Hunger | Elder Wong Kien Yak

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I think some here really the word is that we

go to different challenges in our life. Amen, and the

problems that have been about the challenge really ah us

here like you not. We will go to every every season,

every phase, we do go to stuff one encourage us

this morning as I came here as uh during the

pre service prayer, just really felt that some of us

here today, uh just really got to believe. You know.

Let me just tell you to the scripture Hebrews chapter four.

All right, he Brews chapter four, let me see a

worse I think verse six, I think so, I think

so just limited to right, I was just reading here

was yesterday he Brews chapter four two worst two wors

two he Brois chapter four wards two right, Uh, you

guys there, okay? And testing all right? Hebrews forwards. Who

says for indeed the gospel was pushed to us as

well to them. Amen. So the word of God has

went forth gone forth. When out preach, we heard God's word.

But the word which they heard did not profit them.

How do we know that the word of God does

profit us? The Word of God does profit us, which

means to say, when you hear God's word, if you

take it to heart, if you believe in it, it

does profit you. I think many times our journey, maybe

you've been a Christian for some time, that you have

heard the word many times. Really, and sometimes we think

words are just words, no effect, no power, no breakthrough.

But the Bible here says that the word which they

have heard did not profit them. And God this one

he wants to remind us, excite our hearts again, to

encourage us again that when you hear God's word, it

can't profit you. The Bible here says when we mix

God's word faith, So the word of Law says that

they not profit them because they did not mix it

with faith. So this morning I pray that you know

when you hear the word of the law, when you

listen to God's word, when you read God's word in

your devotion, whether it is an hour where there's a

scripture a friends, that word has to mix with faith.

In other words, we have to believe. Friends, it is

not by law, which means to say that it's not

the steps, it is not the just the observant of

the law, but friends, is really by grace, meaning to

say that when you read the word of the law,

we have to believe this morning that if God says

that you are healed, even though our physical body have

not experienced a healing yet, we are healed by faith.

We proclaim it. And that's the reason why some of

us here today and after the course of a journey

we give up on faith only because that it's I'll say,

we've been going about flesh. You know. Sometimes we go

to challenges and challenges of the challenges without flesh, we

grow very tired, we grow very angry. We go we

feel like killing people, We feel like, you know, throwing

the chair and stuff like that. You know, this past

start of my house things in February, all the way

until now finally the tail end of it. And in

the course of the past close to nine months, I've

learned so much. So recently, h my latest testimony was

I had a leak that this came right it was

it was something I thought it was done, really cly.

I turned on the main the pipe right the water

started flooding. My, my, my, the staircase wall right, you know,

the staircase Warfare's the Wittaker war right, it's one of

the highest in your house. It's not that easy to paint,

so it's like a horror movie. Actually the pain is

something to peel you like the second peel this stuff

like it's started to droop down. I went like, wow,

thank God, did not pain it rate It'll be like really,

it'll be like wow, this horror will be the pin

stideditude this you know, not only their friends. It's because

it happened on the upper floor. R you know upper floor.

You had your flooring done. My floy was done fourteen

years ago, and I thought to myself, do we do

a flooring and if you've done anything before, do we

do a flooring for any house? It'll touch five figures,

like you understand, all right, if you do the wine

of flowing and anyway. So I went there just telling

my wife said, oh no, and money going out again.

We are like, there's no more money to go out anymore.

And we were like we were just praying and hoping

for the best. What happened, We need to say that,

uh you'll print that the floors will be maintained. We

will praying with the flour, you know, stuff like that.

So Anyway, long story, cash up and we were showing

the pictures of our hearts, sang. We were disappointed again.

She was supposed to move back last week because of

all these things. She had the delay. I told her

that and to more weeks and you know, go to

wave off like postponement is crazy. You had to break

through a date in minding, you postpone it. Later on

postponing it. It's like a shifting goal post. Right. So

the day came, the walls dried up. Walls can be replaced, repainted.

