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For I am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

  2. will light up your team today. I just wanted to share something that's really

  3. close to me. It's from Romans. Chapter one was sixteen. Romans chapter

  4. one. We're sixteen, and we will see how the Lord would lead us.

  5. Romans one was sixteen. Okay, for I'm not ashamed, For I'm

  6. not a shame of the Gospel of Christ. For it is power of God

  7. to salvation and everyone who believes, for the jew first and also for the

  8. Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith,

  9. as it is written that just shall live by faith. Amen. So

  10. we're sixteen. Paul is encouraging us that we should not be ashamed of the

  11. Gospel of Christ. Sometimes we struggle with this in our daily life, in

  12. our daily war. We don't have a problem with this, especially in the

  13. midst of believers, in the midst of the crowd that share the same value.

  14. It is need to worship in a chest setting like this whereby similar values.

  15. But when you go back to work, or when you go back to

  16. school and stuff like that, and you find yourself alone holding onto the principles

  17. and values that you've been taught and you've been asked to follow. Sometimes it's

  18. challenging, meaning to say that, oh, should I tell people that I

  19. am a Christian? Not should I tell people that this is what I believe

  20. in? Meaning say that the times will be challenged, whereby your faith takes

  21. the words, it's being confronted. So pauls are asking us this morning for

  22. I'm not ashamed. Friends, Sometimes we the word ashamed. Sometimes we don't

  23. like to be associated with sometimes because of reputation or not right because a reputation,

  24. I don't also siaate with that. Already what we wear right now we

  25. can associate with the bread right, and sometimes you don't wear us the things

  26. because we kind of also say with the things because you don't really believe in

  27. it. And this morning I felt the law once a minister to all there

  28. is nothing wrong with the gospel. Right. Sometimes you don't also shame with

  29. something because we feel there's something bad. And that's why sometimes uh, we

  30. do not want to be related to because it's not good. But there's nothing

  31. wrong with the gospel. There's nothing wrong with God. So Paul saying that

  32. it's us right, now we have to evaluate because for I am not ashamed.

  33. It's not God that will say that. For God, it's a shame

  34. of us because of our sins, you know what I mean. So it's

  35. it's a separate story regards I am so ashamed of Elvin. You know last

  36. night she only took his wife to for this pizza place on in nothing else,

  37. right, God, do not say that. God say that that's there's

  38. nothing wrong with the Gospel. So you and I need to re look at

  39. our own life. You and I need to really look at our own because

  40. the Bible hears this. For I'm not ashamed. Friends, if today,

  41. if the words that you feel that you have to change your values in front

  42. of people, then maybe a perhaps something you have looked deeper. Because God

  43. was a minister to us. There must be a secret, why paulsy For

  44. I'm not ashamed, right, So therefore pause asking us to look within first,

  45. then look external. God's asking us to look into our hearts first,

  46. because I don't really believe in the gospel, because there's nothing wrong with the

  47. Gospel. There is nothing wrong with God. So our faith right now has

  48. to be expressed in a way through the way we believe. We will only

  49. express our faith to the level we believe. We will only express our faith

  50. to the level will we believed. If you don't believe in something, you

  51. will not express, you, not pursue, you not show what really matters.

  52. At the end of the day, when you believe that this girl is

  53. for you, you would sort of go out of the way, right,

  54. you will sort of express you. You will sort of like share and you

  55. want to do something extra special because you believe ma. Right. But where

  56. you don't believe, what happens, it's only economy rights after della right any

  57. words, every economy rights you say, I give you buffaith. Choose anything

  58. you want to think as much as you want, right, it's still buffe

  59. with in a way STI have to pay a price. But when you believe

  60. and you love someone, it will not be the economy rights. It will

  61. be a class economy rights, a real buffet. So so therefore let's look

  62. reding first, for I am not ashamed. So this morning, where are

  63. you at right now? Without our faith? Have we been expressing faith in

  64. the sense of, like we know that God's real? Right? So let

  65. me just try to get to some points here, all right, mark it

  66. the sixth verse, that it mark it the the sixth verse that the e

  67. for what we what we profit a man if he gains the whole world but

  68. loses his soul. The Bible here says what profits a man? What does

  69. a man gains at the end of the day he begins the whole world but

  70. loses his soul. So God doesn't have a problem with people gaining things.

