Completion | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. So this morning, I want to speak about

a topic called completion. I want to talk about finishing the race. I

also want to talk about how is it it's so important for us to remember

to every mind of self, really what's really all about? Because in life,

you know, you get the word is that different commitments come along your

way. Uh. Some of you have made the commitment earlier this year of

January that you wanted to finish a book. Uh twur fifty page book,

right, so if you read one page a day, by now you have

finished the book already, but you only went through the page five. W

me, that's it. That it's out of the window and still sitting on

your shelf. And because tomorrow's first January, you can make the same commitment

against I'm going to finish this book. Uh. So it's very important for

us really to have this spirit of completion, uh, you know, in

our daily life, because otherwise you get hijacked. Hijak. It's not really

that bad, It's just that we need to know our priorities at the end

of the end of the day. So there was a research done by a

renowned Bible scholar and teacher, Robert Clinton. He did study on the lines

of one thousand figures, one thousand bigger figures. Okay, he just did

simple research on their lives on the Christian faith because sometimes with the own very

eyes we could see people running the race and somebody we reached that we could

be like them. But it's not necessarily just how we start, but it's

really how we end, right, And do you know, for one thousand

figures, right, and his research was how many many of them ended well,

ended well, ended on fire, ended by hitting them up ow For

one thousand they say less than thirty percent. Less than thirty percent are bigger

figures. I guess their leaders, the movement movement people right, less than

twenty percent of the of them finish well. Quite interesting, now, seventy

over one percent we said did not finish it. They missed them up.

So it's important for us to remember and to remind ourselves to encourage ourself to

finish well. Really, to finish well. Friends. This is not a

message because it's year end. It's a good reminder because every time when we

do a WAK service, sorry to talk about wake service first December. Right,

every time we do week service, we stand in front of the crowd

as ministers and we say that, you know this brother or his sister is

a believer for the good fight. Finish the race, right? You know

the scripture right which I'm going to read. But many times in our life

right to talk about finishing the race is to run the race according to how

the raves are set. You and I need to run the race according to

what and how the race was set. A lot of times we see finish

the race, we are laying our own track. We are laying down,

laying our own desires. Say God, I run this track, and because

I believer that that's why it's blessed, well, we can so miss them

up. Okay, I'm show you to the scripture right now. Full scripture

we'll turn to it is X chapter twenty six, verse nineteen x twenty six

worse nineteen. You know the scripture, maybe you've heard it before. It's

about the encounter about with Paul, with King Agripper Paul and King Agrippa,

and the statement goes like this, I was not this obedient to the heavenly

vision. I was not this obedient to the heaven division right. Many times

in our journey we need to remember our calling, friends, to finish well,

we need to remember our calling all of us here God a calling all

right, you and I today we are caught by God. We have a

purpose. God have given us here on earth. Friends. We are not

here by accident. We are not just a byproduct of our parents' passion.

God give us breath, give us life, God give us a purpose.

The fact that you're still here of me, you say you have a purpose.

There is no unemployment. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. All right for

those of y'all thinking that there is so epf at the end of the day,

there is. I'm in heaven. But there is no unemployment. All

right. There is no retirement in the Kingdom of God. Amen. Someone

said, hallelujah, there is no retirement. In other words, rest the

day the Lord calts you back. He still wants to employ you. Still

have a purpose why you're here on earth. I was talking to my dad.

My dad right now is attending another church, or rather Medadist church.

He's part of the Methodist Senior Fellowship. They called MSF Methodist Senior Fellowship and

they are like in their late seventies, early eighties. One of them,

I think it's ninety eighty seven, right, eighty seven. They get together,

they cook for one another, they have gatherings, they go even go

do outing praise the Lord to encourage you another. You know how the word

is not depressing? Can I use the word sorry? First, I'm supposed

to encouraging. You know how something is it's it's there sad when when you're

in the age group, you know, when you're in the seventies and eighties,

one by one, God needs your friends more than more than you need

your friends. You ran yourself, and trying to say it can become like

quite depressing in that sense. But first there is no retire involved. All

of them still get together, still cook for another. To day my dad

will say, hey, can you bring home because I've got the cook balley

water, right, and the cookie for another. They're encouraging one of they

they're going to plan to visit visitation because some of them are by themselves,

