Disciple First | Pr Matthew Chang

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Come, let's turn with me to Luke chapter fourteen, okay.

And Luke chapter fourteen, and turn with me to verse

twenty five all the way to verse thirty five okay.

And the theme or basically the title for our message

will be disciple first. And I heard that Pastor Elvin

did a really great time, you know, to lead you guys,

to introduce you guys to the theme of the church as well,

which is disciple first. So I just want to continue

on that. And we begin with scripture from verse twenty five, okay,

chapter four Louke fourteen, Verse twenty five. And there's a title. Okay,

just give you a heads up by it's it's a

strong they are strong words here, okay. The title says

leaving all to follow Christ. Okay, So today you guys

will be packing your backs okay. And in verse twenty

five he says, now great multitudes when with him, okay,

with Jesus. And Jesus turned and said to them, if

anyone comes to me and does not hate his mother,

hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers, and sisters, yes,

and heavens even his own life. Okay. Also, he cannot

be my disciple, ah past the way you have to

start so strong. It's not my words, you know, Jesus words,

you know. Okay. Some people are some people, okay, will

take this and say that, hey, this Christian teaching, it's

not compatible with our value system, with our honor system,

with the parenting that we know. They will quote this scripture. Ready, Okay,

It's good that today you are here so that I

can unpack this what it means to you guys. Okay, okay,

Now let's move on. Let's read on. Okay, Verse twenty eight,

For which of you intending to build a tower does

not sit down first and counter costs whether he has

enough to finish it less? After he has laid the

foundation and is not able to finish, all will all

who see begin to mock him, saying, this man began

to build and was not able to finish. Or what

king going to make a war against another king does

not sit down first and consider whether he is able

with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him

with twenty thousand, or else, while the other is still

a great way of he sends a delegation and asks

conditions of peace. So likewise, whatever of you does not

forsake or that he has cannot be my disciple. But

we gotta read on. Okay. Then immediately after that, okay,

Jesus teaches about Okay, the tasteless sought is worthless. Okay.

In verse before he says, salt is good. But if

the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?

It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill.

But men throw it out. He who has ears to

hear let him here. Okay. First of all, I give

you a clue, okay, that the entire chapter fourteen. Okay,

I only read half of the entire chapter fourteen, if

you But if you look at the chapter fourteen, the

earlier two stories, Okay, there's one talking about a man

with drop sea hill and sabbath, and another one take

the lowly places. Right, All these stories are actually connected,

and they are one. But I'll start with the later

part first. Like Star Wars, you know, you start with

four five six, then after day you go to one

two three. Okay, I do that first. Okay, I start

with four five six. Okay, then after that I will

come back. But these are all connected, okay, and I

will explain to you how it works, and then you

can understanding what does it mean to be you know,

what does it mean to be a disciple? First? So

let's start with salt. Start with the very back. Okay,

start with salt first. It's kind of funny that Jesus

talks about discipleship and talk about forsaking your parents and

talk about salt. You know, it's not Jesus jumping, you know, no,

it's all connected. Okay, But we start with salt first. Okay,

Jesus says salt is good. But if the salt has

lots its flavor, how shall it be? Season? Hannah? Be

actually season salt? One h You season your meat with salt,

but you don't season you're salt. Anyone done that before.

It's kind of weird, isn't it? Because why because in

your mind you know there is no replacement to salt.

So it's salt, you get men, There is no replacement,

you get mean, right, You don't salt with sours, you

don't solve with msg. There is no replacement to it.

That's the first important thing you have to understand there

is no replacement to salt, very unique. So there is

no replacement. Okay, So that's why you're gonna go and season.

There is no replacement, And so what does it link

to us? What are you trying to tell us that

the first thing to be about discipleship is to become salt. Oh,

discipleship is about being sought. You must understand that there

is no replacement to your identity. If you are a disciple,

if you are a disciple of your disciple, and what

I'm saying, if you are a disciple, you're a disciple,

you're sort You're a salt. If you lose your saltiness,

what makes you sought? There is no replacement. Now my

question is this, then, what makes you a disciple? And

what makes you lose the essence? What makes you a disciple?

Actually I've slight? Oh yeah, okay, killing Norwegians salt as salmon? Okay, okay,

So what what is If saltiness is the essence of salt,

what is the essence of discipleship, what is the essence

of divice? Discipleship? It is our devotion. It's our devotion.

