Revived & Reconciled To Reach | Pr David Yeow

I'm just so excited to just share God's work with

all of you. And so if you are taking down notes,

you know, the title message today is called Revived and

Reconciled to Reach. Revive and reconcile to Reach. I thought,

it's my first time coming to preaching XPG, I needed

to have a message that sounded a little bit more intellectual.

And because I know you guys are used to like

pass the elving and all that. You know, usually i'll

get stuff like, you know, Parable of the Baby or

Mosquito or something stuff like that. But you know, but

don't just the titles just there to help us frame

our thoughts. But let's look at some scripture first. It's okay,

we're gonna read three blocks of scripture and then we're

gonna unpack them together, and then we're gonna just you know,

and then we're gonna maybe learn three take on points

and then we can have more conversation after service. Amen.

And so the first passion scripture that we want to

turn to is John chapter twenty one, John one, verse

fifteen to nineteen. John twenty one, fifteen to nineteen. If

you have your Bibles, you can turn to it. Otherwise

we also have it flash up on the screen for you,

and we can read it, you know, together. Even so,

if your dad can't hear, good, Amen, Amen, let's go. So,

when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter

Simon son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?

He said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I

love you. He said to him, feed my lambs. He

said to him again a second time, Simon, son of Jonah,

do you love me? He said to him, yes, Lord,

you know that I love you. He said to him,

ten my sheep. He said to him the third time, Simon,

son of Jonah, do you love me? And Peter worst

was grieved because he said to him the third time,

do you love me? And he said to him, Lord,

you know you know all things. You know that I

love you, And Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

Most shortly, I say to you, when you were younger,

you girded yourself and walked where you wish. But when

you are old, you will stretch out your hands and

another will gird you and carry you where you do

not wish. This he spoke, signifying by what death he

would glorify God. And where spoken this he said to him,

follow me, follow me. Amen, Let's just let God's words

soak in a little bit into our hearts. And let's

turn to Second Corinthians, chapter three, and you're gonna read

from verse two to three. Second Corinthians three, Verse two

to three. Amen, this apostle Paul writing, he says, you

are our epistle, just an old English word of saying,

you are our letters. You are our epistle, our letters

written in our hearts, known and read by all men.

You are epistle of Christ, a letter of Christ ministered

by us, written not with ink as letters are usually written,

but by the spirit of the living God, not on

tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh, that is,

off the hearts. Amen. Has let that concept soak in.

So we we we we we just meditated on the

cost of following Jesus and Jesus's invitation for us to

follow him and to serve him. And an apostle Paul

builds on that and says that as we serve him,

we we we we are sent out, and we are

not just flesh and blood set out, but we are

like letters from God, love letters of God, postcards of heaven,

images of Christ sent out for the world to read,

for the world to interact with. Amen with before that,

not all of friends will read the Bible, they will

read you. So what our lives pointing to Amen, Just

let that soak in. We'll build on all these concepts, okay,

and then one last scripture and then we'll go on.

John chapter twenty one, verse twenty five. John twenty one

twenty five. Right, John twenty one twenty five says this,

and this is like the last verse of the Gospel

of Johnny and the very hopeful note. And there are

so many other things that Jesus did which if they

were written one by one, I suppose that even the

world itself could not contain the books that would be

written a man. Amen, And so a possible job. And

it's such a hopeful note that, you know, building upon

all these concepts. Right, we're invited to follow Christ. And

it was set out into the world as love letters

of God. And and and his hope is that is that,

you know, we as more and more people sent out

we and and and more people having their lives written

by God overwritten by God one by one. His hope

is as the hope of our Church, that the whole

earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory

of God. Amen. Infact, he goes further, He says, made

the whole world not have enough space for the beautiful

stories of the many lives and many things that Jesus

have done. Amen. So I just want us to just

you know, read the scripture and then you know, we

can tell some jokes and then if you can go home, no,

that's okay, you know, And and I just want us

to just listen to this scripture and just meditate on them.

And you know, you know this month of curs Uh

is uh. You know, an emphasis on missions and prayer

as you have heard from announcements earlier on you know,

missions conference is coming up. Uh. And of course you

know we have the days of Prayer fast coming up.

But having they know that this even though we're doing it,

and there's an emphasis this month and the next month

even for it. But it's just an emphasis. You know,

the Law desires that this not just be an occasional thing,

but he desires this to be an all the time thing. Right.

And but the thing is, when it comes to you know,

missions and being used by God, you know, usually our prayer.

It's not God send me, God used me in many times,

or prayer's like God send my neighbor, use my neighbor.

God send my home group leader, you know, send that

that person you know who likes to talk a lot

in ter send him, you know. But God wants us

to know that He is in the business of involving us,

using us. And you see this established in the first

passage of scripture that we read. No, you have that. No,

Jesus after breakfast. This is you know, after Peter, you know,

was invited back by Jesus. Jesus went out to seek

for him and all of us here at one time.

The other God went out the way to seek for us.

But you know, maybe something we're going on. I still

where God. You know it was that auntie who brought

me to church. Yeah, the Lord went out to seek

for you in the not in the form of your auntie.

Don't don't, don't have weird thoughts about that. But but

but through your auntie, through your youth pastor, through your

high school teacher, through your neighbor, through that family member,

the Lord went out. The Lord used their lives. The

Lord impacted them and used their life to invite you

to to have a conversation with you, and that is

the heart of God. Jesus went out and he invited

Peter back for breakfast, and then he began to you know,

have breakfast and begin to say, Peter, do you love

me more than these? And he wasn't talking about fish,

he wasn't talking about breakfast. I know some almost here

we really love breakfast, you know. Since coming back to Malaysia,

I was reminded how much Malaysians love eating, you know,

and and in the first week I resisted it, you know,

like a typical you know Malaysia who's been overseas a lot.

You know, I came back, you know, with a fake accent.

I'm just I didn't uh this, this accent can't change,

you know. Every time and stand out here, and I

get so nervous when people people say, you know, like, oh,

it's our passer from London. I'm thinking, please don't say that,

Please don't say that. They're going to expect a white guy,

you know. So the moment I step up, disappointment number one.

You know, hey, he's not white. It was this man.