Not for me, there's never been the issue. But the

flooring I was, I love, please, please, Then the when

everything was dried up, when I after a couple of days,

when the thing was dried up and my flooring was

sped by the grace of God. Seriously, I have water

up there that can can can become like a mini lake,

really lake, you know, as if you saw any whiner

would on the water fence. That's it God. But I

don't know why. Back then, fourteen years ago, I paid

really expective for a floor and then they had the money.

But you know, God is in the picture. I just

want to encourage you when you take God's word and

you mix it with faith, you will always always find

a solution. Yes, it's one or two parts whereby the

whiteness looks like it's it's it's it's it just went

up by zero one mm. But it's it's all right.

So I told my wife, we can only give thanks

to God for all that he has done. Really, so

today I really like you know, if you, if if

you have not known, understand how good God is. I

pray it by the end of today's service you experience

so so. Indeed the Gospels we preached to us as

far as to them, but the word did not reach herd,

did not profit them. So friends, open up your heart

this morning. Smile, say God, I want the word of

love to profit me. I want the word of love

to profit me. I want God's to profit me at

the end of the day, because no point listening gospeld

and not go back change transform excited. You know, I

was hearing a particular dialogue between a couple of leaders

in America, and these are not the main megachurches. This

are just leaders coming together talking about discipleship. And one

guy just shared you know, sometimes it's very frustrated to

keep on preaching the Gospel to the same people, keep

hearing it again and again, but not one thing to believe,

not one thing change, not one thing saying God, I

believe right, And it was just sharing this whole thing

about like then there's a girl another girl of people

that hear the God's word and just say, God, I believe.

And you can guess which had the testimony, Wei didn't,

Which I had the testimony? We shan didn't. So I

pray that all of us here we believe a man worse. Three,

for those who believe, do enter that rest? Come on

those two that believe, do enter that rest? What does

the word of not mean? Friends believing? Friends is not

just that I believe that I see written on my

thing a male, that's it. But friends believing means to

say that this is that there's a there is obedience

in the belief. The Bible says, when the tune of

Israel were led in the wilderness, why didn't they enter

the promises? Because of that disobedience? Come on, because of

that disobedience they were led by the pillar of cloud

and the pillar of fire. How many of versils would

like that's this kind of application of waste application. You

go out there, there is this pill of cloud leading you. Friends,

you will never never need any telcoal signal at all. Right,

pillar of fire to give light in the midst of

darkness to guide us. Friends, if you have if you

have never been camping before, go one time. You know

how important that touchlight is. You know what I mean,

how important touch like is for the past three weeks

or four weeks. And move back to my house. I

look like a robber coming back to my house because

it's pitch dark. Nurse, I got no light downstairs, So

I always take a touch like with me and my

neighbor too, Like, who on earth is this guy having

a touchlight shining it trying to open the front door?

Friend's pillar of fire. I pray that there will be

a pillar of fire in our life that will guide us.

But the problem is this, It's never been the cloud

or the fire. The problem is in our hearts. Even

though we hear and we see, do we believe and follow?

Come on, even though we hear and we see, do

we believe and follow? Being led? And that's why the

children of visual couldn't enter the promise. That was a generation,

not just one person, but the whole generation that couldn't

enter the promised land. And the promise land, friends, was

a place of rest, or the place of rest. The

Bible says, six day got work, the seven day he rested,

and the place where he rests friends, not rested from

just the enemies. But that's where you go to a

place with Why you are you are so confident that

in his presence, no matter what's around us, there is

still rest. There is still rest, even though in the

land of the giants that can be rest, and the

obedience to the Lord will lead us to a place

where by God, I want this rest. Those that believe

will enter the rest. Friends. So that's not my message

this morning. I just want to encourage you with that word,

all right, So met chapter five words six, Metal, Chapter five,

verse six. I want to speak of a hunger this morning, Amen,

speak of hunger your metro Chapter five, verse six. That's

are those who hunger and terms of righteousness, they shall

be feeled, Amen. Blessed are those who hunger and turst

for righteousness. So the question always in our hearts and

our minds is the friends, is not that we are

It's not that we are not hungry. All of us

here do get hungry? All of us here do get

this signal that our body says to us saying that

we need fuel, we need food. Come on, and why

does the body signal to us that we need fuel

or we need food? Because there are things in our

lives that we need to do that that requires that energy.