You have to connect it to the scripture. Before. It

is our devotion. Okay, so what does it mean devotion?

It's not coincidence that Jesus talks about the cause of it.

Isn't it If anyone who wants to follow me, wants

to come to me does not hate his mother, father

and mother, wife and children, brothers and sister, years and

his owner, he cannot be my disciple. The essence is

what devotion you are devoted to Christ? Not to say only,

but first, you are first devoted to Christ. Let me

rephrase it a bit more. Okay, when you hear you

hear the theme about disciple first, isn't it in churching it?

What does it mean to be a disciple first? Is

that you wear a tag that you wear our latest jumper?

You know ex church? You know, Hey, you're a disciple.

Is it because you come to a leadership meeting that

you are a disciple? No, to be a disciple first?

What the concept of disciple first means? We are first

a disciple before you are a husband, before you are

a wife. You are first a disciple before you are

a business owner or a professional worker. You are a

first a disciple before you are a parent or you

are a children. You are first a disciple, before you

are anything in social media, a person of influence, anything.

You are first a disciple. It is who you are

or just what you do. You know why is that important?

Because it changes everything? Changes everything. When you are a

disciple first, before you're a husband, business owner, a parent,

or anything. It changes what you seek. You know what

I'm saying. If you are a husband or a wife,

maybe you going to a fight. Okay, if you are

just like a normal husband wife and you got into

the argument, the first thing you will seek is, I

don't know, retribution, validation, justification, and self isn't it? Forgiveness

is hard at that time. You know we all go

through that. I go through that as well. Okay, this

are what you seek. But when we are disciple first,

what does it changes? It's not my feelings, not my validation,

not my agenda. What does God require of that? God

says that you need to forgive. You need to just

be quiet and listen a lot of times you do

that first you can I'm saying now, So sometimes you

overcome a situation by realizing who you are first, instead

of figuring out what to do right First, who you

are first? Some of you you are business, business owners,

maybe a professional workers you have someone as a ball

or someone you're a colleague in someone else as well.

If you think that you are a worker first, you

will think of a lot of people offending you. You

will fight for your rights first, in the same way

I'm saying. You know you will fight for your rights.

But if you look at the Bible, you look at Jacob,

you look at Joseph, you look at Abraham, you look

at Jesus, how many of them, Okay, experience people trying

to short change them? Many, isn't it. People try to

short change him all the time, isn't it. But if

they just follow the natural identity they are put in

that situation, they will retaliate, They will respond, They will

even change their prayers. You know me, right, God speak

to that person. You know God, it's not right, and

you pray, you change, You pray even pray for a

prayer request. You change for different prayer requests. You know,

because you take on the identity, that situation confines you

and molds you into you. Got I mean right, You're

heart and that's why you say, God, speak to that person,

get me to change job. You get what I mean?

Your prayer changes when or not because you're carrying on

a different identity. But to be a disciples is to

realize that I am not what the world molds me

to be. First, I'm not that first. I am first

a disciple. I'm a first a disciple. So what does

a disciple first? Two? He devoted, we walk with Christ.

And so when I follow Christ, I will say that

God what I seek, Okay, what I want to please

more than anything else. I don't want to please my

children first, my wife or husband first, not my colleagues first,

not my bosses first. Helped me to please you first,

so that I won't do the same mistakes like Saul

the kings. Auld mean right, he was a king first

before he was a disciple. Get I mean right? He

was a king first, and that's why he feared the elders.

You know. He asked Samuel, follow me. You see, we

will all make mistakes. One make may no mistakes. We

will all make me a king. King David, considered greater

king than Saul, also make many mistakes, you know. But

yet he was sped from the same destiny that befell Saul.

You know why, because he remembered that he is first

a disciple. He was a disciple when he was a shepherd.

He is a disciple when he was a king. So

he didn't care about pleasing people. So even when he's

sin he realizes, Oh Lord, it is only against you

and you alone that I have sin against you. You're

a men, right, it's you you get. So when you're

a disciple, you seek to please God first. You seek

not to to to to to to know God's heart first.

When you're a disciple, you fear God first before you

fear men. You fear God first before you fear losing

your belongings, your career, your opportunities. Sometimes you form more

out as well. You get mean right when you all

are mold about all these things, you change your prayer.

Sometimes when you prayers some God, God, I don't know,

maybe God looks like it's disappointed and praying things that

not even God, they didn't even come up from him.