And then disappointment number two. The moment I opened my

mouth is like, what what kind of what kind of

accent is that? You know? And you know it's it's

it's you know, it's it's I've just lost my part. No no,

So I came back and you know, I and I

realized that man Malaysians love eating, eating, eating, eating, eating,

and uh and and and Jesus is saying that, hey,

do you love me more than this? Do you love

me than the good things in your life? And and

that's what the fish and the bountiful catch represent, the

good things, the blessing. You love me more than the blessings,

Jesus is asking us today, do you love me more

than even I don't know your comforts, because maybe that's

what fishing represented to Peter his comfort zone. And God

is saying that, hey, I love you, and we've been

through quite the adventure, but I'm inviting you to write

a new chapter. And a lot of us here, you know,

it's so good to come back and to see some

of the people that we've had a privilege of doing

live with in the UK comeback and they're serving and

they're doing well and a looking more, looking more beautiful

every day, and it's so good to see you know,

some of our friends who we last hung out ten

years ago, looking a little bit older but still very

beautiful and uh you know, introducing now their beautiful children

to us and all these kind of things, you know,

or they're beautiful pets for those who don't have children,

or their wonderful cass whatever it is that you're into.

And and you know, sometimes when we look back, you know,

like like you know, pass Elvin and I can look

bad and like he said, you know, yeah, we used

to go out and we used to you know, have

x TV that the chairperson's job in in the know

before times next church used to be so easy. Uh,

they just had to come up and then do it.

Now time you just say and now fix your eyes

on the screen, Uh take it away x TV and

then you know, to be presenters coming out and he

will be past the Alvin passa. Elvin will be the

main brain in the early days filming it, you know,

producing it, editing it just before life with Jessica of course,

you know, that's why he had time to to you know,

and uh, you know I also wasn't married yet. You

also we had time to go out and paint the

town red. You know, we will come out with comedies

kids many times on the spot, you know, and so

it was it was really fun and things like that.

You know that. Of course, when he got married that

he said that it passed not very not very sustainable.

You know, we do this every you know anyway, I'm

just okay, but but we used to paint the town

rare and do crazy things for the Lord. And some

of us here were like that too. You know you

look back and go like it's all you know, serve

the Lord what like Peter served the Lord? You know,

because Peter by then had really loved his vocation and

followed Jesus around Israel for three years three and a half.

Some people say they've been through a lot of things.

He sliced some ears and seen the years farmed back again.

He's seeing Jesus raise the day, he's seeing stuff. He's

fat the thousands, he's he's, he's, he's, he's. He's had

a very powerful and fruitful three years of ministry. And

for some of us here we are in a similar

situation like Peter. You know, right now the Lord is

good and there's a blessing in your life. And when

you look back even feels like I've done my share

of ministry and now you're comfortable or not, just that

you look back and you see your ministries with with

with great pride, You see your past testimonies with great pride,

and you go like wow, you hold it up like trophies.

And that's exactly what Jesus was challenging. Jesus is saying, Peter,

do you love me more than these, more than the blessing,

more than the comfort, more than even that monumental first miracle.

Let's not forget when when when Peter first met Jesus

it was. It wasn't just you know, a good day,

good meeting. You know, sometimes you remember you not orders

remember the first time met you La. We're both new

to church and we have those moments right with some

of us here, Oh the first time I met you,

you know, you wore that funny shirt. But the first

time jeans be the met that it was marked by

a miracle. And sometimes we can look back and our

passed and go like wow, the miracles, you know, and

and and hold you up like the trophy, hold it

up like like our personal Oscar golden globes, and just

just leave it there and and like Peter, be tempted

to go into retirement mode. And Jesus is saying, do

you love me more than this? You know, would you

come with me again, and and and and and create

new miracles? Would you come out of your retirement again?

Because that's the heart of God. God is not into moments.

God is not into ministry for ministry state. God wants

to change our ordinary lives and make us into a

movement for him. God's not into building monuments. God's into

creating movements. And he's saying to Peter, Peter, I've redeemed you,

I've reviving you right now. I'm reconciling with you right now.

But would you say yes to to coming a one

more adventure with me to reach the world? And that

is the same invitation. I believe that God wants to

extend to all of us here today, because some of

us here. You know, it's not that you don't love God.

You do. But right now you're coasting and you're saying

to yourself, I've done that. It's time for the next

generation to take over, you know. And there's nothing wrong

with rest. Pray, strap for rest. I don't even leave

this place thinking you know, I'm so bad at us

to say, can all rest you again? No? No, no, not rest,

please rest. But I'm also about continuation. I'm also about legacy,

and yes, rest. But then now Jesus is saying that, hey,

would you come with me? And you can see in

Jesus is phrasing, you know, it's like, would you come

with me? And and and and and serve with me

all the way until you're old of age. Now you're young,

you're ready to go wherever. But will come a time

where you'll still serve me, and you'll you'll be older,

but you still serve me, and we will still have

an adventure. Because even the way he died glorified God.

I don't know about you, but you know I want,

by the grace of God, many moments in my life

to glorify God, you know, and and and My hope

is you know, maybe you know I I hope it's

not too more. But I noticed young children here. But

let's talk about death for a while there. Have you

talked about death? You know? Recently, you know, as supermarket,

somebody from a cemetery approached me. Have you thought about

death like all the time? Uh, and and I'm not

talking about writing a will. I'm not talking about preparing

your plots. Even those are wonderful things if the lot

leads you to do them, great. But I'm thinking about

how my death, what count? What would I leave behind?

What count? Name and legacy? What I now? Especially with

a newborn son, I'm thinking. You know, first of all, I,

me and that have a very dark sense of humor,

so we're always joking about like, no, you know we

have a child, so late in age, will I be

alive to see my child, you know, get married and

stuff like that. Uh and uh. But more than you

know seeing him get married and all that, I'm like,

what would I leave behind? You know, when when when

I die? Would my death glorify God? Woman? And I

don't mean like you know, I'm not like action movie.

I'm not talking about Samson, you know his death like

you know, he he killed the enemies of God as

he died. I'm not talking about the count action hero

movie moments. I'm talking about would I what would I

leave behind? Would I would I just leave behind money

or would I leave behind something of eternal value? You see,

money can come and go. Thank God for money. But

but there are things of eternal value like testimony. There

are things of eternal value like a good name, a

good family name, things of eternal value like like like salvation.

