Revival of Our Hearts | Elder Kien Yiak

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So if you have a Bible with you, just as

I say to that, I feel like I'm under pressure

because I'm being audited here first smug chapter sixteenth, verse

six okay, first sixteen, verse sixties that I think it's

on the slide.

So it was when it came. He looked at Iliap orkay,

he's a prophets.

Look at Iliap and said, surely the Lord anointed is

before him. Now, Iliop, the Bible says, described he feeds

the ka of a king. Sometimes in our life, with

our journey of friends, we think that we fit into

a particular form of Christianity, particular more of Christianity. That

just because we are having perfect attendance to church and

maybe prayers, service and maybe homes and give the offering,

help the community work, that our Christianity is okay. Right,

So Iliap, the Bible say is here of seven look

at him saying you must be the king. And that's

how we raised leaders as well. Right, Oh, this guy

very good, talented and everything that we always notice people

talent first, right, fantastic, But this verse seven is what

the Lord said to Samuel. Don't look at this at

his appearance. Praise to the Hallelujah. For some of us

who are not that handsome, we can rejoice, Amen. We

can find comfort in this scripture. The Lord doesn't look

at appearance.

Amen.

So if I was in line for leadership, for example,

back in those days, at least I can compete with

people with hair, hallelujah, because.

Something it can be.

I mean, I went to a lift before one time,

and Little Legends they care, was at first floor and

a parent brought the child in. And the first thing

that child looked at me, look at the dead that

why does uncle have hair? Why does uncle do when

I've had their father's like, don't say that he might

be a friends? See, And sometimes people do ask me

a question.

I think just I think just a.

Few days ago, yeah, at homes, I was asked a

question I always want to be meaning to ask you

without hair?

Right, do you see use shampoo?

Not?

See you shampoo without without any hair?

Not? Can you use anything else? Can you use let's say,

for your facial wash wash your not? So why should

I see you're scrubbing your face, scrab your hit as

well save a bit of shampoo and this stuff that

I was asked question friends, and and sometimes we laugh

about it. But I know some people are very particular

on friends. Right, they live the hair long, they flip

it up. Don't talk to them about hair loss. They

are a bit more sensitive and stuff like that. The

Lord doesn't look at the parents praise a lot. It

says that his physical stature because I refuse him. And

we worked so hard. Really, we worked so hot on

the outward expression a lot.

We try to keep up me.

She means to say that if we don't show up

to church, we may get at texts.

We feel pressured. Don't you feel pressured? Friends?

Like if that was a criteria, the outward statue? And

every day we feel pressure because we have to perform.

It's like going to work like that on a Sunday.

Right. The Lord doesn't look at what man sees.

The Lord doesn't look at what man sees every and

many times now Christian life, we use this scripture. See,

the Lord doesn't look at my attendance. But therefore, therefore,

therefore I can hang out there. He knows my heart.

Therefore I can do all the other things that come

in later, he.

Knows my heart.

Some of us have taken this scripture as really abusic calcal,

You know, friends, right, the Lord understands, He understands I

need to run on Sunday morning.

He understands because health is more important. But whether health,

I cannot worship him.

And we use the phrase so so many times that

we don't even know what the phrase actually of scripture

really means. For the man looks at our appearance, but

the Lord looks at her. Come on, he looks at

the heart. He looks deeper, he sees first doesn't see

a physical heart. He looks at your intentions, at your

the words, your motivation, what you do certain things. Many

times in our life, friends, we are highly motivated when

there is something that we're very interested in doing.

Church.

For the past so many years, friends, we see people

falling in love, falling out of love. And many times

we have seen guys, guys doing the extra mileth because

there is interest, willing to serve, there is interest, willing

to do certain things.

There's interest.

And when we ask would you serve in another committee, No,

I cannot, because I just prayed that this is the

committee I want to serve And so happened to girl

like he's there as well as well. We have seen

that before. Now nothing wrong, friends, but be realer, be

true to your tensions.

So the lot looks at the heart. Friends.

So alien's external quality strength, position, physical attractiveness cannot substitute

for internal integrity.

Think about it for a moment.

Alien external quality is fantastic quality, friends.

Strength.

We need strength. We need people to carry chairs. Sometimes

we judge people. You only carry one chair? On here,

my girlfriend can carry tree, right, why you need to

carry one chair?

Come on? You can go for hydrugs.

You cannot do this, and some become very judgmentor some

real leaders, you understand, right, become very judgemental to people

because they got trained but not serving position, physical attractiveness.

But the Bible here says that you cannot subsistence for internal.

Integrity your heart.

That's why I say that revival of our hearts because

many times revival we always see it's the outward expression.

We sing more songs, a longer time in worship. What

there was one point Christianity itself.

You'll be long enough. Right. We want to do special

events and we call it high praise.

I'm not sure whether you know something requite, like you

know extra longer time we say extra worship, we've got

high praise and we allocate another training more missing praise

of worship. And I just thought to myself, why do

we need to labor event as high praise? They missed

as a low praiser, because if there's a high devils,

it must be a lower ma.

