God is a God of order | Pr Alvin Keng

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God is a god of order. This is something that

I think. This is something not I think, but it's

something that the Lord has been ministering to me. Uh

you know this past few uh well months, week's days,

I don't know. And I as I'm like sort of

like delving deep into it or as as allowing this

to minister to me as well, I realized that it's

one truth that if all of us catch this, I

think we'll be able to live lives that are more fulfilled,

live lives with less problems, live lives with clearer understanding.

You know, when we understand this truth and if we

apply something, so I hope that you'll be able to

receive something and don't be surprised like, oh no, how

come like that or what happened to me?

I realized that when we.

Live our lives, and of course there will be some

truth that has to be there first. And I hope

that as I am this, you will be able to

follow me la you know. But yeah, you know, if

we understand this truth and if we're apply in our lives,

we'll be able to live lives.

That are more fulfilled.

You know, the Christian word is more blessed maybe, but

I think more fulfilled, more purposeful, less problem, let's headache,

so on and so forth.

But we all live in the fallen world, right right?

Do you know that?

Do you know that we live in the fallen world?

Do you know that things around you will go wrong? Right,

whether you intentionally did it or not. But the wonderful

thing about God is that he gives us a way out.

Okay, And yeah, let me go to the word.

We're going to read Genesis chapter one, and we're going

to read from a verse. Yeah, we're going to read

the whole thing, I think. Okay, so please bear with Mia.

Let's read.

Okay.

He says here in the beginning, God created the heavens

and the earth. The earth was without form and void,

and darkness was on the face of the deep, and

the spirit of God was how ring over the face

of the waters. Then God said, let it be light.

And there was light. And God saw the light that

it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness.

God called the light day, and the darkness he caught night.

So the evening and the morning were the first day

the first day. Then God said, let it be a

firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it

divide the waters from the heavens. Thus God made the

firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament

from the waters which were above the firmament. And sol

and was so that's why we have land.

Right.

And God called the firmament heaven. Oh, sorry, not land,

for moment is heaven. So the evening and the morning

were the second day. Okay, So first day he created light,

second day he created waters and the firmament right. And

then next and God caught the dry land earth, and

the gathering together of the waters he called seas. And

God saw that it was good. Then God said, let

the earth bring forth grass, and the herb said, yield seed,

and the fruit tree that yields truth according to its kind,

whose seed is in itself on the earth. And it

was so, and the earth brought forth grass, the herb

that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree

that yields true, whose seed is in itself according to

its kind. And God saw that it was good. And

the evening and the morning were the third day. How

many of you are bought yet of me reading Genesis,

I hope you're not. Okay, it's actually pretty interesting scripture

to go through. Then God said, let them be lights

in their moment of the heavens, to divide the day

from the night. Basically created the sun and the moon,

and let them before signs and seasons and for days

and years.

Wow, amazing.

And let them be for lights in the firmament of

the heavens, to give light of the earth.

And it was so.

Then God made two great lights, the greater light to

rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.

He made the stars also. God set them in the

firmament of the heavens to give light to the earth

and to rule over the day and over the night,

and to divide the light from the darkness. And God

saw that it was good. So the evening and the

morning were the fourth day. Then God said, are you

guys okay?

Okay.

Then God said, let the waters abound with abundance of

living creatures.

Well, a lot of things happening. Okay, let's see where

am i.

And let the birds fly above the earth across the

face of the firmament of the heavens. So God created

the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves,

with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and

every wing and bird according to its kind. And God

saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying,

be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters and the seas,

and let birds multiply on the earth. So the evening

and the morning were the fifth day, two more days

to go, guys. Then God said, let the earth bring

forth the living creatures according to its kind, cattle and

creeping thing, and beasts of the earth according to its kind.

And it was so. And God made the beasts of the.

Earth according to its kind, kettle according to its kind,

and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good. Then God say,

let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

over the birds of the air, and over the kettle,

over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

creeps on the earth. So God created man in his

own image, in the image of God. He created him

male and female. He created them. Then God bless them,

and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply feel

the earth subduit have dominion over the fish of the sea,

over the birds of the air, over the every living

thing that moves on the earth. And God said, see,

I have given you every herb that you see, which

is on the face of all the earth, every tree

whose fruit you seed to you, it shall be for food.

Also to every beast of the earth, to every bird

of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth,

in which day is life. I have given every green

herb for food.

And it was so.

Then God saw everything that he had made. Indeed, it

was very good. God said, his creation is very good.

So the evening and the morning, which were the sixth day,

Thus the heavens and the earth and all the hosts

of them will finish. And on the seventh day God

ended his work which he had done. And he rested

on the seventh day from all his work which he

had done. I think the first thing we got to

understand as believers is do we even believe this first

chapter first chapter of the Bible. Do we believe it

or not? Or do we have doubts? Because the first

chapter of the Bible actually explains how the earth was

created by God. It doesn't just explain how the earth

was created. It also explains how the earth works. It

also explains about work because God worked on the first

day and that's it, you know, from one to six

days and he rested. He also explains where we came

from because God made men according to his likeness in

his image, so we are like God emotional, Right, they

say look like him. I don't know our eyes. I mean,

we don't really know how God looks like.

Right. You know, God is a god of order, as

you can read.

Right, a lot of things in the first chapter makes sense,

doesn't make sense to you.

That's actually only one.

Thing that to me don't make sense, which is we

get light from sun. And we now know science has

telled us, told us that the moon reflects the sunlight

the side the moon shines, actually moon, God no light

on You're like giving you like science, science a thing.

