First to Prayer, than to Missions-Elder Terence Atkinson

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First to prayer, then to missions. You know that nothing

can be achieved without prayer. I mean, do we pray

for everything that we do? I mean, do we pray

for everything that we do? Honestly we should because you know,

God's in the business of making you succeed. God's in

the business of giving you answers this week. This week,

I had a task to do for the ministry, which

was to put up a magnetic security door lock system

in the peak in Subunjaya. Now I am not an

expert in this, neither have well you know, neither am

I a practiced installer of these kind of things. But

you want to know something. When that kind of situation

comes before me, I go to that great installer and

his name is Jesus, and I say, God, I don't

know how to do this, but you do. Can you

give me ideas? And then what I do is I

keep quiet and I listen, and you know, I can

almost hear when I say almost here, because it's not

really a voice, it's just something in your heart. You

feel that it's talking to you. It tells you to

do this, and then do this, and then do this,

and step by step. You know, it doesn't come as

one plan. But as you do one thing, the next

thing is revealed, and as you do the next thing,

the next thing revealed, and before you know it, it's done.

And then you stand back and you look at this

thing and you say, my word, how did I do this?

It looks so good, better than the installers would do

it because you can't see the wires. It's all hidden.

You know, you didn't damage the tiles. You just gonna

break everything, make holes in the world. God is good

and I did it, and I'm very happy. You see.

God speaks to me this way because I bother to

ask him. Do we take the trouble to ask the Lord?

Do we take? You know? The light is not working?

Is our first response? Going call the repairment? Have you bothered?

To ask God? God? What's wrong? Can you help me?

And then an idea will come. Go to the main

switch box and you open it and you see, but Lord,

everything is on. Then he will tell you turn them

off and on one by one, and you will realize

one of them is faulty. It appears to be on,

but it's not. Then you go and call the electrician

and then you know he only changed that one part.

Charge you for the one part, and it's okay. Otherwise

he will tell you you have a big short sucking

in the house. It's going to cost you two thousand

dollars to fix it, and you will say, okay, do it.

You pay the two thousand dollars. Then what he does

is he goes and buys the one who is fix it.

It's working. You are happy, He's happy. God will answer

your prayer. I'm speaking to you about the things I know,

because you see, I ask Him for everything, so he

gives me answers Matthew twenty eight, nineteen to twenty. Now

we're get to the message. What has all that got

to do with missions? You'll see? Go therefore and make

disciples of all the nations? Did the Bible say some

of the nations? All the nations? I heard yesterday two

new terms YOUPG unreached people groups, and there's another one

you PG, which I can't remember is of now. But

I learned this term, and it means strictly a kind

of people that exist, but no connection has even been

made with them. So there are those people whom connection

has been made with them. Okay, they're reached people, but

they haven't been shared the gospel. And they are those

people who have not been rich and have not been

shared with the gospel. So you know the two kinds

of people. But the Bible says, go therefore and make

disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name

of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe some of the things that I've

told you. You see, we live sometimes with our own

understanding of scripture, and you know, our own understanding of

scripture limits us because we think that we're not good enough.

So we will share some of what we learn. But

Scripture here says sharing and teaching them to observe all

things that I've commanded. You do you know that you

are only responsible. I am only responsible up to that

point of the stuff which God has taught me. I'm

not responsible for the things I do not. No, I'm

not responsible for the scripture. I haven't learned the meaningful yet.

But I am responsible to teach to everyone everything that

the Lord has shared with me. That is my responsibility,

that is our responsibility. Observe all things that I've commanded you,

and lo I am with you always, even to the

end of the age. Amen. Does doing or does doing

always make us successful? When you do something, does it

make you successful? Does doing always make you successful? The

Bible says, going into the world, you go into the world,

does it always make you successful? Have you asked? You

said that question? If anybody ask yourself this question? Does

doing ever make you successful? Sometimes? It does, but not always?