no children. There's one lady I got to know, she's in the mid

eighties, all by herself, right, and they're just like, hey,

she's all by herself. Let's encourage you. So there is no unemployment praise

so hallelujah. So you and I need to remember our calling. So Paul

talking a group, But I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. So

first of all, right, now, remember there is a heavily vision that

God has given you. We tend to forget that maybe because of life,

because of the journey of different things. There is more to a Christian than

just coming to church a man, right, there is more to a believer

just having a Bible. There is an assignment. And Paul, if o

King and Great bas said, I was not disobedient. Paul not say that,

you know, I know the vision. Paul us what disobey? Because

there is a calling for us to be obedient to the Lord? I know

Christian like they used to work obedien. I feel like you used to love

mercy. Second chances, right, we're talking about obedience. Oh, it's

like you said, you've done something wrong and God is there to work you.

Right. No, first, no, so Paul understood this his assignment.

Do you understand your assignment? And now, so Paul knew friends knew

when God gave him the vision. God also revealed to him that he's going

to face challenges, challenges true the form of death threats. There was death

threats to pause life. There was promise of prison. Come on, how

many of us will claim promise of prison? Exactly? Nobody? Right?

Right? God, please, I will to follow you, Yes, prison,

I will go as well. Majority of us say no, please,

said Selena, only because she's the leader, right all right? Free food

celet will come out right different after that, then you'll pray for a second

chance. After that, she would come look for you. Right. There

was that. There was a vision of change, friends being in chain.

I'm not talking about gold chain or silver chain around right with the way you're

around your neck. Okay, there was there was. There was promise of

change, prison and death threats. And it was not a perfect The word

is not a very nice picture. I took the call of God only to

realize and to know that there is this part that most probably he would have

given his life for the costs. Yet he can tell King a Graper was

not disobedient to the heavenly vision. See, Paul has a resolve in his

heart. No matter how hard it is, God, you are worth following,

no matter how challenging. It could be God, you are worth following.

I'm not sure that I spoke here, but I recently a tend of

one week service and this gentleman, this guy right gave his life to Jesus.

Was formerly dealt with everything that is involved with know with Lord, shop

with gangsterism, everything you can imagine. He gave his heart to Jesus.

From that day always his life was changed. And every time he meets his

former gang he will witness to them, witness to them, shared the gospel

with that invite them to church. Right, how he came to know the

law was one of one day someone inviting him for lunch. Very dangerous.

So you you're not a believer. Here someone invited you for lunch. You

can change your life. Hallelujah, praise a lot. Lunch can change your

life. So this guy, not believer read for lunch and it was not

just a normal lunch. It was a lie. Where about organized by If

I'm not wrong, I think by a group a businessman fellowship. So around

table sitting and someone was sharing about God. And he gave his life there

and then see, friends, God has a plan for you. And after

that his assimum was he reached out to everyone he could fight, even though

he was diagnosed with if with cancer, he was in the hospital, he

was reaching out to the nurses, the doctors, and the patient beside him.

So the assignment must be remembered. So you have an assignment in the

Lord. So Paul, no matter what challenges he could face, he knew

that God is worth following. I wanted to courage your friends. God is

worth following. God is really worth following. God would never abandon you,

no matter what the challenge would be. So Paul knew about this all right,

But I was eighteen problems shept and I was eighting. Why is it

so important for us to know the heavenly vision? Problems nine eighteen says that

without we will cast off restraint. Without vision, we will cast off restraint.

What does what does the Bible mean by that? You as if you

don't have a direction, we will just get torn into every direction. If

you don't have a destination, we will get pulled, side tracked, tempted.

Right, we are supposed to go pavilla and let me see the words

saying that we want check it out. Fact you our check it out right?

The words get distracted and we are creatures that get distracted very very easily.

True or not, we get distracted, whereas that's why every works thirty

seconds to get your attention. Think about it. We are creatures that get

distracted so easily, and God's reminding us. Remember the heavenly vision. Without

vision, people cust off restraint. So today, do you know your purpose

here on earth? Do you know why you're here? Do you know that

God has given you the amazing ability to be a blessing to the kingdom of

God? Knew his vision and his calling. So I foure King Agrippa.