You remember this, You guys didn't learn this, right, Okay,

your kids will probably know it because they watch YouTube.

Right, we know that now.

But when you read the scripture, the interesting thing is

like came first before the sun and the moon. The

sun and the moon came later on, right, and it

is something unexplainable, illogical in science. Do you know why

I think it's like that? Because God says so, Because

God is God.

This another thing that I think human beings we have very.

Difficult, very difficult for us to understand that God is

God and not everything you can explain to logic.

You'll catch that.

I'm trying to set certain things in order now before

I go into my message, because the moment you don't

believe the first script the moment you don't believe the

first chapter.

No point listening to me.

Ready, Now, the moment you don't realize that God is

God and he does he does things in order, but

he does things according to his.

Order, his order, our order.

No, right, you won't be able to receive a lot

of stuff I'm going to share after this.

Let me really clear with you.

Right, But if you understand the scripture as is, and

you accept it first, first, accepted, accepted for us later,

a lot of things will kind of make sense.

Are you guys? Okay? So I said that first? So

God is a god of the why.

The creation account is a good example of how God

created things in order, and everything he created had purpose

and a special design that works is very specific.

Right. There was nothing made out of context, There was nothing.

Made with no reason. Everything was done. Everything was done

according to his plan, not our plan. Hey, God, are

you They didn't make the sun and the moon first?

Now science tells us a do you know that? Science

don't explain a lot of things. Science is the observation

of life. But now people worship science, they worship all

these other things. No, they worship all these things that

make more sense to them. See, I'm not saying that,

you know, we should just don't have critical thinking and

don't care. No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying, guys.

But some things, some things in life you just gotta observe.

And he actually makes sense, right, it actually makes sense.

Let me talk about this. God even rested on the

seventh day. Okay, let me bring it a bit closer

to home. If you reflect on your life today, I

or like we reflect on our own lives if we

don't take rest, because see we're made in God's image.

After he works six days, he rests one day. Right,

imagine if you don't rest, what happens? Things get out

of order. I think I've got signed here. Well, taking

a long time no, yes, so on qok, whatever makes sense?

On qok? Sorry?

Out of order? Have you seen this sign before? Go

to the toilet? I need to go toilet and then

I am not working. Go to the next law. Right,

you know, things are very math fun. I learned this

word from the Health International School students. Although I feel

they use it out of context. They like to use

the word math fun. Don't make sense, right, but this

is a correct usage. Things away math fun when it's

out order, right, don't you think?

So? How many are us one life? To be perfect,

to go smoothly? Right?

What happens when things get off order? Very very difficult? Right,

very difficult? Something that takes two weeks? You know what

takes two weeks? Going to the Promised Land took forty

forty years? Because things are of order?

Right? Why do things get off order?

Well, mainly is because God made a whela al so

easy to explain, Yeah, it is.

We need to We need to understand this.

There is a design and order to the things that

God has created, and the moment we take things out

of order, then we get in trouble.

Okay.

Genesis one twenty seven says, so God created man in

his own image, in the image of God.

He created him male and female, He created them.

We I don't even get into that, man, because now

the world has turned things tops a w and it's

getting worse and worse, getting more more messed up. And

they're hiding all the challenges, hiding all the things that

are of or the white because men took things and

messed up with it. Since the beginning of time. Men

has been doing it. Men has been messing up God's

friends since the beginning of time. He has right. Let

me bring it closer to home. This day and age,

a lot of things are running out of order. Don't

you agree with me? Our families are out of order.

Men that don't lead, women that lead. Nothing wrong with that, guys,

nothing wrong with women leading. But in the family context,

what happens when the men don't lead, when the men

don't make decisions? Oh, yes, pastor, I just make all

the main decisions. Everything else my wife's handled.

Okay.

Not sure whether there's a good idea in the long run,

because women, they want security, They want to be led,

not lord over.

There's a difference.

For those of us who are married, and we have

done marry country, we understand this. We understand. The moment

things get of order, it gets very messy. It gets

really messy when the husband don't play his role, and

when the wife don't play her role, and when the

children don't play their role. When things get out of order,

it gets really messy in the family you need and

then we try to find other things to replace it.

So sad, oh, I don't feel the spark anymore in

my marriage. Why do you put things out of order?

Why didn't you invest in your marriage? I tell people this,

I'm very, very happily married, super happily married. It's like

one of the best things that happened in my life.

But you know that marriage takes work.

It does. It takes work.

It takes keeping each other pure, It takes a lot

of things. Talk to happily married couples. They will tell

you half the time is work.

One.

There's no such thing as OD to get there everything. No, guys,

it takes work because you're taking two totally different people together. Right,

maybe some things you like same, same same, What about

the things that you don't like?

It takes work, right, friends.

Our lives are out of order, also tired, not enough

rest of course, if work work work, work, then later

play play, play, play play.

There's no time to rest, no time to reflect. Of

course of order.

Our lives are all other, our relationships auret of order,

so out of other guys, so out of order. Well,

maybe not the people here, I hope not. But in

the world today even identity is out of order, so

much so that you can be many many, many things

plus plus plus. I won't go too deep into that.

It's all out of order. Everything is out of all.

Do you know why things are of order?

Friends?

Because people have forsaken the order that God has created.

We have.

We have forsaken the order that God has created in

our lives. We have and they have forsaken God. And

that's why things are in chaos. Because people forsake God,

things are in chaos. And when I talk about forsaking God,

I'm not just talking about affiliation, friends, Because I know

the Church is not perfect. I know religion is not

perfect because at the end of day's let by men men,

it's not perfect, but we come under the submission of God.