  71. He doesn't have an issue people being prosperous. He's more concerned about where our

  72. soul is going at the end of the day, because things doesn't give us

  73. purpose. What you have right now, what you wear right now, how

  74. much you have in terms of wealth right now doesn't give us purpose and meaning

  75. because read direct purpose and meaning true the things that we have. But a

  76. lot of times, if our values and our image and our worth is determined

  77. by how much we have, then God wants to minister to us this morning

  78. because it's encouraging us that what profit will the man gain if it gains the

  79. whole world but loses So that's why pause asking us that the Gospel of Christ

  80. is so important because it helps us to understand who we are. Many times

  81. in our lives we pursue things. We accumulate things, but at the end

  82. of the day, right, we have to give it away. So when

  83. I guess everybody goes through the phase when we are young, we have a

  84. certain image a house at home supposed to look like. But as you begin

  85. to age, then you realize that why on earth died by this thing?

  86. Have you ever come there? Why on earth dies like this furniture? Man,

  87. if I can reverse back the time, I will not purchase the furniture

  88. because it's a hassard to move that. I begin to ache a bitten right

  89. now, I just begin to realize. I told my wife that no more

  90. bi funiture after a Suddle age. Yes, no more bin funiture at the

  91. Sudain age, because it is a has to move number one. Then if

  92. as as people say that, as you begin to ish after what you want

  93. the downsize, where are you gonna put all the stuff? You have to

  94. find someone to throw the stuff away. And many times the only life you

  95. accumulate stuff only to throw it away. How many times you accumulate take away

  96. to posh And I actually believe in recycling and stuff like that. First,

  97. but there's a culm point. There's a Suddain point where by recycling and only

  98. take so much. Okay, you're covered on there's so much space we accument

  99. you know what you buy those um like um milk powder or something. They

  100. have this spoon one, they have this free spoon. They always give to

  101. you at the plastic spoon, the measuring spoon. But okay, we'll get

  102. what's the over time? Your wife is luck here? Okay, how yeh

  103. as coming the service that you can say, okay, appreciate it more.

  104. But those guys measuring spoon be a cumulate because one day, one day we'll

  105. use it and the one day truly sometimes that will come because we have a

  106. lot. Every will find every reason to use in the things. Now it's

  107. so much up the it was, it's existent. What profit the man be

  108. gains the whole world? You gain the whole couple of tableware. But losers

  109. who you are at the end of the day. First, okay, I'm

  110. using tap twere, but don't don't give us meaning. You look in you're

  111. trying to find out where you wan't go in life. Open up your top.

  112. It's empty, just like sometimes our life is empty. Sorry for what

  113. were the man gained in exchange where it is so worse. It is for

  114. whoever's a shame of me and my words. Whoever it's a shame of me

  115. and my words, Who I would do, not what associate with me and

  116. my words? Who I would have full confidence with me and my words in

  117. this doubtous and sinful generation of him, summer Man will also be ashamed.

  118. And it comes to glory of your father, which it's only injuries. So

  119. this morning, God wants to encourage us that do not be ashamed of what

  120. I'm going to share with you. Do not be ashamed of associating with me.

  121. Because the world can give you a certain type of pleasure, but it's

  122. only temporary. I could give you a certain type of pleasure which is permanent.