And I'm and I'm thinking these kind of things and

and and Jesus is inviting Peter to have a bigger imagination. Peter,

is this really all you can think of? Is this

really it? Or would you come with me for another journey?

And this is the heart of God, Amen, Because when

we think of missions, you know, it's not about set

out there for the select, feel God's designs for all

to be sent out there. Because the Apostle Paul builds

on this and it says that all of us are

involved because all of us were letters. Whether you like

it or not. You know, we are letters that will

be read by men, whether you like it or not.

And his reminder to the people is this that remember

that your letters being signed out there, and you're not

just letters of flesh and black. You're the ink over

your life is of the Holy Spirit. Amen. And that's

my encouragement for us again to awaken you know your faith.

And I believe that God wants us to remember again

that hey, He's got so much more in stall for

us that the missional call is not just for a

selag fuel. The missional call is for all of us,

and whether we realize it or not, all of us

make for amazing evangelists. Amazing evangelists. And whether you realize

it or not, this past week you have evangelized, some

of you have evangel but you haven't evangelized for Jesus

evangelized for a movie called The Fantastic Fall. And then

you go, like, you know, you go like you have

to watch law I give it fall out of Fall,

you know, like like you know you'll be a watch

that you know you share on your socials. And so

whether you realize on your evangelists but for a movie,

sound of us here we're evangelists for food. A man

and all the food they don't do apologize. It's not

a trick question. All the foody say Okay, I wanted

to hear a man so like we can fellowship after church,

you know, uh you know, and anyway, yeah, right someone

for food eats right, we would tell people, Hey, I'm

telling you I just found the best the best you

know sushi in you know, PJ. I just found the

best dumplings. You know, I found the bestest, the best,

and and we're evangelizing. We're telling people, hey, I've tasted

and seen it is good, but you didn't say the

Lord it's good. I taste that and seeing and the

one tin is good. I taste it and see it,

and the great thal is good. I taste it. You see,

So you see you can do it. You just need

to replace fantastic for with Jesus. Hey, you gotta go, liar,

you gotta go go where you know, go go watch

lie watch who, go watch Jesus, watch Jesus. I just

can't follow me to church. You know, you just gotta

go go. You must taste for yourself, you know, the

best and stuff in something as some Lasai the best

person you ever meet. He's my healer. You know. Sometimes

we'll say, you know that wanna the traditional Chinese meason good?

You know that one or the one of the character

that go to adjust your back. You know, how come

you never say, hey, that one my Jesus. One time

from him, my life is transformed. So I'm here to

be positive. I'm not talking down. I'm not making anyone

feel I'm saying that you're so close friends, so close

all of us we can't right and and and and

and the pause. Idea is this that all us, when

we go out there into the world. His hope is

that when people see us, they they see us as

letters of recommendation. They see us as as as postcards

of Heaven, of of who God is, of the goodness

of God. Amen, all of us here we we love

letters of recommendation. Right. Those of you who leave work

and then go to another job, you ask the boss, boss,

can you give me a good letter of recommendation? And

some know, I know here a lot of people are

very prospered in some of your bosses. You've written some

good letters of recommendation. Some you have written some very

pointed letters of recommended But you've you've written right, and

and and and we love it. Right. Okay, maybe I

would just change the terminology, right, because let the documination

something be like, hey, so that's this buster okayay, uh

user reviews, how about that customer reviews? However, was the

last time you you you you know you you you

bought some on some online website and then the first

thing you check is how many people give five stents?

And you read your to see which one of them

are actual humans are not robots, because we turn to

actually detail, you know, and sometimes we don't even read

the five stars because it's too good to be true.

You read the four Sunds because no four sounds like

you know, it's still overwhelming. It good, but you know

there's some one less time means that I'm honesty either

and you read through their lives, don't you, and the

possible as to say, my dear, go out there and

live a girly life and let people read you. And

even if you go like a poster or no, five

star Christians, it's okay because sometimes five star Christians people

don't believe you go out there and go like Hallelajah,

praise the Lord. People go like, so I go away,

go away, the Jesus free is coming, you know Jesus.

But then they go like him, you know it is

ever now. No, he's very cool. He's got red sox

on and his only insight you know, maybe you know

he's relevant. I'm gonna hear lot, you know, No, he's

not so holy five stars on five star that you know,

everything comes off of mouths, just scripture and psalms. No

but amen, you know, let me let me talk to

this four and a half star guy. Let me talk

to this you know, three and half star person. And

you know, and and and and and find out for

myself it's this Jesus really worth it? Amen, But and

and and of course you know, God's hope is that

we do that so that the world will know. But

how do we start doing that? Let's get into practical

a little bit. So the idea is sound, right, but

I'm not. Ideas don't change people. You're gonna actually do

it right, you know, in terms of you here. You know,

if you just have the idea of starting a business,

no business will happen. You gotta try. You're gonna step

out if the idea of serving that idea right, something

is here. You see that here you got a lot

of ideas, probably standing having ideas, you know, listening to

my appreciate having ideas. Right now, I think you can

do better than him. Praise God, Prince God, wonderful. You know.

I want you to do better than me. You know,

but just having an idea that you can do better

won't change anything. You gotta be like, okay, how can

I bring this idea? How can I, you know, make

this happen. And so I just got three simple just

you know, take on points that I hope will help

us to make this from an idea into a reality.

Or if I want to put more Christian words, I

want to help us not just to be hearers of

God's word, but to be doers. Amen. So my first

point is this, right, if the idea of God is

that we be sent out into the world, If the

idea of God is not for us to coast in

our blessing, coast in our ministry glory, but to come

out and to serve Him again and and and the

idea of God is that if you love him, you

should care for his people. Amen. So the idea of

God is that that that missions is. It's not an

option missions. It's logical. If you love me, you're gonna

care for my people. Know if you if it's the

same as as if somebody comes up to me and

go like present, if I love you, but I don't

like your baby, James love. Just so, I'm just not

a baby person. I'm just not a children person, you know.