So after a.

Word become the word is, why do why do we

need radical Christian?

Isn't Christians supposed to redicate in the first place? Right?

Our favorite supposed to be REDICALA ma.

About how many of us sign up to be Christian

and only to be put in the lions? There like Daniel,

if you know there was a lions, then you only

want to be powered. You don't want to be a believer,

You don't want to serve the Lord. Could you imagine

answer God's call? The low calls, the fuss of ten days,

ten days, and many times we can miss food for

ten days, a right for good, the delicacy right? But

after that, first to put into the firy furnace. For example,

if you knew there was a fiery furnace, you won't

even want to be part of it.

Why not everyone here.

I want to want you to join leadership because when

you join leadership.

I want to let you know the fine print is

that you're going to be hated by people. Right.

People gonna look at you one kind when you call

when you call them, people will treat you like like

you're trying to do sALS with them like that. None

of us you sign up to be hated by people

and friends. We want to be love. We want to

be that we appreciated. But if you knew that you're

supposed carry out cross, then it's a different story altogether.

That's why.

Daniel and the friends, when you look at the fire furnace,

it's only four of them lines. Then King David Saw

was changed by Saw. All he did was professo. Just

look at David, just say, oh, the law has known

you to be king. Do not tell David that after

this soul is gonna hunt you down. So I was

gonna know, go after your life. You're going to be

chased for one taman to another taman. Just imagine right now,

people chasing you all round. We've got nowhere no peace.

Let therry yourself in in the monsoon drain and right

hiding inside there if you knew there was your pathway

you that was your life. Help me ever say I

would just sign me up. I want to be liking David.

Many of us slayers will say we won't because you

cannot imagine, right. I heard of the story one time

at a particular church, the senior pastor court for a

meeting with all the leaders, age group leaders and the

home leaders. Okay, we've got you guys be serving in

this age group for a very long time already. So

from today almost I want you to swt portfolio right now,

X kids becomes the family ministry pastor, family minis pastor

becomes ex kis teacher and this stuff like that.

So swop portfolios.

Area of them freaked out because they see that we

are not created. We cannot We are so comfortable with

our age good right now, we do not know how

to go beyond it.

And the puzzle was just trying to tell them.

Look, sometimes we put ministry as our either ministry as

our either, not knowing that our hearts is so far

away from the Lord I cannot serve here and sometimes

our in church as well. We are so comfortable with

where we set. I've been taught before by our host.

There are certain people you cannot You cannot ask them

to move on. You cannot ask them to move insight

a be because that seat that occupy every Sunday is

the Holy of holies.

And they see where they lived.

There, They felt God's present there, Maybe they were touched

by God. What's at one particular service and forever there's

a seat of remembrance for example, they remember that this

where God's I met with God maybe maybe the affinity,

but you and I know God doesn't work that way, friends, correct, not?

I see the movie just moving up because people coming

and we have heard before whereby uh people told our

whole say, don't you know worshiping the Lord right now?

Don't disturb me, partners, I'm worshiping God right now. I

was about to enter the Holy of Holy Really you

book that connection? Friends, It's not internet connection, no friends,

but it happens.

Friends.

So anyway, I got to go on right first, sever

chapter seventeen, Right first, average chapter seventeen. That all the

men of Israel, and I want to contrast with David. Okay,

then all the men of Israel when they saw them,

when they saw Golif they fled from him.

Go live, friends, Go life. God life is real in the.

Sense that we may not have a physical go live,

but we have God life in our life. It maybe

it's maybe to some of us that all go live

is a medical report. To some of us, go life

could be our local counsel where you try to apply

to certain things. Right, I've me and me, and me

and me and uh Alvin. We've been trying to sort

out all. We finally after two years, plass. Okay, we

have our CCC, so will know that if you'll run

away any place, find a long process. Okay, we didn't.

We just long process. We got everything. So went to

this place called Kala Lama if you know, you know,

is in Bunting. So from Summit to the place about

fifteen minutes drive. I went there about three fifty because

they closed at five about treaty.

Right, I thought I could submit everything.

So so sorry, sir, you have to feel up, perform again,

feel up the form again.

I see no problem.

Give me the former. I'll buy from you. Sorry, sir,

the counter to buy the farm close.

I said, give me.

I have to come back the next day, another fifteen

minutes drive just to buy a form to go back

to the office to get this signer.

Yes, sir, I'm all shoot.

At the point in time you feel like when you

see the song God isable right, it's able outside the fencing.

But the moment you enter the local co office, right,

some of you understand, frustration comes in. God is not

really able here because you just wish that we show

you kindness. Bit, I said, I come holding from Subab.

You must, you must, you must, you must. I'm cut

that come only from Subab fifteen minutes, drive fifty minutes,

drive one way, fifteen minutes back fifty minutes. I say,

I can drive all the way to black you and

come back. Really explain that way. I'm just sorry, I said,

Why don't you try downloading from the internet.