But you see, are we satisfied with just succeeding some

of the time? Or do we want to succeed all

of the time? You see, God loves to use this

word all teaching them all that abserlves You know, you

want to get more gift all you want to get

more revelation, whatever relevant revelation you get, share it men,

give it away. If you give that revelation away, you

get more room for more revelation to come. But why

would God want to give you anything if you're not

going to do anything with what He is given you?

You know, I love to walk. I just love to walk.

When when I was young, younger, I stayed about you know,

I stayed in this place called Taman Chilu. That's in

Klang by the way, and it's about five six kilometers

from the town. And that time, noka okay, I was,

you know, in my early my late teens. So I

have to take the bus. But the thing about me

was I was very impatient to wait for the bus.

So when the bus comes from kl from my work

and drops me at the Clang bus station, say, I'm

not waiting for the bus to take me to my housemen,

I'm walking home. Walk home. Whether the other bus reached

before me doesn't matter, but I need to do something.

I cannot sit still, so I walk home and I

always used to thank God as I'm walking back. I

will always think and say, no, God, I thank you

that I can walk. I praise the Lord that I

have this ability to move. Do you know that when

we worship God, do you see me standing like a

block of wood? Do you see me? Or do you

see me trying to move from side to side? You know,

dance a little bit, praise the Lord because I can't jump.

If I jump, then you would the ground would crack,

you know that kind of thing. So I try and move.

You know why, because if God is going to give

mobility to someone. He will give mobility to the one

who's willing to move and dance before him. Why would

he give mobility to somebody who's not going to use it. Hey, guys,

you praise and you worship the Lord. Your children are

watching you, so you know my wife and me, we're

really into the Lord. We're praising the d You haven't

seen me dance before the Lord. Okay, when I dance

before the Lord, I spin and I'm moving, and by

the time the worship is over, I'm drenched with sweat.

I haven't done it here, but trust me, I've done

it in church many times. You know why when my

children see me dance before the Lord and praise and worship,

what am I teaching them to do? I'm teaching them

to dance before the Lord. I'm teaching them not to

be Caius. In those of you that may not understand,

not to be blocks of wood or right, not to

be stone statues, I am teaching them to move left

or right. I assure you, if you are the sort

of person that doesn't really dance before the Lord, and

when worship is going you move like this, your children

will move like this and they are children will not

move because what if you thought them you've taught them

to guard your face? You know I looked ridiculous, I

looked silly. I looked horrible. When I'm dancing before the Lord.

I mean, you know, you come with a shed and tire.

Next thing you're drenched in sweat, your sweat teeths. You

know you stink up the place. You've really given you

all before the Lord. But you know, was I saving

my face? Was David saving his face when he danced

before the Lord? No, because if we are willing to

lose our face before the Lord to glorify his name,

God will always keep us in his face. So does

doing always makes successful well the task? There are some

tasks involved in Mattew twenty eight. It says what go?

It says go. You know the only time you're not

going is when you don't get out of your house.

The moment you step out of your house, you qualify

you go. How many of you are not from Malaysia?

Can I see a show hands? That's about ten percent?

How many of you are not from the state of

Slango or will liar? We Lia is not a state,

But never mind, we'll just throw it in Okay. So

about fifty percent of you and not from here, you qualify.

You know, you qualify for Mattew twenty eight because the

Bible says, go. If you were there past the palins

session yesterday, he said, many Malaysians made a lot of

fuss about the Palestinians being brought here to Malitia. Right,

you know what he said? Why do you do that?

Because God has given you to touch a people group

that under no other circumstance would you have access to.

But God has done it. Oh, what a way to

look at things. What a perspective. So you say you've

got nothing. Hey, you're here in Malaysia. You qualify. You go,

That's right, you go. Those of you from another state,

you're here, you qualify. Go? Then what about all those

poor people that are living here? In slangor and care?

Have I forgotten you? No? Are you at home now? No,

you're here in church, far away from your home, far

away from your house. Guess what you qualify? Go? So

Scripture says to go and do what make disciples? You

know what is making disciples? Making disciples is teaching someone

else what you yourself have learned. Were you asked to go?

