Follow Me | Elder Wong Kien Yaik

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

will light up your day. That's what I want to speak about. The

word is the team already. The word is actually about discipleship, but comes

the form of the word follow me. You know, Jesus said, you

know, come follow me, right, And I got this message only because

one day, I think, on the ninth of January, just nine days

after the new year, I was just thinking about the year. You know,

sometimes you just you just want to think about the year, right,

And how many of you actually set goals and targets first January? You have

something, right? One of the commons goals and targets everybody loves to set

is to lose weight. Right, rather you are perfect, you're perfect,

ship or for there's still space to lose what? Right? You know?

You know, to lose weight, right, there's one of them. Some

every want improve yourself. Will maybe finally you want to start attempting to read

the book that you bought two years ago. Right, Remember you have books

that you bought a couple of years ago and it's still on the shelf.

Don't know those books that you buy, right, it's a very nice back

job when you do zoom called no shows that you are very you know the

word studios, you know, very intellectual people. Wow, you've got the

latest book up there, but you have not already yet and said I have

a lot of books as well. So yeah, attempt to finish the book

and stuff like that. So as I was driving, just felt this.

It was stuck at the driving job or just having this thought. Uh,

it's like, all right, you have you set out something that you want

to do this year. And it came because I went to see the doctor.

Uh towards the I postponed my one my cardio appointments. So I went

to see him and say that what you actually put on a bit more?

Waiter, I say, it can't help you. You know December blame everything

on Chichla, right, you know all this ministry meeting people and stuff like

that, but you actually put on some weight and uh uh clashing up clashing.

Okay, I tell you why I went up because I was very naughty.

I was very naughty because I decided that I know better than that you

help me of you like you know you there's a top percess that you know

better the doctor because you prefer to Google more than you trust, right,

you understand what trying to say. So anyway, I was very naughty.

So I decided to change the way I take my cholestero medication right. Instead

of a twenty million situation, I decided take ten on it because you discipline,

Ma. You we tend to judge ourselves based on our intention and other

people on the action. You know, the intention was good that I thought

I was disciplined. Right After all, you keep buying Oatsma, every time

you go to the g S or you pick pick up at least about a

killer of oats and you finish it. You thought I'm on that, I'm

a good on a good track. And then and and I have not eaten

KFC for a couple of months. Really, so my cholestero tracks supposed to

be good. Anyway, The story show was that all this time my back

collecter was two point zero. Then I went and seeing two point six two

point six, And you say that, mister, what you what happened?

Two years? You see me? It's two point zero two two point six,

So three months that I want you to see me, I need you

to lose weight. Lose weight, you know, I say easy, like

there are no problem. Okay, if I've done it before, I can

do it again. How many you understand what trying to say? Just because

we've done something years before, right, I think that we can do it

again just because I I've done it before, my but actually you think you

that, yes you can, but no plan man, because you want to

give the shows yourself. Yes, I'm easy, no problem. You want

me to lose your care no problem? Read the easy no problem? Right?

Then we forget so U Yeah, so came back and said that next

time we come and see me, I want you to do an echo on

your heart just to make sure everything's working fine, right, because it looks

like sound like you got breeding difficulty. We're like, okay, well this

is getting bit more serious. So get you first. Second alright, very

disciplined, okay, when back? When back? Okay, clear, I

take decided to change my breakfast to five to six stick of ceial salary.

Salary salary all right, blending and just drink it like I just like a

raw salary with carriers and just like a beat rod. All right, this

is breakfast or champion. Right. Then after that you get started the toilet

after that fiber okay, anyway, So I had all these mends later all

right, was very discibled the first two days, you know, after every

time you we said, somebody someone give you a bad report or your report.

You're very disciplined. One right, people, you think you know,

thank you, right, because but it comes the third fourth day, right,

the thing began to shake and be like o killer. She said.

I was disabled for four days and one day the past one day just relaxed.

One day, just the word let go of cheat day whatever. It's

just just let go because we think that we can manage. We think that

it's all right. That came I think January nine. I was reading the

word and this statement. Like people, a lot of people say follow me

about what's your plan? Think about what's the plan? When you just say

follow me, right, we sound sort of just like God, I want

more like I got, I want more of you. I desire for more

of you, right with with some songs like that before. So what's the

plan? Because it has to move from a good song to an action plan.

