Missions in Action | Celina Tan

You're listening to a message to go from acts Church. We hope this message

will light up your day this morning. Okay. The title of my message

is called Missions in Action. All right. So I'm pretty sure that all

of you know the great commission? Right? Who doesn't know what is the

great commission? Everybody knows? Do you all know? Where does the scripture

taken from? Right from Matthew twenty eight? Okay, Matthew twenty eight was

eighteen to twenty. This scripture is no stranger to all of us. Is

basically what Jesus said, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing

them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

All right, Okay, so all of us know that this great commission,

this commandment that Jesus has given to his you know, his disciples,

to continue to preach the good news to the people. And sometimes we may

look at this scripture me say that, hey, you know, this comment

is given to his disciples only what he has got to do with me?

Right, Let me tell you that this scripture is really got to do with

every single one of us. Okay, But today I'm not gonna talk on

Matthew twenty eight, but it's more of life getting ready for the word that

I'm going to share later on. Okay. So also to remind all of

you, the team for XTRAGH this year is what bargles know what No what

know about? Know about Selenathan, know about Johnny, No about Eddio,

no about what, No about Jesus, Okay, know about God? Okay.

We want everyone that God has placed around us to know that He is

the Most High God. And that is our purpose on earth. You know,

sometimes we may think that, yeah, I'm earth to make wealth,

I'm on earth to make my name known. I'm on earth to climb the

corporate ladder, I'm on earth to be the best teacher that everyone can ever

ask for. Yes, that can be our dream. But our main purpose

is so that all may know that He is the Most High God. All

right, So what I'm gonna do is we're gonna We're gonna bring all of

us into reading from the Book of X chapter one and chapter two. So

what I'm gonna do here is that we're gonna read through this two chapter.

Okay, it's very long, but bear with me, and yes, even

if you cannot bury it. Also, you have to bury it because there

is always joy in reading the Word of God. Okay. So everyone can

has your Bible with you, Okay. So I don't hope that moving forward,

everyone will bring your physical Bible with you, not only digital, because

nothing is better than having the physical Bible with you. Okay, yep.

So we're gonna read from X chapter one, okay, and I'm going to

read from NLT. Okay, So reading from X chapter one, verse one.

Okay. In my first book, I told you to your feelers about

everything. Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up

to heaven after giving his chosen apostle for the instruction through the Holy Spirit.

During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostle

from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he

was actually alive, and he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.

Once, when he was eating with them, he commanded them, do not

leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised. As I told

you before, John baptized with water, But in just a few days you

will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Verse six. So when the Apostle

were with Jesus, they kept asking him, Lord, has the time come

for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom? He replied, the Father

alone has the authority to set those states and times, and they are not

for you to know. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes

upon you, and you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere

in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the

earth. After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they

were watching, and they could no longer see him. As they were strained

to see him rising into heaven, two white rope men suddenly stood among them,

men of Galilee. They said, why are you standing here staring into

heaven. Jesus has been taken from you into heaven. But someday he will

return from heaven in the same way you saw him go. Then the Apostle

returned to Jerusalem from the mound of Olive, a distance of half a mile.

When they arrived, they went to the upset room of the house where

they were staying. Here are the names of those who were present. Who

were present, Peter, John, James, Andrew Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew,

Matthel, James, son of the Alvieus, Simon the Zalad, and

Judas's son of James. They all met together and were constantly united in prayer,

along with Mary, the mother of Jesus, several other women, and

the brothers of Jesus. During this time, when about one hundred and twenty

believers were together in one place, Peter stood up and addressed them brothers.

He said, the scriptures had to be fulfilled concerning Judas, who guided those

who arrested Jesus. This was predicted long ago by the Holy Spirit speaking to

King David. Judas was one of us and shared in the ministry with Earth.

Judas had brought a field with the money he received from his treachery.

Falling head first there, his body split open, spilt out all his intestines.

The news of his death spread to all the people of Jerusalem, and

they gave the place the Arabic name a Kildama, which means field of blood.

Peter continued, this was written in the Book of Salms, where it

says let his home become desolate with no one living in it. It also

says let someone else take his position. So now we must choose a replacement

for Judas from among the men who were with us the entire time we were

traveling with Lord Jesus, from the time he was baptized by John until the

day he was taken from us. Whoever is chosen will join us as a

witness of jesus resurrection. So they nominated two men Joseph called Barsabus, also

known as Justus, and Matthias. Then they all perate, Oh Lord,

you know every heart, show us which of these men you have chosen and

apostle to replace Judas in this ministry, for he has deserted us and gone

where he belongs. Then they cast slots, and Matters were selected to become

an apostle with the other eleven. Okay, all right, So now chapter

two, on the day of Pentecost, all the believers were meeting together in

one place. Suddenly there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a

mighty windstorm, and it filled the house where they were sitting. Then what

looked like flame or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them,

and everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in another languages

as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability. At that time, they were

devolved Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem. When they heard the loud noise,

everyone came running, and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being

spoken by the believers. They were completely amazed. How can these be,

they exclaimed, These people are all from Galilee, and yet we hear them

speaking in our own native languages. Here we are Partians meets Elamites, people

from Mesopotamia, Judea, Capaldesia, Pontus, the province of Asia, Friga,

Panphilia, Egypt, and the area of Libya around Syreen, with visitors

from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Threatens and Arabs, and

we all hear these people speaking in our languages about the wonderful things God has

done. They stood there amazed and perplexed. What can this mean? They

asked each other, but others in the crowd ridicule them, saying they are

just drunk, that's all. Okay, I'm gonna stop here for a while.

