For God so love the world | Pr Alvin Keng

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Today's message it is something that God ministered to me

two three days back. The title is for God So

loved the World. Okay, the writing notes for God so

loved the World. And we're gonna we're gonna go into

a verse that all of us here. No, I think

everybody here knows this verse lat Okay, I think I

hope lah. And if you don't know, hopefully today you

will know because it's the verse John Tree sixteen. Uh.

And we're not talking about stone called Austin Tree sixteen.

For those of you who knows. Only Jason and me

watch WWE last time. Recently I stumbled upon Japanese wrestling.

Very interesting, Yeah, very interesting? When am not talking about

that anyway?

So John three sixteen, and I think it's on the screen. Yeah.

And I've requested XTV to not show scripture anymore so

that all of you will bring you a Bible to church.

So last week, right, let me segue a little bit.

So last week I was the XBU and I had

a rantler, not really a randtler, and I want to

share it with my my family here. You know, the

job is every time I apprecied that I got a

training gym reference. So you know, you know when you

come to church, right, You come to church, Okay, You

come to church for something, correct, not it's not how

when you go to McDonald's.

You don't EXPECTKFC when you have McDonald's. Correct.

You don't go to McDonald's to order fried chicken most

of the time.

Okay, I say.

You are you are treading you know, ready dangerous ground

because mcdon's chicken quite good. Anyway, let's not go there.

You go to a place to receive something.

Correct.

You go to school to get educated, right, You go

to work to work and get money.

Okay. You come to church for what.

You come to church to grow your faith Corona corona correct? Right,

So only in church. And I hope that you will

not get offended by this, because if you are, then

you you I think you you you kind of need

to manage shown expectations. You come to church, you grow

your faith. Correct, You didn't just come to church. You

feel good to listen to some jokes. You want to

go listen joke, go and listen to standard comedian outside.

Correct? You want to feel good because the nice when the.

Word of God speaks to our hearts, our hearts are

cut because we grow in our faith.

Correct.

It's like how and this is where the gym references come.

You go to the gym to exercise. Correct, So you

don't go to the gym and tell the coach what

you should do.

That day.

Let me tell you a joke that day so funny

the day. See see whether you'll get this not. So

that day we were you know, getting ready and were

warming up, and I was ready doing my set. Ready Friday,

we're doing arms, okay, Danny, I'm waiting for you to

join us. Friday, we're doing arms okay. Normally Friday we

do arms and chess.

Right.

He's so shocked because the time he said he was

joined for gym, but then until now heaven come here

pressure him a little bit. So you're doing arm saying

chess okay for those who you understand what I'm saying,

it's okay. Can also I understand Jim one right. Hopefully

in the next five months you'll see me with anyway. Uh,

And we warm my bla wan my blight, so I

warm up right there. We want my arms right. And

then one of my one of the first day in

the gym, LA he was doing this. Let me let

me hold this as another bar. But he was doing this, okay,

he was doing this, dumb bell laddie dumbea imagina.

He was doing this.

He was doing that, and I asked him, you must

understand that I've been to the gym eight months, said okay,

I must ask I asked him. I said, bro, what

are you doing Nowhikoela Because he realized he'll maybe he's

doing something funny. He keep doing you know, look cool, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

and asking what you're doing stretching? No, no, he said,

doing stretching. I'm doing my warm ups. I'm doing my

warm ups. How many of you here go to Jimman

all they're not all scaredy, you know, Nick?

Nick? Do we do warm ups like that? No? Right?

What are you warming up? Anyway? You get it?

You get you don't get it, you don't get It's

fine you warming up the dumb bell. You want to

warm up your muscles. You have to use your muscle.

This is a problem warm up. This one is stretching.

You don't need dumb bell. You're doing stretching. Even this

is so it's not real stretching, you know. So the

person looking cool there and I'm like, bro, what are

you doing? So I tell you if you come to

a gym, if you do the wrong thing, you will

know it. Okay, it's quite funny anyway. My point is

when you come to church, you come to grow your faith.

So when you hear something you don't like, don't be offended.

You need to receive it. Can I encourage you and

swingin to familiar That's why it can be a bit

more direct, although I know every time I appreci read direct.

So when you come to church, you're growing a faith, correct,

So don't be angry when the pastor of the church

asks you to bring your Bible to church. Why are

you offended? Why are you're not listening. It's like you

go to the gym, you want to get exercise, you

want to grow. Ask you to finish the last rep Jason,

and you say, no, way, I've done my part. I

lifted one dumb bell ready. Are you going to really

grow in your faith? Then probably not. That's why when

you go out there and you suffer the troubles of

the world, you ask God God, Why why am I

going through this?

When you come here receive? Can I notot?

Can I encourage you? So this is why I want

to at least teach XBJ two things. Not gonna teach

you too many things today. I will just share two

things and then I'll go into the world. Okay, First thing,

bring your Bible to church? Can I not bring your

Bible to church?

Oh by? Go? No bye?

B I got a phone, Go and buy one, Go

and buy a Bible. Okay, bring it to church?

