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What Matters In The End | Elder Wong Ken
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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Has to be preached to ends of the world. And
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if we don't go, who will go? And God always
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gives everyone a versus, an opportunity to go, a portunity
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to respond. The invitation is out there and it's a
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question whether we want to respond or not. Then when
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sister Surah shared her story, because I hardly her shared story.
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Is only the husband that shared a lot of stories.
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The wife is very quiet. But this time we get
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to hear sister Suria share her story or her journey.
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It's really really amazing. If you've known her ten years ago,
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she never wanted to take the stage, never want to
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take the microphone, never want to be on stage. Now
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that's a husband thing. Now she's like more than happy
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to support her husband. But when she started sharing about
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her journey, about her encounter and different things like that,
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it really really just reminds us a gate and a gate. Really,
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what's our faith all about? Why do we believe? Why
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do we do what we do? Sometimes you may not
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be able to see it in the immediate return, meaning
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to say that you invest today in the lives of people.
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They respond immediately Tomorrow salvation take place. You know, you know,
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ten ten million people come and know Jesus imediates be
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in a community whereby you're the only believer. And when
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she shared her story about God's asking her to go
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to the interiors of Sabah, that was something which really
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resonated in me only because not so much about interiors
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or anything like that. This is so like God. Isn't
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it encouraging? You know, putting a nation, a place, a
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community in the hearts of the people say would you go?
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Would you go? You heard about you know what we
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are doing with our community project once a month and
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it's only made possible because of the homes that we
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have or the cell group that we have in church.
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It's never easy to go to a community by yourself
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one and you know, the needs are really a lot,
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and we get people writing in for needs. We have
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a family that writes into us every other time. You know,
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normal groceries. Can you buy groceries for us or not?
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And we'll put money together in an office there and
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buy groceries for them. Sometimes we know which are the genuine,
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which are the more For flicky one, the flicky one
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is always like, we can buy groceries for you, but
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it may not be the brand that you liked. Somethings,
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I only take this brand, only go like okay, hmmm, anyway,
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let's be saying the point. So God spoke to her,
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she went there. And the fact is this is that
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I'm not sure how many diversitier will continue serving if
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you are the only one imagine right now packing your
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bags or rather for a season, for shot, maybe over
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ten days, going there in the community whereby it's so
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strange you're the only one constantly asking yourself did you
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hear wrongly? Did you listen to God correctly or not?
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And life of a faith is always like that, isn't it?
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That she shares scripture which really really resonated in my heart.
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Turn with me right now to accept the twenty was
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twenty four. I got, really got this scripture. This is
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my scripture for this year. If you don't know, it's
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twenty twenty four. This is twenty twenty four year, very
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easy to remember, but it starts off with this. But
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none of these things move me. None of these things
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move me. Paul right in the midst of the challenges
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in the midst of the trials, in the midst of persecution.
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You know, it's never easy when you know your life
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is a stick. It's never easy that you know your
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life people are coming out to get your life, people
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are coming out to kill you. It's now easy when
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you know where the pressures and stuff like that. It's
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almost not human not to think about it. You know that,
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you know that the possibility of you going to a
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particular city that people really wanted to go after you.
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You know, it's hard. You know, even right now some
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of us here got different challenges, is coming weak or
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rather work there needs to be done, and if you're
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honest enough, you're thinking about it, even though we don't
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want to think about it. But Paul rights in such
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a way whereby but none of these things move me,
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even though the danger is very real, the challenges is
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very real, and sometimes obstacle is so real, but it
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doesn't occupy his mind and his heart. It doesn't have
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a foothold, It doesn't rob his attentions, rob his focus
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on serving God. Because sometimes in our journey when we
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have an issue, first thing we drop is God right.
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But Paul wrote it in such way whereby yes, he
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acknowledged this thing is real. It is there could be
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waiting for me because it was ready tree right. The
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Holy Spirit reminds him confirmed to him there are trials
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and challenges coming waiting for him in the next city
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that he's going to go to. It's very real. But
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yet everything he said, but none of these things move me.
