An Opportunity In Every Obstacle | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

will light up your day. I have a very simple message for you today.

It's sort of like two messages, but because I only have so much

time with you, I'll give you the first part. It was a two

part message that I just recently finished. Well, last Sunday I finished it

at the ex got take the morning and may the Holy Spirit be with us

and bless our time annoying the preaching of the Word for the glory of God.

So a simple title this morning, an opportunity in every obstacle. I

would like all of you before we finished, to live a life with the

eyesight of seeing every thing that happens to you and to me as an opportunity.

Every obstacle will be turned into opportunities for the glory of God. If

you believe it, say amen, I want you to have those eyes before

twenty twenty four begins. You've heard it said before, and the next Light

says opportunities are often disguised as obstacles, and that's why so many of us

miss them. Opportunities are often disguised as we can only see obstacles. We

can only see the pain. We can only see the problems. We can

only see you know, the hopelessness and the trouble and the testings. And

yet God uses testings until today he uses testings and turns them into testimonies.

Don't miss your opportunities. Don't miss your testimony? Is somebody say, amen,

I want you, by the grace of God, to see every problem

as an opportunity to work the works of God, every problem as an opportunity.

I want you to approach every difficulty as an opportunity to reveal God's power

and to glorify his name. So I want to tell you now to scripture.

Could you please turn with me to John chapter nine? John chapter nine?

Where are we having lunch afterwards? Are you hungry? Really? Wow?

He's hungry? People that don't answer John chapter nine? Well, maybe

now you're hungry for God's word? How about that? Exampunk said, A

good way to introduce exampunk. Hungry for God's word? All right? So

I read a couple of weeks ago in ex Got the Community. I read

twenty five verses because it was two parts. But this morning I want to

read to you just five. This five is said? Okay, are you

happy? This is just five. That means lunch is nine. It's nearer.

Let's read the word of God. Now. As Jesus passed by Verse

one, he saw a man who was blind from birth, and his disciples

ask him, saying, Rabbi, who's sin this man or his parents that

he was born blind? I thought that was a very unique question, you

know why, because I wonder how a man can be born blind? And

his problem that he's sin you know, I mean, yeah, he's sin

in the womb. It's a funny question. Anyway, Let's repeat that question,

Rabbi, who's sin this man or his parents that he was born blind?

Now, of course, h if it was someone else besides Jesus who

was answering, we would probably agree that is the parent's fault. We will

see how Jesus answered, But I just want to be honest with you.

Many of us, we will probably answer it must have been his parents fault.

Let's blame it on the parents. How can one be born blind if

there is no sin involved? Could be an answer that we could give if

we are not careful, But Jesus didn't answer that way. Hallelujah, we

can learn something from the Lord today. Verse three Jesus answered, neither this

man nor his parents sin who neither? But Ah, so he answers the

theological question, because ladies and gentlemen, this is a question of theology.

Does God punish people for their sins in the way we think he does?

To be honest, A lot of us in this room I struggle with that

because we have read the Old Testament again and again, and we've seen the

wrath of God. We've seen him punish Israel. Oh, I want to

tell you that even when you read the Old Testament, that he's very patient,

very very gracious, full of mercy. He doesn't slap you across the

face on one sin. Are yours to do with me? So you got

to read our Bible carefully. And even though Israel sin again and again,

God used Israel to show all of us that he is a good, patient,

loving, forgiving, gracious God who keeps restoring us even though we don't

deserve it. He's a good God. Somebody say, amen, So Jesus

says, I'll answer you this theological question. Neither. Do you know why?

I think that was a shocker, because it must be in the theology

of the mind of the Jews that he does. For them to ask that

question, it must already be in their minds. The theology of the time

was that God will make someone blind because his parents sin, and so they

ask. They expected Jesus to answer one of them now, but he said,

neither. God himself in the form of his son, Jesus Christ answered

the theological question, and I'm glad he did, because he's God. And

when you use the word theology, it just means the study of God.

Theology means studying how God thinks, how he feels, how he works.

So the theology in their minds, and maybe here in this room they are

theology that may have to be challenged this morning, because sometimes, especially as

Malaysians, we might not have been bought a Christian. Maybe we come from

a different religion, and the religion that we came from practices different thoughts.

Maybe it's out of fear that they could be worshiping. Maybe it's out of

wanting to be rewarded that they keep going and doing whatever it is they want

to do. So when we become Christians, some of these all theology follows

us. And I want you to be careful about that, okay. So

Jesus says what neither. So he answers the question, hallelujah? What a

short What a short answer to a deep theological question? And sometimes we might

not even be satisfied. And Jesus probably knew that his disciples would not be

satisfied. That's why he said, but let me further answer you, because

the next question will probably be why then? Why did this happen to me?

Why did this happen to my family? Why did this happen to our

church? So he went on, knowing their hearts and their minds, but

that the works of God should be revealed in him. Jesus now introduces God

into the picture and tells you that it is for his glory that anything that

happens in your life, no matter how dark and painful and stressful and troublesome

and inconvenient, you can turn everything around for the glory of God. And

can I hear good? Amen? I come from a family that's broken.