We have to move from just and at the top of uh lort,

I desire from you into actually otherwise it comes next year again that we go

to the samel thing. As I will lose weight, I'll read the book.

All right, this time we got more books because you throughout the years

we got chip, seal and stuff like that. Right, stuff get a

and after I get power and power it comes to place you by. It's

so hard, it's so hard, it's impossible. So if every Bible would

you to mark chapter eight, verse thirty four, marchpter eight was thirty four

right, mark chapter eight worse thirty four. When he had called the people

to himself with the disciples, he said to them, whoever desires to come

after me, come on, whoever desires to come after me. Friends,

it starts with desire. It starts with a desire to one Christ studying point.

Without desire, friends, it is very hard to pursue. You know,

every guy who falls in love sees a person. They got this something.

I've taken a word that was just love. The desire to see more,

to talk more, right, to have more phone calls, to see

more in person, to have more meals together. Desire. Sometimes without the

desire, it's very hard. For example, you just simply chaw him to

everybody. No connection missed, no connection. So desire is ra important friends.

So do you this money, have a desire to want more of the

lot? Not friends, because otherwise we would being the place whereby coming to

church, going through the motion, but not satisfied, not changed, not

just nice feeling. And that's it. I love the Lord, you know,

just desire for more. Oh, in church, you need friends.

The moment we exit this place, we look already we forget me. We

can't remember what we make commitments to. Right, So Gods Jesus is asking

whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself. So the question

is that do you want to follow Christ? Do you want? Do you

want? The word desire in Greek is one W A N T one right?

Do you want to follow Christ? Many times in our life we want

to, but there is no plan. We want to, but there is

no action. We want to. We want to lose weight. Let me

get to this favorite topic that always level. We want to lose weight.

Wan look good the day the day beefore allost We still want to look good,

but we have to move beyond that. Friends. So the studying point

is desired. The study point is one right, So therefore, whoever wants

to come after me friends? The next word is to let him deny himself

take up the cross. Very important. Let him deny himself up and take

up the cross. Turn with me right now the James Chapter four, ward

seven, James Chapter four, verse seven. I explain this now, Desire

one and James the four wars. Well, therefore submit to God. It

is therefore submit to God. Friends, submit to the Lord. Now,

we don't like the word submission, none of us like. Do you know

how hard you do submit? It's like every day an alarm clock reminds you

to do something. We submit ourselves to the alarm clock that rings, right,

But how many of us here really? If we ask ourselves, we

select to snooze alarm right, snooze the alarm right, I thought. My

wife has this habit of schnoozing alarm until I stay over night with another brother

in church. Half an hour every five minutes, go one snooze, one

one alarm. Give him stay on there with somebody. Every five processive examply

supposed to wake I asked you what they will wake up? I'll work up

five to because I don't do my devotion, what spiritual? Spiritual? I'm

like Elder sol the dB by, I say, sixty five to d all

the wake up, no problem, wake up with you, no problem?

Right, I was out by five twenty five. The alarm reading this body

just also speak to action. When when you get older, your body some

sort you know, your body got read the man right, you don't need

alarm, right because if you can wake up, well the alarma. We

felt that your first victory, you got the ready okay, so you so

we were like, but anyway, this is rather five to the alarm.

Okay, now I thought you go wake up and pray. I thought it

was praying. No next thing, No five five thirty five. Another another

alarm, five forty, Another alarm five forty five, another alarm five fifty,

another alarm five fifty five, six six o five serious knows all the

way. I think it's intention. The wicked said winner. But some people

need soft len soft ta cut for it. You know how hard it did

to somebody not come on? Isn't it true? Because if easy, come

on, if it's easy, why do we need a snooze button? Because

our body, friends, our body, our desires friend, right, we

have our desires, We have the way we imagine things life to be.

To submit yourself to God is to surrender, humility to take place to say

that I respect a love God. Therefore I'll wake up according to what I

said it to summit. God said, God, I respect you, I

honor you. Therefore I'll bring myself under your leadership and your lordship. For

sometimes we want our own way, we want our own jealuble. And that's

why when the doctor say, come on, mister, I need to lose

weight, take your medication. Are you thinking medication properly? Not? Maybe

I don't want to refer to you because I don't trust I don't really trust

you that you you just prescribe one. I think I know better. How

many times we refer to Google? First? Think about how it's true?