No matter what the vision has showed me, the change, the prison,

the death threats God, You're still worth following. How do we complete our

race? Just remember that raised a heavily vision that raised a race. There

is a race that you and I need to run. Second Timothy four over

seven. You know this scripture Second Timothy four, verse seven. In fact,

alms can be excited by heart. I thought the good fight, come

on, I thought the good fight. You can complete the whole scripture.

I thought the good fight. Yep. I kept the faith. You know

that? So the vision was given the paw, death thread, prison in

chains, This is fast forward, fast all the way down the second Timothy

Paul wrote, there before he gave his life, I fought the good fight.

Many times we use the scripture when the early stages, maybe the word

is that, maybe perhaps one victory, I thought the fight. But friends,

it's at the end of our life, at the end of our life

we can can we say I fought the good fight now, friends, fighting

the good fight is not just about fighting just to wear a cross on our

neck. It's beyond that, friends, It's about living God's purpose here on

earth. You can only fight a good fight when you fight in terms of

what it was intended it to be. In other words, when you go

into a boxing ring, you can only use your hands on your licks.

But many times when we say we fight a good fight, do this bit

of confession right now have done many big service. And every time we use

this because the persons of believer I don't know what to fight the person has

been fighting, but we use the scripture because it's so comforting. Now I'm

not trying to pin a black picture, but I want to encourage you.

Friends. Don't end this year without knowing your assignment, without knowing your purpose.

You are more than just a human being the consumed oxygen. Hallelujah,

praise the Lord. Right. So, therefore, to Paul can say for

the good fight because he went through Freds because of obedience, he went through

a fight of faith. You can only say you for the good fight when

there is obedience involved. Come on, when there is obedience involved. Many

times you be saying before the good fight. But there is no obedience in

our life. There is no obedience in out faith. The Bible says,

without faith, it's impossible to do what. Come on, It's impossible to

do what. Oh example, common decided that Selena, haven't giving you a

heart in the morning, Selena, how you I guarantee you'll be awake?

Ah right? Without faith, it's impossible to please God. Friends, our

faith in our life. Think about it. I used to think that he

supported their faith faith to move mountains. But come when I read this scripture

again, I come to this realization. Our faith in our life, if

you use it correctly, is to glorify and to please God. Use faith

to do what God I want. The house hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.

You print out the picture, you put it on the frish every day,

you just claim it in Jesus' name. So if you put the picture of

the good that you like on your friege in the name of Jesus, thank

you Lord, hallelujah. Right Alex right, I've sard it before, we

seen it before, we claim it all right, and we put across all

the picture whatever in these friends. But if you understood it, the faith

has always been us pleasing ourself more than pleasing God. God always wants his

name to be glorified. At eight am, there was a person that shared

a beautiful testimony about how she got to own the house full time willkill,

how she got to know the how on the house on the One power of

deestiminity that really shook a lot of people was that God challenged me to give

all all my renovation costs into the offering, all the renovation costs into the

offering, and see me, I'll provide for you first. It was all

giving of joy in hours. There was no letter of promise from Heaven dropped

down a physical at the hour of supply for you. She just heard a

voice. Trust me, She's so by faith, and she said, I

stand here right now. I'm proud owner a right of a property that I

always wanted to have, and I want to let you know. God is

so real. The money is not coming in the big envelopes like other people,

like one big chunk, but it came into different types and I needed

it, and I knew because she's my clique. I know the whole entire

story. She's she's soo one time. Just share with us that, Oh

they just want to let you know I got this particular but not much,

not much, okay to some of us, it's like it's like it's like

going for a dinner, money on it, just a couple of thousands to

just be a b right. And so what happened was that she was okay.

She she just put on her community check group there and said, hey,

guys, I just bought my water fielder. If you're interested, just

let me know. That's it. No hot selling, no ever. You

know how many water coolers I saw about ten ten? I said, what

do you do? Nothing? I just put there there. If you want,

just let me know. I've just bought one. Only it's worked for

me. That's it, I know. How would she said? Then she

said that I could only attribute this to God. That's it. I did

not do heart selling. I do not. I did not full love.

And you know this guy said you have to full up your thing, right,

No I did that. I just put out there. If you want,

you want one, that's it. Friends, I want to carriage you.

God never shot changes. Our faith is required because of obedience. I

thought, the good fight. Friends, you have to be obedient to fight.

Come on, but we are all creatures of peace. I don't want

to fight like you know, fight. Friends. The image of a fighter

is not something that you could imagine. Right, Maybe you can imagine some

people are fighter like Selena. You can menage the fighter. Can you write?

