The Persecuted Church | Pastor Matthew Chang

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Okay. Let's turn to Revelations chapter two. I'm gonna read

from verse eight to verse eleven. Okay, verse eight to

verse eleven, Okay, I'm gonna read first. The title says,

here the persecuted church. Okay. So the first one was

the loveless church. And now we're going to the persecuted church.

And he says here and to the Angel of the

church in Smyrna, right these things, says the first and

the last who was dead and came to life. Okay.

And this is a very actually a very important verse, okay.

And Jesus introduces himself in many various titles in many

forms as well, and this is one of it. Okay.

So in different different parts of the verses you will

see Jesus introducing himself slightly differently, but with a very

specific purpose as well. And I will tell you and

review to your why Jesus reviewed himself as the first

and the last who was dead and came to life

later on towards the end. Why that makes a lot

of sense. White. That is very important. But let's move

on to verse nine, and he says, here, I know

your words, your tribulations and poverty, but you are rich. Okay,

So it's a bracket here means that what it's Jesus

trying to let you know that counter to what you

actually think that you are poor, Jesus actually deems you

and the church actually rich. And he says, yeah, I

know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews

and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Okay,

and says, do not fear any of those which you

are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to

throw some of you into prison that you may be tested,

and you will have tribulation ten days, be faithful until death,

and I will give you the crown of life. He

who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit

says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be

heard by the second death. Okay. So let's go through

some of the details. Some of it I might not.

I might go into much, but not. Okay. So we

know this is the church in Smyrna. So what does

Smyrna actually mean? Just very quickly, how meany you knows

Smyrna you have it at home, you no idea, right,

It's actually a type of substance. Okay. In Greek it's

called murph. We can have a slide there. Uh you

know it's some people look at it at the top

day look like dry light chi or loango and right

long lane. Okay, how many you cook? Then you know

what I'm talking about? Okay, okay. And it's actually a

substance that you actually carve and you tap the tree

and you calve and then the sap of the tree

will come mount okay. And this sap is actually the product,

and we call mirth or smyrna. Okay. But there's some

unique details about this okay, okay. First of all, it's

very expensive. If you're comparing waight to go the same way,

it's actually more expensive to go then go wow, He

was like, whoa, the same amount one keylo is more

expensive than going on. Why is it so expensive? Because

it's only found in two places. It's found only in

certain trees in Yemen and only in Somalia. Okay, it's

very very difficent, very hard to find. And because of

the transport, cause everything is very expensive. It's also used

for incense to prepare the dead for burial. It's an

embalmding ingredient. It actually people don't use it to know. Hey,

you know, have a homes party and then you're going

to burn some incense on smyrna. Okay, you don't do

this out thinking. Okay, it's actually a special occasion for

mourning and for uh yeah, a loss as well. And

you on its own, you can't smell it. I never

tried it before, but that's what I read. Okay, you

need to It needs to be crushed or bored or

something so that the agents can be detected by your smell. Okay,

So as you read about the city, right, it's kind

of unique because we're talking about persecution. Why do persecutions happen?

And why do sufferings happen especially to so called good people,

especially cul to believe in Christians as well? Okay, there

is you know a lot of times people like that

is pointless. There is no point in suffering. You know,

God is statistic, you know, or God just enjoys people

seeing suffering. No, God does not enjoy suffering. God himself

experienced suffering. You know that God himself experience suffering. So

if you there's one point. There's actually there's one time

someone actually asked me a very good question, pastor, why

is your theology about suffering? You know, white people? And

then they suffer and then don't understand why, you know,

like why do I caner? Why do I lost my

son and my daughter? And why do I have financial

problems and pain? And I it's not easy thing, and

then there's a theology for it. But I think I

won't cover it here today. It's just too much. But

if you want, I will, I can tell it. I

can go through it, but I will go through through

a specific chapter in the book because it has to

be explained properly, okay, and actually explained to the person.

There's a reason why as well, and the person was

actually quite blessed. But the heart of it is that

suffering will always be present wherever the world of God

is present, and they are believers. And this is my

my my theme today. We are we ready to be

experiencing persecution like never before as well. Okay, and you

one of the things that you have to realize is

that like Smurna or like math, right, it's until we

get crushed that you really cannot get the Roman. You

get me right, you get it olive. That is, until

you actually crush it, you cannot get it or what

not to really get the essence of what you really

believe in. It's only until you go through persecution or

challenging times does your faith actually get tested and actually

get reviewed as well. So it's quite quite profound to

that this this this church is called Smyrna and they

are going through a persecution. Okay, but what kind of

persecution actually are they actually going through? Maybe you can

go to the next light, Okay, next one. Okay. So

first of all, they are very poor, okay, very poor.

They are marginalized, and they are slendered and betrayed by

the Romans and the Greeks and the Jews of light

as well. So now Smyrna is a slightly different city

compared to a lot of other cities that we covered

in the Book of Acts. Before you've got Corn, the

city of Corn efficts, we got different places as well.