We always like, why would medical report we read on all our thirty minutes

of reading Google is better than sixties of medical medical studies? And it's hard

to submit. Friends, Therefore, the Bible says, just stripped the forward.

Submit to God therefore, and resist, come out. Resist. There's

a submission that's a resistant. Resist the devil and he will flee from me,

a friends, not God will flee for me. The devil will flee

for you. Because the more you bring yourself to the subjection of Christ.

The more you find the things of that were not as interesting anymore trure.

First, none of us here grew up likely to eat salary in the morning.

Come on, unless you're the type one say I love it, man.

My mom when I was young, my mom with me salary stick every

morning. None of us are like that. We train our body. So

I love it. So I offered it to my wife. My wife,

she said, get get it away from me. This, this thing is

not from the Lord, the kind of thing all right, this thing is

not. This is not it's not holy. This thing is not Now it's

not attractive. Those who is colding in the morning. Where's the cheese?

Where's the brain? Where's that? No, you put the cheese together,

you put under the sandwiche maker, you make it hot, tasty. What

is this baby food that I say you? I say you try it once,

try it second time, the fourth time you live it one say I

tried ten times. I will now I like it. But you bring yourself

to the subjection. Friends, the more after you get into the routine consistency,

the more you like it. And that's why the Bible says resist that

you flee for the only reason why you flee for you because you don't entertain

that anymore. But you don't find that attractive anymore. Right And many times

in our life, after we go through an experience to the Lord, you

find certain things not as attractive anymore. I went to my hard thing friends

after walk, KFC is no longer it's attractive. Although this smells really good.

KFC smells really good. Friends to skin, you say it's the best,

But my wife throw the skin away, you know, seriously, take

the skin, you should put it aside, And I get my dear colling.

I'm ping whole looking at the skins, saying, why are you trade

the best part of the way. She takes the skin and wax it.

I'm like, yeah, why you chow the skin away? The skin is

the best part. Throw the way the flesh and give me the skin.

But I don't forget it's attracted because I stop the words, I stop,

I stop making pit stop to KFC. Right every time. I love burgers

and fries. My wife don't I love fries. Okay, French, I

love it. Or I survived a French fire when I was studying in Australia.

Two dollars French fries. Right, it's huge, like two huge plate

French fries with mayonnaise. That's the way to eat. Diep it in.

It's like you're having mealonnais and the site is the fresh fries. Right anyway,

M love it so once indul Why are you eating all these greasy food?

Take carrots, raw carrots. It's like French fries by different formoney right,

Resist the French fries and you the fresh and you will flee from you.

You get no more desires for it. Order something like western food.

She think, she look at my place. You take the fresh fries away.

This is the only portion you can eat. This is the only porture

you can eat, like fall sticks. This is the only porture you can

eat. I say, you know we pay for this, you know,

don't waste food. Come on, submit to God. Resists the devil.

Come out, Submit to God resists. If you don't bring your body,

you don't bring your spirit, don't bring your your your gener to God.

Friends, You find everything else is very attractive. And that's why you find

where there's constant challenge and struggles. It draw near to God. Come on,

draw near to God, Draw near to God. Friends, there's an

invitation for you and me to draw you to him, and he would draw

near to us. The first thing is that we need to draw first.

We need to come closer to God before he wants to come close to He's

always there wanting to come closer. Come on, right now, He's always

there wanting to come closer to us. But he respects our boundary. If

you want him, then you won't interfere. If you want him, he's

there, and that's the power of chapter. I'll say, what's it Draw

near to God? And he would draw near to us. He isn't drawn

near to him with just offering no friends, like you know. Sometimes you

you need to know somebody, to know somebody, to get to know somebody,

to get an invitation. No friends, This is God himself. When

you draw near to him, friends, He's probably said he would draw you

to us. In the same line, think about it, in the same

line. When you begin to draw, he has to cleanse our hands,

you know, hands get the tea trot. The whole day someone's I don't

say who, but not here these church, thank Gods. After the hallow

time was mm hmmm, I know somebody, No, no, not here,

no, you're not not in this church. No, no, not

in this church. Man, And now you go. That's worry before hellow

time you got to send you heads, you know. But the same in

the same line has drawn you to God. He drawing you to us.