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I pray that we have the same spirit as Paul
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as well, that none of the life challenges that we
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are facing right now will rob us. We'll steal our tension,
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we will rob our devotion, we will rob our Bible
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reading time. None of these things will move you to
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a place whereby to say that God is not real.
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None of these things will cause it to come to
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a place whereby you doubt. Paul Is to write as well,
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no do I count my life dear to me, friends,
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until unless you re a place whereby knowing that no
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matter what happened to us, our future, our life, whether
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it's the present, right now or even the time, will
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we go home to meet with the Law and Savior.
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All that really doesn't help, you, know, because I'll anchor
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our our future, our life, our spirit is in the lot. Recently,
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this about last week, I think I went for Moses
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Francis week. Got to know this brother in church in
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homes PC for homes very interesting, you know, live journey
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of his and stuff that. But to go home to
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be the law at ah forty one, at forty one
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years old, God called him home and you know when
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we were at the Whek service, you know, we're just
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talking to some of his friends, some of his friends,
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what happened and this stuff like that, and he said
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that though for for a few weeks really that he
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had chest issues. He was supposed to go and see
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the doctor, and he did so the day that got
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called it home. He was on the way be painful
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this sided but get it checked out. Guy in his
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friend's arm. They were on the way to the hospital
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and you know he he breakfast last in his friend's
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car on the way to hospital. And everyone there was
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when the set of shot. Everyone at the weak of service.
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The mom was in tears were in the set of shot,
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like so young, you know, so much future even though
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let's say for the so much in front of him
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and stuff like that. But yet because the mom used
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to be a pastor, that used to be a pastor.
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The although absence in the body, meaning say that no
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longer here tears. Of course we miss him terribly, but
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yet knowing that his sperienced with the Lord, and that
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that is the future, that that is the anchor, that
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is a hope, and I was ourvation that death will
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not have victory. That's why Paul can write in such
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way wherebi, I do not count my life as valuable,
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and sometimes the word pitied as your life is really valuable.
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It's true that we have one life we need. There's
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no such thing as game over. We start pressing the
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butter we play again at level twenty five. There is
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no opportunity to do that in real life setting. But
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the question is not how the length of time. The
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question is how have we been living our life? Because
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can we be like Paul at no matter what stage
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of our life that God causes back, have we given
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out all to the Lord? Heavy self, empty ourself? God?
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If you ask me to go once a man into
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the community to do something, I'm willing to do that
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because at the end of the day, Paul say that,
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nor do I count my life dear to me. So
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what's dear to you, friend, is what's dear to you
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is what you hold onto. You know, it's very hard
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for it to release something that is when you gets
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hold of your heart. Sometimes we had a brother in
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our church, you know, broken up with his girlfriend for
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like ten over years, ten over years. Ready, But yet
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at the same time, you will be seen that once
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you wick up, ready, well, you're gonna get made in
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the future. It's gonna to keep anything for your pastler,
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it's not to keep presents from your past and stuff
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like that. And you know, but there is only a tumbler.
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Even it's only functionally, it still can be used. It's
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only a tumbler and stuff like that. I said, yeah,
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it's only a tumbler, But why is it so hard
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for you to let it go If it's only a
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tumbler still can use. I say, well, if you tell
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your future spouse that you know you're still keeping this
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tumbler because your eggs give it to you, I'm sure
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she very understanding, because it still can be used. They say,
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he got the Hitt revelation, keep them, took the thing,
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decided to go to the dust meet, and just decided
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to release it. Now, there's nothing wrong with the tumbler
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or anything like that. But yet at the same time,
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what's what's what you're also dear to you, so dear
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to us in our hearts is we're finding very hard
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to let go. That's why Paul wrote it in such
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a way whereby I do not come my life, that's
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dear to me. The more we hold onto our life tightly,
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the more harder for God to use us at the
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field we see. We want Christ to come into our life.
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We want the experience the goodness of God, the mercy
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of God. But yet at the same time God is
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asking us, that are you holding on to life so tightly?
