Heaven Rules - Is it just about the Rules | Speaker Elder Rosalind

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

will light up your team. Welcome to second half of twenty twenty three.

Yeah. I don't know how many of you went like what what? How

did the first six months of twenty twenty three? You know fly by so

fast? Right, and you're still like catching your bread? You know,

I thought's January suddenly already in second half of the year. Maybe the first

question that I want to ask you is, you know, when you think

back upon the last six months, all right, when you think back upon

your last six months, what has been your main focus? Think about it?

What has been the main focus for you in the last six months?

Janzen jang. It's time to take pitstop checks, right, I really believe

that for us, as believe us, as we continue running this race of

faith, it's always good to stop and reflect back so that we know how

do we move forward? Correct? So yeah, So so this is like

a pit stop check for you this morning. So um, yeah, if

anyone want to shout out what has been your preoccupation for the last six months?

Anyone? Wow, this one straightway, go right deep into your heart

radio right, any confessions you know? What has been really on your mind

and on your heart over the last six months? Anyone should just shout or

it's just been normal? Has has life just been normal? Just chugging on

during the routine? Right? Right? Okay, never mind? You think

about it, right, because you know the answers, and you are answerable

for how you live your life. Right. So I'm just here as the

loudspeaker for God. Okay, don't blame me up. And and I've been

preoccupied with this taught what are we meditating on a lot of the times?

Right? And yesterday we had our leadership training, and we learned that actually

what is in our hearts is actually how we spend our time, how we

spend our energy, what is catching whole of our attention and our focus?

Correct you think about it, you might say, oh, I mean all

of you like Christians, You're right, and you're not just Christians, you're

good Christians. Right, So if I ask you it's the most important thing

in your life, all of you would say yeah, or only one or

two Christians here? If I really ask you, right, standard book you

know, standard textbook answer, what is the most important thing in your life?

What would you say? Okay, Okay, yeah, so I'm hearing

all the textbook answers, right, Um, you know, God, Jesus,

God, the Father's Son, Holy Spirit. But when I ask you

to break it down into your life and your routine, how much of your

time is spent on the most important thing in your life? Be honest,

be very very honest. Right. For some of us it could be three

hours in a week, yeah, or maybe six lah you go to homes

or so maybe nine hours because you can't opera survays also and out of like

you know, one hundred and sixty eight hours in a week, you spend

nine hours on the most important thing in your life. Right, So I

guess the question has to be, then, what takes up the majority of

your time and your attention and your focus and what you're worried about? Because

what where your heart is? There? Your treasure is. Right where your

treasure is, that's where your heart is. What you spend a lot of

time doing is actually what's important to you, right and and for me in

this season of my life, or at least in the mission that I'm on.

Um, you know, for for X Church, if you belong to

X and you're a partner of X, we have a vision and we have

a mission. Right what is our mission? What is our mission? Helping

people believe? Yeah, making disciples of all the nations. And I really

want to encourage you to sign up and be part of our Missions conference,

because that is why we do all that we do. Um. You know,

it is to follow after what Jesus has commanded us to make disciples of

all the nations. Right um? And just so you know, um,

why do I want to share this? Never mind? So um? Yeah,

making disciples of all the nations and that that means also sacrificing things that

is important to you. So um, eloping you and I So I have

to share this. We'll be celebrating our sixth in the anniversary wedding. Only

sixteen's baby, right, Um? Yeah, only only teenager Onela. I

know we have many before us who have gone further. Um. And I

think a few months ago he's like hello, um okay, my husband texting

me, Um, hello, um there's a mission trip that I have to

go to, you know, and it's on the weekend of our annistary.

Is it okay? Um? I might go just go right? What what?

What what is there to it? Right? We have like the rest

of our year to celebrate our anniversary. And and he's gonna leave on the

Thursday night on the sixth of July to go for our missions to me and

mar which we haven't seen our family that asks me and mar for leasting's pre

pandemic. So for for me is like, yeah, that's that's more important.

That's that's what we are called to do, right. Uh. And

so you know, people like, oh no, what about your quila marriage

is in fact, you know, missing one anniversary is not gonna shake it.

So so I find myself learning to think about God in a very different

way now in my journey as a believer. I'm not here to shout out

like I'm so much better than you're. Okay, please please, That's not

my intention. I'm just here to say that many times, a lot of

the decisions we make, it's a choice, correct, It's a choice,

and what you choose to do today will impact you two years down the road,

five years down the road. So that's why I'm saying, when you

reflect back on your last six months, right, what have you spent your

time on, What has your focus been today? It's a check for you

so that your next six months, what will that be filled with? Okay,

you have a choice, because at the end of December, if I

get if I come back here again, I might ask you again. No,

hey, guys, since I'll check one and in second on second July,

how has your second half of tnity natry been different? What? What

areas of your life? Do you really want to shift? Right? We

have a choice. So I'm telling you six months down the road, you

have a choice. And that starts today. And my um, my desire,

my you know, my something, the burden that God has put on

my heart, um, is to see God's people know God's word. Do

you hear me? Because I find that in our journey in elep people and

my journey in in talking to others, in discipling others, we find that

there is a lack of understanding of God's word. Um. And you know,

it's it's quite mind boggling to say that there's something you can come to

church all every Sunday for the rest of your life. But then when we

ask about basic principles of your faith and you're like, oh, I'm not

quite sure, right. And the mission and the mandate that's given into us

until twenty three which pass can shared with us, is that we want to

build storehouses, building storehouses. You remembered the story of Joseph, right,