Sauce requires that input and many times in our life,

if we are honest in our friends, we will we

will if we are hungry, we have we'll reach out

for anything that we feel our stomach. Some of us

here for our working friends. If you have a drawer,

you have a snack driver filled with chocolates and you know,

wafers and biscuits and no chips. I have a clique

of mind that have that as well. Open the drawer,

have everything. My wife is another one, but hers is

a bit more different. Herses nuts, then pale chips and

all the other expensive stuff. Pray for me right there

are and friends. Many times when we are hungry with

haveypers friends, it's very tempting. It's very temp The packaging

can be very tempting that even no matter what the

ingredients that make the cookie can be very tempting when

you're hungry, and isn't it true? Friends? When you're hungry, friends,

you reach it off. So the hunger is that with

the issue friends, the questions what are we eating? The

few up the hunger? Have you ever tried eating as

a meal? Fright? Can't as a meal? You take one

bite of the fresh cracker, one bite, friends, you know

your hand will automatically go out and reach the other

second one and doesn't stop at the second one. Friend,

isn't it true, you'll reach for the third and the

fourth of every Chinese serial friends, Right, my grandparents back

then will have this huge quality and they will fight

all the crop. They go by the biscuit tein. Right,

every one of the houses will give them one biscuit tein.

And sometimes we're now biscuiting. They use plastic bag. They're

tireder and say you can take it back home. One

of my favorite things in Chinese years is those fish

crackers curpu can because once you take a bite, you

just keep on eating. And sometimes, you know, friends, you

can take the whole bag and finish it fieled to

our stomach. But you know that it's so empty. If

you know I'm trying to say, you can be so

full but yet empty on the inside. So full, but

yet you know that something you're not gonna something not

hit the right spot, and that's a fish cracker, that's

to us out. Someone is filmed with calories and stuff.

But you know that there is emptiness, and God wants

to remind us this morning, blessed those hunger and tost

friends for righteousness. It's only when we turst for the

right things that will be filled. Think away for a moment.

Only when we turst for the right things to be filled.

And many times, a lot of times we fill our

life with different things. Although we are feeled but not satisfied.

When God feels up, we are satisfied. When God fill

your life up, you're not going to ask for a

second thing anymore because He is all sufficient, isn't it true?

So God, this boy wants to remind us. Are those

who hunger and thirst. So when our body signal to

us you're hungry, reach out for something to eat? Right?

What are we reaching out for when we are disappointed?

Come on, what do we reach out for, friend to

meet the disappointment, or rather to to to overcome the disappointment,

or adding fuel to allow the disappointment to burn even

bright or are we quenching the disappointment saying okay, I

recognize the disappointment. I'm going to surrender to the Lord,

and because I want to do it right before the Lord.

And that's why King David. King David was given a

opportunately to kill Saul. Friends, he didn't even want to

touch Song because his hunger and his urst was not

in the physical position. His number one aim was to

please the Lord in his life. I prayed our journey

in life, friends, that we have this mind that we

will please the Lord. Friends, immen, And today let me

just turn you to Genesis chapter twenty five. Let me

try to explain to Genesis to chapter twenty five. All right,

here we go, just chapter twenty five. I think it's

twenty five, verse twenty nine. Let me try to explain

it twenty five or twenty nine. Now, Jacob Cook, a

stew and esaw came from the field and was very weary.

So let me try to explain this whole hunger and

this righteousness. So Jacob Cook us tough and it saw

was coming back from the field. How many of you

know that the timing couldn't be more perfect? It is

not by chance that Jacob cooked when the brother was

coming back. If it's by child's friends, then you know

it's just coincidence. But there was a time it was

planned up by Jacob because Jacob knew what he was doing.

So the he saw came back from the field feeling tired.

Very friends, the enemy knows when we are tired and

when we're weary. It doesn't hit you when you're on high.