Okay, So just now I say that you know, Jesus has given

us a commandment right to go out and make disciples of all nations. So

to put this simple, our job here is actually to bring the message,

the gospel, the good News to the people around us who may have heard

about it but don't really understand it, or may have not heard about it

and they want to hear about it. Okay, so all of us need

to do that. But a lot of time, okay, myself included,

you know, I would say that, yeah, I know that I need

to preach the good news, okay, but how I do not know how?

Or sometimes I will say that, yeah I want to preach the good

News, but I rescared or you know, what will happen if I share

the gospel? Or maybe like you know, who should I speak to?

You know, And we always have a lot of reasons, a lot of

reasons, a lot of excuses, a lot of you know, different different

things that we will come up with just trying not to do it. You

know, when when I was reading this Book of X, I read it

a lot of times, and I read it again this time around, and

I have four points to draw out from it that will help us to see

things from you know, not really a different perspective, but more of like

helping us to see that hey, you know, stop giving excuse and start

doing. And that's why I t told you know, my message as missions

in action. And what does action means? We need to do it,

okay, whether we like it or not, we have to do it.

So all of us may have fear okay, or will have fear, and

I don't doubt it, okay. But when we look at the scripture,

how does X Chapter one started off? Okay? Apart from their first five

or six chaps, no, the first three chaps versus there it talks a

lot, a lot about the great things, the things that Jesus has done.

It started off by you know, saying that do not Jesus telling the

the disciples, do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he

promised, as I told you before, Okay, So what does he says?

There is a promise okay, not only to the disciple, but to

all of us as well. Okay. And what is this promise? Okay?

There is a gift for all of us. And as we read on

towards it, it says that but you shall receive the power of the Holy

Spirit that has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to me in

Jerusalem, in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

So the first point there is a promise to all of us, okay,

that we will receive the power of the Holy Spirit that will help us

to be a witness to all Jerusalem, all Judaea and Samaria, and to

the ends of the earth. All right, So here we see that,

you know, Jesus told his disciples to stay put, you know, before

receiving the gift, okay, and to wait for the gift. So they

stay put and they waited. Why because the power of the Holy Spirit is

crucial for them to be an effective witness for Jesus okay, in his teaching

and his resurrection. Okay, So their mission is not just only local.

If you realize that Jesus just say, okay, that you will receive the

power to be witnessed in Jerusalem only right. It says that you will receive

the power and you will start to share it in Jerusalem and then to extend

it to Judea, to Sumarior and ultimately every part of the world. So

imagine if the disciples or the apostle did not go out to the ends of

the earth. Do you think that we will receive the Gospel today. No,

it will stay in Jerusalem and okay, but they do it. And

this promise highlight the supernatural empowerment that we need, okay, to fulfill the

great commission. All right, So as we read on to extrapt the two

was one to four okay. The fulfillment of this promise occurs on the day

of Pentecost. Okay. It says that, No, when the day of

pen the course has fully come okay, and they want accord in one place.

Suddenly the sound from heaven came like a rushing wind and filled the whole

house they were sitting, okay. And then there appeared to them divided tongues

as a fire, and one set upon each other okay. And they were

filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues okay. And

there was an in feeling of the Holy Spirit. All right. And what

were they doing at the point in time? They were gathering together okay,

And they experienced a powerful and supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit. Okay.

The Holy Spirit descend upon them, and they speak okay, a different language

okay. And as the Holy Spirit enables them okay, So we can see

here right, when we read on when when the people, when the Jews

hurt the loud noise, when they came, okay, just not when we

read right. They said that they came and they heard different languages, languages

that they could understand. You know, I read this again. I was

just like, uh, you know, some of them asked in the scripture,

what can this mean when they came right? You know, like for

instance, probably I can only understand Cantonese, and they only can understand Howken

okay, Ellen can only understand menriad okay, and then Aaron can only understand

ha God, okay. But when we came together, what we heard is

the same message in our own understanding. Okay. As I was reading and

I was doing some reading here and there, one of the things that really

caught my attention was this. Okay, all right. The writer wrote this.

He says, is that these people when they come, they heard their

own language. It's kind of like a revelation to us that God loves people

from every tribe and thumbs that, you know, when he wants to touch

life, he's not only one thing to touch, only one language group people.

He wants to touch every single language group, every one and everyone that

is on earth is precious to him. And that's why when the Holy Spirit

comes upon us, he would enable us to speak in a language that you

know, the people that we want to reach out to is able to understand.

And I can tell you that, you know, last year when I

went to the Mandarin missions strip, Okay, I can speak Mandream in conversations

only, okay, And you're not right going to missions are even though you

can speak very fluent in your mother's tongue, but when you come to share

the word of God, it's really different level. And I went there not

knowing you know, Dalla cannot read Chinese, can only speak can only you

know in Basil we call it people Macan black people. With the few feel

words that I have. I went there and I was telling God that,

you know, Lord, please use the little that I have in my hands

to touch lives. And I can tell you my teammates they are hilarious.