he built storehouses and he filled it up, right, it was overflowing,

and then they came to be a time of famine. You know what feminists

right, a time of no food, lack of food. And prophetically,

what that means is a church. We are going through such a time where

right now there is an abundance of God's work. Correct, you want to

tune into any messages around the world, you can tune in right whatever time

you want to be reading God's work, you know, listening to preachers from

all over the world twenty four hours, you can it's it's at your doorstep.

But then there comes to be a time where people will be hungry for

the world and there will be no longer that word. Right, So that

means it's your responsibility and my responsibility today to equip ourselves with the word of

God. Okay, not just reading one verse of the day. Yeah,

okay, Because the thing is, I also recognize that sometimes you know,

we say, okay, we are led by the spirit of God. Correct,

we are we live under the spirit and we are led by the spirit

of God. But do you know what the spirit has to work with or

not? The essence of what the spirit works in is through the word of

God. If you don't hide God's word in your heart, there's nothing the

spirit can work with. It's empty calories, right, it's all fluff,

is It's little bits of pieces that you hear and you assume what that principle

is. But then you would really know what exactly is God's word and God's

will unless you go to God's word for yourself, right right, And so

so for me, my challenge to you is, can you, for the

next six months set it for yourself that I am going to be a student

of God's word. God gave me that this challenge many years ago when I

started, when I did my master's uh in in Edinburgh, so you know,

I was in a journey, um and and um God allowed us to

have this opportunity where we're I could do my master's you know for one year,

one food full year as a student again. And you know sometimes in

this stage of your life, you know you're you've been a young working it

out, you left school for so long, right, then for me a

study again you know, it's it's it's it's a whole mindset again. But

but I remember there was one one day when we just arrived in Edinburgh,

when we just started class for me, uh and in that morning, um,

I was getting ready to prepare my study plan. Good student, ago

student, I know all of your students, all right, So so trying

to prepare, and the voice of the spirit came and said, wow,

you can study the things of the world. How about you studying my word

because we can spend so much time. Right, you think about it.

On your Google search what is the thing that you search most now? Right?

For health freaks, it's like, oh, how to get father,

how to spend more time eating? There is what kind of nutrition? Da

da da da da da. Right, if you're really into spots or games,

I don't know what's the best way to win more points. I don't

know what is on your Google search engine. You're gonna look for your own

history, serious one, because what it means is you're actually putting time to

study that. Correct, whatever that you're interested in, you're putting in time

to study that. And so the challenge came to me at the time because

you know, I was going to study the things of the world, economy,

makes accounting, whatever, like leadership in NBA. Right, and the

challenge just came, Oh wow, you're putting so much time to studying the

things of the world. How about studying my word? Oh I was convicted

and I repented before the lab like God, I want to study your word

first. And from that point on, I made you know. I made

a vow to myself, Jade, we make vows before the Lord. But

I just told myself, if there is only one book left that I could

read every day, if there's only one slot of time that I would have

to read, right, I will choose the word of God over anything else.

I don't know. It was a personal choice for me, and I

pray and my desire for you is that you will also have that desire to

put God's word first, because no point just saying oh yeah, God's almost

importantly in my life and then for the rest of your week. Right,

you don't even meditate, you don't even read God's word. And that's why

questions are weak? Am I being strong? And that's why you feel that

there is no joy in your life. You feel that all these troubles around

you is like overwhelming you, putting you in despair and discouraging you, disappointing

you. When we don't hold on to God's truth, I mean, you

don't constantly feel ourselves with God's truth. That's what That's what it is,

you become weak. Right. I mean for all those fitness buff right,

I mean proteina protein right, they all say you must see a lot of

protein right to buff yourself up, and and you can do everything you want

to do. But if you don't have the protein the source to build,

then you'll be weak. Right, So so what are we feeding ourselves?

And what did Jesus say when he was tempted in the wilderness? What did

Jesus say, um? When when Satan asked him, you know why you're

hungry? Right? Faster forty have your faster forty days before? I never

Um, you must be hungry. And Jesus was hungry. Why don't you

tell these stones to turn into break or your son of God? Maya?

