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Mission Possible | Elder Terrance

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Possible. Okay, let's read from verse from chapter two, verse one,

  4. and it reads, and I, brethren, when I came to you,

  5. did not come with excellence or speech or of wisdom,

  6. declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determine

  7. not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and

  8. him crucified. Paul came. You know what did Paul come

  9. because he went? We were looking for some really fantastic answer. No,

  10. Paul came because he went. And the thing is this,

  11. we will not go if we stay. You know, if

  12. you remain in bed, nothing gets done. Some of us

  13. we love to sleep, right, nothing gets done. You know

  14. the when when when uh Jesus told us to go

  15. into the world and preach the gospel and make disciples

  16. that cannot be achieved if we stay in bed. You see,

  17. Paul had a purpose. He went out, and because he

  18. went out, he came to a certain place. You know,

  19. we we we just had a you know, wonderful missions

  20. conference yesterday. It's truly inspirational and missions are something that

  21. I never really wanted to to share on because I

  22. felt that I had never done missions before, right, And

  23. as I was preparing for this message, the Lord said,

  24. you are incorrect. Huh you mean I've been on missions before?

  25. He said, yes. When Lord, you see, when I went

  26. to Singapore to study, I was just a Christian for

  27. a few months until that's all I knew was Jesus saves.

  28. And when I went to Singapore, you know what I did.

  29. I shared the word with all my Singaporean friends. Do

  30. you know I was on missions? Even I didn't know.

  31. It came as a complete surprise to me. But you see,

  32. then the Lord said, isn't that what missions is? You

  33. get up and go. So when you went to this place,

  34. what did you do? You shared who? You shared Jesus?

  35. And actually I only knew that Jesus saves, you know.

  36. But then the Lord helped me with something else. Remember

  37. I used to tell you that I stayed in the

  38. church hostel, and so after school every night, between nine

  39. and two or three a m. I will be praying

  40. together with the pastor in church for deliverance cases of

  41. those that were under the oppression of evil spirits. And

  42. then I would go to school and the next day

  43. the next day, when I went to school, I would

  44. tell my friends all the things that had happened in church.

  45. You know, I saw this, and you know, we were

  46. praying for this guy. And then the three since says

  47. came to the church gate, and as they were about

  48. to take a step into the church, the three of

  49. them fainted. And then they get up, and they got

  50. up and they ran away. You saw that, yes, with

  51. my very own eyes, because the power of God is real. Now,

  52. I didn't see any of them except for actually one

  53. person or one person accepted the Lord while I was there.

  54. But all my other good friends, I did not see

  55. them except the Lord. Twenty five thirty years later, I

  56. find that they are church builders among them. There are

  57. missionaries among them. There's even a pastor among them. And

  58. they will talk to me about how there was an

  59. influence of what I said in that decision. You see,

  60. you and I we are and we can be missionaries.

  61. You know, the Bible says that Jesus said, you will

  62. be witnesses to me and jud Russa Lam and then

  63. Erusalem is where Jerusalem is like a houseler. It's like

  64. your little town in Klanger. When I first became a Christian,

  65. I shed Jesus and as a result of that, two

  66. people came to the Lord. And then these two people

  67. brought another two people. And these two people brought another

  68. two people. And then my friends and my brothers were

  69. getting safe. Why because the people eye witnessed. When eye

  70. witnessed my brothers, you think they accepted the Lord. No,

  71. they hit me. They fought with me. So if you

  72. can't do it directly, you do it in directly life.

  73. You share with their friends, get them to become Christians,

  74. and get them. Okay, you're going to talk to my

  75. brother and then they became Christians. You see. This is

  76. the way it works. So in Jerusalem, then in Judy

  77. and Julia, because when to Clare, went went from there,

  78. went to k l you know, we shared friends there

  79. while work and talk to them about the Lord. So

  80. in care Now and then Samiria, sing Singapore, it starts

  81. with the same letters, you know. And then to the

  82. ends of the earth. So I don't know whether the

  83. ends of the earth yet, lah, but never mind. At

  84. least I got the first three. It works. It works,

  85. you see, you have to go so anyway, that was

  86. the Lord correcting me. So I said to myself. If

  87. I'm going to share with the church about missions, I

  88. better go on missions. So for my first mission trip,

  89. I decided I'm not going to go nearby. I'll pick

  90. one difficult place. I'll tell Passa Senda, send me there.

