Cross The Line | Pr Steven Soon

You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

We hope this message will light up your day. I

know you guys know one, but you're just shy. It's

Hypercat two fourteen. Right, for the wholes will be filled

with the knowledge of glory of God as the waters

cover the sea. All right, that is our vision. Do

you know our mission? I also know you guys know it.

It's just that you guys are shy. Our mission is

this to make disciples that make the difference. That's our mission,

which means to say, when you come to ex chich

and you call excience your home, this is what we

are going for. We want to see the whole earth

filled the knowledge of glory of God, starting with where

you're at, your family, your workplace, your officers, where you're studying.

That's what we want to see that wherever you're at,

true you that the glory of God is made known,

and we how do we do that? It's also true

our mission to make disciples. There is in Matthew chapter

twenty eight to make disciples, and not just any disciples,

but disciples that make the difference, making an impact. So

that is what we talk about. So if if you

are quite new to Acts. If you never known about this,

now here I am sharing it. If you there's a

vision and mission of Acts, and that is what we

are fully laser focused on. Other church may have other

visions and mission and it's fine, right, But in Acts,

if you come to Acts, this is what we are

going for, right, and you will know that we emphasize

a lot on the small, small groups our homes. Right.

And when we do things small but small doesn't mean

that we only focus on the small. Again, Remember the

small is so that we can reach all. So it's

actually quite big. The whole of will be filed. It's

quite big, right, So we do it small because we

have gotten this mandate from the Lord to say, we're

not here to build a monument. We're not here to

build big church buildings. Here to build a movement where

every single disciple is mobilized to make the difference. So, friends,

if you call yourself a disciple of Jesus, get ready

to be mobilized. The Lord wants to partner with you

to reach your friends. Life is more than just comfort.

Just now, we also talk about abundant life. John ten ten,

do you know abundant life doesn't mean just reaching material wealth,

true abundant life scripturally and in in the in, in

in really the way that God, the way our Lord

sees abundant life is this that you go through ups

and downs. You will never experience true happiness if you've

never experience true sadness. You'll never experience true companionship without

experiencing loneliness. And that's what the Lord says when it

comes abundant life, and it ties in also, how can

the Lord says, how can how can the Bible say,

you know, carry the cross for say all things and

follow me, but yet say abundant life is actually not conflicting,

because if you want to have abundant life, you've got

to carry the cross. And it is true suffering, It

is true going through difficult times again, not we send

the retire passau. That's French for finding problem. Now it's passa.

It's no. It is when we follow the Lord and

the Lord's purpose and when we go through hard times. Friends,

you're guilt up for abundant life because again, if you

don't go through tough times for the Lord, you will

never truly experience abandoned life, material wealth, Exploring the world

vacations and all that. Yes, comfortable, but friends, it is

not abundant life. For those of you who have gone

through really difficult times and have experience God delivering you,

you know that it's abundant life. You know that that

changes your perspective of what really matters and what is

important in life. Right, there's no power the script. Ah,

But I just send a lot to share this and

we're going to the word. Right. I just want to

before I share about the title of my message, I

just want to ask all of us this question. Right,

when you look at a Christian, can look around you

for a bit, Okay, fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,

around you? Okay, now look forward so that there's no

hint of judgment for whatever that's I'm going to ask next. Okay,

when you look at a Christian, my friends, what will

make you say what this person is the very embodiment

of Christ? Take a moment to think. Let me just

make it simpler. When you look at the Christian, what

will make you go this is a successful Christian, a

true Christian. Take a moment to think, Okay, can I

get you guys to participate by throwing out some words?

What makes a true Christian forgiving? Okay anymore and a

shame of the gospel anymore, faithful anymore, loving, very good anymore?

Christ like very good, anymore? Joyful? Okay, very good anymore?

Non judging, very good. That's why you guys have to

look forward, right, friends, Okay, very good anymore anymore? Maybe

one or two more? Just show it up, loving enemies.

I heard that? Okay, one more? Sorry, true? Okay, very good? Hey,

you guys attending Sunday? No Sunday? Wiship? What happened? Hey?

Isn't that a mark of a true Christian coming to

judge every Sunday? Sometimes Saturdays? Uh? Hey? Prayers of Noah

and the homes serving in church every Sunday? No interesting?