As well, you don't pray like my disciples, to pray

like someone who is not carrying another idea. You know

who I'm saying not. Sometimes that's why when you when

you see parents are you know you're in their house.

They're confident and you know their ball, but the moment

when they get out and then they maybe meet some friends,

or maybe they get scolder, or they're you know, in

front and they come back. Your children are turning to

someone totally different. You know, where did their esteem go?

How come they get so affected? We behave differently you

know what I'm talking about or not? And they ask

things that doesn't sound like them at all. They never

asked in our house before, you know, That's what I'm saying.

And not they are requesting and praying things and never

they are not who they are. They've been changed and

molded by the world. So disciple first is to understand

that first who we are, what is our priority, the

most important had that we carry more than anything else.

As a father, I carry many hats with my children

as well. Sometimes I carry the road as a teacher. Sometimes,

you know, when they play basketball, my childre said coach

asks say you asked for it? You know, tough life

for head. It's like, oh, but when they fall down,

I'm not just a coach. Okay, when there's someone who

wants to threaten that my first and most important role

is well is to be a father. You can't say no,

there are things that you don't lose. You know that

you must put first first. Okay, so let me recap. Okay,

So when we are the disciple, for us, it changes

to what we seek, whom we please, whom we fear,

and whom we draw from. Okay for okay, whom we seek,

whom we please, whom we fear, and whom we draw

from our strength. Yeah, if I'm a disciple, I won't

draw from anyone else. If my daughter knows that I'm

my father's daughter, why would she drove from anyone else?

It's your identity will determine who you draw from. Understand

what I'm saying. Ah, even in a different place, you

bring your mobile phone, you go to Japan and you

realize the charging point is different. You even bring an

adapted as well. Because you know who you are. You

don't change, then you don't adapt as well. But I

am who I am. You can't mean there's an adapto

that you realize that who you are and you draw

from It makes sense. Second thing, Okay, talk about salt okay,

and Jesus talks about counting the costs. Okay, So we

said that a disciple is differentiated. Okay, Sorry, The saltiness

of a disciple is the devotion, saying that people know

that you're a disciple when you're devoted. But to be

devoted also means there is a cost. You know what

I'm saying. Jesus didn't just tell them a you leave

your parents and stuff like that. He realized he couldn't

explain there is a cost to it as well. You

don't build a tower without counting the cost. You don't

go to war without counting the cause. Devotion will cost you.

You know, I'm saying, not devote what is first will

cost you. And we need to count the cost. Okay,

we need to count the cost. We all of us

count what is most important to us, all of us. Okay,

if money is important to you, you will check your

bank balance every day. It's true, it's some of you.

Look at me, maybe maybe you you you reach It's like, wow,

you never earn a certain amount. Well, I tell you

some people are every day cannotop looking at the thing.

You know there will screenshot and put it at the

wall paper. You know, it's like I can't believe you

know why, because it's reality to you. You know, this

reality is so close to you. Oh, and that number

are paying so much dreams and in the things that

it permits into your mind or and sometimes can change

who you are one and on. But we count on

is most important to us. We count our money, we

count our time, we count our spaces. That is why

when things come in wait into your life. Hey, you know,

if your spouse ausk comes and asks you, hey, you've

got time, I feel like, you know, going doing something

like that. If a husband you know, appreciates more than

time is space and no time time on its owner,

it feels like the most difficult mountain to climb, you know.

You know, I said what I'm saying, no, and then

my wife understands it, and I said, the moment I

sit down in the house, it's very hard to move me.

You want to know, you know, that's what I'm saying.

When I sit down, I was like, oh, it's going

to take a mountain to move me. Ready, Because I

value the moment I say down. It's like I go

into my own square, little box ready. And I was like, oh,

thinks a lot. That's what I value. But sometimes things

value People value different things. Okay. That is why when

when people ask you certain things, you know you start

to count, you see it work just to get up

to walk there. Oh, it becomes so difficult, so expensive,

and sometimes you won't commit. You will count, and then

you're like, oh, why did I allow allow this short

sightedness to blind me or to short change me for

what is more important as well? Okay, But the next

question I will ask is are there believers who follow

but don't count their costs? Are their believers who follow

and then don't count their cause? God? Not yes or no?

Are there believers who follow but don't count their course?

Who says yes? Who says no?

Oh?

I don't know. The thing is we know in the Bible,

Jesus in the scripture says that if you read later on, okay,

there are there are many followers who claim to follow

God but don't count their cause. Okay, there are many.