  91. Or if you're going to do it once, you have

  92. to at least give it a good goal. So I

  93. told Pasta Sender, I will go to Lake Toba five

  94. hours of driving in a car that rocks your brain

  95. and fries your brain. So anyway, Passa Sandra said no, no, no,

  96. you're too old for that trape. No, I'll send you

  97. to Bakassi. And I went to Bakassi to be led

  98. by my chief there, Michelle, she was my leader. We

  99. went to Bakassi. I have not spoken Bahassa in ages.

  100. You guys got to know that when you go, it's

  101. not you the Lord helps you. It is the Lord

  102. that gives you grace. It's the Lord that empowers you.

  103. So if you don't go, you will never see how

  104. God is going to use you. What little old me

  105. yes you? So I went and I and I thought

  106. to myself, okay, I'm going to keep quiet. Firstly, because

  107. it's Bahassa sekiranaa saychuk up down a Bassa Malaysia. Turn

  108. to our Akan Karana Basasi, Bukan Basa, Tapi Basadi buku

  109. okrani side Jarang Jacob Bahasa Malaysia. So ten years right,

  110. I had not spoken Basa. I thought, I'll be quiet.

  111. I will let all the Bassa geniuses. You know we

  112. had elder roads bass genius. Let all of them talk.

  113. You know, you can make your plans, but God will

  114. have his way. So we went visitation. Remember we went visitation,

  115. and I thought I'd better keep quiet. So the guys,

  116. the people there, they tell their story. So I thought

  117. I'll keep quiet and lo and beholder. The Lord has

  118. a different idea. Suddenly I started to counsel them in Malay,

  119. speaking the word of God to them, prophesying in the

  120. name of Jesus. And it shocked even me. I said,

  121. where is this coming from? You know the Lord can

  122. do this. You know. We went to one place and

  123. the people were about to lose their house. Remember they shack,

  124. we are going to be here for a few more days.

  125. They're kicking us out. The word of the Lord came

  126. and I shared with them what to do. It was

  127. just the Lord was just speaking and speaking and speaking.

  128. One week later, Pastor Franz writes back and said, miracle

  129. of miracles, the bank came back to them with such

  130. a glorious deal it shocked everybody. They kept their house.

  131. The Lord is able to do it. You know, when

  132. you go, you will begin to see how much God

  133. has blessed you. You know, we saw people who were

  134. painted silver kids. The place is so poor that what

  135. these kids do is they paint themselves from head to

  136. toe in silver paint. You know, the kind of silver

  137. paint you paint rusty metal. They pint that on your skin,

  138. head to toe, and they go begging for food. We

  139. gave food in the night, and we gave food at lunchtime.

  140. We prepared about one hundred and ten pecks in the

  141. night and maybe a hundred packs in the day. And

  142. one would think it would take a long time, right

  143. in five minutes it was all gone. There were people

  144. there who lived in a cart. They call the cat people.

  145. Their cat is maybe as white as this, maybe two

  146. and a half feet deep, maybe two and a half

  147. feet long. And the man pulls his wife and his

  148. child in that cart. That is their house. These are

  149. poor people. And you should see the love of Exebacassi

  150. for these people. The pastor Franz knows them by name

  151. and they know him. There's an opportunity for them to

  152. know Jesus Christ. You know, the first thing that Jesus

  153. said was I've come to help the poor. Do you

  154. know why, because if you don't feed the belly, they're

  155. not going to listen to what you say about Jesus Christ. Guys,

  156. we have to live like Jesus Christ is coming again.

  157. We're so concerned about our jobs. We're so concerned about

  158. where money is coming from. Let me tell you what

  159. Jesus thinks about our jobs. Do you remember when Peter

  160. denied Jesus and then of course all those things happen,

  161. and he was so sad about it. Right, of course

  162. he had seen that, you know, Jesus Christ had risen again.

  163. But what did he do. He went back to fishing,

  164. He went back to his vocation, his job catching fish.

  165. And you remember what happened. He tried all night to

  166. catch fish and he caught nothing. And Jesus came in and said, hey,

  167. why didn't you throw down the net on this side

  168. of the boat. And when he threw the net. They

  169. pulled up so much fish that he couldn't contain. And

  170. then Peter said, it's the master, and he jumped into

  171. the water and he ran towards or he swam towards Jesus.