Huh That you guys didn't say any of those things.

But if you think about it, when we think about

a mark of a Christian, we usually look at these things,

if you don't really think about it the moment one

of our friends don't come to church. I'm a home leader,

so sometimes I mean that I see that this person

not coming to homes again. I see the homes leaders

laughing because we have thought like that before. Am I

right again? Late again? I'm like that also, I admit,

but sometimes if we are not careful, we may put

the wrong matrix INTI of whether a person is a

true believer. Now, I'm not saying all this is not important.

It's important. It's part of our growth, right, But I'm

asking us to go a little bit deeper to see

what it means to be a true believer. Coming back

to abundant life. Okay, do you know that a Christian

can go through Sunday surveys or worship, go to prayer surveys,

go to homes and still not have abundant life. We

all know this, right, So we gotta reflect and think

what then is a true Christian? And of course I

asked you to think about and look at others, look

at your friends. Right now, I want us to introspect

a bit, look at ourselves. Right are we being a

true disciple of Jesus. I'm gonna get us to I'm

gonna share a little bit on what Pasta can share

with us. I hope that it's okay in a global

e spirilitary. It's still very fresh. It's still very fresh

for me. I'm still digesting it. But I just sense

that this is something that that God has for us today.

And I would like to just share with you the

title of the message. If you guys are taking notes,

it's gonna cross the line. Across the line. Cannot cross

the line because we always tell people don't cross the liner.

You're crossing the line, but across the line. It's the

title of the message. Will you'll find out why it's

not cross the line in the conclusion. Okay, So, but

journey along with me. We're gonna look at Map chapter one,

verse thety two to thirty nine. Okay, so can you

flip open your bibles and turn to Map chapter one,

verse thirty two to thirty nine. We're gonna go through

scripture together, Okay, Mark chapter one, verse thirty two thirty nine. Okay.

I want all of us diverse before we start reading,

because this is very important, very important, and I want

us to ailm up certain points of this scripture. Okay,

if you're there, say I'm there. If you're not there,

to say, wait for me. Okay, we'll wait for you.

We wait for you. Don't worry. Okay, Okay, we're good.

We're good. Mark chapter one, verse thirty two to thirty nine. Okay,

let's go all right, follow along as I read verse

thirty two. At evening, when the sun had said, they

brought to him him, meaning Jesus, all who were sick

and those who were demon possessed, and the whole city

was gathered together at the door. Then he healed many

who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons.

And he did not allow the demons to speak, because

they knew him. Now I want to pause here. Wow,

isn't this a picture of a successful ministry. Imagine yourself

as a disciple of Jesus. You start praying for a colleague,

what a click got healed? Then your whole office hurt.

Then your whole office queue up at your table. I

want to be prayed too, Or wouldn't that be amazing?

Imagine for a moment XPJA one day, the whole of

PJ is at the doorstep until jaiyawa no place to park. Wow, right,

people who want to come bouldering have to palk outside.

Imagine that for a moment, and every all of you here,

as you lay hands and pray, people get healed. As

you lay hands and pray, people get delivered. Wow, isn't

that a beautiful picture of ministry. Doesn't that feel like?

This is success? Man, This is what ministry should look like. Oh,

I'm living out the true Christian life. Healing the sin,

delivering the demon possessed, raising the dead. Feels like it. Right,

We're gonna continue reading verse thirty five. Now in the

morning this right after that, having reason a long while

before daylight, Jesus went out and departed to a solitary place,

and there he prayed. I'm gonna pause he again. Any

of you woken up very early in the morning before sunrise,

and you prayed before any of you some of you

have I have a question to ask you. When do

you do that? What costs you to wake up so

early to pray? Through our interactive interactive Huh cannot sleep?

Why cannot sleep? Yo? Hey? No? Lie? Jason? Still young?

Still young? Why why would you wake up early in

the morning before sunrise? Quiet? And huh hungry? Sorry I

can't hear It'll be loved of Sorry, prepare breakfast. There's

a mom right there anymore? Anymore? Why why think of it?

I went from your own personal experience? Why would you

wake up usually maybe you won't wake up at that time?

And usually people will call it ungtly hour. Why would

you wake up at that time prompting of the Holy Spirit?