They know that I'm a total banana, and they say that, hey,

Baselona, you can speak Cantonese, right, I say, yeah, I

can, please go and pray for that person in Candoness. I'm like what

I said, I have never prayed for anyone in any Chinese dialects or language.

But they said, came, cann you just go, you just go.

As I went to the person, I told the Holy Spirit, Lord,

please annoying my tongue to know what to say and what to pray,

Lord, and behold, I went, I do not know what that came

out from my mouth. And the person just say amen, amen, amen.

And the rest of my team members say this, you liar. You

you say that you cannot pray in Cantoness. You pray so well? I

say you sure not. I said, I have no idea what once I

pray. Then they say that, yeah, but you pray, you know.

So basically they translated the Cantonis into mandriy and they say that you really

pray like you have been praying a lot. I say, yeah, it's

only the Holy Spirit that enables, and that is something that we need when

we do missions. We really need the power of the Holy Spirit. So

does that really credit to myself? No, it's not my credit because if

you ask me to do it now, to pray in Cantonis, I tell

you I probably need to go and find dictionary and then go find all the

hand opinion Okay, candoness not honey pinion candonnists. I don't know what.

Okay, just to find a proper word, you know, to pray.

But when we are being sent out to the missions field, the lot enables

I think probably you can ask you know, Eddie when he go for our

RDP reaching out to all the Malay speaking people. You know, he said

that, okay, I write everything, He'll just see whether my translation is

correct or not. And then he started sharing in Bahasa. That's why I

always say that, you know, he's not from Nigeria, He's actually a

Malaysian. Yeah, and he's able to reach up to people. Right.

Sometimes we may wonder that, you know, I don't speak the language,

but how how are these people being touched, you know, through the things

that we do. Sometimes it's how the Holy Spirit give us the power to

enable us. Okay. So same thing when it comes to us, you

know, when we play our part in the fulfillment of the Great Commission,

we need the Holy Spirit to be with us. We need to desire for

the infeeling of the Holy Spirit. If let's say you are not being filled

by the Holy Spirit, you need to ask that you know, Holy Spirit

feel me daily, speak to me, you know, guide me and lead

me. Okay, and do know that you know, when when we already

confess our sin and receive Jesus as a personal Lord and savior, the promise

that Jesus gets to his disciple is the same thing that we will receive as

well. We will receive the Holy Spirit. All right, So sometimes some

of you make us. You know who is the Holy Spirit? Okay?

As you read through the Bible, especially from the Book of John, you

will know that the Holy Spirit can be simplified as this. He is our

helper, he is our counselor, he is our comforter. He is our

teacher, he's our reminder, he's our guide, He's our source of power,

and many more. All right. You know, for me, a

lot of times right when I needed to prepare, you know, whether for

preaching or prepare writing the X kids curriculum, or maybe when I need to

you know, talk to someone. A lot of times hours I will be

very afraid outside. Oh no, Lord, what should I write? What

should I or how what scripture should I that will be able to edify someone?

You know? Should I just talk with my own you know, own

language only you know or should I just this? And that It's a lot

of my own personal uh you know, thinking in my head planning all my

script when I needed to talk to someone especially, But a lot of time

when I sit down with people and when I talk, scriptures will come to

my mind and sometimes all I wonder that how where does this thing came from?

Okay? And that is what is being written in the Bible. The

Holy Spirit is the one that will, you know, remind us when we

read the scripture that hey, now this is the time I feel that this

scripture will be able to bless someone. And you will realize that when you

partner with the Holy Spirit and speak whatever word that you speak right, the

person will say that, Selena, how did you know? You know?

Or when you get meet with someone and say like, wow, this scripture

really ministered to me. And it's not about how did I know? But

it's the spirit God knows, and the Holy Spirit will just no awaken the

word for us to share. But don't think that, yeah, like a

holy Spirit, I don't need to read my Bible cannot you know? The

reawakening of the scripture only comes when you really spend time reading and meditating on

the world of God, and that is how the Lord will lead us and

guide us. Okay. So the Holy Spirit is our bestest friend that we

need to cling onto because the Holy Spirit will be the one that help us

to be an effective weakness, all right. And the Holy Spirit will also,

okay, give us the courage and the boldness to speak to others as

well. All right. So what is our part to play? We know

that this is what the Holy Spirit can do for us. So our part

is that we need to constantly, you know, talk to the Holy Spirit

as we pray. We need to constantly talk to the Holy Spirit, ask

him to feel us daily, ask him to you know, stir up our

heart daily, and then help us, the Holy Spirit to help us to

bear the fruit of the Spirit. If we go by our own flesh,

right, you know, we will always go the total opposite of the fruit

of the Spirit. Right. I hope all of you know what are the

nine elements on the fluid the spirit? Are love, joy, peace,

patient kindness, goodness, gentleness, fitfulness, and self control. Okay,

all right, So this is the elements in the fruit of the Spirit,

and that is something that we need to ask the Holy spirit to help us

to bury it, because these are the things that we live our life with

that will draw people towards us. Do you think that every day you go

to work being angrier, people will come to you? Of course not if

I say you every time you you know, you don't exercise kindness everything.

