Why Should I Always Give My Best to God? (Part 1) | Pastor Alvin Keng

You're listening to a message to go from X Church.

We hope this message will light up your day. Okay,

I have a question for all of you.

Here in ex Church, we practice different things, you know, well,

not contrary to what the Bible says. But if you

look at church right, different churches, we have different expressions

of what we understand the Bible to be. You know,

different denominations have different expressions, okay, expressions. When we read

the Bible, we interpret what we need to do, and

then we express like for example, communion. Community is a

widely accepted thing that every Christian, if you're a believer,

you will do it, okay, just the way we do.

It's different.

Some will drink from the chalice, some will take the cups,

some will use unliving bread, some will drink wine. Then

there's an argument wine or no wine. Those that like

wine will say we should do wine. Those that don't

like wine, like Rabbina, say we should do a Rabina

does say, okay, with anything, will do my low Okay,

I don't know, okay, so so so so in X

as we've started this church. One of the things that

you know, I tell you how it started basically pasta

kena he received uh you know, you know the thing

a pasta God tell him to do, he would just

do it or no, right, I want you him so

many years a day.

Right.

The scary bit is when God tell him do, he

would just do. The exciting bit also is when God

tell him to do, he would just do. And he

started just because God asked him to do it. He

was very happy. If you hear the history. He was

very happy in another church which was you know, an

awesome church as well.

And then he started the church.

And one of the as he was starting the church,

and then he was praying for direction because you know,

you start, you cannot just start church. I don't want know,

you need covering, you need a lot of things. And

next year is out twenty fifth and he was three, Hey,

I don't I wonder how many if you here happen

actually since day one? Okay, I'm looking at Kyling since Dana.

No.

Actually I think Kyling is like the she's very young

on you know, but she's like the oldest one of

the oldest extra member here older me. Sorry, I chimpo

you a Kyli, but you go talk to all of

the years God has given our church you know, or

we as a church, we say we've downloaded from the

lot different things, you know. Now we have church plans,

now we have different things. When of course, when we

set out to you know, in the journey of our church,

we you know, we didn't set up to like, oh

we want to you know, last time, our vision was like, well,

a big, big big, everybody is big, right, and then sudenly,

God give us the idea of small, you know. So

God leads the church pray Scott right, Pray Scott is

not man but the Holy Spirit leading.

But one of the desires that we have as AX.

And that's why we are called ex Church because we

want to go back to the Church of Ax in

the Bible. So when you have a name like that,

then no choice, lot, you have to follow right. And

the Church of X in the Bible is the first

church that was ever born, you know, not under any

demonasia and and the Lord has led us so far. Okay, guys,

just do let I know we're not a cut we're

legit one. Okay, we're recognized by different bodies. We're legit.

But I'm just giving us the history and this is

all done by God.

Amen. So if you attend this church, and you call

this church your home.

You do have a legacy, see with you, even if

you just join us for a month, six months whatever.

Understand the legacy.

You know, when you understand the legacy or where you

came from, you understand the history away came from, then

you will be able to follow and flow. You know,

when you decide to come here. There are different things

that you like, correct that, if not, you want you

come here. Okay, I never like to come here. Only God,

let me hear, go on to ours called a story.

I have that story, tim, go and have that story. Actually,

do you know want to come extras one? Okay, long story.

I wan't talk about it today. But the Lord let

us and we're here. Praise scot okay, Praise the Lord.

Okay. And God has downloaded to our church a lot

of things. Okay. And I remember because I grew up

in this church as well. We're not very old. Maybe

I've been the X for.

Nineteen years to tell you, yeah, nineteen years eary, nineteen

oh half my lifetime in this church. My wife longer,

she came to extress earlier.

And God has.

Given us a lot, a lot of principles that we

prec a lot of things that we do until today. Okay,

of course, I'm not sure whether we fully express it

the same because last time when it was I don't

want to use this word, but I use it for

I use it for understanding when it was pure, when

it was just three hundred. You know, train people easy

to manage. Now actually got thousand. World is very not

very easy to align. You know, for those of you

who are involved in corporate you know, and Hi and

or you'll know that corporate culture is not something easy

to align to one right, But.

We have our culture.

We have our culture according to what we expressed from

the Bible, Amena. I'm taking a long time to explain

this story. I'll get into it. You guys following me

so far? Okay, okay, you guys follow me so far? Okay,

thank you? Uh So, you know, and one of the

principles that we really fully believe in, I say we are,

I declare versa really fully believe in. It's always giving

only your best to God.

Amen. Oh you're not convinced?

Always giving only your best to God about this means

want us to give?