Oh bye?

Very math fun. Yes, it's not easy to do certain things.

Going to the gym is very math fun or so,

but I do it anyway. There are certain things in

your life that are very math fun. For those who

don't understand why it's math fun, let me explain a

little bit.

It's very inconvenient, but you still do it anyway. Correct.

There are certain things you do in your life that

is inconvenient, but you still do it anyway because you

know it's good for you. So let me tell you

what's good for you. Bring your Bible church is good

for you. You don't have bible?

Get one. One second thing I will teach you and

receiving from your pastor.

Come early. Huh you mean come at seven am? No,

come in time for service. Our service starts at nine thirty. Friends,

come at nine thirty. Oh but then sorry, nine fifteen

is pre service.

Prayer. Give them chance out of the Jason, give them chance. Okay.

I want to trust them. I want to trust all

of you that you will come on time. No Malaysian time.

Why come on time. It is good for your soul

because of worship, not because of anything else.

That.

We're not here to show people that were model Christian.

Can I can? I be honest with you. I'm not

here to so that, oh oh us here be model Christian.

That's not the goal. The goal is so that you

grow in your faith, and you, unfortunately have to do inconvenient. Honestly,

waking up on a Sunday morning is inconvenient. I really

felt like sleeping in today yesterday at the food of

work friends, and it's very funny because we're all, you know,

a ya, we had a VA production and we're all

texting each other. Oh, have a good wrestler, and give

myself what rest. I go back home after VA. I

have to prepare message. My wife knows right. I have

to take out my kids, and then this morning I

have to wake up and come to church. Why am

I doing all these things? Friends?

It is good for your soul.

I was really blessed to worship this morning, West team,

thank you so much.

I was really blessed to worship.

If you are going through a tough time, you need

worship in your life because it helps you to focus

on God.

It helps you to get your perspective right.

And then don't wonder why your faith is all growing

when you don't do inconvenient things. And again, don't get

me wrong, I'm not here to make sure we have

a model church. No church is perfect, but all of

us need to have certain things in our lives that

we will not come promise no matter what. Will there

be days where you're late, yes, Will there be late

days where things happen, yes, And it's okay. Nobody's gonna

look at your funny. And if anybody looks like you funny,

let me know I will deal with them because it's

not about early or late, but it's about setting certain

things in our lives that will help us to grow

in our faith. Amen, and guys, can I be honest?

You only hear this here. You will never hear this

anywhere else. Nobody else is gonna tell you this by

your pastor. Because your pastor wants you to grow in

your faith. Why because when you grow in your faith

and you know who God is, when you go out there,

you know how to say, I know my God, I

know who I am as a child of God, and

I know how to deal with this situation. You guys, Okay, okay, ken, come,

let's go to the good stuff.

John three sixteen. What does he say? Ah? John Tree sixteen,

can you tell memory reside for God of the world,

that he or your your halfway? Halfway? Okay, Let's let's

try it again for good that he that will have amen,

God blessed the ring of the word. You guys, catch that?

You guys, catch that. You know if you think.

About it, and again when missionspan, if you think about it,

only Christians and churches go out for missions.

Do you know that? Do you realize that last week

I think it was last week? Was it last week?

Just or two weeks ago?

My homes we were assigned along with DoD Jason and

we went to ams Agape Mission School right and we

were there and we were just doing a kids ministry

with the children that you know, they are basically refugee kids,

you know, in that vicinity they ran away from Myanmar,

you know, because they were Cheain refugees because again it's

walter On country. And they were there right, and we

were just doing things with them. And I talked to

myself as I was there, who would give up their

Saturday to go and do this? And again we're not

doing anything, you know, we are just doing worship song

and yeah, last week they went right. I think Daniel

was there yesterday and I saw Joe was there.

Who do this? And I realized, only Christians will do

this kind of thing.

Well, of course you can argue with me. Oh, but

then all the other religion all they do. No, no, guys,

it's not charity. Well now we're not doing charity work. No,

we're not doing charity. Well we're going in mess. No,

it's not charity working on right, It's definitely not charity.

Only Christians and churches gore for missions. We go to mission,

trip to shadow Word and ship. I know another homes

is out right. I think calling your homes right was

your homes right? Passa met the all day they are

in the RDP, you know, and I think Kelvin, Amanda

and Thomas is going, Thomas is there, you know, whole

family going. You know, when we do things at this

we are not doing charity. But what are we doing?

We are sharing a way of life. We're actually sharing

life with these people. Right, But why have you thought

about it?

Why? Missions?

We're encouraging you guys to go from Missions conference to

listen to Passa Palan who has dedicated seven years of

his life with a wife.

Hey, they can't.

They've retired now, they've retired ministry and they've done so

much and they could just easily retime ministry and spend

time with their family member.

And that's it. Why why sacrifice so much?

And can I share with you that Passa Palan and

the wife they are not philanthropies. They're not I mean

they're rich in God's isla, but they're not like this. No, No,

you sacrifice so much?