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The Bible says it met chapter six, sicky first, the
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Kingdom of God. Friends. We all know the scripture, but
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there is the first thing first we need to do
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in our life. In our journey of faith, sicky first,
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the Kingdom of God. And many times in our journey
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of friends, we are always sicky last, the Kingdom of God,
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because we want, we want the Word is. Everything else
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has to be exhausted, for then only you return to
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the Lord. But God reminds us today, siky first, the
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Kingdom of God. And all these things should be added
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on to you. Friends. The challenge has always been that
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things drop us of our attention. That's why Paul did
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not give too much attention to the challenges he has.
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Because the more we think of our problem, the more
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we magnify, the more it consume us. Isn't it The
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more we think about something, the more it consumers Let's
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say you just got involved with the relationship and you're
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thinking about the person and everything of the but the
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person is always good, It's always nice. One. That's why
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I've been doing one of the question. We always ask
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free before they start dating. All right, they come and
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see us, they say, eld, we we're gonna start dating. Really,
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then you know it's always good. In the first journey,
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we need to say that everything is always very nice. One. Oh,
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she's so nice, he's so nice, he's so punctual. I've
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always lived for half and now it was so understanding,
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never school me. Yes, it take my time, right, all
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these things in the friends you understand. Okay, we've been
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in and out of love before. You understand, right, But
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yet we have to ask. But yeah, but how would
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it look like once you get married? Will you still
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say half an hour, no problem, take your time? Or
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across one minute you start you start to say you
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grab to the place on your own. I'll drive there
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right now. I cannot be late. We have one time,
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many years ago. We have a partner in our church.
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She has the sweetest of voice. She was twenty three
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years old, but her voice was like fifteen year old.
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And she can get away with murdered anytime and very nice. Yeah,
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actually can give you murdered that because she's she's pettit
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small sized. Right wherever she goes, she will get concession
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because she's still like a kid. Stage one time I
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think she was trenty three before with her colleagues after calase,
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they decide to go always says you know, uh to
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eat and stuff like that. They had meat and all
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the wine. The way to ask the Christie your I
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d please that kind of thing because against petite, small
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size and everything like that. So anyway, so uh, there
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was a guy saying, I really like her so much,
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her voice, her voice, He's so cute. So cute are you?
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I can hear every day? Oh man, So I have
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to explain in such a way. Yeah, what you like
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right now may not be what you like in the future.
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Right Let's say I say, for example, you get to
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hit the argument. I'm sure you go say, can you
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be more serious? But I am serious. You understand and
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try and say so what sometimes you holdt to think
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so dearly friends, So paul ask you us, don't don't
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hold onto your life so tightly that you cannot let go,
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you cannot move forward with the Lord. It says that,
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so that I may finish my race with joy. Friends.
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It starts with, really, what is it all about at
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the end of the day, At the end of the day,
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God always encourage every person to finish our race well,
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to finish our race well, not just to finish friends.
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Many people just want to finish a race, a race
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just yeah, I get to a race, I get to
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the finish like I'm a finisher where the T shirt
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probably and stuff like even though we now finish and
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stuff like that. We what, sorry, I'm not hit taking
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out anybody, all right, I do not know anybody and
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who went for one of those things, all right? You know?
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We the word is that we encourage people to end
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the race, finish well, finish well. But the Bible here
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says in X chapter twenty verse twenty four, friends, paul
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Us is asking us to finish the race. Race come
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on joy, to finish this life with joy. The only
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way you can finish this life with joy if it
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is that it's totally opposite, not so tightly, so dearly,
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so precious. This is all mind. Paul's asking us today, friends,
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not to finish our life, to come to a place
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whereby I finish, that's it, right, we get so angry people.
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You can get to a finish line and we get
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so angry with the people try to just in the
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position to get to get number one. You can get
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so angry people because someone trying to try to lay
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a trap in front of you. Right, you can finish
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a race with anger. You can finish a race with dispute.
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We can finish a race with bitterness and resentment. Or
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you can finish a race with joy, the Bible says,
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and joy friends come from a place whereby you know,
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if we've ever been in the race before, friends, it's
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very hard to smile when you just feel that your
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legs is going to give up. It's very hard to
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smile when you're just trying to get some air, trying
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to say, hey, I thought I can run. You ever
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put a pair of running shoes, pair of running shoes
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right in the mind. Right now you've asked you feel
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before how long? How far do you think you can run?