Smyrna is like, how do I say it never exist

until quite recently? At that time there was actually it

was actually destroyed, but then it got rebuilt. But because

it was rebuilt quite recently, the government could do a

lot of planning and could build the foundation, the history,

the purpose to it, similar like what we have with

Cybergian Putrajaya. You know what I mean. Right, It's not

like we always have Malacca. It's not like we always

had Binang or like wild boar. So when you build

Putrajaya from the ground up and like cyber you realize that, hey,

the planning a bit better. You don't have flyover tree

for flyover over one single building. It's like, oh what

is going on? Okay, a bit more planned and a

bit more intentional history and stuff to with. So Smyrna

is like a Putrajaya. It's not the it's not the

main city, but it's a planned city. Okay. Now, so

you say, what does they have to do with Smyrna

and it affecting the Christians? Now, Smyrna because it's planned,

it doesn't have the religious background compared to a lot

of other cities. A lot of other cities they will

have religious background like or this city was founded by Zeus,

this one or there was an asteroid that failed and

then we have a stone there dedicating to the goddess

of Diana. So they have a lot of cities. They

actually have the history founded on that as well, or

maybe there was a poet who actually did this and

then some miracles. They always have a background. Basmana was

not like that, so they had no background then. So

when they planted, when they built that city, it was

planned by the Roman government and especially by the Roman

emperor as well. So the Roman emperor at that time. Okay,

there was there were two religions. One of the religion

was basically the worship of many deities, you know, all

the Jupiter, Mars, all the different gods they worship. But

the other religion, okay, that they actually had it is

what we call the imperialist cult. Okay. If you go

and going online, if you want to check out, it's

called the imperialist cult. Okay. The imperialist cult is basically

worshiping the emperors as gods. Okay. So they have ascended

from God, from from mere humans to gods, and they

started to build all these idols like Roman emperors. Uh,

you know in places as well. Now, if it was

in the older cities where they have a lot of religions,

they would not force you to worship, okay, because you

have other regions, they're respectful. But if you're a new town,

then you have no history. The main religion of that

town will be the imperial cult worship. Ah. Now it's

interesting right now, isn't it. So now the imperial cut

becomes the main worship. And so for that city, okay,

you won't see like many other other worship, but no,

the main worship would be the worship of Emperor. So

at that place a lot of times in all that

they know what you before you go to the market place,

and the marketplace is very important. You trade, you change currency,

you buy your food. It's not it's not like us.

You know, you can go to different shopping malls. Malasia

has so many shopings, so many gia grossers. You know,

for them, it's probably one main area probably to maximum.

Everybody goes to the same place. Everybody trades the same place. Okay.

So before you enter into the marketplace, so you walk

here and there will be a table with an altar.

Two things okay, so one thing it would be a

fire with coal, okay, a ball with coal. It's burning,

you know, it's not like burning at like hot. And

then on the side there there will be an incensible powdered,

get crushed powdered, okay, not the jo stick and powdered.

So if you come to Smyrna and you come in

good faith, whether you're a Jew, you're a Greek, you're

a room, you will come in good faith. You would

walk before it, take your hand pinch of an incense,

and you will drop it and you'll burn, and then

you will say, uh, this word Caesar curios meaning Caesar

is Lord. Okay, then you can walk in and there'll

be soldiers too. What you do that? Okay, this is

specially basically give me calling Caesar is God, Caesar is

Lord over all as well. Now of all the people

in Ismana, all the people from all the different races

had to do this. If you want to participate in

any marketplace or anything as well, all of them are

required to be except one group of people. Okay, they

had exemption. And you know who they are, who the

Jewish people, isn't it. Why did they have exemption? Okay,

of all the people in the Roman Greeks, they don't have.

But the Jewish people had an exemption. Okay, they had

a law. Yes. So what happened is that when the

ROMs they conquered is real, right? The Jews, they say, okay, okay,

you want to know, we will follow you and all

your tax system and whatever you want to do. But

there's one thing we cannot observe is that because we

cannot worship all the different gods you have, and we

cannot worship your emperor because you believe in the polytheistic

you have a politicistic polytheistic belief. Polytheistic meaning you worship

many gods. This god is one, this god is one.

All the gods lead to the same path. Okay, doesn't matter.

All the gods. Christians also can Buddhism. Okay, so you

go to your house and got many different gods, so

they feel that it's part all the same plane goes

to the same location, goes to the same destination. They're

a tell next time, Okay, that doesn't quite make sense,

Like okay, because you cannot just based on what you feel,

you have to based on what the religion claims as

truth as well what they what do they actually say?

They're not all plains go to Brisbane, not all places

go to New York. Imagine you're supposed to go to

New York, then you went to Beijing, you know, like

there will be the worst case scenario, isn't it. That's

mean he has two wings that it goes to the

same place, you know. Okay, So the Jews cannot do that.

They say, you are politistic and we worship one no

on your way, okay, and so they cannot do that.

But we will reach a compromise with the Roman government.

So what was the compromise. Romans will allow them to

not participate in any worship, but they will be able

to collect texts from the temple Ah the temple, not

in any temple, but in the Jerusalem Temple. Why is

there a big deal? Because every Jew had to come

and visit the temple during the young people day of

a torment to go and give their sacrifice, change their money.

There's a lot of money to be made there. Millions

of Jews come to that place from everywhere to come

and they can collect text from there. So it's a

big source of money. That is why if you go

to the Jewish temper. During their time in Jesus time,

a lot of the priests, the levites became converted to

become from priests to become tax collectors and Matthew was

actually one of them. Quite interesting. So they were tax collectors.

So if people hated them, okay, So there was the compromise.

You want to collect text, fine, but we will so

for us, we will never worship. So that's the compromise.