Why do it? Friends? Why?

Who do such things? Have you thought about it before?

Have you wondered to yourself as a believer? Why just

keep asking us to go for missions? And then later

on you go and there you realize I know why?

Now I have been blessed. Let's go back to John

three sixteen. Okay, I guys, okay, For God so love

the world that he sent his only begotten son, only

one son, that whoever who believes in him shall not.

Perish but have everlasting life.

So the first question I have for us is why

did God send Jesus?

Can anybody answer that? Why did God send Jesus? Why?

I hear a lord whispers? Today we're going to do

a reflection.

Okay, you want to call your namer, Come on, someone

shout Why did God send Jesus.

To save us? To die for us? Okay?

Kind of correct, to reconcile us with him? Okay, what

was God's motivation? Have I thought about it for.

Right?

What is the purpose behind it? The reason behind it?

Have he thought about it for oh? So that we

can you know, we don't have to die? Ray noble right,

God's ray noble right, so that we don't have to die,

so that he can reconcile. It's all about him, right,

You're you're following me all you're confused. It's like, oh, no,

he's going to give us a punchline, ha ha. Let

me give you, Let me give you another thought. And

I use my role as a father. Why do I

send my kids to school? Why do I teach my

sons to pick up after themselves at home? Every time

they change in the morning their school uniform, they will

leave their launder and the floor.

Right? Why do I do that? Why do I feed them? Oh?

Passe ilven because if you don't, then they will be

some time because they don't go to school, right, guy

in a Bahasa directanstation is the trash of society?

Oh?

English sounds over? Oh yeah, so that they they will

be useful to society.

Right?

Why why do I Why do I ask them pick

out themselves?

Oh? So that I can have a good clean house?

Right, Cory, not correct? Correct clean house? Why do I

feed them? It's not a bit harder, of course, if

not that I get jailed? Is that my motivation? I

feed them so that I won't get jail by the cops,

like you know, irresponsible? Have you ever thought about it? Why, guys,

it's the title of the message for God so loved

the world. He did it because he loved us. Why

do I do all the stuff for my kids? It's

just because I love them, you know, there's not the

reason there is no other reason. Is it because my

house is dirty?

No? Because I love them.

Because if I don't teach them to pick up after themselves,

they're gonna have a difficult time next time when they

stay with other housemaids and are slops when they My

mum always tell me this.

You know, I teach you to.

Do houseworld, so the next time your wife will benefit.

And I realize I do more housework.

At home because my wife's busyla. Don we got anything else? Now,

I'm all free?

When Okay, he loved us for God so loved the world.

There's no other reason, our friends, there's no other reason.

It's just because he loved us.

Do you know why? There's not the reason.

Because even if you don't accept him, he still love you.

Why is that important? No matter what my kids do,

I will still love them and reach out to them,

even if they continuously don't pick up after themselves, Even

if they continuously.

Misbehave, I will still love my kids. Do you know that.

It is nonconditional? Conditional is you don't pick up yourself

after a while? Strike one, strike too strict tree.

That's it. I'm not gonna ask you anymore. That's it.

I don't care. Do you know that God's not like that?

Do you know that how many times you strike out,

he still loves you? Do you no matter how how

much you misbehave. Doesn't matter how much you misbehave in

your life, he will still accept you.

It's unconditional.

Why do I say going to missions is not charity,

because any other religion out there is conditional. You do

things so that you be good. It's a married system.

Ours is not a married system.

You know.

It's unmerited favor. It's unmerited love. The love of a

parent and their child is unmerited love.

You know. Do you know that? Parents? You know what

I'm talking about.

No matter how bad your kids are, you will still

do whatever you can for them. That's why sometimes we

also put in a difficulty situation because the kids still

misbehave and we still want to love them, and then

we spoil them, right, because we love them, so we

spoil them. It's very difficult to we hold things. But

even if we hold things, we still love them. Corona,

are you guys saiding something? So why did God send Jesus?

Why did he give us a plan? A redemption plan?

Because he loved us? No other reason. Oh, he wants

a kingdom.

Yeah in a way. Oh he wants you know, so

they all will be safe because he loved us. That's

his motivation. No other reason. What is our motivation? Friends?

Think about it? What's our motive when we come to church? Oh,

I'm here because my parents forced me to come. Actually

I don't want to come on. Yeah, that's true. I

remember when I was younger, there was my motivation. What's

our motivation? Let me go, let me go a bit wider.

What's our motivation when we live this life? You know,

God offers us a redemption plan for our life. You know,

he didn't offer us religion. You know that Jesus is

not a religion. He is a way of life. I

am the Truth, the Way, and the life. They got

that right, The Way, the Truth and the life. Okay way,

first way, truth than life.

He is. He offered us a way to live. Right.

That's why Christians are so different, because we are not

just about following a value. No is our lifestyle that changes.

It is the transformation of our mind. All these our scripture,

our friends, So when we live this life, what is

our division?

Think about it. Some people are motivated. My money.