  123. The world can only give you a certain type of direction and meaning.

  124. But I could give you away whereby is ever lasting. The world can give

  125. you a place whereby you will have immense wealth. But the summit is also

  126. right. But I finally understood their end. Because their pathway is so slippery,

  127. they live, they may not see it. God sees the beginning and

  128. the end. So Mark chapter eight was the six to It reminds us again

  129. that he has He doesn't have a problem with people profiting. But God has

  130. an issue, or rather has a challenge for people that who cannot find life

  131. and cannot find meaning. Is any true at day of the day, it's

  132. so important for you and me to understand why we are here for why what

  133. is our purpose here on earth? Because if there is no purpose, you

  134. leave for eternity. If there's no purpose, you leave for eternated me to

  135. say that we just leave it because you'll just consume. But there is a

  136. reason why there's an expiated It is because we're supposed to used before the expirate

  137. date. Every product that we have on shelf right now that always expirated,

  138. and those things is not to supposed to be admire to keep friends. We

  139. are not wine. You're supposed to keep whatever. I'm not sure. Someone

  140. give me wine before I know what to do with it. I just opened.

  141. I just opened just cooke the ballads. I kept it for sixty six

  142. eight months, then only fare cannot use again on I said, I kept

  143. it for a year Plasza in the fridge. So my friend said, no,

  144. once you open it, you have to consume it within this certain time

  145. frame, otherwise it would be spoiled. I said, Oh, I said

  146. to this small bottles for cooking. Anyway, says the separate story altogether?

  147. All right? Now, Daniel? Chapter three? Was it? Let's read

  148. chapter three? Was it okay? D chapter three? Was it? We're

  149. gonna read from was it? Was it? In Daniel? Chapter three?

  150. Was it? Sorry? I just let me look for the Book of Daniel

  151. in my bible. It's missing. I'm sorry, Oh, bible, lad,

  152. So I'm trying to press it together with cello tape. Sometimes the chapters

  153. I left out? Okay? Sorry? Chapter chapter three? Was it okay?

  154. There was a certain time the Calders came forward and accuse the Jews.

  155. Verse nine. They spoke and say, this is the king of that book,

  156. and there's a kingly forever. Your old king have made a decree that

  157. everyone who hears all the different instruments shall father and worship the gold image.

  158. Friends, there will be days in your life, in your journey of life,

  159. will be challenged whereby do we believe or not? You'll be challenged in

  160. friends, do we believe or not? I'll be ashame or not? The

  161. word is that, for example, in the midst of people that may not

  162. share the same faith as us. Do we even give thanks for the food?

  163. Oh, we like m God understands so verse eleven. And wherever it

  164. does not fold down, worship that ever cast in the midst of the burning

  165. fiery furnace. Whoever does not bow down, worship the image will be cast

  166. now to the burning fiery image. Friends, the world is after our faith

  167. because if we can get us to a place whereby we don't put full trust

  168. in the Lord, they got us. Every everything that's coming against us really

  169. wants to dislodge us from our faith. Really, at the end of the

  170. day, they want us to lose faith in God. But every Sunday you

  171. come in humans as of faith because we want to reinforce faith again. Because

  172. throughout the week, our faith gets a beating, it leaks, it gets

  173. challenged, it gets to a place whereby we don't believe. There's there's there's

  174. one time I was talking to a believer it and you know, I see

  175. you believe in God, but then you have Christus. No I'm not talking

  176. about the wife's name. Okay, you believe in God, but you have

  177. this. I din't realize, I said, So where is where Where is

  178. your Where is the faith right now? Do you trust God all the way

  179. for healing? Hmmm, I see where is it right now? Like for

  180. example, I'm not sure where there's control. We should talking about faith and

  181. functory. I mean, there was there was a time whereby a believerable was

  182. trying to balance both in his life, you know, and then then then

  183. I remember speakers book to him this is it. But yeah, but don't

  184. you think that God at the end of day would direct us to where we

  185. should go? Because if faith is this matter putting where your bait is supposed