James right, cleanse your hands, Come on our hands, get the tea

trout the whole day. It's what we do, friends, what we do,

whether or not help us to drop closer to God away from him.

What we do with our hands. How it's either determine where we dropped closer

to God, friends here this or draws away from him. And many times

you don't realize that. Sometimes I feel so far with even though I say

I want more of you, but our hearts so far because our hands,

our daily actions sometimes causes us to draw away from me. And because it

doesn't reflect like Christ preifer your hearts same, I prefer your hearts, you

double minded hearts in this in this context is mine. Sometimes our mind really

entertains so many other thoughts. Okay, he used the they use the word

double minded, double minded. Do you know how heart this is that you

will never make any decision my red double minded. Never. We can come

to a conclusion. You know a lot of information but never come to a

conclusion. Right, It's almost after you just read to eat restaurant A or

restaurant B. You study the many restaurants A, then you go to the

restaurant BE. You go A. B looks a bit better than my egg

got this, but B do I got one? Brother? I know right

who likes girl eight. Physically she's repety. Girl is repety back God temper

right same that like Also like girl B. Girl B may not be speaty

as great, but her temperament is very good. He said. If all

they can merge the two together. Merged the two together, I say better.

Double minded? Double minded, You kept to choose one, but how

do you choose her? Marry one? Because it looks after that I get

prosecuted for the rest of my life, for the rest of my life.

Double minded, So this one of the laws in our mind. Come on,

decide that God. If God is good, he's good. That's why

we drawn it. We drawn you to God because if God is good,

if you have to decide, he's good. But although you don't understand,

I'm still going to externally, He's still good in our mind. He did

not say that. No, your environments almost be good first. No,

See, we have to decide today if God is good no matter what we

go to on the outside, He's still good at the end of the day.

Seriously, you know, pastors going to share how we got the pisc

the person in charge and everything like that, right, because God is still

in control. God is still in control really as a church, He's been

taking care of us all these twenty four years of his fitfulness and goodness.

Really, if only we I mean, if we have more time, you

are can should share every part how God had been so fitful, fitful,

fitful, fitful all these years come true firs time and time and time again.

While our brothers got admitted to hospital and you know his mom died of

cancer, lung cancer, and you know he was in it and always say

that I'm coming blood. So the doctor him and tell me it's either TV,

bacterial or cancer. So I'm supposed to do a biop. See this

morning, got the result came out or just one praise God, not not

TV, not cancer or normal. Maybe it's just bacteria. I say,

whether God is giving you a second chance to really the worst, enjoy His

goodness and his fitfulness. See the environment around us could be bad, for

example, not in our favor, not in our liking, maybe not in

the what we expect it to be. But we have to decide in our

mind. God is still good. That's why I double minded, because every

time we see something, we always change our decision on every time we see

something, it causes us like, oh you, am I making the right

decision? Not? Am I making the right choice? Not? Am I

making the right choice? Not the more we see something like oh no,

maybe something else somewhere else, somebody else better. But we have to decide

in our hearts, friends, our hearts, today, your hearts. You

have to decide. Anyone desires to come after me, do you want let

him deny himself to take up the CROs us. And this is the second

part of the message. A lot of people deny themselves, but never take

up the cross. It's like fasting without the Lord that's directing. Really,

we can't we can't do a lot of things, you know, First we

have take up the cross. We can't read the Bible, cow to cover.

Never take up the cross in our life because all this time we want

to do things our way, our perspective our world view. But could you

imagine taking up the cross God. I know I have plans, I have

dreams, but lot if you ask me to our still go. We met

a lady who works in the hotel and this is you know, we are

dealings with her in exico to commoning and this stuff like that. She told

one time before to me and pastor this that wherever God placed me, I

hope a church will start. Wherever God places me, I hope that can

open the door for a church will run the place and utilize the place for

the kingdom of God, for the glory of God. Could you imagine that

that kind of mindset? Remember your purpose, because all the time we deny

ourselves, for example, deny yourself like I'll wake up early, I'll do

this, I'll do everything all correct, but no cross. So in the

next one to two months, I'll twenty one days of first things coming up.