They are sought by name, maybe they call themselves salt

bay whatever it is, okay, But in substance they are

not assault at all. And how God differentiates them, whether

they are true salt or worthless soult or strong words

are okay, is when God requires them to respond, they

don't respond. How do you know salt is not salt?

When you taste and it's not salty, isn't it the

response it gets it's such a saltiness, or when you

cure me, it doesn't cure it all. You put it there,

then the next day it stinks. One of the first

things you know that when you put salt is that

it draws water, the meat response anything people think you

touches it. Response, it draws before it gets back it

flavors and then everything does as well. So there are

Christians who follow, but they don't respond. There is no

reaction in them or outside of them. They can not

course any reaction at all. Okay, Now, so we talk

about identity, we talk about counting the cause. But I

have a question here. Jesus says in verse they four

salt is good, but if the salt has lost its flavor,

how shall it be seen? Okay, how does salt lose

the saltiness? Kind of funny, I just asked the question,

isn't it there's no replacement? But Jesus says, if salt

is not not salty, it's not worthy. So it means

they might there are salt they cannot have any taste

at all in a way, but how do they actually

lose their saltiness. I'm not giving you oxymorona, but Hd,

it's true. How does salt lose the saltiness? Yeah, Steph Curry,

O hey, how does salt loses Not anyone got signs?

How does salt lose his saltiness? I'm not going to

that salt loses its saltiness by impurities. Even in all

the times, right, there are salts that are worthless because

they get mixed up with too many imperial elements, you

know what I'm saying now, dirt with different chalks, gypsum,

sand and everything as well. So you don't you don't it.

Don't just take sea water and then you just boil

it and then white stuff all it's all salt, nor

you could be sixty seventy percent now it's all chalk,

gypsum and different things as well. They go through different

what they call it a treatment as well, you know

I'm saying now. So sometimes when you can, you can

people can sell your salt and you can realize that

it's not as salty as before because it's mixed with

a lot of different things. But you go to But

for us, we cannot get the idea because all your

salt your buy one. You never make your own salt. One.

If you want to believe it, then you can make

your own salt. Okay, turn to your neighbor. Let's go

and mix salt. Then you realize that, heyst not salty one.

You really start to appreciate the salt that you buy.

It doesn't appear just like that one. You know that

as salt doesn't just become pure, that it actually goes

through many purification refinement. What you get is pure salt. Okay,

what you get at Hope is pure salt. It's not

just salt. Is pure salt. Turn to your neighbor. Do

you want to be pure salt? Makes sense right now

or not? You start to see the connection here when

Jesus talks about disciple shape and he talks about saltiness,

how salt loses effectedness. You see at one point I said,

so there is no replacement for salt, but yet at

the same time it can lose its saltiness how by

being mixed with impure things. So a Christian is called

to be salty, and the assaultiness is to be devoted,

and they are devoted their disciples, but yet they can

lose their devotion, the assaultiness when they get mixed with

a lot of impurities makes sense. Now, then now we

go back one chapter again, you know, one chapter one

parable again, Let's read from verse fifteen, the parable of

the Great Supper. Okay, what does it mean to be

a disciple? First, so that we don't lose our saltiness,

so that we cannot lose our effectiveness. Now in verse fifteen,

he must understand. Give you a context. First, that Jesus

went to someone's house. Okay, maybe one of the pharisees house. Okay,

he went to eat bread. Okay, because of time, I

can't cover everything. But Jesus had encounter first he went

there with his disciples. But there's a group of elite

teachers and you know, followers of God who invited him.

And he noticed us a lot of pattern. They claim

to be followers of God, leaders and teachers for God.

But some of them started to take the dun tree,

and that sits in. They care about where they are

seated more than anything else. And Jesus tell them, don't

follow them, take the lowly places. So that you know,

those who extort himself will be humbled, and those who

humble themselves will be exalted. Don't be like them, okay,

And he tells us, don't when you invite. When you

invite people, don't invite the rich. Invite those who can't invite.

You gave me right now. Invite those who can't repay you.

You can something. When you invite those who can repay you,

You're asking for a reward. You have an agenda. You

know you mean, right? Okay? And so then it comes

here to verse fifteen, because suddenly someone there in verse fifteen,

he says, when one of those who sat at the

table with him heard these things that Jesus was actually

teaching them the Kingdom of God. This guy was like, oh, okay,

what did he say? Blessed is he who shall eat

bread in the Kingdom of God? What does he mean

by that? It's kind of funny, isn't it. He say,

Blessed is he who shall eat bread? Means who shall

partact with God in communion in the kingdom of heaven.

