12+1 Core Values Series 3 Kingdom-Minded | Eld Rosalind Ang

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We hope this passage will.

Light up your tea.

Kingdom minded.

And so we're gonna go into what kingdom culture is.

Are we citizens of the Kingdom of God?

Yes? Or no?

Do you live like one? Do we think like a

citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven? And that's what we

want to get to.

Okay, all right, so if XD we can show me.

Yeah, okay, let's move on to the next flight, the

next visual. Now can I ask you all of you Christian?

Right or you've you've been in church for a while already,

right now? How did Jesus began his ministry? Hey, now,

it's a good time for you to turn to your bibles,

right and.

Look for that.

This is the open book and so okay, open book tests,

open book tests. Wait, no, you think about it, right,

How did Jesus begin his ministry?

So he went through the forty days of temptation? Right,

remember that?

And then he was baptized and then the Holy Spirit

came upon him.

Yes, and then what do you do after that? He

went around?

Okay, so there was a wedding at Cana, all right.

In different accounts, of the Gospels, you'll see different things.

But what was the one thing that Jesus started to

do when he was in active ministry?

Active ministry? What did Jesus say?

What do you think is the first message that Jesus

would say, love God? No, God loves you. Did you

say that? That's what we would say, right?

Okay? Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Okay.

So I'm going to turn you to Matthew chapter four. Okay,

Matthew chapter four. And so it says that from the

context of Mary chapter four, was he went through the

temptation and then after that in verse seventeen, after all

of that, right, he was going now starting his actual

ministry verse seventeen.

From that time, Jesus began to preach and.

To say, repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Amen.

Amen, I want us to really unpack this one sentence

of how Jesus started his ministry. Do you know that

before that, John the Baptist, what was his message? What

was joined the Baptist message? Same thing, repent, repent Okay.

So now we want to understand this word kingdom. Right,

we talked a little bit about the citizenship just now

about our tie to this word kingdom. Tell me what

do you understand about this word kingdom? Okay, so what

is kingdom?

This is like English classa mine. There is a king

true not kingdom? There is a king. What is what

is the.

The the meaning of king to you?

What is king to you?

The head of the the ruler, right, someone who's sovereign. Now,

what else is needed for a kingdom?

Doom? Right? A king?

And because you can be king over what, you need

a dominion?

Right, kingdom? Right, so you go to them. You need land.

This is actual land, you know, it's not just like

oh yeah, let's be in the virtual space and let's

build a kingdom. That there is an actual land, right, dominion.

So to be a king, what do you need to

be a king?

What do you need? You need land? What else do

you need? You need people? Through or not no people?

Then you are king over word.

You go out to your garden if you have a

garden in your house, right, like, yeah, I'm king of

king of my land.

Then you are king.

Over the grasshoppers and the ants and the snails in

your garden.

Right.

So, so a kingdom needs a king, a ruler. You

need land and you need people through or not. So

that's what kingdom means.

Now.

So so this word kingdom is on the heart of Jesus,

on the mind of Jesus all the time. And that's

why at the very beginning he says repent for the

for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Okay, so

we understand kingdom. Now in the Greek word this kingdom,

there is this word called basaliyah, right, basal layer. Sorry, sorry,

don't worry about it. No one got injured in this.

Okay. Now what is basalaya? Yeah, it's okay, storry. It

means kingship. Right, this word kingdom, it means kingship. And

what was very interesting to.

Me was it means it's both in the world and

in the hearts of men. Do you believe that Jesus

is king over our hearts and our land right now?

Yes? Or no? Yes and no.

Right because it means, if you asked about it, is

Jesus king over your life?

Yes, it means that he rules and.

Reigns over every single part of your life, not just

on a Sunday, but in your job, in how you

spend your money, in how you spend your time, in

how you raise your children, is he king?

In?

How you handle your relationships with your parents, with your siblings?

Is he king?

And so that is why you know, we were saying,

what then is the kingdom? Let's understand a little bit

more of the kingdom of God. Okay, so let's move

on to the next visual. Now you know the word repent, right, Okay,

don't show you don't show yet?

I give answer?

Ready, Okay, I want to unpack a little bit on

this word repent.

What does repent mean to you? Right? We always say

this word?

Right?

Or as Christians? You need to repent? Yeah? What is repent?

If you're gonna be talking to someone who has never

heard of this word?

Right, never goes to church? But how would you explain repent?

What is repent? Stop what you're doing? Turn around? Turn around? Okay,

turn around? What else?

Sin?

No more? Okay, don't do the bad stuff anymore?

Right?

What else? What else? What else is repent? Sorry? Know

what you did? I know what you did last summer? Right?

