Rich Towards God | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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so is he who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God.

Friends, It's very important for us to realize in life while we are

pursuing worse. Twenty one is where I'm going to draw everything from not rich

towards God. I think many times in our life, our journey right,

we are taught and we are asked to accumulate. Nothing wrong with accumulation.

But the challenge I want to bring forth to you this morning is this comes

from verse fifteen. Take kid, beware of coulatures, for one's life does

not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. Do we like to accumulate?

Friends, We do one way or another. We do hot stuff on

we do. Now of us here are very good accumulating money. You're taught

to say from young praise the Lord, well done. Some of us are

very good the accumulating tapest Okay, you you have top West take away Top

West for the longest time in your cupboard. It's there already and for some

time. Ready, you know it's trade away or maybe the cow of the

lead is broken and you sit to yourself. It still can use very good

accumulating top west. Some of you are very good accumulating paperbacks. Mm hmm.

My wife is one of the open one cupboard. The other day I

saw one like two like the cupboard field with paperbacks. I say that once

it is fall or next time we give present, now you can put a

nice paperback. Ma. Right, So how many pressures gonna give? Right?

You know sometimes people give you presents the rapper you you you tear properly,

right, so you can recycle, isn't it I think? One for

fall? Just take these paper wrapper we psychoma. Okay, So anyway,

some of you are very keeping paperbacks. Some of you are very good keeping

plastic bags, bubble raps, okay, envelopes, some of you very good

keeping envelopes are come on, so anyway, so we like to accumulate,

come on, isn't it true? I know some of you like elder,

but I know you acumulate stems and stuff like good luck. Some of you

accumulate other stuff, really other stuff. You still have textbook primary textbooks until

now friends, I want to let you know, please let you go,

because one day you get married and you cannot take your textbook or primary exercise

books with you. You're away on that way. Yes, okay, friends,

I want to just encourage you. The Bible here says once once life

does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. So let me try

to break down with your right to be reached towards God. We must avoid

the coverage lifestyle. To be reached towards God, we must avoid, really

avoid, because coveragous lifestyle, friends, is very suttle. One. It

is not It is not something. The temptation of being coverage is not something.

It's which you could. The word is this is that if you see

a whole or on the road, you avoid it. But it's very subtle,

friends. It starts with the innocent thought of like I wish I can

have his lifestyle. I wish I can experience what he's experiencing. I wish

for different things. Now, wishing is not wrong, but it can lead

us and open up Earth to a path whereby God never intended and wandered earth

to go to. Many times you're pressured to have what we don't have h

That's why I spoke this one time at one choice client and just say,

look, I say, sometimes when you get married, you constantly make your

life partner the number one in your life, number one in your life because

in your journey of life you meet someone, you meet people who are who

is better, kinder, more productive. You can't go around say that.

But I regretted, friends, there's no such thing. You made a choice.

You made a choice. So one there I was ministering to a campus

student and the campra students asked me a question, elder, that I make

the right that made the right choice. I chose to my grade, and

right now I really missed my family. I really I wish I could go

back to my family. That I look at this. You say, look,

you made a choice to my grade number one, but second most important

choice. Or you are engaged right now, you engage your local cities anerity

you therefore to relocate back to your family. It's not that simple, because

right now, because you are engaged, unless you call them engagement, not

and city. Next to me, I said, you can't. Sometimes in

life, we wanted it so much and we're pursuing friends. And this is

what I wanted to share with If you all want the things, I understand

a lot of times when God give us something, also we wanted somethings so

badly we say God has provided, not knowing it's actually our own desire or

heart's desire, our own nature that draws us in into it. Looke chapter

fifteen minutes fifty said take heat, beware of conrgeousness, because it comes in

a way whereby we are not aware of friends. Now, if you are

having a problem with last, for example, you see a pretty girl or

sexy girl, or what maybe a guy? All right, this right,

you just have to the worst. It's easy you can. You can't identify

what is the temptation, But courageousness. The Bible says, take heed and

beware things that we want things so badly and so much can open up a

doorway for us to enter that will lead us away from God. So that

when the individual was asking Jesus for the postion of inheritors, Jesus was addressing

the crowd of consciousness. I want you to just pain this picture right now.