By See, it doesn't change that God has things in order.

Whether or not the Church is perfect does not change

the fact that God still runs things in order. You

understand that or not, it doesn't change No, no matter

how angry I am, it doesn't change that. When I

jump off this I was still going to fall them

because of gravity. Gravity is there, whether we name it

or not. That's the thing about life, right, And we

understand and some of these things in order. We understand it, right,

but we try to supplement it. That's very dangerous.

So how am in?

How well? I've got a solution for you. We need

to find the center again to get back to the order.

Let me tell you something that well, maybe let me go.

Let me go go here.

First.

First contents for the tree says for God, it's not

the author of confusion, but of peace. So if you're

confused in your life, know that that's not God doing it.

It's probably we are confused because of ourselves. Most of

the time, confuse, confuse ourself. Oh, I thought this is this?

I thought that is that understanding?

Right? God is the God of peace.

When we are in God's presence, we are peace, as

in all the churches of the saints. So let me

ask you a practical question. When we building right, do

we follow instructions? Do we how many of you here

have IQA furniture. None of you Okay, looks like I'm

the only poor person that can only afford actually is

not cheap? No, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know? Or

maybe you build anything? Okay, you build anything? How many

of you?

Right? What happens?

And we don't follow the EA assembly instructions step by step?

What happens? What happens?

You're building a cupboard, you're building building building, and then

you're like, you know what, no need the one two, three,

And then they put the numbers so big, no, one two,

they put so big white because maybe people don't follow,

you know why. They probably get the old people complaining, hey,

your cupboard now don't work. I fixed radio, but the

dog came off, and then they will ask and then

and then maybe it's, uh, do you do you? You know?

Do you follow instructions? White instructions? Do you know that?

And I notice really because again.

I mean old enough to buy and buy furniture from

Ikea and buy furniture from other places and get someone

who's probably more expert to fix it for you. Right,

when you fix things according to the instruction, he will

be sturdy, correct, he will be But when you don't

and when something's missing, a screw is missing, how many

of you build it ready? And they're like, how come

we got three more extra scrucier I wonder where this goes,

or maybe it's extra scruis that they gave us la right,

And then suddenly you realize, how come the cupboards sing it? An?

We blame the manufacturer. The manufacturer is the one that

got it wrong. Sound familiar. Let me flip it a

little bit, right. God has a design and order for

our lives. We go fix ourselves. Then we forget a

few screws. Some of them got screw loos in the head, right,

don't point your neighbor who don't don't know?

And then we blame God. God?

How can you thank? God's like, hello, I give you everything?

Instruction may no is here?

What you hell? Follow?

Outa why you hell follow? And then point finger, Hey

you are you? You are the manufacturer ikia ek furniture

is good?

Please edit this out of the message.

We either come up with something totally different, totally different

supposed to build a cupboard and up become a table

or whatever you're building is not study and won't last right,

won't last?

Right? It was still he can sit the hand for all.

No, I remember last time in college, I mean college,

the time Ikia was new and we were like, oh Ike,

you know, buy ikea table, right, I think until today

my my my table is my my table is from college.

Get at their tables are really good one. But I

remember buying something else, like a cupboard, right, and it

didn't last me that long, maybe because I didn't really

follow it instructions when I.

Was building it.

Right, Well, in might work for a while, right if

we if we you know they say fake it?

Do you make it?

Bluff a little bit? You work for a while, you

work for all lot, you keep up appearances. But after

a while, right, it won't last.

You know. That's the thing that is even sadder.

You know God's you know, in God's way he says,

God makes everything beautiful? Right do you know that if

you don't follow instructions, things might look ugly?

How comes anigo one? How comes things? Saying it?

And you know everything from a far from a farst,

stand from stand far far. You know some some Christians

right stand from far looks okay and stand forever the

moment you gore like, hey, what's happening here? What's happening here?

If it looks so different? Now things have to be

in ordered. What happens if you don't follow recipes step

by set? When I was doing this, I was thinking

about Joe wife. She don't follow her famous Durian cheesecake

step by step. Today, I want to add more sugar.

Tomorrow I'm gonna add salt. The next day I'm gonna

put chili tabasco sauce. No ma, variety is the spice

of life, Joe, right, especially if it's a complicated recipe.

You don't follow exactly. Complicated recipe, you don't follow exactly. Yea,

today you feel different, you do it something different. Are

you gonna come at the same thing?

No? Can I give you another revelation?

As I was preparing this message, do you know that

human beings are extremely complicated? You know we understand this

for recipes. No, if the recipe is complicated, I better

follow exactly. Better follow exactly because the moment one thing

of our gone ready. Do you know that the recipe

for human being is super complicated that you can't really

look at the person and say this is the problem.

Cannot know very hard, It's very hard to do that

most of the time. It's a collection of things most

of the time. And yet the interesting thing about human beings, friends,

I tell you because I work with them a lot,

and maybe because of my role, and I'm sure some

of the leaders here like person maybe because we are

in a position where we minister to people or the

not Christian word is to help people and counsel people

and stuff like that. We've had our fair share of

understanding people. If you're into this line, you know counselors

and know you have your fair share of looking at

people's lives and understand people. You also realize that however

messed up things get, people can steal, rise up, people

can steal, rise up. And at the same time, someone

who has less problems don't want to compare. Is like

living as though their life is like the worst thing ever.