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I'm not sure how many of us you overestimate our ability,
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you know, right, Let's say, for example, majority I can
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run hungry meter without stopping right. In fact, we can
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only pass the meter after the meter away. Yeah crap,
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yeah but sorry. Even though Paul is facing prison, possibility
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of death in front of him, he can write this
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to the church. I don't count all this as important.
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Number one. Number two is that now do I hold
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my life dearly? Because I want to finish my race
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with joy. The only timement we can we can come
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to a place like Paul is to know that this life,
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this race that Paul is running, is not for himself.
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You can only finish the race with joy when you
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know that you're running this race for the Lord. Many
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times in the people's life and journey is that there
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is a target and achievement they want to achieve before
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they exit, which is true everyone. We want a particular lifestyle,
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we want to particular target, go for it. But there
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is a higher calling whereby God, this life, this breath,
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this life that you have given to me I want
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to learn it to live for you. That's why Paul
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can write I want to finish the race with joy,
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because at the end of the day, what really matters
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is serving you, doing your will, doing your purpose. Understand
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your purpose. While I'm here on earth many times is
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now journey. Friends. We try to explore so manything else
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we go from one job to another job. But the
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true satisfaction is this that knowing God, what is it
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that you want me to do? I can be placed
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in any company, I can place it in any field.
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For that matter, what is it that you want me
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to do? You can place me, you can bless me
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with X amount of money. But Lord, what is it
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that you want me to do? Because until unless you
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come to this place, God, here I am. Let me
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hear your voice, which you direct me? Would you lead me?
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You know when Girl ran back to Germany, he did
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not just want to settle down, and this attended church.
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Two may people by just settling down and not doing
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anything for Yep, nothing wrong with attending church. Nothing is
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wrong with just being part of a community of faith.
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But God, this life, they're all that you right now
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have given me. Of all the church you join, you
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decide to dry a church called X. Think about it.
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There's so many churches around, fantastic church around in claimorate.
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You decide to take this leap of faith to join us,
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not because you know acts exist, you know down the
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road and you're just so nearby. There's one kilometers away
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from your house. You could have after that, maybe after
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the first time here in church, you could be hearing
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new to church, maybe say this is not your church.
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But since you're a part of our church, our church
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is big in church planting. So you stick to a
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particular church because you believe in where God is being
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in the church too. Other churches they could be big
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in worship, right, and that's why everything every resources put
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towards a worship experience. Our church right now, we want
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to say that a maximum we want the church plan
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to go through is hunger and twenty people. Then you multiply,
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Then you multiply a hunger and twenty people, then you
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multiply homes. Once you've reached twelve, thirteen, forty, pray that
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you multiply. Don't come to a place where, oh I
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need to look for a bigger place. These days, not
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everyone has a big home. Majority of people have a
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small home, so we won't we prayed every home maximum
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is twelve after twelve, really think about multiplication because that's
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the desire right, so everyone can be part of a
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serving community. There is no there's no place, there's no
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such thing as I'm just here that people can serve me.
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We want everyone to hear, to be to explain what
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the myths to serve the Lord. So you're power of X.
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You know at X where you heard stories of people
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planting a church, people doing this. The biggest shock I
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get is that when visiting speakers come to our place,
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you mean you allow female female leaders in church. I say,
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I'll be dumb. I'm not if I don't allow them
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to serve because there's not enough man in our church. No,
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I say do enough man, Okay, I do not say
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they're not here. I just say that it's true right now.
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Don't say like lea like knocking my own guys down. Okay,
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look around us says they're they're more females in church
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than male. There's a natural fag it's a natural fact. Right,
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and say that you allow them to do communion. One
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of the this is you allow female to leave communion
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do you know that what Selena did today right to
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add another denomination? It's it's yeah, it's everything else like
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we are a cut like that. Right. But here's the thing, friends,
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here's the thing. It's not because we are liberal or
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anything like. We totally believe God empowers everyone to serve.
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Really got empowers everybody to serve Him at the end
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of the day. That doesn't look like just gender or
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you male female. Know, if you hear his war the
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Bible saying today, here's what don't harden your heart today?