Can you like? Some people get measured the fighter? But majority of

people of peace? Come on? True? Not could you measure yourself as

a fighter? A mentor image changing of friends. But God wants us to

fight for what we believe in the faith, the dream that God has given

you. Many times you surrender the fight because oh I don't want to fight.

I'm a man of peace. We have to defend our faith because the

next generation depends on it. If we have to defend of faith. All

right, I have finished the race. Come on, I have finished the

race. There is a race, ever, and of a here there is

a race that you and I need to run, definitely need to run out.

There is no escape. You need to run the race. The question

is whether or not I think. I think a lot of times we are

running I'm going to saw you from scripture afters, but not not not coming

to the finishing line. Very set the image. Can you imagine right now

if you ever run in the race before, You're constantly running but never come

to the finishing line. Right and Paul reminds us again right that we need

to keep the faith in all of this. How did Paul finish the race?

Friends? The only way Paul finished the race comes from the second sorry,

the words before that second dimity four ward six. Second dimity forward six

is four I have been for I'm really being pawed out as a drink offering.

In other words, friends, Paul have decided that my life is worth

being pawed out in our words. Paul did not hold back on his commitment

to the Lord. Amen, Paul did not hold back on his commitment to

the Lord? What a my holding back? Friends? You and I know

sometimes we make exceptions. Mm hmm, we make exception. We love the

God of love, and we love God as he's loving God. Right.

For example, right, we can picture him as a living God provider God.

Second chances, we love all this image of God. Right, But

the Bible says that God is a holy I touch about holiness. People just

went quiet, quiet, Friends like this here quiet because the what holy means

are meant. Then I was, there's somethings in our heart and our life

and we need to get it together. Mm hmm, we need to get

our life together. But many times this a holiness. God, give me

some time to deal with it. But everything else, please your love,

yes, right, provision, yes, Please don't stop your provision provision God,

please let the overflow holiness, God, I need some time to deal

with it. If we deal with holiness the same way we deal with provision,

First, I can garrite you there is a victue. If we deal

with holiness the way the same way we deal with God. Second chances,

I can guarantee you there will be a victue. But many times, Holy

Oh God cannot. So the Bible did say something about murmuring. I'm going

to show it to you later. Right, Everything else is okay except this

part. So I have to I have to count. No, come to

somebody, all right, not from this church, and really, seriously,

okay, can this but decided that Alex will I'll tell my collete it's my

dad'sch had. I can't use my dad. So telling me they know that

leader in his church. I say, Dad, first of all, you

do not know the full story, true or not. Come on, you

don't know the full story. I told me that you don't know the full

story, so stop stop commenting. Stop the word. Is that trying to

be the third eye, thinking and speculating. I say, for what that

the pastor left? Really let him go, bless him, take him out

for lunch, right, don't be high, go go behind his back and

talk. After that, you and I say, it's it's a senior fellowship,

not a gossip group. This is okay, that's say I have to

use the example from there. So after time, I said, you missed

the mark seeing you. Everybody wants to fight. Everybody likes to claim the

scripture. I thought the I thought the good fight. I kept the race.

I kept. I finished the race. I kept the faith. Keeping

the faith also means this part guarding our mouth. But come on, we

always make exception right, because you know why we are adults. We are

doubts. Come on, adults always be exception one shouldn't can I cannot go

for you for your adults? Right? Only? All right? Come one?

True? We are more mature in Christ. In fact, we are

seniors seenor as you were senior. We have been. We have been in

the Christian long enough where we know how to manage it. You cannot manage

my maringue. You cannot. It's hard. So Paul you The only way

Paul can finished the race is because his life, no exception, no exception.

Friends, Paul, do not tell God this change are Can you come

later? Not because one more segment Paul dealt with you as it came along.

So the only way to remember is this that we don't remember that you

need to put our life. Remember who you are serving. Friends, going

to the chains, the prison that death tread is already if you know who

you're doing it for. Every pyramid sacrifice for the children, because they're doing

it for the child, they remember who he's doing it for. Every leader

and every person that's serving the Lord. Friends, they remember who they're doing

it for. Maybe something we can't forget them. But you need to remember

who you're doing for. Paul remembered. Friends, it's not easy to tell

you that you want to follow Christ. You go to prison. Think about

it. How many were you accept Jesus that tomorrow in the prison? Not

easy? But you remember if if it's for the Lord, it's gonna be

easy. But you remember you're doing it for. Then you are able to

prepare yourself as like a drink offering being pought out. But many times you

forget. Friends. We as we go older, we forget very easily.