And you're like, man, only if you know what this

other guy you know, you feel like, why one more special?

One? Not pressure? I don't. I don't think so.

No.

Human beings are so complicated. We are so complicated. That's

why on Facebook, right, I don't know whether it's still

there when you want to check relationship there is single,

married is complicated. Friends, Unfortunately, I tell you, Adam and

Eve was deceived by the serpent because they tried to

also do it in another way. They didn't follow God's order.

They did it another way. Right, they did it another way,

and they had to step away. They step away from

God's order in the garden of Eden. Let's read Genesis

tree you want to eat, are you guys?

Okay?

Genesis three one says not a serpent was more cunning

than any beasts of the field which the Lord God

had made. And he said to the woman, has God

indeed said you shall not eat off every tree of

the garden. And the woman's to the serpent, we may

eat the fruit of the tree of the garden, But

the fruit of the tree which is in the midst

of the garden. God God has said, you shall not

eat it. No shall you touch it lest you die.

Then the serpent said to the woman, you will not

surely die, for God knows that in the day you

will eat of it. Your eyes will be open, and

you will be like God, knowing good and evil. I'm

gonna pause here for a moment. That is deception at

its finest. First question is always the the carrot. You know,

I you know, you know, when things happen in our lives,

we all don't like jump into problems, hate on one.

We don't know.

We don't hate on like I see a problem, jump

into it. No, we don't do that on It always

takes a thought, Hey maybe, or the thought is hey,

did anybody say you know?

There's always that thought? Can can? I is it really nowadays?

I'm hearing this? Is it really seeing?

Nolah, not outright, But you shouldn't even allow yourself to

go that direction. No, I just understand here at the

age here here, nothing wrong. I'm not falling. I'm not

falling it byselway, It's okay. I'm just gonna stay here. Yeah,

all you need is one push and you're gonna fall

off the cliff. See, Deception is financed and it's still

happening today. Friends, it's still happening today. It takes that

one thought. Inception decided that movie is so powerful, right,

that one thought, and then you look at where the

direction went.

It went all the way to a full blown line.

Hey, you will be like God, Hey, didn't we just

read in Genesis one thirty seven that we are made

in the image of God? We are really like God?

What unless you think God is holding things back?

Now is he really? Ah? Then do we really trust him? See?

It boils down to that.

Full blown line, DESI, Now it's I mean, I tell

you one of the things that I've learned in my

own life.

Lie.

In my own life, lies are dangerous. It always starts

with lies. It's just a wide lie. It starts with

a white lie. That was a white lie. It starts

with that. It never starts with like said, oh, I

feel like No. It starts with a wide lie, an innocent,

white lie, and then it gets bigger and bigger and

bigger and bigger.

Until we cannot get back a day. It always starts.

So I'm sharing this to not not to rebuild anybody

well in a way if you take it's really it's

holy spirit, okay. But I'm sharing this to caution us

to be very careful because it says the serpent is

very cunning. You know who else very cunning? Ever's very hunning.

And the Bible says our hearts are already receiving. So

all the things are good. It's good stuff for he's

sharing good stuff. He's never he's not sharing bad stuff.

He's sharing good stuff is always the good stuff. But

we've got to be very careful because not all that

is shining is gold. Not everything that is good in

our lives.

Is from God.

We have to be careful, friends, We have to be careful. Unfortunately,

Adam if not careful. And then remember I said about

God is a god of order, and that's the first thing.

Adam did nothing. The first thing ever, No, Evan is good.

The first thing that Adam Evan said bazila. Okay, I'm

sure he's an awesome husband. He needs to exercise a

little bit more, join his wife. Sorry, I just had

to put that there. The first thing that Adam did

was nothing.

Men.

Oh men, I tell you. I got to caution you.

The moment you start doing nothing, that's where you're allowing things.

To happen in your family.

Don't be surprised if things get out of hand when

you do nothing. When men do nothing, it's okayl The

wife is just talking to the serpent.

He's one of my pets.

Very safe. Not really, he did nothing. So our greatest

scene is doing doing nothing. Man, that's our greatest scene.

Be careful not to be too smart and think that

you can help God God made everything perfect. Why must

we have eachy hands? Turn to your neighbor and say

why your hands are itchy? Turn to your other neighbor

and say, my hand not itch Your hand is always itchy.

Francis human? Con Can I share that with you? It's

human condition? See, we are not perfect. That's the interesting

thing that, that's the like I said, we are complicated.

We're not perfect. But we have a choice. We can

make a choice. Do we want to go in according

to God's order or not? We have a choice. We

can choose right, and you cannot blame anyone. Now when

you choose, you can't. I have a choice whether I

want to build the cupboard according to instructions or not.

I have a choice. It's all in my hands. Nobody's

going to force me.

Right. I have a choice. So we have a choice,

and I hope they will make the right choice. But

you see the condition of the words like that.

God had everything in order, but men came and messed

it up and constantly are still messing it up. But

thank God he had a plan. Look at anybody, say,

thank God ahead the plan. Look at other neighbors and

say there's a way out, friend, there's a way out

because God sent his son to right all the wrongs

that were made. That's the wonderful thing about our life,

as believe us. He sent his son so at least

we have a chance. At least you have a chance

to get things back in order. You know, Jesus is

not a get off jail free card, no, friends, No,

it is a chance for us to get things back

in order. That's why sometimes we will live this life

and you know, we say there's transformation in our lives.