  172. And guess what happened. Jesus was seated there with fish

  173. on the fire. You think there were people who went

  174. around selling fish. Hey, the fisherman hadn't caught anything online. Okay,

  175. they were the ones who sold fish. They caught nothing,

  176. But Jesus had fish on the fire. What was the fish?

  177. The fish was the income of the fisherman. What was

  178. important to the fisherman? Jesus already had on the fire.

  179. You worried about your children, He's got it on the fire.

  180. You worried about your job, He's got it on the fire.

  181. You worried about money, He's got it on the fire.

  182. You worried about relationships, He's got it on the fire.

  183. You worried your house is going to go, He's got

  184. it on the fire. You know what it means by

  185. he's got it on the fire what you consider important.

  186. He's already taken care of what you struggled all night with.

  187. He's got it ready for you guys. You and I

  188. got a realizer that when we meet Jesus, he's not

  189. gonna ask us how much of money we got on

  190. the bank. He's not gonna ask us, hey, do you

  191. have ten houses? Twelve houses? How good are they? How big?

  192. Is he gonna ask us? That He's only gonna ask

  193. us what did you do for me? See, we are

  194. concerned about the things that he's already got on the fire?

  195. Did it? All this from Paul came because he went

  196. so we should never remain stagnant, because when we remain stagnant,

  197. nothing gets done. You and I were never meant to

  198. stand still. The only time we stand still is to

  199. know that He is God. But we were always meant

  200. to move forward because Jesus commands us to go. Wow.

  201. You know, Paul said, I did not come to you

  202. with excellent speech. You know, there was no motive to

  203. impress on his part. You think it's so important to

  204. impress one another. Paul was not interested in that. Paul

  205. was not interested with giving people a good impression about himself.

  206. You know, Pastor Elvin called it right today. I don't

  207. know whether you saw me pointing at you when you

  208. said that I pointed out, like, you know why, because

  209. in my spirit I felt that there was a heaviness

  210. here and we had not broken through yet the same

  211. feeling he had, and he took care of it. How

  212. do we ensure that we never faced this kind of

  213. situation when we come to church. I'll tell you that

  214. Noah motive to impress Paul did not come to show

  215. his superiority. Was Paul superior? You better believe it, superior

  216. to whom superior to those that don't believe, superior even

  217. to those that believe. Why, Because he's calling, he was living,

  218. is calling out. He was doing what's right. He was praying,

  219. he was believing. It's trusting, he's honoring, he was obeying God.

  220. If we are believing, trusting, obeying God, we are on

  221. the same level as him. But Paul was not there

  222. to show how superior he was. He did not come

  223. with wisdom. You know when scripture says he didn't come

  224. with wisdom. The word is a philosophy, Okay, the word

  225. is philosophy. No philosophy, you know what is philosophy? How

  226. many of you know who have you heard of? Aristotle?

  227. Who was the other guy? Okay? Aristotle was the great

  228. philosopher right in history. We all know you are great philosopher.

  229. Can any of you tell me anything? He said, Can

  230. any of you tell me anything? That? Aristotle said, chances

  231. are none of us can write. Any philosophy students here? No, okay,

  232. praise the Lord. There was a philosophy student. I met

  233. them about two weeks ago. I said, can you tell

  234. me anything? Aristotle said no. So you see, but you

  235. and I can tell what Jesus said. I have not

  236. come into the world to condemn the world, come to

  237. save the world. Paul did not come to share a philosophy.

  238. Was Paul intelligent? You better believe it. He was a scholar.

  239. He wrote twenty six by twenty six Bibles. He wrote

  240. twenty six books of the Bible. So was he intelligent?

  241. You better believe it. Did he come to show his

  242. intelligent of intelligence? Of no, he said, I'm coming not

  243. to show you these things. That's what wisdom means. Okay,

  244. But he says, I want to share with you the

  245. testimony of God, which is what based on evidence. He

  246. just wanted to talk about his divine God. He wanted

  247. to give them an idea of who Jesus was. He

  248. wanted to bring the church back from the ways of

  249. doing things into a clarity of what Jesus was requiring.

  250. Then Scripture says I was determined, That's what Paul said.

  251. I was determined. Hey, you know what, I have made

  252. a choice. I have made a firm declaration to myself.