I know? And God knows repent. Now.

The thing about it is, right, many of us when

we think about repent, some of us might have this

understanding that repent beans Wow, I feel really bad about this.

Yeah, I feel guilty. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry as long as I see I'm sorry, I

repent that, right, Cory not.

Uh uh uh no, right?

You know that repentance is not just about saying sorry.

It's like, you know, if I go to someone, right,

and then I kick them.

On the shin. Oh sorry, rights, violiner. You don't know.

I saw violent.

Barnica didn't put it into my you know, just now

as she was reading violent. Also, so if if you know,

and then if I kick someone on the shin and

it's a sorry, sorry, right, and then I kicked again.

And I said sorry, sorry, sorry?

Is that repentance? I say sorry ten thousand times? Because

why Jesus say, how many times must you forgive your

brother who's seen against you? How many times? It depends her?

Oh this son is a different theology.

Wish Bible. You're reading her?

Tell me about it, doctor Jason. Depends on what Oh okay,

he went mathematical, right, So he says, say seven by seven,

some say seventy by seven. Oh okay, okay, so the

mets will come up differently. But was that what was

the point that Jesus was trying to bring Huh, I

keep forgiving also, okay, so can we agree that we

just keep forgiving?

Right? So the fiftieth time is even seven times seven? Right?

The fifty time?

Okay, I can I forgive you realia? According to doctor

just please do not cross him fifty times, okay, because

you will stop forgiving you.

No kidding, kidding.

So the thing is right if I go on that

theology and I just say, oh, but Jesus says, you

can you know you need to forgive me ma, right?

And I just keep continuing offending or being violent to Adeline.

Cha say, for example, I keep her so many times

ouch ouch, right, beloved college.

Does that mean I have repented? Right?

I just say I'm so sorry. Really I didn't mean it,

and I still keep doing it. No, right, So this

word repent comes from this Greek word called meta. No, yeah, okay,

but before that, you know this word meta. What do

you know what meta means? A Facebook?

Yeah? Correct? Facebook? Huh? Okay?

Basically right, this word meta in the Greek original, it

means change, right, having a change.

Okay.

Now the other word that you're all familiar with is

meta morphosis.

Yes, what does that mean? Yes? Mata.

Okay, let's go to metamorphosis first. Okay, that one your

father can answer you on a Sorry, what is metamorphosis?

You change a transformation, right.

The morph is is a form, So you're changing form

from a worm alar popa to a beautiful butterfly. Correct,

So that's what meta morphossis is. But what about meta noya?

So meta noya? And when Jesus was saying repent, right,

he didn't say can you please change from a worm

to a butterfly? He didn't say metamorph He said meta noa.

And what that means is change your mind. Change your mind.

Let's go to the next slide. It means change your understanding,

change your perception. So Jesus came straight away on the

ground and he slays, whatever it is, guys, I.

Need you change your mind right now.

Changing of our mindset is the key to understanding what

the Kingdom of God is all about, because we all

have an understanding of what Kingdom of God means. But

Jesus says, I am the Kingdom and I want I

need you to change your mind about everything and about me.

Do you know that until someone changes their mind about

who Jesus is, they will never repent that they will.

Never accept him as their personal lot and savior. True,

not because they have a mindset. Who's Jesus? Yeah he

is a good teacher. Who's Jesus? Yeah he was dead?

Who's Jesus? I don't know.

He was probably just a good teacher and philosopher. But

they don't understand that. No, Jesus is Lord. Do you

know that it requires a mindset change to come to

this point to say, yes, I acknowledge that Jesus is

my Lord and my savior.

It doesn't mean you're you.

You experience something in your heart like you you felt something,

but it was a mindset change, and Jesus was all about.

Changing people's perception and mindset. Amen.

So I don't know what you think about Jesus, but

we want to glean from him and why he's This

is so important.

Okay, So we tackle the word kingdom, right? What is kingdom?

Someone in authority and someone who has people to rule over.

We understand repent It means changing of our mindset about something. Right,

So Jesus is going change your mindset because the kingdom

of Heaven.

Is at hand. Now do you ever use this word? Hey?

You know later the postman whatever that delivery is at hand?

You ever say this not hardly right? What does it

mean at hand? What does this mean at hand? No? No, yeah,

no no yet? Well what does it mean to be

at hand? Something is at hand? What does Jesus mean

when he says the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom

of God is at hand? What does it means?

Nearby means is it now? Is it now? Already near?

But not yet?

Okay, So it means right, let's go to the So

it means to bring near and to approach and to

draw near. And what came to my mind as I

was thinking about this illustration is can you see this

person trying to reach out? It's like you see the tree,

you see the fruit that's there, but can you reach it.

