirit. He's not

some passive passenger.

He's not a silent partner.

He is power, he is God, God, and and and

if he lives in me, greater is he who is

in me than he.

Who is in the world.

And I can walk into you know, my company on Monday,

and I don't need to be depressed because my day

is made not by my boss's face or my boss's favor,

by by what I carry. I carry the joy of

the Lord. I carry his love. I carry his peace.

My life is a storm right now, but I carry

God's peace. So God uses let must kill because of

what he carries. God can use us. We just need

to carry.

The right thing.

And again this is not you know what, just just

my idea. But let's turn to some scripture.

Is that is it?

Okay, let's just do First Samuel, chapter sixteen, verse seven.

First Samuel sixteen seven says this, if you have a flash,

oh that's great, or the second chronicles will go to

that noise will go to the First Samuel, first sixteen seven.

But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at

his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have

refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees.

For man looks at the what outward appearance but the

Lord looks at the hearts.

The Lord looks at the hearts. God doesn't look at outwardly.

Are you tall?

Are you sure your background, your skin color. God does

not use those things as setbacks.

Man might.

And then the Bible is telling us you, a man

will look at those things and discriminate us.

Man will look at us.

And and and pre judges and be prejudicial. But God doesn't.

God looks at the hearts. And if you have a

heart that pleases God, God can use you. And and

this is precursor to the prophet Samuel anointing David, because

God says, you know, I'm not looking at the older brother,

Alias looking looking at David because he has a heart

that runs after my heart. Friends, what are you carrying?

Are you still carrying your disappointments of yesteryear's? Are you

sed to carrying that heart ache? That heartbreak? Friend's emotional

pain is very real. I'm not making light of it,

but I'm also saying that you carrying it will have

no benefit except that it brings you down more and

more and more. Carry it, but surrender it to Jesus,

and he gives us something better to carry. Call his

cross where everything was finished the cross where our het

ache was both crucified and healed, where our sins was

both displayed and paid for, and carry his cross, and

God can use us.

Amen, Let's read on further. Yeah, let's go to second Chronicles.

Sorry, second Chronicles sixteen nine, and we had it flash

up early on Second Chronicle sixty nine. Right for the

eyes of the Lord. This is no, this is the

prophecy in the eyes of the Lord run to and

fro right. God's eye doesn't literally run, but it means

that God looks in all of history, all of creation.

God is in heaven.

Just in case you're wondering what is God doing in heaven,

He's just sitting there, going to like worship me. No,

God's not passive, if he's not needy like that. You know,

even if nobody worship Hims, it's still great. But the

Bible says that God looks all of creation, all of

time and space. His eyes ran back and forth, back

and forth right to show himself strong on behalf of

those whose what hearts are loyal to him.

Of course, this was first, was that encouragement.

The second part was rebualt because this was given to

a king who in his insecurity because war was coming,

he started to make deals.

He thought, no, I'm a great deal maker. I'm gonna

make deals, and so.

He started to go around, you know, you know, if

we reduce the tariff making deals anyway. So just sorry,

whea is that again? And now, of course the rebuilding

is that you're so dumb. You shouldn't have done that.

You should just trust Let the Lord stop going around

thinking you're a great deal maker.

Stop trying to you know, and sometimes we do that,

right Passa.

You don't understand, you know, you pretty The gospel by

in UK militia is different. I can't just go in

and proclaim my faith. It is different here. No, no, no,

it's about what you carry. It's about what you carry.

Of course it's different. But it's also about what you carry.

Because God looks at the heart, and the incursion is this.

If your heart is.

Found loyal to him, God wants to show himself strong.

Just think about that. God is saying that I want

to show up for you. God is saying that I'm

looking for all occuations for people that I can show

up for and show off my glory. All they need

to do is to be loyal in their hearts to me.

And what does it mean loyal in the hearts? It

means that when storms come, you know, you know what

storms try to do that they try to steal our hearts.

They're trying to.

Steal our attention, and and and and and if you

look at all the profits of all the Bible heroes,

you know, you throw Daniel into the lions, then his

heart is still with the Lord. His eyes are not

on the lion. If the lions eat me, I die.

So what I'm with the Lord? But my eyes are

not on the lion. You throw me into the fire furnace.

God is there. He shows up there because the king

goes like, wait a second, how many people do you

throw in again?

Three?

That's four and the fourth one looks spectacular. God is

looking to and fro for people whose hearts are loyal

to him so that he can show up wrong on

their behalf.