My mom and my dad divorced when I was one, so I don't have

a mom, and I have a step mom who only entered my life at

ten. By twelve, I had the guts to ask her, can I

call you mom? Because I never call anybody mom. My dad was on

drugs marijuana ganja for twenty five to thirty years of his life. So I

never had a dad who was, you know, saying for too many hours

of the day. He was only sane quote unquote and at peace when he

smoked, and then he would be high. Then people think that, oh,

you know, to get peace and to be high and forget all my

troubles, that I've got to be on substance. But how many of you

know, and you know that I smiled about it because I preach your buddy

for so many years. Let's get high on the most high, because the

most high God gives us peace that surpass us all understanding gods are hearts and

mind's true Christ Jesus. But my dad was most of the time absent.

Even though he was around, absent, not quite there. He was very

famous. The whole Malaysia knew him because you know his name, Mike Bernie

Chin, manager of Suderman promoter. You know who brought in the biggest name,

Michael Jackson, so everybody knows him. People will be calling to our

office for free tickets, especially when Diner Ross came our office. Foreigner never

stopped ringing, and they're coming from the Prime Minister's office. They're coming out

because they can't get tickets. Two thousand tickets sold out within twenty four hours.

Diner ross. She's not someone that I follow, so I wasn't.

I was half excited. My father was very excited. When we did the

concert in put Our Watry Center. What you could see multi millionaires and tunkus

and tan streets standing up and just going for it, you know, because

he was their time. You know. Ah, I'm like, whoa,

Okay. After we went back outside, the body got okay, and dignity

came back, Yes, bank cool, dignity all came back. But inside

there who as he was famous and yet broken? Outside externally all right,

but inside a wife beata, a child beater. Okay. Why am I

saying all this to you, because as soon as you put God in the

picture, then you end up from a broken boy to a man who helds

a microphone to preach on a Sunday. Only when you can put God in

the picture. Before my father died, he has stroke, you know,

Can I just tell you, Ray, Honestly, I hated my dad because

the discipline was hard, a little bit of wrong belt comes out twelve to

sixteen whips while I stood there, I just want to get married and get

lost. You know, I want to make my own money and buy dad

right. But that's my only excuse because I became a Christianity. So a

Christian can't kick your dad out. So you better find a more legitimate way

to get out, a more holy way to get out. Nobody can blame

you for getting out. Now, get married. I got married at twenty

five, twenty eight years of marriage. Now, and then he gets struck

and he has nobody else but me. I take him in with tears.

No, because I was said for him. I was said for me and

my wife. God, I just left the house, give me a break,

and God turned everything around. You see, we keep using the word

God. That's what Jesus did too. But that God, God could be

revealed in this situation, that we could work his works and give him the

glory a broken boy. You know, I could have also taken ganjar right.

I could have also gone that way, because you know it's natural poor,

so poor that when the robber came to rob our house, we robbed

him. That's that's a joke. Very poor underwear or hand me down from

my uncle. How can a twenty five year old man give a six year

old boy he's underwear. And also they used to give it to me with

rubber bands so they can tie both ends because you know it was loose.

I know you're gross out now, but lunch is coming. Never had any

new clothes, never had any new things. A cousin used to laugh at

me because his father was my uncle was rich, and so my cousin got

everything. And I was living in their house, and it was hard because

he used to laugh at me, you know, and so he was painful.

But God, who but God? But God? And I want all

of you to be able to know whatever you're going through. But God,

and he would turn this test into a testimony. But four, I must

work the works of him who sent me. While it is day. The

night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in

the world, I am the light of the world. Let's look at the

next light. He says five things to consider before the work works. We

want to work the works of God. We want to give him glory.

Somebody say, amen, we want to. We know as Christians we should,

but it's easier say than done. And why do so many of us

miss it? Why when I was called to plant ex Church three twenty four

years ago, I was so scared. I was a youth preacher, youth

evangelist. Three thousand young people had given their lives to Christ by the time

I was done in five years, and I was happy. I said,

Lord, thank you for so many young people rout Malaysia coming to you,

know you. And the Lord says, I'm not satisfied because I've never asked

you to make decisions, because it was three thousand decisions that young people gave

their lives of Christ. I never asked you to make decisions. I asked

you to make disciples. And when you come up to heaven, I'm not

gonna ask you about souls. I'm gonna ask you about how many disciples do

you make? So what if you say we got twenty million souls? You

know where are they? You know? I read books and reports from Billy

Graham, and we found out that all the people that if receive Christ in

stadiums, they put it at five percent. Only they go to church.

Where are they go ye and make decisions? No, go in and make

And so I struggled because it was so much easier being an Itinerant Minnesota.

You come, you speak, people might like you, people might not.