There's transformation that happens, and then and then we fail again. Right,

but there is a saving grace and we shouldn't be

on the path of destruction. That's why I say, Jesus

not get out of jail free card. We gotta be

very careful because if we subscribe to the life, we

subscribe to the ideas that the world presents us, and

we we say that there is truth, and actually it's lies.

We are slowly heading down to the path of destructions.

Matthew seven fourteen. What does it say? It says, yeah,

enter by the narrow gate for the for white is

the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction.

And there are many who go by it, because narrow

is the gate, and difficult is the way which leads

to life, and there are few who find it. It's hard, No,

it's hard. You say which heart you want? It's actually

easy to do a lot of things. It is I

like Nlty's translition course really in your face. Okay, okay,

and again please, I don't be offended, right, but I

just read the case is from NLT You can enter

God's kingdom only through the narrow gate. Only through the narrowgate.

This soun sounds like a song. The highway to hell

is broad and the gate is white. For many who

choose that way. See many who choose that way. See

there is God's way and there is the world's way.

Right. Which way do we choose? Daily? We are choosing daily?

Right, But the gateway to life is very narrow, and

the road is difficult, and only only a few ever

find it. I tell you it's very rare for me

well now, doing ministry for so long, very rare that

people come and ask me and present me a choice

that they will choose to hat away.

Very rare.

Most of the time when we have conversations with people,

they want to choose the easy way out right, and

we are like that. I also want to choose it easy,

easy way out, easier way out. I find myself in trouble,

what's the quickest, fastest, easiest way to get out of this?

That's our thought process. But the correct way, most of

the time is always the heart way. The difficult way

is always the difficult way. But once you get it, wow,

it's precious. Let me share if you want very personal

not to say that. If you don't do this, you're

again it's not seeing now. It's not seen now by

something I'm proud of because when I got together at

my wife, one of the things I told myself is

I want to be pure.

I want to make sure I am. I'm square. Okay, yeah,

I'm square, so call me square, right.

But the narrow way was to say I will only

kiss you on the lips on our wedding day. Anything

wrong with that, nothing wrong, just my own personal conviction,

and I did it.

Was it hard? Of course? It was hard.

You think easier. I'm not a you not you know,

I'm a full blooded male. Friends, But narrow is the way.

I think some of you here have taught this true.

A lot of choices in our life, we've chose. I

think if we use the word highway to hell, that

we want cho Zaila, we choose the highway to hell.

Can you don't choose to highway to hell? Have to

pay to No? Okay, the small way?

No, you pay?

But we have to find Can we choose the narrow way?

Can we choose God's way?

Amen?

We head to the white way because it's easy, and

then we find ourselves in trouble and then we blame God. God,

why you never? God didn't do anything? Friends, But let

me give you a saving grace. Let me give you

a saving grace. But before that, I'm going to read

Colosuons chapter one, verse fifteen, two entry. Okay, before the

saving grace, let's see Colosus one. I guys, okay, I

hope we're getting something out of this. I'm having a

bit too fun on stage. D alright. The rest of

you are probably not laughing because you're probably thinking really hard. Right, okay,

colloss one fifteen, shall put a book mark here just now?

Oh oh Colosions chapter one, verse fifteen Okay, all right, okay, it.

Says here, what do you say it says here? Oh? Yes,

So this is you. This is the way out? Now?

Is this? We're gonna read from fifteen.

He is the image of the invisible God, the first

born over all creation. We're talking about Jesus. For by

him all things were created that are in heaven and

that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions,

or principalities or powers, all things were created true him

and for him. And he is before all things, and

in him all things consistent. And he's the head of

the body the Church, who is the beginning, the firstborn,

from the day, that in all things he may have

pre eminence. For it pleased the Father that in him

the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all

things to himself, by him, whether things on earth or

things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of

his cross. And you who once were alienated and enemies

in your mind by wicked works, Yet now he has

reconciled in the body of his flesh to death, to

present you holy and blameless, and above reproach in his side.

If indeed you continue in the faith. See if indeed,

if indeed you continue in the faith, it's not a

get oft of jail.

Free card. Friends. We have to continue in the faith.

Oh you know I Christian. Indeed, that's it. Yeah, I

can do whatever I want.

Friends, Please, the one is a grace message. I mean, yes,

there's grace, but grace comes after repentance. Right grounded and steadfast,

and are not moved away from the hope of the

gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature

under heaven, of which I Paul became a minister. We

need to remember that there is still a u turn.

God said the order. Maybe some of us didn't even

know that there was an order. It's fine. Then when

things get out of order, there is always a youth turn.

No matter how big things get and how far we

think we might have.

Gone, we need to remember that.

Friends, I hope you remember this out of all this message,

I hope you remember this one truth in your life.

No matter how things bad things get. Maybe you find

your place in a place that's difficult. Maybe maybe your

heart has been hardened so much that you cannot receive anything.

However far you are, you turn to Jesus. You turn

to Jesus, amen.

Because first John one nine says, if we confess our sins,

He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and

to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Please remember the scripture.

If we confess our sins, He's straightful and just to

forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

No matter how bad things get, there is a way out.

We shouldn't think it for granted, there's the way out.

So what should we do.

Well, Let's repent, confess our sins, and strive to live

our lives in order. Let's strive for it. Is why

this year we talk about dicipership. This is why we

encourage you butle to go for missions because missions help

things get get things in perspective. Do you know what

gets things out of perspective? When we are too preoccupy

with our own lives, then everything is our perspective. But

the moment you go for missions, the moment you remember

and start practicing the commission that God has given us,

things change the amount. I tell you anybody that has

gone for missions and come back right, even those that

like say something, you know as a disable, you've got

to kick people out, like please go on right?