  253. I've decreed. So I was determined. I decreed Paul when

  254. he came to the church, he was saying, I'm going

  255. to share with you nothing but nothing that compares too.

  256. I don't want to recognize anything. I don't want to

  257. focus on anything. You know what he wanted to focus on.

  258. He wanted to focus on Jesus and him crucified. You know,

  259. I asked the Lord as I was walking to prepare

  260. for this message. You know, no preacher worth his salt

  261. comes up here and does not fear and tremble when

  262. they give the word of God. Am I right, Pastor Irvin?

  263. You know why? Because when we share the word of

  264. God with you, it's an enormous responsibility. If we don't

  265. do it right, we have robbed you of listening to

  266. God's answer. And you think God holds that likely, He

  267. is very, very firm that when we share the word

  268. of God, you have to be blessed. If you're not

  269. blessed because we have called it wrong, or we heard wrong,

  270. or we were sharing something of our own imagination. He's saying,

  271. you have robbed my people, and I will not let

  272. you go. That is the responsibility. Moy is given, moy

  273. is required. Guys, when we come up here to share

  274. the word of God. It's not to show you how

  275. intelligent we are, how articulate we are. He's got nothing

  276. to do with that. It has everything to do with

  277. bringing the word of God to you. And here Paul

  278. was saying this, I was determined to know Jesus at

  279. his weak moment. Why would Paul want to dig? Why

  280. was Paul so determined to remember, recall and shared Jesus

  281. at his weakest moment? You know, when Jesus was crucified.

  282. Wasn't that his weakest moment. Why didn't Paul say I

  283. was determined to share Jesus and him resurrected because that

  284. was the moment of victory. Let me explain to you

  285. how this can be. How many of you remember that

  286. in nineteen okay, many of you were not born, But

  287. for those of you with gray hair like me, or

  288. no hair like me. Do you remember a runner in

  289. nineteen sixty eight that made it to the Mexico Olympics,

  290. Malaysian runner the hurdles one hundred and ten meters hurdles.

  291. Do you remember guy by the name of Istambara? Remember that?

  292. Do you know there was a Malaysian who actually got

  293. to the one hundred and ten meter hurdle finals. Of course,

  294. you may say, but he didn't win, right, no impact

  295. in the story. Right, Let me give you the background story.

  296. He met an accident, or rather, he didn't mean an accident.

  297. An accident met him and crushed both his legs. He

  298. was in hospital for months and the doctors said that

  299. he would never run again. Imagine this how difficult it

  300. must have been for him. He was trying his best

  301. to become a world class runner and his legs were crushed.

  302. You know what he did. This is just what his

  303. sisters told me. They were my friends, he said. When

  304. he got out of hospital, he struggled to walk, but

  305. he would walk and then he would place a hurdle

  306. six inches from the ground, and then he would go

  307. and he would run over that six inch hurdle. And

  308. he did that over and over and over again, and

  309. then he raised that six inch hurdle a little bit higher,

  310. and a little bit higher, and a little bit higher,

  311. until one day he became the best hurdler in Asia.

  312. It was after his accident. So now when you hear

  313. this man's determination, it's a whole new meaning. There's another Okay,

  314. I'm sorry I speak in terms of sportsmen. You all

  315. do not know. Did I come from a different error. Okay,

  316. there's another sportsman. His name is Thomas Master. He was

  317. a champion tennis player. In fact, before Nadal, he was

  318. the top clay coat specialist. He won French Open finals,

  319. French Open couple of times, and nobody could beat him

  320. on clay or right, just like nobody could beat Nadal

  321. on clay. But before Nadal was Thomas Master. What's so

  322. great about Thomas Master? Where he was taking out his

  323. tennis records from his car and a drunk driver came

  324. and slammed into his car, and his car went backwards

  325. and crushed his legs. He spent months in hospital, and

  326. you got to love doctors. They said he would never

  327. play again, but he got up, he rehabilitated himself. He tried,

  328. he tried, he worked, at it. He worked at it

  329. took months, maybe even years. But guess what After that

  330. he won the French Open. After that he became number

  331. one in the world. When you hear that, then it

  332. makes sense what a champion. Now let's look at Jesus.