If you're standing in front of Jesus, what would you ask from the

Lord if you were standing in front of Jesus, what will you ask of

Christ? Because this person is self of asking more. God, Please teach

me your scripture. Please show to me what is it? What is the

pothect for eternal life? The person asks Jesus, Jesus, please tell my

brother to give me my inheritance. He was more interested in the earthly inheritance

rather than an eternal inheritance. That you and I need to beware the ways

that it's so subtle. Friends, as simple as Jesus, please tell my

brother to give me my portion of inheritance. But if, really, if

Christ was standing in front of you, what would you ask. Corteousness the

Bible means a greedy desire to have more, a greedy desire to have more.

Life always presents us with a choice, friends, more of God or

more possession. More of God or more possession. Look at the temptation of

Jesus. The last temptation that Satan give to Jesus was is that when the

devil took him up the exceeding high mountain, show him all the kingdoms of

the world and the glory, and say, all these things are give to

you if you fall down to worship me friends, I was asked a question

wherever I go oversee this when I meet you. I'm working a doubts or

rather those graduated and wanted to work in the country. I'm always asking this

question, elder, how do I know that God wants me to stay here?

How do I know that God wants me to stay here? I say,

if you stay because of employment, I say that's too small for a

reason, because your employment will come and go. Today you have worked,

you may not know. The company may just say that we decided to restructure

and therefore thank you very much for your service. Employment is not permanent.

I say, you must have a bigger reason than a purpose why you decide

to stay in the country. I say, the reason has to be God.

If God is not in the picture, your reason of staying is just

because of employment, It's going to be very shallow. So as I was

counseling this campus student and say, look, you have to ask yourself if

you decide and choose to stay here to work, great, but find a

bigger reason. Get rooted in church, serve God in church, because many

times our life we just pursue one part. When the thing ends, our

identity dies with it. Your identity is not tied your job. Your identity

belongs and comes from the Lord. Friends, So when say the show Jesus

the whole world and all its glory, say all these I give to you

if you bow down to worship me. I think some of us here are

at the cross right now. Our desire so much to get away from different

things, different challenges. Even presented with an opportunity, Friends, how many

of us would just say that, I still choose Christ. Many many are

working now, I know, and our just are blessed, really blessed.

But the moment they are blessed, you know what goes out the window.

The commitment not to church but to the Lord. The commitment to the Lord

goes out the window. Why because the temptation is so strong over there whereby

our foundation, what we believe in gets shaken. I was before I came

here, I was talking to a mom. I was talking to a mom,

and now she was chearing me with me about her son. I've been

praying for my son for his attachment at workplace. I've been praying for some

time. And he got where he where he supposed where I wanted him to

to go. That looked at her, I say, sister, I just

want to carry it's you. The prayer of mother's prayer are very powerful.

I've heard many stories about it. When mom prays. When mom prays,

something happens. I remember one time I was a preacher that was sharing his

life journey and say that I was I decided. He said that I decided

to skip school. I said, skip school and go for movies. This

was back in the eighties. Go I watched a movie. Halfway watching it

out to your movie, I heard the door open at the back there and

my mom's voice could be heard. If you're here in this cinema, I

want you to come out right now, she asked, Mom. How do

you know I've been praying. God asked me to come here. I want

to encourage your mom's her, mom's here, your friends, mom's here.

Your prayer are very powerful. All right now, if your mother is in

this place, please be kind to your mom. All right, But here's

the day I want to carage him. Something. God bless us us so

much it creeps in the heart whereby our commitment to God gets lesser and lesser,

and you know what happens. We can come to a place, but

our faith. You just say that I believe in God. I can serve

him when I can. It can't be when God presentses something that our commitment

gets lesser. Say sorry. The Bible say, take here, beware of

corgeousness. See how it can hell be. I don't come for anything else.

But if God is not in the center of your life, friends,

if God is not in the center of a life, in the center of

a decision making, if God is not in the center of a decision making,

that you have an issue there. Tew chapter six twenty four says that

no one can serve two masters. No one can serve two masters for one

for either you'll hit the one and love the other, or else he will

be loyal to the one and despite the other. You cannot serve God and

mammon. You cannot serve God and riches. You cannot serve God and something

else. God has to be first, because if God is first, right,

he will take care of the rest. So the Bible says, sicky

first the Kingdom of God. But many times we like to do it the

other way around. We would like to seek reaches first and put God second.