So you have the Romans, you have the Jews living

in a nice compromise and a nice piece. But then

suddenly came out from the Jewish community and believe a

group called the People of the Way, they literally called

the people of the Way, called the Christians. Christians come

from the Hebrews, from the Jewish people. They don't worship,

they don't they don't practice all these things, but yet

they can't see to agree. They don't believe. Their main

difference was this guy called Jesus. They don't just believe

in Jesus. They believe that he is the son of God,

which the Jewish people a majority think is heretical. You know,

It's like, cannot be How can God have flesh and blood,

How can God have a son, how can there be

three persons in one and all these things. So, you know,

so the Christians now got stuck. You know, they cannot

now enjoy the exemption of the Hebrew people, but yet

they cannot do also the practice that was enforced by

the Roman government as well in Smyrna. You get mean, right,

And so they got stuck there in between there, despised

by my own people, but also hunted by the local

authority as well. And because of that, they couldn't go

to the markets to buy all things. They couldn't take

the incent and say that Jesus is Lord. But not

only that, they were also afraid to let both the

Romans and the Jewish know what they really believe in.

They were so scared because the Jewish people hated them

so much. They were actually working together with the Romans

to find out who the Christians are. Oh, you're gonna say,

I'm saying no, it's really you're You're stuck. You know,

you're like a refugee, you know, in no place to go.

It's like you're Malaysian. You go to Australia, the loss

your passport, Malaysia don't recognize you. Australia is looking for you.

You are nobody. No embassy will accept you. You are lost,

You are stuck. You know, no land in this world

will accept you. How would you like that? Feeling. You know,

it's really quite scary one and not they are really stuck, okay.

And so because of that, there were marginalizes. Okay. They

accused them of many things. You know, they accused them

of being cannibals, Christians of being cannibals. Why because they

heard that, oh, the Christians drink the blood of Jesus

and eat the broken body of Jesus Christ. No, that's

why they thought they were can And you understand that

the Christians that cannot meet in open places, you know,

they couldn't meet in houses. A lot of times they

have to meet secluded places like the underground burial chambers,

you know, in the mountains and the caves. People are wondering,

like what these Christians were doing, you know, must be

eating that people are are you telling me they still

have the remains of Jesus with them They're going to

eat you know, his meat. All these things. So all

these things came out, I know, all these rumors came

out about them. Yep. Yeah, there was a lot of

things that they actually complain. Then then because they couldn't

worship all the different gods, right uh. And then when

the city actually goes through a poor harvest or a

drought or a flood. Okay, they will blame the Christians

because you didn't worship okay the gods. You didn't give

the offering and you don't even pray to the gods

of the Jewish people. That is why our city got

into all these calamities. So they blame them and for

everything as well. You know how it is to be

to filter blame for everything. Sometimes are in your own

families or sometimes they get blame. Hah ah, I know.

Financial problem all this because of you are you never

will high. You never started going. You chose a different

career path because you go to church so many times.

Everything you did are is wrong. You're bringing a curse

to your family, to the church, to do the city

as well. So the Christians were really like a thorn,

really really a thorn at that time, and so they

live in person. They were very poor, extremely poor, and

I'm talking about poor, not just like maybe you don't

have savings for the next month. No poor, and to

the extent that you don't know what to eat tomorrow,

and you really don't know what to wear tomorrow. You

only have one set of clothes and you would like

to have one set underwears for the rest of your life.

You travel, you bring like four or five pairs, isn't it?

But I tell you they only have one too, need

only one too? Neick, that's it man. You smell people

know a when know that you're poor, you can smell.

I don't know. It's really poor. So they were very poor,

and not only that, they don't know who to trust. Okay,

so maybe you can get Eddie. Can you come up? No, no,

I'm not talking about all this poverty. Of course, look

at him. He dress better than me. Man, why is

this a cash or? I'm gonna say, for example, you're

in the marketplace, right and I am I am a Christian,

but I am secretly a Christian. And I heard that

Eddie is a Jew, and I don't know whether he's

a Christian as well. So in the marketplace and I'm

hungry and I'm looking for a connection. Okay, I don't

know what I can trust you. The worst thing that

can happen is that you're going to report me to

the Roman government. But all these one you have to

pretend that you you are near me, but you cannot

look at me. If you look at me means you're connected.

Ready you could be okay, say you'll pretend you're not

looking at me. Okay, can you do that? Okay, you

pretend I'm here, but I'm not here. Okay, So I'm

gonna walk around. You just stand there in the marketplace.

I'm gonna walk to you. And what I'm gonna do

is that I'm gonna walk around and I'm gonna there's

a mat on the ground there, and I'm gonna take

my fee and I'm gonna draw and arc draw, and

then after that I will move away. And then Eddie,

you will look down at the floor and then you

will move your feet to finish the drawing by drawing

another arc. And then once you're done, then I will

come back around. Then I will look at the floor.

Then I was like, okay, then after that we walk away.

Thank you so much. Every day. That's it. Okay, you

know what there is that? Can you go to the snide?

You know what I might drawing on the floor. I'm

drawing the symbol of the fish. I'm telling Eddie there,

I'm hungry for fish and skidding we're having fish for lunch. Okay, No,

that's not the point. This was the symbol that actually

they drew. So if I would draw first one arc

the talp okay, testing, okay, then if any is of

good faith or the same belief, he will complete it

by drawing the other arc. This in Greek actually means

this that Jesus Christ is God, He's the son of God.