I just I just you know, when children come to me,

I have an allergic reaction but I love hanging out

with you, I guess, so we're not gonna be hanging

out a lot. Not because I hate you, but because

you know, if you get me, you get my baby.

It's maybe okay, maybe someone's here. We don't have baby,

but you have not that baby, your wife, your significant other? Right,

and how many of you have been there before? Right?

And maybe this is my therapy or or someone you

look at me like what's wrong with him? You know

if we ever? Have you ever had people come up

to you and go like you know, or maybe like Jess.

You know, people come up to you and they go

like Jess, you're so kind and compressional. I tell you,

but don't tell an Okay, don't tell him. I like you,

but is so an insert you know, encouragement here? All right?

Maybe not? Maybe not because this is very very kind couple.

But I have I have I have people go up

to bass Ca and go like, Bassic just became you

and mire. I want you to know one that Basadava

last week's SERMONA I was very hurt. Okay, but I'm

telling you a because I feel like you can understand me,

and you know we will say this. We get it

off our chance. We think we're being clever, but it's

not very clever. It's not very logical because you know,

how can the spouse not get along? How can you

know how? It's the same as people go like I

believe in God by hate his church. It's like what

talking about? You know, church is where we encounter God.

Without the church, how do you come to know God?

You knew God because the church reached out to you.

The church had had Sunday School, the church had a program,

the church had you know, outreach like come on, man,

if it goes hand in hand and and and so

God is saying here, if you love me and love

my people, if you love me, say yes to missions.

We're going to that in a while. Don't don't be afraid. Okay,

I will not be making any auto call for for

China or India or or whichever country you fear the most.

Okay U or UK, you know, America, you know with

which you know. But but I just want to say

that God's this is God's idea, right. God's idea is

that you love him, love his people. God's idea is

that he wants to use us as letters. And so

let's go into obedience. Now, Amen, let's go into obedience mode.

Let's not just listen to word of God and and

and and and you know, get tickled by God ideas.

Let's get practical. So, if God's idea is that we've

been sent out, if God's idea is that we become

like postcards of Heaven, let us of recommendation, beautiful books

for people to read. Amen, for people to discover for themselves.

And it's so important for people discover for themselves because

no point, you know, you just tell you know, God

is God is schol People gotta see it for themselves.

Then the most important thing, or the first thing we

gotta start with it is point number one. Let God

have you before God can send you out, He needs

to have you first. How ma me know that you

can give what doesn't belong to you, That's called stealing.

If you come up to me and go like buster,

I just wan't bless your brand new, can't go honey Lujah,

praise the Lord some brand new? I don't know. I'm

not a cop person. What's that tesla? Is that still? Okay? Okay?

I don't want to drive, you know, not very okay?

And uh uh li'sten uh uh, let me panda to

the Chinese card jaku. And then you go like whoa

by in turns that it's not your car. And as

I go there and open the car door, some guy

come running after me. What you steal my car? Who?

I don't know? My friend give it to me and

my color? But you said you can't give out? What

does it belong to you? So God wants to send

you out. God wants to use us. But are we here?

Are we his? What do you mean by are we here?

Are we surrendered? Let us papers? You know, I'm made

out of papers or anything you can write on. So

would you give God space first and foremost before he writes?

Can you give him writing material? You know? Or if

you're into art, would you a canvas for God before

it turns you to come the next mona Lisa or

whatever it is you know, or even the picture that's

the screaming man. You know, before that you need to

give him material? You Would you let God have you?

Would you let him have your life? Would you let

him have your job? Would you let him have your children?

Would you let him have your future? Would you let

him have all of you? You see a lot of times.

We don't have an issue with letting God have us.

We just have an issue with him having all of us. God,

I don't mind some days, but you know the service

better enna by what the service and here eleven thirty

tell you you know, because we don't mind, you know,

God having us. But we we are very select two

hours only on Sunday morning. And if anything changes that,

if the speaker goes over time, I'm out there. If

the air cont stops working, I'm out there now. But

you say, God, I have I give you all of me,

some of us here. We don't mind you know, giving God,

you know, some serving here and there, uh, some some

giving here and there. But then the Lord is saying

that it's not your serving or even your money that

I want. I actually want your humility, I actually want

your ego. And some of us here we serve, we give,

But don't you dare tell me how to live my life.

And that's why every time you know, know whoever pastors

or leaders just doing their job, just lovingly telling you, hey,

it's disciples first get into this type of relationship you're

you're having, you know, it gets so triggered by it

because for you when you feel the disciple you do.

I just back Monday to Friday. I have a boss.

I don't need a boss over the weekend. In this household,

I am the boss. I don't need somebody, but we

need friends. We need And so when you say let

God have you, it's also you know, and guess what

God uses people. Sometimes you go like, God, I give

you all of me, and we expect, like Jesus to

beam down from heaven and go like, yes, my son,

my daughter, I will use you and then touch us.

And necessarily we download all ancient Hebrew and greet into

our into our systems like the matrix and that, and

you wake up, I know Hebrew, you know, like like no,

it's not no. God many times he wants you, but

he also uses his people to get to you. And

a lot of times we get triggered when it's God's

people you who are you? Who are you? You know,

I'm a ceo, you know, come to church and I

gotta submit to somebody who is not a ceo. Get

my face, you know, and we become very selective or sorry,

so I have very real talk. Okay, okay, That's why

I'm the guest speaker next week. You know, pass Elvin

can hug you and all that. I'm just I'm not

saying to do the damage. And then you know, go

out there, but but someone's no, so we we spres selective.

I don't even want to go to that church because

that's where all the businessmen are at because I can network.

I only go to that church because you know, it's

all with the passes, only positive and won't speak into

my life. Sorry, you're an extra if you're not here,

Passa Elven notices. If you're not here, you get a

text message lovingly, hey didn't see you last week? You okay?

You get so angry by that text message, not realizing

the other person is standing with fear and trembling. You

think the person wants to be hated. I'm not trying

to be busy body. I'm not trying to jugg out

kind to be around line and see my my bassa

like you know, Rusty, not like Passa Elvin. But you know,

I'm just like you know, I'm not trying to be extually,

not trying to be busy, but I'm just trying to love.