Also, you like you know, you are very crude and rude or whatsoever.

Do you think that will attract people towards you. No, That's why

we need to always bear the fruit of the spirit, because that is the

very thing that will attract people to us and allow us to start sharing the

gospel. And also you know, for especially those or you when forget away.

You all know what the five ministry? Right? What are your gifting?

And or start to use it? Don't hear you listen from other roads?

Ready you know your gifting already and then you say that, Okay,

now I know my gifting that you keep in the box, shove it then

next year get away, then take out read the game. No, okay.

If you know that you have the gift of teaching, please okay,

volunteer yourself for kids and staateaching, or volunteer yourself in homes and start taching

Okay. If your gift of evangelism, hello, please launch yourself out and

start evangelizing to people. Okay. And different different gifting that you have.

Okay. Maybe some of you have the gift of you know, counseling people.

Okay, please use it. You know you have the gift of what

intercessory intersted for the church, for the people that's around you. Continue,

continue to use your gift okay, all right, for the extension of His

kingdom. Remember, use the gift that the Holy Spirit, that the Holy

Spirit has given to you for God's kingdom, not your kingdom. Amen.

Okay, very good. See all of you who say amen, I hold

your word for it. Okay. So the first part promise okay. We

know that we have the promise of the Holy Spirit. We need to desire

to have the Holy Spirit in earth. So my question to all of us

here is that are you ready to be filled by the Holy Spirit this morning?

All right, and partner together with him to bring the Gospel Okay,

to Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Okay, I'm not asking you to really go to Jerusalem, Judaea, and

Samaria, which I don't know where is it? On the map. But

you're Jerusalem, which is your surrounding here now okay, your Judaea, your

workplace, your neighborhood, right okay, or wherever that you get to go,

okay, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Always pray

and ask God that Lord, if today I enter into a grap and I

get to talk to the grab driver, what can I say to this person

to encourage this person? You know, I was you know, those who

came for the example get away. I was sharing my testimony about my journey

of searching for my my my next career point right. So one of the

prayers I was praying to God is that, know, God, how can

I use you know, uh, this workplace as my missions feel? Okay?

And I've already won mine in this company. And I was so busy

to the point that I don't even have time to breathe that I was like,

God, are you sure you bring me to the correct place or not?

All right, I don't even have time to even do anything, say

anything or whatever to really you know, bring the the to be the sort

and light in my workplace. So what happened was just recently I had a

meeting with my CEO and the founder and we were talking about something else and

and it evolved finance. Okay, it was finance to to do some you

know, for for the work that we needed to do. So of course

we were talking, talking, talking, talking, and my boss said that

yeah, hey, yeah, this project, we cannot tell them first because

I need to find you know, investor and all those whatnot, and you

can't say that. He was like, yeah, okay, I need to

find investor. Then me, being me, my mouth always has no red

light, I just don't do him. Don't worry, boss, May God

bless you with the investments or that we can't start this project. And he

looked at me and he said that, yeah, please pray, and okay,

I can tell you my whole company, all of them they are all

the Chinese, that all of them are other boodhis or toys. And then

I have three Malay colleagues. Okay, so there's no Christians in the company.

So I just burst out just saying that. My boss say yeah,

yeah, yeah, please pray. Now I just look at him, Boss,

do you know that I've been praying for the company and you every day

that he just okay, thank you. So that was me. I was

like that I work out for the e reading room. Will I lose my

job after this? Yeah? But but I to me, it's like,

yeah, I may be very abrupt in saying, but I meant what I

say, you know. And I just wanted him to know that while yes,

being the founder or the CEO, you have your worry that I may

not understand. But I may not understand, but my biggest boss in Heaven

understood. And and if I pray, I believe that God will move right.

So that's why you know why I say that I've been so busy because

there's a lot of things that I needed to do for a company. But

every single day I pray, I say that Lord, you take over,

You take over, you turn the situation around. So that that is how

I can do to partner with the Holy Spirit. So sometimes the Holy Spirit

just kick you to say something, say you know without worrying that you know,

you may may you know, if I say, the Holy Spirit just

asks you to say you know, you will feel the peace knowing that He

will take over. So, yeah, I did not lose my job.

I'm still in the job. Okay, all right, Cool, So that

next p prayer Okay. So we all read in x chapter one, you

know, before they received the promise, what the Disciple and the rest of

the people did right in verse one in chapter one, verse fourteen, it

says that all the disciples gathered together and they were constantly united in prayer.

Okay. So number one, we know we have promised. Number two,

what's important prayer? Remember I say, just now, I go to work

every day praying like there is no tomorrow. Prayer and prayer is really really

important. So after Jesus ascension, so the disciples returned to Jerusalem and they

devoted themselves in constant prayer. And this period of them coming together in prayer,

it tells us that how much dependents the disciples are on God and their

anticipation for the promised Holy Spirit. So that's why they pray. Okay.

And do know that, you know, pray yourself as a foundation, okay,

as our preparation for something that the Lord wants to do, and it

helps us to align with God's will. When we pray, we want to

hear from God. And when we hear from God, we know that we

can align to his will. Okay. And it also helps us to prepare

ourselves spiritually for what's to come, okay, and it also helps us to

continue to seek God's guidance in the missions that God is launching us out for.