But who is he including? And who is he excluding?

Who is he including? Who is he talking about? It

sounds like I'm speculating here, and that he was replying

and trying to respond to Jesus' teaching of them said,

blessed is he who eats at the kingdom. God he

already specified who gets qualified and who are blessed. But

who are the blessed? You must at that time I

understand that the blessed are those those who are whole,

those who are not sick, those who are not main

They believe that if you are mad, you are sick.

You are born and all with I don't know, different

diseases that your parents seen, and therefore you are a sinner.

We are whole because we follow God, and we follow God,

we shall eat the bread in the house of the Lord.

You don't say what I'm saying. No, there was your

current thinking. So Jesus to this moment, and he gave

a parable And in verse sixteen he says, a certain

man gave a great supper and invited many, and sent

his servants at supper time to say to those who

were invited, it come, for all things are now ready.

Listen carefully, and underlying reason these are. He invited those

who are whole, first, not sick, not laying, not hungry,

not poor. He invited all of them, and in verse

eighteen he said, but they all with one court. One

a cord okay, began to make excuses. Okay, one a

chord began to make excuses. People who are whole? Okay,

and what the what? What? The first one said to him,

I have bought a piece of ground or land. I

must go and see it. Okay, I asked you to

have me excuse. Oh, so polite, you know, but they

already planned ready. And another said, I have bought five

years of oxen. I'm going to test them instead of

say oxen. Now, okay, maybe you can say you buy

five I know, I don't know five Mercedes five bmw Okay,

I asked of you that you have me excuse. Then

still another said to him, I have married a wife,

and therefore I cannot come. Oh. So the servant came

and reported these things to his master. Then the master

of the house, being angry, said to his servant, go

out quickly into the street and lanes of the city

and bring in the poor, the name, and the lame,

and the blind. You know who these group people are

right in the ise of society. The people that they

initially dem will not eat bread in the Kingdom of God.

And the servant said, Master, it is done as you commanded,

and still there is room. Then the master said to

the servant, go out into the highways and the hedges

and compel them to come in. That my house maybe failed,

for I say to you that none of those men

who were invited shall taste my supper. It's a very

sobering tale. Very scary, isn't it. They can already start

to begin to tie together. Really we're talking about you

start to see it, redia. Okay, let's let's bring this

all together. Okay, So in the Great Supper, everyone is

invited by this priority, the whole. The people there were whole.

But the people became pre occupied. They were salt men

to be salty, men, to preserve, men to be distinct,

men to be able to respond. Okay, but yeah, they

become a occupied some border land. Some brought things to

generate money. Some mary a wife. All these are they

bad things? Not bad things? God gave us land. God

gave Abraham many land, so many Lena, look at Oh,

wherever you threat your food, all this should be yours

and for your for your inheritance. Okay, plan oxen, he

apron most richer's own many oxens wife, Hey, God, created

even okay, it's not Adam okay created one. But yet

in all these things, what happened to them they may excuses.

So the problem is not the things are good or

bad and not. The problem is at salt. When they

get mixed with all these things, they forget who they are,

and their hearts get stolen. They lose that one thing

that makes them salty. Why is that their devotion? The

devotion they're more devoted to your land, the things that

you buy, you're more devoted to the land. The oxen

are white oxen. They see the land and the oxen

and the wife is very powerful. And not just because hey,

you know, some people say, hey, the white better. Some

people say the action better than get into trouble. Okay,

because all of these they give you a preview of

the future of abundant living land and wow, oxen they

can generate Why, happiness and family, all these things generate

a future. But yet they know all these things that

come to a manda are good. But it also when

your hearts are not, are not, are not careful, and

you forget the calling of Christ to us as disciples. Okay,

the calling of the master of the banquet, master to them, Hey,

I know your God, but I am the great Master.

You know, my banquet is not like any other banquet.

You know, serious people, we think just another banquet. Sometimes

we come to church, you think it's just another church.

There is there is different one. You know, coming into

the House of God is different one. And all you esteem.

The way you esteem God is changes your reality one.