Then they go. Then they do one. Most of the time,

the one that drag their feet down will.

Come back change on most of the time because God's ay,

I'm just joking.

I'm just joking.

Those I was willing to go, oh Lord, then we

will a lot change me, and then like, hey, nothing

because we change your imma, because the one that the one,

the one that sick need to be changed, Mama, the

one and not sick.

God say, yeah, you're a finer. You're doing all the

right things, ma, right.

You know, Actually, I just got a revelation for my

own self because I was very committed to church, and

I remember every time I come for prayer and uh, prophecy,

I get nothing. One After a while, I'm like, hey, God,

is there anything wrong in here? Now I realize, okay,

maybe I'm following the planet, so I don't have to

rely on prophecy. All my other friends got it right,

So goform missions. Friends, you want perspective, goformations. If not,

you have other perspective. Because one way or another, we

subscribe to an idea. One way or another, we subscribe

to something. My my question is do we subscribe to

this or have we unsubscribed to this? Please don't send

me any more email Marketing materials God, because I'm not

going to go for anything the Church sends to me,

what are we subscribing to? Right, So let's repair and

confess our sins and strive to live our lives in order.

Not in the order of the world because the world

has ordered new world order world or worldliness, which leads

to destruction, but in the order that God had intended

from day one.

I was going to share this just now. One of

the things I give you this tape. Okay.

One of the things that I do when I speak

to people and email and I disciple people, one of

the things I look up for is that are things

in order or are things out of order?

Right?

Most of the time I look up for things like that.

Someone comes to me and share certain things. I will

try and figure out, Okay, is this person flowing in

the order that the Lord has set or is the

person of sink? You know, I'll sink could mean later

give you some examples. Okay, that's the question I find.

I try to find the thing that's out of order

most of the time, and the moment you put that

thing that's of order in order.

Everything everything of flow? Do you want?

It's like easy, right, It's like it's like everything just flows.

The person somehow knows what to do. Somehow the person's

more peace somehow. Life is good once things in order,

but one thing is out of order, then then then

there's that struggle.

Then there's that you know, frustration.

Then then you know, then after a while you will

start seeing due to the frustration, you're start seeing other

things happen, right like I don't know, start not coming

on Sunday. Suddenly in the beginning, texts you a lot,

but then suddenly text less. Actually I have another like

two more minutes. I know, it's like time ready by

I need another like ten minutes maybe yeah, Kenna, that

means there are any Okay, So so, friends, I'm sharing

this to you because I want you to apply this

top process to your own lives when things are out

of audit and I applied it to my own life

when things are out of order. In my life, I

will always check on, okay, Lord, is there anything I'm

like a bit off? If I feel suddenly if you know,

like when you fall sick, I mean unless you go

hang out with sick people all the time. Okay, when

I say sick before meaning people not not not sick

in the head, but like physically sick.

Okay, then you fall sick, then fine.

But I think and I apply this right when your

body starts falling sick, especially when you're busy, your body's

just telling you you need to rest. You're you'll catch that,

you know. Please don't be like, oh no, those those

are young. I'll be like, no, no, no, I cannot.

I have to Hello, your body is telling you to rest.

You better rest now. If not, you know it's gonna happen,

You're gonna crash and burn. So you gotta rest most

of the time. Is said that if we don't take

frequent rests, then you might fall sick. At the same time,

if you rest too much, also not good, right, because

people who rest a lot a bit too much, you

will see that they somehow know hope in life and

don't do anything. You know, it goes another direction. Run

so he see he's still out of order one way

or another. The extremes, right, I don't know you guys, like,

are you guys catching something as I'm sharing this? Just

just think about your life? Are things in order in

my life? It's my family life in order? And again

some of us here, no choice, ok because our lives

are ripped apart really for whatever reason.

Now it could be the devil. I don't know.

Like my life was dripped apart, okay when I was young.

Right today, I just had a session my my my

young youngest son, let me be honest you you guys, Okay,

And it came all to the point where you know,

I actually told him that one of the things I

want to do is a that is, I want to

make sure I pass on to them good character because

when I was growing up, my parents never say sorry

to me. Never, never say sorry, never once, right and

it starts. It made me a not horrible person now,

but send my horrible person now. Sometimes I'm not well adjusted. Okay, Okay,

I'm not a well adjusted person. Okay, can I be

honest with you? Thank God I'm a Christian. God has

saved me and readeem me. Now I'm kind of like

getting their la Okay, but I'm not fully well adjusted.

Those work me closely, they will kind of understand.

But that was my childhood. But do I need to

let that childhood define the way I act and and

and do things. No.

I want to get myself in order so what if

I have emotional trauma when I was a kid, So

what if I have emotion dems a kid doesn't matter.

It doesn't mean that I need to continue to operate. Yalla.

My parents never say sorry, So therefore now I unloaded

to my kids. No, I think I show this story.

I don't shed it here. I shared somewhere. I show

a story where something so trivial friends, so trivial, but

so important. When I asked my kids to wash the

plate right after they finished food, you wash your plateland,

so they wash, and then I went to the kitchen

and I saw another plate and I thought it was

my youngest, so I scolded him. I said, why was

most of the time he's a cupriat most of the time,

but he washed his plate that was done at night

sitting Now it dawn upon me my wife was so

ate the same thing. And I look at him because

he was like, but you know, he's like, deny, la, deny,

but can anyway? And then I realized it was actually

her plate.