One this is onely how many things you forget? You already forget where we

put our keys? In fact, I would like to do this with my

wife. Where did we last after day? Do you know it? Actually

it does take us fifteen minutes sometimes to remember where were last Saturday? Or

you know it's true something you just you just once in a while just ask

where did we go last Saturday? Where do we eat? Reach restaured?

It can't remember because things happened so quickly, new information coming in, all

information not important. We just check it out. Sometimes serving God is the

same as well. Someday we can actually forget who we are serving. But

Paul, remember that's why he's able to pour like a drink offering. The

more we keep saying yes, Lord, it helps us to keep us faithful.

So therefore, friends, we need to be interested in the things of

God. Come on, now, we need to be interested in the things

of God. What do you mean, my dad? So there's four times

prayer rally. Do you know we put four times prairally because all the other

prayer services is all decentralized only meetspun. You will not see central people joining

here four times as a family come together to pray as a church. Goold

right, So therefore they don't come to Subag anymore. Oh you're miss Subama.

Sorry, sorry, I'll let the leadership know. Okay, ex say

they want to meet Subam. Remember who you are serving, okay? John

four thirty four, John forty four. Jesus said to them, my food

is to do the view of him who send me and finishes work. My

food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish

his work. I can't can't give a glimpse to you why sometimes we feel

dry in our in our spiritual war. The word can use the word table

word, not spiritually fat. You heard this word before it is not why

you laugh, I won't becoming anymore this year, right, Why we're not

spiritually? So the Bible he said my food is to do many times,

why we're not fair, it's because we don't do. We want to listen

the Bible. I say, my food is to listen to God's view.

There's too many listeners to too few people doing. Could you imagine Expo Nextsson

to have two services? Is even the coordinator new say amen? Okay,

could you made it therefore? First that I said earlier on, there's no

unemployment, so we need everybody to do because we don't do fairds. That's

why there's no food. Think about it. My food. The way you

get excited, the way you keep your faith alive, the way you keep

your spiritual is to do the view of the Father in the Kingdom of God.

I was talking to a leader the other day and we're just saying that.

Imagine right now, If a church is ten thousand, ten thousand members,

right, ten thousand members, how many of the ten thousand members are

being employed, and it's usable employed by the Kingdom of God, by God's

Kingdom, serving the kingdom, Why would God add to the church new souls.

If there is no employment, full employment in the church, what we're

getting is church transfers. Do you think God will be ultimately glorified for fore

thought? Friend, so Jesus said, my food is to do the view

of the Father. I pray that before you ad let's be a resolved in

your heart. I want to do more next year. I want to serve

the Lord next year, no matter what capacity is. Whereas Selena asked me

to be a host, I want to serve the legs because he is worth

serving. Time is a life. We say, Oh God, no,

so hard, so hard to serve you, so hard to serve your friends.

That's why we're spiritually dry. That's why you're not spiritually fed. And

no matter how many Bibles study you go, go to work, you will

not get more if you don't apply what you have learned. You know got

more if you don't apply what you have learned. So is and to finish

his work. There is enough really to do. There is really enough to

do in the Kingdom of God, if only you know how much of things

to do. There are people that needs to hear the gospel. There are

people that need transportation to church, and am services. There are a few

people that text in they say, hey, I want to come to church.

I can know transport can you can you arrange for me or not?

Today? After I left about there was five responses to the salvation called family

of four from China came. I don't know how they came, but they

came, and few of them came first time to church. God is moving

menjin right now. God is moving through the globe and bringing people to church.

But the church, come on, you need to get ready and to

finish the work. But you know what will happened. The side is for

the leaders. Friends. No, that's why we forget who we are serving.

So isn't it true water baptism? Right when you get baptized, the

baptizer will ask you do you confess Jesus Christ as your personal law and savior?

Cry not remember if you ever wanter baptized yet today's you can Aslena,

he should make away where this seems to be no way, just k true.

