An Opportunity in Every Obstacles | Pr Alvin Keng

You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message

will light up your day. Returned to John chapter nine, verse one to

twenty five. John chapter nine, verse one to twenty five. Okay,

he says, yeah. Now, as Jesus passed by, he saw a

man who was blind from birth, and his disciples ask him, saying,

Rabbi, who's sin this man or his parents that he was born blind?

The disciples quite ghanasa? Sorry, Ghanas means brutal. You walk past a

blind person and you ask Jesus who's sinner? He or the parents? How

many of you like it? When they walk past you and they see a

body condition that you have, like for me, they look at me and

they say, you know, past Elvin, you gotta tell me, right,

And they look at Jesus and say, Jesus, you know who's sin?

Elvin or his parents? Because it's so fat that great right. They're

actually asking this question. Now, do you know there is a theological question

who's sin? Who's sin? It is a theological question, isn't it right?

This person's in that person? Do you know? Sometimes we can have

that perspective or this thing, this bad thing happened to this person. Therefore

he must have done something wrong to anger God. You know, we're humans,

right, we take that way, right, And sometimes we can come

to church and we can feel very judged, you know. And not to

say people are judging us, not to say people are actually actively judging you.

But but you can feel this because there's this thing about like when something

bad happens, therefore must be seen. Really, okay, just follow me,

okay, follow me. Don't worry. I'll get to the good stuff.

And Jesus answered, neither this man nor his parents sin, but that

are the works of God should be revealed in him. Wow, such a

perspective. I must work the works of him who send me while it is

day. The night is coming when no one can work. As long as

I'm in the world, I am the light of the world. When he

had said these things, he sped on the ground and made clay with the

saliva, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Gross

he sees the guy and just went oh, mixed with I don't know what

else, Lak. I don't know how Jesus did it, Lak, I

don't know matter God, Mucus or whatever. But mucus helps becus helps more

becers. It's more viscus the word we use, huh, viscus, not

so watery, you know, and make clay. And then and what he

just do. He took the clay and then he prayed. No, he

took the clay and he put it in the guy's eye socket. Gross.

You're following me, right, okay, let me see where I met.

And he said to him, go wash in the pullouts lower, which translates

scent. It's such an interesting that you think it's such an interesting situation.

Number one, if the blind guy, firstly, you got insulted. Secondly,

you didn't ask for anything. This guy suddenly and you can't see,

you know, you can't see what's happening. And this guy suddenly came you

hear us withing sound, and suddenly you feel something in your eye socket and

it's definitely gooey and dirty and all it's gross. And this guy that put

clay in your eye socket asked you to go and wash yourself. Interesting.

And then what happened, let's street what happened. So he went and washed

and came back seeing a man blind from birth, he was offended. I

don't know whether he was offended, And I'm just saying that he could have

been offended, not just offended. He was spat on, not just spet

on dirt and put in his eye. And then after that and I didn't

help me wash. Did Jesus say go to the post? Say lo,

you take a straight, go left, turn right and then you're reach there.

No, no Jesus, just say go to the post. This guy

is a blind guy. How is it maybe he'll follow a ways, A

turn straight five hundred meters, take a left at the donkey. I don't

know. There was no instruction and he just went. Did he complain he

didn't. I wonder if the guy was Probably you know, when someone is

defeated, someone is depressed, someone is like no hope anymore. They will

just do anything, you know. Maybe the guy was like that, Okay,

Lo, this is normal. This is probably a normal occurrence people insulting

me because I'm sitting around and probably are. Every time there's some religious guy

come to see me, he will ask me who's seen your parents or you?

And he probably had no response. Really, it's kind of like you

you cannot so badly until you are numb, right, Probably I don't know.

I make assumptions again, guys, these or assumptions. Okay, but

let's read the word for God as is. Therefore, the neighbors and those

who previously had seen that he was blind said, it's not this he who

said and begged. So who knows? This was the people around him,

the people that knew the blind guy. Hey, how came against any sea?

How come he again, sonny, sea, weren't he begging when he's

sitting there? Some said this is he? Others said he is like him?