I did.

I searched the whole internet. I found half the fore money,

the other half right. The other half couldn't find one.

The most important half couldn't find. The most important half

is the one that you can get someone to sign

on the format. I couldn't find the poshit the power

by that tay you what to do can be found.

So me and a win we went there, came back.

When there we went there one day.

I think that was the.

We went there about four four times in the day

to totally empty. A few times. There's Golia. Friends, I

want to let you know there's a Goliath, because when

you see Goliath, your strength goes immediately. Right you see Goliath,

you don't feel like fighting anymore. You see your local counts.

After a few times, you just wish that it can

be just be done immediately. And this is what I

say the matter. Visil said, have you seen this man

who had come up? Surely has come out to defy

Israel and shall be the So it shall be that

the man who kills the king, who kills him the

king and reaching with great riches, he will give him

his daughter and give his father's house exemption from Texas.

In your friends, basically, just this, our friends, there is

a great reward whoever kills Golive.

There's a great reward whoever kills Golive.

You must imagine, friends, that even with the great reward,

whe when the motivation, exceller motivation is.

Our friends, that there is a certain go life in

our life.

That no matter what the motivation is, we don't even

have the physical strying to do it. No matter what

the excellent motivation is, our friends, they will come a

time about a certain God life in your life that

even those motivation cannot propel you to take down.

For life, because it's spiriture. It is spiriture first.

There are sometimes when the law allows you to go

to certain things because He wants you to come to

a place to recognize that.

He is God, that he is Lord, that he is real.

God will bring you to a place you're about to

recognize that there is no God life that's bigger than God.

There is no God life that's bigger than God. So

come worse.

Twenty six Then David spoke to the man who stood

by him, saying, what shall we be done for the

man who kills the phylisine.

And take away the reproach from Israel? For who is this.

Uncircumcised phylicine that he should defound the armies of the

Living God. Here's young David speaking to season Warriors, Season

Army people, season you know player right, saying that who

is this person there's to talk better about?

Go God. I pray that all of a.

Here will have a heart like David, And no matter

what our age is on our ic friends that will

say that look, no matter how tough church may be in.

The coming days with persecution, everything.

Like that, that our God is still bigger and still

in control. No matter how difficult the challenges will be

in the days to come, with economy and everything like that,

we would just say that our God is still in control.

Because it can't be become or don't come because of

excellent for circumstances.

It can be.

We can't serve because of excellent circumstances. Worse, try and

seven that the people answer him in this vender, so

it shall be done for men who kills.

Now, what's your trying? And get that? Now?

All his older brother hurt when you spoke to the man,

and alb anger aroused against David, And he said, why

do you come down here?

And whom you leave those few ships in the wilderness.

I know your pride and insolence of your heart, for

you come down to see a better a. Really, friends,

there's an older brother who is very judgement.

Of a younger brother.

So I pray the friends that no matter how all

we grow, one day we won't be judgmental towards the

youth of the house. We won't say that I've done

this before, we won't come to a place whereby this

is only for the young people. I pray that we

won't say that, Ah, that is your that was your turn,

because we can come to a place. I went to

a church in East Malaysia talking to some of them.

These are young people young um jump peper church. I

say that is the old older people church.

What happened?

We were young ones friends, We were young ones whereby

we used to say that Lord, if we can do

use anyone, please use us, please use me.

Now we say Lord, if you said you want.

To, please use them, because I don't.

Have strength anymore. Maybe've done it before. We know the grind,

we know the motion.

But we have come to a place whereby we drink

back from the waters where was fresh with the revivers.

That that CAUs us to say, Lord, could you please

use me? If you know a particular mission, you call

Lauren Cunningham. I think that you know that he speaks

mission all the time. He wears a jacket. If I'm wrong, Uh,

josh Wover could be Joshuaver. I think he wears the

jacket with the war map to remind himself that there

is a world to be rich.

There's a word that still need the Gospel.

The reason why we do certain things, the reason why

we decide goes on because our desire is to ever

be mobilized, be given the chance to serve, not because

they say, hey, maybe this way is better. No, our

desires everyone to start serving the Lord. Do you know

there's no unemployment in church. So we can come to

a place like ali, Who are you to tell me

what to do? Who are you to tell me you

do to ask of us? Who are you right to

come down to look at the better field?

Right and leave?

So being so irresponsible, leave the few ship in the wilderness.

So we always say the older one look looking down

the younger one. It could be the younger one looking

out the older one.

As well. You know, young people can become an alien

as well.

Why at your age, law, at your age, you're already.

I've heard that before. Friends, you're already. Don't do if

you ever come to the office, that's a saying say

I'm not dad, yeah I'm still alive. They ever come

to the office here, you hear you, hear you hear people

with just colicks.

You just say I'm not dad, Yeah, I'm sure alive. Okay,

I still itself the Lord, right, and the thing.