And it's also a savior to know that I know

that he is actually the same believing faith as well.

That was how it got started. I mean, some people say, yeah,

it's about the five those and two fish. Yeah it

can be as well. Okay, but this is the original.

So when you every time you see this are it's

not so much about the fish and mortification. You actually

have to remember the persecution that Christians actually went through.

They actually have to talk in colts, you know, you

get mean, right, it's actually but they hang on to

their faith regardless of what they actually go through as well.

How many of you first time loardies. Okay, after luncher,

we're gonna do this. Okay, let's go and do the drawing.

People think we're paying pepsi collar and all that. Okay,

learn mean something here, Okay, go and learn if your

hold meanes Okay, secret secret leg shake. Okay, no handshake,

secret leg shake. Okay, Okay, let's move on. I'm gonna

draw to the second half ready, so the Christians and

your lot. But I'm gonna wrap this up by letting

you know that the world it's gonna the persecution is

gonna come. And this is all part what we call

the anti Christ agenda. Anti Christ is not just a person,

it's a movement. It is an authority. There's a power, okay,

and there's an agenda to it as well. It's called

the anti Christ agenda. So turn with me to John

chapter fifteen, verse twenty to verse twenty five. Okay, John

fifty okay, John fifteen, verse eighteen to verse nineteen. Let's

do this one. If the world hates you, you know

that it hated me before it hated you. If you

were of the world, the world would love its own.

Yet because you are not of the world, but I

chose you out of the world. Therefore the world hates you. Okay.

So you must understand that the world before they hated you,

they're first hated Jesus. Okay, they hated Jesus, and it

towards the end of the day, the end days you

will see that the Christians will become a thorn to

the world. Okay, you think that we are a blessing.

We do all this good world saving people, doing as much.

We're not perfect, far from perfect, but we are being perfected.

They are among us. There are also wolves among sheeps

as well. Okay. Also there are some of us that

also stumble. But we are also raised up to get Okay,

but and then, but yet the Christians, towards the end

of the day is will be what They will be hated. Okay,

go to the next night, they will be hated. Okay, hated,

and people will be suspicious of us what we do.

They will think that we are very exclusive. Wow, why

does it mean that Jesus say? Are you saying that

you know that Jesus is the only way? What makes

you Christian so much better than the rest? It's not

what we say. We didn't come out with it. We

only believe Jesus is the son of God. So if

we believe he is the son of God, everything he

says has to be true, has to been the founding

principles of what we believe in. So we did not

start that. Yes, I know it sounds offensive, but a

lot of things are offensive as well. You get mean, right.

Offensive doesn't mean that it's not true. Okay, people will

say that, hey why but what so it's so exclusive,

it must be accepting for one another. Look at other

nations as well. Yes, we're not there when we say

that we are the way, We're not looking down on you.

We're not saying that we're gonna put you aside or

anything now. But it just means that Jesus claims that

he is the Way, the truth and the life that

came from him. Now, from there you have to explore.

You have to ask, you have to probe, you have

to seek what is is what Jesus says about himself true?

And when you come to that point, you have to

put aside what you've learned, what your past experiences, what

your preferences. Is all have to live beside because now

you are entering the realm of God. Some day yesterday

was what I was doing, sort like a Bible devotion

my kids are. My kid was asking me that what

does holy mean? That's a good question, you know so deep.

Then I asked him, called this question, what's the first

thing that comes into your mind? We think about God

as holy I think about light, shining things, doing good

works and stuff like that. And I said, give me

an example in the Bible of a reaction that people

had to do or behave when they encountered Holy God.

What's one of the things that they have to do?

Some of them bow down, okay, the worship, But you

notice one of the unique things that like Moses when

he encountered God in the burning bush, or Joshua as

he is about to fight Jericho and he met the

angel of the commander of the Lord, what did God

tell Moses and josh to do take off your sandals?

What is taking off the sandals anything to do with holiness?

You said, because God likes it squeaky clean. Oh, you know,

God is not very particular, but it's it's still standing.

But why take off this the shoe? I tell you

this person, I mean, let me put it in another way.

If say you have homes, okay, eddie, you got homes

and you used to for example, and they all come

to your house, you yourself will take off your shoe before

you enter your house. But then people was like, oh,

you're so weird, and I you know, I really don't

want to take off my shoe again. Out I'm gonna

take my shoe and I'm gonna walk inside your house,

straight into your bedroom as well into your kitchen, and

do whatever I want. What would you do? Chase the movie?

You chase the movie? Isn't it? Get out? You know

why you take off your shoe before you enter into

someone's house. It's not about whether you realize that when

you enter into someone's domain ride. It's not about you anymore.

It's all about them. Holiness is another work for not

just bright and shining. Holiness means that God is unique

and completely set apart, that when you come before him,

you have to come on his term and not your

term completely set apart. So the taking off the shoe

is part of your whole being in response to God.

It's all about you now, I take off my shoe.

Sabbath is holy, pythe is holy. It's not about me anymore.

It's your term. It's your house. You say cannot use

that toilet, I'm not gonna use that toilet. You get

me right. You say cannot use the TV. I cannot

use that TV. You want to use? You get out

of the house. Your children want to come to my house.