To Bible school. First, were you asked to come out

with a theological degree first? You see many of us

give this kind of excuse, Oh, we're not qualified. No,

you are more than qualified. You know why, because you

accepted the Lord. I mean I shared with you, so

you know I haven't shared with you the other testimonies

where I had a colleague in the office, and every

day I would just tell her what I knew about

the Lord. And one day asked her, do you want

to know Jesus? She said, yes. You know what I did?

I said, go home and think about it. I did

not beat into the Salvation press straight away. You know why,

because that revelation in her heart I knew was true.

I don't need to be like some salesman to catch

the seal because I knew that God was. What God

was doing in her heart was real. And she came

back the next day and I said, do you still

want to accept the Lord? Yes? Then I prayed for her.

There was another girl and she I don't know why

I share it, ladies the Lord, but you were my colleagues.

Like what am I supposed to do? Ignore them? No,

she was abused when she was young, so she did

not trust men, and the one that abused her, if

I'm not mistaken, was an uncle. And I shared with her,

and for her to trust the guy was kind of strange,

don't you think, because she didn't trust men. But I

just shared with her what I knew. What did I know?

Jesus loves you. It wasn't your fault. You were just

a kid. And you know what, in spite of that,

he is ready to accept you because he has always

loved you and he's been waiting for you to know him.

That's all all that I knew at that time. Do

you want to receive Jesus? She said yes. Today, she's married,

her son has graduated from university. Wow, she's born again Christian.

She loves the Lord. She's delivered what I knew I shared.

Do you know that is discipleship? Because when will the

time come that you will stop learning? Is there a

time when you can say I know everything? Is there

a time when you say I've arrived at this point

in time? Now I'm ready to share? Because now I

know if you say that, then you've limited and put

God in us small box because you're saying God, you're

not big enough. So I can know you completely. Hey,

you and I must realize that God is so big,

is so wide, He's so great, He's so glorious. We

will never be able to put the knowledge of God

in a box that says we know it all make disciples.

Then the Bible says, to baptize that you know, baptized.

Can I be honest with you? I never used to

think so much about baptism because I was baptized as

a baby. But how many you know that that don't

come being baptized as a baby. Don't come. You know

why because that was not your decision. You had no

say in the matter. But I've come to realize that

baptism is important because baptism is important for you to

realize that you have declared to the whole world. I

have decided to follow Jesus. And you have heard many,

many stories about how people say, I don't mind my

children accepting the Lord, but baptize. No, because baptize is

like the end of their old life, which it is

even they understand it. And lastly, teaching them is not

lastly for the message O case, so still reaccess someone

to go, but teaching them, So what do you teach

I'm not a teacher. You're not a teacher. We're not

a teacher. That what we say. As long as your life,

whether you realize it or not, you are teaching somebody

because everybody is looking at us, and everybody is watching us,

and we are teaching them. We can either teach them

right or we will teach them wrong. Your kids, who

they're learning from, long before they go to school, they've learned.

So when you when a kid misbehaves, do you blame

the kid? Parents have to take responsibility. So just doing

always make you successful? Is there something more to just doing? So?

Scripture has said go into the world and preach the gospel.

So all of us go into the world and preach

the gospel, teaching them what we know. But if we

do that just because God has said it that way,

will we see a complete measure of success. I had

a task fix this magnetic lock. If I just did

it without going to the lorder, it would look like

everybody else's work whire is here. Why is they're dangling everywhere?

How horrible is that? Don't you think when it's so untidy?

How many of you have asked workmen to come to

the house They get the job done. Everything works, but

it looks horrible. Why not? Oh, come in fix the

water heater? The follow will come. Put one pipe that

runs all there. You can see into your watery it works?

Does it look good? No? Well do you know that

Jesus also had something for earth to learn? And this

is what it is. Let's look at Acts one, verses

four and five. And after being assembled together with them,

he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to

wait for the promise of the Father, which he said,

you have heard from me. For John truly baptized with water,

But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not

many days from now. How many of you are builders?