Please don't be skeptical about it okay. And that is

a principle that we believe in. That's a value that

we have.

You know, when you go to someone's house and you

and they're very hospitable and they're very kind, and you know,

all these things are values that the family practices, you know,

the family and acts. This is one thing we practice.

We always give God our best. We always give God

our best.

Amen, you know.

And if you're like really man, never never feel it.

Also never I also never give got your best. Today

I teach Youla. You didn't say I fat out of

the house right for BJ Today I teach you Alla.

Let me teach you what our family believe in. I

still remember last time when I had to deal with

my kids. You know, they watch YouTube, then they pick

up language that it's not so good. I had to

go and tell my son. I didn't just call him,

don't say I'm very better, you know, I just went there, son,

we don't do this here.

This is not us.

We don't I don't say that. Do you hear Mammy

and Daddy use those words. No, we don't do it here.

You shouldn't do it here. And if you continue want

to do it here at this way the track comes,

then you're not part of the family.

Isn't that true? I'm not speaking lies, Nana, it is true.

It is true.

A guys, if you don't practice certain things, then you

you you are not.

Part of the family. No. Oh, I like what that?

Then go and join that family. Now, Okay, I can't

say that here. Okay, of course my son has to

say that, right, Okay, but you you understand not? You

understand not. So I'm not trying to be strong and necessary.

I'm trying to teach you guys something right, And don't worry.

I'm not just saying this pulling this off anywhere. I'm

going to go into scripture. Okay, So follow me here

today I I and and the next time I come

in pretty here. I want to share because I also

know that this line and this phrase and this value

through the years I have been misinterpreted, have been.

Scorned by How can you dude? You know?

Okay, guys, I hope that you catch it because I

practiced this in my life and I think it is

something that all Christians should practice, not just our church.

Every church. You practice this to always give only our

best to God. Amen.

Let's go to scripture. Key verse is in Mark chapter twelve,

verse thirty to thirty one. Okay, Mark chapter twelve, verse

thirty to thirty one. Okay, let me give you a

little bit of a background history on where this is

coming from. So Jesus is basically teaching the temple, and

he's engaging with the religious teachers, he's engaging with the scribes.

He's engaging in the people who are seen as holy. There.

Then you know, there was a divide.

There was the holy bunch, and then there was the

common people. There was the richer holy bunch, and then

there was the common people, right, and it was a

bad divide. It was not a good divide, right. And

Jesus came and he engaged them. He engaged both sides.

He didn't just don't care, but he was very clear

on his vision. He came for sinners, he came for

the poor, He came to fulfill the law. He came

to show us a better way to live. That's what

Jesus came to do. Praise God for that.

Amen.

And he was engaging every single person there, right. And

of course he got in trouble because him coming throwing

off the political situation, him coming is kind of like her.

It's like some independent stating happening. You know, guys, you

know where Jesus stood. He didn't stood up just for

the little man or the working class. He didn't just

stey up for the politicians. He stood up for God,

his father. He stood up to show us a way

to live. Right, and typically human beings describes that were

very well versed in the law that was given by

God himself.

Right, ask him questions are okay?

They were questioning him, question this question, that trying to

catch him, right, why because he basically was so awesome

and he didn't just how to say. He was so

awesome in terms of not just the way he presented,

but he also did miracles, right. He brought peace to

the land, he brought away Right. But of course they're

not happy, lot, the leaders, they're not happy, everybody not happy.

So they want to challenge him. So they asked him

this question. And I'm reading from Scripture. Then one of

the scribes came and, having heard them reasoning together, perceiving

that he had answered them well, asked him which is

the first commandment of all?

So they wanted to give him in.

Trouble, not even with the religious teachers because he asked.

They asked, Jesus, you know, should we pay taxes to Caesar?

And during that time he was I mean, I would say,

go and read your bible.

La.

I'm just trying to give you all these footnotes to

tell you how interesting the Bible is if you read it,

how interesting it is. You know, sometimes we read it

and we don't get it right because maybe we haven't

dive deeper enough. So today I want to go deep

into always give only your best of God? Okay, if

you already knows, she can write there part one, and

we're going to talk about the why.

Why should I give always best of God? Okay? Why

should I give always my best of God?

The next time I share share about the how how

do you give your best of God?

Right? But today I'll talk about the why. Amen?

Okay, So they are seem right, wh which is the

first commandment of all? So they know they got the

ten commandments? They got this a bunch of ruleslat. Okay,

So isn't it interesting?

Guys?

Wouldn't you come here and say a pas, Elvin, can

you just give it?

There's so many things, so can you just give me.

One principle one thing that if I follow it, I'll

be okay, one thing only.