Hard?

You can see it's like so near, yet so far right,

And the same is true for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. It's near enough for you.

To see it, taste it, touch it, but it's not

full and complete yet.

Understand what and why I say that?

It's because I can testify that it's some parts.

In our lives.

The Kingdom of God is here through not in what ways?

In what ways do you experience the Kingdom of God

now here right now.

Exactly?

You know, the testimony that we heard just now of healing,

that is the Kingdom of Heaven at work right now,

happening right now, all the healing testimonies that you heart,

all the breakthroughths that you've experienced in your own life,

the heart change you've experienced from someone who's like, so

you know, you can be so hard and now you're like, Okay,

I have more patience with my wife.

I have more patience with my husband. Right.

That is the Kingdom of God at hand right now

you're experiencing it.

But then there is also the part that it's not.

Fool yet, right because you still getting patient with your child,

because you still lose your temper and honk at the

person who cut your lane.

And curse the person. Ah.

Right, so violent, actually, I feel so so violent today.

But you see, we are in the limbo, right. Jesus

came to earth and he says, the Kingdom of Heaven

is here, is at hand, and he's trying to tell

us that you can see some glimpses of the heaven,

the Kingdom of heaven on earth, but you're not experiencing

the fullness of it yet understand agree or not agreea

do you try along with me?

Ah? Okay, so now let's move on. Let's move on. Okay. Now,

what is some of the ways of the kingdom? Right?

And can I tell you that the Gospels are the

best way to understand the Kingdom of Heaven?

Right?

How many of you have read the Gospel right through before?

Some of you? Right? The thing is right. My question

to us is how we.

Know how to live as a citizen in the Kingdom

of Heaven if we don't know the rules? Do not

If you go to Singapore, my dear friends, and then

you're chewing your gum, what's gonna happen to you?

Nothing yet? But what if you brought.

In like ten kilos of chewing gum? What will happened

to you? You have officially broken a law and you

can get fine, right, But the problem is if you

didn't know and you just went and like, hey, let

me bring like because you've got no chewing gum? Right,

posting up oariance, let me bring from Malaysia, I bring

ten kilos or chewing gum, and you bring in through

the customs.

Guess what you'll get caught because you didn't know the rules. Right.

And the thing is right, we many times as Christians,

as citizens of heaven, we don't know the rules of heaven.

And so, Jesus, do you know that what I did

was I read through the entire Gospel.

In one thing, I'm like, oh, speed reading through. And

I realized.

That everything that Jesus thought, Okay, So if you read

through the Gospel of Matthew, write every rad thing that

you see, every rad word is the word of Jesus, right.

And I realized that what Jesus was trying to do

was he was just trying to tell all of us

how to prepare ourselves.

To be citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. And so,

my dear friends, if we.

Don't read the Word of God, how are you going

to prepare many of you?

Right?

When you want to go to Japan? Now, I think

in July on words, you have to pay like some

bizarre thing, right, I just got.

To know, ah, each person like four hundred in right. Ah.

So if you never read about the regulations, you never

apply for your visa. Do you think when you reach there,

you're like, oh, I flew in first class.

What do you think the customs will do? You?

Bye, Regato, because I must go back to your country.

You're denied entrance, you know, because you did not know

what you were supposed to do. And do you know

that Jesus actually said this warning in Matthew seven and

is really sobering.

He says, let's go to it.

Don't just take my word for it, Let's go to

Matthew seven. Matthew seven right, verse twenty one. And Jesus

was saying this Matthew seven, twenty one. Not everyone who

says to me, Lord Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven,

but he who does the will of my father in

heaven verse twenty two. Many will say to me in

that day, Lord Lord, have we not prophesied in your name?

Have we not cast out demons in your name? And

done many wonders in your name?

And then I will declare to them, I never knew you.

Depart from you from me, you who practice lawlessness verse

twenty four. Therefore, whoever hears these things on mine XPJ

are you hearing the word of Jesus. Whoever hears these

things on mine and does them, I will liken him

to a wise man who built his house on the rock,

and then he went on to say, are you wise

or are you unwise?

Right?

So, do you know that you can be serving in church?

You can be attending ex church, be the most faithful

for twenty years, and then do everything. You know, these

people cast out demons? Have you cast out demons?

Head prophesied in Jesus' name? Heal people? And then to

come to meet with Jesus. And Jesus says, apart from me,

I never knew you because you did all these things.

And this is a warning to us as Christians.

We can be preaching God what we can do everything,

but until we do what God wants us to do,

then we will not be known by the Lord.

You see that, and we will be disqualified from entering. Hello.