He said, I am here. What does that mean? Basically?

Some couldn't believe nor lie cannot be Lah cannot be He woke out, Man,

Sonny, he got sex peck all you know, cannot be him.

And then he said, I'm him, La, guys, I'm him.

Therefore, they said to him, how are your eyes open? He answered

and said a man called Jesus. He didn't see. He didn't even know

who Jesus was. He said, a man called Jesus. He didn't say

Jesus the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. He just said this guy named Jesus

talking to his his disciples by the side. They insulted me, and suddenly

he made clay, and he used the word anointed. You noticed that he

used the word anointed my eyes and said to me go to the pool of

siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and I received his side.

Do you think that he thought he was anointed before he went and washed

his eyes? I think he probably like, okay, dirty, anyway,

I'll just do whatever. Okay. I don't even know whether this guy knows

Jesus. But after he received his side, he used the word anointed.

He recognized that the clay and the spit and what Jesus put in his eyes

was anointed. But before that, I don't know whether he thought he was

or not, because we didn't hear any response, so we won't know.

But if I was a normal human being, and this guy's a normal human

being, I think he'll probably think it's not anointed. But after he received

the miracle, after he received his side, he recognized that he was anointed.

Again my own observation. Okay, so I went and washed and I

received side. How simple is that I went, I washed, I received

side. Did you see the blind guy reasoning with Jesus, Hey, Jesus,

help me, la, I'm blind, LA? Why don't you bring

me? He didn't. He went, he washed and he received side.

Then they say to him, where is he? He said, I do

not know. They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees, or

why must they bring him to the Pharisee. He was so amazing and they

actually had to bring him to the religious teachers. AA, come, come,

come, we need to bring you something. Something spiritual is happening,

something mystical is happening. We need more information. Suddenly, from can see

to cannot see? Why did they bring him to the Pharisees. The next

verse tells you why. Now, it was the Sabbath when Jesus made the

clay and opened his eyes. So what is the sabbath. The Sabbath,

if you know, is a day where they rest and they are not supposed

to do anything. That's the Jewish, the Jewish culture. They're not supposed

to do anything. They're not supposed to work, they're not supposed to do

anything. Even all the way from the time where the Israelites are coming out

from Egypt, God even commanded and say you only collect extra manna on the

sixth day, because on the seven day you rest. You don't go and

collect. It's a rule that they abide by. But this thing happened on

the sabbath. Jesus, how come you go and do things against the law

of the people. Let me give you this again, personal observation. Isn't

it great that Jesus didn't have to not heal people on the sabbath. This

guy was blind from birth. Imagine Jesus say, you know what, today's

a sabbath. I will come tomorrow on Monday where I can work. Today

today I don't work. He didn't do that. We will study a little

bit more later. Then the pharisees also ask him again how he had received

his side. He said to them, he put clay in my eyes and

I washed and I see. I just want to highlight to you that the

Pharisees knew who Jesus was before this. They really knew who he was,

and he was causing a lot of trouble trouble with them, Okay, Jesus

causing trouble. Then some of the pharisees said, this man is not from

God. Wow, that's such a bold claim because he does not keep the

sabbath. Wow, guys, a lot can be unpacked from that line a

lot, But I'm not going to I got no time. Okay. Others

said, how can a man who is a sinner do such signs? See,

they perceived Jesus as a sinner. But friends, we have hindsight,

not for sight. Kay, we have hindsight that Jesus is sinless. Amen.

But they perceived him as a sinner because he perform this on the Sabbath.

Therefore he must be a sinner. I pray that we will learn something

from this. I pray that we will not judge a book by its cover,

as believe us. I pray that we will learn to know the works

of God and to not just look at the our appearance, because a lot

of times we can look at our appearance and judge based on our appearance.

Oh why you know so little people in this church. Something must be wrong.

Oh why this thing happens? Something must be wrong, Something must be

wrong. Why are we always looking for wrong things? Why can't we start

looking for right things? Hear me, our friends, And it's not just

something about church, you guys, see something about our lives as well.