People will laugh at your jokes and probably even think, Wow, you're the

best speaker I ever heard. Praise God, and then you leave, and

then whatever trouble that they go through, they go to their pastor. So

the pastor gets all the headaches and you get all theer praise because you only

came one time. And usually Itineran speakers when we go to churches, we

are choosing our top messages, whereas a pastor has to prepare a fresh message

every Sunday. Not easy. So the Lord wanted me to catch a heart

of a pastor and allowed me to pastor church. And we started with three

people, all right, Me and two other guys who and thank God there

was three more Father Son and Holy Spirit. With God, all things are

possible. Sometimes people quote that wrongly. They say for God, all things

are possible, nothing is impossible for God. The Bible doesn't say that because

we understand that, of course, for God, everything is possible, but

it says with God means you have to work with him in all your situations

and circumstances are. With God, you've got to walk with him. Of

course, all things are possible for this dude. Look at him, Crystal,

Oh so fast. I was listening to I was just looking at these

good looking guys than you, and I thought and thought, yeah, yeah,

but then you know what God wants is to invite us. So whatever

trouble, whatever situation is like with it's like like like waiting right now,

with with with with with, don't suddenly go your own man, become a

hero. No, with with God, nothing is impossible. Thanks brother,

Thanks for being ready in the hell season for me to do, you know,

he was it's all about teachers, right, So you've got to do

teaching role modeling. Yeah, so five things to consider here we go.

First one, we've got to overcome the theological problem. There's a theological problem.

Who's sin this man? All his parents that he was born blind?

Number two, I'll give you all five points this well, second point,

oh well, he is the part of the first point. The theology.

That's okay, don't worry what I know you're messing me. Theology determines the

testimony, all right, just just keep them in mind. The theology determines

the testimony. And sometimes the reason why we haven't received our testimony is because

a theology may not be correct. Number two, a God perspective. Bring

God into that situation. With God, all things are possible. And I'm

three, knowing our purpose, I must work the works of Him. I

must Jesus it. Do you know your purpose? If you don't know your

purpose, you will not be able to work the works of God. And

then he says, while it is while it is day, knowing the times

or the time or the times. A lot of people, you know,

they know what to do, but they don't do it, or they do

it tomorrow and we miss it. He says, while it is day now,

and I'm a five, knowing our identity. As long as I'm in

the world, I am the light of the world. I'm gonna put all

these five to test now and tell you one or two stories. Are you

ready? So I was a seventeen year old young man who was a Christian

only two years at fifteen, I became a Christian. I told you the

story behind how my dad and I ended up at a stadium, you know,

doctor Dinna Karen preached and my dad accepted the Lord look at me and

said, how about you. I lifted up my hands for fear, and

so you might you might say that I was. You know, some people

say scared to hell. I was scared to heaven because my dad, you

know, how about you? How about you? Yes that, yes,

that I wasn't even listening to the message. But later on, when my

dad gave up his ganja, he gave up forty sticks of cigarette a day,

all because of the power of Jesus. I knew that there is truth

and power in this God that I serve. I didn't really know him.

We were Catholics. My dad even served at the altar in the Catholic Church.

But you know, it's not about which denomination, it's not about external,

It's about what happens inside. Do you really know him? Do you

really know Jesus to the extent that your life is changed. Jesus equals change,

and if you know Jesus, you must change is just a byproduct of

really knowing the King of Kings and the Lord of lords. So seventeen years

old, I was already two years as a Christian, and I tell you

what, God was very kind to me. He gave me such a stirring

in my heart a love for him. So I wake up every morning five

five in the morning, spend time an hour at least with a lot.

So I was one of those teenagers that was on fire for God. But

it's God, God who put it on my heart. And I know every

time I see people on fire and other kind of thing, I hope they

give good glory to God because even the very passion in your heart comes from

Him. Because oh I had my own passion, forget it. Our flesh

is stronger. And if without the spirit's help, so I never give myself

the glory even if I'm on fire attributed to God. He stern and I

just have to see, Yes Lord, Yes, Lord, Yes Lord,

work with with him, work with him, walk with him, and all

things shall be possible. And so a band boy from somewhere here the former

Equatorial Hotel those days a call. He didn't know who else called, so

he called Mike Bernie, my dad, might I need your help. There's

a friend of mine. We play on the same band. They have Filipinos.

He has been trying to jump out of the hotel window three times.

Now. I saved his life three times. I can't keep doing this because

I don't, you know, maybe I would have I will miss it not

being able to save him the next time, or I will always I will

not have any sleep because I'm always awake trying to make sure I, you

know, watch over him. And of course my dad was really a Christian.

He said, we can pray for him. He says, yeah,

I was hoping that you will. This man has not slept for two and

a half weeks, like a zombie. Every night he looks to the ceiling

crying, and so he was so much in that situation. He just wanted

to end it all. So they took a taxi those days, no grab

and it got to my dad's office in Tama Pramata and he went in and

my dad, as he was trying to minister tell his story. The friend

was listening. But the man who wanted to die just he really looked like

someone who didn't sleep for two and a half weeks, and pale and looking

down, no movements, no response. So my dad, after by an

hour, called his home fellowship beater his Selfodbader, Uncle Siping is his name.

He's home with a lot now and he said, Siping, I need

your help. Can you please come, and so Siping decides to call me.