What is that one thing? Because I cannot think about

so many things? What is that one thing?

And Jesus answered and said, the first of all the

commandments is.

Here, o Israel, the Lord, our God. The Lord is one.

And you shall love the Lord your God with all

your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind,

and with all your strength.

This is the first commandment. And the second like.

It is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

There is no commandment greater than this.

And in some scriptures it says these under these two

commandments hang all the law and the prophets, meaning everything

that has happened in Israel, everything that has happened, the

ten Commandments, everything that's happened in the history of Israel,

hangs on these two things only. He summarized everything. And

do you know that Jesus didn't just pull this out

of nowhere because this came from eutronomy. Let's go back

to this writer. The Bible is awesome again. New Testament

Old Testament cross reference. Okay, did you guys how to

do Bible study? Are you guys following me or not?

Right?

Deutronomy, Chapter six, verse four to seven. Okay, And I'm

gonna read from verse two because we just spoke about wisdom,

and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Right.

He says here that you may fear the Lord your

God to keep all his statues and his commandments, which

I commanded you, you and your son and your grandson,

and all the days of your life, that your days

may be prolonged. So if you want to live long,

fear the Lord. Be scared of him enough to live long.

Amen.

Let's read on that for here o Israel, and be

careful to observe it, that it may be well with

you that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord your God,

your father's have promised you a land flown your milk

and honey.

Here O Israel. The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

It is sounds a meal that, right, didn't Jesus say that?

Who's this? They've been saying this so long ago.

These are all written in scripture, guys, Okay, in the Torah. Right,

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, with all your strengths. And these

words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

And then let's continue. You shall teach them diligently to

your children, and shall talk to them when you sit

in your house, when you walk by the way, when

you lie down, and when you rise up. Parents, let

me revert to you. Now I am a parent, so

I understand this a little bit more. The Bible asks

us to teach it to our kids. Okay, let me

ask you a simple question.

Do you have to answer?

Reflect on this which one more powerful? Teaching them in

theory or showing them impractical? You have to know which

one is more powerful? Parents, how do you teach your children?

You have to show them. You can tell them all

you want. They're not going to do it, or you

know they might.

Let some will be red kuai wan, they will do Okay,

what QUI means very obedient.

But the Bible asks us to teach it to our kids.

Let's teach it to our kids. Amen.

Let's start when they're young, teaching them how to honor

the Lord, teaching them how to honor the Sunday, the Sabbath. Right,

it is our practice that affects it.

You know, uh are you being legally sticking. No, I'm not.

There will be days where you cannot, there will be

days where you'll be late. There will be days.

It's fine, it's okay, but strive to teach them the

value of your faith. Your faith, you know, because if

your faith is valuable, even show if your faith is valuable,

your kids are picking up.

You have to score them. You do have to set rules.

If you value something in your family, they will stop

practicing it. One trust me, it's very interesting. I can't remember.

There's something that happened recently. Just do you remember where

I just realized that my son is doing it and

I didn't even realize that, you know.

Okay, Lema la give her a chance. But round the.

Bus, Okay, friends, let's go deeper a little bit. Okay,

I have a bit more time. I think I can

do this.

Okay.

I hope you guys will be looking forward to the

next part because the next part I can just go

straight into it since I really gave you like the

understanding ready, right, So the Bible says, oh, if you

want to go deeper and study, you can write this

notes down meant you twenty two to thirty seven and

forty and Luke ten twenty seven.

Basically, it's the same encounter.

But written in a different way because different person wrote

it a lot. Different disciple you know wrote it. Okay,

but it's the same encounter. You can go in a

deeper study there. Okay, but let's talk about this. Let's

talk about the first comment. Don't talk about the second

coment today. I talk about the first commandment that Jesus

said that it's the most important. He summarized everything, He

summarized the ten commanments, He summarized everything with this one thing,

that we should love the Lord our God with all

our heart, our soul, our mind.

Okay, so let's break it down. What did you start with?

Love the Lord our God with all our so you'll

get it. Let's try it again, Love the Lord, I'll

go with all our heart heart? Why herd? Why hard? First?

Because it is a heart method.

It is not a law metter, friends, are you coming

to church following just the law.

This is why you're already said, This is why you're

a pressured.

This is why when you're late to Sunday service and

you miss on they servicea you feel condemned because to you.

Is law.