Baptizer will ask you do you confess that Jesus Christ is a person lat

savior? Right? The baptizer we'll not ask you do you confess Jesus Christ

as your best friend, no best friend, no manager, no leader,

nothing as your person law and savior, law and savior. And everybody who's

in the will say yes what Nobody at the times said no because the moment

is like someone proposed to should he say yes? Because oh nice? Right?

Someone can be like oh and someone if you're, if you're, you're

both this today someone right, the moment sweeps you and say yes. I

was. I was watching one particular person get about the baptized. He went

under the water for illast twenty seconds because he continued on pray for the person.

All the person in the water there pray that came up. But but

here's the thing. After you get up, you remember two months down,

two months down the road, we can actually forget, We actually confess that

Jesus Christ as a person in law and savior. And that's why sometimes our

faith is very shaky, because you need to do you need to reinforce your

belief that he is Lord. Sorry, I'm moving a lot here because I

need to stay awake. I really need to stay away. I got six

cups ready. Yeah. First, the focus is Geez. The focus is

the father, his assignment and to finish his work. Finally, it's going

to be this all right. He must increase an eye decrease in your life

before the end, before the alarm bells rings. Okay, has he increased

this year or not? Come on? Has he increased this year or not?

John Treat thirty three thirty PM, John Treat thirty forget descripturezy John Tree

three zero. He must increase an eye decrease in your life this year.

Has he increased or not? Come on? Has he increased more this year

or not? Or are you still struggling to read the Book of John which

is only one page? Has he increased? On? First? He must

ask at the honest question. We know the honesty very hard. Oh,

I got read the Bible. Every time the Bible approps a scripture in the

morning on a I got three hunger fre scripture that comes to my mind.

Good, my mom's gonna say bad. But you have to go beyond there.

That was last year to zoo two four. At least two more scriptures

coming to your heart. Friends, Yeah, there goes a subscription to more

Bible app friends. He must increase and I decrease. What happened when we

forget who we are serving? Ah? Right, BUTO the right. Why

don't we forget who we are serving weapons the turn of his year. The

Bible says they were in captivity, they were slaves in Egypt. Great deliverance,

great sea party. Right then God provided for them. You know the

story provided for them. Okay, KFC came came, all right, he

came, he came. I'm just using very loose interpretation. But for so

many months and years, and KFC, you also want to drop radio,

I know that's what happened. They begin to complain. They begin to complain,

like God, it's the same scenery, it's the same food. It's

better to be in Egypt. Tend to follow you. I talk about mmorying

just hour. It's sut a very very subtle and right, very subtle God.

If we did decentralized God, if it's very subtle, God wasn't happy

because God knew the hearts of the people more than the people knew their own

hearts. And this is what happened. And I was reading the Bible,

got with me. Did you know the tune of visual right? Still follow

the Lord but never entered the promised land? Think about it. It's that

you follow the Lord but never entered the Promise Land. Do you know,

all heart and disappointed. It could be that we think that we are following

the Lord, thinking that we can enter the promison, but in actual fact

that we only see the borders but cannot enter. It's a very sad picture,

no friends, to be like the tune of is your right, pillar

of cloud by day, the club by day, bill of fire at night,

provision right. You get all the blessing right, all the miraculous thing

that happened, but you miss them out because you cannot enter the Promised Land.

Very said. Because God has always intended for you and me to enter

the Promised Land. We can do every day. It can come to church,

go for prayers, service, but if our heart is not totally given

to the Lord, we can miss out on the Promised Land. You can

do what you can, even give, offering everything God can bless you financially

as well, but not entering the Promised Land. Not entering the rest and

the day we brieth will last. If you don't enter the rest and the

Promise Land will miss out. That's why you need to remember who we are

serving. The tune of Israel for God. They're serving God. They begin

to complain and and they miss out friends someone us missing out, Only there

is always a second thing that comes along our way. I was talking to

a guy who just broke up. I wait for this girl. Maybe I

can catch up the thing. Or maybe if I go off a new girl,

right, I might be missing out. If I wait, I might

be missing out the other. Like, dude, you think this is what

this is? This is sushi belt conveyor belt with it. I think like

alex O, I know, you know, like missing out friends. I

maybe you're so concerned. It's true, out of friends. It's true.