I'm like, what you guys got ahead? This guy things. I

know there's a two year old teenager Christian. He's Kenny. Would you like

to come with me? And I said, okay, why not? Know

maybe he wants me to learn from him how to do deliverance, you know

that maybe Ah, So he came picking me up. He went to my

dad's office and showing it up. No, my dad. I think he

was so tired that he was like so confused, you know, like I

can't do this. And so he walks out to greet us at the front.

His sippings have being come, come, come, let me let me

give you the brief versa. So he told him the story and Sideping's walking

in and I'm walking behind them. Then we got to my father's conference room

and we saw the friend is smiling, but the other guy, not even

looking up, wants to die, wants to die. And so Uncle Siping

sits down and begins to speak to him. And the Word of God is

being turned right from page to page back and it's good. The Word of

God is living and powerful, sharper than any two ages sought piercing even to

the division of soul and spirit and soul and joints and marrow, and is

a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. He Brews fortune half.

Okay, cool, I love God's word, but I want to tell

you something because a lot of you also listen to God's word every Sunday and

google. In fact, some of you are. We have too much of

information because these days that you can attend five churches on a Sunday, just

true online and you choose your best speakers. It's not about what you hear,

it's about what you do with what you hear. Very important. So

uncus hipping scripture, scripture another hour and the man's face didn't lift up.

Let me tell you beforehand, uncus HIPing. When he caught me and told

me that you know your dad needs help. We're going to pray for a

man. I just got my knees and I said, Lord, I don't

know what to do. I've never prayed for people like that before. If

you could help, please help, And the Lord dropped something in my heart.

You know, those days, I didn't know God's voice that well,

didn't know whether he was speaking to me or not. It was my flash.

But he dropped a word I didn't tell Gus Iberg was I'm like,

what was that? So then this man doesn't lift up his head at all.

Scripture of the scripture. Finally, even after Sieping got tired and sometimes

you can missus to be minister to people and get so tired. No,

he's going nowhere. And so the best Christian way to end the meeting is

let's pray. Let's pray. I think that's good. Why not? It's

good? Why not let's pray? But then in me I knew something was

not finished, something was not finished. And so as a guess says,

why don't you bow your heads? You know? I mean the man's head

was bow ready the whole time. And then there's a stirring in my heart.

Say it, Kenneth say, And so I said, I'm guessing against

agains. I think because the we're going down, ready, Okay, can

I say something that he gets up? He goes like sure, sure,

Kenny. My dad like yeah, yeah, if you're anything to say,

say I say, I just want to ask this man still down, what

does he think about his father? Within thirty seconds he cries, and within

another three minutes he speaks, and he says, my father has never loved

me, never hugged me, never say anything positive. When I come back

with nine a's, he asks me, why not ten? He says,

And then you tell me there's a father in heaven, and you tell me

what the word says about him, And the only image I can get is

my own dad. There is a theological disconnect the view of God, the

understanding of how he works. Is he like your dad that punishes you every

time you say something wrong, do something, will slap you across the face.

Is he the god that walks around with the cane, always looking for

the black dot on the white wall? Is he a sin chaser that chases

down your sin? What kind of god? You see? Theology and the

only reflection he had. That's why earthly fathers please remember our role is to

be so God lead to our children that when it's their time to accept Jesus,

it would be so easy for them. They go like, if Father

goes anything like my father on earth, I want you know what I'm saying,

that's all. That's what you're supposed to line up the way for them.

The day comes when Jesus says, I want you because there's no there's

no grandchildren in God, only children. So even or he's your son or

she's your daughter, she needs to accept Jesus. By the time she gets

a place and they say Father, they say, oh, oh, yeah,

I've got a good taste of Father. But let me just go on

to say that maybe even in this room, many of us didn't have that

privilege either, because you know, we grew up from a strict home and

dad mom, maybe they're not around no, so like mine, I don't

know. You know, forgive your parents. Please, please forgive your parents.

I forgive my dad. With God, we can with God, we

can forgive them. Forgive them really, because God will turn it all around.

He will turn your ugliness into beauty, your darkness into light. He

would turn your impossibilities into possibilities. So three minutes went on to three minutes,

and we now just had to explain that Father God is nothing like your

father on earth. And when that theology changed, they went home after prayer

and a friend who went back to Ecatorial hotel because those days are no handphone,

so we went back to Ecatoria hotel. He couldn't wait to call my

Dad, He says, Mike, my friend got into the taxi and slept

all the way through peace, joy and all that you ever needed. Starts

with overcoming a theological problem. I still find Christians praying because they think that

prayer can twist God's arms. That's a wrong theology. Oh, let's fast

and pray, then we can move God's hand. Listen, watch for these

theologies. Oh, when I give, you know then he will give.

Be very careful. I give because God deserves, And whether he chooses to

give me whatever I want or not, that's his progative. In fact,

if I read the word correctly, he will give me efphicients three twenty above

beyond, exceedingly abundantly. There's a kind of God iself. Don't limit him

with your small mind. You know I wanted. No God can give you

more than that by is that the reason why you give so theology? So

we could be even fasting the wrong way, praying the wrong way, giving

the wrong way, serving the wrong way. And listener, I had this

from the lass. I'll give it to you. But it sounds hard that

if you are thinking about a god in your mind and praying to the God

in your mind, and fasting to the God in your mind who is not

God. Then you are practicing idolatry. Very hard work to me, Kenneth.