I know some of you say, but I really say

the sinner's prayer. Isn't it a guarantee that I will

go to Heaven? Right? Hang on a moment, Hang on

a moment. This is your life. Reflect whatever you say.

Do you know you can say the salvation prayer one

hundred times right, But if you are the son of

the devil, or you behave like the son of the devil.

What would Jesus say to you, don't give.

Me cheap words? A true not.

Jesus don't means his words one. You know, he's like,

don't play play with me. Okay, Jesus is so serious,

He's like, don't play play with me. Whatever I say

it bears waits. And so, friends, I want to encourage us.

Can we not take the word of God?

Likely? Don't?

Don't think that the Bible is just like, oh, if

I got time, I readler.

Hey, you want to go through heaven? Right, you want

to be a citizen of heaven?

And I think you better start studying this book, man,

because if you don't study the book, you wouldn't know

what is expected of you, how to behave in the

Kingdom of Heaven.

Right. And for me, it's like wow.

And that's why when you see the Bible verses, right,

when you read through all all these things, right, blessed

are the poor in spirit?

Because who is the kingdom of heaven? Yes? Do you

have a poor in spirit attitude? Friends?

Or did you come in thinking like, ah, yeah, I

heard it already, la, I know it right, I already

heard this message so many times. Ready, and we might be,

you know, just letting.

This passes by. But do we have this attitude of

being poor in our spirits.

Just saying God, I need you, God, I want your help,

I need your help. You see that because God says

to them belong the Kingdom of Heaven. Anyone else who

thinks that they're too good for God?

You know the answer to that.

It says, again, blessed adultse who are persecuted for righteousness sake. Wow,

how many of you feel like you're being persecuted for

your faith? Be encouraged. Jesus say, it's okay, yours is

the Kingdom of Heaven. You are being persecuted just like me.

Jesus said.

You know that Jesus was persecuted, and that's what the

message of the Cross is. He was persecuted for our sakes.

And he says, when you follow me, when you are

being persecuted for standing up for your faith, for saying,

you know I have principles, I will not you know,

miss Sunday, I will serve God, I will pray, I

will fast. You are and then you're being persecuted for that.

Jesus is okay, you're very near the Kingdom of heaven

very near. Just continue, don't give up.

You see her.

You know, I was talking to a friend and we

were talking about the laws of the Bible.

It feels like.

There's a lot of laws in the Bible, true or not.

How many of you are like laws? No? Oh, only

Timmy likes loss Near is the kingdom of heaven for Timmy.

You we don't like laws because you know why, we

feel that laws restrict us. You know, it just crams

our style, you know, when you want to live the

way we want to live, you know, freely, however, like

worship whatever, you know, that kind of thing. We don't

like law. But do you know that laws are there

to keep you safe? Can you imagine Malaysia? Good country,

beautiful country, There are no traffic laws. Everybody you drive

as you like. How many people like that? What will happen?

Hey? Oss right?

There will be accidents upon accidents upon accidents because nobody

follows the law. Everyone does whatever they want. And so

you know, by theory, laws are good for you. But

you know what's causing you to kick against this law.

It's a sick nature within us.

Remember in the Garden of Eden, God gave one law

on one law to poor Adam and Eve? What was

the one law? Don't touch this fruit?

Law?

Right? The thousand trees.

Nine hundred and nineteen nine nine, niney nine for you

to touch and eat? Now, then I say, don't eat

this one.

What do you do? You want to touch? La? You don't?

The same thing?

Right, don't do this I want to do. Don't touch

that I want to touch? Do you recognize that in us?

Same thing, same thing with Adam and Eve? Right, So

the laws have been broken. And so when you think

about it, right, well, old test the.

Ma now mosaic law? Oh test how many laws are there?

You think ten? Ten? Ten laws? Only? Right? You're not?

You know there's only one God? Do not use his

name in vain? Do you know even the ten laws? Friends?

So if you don't know the laws, how are we

supposed to abide by them? True or not? Now?

I tell you are mosaic laws? Got six hundred and

thirteen loss. That's a lot, right. And then Jesus came

and say the law was there to show you how

crooked you are, because none of you can keep all

the laws.

And that's why I had to come. Right, But do

you know what.

I find very interesting, right, How many if you if

you dissectrue the whole New Testament, how many laws or

commandments you think Jesus gave and the apostles as well?

How many?

Only?

Two? Okay? What is the two? Sorry? Hey, what's the

first one? Yeah? Do you all know the two greatest commandments?

Love the Law your God with all your heart, your mind,

your soul, and your strength.

Do you do that already this morning? You love God

with all of you? And what is the second commandment?