Are we all out looking for wrong things? Or are we trying to see

the works of God in our lives. What are we looking at? They

said to the blind man again, what do you say about him? Because

he opened your eyes? He said, he is a prophet. This crazy,

guys, this, this exchange is so crazy. They already had a

perceived perception of who this guy is, as in Jesus are not the blind

men. They cannot deny that the blind man can see. But they were

trying to discredit Jesus. But the Jews do not believe concerning him that he

had been blind and received his side until they called the parents of him,

who receive that. Whah, they have to verify a U sure not.

Maybe he bluff one. Maybe they are trying to create this thing. Let's

call the parents because Brian from Sidma. Let's call the parents. Let's verify.

And they asked them, saying, is this your son who you say

was born blind? How then does he now see? His parents answered them

and said, we know that this is our son and that he was born

blind, But by what means he now sees? We do not know,

or who opened his eyes? We do not know. He is of age.

Ask him, he will speak of himself. The parents are so scared.

Now the parents are scared. His parents said these things because they feared

the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that he

was Christ, he will be put out the synagogue. Look at how much

or how much far they want to go and discredit Jesus. So far they

want to go to discredit Jesus. Therefore, his parents said, he's of

age. Ask him kind of like wash, answer, he's all enough.

You talk to him. Okay, don't talk to me, you know,

don't talk to me. I verify it is my son. Don't talk to

me. He's probably I don't get involved. So then again they called the

man who was blind and said to him, give God the glory. We

know that this man is a sinner. That that that line sounds so correct,

Yet it sounds a little bit wrong. Don't give this guy creditor.

Give God credit because this guy is a sinner. He answered and said,

whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know one thing.

I know that though I was blind. Now I see. Then they said

to him again, what did you sorry, Okay, I think I've over

already. So they again called the man, and he unswertedain and said,

whether he is a saying or not. I do not know one thing.

I know that I thought I was blind, Now I see. Do you

know that obstacles, Sorry, opportunities are often disguised as obstacles, and that's

why so many of us might miss them. But because this is what he

said last week, isn't that true opportunity? If you're a businessman, you

will notice very well opportunities are disguised as obstacles. You'll catch that a lot

of times if we don't realize in our lives there are a lot of things

that are tests that can become testimonies. But because it's disguised, we might

miss it. We might see problems as problems only, Oh, you know

there's a problem. Do you know that? In James it says rejoice Therefore

in all trials and tribulations? What does said? That line tells you that

time tells you that not all problems are just problems, Not all challenges are

just challenges, Not all obstacles are just obstacles. But we but we should

learn to see every problem as an opportunity to work the works of God.

That was the core difference with what Jesus saw and what the disciples saw they

saw and they say, this guy who's sin. But Jesus is not about

the sin. That's not the most important part. You're missing the point.

This guy is like that here so that I can do something about it to

reveal the works of God. See, when we are doing things, when

we pray, it's not it's not to bolster ourselves. No, it's to

reveal the works of God in our lives. When we experience testimonies, as

believe us, it is to reveal the works of God's in our lives.

It's not just oh, you know, I'm so blessed, I'm so holy,

I'm so great. Therefore I'm awesome. That's why God bless me.

It's not about me. It's so that when people recognize that there's something different

about you, there's a working in your life. It's what it's to show

that God is alive and he's there in your life, and he's real,

and you should introduce him to someone. Amen. We have benefited so much

on the works of God in our lives. Maybe it's time that we reveal

it to others. Approaching every difficulty as an opportunity to reveal God's power and

to glorifies him. Is there a true statement every challenge? Do you believe

that every challenge you face is an opportunity for God to move Corent don't believe

that. You might not believe that now, and if we don't believe that,

then that determines your theology. But we always you know, it says

that you know Christ is a probing glory, true Christ. We can overcome

Christ is it has to be in a picture of us. Okay, but

this is something that we got to learn, we gotta realize. So let's

talk about working the works of God. There are five things we need to

consider drawing from this scripture on how the works of God can work in our

lives. Okay. Number one, it is a theological problem. Remember I

mentioned sinal sin is theology. What is theology? Theology is the study of

God teo God means that whether or not you can work the works of God

in your life really determines whether or not you understand how God works, You

understand his word, you understand how things happen. The understanding of God will

determine whether or not God can work in your life. Is that true?