Can play, but don't enter into my main bedroom. You enter,

you get out. You will do that for your own house, right,

You will do that of your house. Right. Somebody they

need to pee, but instead of being in the toilet,

they decide to use your kitchen sink. Because I'm a

human being, also, I have my own rights. You should

respect my right as well to be out in my house.

You know what I mean? Right? Oh, I feel like

I need to say anytime I want? Can I you know,

it just passed me the key. I just kind of

come in and someone actually asked me before he can

you just give me your excess call? Because I just

sometimes I just feel like coming to a condor and

do swimming in the condor, like, oh okay, Lord, give

me grace. How to answer this man? Really? God? Someone

you asked me that question. Mammy and my wife look

at you just like just keep quiet. No, No, I

don't know how to answer because people have no idea

because we're so focused about rights. It's not about about

God anymore, you see, I mean not when you come

before God, holiness. First of all, it's not about you,

what you think or what it's all about God. He

is set apart, and if you come before him, you

have to set apart yourself, your feelings, your thoughts, your

will apart for him. Be holy, for God is and

then oh yeah, so the only thing to remember cannot

enter do the house with your shoes. Okay, you know what

I'm saying. What I'm saying now, that is what actually

I mean, not the ful, but a very important part

of what holiness actually means. You can mean right, it's

not about you. You can you may walk, You may

one person you sleep with your shoes on, as well,

you may like to weigh one underwear and then you know,

just for the rest of your life. But if you

come to my house not on your terms, God's terms.

That is his domain. You give me that His dominion

and His glory will not be diminished by you acting

how you want. So it's your your house as well.

You will keep your order and you're maintained whatever it

is your children. You want to speak to my children,

don't do nonsense. You want to show them some funny video,

get out? Sure, not same thing, God, it's the same way,

because as well, it's very very holy. Anyway, I mean,

I can do a whole entire sermon series on this thing. Okay,

but but that's very, very very important. But you see,

the anti Christ agenda will twist everything to be anti Christ.

Everything God teaches you will be opposite. Holiness will become unholiness. Well,

church used to be said apart about God. Now church

will become eventually more and more become about men humans.

You're right, your preferences. You wear shoe whatever shoes? How

about how yeah? I mean right, then recompack this. Don't

get my house. You know, you know what I mean? Right?

Where is the word of God? You appreciate word of God?

Are you sure? Are you doing more on duncey? I

saw one before one church, I go and do American

football and not instead of putting the football, they put

American the Bible. That then can keep the Bible. What

is the world become? What does the world become? I

don't care what your agenda is. It is still the

house of God. God is. God is the master of

the house, not you. You don't have to do him

anything favor. We don't have to do God a favor.

You know. God is the master of the house. You know. Okay,

So this is what the world will become. Unholy. They

will become exclusive. They will look at us as exclusive,

they will look at Christians as judging. Hey, you know,

I thought Jesus saying say not that you're not be judging.

You should not have You know, you should look at

the plank in your eye, you know before you say another?

But why did God give us the thing of moments?

You get me right, Judging is important. I'm not saying that.

I'm not saying that it's judging is important in the

aspect is that you must couple together with grace and

mercy and look, first of all, not using your own standard,

but the standard of Jesus. The read the measurement. You

see what I'm saying. Now, that's what you just say,

by the same measure you use. He didn't say you

can't judge and say use the right measurement first. Ah,

you cannot walk in life? OI do lifeile without measuring

one another? People? Can you do anything? Can you go anywhere?

Can you do anything without measuring? Or I'm just gonna

go into the shur I don't care about how hot

the water is. You you actually measure the hot water, okay,

middle to perfect spot of hot temperature. You do you

measure everything, You measure everything, You use discernment. How can

you not measure anything? You sleep as well? Or two

o'clock ready the morning, I'm only going to get five

hours sleep. Cannot sleep early. You measure everything, you measure

as well. But it's a fair and godly measurement. But

when you judge unrighteously, not according to God's measurement, but

according to your measurement. Hey, you are evil. Hey, you

shouldn't do this. That's wrong because that God has not

given you that that the measurement, it came from yourself. Okay,

that's a very important thing. They will say that you're

a corrupt and look at all the Christians, Ah, all

the pastors, you know, all d a lot, they said.

They call it the year of exposure Mini, and then

only for then there are profits, so called profits outside

on the Christians that see I told you ready three

years ago, right right right right right right right right

right right, I tell you, well, let me give you

an example. And then this is very personal to me

because I come from a family. There's a lot of

power come from words. When I grew up right, my dad,

I do be very careful. I don't want this on

my dad as well. I grew up where words are

just unfiltered. People just say whatever they want to say.

They don't care about the consequences that in fact what

they say. So I grew up my dad was always

no sarcastically saying your mom is going to be late,

You're gonna be late? On she's gonna be late? Why

mom always do this? Always saying money you are, oh

the complain, and I always saying my dad, my dad

loved my company very much. And there's one time I

was remember I was in Singapore, I'm waiting for my mom.

Then I said to my dad, a mama always like

this one. Then my dad looked at me. See he

was half torn. He was half angry with me, but

he was also half guilty. You know those faces you

produce something that you never wanted, but it's your fault.

I became a product of that, and because of that,

a lot of my perception of my mom changing. I

couldn't draw because every time I want to know him,

I always have deep perceptions She's not going to do

this and all this other thing. You know, and it

happens within your family, you know, Imagine if you have

a son and a daughter, and you if you are

disciplining one son and all that, then your daughter or

sona younger one who's instant to say do that. Yeah,

I know she's wrong. Yeah she cannot do that. Like yeah,

I tell you. You know, the Bible says I can't

remember which wed. Be careful when you celebrate people fall

down there lest the eyes of the lords turn to you.