I'm just trying to and sometimes we go like God

I want to give you my all. It's gonna be

you only cut out the middle man. Guess what God

uses middle man call the church. God uses middle man

call you and me. And a lot of times we

come in and we we we and God is saying that, hey,

you're gifted, but your ego is getting in the way

and that's why, you know. And I'm saying this as

as a man who is getting older. I'm in my

forties now and my eyesight is first thing to go.

And I realized this sometimes, you know, the older we get,

the more know we all we think, and we come

to church and we don't even pay attention. We come

to church, you know, we're at the backseat and then

we're playing I don't know, golf, or watching TV or

playing some game, or surfing the news or watching more

important stuff like stop and no wonder our lives are

so damaged. No wonder, our lives are not changed. You

say it, But I go do church work. Yeah, but

what are you doing in church while you're there? Can

God have all of you? And I'm not, you know,

trying to make us do impossible things. But let's start small.

If you if you have, if you are obsessed with

your phone? Can you you know, okay, let me let

me meet you wear you're at okay, Okay. If I

say ELVI has issue of this, this is just me okay,

my suggestion, okay, my suggestion? Is this all right? If

you are curly only willing to give God two hours

of your time Sunday, that's it. Don't go to homes,

don't go to premitting. Hey, Jesus loves you. I love you.

This is church, welcome home. Then at least can you

make those two hours super quality? Can you at least

can you at least start that? Because God's not against

incremental change? You know no, God would celebrate your zero

point one increase zero point two increase. But but can

you give God zero point one more so? So, even

if two hours, can you say for the next two hours,

I will turn off my phone for the next two hours.

I am locked in because guess what we can do it.

Don't come up to me saying don't understand what ADHD

I's like. No, no, no, you watch a movie. You

can binge You know when when when Street Again come out?

You binge it all in one night. You're able to

focus with laser like precision. You can do it, but

would you do it for the Lord? Let God have

you friends? Can you give him full two hours? I

tell you, if you can do that, not only will

your spiritual life increase. If you're marry, your marriage will increase.

Certainly you'd be like, WHOA, your wife don't know this? Well?

My husband now, well, he pays attention low. He comes

back HOMEI looks me in the eye, talks to me

for next two hours, like, wow, I feel so loved.

I would have more children here, like you know, like

like you know, it's it's it's this count you see, God.

Whatever glorifies God, blesses us to God's not about. It's

not a zero sum gaming. A God's not saying that. Hey,

you and I know we sing this right, No, God

less on me more of you, right we sing that

that's right. But it doesn't. But when you have more

of God, you also have more blessing. You as have

more victory, You also have more joy, You also have

more breakthrough because when we have more of God, you're

having more of Heaven in your life. And so would

you let God have you friends? So if you're already

giving the Lord in all two hours and all that,

But would you say not, Holy Spirit, would you check

my life, you know, and help me discover my blind spots?

And if the Holy Spirit says nothing, go to the

passel of in because it's impossible that God will look

at us and go like say, man, if I have

nothing to improve, no nothing, no, right, only Jesus gets

this is my son who I'm well please, only Jesus

gets it. So if you ever pray and go like

you know, for the last two years I had, the

Lord never challenged me to to improve my life. And know, yeah,

you maybe need to pray with someone because maybe your

heart is being deceitful. And it's simple, simple rules and right,

simple rules. Right, guys, you understand it. Sometimes you go

to the toilet, We wash our hands, we do all

the right things. We clean after us. You know, we're

all very neat. But we come out and and no

far of our own, we still forget to pull out

our zipper. Turn your neighbors says, he has a point.

Just just follow through. It's gonna make sense in a while, right,

That's why we need we thank God for people other brothers, sisters, no, okay,

brothers not sisters, okay, brothers. The only sister is your wife.

You don't like, oh, your sibling, you know. Thank God

for for for close friends, you know who go up

to us and go like you know, who come close,

you know, not shut out from the other side of

the room, your sippers down, but to go up whisper

next to your ear, you know, and to almost like

body block us for you to like pull it up right.

Thank God for people like that, because the reality is

is we have blind spots. If stuff like going to

the toilet, which is biological to us spiritually, we will

have blind spots and we need the Holy Spirit. But

we also need godly people in our lives. You know.

That's so why when we say disciple, it's not to

restrict you, is to add value to your life. Get

involved in your homes, get some people around you, get

some saints around you. Get some godly counsel around you

to pray with you, to cry with you, to sit

with you, to also call you out when you are wrong.

And when they call you out, don't get offended because

God's using them to have more of you. Because God

wants to remove that temper. God wants to remove that pride.

God wants to remove that ego? Would you let him

do it? Amen? Point number two, I'm running out of time.

Let me choot you on. Let God write you, Let

him write. How do me know that you can't write

your own letter recommendation? That's called fraud, right, you can't

be like but just give me a letter hat Kennedy

and de signed it about them everything else Okay, I

can handle. I can handle. And then you go like,

you know, type everything out on worse nowadays people don't type.

They just go chet GBT. Can you come up with

the best, you know recommendation letter and it comes across like,

you know, like Donald Trump wrote that, and it goes like,

you know, it's great, it's a great person. You know anyway, Sorry,

the best is the best, you know. Let God write you. Now,

this is scary. Letting God have us is challenging, but

that's God's idea. And God invites you know that God,

you know, Jesus can do anything and and he graciously. Now,

the way I see Jesus's conversation Peter is not just

checking him three times and saying, hey, you do that

me three times? Are you you you really love me

or not? He's not he's not, you know, guilt tripping.

You know he's asking, He's asking sincerely three times? Peter,

You sure you sure? I can have you here? Jesus,

You're sure sure? Because I want to use you. But

what but the sound of stuff I have to write

might be painful from you? For example, I know a

perfect ending for your life, but you're not gonna like it,

but it's gonna glorify me. You'll be led to places

that you don't want to go, but it will be

the perfect ending for your life story. Peter, do you

love me? Are you sure she's surrendering God is one thing?