It doesn't hit you when you everything's all right. It

hits you at the time whereby you just feel like

it's something that justified. For example, if you ever felt

disappointed before by someone else, you felt that that feelings

being justified because you were wrong by someone else. We

just a justification in our life. He saw the Bible

says he came from a field. Friends. Sometimes it is

not at the field we get the temptations. Sometimes it's

when coming back from the field feeling tired alone revery,

and the enemy knows our weakness. The enemy knows what

you are tempted to buy. Friends, It's a pot of stew.

Think about it for a moment. It is not anything else.

It's not fried chicken. It's a pot of stew, which

Esau likes. So it says that it's all said to Jacob,

please fit me now the same rich stew for I'm

very Therefore his name was called Edam. First of all,

enemy knows when we are tired. That may I knows.

Our timing not coincidence. That's why it's never coincidence. Things

happened in your life. When friends, when things happen in

your life, you just have to say, Lord, what is

it that you want me to learn from this? To

understand about this? Yeah, we can say that, you know,

for example, you can you can blame Jacob, Jacob while

you have to cook this. Just give me a break

with olive oil or something like that. I'll be satisfied.

So worst why that, Jacob says? Then Jacob said, sell

me your birth right as of today. Come on, Jacob says,

sell me your birthright as of today. Now, if this

was a brother relationship, you understand the right sibling you

ask me for something, I'll come on. Isn't it true?

If it's your sibling? How many of you got siblings

that cook a maggimi and you liked it and say,

please give me this maggimmi and your sibling, say give

me your better account number or your PIN number. I

have not seen anybody like you know at realisticly real

life situation like that. Friends, Maybe they asked of favor,

but this is selling your birthright, friends, birth right back.

Then if you if it's your birthright. First of all,

if you're the eldest of the family, you'll be given

the title rather the position as a priest of the

family in the coming days. Now, maybe you think that

maybe his soul is not that spiritual right to him

being a priest in the house. But the other part

of the blessing of the birth right double portion of inhabitants.

Come on, double Come on, if you're so, you're not spiriture,

you think about it. If you're not spiriture, then you

should be also, I mean not minding minded about you. Also,

there resists part whereby inheritance. As far as I know,

nobody here this like inheritance, and think about it. I've

not seen anybody. Don't give you inheritance, please all right,

please give someone else. The more the better for some

other people. Right, But there's there's a part whereby think

about it inheritance, double portion of inheritance. He saw friends

did understand the value behind it. He didn't understand the

significance of a birth right. What's more, the value of

the birth right. And sometimes in our own personal journey

as well, friends, that we are not aware of what's

being given to us. We are not aware that the

Bible says that the Holy Spirit is with us, for example,

and to ask Holy the Holy Spirit, God, I I

need you. I was hearing a testimony of one guy

saying that, you know, I'm not the most charismatic person,

but Lord, if you allow me to go for missions

one time with me and my wife, I'll just go

for it. This was in America. He went, I think

to Central Central America there, and you know, just one

trip became five fifteen years started at school there, and

I was hearing his testimony. I just realized one thing

that many times in our own personal journey as well,

we don't realize what we have inside. The Bible says

that greater is he who is in you than he

is of the world. Right, greater that he's in you,

that that he is of the world. That deposit the value.

For example, right now we have the physical Bible with us.

The value of the Bible, the value of the Bible

that we can have access to friends, how valuable is

it to us? And many times in our lives we

we think that it's just a book. Sometimes, for example,

we have time, we have time, and they say that

we're still alive. We have time. The value of time,

the value of people around us, our love on around us.

For this moment in time, they are with us. But

there come a time whereby they know they're not going

to be with us, with us anymore, and that time, friends,

we might be in a place where by regret we

did make the right choices when they're around. I was

telling my dad this is this very strange conversation my

dad all right, telling my dad, say, Dad, what would

you do or where everyone to stay? Please try to

stay as close to me as possible. No, I want

to stay in Surmban by myself. I say that I

know you want to relieve your childhood. My dad's from Serumba.