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Here's what he did say today. Man, if you hear
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his woice, men, no, today we hear is what don't
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hadden in your heart? So God reminds us again and
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again what ex is all about? So you heard good
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and door is planting the age of sixty something friends?
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Never is it? They went back about year plus. Really
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they were praying for a place. They measure to find
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a place right now and next Saturday, next Sunday is
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going to be launched sixty something friends having to need
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to learn how to use Instagram. Not easy, friends, We're
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actually we are asking good, would you could you try
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to explore to talk because we are trying to reach
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people promote our things. Okay, we've released amount of costs. Right,
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use what's natural to what people looking at and try
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to promote something. And the only people with them that
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we know pasic pass Passesandra, do us a favor? What
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you teach good? How to use istar and TikTok? She said,
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what's TikTok? And she knows they talk about how to
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use it. I was like, passing the way very easy.
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But we send you a couple of videos. You look
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to it. Can you start filming? Okay, filming like you know,
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ask Good to do a welcome video. Okay, then you
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send back the video doors you do color correction. We
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send me back to them how to use how to
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use a handful to record good videos? So could you
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imagine at sixty plus sixty something having to learn all
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this out of your comfort zone that they so, you know,
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I'm staying with my dad. My dad, they so came
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up to me and said, you know what, I finally
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discovered that well, these days password is so secure capital alphabet.
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You gotta use new merrit special character. I look at
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my dad. There there is a standard requirement for all passwords,
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is it? I said, yeah, But at that age trends.
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I'm try trying to say, ad age at the age,
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at that age, learning all this brand new world right now,
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it's not easy about us like O Killer. It's normal
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for us to step password. It's normal for you instagraming.
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You don't even know five minutes looking at it. How
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high could he be? Right? Just but at that age
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having to learn all this steep learning curve, steep learning curve,
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to learn all this, but yet Paul says that I
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want to finish my race with joy. And that's what
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God and they always wanted to do, to finish their
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race with joy, to finish their race knowing that my
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purpose here on earth is to do the will of
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the Father and to finish his work. He did not
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just want to go back to a place whereby I
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want to reach out to my family members. I want
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to go back to impact my nation. I want to
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go back to impact my nation. I'm not sure where
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you are with your journey right now, but I pray
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that you allow God your time with ex to speak
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to you, and God excite you and just say, God,
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I have this life. I may not have much, but
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would you use me or not? Passapala did not allow
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his health issue to stop him from serving the lot
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at the field, did not allow him, did not do
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not allow his heart issue. And if you have done
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all this massive heart issue, the first thing that always
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come to our mind is every bit of pain. Now
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you thought, this is your last breath? Ready, if you
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understand every each insight that part of the area here,
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it's all like, is this my last? Worst part is
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if you wear all of those smart watches, it shows
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your heart rate one every time your hurry goes up,
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because like my hurry is right uretic. Sometime I get
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one sixty eight of random blue, sometime I get thirty
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four or something that. So every time you read something,
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your mind just go extremely over over work because is
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this my last breath? But the Bible here is this possy.
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I want to end my race with joy. The only
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time you can end your race, you enjoy knowing that
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who you're running for? Come on, who are you running for?
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Who are you running for? This race of life? It
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is for yourself. Because Paul did not allow himself to
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be exalted. Paul did not allow himself to be exalted.
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Relations Chapter two Wards twenty Relicious Chapter two Wards twenty.
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You know the scripture. A lot of people, preachers appreciate
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on it. But two twenty states this, I've been crucified
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with Christ. Come on, i have been crucified with Christ.
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So Paul wrote, wrote in such a way. But his
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life is no longer his anymore. His life right now
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is nil to the cross, and that was the Cross
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is the one that determines how he should live, not
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based on what he thinks, what he feels like, what
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the economy say. But God, if you ask me to go,
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I would go. That's what being crucified is no longer
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I who live. No, no, no, my priority is no
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longer Why I think it is. That's why Vision Conference
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is good for Christians, because it really reminds us the
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value of what we have, the impact, what we could do.