Because as you can see clearly, the Pharisees didn't clearly understand Jesus, so

they could not recognize the work of God. In fact, they were just

looking at the action. Sabbath therefore must be wrong. But they don't realize

that causing a blind man to see only God can do that. They recognize,

but they don't want to accept that this guy is God. That was

their theological problem. So for us, it's a theological problem. The disciples

will focus on the sin as the reason the man was blind. A lot

of times you might see something bad that happens as a punishment or a consequence

and thought and those are There are times that this is true. It is

not always a case. I'll give us an example for my own life,

right and I've shared this many times on stage for those who are knew.

You might not know, but I have a child with my autism. When

I first found out, I thought it was a punishment. That was my

perspective. There was my understanding. That is so long ago, eight years

ago. Now I know it is not. Now I know that it happened

because God can work. He's worked in my life, and he has been

I got some testimonies to share you later. But He has worked in my

life and only true. I tell you, if I do give myself a

credit, I can say no, I have no credit. I'm not an

expert. I don't know how to navigate this. Me and my wife are

trying our best. But only true God. We recognize that only true God

it can be done. And that is a testimony itself. Only true God,

not through my own understanding, not through my own expertise, Only true

God. The second thing we need to consider, after the theological problem that

we are facing, Oh, how God will move not move? Is this

seeing okay God? Ten minutes? Let me try and rush this through?

Is a God perspective. John nine Tree says, do you know that Jesus

knew God had a plan, That's why he answered them that way. It

wasn't just the man or his parents, but the understanding that God is also

in the picture. Can I encourage all of you this morning? Do you

know that no matter what you face in life, God is there, whether

you feel it or not, whether you feel goosebumps or not, God is

still there. You know you cannot unite that. Whether everything is trashing down

now, God is there no more so those of you who face that Jesus

is Christ, Christ is Lord, and God is your savior. He's there

with you know, at every time watching. But do we have the perspective

that God is there? Oh, this thing happened in my office, this

thing happened at home, so horrible. God is everywhere. Do we have

that perspective that we can bring him in the situation. Do we realize that

God is always in the picture in our lives or do we sometimes forget or

think He's not around and we need to fend for ourselves. Friends, God

is there all the time. That is my encouragement to you. That's why

the scripture nothing can separate us from the love of God is significant. He

is always there. Number Three knowing our purpose. Jesus knew his purpose to

work the works of God. As followers of Christ, do we know that

our use is to do the same. We are Christians, right, that's

the name. Actually, Christians is not even the name the Christian gief themselves.

No, Christians is a name. Nowadays we're like, hang out,

Oh I'm Christian, I got I got crossed. But in those days,

right, they couldn't name this group of people that were doing all these things.

They knew they were disciples of Christ. But there was no name,

so they had to find a name. So other people call him Christians.

Other people had to brand them because why did they call him Christians? Because

they recognized and they saw that Christ was in them. Right, so God

called them to work the works of God. Not Oh, Jesus is so

awesome. See theological problem? Right our understanding? Do we know that we're

supposed to work the works of God? Go you there for make disciples of

all nations, teaching them to observe all that I've taught you, everything that

Christ has written. Here is stuff that we can do. Living in freedom,

praying for people and them getting hereed. That's power in the name of

Jesus. All these things can happen now. But what was the stuck but

theological problem? Maybe you don't understand, maybe you don't realize. Maybe we

not open. But knowing our purpose is very powerful. Right next, knowing

the time or time? So Jesus sit here and I want to highlight this.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day.

The night is coming when no one can work. Okay, of course

you can read into it. I have not really done any major Bible study.