We can fast on friends always can fast. We fast social media,

right, we're fast food like the things that we like. I was telling

you my wife, I look at Daniels Singer rushable and water that reminds your

hot pot. Sorry, it's like jo are married. They was fussing hill

water. This reminds you of hot Potter. Actually, I think it,

okay, let me we can do all that externally. For externally, we

can do all that, but there is no transformation. Do you know that

you change the way we walk by the things you carry. Think about it.

You change the way you walk by the things you carry. So could

you ready carrying the cross? Your walk will never be the same because of

the weight that's on you, the cross that's on you. You change to

facilitate the weight. So, in other words, friends, you will change

your lifestyle after you decide that you want to take up the cross. But

many times we we can go through a lot, but the moment, there's

no more weight on earth. Right, there's no more restriction, no more

submission to the Lord. Nothing maybe can forget. You know, the cross

reminds us on a daily basis that who is Lord and who's not? Reminds

us and who is Lord and who is not? The cross or the daily

basis reminds us that he's still good, even though it's with you. He's

still good, he's still faithful. He'll come true for us time and time

again. That two chapter that was study it says that whoever doesn't take up

the cross and fall after me is not worthy of me. So ticking up

the course is not optional. It is not optional. Many times you want,

we love good songs and stuff like that, but tick up because it's

not optional. Friends, it is not Why because do you know that there's

a scripture. Let me just turn you with this scripture, right, don't

the troubles twenty four? Why pick up? Because of the option? Johnt

up the troubles twenty four? I say to you, unless the grain of

it falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone. Unless the grain

of see it falls to the girl and die, it remains alone. Do

you know the potential of a seed, it's there, there's no expirating in

a sense, there's no expirting. The potential is in the seed. But

it has to fall the girl and die. And picking up the course,

it's like, we need to pick up because because to explin the fullest potential

Guy has given us, we need to allow God to have his wagh in

our hearts. I want to encourage you if we have never surrendered totally and

trust the Lord, it's a good year to start. It is good year

yeah. I know a lot of people say twenty fours, like the Chinese

the fourth. It's like twenty three as something that no friends. It's not

about the year. It is not about the year. But it's not.

It's not about the number. It's not Trust Lord. The Lord is still

fit and good no matter what we are going through. We have to trust

him this year. We have to trust. It's a crazy world that we

have to trust him. We have to trust. At least the grain will

see it falls to the ground. The grail will falls to the ground.

It is about if he dies. If he dies, it will produce much

grain. Think about it, it produces much grain. Networks all of us

here. God has made us and wiredness to be productive. That's love.

I think God has given to us really as a person, as a human

being. He has he created us. We are not a failure, no

matter some mistakes were made, We're not We're not a total failure, right,

even though we made some mistakes along the way. Right, We're not

a loser just because you know, we're not like other people. We're not.

But in God's eyes, there's so much potential. God has created us

and shippers and mowers. But we have the worst that we have to let

it go and die to the ground. When when the city gets burying the

ground, there's no limelight, you're not on station, or there's no lime,

there's no tightle, you're just burying the ground. And God, we

used the ground to develop us. God, we used the ground to develop

us. And many times we don't like it because it's work. It's in

darkness, it's you know, it is not very pretty. We don't like

it because you know it is work. It is something God wants. Go

deeper in our hearts. But you have to love God to review what's in

our hearts. Friends, And really where you are with your life, how

the way you think, the way our hands, what our hands does.

So unless the sea forces of ground right, it remains alone. Friends.

There's so many cities just remaining alone. And God's inviting us. Come on,

allow me to bury. Excuse me? What bury? You? So

you can produce much grain? Friends, much grain is not for self consumption.

Think about it. You can only consume so much. Much grain is

to be a blessing, and that was you and I are called to be

a blessing. Therefore, friends, because it's able to use it to be

a blessing because you allow him. She allowed him. You allowed him to

bury you in the dirt so they can grow. She allowed him. One

of the things that you know that we have to do as a church again,

as a church, you know that, you know, we're constantly thinking

where the lot wants to plant, right, so we are really seriously considering

plant the experture gyre, exporture gyre, thinking about it, praying about it.

It's not just it's not just an idea of friends. It's just we

just bring God. If you want us, you want us here, you

have to open the door for us. If you want to say you have

to First of all, you have to open the door. You know,

if you go your own show favor, but you've got if you want to

see, you have to open the door for us. Experts. It's not

because like oh, nice name, produce no fense. It's not but the

name. But Lord, you will be done, Your will be done.