Some people are motivated by our past experiences. Some people

are motivated by relationships.

Love.

It's not wronger friends, can I share a few? This

is not not wrong. You know, once you become a parent,

you automatically motivated by your children's welfare. I still remember

when I was, when I was, and again I think

women they get it more earlier than us because they

have to carry the baby for nine months. And guys

are like, yo, you know, two weeks before my first

son come up, I'm still like pondering to myself, this

is guys, you will feeling this is one of life's

difficult questions. Two weeks before, two weeks before, two weeks

before is going to come out?

Should I buy the PS five?

Because after I, after I have a kid that I

know I won't have time ready to play.

You know, I'm still.

Pondering about, you know, life's questions, you know, and then

the moment my child come up.

Any desire for Peers five until today? No more? No more?

Of course, my wife will argue and say, but we

got ant switch, but still not Peers five? What is

our motivation when we serve God's house friends? What is

our motivation? I will go a bit further and tell

you that whatever motivation that you have anyway, it's not love,

it will not last. I'll go deeper in it later,

and God knows that's why God's motivation is love. If

it's a conditional motivation, trust me, it won't last. That

means anything we do, even in the context of church ministry, right,

if it is not guided by this one motivation, which

is love, or that's the punchline, it won't last. If

it's motivated by your own pride, you won't last. And

I'm saying it won't last. Not because, oh, because you're

prideful and you're sinning, the Lord will pull you down.

No, no, no, that's not why I mean.

I mean not it won't last because and we'll read

later why you won't last. I'll tell explain to you

why if it's not love, you won't last. Okay, later

that we're going to scripture. But I'll make this statement now.

If you're motivated by a lot of things, I can

tell you it will not last when you're doing certain things.

But if you're motivated by love, it will last quite long.

No matter how things, how bad things get, you will

still last.

Your motivation you guys. Okay, let's go deeper.

This is why I believe God gave us this redemption

plan because of love and just that. Let me share

a bit about myself. What is my motivation Elvin King's motivation? Well,

I can tell you the only reason why one of

the few reasons why I do what I do today

when I say I do what I do today, which

is I would use well.

At least church Lar as an example. Okay, what motivates me? Right?

Why am I still in full time ministry?

Why do I constantly challenge myself to be a better dad, bear,

the husband?

Okay?

Why do I constantly do that? I constantly do that.

Recently my wife go through a very difficult situation in work.

I try my best to be best husband. Ever, what

do I do every day? I wash clothes at home

so that when she come back home, she don't have

to worry about what cloth to wear right morning. Certain mornings,

I make sure I cook for her, so prepare some

food lat so that when she goes to you, because

you'll forget even so I do that? Is it because

I want brownie points? Partially? But because I love my

wife and I want to do my best. Why Because

I want to be obedient to what the law has

given to me. What they got to do for me

in my life, Well got you a lot of things

for me in my life. That is one of my

other motivations. Because God loved being, and because God loved me,

I am living a life that is so blessed to

their friends. Not because I got a lot of stuff,

you know, Not because I got cars and house.

No, No, because I have peace. I am so at peace. Man.

If I tell you the drama they have to experience

when I was a young person, you'll be very stressed up.

I remember I used to joke when I look at

some Chinese drama, or the mother here, the father and

the father, you know, do this all this, I'm like,

I look at it. I'm like, oh, I don't need

Chinese drama. Across my house at home every day is

Chinese trama. I live under trauma for.

Many many years. It was like that.

And then the time where I suddenly came out and

was living on my own in Uni, I sundly had

this revelation. You mean life can be peaceful. You mean

life can be peaceful? You mean I do have to

listen to people shower at home every day.

Wow.

I've read about this peace that God has given, but

I've never experienced it. And now with my own household. Wow, well,

once in a while the boys speaker and all, but

thank God, that's less or to the point, no shouting

at home. Ready, I'm quite both to say that right

after married ten years because my wife, we say, you

can look at her and see what's a rerection.

What God did for me? Where has God led me?

He's let me here?

Am I using this example? I just want to give

something relatable. I hope he's relatable to you lot. God

has sent me here. Some of you here, you're my friends.

You know me and we've served together in acts. You

know that I'm not here because of my talents, because

I'm the least charismatic person around. Honestly, they are more

famous charismatic people in church that can that should be pastor.

I'm not.

In fact, a lot of people that used to work

with me in XTV don't like my face on because

when I'm in workmore, I'm not nice. We're honest, as

I know because she saw before in office. What motivates me? Obedience,

faithfulness and maturity in my faith. Friends, I am now

forty two years old. Okay, some of you will say,

I see baby maybe, And I've come to want to

be consistent in my life.

I just want to be consistent.

I don't need to look for the next big thing.

I don't need to look for I just want to

be consistent because I recognize that when you're consistent, you

build things that last. When you're consistent, when you are faithful,

when you are obedient to who God. And I want

mature in my faith because maturity will bring you far. Immaturity,

we're getting in trouble. Foolishness will getting in trouble, but

maturity will bring you far.