Love your neighbor as yourself? Upon all the other comments

hang this law? But can I tell you the expression

of those two laws are found in about a thousand

other commandments in the New Testament if you picture everything

that Jesus sayer, there's actually one thousand over commandments. You know,

because and he gave us a summary. Because if you

can act in love, you are acting in accordance to that.

You know what is acting in love? In the Old

Testament says you shall not murder?

True or not?

Any murderers here, none that I know, Thank you Jesus.

Otherwise I will still visit you in the prison.

Don't worry. None of us have committed murder.

But Jesus' standards of law, he went to say, But

I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother

without a cause shall be in danger of judgment.

Do you know that jesus standards are higher? Way higher?

Another one is do not commit adultere right in the

Old Testament. What about Jesus' commandments? He says, whoever looks

at a woman with last in his eyes has already

committed adultery with her in his heart. Wow, Jesus, your

standard is too much, Okay? And I look at at

least she's so beautiful, right, and then the thoughts come.

But you see, the thing is right.

Jesus is giving us all these ways because he is

after holiness. Do you know that the Kingdom of Heaven

is all about holiness?

And we don't think much about holiness. We're trying to survive,

your God, right, all of us. We're on survival mode.

We're just trying to get to day today, today, today?

How many of us actually think about being holy? If

you're not thinking about being holy, maybe.

You're not kingdom minded? Do you see that?

Because being kingdom minded is being what God the King

once in our lives?

Right, we say, yeah, God, is the king of all

my decisions? True or not?

Is your decision one that is built on righteousness, built

on justice, built on being considerate.

Of your neighbor.

But you see the things that all of us have

fallen away from this, and I want to tell you this, right,

So let's move on. Let's move on to the next light.

Now why does it matter? Why does it matter? Why

is the kingdom? I told you about what is kingdom? Right,

so you should know what is the kingdom already. Now

why does it matter? Let's go to the next one. Now,

can I give you going back to Genesis right, Genesis

one twenty eight, okay, And this was an illustration given

to us by Passer Kenneth to our.

Leaders early this year. So leaders, if you were there,

then I hope you will remember what this is. Okay.

So let's read the.

Commandment together and actually will help me and the slide

is gonna help us read it.

Okay, So let's move on to the next one. Let's

read this together.

Then God bless them, and God said to them, be

fruitful and multiply feel the earth and subdue it, and

have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the

birds of the air, and over every living thing that

moves on the earth. Okay, you got to drift, and

let's do that again. Yo Yo didn't follow me.

Maybe I'm in the way, So we go plot wise. Okay, ready,

three to one.

Then God bless them, and God said to them, be

fruitful and multiply feel the earth and subdue it. Have

dominion over the fish of the sea, over the bursts

of the air, on over every living thing that moves

on the earth. Okay, do you know that this is

God's common Have we been fulfilling this? We have been

fruitful to a certain extent. And there is multiplication, right,

That's why from two persons now there's eight billion of us.

So I think we have been there. Now we have

filed the earth. But have we subdued the earth?

Not yet? Right?

Do we have dominion over that? All the fish of

the sea, the living creatures and all that? Not yet right?

And the thing is right to have kingdom mindedness, right

to have kingdom here on earth. We need sons and

daughters to do this. Who can multiply in your own family?

Right?

Let's say passer Elvin right, and he wants to multiply,

and then he has his kids, Timmy and Elijah. Right, well,

his cat, if he has a cat, be able to

carry his DNA. No, only Paster, Elvin and Jess are

able to reproduce of themselves more to be able to

pass on the DNA.

Correct. Not, So we're doing DNA stuff here right now?

You see the thing is all of this plan. Yes,

what this was before the fall? Right? When did the

fall happen? Dennis is three? Then this is one. Everything

was good.

God gave his commandment because God is a good God,

and he says, do all these things. Because what he

wanted to do was he wanted to spread badness.

Is that true? He wanted to spread evil? That was

God's plan.

You want to spread brokenness and darkness over the land.

No, right, God wanted to spread goodness. He wanted to

spread lights.

He wanted to spread more of himself to the whole earth.

Now let's go to this charge. This church is very important.

Let's go to the next light. No, because God is

so good, he wanted to share it. And do you

know that the song that we sang just now, Kingdom

of Heaven by extraish one, we will sing that again later.

It says that our father in heaven true not we

call God our father? And what does that make us children?

Spiritual sons and daughters of God?

Right? And when you know, some people ask, right, if

she wants the purpose of human being? Are whitey? God

create human beings for me?

It's as simple as God was so good that he

wanted to share his goodness with others, and therefore he

already had.

A perfect family. Do you think about it?