You know. Do you know that in the Book of Proverbs?

I need to find it. Be careful. God does not

delight in the destruction of unrighteous manner. This is this

is reading. The world does not delight. Yes, he would judge,

but he does not delight in anyone perishing. But when

people fall, you do not celebrate. You don't go online

and say yeah this deeper. You keep quiet. That is

the right measurement. You keep quiet because you have to learn,

rather than to go and judge less God's eye turns

away from them to you. How many of the how

many of these Facebook people A and you go and

write all these sort of things are what if gods

I turned to them? You can't mean right. I tell

you this, one time happened before my children say, oh,

something happened within the siblings, and I was scolding and

my son, I look at them. Why you celebrate? Why

you celebrate my anger burning all? How dare you're going?

You should be keeping quiet and protecting him. You should

be you should be covering them. Instead you celebrate. What

are you all about? You get? I mean? Right? So

this is what the Christians sometimes on the Christian roural community,

self appointed police have becoming on because they do that

because they haven't overcome their hearts. It's true, it's not ministry.

The thing is ministry, but it's not that ministry. It's

not that it's manipulation. They're manipulating you. If they really

care about you, will they walk with you in life

like Daddy will walk my dog. I score them, but

I will walk with them. Actually, some of these things

that happen to this past is a mercy. You know.

You don't realize that it's called mercy. You think that

all you think. I tell you when you at the

end of the days, that you will be surprised at

who are in heaven and who are not in heaven. You, hey,

this guy can be in heaven. Now you will be surprised.

I tell you, you'll be shocked. Some people. You think that, hey,

this fellow do very good. What did Jesus says? Be Gone?

I never knew you. Didn't we call out and cast

out demons by your name, be Gone? I never knew you. Oh,

you will be surprised, don't judge. Be very very careful.

See all these persons. Pray for them, Pray for their family,

Pray for restoration, Pray for people not to fall down. Seriously,

that's the heart you have to do. You get me

in right. It happens to me. That's why it's very particular,

very very upsetting for me, because I come from my environment.

I've been there before. I've been there before. So it's toxic. Okay,

so the world is everything is empty. Agay, let me

draw to a close entire hole. But I want to

bring up two common thinkings or ideologies that is pervading

into our society or maybe can started with Western society.

And I will show you the opposite, how opposite it is,

how anti it is against Christianity, and I will show

you the solution. The solution is not what the YouTube

are saying. It's not what t is saying. Okay, how

many of you know about the issue of abortion. Abortion, Yeah,

what is the known will say that yes, abortion pro abortion.

I'm not claiming I didn't expect to it. I actually

have friends who fight me about it. I'm not saying

that I'm ambassador, okay, but I also learned to how

to properly at least or biblically to look at it

as well. Okay. And I also understand there are a lot

of times the situation that the women face is very unique.

It's not just so straight. There are very serious health

issues that they should go through that we understand as well.

But most of the time that's like zero and zero

serious ero zero one percent, very rare, very extraneous. Most

of the time the issue of abortion comes out is

because of what poor choices, simple as that you can

understand poor choices about when poor choices comes, whether it's

by the women or by the man, or whatever it is,

whatever happens. What is our mentality? What is our UH

framework to think with when you go to the world.

The world will say that it's about women's rights, empowerment,

you choosing you, valuing your body. God's given you a body, man,

you should decide rights are important. Women has been silent

for so long. Ready. So if you are against that,

you are against women. Yeah, women, you're against God.

Oh.

Now, if you don't put anything beside this view, you

will look at it as if like it's very empowering,

it's fully supportive of the women's rights and everything else

true or not. Sounds very good. On sounds very good.

You know what, it's the opposite of abortion in the Bible.

Anybody want to guess eventually, earlier a bit, the opposite

of abortion, of the principle of abortion is actually communion. Oh, communion,

What has that got to do abortion? Abortion says my body.

I decide what's right. Communion says my body for you, Oh,

let's look at the chart. Abortion says it's my body.

I decide for myself. My body is mine, and I

have the right to control it because I have to

decide what's going to be a burden, was an inconvenience

and I need and because of that, the unborn it's

not a priority. I still get to decide to terminate

or terminate, could call it life or not life. I

get to decide. Some people will never agree, even the

third termer, the final umber, they will still not call

it a life. As well, they will still terminated. I

decide my body, I decide what is life. I decide

the future for my baby, even though they cannot give

any rights. Okay, that whole entire decision making is about

me making my decision for myself, for my future. Communion,

Jesus says, on my body given for you. Christ gave

his body selflessly for others while every one of us

was still a sinner baby not even born, nor even

a sinner. You decide or in somebody, he said, Christ

bore the burden of sin. He did not make a mistake.

We made the best thing, but he bore it. The

child didn't make a mistake, Yet we make the child buried.

Christ sacrificed his life for others, even before they believed.

We terminate them, even before they have a chance. You

see her. That's a difference. And on the way to

solve abortion is not by convincing that you are evil.

You are wrong. The way, the proper way, the only

way to solve abortion is true Christ. It's not looking

at the next person, looking at the TikTok, but it's

looking at what God has done. That's the mirror. You see.