  186. to be, then why do we need faith in God? And the end

  187. of the day, there is no such a selective faith. There is no

  188. such a selective faith. So the Bible hears this, where wouldn't bow down

  189. and the worship shall be cast out? Now'stual. Certain jews that you have

  190. set over the affairs of the problems of Babylon, all right, they do

  191. not serve the God, your gods and worship the gold image that you're set

  192. up, were setting the nebucha angry commanded, scheduled and abnego to be brought

  193. before the king. I want to encourage you the days are coming whereby You'll

  194. be challenged so much, whether do you believe or not, You'll be challenged

  195. so much. To you. The Word said to take a step of faith

  196. to believe. When I say challenge, I'm not asking us. I don't

  197. think they will come a day wherever you deny Christ, but you lessen what

  198. you believe. Do you still believe in miracles that God can still heal?

  199. Do you still believe whereby God can still do the miraculous at the end of

  200. the day. Do we believe whereby it causes to action? Whereby I know

  201. the Lord is leading us even though I cannot fully see it understand. Do

  202. we still believe, friends, that God can can still use us emisses whereby

  203. we don't even understand the language? Do we trust a lot? Say that

  204. only God Kennedy can play solitar? But if God can use me, I'm

  205. really because the days are coming whereby we will shrink back even more if you

  206. don't take a progressive entity of moving things forward. I heard the story about

  207. the founder of World Vision. He said a prayer in this earliest days after

  208. he received Christ. He just told the Lord this statement and say, Lord,

  209. I am not I'm not the best speaker. Lord, I'm not the

  210. alist preacher that a Christian. You answer what I'm playing the superstars of the

  211. stage. I can't saying I can't preach. I started when I speak.

  212. He went on to say, by Lord, if anyone of this number one

  213. Christian, the one that that always on the limelight, is ever saying no

  214. to you Lord, or say it's too far, too hard, too much

  215. work. If anyone of this said no to you, Lord, would you

  216. consider me? Not? Can you consider me? Can you consider me and

  217. use me? That's all he did. M Then the rest is history.

  218. He studied world Vision and Samaritan Purse. Friends, our faith right now needs

  219. to be engaged. Then Buchaneza said that if you don't bow down and worship,

  220. you'll be chilling the five friends. What about us? Have you Heaven?

  221. Have you explained the place whereby not denying Christ but not expressing that he's

  222. a life in our life, see none of us here. We deny Christs,

  223. but not to live to the fullest expression of what our faith is.

  224. It's almost like denying you. Really, in times whereby God asks you to

  225. do certain things, have you said no, Law, I can't. I've

  226. rather bowed out to my bed and sleep. Now, I'm not against sleep

  227. of friends, I have a wife who loves to sleep. One this is

  228. sabots alarm cloud. Yes, husband learned to sabotash alarm cloud. Seriously sleep

  229. as they keep telling my wife you can sleep for alternative when the time comes.

  230. So she has no, she has no, she has no. The

  231. word is reference point of time of waking time on because she's allowed to sleep

  232. unto someband the shelve. You know, growing up you had this right right,

  233. soucied food right, right, So I always tell my wife that,

  234. you know, you got to learn how to wake up early, like they're

  235. like selling them in the morning. Right, you have to learn the wake

  236. up in fact before service. Even better, I said, trying to beat

  237. the alarm clob because the so a lot of people said the first thing you

  238. do when you wake up is very important, right, is to make your

  239. bit and stuff like right, I said, No, the most important in

  240. life is to beat the alarm clob because you find that you can overcome.

  241. Sorry, this this, this is this is me encouraging my wife too.

  242. Sorry anyway to husband, clipplease the play but friends, but we have to

  243. express what we believe you really like so the So the three friends were confronted

  244. by King the Bok. If you don't bounder the worship me, I'll show

  245. you in the fire. If you don't mounther the worship me, I'll kill

  246. you. If you don't mounther the worship me, I'll remove everything from you.