Okay. So what I wanted to encourage all of us here, If

let's say you are the kind that you know, wake up first thing us,

first thing, first brush dave, make your coffee, and then go

straight toward Then suddenly, only remember, oh I haven't prayed. Then when

you start to praying, time to make changes. Wake up first thing first,

right, pray not uphold the day to the Lord and pray and see

how God can you know, align your day towards His perfect will, and

you will see transformation happen. You will see changes happen. You know I

used to be you know, so so how they are chill and easy with

my life for the past many years because you know, life has been easy

because things has been uh, you know, like already in emotion that okay,

I kind of like I can expect, like what what what's gonna happen

today? So I'm the kind of ye wake up, you know, shower,

make my coffee, go to work, sit down. Okay, Now

I can pray, you know, like but now with this new job,

it's very challenging that the first thing for us I opened my eye. I

haven't even get out of a bit. Dearld Jesus, and you're with the

for today, you know, then they're like, okay, sorry, sorry,

God, Sorry God, good morning Jesus. I acknowledge for who you

are, and I learned, you know, I and I learned to you

know, start the day by praising him first. Okay, for those of

you who are puss the kind of message. Okay, those that didn't come

forget away, please listen to pass message that he praised during the getaway.

The Instead of just praying, praying, praying, praying, we need to

praise as well. You remember we always say, right, praise, break

the prison door. So start the day by praising the Lord, praising for

who he is, praising that he is our almighty God. No, just

wake up that God. Today it's gonna be a bad day, please,

No. Okay, As we praise him, as we acknowledge his lordship,

right, you will realize that, Hi, my my problem is just like

a peanut to God. It all right, and he will turn things around

for you. Right, And I really see, you know, I really

see that how God transformed situation in my workplace. It is still very very

challenging, very challenging, but I can see that, Hey, as I

was stuck in a situation and I do not know what to do, I

will be like, Holy Spirit, please give me an answer so that I

can answer my colleague. And the answer just came. And that is how

you know when we partner with Him. And same goes to where we need

to witness. When you talk to someone and you will say that, Lord,

what should I say? And God will give you the word. And

God will also show you by looking at the person's countenance that you will be

able to ask that, hey, are you okay? Is there something bothering

you? And you will realize that it opens the door, you know,

for you to speak. And one of the things that I, you know,

I learned is that as we continue to to you know, abide in

God, as we continue to partner with Him, and as we continue to

spend more time in prayer, we actually spend less time trying to find way

how to minister to others. Really one, you know, sometimes right when

you miss us to someone, right, will you keep talking and talking and

talking and talking and talking and talking and talking, and the person you do

not know what you're trying to say. But as you pray, as you

continue that Lord give me that word, you will realize that when you just

say that one statement and did I say anything wrong? And the person will

ask how did you know? And you will say, no, I don't,

but God knows. And that is how you will say, do you

need Jesus to be in your life? And you will see salvation take place.

You will see healing take place, you will see breakthrough take place.

No, so that there is something what we need to do. So the

Holy Spirit will lead the way and give us the right word to speak,

and he the Holy Spirit will minister directly to the hearts of those who we

speak to. So it's really not our work, but it's the work of

the Holy Spirit. So as we surrender our total dependence on God, the

Spirit of the Lord will pave the way for us, turning the missions impossible

into mission accomplished. So my question to all of us is how dependent are

we on the Lord? So are we willing to spend time praying for those

people that we want to you know, reach out to. All of us

have friends or family that don't know Jesus yet, are we willing to go

down on our knees and to pray for their salvation? Right? So remember

prayer and action go hand in hand. Okay, don't just pray without going,

and don't just go without praying. And that brings us to the next

part, which is to preach. Okay, So I'm going to continue reading

from X chapter two wards, fourteen onwards. Okay. So here it says,

then Peter step forward with the eleven other apostle and shouted to the crowd.

Listen carefully, all of you, fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem,

make no mistakes about this. These people are not drunk, as some of

you are, assuming nine o'clock in the morning is much too early for that.

Okay, I'm not sure about nawllah. Okay, back then, it's

totally for that. Okay. Now, what you'll see was predicted long ago

by the prophet Joel. In the last days, God says, I will

pour out my spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. In

those days, I will pour out my spirit even on my servants, men

and women alike, and they will prophesy, and I will cause wonders in

the heavens, a birth and signs. On the earth below, blood and

fire, and clouds are smoke. The sun will become dark and the moon

will turn blood re red before the great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.

But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

People of Israel, listen. God publicly endorsed Jesus the Nazarene by doing powerful

miracles wonder signs true him, as you well known. But God knew what

will happen, and his pre arranged plan was carried out. When Jesus was

betrayed with the help of lawless gentles, you nailed him to a cross and

killed him. But God released him from the horrors of death and raised him

back to life, or death could not keep him in its grip. King

David said this about him. I see that the Lord is always with me.

I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No

wonder. My heart is glad, and my tongue shots his praise praises.

