Disciples That Honour | Elder Rose

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TEA disciples that honor? Okay, we are in a team

of discipleship, and I think one of the things that

just recently, this one caught my spirit is are we

a disciple that knows how to honor? You? Think about it? Right?

So I have a few questions to ask you. First

question is are you a person who honors? A bit

of a reflectioner, let's get realized you can answer. You

don't have to say to me like you just think

about it. Are you truly a person who honors? And

this is not I say of myself? Is what other

people see of you? Right? If someone takes a snapshot

of who you are right now, would they say you're

actually this person very honoring? I know Passa Elvin is

a very honoring person. This is my encounter with him.

Are you a person who shows honor? Who do you

honor them? Right? So if you say yes, I'm a

person who knows how to honor, then my question is

who is it that you usually honor? And the final

question for you to think about is how do you

honor or? How do you show honor. Are we okay?

So far can I can? I? Okay? So track with me,

track along with me in this okay, So let's move

on to the next light, the next light. Now the

question we have to ask ourself then, what is honor? Right?

What is honor? With we use that word a lot,

but what is honor? And I think today is important

for us to get a biblical understanding of what honor is?

Is that okay? Okay? So first one is the Hebrew

word and this is in the Old Testament when we

talk about Hebrew words, it's found in the Old Testament. Okay,

all right, And it comes from this word vote. Can

you say that cavote cow vote? Okay? Is this word

and it literally means wait or heaviness, and so just

not as I was backing the bag, I want to

find something that's very heavy, very heavy and weighty. Okay,

that's what it literally means. But figuratively what it means

is substance. Okay. Do you know what substance is, right?

Something that is, yeah, substance of substance, like goal goal

is of substance or not real substance? Right? If if

I can, I can give each one of you a goal,

but you want or not one of course, but I cannot.

Jesus canna not yet. Importance. It talks about honor, respect, glory,

and wealth, So we think about covote. It thinks about

wealth as well material possessions. All right, So this is

what car vote means. And if you, if you're the

type that want to study the this is a now

non is you know, uh something, it's a thing, it's

an object, but the verb of it is covert. So

to actually covert something means you put on honor onto

someone else. It means you put on weight to someone else. Right,

So just now I wanted to put weight to Pastor

Alvin and Jess and I could only put something in

your hands that waits something, you know what I'm saying.

So when you honor someone, you're actually making that person heavior.

Oh tell yours, tell your neighbor next to you? Can

I make you heavior? How do you do that? Right? Okay?

This is not like I hope that you put on weight. Okay,

so that's not all the things I get very healthy

and okay, fruits and and all that healthy stuff. So

then they won't put on weight in that physical sense,

but to be weighted in their spirit. All right, Now

let's look at the Greek words. So, now Greek word

is always goes to the New Testament. New Testament has

two ways to describe this word honor, right. First one

is doxa, right, can you say doxa docsa. It means honor, renowned,

divine quality. So this is something that's always used to

describe God, right and an unspoken manifestation of God's splendor. Okay,

can you have an imagination? Now? Do you have a

picture in your mind? What glory means, what honor means.

And another word for to use this word honor to

describe this word is something called tim may Okay, not

tim or time all right. The Greek word for it

is tim ay, and what it means is to honor,

to value, to respect, to hold something or someone in

high esteem. Okay, do you do you? Are you tracking

with me so far? Okay? So this is what it

means to honor. So coming back again, think about it recently, Okay,

what just happened in KL last week, last week and

of October, as say on summit, right, you all know

about it, and what happened on the roads and in

Kale and all that, it was all close right to

make way for the dignitaries, right, you cannot enter, and

so there was a lot of palm and flair to honor.

The dignitary is current on. So there's always something that

you do to honor. You don't just say I honor someone,

very easy to say bailiff service, right, but you realize

that honor is something that results in an action, something

that you do to show someone that you're really honoring. Right,

There's there's always an action to it. So I'm gonna

get deeper, So track with me, all right. So that

is what honor is is. So have an idea like, okay,

do I think about it? Do you really honor each other?

Do you honor people around you? And we're gonna see

some categories of what God teaches us about honor? Are

you okay? All right? So what does God tell us

about honor? So let's go. You can find this firstly

in the next let's go to the next light. Now,

the first time or at least the word cop vote

was mentioned is in Exodus chapter thirty three, right, don't

know what happens in Exodus Chater chapter thirty three, when

Moses was leading the people of Israel, right, they were

trying to He was trying to lead them into the

Promised Land. And of course God says, are yo, these

people are young man. He didn't say that. He says,

these people are so rebellious and stiff neck. I don't

want to go with them any longer. And you know

that that was after so many times God has given

them chances. Right, And if you think, oh, you're God

not fair, God, very unkind. No, God has given them

so many chances, and they continuously rebelled against him because

they are just wicked. Right. And then God says to Moses, Moses,

you lead the people, are right? I don't want to

go already? Yo, got's you here? They God get offended. No,

God says, why do I continue to walk with them

when they don't want to listen to me? True or not?