Letting him write is the next level surrender, because what

if God doesn't want to right blessing? You think God

can only use blessing two. I know it's called the

good News, But within the good News people die. You know,

within the good News people were persecuted. It's all that

in the Gospel, people die, people persecuted for truth. John

the Baptist die for the truth. You read the Book

of Acts, Stephen died for the truth. We want God

to use us, We want God to write, But are

you ready for what he's about to write? Would you

let him write? You and say God, new chapter. You

have the pen, and God write the ending that you

think is perfect for me. So I get real here

because in life we can pray for healing, but God's

will might be that you are not healed. And if

there's anyone here who's suffering from an ailmen, and you've

been so faithful, believing for healing, and yet your healing

still hasn't come. I'm here to tell you God doesn't

hate you. God's not trying to trick you, and God

hasn't abandoned you. But what if your pain, what if

your sickness is part of your story? But God, I

want a testimony of healing. But God is saying that.

But I have a better ending. Because if our lives

are just blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, it doesn't make

us very relatable. Let me break it down using movie ideas. Okay,

all of us love watching an exciting movie. An exciting

movie has ups and downs. Right, if Superman only ever

had good things happen to him, there will be no movie.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived

in a beautiful planet, but the planet never got destroyed.

He was never sent to another world, forced to live

with people who are different than him. The end. There

was once a rich young man called Bruce Wayne who

lives in Gotham City. His family is so rich that

he had no leg Nothing ever bad happened to them,

No accident happened to them. His parents live into a

full old age, and then they died and he inherited

their business. He became a successful businessman. The end. No badman,

no superman. Do you know that in the Bible, the

most blessed man was Jesus. And do you know that

even Jesus had his persecution, had his ups and downs,

He's the most blessed, you know. And so for some

of us here we gonna let God write us, because

we are even overrighte or our idea of blessing, or

our idea of what it means to be used by God. God,

only if I'm healed, you can use me, because my

healing can be a testimony. But God says, but what

if your sickness can be his own testimony? What if

the testimony I want to write, What if the story

are going to write is not one of healing but

one of faithfulness? Because one day in heaven. We will

all be healed, the robber says, we will all be

made whole. It'll be You'll be so ridiculous that our

brains can't even fanthom. But I just need you to persevere.

How many of us you know have been in high

school before? And when you're in high school it feels

like forever forever, right, And you're in high school going

ah on from one maybe you know, I don't know

what you know private school comes nowadays, is you know,

year whatever? But you know my time from one? You

know I've been there before. Don't raise your hand. You're

fum through and you're still single, and you think you're

the biggest los in the world. Fun loves you. I'm ugly,

and then your youth leader, your parents go, you're just

from through. You don't understand. I'm still sick. My friend

fifteen and al really has two girl friends like and

and and Don't get me wrong, I've been in high

school before. Feels long, right, Amen, someone saying yeah, it

feels long. SPM felt long right. It's like this impending

examder's coming revision again. I can't do ad math anymore.

Oh by all from four felt long from five felt long,

but now you look bad. You go like, oh, I

wish I enjoyed it a bit more. Oh you know,

And then you know and and and then the cycle

continues because you go up to you know, Natalie and

Church are girl and thing we're doing is say, Victory

Academy is so tough, tough, and then he be typic cringe.

And then and then you go like A, I don't

know why. I wonder what Jesus is looking at our

lifetime because we're gonna spend eternity with him forever and ever,

you know, beyond time and space, eternity that's gonna make

our time on earth like high school long but also

shot in the greatest scheme of things. But the six

years of my life, you know, I was thinkinger long

but shot in the grand scheme of things. But's so

easy for you to say, I'm out of high school

and I'm still single. But what if I'm not condemning you,

But what if the story that God is writing for

your life is called singlehood? Sow you are like, I

reject that in Jesus name, I cast it out, I

buining it, I break it, I break you, you know.

But hear me out. Hear me out. The most blessed

man in the Bible. It's not joke. The most blessed man,

Jesus was single. One of the most anointed theologians Postle

Paul greatly believe to be single. Singleness is not a

curse because Jesus wasn't cursed, right, don't say that, y'are Jesus.

You were single, so I don't have to be single. No, no,

don't you know, because we get into all that he

die so that I can live. You're single so I

can be No, no, no, no, no, okay, wrong theology. Okay,

you know now it's not just the prosperity gospels, the

relationship gospel people have. You know, No, you'll be hooked,

you'll be hoo, all of you will have a spouse. No, no, no,

that's all probably free. No, you're gonna what if what if?

I'm not saying that that is a case, but what

if or what if it was just that few chapters?

Are you gonna fight the writer and what we end

up having? You know, you know, that's that's not our life.

When people read it, there's there's no testimony because it's

all ugly squiggly lines. You know, have you if you

try to write something and then somebody comes and then

slaps the you know that the panel way and it

becomes and God's right there, you know. And then in

the singleness he found me. He's discovered the greater treasure.

And then but then we kept like just stop, stop,

stop it, and then it becomes more and more schooling,

more and more unreadable. And then we go into the world.

And that's why people when they read our lives, it's unreadable.

He doesn't point to Jesus right, what if? What if? Right?

Because we serve God, who doesn't promise to bless us NonStop.

He promises to be with us always. And greater is

the blessing to to to be single and half God,

then to be married and far away from God. So

was I'm married, But then that marriage has brought us

away from God, away from our testimony. You used to

be so known to reaching souls. Now you married the

wrong person who doesn't believe what you believe, and then

now no souls are reached. You used to reach fifty

souls in a what place. Now you're desperately trying to

reach one soul. Call your husband that's not hurting again,

thought about but I'm just being real. Do you see

the downgrade? But but you love God right, A love

God to write just I'm running out of time. They

just flashed me and I got negative five minutes. Like

singleness is not a curse. Sickness is not a curse.

Let God write your sickness, your singers. Whatever set back

you believe, your your your your unemployment, that that could be.

You know, when you go through stuff, you're you're different

when you go through you know, when when can I

first went over there, it was tough. Two missionaries living

one of the most expensive places to live on single

income is tough. We used to, you know, serve the day,

serve the Lord the whole day, and then at night

you all do some grocery shopping and then we're to

shop at the reduced out that it's about to you know,

it's you know, back over that they had the you

know best before and use by. So if it's after

the best before, it's cheaper because you can still use it.