We're getting hotter, we're getting there anymore anymore. Why why

want to pray? Why you want to pray that spread

for something we're getting somewhere. Think for a moment, Okay,

I'll share from the moments. The days where I really

wake up super early before sunrise to pray are days

where I feel really disturbed. At days where I feel like,

oh God, that I'm desperate. I cannot sleep, I'm rolling

in my bed. I'm disturbed. I don't know if you

woken up at four AM's there's something with four am

waking ups, and that one I've come to believe is

really the Holy spirits, something waking up at four am,

and that's when the law wants to speak, waking out

with dreams from the Lord. See Jesus woke up around

three probably am to pray after a full day of

successful ministry. Give me a license to help us imagine

a bit. Maybe Jesus was disturbed with something. It's bordered.

Maybe he was bordered with something, and what led me

to believe that possibly he was borthered with something was this.

Let's continue on in scripture, all right, So first the

dy five says he went on to pray early in

the morning before sunrise, and then versy six, and Simon

and those who were with him search for Jesus. When

they found him, they said to him, everyone is looking

for you. Popular a mark of a successful minister. Everyone

is looking for you. But Jesus said to them, let

us go into the next towns that I may preach

there also, because I want you to air among this

for these purpose I have come forth. And he was

preaching in their synagoguetra or galilee and casting out demons.

Hold on, you mean to tell me day one successful

rally healing? Really, so many say, the whole town coming

to meet Jesus and ready for day two. Jesus say,

I don't want We're going to the next town. What

everyone is looking for you? Jesus, No, I don't care.

We're going to the next town. But it wasn't that

a successful ministry? Why move on? Think about it for

a second. What happened in between Jesus went to pray, right,

Something must have happened when he was praying that led

him to go Nope, we are not staying here, we

are moving on. So I want to ask us this question, right,

what is again our image of a successful Christian or

successful ministry? Because if we go by our usual perspective

and mia I say myself as a I would say,

Jesus continued, please, people here all need you. Why you

leave them behind? But Jesus went away, you know? And

really I think the X factor here was that Jesus

heard from God, the Father on what to do. He

was not swayed by the demands of people, even though

there were people in need. He was not swayed by

expectations from people who are following him, his disciples. He

was not swayed by the popularity is getting. It didn't

go to his head. Man, I just have to continue

to deliver people here name Then he'll be successful ministry.

Then I'll be a successful Christian. But yet Jesus says this,

we go into other towns for these purpose I have

come forth. What does this mean? Purpose? For what purpose

he has come forth? I really believe that this purpose

ties into listening to what the Father wants us to do.

You see the spectacular things draw the crowd, healing of

the sick, delivering of demons. Wow, spectacular, so many things happening,

seeing God move, It drew the crowd, it drew the

whole town. But Jesus wasn't interested in the spectacular. He

was interested by what the Father wants. If we live

by the spectacular, and Christians, I'm saying this, if we

constantly look at things that are exciting in the Christian world,

everyone must have healing. If no healing, that means God

is not here. If this person doesn't come to church

every Sunday, this person is not going to happen. If

we constantly look at the surface and just look at

exciting things, I'm telling this, we will live in pressure.

Because what if one day you really felt sick and

don't come to church, does that mean you're a failed Christian?

If one day you pray and I hope it's not

one day, I hope every day when you're praying for

healing for people and people are not healed, it's not spectacular.

Does that mean you have failed? So when you have

certain perspectives like this, we have to be very careful

because we are setting ourselves up of pressure. But actually,

what God the Father wants from earth is to listen

to him. We got to go deeper than just coming

to church on Sundays. We got to go deeper than prayer,

surveys or homes. We got to go deeper because our

faith is not made up by Sundays. Only Monday to

Saturdays count a big part of how we live our

life as belief. See, Jesus wasn't concerned with the crowd.

There were needs, yes, he was more concerned with the

reason he was there. God the Father, you put me here.

I'm gonna do what you ask me to do. Okay,

God the Father, you asked me to leave, Now I

will leave. That was what Jesus was doing. So again,

what makes a successful Christian in God's side? I believe

it is this. It's not about how many Sundays your

attend church in a year, all right, but please do

attend church when you can. It's important. It's not about

how many people you lay hands and how many people

got healed. It's not about that. It's about how we

listen to God the Father. That's a true map of

the Christian following God, one step by the time walking.