God, the father, got the son, got there, happy huddle.

Why need all of us?

Right?

But because God is so good and so generous, he says,

I want to create others who is made in our

made in our image, to share the goodness that I have.

That's what a good father is. Right.

Fathers here, you know, if you go and buy one

kilo of salmon, right, because now very cheap in Jia Grossa,

you can go and buy.

You're not gonna lie.

I'm gonna eat the whole salmon by myself. You buy

because you're thinking of sharing with your family and your

neighbors and all that.

Right, And so.

We God wanted to share it, and he wanted to

give it to his sons and daughters who are made

in the image of God.

Are we here So far are we go? So far? Okay?

Now what happened then? To the image? Then it is true?

What happened? Sin? Sin? What is sin?

Do sin broke us? We now have a broken image. Yes,

we are still made in the image of God. But

when I see others, I see glimpses of the old

image of God.

But I still see brokenness. You see that.

Now I see broken people. And that's why broken people

live among us. And that's why the Kingdom of Heaven

is not yet, because there are still broken people all

around us that will hurt you, that will say the

wrong thing to you, that will annoy you, that will

cut you trou not. We live with broken people friends,

and so if we don't understand it, we'll get very

angry God. Why don't you just you know, someone said

this me recently. She said, why don't God just wipe

out all the bad people? That? Maybe my prayer be God,

you just wipe up all the bad people? Is that

is that a good prayer?

I told her, Wow, then I'm also not here? Then

you also not here? Really? Low?

Hey?

Hello?

No?

Or not?

You think just because I'm a Christian that I'm all

better than the rest we're all broken in nature, you know,

and so I if the prayer is God, you'll wipe

away all the broken people and then gone all of you,

all of you God, Bye bye. No need have church

really because of the brokenness in us now.

It is because of this brokenness that's why we need

a savior. You see that, This is how you should

be preaching your gospel to your friends.

Yeah, you don't start with God is good, it's not

we repent because the Kingdom of Heaven is a hen right,

start with the original sin, with why we need Jesus?

Do you know that your friends will never come to

Jesus if everything in their life is going well, why

do I need God? I'm rich, I'm healthy, you know

my life is picture perfect on ig.

Why do I need God? There is no need, There

is no case. If you want to bring forward a case, then.

You have to bring sin into the picture, right, And

sin is very real if you really get down to it, right,

it is sinner, right, and so because we need a savior,

and that's.

What Jesus is.

You see what sin that did to us, right, was

we were supposed to be sons and daughters of God.

We became slaves.

Do you know that you're not slave, if you're not

a son or a daughter of God, you're a slave

to your old self. You're a sin to your slave

to sin and brokenness. The other thing that sin, what

it did and what it robbed the way from us

is our stewardship. You know, we're supposed to.

Have dominion over the land. We're supposed to rule over

with justice and love. What happened now?

Any kind of ruling system in the world right now,

right is broken?

Right.

Look at America, great power, Look at our own country.

We might be going into elections soon, very soon.

T not so that there isn't that doesn't seem to

be a very good way of governance by humans. Anything

that human touched right will become corrupted. Do you know

that everything that we touch that is good, it becomes corrupted.

Do you know that music is good? God created music good?

But do you know in the hands of men is

become corrupted? And so what we're trying to do is

you're trying to redeem back for God what is good?

Right is restoring So from stewardship all of us, when

we're supposed to be thinking about taking care of God, kingdom.

We've become God. Forget about your kingdom. I just want

to build my kingdom. Oh right, Well, everything that you do,

you think about your last.

Twenty four hour decisions. How many of it was made

for yourself?

Yeah? Me included? Right, And so.

Because of the sinningness, right, we are just thinking about ourselves.

We've lost our stewardship over this land, we've lost our authority,

and we become slaves to our selfishness. And so the

Savior comes. What is the job of the Savior to

save us?

Right?

But do you know that it doesn't stop at decisions

and salvation. You know, sometimes we're like, yeah, the person

say salvation prayer, yes, and that's it, right, But God

said no, no, no, no, The plan is not complete yet, friends,

The plan is not complete with a prayer, with a

salvation prayer, with a decision. We are not here in

axt church. I'm telling you now, DNA stuff. We are

not here to make decisions. We are here to make disciples.

Because at the end of the day, let's go to

the next one. What God wan and what God intended

for it to be. If you read from Genesis all

the way to Revelation, what is God's aame? What is

Jesus aim sons and daughters?

God One's sons and daughters back.

He did not just want a salvation, He did not

just want church attendance. He wanted sons and daughters back

into his kingdom. Because when we are born again, you

see that even the terminology of being birth again, being

born again, it means heritage, it means lineage, it means

DNA stuff.