I thought you son of God? What's a powering you? What did Jesus

say, men shall not but by every that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Wow, this is Jesus, you know. Come on, if Jesus

needed to live on the word of God. What about us are yo?

Come on, we cannot la, we cannot you know, just depend on

what other people are teaching. We need to feed ourselves. Can I encourage

you? And speaking? I believe to more mature believers? Already you've been

in the faith. If you've been in the faith more than one year,

you're a long time Christian. You've already had fifty two teachings. Correct.

Hey, hello, assuming you come to Chesha, so you would have enough

Jews for you to get into God's work on your own, even a child

who's one year star eating soli food? Ready, what about us? Right?

We can no longer live on milk? So, so I want all

of us to just you know, really want to have a desire to get

into God to it. But is it challenging or not to read God to

it? It's not easy. It's not easy, and we hope to help

equip you a little bit more. Um and and okay, let me ask

this question. How many of you have read the whole of the Old Testament?

The Old Testament? Okay, I see three hands? Okay, is

it still relevant to us? It is? Right? Okay? How many

of you have read the whole of New Testament. Okay, okay, okay,

Um. I want to bring to you an excitement for the Old Testament.

Cannot not canno not. And the book that I want to bring to

you is actually the book called Deuteronomy. Have you do you know this book

Deuteronomy? Uh? Okay? Do you know where it is in your Bible?

Which number book? Is it in the your Bible? Okay? If

you go to excess, you nola, they teach you what Genesis they say,

the song right Genesis, Exodus, legs numbers, Deuteronomy. Um,

what is your Those who have read la, what is your impression of this

book? This Deuteronomy naptime book? Or read already straight for sleep? Okay,

that's why I never read all right, because the book is reading you.

Thank you for the honesty. Those who have tried to read Deuteronomy.

What is your impression of this book? Heavy? Okay? Heavy? Yep

yep heavy? What what do you get out of reading this book? That

we are horrible sinner? Thank you Lord? Yes, yes, but do

you know what that's true? Now? The word of God? Right if

you read it at any one point of time, right, it will cut

to your heart on serious even New Testament. You think Jesus, You know,

sometimes we have this mindset, right that Old Testament God is very angry,

right, and the New Testament Jesus is all loving and like a little

lamb. Mary had a little lamb. Right. But do you know that

Jesus is so strong with his words and it should cut to your heart because

God's world, you know, it breeds life into us, but it also

convicts us. Right. So so I want to give you an excitement and

new excitement for this book Deuteronomy, because I just went through it myself and

I'm like, Wow, God, this is amazing. I never thought I

would say that about any of the old books, seriously, even myself.

You know, I'm like, I just read numbers. Okay, how many

of you like numbers? No? Because right, we have this impression that

numbers is just all about the numbers. Law right, thirty thousand tribe of

Mina said the talent right or Joshua Dada. Then it's all numbers. And

then we just keep through all the numbers and they're like, oh, I

don't know why, why why is this so important? God? Are you

an accounting away? But the But see, you have to come into it

with a different perspective. What are you saying? God? So the way

we read God and the way we approach God's word right is saying, God,

what are you trying to say to me? Because a lot of times

we go into it and saying, oh, yeah, this is not relevant

to me anymore. That attitude in itself will already distance you from what God

is trying to speak to you. Okay, And but do you know what's

interesting? Not what's even more interesting? Do you know that when Jesus was

tempted in the desert, right, I told you the three times that he

refuted Satan's temptation, he quoted from the book of Deuteronomy. Did you know

that men shall not live by bread alone dads? From Deteronomy? The second

one was you shall not tempt the lot your God? Where is that from

Deuteronomy? What about the third one? What about the one also from Deuteronomy?

Okay, you go in final What's I won't tell you everything. You'll

need to study God's word on your own. And so Jesus quote the Deuteronomy.

Way, aren't you interested in what Jesus is studying? Do you know

Okay, maybe if some context for you to think about it is in those

days, in Jesus's time, they didn't have the Bible like this, correct.

What Jesus had was only the Torah, the first five books do you

know that? And of course the writings Law, the Psalms and the problems.

But Jesus didn't have the new testimony that he was living it out and

then they wrote it after that. So did Jesus do Bible study? Oh?

Yeah, what did he study on? He started the first five books

the law because he said that I came to abolish the law. I came

to fulfill the law. So he had to study it, right. I

think all of us I really want to live by God's law, we need

to study it right. And in Second Timothy it says study unt to show

yourself and approve worker unto the Lord rightly dividing the word of truth. So

that charge it's not too eldest and fastest again, it's to all of you

and me. So that means we all need to be students who know how

to handle God's word, because on the Monday to Saturday, you are God's

word out in the marketplace. I can't be there, I am not there.

You are there? So you are the one who is delivering the word

of God. Right so so yeah? So interesting or not? Deteronomy?