Here is this that it's true. And many times we

just we we short change ourselves. We be come to

alien because our hearts become the word is a routine.

After a while, then we know, like okay, I know

the worship ready, I know that piece is going to

go through the announcement and everything like that. Then after

this worship is done, really, then after that I was

just gonna rush off the next way, and other seas

going to come in and you know what passa el

is going to say. Really, you know what person is

going to say, really, you know the grind ready, right,

But life is like that. I was talking to my

wife yesterday, so so she recently went for a medical

checkup and now she found her she had a bit

of a fatiliver.

So she was very good.

My wife is very determinate it comes to health, very determined, right,

very determining it comes to health and other things not

so much health. It comes to health. Orthough, she done

extra research. So she said, okay, I'm really going to

get on the program for fourty five days. And and

really my wife looked it for since I married her.

She before she went for the medical checkup. Every time

when she wakes up, she would just say, I got

to eat. I got to eat because if I don't

eat our fine, I said, dear, don't you got to

meet you or you can white without food for three days?

One God, you guns why food?

And that's why I did during the train one days,

I did not take any solid food for three days.

There were any solid food for tree day. Why, I say,

you crazy? Are you? The will takes holid food for

three days?

I say, the Bible said Jesus that will takes holow

food forty days. Ma, So maximum is forty Only do

tree on trees do over anyway, So she said I

got to eat.

I got to eat. I say, you cannot.

Then when she when she heard the plan is that

she can only eat within the window of I think

it's I take eight hours window and only two meals

eight hours start eating a child noon.

You know, there was such a big relief for me.

Every morning. Imagine my Routina.

Waking up, preparing her breakfast, preparing her breakfast the first

she eats in the car. All the way She's like

the CEO, I drive to I'm not I drive to work.

See I drive her to work. She's sitting in the car.

Hot coffee prepared, really friends, really hot coffee prepared. Ready,

all right, it's about I prepare about like one point

two liters or coffee.

So yeah, so yeah, I do, I do.

I do one so by one my about eighty grams

okay if you're into coffee, about eighty grams of being okay,

I used per day, right, so I finish about one

kilo about.

You know, reading two weeks. Anyway.

What I'm trying to say here is is that so

for the longer side and doing the fast, friends doing

the fast luggy worse. I want to let you know

there's the amount sacrificed I have to do.

For my family.

I wake up at four am the money to do

my creditor at five to these are cooking. I do

seven seven am the morning. Right, Because I say here,

you're doing you know how hot is it to fasten

of friends in summit doing Daniel fast?

I want you to you know how hot is it

to fast?

Not because of the temptation of a full of friends

in summit to do a Daniel fast, especially in those

days when you got prayer service at night one, you

got no more choice that day. And oh, so I say, yeah,

I tell you what, let me help you out cook

for you? Who with those friends at five to day

the one day I'm dropping onions, garlic, mushroom, everything like that.

I know the husband always some of the husband. Yeah,

the business say so I'm doing all that, friends doing

all that. Then she said that I'm I'm going on

the program, no more breakfast.

There was a sigh of relief, she.

Said, of relief on my side, burden lifted up, got hurt,

my prayer the cry of his servant.

Right.

So anyway, so why to me? She said, I'm not

gonna eat. I'm gonna two meals a right, two meals,

two meals to meals that say, if you're gonna do

two meals, But me, I say so much, She said,

I'm just follow you. I'm sharing all this because sometimes

in our life, in our in our journey, friends in

our journey, become so accustomed, or just because I don't

have a doctor in fire, I tell you can miss breakfast.

You don't believe me.

Are just because dietysians say you can miss breakfast? What

you me you listen because got tighter here's the husband

been missing breakfast for the longest time, that I'm so

slip and okay, I've been I've been regulatd but for

the longest time my wife said you crazy and stuff

like and the dietitian with the tighter and sometimes the alien.

This is how I tell you, okay, alien right season

army person telling.

David, who are you to fight? Go have you? You

have not been to war?

And sometimes in our journey, in our life, we listen

sometimes to people we may think has a form of

Christianity but actually don't have.

Have a farm. Friends.

I'm passionate about this because I don't want us to

miss out friends, because you imagine right now, David, listen

to the older brother.

You're a right la, You're all right. I want you

imagine right now.

The last cripture says that this one Aliab accused David

off I knew the pride and still of your heart.

Then David said, oh yeah, I think you're right. This

is my pride. They did me here I should be

taking care of it. He will miss out taking up

good life at Issier, will be under the Philly signe

miss out with his calling his destiny and many times

our walk. Friends, if you're not careful, if you're not careful,

if you're not careful, we can become like Aliap as well.

No one starts out their journey to be Aliap. Come on,

no one said that hour I'll be like Alip. You

know I love to judge people, right, I love to judge.

If I will I preach, I'll respond care I don't respond.

We can be like a Yap. We can be we

can come to a place whereby oh, this guy never

go there will need a few scripture the past at

least fifty scriptures. People, we have people mentioning that into

our church and become an alien. I met a few

years ago. I met a group of older gentlemen, older

gentleman from another ship for another.