We're going all the wrong way. You know. It's only

when you put beside Jesus you realize that, oh my goodness,

how far have we detoured. That's why without Jesus it

looks like very good, you know, empowering all these things.

How deceptive it is. You know, you get me right,

feel so right? Yeah, and people will celebrate you go yeah,

you go, lady, yeah, And then we'll put it into

one hydranch, one big bundle, get you to vote for them.

But yet Christ comes in completely opposite. It's not about

my right, it's about others. And when you put it

side by side, you realize that how far we've fallen,

How self righteous are now eyes we are? This is

the agenda of the anti Christ. Anti Christ agendas will

make you feel good, Make no mistake about it, Make

no mistake about it. It will make you feel good.

It will make you feel like you're the wisest person,

like in the garden either wise, good for food, all

these things. It will make you feel good, make no mistake,

and you will completely believe that you are doing what

God has called you to do. You would be so right,

so you would feel that you're holy. But the eyes

are so deceived. But you don't realize that you are

spiritually dead, completely dead enough. Only Jesus, who died for

us can make us see us as who we are,

can make come to the world. That's why it comes

in the world. He's not gonna bring peace. No, he's

gonna bring a division, and it's gonna cut by. He

don't say anything you all, just by the life that

he lived and the example he's gonna cut through the world.

What all the world says and what Jesus came to

give amazing. You know the world entire. Do you now

believe in me that there's an antire Qrist agenda? Yeah? Man, right,

there is an anti Christ in gender, subliminal or obviously,

it's all there. So when if you meet someone who

is like, you know, have a different belief, you're not

going there like have a strongly about that. No, the

most important thing they need is to experience the love

of Christ. You cannot give what you do not have people.

You cannot give what you do not have. We obey,

not because we're holier and better, we're smarter than them,

you know. We obey and we do and we will

continue in this life. It's because Jesus first gave you

said no. So I'm hoping when I'm teaching, I'm not

making us as more no judging towards the world, but

more compassionate, more standing in the gap that we know

what the need to pray. We need more of God,

We need more of the Holy Spirit. Someone who's making

it saying, God, I pray right now, I really pray.

Open their eyes, Holy Spirit, come right now, Come and

minister to them with that love. Because we know this

is coming from a place of lack of love. It

is God. You need to be in that center. You

need to come in there so that their whole entire

being and frame of decision making is completely changed because

of you. You know what I'm saying. The solution to

this world is not another one leader this and that

or I don't care. It's whether is Trump. I don't

get it, and it's not. It's Jesus. Is Jesus, Milaicia

need Jesus. Are you okay? For one more? They are close? Ready? Okay?

And you heard this thing called walkism walk Oh, I

call it a social cocaine. You know being what what

what does it actually being? What actually mean? Okay? What

does actually what being mean? It just means, okay, you

get to define everything according to what you feel, what

you decide what you want, okay, don't show it up

your head. Then you get to decide what you want, okay.

You live according to your your desire, your morality, your

identity is fluid, and nobody can tell you yes or no,

not even biology. Okay. Uh. And the problem with this

this world is not me. The problem with this world

is society. It's education, it's colonization. Is this race, is

that race, George or Wall whatever it is? The problem

with this world is outside. And so what you raise

out of this generational workism are a bunch of activists

who go and want to change the world because they

look at the world as the problem. Okay, they don't.

Never look at themselves as the problem. Okay, you know

there's a problem. Okay, Before I go, I tell you

a story. I got time I go. You guys, Okay,

I promise you this will be funny. I promise you

will be funny. I saw a real TikTok video, not

TikTok video. It's an Instagram video. Actually, I don't. I

don't even have a I don't. Actually I got one

t talk but how do you use it? Yeah, I know,

I go Instagram account and my son and I always

saw something. This lady, this American lady said this I

have I don't know what howld the sun? She has

a son and the sun is sick. But since young

the Sun from a very early two told the mother

that he believes that he is a cat, that he's

a cat. Yeah, yeah, from a young agent. He believe

it's a cat. And that really threw her into a

dilemma because this mother is completely confused. What she what?

What is her priority as a as a mother? You

know what I mean? Right? Is she there to affirm

where her parenting come from? Is it coming from her past,

coming from her first hurt? You can mean, right, from

a place she never had before, that's what I'm going

to give to my child, or coming from a face,

from what people tell her what she should be. You

see how everything is fluid, and she's so scared of

losing the sun or saying wrong. She feels the need

to affirm the son and reinforce yes, you are a cat.

You think it's funnier, that's why colle a social cocaine. Okay,

you think it's funny because like, why would I take

cocaine the drugs? But you must understand, there is nothing

more addictive. When you believe in the in the in

the world view and the personal view. That you get

to decide anything and people cannot say anything about you.

It's very power empowering. One ano, very empowering. It can

get you out of depression. One no, no, because you

can say one about you. I can say you're a

narcissistic person. You become the you become a person of

higher morale and know that's why. And you and you're like, Wow,

this thing in this philosophy is so powerful. I can

be one day, I can be he, she, we, we, majesty,

whatever the name you want to come with. I can

be your mother, can be your father, or so the

next day I can be whatever you want. I come

into your house and I say I'm your pastor, I want

to pray for your house, do whatever I want or so.

By this one, she's confused. She decided, Okay, I think

a good parent will affirm because she do. You don't wish.