Right, It means that we want to be like God

again in his original image that he created us restored.

Would you like to see that restored? I want to

be restored without going through pain and shame, right, and

just say.

God, I'm completely at peace with who you are.

And that's what that's what this is. Are you tracking

with me? Okay?

Now let's continue. Let's continue. It is sons and daughters

that can fulfill this true not can a hireling do

this for you and someone who just you know, like, okay,

I pay some musicians to come and worship for us.

Do you know in some other countries that's what they do,

musicians for hire in church. So they come, they're like

like SESSIONI isla right, I just play oh very good.

Then after that I get paid and then I go

to another church.

Right, we don't believe in that, because we believe in

raising what do you call it? Sons and daughters? Are

you a son and a daughter of this house? What

do sons and daughters do? You don't come and Okay,

Like there's two types of al Right, there's a sports

sons and daughters that comes in and.

Say, oh, Daddy, mommy, what's dinner for me? Right?

And then they are the sons and daughters that come

home and say, mommy and Daddy, what can I do

for you?

Whoa different? Right?

And so God wants to transform us, not just sons

and daughters who are entitled in his house, but sons

and daughters who are matured.

Okay, let's move on. Let's move on to the next light.

Because sons and daughters disciples.

We are here to make disciples who are walking in

the ways of the Lord. You know what discipleship is, Right,

There's gonna be another core value called discipleship focused. So

I'm gonna leave that to that session. But it really

just means that you are talking like Jesus, you are

walking like Jesus, you are thinking like Jesus.

You are feeling like Jesus. How many of you.

Can say that I know what Jesus thinks about this?

Some of you, very honest, I don't know what Jesus

thinks about it?

Can I tell you? Friends?

Jesus already tells us what he thinks about things. He

already told us what he thinks about greed. He tells

us what he thinks about adultery. He told us what

he thinks about selfishness, unforgiveness.

Do you not know what Jesus thinks? It's here?

And so that's why I'm so passionate about getting people. Guys,

you gotta get into God's word yourself. You know, you

cannot rely on a forty minute session on a Sunday

to know what Jesus is thinking in your day to

day life. You got to get into God's word for yourself.

And she said, Jesus, what are you thinking about this?

Jesus is I will tell you. I will tell you.

I will tell you God you can do everything, but

not everything is beneficial for you.

Jesus will tell you that how I know is the

word of God.

Right, So, so I want this to be like you know,

gung Ho, Can you be gung ho. Hello friends, if

you want to be gung ho about something, a big

gung ho about God's word, be gung ho about the

Kingdom of God and just say God, Wow naw. Because

the value is not just kingdom, not knowing the kingdom,

but it's kingdom minded, meaning you are constantly thinking about

the kingdom. You're thinking about how to expand the Kingdom

of God. Right many of us, you know, when we

talk about like let's reach out to more, we're not

thinking business. You know, we were just thinking, okay, this

is a church leader's job. But you when you are

kingdom minded, when you're thinking about God's kingdom, what is

the kingdom the business.

Right needs to grow through.

Not all of you want your business to grow right

so you can earn more, But what.

About God's business?

The Kingdom of God's business right that needs to grow

that needs to be profitable. Are we profitable now in

now doing our church? Think about it? Evaluate your own life.

Am I profitable as a Christian? Have I expanded God's kingdom?

Have I taken dominion over my workplace and brought Christ

into the center of my work? That is what being

kingdom minded is. Yeah, So being Kingdom minded.

What is it?

Number one is to bring God's kingdom to earth through

sons and daughters. It's not just true the worker, It's

not just true the pit hiring.

It's sons and daughters that God wants. Amen. Send to

your neighbor and say you are God's son or daughter?

Yeah you are?

And you know what, I think we need to rise

up to that calling and that heritage that we have.

We are really God's son, we are God's daughter. And

why do we live? You know, as though we don't

have a father.

What Jesus says, I will not leave you as orphans, right,

I will give you the Holy Spirit. And that's why spirit,

that the Holy Spirit is here to help us remember

that we.

Are sons and daughters of God. Amen. Amen. Now, Kingdom

of God being kingdom minded? Is that right? That means

we want to bring God's kingdom here on earth. Do

you know that? Do you know that you can actually

live heaven on earth? Do you believe that? Yeah? Yes,

Because some of us, thinking that this.

World is so broken and so tarm cannot change, already hopeless,

and we say okay, never mind, never mind, da radda,

I will just wait until Jesus come back and I'll

be in heaven.

That's one mindset. But do you know right now, our

job and our role is to bring God's kingdom here

on earth?

And how do you do that? When you obey God's command?