Meeting or together with pastor.

And as they were talking friends, this brother just say this,

you know, let me share with you my ministry.

Let me share to you my ministry. That was all great.

Let me share, I thought, Mimi, ministry to the poor, right,

ministry to the homeless, shelters in the shelter. Then maybe

maybe his ministry is to raise fun. Fund raising is

a gift. He's just shoting this my ministry, I have

to say nice. My ministry is to shut down stars,

to shut down stairs. Some preatures are so arrogant. I

want to shut them down. His ministry, No, friends, his ministry.

My ministry is to make sure that some preatures are

preaching correct. We didn't say anything like I said, okay,

if there's your ministry, did you you talk to the

la la.

That's that's the thing he said.

My ministry is to make sure that that all these

writing stars, all these preachers are come to a place

where by there so every good and stuff. That is

to bring them down to highlight all the flaws in

the doctrine. I went like, I don't know whether to

have the kind of ministry in the first place. Right now,

it's this is called it. We didn't judge. We say, okay,

do you I mean that if we hear from the Lord,

praise God? So first it's not wrong. Okay, I won't

say it's wrong. All right, that's his expression of his faith.

But I pray that we don't become like alien purposely.

And there's a girl live to take dow. We don't

take that go life. We take our own people. There's

a go life in front of you right now. For example,

xpja you meet it, oh so boring, like that line

and stuff like every every weekend roughly the same people

and stuff like that.

Instead, off look at the emptc and say, hey, what

can we do with the empty c? Our live?

Is the empty see we are looking at you see it?

Now do any outreach to other people?

Right? Look at the express with exco.

The company always got a full spread one ours is

only a few things. Right, tell people that this is

acta although the people do not know. We can become

like that after becoming a judgmental. If only we have

a full band, then people will come for worship. If

only that, you know, we dresses the cernlement that lose

the tie, forget about the jacket. So old school. We

can become like alien missing Goliath. First, you know, people

will not come to church because where there's a tie

or suit, people come to church because of his presence.

There's empty chair. Right now, what are we're doing with him? Goliath?

Because I say it's life, because the empty chair is

there every weekend, just like go live every day for

forty old days.

Come out towards the army of Israel.

Say you cannot defeat me, and the chairs are crying

out right now saying that you cannot feel me up.

The venues crying out and say you cannot feel me

up instead of taking out our frustration on the empty chair,

God give me a So next week we are looking

at towards a person saying it is your fault. That's

why the chase is empty. That's what we did for

X mendrid. After a while, friends, after a while, passages

share this with elderly say look, and.

You guys have been segnant.

The ratio of leader to partner friends is one leader

to two partners. There are about twenty twenty over leaders

wish tennis about forty plus forty plus, so it's quite

good way one to two friends.

Very good, right, very good.

Okay, But after a while past I say that I

think you need to move out, get get out from

being comfortable with your place.

So they move up to tennis.

College goes great initially that after a while it became

aspected segnancy creeping again.

So doesn't mean you change my new friends, that secnacy

won't come on.

Sometimes you say, if only I change the environment, I

can be refreshed.

If only I cheach the environment.

I can be refreshed, and too many people are just

changing environment. But actually it's our hearts that God wants

to deal with, not the environment, because if it was godlive,

God will think.

That God life was his own.

But it's never been about golia friends, It's about hearts.

After a while, they say, enough is enough, let's pray.

Let's pray, not being the husband and also the elder

very hard with no friends. So of your husband, I said,

because there's a fine line between encouragement and instruction. Fine line,

very fine line. I want to tell I just need encouragement.

Krala just final. I can'd knew it, but I can't

really say it. I just I just sometimes when I

left by the law, I will be forceful, throwed down

my tighter mm hmm.

Elder here telling you all what to do. Just get

the full line.

So they started prayer walk for the past two weeks

to three weeks. Prayer walk, they give up about eight

about close hungred plus encouragement cards to students. So they

worked with the one guy who got safe in there,

say can we put encouragement notes to the students or

written Mandarine, because of specific reason we want to target

in the group or written mandary say and then say

can just put it there?

And all went out within the first three.

Days only because friends that there is a god life

for was to take down next sight, God's selection of

David was right. Come on, AP cannot see his own

anger and jealousy. Come on, AP cannot see he couldn't

see's on jealousy and anger towards David when it was

revealed after you heard David was spoke about talking now

taking on a life. Sometimes it takes a David to

reveal our hearts.

Come on, it.

Takes it takes really, it really takes sometimes be an

event in church to review your heart. Maybe it takes

a direction from leadership to reveal your heart. Why must

it be this force someone We're saying God is able

for the longest time of day where it's part two.

It takes there to reveal our hearts. But many times

you just say that, oh, I sense from the Lord.