And when you have that relucism turn around. Your life will be turned

around as well. If you're not careful. Friends, we will lead us

in the path whereby we depend less and less on God, more and more

on our own flesh, more and more on our old strength, more and

more on our own wisdom. Friends, I want to let you know that

depending on the old strength and ther own wisdom is very limiting. So the

Bible here says that you cannot serve two masters. Jesus really knew about this

Individus, how when you ask for the inheritance because he's opening up the door

in his life or something he's not supposed to work into. Friends, their

doors in our life we are not meant to open on friends. There are

certain doors in our life is meant to be shut and not supposed to be

opened. But many times we want to prayer open with our own strength.

We say it is mine and you want to have it. I want to

walk through it. Finally I can get it. But could you imagine right

now if you were the person asking Jesus to tell Jesus tell the brother to

give the inheritance, and God was ministering to the young men, take heed

and beware of conteousness, take it and be aware. You Many times where

we have ministered to young people and most of the time they say that,

look, it's not by accident that you were one in your family trying.

Don't wish. Don't you ever wish for someone else's family, because many time

you always see that it was always nicer on the other side. But if

you only knew the challenges what people have to go through pas the day,

will that us that you know the mantis will say, oh you want in

London, so nice, so nice. But although we say a lot of

people didn't know. When we first came to London, we were surviving on

the single income and we have a really calculate out groceries, really calculate our

groceries so that make sure that we have enough every month. Every way for

some discounts we wait for different days you'll save and sometimes know, God,

that's us to students going back they give us them they left, oh my

look back as they left all three once next cafe they left all this and

we from there we decided to bless other students as well. And many times

you look, you know things like that, wow, so nice, But

I said, oh, then you don't understand, but I think the church

in London. So they carry luggages. Every Sunday, a table come to

the hub to carry the luggage bags. Right right now you can stall at

your place over here at PGLA. But over there they carry the luggage back.

They take a trade to a few stations out they lug the luggage up

and set up the church over there. By then we finished, they take

everything down again. One way the x you can get away save money is

they cook for the campus. They cook for Hungred and ten campus. They

decided, you know, they want to make it special because the majority of

them are Asian. They want to make it really special by cocaine Asian food.

So the first slide the serf indoor me indoor me it magic. It

made running a kitchen production line, fris really is. It's a production line,

okay for a hundred packs. We got three sets of campers that comes

all three different times. One the first one to arrive at the camps that

were Sex London at seventy pm, serve them ready. Ex Brister arrived about

closer to eight thirty pm. The latest was Ex Edinburgh ten pm. And

you'll portion out the food. The next day decided to do chicken rice.

They were butchering the chicken, portioning it out. Make this Garl decided to

do ginger pace ginger past, though not in your own land first, if

it was our land here gunior piece. Easy. If I don't the makeles,

We're just go and buy all right, easy? But buying ginger friends

in a compound in a village, it's not that easy. Then after that,

they even went to a chinatown before they came for camp to buy and

done leaves. Look at them, Tell me that my house got a lot

appdon nighttime they sef carried chicken. Next day Sunday afternoon they had their famous

Sunday Sunday Sunday ros. You know all the requires sacrifice to save money.

They decided to do this. I think many times our journey when God presented

something that God, it's so tough to choose you. What is it in

your life right now that you're struggling with? You cannot surrender? The Bible

say you can also have two masters. What have you been serving recently that

cost you? That costs you to be distracted from the Lord, That costs

you to be to be away from God in collisionspt the Tree Verse five Friends,

the dangers of cows. This is I don't therefore put to death your

members, which is on earth fundication and cleanness, and cleanness, passion,

even desires and coveratiousness, which is idolatry. So the Bible here says it

creates coats as idolatry. Friends, friends. If it wasn't either as believers,

you run away cry not why not come on? It was also an

either right, we will run away immediately. But somethings in life I do

believe starts off very innotanly as just a simple desire that ultimately becomes an eid

in our life that we cannot let go. It's starts of very innotately as

just oh my prayer go answered It's okay, I can manage this. I

can balance this off. I was asked a question at the cam and the

how do I therefore live a life of faith? I don't trust anyone except

for my own strength. I truly believe. I was trying this is.