You got to get me right in your mind, because until you get

me right in your mind, you will not have your testimony. It's almost

like this, right if your daughter came up to you and just because you

are wearing a blue jacket, and so is Alex Martin, and your daughter

runs for Alex Martin because he has a blue jacket. That wrong. Wrong.

You also have a black tie. You also have a black tye.

Yo, this is perfect, and we think you're going a daddy. Daddy,

you go home with you Hello, you can be so. But I

thought I thought I worshiped this way because I thought if I don't, you

slapped me across the free You understand? Are you let by fear or by

love? Because perfect love cast out fear one John four eighteen, Perfect love

cast off here everybody. Okay, I want to spend the most time on

point number one. The rest of all, I'll just go for lunch.

After that, you're gonna we're gonna run the next four points. The man

was totally delivered just because he heard all this scripturicity, pray the pras why

still no breakthrough? Because God? Wrong God? Hello, wrong God?

And this is sometimes you know. Of course, I've been in youth ministry

for thirty five years. I always use my imagination. I feel like it's

like this, right. Everybody is in front of him praying. He's saying

hello, here, Hello, here, good God, patient God, loving

Father, Holy God. And no, no, don't don't keep looking at

these are not And every time you miss God, you actually are praying to

someone else. Hell, Hello, yeah, Hello, forgiving. The Bible

says, slow to anger. Hello, No, he's very angry. Who

are you talking about? That's not me. Bible says, I'm slow to

anger. No, you get angry very quickly. Hello. Who are you

talking to? Quick to forgive? No, he doesn't forgive? Hello,

excuse me? Wake up. I don't know who you're praying to, but

I'm here, I'm here, and you get it right. Then. The

second point is make sure you add God into the picture and say that,

no matter what it is, as long as God is there, Oh,

can I hear? Good? Amen? As long as God is there is

going to be okay. He will never leave you nor forsake you. You

heard my tested me before I became a lawyer, and then I gave up

my law because God says I love young people, go out and reach them.

So gave up. I said, Lord, how am I going to

be provided for? Right? And there you go thirty years without a salary.

How who lives like that? But when I read my Bible, I

see them going forty years in the wilderness and God provided. So you either

believe in this God you don't know because the God that I see provided for

his people forty years. So now it's thirty years for me. But can

you see that God hasn't forsaken me. People are telling me how does the

pastor go without a salary? I said, it's not my choice. I

didn't choose. I didn't choose it. God told me, I want you

to be a living example that I am. I the God of the wilderness

still is God, and I'm blessed. I'm very blessed. Praise the Lord.

My eyes are on him who provides. Maybe I can be encouragement to

somebody, he who probably missed your salary two months. God is going to

provide. It's going to come true for you, everybody. Okay, now,

don't just because I say that, everybody give me a white envelope,

give me money up the gator, and never say I'm blessed. Radia,

I'm blessed. I have a nice card. Downstairs, I'm blessed. You

know my house, remember not I told you sorry my house. The lot

says, I want to buy you this house. You know I didn't have

money in my bank at all, and the Lord has bought me the house.

A long story shot. God wants to be glorified in your situation.

Number three. I'm going through the points now knowing our purpose. I must

work the works of God while it is day. So number three and number

four let me just handle that with a story. A couple of weeks ago,

our pastor for ex Chaerras past the Gloria lost her mom. Amazing lady

Pastor Chitra Paul is her name Dynamic Dynamic. She worked for an organization I

think it's a street street revival church. The founder was Pastor Robert Judah Paul,

who once upon a time, the Lord you know, told me to

give my whole cafe to the story was so crazy. You know, I

had need of money. The cafe was about to be sold for thirteen thousand

ring Gate. I will take the money and I'll go and start the youth

ministry opposite Taylor's College in s s fifteen. But that night I was invited

to go and speak and share my vision to a group of businessmen. And

then the other guy is supposed to be Robert Judah Paul stand up and talk

about his Chodcate ministry. I finished speaking and I sat down, and Robert

Joda Paul stands up and he shares Chocate ministry blah blah blah, very very

wonderful ministry. Sits down for three seconds and then gets up. Oh sorry.

I also want to tell you that we have a desire to start a

cafe. And why because the people that reminsis they are dying and to show

them the love of Jesus sometimes and show them with a hot meal. We

want to cook for them. But we don't have a plate, We don't

have plates, we don't have cutleries. So we want to start a cafe.

You know. He told me a sorry Robert Jodapaul told me a story

of how sometimes they find people on the street in chow Kate and the wood

is so deep you can see the bone, and maggots are coming out of

the wood, and so they take the man and wash the wood, and

the man dies in twenty four hours, but he has a hot meal because

because they drink the water from the child kit drains, they don't have anywhere

else to drink the water. So it's bad, bad, bad. And

so the Lord said to me, Kenneth, give him your cafe. And

I call him the next morning. I said, Robert, the Lord has

told me to give you my cafe. And there was silence on the other

side of the phone. I thought he died, and I said, Robert,

Robert, Judah Porter, you're still there. He said, yes.