For example, we also got people saying to us this statement,

I'm just honestly with you. That's why I say I

don't I'm not a very popular person. I got to

do this because God spoke to me. Have you heard

that before leaders I got to do this. I got

to date her because God gave me her name in

my dream.

I don't wonder what dream.

But anyway, I gotta do this because God confirmed. And

I said that. Okay, you cannot dispute God's name with

him a right? How to argue? Who are we right?

Not a problem, but time only time will tell when

they go, when they go to challenges. God was never

in the picture during the challenges one. Until you know

that and to go to breakup. God was never in

the picture of the breakup one. So God always uses

things to reveal her hearts and let Field to recognize

anoint thing of God over David's life. And David spoke

about taking up God life. You must imagine right now,

why would David want to take down God life for funer?

Why would people want to do things today for fun?

Last Sunday I think cheering girl two Sundays to go

cheer and go right or last sunder chair and grew right.

How many young we care DoLS want to give out

that Sunday evening to cook for students? Think about it.

I mean, there's so many other better things to do

on the Sunday evening one like sleep right, prepare for

work the next day. I don't know whybe watch Super Mario.

Right.

There are so many other things better to do on

a Sunday evening than to the way it's labeled over

a hot stove with mosquitoes, where all, whether it's chicken, beef,

all le all tastes the same.

Because of the chuckle we use. Sorr.

Yeah, I'm a bit particular. Someone told me before, do

you know why your meat? Say it's because of the chuckle.

I say, really, yeah, you should get different chuckle for

different meat. Yeah, different chuckle, different meat. And I went

all the way to I think if I ran all

the way into one. I went all the way to

one chaco maker somewhere in Klang. I was hunting them.

Now I found them and they say, okay, this is

very good for me. Okay, let me expe me to

why starting all taste the same. It's because the US

they want to CHUCKO. But if you're cooking beef, use

this chrack cocaine. But if cookie, chicken is the chaco.

But if a cookie, let me this chaco because of

the heat and the burning point. Go so technical, come on.

We need to recognize God annointing all those people's life.

I used to think that, oh I can preach better

than the person. Only recognize that friends is not the words,

it's not the jokes, and nothing at always got annoyting

over the person's life. The anointing makes the things look

so much easier. When you're always something, it makes the

thing move much easier. But when you don't, when you

don't write what's easy to other people, it's gonna be

very hard for you. Don't just look at it and

just say, oh I can I can lively evan, I

can sing like ever, I can sing better, I can

hit for notes right, everyone just say yeah, please go ahead.

You know I don't mind, right, But it's not just

it's not just singing you.

I'm trying and say, oh I can play it as

well that any expresso in in church.

But there's a certain annointing.

We need to recognize old people's life, and sometimes at homes.

I see it at home so often, my homeleader Canal teacher,

my homeleedner keral teacher.

I say, why do you try to doing it on

one time? What do you try to doing it one time?

Or I cannot It's very easy to command friends. We

are like Iliam razy to look at David, who are you?

And we fail to recognize the annoying they answer the

call homes is more than teaching. You know, I'm saying

all this. Uh, elwyns said, please talk about home leadership now.

It's kiddy.

God sees that if you simple friends to others.

Okay, God sees David willingness to please God. Come on,

when God looks at the heart, God sees David willingness

to please him. So when we look at the external

friends in contrast, saw self direct approach, saw you know,

King Saul story of friends. He's supposed to wait for

Samuel only the offering so decided, says Sam.

Samuel did not come on time.

So technically, Samus Faller, you say he's supposed to help,

mar didn't help.

So I got to survive, ma right, and.

God, you must understand because people are running away from me.

I gotta serve. I gotta do of a sacrifice. The

hub name for Il means God is God is my father.

When you think about it for a moment, every time

is being caught, he's being reminded that God is my father.

Now tell we are Dad. See, okay, you and I

know that being there, so you provide the best way

your family. Right, you provide the best for your chilren.

You brought the best for every household to the best

of your ability.

Right.

But many times, even though we recognize God is my father,

very seldom we behave like his children. Very seldom we

behave like we are a child of God. I'm trying

to say that we are not the most perfecturant. And

I can't understand that I'm not the most perfect child.

But we can understand that.

Friends that even then God is my father, we don't

turn to him and we hit the u a war.

I remember one time when I asked my wife this,

you know, I say, hey, what was your what was

your upbringing?

Like?

Upbringing like you know as as as you know, the

only girl in the house. What what do your father

say to you, spoke to you when you're growing up.

All she just said to me was this that she

just told me that my father did say much. She said,

provide for the family, put food on the table and everything.

He just told me this that if you hit a rope,

you hit a wall. If we hit the war if

you if you hit a block, hit the war.

Just call me. If you hit a war, if you're

in trouble, just give me a call. I'll be there.

The father's actually remember the statement until now that they

just told that if you hit the war, just call me.

And only name is that God is my father.

So when hit the war, he's supposed to turn to

God man, right, because that's what that is, a father figure.