  247. Sometimes in life we are so dependent on things. So I remember one

  248. time when Pastor Cane and Passer was doing my premutch counseling. He asked me

  249. and Shelly a question, what but one day if everything you don't have everything

  250. anymore, you have no not enough savings, you know, everything, just

  251. you know, I mean, there come a point in time whereby you don't

  252. have you Just imagine right now you don't have. We used to hold on

  253. to this marriage and not well you still believe in each other or will you

  254. start blaming each other? There was a question was asked to me. We

  255. used to hold on to each other, but you don't have You don't have

  256. the luxury of aircorn right now because of the heat that we experience an aircorn

  257. it's a second nature to earth. Right, that's a lot right now,

  258. a lot of it, like she said, has right up A lot but

  259. at what point if you don't have that anymore, can you still haunt to

  260. each other or not? For me, it's my kitchen, my pots and

  261. pants. I have a lot. I have to confess right now to before

  262. you church. I have a lot. I have things where but I wouldn't

  263. have ice cream maker at home. I bought it. I have to confess

  264. right now, the same one you see a master chef. Yes, I

  265. have. I have the exact same one, the one they carry upon the

  266. table. One why I love it. Okay, I've chinned out one ice

  267. cream before and it's about there. So there's one that was one time my

  268. wife took one my coffee thing and she left it on the stoof for too

  269. long. It's sort of uh, not melted, but yeah it not melted

  270. that it will melt that, but it got disfigured. Lout say right that

  271. point in time, right, I would say where the marriage is really important?

  272. Not seriously because I understand, Okay, you've been telling me with it,

  273. but it's so personal. So it's almost like God say that in one

  274. point, but remove everything away from you. Would you would you still hold

  275. on or are you just wanting the good stuff with me? From me and

  276. everything else. The best server cannot We're living in God, We're living in

  277. Christ. Are you expecting just a clear strip path without any any any jam

  278. having made a detour. This is what our perception of crisis, because if

  279. it is, then it broke up. Then chapter three it says that this

  280. tree really believe God. They didn't do anything well, there was no sin

  281. in their life. Friends, but they were brought up in front of King

  282. Bucaneza. If you don't bow down to this image and worship me, I

  283. have to throw you to the fire, because the they will come in our

  284. life thereby will be challenged constantly, constantly will be challenged. What would our

  285. response be at the end of to day? I know that. So they

  286. are different age group. I cannot give you practical examples, but friends in

  287. our in our lifestyle as well in our lifestyle. So the three three friends

  288. friends, there was no passer with them. There was there's mentor wasn't The

  289. hard leader wasn't there, the home leader wasn't there. They have they have

  290. a real option to actually bow down, and nobody else knows think about it,

  291. nobody, nobody knows what They could also come to a place where why

  292. this statement was always used. God understands, it's my life. And the

  293. day God understands give us acond chance something's in our life. Friends, you

  294. and I know that once you cross that line, it will go understand something

  295. that we regret for the rest of her life. I've known someone who actually

  296. of somebody's who was relating a friend of hers, who actually abouted the child,

  297. abouted the child, and she said, to this very day, she

  298. really regretted the decision. To this very day she could turn back the cloud.

  299. She would not have done it. The days in our life whereby we

  300. will have this damage. Chapter three, experience God emits in front of you.

  301. If you bogga and worship me right everything you can keep, everything you

  302. can keep. So these three friends is an example for us. He says

  303. that in verse sixteen. But Sha Benegal said, and answer the king,

  304. Oh, we have no need to answer you in this matter. For if

  305. there's a case, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver

  306. us from the burning, fiery furness, and who deliver us from your hand,

  307. O King, was eighteen. But if not, if not letting me

  308. known you, O King, that will not serve your gods, nor we

  309. worship the gold image that you set up. First of all, they were

  310. so confident that God where it's able to deliver them. Friends, we do

  311. not need to come to a place whereby things happened to us that we decide.