Um, do you know it comes from there's two words due to row and

no more. Any guess what due to role means du ro duro? Any

any Greek scholars? Yeah? No, no, any Hebrew scholars. Actually

it was a Greek word due to role. The slights can can come up

due to roll means second ah didn't know? Okay? Nor moos means law.

So this is the second law? Any idea why there needs to be

a second law? I thought one? Not right? So let me give

you a bit of a context to how this book came about. Now,

the children of Israel. You know that Moses let them out right, and

they were in the wilderness for how long? How many years? Forty years?

Actually, it says right, it only took its supposed to only take

them how many days? Eleven days? How did an eleven day journey become

forty years? Stubborn? Peoplah so stubborn? Okay? And do you know

that in Um? When where is the first time that the ten commandments were

given? Mount SINAI? Yeah? Correct? Good. Which book is it

given? Jen, I give you five choices Genesis, Exodus, le tigers,

numbers term which you're an abcde where Exodus, Thank you very much.

You'll know a bit of your Bible. Good. Right. So, so

Exodus was the first time that God gave the ten commandments on the two tablets,

the first tablet. Selena was like um modern with her jokes down.

She's like, a first tablet was built? Then okay, not not app

uh, two tablets there. And when Moses came down from the mountain after

meeting with God, what happened? Are you okay? La singers la straightway

built idol and then Moses super angry, okay, he smashed the tablet or

don't la smashed the tablets? Smashed the tablets? Uh? And and yeah,

you know that what happened after that, right, a plaque came upon

them for disobeying God. And now so what happened was in that forty years

forty years of that journey, and they're coming to that and now and they

can see the promise led right across there, right across there. And so

now Moses, right, he's gonna die in a week's time. One week's

time, he's gonna die, and he's like, man that promised land that

I let this Children of Israel forty years, I can't even enter it.

But do you know what's his burden on his heart? His burden on the

heart is that you know that the entire generation was wiped away, one whole

generation that this believed. Right. They were saying, no, La,

you know that Lena, who are full of giants. We are like Grasshopperla.

You know, let's not go there. Okay. Only two persons entered

the Promised Land from that generation, you know that, Joshua and Caleb,

right, because they had a different spirit within them. So Moses was there

and he knows that he's gonna die next week. If you know you're gonna

die next week, right, what you're gonna do? You would definitely pan

down the most important things for these people to remember. So who is he

talking to this children of Israel? Is the little cute children like baby Cohen

and you know all these little ones that cross the Red Sea with their parents.

But they were so young and this is the stage now where their parents

have died, right, and these little children have now grown up, right,

So so Moses is now charging them as they entered into this going to

enter into this promised land. These are the things that you have to remember.

Okay. So can you see that when you read now in you know,

when you go and read your tournament, it's not just like oh yeah,

it's just a list of laws and don't and do and your sinner and

your no. Do you know why God had to give the law. So

that's what we're going to go into, right, So the whole idea of

it. See, I'm just wetting your epetite now because I won't be able

to read they four chapters together with you. You will have to go and

study on your own. Okay. So now you see the structure. This

is the father's heart Moses speaking to the children. Children, you remember what

your father did not don't be like them because what will what will happen is

you will end up like them, cursed and died. It correct. So

can you imagine how put on the heart of a father looking at your children,

knowing that you're gonna die next week? These are the most important things

I need you to remember. I need you to remember. Okay. For

some of you younger folks, right, you're like, huh, Okay,

think back to your campus days. You know, just before you left home,

what your parents tell you. That's the most important thing. So this

is what Moses was trying to tell them. Okay, So, and the

thing about is right. One of the principles that you want to remember about

this is this, every time God makes a covenant and a promise, right,

you will have to enter it on your own. You can't basic on

your parents. Every generation will need to take up that covenant of God on

your own. This generation, you will have to take that covenant with God

because God has children and no grandchildren. Correct. So okay, enough of

that. Let's go now to read a portion of scription, and we will

read this together. I want us to read this together. Let's go to

a Deuteronomy chapter four and pluck out some of the things that we can learn

from Moses as he was teaching the children Israel. Okay, so let's read

this together, or we're okay, you can read this on the version.

Okay, Let's go one, two, three, Now, oh Israel,

listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe that you

may live and go in and possess the land which the Lord God your Father's

is giving you. You shall not add to the word which I command you,

nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord

your God, which I command you. Move on. Your eyes have seen

what the Lord did at Baal Pier. For the Lord your God has destroyed

from among you all the men who followed bal of Pier. But you who

held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you.