If you have been a shepherd, a leader, you know

you sometimes you lead your sheep and they are so stubborn,

stubborn like anything, you also feel like, ah, if you

don't want to follow my way and just go your

own way? Right, It was almost to that extent, and

God was saying and Moses the man of God. He says, no, God,

if you do not follow us, if your presence do

not go with us, I won't go. This is your people, okay,

not my people. All right. So Moses interceded for the

people to God on behalf of the people. And that's

how much she loved them, as much as they were

rebellious and wicked. And so that's what he says. Okay.

So God says, I don't want to go with you,

but Moses says, I will not go without you. And

so this is the context of what's happening here right now,

all right, Okay, So let's read now Exodus t litree,

verse eighteen. He says, and he said, please show me

y'r show me y'all, show me your glory. So he

wanted to see the coupboat of God, right, the substance

of God. He wanted to have the tangible manifestation of

who God is. Any of you want to see God's glory? Yeah,

yeah you do, okay, I only some of you are.

The rest of you like wire think about it, okay.

So then he said, this is God's say, God saying

I will make all my goodness pass before you. Well,

God is almost equating the glory of God to his goodness.

You know, right? Can you see the contexts? Can you

link it together? He says, I will make all my

goodness to pass before you, and I will proclaim the

name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious

to whom I will be gracious, and I will compassion

on whom I have compassion. But he said, and this

is what God said, you cannot see my face, for

no man shall see me and live. And the Lord say,

here is a place by me, and you shall stand

on the rock, and it shall be while my glory

passes by. That I will put you in the cleft

of the rock and will cover you in my hand

while I pass by. Then I will take away my

hand and you shall see my back, but my face

shall not be seen. Amen. So you see now there

is this part about honor and glory of the Lord

which Moses really wanted to see, right, But God says no,

because you are unclean, and therefore if you see the

holiness of who God is, you will die. All right.

That is the context of what honor means in this

how it's used being used here. Okay, all right, so

let's move on to the next next light. Now this

other way is being used. And you know that this

is the vision of X corying on. If you you know,

and if you know, you've been around for a while,

this is what makes us who we are as ex Church.

So shall we declare this together in three two one

for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of

the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Amen. Ultimately,

all we are working towards right is to partner with

God so that the whole of XPJ and in pj

LA and in puttaling Jaya and beyond will be filled

with what the knowledge. So there needs to be an understanding.

So I'm hoping you will catch these guys. You will

catch the knowledge of what it means of the glory

of the Lord. As the water covers the sea. Do

you know that God's honor and God's glory covers the

face of the earth. Do you know that it's just

that some of us do not recognize it. He already

covers His glory, already covers everything that's upon the earth.

It's just that we fail to acknowledge that because there

is no knowledge. Right. Hello, if there is no knowledge,

then you cannot acknowledge. Do you see what I'm saying?

If you have no knowledge, then you cannot acknowledge who

God is. If you have no knowledge of who God is,

you won't acknowledge that he is Christ. Right, So, guys,

we are in the business of bringing this knowledge of

the glory of God to cover as it already does,

to bring understanding to the heart and the minds of people.

Is that okay? All right? Would you be able to

explain this to your mom? Now? All right? It still

seems a bit vague, Right, How do I go about

doing this? All right? How do I express this? And

so let's go on to the next part of it?

How do we do it? Now? I want to bring

to you some principles of honor? Is that okay? Right?

So we talk a lot about honor and and we

want to see what is God's teaching us from the scripture? Right?

This is not me, This is not pass Canda. This

is what the Word of God teaches us about the

principles or of honor. Who do we honor? How do

we honor? Is that? Okay? Do you want do you

want to show honor on? Yes? Ah? Then can you say,

oh yes? And amens please, that's the first place to start, right.

Do you know, like I say, honor, right, you're not

honoring me. I'm not asking for the honor. The honor

goes to God. Hello. Do you see what I'm saying? Okay?

So you actually have an active participation even right now

to show honor. Okay. And this is again, it's not

about me. It's not about the leaders about you might think,

oh yeah, this elder Rosa so like to combu own

whatever inflat your own ego? Right? Oh yeah, what should mean? No?

This is God's principle okay. And the reason why we

want to teach you this principle is because simply it

is God's command, it is his word, right, and we

say we want to be disciples. Disciple means what you

follow God, right, you follow his way, you follow his word,

you follow his teachings. Is that okay? Yeah? Okay, So

let's go first up. First up, of course, the first

very person that we honor is who the Lord? Nah? Hello,

this one, pop? Queiz? Don't it y'all get this ready? Right?

He deserves all honor, he deserves all glory, all right.

And you can see in Psalms twenty two. And by

the way, this sum was written by David. And you know,

sometimes you might think, ah, yeah, it's just poetry. A yeah,

it's just you know, a nice to think. But do

you know that this is a command of the Lord.