You know it should be concerned about my life and then this stuff. But

it's beyond that. But this is our calling and God's calling to us us,

isn't it true? Don't be like the ture real miss out. They

couldn't enter the Promised Land. If you've got many friends who travel down to

Singapore, stop at JB because I forgot to bring the passport. I got

friends that forgot to being the past passport less a six month. Don't be

the immigration officer. I just have to talk to them. Cannot in there.

They stayed in Gimi for a couple of years of your own fellowship in

Singapore. That's what happens. You can only see the excitement only across the

river or the long comes. You can only see the excitement that everything there,

but you cannot enter. And that's why a lot of Christians we miss

out, because we don't have obedience in our hearts. We miss out.

And finally it's going to be this, friends, The only reason why Paul

cant completely. He remembers, this whole entire journey is spiritual. Come on

right now, it is spiriture the friends, this Christian work that we have

is not just physical yea physically here, but it's a spiritual journey. God

call you for a spiritual journey with him. Right turn me, miroral galationis

chapter five, verse sixteen. Come on, gaitions. Chapter five or sixteen

says that walk in the spirit, and you should not for fee the last

of the flesh. He asked encouraging us to walk in the spirit. He's

encouraging us for us to walk in the spirit. Many times our journey,

we actually can forget what it means to be a believer. In other words,

friends, spiritual discipline, a few of them is pray and fasting.

Prayer and fasting. I want to encourage you to zero two four start the

year right, join us or pray rarey. Subsequently after that, be engaged

this year with fasting because we really need the lot on friends, you don't

know how much we need the lot until we actually prayer. Ask God for

and for his wisdom. The Bible say, if anybody likes wisdom, we

can ask from him, but we don't ask well, ask for everybody else.

Come on now, if we need provisions, ask from him. He'll

provide. But it's easier to ask someone else. So the Bible here says,

walk in the spirit, and you shall not fore feel the loss of

the flesh word seventy. The flesh last against the spirit. They're constantly in

war fighting, friends. A lot of Christians try to manage the flesh.

Mm hmm. We tried to think that we can always beat it to submission

very hard. I'm not talking about craving for a chocolate tale. You're supposed

to die here, crave for a checkout you give yourself the chocolate tale or

the pop belly and this stuff like that. Okay, I'm not talking about

craving for you cannot take sugars sudden you walk us a this shop, you

just wack it. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about someone life

choices. Right, We make things based on what we see alone and not

what how God wants is and where God wants us to go. Very important

for you and I to remember this is a spiritual journey. A spiritual journey.

Therefore, we need to ask God, God, please help me give

me strength. Why did God say that I'll give you strength like eagles.

It's none of us gonna go feathers. It's a spiritual journey, you and

I. The Bible says God will make it where it seems to be no

way, a river in the desert. We have this image, spiritual image

of what it looks like. So it is a spiritual journey. Friends,

Paul, I want to encourage every believer in relatious The only way to overcome

the flesh is to you to the spirit. Come on right now, isn't

it true? We can We can stay up to book a concert. Very

hard to stay up or read the Bible in the morning. No, no,

no, If you stay up the concert, God bless you. Okay,

it's over already done with, but sure, come on, come on,

it's very true. One. I'm just trying to just show to you,

Okay, if you're that the group, I'm not knocking you. Okay,

please please, okay, please all right, like's again, this is

my last time in this church this year, my last time in this church

this year. You're not supping to see me anymore this year, right?

But everything else easier one when it comes to for example, diety is easier

than spiritual fasting, true, isn't it? I think is easier and spiritual

fasting. When you fast your purpose is for the Lord. It's hard one,

but your first because you want to get healthy, will get leaner.

You want to have it packs slightly easier, not easy, but slightly easier.

When you want to read the Bible in the morning is harder. But

when someone asks you out for tim is easier. Why is because come on,

you understand this, right the flesh, come on the right the flesh.

The flesh always tryable all the spirit, because we allow the flesh to

have full rain. So the pause asking the trade relations the work in the

spirit, and you shall not fulfill. How do we complete this journey?