Surely I have thought you statutes and judgments, just as the Lord my

God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which

you go to possess. Therefore, be careful to observe them. For this

is your wisdom and your understanding in the side of the people. Who will

hear all these statutes and say, surely, this great nation is a wise

and understanding people. For what great nation is there that has God so near

to it as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we

may call upon him, Amen? And what great nation is that that has

such statutes and righteous judgments as are all in this law which I sat before

you this day. Only take heed to yourself and diligently keep yourself, lest

you forget these things your eyes have seen unless they depart from your heart all

the days of your life, and teach them to your children and your grandchildren,

especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord, your God, in

horror, when the Lord said to me, gather the people to me,

and I will let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear

me all the days of their life on the earth, and that they may

teach your children. Aymen. Wow, that's reading God's wor together right,

um. And you know, maybe a tip for you is that I would

encourage you to read aloud God's word. You know. The power in that

is as you profess that, and you confess that there's power in our words,

right, power from our tongues. So as you confess that, what

happens is you receive doubleful blessing, which means you're also hearing it in your

spirit. You're hearing in your ear again. So so don't don't just sometimes

when you read that, especially on your devices any you're just reading and your

minds get distracted. Correct, because for all the notification that come, what's

for lunch? Where is lunch? You know? TikTok viral, this and

that really, if you're very serious about studying God's world, get a physical

Bible. Okay, if you're serious, when you're serious about your studies,

what you do you take out your textbook, right, or your highlighters or

your colored bands, or your notebooks or your sticky notes. Right. Why

don't you do the same and apply the same to the Word of God?

Okay? And the Bible that is full of writings and colorings and highlights is

one that is well studied. Think about it. If you're Bible very clean

on a um, yeah, never mind. So anyways, so what you're

just reading that ten verses? These are some of the things that we can

pick up already about the Word of God. Okay, So number one is

this, why are laws given to God's people? Can I ask you this

question? Why do you think God gives law to his children? Why?

Why? Firstly, okay, let me ask you backtrack a little bit.

Our laws good or bad? Okay, Kay, so you understand it.

It's good? Why is it good? Define the boundaries? Okay? Yes?

Correct? Thank you? Define the boundaries? How many of you are

law abiding citizens? Repair off the days? Er? Hey, we are

very funny people. No. On one head, he say, oh,

Lord is good because it defines boundaries. And then all of us like,

but we break all the laws all the time, not all the time.

Sometime, right, we're quite oxymoron nicla people we say one thing, but

we do another thing. I'm talking about myself. I'm not talking about you.

Go on, because sometimes our morning later. You know, then there's

this traffic life behind sumna. If you've been to the bsity like, sorry,

Lord, I refined, I confess my scenery. I confess my sin

um. And God says, those who confess their scene, they shall be

forgiven. Okay, forgive me a lord um. Laws are there to protect

you. But let's look at what God's word says. Is in the very

first word, you know, it says, listen to the statutes and the

judgments which I teach you that you may live. Do you see that that

you may live? God law is for you so that you can live.

When you awast think of God's law, it's like wow, you know why

God's so stract? You know? God is just always out to condemn me,

right, some owst thing of God's law. That way, that's why

some of us don't like to read God to it. Because the moment we

see it, we're like a lama. Why always do this? Don't do

this? Right? Do this, and we will push God to it that

way. It's a book of duce and don't correct. Yeah, asked me

to do this, ask me to do that, don't do that. I

forget it throughout this manual. Better just live life according to how I feel.

How I feel. Maybe that's the spirit of Godma how I feel?

Is it? Really? Do we live by our feelings? But do we

live by the word of God? Okay? No. Number one? That

God's law is always to give you life and sometimes right when you read,

especially the Old Testament, the Jewish people had a lot of laws. How

many laws are there in the Old Testament? You know, if you attend

the homes you should notice answer trivia bybo trivia. How many laws are there

in the Old Testament? Six one three, six hundred and thirteen laws?

And it covers everything from the way you worship, from the way you cook,

from the way you clean, from the way you wear your clothes,

all and composing, how you treat your parents, how you treat God,

how you treat a neighbors, oks and horses and donkeys. Everything was contained

in the Old Testament, and it was so dead they could live. Um.

There was a study shown, and I can't remember what year it was,

but um, you know, the Jewish people have their own kosher laws,

right, and the high gene laws a lot of hygiene. You thinking,

God, you hygiene free? Is it? God is very particular about

hygiene, right, If you touch a dead body, don't come into cama,

go outside, wash yourself, then only come in. God very particular

about watching hancer. So, um, there was an outbreak of a pandemic

in those days. I can't remember in which year. This is not before

your COVID nineteen. Okay, way before COVID nineteen. There was a pandemic

that happened and the surrounding neighborhood and the nations all died because of the pandemic.

But it was the Jewish people who lived. Why Because they wash hands.

It's true. It's as simple as that is. Because they practice the

hygieneic laws of not mixing things together, that protected them from the pandemic.

And of course you know how people are all right, we must be the

one who started the pandemic, who started the play. Yes, that's that's

what happened. They were accused the Jewish people were accused of starting the plague,

right, But all they did was they just kept God's law. Because

God's law is meant to keep you alive. Guys. It's not a spoils

for all right. It's not there to make your life difficult. It's there

to keep you alife. Think about God's law this way now, Okay,

So that was Old Testament six one three. Okay, it's no longer applicable

to us, the Mosaic law, because we have a better law, correct,

the New Testament. Paul says, we no longer live under the law,

but we live under grace. Okay, Grace is this new law.