It is not law, friends, it is not law. It

is a method of the heart. It has always been

a metal of the heart. It is always a matter

of how Why do I say that? Jesus explains it

really well. He explains it really well in scripture Matthew

chapter five twenty one to thirty. Okay, when he shares

about two key things. Okay, again, there are many other things,

but these are two very big quad young while using

a law for Cantonese today, very big hed sayer, very bombastic,

very like jarring examples because he talks about murder and

a doubtery. Okay, and I'm just gonna read. Why is

it a metal of the heart? Why is it not

just a law in action? Why is it a matter

of heart? Matthew five twenty one says, you have heard

that it was said to those of all you shall

not murder. Basically he's talking about the tank com moments.

You shall number the Oh, okay, who here agree? You

shall not murder? Everybody you agree? Okay, raise up your

hand if you agree.

Law. Oh my goodness, now foster fos too. First two?

Okay, well law right, well, low, okay, you shall not murder?

And whoever murders will be in danger of judgment. Correct,

not correct? Right makes sense?

Right?

Right, don't break your law even you feel like you

don't kill person, don't not don't do it?

Right.

But this is the Jesus part. Why is he a

metter of the heart and not just law? But I

say to you that whoever is angry with his brother, Okay,

let me ask you a question for those brothers.

Have you been angry your brother before?

Okay, raise up your hand, la guys, Okay, you don't

have brother, your sister or not?

You got no brother nor sister. You got false or

not you got mother? If father? Are not.

Angry at your brother without a cause? Sign you just

feel angry a person with no reason, right, just the

first phase. Right, shall be in danger of the judgment.

Huh you mean I angry your so I can be

in danger of judgment. But I didn't do anything, Well, God,

I didn't do anything. And whoever says to his brother raca,

I went and go and find out what means?

I thought. There's a compliment means empty head.

Direct translation, empty hait raca right shall be in danger

of the council. But whoever says you fool shall be

in danger of what is not very drama, hell fire. So, friends,

from I understand if you're angry at your brother or

sister or my own God, say Brither angry, she says, okay,

if you're angry at anyone, you are in danger of

hell fire.

This is why Jess just forgiveness. Are you angry? Please forgive?

For friends? We shall you ready have? Which pain? You

ready have? Health? Fire pain or anger pain? Right? I mean,

Jesus came and he saved it all. Isn't this a

heart matter? Is it the law?

No, it's a heart matter, he said the moment you

and let let's let's go, let's go further. This more

to us, guys, okay, meant nine says you have heard

that it was said to those of all you shall

not commit adultery. And if you're below eating here, I'm

not gonna explain what that is, going to ask your

parents for that means?

Okay, But I say to you that whoever looks at

a woman for.

Last, to last, for her has already committed adultery with

her in his heart.

Oh guys, sorry, I'm a guy, So I so fall

to this? Can I be? Can I confess.

If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it

out and cast it from you, for it is more

profitable for you that one of your members perish, then

for your whole body to be cast into hell. That means, sir, guys,

can I it sure?

This? I hope you won't be taken out of context.

That means that if you are in the risk of

committing adultery in your heart now, you better run far

far away. You'll catch me or not, because it is

always a matter of the heart. Jesus spoke really well.

You've got that. That's why he talks about love the Lord,

your God with all your heart first, not your brain

or your heart first, because it is a heart issue.

If you don't love God with your heart, you will

love other things with your heart. I can expound on

it even more, but I wouldn't no time. Okay, this

is a very graphic thing. But Jesus had a very

good point. Don't you think it's a good point. I

used to read this and like, Lord, how can you

say this? It is so unfair. I'm still thinking law,

I'm not thinking heart. But when I think heart, it

makes sense. It makes sense when I think about the heart.

It makes sense. It starts with our heart. And you

know what happens after it starts your heart. It consumes

your soul. And after a while your decisions are guided

by what you think. It starts with your heart, and

then it will consume your soul, and after that, your mind,

your decisions, the way you think, will slowly go that direction.

Let me give you another explanation to that. You know,

we look at the external, but God always looks.

At the internal.

Right, don't you think for those of you who are

maybe even leaders of companies, and you are people who

take care of people, you will understand this when I

say this, you can see what is in a man's

heart when you look at his track record. Do you

know that you can see what is in a man's

heart when you look at his track record?

A woman's heart in the chery?

Cause say, you can see one, can see one, but

long enough time you can see one?

Why why is it like that? Well?

The Bible explains it. The Bible explains it in Matthew seven,

verse fifteen to twenty. Let's read it and let's learn

some things. Are you guys okay? Are guys catching something?

Okay? Matthew chapter seven. Let's go to read fifteen to twenty.

Says here, beware of false prophets who come to you

in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are revenous wolves, meaning

people can look nice, nice in the outside, but actually

inside their wolf okay, dangerous.

You will know them by their fruits.

Do men gather grapes from porn bushes or fixed from thissels?