This is to war in the spirit. The Bible says that God has given

us the Holy Spirit. Here's your helper, here's your advocate. He will

guide you into all truth. But many times we don't engage with the Holy

Spirit. Ask God, I want to encourage you as as I draw it

to or close very soon. That Paul is reminding us again that to walk

in this part here, it's just to represent the pattern of conduct of one's

life. Pattern of conduct of one's life. He's not asking you to walk

from point A to point B. But how we make decision, How we

make decisions. Sometimes we make decisions just purely by the flesh. And you

know, sometimes the hardy exist that when we have walked to a person because

this viision was just met without anything, without consultation, with a love,

without prayer. If we have to walk to a person's journey, a person's

life. As a leader in church, I need to walk to with some

couples that when they fall in love in the first place is all on the

outside, very quick, very immediate, two hours after knowing the person,

she's my life partner or he's my life partner. God, but we say

hold on first, okay, good that you like somebody prays a Lord,

at least you like somebody ela, pray at least pray about it. I

think, is it good? Wife's not pray about it? Not batter and

you see, don't don't pursue prayer about it. God prayer about it two

days and God gave me confirmation almost like the direct line. You know,

friends, sometimes we we pray for God's guiding, for guidance with the church

label in like one man of prayer will So don't have a clear direction.

This is not like life partners, No friends, forty years of your life

given to the same person twenty four hours can get connection? Okay, I

cannot when the person us is the name the Lord told me, it's okay,

how to argue you? Come on? Come on? When you got

choers it? The Lord spoke to me how to our guess paren because the

Lord is bigger than our nima. But we can we know one friends,

we know, come on, is any true as peras we know one reading

of prayer? Not because the fruit will tell right. So after that,

but they pursued. They ran all in a right other day thing and everything.

You have to tell people, hey, don't go, don't go,

don't go, don't go, don't go. Holiday by yourself. Okay,

because you've got a lifetime. Why I need to fast track everything now after

you come. You don't go for a holiday before you come. You want

to go all the holiday? So how do you don't understand old fashion?

Are you? We promise to stay in different rooms? I say, but

there's nobody there to promise me you will not cross the line? I say,

who knows? You say now only you cannot even wait? What in

the spirit? And you're not for fear the loss of the flesh? There's

nothing wrong in praying God? Say wait, can we take away from the

lot? Can we take a no from God as a yes? We like

yes? We got to restaurant and they say you got this dishes? Not

yes? We go to a car okay place God? This is all not

yes? Could no? God? This also no? We don't like know

it's because no, it's dempening our spirit, our excitement. I will joy

right with em. I only give them one start. If always a no,

try giving God one star because you say no, think about it?

So what in the spirits? I close right now. Friends, I want

to encourage you before you end the year, have this mindset. I want

to complete my race wherever you are with the journey, whether you're young,

young, slightly slightly, slightly, slightly older, young, all right,

wherever you are with the journey, have this way. I want to complete

my journey. I want people to be able to stand up and say it

at the last year and breathe my last day that I actually thought the good

fight. I don't people just use scripture because he's a believer. I don't

people just use a scripture because he's a believer. Right, and many times

friends can be honest when we use the scripture. So what fight do you

fight for? I know that some people in our church. I'm not asking

you to change the world. I know that people in some who lost a

love for our church. That family men who passed away, the fight was

really just to go to church, to provide a Christian environment for the children.

That was the only fight they had and they thought it well. Their

fight in the early days of their life is just to go to church.

The only believer in the family. Parents say no by saying that I got

to go to church. H what is what has what have we been fighting

for? Your just your rights? This is our rights? My right is

my comfort? Or say God maybe I've been misled, Maybe I've other words,

I I've went through my own journey, and she forgot who I'm serving.

Should we can actually forget who we are serving on after a while,

right, It's not like Jesus is physically year all right, if Jesus comes

to the farm of Selena, guarantee you everybody he'll be saving. No,

seriously, sorry, but it's true. If it means if there's a physical

Jesus, guarantee nobody, nobody he'll be if I know, just extra hours

on you putting in God, come on, give me more, give me

more. But there's no physical Jesus here, but there is Jesus up in

heaven. Say God, I'm gonna just want to give you my heart because

like like Paul, his life will just pour out. My commitment is to

you Lord. So as this year really draws to it and hallelujah, the

good, the bad, the ugly, the victory, something like, yeah,

immediate to the year end, right, start a brand new year.

But friends, it's not just a chronological year. You know what I mean

that I mean we looked it's like I know, every time across over first

January there's new excitement, you joy hoping something will be different man, But

the moment we just surrendered the Lord, it will be different. We do

not need to wait. I did the first culture first January. Ya.

It can be a new year by the decision we've made with the Lord.

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