And know you got mean right. The way you esteem

God changes every single thing. And when your hearts get stolen,

what happens, your devotion gets sipped away. And immediately it

becomes evident the way they respond to the Master. They

start to make excuses. These things are important. Need they

need my time, they need my resources, they need my attention,

they need my devotion. You see what I mean right,

Suddenly coming to the banquet becomes very expensive. So what

is the biggest challenge of discipleship? Cost? You will find

that disciples people are hard to follow, not because of

a disciple, not a person. And it is cost. It

will require me of things that I find it hard

to give. That's the biggest challenge of discipleship. It means

that suddenly I have to be accountable, Suddenly I need

to be transparent, Suddenly I realize that if I sometimes

I do do things that it's against even what I

really really really like as well, But that person spoke

truth into my life. I need to listen. There's a

cost to it. But the challenge of discipleship is always

the cause, the excuses, and then eventually it becomes so

much there when God himself speaks, that will find it

hard to respond. You see, the first disciples were not

the twelve Disciples and all. It was the entire nation

of Israel, and they were the first group of people.

They were given the audidences of God, the rules of God, teachings,

but yet they lost the assaultiness. You know what I'm saying,

the way they see people. Even when Jesus came down

in the flesh, what do they see? They lost everything,

all the assaultingness and all dead. You say you are holy,

but yet Jesus came in the flesh, did the miracles,

all the teachings, healed a person in the seventh Yet

you want to condemn him, and you talk about entering

the Kingdom of you talk about yourself? What is that

about the poor? Are you really assault are you really

someone devoted for God? You? Do you really follow God on.

So they is the party. You know, the people who

make excuses were the teachers, do you know what I'm saying? No,

they were the teachers, the leaders, they were them. But

those of them and all the rest who said, you're

not in the low places, they were the name, They

were the lame, they were the blind. All these people,

she said, they are more salty than you are because

they respond when I call them. I'm saying, you know,

so you and I are the same as well. We

are disciples, not because we are rich, we are better,

we are smarter, or anything. We are with disciples when

we begin to respond and open our hearts and never

lose our saltiness. You simon saying, it's so important. That's

why what the disciples first? Disciples first? What's so quiet here?

Okay it makes sense or not doesn't make a lot

of sense. Let's recap here. Okay, let us not be

like them. When we lose our saltediness, we become like

one accord, always looking for excuses and looking others, looking

for others that make excuses as well. So, yeah, the

people who make excuses and drow one another and want

to know you really see people who have a lot

of excuses that try to hang out with people out.

They're very devoted one to know, very rarely want to

either affect one another, want to know. Most of the

time they're rather band together with people. They are not

worth attending. Lie, yeah, not worth doing lie, just give

half hearted, lie, just be late live.

I know.

We get me in right with flesh draws flash one

get me in right. Flesh drawsprights are and they can

be so powered. They come united, you know, because they

feel like they're saying the same song. They feel. What

it brings them together is righteousness justification. Okay, so there's

one thing we must not there's a recap here. It

is good to have families. It is good to have children,

but they also will pass. Family is good, they will pass,

there will move on. It's good to have land. It's

good to have possession. But you have businesses, but they

also will pass. On your day of your funeral, what

does your business live for? You be saying yes, he

can provide, yeah, but what does it does it? Where

does it take you into eternity? Where does it take

you internity? Who are you first? Are you a CE

or are you a majority shareholder? Are you this and

that before anything else. Who are you first? But we

must never forget as disciple to put first things first.

Good is not God. Good is not first. God is first.

Our devotion Him to Him is first. They I wrote

here salt is salt. There is no replace to salt.

Some people will tell you there are many variations of salt.

They are chicken salt, you know, the Australia got chicken salt.

You know, they're very proud about it. Okay, they are

garlic salt, barbecued salt, and there are colored salt. But

you know, as you study before that, the difference is

that they have different impurities. You see what I'm saying now.

All the at the end of the day, salt is

powerful because it preserves, it gives flavor. You get what

I'm saying. No, it enhances whatever it is we want

what is pure. When you find when you a recaper,

when you have too much impurity, you will begin to

make excuses. You begin to lose devotion, you begin to

lose your heart, You begin to hear but not respond.

That's the last part that we don't want to be

you get mean, right, We don't want to be claiming

to be disciples, but when God calls, we don't respond.

That's the saddest part. It's so important for us to

guard our hearts. Are there We say that, yes, we

need to be discipled, but can we are we discible?

Can respond? Be disciples to us? Okay, but remove the

impurities of our hearts.

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