How many are engineers? Any engineers in the house? No engineers?

Any project managers in the house, anyone ever handling projects

on it? No project managers of my work? One one? Okay, okay?

Care I ask you this question. If you have you

don't know this answer, something is wrong. How many of

you have heard of a mission statement? Oh? No, every

company or mission statement? Right? Mission statement? What was your

mission statement as a believer going into the world and

preach the gospel to all missions? We got a mission statement?

But how many of us know. Hey, you in architecture,

so you're familiar with this, right, And how many of

you know and I'm sure you know this that a

mission statement always comes with a method statement. Do you

know what is a method statement? Have you heard of

this term? Method statement? No, the mission is to learn.

The mission is to drive a car. What is the

method statement? Go to a driving school. The mission is

to fill the glass with hot water. What is the

method statement? Put water in the can, go and boil it.

The mission is to bake a cake. What is the

method statement? Get the flag, get the eggs, get the sugar,

put it together, mix it, put it in the oven.

At three hundred and for eighteen minutes. You got a cake.

You get it. Do you know that Jesus gave us

a method statement? What was the method statement? Hey, I've

given you a mission, but you are not to do

it alone. You are to go to Jerusalem and you

are to wait till you are baptized with the Holy Spirit.

And I think you already know where I'm coming with this,

but I'm still not going to end the message of us.

You're stuck with me. It means that we are not

to go and do it on our own, because if

we do it on our own, the journey will be

longer and the fruit will be much less or not

at all, because there's a mission and there's a method,

and we always forget, or I wouldn't say we always forget,

but we rarely remember that there's something we have to

do in order to fulfill Matthew twenty eight. What was

that we have to rely on the power that the

Holy Spirit is going to give us. In Acts one eight,

it says, but you shall receive power when the Holy

Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses

to me in Jerusalem and in Judea, and in Samaria

and to all the ends of the earth. Hey, if

you and I are to have an impact on all

the nations, the Holy Spirit must be involved. Because the

Holy Spirit is not involved, it's not going to happen.

Because the Bible says Jesus himself says, and you shall

be my witnesses when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

You see, it's not enough to say you're a policeman.

You go out on the road and you put your

hands up to stop the traffic, and the next day

the news reads man flattened by vehicle. But if you

put the badge and the white glove and you put

up your hand, the eighteen wheeler trailer will stop in

its tracks because you're powerful. No, because you put on

the power of the authority of the badge and the glove.

But for Christians, what is it? It's the Holy Spirit.

It's the Holy Spirit. Why do I pray? And I

ask God, God, I got to do this? Ask what

am I going to do? I'm relying on the power

of the Holy Spirit. And he starts to speak to

me and gives me ideas and ideas and ideas and

man alive. It's so amazing. I've never done this before.

Do you know that I learned new skills when I

was doing that thing. I've never before used the rivert

and I did it. I never before used my metal

drill bit and drilling metal in metal to hide wires

inside metal, but I did it. These are new skills.

You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem when the

Holy Spirit has come upon you. Why do you know

that to every given task there is how to? And

sometimes we wonder all witness missions be going on missions.

But God never asked you to go without help. He's

given us that help. That help is the power the

Holy Spirit. How many of us have asked, Holy Spirit,

come and help me to go out and share Missions

Sometimes is not just going to do what you think

you've been called to do. Missions is sometimes going out

to the field and just obeying what they tell you

to do. The first time that I did go on

and overseas mission Strip was to Karawachi. You know what

we did. We sold clothes. That was the mission. The

mission was to sell used clothes, you know why, to

gain money to put underprivileged children to school, and in

doing that we could speak to the parents about Jesus.

So sometimes missions may not be exactly what we think

it is. But when we are called the mission, feel

we have to do and be obedient to what we're

being told to do. What's our responsibility? Realize that there's

a how to go to the Holy Spirit get that help.

He will help you go. He will help you do.

You know, God helps and equips us to do what

He has instructed us to do. You think it's I

think it would be really terrible of God say go

on missions and you just go and find your own way.