God is not passive.

When God asks us to say, go out there and

represent me, He's gonna be there with us as well.

He's just asks the criteria is this some of us

are going You know, what does having faith means? Having

faith just means my heart is loyal to God, no

matter what you know, no matter what, no matter what

I'm going through. I go into the doctors to give

me a bad report. It's crushing, but my heart is

not magnifying the problem. It's magnifying God. And I go like, yes,

cancer sounds painful, but the Lord can heal. Yes, this

this problegnosis is it is heartbreaking. We went to the

fertility clinic and then the doctor says that you cannot conceive.

It's heartbreaking. But then Lord, my heart is on you,

and my heart is on your word because your word

comes through time and time again. Sarah was, Oh, you

gave her a child. Hannah couldn't conceive, You gave her

a child. God, you were a god who turned things around.

So my eyes are gonna be on you. And then

when God says you got my attention, yes, I'm just yes,

I'm looking for such ones. Let's partner together so that

this miracle that I'm gonna give you won't just be

a blessing, but you will cause others to turn their

hearts to me as well.

That's how God works. Amen. One more scripture and then

we move on to our last point. Is that okay?

So numbers thirteen, verse twenty six to thirty three. Numbers

thirteen twenty six to thirty three. Some of us could

be familiar with this because this is about the twelve

Spies entering into the Promised Land. And this again just

one more scripture to remind us what we meditate in

our hearts is so important. What we meditate, what we

carry in our hearts can either bakers or breakers. And

it's all about our perspective of who God is.

Amen.

So number thirteen, verse twenty six to thirty three, if

you have it, great cool. It says this that now

they departed and came back to Moses. So this is

the twelve Spies in all version one point zero. And

they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the

congregation of the Tuna Israel in the wilderness of Paran

and Kadesh. And they brought back word to them and

to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of

the land. Look, it's so big. Then they told him

and said, we went to the land where you sent us.

It truly, truly, truly flows with milk and honey, and

this is its fruits. Nevertheless, the people who draw that

in the land are strong, the cities.

Are fortified and very large.

Moreover, we saw the descendants of Anakh there the Amalekites

drawer in the land in the south that he tes,

the Germicides, the Amorits drought in the mountains, the Canaanites

drought by the sea, and along the banks of the Jordan.

Then Caleb quieted the.

People before Moses and said, let us go up at

once and take possession, for we are well able to

overcome it. So in Caleb he was carrying courage, Caleb

was carrying faith, and so it's get let's go at once.

We can take them out. But the men who had

gone up with him said, we are not able to

go up against the people, for they.

Are stronger than we.

And they gave the children into a bad report the

land which they had spied out. So earlier on they

were saying, milk and honey truly great. But now suddenly

all the extra because when you carry fear, when your

eyes are not on the lad your flesh begins to

exaggerate and begin to, you know, make things.

Worse than the honest.

Suddenly, now you know, all the Hollywood CGI special effects

are coming out, and they go like, it's really bad

the land which we have gone a spy and lands

it devours and inhabitants, which is.

Which is it flowing million honey?

Or suddenly it's like wow, like as if like the

land can open up, it's alive like something, and you're

just in. And then all the people we saw in

it are men of great stature. The original report only

one group, the descendants of Anak, the descendants of the nepheline.

The giants only one group, but the others were just emirds,

no gerbrasides, and then all this, but but now suddenly

all of them are great stature. Then we saw that

the giants, the descendants are not came from the giants.

And we were like grasshoppers in our own site, and

so we were in their site. See that's why the

message that's not called the parable the grasshopper. You see,

they they go like, oh, we're so small with a grasshopper.

But they forgot, actually grasshopper is small. They're like locusts

and and and they may be small, but huge number

and they can devout it. They see that if they forgot,

but they chose to do. They chose to look at

themselves as weak. And it says that don't miss it.

It says, and when they we were like grasshoppers in

our own site, it wasn't like the other people go there, Hey,

what you bunch of grasshoppers doing here?

Get out?

You know, they didn't. They were like we declared ourselves

to be grasshoppers.

Have you been there before? You know?

You go to church and then pastor or the word

or whatever is says, no God can use you. You're

going to go out there and make a difference, be sought, belight,

these are the words of Jesus.

And then and then come.

Monday, you go like, I'm not salt and pepper, I'm

not light, I'm heavy.

I'm a heavy pepper. You know whatever, And you go

to her, you.

Know, and you you you tell lies to yourself.