The Bible says, walking in step with the spirit. That

makes the Holy Spirit take one step. You take one step.

You don't wait for the Holy Spirit walk ten steps.

You say, wait, I'm still diet the Lord. But no

Holy Spirit walks one step. We take one step obedience.

What the Father says, what the Holy Spirit says, follow, follow.

I believe that it's a true mark of a believer,

someone who follows God daily every moment. Luke, Chapter seven,

verse twenty twenty eight. I'm gonna read this real quick,

and now I'll tell you, guys, to which part to

ill mark? Okay. John's two disciples found Jesus and said

to him. John the Baptist said us to us, are

you the Messiah that we've been expecting, or should we

keep looking for someone else. At that very time, Jesus

cured many people of their diseases, illnesses, and evil spirits,

and he resorts sight to many who are blind. And

he told John's disciples go back to John and tell

him what you have seen and heard. The blind see

the lame walk, those with leprosy are cured the death.

Here the day I raised alive, and the good news

is being preached to the poor. And he added, God

blesses those who do not fall away because of me.

After John's disciples left, Jesus begin talking about John the

Baptist to the crowds, I want you to im up this.

What kind of man did you go into the wilderness

to see? Was he a week read swayed by every

breath of wind? Or were you expecting to see a

man dressed in expensive clothes? No, people who wear beautiful

clothes and live in luxury are found in palaces. Were

you looking for a prophet? Yes, and he is more

than a prophet. John is a man whom the scriptures

refer and they say, look, I'm sending my messenger ahead

of you, and he will prepare, prepare your way before you.

I tell you, of all who have ever lived, none

is greater than John. Yet even the least person in

the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he is. Let's

turn out attention to the part where it says, what

kind of man do you go into the wilderness to see? John? Again?

Talking by the standards of a Christian, John was a

successful minister because wherever he went people followed. He was

the one that was baptizing people in water. Multitudes go

to him, right, people of all kinds go to him.

Probably carrying different expectations of who this John should be.

That's why Jesus had to ask the question to people

who are listening to Jesus said, who do you go

to the wilderness to see? Who are you expecting? Are

you expecting someone who is like a read? You guys

know what I read is lalan. Okay, read looks very

nice in bunches when the wind blows. But you know

that reed cannot stay stale. Every single gust of win

the reed moves. So Jesus was actually asking these people,

are you expecting John to be someone who sway according

to what you expect him to be, according to what

you want or according to what you want him to be. No,

John is not gonna sway. John's gonna stay true to

his purpose. He's gonna stick true to his convictions. See,

John is doesn't look like a successful minison. You know

why you have the picture up the slight before I

believe can go. He was wearing actually this is not

an accurate depiction neither, but he was wearing animal high

that's clothes. He was eating grasshoppers. And wow, honey, what

you're you're saying this is a successful minister? Yes, you see,

he was not swayed by how many people followed him.

He was not swayed by Wow, okay, so many people.

I'm gonna baptize the people. Do you know John the

Baptist actually was His purpose was to prepare the way

for the Messiah. That's why he sent the two messengers

to Jesus, say are you the one? The one that

is prophesied? If John didn't stick true to his convictions

and to his purpose, and he became a read he

probably he wouldn't even be sensitive that Jesus is the one.

He probably will see Jesus a competition. But John stayed

true to say, I'm here to prepare the way for

the Lord full stom. He is greater than I am.

I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you

with a spirit. John stayed true. He was not affected

by other people, what other people expect of him. How

does this connect to what I mentioned before? You see,

when we start to understand what is a true image

of a believer or as or of a disciple, we'll

start to gainst the the convictions that it's not just

about performance, that it's not just about attendance, but it's

our relationship with the Lord, and from there God will

give you convictions every day. Hey, I want you to

pray for your colleague. Hey, I want you to not

just go to school, but let people know you're a Christian,

pray for them. Hey, you gotta stop cheating in exams.

That was me when I was sixteen, by the way,

happily serving in CF AT, ending CF in CF committee.

And then I teacher adviser just said, some of you

here surf God serf, got self coller but still cheating exam.

That was me. So I have to go call Turkey.