Now? How many laws and commandments are there in the New Testament? And

love your neighbor as yourself because jes say, summarize over. But that was

a summary. Do you know that they did a study? So these are

other Bible scholars are not Meanama, And they came up with one zero five

zero New Testament a loss that's double, you know, almost double of the

Old Testament laws. So you think or a New Testament Old Testament law,

I kick it a lot, right, so hard to follow, don't need

reading, and you just say, oh, no, hello, there is

new laws one zero fizer. But remember again, what are the laws for

is to give you life? Give you life. So now I'm on a

personal journey now that I'm reading a New Testament, right, I'm like,

oh, when I read something, I'm like, okay, this is God's

commandment. And the thing is right, when you receive God's commandment, what

do you do with it? You just put it on your wall and say,

oh that's nice. You apply it. You gotta obey, guys.

And I tell you, when I was reading some of you, I'm like,

oh my gosh, by the third law, right, I'm like,

God, forgive me. I'm a sinner. Then it's you know, God's

you think the Old Testament laws are difficult, maybe not so difficult. Any

one of you murdered anyone before, if you got murderably, don't confess.

Any one of you committed adultry before, if also, God, don't come

confess. But we think that these are the laws. That is quite easy

to apolla, right, And then Jesus says, ah, but if you

say to your brother, you idiot, you're already committing murder in your heart

howlah ow Jesus. Jesus's laws are even higher. So I want to challenge

all of you when you read God's word now and look at it and say,

God, Wow, what is this speaking to me? Because it is

when you see. The thing about the word of God is it's a reflection.

You know, all of you like to look at mirrors, like ten

thousand times a day, right, you look at your mirror, and it's

a reflection of who you are. And God's word is exactly that. It's

a reflection of our actual nature. And that causes us to have two response.

One is it depends. Uh. You can be I don't like why

I see, therefore I don't want to see anymore correct, or it can

be wow, even if this kind of face, God, you love me

and you forgive me, and you show me grace, and you love me,

and you provide for me, and you give me grace, and you

give me mercy. Mercy's are new every morning. Why Why God? Why

what do you see in his face? Right? Many of us need to

be healed in our relationship with him because a lot of us, when we

don't know who God is, we we don't know his motive we don't know

his intention, and we feel that he's always out to get us right.

We feel like God, but persiples high standup because you want to see us

fall. Right. No, God's heart is that you live. God has

no evil intention. Even if you did right, why would he even create

that you and me think about it. He's not statistic way. So some

wrong conceptions that we have we have to change, right. And you know

that God's word says, if you love me, feed my sheep. What

if you love me, tend to my gods? And God's way of expressing

love is always about him and who him and others him and others. It's

never okay, God, just put me on a mountain. I can just

worship you, be the good, goodest person on earth. Right. But

He's like, no, you go down the mountain, and then you go

and love your neighbor. You go and love your boss whom you hate.

You're going to make peace with them. You forgive. These are the commandments

which I'm talking about forgiveness, sir. It's a commandment, you know.

And don't think that God I cannot forgive. I cannot forgive them. Are

you saying you are more powerful than God, there's this book that I'm reading

right now and it's really interesting. Thing is talking about uncovering the spiritual root

of disease. Okay, uncovering the spiritual I'm just studying the book and is

so interesting. And this doctor, doctor Henry Wright, he says that eighty

percent of serious illnesses comes from a spiritual root. Right. And the first

thing that, you know, I had to stop it, but it was

so interesting. He says, in his study, any percent, okay,

not one hundred percent, eighty percent of any disease. Um, you know,

serious disease in your life, it's got to do with either a broken

relationship with God, a broken relationship with yourself, or a broken relationship with

someone. And in his study, right, in his research, he says

that a woman who has breast cancer Okay, this is his study, Okay,

I'm just quoting him. A woman who has breast cancer. And in

his research he found that typically if the breast cancer is on the right side,

it means they have an unforgiveness with a non blood relative, a non

blood relative. And he will ask ask them this question, so are you

married, and they say yes, how is your relationship like with your mother?

In law, and there was a woman who called him pastor's wife,

and she was dying fosterage breast cancer, right, and and so she called

him after like last resort. Really, I called this guy and say,

okay, you know, um, they say you're the guy to go to.

So would you pray for me? He's like, no, I'm not

going to pray for you. Yeah, But then then the woman's like,

huh, what do you mean. I thought you're a man of God.

You're pastor right. He's like, no, I will do according to the

word of God. Then the woman ingree really, like what do you mean?