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Since the say fifty ring gig does go a long
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way for the teachers in interior Saba. That's why their
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paper month fifty fifty. If some of us here our
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lunch is fifty. I'm not knocking people who are lunch
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at fifty. No, no, I'm not knocking nothing at all.
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Nothing nothing to do with knocking people. But the value
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value what we could do with it isn't it amazing?
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As a church, we could make and make a sorry.
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We support to missionaries in China, show the affiliate missions
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organization their survival. I think from one month it's only
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about very little calculators about thousands ring it. They go
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from city religious to religious, not a lot. But yet
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at the same time I look at it, well, first
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of all, when we're right organ this amount, how to survive,
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how to survive with the amount, But there's not the idea.
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I just ask you for that amount. That's it. And
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first I want to let you know it goes a
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long way. So it's no longer I who live, but
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Christ who lives in me. Friends, it's not about emptying
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your life, no becoming zen and stuff like the Bible
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says Christ who lives in me, Christ empowered life, his priority,
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becoming your priority, his mission, becoming your mission. Christ lives
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in Me is not a tagline we put on a
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car or a T shirt. Christ living in Me just
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means that God, I want to live out your conviction
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here on earth. There's a lot of believers, but two
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little disciples. A lot of people say they believe in God,
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but not enough disciples. Disciple just means this God, wherever
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you go, I will go. The Bible says, take up
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the cost and follow me. A lot of people are
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just having an expression of faith. Really nothing wrong with
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expression of faith, but no Christ conviction. Christ living in
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me means living out Christ's conviction here on earth. Many times,
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our journey friends, we are very contented by just going
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to church, maybe giving some money. But yet there has
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to be more. That's why Paul cat right, I want
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to finish my race with joy, because at the end
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of the day, what really matters is that pleasing God
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is my number one priority. Paul could write in such
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a way, we're boy to fish racis joy. And the
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ministry which I received from the Lord to finish my
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risk of joy and the ministry I received from the Lord, friends,
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is what Paul writes, and encourage the people to live
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out the way as well. So back to relationship to
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two twenty, it says as well, but the Christ, but Christ,
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listen with me. The life which now I live in
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the flesh, the life with now I live in the flesh.
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I live it by faith in the Son of God
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who loves me and give himself to me. I live
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it by faith. And this is how I'm going to
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close and only still start a point about one or
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my introduction. I'm so sorry I I the PC when
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you ask me, you know the one message you want
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to preach and stuff that. I'm so sorry that I
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was at the breakfast earlier on I gave them my
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slights and just before I went now, I just felt
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God just say, can you take your like just track
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it out the window. I have pologized to breakfels. I
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said this tart go, no slide, but just allow me
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just to share something with you all, because you know,
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I look at them and God just wants to remind
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them of that their shepherd, and this morning they want
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to remind example, remember remember what what's it all about?
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Remember what's it all about? So Christ? List in me
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Christ conviction, living in me, Christ conviction, living the life
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that I live in the flesh right now. I live
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it by faith. For us to experience Christ conviction, for
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us to experience Christ here on earth, for us to
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know that we're living out Christ conviction is to live
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out by faith by faith. I'm alshore, how many oversightens
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for missions? By pray that you have selm for missions?
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There are a lot of openings. This that we are
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opening a bit more thanks to Past France in Indonesia,
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opening up a few more places for to go to
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or there, you know, without the church in the cars.
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See we will make an impact into the smaller place
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in Percambaro whereby strange and weird things are happening, you know,
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and stuff like that. So measured by baby's milk for
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marinarwish kids up in Pacambaro and this stuff like that.
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As a church, the impact of the global impact, what
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we could do Pass of France and and and and
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the whole team are doing that. Karawachi is a church
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plan that started Indonesia. They are very small. They're only
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like maybe a quarter of your need, maybe about twenty
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plus thirty. But financially as a church they're doing very well.
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They're very blessed because again the city and because the
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God has better financially they have been such a blessing
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blessing to the different parts of the church. Out from
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their collection they give it to pass of France, do
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what you need to do, set up the church in
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different places. Out from that they also give them Memma mema.