I heard one I share this one picture with just saying that that I have

to apologize to the church. I'm so sorry we felt offended by me and

this stuff like that. You know I was rude and just say he explained

the dish is why no former gangster, former gangster came to know the lot

that became a leader. I said, I do not know how do you

reply emails? Hope you forgive me? Say a former gangster came out each

of fifteen gangsterism throughout the whole year, is only no gangster reason when need

That's it. I don't know how to reply, so the words doesn't know

any The word is like normal, how you reply emails that you don't come

up? This is I don't. I don't know all that say you know

why because I'm plan be because the planning people with degree don't answer the lot

and I'm not looking with there. But he's understanding of the He was expletly

say, hope you forgive you because I'm not perfect. I don't because this

kind faces off the smart small so you can run away. This is what

he was explained. So I'm just wanting to explain to you that you and

I friends, you and I, we haven't opportunity to serve the Lord to

be a blessing. And finally it's going to be this all right, follow

me, friends, don't follow me for me. It's to be more like

Christ. Come on it starts with a desire. You and I starts with

a desire to war. The lot right starts with a desire all of us

desire, but it has to follow with the plan. The plan is this

that take up the cross, because if we just get stuck with the desire,

okay, say this is my desire and everything. No transformation, No

transformation. Friends, God wants to transform us from the inside out. Come

on, God wants to transform to be more like Who, to be more

like Christ. Come on, when we follow Christ? Friends, if he's

not just following a mother hand. The game that we play where we are

young, but it's Christ, is to be more like him, To be

more like Christ, to be more like him. To understand what it is

the submitted your scripture. John chapter six was todad. John chapter six was

for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own view,

but the view of him who sent me. I come down from heaven,

not do my own thing, for to do the will of him who sent

me. See our life, friends, we can go with our own The

word is that our own understanding, our own desires and own goals and dreams

and visions and stuff like that. Oh, there's another path whereby God you've

given me this life, giving me this talent, give me everything. But

Lord, help me, help me, Lord, to be a blessing to

your kingdom. Help me to open the doors. Help me to be a

blessing to your kingdom. Because your kingdom must reign, Heaven must rule.

You must open the door. Lord, help me, Lord to be a

blessing. Help me to understand that this life will giving me the impact on

make it true you. So I cannot don't. I don't want to come

just do my own agenda. Just a lot of people just want to do

their own agenda. No, we want to just be a to be a

blessing. So this coming year you're going to hear some of the stories you're

going to hear from Earth. It's just that we want to be a blessing

in Malaysia. We say best in Malaysia is just this that. Do you

know that the urban church makes a very small population of the Christian uh community.

The urban church, it means like in k very small population. The

larger population of churches are are outside of Ko. The larger sound just thirty

people for the people. So the pastors have they are not full time there.

They are doing a circular job out there, and many churches around Malaysia

are closing down. Not because there's no The word is that there is no

young people, no success, nothing at all. Right to NEF, I

heard of one one past just sharing, uh, your past, just saying

that you know, I mean he's in seventies seventies all right. So the

reason why there's no young people in a certain place because of employment. You

understand that you can't come to urban because more employment. Right, But this

puss was saying this. We're just saying this that there is there is a

there is there is a dead in his church asking the sun to come back,

come back and and serve the church. Don't worry about your employment.

I'll take care of you. The father is very rare, well to do,

got the got the business going on. Ready, the dead, It's

okay that I'm not interested in your business. The dead was like, uh,

this is set for life. Radio basically can take care of your second

generation the kind I want. I just want to work in kl there's nothing,

there's nothing back home. And the puss say, if there's no success,

I have to close the church with you. Then the love Tour just

like that in Malaysia going down the path, going down the path as a

church in the urban area. Right, we just felt that Lord, your

will be done, and let us be a blessing. Let's just find a

solution to help them. Let's be a solution to help them, to help

them and to be a blessing. Not to fight with them, but to

help them. One day, me and pastors kind of just see now coming

this day following to be more like christ Like and this thing that you know,

we're about a thousand plus average global I mean in Claim Valley in total

thousand plus people and the Lord one they just to pass. You know,

it's not about the numbers, but it's really at the end of the day,

it's about the number of people being more blest for the kingdom. Say,

why would the why would God want to add to a church when there's

only thirty percent people who's serving the Lord and the other seventy percent is spectators.