My body rests in hope, for you will not leave my soul among the

dead, or allow your holy one to rot in the grave. You have

shown me the way of life, and you will fill me with the joy

of your presence. Dear brothers, think about this. You can be sure

that the patriot David wasn't referring to himself, for he died and was buried,

and his tomb is still here among us. But he was a prophet,

and he knew God had promised with an oath that one of David's own

descendants was on his strown. David was looking into the future and speaking of

the Messia's resurrection. He was saying that God will not leave him among the

dead or allow his body to rot in the grave. God raised Jesus from

the dead, and we are all witnesses of this. Now he is exalted

to the place of highest honor in heaven at God's right hand, and the

Father's as he had promised, gave him the Holy Spirit to pour out upon

us, just as you see and hear today. For David himself never ascended

into heaven. Yet he said the Lord said to my Lord, sit in

the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making

them a footstool under your feet. So let everyone in Israel know for certain

that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to be both Lord

and Messiah. So Peter's words pierce their hearts, and they said to him

and to the other Apostle brothers, what should we do? Peter replied,

each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God and be baptized

in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you

will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise is to you,

to your children, and to those far away, all who have been called

by the Lord our God. Then Peter continued preaching for a long time,

strongly urging all his listeners save yourself from this crooked generation. Those who believed

what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that they about three thousand

in all. All the believers devoted themselves to the apostle teaching and to fellowship,

and to sharing a meals, including the Lord's Supper, and to prayer.

A deep sense of all came over them all, and the Apostle performed

many miraculous signs and wonders and all the believers met together in one place and

shared everything they had. They sold their property and possessions and share the money

with those in need. They worshiped together at the temple each day, met

in homes for the Lord's supper and shared their meals with great joy and generosity,

all the while praising God and enjoying the good will of all the people.

And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.

Amen. Right. So in s Chapter two wards fourteen, Okay,

what happened? Peter stood up with the other apostle and he delivered a powerful

sermon to the gathered crowds. You know, as we read the whole portion

that you realized that, Yeah, Selena really appreciated Peter already preached to all

of us, and that is the very message that we need to listen to,

right, and the people that around us need to hear. Okay.

So he preached, Okay, he explained the significance of the events that the

Jews have seen, Okay, that they witnessed. Okay, and then he

bring about the scripture from the Old Testament, and he shed you know what

the prophet Joel has said that the Lord will pour out the spirit upon the

people, and the people will start to prophesy okay, and those who call

on the name of the Lord will be safe. Right. So what can

we see here? Peter stood up and what he says here he stood up

and he shouted to the crowd. It tells how how how excited he is

to bring out, you know, the message, the good news to the

crowd, so that all these people who hear the message that their heart will

be stole up right. And he Ap preached with boldness and clarity. Did

he add on that you know? Yo? Noah, you're seer. No.

He Ap preached with clarity. What by what quoted? You know?

From the from from the Old Testament? He shared it with the people,

right. And those people who hurt the word, their heart was being pierced

by the word, you know. So that's why when we preach, we

need to preach the word as it is and not sugarcoated, and not try

to be relevant to the world, and not try to like, oh,

I think this person's lifestyle is like that. Let's see how I can modify

the word. No, preach the word as this, because the word itself

will convict hearts right. As much as the word convict our heart, it

will convict the heart of the person who listened to the word right. And

he went on continued to share and preach. And this is something that he

also brought up. He called the people into repentance, and he baptized the

people in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. Right.

And he also assured them that you know, when you receive Jesus as your

personal Lord and savior, you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit as

well. Okay. So you know what the disciples are doing is that they

are fulfilling the command, the commandment, the command that Jesus has given to

them to go out to share, okay, to preach, to tell people

that you know, whatever your sin, okay, on the cross, the

work on the cross, the resurrection, all the things that you have been

witnessing is the work of the Lord. And they continue to tell people that,

hey, repent of your sin. Repent of your sin, be baptized.

Okay. And what happened when he did that, how many came to

know the Lord right? Three thousand. So have you been doing this?

If we have been doing what you know the apostle is doing this room cannot

really, I probably need to rent stadium ready, okay, or maybe I

will saying okay, who got the gift of apostle? The apostle run a

ready and start another church? Okay, going and start another church? To

start church man, Okay, So that is something that we need to do.

Stop. We need to stop giving excuses. We need to start partnering

with the Holy Spirit, and we need to start praying, and we need

to start to go out and preach the gospel. Okay. So the same

message that the deciper preach is the very message that we need to preach as

well. Bringing hope to people that we reach out to. We need to

preach with conviction, and we need to remember that why this message is important

because all of us are slaved to sin and we have been set free.

We want God to set free of others as well. Okay. So how

can we be effective in preaching this word is to always remember that all of

us are slave to sin, and the wages of sin is death, and

no amount of good works we do will bring a salvation. Remember that,

Okay, we receive salvation. To do good works is not to do good

works to bring ourselves to heaven. Okay. And because of this, all

right, because of our sins, that Jesus have to die on the cross,

you know, so that we can inherit eternal life. Right, So

always remember that sometimes we can be too long a Christians that we've actually forgotten

about this fundamental truth in our life. Really one, because sometimes I also

forget. Okay, I'm speaking from personal experiences. Okay, So it's the

same thing. Please don't say that, oh I already have Jesus, I'm

a Christian's Okay, I'm free from saying. Okay. Now, now I

have been set free, I go on living my life, doing my things,

achieving my goals, achieving my KPI. And I've forgotten why was I

saved in the first place? Okay. So we have to always remind ourselves

that why are we safe in the first place? Okay, not only to

inherit eternal life, but also to continue to do the work that the Lord

has sent us forth to do. Okay. So we need to equip ourselves

with the Word of God. We need to allow the Word to even come

alife through us, and we need to help others to come into repent we

need to help others to be baptized in water, in spirit, and we

need to together partner together and to be launched out to share the good news.