Even so, every good tree best good fruit, but a

bad tree bad, bad, bad, Sorry, a bad tree is sorry.

A good tree cannot oh sorry. Even so, every good

tree best good fruit, but a bad tree best bad fruit.

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a

bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not

bad good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore,

by their fruits you will know them. Because it starts

in the heart. It consumes your soul, and then you

will act upon it.

This is why.

Jesus said it starts there first. It never starts with

the action. Or no, even you say in pauls of

the moment, your of the moment. And that's like in

the court in the cause of law, right, they talk

about pre meditated, Has it been pre meditated? Meaning you

already thought about it, thought about doing it right. But a

lot of times we live a life that is very emotional.

But Jus deals with that. Let's not just talk about

pre meditata and they're doing it because that's law. Let's

talk about where it starts from. Do you know that

if you love the Lord, your God with all your heart,

you wouldn't even come to a place of premeditation.

That's why God deals with it first. Amen.

So that's the heart. So, guys, it is a heart issue.

When you talk about giving God our best, it is

a heart issue. It is. It's not about a lord issue.

Don't look at it as a lot issue. If you

look at it as a Lord issue, you've missed the point.

I extras al must dress up.

Like that one, you know?

If not, then you know, guys, anybody can I share this.

Anybody can wear however they want here. If that's your

best for God, you'll catch that. You'll catch that because

I believe ma am I going to judge someone that

comes here and dresses. No, I'm not going to eat

the person's I'm not going to I'm gonna welcome the person,

love the person, hal the person, smell funny. I will

still do it because the love of God is more important.

It is a hert issue.

But if this person continues to come here, I will

definitely encourage this person to also give their best to God.

What does that mean? I don't know. I will have

to find out. And can I help this person give

their best to God? I can.

Maybe this person cannot afford a court and we've heard

stories about how you know, our whole say, our uniform

is a court and people really want and they cannotfford,

and we bought for them. The team pulled together money

to buy for them. Why because we want to build

something together. Is it just law? No, it's not law.

It is the heart. So don't get missed, don't get confused,

because if you continent, look at heart, no wonder.

We are unhappy people, you know.

You know what the danger is If we continue to

look at law, you will feel judged and after a

while you're like, oh, I want to go against you know,

because Jesus should accept everyone, so I should live however

I want. You know, that's very dangerous because you are

not under some issue anymore already, because we have it's

no longer loved the Lord your God with all your heart. Really,

it's loving myself. You'll catch that. So let's think about

it heart, amen, I don't much time. Let's talk about

the second thing, soul do They will cover three things heart, soul,

and mind because we won't to understand how do I

love God with my heart?

How do I love God my soul? How do I

love God with my mind? Him?

How does he work? It's says to the heart first.

You can't love God with your soul and mind if

your heart is not there. The Bible also says where

a man's heart is the treasure is his heart is there?

Right? Yeah? Yeah, it's true, you're catching something. So what

is soul?

Okay, I'm not gonna go the I'm not going to

give you my own definition. Basically, I went to the

Congordence and I go and find out when they say

love the Lord you're God with all your heart?

And so what does soul mean?

So it's Greek, a Greek word because it was retained

I think Greek, right, Okay, past the man out here,

so we're gonna ask you. So yeah, anyway, New Testament. Okay,

but the word the original word, right, not the English word.

But origional word is sue k okay sue k psychologist.

Who love this because this is the root word for

psyche psychology, your soul, the psyche of the person, because

when I see the other spelling is b s y

c h e b pronounced sue ke. And the meaning

or the usage in the Bible is the breath of life. Friends,

where does the breath of life come from?

Where?

Some of you know, the rest of you're not sure.

The breath of life came from where? Great read Genesis.

You're the one that say God, but still not confident.

Down to the shot. The breath of life came from God.

He gave us breath. He gave us breath. Amen is

the vital force which animates the body and shows itself breathing.

Right. It's life.

It's that which there is life. When there is life,

there's breath, there is the soul. When there's that same

When people die, there's no more soul, so has gone.

The breath has gone. Right. What makes up the person

is God, It's just an empty shell. Correct. The soul

is also the seat of feelings, desires, affections, aversions. It's

our heart and our soul.

The human soul insofar as it is constituted by the

right use of the aids offered it by God, it

can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness or.

Very very, very complicated. Okay.

The soul is regarded as a moral being designed for

everlasting life. Do you know that in the world today,

If you are in the current news and all, you

will learn something that the battle is the bettle of

your soul. Because if the battle is a moral battle,

a battle of morality, it is a better of your soul.

Because people argue that there is no such thing as

objective morality. You know, objective morality is objective morality is

there is a God that decides what is right and wrong.