God's not like that. How many of us in the

office have we experienced somebodys go and do it and

doesn't teach us how I've experienced that when I was

in Pizza Hut, go and do this report. You need

to give it to me by the fifth of every month.

Have I used a computer before? Never have I ever

seen that time? He was lotus one to three, the

old version of Excel. Never before have you used I

only know how to press the button to turn it on. Hey,

guys that time computers are very expensive, okay, not anybody

had access to it, you know. And these guys in

Singapore they eat reports for breakfast, So fifth of fifth

of every money, the reports don't come and the world

has ended. That's how it was. You know what was

the first thing? And it was so stressed out the

first man. You know what what I had to do.

I added on the calculator. They can put the number in.

You think that's funnier. You know how many restaurants I

had to do it for at that time, four restaurants

and with delivery home deliveries eight core centers. Adding with

the calculator and putting in the column. I knew that

was wrong. Man, I knew it was wrong, so I

asked God. I said, God, this is not the right

way to do it. Can you help me? Will you

help me? Holy Spirit? I need your assistance. I went

asleep that night and in my sleep something dropped in

It really dropped, you know, like something dropped from the chair,

like dropped in head dunk. I got up in the morning,

It's like I could see everything. Oh. I got on

my motorbike and I sped from Klang to PJ Section fourteen.

Put the bike in rent to the computer. I mean,

I really ran to the computer to test out what

I saw in my head. And I saw something very simple.

Two baskets and a third basket. Put some fruit in this,

put some fruit in that basket. And if you would

take this fruit and this fruit and put it in

the third basket, what would you do? This plus this

equals that I tried it and it worked, and my word,

my mind exploded in a thousand different directions. There was

a report that would take me two weeks to do

because it was a manual report. Immediately that morning, I

completely did a whole worksheet to do that two weeks

work in two hours. And he didn't stop there. God

kept opening my mind. When one month we opened another

four restaurants and another four course centers, and I called

a guy, Hey, you got to program it in the

in our accounting software. He said, I'm sorry, I'm not here.

I'm in Hong Kong. I cannot come. Say. You know

this head office people right, they will starve if they

don't get the report. He is sorry, I cannot help you.

So you know what I did? I say, God, you

gotta help me. What am I supposed to do? I

can give half of the report in Excel and then

the hard other half of the report handwrite it. How

am I going to do that? How am I going

to get the figures? I cannot get the You're gonna

help me, I promise you. The Holy Spirit speaks to you.

I went to the computer and a word came command,

So I typed in the word command. Have I ever

done programming? Never in my life? I told you what.

I have no access to a computer, and the Lord

and I kept hearing in the Lord command and this,

and I pressed, and all of a sudden, codes came out,

codes and codes, And I'm telling me the truth. I

could read it. Somehow I understood it. You know what

I did. I used those codes and I continued at

the end, and I started typing, used the original. I

started typing, and I changed keywords, and I type, and

I time and I time, and then the Lord showed

me how to end. End. What I did was I

printed out that SOSK. I printed out everything that I

had done on pages and pages of printed paper. Those

days are you know the paper thing. I don't know

how long it took to pray in. But then there's

another machine, which I'm sure many of you don't realize.

You have you heard of a fax machine? Oh? Okay,

I'm glad I'm not that old. Okay, So I now

took these people. It was still in the long sheet,

and I faxed the whole thing to this guy in

Hong Kong, and I said, you read it? He read it,

and he said, where did you learn this? It took

me a long time to learn to do this. How

did you manage to do it? I said, firstly, is

it corragna? He said, yes, it is. I said, well,

you don't help me, my God will. And you know what,

it worked from the first button. God is able to

do fantastic things for you. If you will believe. So,

now you're trusting God for somebody's soul, you mean to say,

He's not gonna answer. He is more interested in that

soul coming to know him than you are, because he

has known that person from the time that person was

formed in the womb. You only that person or know

that person from the time you've met that person. Who

has a greater desire for someone to come to the Lord?