You cheating. Literally, Yeah, I had to say col Turkey

because the whole cheating thing in school was a system.

Everyone in class had to participate, because if you don't know,

the cheating doesn't work. I won't go to detail because

there are students here. I won't give you ideas, but

let's just say I came from a very famous school

that is supposed to have smart students, and smart students

they have street smart, yes, street smart. So I was convicted.

I had to say God, and you know I was

ridiculed for that. People say, you know, Stephen, you you

think you're very smart. REDI in fact, I had very

bad results, so I actually probably was the one that

needed to cheat the most. But anyways, but I stopped

doing it right. But some of us here, God will

start giving you convictions when you hear from the lot

they need to do certain things and not do certain things.

And friends, I'm going to tell you what you do

and don't do in accordance to what the Lord says.

It's going to be very unpopular with people around you.

It's going to be very unpopular. So the question is

will you be like a read that sways or will

you stick to your convictions? Will you be a read

or a rock? During a spere retreat, Elder ping Hole

reminded us of I'm and Peter. Simon means read, someone

who says. But do you know that Jesus renamed him

to Peter, call him Peter, which means rock. And upon

this rock I shall build my church, Jesus said to Peter.

So would you be Simon or would you be Peter?

And to be honest, we are both blah. But we

got to remind ourselves to not just rely what we

sung on the cornerstone. There is a firm foundation for us,

but we also got to be stronger. Don't say it's

okay that I sway left and write Jesus. I'm staying

on Jesus and the firm foundation. MA I telling you

Jesus is coming and he's gonna judge if sometimes you

are weak understandable. I think Jesus, don't. I think. I'm

sure Jesus is forgiving when we repent, But don't take

him for granted. Don't take grace for granted and just

leave life as if it's okay. I would just repent

one second before I die. No such thing. Guys, are

we going to be a read or are we going

to be a rock? You see, the world is looking

for Christians to be full of love and all inclusive.

That's what the world pains the image of Christians to be. Hey, God,

did you love right? You must accept me for who

I am. Accept my version of truth. You can have

your version of truth. I have my own virsion of truth.

Be all inclusive, except that's what Jesus thought to love.

That's what the world is looking for. I'm telling you

and you all here know there's not a true image

of a believer. So the question is would you sway

to what the world wants you to be, because the

honest truth is many are swaying to what the world

wants Christians to be. God wants us to not be

just full of love, grace and all being, all inclusive.

God wants us to stand for truth. And know that

when God wants us to stand for truth, that comes

from a place of love. That is what the Lord

wants us to do. And friends, one day at the time,

day by day is getting harder and harder, you know this,

to stand by truth because truth rubs people the wrong way.

For the past three weeks and I am coming to

an end with this. The past three weeks, I felt

a very deep disturbance, not in the force, but in

my spirit. Okay, some we watched our wars, we get

their reference. Okay, I talk about heavy topics, almost crack

some jokes that they like. Okay, you know, just know

that even when we talk about heavy stuff, that is

always hope because we believe in a good God. Okay, Okay,

so so, but for the past three weeks, I was

experiencing a very deep disturbing on the spirit that I've

never experienced before, the type that I cannot fall asleep

and I wake up feeling despair. It wasn't that something

happened to me, but there was a sudden revelation of

the state of the world we're in that I know

it's from the Lord. I know that deep disturbing is

not something that I should just swep under the cupboard

and ignore and just forget about it. I knew it

was something that God wants me to go through, so

I was. I was in that state for three weeks

of deep trouble in my heart, so much so I

still remember one of the days I was working in

church in the office and I was so disturbed I

felt I was gonna implode. I had to go to

Basamett was there and I said, Pasame, I need to

dialogue with you. I need to let something off my chest,

and I shared, I shad, how how can the world

be in this state? How how are we as believers

are going to continue this race where it's getting harder

and harder day by day. I was questioning myself, Am

I able to stand before people who may be asking

me to renounce my faith and still say Jesus is Lord?

Am I able to go? If it caused my life

to go all the way am I able to speak

truth in the midst of adversity? If the majority before

me I was holding stones in their hands, ready to

show me, am I able to still say Jesus is

Lord and what you're doing is wrong.

I was so troubled and so so scared. I was

so troubled. For three weeks, I wrestled and wrestle and wrestle.