It's a commandment of the Lord. Okay, So can we

read what this says? All right? In three two one,

give unto the Lord, Oh, you mighty ones, give unto

the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the

glory due to his name. Worship the Lord in the

beauty of holiness. Do you know when we honor God

is simply because he deserves it. It belongs to him.

Any honor, any glory, just belongs to him. And so

what the Bible teaches is give to God what belongs

to him. Right, you remember in earlier parts. Later on

in Matthew, Jesus says, you know this coin, this inscription,

whose face is on it, Caesars. Right then he says,

give to Caesar what is caesars? Give to God? What

is God? Give honor to God because he deserves it. Amen,

all right, So let's go on to why it is.

Let's go on, he deserves it. Right. In Romans eleven,

thirty six. It says this four of Him and true

Him and to Him are all things to whom be

glory forever. Amen. Do you know that God is the

source of everything in your life right now? Without him?

You will not be here without him. Your family will

not be here. Your parents will not be here without God,

who gives us this perfect environment you live it. Do

you know that the earth right is so special that

it's position in a way that do you know that

if we move like maybe two inches closer to the

sun we will all burn to death? Do you know

that if we move two inches further away from the sun,

we will all freeze to death? It is how magnificent

God is that he designed and created the earth with

its oxygen and its atmosphere that we can all live.

Do we acknowledge that God is the one who did

all this? Yeah, so we need to give God glory

and honor because it is through him. You think your job,

your businesses, you work very hard? Right Who opened the connections?

Who gave you favor with authorities? You think it was

all your own who gave you health to go to work.

Yesterday we revisited someone who had just gone through a

breast cancer surgery, and you know, we were just marveling

at how God had sustained her life. And she's young,

you know, she's probably in her late thirties, early forties.

That's young. And we take our life for granted, right,

thinking that whoa, you know, we have so much. Everything

is you know, in our control. But can I tell

you guys, it's not in our control. It is in

God's control. Right. So all things, in all things, we

give honor and glory to God. Now, revelations for like

go all the way to the end of the Word

of God. It says this, you are worthy of God.

This is what we're all about. Church. If you do

not catch anything, remember that God deserves your honor. Yeah,

God deserves all honor. He says, you are worthy a

lot to receive glory and honor and power. For you

created all things, and by your will they exist and

were created. So can we acknowledge that God created all things? Amen?

And that means He created us, and so we are

made in such an image that we were made to

worship God and to honor Him. Amen. All right, let's

move on. He deserves it comes. Do you know why

I love this? And I want you to catch this

as a principle to live by as disciples of Jesus Christ.

Do you know that, na, if you follow this command

and this principle of honor, it comes with a promise.

You're like promises from God? Right? Yeah? Okay, some of

you like, some of you like not sure, it says,

but now the Lord says, far be it from me.

For those who honor me, I will honor. This is

coming directly from the word of God. He says in Samuel,

those who honor me, I will honor, and those who

despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Do you want to

be heavily esteem or likely esteem? Lightly esteem means baba,

don't care, not weighty at all. But God, can you

see this? God says, this is God's principle. I don't.

I don't know how this will sound to you, But

God says, if you choose to honor God right now,

right here, God will honor you. What a privilege. You know.

It's not something that I'm like, Wow. Do you know?

God is like, Okay, you're just honored me. Lah, you know,

because it is true that he deserves it and we

don't deserve any honor. Back. But God is saying, if

you choose to honor me, I want to honor you.

That is the kind of God that we serve. He

is almost reciprocal in that sense, right, because actually we

don't deserve do we deserve honor? If you if you

you have an honest realization about who we are as

human beings who have forsaken the Lord, who have denied him,

who have destroyed the earth. And you say, how am

I destroying the earth? You know? I recycle my garbage?

Do you use a con last night? God on, did

you drive your car? Here? He hybrid? Whatever? Lah? Everything

that we do is destroying the earth. You know, I'm

just honest, right, our carbon footprint, we are not really

helping with the atmosphere. Our businesses. I don't know how

many of your businesses really is helping the environment or

destroying it. I mean, there's this whole discussion now about AI, right,

how AI is going to change and transform our lives?

And do you know that they need data centers? And

of course in the recent bilateral trade agreement, our prime

ministers say, oh, come investment, come and do data center.

But do you know how much water and electric electricity

it will consume and and you know already we are

so hot, right, Hello? Has it been really crazy hot

this past one way crazy hot? Right? Then you have

your data centers right there generating more heat because they

need water to cool down all the computer systems, right,

and so we are being hot, right, And of course

we're on Ekona, which you know emits all this carbon dioxide.

And yet at the same time, all these data centers

are creating all this heat that needs water to cool down.

And it's a it's a it's quite crazy. You know.

There's like the amount of water and electricity it needs

to generate something. You don't know the these kind of things, right,

You're just like, I want to check you bty do

everything for me, right, And there's all these ripercussions, and

like it or not, we are not helping our earth

one bit. And so but you see the thing is,

God says, even though you have done all this, even

though you know you have seen and blessing the children

of Israel continue to rebel against him. He says, I'm

still looking you know, hello church expj. God is looking around,

and he's saying, those who honor me, I'm just waiting

to honor you back. God is waiting to honor you.