Okay, all right. So things we have to remember when we preach.

We need to preach with bonus, with clarity, the focus is on

Jesus and nothing else. Okay. We need to preach with conviction, present

the Word of God as it is, leading people towards repentance and salvation,

no sugar coating, okay. And we can only do this if we spend

our time reading the Word of God daily, okay, all right, and

allow the Holy Spirit to lead this. Okay. So my question to all

of us here this morning is where can I start sharing the world of God.

It's a question that you have to ask yourself. With the Word of

God that you have heard every Sunday, you have read every single day,

where can you start sharing the word of God? Will you have the boness

to speak the truth which is the Word of God. If you don't have

the bonus, pray and ask the Holy Spirit to give you the bonus.

If you're scared that you do not know how to preach, Like Peter right,

every time I read all the sermon that preached, or Paul said,

you know in all the scripture, our Lord, if we need, I

can speak like them, but I can't, okay, but the Holy Spirit

enables amen. Okay. So that is what we need to do. We

need to go out and preach. So we read right, they went out,

Peter preached, and three thousand we were being safe. So what did

they do with the three thousand? Okay? All the believers devoted themselves in

the apostle teaching they were gathering together. That brings me to the last point

okay, where our clothes shortly? Okay? So which talks about partnership okay,

partnership or fellowship or fellow believers okay. So they continued that firstly in

the apostle doctrine okay, fellowship, in breaking of breaks, and in prayer.

Sometimes you'll ask why do I need to come to church every Sunday?

Okay, don't be solola. You come, Okay, You learn the Word

of God, you fellowship with one another, You help to encourage one another,

You pray for one another, You share you know, testimony that will

help to to you know, to encourage one another. Okay. Just like

in the ex chapter to here the early believers, they devoted themselves together to

learn the word the break brakes, which is to do communions. They pray.

They pray together, right, they pray together. They also meet together

in temple course, which is church. They meet in their homes in a

smaller group. They share meals with gladness and sisier hearts. Okay, and

their fellowship marked by their joint and generosity. And it also highlights the importance

of community and mutual support among believers. Okay, so when you do that,

you will come together and everyone will sense the unity and the purpose.

Then you will realize that hey, actually I'm not I'm not a lonering after

all. Or even if I want to go out and do missions, right,

actually I don't need to go alone one I can bring someone with me.

So, like I want to go missions, right, I very scared

to go alone? Right that I will ask, and you want to sign

up together? Your homes and my homes. You go get together, he

said, Okay, we will go together. You know sometimes, like you

know, when when I wanted to ministers with someone, A very scared,

I was like, you know, Elene, can you come with me?

Up? I come with you, or maybe sometimes I need to, you

know, talk to someone who is older than I do. There I will

always say this person, you know, it's more than I eat, right,

it is how to talk. There are like faster, Can you come

with me? You know? And I can only do so if I'm connected

to a church or homes that I can always fall back with. You know.

We call it a partnership that we go together, you know, to

do the missions that God has called us to do. Rather that I alone

cabra, I don't know what to do, Okay, I have my partner

with me to go together with me, all right, and that is really

important because you know that you have one one another to support each other.

Or even if the person don't know what to say, the person at least

can sit beside you start you know, praying tongues or maybe start praying like

the Lord Jesus pace gives Selena the no the person can do so as well,

right, okay, So that there is number one. And of course

we also can see that when we come together, when we show love and

unity to one another, it actually attracts others as well, and people will

see, you know. One of the things that my my friends who are

non Christians. When when she sees some of the postings that I shed from

ex ambund right, she actually asked me, Selena, why every Sunday you

go to this place. Everybody looks so happy? One like, what this

place? That's my church? Like this place? I said, why everybody

looks so happy but no one is set in church? I say, Okay,

on social media, of course you see happy facer, I say.

Also got said by we also support each other when we are said, you

know when we also support each other when we are happy. Birthday, we

celebrate together. Wedding, we celebrate together. We help people to run wedding.

We run the show for for wedding. You know, someone passed away,

We run the show for the person who not for the person, for

the family. Okay to hell support the family. That that is church and

you know what this person And concluded the conversation and she said that Selena,

it's so nice to have a community that will walk your true different seasons of

your life. And I told her, I said you can too. Do

you want to come to church? And she said no, Well I tried,

I try. And the reason why she doesn't say, your church so

onlyla, I want to sleep. I'm like you forever sleeping like okay,

so yeah, so so the genuine love the unity. Okay, even though

it is true social media, it actually attracts people and with that you can

actually share with people. You know what, you know what you are doing

on a Sunday, and it gives you opportunity to share about Christ and of

course one of the things that you know. Exmom started by Joe l Lloyd.