Imen.

A lot of people get in trouble because of not

because of anything else don't, but because of their own immaturity.

They believe in things they shouldn't believe in. They do

things that is foolish. So I tell myself, I'd never

want to do that. I want to grow immaturity. And

this is where I will share with you a little

bit about why I believe that love and a motivation

by love will last. Let's all turn to First Corinthians

the teen. Okay, and if you don't have bible to turn.

Don't worry. You can press press button, press your phone.

Are guys, okay? First, qureanteans the teen. This is what

motivates me. When I was a child, I spoke as

a child. I understand as a child, I thought as

a child. But when I became a man, I put

away childish things. Friends, I'll share this other point of view.

Why is maturity important in our lives? Maturity as a

person and spiritual maturity, because when you grow and mature,

it is not just about information. I think previously, I

think the last time I share you, I talked about wisdom.

Right.

A person that is whise, I believe it is a

person that is mature. You know, a person that knows

how to handle situations. A mature person maturing in your

faithor is so? Mature means come to fruition, come to growth. Right,

Immature I means still small boy, it's still small girl.

Still impulsive. Let's use that term, very impulsive, do whatever

they want? Right, That's what kids are, okay, Right, and

as long as you and again I won't go into

the semantics of it, Yes, some adults are immature as well.

Okay, because not just about age.

It's about whether or not you have self control, right,

A mature person kept self control is about whether or

not you know how to do the hard things in life,

not just oh, do whatever you want or I don't

feel It's not just about feelings, friends, Maturity is not

about feelings. A lot of times me and my wife

don't feel like we want to be parents. We joke

about it lot. Okay, but maturity tells us that we

will still do the hard things in life because we're mature.

We know that we know what is at stake.

Amen.

If I just go according to emotions, then there are

a lot of things that I won't do. Ready, I

wouldn't even be standing here. First Corinthians and Friends and

uther statement, the older you grow, the more you understand

what is important in life.

Amen, the older you grow. Let me go to First

Corintians thirteen.

Okay, so it's say, say, when I was a child,

I spoken as a child, I understood as a child,

I thought as a child. But when I became a man,

I put away childish things. For now we see in

the mirror diemly, but then face to face. Now I

know in part, but then I shall know, just as

I also am known. What basically the scripture says is,

you know. One of the reasons why maybe when people

are im choice because they don't know enough. They don't

know enough, they're not experienced enough, they're not going through

life enough. They're not we use systems suffered enough. People

who suffer understand people who don't suffer, small small thing

orso you are often del while I did my life

so horrible, and then you go and talk to someone

who last l's when we're ms. We're talking to some

some why and we are doing prayer with them. One

of the boys told me, please pray for my grandmother.

She's all the way in Indonesia. She's not doing well.

Please pray that should be well. And this is desire.

Please please pray that should be well enough that I

will be able to travel back to see her face

to face and not just FaceTime her. He's fifteen, he's

been in Malaysia for fourteen years. They don't have money

to fly back to Indonesia to see his grandmother for

the last time. Ilvian my nextly show cancer ready, I'm

using red trivial things. Ah, but think to yourself, there

are a lot of things that people experience that are

far worth, more worse than us. But we do not

appreciate because we don't understand, because we know, in part

because we think that our problem is the hardest problem

on this down the face of this earth.

That's the problem.

Friends, go missions, not so that you can see people

worse off than you. Go missions, then you'll appreciate your

life a little bit better. Amen, so that you can

be encouragement to people who are hurting more than you.

Amen. We know in.

Part and verse thirteen says, and now abide in faith, hope,

and love this tree. But the greatest of this is love.

I'll ask you a question what are we abiding by?

First question is, of course, what are we motivated? Second question,

what are we abiding by? Let me share with you

what I believe that love. If you have love as

a motivation, you will last long. Means your effort will

last longer. You won't give up so fast. Even whatever

you bill will last long. I read Quarrianthian's thirteen. Okay,

let's read it in this context. Let's not really in

the context of wedding, but let's readly in context of

love motivated by love, doing ministry motivated by love in

life itself?

What motivates God? Love?

Do I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love? I have been come sounding brass

or a clanging symbol. And do I have the gift

of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge? And dough,

I have all faith so that I could remove mountains.

But I have not love.

I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the

poor and dough, I give my body to be burned,

but I have not love. It profits me nothing. Don't

you see the actions of the author about generosity, about

you know, doing different things? But he says, if I

have no love, I'm nothing. And though I bestow all

my goods to feed the poor, and do I give

my body to be burned, I'm not love. It profits

me nothing. And this is why I believe motivation by

love last long, because love suffers long and is kind.

Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself. It

is not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not

seek its own It's not provoked things know, Evil does

not rejoice in inniquity. Daniel always make noise at my life.

Now he suffered badan muka. If I love Daniel, that

won't happen. Even if Daniel gives me a hard time,

I will still love him. Bears all things, believes, all things, hopes,

all things and deals. A you know not all things mean?