  312. We do not need to wait until things happened to us that we decide.

  313. I mean, think about falling in love our friends. You just you,

  314. you don't do not just standing in front of girl that the girl they

  315. marry me. I mean you never talked about it. You know, you

  316. never thought about this person. Oh she's beside you marry me. You have

  317. to come to a place where about your purpose in your heart right now.

  318. Every guy who proposed before you think about the cause, said financial planning before.

  319. So you just by faith. But there is a process whereby you know,

  320. you know this is the right girl, This is the right girl,

  321. This is the right girl. Not you show up the cinema a gusty beside

  322. you marry me. Nobody does that. Fans movie, no movie, No,

  323. it doesn't work. It doesn't work, It doesn't work. What I'm

  324. trying to say here is this that you have you and I have to propose

  325. inal heart even before the challenge Number one we have for us not to be

  326. ashamed. It's not a shame mabby when the time comes. But in our

  327. house right now, you resolve, you may have resolved in your heart that

  328. this is this is my life. Number one. Number two is that you

  329. need to have this confidence that our God is a God that do deliver us

  330. our God to God that come true for us. That's why I thought,

  331. I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. Friends, Christ came some of

  332. you may not. Christ came for us. He came to die for us.

  333. The gospel is about Jesus. So what he did before he died,

  334. it's very bothered for you and me. You and I need to remember what

  335. he did before before he died. His life of perfect obedience is his example.

  336. His life of perfect obedience. He's atoning death, and the cross of

  337. his death gives us meaning with them shit. His resurrection from the day gives

  338. us insight that God is alive, that even death could not overcome him.

  339. See, for we are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. Right this

  340. is what Christ symbolizes, his ascension to heaven and his outpouring of the Holy

  341. Spirit upon the church. The fool works. Some people dislike the life of

  342. Christ Americas and stuff that, but don't like the cltification is the suffering.

  343. Friends, we want the resurrection, but we do not go on to go

  344. through the suffering. It's hard, you know, there's no such thing in

  345. life. One. It is very hard. So the true friends said,

  346. first of all, we have decided, really that we will not bow down.

  347. We have already decided. Friends. You know, wait until the problem

  348. comes, only you decide number one. No, right, you have to

  349. decide right now, friends, right now. If you're a singer, you

  350. have to decide who and what kind of values that you want in your life

  351. partner, Who and what kind of values you want in your life partner?

  352. Don't be a spoil of the moment. Everything about her is good. And

  353. after that, slip us going. After that, you come and see us.

  354. You know what, Please, don't we have enough radio okay to copy

  355. with this? Seriously, what does that means? It means that we have

  356. enough radio rights. I mean to see that we are we are walking to

  357. people with the journey lao. Seriously, we have the head off tissues to

  358. couple us. You know, in our counseling. It's Okay, it's all

  359. right. If God can accept you, you can accept life. But no

  360. one can. There's those such as mistake one. There's it's okay, God,

  361. get the mistake into go on, can can But we have we have,

  362. we have seen Mary just in our compus, our change like why why

  363. you say so key on, that's why in our pigic open your eyes big

  364. big please, open your eyes big big please. Okay, right, I

  365. say, what do you like about her? Her voice is so nice,

  366. it's so sweet, so sweet, so nice, that said, yeah,

  367. what happened after your voice? Right now? So night like nagging like they're

  368. like like like a fly like this, you know, little mosquito sound very

  369. nice? What was sweet before it becomes a fly? After that? Friends,

  370. we cannot be selective, you cannot the word is that? Oh?

  371. I just like this part. I don't like the part there's one guy was

  372. talking to one time. I like girl she looks really good, but I

  373. like girls be temperman. But they can only choose one. But I like

  374. girlie. She's so sweet. That looks so nice, But girl be temperment

  375. is so adorable. How I mean, come out if you're the council.