I think he's a graduate from Cambridge. I said, how do you spell

Cambridge? I'm looking at him like, you know, how do I live

a life of faith? You know because you know. I truly believe you,

though. The only way you can be better is to work on yourself,

and the only person you can rely on is yourself and no one else.

That asked the next question, I say, are you in the relationship?

You say yes, Then let me interview your good friend. Then see

you now whether or not you impose this value on her or not. He

look at me as spar as it. Yeah, oday, you're right.

Whenever she made that, every time she made the mistake, I'll lecture her.

I say, is that the life you want to leave? Is that

the life stime you want to live? Or constantly saying that you you're not

good enough because some things in life, or you can never be hungered perfect

if you're If you're perfect, then you can be God already, I said,

do life? Or if you surrender try your best. You have to

work. I say, you have to work, be the best if you

can, if your own ability, but surrendered outcome to the Lord, because

ultimately, at the end of the day, friends, you cannot control everything.

The desire outcome. Then he looked at me. I just said,

elder, thank you so much. I said, I want to encourage you

in life that thinks you're not good at That's where you ask God for wisdom.

I say, you can plan everything. Next time, God bless you

with a child. What peu are you going to give the child to be

your child? To obey you? You give money, give the latest iPhone?

I said, what is it you, elder? You're right, I

really don't have an answer exactly. I say, that's why you need to

learn how to depend on God. Ask God to teach you to be a

better parent in future. Therefore put to death the members on earth. Friends,

see if we don't emily making the idle friends, but sometimes along the

way that things in our life we cannot let go. And that isn't either

in our life. It's very subtle friends, for example, unforgiveness, unforgiveness.

Some of versus two cannot leg go certain things, find it hard to

leg go certain things. I want to encourage your friends, if you knew

what the law has to stop for you, He's encouraging you to let go

somebody who couldn't trust a lot fully. You need to learn how to trust

God this year trust him. This statement was used a lot. I'm just

sharing you a lot of things. I saw making. This statement was used

a lot. I can by one of the students and just say, you

know, elder, it's easier say than done, Easier sit than done,

easier sit than done. I said, Look, I say, I don't

think that you tell Jesus easy to say, and that whenever time Jesus is

something is possible. We just have to take the first step of faith.

If you never take the first step of faith, it's always going to be

easier to say than done. Unforgiveness really is a bitter peal to sollow every

night. But forgiveness is possible, but you have to take the first step.

Many times I tell you why. It's why we struggle with it,

because our flesh always gets in the way. Friends, let me just turn

to you right now, to someone one nine worse to the tree, it

says, teach me, oh Lord, the way of your statutes, and

I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, I shall keep

your law in this, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make

me walk in the path of your commandments, will delighting incline my year my

heart to your testiminies, and not to consciousness. Turn my eyes from looking

from worthless things and revive me in your way. Establish a word to your

servant who is devoted to fearing you. With these friends, let me just

try to break it down to you, and I'll close and challenges. The

Bible says in some sehen, I was tot to teach me all lot the

ways of your statutes. One way really not to work in a way of

converges is ask God to teach us what he values his ways. Many times

now in our journey, friends, we think this okay, Bible on this

group for Sunday, Monday to Saturday is another self values. And give you

another example is homes homes. Some of will remember the ten cash eyes.

Wow, you have a lot of things to do here, all right,

it's called ten hey health indicators. All right now, sab we are smiling

ready bringing up all right, Okayer said and said the pressure. No,

no, first, no pressure. I think so about one of them is

homes and missions, homes and giving homes and prayer. Now, if you

only think it's only applicable to homes, right, that's where we got it

wrong, because it is, isn't it true? As a believer we should

be involved in missions isn't it true as a believer we should be involved in

prayer? Isn't it true as a believer we should be involved in giving?