If it's not Jesus. And you mean to say, if

you ask him, he's not going to give to you,

you better believe he will. How many of you here

do not have family members who are saved? Can I

searsh your hands? Do you think that's the end of

the story. Well, my Bible says, and your Bible says

that you and your household will be saved. Am I

to believe what you say or what the Bible says?

Oh they cannot, Oh they will not. Hey, when my sister,

she had Jesus with me here for four years, I

fought her. I was mean to her. I was a

wretched brother. And you know what, I became a Christian

because the Lord spoke to my year. God is able.

You sow you reap after I became a Christian. My

brother gave me a hard time, the same way the

hot time I gave my sister, This brother gave me

hard time. He was wretched to me. You know what,

the friends that his classmates, whom I brought to the

Lord shared with him, and he became a Christian. Isn't

that funny? Then he goes and shares with my friend.

You must remember he is one year older than me,

so we are in the same school, and you cannot

run away from people that we know are h So

he shares with my classmate, and guess what, my classmate

becomes a Christian. And then you see, God is so kinder.

My youngest brother is a loving person. Nobody can be

angry with him. You will just love him if you

meet him. And those of you who are just getting married,

and if you go to see me, c for that

minister to marry or guess what, he's my brother because

he's a pastor. Now. So that classmate of mine whom

my brother shared with, shared with him and he became

a Christian. Isn't that wonderful? How God works? Is it impossible?

You may think so, but it's not. Ask the Holy

Spirit to every given task is how to and God

will equip you doing that. God wants you to succeed.

God doesn't want you to feel and you think you

and Iyeboth think, oh, you know, we've shared with them

a million times, they not come to the Lord. God

will say, go and share with them a million and

the first time now is the day. You've done it

your way? Now do it mine? People I shared with you,

that person would not accept the Lord. And I ask

the Lord, Lord, you're telling me to go and share

with him? What do I share with him? Badminton? Badminton?

Who would ever think that badminton will open somebody's eyes

to receive the Lord? But you see, God is all wisdom,

So will you ask him? So you are afraid to

go on missions, You and I were afraid to go

on missions. We are afraid to share with people we

don't know. Let me tell you, it's people whom you

know that give you the hardest time. It's people whom

you know are that rarely listen to you. But you know,

it's a lot of people whom you don't know. The

moment you talk to them about Christ for some reason

and they will say, yes, you know why an annoying thing.

You are obeying the Holy Spirit by going to a nation.

So those of you that have come from overseas here

to Malaysia, who's that person you're going to share with?

Who's that person who's going to come to the Lord

because you are here? Do you know that that will happen?

More than you think. I went from here to Singapore.

More people came to the Lord in Singapore than they

did over here. Why because the Singaporeans the want to

listen to the Singaporeans. They want some joker from Malaysia. Yeah.

Do you know that there was one guy cousin who's

from here and over there. You know he accepted the

Lord there in Singapore. God has got a lot of wisdom.

I donnot know why he didn't. It didn't happen here,

but it happened there. God wants you to succeed. So

this week, go and share with that love one. What

do you share? Jesus loves you? Before you share Jesus

loves them, why not you tell them you love them?

Mam Dad, I've never said this to you before. I

want you to know I love you and I love

you very much. And if you are like my parents,

from the old school. They will firstly ask you something wrong?

Are you having some kind of terminal illness? Because the

first time I told my parents then huh there was

a look of shocking face. Ha ha er he is

everything okay? Is something wrong? Then I just went I'm dead.

This is how I talk to them. I'm dad. What's

the point of me telling you I love you when

you're not here? When you're gone? And then I'm crying

to myself. I should have told you. I should have

told you. You're here now. So I'll tell you now

and I will not live a life of regret. That

was twenty years today from parents who never say they

love you now. They always tell me terens, I love

you very much. That feel good old school parents. You know,

father is ninety two years old, mother is eighty eight

telling their children their son there they are, sixty three

year old, son, I love you very much. Wow, Go

and speak to them that brother that's still who's been

fighting you. No need to fret. Just go and tell

him you know what. I love you. They'll ask you

what's all this about? You? Just say, you know, in

spite of whether we agree or we disagree, I just

know this. I want you to know you or something

special to me. You will break eyes like you have

never seen. Trust the Lord. He's able to. He wants you.