I think people are saying that you know, there will come a time

where God's presence won't be here anymore. Right now, we are living in

a period of grace, you know, that's why we live in and the

Holy Spirit is still around and you can still see miracles happening and things happening,

and we can still reach to people. Right but there might come a

time where it won't be the case anymore. We don't know when that will

come. Maybe Jesus is being poetic and saying, while I'm still alive and

here, we can do this, But after I die cannot Okay, I

don't know, right, But we've got to know the time, and we're

going to know the time times right, because the night is coming. That's

the reality. Friends, How do we interpret this? I think Jesus was

hinting that there will come a time where we won't be able to work the

works of God. He's hinting, I don't know, okay, So the

time to work is when now? Now is the time to work today.

Don't wait till tomorrow because tomorrow might not may never come. So better work

today, Better do today, better believed today, knowing the time right,

That's why he was not limited by the Sabbath. Isn't that awesome? Like

I mentioned to you, imagine if you are screaming out and asking God,

God please help me in this situation. God please help me, and God

said, sorry, it's a Sunday, I'm going to break. If that's

the case a theological question, now, then we shouldn't pray for people to

get here on Sunday. But actually, if you think about it, for

churches, I only on Sunday we pray for people. I hope that's not

only on Sunday. Ela, Do you let me let me share something with

you personally? Are I have stopped saying I will pray for you to people

and not praying later. In fact, when I know there's a need,

I will pray immediately because I don't know whether I remember praying it later.

I A it's a personal practice. It might feel weird sometimes, but I'll

do it. And if it's and if it's you know it's significant enough.

I will do it on the spot, even though you're outside. Whoever,

I'll do it because I don't know when more I will see this person.

I don't know when more I will have this opportunity to pray for this person.

So I better do it now. It's more dead than Oh. I

got the spray of the lot on me, and he's feeling my heart and

I feel, guys, I'm a normal human being. When I became a

Christian, there was no death that flies from heaven and say this is my

son whom I am pleased that happened with Jesus love. So the time is

now, and it's so significant that the time is not because when we ask

God to come into a city situation, you know, sometimes we can convince

ourselves again theological problem. Uh maybe one day whatever, you will be right.

I know I'm in the trouble now, but God will decide, you

know something. We have that kind of attitude, and I don't think that's

very healthy. I think if we really pray and believe, you better believe

that God will happen. Now. If you're really praying for healing to happen,

please believe that you will happen now. Yes, yes, we all

know theology. God will do things in his time, but we got to

fervently pray and believe constantly. That is our part heart. He's working in

a miracle. That's why we say the works of God. Amen. You'll

catch it. So be encouraged, but believe and upon it. The time

is now, Amen. Knowing our identity this is just very important. Now

we have so many challenges with identity in the world, so many We got

to know our identity. Guys, do you remember or do you know your

identity as a believer of Christ. Friends, if you don't know how,

you better start reading and learning. You know, you know, it's kind

of like you know, I'll show you this story. Okay, me and

my wife we had an opportunity to go to well, we went to uh

Kota Kina Balow for our wedding honeymoon behind me, Oh my goodness. We

were there for our honeymoon, not Kotokinabalo and uh. And it was recommended

passa kenna, you know, say hey, maybe we can, you can

go to this hotel. And we had favor because I think that time we

had good relationship with the owner, not me, but you know, our

church. Uh. And so happened. Now they bunked us up. You

know, I book a normal, normal room, uh, and they recognized

that we were from X and then they bunked us up. They actually bunked

us up to like a the time. It was in Sutra Harbor like some

oceans. It was really good. Okay, bunked us up, you know,

and Passa has been there before, so he was excited for me.

I'm like great, and I went for the honeymoon and I came back okay,

and after catching out my pasta. This was our conversations. To tell

you, this is our conversation. Uh you know. I was talking to

like, yeah, yea, it's awesome. You know what. The will

is so nice, you know, food, he's nice all and then Pastor

asked me this question. He asked me, do you try the lounge.