All things mean good and bad? No, good and bad. No,

not just good on you, no good and bad. No,

how many of you here who are in love? By

your love is conditional? And then the boy will say

to the girl, Oh, if you don't have sex with me,

you don't love me.

Girls, that is conditional love. Watch out.

Oh if you didn't buy that nice handbag for me,

you don't love me. My wife said rotten. And I

love these friends. Love never fails. But whether they are prophecies,

they will fail. Whether they are tongs they will seize.

Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. What is

he trying to say? Hey, talking all about ministry stuff guys, prophecy, war, tongues, war, knowledge, war,

It will all vanish away. For we know in part,

and we prophesy in part. But when that which is

perfect has come, then that which is in part will

be done away. Love, friends, love the Bible encourage us

to abide in faithful and love. But the greatest of

it all is love. If we are motivated by love,

it will last the other reason. Amen, And you know

and I'll share another point you even as I'm going

through this, because we are motivated by different things?

Right? Why do we do things that we do even

in church?

Can I be honest if I think I'm if I'm

motivated by other things like let's say, selfish, ambition and

all these things, right, I won't continue doing xp Jaila.

I won't continue doing church because it's a thankless, difficult,

suffering job. One, Okay, people have the perception of our

ministry is great.

You know, you suffer more than be happy.

You know the amount people that have come up to

me and told me, you know, Passel, I'm not fed

in this church.

I need to go to a church that can. That's

better word. Who shares the word la for less standing here? La? Oh?

I don't feel a connected community in this church. Hey, hello,

who say hello to you every morning? Who going macam

with you? And I cannot before? No, last time I

think I've shared before where I took care of a

young person four years person got some like medical condition.

There was one drama I have my shit is roll right,

one drama scene, you know, like sign Chinese drama. After

after taking the discapation, next level had to say a

few things that make the person a bit hurt. Walk halfway,

no big house, walk halfway son in the middle of

the road at eleven pm.

I could easily just drive off and call.

The mom love my god, say love your neighbor, right,

walk out the car, pack the car, go there, pick

the person up, go put under the thing. Who have

to explain to the mother me? You know, I think

he stressed out so he fainted outside. Put him there,

drive back, drive home. One year later, Elvin, you've done

nothing for me. Friends, If I'm not motivated by love,

I won't still do ministry because he's a thankless job, thankless.

So what are we motivated by this morning?

Again?

Please don't get me wrong. The law has blessed me much. Okay,

So you don't have to be like you know after this?

Oh no, actually you know what if you want to

love me to be more, I don't as well? So

love friends, love? What's the second point? As I'm sharing

this about forgot so love the world? This something I

think I need to help us to understand when you

look at God? Okay, do we look at God as

a God as far away or a God as near?

Okay? We got to know that God is near right,

and you know that's one thing. Let me let me

read James one was too. This is another point. Okay,

how much time I have her? Sorry? I okay?

Five minutes? Okay, ten minutes. Okay, let me try and

rush this. I haven't finished the first pace yet, are

you guys?

Okay?

Are guys getting something? So James Chapter one, verse two,

what does they say? Let's read that and let's just

get into the next point. K So it says, here,

my brethren, count of our joy when you fall into

vest trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patients.

But let patients have His perfect work, that you may

be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you

lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to

all liberally and without reproach, and be given to him.

But let him ask in faith with no doubting. For

he who dubs this like a wave of the seed,

driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that

man supposed that he will receive anything from the Lord.

He is a double minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Can I point our want to share if you is

this point about taking personal responsibility? Okay, taking personal responsibility.

I just spoke about love. Why does God do certain

things in our life? Because he loved us, not a reason?

And because he loved us, you were last long because

it's long suffering. It never fails. You heard write a scripture.

What he says, isn't that love?

It is?

It's unconditional the moment as a conditioner, it's not love Anymorelready,

it is not love ready when there's a condition, because

love has no conditions. When someone loves you, they really

love you. Right, That's why we can we can in

when we get married. Now we can use first contingence

the thing. That's why when we get married we can

say in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer,

till death do us part. Those are the conditions. Hello,

how many of you are married? And today we have

a generation where I don't feel love divorce, but yet

you can still vow.

Before God with a scripture.

Friends, We've got to be very careful with the lies

that the devil teaches. Right, So taking personal responsibility is

very important, right because the testing of our faith produces

patience and maturity, right and at it is something I realize.

People blame God for a lot of things, right, We

blame God but a lot of things. And I think

I know why because when we are weak and helpless,

like if I have to use my kids for example, Right,

when we are weak and we are helpless, we hide

behind something that is big, right, because we are not God.

That's true, we are not God. He's all powerful. Right.

It's like me blaming my circumstances on my parents. And

I have a point.

Do you know that why was I not born in

the rich man's family. I've got this story where I

found out. Later on, I told my wife a buddy,

we joke about it now, Joe, she just had to

listen to my stories. You know where I found out

because my dad is he's one of fourteen siblings Chinese family,

one wife, multiple wife are okay, so uh and so

so when when.

You have such a family and.