  333. Jesus was bashed up within an inch of his life.

  334. He was torn to bits for you and me. When

  335. they threshed him, they did a good job, trust me.

  336. You know, when they put the cross on his back,

  337. it wasn't smooth wooden. The carpenter didn't go and make

  338. the wood smooth, put shack shalac and lacquer and shining

  339. and all. It was nothing but splinters on his back.

  340. And when he hung up there, he looked totally defeated,

  341. totally stripped of every ounce of humanity and dignity. That

  342. was Jesus. But you know why Paul said, I must

  343. talk about it, because he did it for you and me.

  344. You know, if Jesus didn't do that, most likely we

  345. would be up on the cross like that. We would

  346. have to bear the penalty, the you penalty for our

  347. own sins. But Jesus took it upon himself, so we

  348. and you and me we can have it easy. Then

  349. he says this, Jesus died, and three days later he

  350. rose again. The resurrection only means something when you remember

  351. the quality of his death. The resurrection only has special

  352. meaning when you recognize the terrible circumstances he went through.

  353. Only then it has impact. And Paul was determined to

  354. know Jesus at his weakest. You know, the measure of

  355. a man is a package deal. It's not just about

  356. his success, it's about how and what he did in

  357. order to get there. Jesus, in order to get a

  358. name above every name, had to go through this Jesus,

  359. in order to have this situation where every niche shall

  360. bow and every tongue confess that he is Lord. It

  361. could only happen because he was obedient all the way.

  362. Without the tough stuff, there's no glory. How many of

  363. us expecting to just have everything work so well and

  364. so easy and so smoothly in our life. If that's

  365. what we want of life, let me tell you there's

  366. no glory in it. The glory only happens because you

  367. go through the tough stuff, and will Jesus help you absolutely.

  368. The last time I was here, I remember telling you

  369. that I will let you know what happened. I took

  370. an international organization on, you know, multi billion dollar organization,

  371. me against them. I want, I want. I can't tell

  372. you what it is, but I want. Will Jesus help you? Absolutely?

  373. It's a package deal. You won't get to glory unless

  374. you suffer. Yes, sir, Yes, there's always the wilderness before

  375. there's the oasis. You cannot know one without the other,

  376. all right, So our focus must be on Jesus. Why

  377. because he took across, he took her punishment. What an

  378. immen's love? Man, Guys, whenever you're having a difficulty in

  379. worshiping the Lord, remember what he did for you. You'll

  380. change just like that. That's how you could have broken

  381. whatever was hanging over your head this morning. What an

  382. immen's love sacrificing for people like us who are women?

  383. I mean, what makes us so good? You know what

  384. the Lord asked me, Terrence, what's so great about your face?

  385. You know what the Love was actually telling me. All

  386. these things that happened to you, it's got nothing do

  387. to you. It's because I love you. It's not because

  388. you're anybody great. Say thank you Lord. That takes a

  389. lot of pressure off of me. So I don't have

  390. to be great. I don't have to show something I'm not.

  391. God can do it. He he can do it for me,

  392. He can do it for you. You know, if you

  393. take all the stories that I tell you and you

  394. say this fullest, always talking about himself, You've got the

  395. wrong message. You know what is the message? The message

  396. I'm trying to get to you is if God will

  397. do these things for me and I'm a nobody, he

  398. will do it for you. Because God is the same

  399. with everybody. He doesn't love me anymore that he loves you.

  400. In fact, he loves you too. Why for God to

  401. love the world that he gave, He's only be concern

  402. that whosever believes in him, Sho'll not perish but have

  403. everlasting The whosoever believes in him, You're not perish, but

  404. have everlasting life. So guess that's what you qualify. You qualify.

  405. It's the same love. So I tell those stories because

  406. I want to encourage you that in your daily life

  407. God is for you. Do you think God is for

  408. you only to go and save somebody? Yes, he is,

  409. but he's also for you because you're you. Hey, you

  410. do things for your children only because you want them

  411. to do things for you. Why is it you give

  412. to your child? In fact, your child cannot give back

  413. to you, at least for twenty one years. For twenty

  414. one years you are giving to them after the degree.

  415. After they get the degree, you hope they will give

  416. you something back. Whether that happens or not, I don't know.