So what did I do?

As all forty three year old grown men do, Hide it, la, right,

hide it or school the wife? You know, I'll push

play tuh, you know, yella. You know you know I

don't want to say yellow, why you not watching it

right now?

I score him? I see he's your mother soult, your

mother sault? Did I do that? Let me tell you

what I did. I owned up to my mistake.

I didn't address why my wife okay, because I know

happy wife, happy life.

I did have adress it. I just went to my

sign and say, boy, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

I school at you. I'm so sorry I school at you.

I made a mistake. I did something wrong. You know

why I did that.

I don't want my son to have the same testimony

that I have. That the parents never say sorry one

Chinese parents, because we're always right right. No, I humbled

myself and sayah, boy, I'm so sorry because I want

to make sure that he has a fighting chance to

get his life in order.

He's still not perfect.

Our friends, what I'm trying to say, I'm trying to

say that, no matter what happens in our life, we

need to follow the order that the Lord has placed

in our life, and and we've got to remember that. Okay,

let me give you an example. I just give you

an example in terms of order. Okay, I'm gonna ask

the extremists to come.

Is Evan there not? Evan? Come Evan. Let me give

you an example of order things in order. Okay, is coming? Okay?

Sorry, make him run now faster Evan first, and okay, Evan,

just stand here. I just need you as a visual representation.

So this is Evan. Okay, everybody say hi Evan. So

Evan is an ex church leader. Right, He's been with

X for very many years. He's also a worship leader

and part of the extreme team.

Okay.

So I'm just giving you some examples. Okay, right, Extreme,

I hope you listen to this. Okay, cosse this came

to me yesterday. So Evan is part of the church.

So how he came? When you come to church?

Wow?

Two thousand.

Three?

So do you come to church as a worship leader nor?

Right, you came to church as Evana and then and

then yeah, as ever and now he came, and then

of course you serve. Then you join it, then you

decided to stay, then you join homes and all. Then

later you start serving, right Okay, Then then later you

start serving. Come come send close serving Okay, let me

explain order. Okay, order that once it gets our order.

Then we get in trouble. So Evan, are you a believer? Yes?

Iry, So Evan is extremer first or Christian first? Christian

first right believe Jesus m If he's extremely first means

we don't need believe, We don't need we don't need

Christian to be extremeists. Anybody can play right trump, anybody

can play what right, don't need Christian.

Actually that's not true, because we understand the spirit.

So he's a believer first, next order, first believer, go

check second order, in order, second order, your power exts right, Okay,

and people like you might want to argue about this spy.

I will explain the examples later. Exchert right, So part

of ex church, come to ex church, understand ex church, understand,

how DNA understand, how we work, understand the people.

Right.

Can we session him out to another place and play well?

Actually can technically, but wouldn't mean anything.

I think not. So I think it means small because

we know Evan that he serves here.

Correct, So he comes, he joins homes, he's part of

the church, second thirties, he serves so he's part of

extreme thing. Imagine if we get the order of the way,

out of the way, because sometimes we see how what

do I mean by we can get things out of order.

Evan comes to church not as a Christian first, not

as ex chist first. He comes to church identified as

extremer because he's the top extremer. And then the church

leadership say, hey, guys, we're gonna sing more of ex

church songs. But he's not quite close to home. But

Pastor Elvin, I am anointed by the Lord God or

my tea.

I know he won't say this. I'm just you know,

bad facing.

Yesterday in my quiet time, I received from the Lord

this song. And it's not about extra song. It's another shong,

but I received it. I want to release it to

the people. He set out of order.

Think about it.

It's not of order. He received from the Lord. Now

he's a Christian FIRSTMA, but he's still under submission. No.

This is where we get thinking. Thanks Evan. Thanks, I

don't put you on the spot.

This is where we get things out of order when

we don't remember or we forget and we don't realize

that everything comes under covering.

We all come under God's covering. That's why that's an order.

The moment you get out of his covering, the moment

you reject his order, you're out of his covering.

You can't blame me, my friends.

But as long as you are committed, as long as

you are following the Bible, as long as your following

him wholeheartedly, no matter what happens in your life, you'll

see on the discovering.

But the moment you come out of that.

You're of order. Let me talk about the local church

an example in the church context. First, a disciple of Christ,

the one cannot deny first disciple of Christ. Second, under

the covering and leadership of the local church. Why is

that so important? It is important, friends, if not God

once said it. And I'm talking about local church. I'm

talking about church a largely because a lot of times

Christians we like to use this example. Oh no, no,

I'm for the kingdom. Nothing wrong for the kingdom. But

we have to come under leadership.

Just because Passe Alvin is CPC of Xperia doesn't mean

I can do everything I want to do. I am

a man under leadership.

It is so dangerous if I think I'm big time,

even if I'm super talented, and I'm not like Okay,

thank god, I'm not, okay, not as handsome a person man,

not as knowledgeable a person man, right, I just had

to Okay, we come under the covering and leadership of

the church in order our friends.

Third, we come under the under shepherd's homes leader and

the leaders which we submit to.

Imagine if Evan goes to doctor Jason, I don't know

why he did it for doctor Jason. I know you've

really said this as the worship coordinator, but the Lord

has spoken. You know, when people start talking like that,

then it's kind of like funny, really right, you know,

I fully recheck everything you're trying to do because you're

not allowing us to flow in the spirit. No, we

get things out of order. Okay, let me bring it

a bit closer to home. How many of you there

to talk to your boss like that when you work?