Because many times we just say, oh this for example, right now,

let me use ten cash. It's only for hopes. It's not applicable to

me. Therefore, the Bible is only applicable for Sunday, maybe part of

my life only. But the Bible says, if one night was to the

trees, teach me your ways, teach me all Lord, the ways of

your statute, or keep it to the end. Not keep it only for

a portion of our life, he said, encouraging. Just apply it into

our life. Friends, Many times the word is this that we want a

godly breakthrough you, but we don't want to do the godly sacrifice. We

want a godly brick too, but we do not want to do the godly

sacrifice. Do you know that in life, friends, it's not just it's

not just one off. But to have a break show, we must consistently

apply God's word into our life. Worse, the before, give me understanding.

I'll keep your law first it is to teach me. Secondly, ask

God for understanding. Ask God for understanding. Of his word. It's easy

to preach. I heard one preacher. I was talking to a preacher one

day at your not name. I was talking to a preacher one day.

You though say, I'm telling my chich to say yes, say yes to

God. Say yes to God, say yes to God. Good message.

I went like to him and just say that you know, we're just talking

about different things, and say you know, you know your message is good.

But as I talked deeper with him in his life, he was not

happy because I brother out of a subject challenge, okay, and this will

challenge a brother of topic. I just say, you just spoke about yes

to God, and this is what God wants you to do. But how

come the yes to God message only applies to your message, but you seem

to have an exception in your life. It's easy, friends, to preach

a message and have exception in your life. This is not applicable to you

because it hurts when you apply it. Said. The Bible says, teach

me your way, so Lord give me understanding. First. The Bible did

not say give you, give you understanding and to teach you his ways.

For you to preach the operative was here is to apply say, make me

work in the path of the commandments. I delight in it. See the

teaching and the understanding is for us to apply in the way we walk before

the Lord. Friends, homil a Verse here wants to walk with the Lord.

Worsetudy six incline my heart to your testimony and not to conveteousness. We

always have a choice this morning, what we choose to dwell in and what

we choose not to do in. Friends, always hear like nine things we

do, nine things is not wrong. I want to let you know Jesus

didn't have the problem with the fertile land. In fact, the land was

so fertile the increase was there. Jesus wasn't against it increase. He was

against It's how the increase was used. And many times we say we are

reached to ARUs God, but in fact we're very stingy. Many times we

say we are reached to us God, in fact we're very stingy. And

God, this one wants to minister to us because the breakthrough counsels begin to

surrender. Say, God, have your way. You are the lot of

my life. I do not know where you are with your faith right now,

but I want to let you know if you apply this, there's a

break through that will come. One day, I was having lunch with four

to three of other other leaders, of six or five of other leaders,

and the bill came and God just told me, can I be the first

one to treat? I went like, God, why me? I'm sure

you also speak to the other of five? Right? Have you ever been

there before? We're having dinner and having a meal, and God's put in

your heart to treat it could be a Colleagi had to treat your colleage.

Go Na, this cannot be God, have you ever been there before?

Okay, so we're looking down stuff like that. No, no, no

connemn. So God spoke to me. I think the bill came up to

six of us. Bill came out to be like close the tree younger in

it. I went like God, why me? God? Do you know

I will full time radio? Right? Number one? Full full time radio?

Okay? That's there must be an exception for foot time workers, all

right, I mean those wooking out there? Whyever, God, you can

challenge the footie workers exceptional. But the Bible here says that foot work no

exception. I'm not sure where you are real Genia Wane to let you know

it's never easy to follow Lord. It's never easy God. I want more

of you. We sing songs or one more of you. But God saying,

if you really want more of me, your flesh has to be brought

down low. For he must increase and I decrease. Isn't it For he

must increase, and your forgiveness must decrease, your anger must decrease. It's

not when he must decrease, just go down on your knees to pray alone

in friends. So I remember that during the time when I took up the

bill, I paid for the bill. Well, everyone was just talking about

my thinking that what I just do. Have you ever been there before?