  417. You'll be satisfied. Do they remember you for Father's Day,

  418. Mother's Day and your birthday? True? Not? Okay those of

  419. us who are allder parents true or not? Yeah? But

  420. why is it for twenty odd years we can give

  421. and give and give because you love. If Jesus starts

  422. are faith, you think Jesus is uh someone who doesn't

  423. finish the job. That's why it says he is the

  424. Alpha and Omega, the starter and the finisher of our faith.

  425. When he starts something, he brings it to pass completeness

  426. in our lacking life today. That's why we focus on

  427. Jesus satisfaction. We're nothing else, We're nothing else in the

  428. world and satisfied. You know what Scripture says in verse

  429. in chapter in uh uh okay? Can I read it? No,

  430. it's not up yet, Okay? In chapter two, verse three.

  431. Paul goes on to say this, I was with you

  432. with much fear and trembling, or much fear, with much

  433. fear and much trembling. Why would Paul tremble? I gave

  434. you the answer just now. But you know he was

  435. a brave guy. In fact, some people consider him a

  436. god because when the when the poisonous snake bid him,

  437. what did he do? Classic ramble? Shook it off into

  438. the fire. Did need you do that? No? Just shook

  439. it off into the fire. I mean, we made penicla,

  440. but he didn't. What did they tell you about Paul?

  441. He was a classic guy. He was a guy of strength. Hey,

  442. he went through shipwrecks. You have to be somebody to

  443. go through that kind of storm, ship breaking up into

  444. all the kind of nasty waters and come out. Hey,

  445. when they threw him into prisoner after beating him, he

  446. can still sing. You know, he can still worship the lot.

  447. And I loved this about Paul. You think it was

  448. a weak character. What did he tell him? You think

  449. you can put someone like me in prison? You get

  450. your bosses to come and see me. And when the

  451. bosses came, now say sorry, now lead me out. You

  452. know what he was doing. He was making a public

  453. spectacle of those people. I tell you a story. I

  454. once when I was that time, I used to ride

  455. my motorbike. So I came to my sister's house and

  456. outside is the neighbor's dog. And the neighbor's dog came

  457. and beat me on the lake. Fortunately I was wearing

  458. thick jeans. Lad came and beat me on the lake.

  459. You know I was my reaction. I looked at his dog, say,

  460. you dare by me? Do you know who I am?

  461. I am the son of the Lord of Lords, in

  462. the King of Kings. How dare you like me? I

  463. told that to the dog. Do you know what the

  464. dog did? It went back to the corner, put its

  465. head on the ground, and put over its head. I'm

  466. not kidding you. You have to know who you are.

  467. Power was no weakling. But yet he said with trembling,

  468. and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive

  469. words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the

  470. spirit and of power that you'll feach, not being the

  471. wisdom of man, but the power of God. Let me

  472. tell you something. When you come to church on a Sunday,

  473. there's a responsibility that each and every one of you

  474. plays in ensuring that the delivery of the Word comes

  475. across with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. That is

  476. your responsibility. Our responsibility is to pray and believe God.

  477. You know, I ask the Lord Lord, I need to

  478. wake up tomorrow at four am to pray. But I

  479. set my alarm at five am. My eyes open when

  480. I look at the clock four am. My first words are,

  481. thank you, Lord. I get up and I go for

  482. my morning walk, because it is in that morning walk

  483. I'm praying for you. I'm praying for the service. I'm

  484. worshiping the Lord. I'm praying for the message. I'm praying

  485. for the annointing to come and change your lives. And

  486. here the congregation is, and they don't take the responsibility

  487. to ensure that the Word of God comes out. Well,

  488. if you don't prepare, you'll run into difficulty, and we

  489. will run into difficulty when scripture says and again he

  490. shared a scripture which the Lord spoke to me this morning.

  491. Deep cries out, too deep, do you know what that means?

  492. It is your spirit when it is latched to the

  493. Holy Spirit in prayer and believe that the Word of

  494. God is going to come to you to change your life.

  495. When the preacher comes up here, you will draw it

  496. out from his spirit. I've done my part, I've prayed,

  497. and I've asked the Lord to annoint me to share

  498. with you. Have you done your path? Let me encourage

  499. you to do your part so that every Sunday when

  500. you come, the Word's going to change your life. So

  501. if you ask me, what is this world going to

  502. do for my life today, Well, Jesus died for you.