By the way, you want to relieve your childhood. But

think for a moment, anything happens to you, anything happens

to you as your only child, your only son in Malaysia,

I would have to make the journey to sirumban to

look for you. Now. If you're in the hospital, God

for me. But if you're in the hospital, I have

to rent somewhere nearby to attend to your niece. I

think you are this charge, I say, Dad, don't be

so selfish. Cannot He's like, you're it's like you're destroying

my last by bucket list like that. So I just

I was just this. My conversation said that, look, I

have a house you can move in to stay with me,

but don't cramp your style. I said, I tell you

what you choose anywhere anywhere. This my encouragement to use

is that tried to stay close. If you choose to

stay Seruman, I still on your decision. I will still.

I also want you just understand something. For a moment.

You have something that's valuable with you. What are you

going to do about it? Jacob says, sell me your

birth friend, give me your birthright for this part of too.

I don't know how many of us he really sacrifice

certain things in our life to achieve where we need

to be, to give up certain things, to give out

of commitment to understand the significance. You know, if your

husband played the role of the husband. If your wife

player the role of a wife. Right, if you're a

leader a manager and your company play the word as

a leader manager, don't delegate the responsibility away. But many

times we're like Esau. We see a challenge, give up,

and this is what happens verstly too. And it's just saying, look,

I'm good about to die. Come on, I'm about to die.

How many if you know that it's soul, won't die

fens if what he did, that's too think about it.

No matter how hungry we are, and we have, we

came to a place whereby in our own journey as well.

If we're hungry before, we won't die of hunger, you

know what I mean? But the perception to ease that

I will die of hunger? Friends, And what's the point

of holding on to this right? If I'm going to die.

I don't know how dramatic things can be in our life,

but sometimes we can stretch our imagination alone. If I

don't get this right now, I will now be productive.

If I don't use certain ran of software, I'm now

going to be productive. Right. If I don't have this,

I'm not going to achieve. And many times everything is

hinges on the external rather on the internal conviction. Come

on everything. If everything on the outside, it's perfect that

you have a good place. And this is what my wife,

don't me. Yeah, enough tinkering with the house ready, please?

Enough thinkering with the house radio. Okay, I want to

move back in and want to start living my life

like normal. Please go. Don't go and change the lines anymore. Please.

So she's in charge of the colors. My wife is

very good at it. I'm terrible with colors. I wanted

the multi colors. She say, cannot. Yeah, please, okay, it's

straight enough ready, No off by two mm? Cannot I

cannot unsee certain things off by two mm? She said,

It's okay. Your salvation is still there. On It's all right.

Let me come back home. Don't ask him do anything else.

The more dusty it gets, I cannot come back home.

All right. What's the point holding onto it? I'm going

to die? What's what's your story? Friends? Why if we'll

be holding onto that that causes you right now? That

what's the point of me holding onto this? Where I

don't see a change, where other people are progressing the

there we knows strengths of weaknesses. The devil knows our weaknesses.

That's why we can come to the place where by

the way compromise you. Now he understands. I'll make up

better than we understand ourselves. Friends, What's the point of

holding onto this where I don't see change, where I

don't see breakthrough, where I don't see anything, don't development, friends,

and Esau was deceived, and that's what happens in our

life as well. What's the point of I, say, for example,

coming to church but no change. I'm holding on to

this duty of a Sunday morning, but no break through.

I want something that satisfied me. I want immediate satisfaction.

But God was do something deeper in our hearts and

our life, meaning to say that he wants to work

us on our character. That's why the Bible says that

he learned obedience to his suffering. Jesus suffered all the

way until the cross, but he learned obedience. And God

will always bring us through a journey, friends, whereby we

are supposed to learn something out from it. All right,

just let me just reatrut. Then Jacob says, swear to

me of this day. So he swore, and so his

birth right to Jacob for the part of stuck. Come on.