You create, you know, in your own imagination.

And it says that whatever you think in your own site,

you became in their sight. So what you carry, if

you go like God is with me, then guess what

God's giving us? You see a strategy for evangelism. God

is saying that if you live a life and you

truly believe that I Am with you, that faith can

be transferred, and other people begin to go like something

about Leona, she looks like somebody who's like it's like

God is with her, Like whatever she touched prospers. Man,

I'm going to go up to her and ask her

for help. I'm going to go up to her and

answer for advice. I'm going to go up to her

and ask her to pray for me, because it looks

like God is with her. Right you know you you

and so God is saying that he You think it's

hard to represent me out there, but it's not their heart.

Have your heart loyal to me, carry my presence, and

I'm going to cause whatever you believe, I'm going to

cause other people to also proceed the same thing. So

if you believe that I'm with you, other people also perceive.

There's something. I don't know what is, but there's something

when I look at I don't know, when I look

at Tim, when I look at Matthias, when I look

at Kelvin, when I look at Eddie Jong, and when

I when I look at Minjow. I know, I look

at John, I look at you know, just just you

know there's something about them, something you know. I know

that there they're working, but there's something I know that's

my boss, but there's something different about my boss. I know,

there's my colleague, but there's something different about my colleague.

There's something divine. I don't I can't put a finger

on it. Because they don't know Jesus yet. That's why

they can't got your like Jesus, because they don't know

him yet. But there's something about the French of a word.

Jena said, Quad, there's something about you. And then people

begin to go near, and then I say, draw near.

We were going to tell them about Jesus. Amen partumer three,

and I will close, thank you for your time.

Part of three.

God has so much more in store for you. God

can use you in spite of you. God can use

what's inside of you. And God has so much more

in store for you. Right now, we talk about the

stinging nature of mosquito, the irritating nature and mosquito.

We talk about what they carry.

But you know, as I was lying there on the

hospital beds thinking about the mosquito, a lot meditating on

this message, and the lot begin to say that research

on the mosquito, so I found out that actually only

fifty percent of mosquitoes bite only fifty percent. Specifically, it's

the female mosquitoes that bite because they need blood to

produce eggs. The other fifty percent the male mosquitoes. Actually

they are agents of good. So the other fifty percent

of mosquito population, what they contribute is this, they contribute

very selfless as food sauce to like birds, bats, insects,

food sauce. They contribute as poland are transmitters. So when

you think of oh, you know, for example, like oh,

the butterfly, Oh, look at the butterfly flying, you know,

spreading poland everywhere so pure mostit don't kill it. No,

Actually the mosquito also does the same thing, you know,

and the male mosquitos does the same thing.

You know.

We think of butterfly, oh, you know, but mosito destroyed.

But mosito is also no. No, I'm also I'm so

spreading poland. I'm just not as beautiful as the butterfly,

you know, but I'm trying to make a difference, you know,

and and and and so. So the mosquito they actually

poland eggs. And uh, it's interesting. Researcher commeout that says

that actually mosquito the way they multiply because they lay

eggs and still waters and all that indirectly or maybe

in God's you know, for knowledge.

Directly, they've they've.

Done research on certain legs that have been polluted. It

was near a factory, so a lot of sewage, a

lot of toxic stuff was dumb into that.

The government had no choice but to declare it's not safe.

You can't go swimming there, you can't fish there. Just

you know, you see those right you drive past. You know,

hopefully not an unbumpay, but the sign that's just as

a scowl, you know, the scale and then crossbones that

don't go in there. You touch it, you know, your

your hands might rot. And they found that places like that,

because the water becomes so steel, it becomes perfect breeding

ground for mosquitoes. And when mosquitoes go there to lay

their eggs. The co two and the different chemical relation

that happens when with the little lava that that swims

inside and the things that eat, they actually indirectly helped

clean up the toxic waste and stuff like that, and

and and then then the lava in term becomes food

sauce for the fish, and the fish gets healthier. Because

everything else was like the toxic.

Right.

So so when the fish lives eats the lava, you know,

they in turn breathe and they clean and and so

just everyone tag team together and and I begin to

go like, well, Mosquito, you're not that bad after oh, like.

Like you know, hey, you know, maybe only fifty prayers.

And it's like, oh you can you you you bring

life back into environment, your food sauce, you pollinate. It

made me think of, like, you know, sometimes we think

that being a Christian making a difference. It's only preaching

the gospel. It's only prayer. Don't don't, don't, don't minds

understand it is prayer. It is pretty the gospel. Or

maybe some of us we think that, you know, I

can't make a difference. I think of making a difference

as a Christian, you know, I think of often it.