I even had to meet with past, the Kennev and

the past that I'm going through this, I'm really wrestling.

But he has come to my attention that really it

is what the lort meant for me to go through,

because I to address whether my faith was plastic or

is a real thing. Because if I say, oh, Jesus,

I will follow you all the way, all the way,

even if it means losing all your friends all the way,

even if it means your closest even family member. If

you were to say certain things are not in accordance

to God's will and you should not do it. If

I were to say it, and I would lose them,

you mean, I would say, have to do that all

the way, meaning to say that There'll be a day

where I'll be probably standing on a pulpit, preaching to

people who are all against what I believe all the way.

I do wrestle with that, Stephen, do you really love

me all the way? Would you really follow me all

the way? Do you know that the disciples, majority of

the disciples type matters early disciples, or they went all

the way? Sometimes we forget that our faith was built

on the blood of the matters. They had to sacrifice,

they went all the way that today we can be

here in a very comfortable theater hall, enjoying and listening

to the world of God. I had to address that

for myself. What is face? It's my relationship. We've got

really that solid that I won't be a reed and

won't be shaken when the rubber hits the road. I

was wrestling with that, and thank God, I won't say

thank you Jesus for letting me restle this because I've

come to certain realizations that I want to share with you. Friends.

There's no sugarcoating this. We are at the end times

and the enemy is trying his absolute best to distract

you to make you think it's comfortable. We are reaching

a point that there's no longer room for moderation in faith.

We're getting there, guys, everywhere you see, every part of

the world almost we are getting there. Don't think Malaysia

is better. It's coming. What do I mean, no longer

moderation in your faith. There's no such thing as killer.

I accept you, lah So Killa, we love you. I

love you for who you are. Because these very people

that you say, these two are gonna demand and stands

from you. They're gonna say, oh, you say you accept me?

Bible says these all you see you're Christian? Right, Well,

how can you say you accept me? And where will

you stand when a question like this comes? I'm telling

you these are the things that has came to me already.

A line is being drawn clearer and clearer between the

world and God. There is no such thing as standing

in the middle. My fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

We can no longer stand in the middle. We've got

to pick a side. What God is a God of unity? Right,

you're meaning to say there is a division. Revelations teaches

us that there is a division, there will be, and

it's already happening. So, my dear brothers and sisters, I

preached this from a hull of love, and I'm pleading

for you to think and reflect whether we are ready

to pick a side, because if we're not, we're going

to be a read that straight back and forth. And

I feel that maybe we may lose our salvation if

we are not careful. Yes, it is that serious. I

know it's morbid. I know it's heavy. Okay, last morebit,

last part. Okay, I promise Revelation three fifteen to nineteen.

I know all the things you do that you are

neither hot nor cold. I wish that you will one

or the other. But since you are like look warm water,

need a hot nor cold, I will spit you out

of my mouth. You say, I am rich, I have

everything I want familiar comfort. All right, I have everything

I want. I don't need a thing. I don't need

a thing. And you don't realize that you are wretched

and miserable and poor and blind and naked. So I

advise you to buy gold from me, gold that has

been purified by fire. Then you will be rich also

by white garments from me, so you will not be

shamed by your nakedness, and ointment for your eyes so

you'll be able to see. Verse nineteen. I correct and

discipline everyone I love, So be diligion and turn from

your indifference. Our church today has become indifferent by being

all inclusive. But we stand for truth and friends. We

got to stand for truth and the world of God.

And when we love, we got to pair that with truth. Guys,

But I want to end with hope. Yes, it sounds

more bid, but do you know when you follow true

with God, you only end in victory. Don't be swayed

by the fact that while this world is so comfortable

and we fear eternity, eternity is gonna be a place

where there's no suffering, no strife, no illness, no sickness,

and there's only the fullness of the love of God.

That is if we are in eternity with Him. So

don't be discouraged, but take courage in knowing that hope

is there, and hope is a name. Hope is Jesus.

So we got to hang on to Jesus day by day.

Why do I call it cross the line, Because it's

time to God's side and cross the line, not standing

in the middle, because standing in the middle is indifference.