There is a high power decides and why it is

right wrong, And I don't know, so I have to

follow that rule. That's objective morality. Do you know what

subjective morality is? Whatever I feel and decide is correct,

it's correct. How dangerous that is? How selfish and self

centered that is as human beings to think in such

a way. I hope you guys are okay, me going

deeper a little bit now, did you a bit?

More?

Things are right? It is a divide of your soul.

What where your heart is? Your treasure is If your

heart is not with God, your heart.

Is somewhere else.

Be right, be very careful because after a while you

start believing in things. There's very funny one, I mean

not funny, Fanila.

Right.

The soul as an essence which differs from the body,

and it's not dissolved by that. That's why we believe

in as believers. We believe that there's the soul. Just

because you die, your soul is still around. The only

question is where is your soul going after that? Of course,

for those who wife Jesus, we believe you have eternal life. Amen,

Praise God. Do you know let me give you this

thing that as I was preparing I caught it. Who

can save your soul? It feels like rhetorical question, right,

who can save Jesus?

God?

Yeah, only God can save your soul. Do you know why?

Because He's the one that made it.

You'll catch it.

You're going back to our creator. Okay, let me I

hope he don't throw you guys off. All that I'm

sharing today, you can only accept and understand if you're

a believer, He who has here us let him hear.

But if you're not a believer of Christ, you do

not believe that the Bible is real. You do not

believe that Jesus redeems, you do not believe that God

made men, you do not believe that God gave us breath,

you do not believe in Genesis.

Then you have a problem. Then you'll be confused.

Then other thought processes and other ideas will come. But

if you fully believe the Bible, all that I'm speaking

right now makes perfect sense. You'll catch that there's no

in between one. No, that's the interesting thing about the Bible.

The line is run really clearly. If we fully believe

in Christ, if we fully believe that that it is

not fairy tale or reading, that God really made all

these things.

Everything that the Bible says makes sense.

Everything, the breath of God, soul us coming, you know,

eternal life, it all makes sense. But the moment we

allow another thought process to come in, the moment we

start thinking, oh, there's such a thing as subjective morality.

Oh yeah, but it's all about my feelings and emotions

and whatever I feel. It's true that the moment we

allow those things to come in, then all some of

the things I'm sharing out, You're like.

I don't understand. I don't get it. I don't fully

catch it. That's why I realize.

So if you believe that God created you, he gave

you your soul, then only He can save it.

No one else. You can't save yourself. The devil cannot

save you, the world cannot save you. Only God can't

save you. Because He made you your catch, that your catch.

That Salms one seven nine says, for he satisfies the

longing soul. How many of you, and I'm gonna talk

a little bit spritual now that have found peace in

the church and found peace in Christ. The scripture explains

that because he satisfies your soul, I don't understand. It

is so stressful in the office, but when I play worship.

Music, I feel at peace.

I don't under it doesn't need you to understand, or no,

doesn't require you to understand. Right, he satisfies your s

longing soul, and he feels the hungry soul with goodness.

A white Christians so happy all the time, and white

people who are on fire want to do good things.

And now why I didn't why.

I say it is so foolish, so generous, and so

fully so giving. Because God feels your hungry heart and

he feels your soul, we goodness it is from him.

Amen, you'll catch that.

Psalms nineteen seven says the law of the Lord is perfect.

That is something that we cannot refute. Okay, he's perfect

in converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure,

making wise the simple. You can go and unpack someone

we sound the scripture. Okay, let me give this thought.

God's blueprint of our redemption plan has always been to

save our souls.

Friends, That is the truth. It has always been that

it is to save us.

But it is not to save our status, our belongings,

our material wealth, our achievements, or things that are tempower

in this earth. This is a fact that we believe in.

This is ready forgot to accept. Because you work so

hard for your house, You work so far, so hard

for your your study, your when you when you grow up,

your parents say you must study hard. If not, you

won't get a good job. You know you cannot survive.

Not you become some poer.

My share of card. You you know, we we we

so focused on that.

Don't become a full time person because you cannot earn

money on all the Chinese parents. You know when I that,

that's what happened. When I want to become full time,

I had to deal with that. See how blessed mind

can grow fed someone and I rot in really praise

the Lord. Our souls are eternal while everything is temporary.

Can you have that perspective today? It's hard. It's hard,

trust me, it is hot. I'm building my house right now.

It is hard to look at my house to say,

while I'm spending so much money on this, and this

is temporary. If I die, this is useless to me.

I'm just gonna enjoy it for a while. It is

not forever. Whatever you have. This is why, that's the focus.