Many of us don't want that because we don't know

the word of God. And God's word says, if you

choose to honor me, I will honor you. So let's

do or some practical I wanted to be very practical

for all of us. Okay. Can you tell me how

you can honor God? Okay? So give me some examples

of what honoring God looks like. Because I say this

word honor, right, but can you give me some expressions

of this word honor? I'm looking firstly at the first row.

Come on, leaders, tell me how do you honor God?

Come early to church? Amen? Do you know timeliness and

punctuality talks a lot about how you respect other people's time.

It's not about you. Do you see that when I

choose to come early, I'm showing honor to others who

are already there and we have agreed to you. You're

giving honor to the agreement that we are gonna come

here early to pray, to intercede, to arrange chares. I

don't know what you do, but you come here to prepare.

You see that an expression of honor when you come great,

what else? What else? Give me? Dressing up? Okay, this

is something that we believe here because you know, we say,

if you're gonna dress up your best not to see

Donald Trump? You were coming your sleeper? Is it in

your shots Bermuda shots? Because very comfortable. By the way,

if you're wearing that now, I'm not knocking you. Okay,

I cannot see. I canno see what I'm wearing right now.

But I'm just saying, what is the attitude that comes

behind the dressing? Do you see that I cannot see

your heart? Lad like I would love to say, I

can see this heart actually very honoring. When I cannot,

I can see the expressions of behavior. So one of

it is to say, hi, yo, you know this is

really not my stylar, jacket and suit and thought oh

so old school, But because I honor the leadership, I'll

put it on. Will it kill you? Guys? Is it

gonna kill you? You put on a tie and a suit? No? Right,

So one thing we're worshiping just now right, I think

God reminded me to say this principle of honor. Right

is not about your comfort. It's not about your convenience,

you know, many things. I'm like, it's not me to

lift out my hands, la. You know I'm not comfortable.

It's not me, it's not my personality. My personality is

this as I worship the Lord? Right, and God is

saying it's a command. It's not about your comfort, it's

not about your convenience. It's are you do you want

to show me honor or not? Again, it's up to you,

and no, do you want to show God honor? You're

not performing in front of us. Seriously, It's okay when

hu are wi lah? Right, We're just servants of the Lord.

But what we want to give you and equip you

is the principles that will make you blessed. Amen. Do

you want to be blessed or not? You want to

live overwhelming, victorious life. And this is a principle. And

if you forget, you forgot a principle like this, right,

then you cannot say I don't know why my life

is in a messa some things. Right. The word of

God will use to check us and say have you

been honoring? Have you honored me as I deserve it? Amen?

Let's move on. It's a promise. Right, Oh okay, oh

all right? What I love about the New Testament is

that you know before that we talk about Moses, right,

he wanted to see the glory of God, but he

couldn't because God says, you know, my holiness will overwhelm you,

and you cannot take God's holiness and righteousness. And so God,

in his mercy he sent his son Jesus, and this

is what John says. And the word became flash and

dwelt among us, and we behelped his glory, the glory

as of the only begotten Father, full of grace and truth.

And his name is Jesus. Do you know that Jesus

is the embodiment of the glory of God. He deserves

all honor. And that's why we pray in the name

of Jesus. And that's why we worship Jesus. Amen, because

he is the embodiment of the glory of God. It's

revealed already. So you want to say I want to

see God's glory? Can I tell you? Yes, you can.

His name is Jesus, Amen. And so how do we

practice this? Right? How do we practice this? And one

of the ways is already God has given you. See,

God is so good that he lays down all the

steps for us to obey, right, and we just need

to learn how to walk in it. What is the

first commandment of God? In the ten you know the

ten Commandments? What is the first one? Okay, we're worried

out here. You don't seem to know. Okay, tell me again,

someone loudly, that one is a New Testament summary. I

want the Old Testament one out of Yeah, you shall

you shall have no Ah the God. Okay, all right,

are we Okay? You shall have no other God before me,

which is, let's move on to the next slide. You

shall have no other gods before me. And this, in

a sense, God is trying to tell all of us,

the children of Israel and today for us as well,

that the way we honor him, how do we do

it that we put him as priority? Yeah, saying that

no other gods means there is only one God, Corona,

there is only one God to worship and to honor

and to serve. There's only one God. And if we

can obey this commandment, and this is what Jesus taught

us right in the New Testament, that love the Lord

with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul,

and all your strength. That's the first commandment that if

we obey this part of it, we are showing honor

to God. We are giving him weight. Do you know that?

How do we give God weight in a practical sense? Now,

you tell me how do we really put God first

in our lives? Can someone tell me? Just shut out

different answers? What do you understand about putting God first?