And we used to shop just to save mine because

that's all that we have. We used to you know

before James's whole hands and instead the one little top

of tear MISU wondering can we spend another one pound

ninety five because we just don't have the budget. But

it's been such a long day. We would love to

have a little treat, and and and and God didn't

immediately the next day drop bags of money. And my

friend Dawn never passicare and to go through three years

of unemployment before the Lord open a door for her.

When she finally surrendered God that you will be done,

then the law begin to move. But now that three

years of unemployment, the years of I don't want to

say living in poverty, but living with a need. Now

allows us to speak a language to people who are

going through the same thing. Now when they when I

meet other people are going to sit, they're going through unemployment,

going through you know, financial hardship. When I speak to

your life, there is a lingo that I speak there

other people who haven't gone through can't speak. When you're

sick and still be faithful, still believing God for healing,

there is a language of love and tenderness and grace

that you can speak. It's like a language. People can't

believe the gospel if it's not in the language that

they understand. And sometimes that language is called pain, that

language is called loneliness. The language is called abandonment. And

the lawd is allow you to go through it so

that you can speak it and be a blessing. Right.

Let God have you, Let God write you point number three.

Let God send you letters are meant to be sent.

Doesn't matter if you have the best, the best letter

of recommendation. It can come from you know, whichever leader,

corporate leader of your you know choice. But if you

just you know, have it and frame it on your

wall and hang it there, there's no power and says

some personal encouragement. And wonder God is wondering. Am I

Christians just living for personal encouragement? Or are they being

sent out? You see you I I you know. Let's say,

you know, uh, let's say when Billy Graham was still alife,

he met Paster Elvin and then wrote a great letter

of recommendation. I Billy Graham fully endorsed this young man.

You know, when I talk to him, he smells of

the Gospel. He's wrot to be the next best thing

and the next big thing for the Kingdom of the Lord.

He will impact Asia in the name of Jesus and

then signed Billy Graham. Wow, but do you know that

if if you no passe Elvin just looks at that

and then you know, you know, just just kind of

like buries it. There's nothing. But if he hypothetically, if

he sends out, the people will be like, whoa what

Billy Graham said this he I'm a Christian businessman. Now

I this endorsement. I accept. Let me fund your ministry.

You know XPJ. You want to buy the whole PJ.

Come on, let's do it, you know, like right, So

unless you're sent out, A postcard is nothing. Unless you're

sent out, then the people who are not there will

go like, wow, you thought about me when you were there.

You know wow, you know you you you wrote, and

so would you God to send you out very quickly. Now.

God will sometimes call us for overseas missions, Go for it.

God will sometimes call us for local missions. Please go

for it. When it comes to missions, can I just

help solve You don't need to prayer about it, just

go just go. Okay. The one Christian thing you can

do with that prayer is should I go for missions? Go?

Go local missions, go local community? I wish go God

is calling me to shot the missions. You know, go

just just go for the gospel, okay. But Sun's going

It's not about crossing oceans. Sun's going is just go

in and talk to your neighbor because the greatest command

is to love God with all your heart, soul and mind,

and to love your neighbor as yourself. Funny story, yesterday

I spoke with my neighbor for the very first time.

I moved into my condors since twenty twelve, but we've

been away doing the last work. My neighbor moving in

twenty seventeen next to us. Only yesterday. By the whosi

we go talk to them, you got to know that

their names are Simon and Huai, And I'm like, oh

nice you meet you and stuff for that. Sometimes it

starts there, you know, before you start doing missions missions,

why do you get to know your neighbor? First? Bag

them a cake, start a WhatsApp group with them. If

the house is on fire, call the police, like like,

you know, can you start small and but but be

willing to be sent out, be willing to step out

of the comfort zone. Some of us here our houses

or castles or fortress, we never want to step out

we have a cliquish friend group that that's all we

want to hang out, but no step out and meet

people who are different than you. When you come to

church next week, can you go out your way to

pray with somebody you never prayed before. That's mission. You know,

they can stop missions in church yourself by just going

to the back out. You know, you can talk to

you can bring a new comer out for lunch or

just whoever is. Just just be a friendly face. Just

just leave your comfort zone and the friends that you

always fellowship with and go there and talk to someone,

pray with them, offer to get to know them, and

if there is a need in their lives, by the

grace of God, and do your part to serve them

and to meet it. And that's missions right there. Friends. Missions,

It's as easy as getting to know your neighbor. Missions.

It's as radical as crossing the ocean. Some human be thinking,

I said, I don't have a heart. Lit, I don't

have a heart. Maybe you need to ask God to

revive your heart. So can encourage you. This is how

you can have a heart. Was encouraging us, you know,

say nose, pray and say good things about Malaysia. Some

of us really struggle. But you know how God can

heal you and how God can restart this missional heart

of yours. Just take a drive out of salangor just

just the next holiday. Don't go to Osaka. The missionaries

that already blessed, they don't need more Milo. The next holiday,

go to typing word typing, and don't let the people

from typing. Hi there. But but you know, sometimes you

need to go to the East coast some some words

militias have never been to Saa. Why do you don't

take up? Don't drive the can't drive there, take a

flight there, Go to go to Bintulu, go to see

the wood is there, and just go and meet the

people there. Do you know I'm not you know, I'm

now serving the law in the UK. But I used

to serve in the campus ministry. But just a couple

of weeks ago I was invited back to speak at

the Taylors College Chapel. I went there and man, being

just being near the students, just smelling them, not in

a weird way, just you know, just really like I'm like,

oh this. I couldn't wait to tell Puss Steven there's

so many of them. We're gonna go and get them.

This just just just being in among them. My heart

beats for them. I can I can't. I want them

to hear the gospel. I cannot. Maybe he needs Maybe

you need to take a drive to the East Coast

for you to be among people groups and to go

like God. They cannot live without you. I'm too comfortable

in myselburb. I'm too comfortable in my getting community, you know.

And we're gonna do that. You gotta be sent out.

If you have a heart for PJ. Take a driver

round PJ. But don't go to the usual places. Go

drive around. Pray as you drive, and then you're gonna

be like God. You drive past some housing areas, you

drive past some places of waship, and Emilly go like

you know, drive past some hospitals, and Emily go like God.

I can't. I can't. I can't live a life where

I do nothing as thousands and hundreds and thousands of

people are going taking one step closer to eternity without you.