But just because the name means that doesn't mean he's

able to discern. Come on, just because we are Christian

doesn't mean we know the pray. There's a there's a

basic assumption whereby just because the person got saved, next

you know the worship. That's why we have classes for people.

Just because you're a Christian, we know about Christ just

because you are a Christian being interests for some type.

We know our faith is okay, and many times if

we do a survey friend, our faith is nowhere near

that we have to go dig deeper in our own

life because that there are certain wells in our life

we need to begin to.

The word is feelp again.

So just because his name means that, that doesn't mean

it's able to discern against spiriture blindness, self deception, spiritual blindness.

And I got to be very careful here because I've

been asking myself, like, you know, have I been blinded

by old spiritual spirituality just because I got a tighter

and stuff like coming to church part of the church

picture every Sunday that I'm okay.

Giving to church after I have to dig deeper.

Friends, If every year my faith don't grow, If every

year my faith don't grow, then some there's something wrong

with my faith. There was an audio that was done

by someone that was an audio or that was done.

I heard the story that was the audit that was

done on this rich man's life. Rich man's life because

they say, well, this guy so wealthy, wo give. He

won't give only there he gave away ninety percent. He

lived on ten percent. I heard before passes, check this

before that. If our giving to the Lord begin to

decline over the years, not because of financial we choose

to give less, then we have to ask usself what

is motivating us to do that? Because your faith must grow, Amma.

Ten percent of tithing is the minimum. I know people, friends,

I'm not knocking you. I know people you're working adult

who actually give five cents. To be very honest with you,

five cents per week. I'm not knocking out. Maybe that's

his understanding. Five cents per week, one month for the

five cents. Not knocking him now, not not not making

him an example. But that's how Sometimes.

Real relationship as how much you value him.

So Passers shaped me before. You know here every year

doing the industry giving this. My conversation with him that

I was giving to the low must have the fifth

element mass. You find yourself shrinking back. God will speak

to you through different circumstances. There was one time one

of the weakers, I was driving, I pupped at my house.

I came back one evening. I tell what was missing?

The side mirrors, the glass, the glass, I you know

you side me, You're right, the glasses the side of me.

You read the mirror itself, only the mirror was missing

full sights of it in the housing area. I'm not

sure how many of us here actually lost mirror before

in your housing.

Area like that. Oh th pass it.

I was saying, Paster, that this happened, and I just

thought that Passes said, oh things happen and stuff like

that and this and this is what pass spoke doing besides.

The loss of the mirror, WHI shall be replaced. I've

been having this sense that.

This coming an industry, you need to do something for

the Lord, not in your normal amount that you've been

giving every year plus this left there that wasn't compulsion,

wasn't it wasn't something that pressured me to give or

anything that. I just took that in France as my

mentor just took it in because I got to hear.

What God is saying to me.

I just felt that has my faith become stagnant through

the years, because you know, you know our yearly yearly

soft event, right every year industry giving and you know

we said it's some really next year's gonna sae summer.

I've been so I checked my heart, really checked my heart.

I just felt, God, I think you're saying something this

to me. I part in the place for the past

ten oh years in my housing area, and nothing happened.

Nothing happened, I say, of all things and of all

cars my mind, the Mercedes been back on the side

of the road. Wasn't missing, right, the most popular one

my vade me. It wasn't mis saying right, Why this

particular model. Why these two windows and a new goal

was speaking to me. Whether I'm not gonna be like

David or Eliot, whether I'm going to complain or not,

Let's say why and why and why?

Say Lord, I know you're speaking to me.

I'm sharing this to you because if you talk about

revival or hearts, friends, it's not I'm not asking revival

in the form of jump higher, louder, sing, sing, sing, sing,

all alarms and stuff like that, because if you can

deal with that issue of our hearts, friends, everything else

go into place. Right, It's not about whether you dress

in shirt or tied every day.

Let's talk about hearts.

Because the second thing about Christianity I find is this

that the more we come to church, the more comfortable

we have with a certain form of Christianity. Whether we

can't see beyond that, our faith don't grow. We know

the motion right, read the Bible, and first unique one Bible.

We do a volumetree volume four, Volume five, Part two,

Part three, only one. So you read to the Bible

from start to finish, the idiot, then you can say

I read to the Bible. Really that reading too again

sometimes like so we were to the Bible before, right, right, right,

how many times we read to more than five times?

One and ten times? I know, I know there's a

preacher that reached to the Bible every year for the

past twenty years. You'll be reading every year, so twenty times. Really,

after a while we reach you one time to say enough,

really to want to go on to something else? With this,

I got the close friends, have we been acting the

alien blinded by own spiritual experience? Really blinded by old

spiritual experience? Like alien blinded by old spiritual experience?

So I want you.

Imagine right now, the next ten years from now, will

we still be excited for God or not? But we

still respond to God in the way we respond when

we first know him. Like I say again, we will

age fans, we we will age you know, and stuff

like that, But we still have the same passion desire.

Right.

Maybe our hands cannot go up eye because our authorities.