Just being built, and then it may be real. Not

all of us in this room, maybe none of us.

In this room have the capacity to establish an orphanage

and build it, you know, building orphanages, building schools. We

hear of those, right, we hear those stories. Well, they're

rich Christian entrepreneurs. Build that school, Do that orphanage. Maybe

it's the one in a generation kind of thing. But

making a difference is not just limited to the preaching

of running church or being a missionary, or even establishing

this kunt. It's also about being present, being present. And

you know, one thing I've learned. You know, my anniversary

is coming up tomorrow. One thing I learned about me

and my wife is this, right, And maybe a lot

of guys who can relate. I love to solve problems.

And sometimes when your wife is telling me stuff, my

brain immediately goes into like I'm picking up every keyword,

like in a chat GPT, who needs you, I've got

I got my own brain, and I'm like pinpointing. And

before she finishes, I'm already giving her no one should

do and giving her problem solving solutions. And then she

looks at me and go, like you know they sometimes

I just need you to listen, right all the merriments

say amen, you haven't say amen yet. That auto will

be open later. But we learn sometimes the most beautiful thing,

or the most supportive thing, the most loving thing I

can do for another person is not to tell them

how to fix their problem, but to be present, to listen,

to cry with. And so my point in this last

point is this that God wants to use us. Let's

think bigger, Let's think outside the box. Yes. Preaching, yes, prayer, yes,

church planting, yes, missionary, yes to all these. But let's

also not forget that Jesus says to love our neighbor.

And sometimes the most loving thing we can do is

to know all our neighbor. And sometimes you live in

the condor, go like, who's number twelve?

Are don't know? Not even show where they've got number twelve?

But and now you see people moving, h right, have

you been there before? You know?

You live downstairs a condor upstairs, make noise, you get

so angry you go upstairs, and then there's nobody here anyway.

So I'm not just jokes, but sometimes we got a Christians,

do you know your neighbor? Sometimes the most powerful, testimonial,

heaven shaking moving thing we can do for Jesus is

to know our neighbor.

And sometimes and and you see and and you might

be be.

Not. I'm not the talking type. It's okay about what

my neighbors say, haven't not on their door. I've lived

here for so long and you know, I'm not spoken.

It's okay. It's always good to start somewhere. Knock on

their door by then some eight tarts from Oriental coffee

or whatnot. You know, just you know, wherever you see

people curing, just buy that stuff and bless them and

and go like and write them and know and go like, hey,

I'm so sorry. Actually I'm so sorry. You know that

I haven't done this sooner. But my name is SO

and so. We are the you know, young family. Done family,

leave family. We live next door. If you need anything,

this is my number. Let's keep in touch and see

how they reciprocrates. But you see how powerful it is

because you don't realize just using that as an example.

When you do that, it's the gospel being preached, you know, you.

Know it's it's it's about us humbling ourselves, emitting or

wrong and going like, neighbor, I've done you wrong, neighbor,

I've I've shot changed you. Let's make it right. I

want to I want to build bonds with you. That's

the gospel. That's the gospel. When Jesus love your neighbors,

that's what he means. And for some of us here,

you know it could be. You know, how we present

ourselves at work. It's not just about wearing across and

telling people I'm a chushino. I'm a cushino. Is I

let your actions speak and for some of us, we

gotta change our actions.

And God has so.

Much more insty because because He does want to use

you mightily in your workplace, in your marketplace. But you know,

when I look back and my own memories and my

own experiences working before I went full time, I was

working outside in the media, and some of the people

that truly bless me. You know what I remember not

for their great leadership. Some of the best bosses in

my life. It's not their ability to do the work.

It's not their accomplishments. It's their character. It's their compassion.

And I always remember I have one specific boss who

is very gracious, very kind, firm with his deadline, but

also if you need any help, you go up to you,

he will advice and go like wow, He's firm by

his approachable you know, there's a grace about him. And

if at the end of the day, because we work

for media that the turnover is daily, you know, we

we try sometimes tries to fold down certain leads and

abet or all this, you know, and you can't get

it done on that day because nobody wants to.

And you go to boss as sorry, and I'm.

Supposed to to come up with this story, but this

is all I have. And I remember going up to

this boss with with whatever little that I don't have

enough and see this boss either graciously going like you

know what feels like there's something there. Maybe we need

more time, So why do you work on this tomorrow?