Standing in the middle is being looked warm that you

see in scripture there's no place for lukewarmness. God will

spit you out. Sounds harsh, but again, what is God

looking for in his children? God is looking for children

that will stick to him, listen to his voice daily,

follow after him, and not sway by the expectations and

demands of the world. And not sway just because one

church is doing this, our church is not doing this,

our church is behind, our church is a failure, and

not sway just because the latest trends say so, we

are not doing it, and not say just because we

are not singing the latest songs. We are singing hymns.

Guys said, mean God is not here. We gotta be

very careful of our image of success and our image

of what is what really God wants for us. And guys,

read your Bible pray every day, kid songs we sing.

Read your Bible pray every day, because if you don't

do this, you may have all the Bible knowledge in

the world, and if you don't have the Holy Spirit,

you won't be able to discern because even the devil

knows the Bible from cover to cover. Knowledge should not

get you saved. Knowledge should not help you in the

time of mass information. It is the Holy Spirit that

will help you discern what is true and what is not,

what is true and what appears true, what is true

and what is of the world? And the enemy is

working over time. So take my friends, cut your hearts, God,

your quiet time, God, your relationship with God. Don't depend

on the faith of others. Don't depend on the faith

of those on the pulpit. Don't depend on the faith

of your leaders or your parents. Where is your faith?

Where is your relationship with God? Are you hearing from

him every day? Are you hearing what he wants you

to do today? I'm telling you I'm hearing from it.

Even certain meetings, I will postpone my meetings or push

it aside, or even asked to be excused so that

I can meet up with someone and push Jesus. So

we've got to be very careful. Oh how we did

them in success. I'm not saying me things are not important.

Important still to move things forward. But you've got to

learn to discern from the Holy Spirit what to do

what not to do. But if not, you'll be swayed

by the success. The way the world views success. God

wants to speak to you, my friends, He's reaching out

to you. But the question is are you reaching out

to him. I'm gonna close. It's okay. If there's no music,

no worry. I'm gonna invite us to stand and we're

going to respond to the Lord. Sorry I went over time,

but we're just gonna take a shot. Wow, a few minutes,

the Holy Spirit is speaking. And then don't just take

it from me. I'm convicted and convinced that whatever I

just shared this really from the Holy Spirit. I felt

him speaking tru me. But don't just div that. Like

I said, you gotta have your old faith, meaning to say,

you gotta dig in, you gotta dig deeper, and you

got to go like God. It's what I just heard true?

Is this from you Lord? If it is, speak to

me and there are many of you here, I know this.

I know this because the Spirit has impressed on my

heart that many of you here. Many many times your

heart and your spirit was disturbed, maybe to a certain degree,

like how I felt the past three weeks. But many

times you thought, no, we cannot feel this way. Chris.

You're supposed to be joyful. Christians were supposed to be

always full of hope, and we will just slip these

feelings of discomfort, these nudgings under the cupboard, and go

on and forget about it. But I want to encourage

as friends, when you feel a disturbance in your heart

and your spirit, I want to ask you to dig deep,

because the Lord wants to speak to you. The Lord

wants to wants to challenge you and ask certain key

questions that will help you to understand what he wants.

The Lord wants to really put you through. Just now,

the Bible says in Revelation, I advise you to buy

gold from me, gold that has been purified by fire.

Purification is painful, purification is hot, it's uncomfortable, but it

is true purification that we will find the most pure

of purers of materials. So if you want to have

pure faith, you got to go through that discomfort. You

got to address and acknowledge the part of your heart

that goes like I don't feel right. Oh, I just

watch this sermon, I just watched this teaching, I just

heard this podcast. But I don't feel right. Oh, things

are happening in the world. I don't feel right. Friends,

don't push those things aside, because chances are there's a

holy spirit nudging you to dig deeper to find the

truth of God. Times are modern. Times of moderation is over,

my friends. Are you picking God's sign? Are you saying God?

Whatever you say, I will listen. Now do all eyes closed.

I want all of us here to pray on your own,

your own prayer to the Lord. If this and I

pray this would have struck something in your heart. I

pray that this disturbs you. I pray that this makes

you uncomfortable, because it's only true that we will seek

for truth. And I want you to address that discomfort

in this moment. And I want you to bring that

discomfort to Jesus. Jesus, I'm feel in this sense maybe

even a little bit of dread. Bring it before the

Lord and say, God help me. We hope you've been

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