  503. Paul was so convinced that Jesus was the answer he said,

  504. I'm determined to share nothing but Him crucified, meaning that

  505. you and I both know Jesus crucified, and I both

  506. know and have the answer in Him to change our lives.

  507. And this word is coming to you. So what do

  508. you do receive that word? Lord? You are the one

  509. who came, You suffered for me. So how dare this

  510. problem come before me? You are the Lord of lords,

  511. the king of kings. Nobody has this power to assert yours.

  512. You speak to your problem and you say, get out,

  513. in the name of Jesus. You will not hang over

  514. my head. In the name of Jesus, leave me problem.

  515. You speak to your circumstance, you go out, and when

  516. you share the word, the Holy Spirit will take over.

  517. I didn't tell you right. I had to prepare message

  518. my word. I had to prepare message in Bassa. I

  519. was so freaked out. I wrote the whole message down,

  520. typed it, and then went over it. Timed it. Okay,

  521. forty five minutes, praised the Lord. I've not done that

  522. for any other message. You can this message in in Indonesia.

  523. I did. Then I put it on chat Gipt translating

  524. Basa Indonesia came out fourteen pages, big for big phone,

  525. big one. Now I got it. I would just you know,

  526. read it. I get up and the Lord said, put

  527. your paper away. Then I opened my mouth and I

  528. start sharing, and I'm talking in Basa, talking, talking, talking, talking,

  529. talking talking. Then I asked Elder Rose, hey, how am

  530. I full time? I'm not like this young lady wh

  531. puts up ten minutes. Nobody put up any sign for me.

  532. So I asked, hi, am I I'm okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,

  533. you got another five minutes. Okay. So I share the

  534. word five minutes and then I come down. So it

  535. wasn't long, right, forty five minutes. No, no, it was

  536. one and a half hours. The message is wanting. Do

  537. you know that the people didn't flinch. They were not

  538. giving me the signals that it was boring. Their eyes

  539. were open, they were receiving. They were just drawing it out.

  540. The Lord will give you utterance. So our faith is

  541. not in the wisdom of men, but in the power

  542. of God. That's how we should be living in the

  543. power of God. You know my life is so encouraged

  544. by what the Lord did for that big situation. Every

  545. time I see the blessing, say, I cannot believe God

  546. that you made this one person, me and ordinary nobody.

  547. We're now over an international, multi billion dollar company. How

  548. is that even possible? In God, all things are possible.

  549. So why would Paul fear and tremble? You know, this

  550. was a man was troubled by the demon said come

  551. out leave. He wasn't afraid of demons. He was able

  552. to sing and pray in chains. He stood up to

  553. the council, he told them come in, apologize to me.

  554. He could survive shipwrecks, this is Paula. He could survive

  555. snake bites. Guys, do you believe that the Holy Spirit

  556. can help you. What's your issue? Man? What issue did

  557. you have that God cannot overcome. What's the biggest problem

  558. you have in your life? You can't find a partner.

  559. If God knows everybody on earth, if you actually believe

  560. and you ask him, he will find one for you.

  561. I mean all the may will always last when I

  562. tell my story, to tell my story about her. But

  563. we prayed for three and a half years before she

  564. even said yes. And when she said yes, yesays I

  565. don't love you, but I'm saying yes because the Lord

  566. said I'm to marry you. I said, don't worry, you

  567. trust the Lord. And in the short world, the love will come.

  568. Because I prayed, Ma, the Lord told me yes. So

  569. by the second day she was hit over heels in

  570. love with me. See the difference is that I sought

  571. the Lord. She sought the Lord. We got the Lord's answer.

  572. We've been married now for thirty Next January will be

  573. thirty nine years. I think thirty eight years and thirty

  574. seven years then something like that. Hey, you want to

  575. know something. We still don't do things apart. Okay, after

  576. all this time, we still go on holidays together. We

  577. still if the other party is not around. We don't

  578. like you know, for me to come here and she

  579. being another planter is a very big thing, is a

  580. very big thing for us because we don't separate like that.

  581. Why because God founder is a partner. We believe God could,

  582. he did, and we're here. You know, guys, why do

  583. you look down on yourself? You know, why do you

  584. look down on yourself? I am who I am? Says

  585. I am. Remember I told you that was title of

  586. a good Country in Western song. I haven't written it yet.