Love My Sunday's conversation starter. As you continue to post on your social

media, right, people will ask an a why you love your Sunday so

much? Right? What's so great about your Sunday that you love so much?

And recently and then started one after Church Dining Club ac DC, I

also got people ask me it was this a CDC. I said, Oh

cause my partners all loved to it, so they started that type life.

Yeah, so it is a conversation starter. So you have to ask yourself.

Okay, So you want to reach out to people, you have to

have a community and all this community will attract people. And why the why

world have so much activity? It's not that our here, I got nothing

better to do, No board games. Last cycling, lagging la, movie

la, now book club? Like what else they do? I cannot remember.

I cannot catch up. Really okay, they really have a lot of

activities. Why because there are people who doesn't have the community, and we

want to bring these people to the community and open doors for us to share

the gospel. Okay. So all of you has been doing very, very

well in this community that you are in. So if let's say you have

people that you want to reach out to and you do not know how,

bring them to church, bring them to homes. And for those of you

who always hear me, chair right every Sunday, I will say, parents

with friends with young kids, you know, if you do not know,

you know, they do not know what to do with their kids on Sunday,

ask them to come ex kids, we have very big room for the

children to run around. And I can tell you I've spoken to a lot

of young family with young kids. They always say this, no, I

don't want to come out hang out with your Why my kids very noisy?

And then they never want to come out. And then they will say that,

oh I got no community. You know, nobody understands what I'm going

true, Okay, and my kids are such a nuisance. I don't think

any one of you that without kids on a will you know we'll want to

have kids are so noisy when we fellowship. The truth is those of us

who do not have kids, we actually don't mind. You know, you

bring your kids make no sense as not as they don't injure themselves. Right.

But in a church setting, some people will even tell me this,

Nola, I scared my kids would disturb the service. But those of you

who've seen our kids dancing in front here this morning, is it a disturbance.

It is their form of worship unto the Lord. But of course you

saw me stop no Onah just now like he was some assorulting. Why because

I scared he thought he would hit the stage? Okay, there are reasons

sometimes why I have to stop certain action that they do. Okay, it's

for their safety, but it's not because they are a disturbance. Right.

We love children, We love people from all walks of life. We welcome

everyone, and that is what Jesus wants. So are we ready to play

our part as the community as we continue, you know, to partner with

the Holy Spirit and launch ourselves out there to save souls. Okay, some

of us maybe not as quick as those who really have the give of evangelism.

No saving soul, saving souls and then planning people in differentiatus you know,

all the new souls. But when these people come in, we as

a community, are we ready to help these people feel welcome and stay rooted.

That is a part we have to play as well, all right.

So yeah, so let's continue to do what we can, and let's continue

to encourage one another and even being equipped in the world of God, plan

yourself in the homes. Use your talent because I know some of you are

very good with the Word of God. And use your talent to help you

know, to edify each other through the world of God. True your sharing,

through your experience. We come together in discussion and we help each other

to grow in our faith in our world with the Lord. Okay, and

as we grow, remember, don't keep everything to ourselves. Be ready to

be launched out. Don't say that I'm quite complacent in this place. I

don't think the Lord will see me on. I used to say that the

Lord chase after me, even though I try to run away like a Jonah.

The Lord has a very big net and caught me. And that's why

here here I am. Okay, don't try to be complacent with where you

are. Be ready and say Lord, where how can how can I be

of use to you? You know? Send me? I will go.

If you can use anything, Lord, use me. Break my heart for

what breaks yours. These are the very thing that the Lord is doing.

Let's prepare ourselves for it. Amen. What I wanted to remind all of

us here through this, you know, it's a very simple message that I

share. I am sharing today, But what I wanted to remind all of

us is that if God could bring such a revival to the early Church,

he can do the same for us today as well. But the question to

all of us here this morning is that are we ready? Are we ready

to be used by Him? Are we ready, you know, to step

out from our comfort zone to bring in the harvest? Are we ready to

do whatever it takes for the even one soul to be safe? And the

most important question to all of us here this morning, do we really have

the deep desire to see salvation happening every Sunday? Or are we just going

to come to church every Sunday that you know fit me? Fit me,

fit me and me, or do we really have the desire to say that,

Lord, look at all these emphasis. I want it to be filled

every Sunday with souls that are so hungry for you. Lord. I want

to see every Sunday that souls being safe. Lord. I want to see

every Sunday life that has been far away from you will come back to you

once again. Lord. I want to see people being set free. Lord.

I want to see chains be broken. I want to see the sick

big heal. Do you have this desire? And I can tell you that

this desire is not only for me or the leadership team only. It should

be for each and everyone of us. Here the scripture needn't say that,

dear church leaders and you know, coordinators and pastors, you go Therefore.

The word started by saying that go therefore means the word goal is for each

and every one of you, including our kids. You know, if kids

can go out and even talk to you know, the security guards or whoever

they can see and say that Jesus love you as simple as that, why

can't we you know? Of course we always say that kids are feelless.

We can also be fearless. Because the Holy Spirit enables us. Amen.

So let's start to have this desire and let's partner with God, and let's

go out until everyone comes to know the saving knowledge of Christ. Amen.

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