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Right now Passau Sam Road to earth, say that it's
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very hard. It's where I had to buy patrol, where
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you had to buy patrol up in Memma. Kill a
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couple of This is a couple of litters only not
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only that. The most recent news that regard from him
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is this is that every every meal under said the age,
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you have to serve the military, and your brother said
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the issue, you have to do something else for the military.
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So right now they are in this place. Right now
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they say, we don't there's some of us don't there
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to go out from outside from our our surroundings too far.
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We might go up but never return back. So say,
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please pray for us, Please pray for us, that our
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fifth Continity remains strong in the midst of these challenges.
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And this is right there, sending sending, sending news to
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us about what's happening over there and stuff like. He
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said that our country to allow people to leave. No
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one can leave the country right now. We want to
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would remain in. But say, please pray for us. Aren't
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you glad that you know that we at least have
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someone on the ground the updating us and we can
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pray as a church. Not much, friends, I'm not sometimes
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when when we transfer money over to Memmo. We're not
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We're not even sure, like you know how safe we
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did for you to withdraw money for you. So we
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as a church, as a church, you heard for passenger.
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We the Global Church together with Malaysia. We brought him
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a second hand. We could to very people to church.
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So when he STI when I was talking about I
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say that how would he withdraw money? And where would
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he keep it? When you want to buy something or
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it's not like how is the system working? Like oh
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here right you bank bank bank transfer right or something
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like that. But in the midst of all the curuses happening,
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how when does he how does he do to the things?
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But by the grace of God, you say that, you know,
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because he reports us the people were robbed, people were
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killed and stuff like that. Here we say God up
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protect him. He mentally he bought the viker. He bought
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the viker for every people the church. Right now, there's
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no patrol, no patrol, no patrol to drive the vehicle.
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So careful a couple of this, just a couple of
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litters of patrol, that's what they're in. But as the
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chance you can pray amen as a change you can
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pray as I close right now, friends, you can live
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it by faith. There are people that we know right
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now who are living their conviction by faith out on
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the fields, out there literally holding onto every word of God,
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every word of the law. Said. This is so key
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for us. But yeah, there's some of us say Heaven,
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take yourself of faith. I pray that this is in
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God before their ends. Help me to express my conviction
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by faith. Help me to express this life that I
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have by faith, not holding on so tightly, so dearly,
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but really to please God in all that we do.
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The I think of the most heartbreaking thing is that
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the time with God calls her home heavy with help,
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with help. Now, I'm not asking you us to reside
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go to the mission field unless you know you heard
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God spoke to you so clearly and double comfort me
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with your chich leaders know. I'm asking that you know
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us to consider living by faith the God this year. So,
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there was a new mom and the son that came
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to x men Drain a couple of days ago. She
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found us on church. She found us Google soorr I
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found goo Google us by faith again. She came up
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to her place, she visited us, She likes it. She said,
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finally I found my home in Malaysia. Sun studying here.
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But she knew her as Simon friends mainland Chinese. But
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she feels that she she knows that not coming to
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church is not enough. Coming to church is not enough.
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She takes it upon the color of got a lot
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on alive to reach out to everyone in her condominium block,
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condominium block. So last Saturday, I believe last SA day.
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It was yesterday. Yesterday, she invited about ten of the
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people she reached out to from China. They all camere
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because of churious education. They decided going out take together
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with the homies. She knew that friends, if coming, cannot
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be just coming to Malaysia for my churist education. It
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has to be more than there. Right now we call
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our faithful regulation. It's just coming to hear this, the
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words taking a step out of faith and this even
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though I'm a foreign land, you know, like what Paul
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writes or not, I'm not gonna allow this to stop
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me from serving you. Ivangualism is much in it everywhere
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we go. I did come my life daily. Sometimes we
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say a weep with rejecteds. Okay, I'll move on but yes,
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she's so gung ho and she's just wanted you to
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reach out to the neighbors. This is people of the
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love of Jesus tell telling people what Jesus done in
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her life, even though she was she'sed from a country
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that persecure Christians. As I close right now, friends, I
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pray for all of us here. Really, at the end
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of the day, we can really like poor. None of
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these things really matter. The physical stuff, yes, it's good,
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it's important. We need all those but that's not the
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life goal. Life goal is really to know God and
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to do his real.
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