  587. I am who I am, says I am. Guys, you

  588. are the anointed of the Lord. When you go, you

  589. carry his presence. And here you want to stay in bed.

  590. Nothing happens when you stay in bed. Get out, go

  591. into the world and share the gospel. When Jesus comes

  592. and he asks you, what did you do for me?

  593. Say Lord, I mean I didn't share with millions of people,

  594. But wherever I did, I say, yeah, yeah, yeah, I

  595. know this person and he says, thank you for doing it. Guys,

  596. you know how close we are to Jesus return. We

  597. are so close. I just give you one, just one muscle.

  598. Revelation says that we can't buy or sell if we

  599. don't get the mark of the beast in the last days.

  600. So we are thinking that the mark of a beast

  601. is a little mark. It could be could we very

  602. well be? But do you know that the technology is

  603. already here. I have five minutes left. Okay, the technology

  604. is already here. You know what it's called online. If

  605. the banks decide to stop your account, there's nothing you

  606. can do. There's nothing you can do once your cash

  607. is finished. There is nothing you can do. You know,

  608. you want to buy something from another country, you don't

  609. have to go to the money changer online. It's done.

  610. The capacity for it to happen is already here. You know.

  611. I went to Chad Gibt. I know there's some videos

  612. going around. I decided to check in myself, I said, Chadgybt.

  613. Answer my questions. Make it plain and simple. Will you

  614. be used as a tool of the Antichrist when he comes? Probably?

  615. Is the Antichrist already here on earth? Probably? Have you

  616. be programmed to be anti Christian? I cannot answer that question.

  617. Let me ask you another question. I say, when the

  618. time comes, will you go against Christians? Probably? Hey, it's

  619. answering you. You know why. It's telling you for all

  620. you know, Chad Gibt is the false prophet for all

  621. you know, because now nothing gets done without AI. Correct.

  622. You've got to be aware. You have to be aware.

  623. You're going to ask Ai these questions. You'll be quite

  624. surprised at some of the answers. And you know what

  625. AI told me, so I answer. So that means you're

  626. quite a dangerous tool. When the time comes and you

  627. know what AI can answer, He said, that's true. But

  628. always remember this, people have free choice. Do you know that?

  629. That's its reply to me? While it can still reply

  630. that way, it replies that way. The time will come

  631. where it will only speak what the Antichrist puts into

  632. it and trusts me. All its programmers do not believe

  633. in Jesus Christ. Guys, we are living in the last days.

  634. If you want to do something, make sure you do

  635. something for Jesus Christ, and he will help you with

  636. your own personal stuff. But do not just live your

  637. life for yourselves. Paul was quite an amazing person. His

  638. faith was not rooted in the wisdom and the ways

  639. of man. His faith was rooted in God.

  640. We must trust and believe Jesus for how we are

  641. to live our lives. That is why I asked the

  642. Lord everything, Lord, do I eat this? And he puts

  643. it in my heart?

  644. Yes or no. The other day I went to Clang.

  645. It was late, the restaurants were closing. Only this one

  646. restaurant was open, and I was so hungry, and in

  647. my heart the Lord said, don't eat, my Lord, I'm

  648. so hungry, so I ate. Next day I suffered, But

  649. this time alda Able didn't suffer. No, because the Lord

  650. told me and didn't tell her. I should have known better.

  651. Everything where you go, I go before my work. Lord

  652. helped me with my work today. You know my prayer

  653. every day is help me find favor with all those

  654. that I work with. Why do I pray that? Because

  655. you know the enemy can use people around you. Why

  656. even in churchia, the person has an off day. Mabila,

  657. You have to trust in the anointing that God brings

  658. along with you. So if you've forgotten everything, you can't

  659. remember anything that I've said today, Just remember these one

  660. or two things. Number one, make sure you do something

  661. for the Lord, okay, because ultimately he's the one you

  662. need to please. Number two, always remember that Jesus was

  663. crucified because when you remember he was crucified, you will

  664. remember he died. And when you remember he died, you

  665. will remember he was buried, and then what happened. He

  666. rose again. So your situation will never remain bad as

  667. long as you're believing in Jesus and you can turn

  668. every situation around, nothing remains the way that it is.

  669. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  670. information on our church, please visit as church org. We

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  672. this week is going to be a good week. I

  673. hit for you. God bless