I'm speechless because both of us were supposed to stand up and share among businessmen

and hopefully the business men will catch it and then give. You are the

one in need, and you are giving. I said, it's like that

line. The whole of Christianity is always those in need that gives. And

I tell you, I don't know why I've done this for so long.

Businessmen usually are very slow because you've got to be careful that you know,

money doesn't become out God. You've got to be able to let go,

let God anyway. Out of obedience, I gave him my cafe and then

miracles happened after that. You've got to know your purpose. I had the

cafe and God said give it away, not next year. You know.

I couldn't sleep the whole night because I didn't know how to tell my wife.

And I'm going to give away the cafe. But I told. I

told, because you know you have to tell you. I said, wife,

can I tell you something now? By dinner, she already knew I

was crazy. She thought to herself, what in the world, Okay,

give up the law degree. Uh. You know I I got married with

her and uh and you know, un pause came in ten thousand ringed unpa.

After we paid all the bills. We didn't have any money to pay

the bill. We had to wait for the npower to pay that night's dinner.

That's how close call it was. And then I got extra and then

the lot wanted it. I said, Lord, please don't touch that.

God said why. I said, it's plan B. He says, what's

plan B? Plan B is when plenty fails? And then God says,

what's plenty? I said, plenty is your plan? Then he said to

me, do you think I will fail. I said, well, I

wouldn't say that. You know, we all left Plan B because we think

it will fail, and so I gave up the UK pause. I was

so scared when I went to the bank, I say, I want to

readraw money, brapa? How much? I said all? He said,

oh, oh, you're a closer account. I said, well, you

know, as she was counting the money, tears was rolling down my face

now and it was not tears of joy, tears of anxiety you had and

and you know God provided again, not next here, not ten years time.

I said, Robert, you de Paul. You said you wanted a

cafe, and God said to give it to you. He said, yeah,

I don't know why I said it. I really sat down. I

said, I know you sat down. You shall have sat down. I

don't know what I say, it hes it, I said, but Basa,

you say it in my heart. Of course, I said, I

wish you would have keep kept Quietla, because you went to sleep last night.

I didn't. I was struggling. But you have something in your hands.

Come on today that will make the difference forever. Don't talk back tomorrow.

I don't talk by yesterday. The please, yesday gone to me.

Tomorrow hasn't come yet. Today it's the day the Lord has made. When

he sent his uh former gangsters and former prisoners to come to collect the cafe.

When it came, I thought, wow, the huge guys you know

that too, everywhere wearing Singlish. So when they said higher, whoa,

even the umpit had greeted me hallo yah hello, basa can earth. When

I saw that, I thought to myself, Okay, that's it. I

said, Lord, even if you didn't speak, I would have given my

cafe. Passa, Gloria. Let's go back to that. So she calls

Passa, Kenneth, Passassandra. My mom is not gonna make it. It's

so difficult. No, because she went in for surgery and she didn't come

out. They won't prepare our very own pastor, Pastor passno gets he So

Passendra and I we rushed. We actually had a love Schumer pastor's fellowship in

our church. We gave them, you know, a good meal, pampered

the pastors. I really believe in passes because they do a lot, so

we wanted to do something for them. So the day over Passes came,

bless them blessed their blessed them, but then rushed to the mortuary. Now

not just the hospital because she's dead, or we were praying tongues because somebody

we don't don't know what to say, don't know what the prayer. You

then go God tongues because then you go direct with God, right tongues.

We're praying for the whole time. Got to the mortuary of we've never been

to that mortuary, you know, so we go live right, I don't

know where to go. And then they Sonya and Gloria comes up in tears,

and they reached out with Sonya reached out for Passandra, and then and

and Gloria reached out for me, and we hugged them like we were their

parents, because Gloria is now no more dead, no MoMA. So we

hugged. I don't know if it was five minutes now, but I knew

that that was God's hut. Usually I don't have girls. It's there's there's

our practice here. But you know, father, father, father's health.

Okay, I said, for the you know, for ex Church, for

the whole of ex Church, who loves you, Gloria, for the whole

of ex Church. That cares for you. What I'm what I'm trying to

get at is and that's why funerals are very important to go through, just

to be there for people. You might not have all the words, you

know, but just be there, be there. And so as I stayed

on, half an hour went by. They signed this paper, signed that

paper, and then they had to make funeral arrangements. So I look behind

and I saw Gloria now a little bit worry, I should say, on

a face. You can see it because after we console her, she was

really smiling and mother is in a better place in heaven, you know.

And then you know, talking about what she's done before and got her down.

Now her face is back to sadness and worry. Why so I turned

to one of the relatives. The relatives were there, really maybe about seven

eight of them. To the way the relatives are said what's going on?