The world of God says you should pray for people who are sicking and

and and then he quoted another Bible scripture and he says, um, for

those who have a sickness unto death, who's holding on to a sin unto

death, right, do not pray for them? Like where's that worse God,

You're gonna find out where it is. And and so the woman's like

shock already, right, like hello, I'm dying, you know, like

really good doctor says a few few more weeks and you're out. So so

with the discernment of the spirit, he says um, do you have an

unforgiveness? And after many many moments of just silence on the phone, she

said yes. So then this doctor got excited like, okay, fort step

is confession. You say, yes, ma, okay, confession. Then

then he says okay, so so um and and he says, and she

said that there is someone there, there's an unforgiveness against this woman woman womana.

Please don't be nasty each other. Okay, I tell you you bring

sickness upon yourself. Um and and and so then he says, um.

He asked her again, so, okay, so now that you know you've

confessed before the Lord, and because he asked her, what what are you

going to do next? She said that okay, Um, the world of

God says, I need to confess to God. And this doctor said after

that, m then the woman was convicted in her heart and she said I

need to go to this woman and ask her for forgiveness and restore that relationship.

And then um, this doctor was like, yeah, that's what it

is, right and and so then the woman before they hung up, like

are you gonna pray for me? Like no, because you are just obeying

God's word. Sometimes prayer, it's not effective because the sin has not been

removed. You know. Sometimes you can pray, pray, and we are

wondering, actually, what is wrong? How come my prayers are not working?

But then to for healing to really take place, that needs to be

that restoration. Right, And and a few months down the road he he

didn't hear from her again. And what happened was he he in his mailbox

he received a book. A book was written by another medical doctor, which

is this woman's doctor, that said one of the conditions for healing is repentance

and unforgiveness. Do you know unforgiveness? Sir? It's really really evil.

Please don't let it take root in your hearts and let it bear the fruit

of death over your body. So why am I going so much into this?

The law of God is to give you life unforgiveness. That's why.

That's why Jesus says, how many times you forgive another person it's uncomfortable.

Basically, it's best action is just don't count. Just forgive again and again

and again because you don't want to have that root over your life. Amen.

All right, So first principle, God's law is about life, Okay,

are you gonna love God's law? Amen? Amen, just take it

and say, God, I know you, you know better than me.

Okay, you know better than me how to run my life. I'm just

going to obey. The second thing is this, the laws of God are

absolute. Where do we find this right? It says in verse two,

you shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from

it. All of us are like to mix and match. No right,

And we say the God's would really say this, or the God's would say,

you know, and we stretch what God is saying. I would encourage

all of us to take God's word literally, really literally, don't try and

like figuratively spiritualize God's word that way. And when God says love your neighbor,

neighbor, what does that mean? Yes, there can be a lot.

That's where we need the Holy Spirit to teach us what loving is.

But you know what love is, right, and so things like that.

You know, God says, do not be angry until the sun sets,

right, do not let your anger remain with the sunset. Think so,

so what do you do without anger? Release that? Like, guys,

release that The anger issues that we have is us saying I have a right

over you. I have a right. And that's dangerous because when we come

before God, I said, I got my rights, my rights, my

rights. That's not any way to come before the Lord. God is always

saying, no, it's not your rights. You give up your rights,

and I will show you what is right before we know what is right before

the God. We need to give up our rights. Many of us came

before got very demanding, No, God, you know you should do this

for me here now, then show me da da da, And God is

saying, is that how you come and worship me? I don't know how

many of you came in today to this service expecting something for yourself, or

you came with the primary focus of worshiping him. Is it about how great

the performance was, how great the word was, how tickled or how you

know how much you enjoyed it or don't enjoy You know that there's this verse

said or not this verse law, this statement that chapersn't like to say,

right, And I can't catch myself saying that sometimes I hope you guys enjoyed

the worship right, And then in my heart God just saying I think we

should be asking God, did you enjoy the worship or not right because it's

not about us. Although God's focus is on us, but it's for us.

It shouldn't be about us. It should be about him. Right,

So do not add to God's commandments. Do not take away from it.

We are very good taking away because we only remember too versus at most one

John Tree six things for God so loved the world. Other than that,

uh, please, can you add God's word into your heart? Lockstock,

and bear. Don't pick and choose, okay, those things that you like,

only everything, everything goes in Okay. So that's the second law.

The third one the principle that I learned many of us one wisdom and understanding.

Right, you're like God, give us wisdom, God, you know,

give us understanding so that we know how to proceed make decisions in our

life. But it says here, it's the observance of the law that will

give you wisdom and understanding. It's not just about knowing it. Firstly,

you gotta know it law. If you don't know it, you can't observe

it. Right, So observation of the law gives wisdom. And where do

we get this? It says in verse six. Therefore, be careful to

observe them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of

the people who will hear all these statutes. Do you know that you're when

you go out in the no marketplace tomorrow, these people, the people who

don't know God, they will look at your life. And if you live

your life observing God's statutes and his laws and saying I don't take bribes,

you know, I will honor authority, I will talk back about my boss.