Most of the time, most of the time is because

the family is rich. And I found out my granddad Okay,

he passed on early right to don't know what happened.

I've never met him. Lakay uh. He he used to be.

He came all the way from China or come from

China on and then he started a very successful biscuit business,

very successful. And I can see the annoying thing concerning

full loah because every time my father's side family member

get getting full business or they do very well on okay,

every time they do it, they do very well on okay,

but then different things happen. Then they don't do well

after they lock you. I won't go into that, but

bad habits. But but that's what happened, you know. And

and my granddad unfortunately passed away when he was when

he was there, and then of course he has he

passed on the business to the first and second son.

And and this is where the not the bad hobbies come.

They gambled the business of Wela quite bad. And that's

how gambling in my family is like no, no, don't

do it, okay, so don't get involved in that, right,

I mean, we shouldn't like it's Christians care. But but

then friends, I could easily just blame my circumstance.

No, why I not, Why did they have to gamble

the money away.

Why why am I not born in just why I'm

not born in the Richmond family? I own like a

hupsing biscuit equivalent? Now, no, why, oh man, blame, blame, blame, blame?

Why am I born a Chinese? Why am I born

in leisure? You know, can blame all these things that

we have no control? And you got a point. You

have no control, of course, easier to blame. But can

I challenge your thought? Yes, Elvin King may be born

in a place of lack, but that doesn't mean that

Elvin King needs to continue to live in that way.

Doesn't make sense to you? What will help me taking

personal responsibility of my situation? Because as much as there

are things that we have no control over, there are

many things in our lives that we have control over.

And that's also ourself. There are many things in life

that we can trust God to come true to us.

Do you know what I think we should start doing? Friends,

I think maybe we should start crediting God for the

things that are good in our lives. Mindset shift. Psalms

one hundred, verse four to five says, enter into his

gates with thanksgiving, and into his cause with praise, Be

thankful to him and bless his name. For the Lord

is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth and

der's all generations. Try I be thankful for my life

still sucks?

Well?

I think the first thing you can be thankful for

is His redemption plan for us? Do you know true

God's redemption plan? There is a way out of your troubles?

Do you know that? You know?

We focus more on the travel, but we never think

about the way out. We focus more on the problems

Why God put me here? We never think about the

way that He has prepared for us. Do you know

that in the Bible there are many promises that we

can claim as believers And the only reason why we

can praise such prayers and claim such prayers is because

of God's redemption plan over our life. Do you know

that if you've got no redemption planner, who you're gonna

pray to? What is the way out of sickness?

Have you thought about it? Before?

We complain about the problems. No, but we don't think

about the solutions His way, truth and life. That is

something to give thanks for.

There is a way.

Yes, the world is difficult, Yes it is difficult, but

if we take personal responsibility of our faith and our life,

then we know that there's a better way, Corental. We

hear testimonies, I mean, I don't know you can, Okay,

I won't go into detail, but Daniel awesome testimony about

how the Lord redeemed him, not just in his own faith,

but in his life as well. Go and talk to him,

ask him what's his background. Sometimes when I talk to

young as always say please talk to you, you know,

brother Thaniel, Uncle Daniel and no uncle, Okay, let him

teach you a thing or two about following God because

you hear his testimony and be like wow, like that

or so you can now you seem like wow, I know,

big time nice iPhone fifteen. Sorry, I just had to

say that, friends, and I'm ending am ending radio.

Okay.

So I talked about love for God so loved the world,

and I talk about you right, talk about us taking responsibility,

us also being multivated by love.

Right, Friends, I hope this nails the last nail to

the coffin. But no coffin here, okay, but nails the

last nail to my point.

God's redemption plan for us is what we are trying

to share with others who don't know you. Imagine our

friends who don't know God, who are going through difficult times,

who are suffering with depression with no way, I'll no peace,

I don't know where to go, and you know the

solutions they go.

To, it's not going to help them.

Why because you call upon the lot and the lot

has helped you. But you know your friends they can

call upon whatever, They're still going to suffer. They still

don't ever answer. I end with this John chapter three, Verst.

One to eighteen, and you apologize for taking a bit too,

because this is what Jesus told Nicodemus. It's actually in

the same scripture. I know we like to read, you know,

John three sixteen, but if we read the whole of

John chapter three, we will understand the context of John

three sixteen. There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodmus,

a ruler of the Jews. You're talking about a person

who's religious. Try to do everything right, okay. This man

came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi,

we know that you are a teacher, come from God.

For no one can do these scigns that you do

unless God is with them. See in his group, our friends,

or his group or people. Right, everybody is working Jesus

because Jesus was basically turning things upside down in the

religious community right because he didn't just speak. There were

miracles and science and wonders that followed him because the

Holy Spirit was with him. It wasn't just words and knowledge.

He was life and action and he will really helping people.

That was the Jesus that was living in those days.

And of course the people who are more I don't know, more, influential, more, whatever,

they don't get the glory because what were they motivated by.