When you turn your left cheek to the other person,

when the person slaps you on the right cheek, that's

one way or showing gods kreedom.

When you're able to hold.

Your tongue even though you have a very sharp one,

and you think you're better than others Philippines too, is

what I always meditate on. Be humble, think of others

better than yourself. WHOA So then I'm That's where humility

comes in and that's what I try to live by.

It's to say, no, I'm not better than you. I'm

you know, I have a different thought from you. It

does not mean I'm better than you. And that gives

me room to be empathetic. That gives me room to

be compassionate. And that's how I relate to others.

Do you see that? And then people are like, yeah,

actually I can talk to you.

Reason we're not fighting, you see. The thing is that

the problem is we're always fighting each other what we

should be fighting is we should be fighting the problem together.

Husbands and wife don't fight each other.

You want if you want to fight, or you fight

the problem, but you make.

Sure that you stay close to each other.

Yeah, aspiring couple, we're gonna get married soon. Give you

some pro tip, marriage advisor. Don't fight each other, fight

the problem together, and that's how you experience kingdom on Earth.

You can have a good, happy, fruitful marriage.

You can. Hello, we can say to your if you're married,

I to tell your husband, we can make heaven on earth.

Whoa you can? That's God's promise. Okay, yeah, do you

get that? Do you know what it means now to

be kingdom minded, to be so caught up and so

focused on God's kingdom and his ways in your own

lives and bringing an impact to others? Do you know

that the first thing that God wanted to restore was

our identity? Do you know that identity? We talk about

sons and daughters. Hello, sons and daughters of God Most High.

God is restoring your identity first. And when he restores

your identity, then he sends forth all his sons and

daughters to make an impact. Two words identity is one.

And once you understand your identity, you understand your authority,

then you will be able to make the difference. You

will make that impact in the life of and they

will go like, WHOA, you prayed for me and I

got here? Isn't that kingdom of heaven on earth? It

is God's power?

Right?

The kingdom of heaven is God's power as well. So,

so we want to be so kingdom minded and not

earthly minded.

Right.

One last thing and I want to end with this,

is this being kingdom minded is another part. It's not

just about ex Church. Tell your neighbor, it's not just

about ex Church. No, we're not here to build a brand.

And Past is very very strong with this. He's like,

we are not here to build a branding called ex Church.

We are here thinking about the larger church.

Right. Kingdom kingdom means all believers. Why not, It's not

that just God will bless ex Church. You need God

will bless all his churches. Amen.

And so come on if you belong to act. This

is something that we really believe in. Whatever that we

have received, we freely give whatever God has downloaded upon us. Right,

the truth, the teachings and you know that over twenty

six years of extous life, Pastor Kenneth had received so

much from the Lord that he says, it's just not

for us.

If it works, let's share it with the other churches.

And you will see in this next picture that this

is where Pastor was in one of the other churches

in Sarawak. He was actually teaching the theology of leadership, right,

how many of you have been through the theology of leadership,

really solid teaching on leadership.

And he's like, it's not just for us.

He's done it with the Methodist Church in Penang as well,

because you're like, we need some answers and passus like, yeah,

this is the answer God gave us, and we want

to share this with you.

You know. The other expression of.

Being keener minded is how many of you have been

to our subam prairie rallies.

Subam prairie rallies.

You can see the next picture this is us And

do you know that in the combination of this church

rallies right? Sometimes right, it could be fifteen churches, but

probably less than fifty people turn up. That's it fixed

a lot lower. But do you know, but us always

says let us rally our people and show support, show

support because we want to bring encouragement to the other churches.

We want to let everyone know that we are family.

Do you know that I spoke to in the another

church recently, right, and I just said, you know, I

was just so blessing with them, because one day I

will see you in heaven.

Tell her what are you talking about? But it's true, No,

one day when we are worshiping.

The Lord, King of Kings, Lord Lord, you think it's

only actious people there.

I hope, Sola se In.

I hope that you are there representing yourself and at right,

but there will be a multitude, you know, from all

across the world, believers who are true believers, worshiping the

lot together. And so for me right, the Kingdom is larger.

It's much bigger than us.

Friends. Do you know that.

Invite the team Extreme Team to come on? Do you

know that there's another you know, doctor Chan and Selene

they're heading over to Sarahwat to Bintulu and.

They're not going to start a church there.

You're not starting an ex church there because there's a

church there of which the pastor had just passed on

and they had no leadership, and so Pastor's heart in

being Kingdom minded was let's bring our people to support

that church there, let them go and be a blessing

to the church and man. So being Kingdom minded is

we want to be a blessing to others around us.

Amen. Amen, hallelujah.

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