Now I'm not saying, you're not saying, I'm not not knocking anybody

here, but this is our conversation with the Lord that got to us.

They got to the leadership like, yeah, you're right, Lord, we

don't raise up with general spectators, but really like, we're here to do

your veal at the end of to day to be more like Christ. The

Bible here says that I'm not here to do my own view, but Lord,

the will of you who sent me as I close right now, friends,

I know, I feel like I've tried it before. I served the

lot before, and there is no transformational change there was. We can get

tired physically, but the Bible is encouraging us, friends, encouraging us.

Right and second courtents forward sixteen says that do not lose heart. Therefore do

not lose heart. Second current is forward six is they do not lose heart,

do not lose heart? Or on the outer man is perishing. Yes,

your strength is diminishing everything like you know, we can't. We tend

to forget a few more things now as you grow older, lose a bit

more hair. Just a couple of days ago, I was talking to elder

terrorists and we're just saying no, no. The as we begin to age,

one thing, we realize that we came carried as much as we used

to now when when the slightly then the senior people carry stuff. The next

day, I know, let you know there's his brother was carrying some stuff.

Lender up in the hospital next day because body ache, body ache.

I'm like, wow, our bodies very perishing. It's quite depressive about mine,

so alert. Mine is like fifteen years old, sixteen years right out

the bodies like you used to be able to stay for four hours. Now

like do say forty minutes afterward we thse off really like litriction. Reason we

can those off right because it's had to stay awake and said, I said,

all right, our bodies perishing, all right, but but we should

still do something even out of bodies perishing. Friends, come on right now,

almost one day, we will reach a certain age. Okay, I

won't say the dot used to. Oh, we'll reach a certainy age.

We will want we will want it right. But we shouldn't lose heart,

you know. Come on also now, Christian, well just because we are

fifteen twenty year old Christian Redia, we shouldn't lose heart. Come on,

yes, we'll be praying for certainity. Heave't come the bus. You shouldn't

lose heart. Come on. Yes, you have started off a track.

You know, you want to read the Bible, but then you hit a

wall where you reach leveticuts. Okay, I understand. Skip the chapter.

Go there the chapter. Friends, you We shouldn't lose heart. You shouldn't

just train the tower so hard before everybody got test me. I don't have

don't lose hard. Friends, Christ went all the way to the cross as

a close all the way to the cross, for you and for me.

All the way to the cross went through persecution, went through shame, being

beaten up, speed upon. But Gods, random, do not look even

though our men's perishing, but the inner when the inn in wood, men's

being renewed on a daily basis. Again, it is a choice. Again,

it is a choice. Follow me. So what's your plan? Obviously

you want to go deeper with a lot. That's how desire, isn't it

become the chice? Maybe it law has been ministering to urse it. You

want to go deeper with the Lord. But what's your plan? Really?

What's your plan? It's not an emotional decision this morning. No, but

really I just want to trow this to you because that was for me,

because as I reflect by something in the weaker, even that your personal goals,

like actually what you do about it, isn't it true that daily,

every day things coming to take up a lot of time. That what you

set up to do, we don't do because there's not enough Time's everything else

is being it was being not used with right just the way. Then the

things you want to do actually like you want to spend time with a lot,

we don't do it because there's no amount of time. But then you

want to do it. It's just so tired, so trade, so exhausted.

But God is asking the priority is correct. If you desire to come

after me, therefore them denies that take up the cross. Your motivation is

the cross. Because if it's just a motivation, sometimes we shift go post.

We don't, we shift target, We shift so killer it's all right.

But if the motivation is a cross, and the cross becomes a motivation,

friends take up the cross and follow me. Friends, someone encourage your

following. Christ is the daily decision. It's not a one of decisions.

It's not like you know, those of us who are married, you understand

this. You know you you say I do it at the altar, but

the I do of the altar right the feeling right after the next thing,

you neither you know what I mean. It's I said, you fall in

love every day. It is a choice that you know, like why are

you getting married in the first It is a choice I want you might ever

understand right now, friends, come on, don't lose her, don't give

up yet. It's just start of the year. I know, yes,

so now the second day of January. But I always like which is the

first example refresh. It's a lot to take in terms of like the commitments

at work and stuff like that. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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