And what what he does is not just a extending

of a deadline, is grace. That's why we call it

grace period. You see, sometimes you know what place we

will preach. You know, we we worship a guard who

shows us grace. Are we showing grace to the people

around us? Are we showing kindness? Compassion? You know, at

weddings we love to say love is patient, love is kind,

it is you know, it's are you patient?

Are you kind?

And sometimes by doing that, the gospel is being preached

further and wider and deeper than we can ever imagine.

Of course, that's just a seed that's planted. More needs

to be done, but you see, God has so much

and stuff for you. One more scripture, and there clause

be all for me of dis because you're an extras

ex Chapter one, verse eight says this, But you shall

receive power when the Holy spirits come upon you, and

you shall be what preachers you shall be? You know,

I don't know, influencers you shall be. Well, we think

of all these things, right, No, you shall be witnesses

to me, witnesses, witnesses people who have personally seen touch, felt,

eight been blessed. And when people look at you, guys,

the Bible says they will believe in me. You know,

witnesses in a modern day language sounds like a very

serious word. But those of us who have done online

shopping before, you're familiar with this other phrase, user review,

customer feedback.

And you know what makes us buy certain things that

we go like so cheap? Sure not? But then we

read are the reviews good? We read through them?

Right?

Are you obsessive like me?

You read through them, you try to figure out who's

a robot, who's not a robot, and you try to

read enough to see whether there's a whether it's consistent.

You see people who doesn't want hope, who doesn't want love,

who doesn't want forgiveness. Who doesn't want redemption? Who doesn't

want a God who heals everybody wants? But the question

is this, are Christians consistent enough that when the world

reads us, are they going like Bard propaganda, fake news

or do they go like Wow, consistent, consistent, consistent, consistent.

You see, the mosquito was built for so much more.

Don't limit yourself by thinking, I'm not a preacher, I'm

not a church planter, I can't do the big league thing.

In the Gospel kingdom. There is no big leagues, there's

no small leagues. That's just us and Jesus and the lost,

which you'll say yes to him. And the beautiful thing

about this, right, the beautiful thing about saying yes to

Jesus and saying yes to being used by him to

help other people, bless other people, serve other people, is

that we in turn become blessed those of us who

have got our mission trip. You'll fully understand this. You

sign up a mission trip, you go like, you know,

maybe lovingly or something's be gradually. You know, uh, finally,

I know I don't want to I'm not I don't

have a heart to go to you know, Indonesia, I

don't have a heart to go to Bakassi, but x

un found in sending a team and teachers. Alena is

saying that we need one more guy. And so you've

been volunteered, like the Hunger Games are that you know

by your home leader, I volunteer him as tribute go

and then you go that fine, and then maybe along

the way you even you know, get bitten by the

mission bug or the mission Mosquito and and and you

be gonna go like wow, wow, I get to do

live and people get to do stuff. I get to

bless them and the more you visit them. I'm speaking

from personal experience. You know, I gone on before I

went to be stationed in London, and every year I

will go to Bakassi in Indonesia. I will go and

you know, you and you go thinking that you're going

to be a blessing, and you are going there to

be a blessing.

You are, But as you are there, you.

Begin to do life the people there and you begin

to have moments. I still remember one of my most

life changing moments. It's not just going to the market

cooking food to give out to the poor and homeless

and the destitute, but to actually when serving them in

the middle of the noonday sun by the train tracks

in one of the slums and Zakata.

One of the most vivid memories is me sitting.

There under a tree after I had given food out,

sitting there homeless on my right, the prostitute on my left,

and just sitting there and having a meal together. And

it was that shared moment that made me realize that

you are my brother, you are my sister.

I have no right to look down you. I'm here

to serve you.

I love you. I am now invested in seeing your break.

Do you understand those are us of God form missions.

We're going to be a blessing.

But we come back transform, we come back changed. And

so please don't.

Understand the purpose of this message. Are not just one

thing us to go out there in order to make

a difference. I'm also telling us that in our words

saying yes to God to make a difference, we actually

receive so much more.

In return.

And we think that we're changing others, but actually we

become changed. We think we're blessing others, but we become blessed.

We think that we're giving to others, but we end

up receiving the grace of God, and so friends.

Say yes to God.

It's not about what you can do only, but it's

also about what you will receive in turn, a fresh

revelation of His grace, a reorientating of your priority.

This is how our favor remains a life. Amen.

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