I think many times in our journey and your journey

as well, I think we have moments whereby like like

he saw, given up our birthright, given up, but we'll

hold on to giving up our commitment, given up our testimony,

given up our opportunity to shine for Jesus. Have we

choose by the way of the flesh, choose by the

way of what we think that it's right immediate guarantee

breakthrough if you ever grow up in Malaysia back then, friends,

you have these books ninety days for one guarantee that

you read this book and you guarantee you how many

e's or something that you for sure one goddess. I

remember those books and I was so that I bought

a few of them, like, oh, I've written it by

that I didn't get any ala. Maybe I'm not smart enough, right, friends,

buying the books one they reading is another thing altogether,

I think, And many times in our life exam and

we've compromise, exam and we'll compromise, and even exam. First

I tried to cheat. I had the sling, I broke

my hand. So you know, when you when you book

you sleep, you can hide a book inside there. And

I literally hit that like hit a book in there.

I put the toilet and rested all my first guys.

That will all boys go to go to the guy's toilet.

Could be a good tree. It's on top of the

toilet there. Then then the teachers after a recognizing a wife,

so many people go to the toilet one so I

really had to respit the last person. If you go

down there, past had the book and flush it down

the toilet. You know how hard this is, the tear

a book and flashing down the toilet of first especially

school toilet, whereby half the time it doesn't one there.

I got second plan because I had a cast. I

can write all the formulas on my cast. They will

know because it is the autograph. But even then, even then,

all these things, right, with all these things I thought

I would succeed. I'll past by exam. I failed such

a failure in my life, look at properly, I'm all

sure how many I was like like like he saw,

like he saw, tempted at the very moment what we

want to be never we say we never, but we

just give in to it because if we think that

he saw that if I don't do this, I'm going

to die. If I don't have this, are going to die.

And the Bible here says it verse that before Jacob

give he saw the bread and the stew of entails.

He ate and drank a rose and went his way.

Plus he saw despised his birthright. No, the law has

given us a lot of things in our life. Breath life.

The word is promised, right, I me do it despise.

I mean sometimes we hear younger time. We hear people

I want to kulle time. Now as you grow older,

I want to redeem time right young the time we

say I don't spend time with parents, and as you

grow older, you you cherish every moment you could have

with parents. Right Younger time we say one get married

and stuff that when you were married. Afterwards, I want

my my me time. And many times we despise what

we have actually, and I pray we come to the

place where we are contented. Let me just turn few

more scutary problems up the four worse twenty tree adding

probabs forwards tra need tree. Let me just turned to

their proach up to four. I think it should be

there twenty three robs of the four twenty three yep

robes of the four tenty tree. It says that can't

keep your heart with all deligions or one transition to

that God your heart with all diligions. So always here

grow hungry. All of us here do have hunger friends.

So it's not the hunger. The hunger is never did

issue that The issue is what we are reaching out

four So if problems are the fourwards thady trees is

keep on God your heart with all deligious friends. I

think many times in our journey, in our lives, friends

not be begutting. I found I also that when you

talk about God your heart, that we understood immediately what

we are gutting. For example, like God your house, and

you know that the house is the property that you have.

There's valuable stuff inside there, sof you. I know of

a person by his house, his house. Then I was

walking past his watch collection. I said, why on earth

do you put your watch collection in the living room?

The rolexs are all in the living room. I said,

don't you want to keep in your bedroom or safe

or something that? No, not my house, ma, I would

admire my watch collection. I said, don't you want to

guard it? It's quite safe on here. It's a guarded community,

gated community. I went like, wow, this guy has faith

in the in the gated community. But majority of us

what we do where we have expected stuff, we lock

it up in the safe. We put somewhere that people

couldn't find it all right, back in those days where

we put money in the in the biscuiting, the biscuiting

high below the bait, right something. My parents had this

habit of hiding money in clothes. As a girl older,

what happens that they had they had they couldn't remember

where they put it. They couldn't remember. See, son, I

got this tag of Australian currency. I remember it was

one trousers. I put it in I couldn't find it.

And hence that's so I cannot chow anything away because

I'd been going to every pocket hoping to find the

Australian currency. And we sometimes we're gotting this our physical stuff.

We know that we're supposed to got the money, jewelry, watches, right,

we understand, but you know what else do we got?