I'm like, lounge? What lounge? And he's like, yeah, yeah,

yeah. When you stay in the suite, there is a lounge on

the second floor that you have free floor drinks and free floor finger foot from

this time to this time. Do you try it? I look at him

and I'm like no, I never knew there was such a thing. The

hotel didn't say anything. So apparently if you stay in the suite only in

the suite Executive Sweet, you get access free guys to this lounge from ten

to five. I think any drink and food, free floor. And I

was like, I missed it because I didn't know, because I didn't know

that we had this feature wasted? Guys, do you know that after the

experience until to they remember? Every time I go to the hotel my wife

who noticed, I will ask them what are your I will ask on my

face is redic because I don't want to miss out. Whether I use it

or not doesn't matter. By all, Ask God what other benefit that comes

to this room? You maximize my career or not? So as a believer

of Christ? Right, what have you maximized as your identity as a follower

of Christ? Friends, It's a question I ask you today again understanding do

we know? Do we realize? Have we practice heavy experienced? Amen?

Jesus knew who he was. He knew he came to bring light to the

world of darkness. We heard this before. We are called to be sort

and light as well as his followers. Right, we are following Jesus.

We know who identity is. Meant you five thirteen fourteen says we are the

salt of the earth, right, and we come to bring light. So

are we changing the area we are on and bringing light and peace where we're

at? Something to think about, Amen, I don't think I have time

to go through everything, but I'm just gonna go through the final part.

Amen, I got five minutes, you guys, Okay, hopefully next time,

God God time. There's another part that say how to work the works.

Okay, but I think I'm gonna go to the part that says the

theology determines the testimony because I rebelieve that if we can understand this as we

believe us well, I tell you, we will live very different lives when

we can understand God more. We will live very different lives because we know

who our God is and we know what he can do. The theology determines

the testimony. What do we mean by that? John five sixteen, Let's

go to that. Let's learn do a little bit of Bible study five sixteen

or or sorry, nine sixteen, not five sixteen. So nine sixteen says,

Therefore, some of the Pharisees said, this man is not from God

because he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, how can a man

who is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.

You know, they couldn't decide they knew that, or they were very fixated

on the law. But remember what Jesus said, he came to fulfill the

law. That's what Jesus came to do. They were very fixated on the

law. So the Pharaoh, the Pharisees was focused on why it was like

that, basically the blind man's sin. So they were very They probably know

a lot about the word. They know, they know it's all knowledge.

They no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

everything, But they were very focused on why it was and why it could

not have been done, which is Jesus saying again, whether it was true

or not, that's another thing to discuss. But they were very focused on

that. You see, a miracle happened in your life, in your eyes,

and they cannot deny this from God. But they were so focused on

the trying and find the right word the rules that they could not see there

was God's word. They were so focused on filling the blanks. What are

we focused on? What are we focused on in our lives that we cannot

see the works of God in our lives? Friends, you got to be

very careful. We got to be very careful because we are not fighting against

fresh and blood. No, we're fighting against the powers and principalities. So

the biggest influence in our lives should be Christ, not other things. That

is the biggest influence. If we allow other things to influence our lives,

it will be difficult to see the works of God, even though God is

working. Do you know that God is kind to us? He doesn't need

you know the blind manner. He wasn't a scholar, he wasn't a religious

teacher, he wasn't sitting there. But Jesus said, true, the life

of this man, whom all of you think he's sitting, May the works

of God be revealed, and I bring light to the situation. One man's

life got change. But you know who else's life got change? Everyone else

that who's around that man? But what were they afraid of? They were

afraid of other influences. They were afraid to admit that a miracle has happened.

But God is God, now, guys, God is God. Can

we be so blind to what God is doing and focusing on what's right or

how we feel, or how our past experiences are or understanding that we cannot

simply see what God is doing, whether it's in the church, whether it's

in your office, whether it's in your own lives. Friends, my encouragement

is open your eyes and see he who has ears today let him hear,

and he who has eyes to see. I pray that skills would drop and

you will see. Do you know that God is doing something in our church?

We heard many testimonies of our youth ministry and he's very encouraging, just

sharing you one of our young people. Something is happening in XKK, and

I pray that it will happen here in PJ. Let me tell you something

that you will never imagine. Those who are maybe a little bit more mature.

The young people in x KK are taking notes every week without fail.