I can see anxiety on her face. He said, pass it. It's

going to cost eighteen thousand ringed for one night of funeral service and burial in

this place that we have arranged. She doesn't have that money, so she

wants to do it at the apartment, you know. Being in this for

some time. I know, no apartment management is going to allow you to

have funeral in the apartment block. But you know, but when someone's worried,

concerned, anxious, you think about everything, even things are not reasonable.

Neither this man or his parents have sin, but that the glory of

God should be revealed. I must work the works of God while it's day.

What will Kenneth Chin do standing there with one of his pastors, you

know, having to make some unreasonable decisions before the works of God can be

revealed. You've got to understand your purpose of being there, so the theology

will be tested. Will God provide for one of his own? What's what

does your theology tell you? Of course, yes, get your theology right,

because sometimes even pastors might struggle with that. Will God provides so lavishly

eighteen thousand? You're not lavish, that's the that's the that's a price.

It's getting high in the price these days to die. Also, yeah,

yeah, but I'm there, listen, I'm just going with a scripture.

And it is to day, it is now. And so I turned to

Gloria. I walked up to her and said, Gloria, but she is

she's alread talking about with my wife, and my wife says, come,

come, because she didn't have an answer. So I came up and I

just want to give all Gloria to go because it's just an application of what's

wor Okay, step up to your destiny, step up to your calling,

step up. And I said, Gloria, I heard you want to do

it in the apartment. Don't they want to love it? I want to

tell you right now, as your pastor, just do it. Go ahead.

Pasta is eighteen thousand ring it And then a family member comes, Yeah,

you know, the date is gone. The ones who are alive must

not be in debt. Correct. If there's a theology also sounds correctly,

Yeah, turns south too bad, right, don't let the living be in

debt? Correct? But I said, yeah, thank you, brother,

thank you for the contribution. I looked, I look at Gloria. You

know, she's one of our pastes. You know, a pastor who has

been there all Sunday, every Sunday for people. Will you not be there

for her now? Will you not be there for her now? At the

time of me. I tell you what, I don't know where's money money

coming from? I sereries, you know, I don't have eighty thousand.

I don't know where it's coming from. But my theology hopefully is right that

my God has provided for more than eighteen thousand. My theology again, my

theorogy right for that. Then I a God in the picture right God perspective,

but God his works. Anytime you say but God, I'm telling you

you're set up for a testimony, I said, Gloria, go ahead do

it. You know what another thing I had? Can I tell you how

proud I am of X church. You guys are for twenty three years,

have never failed to rise up when there is a need. As your pastor,

I want to tell you right now, I'm proud of you because you

have. You guys weren't richer when you were students there. But you know,

I remember the time when exchiss was only students are and we raised up

ten thousand US dollars to plan a church in India. We bought a piece

of land. Students, where your treasure is there? Your heart will be

also, what do you treasure? So I confidently told her, you know

X X will come right, you know your X will definitely come for your

the wake, the funeral, And I want to tell you right now,

just by their giving her it will be paid, you know, I said

there, So I lived by heart beating, like you know, my back

line. I hope they give you. I hope they will be generous,

don't let me down. But I also told her, I said, but

even if they don't, I'm going to try to find a way. But

don't you know it's very easier to come around people and say condolences. I

don't even know what that is. Condolences. Yeah, thank you. Yeah,

I mean you can. You can search it and find the dictionary.

But what is what does that do to you? I want to do something

that will make a difference in your time of need. No, God,

bless you, see you later. Now it's the time. Today is the

day. So glareelsry me like I was a dad, and she goes,

okay, pass, we'll do this right. So we went to cell and

Sellen gave her another five thousand ringkiit discount first. All okay, so he

became thirteen thousand. But you know it's cool. We actually raised up eighteen

thousand ring it from the Packam themisa themisa Amen, clell clep to the Lord.

How they praise God A let's not take the glory away from him.

Kay, praise God. Okay, that means go trying to say, even

without discount, I can still provide for you. I don't need, I

don't need anybody's discover God can provide. So afterward, Gloria paid the whole

bill. She took the extra money here, and she's going to put the

urn of her mom's ashes and bury it with Dad and build them a tombstone

that she could never afford. You want to make a difference, you don't

wait till next year. You don't dream about what could have happened. Last

year. It's gone. Next year is coming. I must work the works

of God while it is still day, because the night will come. Do

you know why many Christians miss it? Because they want to give, but

they lay very often they're late. You know, sometimes I think even unbelievers

move faster in giving. Every time you see some flood, some fire,

who's the one to move us? Of course, they are also driven by

works, so they you know, when they give, you know, they

hope they get blessed. And then Christians go, like God, it's very

gracious. So we move very slowly. Okay, I'm gonna draw to a

close, and I'm just gonna give you the last point. And the last

point is, as long as I am in the world, I am the

light of the world. To me, that means what will be your contribution?

Are you the light? Then shine? Are you the salt, then

be salty? Preserve the world? Are you? What are you? It's

a good time to find out what are you and what your true contribution is

to acts, to Malaysia, to the world. As long as I am

in the world, I am the light of the world. As I close,

let me tell you and end with one quick story. Some of you

who have followed me on social media have seen that I have recently taken up

the position of head of the Principal's office of Victory Academy. You know,

my wife was laughing. She goes like, we don't have enough to do.