Let God, and you don't let wait until God kicks

you out, or wait until God gives you a calling.

God can do that, but you can also initiate that seriously,

you know, I hope you catch my heart, and and

that I hope you catch God's heart. Let's pray thank

you Lord, Lord, your heart is for people. Lord, forgive us. Lord,

when we've become too comfortable living in our air condition

high rise buildings. We know some of us. We have

servants upon servants, we have cars upon cars, and you've

blessed us to be so so good to us. But Lord,

we say, Lord, your word never asks us to rest

on our blessing. And just how you call Peter out, Lord,

would you call us out again? Just as how you

invited Jesus and you asked him if if you could

have all of him? Lord, I pray that right now

you would do that same loving invite and wake up

call to everyone who's hearing your voice. Right now, Lord,

we want to give you all of us, not just some,

but all of us again, maybe for someone else, is

all of us again, because at one time you did.

But along the way you took back your own life.

By God, I said, would you allow me to have

all of you again? Would you allow me to write

and overwrite some of your own ideas? And as he

overwrites He's also overwriting your own idea of a future.

He overwrites, it makes it a better one, a more

impactful one, a more glorious one. It might not be

a richer one, it might not be a safer one,

but it will be glorious. It will have etertal value.

The Lord, help us, Lord to be sent out, Help

us Lord that some people hear. Lord, help us to

just knock next door and say sorry to our neighbor. Neighbor,

I'm so sorry. I live next to you all this one,

but I never bothered to get to know you. I'm

so sorry. But my name is so and so let's

be friends. Let's get connected. Let let let's get to

know each other. Do you know by doing that you're

honoring God because you're loving your neighbor. Some of us

not help us to be sent out to see where

we are working, not as a death camp, not as

a place of burden and curse. Some of us here

were praying God, get me a new job. But maybe

the question we're gonna ask out God, are you done

with me here yet? Did I finish? Did I pass

your assignment? And the Lord says two more years, which

you stay two more years by it's two more years

with louse, it paid two more years with no promotion,

two more years for the Lord for his glory, two

more years so that two more souls can come to

know him. Lord, would you allow us to be sent out? Law?

Send out law, Lord, the next holiday some of us

here take as a family. Let it not just be

a holiday, but let it be a holiday slash mission trip. Lord,

as to travel. Lord, let it be a place where

we can rest in You, but also where a place

where our hearts can beat again for the loss, be

desperate again, for the loss, can hurt again for the lost.

Help us. Lord. The enemy wants to numbers. But right now,

in the name of Jesus, live again. In the name

of Jesus' hearts of stone beat again, and Jesus name,

we pray, Amen, Amen. Before I close to their service.

I just you don't want to give people here an opportunity.

Maybe you see it here and maybe you don't know Jesus,

or maybe you knew him at one time or the other.

But I'm here. I want you to know. Friends. Christiananity,

it's not about having good morals. Christianity is not about

you know, It's not a Western idea, it's God's idea.

Christianity is simply this. As human beings, we are too lost,

too messed up, too dirty to save ourselves. Despite what

we might think of our own abilities, we cannot save ourselves.

We are like little toddlers who have made a mess

in our diapers, trying to change our own diapers, yet

not having full mortal skills. And what we can do

is not have a change. But it said, we end

up spreading the mess. And that's the history of humanity.

Messed up people spreading the mess all over the world.

But God, seeing that didn't didn't destroy us to start

a new project. No, he entered into this broken world

and he says that I can fix it, and only

I can fix it. And like a young child who's

messed himself, we can't change our own diapers. The best

most efficient thing to do is to grow up to

the Father and says, Father changed me. I've made a mess,

and only he can wipe us clean. Only he can

change our lives around it. That's what Christianity is. God's

so loved the world even though it was broken, even

though the world hated him, but God still loved it.

Loved it so much, he said his perfect son Jesus

to come into this world to rescue all of his

wayward children, the one perfect son, to redeem all the

wayward children, so that whoever who believes in Jesus will

not perish but receive eternal life. Eternal life. We one

day we will enter into the presence of God for

all eternity, where there's.

Normal pain, normal sorrow, normal tears, normal sickness, normal disease,

normal marriage, even because what we will have is a

greater relationship and greater glory than what we have than

nothing we've ever seen on planet Earth.

That is all great reward in Jesus and with Jesus. So, friends,

if you're here invited by someone, or maybe you've been

found away by you, decide to come back. Today is

a great day to come home. The first thing you

gotta do is admit that you need help. God. I

need you. I tried fixing, but I keep falling back

into the same cycle again. Break that cycle. I need you, Lord,

and believe in Jesus. Would you say, Jesus, I believe

in you. You are my Lord, You are my savior.

Savior means that only you can save me, Jesus, please

save me, Save me from myself, save me from myself

destructive way, save me not. And then after you believe,

after you've been saved, the Bible advites us to commit

our lives because God says that, hey, now that I've

saved you, now that you've been revived, now that you've

being reconciled, can we enter into a committed partnership to

reach the world. And that's what you need. That's what

church is. It's people walking committedly with God to reach

the world. That's why every Christian is called to walking

committedly with God to reach the world. So, friends, if

that's you and today you'll like to give your life

to Jesus, I want to invite you to pray together

with me. He say. Okay, nobody looking around, but I

want you to pray together with me. If it helps,

you can lift up your hands. But I need you

to believe with sincerity of your hearts. And so due

to time, I'm not gonna ask to respond and the

count through anything like that, but I'm gonna invite you

to pray together with me. He said. Okay, you said,

I'm not your Christian, but today I want Jesus in

my life. I need him in my heart. I need

him to fix the mess I am. I need him,

I need him, I need him. Good news. Jesus loves you,

he wants you. So let's pray. Say, Dear Lord Jesus,

thank you for your love. Thank you for your love.

Thank you for your love for me, and for dying

on the cross. Please forgive me on my sins. Please

forgive me. Please wash me clean by your precious blood,

By your precious blood, and come and live in my heart.

Come and live in my heart. Feel me your Holy

Spirit and teach me your way. I now live to

worship you and please you in Jesus name Jesus. Amen, Amen, Amen,