  376. But what would you say, huh, married toa? So I would say

  377. married married toua. Girls, you see who the guys say married to Okay,

  378. come he here, come here all right, I got a close ready,

  379. I gotta go to Banda. But you cannot just cannot just say I

  380. love how Christ attends to litera chidren right, but I don't like the period

  381. whereby he has to go up to the cross and carry the cross being sped

  382. at. The only the only time where you're not ashamed of and you embrace

  383. fully. The only time you won't be ashamed of when you embrace is fully.

  384. So the three friends told the king, my God would deliver me such

  385. confidence. When you're in full confidence of who God is, you know that

  386. he delivered. There's those such things as they did. End. There is

  387. really no such thing as they did. End. I was talking the elder

  388. Elder Terrence is powerful of what I mean istry right now he's retired and his

  389. wealth of journey of life, how God brought him true from nothing to where

  390. he is. And he was just sharing one of the stories that he was

  391. involved a project he was involved within. He said, Eldre, you know

  392. I was asking because he was a gem of a particular school. He said

  393. that, you know, I wanted to ask the property agent look for me.

  394. He said, oh, impossible. You have money to buy it,

  395. then money to buy it, So he said, cannot be the self of

  396. God. Tell me if this is a place for me to get on,

  397. he at least you'll make a road for me. And so I said,

  398. so what do you do? I decided to call up the other company property

  399. department. I see what you can cool? Cool? Course I wanna So

  400. yeah, I just called Coco an appointment with them. I help. My

  401. company is safe about twenty in twenty of the of the property value, so

  402. I don't have to pay any aging anything. I just do directly with the

  403. owner. So I look at him and just say, like, well,

  404. such confidence, really, such confidence, Fritz. If you know that God's

  405. reviewed, then nothing can be against you. So far, I'm not ashamed

  406. of the Gospel of Christ. Or is the power on the salvation for those

  407. who believe, for the just shall live by faith. This is how I'm

  408. going to close. I'll faith in It is an expression and the other day

  409. it's not just about the things that you get, but our faith. Our

  410. faith lit an expression. At the end of the day. When we worship

  411. friends, we don't worship. We don't not clap because the worship is clapping.

  412. We clap because we know that our Lord deserves our clap. Going for

  413. missions, gring for missions. When was the last time we say that I

  414. may not understand the culture, I may not understand the food, but yet

  415. I want to go for missions. I may not understand the culture and the

  416. food. Do you know that there was a I might share this with you

  417. before about there's a place that the more people cloud in Buntu because the first

  418. thing when when they came back with two goodies or busan king, how every

  419. household give them? I do I do have food. I don't have thing,

  420. not too much, but we have moosan king. You want to eat?

  421. Not? So the team they went busy about five to six houses.

  422. They ate for one house to another house, to another house to another house.

  423. Mousan king they brought back to our office. Say this to Bunis.

  424. They say, this gives you your pastors and your food, time workers and

  425. stuff like that to share, to share the lift. Subsequently, after that,

  426. right, I remember that I seen I saw the listing the time that

  427. people who signed for their place or increase because you know why, it got

  428. nice food to eatma, So other places may not be that nice on lesser

  429. people want. But friends, it's not just about the benefits we can get

  430. off from the place. Well. Fifthness expression, so the just shall live

  431. by faith. Where was the last time our faith we express our faith?

  432. Now? I'm not asking in terms of giving friends. I'm asking in terms

  433. of online When was the last time we express our faith? I believe Lord,

  434. because to say that, oh, I cannot is to deny Christ.

  435. If God say that you can, but we say that we can't, that's

  436. denying. Every parent will look at the child, you can you can't come,

  437. you can swim, you can seem just diving. You can swim.

  438. The child will say, no, I can't. I'm afraid of water,

  439. afraid I would drown. I cannot finish drinking all the swimming pool water to

  440. save myself. I can't. But the day will say, you just jump,

  441. I will guide you, I would help you. That They did not

  442. tell the child say you watch ten hours of YouTube with how to seem and

  443. you survivee you do one of the things. It's very hard to learn how

  444. to seem on YouTube. But if you ever try before, he can use

  445. the pointers and stuff that. But to un learn the stroke is very hard.