Maybe we cannot because you know, no more jail and

a kneecap. But our passion, our hearts, our our our

spirit whether it is, does it come alive when we

talk about the things of God or were Like Eliot,

let's just say that, oh I've done that before, so

we may or may not know the story person had

a miscarriage in year two thousand and two thousand and sixty.

If I'm wrong, that particular year we're supposed to go

for a mission trip to tickets of book and everything

like that, I think she had a miscarriage one week

before the mission trip.

One week before the mission trip.

I'll sit down way passed, I say pass the look,

we can cancel the trip, or maybe you and me

go at them. Can know I cannot leave my wife

behind and this stuff like that, so I say pass.

If not, I will just go do what I need

to do.

Then come back.

Pray about it, really really sort of prayer about it.

And she just said this that I just felt God

telling me just to go. This is not this is

not one day after this one week really but still

in pain to covering there, just to pass the day, passer,

I'll carry all the bags. I'm showing this to you

because I think if you're not careful, we make your

life as the reason why we couldn't do certain things.

Now it's all about money, it's not about time and stuff.

So I think in our journey, if our Christian walk

were mixed so many to successor as the reason why

we're gonna do I don't think you must understand it's

like that one. Yeah, no, understand but God asactly? Do

you understand who you are serving? Do you understand who

you were shipping? Do you understand this or not? Because

we must come to a place whereby God is first?

So are we are we actually alien? Blinded our old

spiritual experience thinking that is acceptable?

Acceptable, acceptable? This is how it is. So you know

that we have a Bible class.

You know, we have a Bible class running right, you know,

so we don't know anyway, go to a website there's that.

There's a tap that resource right, education. I think there's

a tap called education there. Our Bible class is there,

do you know? Pass a man and the whole team.

Our whole team puts a lot effort putting things together.

At one point, I think our lower sign up was

three people in the class. If I'm wrong, I understand

that people got different things on, but they hear. The

thing here is this is that do we even take

interest in growing of understanding in God? Not asking you

to join full time ministry, not asking you to sign

up to serve with leadership no, no, just growing your faith.

That's why I said that, are we like Elia blinded

about old sputure experience. I heard one time a person

spoke to me, I don't understand the Bible. Say so, okay,

sometimes also don't understand.

It happens one. Then he adds on, because I don't understand, because.

I don't understand, I hear sermon and I don't read

my Bible, say whether there's very scaryer. Yeah, because something

the pure preature is such a way I could understand,

I said, correct, But that doesn't mean it's a substitute.

You can totally forget about reading the Word of God

and search God for yourself.

Because imagine if I didn't.

Have the conversation with him, Yeah, the conversation, he would

go out from that meeting thinking that it's acceptable, come on,

acceptable just to listen to servant and don't really need

to read the Bible. Therefore, our prayer life is acceptable,

just to pray on Sunday, in the praying between and

to pray in our own quiet time. It's acceptable after

a while that we can miss worship, come on, miss worship,

and just coming for the past that we like on

a Sunday. That's what the spirit of idiom does after

a while that it's acceptable. We are spiritually blind and

our hearts are look warm towards the things of God.

Look warm? You know, you know that, you understand. I

got to close.

You understand how church works. When we have a seminar

for burger, relationship is always the highest. How to make

uh financially Uh, God's way go higher, Tennis. When it

comes to seminal missions, it's lower. Come to understanding our

prayers very low. Come to Bible study on the weekday

night one of the lowest. Now, I'm not knocking anybody down.

I understand always got a different schedule, but I want

us to evaluate, at least think about it for a moment.

Have we been look warm in our own hearts? Have

we been look warm in our own hearts? Whereby became

it became acceptable after a while to carry on our

expression of Christian faith like this?

And that's why we can come to church.

I pray expeg will not come to a place whereby

we're celebrating more homegoing.

Oh, this was went home to be with the Lord.

This was my home to be with the Lord. This

waster went home to be with the Lord.

West celebrated by homegoing them birth, because that was what

happened to my friend's mom's church. She gave up after all,

because majority seniors, nobody wanted the white people very comfortable

with the facility and environment. After a while, one by

one got called the people home. Do you know how

hard this new funeral once in every two weeks? And

the church is shrinking in size because not because people

left well, left for heaven, left for heaven, left for heaven.

She said that I couldn't take it anymore.

I resigned, She resigned for pastor ministry because one by

one people passed on.

I put the XPG will come to a place whereby

we we that's one day.

Okay, just hang on all the way to cause you

hang on the way or better like David like that

may be young in our faith, but there's a goliath

out there you right now, I don't have a golf

Oh I think right now My main go life right

now is.

Ready to eat for lunch after this. But can I

just ask you to look around you?

Empty chairs week after week, empty chairs, week after week,

empty chairs, week after week, counting you, reminding you that

you're not able to feel it up, reminding you that

it's impossible that no one will come, or are we

going to be like David just say who are you

to remind us? Then we're going to figure it up

because our faith disciplined action.

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