This is why God has always helped us to focus

in that that line, not the temporal, but the eternal.

This earth is just a probation period. It is a

testing ground. It is a race we need to finish,

and let's finish it well.

Imen.

I'm not asking all of you to come fut after

this a pleasa, but I just need us to have

that perspective. Whatever we do in life, evaluate it. You

work so hard for something, is it temporal or eternal.

Please work on the eternal things. Your children's faith is eternal.

Amen.

Let's talk about the third thing. I don't I know,

I don't mind. I'm gonna try and breathe it. Okay,

you guys, Okay, A renewed mind.

Okay.

So let's say, Lord, I love you or my heart?

Check you know everyday single love song check check? Okay, Okay, God,

I understand my soul. Check you know my morality, You

decide everything, You are, my care, my being.

God is in me. Right, So I love you already.

You're in me. I believe in it. Great, awesome, no

other question.

Mark romans child want to says, I beseech your brethren. Therefore,

by the mercies of God that you present, your body

is a living sacrifice wholly acceptable to God, which is

your reasonable service.

Okay.

And do not be conformed by this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may

prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will

of God. Friends, our minds need to be transformed and

renewed if we want to follow God's will and to

experience God in his life. That statement, I just shad,

just now it is not about law, but it's about

the heart. Verst is your mind renewed with that? Are

you having a bit of lightning your step to realize

that it's not all law? Your mind is renewed, and

our minds are constantly renewed when we go deep into

the world, when we go into faith, when we have

experiences with God, it is constantly renewed about this wonderful

person called Jesus, about this wonderful being called God that

we live in this life, you know, experiencing him.

This probation life, this this race. Does that make sense? Right?

But not easy?

Like not easy because if God and the Bible always

say can Malaysian coming out ready, but we and our

minds always say cannot.

Who do you think? Well? We eventually.

God say I can heal the sick. Yes, I believe

pray in God's timing. That's a human logic way to

explain it. In the timing of the Lord. Right, what

is God saying in your life?

Right now? There is a can that you say, No, Lord,

it's okay, I understand God. You are very busy.

You read the scripture and then God say, you know,

I will make you the heir now but I'm going

through so much problems. Cannot Lord, I don't see it.

We reason, our mind is not really new. Who win?

You think who win? Eventually?

Do you think God will win? Well? You win everything else,

but he might lose you. But can I give you

an answer? Can I give you an answer this way?

Faith comes in our faith or trust to believe in God? Yes, friends,

I know today your life is difficult. I know today

it's very difficult to believe in something contrary to what

is happening in your life. It is it is huh, God,

you say you love me, but then why in my family?

My d God? You say you provide for me? But

then why I like?

You know, I got, I got, don't have a million

dollars in the bank. Can I share with you something?

This is something I'm learning recently. You know the experiences

of the Israelized in the Bible about manna from heaven

that he will give you enough for today if you

want in faithor that's going to happen to you, And

how much you try and keep her and store you know,

God say right when you go to heaven it is useless.

You don't need it or know. Okay, I'm not saying

you what happen. I'm just saying that I'm experiencing my

that I'm like, Wow, Lord, I save money.

But then.

This is where faith comes in. Faith comes in because

where's your faith in? Is your faith in your bad account?

Is your faith in God? Is your faith in your situation?

Or if your faith faith in Jesus. Now, faith is

the substance of things homeful, the evidence of things not seen,

For by it, the elders obtain a good testimony by faith.

We understand that the world's were framed by the word

of God, so that the things which are seen were

not made of things which are visible.

And do you know that without faith it is impossible.

To please him. You want to please God, you gotta

have faith, no way around it. For he who comes

to God must believe that He is, and that He

is the reward of those who diligently seek him. If

you diligently sink the Lord, he will reward you. Friends,

how you know, imut being sure not happen before or not? Yeah,

it happened in my lifelae. Every time I seek him,

he comes through. Every time I don't.

Seek him, I get in bigger problems. Right.

It is something that the normal human mind cannot comprehend

in totality.

I don't understand. I totally don't understand.

How does it work, especially when we are faced with

impossible situations in our life because the problem is bigger.

We say God is big, right, But the problem is

always bigger? And why are you experiencing in ma?

Right? It's hard to Oh God, it's hard. It's hard.

I understand it's hard. But can I share with you

something some of the impossible situations in my life? I

know I'm taking a bit more time. I'm just I

need to end. Well, you guys, okay, right, I just

give you three or fall okay.

I have no money to get married or even by

a ring. No money. Ere one month.

Before I you know, I had a meeting in pasacav

and he said, how are you know?

You and Jess? You know?