Not what you just like? Why is so faster? Because agents like to

fight old bills and you and said, the longer you're before so uncoupled,

the will pay for you first. It's it's a matter of who is more

uncomfortable. First strategy, how not to pay for your lunch? Then God

reminded me again, if I can be fitful to you, I'll be fitful

to you again. It's never easy. That's why was it. Teach me

your way? You want more of me? Somebody. It requires a sacrifice

if we want more of me. While I tell you what you want to

do or not. It's easy to see move God move when our hearts not

wanting to move it him. Moving with God is not just in church,

but moving with God is really on our daily life. Take he beware of

the spirit of consciousness. Social media has made everything like we look at pictures,

we look at the lifestyle say I want what they're having. I want

what they're having. I want what they're having. And many times we let

down the path whereby we open the door. The moment we have it,

we want more of it. Then God slowly gets pushed out of the window

of the picture. And many times, every every every person I met oversee

studying say all day I made the right place choice. My encouragement to them

is always days that is God still the center of your life? Are you

still serving the Lord? If you're still serving God in where you are,

God can place you anywhere, even the business of job. You will not

abandon God because if you say God opens the door for you for this job,

say God needs to be exalted, which means to say that you cannot

abandon God on Sunday, somethings in life are non negotiable. Cowcuss will come

to your life and begin to just let go of the things of God.

This that the Bible says, be reached towards God, be reached towards Him.

That's our brister, Colldinator. His name is m He works as an

auditor. Before he changed a new job. Very busy, very busy,

so busy I did one day he was working, he fitted and at the

workplace he was working that schedule. That's why look at him. I look

at the church blood. I look at the boys he raised up, people

he deciphered. With the amount of time that he has, I could see

God honor his sacrifice. And they will tell me that in the elder that

no, he's very generous with this. In this place, there was one

time a person was without a place to stay, stay over and stay for

one month and until until he discounted it. This guy's not quick anyway in

this leaper house. But here's what I'm saying, be reached towards God.

Friends, I don't know how many of us he has believers will be holding

back selective in our serving, selective and now saying yes to God selective in

a way with these side things, and God says I want your o heart

and you're just saying God only for this portion you only you can touch this

portion, be very selective as Christian. As I'm going to close up,

this is my challenge. God has never been interested in our talents. We're

always offer about talents before him. God is more interested in our hearts.

God is really more interested in your hearts. We're always offer out of talent

before the Lord. But I want your heart because if your heart I can

work things out. Some aversive white we got no break truth because our heart

never get worked on. Why do doors have been opened before that our heart

never gets worked on. First, I'm not talking about having more possession.

I'm talking about having a rich relationship with God. At the end of the

day, you can be a wealthy person here in our church. Really,

to me, wealth doesn't really matter after a while. My question to every

person, whether wealthy or not wealthy, do you have a rich relationship with

God? Not? Because once I know you have a rich relationship with God,

everything else will be taken care of. Really, your future will be

taken care of, your life will be taken care of you must be rich

towards God, friends in your journey right now. If there's anything you've been

holding back and saying, God, you can't touch this, I pray that

today you let it go. If there's any part of your life you'll be

saying God, you know, I'm like that. I won't change. You

know some of us here today we've been so stubborn, so stuck in our

own ways, really stuck in our own ways. Do you want to change?

God will always bring things in our life friends, to make us realize

that we need him. You know, my wife, we want of the

question my wife was asking, or can you describe your dating life and how

she met me? And this stuff like that, And one of the things

that she'd tell everyone is this that when I first met can you first met

him? I really don't like him? I really, really really the word

really don't like him the one that you think, the word action that he

is capital action. I said, I can help you love No man,

You're good, You're good. You say, she's very action snobbish, you

really friends, you're just like It takes a type of person that like him,

But God brought him through a journey of breaking see where you see him

right now is very different from where you see him like twenty years ago.

God will always work through a person. That person to say, God,

here I am. Here is my heart a breaking how to avoid and taking

of the spirit of conviteousness. Allow God to break your heart, for him

to shift and more his values onto you, his values onto you. Some

of you really you doubt whether you have a future or not. I want

to let you know in God you will always have a future. Whatever there

was prophesied all your life, there was negative. Iever that sitting over a

life, there was negative. Friends. I want you to know from that

I truly believe. With God, all things are possible. Friends. With

God, all things are possible. Some of us are too preoccupied with too

many distractions to strict you from the things of God, district you from giving

your best to the Lord. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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a good week, a hit for you. God bless