We sometimes we are so we can come to place

wherever we are getting bitterness, you know, we don't let

it go and clear it away. So I was clearing

my fresh this morning. Friends, if I came out, I

was clearing my fridge this morning, I look at my

hooku Ido scallops, expired twenty twenty two. I say, one

day eat it. That one day never came expired twenty

twenty two or twenty two, about two years ago, is

still in my freezer. Friends, and we are like that.

We're having stuff that's expired friends in our life because

sometimes you open the freezer, it's it looks nice to

have a full freezer, right, but never clear clear it up?

Why are we keeping this and we are like guarding it?

Somebody say, I, no, don't touch my stuff. Have we

been there? Have we done it before? Not? We're still

haven't closed whereby it's it's okay when when when someone's

closed and say I'm going to clear your stuff, don't

touch it. My wife is very good, okay, she said,

she's not harder say, I've been keeping a lot of stuff.

She said, why do you keep your primary school set for?

I said, I wanted my head up. I have this

one award given to me. So my whole primary only

go one award near if you whereas my wife has

like one whole table. Do is not enough to say

that all this I'm going to trade away soon? I said,

what about you? I said, I want one. I don't

take it away, cannot right, here's the thing, but it's

collecting us and you don't even know what you want

the world for a Really, I can guarantee you. And

we're gutting stuff in our life, friends, isn't it true?

Expired stuff, stuff that happened to us? And the pain

that hurts. I know it's very real, the pin and hurts.

I'm not discomforting, but something's expired. Really, there's an expiry

on those things. And time to move on. Time to

move on, time to let it go, time to not God.

We are supposed to God. Our hearts were not God.

That that that that the bitterness, that the hurt, and

not money to let go and say, ask God to

help us overcome. In so the Bible asking keep our

heart with all diligience. We're all disciplined for our of

it flows issues of life. So in other words, friends,

if Esau has kept his heart God, that his heart

was very aware what Jacob was asking for. He wouldn't

have saw. It's both right if he saw even though

no matter how tired we are, friends, there is no

such things. I'm tired therefore, and we put we hang

aside out there for enemies. Tired, gone to sleep, Come

back tomorrow, tend me again tomorrow. There's no the enemy.

We just come and tempt you and work on our mind.

You cannot just put us side there, out for lunch.

Come back at one pm. Enemy. So keep all God

your have, with all deligious Out from it flows the

issues of life, and many times in our journey of life, Friends,

our heart is not guarded, and the choices that we

made stems up from it. Esau could have overcome the

temptation of the rads, too, could have if we understood

that even that the deposits that was given to him, Friends,

Jesus was also tempted with hunger. After forty days of

prayer and fasting, he was led in the wilderness by

the Holy Spirit and the moment of temptation. Friends, The

first thing, the first temptation was, is that turn this

stone to become great? What do you say that do

not men do not live by bit a little bit

by every way that pross out fro the mouth of God. Right,

And here's the thing, and that's I'm going to draw

this to a close. Many times in our life I've

discovered this. This is that we never understood the value

of God's word until we are lived really depend on it,

never fully understood the value of God's word until our

life depend on it. As I draw this to a close, friends,

my encurreagement for us is this is that the hunger

was already Hunger has never been the issue. The issue

is what we are reaching out for. You're observing our life.

Why we what we reach out for, friends, is from

problems four for the tree which is our heart, determinant,

the motivation behind while we reach out for. That's certain

that the reason why, for example, we eat certain things

in life because we got craving four right. So this this, this, this,

this this time in our life, me and my wife

when every time we're going we try to connect with

the with the owner to reach out to them. So

the most recently was so, for example, I want us

to think the word church. We thought the word church.

People understood the word church church right, coming right, you

say church, people understand what she's went to a place

to eat recently. This lady, she's from China. She just

came down in years eight months opening a restaurant, really

sat down, was reading with the only customer there pull

the child besides her. We're like to spend up My

wife by then I got the wheeler here right came

started telling us about her journey and this stuff like that.

So she asked by why what where did you learn

to speak like that? That that that sounds so locals,

so like like a mainland Chinese. She said, we have

a church. We have a church. And she now I

thought that we see church. Wefo I understand right? You

mean the school? Is it? No a church? No concept?