So we have a school called Victory Academy. It's about ninety four students

and another four more new ones joining us by the end of this year.

So it was in ninety eight and then another three more considering. So I

hope we break her one hundred barrier again. You know something's happening courses.

If we're excited if we're calling it. I went to Zimply bookstore at Bangster

and the owner, who's not from our choicet so past that you're hitting the

school. I know people are following the Facebook, so they're all excited.

And the only reason why why I did it? Can I just very quickly

tell you those of you who might be interested, Well, first of all,

let me just be honest. I called our founding principle. The Holy

Spirit told me bring her back. So I called and uh, I had

lunch and I said, I need you back anyway, long story shorts.

She said, I I don't feel like God is calling me back. I

said, okay, so she's a great principle. But you know, people

can be caught, but you still have a choice. People can be but

you still have a choice. I've got the respect people's choice. Although I

really believe that it was destiny. But anyway, so I asked him lot

as a lord, how now, because when I asked gold Man I should

close the school, he said, no, this is my school. Ye

yea yie. You know when we had a medical cleaning, I surrendered the

medical cleaning after ten years to collective church City Harbits gave it to them for

free because a lot told me to. And now the clinic in Something is

thriving, thriving, doing very well, and the doctors they are very thankful

for what extra you's done giving their giving them. So I can't give up

one with that was we do. I can, But this time around,

he says, no, I'm good. God is the master expert turnaround,

turn around. He can turn the day to become alife. He wants.

He wants an excuse, an opportunity, and he will used your life and

your dying moments. He wants to use you so that he can be glorified

he is. Somebody give me some clay so that I can mow something.

Somebody give me some clay. That's why Jesus always asks for things. Right,

He's about to do America water six jugs right, bread, five loves

to He's always asking for things. Somebody give me something to work with,

because you know he can do it himself. Right, he can just blow

and help me food. But no, he's always looking for things. Would

you give me something to work with? Would you give me something to work

with? By God, I have nothing that my five rows to figure now

By God, I'm hurt, Give me your hurt. Lord, I'm frustrated,

give me a frustration. Lord, I'm angry, give me your anger.

Lord. I'm tired, give me your tiredness, and I'm gonna turn

it around. Master of turnarounds. You've seen some sea ors do it in

the world, But how God can do it with anything? You were coming

to your life and turned your morning into dancing, your sorrow hinto this is

the God reserve. And so you know, I said God, how he

says you do something about it? Hello, you do something about it.

And of course now I know, I understand that I'm just about to pass

on my CPC role to Daniel, so that two years, you know,

the extra the communing has really exploded and grown so done. God also turned

that around. It's amazing everything everything you touch with God turns to go.

Just like when I started YA, I was nothing when I started extras,

I was nothing. When I'm now taking over Victory Academy, I have nothing.

Please, a nobody here called me principle. I'm not. I tell

you I'm fair and trembling. I'm not a principal. I'm the head of

the principal's office. And so let me close who's sin this man or his

parents? Ladies and gentlemen. I'll be very orders with you. Victory Academy

is not in the place it should be. But I'm not willing to stand

there and find who to blame. I'm not willing wever I speak to anyone.

I do not spend time on faults and blame. I want to spend

time on solutions. That's the way I will. You want to talk about

the past, give you ten minutes, but let's talk the next ten hours

about the future solution, not just problem. So the theology is who's faa?

God says neither. Don't keep focusing on fault, la blame lah,

move on? So how do I move on? You step up and said,

what's the second point? Put God in the picture. Okay, God,

help me help me, because you will be glorified in Victory Academy.

You are going to receive all the praise. Oh Master, turned around,

God, an expert of all experts, show me and then he says,

you do it me. Okay. So I started the third point. I

know my purpose. I don't know you know. I know a teacher.

I'm not a principal, but I think I can move things around because it's

all about decision making. So I'm gonna step in. I'm going to make

some decisions that will move this go forward because we have good people. We

have very good people. Sometimes just you know, just caught in the mire,

caught in the quick set of all these other concerns and paid sorrow and

pass. I want to move along, and the Lord says, not next

year, not ten years time, Kenneth. Now is the time. I

say, Okay, Lord, I'm following scripture. This is the day the

Lord has made, and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Finally,

I need to know what exactly is my contribution as long as I am

in the world. I am the light of the world. I need to

know. I told a team I am not principal. I will not look

in the academics. Because there's a team that's looking into the academics. Please

you look at it. But for me, I want to do what I

am good at doing. It's very want in all of us here, as

I close, need to know what is your contribution to the Church and to

the Kingdom and to mankind. Because everyone here has been gifted with something from

the Lord and I pray that all of you will end saying, as long

as I am in the world, I am the light of the world,

I am this, or I am that, or I will contribute this way,

I will contribute that way. I will make a difference. We hope

you've been blessed by this message. For more information on our church, please

visit as church org. We are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're

believing that this week is going to be a good week. I hit for

you. God bless