Of course I throw it off, I said, oh, she

asked me one day I said, oh, when are we

going to get I say, oh, five years from now.

Then she was reret set apparently after that, and I said,

by to pass in one month, you know, and you

got ringal me no yet, but I'm gonna believe God

for it.

God provided, I went and look for ring for that money.

You know what happened. I went look for a ring,

I saw the amount. I don't care.

Roughly, guess how much I want to share you. Okay,

it's not five digits by the day. It's not true

your solar. You guess how much?

Okay? And I'm like okay. I prayed.

God provided me one one only one freelance job exact amount,

exact amount.

Of the ring.

Did a freelance job, brought the ring, get married with

no money? God provided?

Okay.

Impossible situation, friends, Maybe last time younger a bit more bodo,

So we'll just following na right, long story short, we

got married. We started our marriage with an additional twenty thousandit.

One week before the marriage, I was in deficit according

to my accounts for ten thousand ringit impossible situation.

Right.

My mom found this you have heard it sung in

Brisbane hospital racking up a high bill one month after

one week after, guys, I can buy house. Idea if

I have to pay the hospital everything. God brought her

home at the right timing. And I think i've chat

here before they got paid the bill. Impossible situation. Let

me share you another impossible situation that I'm experiencing right now.

Say, am I impossible? Right?

I'm in a miss of my house innovations, right, and

I'm moving forward with it. God's God open the door.

I'm still praying for providion. Now do I have all

the money? Can I be honest?

I don't have.

I'm not saying this, yes that anyway I've got put

it in your heart then.

You know what to do. I'm not saying.

I'm just sharing you walking in faith, okay, working in

faith have to have to open it up, you know,

close it over you. Guys know I love you. Fine,

don't don't have to Okay, But God has shown his hand.

He has he provided we want to two testimonies. He

provided sid money for me, right, I've shared it before.

The permit that was supposed got seventeen thousand, costs way

less and saved so much. See, because of all these things,

I know how to walk for some of you here,

for those of us who know how to walk in

faith in the Lord, you understand, right, you understand if

you work in faith in the Lord, you understand how

these things I'm sharing with you. You understand Loving the Lord,

your God, with all your heart, with all your soul,

with all your mind, seeing that it's not open door.

But then God moving for you, confirming your trust in him.

Second Conriedance five says, so we are always confident knowing

that while we are at home in the body, we

are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith,

not by side. Friends, we walk by faith and not

by sight.

We are confident.

Yes, well, please, rather to absence of the body and

to be present with the Lord.

Where is our focus today?

Is it in the problem or is it in the Lord?

Friends?

Don't you think it's worth giving God our best and

loving him with all our heart and mine? Don't you

think it is? I think it is because I've experienced it.

If you don't experience it, I challenge you and friends.

The wonderful thing is that this is not a journey.

We alone. We have Christliness. Remember I said, what's the

answer Christ? Jesus? I tell you. Without Jesus, I cannot

do all these things. Though.

That's the wonderful thing about faith. We understand in full

and in part. But some things you don't fully understand.

You just follow because you trust and God has given

us Christ and God has given us the Holy Spirit Hebrews.

Child one to do and I end with this.

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great

a cloud of witnesses, many people have gone before, many

people have wont in faith. Abraham, Isaac Jacob, Let me

not go far pass the kenneth other Kenya, doctor Jason Vonnica.

Some of you here, you're work in faith before you understand,

and you share those stories with your Hodel members. We

are homely members to encourage them. Let us lay aside

every way and the scene which so easily and stances.

Let us run with and endurance the race that is

said before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and the

finish of faith.

He is the author and the finisher of faith.

That's why we always look to him who for the

joy that was set before him. And you're the cross

despising the shame and has sat down at the right

hand of the turnal of God. Friends, if you didn't

getch anything today, I just I hope you will catch this.

Why we should always give only our best of God,

because it's worth it, because it's a commandment, because when

we do it right, we save ourselves a lot of heartache,

a lot of problems.

That's why can I be honest with you. We are

not here to set rules.

Neither are we here to let people do what they want.

Because I'm accountable to God. By pray that all of

you here we'll be able to build this church together

to give God our best. Whatever your best is, your

best five minutes, let's take that, your best, two hours,

let's take that your best is one month, plastic that.

Now I've seen this principle very differently. I've got young

people coming up to me and asking, Oh, Paselovian, I

want to join the VIP by.

Money free for one one week. Come just coming.

It's okay, That's definitely something you can do. And that

one week was so full. I hear about it until

now they're talking about it. Whatever you give to the

lot now you will get back one now more than

what you expect. You know, I can't give you anything

by courage you to give you the lot.

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