Trusting in him? Yes, you trust in him? Meaning if

you're going through a really, really, really horrible situation right now,

how we honor God? Is we say God, I think

you know the answer. I'm gonna trust in you. That's

do you know that's very honoring to God? Because if

you don't confess that in you don't do that. What

you're saying is, I'm gonna handle this situation on my own. Right,

How else do you put God first? How else we

put God first? Pray? Pray? What what happens in prayer? Right? Prayer? Firstly? Right?

Do you know that when you actually pray, you're firstly

acknowledging agree or not. You acknowledge firstly that there is

a God and you need his help. That's what prayer is. Right?

Do you know that God already knows what you need.

And then sometimes you say, God, you know everything? You

really like? Why I need to tell you? Do you

think God really needs you to tell him he knows everything?

But what the act of praying is an act of humility.

It's saying that God, I need you, and therefore I

love it that the althar is packed with people acknowledging

God is you know? Sometimes we don't shy. I don't

account for prayer because the people know that I have

a problem. Hello, ha, Can I tell you all of

us got problems. It's just that we don't want to

bring it to God because we think we can handle it. So,

no matter how big how small your challenges are, can

I encourage you to pray about it? Pray? Just acknowledge? God?

Are you my child? I don't know why so stubborn? Pray?

Pray right? Of course you talk about it? Will it

resolve anything? Not? Might as well ask the one who

created your son or your daughter? Pray, God, why Ladetta?

What can I do? Lord? Dealing with bosses? Are your? God?

Why Ladetta? Pray? Are you my daughter? I don't know

how God? God, you created her? Right? Can you fix her?

Pray?

Just acknowledge and bring God. Do you know what is

very very honoring is right when we remember, when we acknowledge,

we remember, right? I mean many times we forget correct

not so I'm here right, this is not something you

don't know, but I'm just here to remind you. Will

you put this practice of remembering God, acknowledging Him in

your daily life every time? You know, don't just remember?

Got three times of the daily Thank you love for breakfast,

thank you love for lunch, thank you love for dinner. Amen.

That's it, right, that's all we go to God for.

Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, thank you? And oh God,

I need a promotion. Thank you? But what is that relationship? Right,

is a dynamic relationship. We don't preach a religion about

what you do what you don't do, but it's about

having that in personal relationship. Some of you have very

good relationship with your parents. You know what that is, right,

But many of us don't even know what that looks

like because our relationship your parents is not the greatest example.

But can I tell you that in God, God allows

us to go him far. You know it's not just

al Mighty God, Lord of Heaven's armies, but we can

call him father. Ah bah da dy Daddy. Do you

know your children right? You know when they are so

close to you, they just run after you. Daddy anytime, Daddy,

I want to say it on your head, daddy, carry

me on your shoulder, Daddy. That is who God is

to us. He's our daddy. Do you treat him like

a daddy or you're like, oh God, you stay there,

I stay here. This is my life. Okay. When I

need you, I'll tell you. This is adulter by the way.

Adult children like that one right, like Mom, it's okay,

I got it all in the control. When I need

money that I'll tell you. Otherwise I can control my life. Okay,

Let's not be children like that to God. Let's always

be the ones we trd like faith like ah yo,

small things, run to God, acknowledge him. That's how we

honor him. Do you know? Right? Okay, I'm gonna share

because my daughter's not here. So she she's a young

lady of sixteen years old. She thinks she knows everything. Yeah. So,

so recently we've been having this conversation about studies and

all that, and so so I was asking her how

things and she just got back a semester results, right,

and so I'm like, oh yeah, this subject a bit tough. Right.

So she's struggling a little bit with one of the sciences.

I say, okay, so it is anything that can help,

and you know what she said, It's okay, mom, you

don't know anything. My teachers know because they've been trained

teaching me. So if I need anything, I'll go to

my teachers because you don't know anything. Do you know

how hurt I was and not? Even though I don't

know the principles of Bernoli or whatever in physics, I

still want to help La. You know what I'm saying. Not.

Do you know? It's not so much that I want

to really like interfere in her studies, but I want

to feel needed. Do you know what I'm saying? Parents,

I want to feel involved, that I still matter, that

I can still, like, you know, support you in some

way if if not, like I want to go for

tuition or what, you know, the kind of thing. I

want to feel that I can still support you. But

then no, excuse, it's okay, mom, If I need you,

and I'll tell you that. Oh so I had to

release and surrender, then God, I hope I'm not like

that with you. Yeah, I hope I don't have that

kind of same attitude with you that I think I've

got it all under control. But do you know it's

nice being needed. Yeah, it's not an ego stroke. Can

I tell you it's not an ego stroke. It's just

really saying I want to help you. I want to

be there for you. And God is like that, Hello, Church,

we serve a God who says, hey, I'm thinking about you.