He is more interested in your success than you even know.

And you know what that God thinks big. God thinks

really big. You know you know why God thinks big.

He's using you? Am I mean for him to use us, sir?

He must really think big. Ray. Not because if he

thought smaller, he wouldn't use us. He used somebody else.

But because he really thinks we're special, he's willing to

use us. Do you know that? That's how God thinks

of you and me. He thinks we're really really special

that he would use somebody wretched like me to share

his word. You know, I look at myself, say God,

something is wrong with your eyes? Man? Then he'll tell me, no,

something is wrong with yours. You got to see yourself

like I see you. When he saw Gideon, he didn't

see Gideon, the coward threshing wheat behind the wine press.

What did he tell Gideon? You mighty man of Vella?

You see God sees us with his eyes, and he

sees us big. There's so many opportunities for missions coming up?

Do you see yours? Do I see myself as someone

big enough as God sees us? Because if we see

ourselves like how God sees us, ain't no problem in

no worry. So how does the Holy Spirit do this?

And we'll be getting to something very interesting? The helper

and John fourteen twenty six is but the help of

the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.

He will teach you all things you are supposed to

teach everybody what some things? All things? And how do

you know all things? Scripture? Says the Holy Spirit. He

will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance

all things that I've said to you, to all things.

It's the Holy Spirit who teaches us all things. And

this is the all things we are supposed to teach

the Nichans. And how does he help us? He brings

to memory all things that what I have said to you.

If there's any reason for you and me to read

our Bible and to learn scripture, is because what you

put in he will bring to memory and put out.

You see, if we don't get it in our head,

if we don't even read it once, all right, the

Holy Spirit has got very little to work with. Read

your word? What does scripture say? He will bring to

your remembrance all things that I've said to you. I

am very bad when it comes to quoting scripture, because

if you ask me the scripture and where it is found,

I know the scripture is there, but I can never

remember the the verse. Praise God for all the you

know online apps, But you want to know something. God

always brings to mina that verse. And when He brings

to mind that verse, even as I prepare for you,

I go in and I can find the scripture. But

you see, I can quote scripture. Maybe my knowledge of

the verse is poor, but I know it's there. It's

the right scripture. It's the right verse used at the

right time. Your Holy Spirit is bringing to memory, and

I'm going to prove it to you. When did Peter

ever quote scripture before jesus resurrection? Do you ever find

Peter quoting any scripture? Thou the Christ, the Son of

the Living God. He wasn't quoting scripture. He was speaking

out a revelation that God that Jesus said, God the

Father had just revealed to him. But he wasn't quoting scripture.

But after Jesus resurrected, and after he ascended, this is

what Peter said. You can read in the Book of Acts.

He said, once before the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

for it is written in the Book of Psalms, let

this dwelling place be desolate, and let no one live

in it. What was he talking about Judas and the

place where Judas died? And then he said, let another

take his offer. He was quoting Psalms one or nine,

verse eight, the first one he was quoting Psalm sixty nine,

verse twenty five. Do you know this is the first

time in recorded Bible literature that Peter was quoting scripture.

It was also before the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Before the baptism of the Holy Spirit. How many scripture

did Peter court? Two? Jesus' lifespan was over. His ministry

was over a three year period, so in all of

Jesus' lifespan, Peter only quoted two scripture. But after the

Baptism of the Holy Spirit, immediately after, guess what Peter

quote Scripture X two. You can read in X two

seventeen to twenty one, X two Versus twenty five to

twenty eight and x two, verse thirty four, ten verses.

Immediately after the baptism, the Holy Spirit, let me give

you a little bit of math. He quoted five hundred

percent more scripture. This is the big difference when the

Holy Spirit gets involved. And literally, as I was walking

every morning and I say, God, what is the proof?