None of you?

Right, none of you get fired? Okay, bye, go and

listen to the Lord elsewhere. But you know, as a church,

we don't do that because you love people, so it's

easier to like that. But isn't that rebellion? Isn't that

getting things out of order? I'm just using that one example.

Let me use the family example, okay, this on I'm

very convicted by We are first under God, committed to

the Lord first. That's why every husband and wife need

to have your own personal faith. Right, you need to

do your own quiet time. You need to be closer

to the Lord yourself first, right, and then is your spouse.

That's the commitment in order. First God, then the spouse.

You know why because when you put God first, and

if you have any issue with the spouse, you can

go to God. But when you put your spouse first,

nothing against putting spouse versa.

But you put your spouse above God or your spouse

is God.

Then you got any issue who we're gonna talk to.

That's why, as in Christian marriages, we say the Lord

is the third court in the in the.

Marriage, you know.

And then finally our children they are at the bottom

run bottom feeders, not no bottom feeders.

Hey, it's fast. First.

How many you have seen marriages that the kids are God? O, kyeah? No, dangerous,

dangerous territory. Don't go there, don't go there.

No.

I want to speak truth to you. I hope you

guys catch this. I'm not here knocking anybody. We put

things in order. If your children are God. Once your

children leave the home, there's no other reason to stay together.

I've seen many couples of this. We'ret said. No, we're said,

because all the identities in the children, friends, the marriage first, then.

Kids, they will sort themselves. Kids are very resilient.

Once your kids chowdy, then then we're gonna do you

mean you came together just for kids?

Know why? But why we put things out of order? No,

don't put things out of order. We're dangerous. Then we

get ourselves in trouble. And after we be like, hey,

how come like that?

Well, get things back in order, and like I said,

no matter what happens, that is still saving grace once

we understand.

Oh this is the order. Okay, let me follow. Let

me follow the order.

Can you can go back and read Titus chapter one,

verse five to nine. Titus one five to nine. I

know it talks about eldership, but if you're a leader

here and a leader in church, I will encourage you

to read that. It talks about why reputation is important.

It talks about why conduct is important. You know, it's

not talking about whether scene no no see now sometimes

our benchmark is seen no see No.

Friends, it's more than that. We are called to more

than that.

We're not just called to just stay at the shallownt

Why can't we look at things and say, hey, you know,

if I want to go all the way rather than

just be a qualifier, I want to be a winner.

I don't just qualify. I want to win.

I want to run further right order in our lives

as leaders as Christians. Titus one five to nine. Okay,

got homework through. Majority doesn't discount the order of God.

Sometimes I hear this, so oh, papas when everybody is

doing it. Everybody's doing it. Well, let me share this

with you. Majority doesn't discount the order of God and

the consequences that comes.

When we disobey or get out of order. That's life.

However, Majority, it doesn't discount that. Okay, it doesn't, so

be ware careful, but everyone does it what it must

be right right?

Nope, it's not. Nope, it's not.

Beware very dangerous when you think that way. So, friends,

I end with this, and yeah, I think extreme can

come up.

Really, I end with this.

Because I'm speaking to believers here, and I want to

let you know that if you're not believing in this

place you can come to know Christ, and you can

come to know be saving grace by speaking to believe us.

And this is my last encouragement for you.

You know, I know, I know.

I talked about a lot of things and you might

be feeling in your heart. Hey, if you are feeling

convicted today, it's definitely not me because I got no

power one. But you know who has all the power,

the Holy Spirit, who has all the power Christ.

And this my encouragement.

With the saving grace of Christ and the anointing of

the Holy Spirit, we are also working with God to

be his witness, to be his witnesses to get things

in order on this earth. So the first things we

get in order always is our lives first. Our lives first.

Don't try and fix someone else. Sometimes you also have

people like that. Know all my life is so master,

I better have other people.

No, don't do that.

Fix your life first, figure it out first. Get things

in order in your life first. Take the oxygen masks and.

Use it first.

Because if you're helping someone in the opting mask and you,

you know, ping son, both die together, ma, right, So no,

think the oxygen masks. Sort yourself out first. Lord, I

want to get my life in order. Can you show me?

Reveal to me?

So very powerful prayer, because when you do that, he

will reveal to you. And the difficult thing is he

will reveal to you the things that are the most painful.

But my encouragement is enter by the narrow gate. For

why it's the gate and broad is the way that

leads to destruction, and there are many who go by it,

because narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way

which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

And I pray you'll find it today. And once we well,

we won't get everything perfect. Friends, trust me, you try.

That's why we need.

We all need Jesus.

Okay, But there are some things you've done ready, you

overcome so then it's a non issue for you, right

like for me coming to church on a Sunday is

a non issue.

I've really overcome that. It's not a problem. In fact,

it feels weird.

There will be things that you practice that you get

in order that once you overcome, it's like natural to

you and that's good. But then there will be other

things that is difficult. Can I be honest with one

one more thing? I'm very honest today to honest when

you first thing is something very difficult for me to

do because I have folly, I honesta, okay, fast you yeah,

yeah yeah, but the forty day forty days or prayer

and fast. I'm taking it seriously. So I'm fasting like

one meal a day. I was tempted this morning. You

know when my kids are eating and I just now, yeah,

I order one.

You'll know what killer My next meal is, my breakfast.

I want to overcome that some of us here. You know,

all the things in your life that you need to

get in order.

My encuragement for you today is hey, get it in

order today and then you will see that you will

lead to life.

Amen.

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