What they are saying, They're like, oh, she that was quite

wiser. Do not talk about your boss behind their back. This is wisdom

and understanding, guys, And this is how you live your life in accordance

to God's way. Amen, It's always observance of the law. Don't just

know it but then say it's for everyone else, not me. It's not

applicable to me. All of us need to observe God's law. Okay.

The fourth one is this I will close in a while. The fourth one

is this that all of God's law is righteous. Do you agree with this?

Okay? So we firstly say that God's law is giving you life right,

and it's also God's law that will give you wisdom and understanding, and

God's laws are absolute. And this thing about God's law is it's always righteous.

Now, what do you understand about the word righteous? What is the

word righteous, that which is right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. My

simple understanding of this word righteous is whatever God says is right. How many

of you like to argue with people? We are arguing about the rightness and

the wrongness, you know, doctrinal issues. But firstly, just to understand

that God's laws are always righteous and whatever that He does and he allows is

right. That's a mindset that we need to carry. Otherwise we will always

be up against God and say, God, you know, how come you're

soul? Unfair? Right, So you need to take in your heart.

You might not understand right now why it has to happen, but understand is

that no matter what happens in your life, if there are crisis, they

are challenges that you go through. Know that God's ways are higher than your

ways, His thoughts are higher than your thoughts. He knows what's happening.

Heaven rules right. Heaven God knows exactly. And that's why as Christians we

can be at peace and we can have hope and we can't have joy.

Christians, can you give me a smile? Please? Don't be so serious?

Lah right, you gotta be the most excited, hopeful people on in

a'm pound please because you have God's word, you have God's hope, you

have eternal life. Okay, all right, don't don't be like always so

grumpy and grow chila not happy with things, and like, can you just

thank God for the simple things in your life? Can you just thank God

for your church, thank God for your family, thank God for your job,

thank God that you can eat lunch after this? Right? That you

know, if you understand see the things like when you read God what You're

like, God, You've given me so much. And if you read God's

word again and again, you're like, Wow, this God that we serve

is awesome and mighty and powerful, all loving, faithful, even when we

are unfaithful. This is the God that we serve. Amen. And the

last bit and this is a very important part. And Moses kept reminding this

generation. He says, passed it on to your children, teach it to

your children's children. So everything that you're learning here and what you will be

learning for the rest of your life, can I charge you to teach it

to those who is after you, the next generation, even if you don't

have children. I'm not talking about biological children. If you have children,

even better, right in the sense that you now have a responsibility to teach

God's word. You know, to teach you what love God with all your

heart and soul and mind and strength means to say that you know you will

observe the Sabbath day. Okay, not really observed it, but just worshiping

the Lord. Right, you have that responsibility, and that's a command of

the Word of God to teach your children and their children and pass it on,

because what I find is that by the time a second generation Christian,

the truth has been distorted. And you know that today it's hard to get

the truth in because the moment you preach right, male is male, females

female gone, the whole world is going to say, no, that's wrong.

Are you still going to teach your child male is male, females female,

One male, one female. That makes a marriage. God hates adultery,

God hates divorce. Will you teach that to your children? We have

done pre rich counseling with couples who says and these are Christians are and says

it's okay to just date and stick together. You know, we're trying it

out until we get married. I'm like, hello, Christian in the church

having this Scout principles and because I asked them this question, so what will

you tell your children next time? And they also can Tryala Hello, this

is this generation's mindset. I know you shake your ape. I don't know

what God is doing. He probably looks down from heaven and go like,

what in the world is happening. What is happening in the world that Christians

are not teaching these values to your children, and these values will be You'll

be laughed at. Trust me, you'll be laughed at, You'll be ridiculed,

You'll be prosecuted for your stand on God's word. So that's why I

my heart is for all of us to stand strong. We really need to

stand strong on God's truth and God's word because if you don't stand strong for

yourself, I fear what's going to happen to the next generation. And this

means all of us. You know God, remember we come back to the

mission of Acts is to make disciples of all nations. That means all of

you, single or not, young person or not you are discipling someone,

you're already either teaching them God's truth or not teaching them God's truth. And

we are sweet in this world with so many doctrines right, and Paul says,

in the last days, you know, parents will turn against children,

children will turns again parents. You'll be swept by the winds of doctrine,

left, rights and to everything. Also, and what's worse is within the

church itself there will be many, many kinds of teachings. And so that's

why I say, please, do not just take looks or embarrol what I'm

saying today. Would you go back to God's wood and see what he is

saying. Amen. Every teaching that you hear right now, I want you

to just be very careful and go back to God's wood and check it against

God's wood. Is this true or not? The God say this in his

word, And if it's not in God's word, then you can be rest

assured that it is not from the Lord. We hope you've been blessed by

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