It dawn appointment for the very first time that there

are people in the world in this modern day we

are living in it don't even understand the word church. Seriously,

I went, like at homes last Friday, I went, I

went to attend same home as my wife. There was

a new comer that came. New comer that came. She

is from the same young area, first time to homes,

first time to homes, and no exposure. They've been trying

to invite her to come for homes for so long,

ready for the rite. First time she said, yes, I

will come to homes. And what happened was this is

that when she came for homes, she was first of

all like, what on earth is this whole thing? And

I thought to myself, you in my force cell good, ready,

you at least have an idea right now. If you

ask anyone to come for a sell good, right now,

you acly have an idea or picture what is supposed

to be. During praise of worshiper, she took out her

phone started recording the whole price of worship session, No

price of worship session, the recording. I tell you why.

I we found out later, right in a conversation. We

found out later. Right, for you to progress over there

in your work, there's two ways. One is that you

join the party, the party, and you get more opportunity

over there to work. Right. If not, you go like

the normal daily grind, which is another way, but study hard.

So she's not a Christian, so she joined the party.

So when she took up the photo recollar, we have

another two more brothers there who are believers. So I

said that I hope that she doesn't take this and

go back, they say, hey, I found I found I

found two other people that come to Malaysia converted to

become Christian. And right now these are two people. Right

this how I'm going to enter friends, Keep and guard

your heart. Keep and guard your heart with all diligious

Up from it springs the issues of life. We can

ban her say, don't come anymore. While do they just

trust a lot in it? They say, Lord, this is

your church. If we were to find out what they're

actually so the past three months ago, almost every weekend

there was one salvation from These are students from China

coming home to study. One came to our church. About

one month plus ago housband in China. Mom came down

with her son studying. She stayed next door to summer building.

She google found the church, came for the very first Sunday,

she heard the gospel again. She rededicated life. Not only

did she didn't get life friends, she found such meaning

and purpose she brought someone else she met. She reached

out to her fellow countrymen or woman. So she'd been inviting.

Almost everywhere she invited, rededicated or received price. She said

that this coming, this coming Christmas, she wants to invite

about seventeen people to a home to reach out. So

the circle leader that was leading leading this didn't have

the heart for these girl people only because that they

say that although we speak the same language, but I

don't understand the terminology already, that I don't understand why

why did love you? Accident jokes? I don't understand the jokes.

I don't understand there the humor everything. And my wife

minister to this leader and they say, look, this is

what you do. You don't understand this, ass how more yourself?

Just ask right now she's having a time of her life.

That's how I say that the Bible is so to

keep and got your hearty all religions, you can't come

to the place by you don't like what you're doing.

And because we don't like what happens, friends, we make

decisions based on how we feel right and we can

have miss out on the opportunity that God has prepared

for oginal friends, Come on, God has prepared for you.

Missed out on this amazing part of being part of

the testimony because I cannot relate. And therefore my heart

tells me wed group of people I shall lead myself

to another place. Right. But friends, you you're going to

miss out on the break through the journey. If everything

we see through our own lens, of the physical lens,

I don't understand. Therefore, no he saw was like that?

Oh he saw was? I need food right now. I

don't care about my birth rights anyway. It's just words

I say, you need friends. This is not one of

those boyfriend girlfriends sudden they think I break up, break up,

say break up a least really five times there's gatsh

to our words. That's why by the confession of your mouth,

you'll be safe. God takes his words so seriously. It's

not just about here, take my birth right. Here, take

my birth right friends, as I close friends, I just

want to carriash you again. Don't hear the word of

love without mixing it faith because it doesn't profit you.

But here it with faith threads and allow God just

to lead you and see where this journey leads to

see this, look at where this journey will lead you

to threads, because at the end of the day, our

life this to come to a place where, by say Lord,

this life belongs to you. I just want to experience

you here on earth. You can only do that in earth,

in your friends in heaven. There's only one job with

need to worship the Lord. But right here on this

is you have a choice. You have a choice. You

have a choice. Fads.

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