They're bringing their physical Bibles to church to read and they're comparing notes. And

I was talking to Buzzard Daniel last week and he told me he said he

was surprised because every time he got to the xCE inside, they'll be on

your phones and you'll be thinking, like what you're doing playing game? Is

it? No? They were comparing notes war and in fact he one of

the young persons actually said, ah, yeah, I missed the early service.

Because XKK they grow to the point of they have two services, said

man, I missed the early service. Other thing who preached two different messages.

I missed the first son I should have God. Of course we have

empty gla friends. I've been in youth pinistry for many years as well.

You guys are young. That's why I consider myself in your panistry. Before

that, I was in xten. So this kind of thing can all black

one, guys. God must be doing something. God must be doing something,

But what do we see? God is doing something in our church.

God is doing something in your lives. But do you see what are you

watching? Thank God? The blind man was focused on what he was before

Jesus, what he was after Jesus. That was what he was focused on,

isn't it some of our testimonies. I go through a challenge, I

pray God moved, I come out a better person. Amen. So simple

any theological debate, there nothing before something happened, well, not something happened.

Someone happened. Jesus happened, and after that that happened. In between

these two things, Jesus happened. Amen, Jesus happened. It's that simple.

It's simply that simple, because Christ is upping glory. You know.

The Pharisee admitted they did not know who Jesus was, and were therefore bound

by a theology that was totally opposite to what and who God really. Worse,

they were unqualified to represent him, said said, because they do.

They do not know who Jesus was. They do not know who God wor

was. Friends, can I encourage you with this question? If we have

to represent someone today, who will we be representing? Who? Do you

know? Is it what we learn from outside the world? Is it a

certain understanding of the Bible? Only I'm so fixated on this understanding of the

Bible, so it must be right. Just one part? Do you know

that the Bible is amazing? That you have to accept everything, not just

one part that one don't believe the fullness? Or can we confidently say we're

representing Christ, Jesus, our Lord and Savior. I want to encourage us,

guys, don't don't don't take this as a scolding. I pray that

you will receive it well, because when we can, when you see and

when we can have this kind of you know, the side Sometimes I when

I when I look at the Bible and the way God tells them, you

know, he tells us that we need to have faith like little children.

Our faith just needs to be so pure. Sometice. The older we grow,

the more the more we know. Maybe not the best singer, but

when we were younger. I tell you when my kids pray for me,

right, it's too simple that Lord Jesus please heal my daddy from his cough.

Amen. Maybe some less we need that know, and he believes.

M H. Friends, that is an opportunity in every obstacle in our lives.

I want to proclaim that over you. You know, I I share

a little bit, but I don't think I can share much. But I'll

just leave you with one thing. M H. So eight years ago found

out my son was has mouldism, had to deal with my own whatever for

six months two years. I thought it was a punishment from God. I

felt it was like a punishment from God. Eight Yes, now I've really

had two or three conversations with other parents and I again I said, I'm

not an expert. Now, guys, I'm not experting. I didn't go

and study days. I didn't. In fact, if you want to be

expert, it's not easy, like if you go and get a medical degree.

But the conversations I have with them and more like they thought and I

just listened. Was amazing because I was just there and I just said,

yeah, I understand. And they talked for two and a half hours.

And I think two weeks ago a mom who's again not not a believer,

she's not a Christian. She was like, you know what, I've never

shared this with anyone, but I'm so cold to for sharing you. And

I'm like, okay, And I was just encouraging the person. I said,

your daughter is doing well, She's okay, she will get better.

Are you sure? Yeah? Should get better based on one you're doing now,

She's going to get better. And it's hope. All you need to

do is keep leaving. Who knows one day? This person, I know

the lot, But what I'm trying to say is that you know, if

we only see challenges, I pray that today we will have a slightly different

perspective. And to help us with that perspective, I pray that we will

try to also have an understanding of who God is before we make a judgment,

be open in our hearts to say, Lord, are you doing something?

Teach me a lot, show me in your word, where in your

word that you're doing this in my life. Yes, it's tough Yes it's

hard. Yes I'm going through a lot of challenges right now. I don't

feel great. But Lord comfort me, help me. Lord, come and

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