Jesus is just motivated by love. Why did he meet

the Samaritan woman? Why do he heal the guy all

on along the way? You know he did it because

of love, no other reason.

Because they were.

Suffering and they needed relief and he healed them. He

didn't heal them to prove a point. Now, friends, you

got to know who our God is. And there's this

guy Nicodemus came to him. Jesus answered and said to

him most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is

born again, he cannot see the King of God Nicodemus

said to him, how can a man be born when

he is all? Can he enter a second time into

his mother's woman be born? Nicodemus wants to know what

is the answered? He recognized Christ from God, and he's

asking for the answer. And Jesus said, most assuredly, I

say to you, unless one is born of water and

the spirit, he cannot enter the King of God. Which

is that which is born of the flesh, is of

the flesh, and which is born of the spirit or

his spirit. Do not marvel that I say to you

must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes,

and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell

where it comes from and where it goes. So is

everyone who is born of the spirit. Nicod Must answered

and say to him, how can these things be? Jesus

unswer it to him. Are you the teacher of Israel?

And do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say

to you, we speak what we know, and testify what

we have seen.

And you do not receive our witness.

If I've told you earthly things that you do not believe,

how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

No one has ascended to heaven by he who came

down from heaven, that is the son of Man who

is in heaven. Think about a friend that don't know

Christ yet, a friend or colleague that's going through trouble

in your life.

They don't have this answer.

But you have the answer. When you go through trouble,

when you go through sickness, when you go through a

life that is full of.

Stress, what do you do? You pray? You go to God,

not just any God, the living God that is alive.

You go to Christ. Amen. You have the answer. But

they don't have the answer.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

even so must the Son of Men be lifted up,

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have

eternal life for God. Soul love the world that he

gave his only begodden son, that whoever believes in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life for God. They

not send his son into the world to condemn the world,

but that the world true him.

Might be saved.

He who believes in him is not condemned, but he

who does not believe is condemn realy because he has

not believed in the name of the only begotten Son

of God. Christ was telling Nicodimus of another way, not

the way of law, which we would eventually fail. Okay,

that's what nico Dimus understand. But the way of life

and redemption is the way that we all follow imen

where we surrender our rights and will to God's will.

That's what happened.

Lord, I surrender to you, be my savior. So are

we taking personal responsibility of our own lives? Or are

we constantly putting the blame on someone or something else.

You have the wear ready, friends, you have the wear ready.

You have the answer ready. You can do something about it.

Some questions to punder upon.

Even as I close, it's quite a long closinger. How

should we function as the body of Christ?

Think about it? What would we be doing? What should

we be important to us as the body of Christ?

And anyway, this, even as I'm reading the scripture, I

think this is a revelation to me. I'll just share

two scriptures and I'll share your last statement this question.

How does fulfilling God's commandments also means that we are

fulfilling Christ's last.

Commission to us? Okay, we talk.

About missions right, and this is why I close. Okay,

Mark chapter twenty, verse thirty two. Day first says, and

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

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

your strength.

Imen.

This is the first commandment, and the second is like this.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Amen.

There is no other commandment greater than this. And it

says that all the laws of the Prophets hang on

these two commandments. Love God, love people, Love God, love people.

And then in Matthew twenty eight, Jesus says this nineteen twenty.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them

in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,

teaching them to observe all things that have commanded you.

And low, I'm with you always, even to the end

of the age. Very big concepts. But let me bring

it together. When we make disciples and share with people

the good news, that's what we do as a church, right,

we make disciples. I am encouraging you how to bring

a Bible. I'm encouraging you to come early to church.

Why not so that we know so that you can

receive ministry true worship, when we make disciples, when we

encourage you and pray for people, and when we share

with them the good news.

What's the good news. Jesus is alive. He has a

way for all of you.

When you accept Christ as your personal line savior, you

will be set free and you're never doing this life

alone anymore because the Holy Spirit will reside in you

and you have the answer, true, the Word of God.

That is the good news.

Amen, And no signals, no death, nothing can hold you

back every situation you face.

Just go to God. That is the good news.

Do you know that when you share with them the

good news and make disciples, you are loving them by

showing them a better way to live? Isn't that love?

When you help someone show some want a better way

to live?

Isn't that love? And do you know that when you.

Do that, you are also loving God by obeying him

and by aligning to His will that all may be

saved and none perish.

I don't know whether you guys catch it now, how

it all comes together? What's just for us? Just preciorna?

Why do you shad Jesus are so that people can

become Christian?

No, so we have life.

It's a better way to live. You live free, you

live abandoned life. When you've got problem, you know who

to go to. We are connected to our Father in heaven.

It is good news, no, because we know that we're

not alone, and not just that. We're connected to the

family of God, other believers, other Christians, other people that

were encouraged each other.

Isn't that a better way to live?

Isn't church the Blessed the best place to be when

you're going through a tough time.

Nobody's gonna judge you here.

This is why we make disciples, this is why we

bland churches, This is why we do homes, this is

why friends because you want to love people, and we

obey because we love God.

Amen.

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