I'm waiting, I'm looking around that those who will look

to me because I really want to help you. I

got all these resources, you know, I don't know what

to do with it. I just want to pour into

your life. But you don't want my help? Then how

you know? The last thing I want to be right

is a parent that I help you no matter whatana

you go for this tu no matter what. And it's

not appreciated at all. And God's like saying, He's not

like that. He's gentleman enough, like, if you want my help,

I'm here. Sometimes even if you don't want my help,

I will still save you. That's the kind of good

God we have. Amen, let's move on now. I want

to move on to the second category of how we

honor others. So do we agree that there's many ways

to honor God? Many ways? Do you worship him in

a way that honors him? And for me, right, one

of the great things that I realize is when I

worship him, right, I want to be so unashamed and

abandoned things to you know, whatever people will think of me. Like,

you know, the thing that I remember is David. He

dones undignified before the Lord because he knew how to

honor God. He knew that God deserved it for the one,

and he knew that whatever I want to give is

just not In Psum seven, he says, give to him

your strength. Right? Hello, some of you are you go

to the football concert, football concert, football competition or whatever

you go to concert? You give more energy to the

singer than you give to God. You jump more than

you jump for God. Hey, I'm just being real A

of course, we don't go to concerts anymore outday. I

don't know what you go for. But where do you

channel your energy, your excitement, your passion, your time too? Amen?

Thank you for that, right, Like like it too hard

for us to say yes and amen? You know and

That's why I want to drill this into you today.

Can you give your yes an amen or not to God?

It's not to me because when you see that, you're saying,

I agree with this principle God, I agree with you

that you deserve the honor. And so that's why I

make it a point to say, no matter what the

worship leader is singing, no matter what song, I will

sing and give my best. It's not unto the worship leader.

I'm giving unto God. Man, I don't care what other

people think about me. I want to dance. I'm gonna

raise my hand antie. I'm soord by it because God,

you deserve me. You deserve it, right, So this is

like I'm training for me, and I'm like, okay, yes,

I'm training. You want you get torn arms? Yeah, I

can show you. I shouldn't know. I got my so

on okay, from lifting your hands to worship the Lord.

Come on, guys, but when we say we honor God,

can you show it? Do you really show that you

mean business with God? Right? And again, we are not

here to police you, you know, and God knows that's

all that matters, all right. So now, parents, parents, this

is another category that God teaches us that we should

learn how to honor. Okay, let's read the first one

first in three two one. Honor your father and your

mother so that you may live long in the land

the Lord, your God is giving you. This is one

of the commandments of God. It's a sixth commandment.

Right.

The first one was and no, this is the fourth one.

First one was you shall have no other gods. And

God honors parents so much auh that he included it

in the ten commandments. You know that means parents and

speaking to you, God sees you, and can I speak

to the rest of us children? God also sees you.

How you honor or you dishonor your parents. This is

the first commandment with a promise, and he promises that

you will have a long life if you choose to

honor God. Honor God by honoring your parents. It's true. Right,

you see this principle. Right? Some people say, what if

I very bad abusive parents, violent parents. He didn't say,

honor your parents if they provide for you and overseas education.

Do you see that. Honor your parents if they can

give you branded shoes. Honor your parents if they know

how to say I love you. Honor your parents. You

know if if yeah, they gave you the best childhood

of your life, did they say that or not? No?

It was just a pure, straight up commandment, just honor

your parents. And it doesn't have an condition attached to it.

We are very conditional people. I know if you honor

me that I honor you. Bagla, you scratch my back,

I scratch your bag right. But this is a commandment

that says God's way is like blanket or not. You

should have no other gods. If you have other gods

means you're dishonoring me blankets straight up. The commandment says,

honor your parents. If you don't, you might have a

long a short life.

Right.

Ephesians six wanted Tree says, children, obey your parents in

the lot for this is right. Some of us ask,

what's the right thing to do? What is God's will

for my life? I tell you thisla, obey your parents, right.

But now I just don't need to caveat in a

sense that if your parents ask you to go and

drink poison nolah, Hello, does that make sense or not?

Because then you say your elder will say I must

obey you. Know because this is right. So I definitely

mistake that poison. No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying

where it's you know, in a way that does not

dismiss the commandments of the Lot or the teachings of

the Lot. You obey them because many times it's about

our preference, right, It's about what I like, what I

don't like, you know, and we are different generations, our

communication is different, and so we go through things like that.

But we can we agree that this is a principle.

How can we honor our parents? Can you share with

me some practical ways? Sorry, talk to them? I love it. Hello,

When was the last time you spoke to your parents?

Because many of us, you know, we lave such busy lives, right,

and then yeah, our parents live their own lives and

we love One of the ways that we actually choose

to honor them is spending time. Spend time with them.

That that's how you know, why are because time is

your most precious possession, true or not, And if time

is your most pressured possession, choosing to give it to

your parents is a sign of honor. Can I tell

you the principle of honor is always from a position

of giving, yes or not, I have to give something

of myself to show honor. When I lift out my

hands before the Lord, I'm giving energy, I'm giving comfort,

I'm giving you know, people will look at me where

I am giving all of this so that God deserves.

Do you know when you honor someone, you always put

on that weight on that person and you become lighter,

true or not, otherwise you will carry all the glorila.