Everybody is hungering for one thing. It's what hungering for

righteous They want to be right. But they're using their

own righteousness or the righteousness that the world gives to them. Okay,

they want to be right, they want to make a mistake,

they want to do the right thing. That I am.

I'm a good parent. But she went affirmed. So one

day the sun got sick forty to forty one degrees.

So and she played along this affirmation all the way.

Instead of taking him to a doctor, she took him

to a vat Veterinaria. No kidding, no kidding, Joelle. If

you're a doctor, you're a fat You got kids? I

bring my kid to you, doctor Joel, this my son

forty one degrees. Please do your what your profession, your

profession has trained you to do. Right now and treat

my son. Would you smile? If you smile, or you'll

be like the inside the fear. How would you do?

I mean, do have to answered? I'm just I'm not

you want to answer answer? Yeah, But this is in America.

By rejecting that, you can go into a lot of places,

so you are you're gonna get to discrimination. You're not

not respecting pronouns or whatever it is. It So the

vet was terrified. Two things. First of all, okay, he's

scared that by rejecting he gets south. But the second

thing is he's not trained. He's all entire education the

basis of his profession, and the lord which governs him

says that you can only operate on animals. So is

this boy an animal? So by one mother's belief she

has undone a whole entire education and practicing. It's that's

why I say, it's very powerful. It's silly, but very powerful.

And yet there is one single line of law that

can protect her. So dangerous? Are so evil? Isn't it

the one particular line that can protect and undo a

whole entire segment industry? What if I kill her? Oh?

But this is the line that the world goes into

just one sometimes, just one thing, the one exception, the

one thing that protects you, just like how the devil

tempt to Jesus, isn't it if you really are the

son of God? Turn this into stones into prayer. They

will use scripture against you people. Wakism will be the

same thing. They will use scripture as well. It will

is law and anything just like that. But yet it

will turn everything around. It's okay, So what does workism mean?

Let's go to the next line workism. Say, I identify

with my flesh and my world. I want to be

whatever I want to be. I live according to my

flesh and my desire. Me being born with a desire

for a certain inclination. That's God's fault. If I do,

it's just natural. If there's the case now that I'm married,

if I find someone attractive here tonight, I can go

and have extra meritor affair because following my feeling, for

my feeling, maybe you have a child, Oh, I can

take your child bringing back to my house based on

my feeling. So my feeling is number one and you

cannot overrite that. Got such a thing? Are you okay

with me taking your kid home with anyone? You go

to Gunning Highlands? There anyone who will take your ky home? Okay,

You'll think I have that wagged the fellow isn't there.

My identity is tolu be anytime I can be anything.

One day, I can be the lion doing Chinese to year. Okay,

the lion done's okay, based on perception, experience, and by feelings.

Next light, then I'll come back again next light. Society

and religion are the problem. They need to be re educated.

We need to change the textbook. We need more or

TikTok videos. We need to flood it until they become normalized. Okay,

it's an outward transformation. Okay, I changed the outside because

there's nothing wrong with me. But I don't like myself

what I project, and I change it. Nothing wrong with me. Instead,

we should celebrate. But what does Jesus says? What's the

opposite of warkners baptism going into the earliest night? Instead

of I identifying with my flesh, baptisms says, I identify

with Christ. Not according to me, my past, my present,

my future doesn't matter anymore. With Christ, it doesn't change anything.

What Jesus has done for me is finish. Turn to

your neighbor. What Jesus has done on the cross is finish.

It doesn't change to become chicken, cow, dog, crap. Okay,

thank goodness, Thank goodness. I don't want to be like

when I'm seventy years of my children. Now take me

to a seafood veterinarian or whatever it is. Not. Nothing changes.

Still Christ, He's died, he rose again, and I know

that his identity will carry me through into the next life. Okay,

death on my flesh. Okay, instead of living for my flesh,

I die to my flesh right now. Okay, my body,

my past, my sinful desires. Next night. Society and region

are not the problem. They have their own problem. But

my focus right now is my sin. My sin is

the problem. My sin is the one that I cannot solve.

That is why Jesus crucified on the Cross. You know

what I'm saying. No, it's such a big problem that

it has to be crucified. I don't have to become

an activist to change anything. Right now. Jesus has done it.

Now I live according to the power of the Cross.

You don't say how I'm saying. Oh, people are still

trying to change the narrative what to live for and not?

Now we live cross. We are clear. We don't change people. Okay,

it's not our transformation. It is an inward transformation. Baptism. Yeah,

it doesn't mean you come out or I don't know,

you change skin color or whatever. It doesn't matter or not.

It's the only thing. It's what what is insight okay,

and not the Worldness says there's nothing wrong with me.

We should go and celebrate pride. But the baptism is

about I repent or my old ways, and I celebrate

not me, but what Christ is done. I await his

second company. I know some people might not like what

I appreciate it they but I'm not the judger. I'm

just saying that the true way to understand antichrist agenda

and the world is true the lens of the Bible.

Do Christians really know what we believe in and don't

just simply intermingle. But when you do, the world will

not recognize you. The world hate you, will say you

are exclusive, you are unloving. Well not a that. We

just know that Jesus Christ, He's the one who died

for us. He's the one who loved us. The world didn't.

The world will chew you up and speed you out.

The world will not know what happens in the afterlife.

But only Christ did. We only follow because He gave

us Amen. That's the truth.

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