How do I share this? And the Lord gave me

this percentage? He says, guy, you gotta look at it

and look at it again. Wasn't there a difference? You

may ask yourself, So how did Peter know this? You

got to understand the Jewish culture. They were thought the

Word from a very young age. They were taught scripture,

but they never used scripture. It didn't mean too much

to them. Why because they didn't have a revelation or

what that scripture meant, or who that scripture was speaking about,

or the understanding given by the power the Holy Spirit.

But the moment that happened a change life. In John

fourteen twenty six, it says, but the help of the

Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send you in my name,

he will teach you all things and what bring to

remembrance all things I have said to you. And we're

coming to an end soon. How do we know? How

do we know that Jesus is true? You know, there's

a sixty five percent of the population that dispute that

Jesus is true. And they always say, did Jesus ever

say or call himself God? You heard that? And so

they think they have stumped you think they have won.

Let me give you an answer to that. In this

sixty five percent population, they believe only God can forgive sins.

Ask them, can only God forgive sins? They will tell

you yes. You know that the Jews also only believe

God can forgive sins. Jesus doesn't need to say he

is God because the Jews said to him, how can

you forgive sins? Only God can forgive sins? What was

Jesus answer to show you that I mean business and

I am who I say I am. Your sins are forgiven,

Take up your bed and walk, and that miracle happened.

So when they tell you that, so are you not

believing in someone who has taken the power of God.

It's about time you shut the right people up. Look

at the changed lives of his disciples. They were cowards

before the baptism and the Holy Spirit. They were afraid.

After the baptism of the Holy Spirit, they were mighty

and brave, and their lives are so completely changed. Peter said,

I'm not worthy. It's not in scripture, but this is

church history. I'm not worthy to be crucified the same

way my lord was crucified. So Peter died a horrible death.

He was crucified upside down. He and his wife James,

had a sword in him. They tried to cook John

many times. It didn't work. Paul was beheaded. All these

people would did die for something they did not believe

what suddenly they became brave. Look at Peter. Peter said,

I don't know the man. I don't know the man.

I don't know the man. Just when he was in

the court, suddenly from I don't know the man to

the I don't know man, I don't know a man.

Now he saying, crucify me upside down. Hey, you have

to be blind not to realize something happened here. What

happened revelation from God. So let's uh summarize. So what

has all this got to do with missions? We start

first by knowing Jesus. You and I we know Jesus.

We qualify all right. Secondly, we listen to his command

to go. Start off first by getting out of your house.

If you stay in your house, you're not going because

you don't have nobody to meet. So wherever you go,

share the Lord. Start first with someone you know. Do

you know that the Holy Spirit has provided us with

the help that we need? So we think we don't

have what it takes. No, share what you know. You

just need to say. You may not know what to say,

We may not know what to say, but the Holy

Spirit will help us recall every word that we need.

Every word that we need, the Holy Spirit is going

to help. And lastly, we speak of what we know.

We speak of our experience and what Jesus has helped

us do. Why do I share my testimonies or little

things that I fix and how God helps and all

that is to realize for you and I to realize

God helps us in every area of our lives, and

He is interested in some insignificant area of our life

enough to help us. How much more when it comes

to important things like getting your family saved, or like

going out there and being a witness for His glory. Hey,

you and I must realize it. No longer look at

ourselves as weak people. We are we are different, We

are special in His sight. And I'll end with this

John twelve thirty two. And if I'm lifted up from

the earth, I will draw all peoples to myself. So

what do you talk about? We talk about Jesus greatness,

You talk about his glory, you talk about how much

He loves you. You just talk about Jesus Man. Because

when you raise Jesus up, people will want to know him.

People will want to know him. Let's stay worship God

as good as at he he loves us. So even

as we close Missions Month Missions Emphasis Month, realize that

you have something to offer the ministry of His word

in the world at large, and if you will believe it,

he will honor that fame.

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