But you're saying no. When I honor someone, I choose

to give. Do you know when you give your ties

and offering, you are honoring God because you gave. You know,

the act of giving is honoring unto the Lord. And

God says, honor me with your possessions, right, honoring me

your first fruits of your possessions. And God is saying, ah,

you wait, you just wait. If you honor me with

your possessions, I'm gonna open the flat gates of heaven

and pour out such a blessing upon you until you

have no room to contain it. Whoe do you want

that or not? Have you been reading the word of

God and his promises to you? So the moment we

don't give, you're saying Okay, God, close the window of

happen upon me. Thank you. Essentially, that's it, right, when

we chose to give, we are coming back to the

principle of trusting God. I'm trusting you that God, as

I give in obedience to what you've led me to,

you will do the rest. And we've heard so many

countless testimonies over the years of how people give and

give and God never shot changes those who give in obedience. Amen.

It's a principle, guys. It's a principle that when we

learn to walk in this principle, God will prosper you

in all that you do. Amen. Amen. Listen to your

father who gave you life, and do not despise your

mother when she's oh, all right, So God's commandment. Okay,

spend time with them, can you just sometimes when they

say things that you don't agree, just keep quiet. Cannot

don't have to prove yourself right, la. I know I

have to bite my tongues my times, almost put those

really in my lips sometimes are I'm like, it's okay,

I choose to honor you. We are different, we think differently,

but I want to show you respect honor. Imen. So

that's one category, right parents, right when So there's a

reciple cloth to it. Right, when your children honor you,

don't exasperate them, lah, true or not? Don't provoke them.

That's that's difficult. Lah. Okay, I know we all like

to provoke our people and because they provoke us back. Right,

but no, So there's a principle behind it. Let's move

on quickly. My time is running shot. Now. Another category

that's very explicitly shown in the Word of God is

honored to our leaders and authorities. Okay, so I'm just

gonna read to you. Romans thirteen one to seventy says,

let everyone be subject to the governing authorities. The one

in authority is God's servant for your good. Hello. Do

you remember the last time you thank your homes leader,

your discipler. Have you submitted or you've gone against? You know?

Submission is honoring. Yeah, it's not easy, it's not comfortable,

but it's God's command you you say, where, Oh there,

I can give you law. Roman Statin says that God,

this is God's principle. God is asking us. It doesn't

matter whether you have a crazy We don't have that now.

By the praise God, our leaders are all seening guided

by the Holy Spirit. It says, even if you have

evil leaders and authorities, learn to submit. Our role is

to learn to submit, okay, because God will deal with

them separate. You think God will not judge them for

what they do wrongly, He will. Our place is not

to judge, but we need to honor and submit first.

Peter too says, honor everyone, love the brotherhood, Fear God,

Honor the Emperor. We don't have an emperor here. Honor

the king, or that those in authority are basically so

other ways of honoring is can you not speak evil

of them? Can I say this? Sometimes we're like, hey,

but you know this is the truth. We should speak

speak the truth in love? Can I tell you that?

And if you have any accusation against any leader, can

you bring witnesses with you? It's a biblical principle, right,

don't just say, hey, I saw with another girl, O,

what do you think he's doing with the girl? Do

you have any other witness or not? Before you spread

false rumors about others, especially your leaders. This is one

of the things that I really appreciate of what Passer

Kenneth has taught us as a leader. Says like I

will never speak ill of any other leader from any

other church as a principle. Right you you know sometimes

you know church? Are we get into this competition? Oh

you're the very big er. Oh this is a I

call it foolish talk. Yeah, it's foolishness. Why you want

to call compare instead of talking about these kind of things?

Why don't you talk about it? How can we improve

our homes? Are? Hey? How can we do board games

so that twenty people will come to know the Lord?

Hey?

Hello, if you want to talk, right, why don't you

talk things that will bring fulness into the Kingdom of God? Then?

Idle thought? This all idle talk, you know when you're complaining,

Oh yeah, this system not working, The system not working?

How come the likes so deal? How come the lights

so bright? All this is idle talk? Because really save

lives or not? No, you will not. Why don't we

focus our time, honor our time by saying I'm gonna

use my mind, my intelligence, my resources to focus on

what brings honor to God. Hello. Yes, whatever we say

our speech, let that be honoring. Let's move on. How

else can we honor leaders and authorities? This is first Timothia.

He's teaching the church. He's saying, the elders who direct

the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor.

Wo Okay, so I'm elder, elder, it means I should

get double honor. Okay, No, no, no, no. Can I

just encourage you that whoever that shares the Word of God,

can you show honor by just saying thank you for

the word. I'm not asking you to do it to me.

I please do it with sincerity. You know. One of

the greatest expressions I've seen of honor is when I

went on a mission trip to Indonesia. In because it's

so it's an Indonesian culture. Right right after the service,

no matter who comes, those of you've been into mission

trip to Indonesia, Yeah, how many of you? Do you

know that right after the service, the whole church they

will line up. If it's three hundred people, three hundred

people will line up, so the serving team, they will

stand here in a line and one by one, tree

honor of them will come and shake your hands. Thank you,

thank you, thank you, thank you.