  446. To un learn your swimming stroke, It is very hard. The Jude

  447. shall live by faith. Our expression of faith is not just how high we

  448. jumped, because the day you come, your calculations no more already our expressions

  449. to how loud you clap, because the day will come here by when you

  450. get older. Friends, it's true now and they said you cannot keep in

  451. tempo, the day will come here by. I'll strength with feel externally.

  452. But our fire insight has to grow. Our fire is that has to grow

  453. even louder and brighter because the Judge shall live by faith. Faith is not

  454. an on off switch. I turn on my faith in church. I turn

  455. on my faith after church, a faith if it's a life somewhereby to truly

  456. believe that if God is for me and I think it can be against me

  457. Philippines three. I think sixteen says that I can do all things through Christ,

  458. who strengthens me. Sometimes as a doubt, we feel in many ways

  459. we feel to plan for the future. A lot of things are events,

  460. the pressure and the stuff like that. We look to our life series of

  461. life pictures. We realize there's so many mistakes that were made. It's true

  462. we meet not very wise decision. I would a mistake, but not very

  463. good decision, and we're living with it right now. But at the end

  464. the summary of it all, do we still believe that God is able to

  465. use this? The summary of it all? Do you think that God can

  466. just use our mistake and turn around for his glory? The summary? In

  467. all, friends, our expression cannot just be when we are young, then

  468. we can be on fire when we are older than we look towards a greener

  469. pasture. Our expression of faith as you grow older has to be able brighter

  470. than we were younger. Because there's no such thing as the judge. I'll

  471. live by faith until twenty five years old. Come on next, PJ.

  472. I truly believe friends, you and I need the exercise of faith. See

  473. when we look at our home strengths, the same old people, the same

  474. faces for the past six years, no growth. I got a message.

  475. I'm preparing right now. I got a message I prepared right now and say

  476. that things that's strolled in front of my house and every day I come back,

  477. that'll be different, you know, different plastic bag that will fly at

  478. the gate at the door my git and the question to me, I just

  479. checking my spirits. How long would you allow that thing to be fire or

  480. gate and not throw away? And it was to check in my stream?

  481. Because how long will not allow the homes to be empty? This is like

  482. a formal seats formal capacity five more capacity? How long will allow XPG to

  483. remain with empty chairs around me? Whereby if my faith the Bible says,

  484. I speak to the mountis, and the mountis be moved. The welcome back

  485. you put out every weekend, how long we will put the same welcome back

  486. there and not prey all the welcome back? Say every welcome back will be

  487. taken. Every chair in XPG will field see our faith need the expression,

  488. friends, it's not just a leader's expression, but our own personal life journey.

  489. Say how long will we allow things to be rowed at our doorstep and

  490. not attend to it? Because faith is power at the end of the day,

  491. and power needs to be tapped. If we ever touch a life current

  492. before it changes you, it gives you a jot in your heart. But

  493. the moment we detach from the power, we lose the sensation really, and

  494. that's why we need to express our faith daily. The judge, I'll live

  495. by faith. Because we're expressing it daily, we start losing the sensation and

  496. once the one we touch life like that, what have we been challenged with?

  497. What have you been struggling with? You know that's occupying our hearts,

  498. our mind? That's the word. Is that robbing us from the peace.

  499. The God says that I'll grant you my peace, the pieces surpasses all understanding.

  500. I'll give you I provided for you, the Bible says. So therefore,

  501. don't be in a place where you're worried, but come into my joy,

  502. coming to my rest. For I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of right

  503. Christ, for there is power in it. Friends, too many Christians are

  504. living without power and living under friends, power doesn't mean that you have no

  505. problems. Pow will mean say you have strength to overcome every challenge that comes

  506. your way. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information

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