No.

Every Sunday you want to talk about showing honor, that

is my image of showing honor. It doesn't matter or

you preach well, you don't preach so well. It's not

about that. It's about you showing honor. It's a culture

of honor, right, And I love that because God's Kingdom

is that kind of culture where you know that Sometimes

we say, ah, yeah, this one I think deserves honor,

this one don't deserve honor. Can I tell you? The

principle of honor is not about whether they deserve it

or not. It's you. You give honor regardless of how

they perform or underperform. And that's why, right it says,

honor your parents. It's not about how they performed. It's

about a principle that you obey because it's God's command.

Do you understand what I'm saying. Yeah, it's no longer

about I'm looking at you, whether you deserve honor or not,

whether you earn my honor or not. No, honor in

God's eyes is something that you give, and it shows

to God who you are, not the person who receives

the honor. God is saying, ef you show honor, I

will show you honor. God is looking for people like that,

all right, and it says this remind them to be

subject or again not tight this again remind who remind

the church, Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities,

to obey, to be ready for every good word. To

speak evil of no one. You think I said, no,

it's in the word of God to speak evil of

no one. To be peaceable? Can you be at peace

with everyone? Gentle? Showing all humility to all men? That

you know? That's why I say that this position of

showing honor is a position of humility. And I know

some of us don't like this work humility. Why should

I be humble? I should be honored, I should take

the front seat. But God says those who are last

shall be. That's God's principle. You know you want to

be first. That you be last, wrestler means there's a

matter who or what you're serving. I'm just serving. I

can be stacking chairs, i can be throwing out the rubbish.

It doesn't matter because I'm just honoring God through my service. Amen,

let's move on. So it's not just leaders and authorities,

Thank God, because God's principle of honor is this. Romans

tough Ten says this, be kindly affectionate to one another

with brotherly love, in honor, giving preference to one another.

What okay, I honestly, how many of you are competitive?

You're by nature? Just show me the competitive person raise

only one person? The rest not competitive? Right? Okay? Yeah,

I have to tell you I'm very competitive. Those who

play me in sports, they will know. I give no

face to nobody. I just want to win. And this

is something that God has taught me. And when I

read this version, it really blew my mind. It says

this in Romans top ten. Right, this is the ESV version. Right,

it says is love one another with brotherly affection. I'll

do one another in showing honor. WHOA, my dear competitive friends.

You want to be competitive, then you outdo us in

showing honor. If there's anything you want to be competitive about,

learn to outdo each other in showing honor. Wow. Can

you imagine that everyone's that I want to show you, No,

I want to show you hon Wow. What an honoring

church and a church that knows how to honor people? Honest, God,

do you know it's not just towards the authorities and leaders,

is to each other. Everyone, regardless of your status, regardless

of your background. Regardless of your position, I will show

honor to the least one of the other. Versus says,

you know that the parts of the body that is

least honorable we honor the most. Not those that it's

always seen, right the head and all the face, But

those which are hidden, those are unseen, we honor and

elevate those. Amen A man, Okay, So let's move on.

What else do I have? I love Philippines too, It says,

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but

in loneliness of mind, let us esteem covert. This is

tim tim may. Let us tim may each other better

than ourselves. Let us hold each other in high regard.

Do you hold each other in high regard? I know

some of you don't even look at each other, right,

you know, come to church, you don't see anyone. Go

leave the church. Also, you don't see anyone. To be

able to regard someone highly, you need to look at

them first. Hello, say hello, good morning, say thank you

for serving extreme hoss ex kids, excuse teachers? Can we

esteem them highly? You think they are your servants? Is it?

Come on? They yeah? Excus teachers like, come on, they

need to be highly esteem, guys, they are serving us,

serving our children, and it says, yeah, those who the

body parts, right, Okay, so let's move on. Let's move

on now. Just to end with this, I'm gonna invite

the worship team to come on. I want to say

to you everything that I've shared here is from the

commandment of the Lord. Yes, you've seen it. You know

enough that enough verses to say God commands honor from

each one of us. But you know what, honor is

also a choice? Do not you one thing to say?

Yes and amen? Is a choice you choosing to lift

up your hands to God or not. It's a choice.

Although it's a commandment of the Lord. We choose to

obey all disobey, and you know what that looks like.

Right With obedience there is great reward from the Lord.

But without obedience, then there are repercussions to it. We

just don't see it. We think that I a nothing

on that there is, you know, nothing in our lives

that you know God will not see. Do you know

that God sees everything that you do or don't do?

Did you believe that whatever you're thinking right now, I

don't know what you're thinking right now. God knows every thought,

so I say, God, please let my thoughts be peaceable, noble, pure.

God knows everything, whether you're judging someone, whether you're looking

down someone you you know. Houriingly, you can be very

nice hey hey, hey, hey, but God knows your everything thought.

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