12+1 Core Values: Word Faithful | Eld Terence Atkinson

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

We hope this message will light up your.

Day today's word. And if you have these little booklets,

we are actually doing twelve plus one core values. Now

there are basically the core values of X church, right,

but they're not how should I say, just for X.

They are basically it's like the early church. It is

like how it was during the time of the Book

of X. And what were those values that made it

very special for them? My word I'm sweating is the

aircon on. It is right, that's what happens when you're

seeing without practicing. Okay, you sweat, Okay, praise the Lord,

you know, Okay, word faithful, Let's go on. In Acts

two forty two, it says, and they continued stadfastly in

the apostles, doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread

and impress. Here they continued stadfastly in the apostles. What doctrine?

What was the doctrine? The doctrine basically is the Word

of God. Hey, guys, you and I, we live by

our thoughts, we live by our actions, we live by

our work. But what's important is we live by the

Word of God. All right now. In Matthew twenty four

thirty five, it says this heaven and earth. Heaven and

Earth will pass away, but my words will by no

means pass away. Now, I wanted to study this, and

I went a little bit deeper into this word heaven

and Earth. And I thought, before I studied it that

this word heaven actually means like the sky. You know,

it means like out of space. You know, it means

that that kind of heaven, and it does. It means that.

But I was shocked to learn that it also means

the abode of God. That's what that word means. The

one really shocked me, all right. And then of course

it says earth. Now Earth, you know what earth is.

We are standing on Earth, although we are eleven stories up,

so we're standing on concrete, right, But it is still

on the earth because without the earth, this building will

be floating and that does not happen. So heaven and

Earth will pass away. So it is not saying that

the heaven of the abode of God is going to

pass away. It's not staying saying that. It is drawing

something so fantastic for us to understand what he's trying

to get at So he's saying, even my abode can

pass away, but my word will by no means pass away.

So what is God actually telling us in this scripture?

God is actually putting the Word of God in its

perspective and place, in his realm, in his understanding, in

how he expects you and us to live. He has

actually put it as the most important thing his word.

This word will not pass away. In other words, the

most fantastic thing you can think of will not last.

But my word is eternal. Who is the word? Jesus

is the word. So that's the first thing we learn

next week. Learn the Word of God is so central

to the life of a Christian simply because it is unshakeable.

It is unshakable. Guys, you and I will face so

many things in life. We're gonna face troubles at work.

We're gonna face joyful time with our family. We are

gonna face heartache with them as well. It's not gonna

be easy. There'll be fights, there'll be strife. Hey, look,

we're gonna face challenges. Some will be good, some won't

be so good. We're gonna face all kinds of things.

I am sixty five years old and I think only

talked by you, sister least all right, and the Chinese

says she's eaten more salt? Am I right? Okay, so

I eat a little bit less salt than you, and

all of the rest got a long bags of salt

to eat before they come to our level. All right,

bags and bags kilograms or salt. Don't eat all the

salt and thing you'll get to our stage. Okay, that's

not what the Chinese proverb means. But what I'm sure

she will tell you, and I am here to tell you,

is despite every issue that we've gone in life, having children,

seeing them grow up, go to school, go to college,

get married, all these things, God has been the one

to help us through the tough stuff, and every time

we face the difficulty, we ran to his word. Jeremiah

thirty three says Jeremiah thirty three, verse three. Let me

read that to you. It says, this call on to me,

and I will answer you and show you great and

mighty things which you do not know. This is what

the word of God says. Man. If you understand that word,

you won't be afraid when something bad happens. I remember

that when I was in school, I was in. I

was studying in Singapore, right, And I've told this to

many people that during the time I was studying there,

I was staying in a hostel. So I'd go to

school the whole day. I'll be in school from seven

in the morning because I have to start actually getting

on the bus at six. I'll reach school around seven

seven fifteen. I'll be in school from seven until seven

in the night. Why because I did all sorts of things.

I was the tennis coach. I was all the whole shebang.

I will reach my hostel back at eight eight thirty.

Then I go and have my dinner, do my little

bit of homework, do my studies, and eleven o'clock, you

know what I do, go to church. What was I

doing in church? Praying for deliverance cases together with the

pastor from eleven to maybe three am, four am, five am,

catch one or two hours sleep, and repeat the whole

cycle again. This is what I did almost every day.

So I would go and share with my friends what

the Word of God could do and how demons came

out in the name of Jesus, because the Word of

God said it so. Based on Jeremiah thirty three, I

wrote in my one of my friend's autograph books. So

many years later I lost track of them. It's about

ten fifteen years later. No, in fact, not thirty years later.

Thirty years later I get into contact with one of them,

one of my classmates. So I asked him, what are

you doing? He says, I'm a pastor. I said, what

you're pastor? How did that happen? He says, you're to blame.

I said, what do you mean I'm to blame. I

haven't seen you in thirty years. He says, don't you

remember what you wrote in my autograph book? I said,

are you kidding? I can't remember what I wrote last night.

I'm going to remember what I wrote thirty five years ago.

He says, this is what you wrote in my auto Now,

how many of you know what an autograph book is? Okay?

A few of us older ones? Oh, the young ones also, okay, okay, okay,

this little book. And then before you leave cal you

gave everybody in. They write nonsense inside most of the time,

they write nonsense. Most of the time. Roses are red,

violence are blue. You know, no one looks as ugly

as you. All that kind of nonsense. They were right

in your autograph book. But I wrote this. I wrote,

if ever you run into trouble, call on the name

of Jesus and he will come and he will help you.

That's what I wrote to him. He said, that's what

you wrote to me. So he said, what happened? I said,

He said, well, I was on my yacht. By the way,

this friend of mine, he was a multi millionaire. So

even when he was studying with me, he was so rich.

His father bought him car in nineteen seventy nine. If

you were in Singapore and you owned a car, you

were very rich. In fact, if you own a car

in Singapore now you are very rich. So anyway, he

was so rich. He was so rich his father bought

him a car. I remember it was a Nissan Blue Bird.

So anyway, he said, I was on my yacht and

I was alone in the ocean, and something happened and

I was about to die. Everything was not working. I

was alone, and that was it. It was a gone

case for me at that moment. I remembered what you

wrote in my autograph book, and I called on the

name of Jesus, and this is what he said. Jesus

came walking on the water and saved him. He said,

the moment he got to show, he gave everything up

and went to serve the Lord full time. He's a

pastor today. He's a pastor in Indonesia. And you and

I we think the word of God is just words. No,

it's not solid, it's unshakable, it's immovable. It does not

you know, if I were to be a person, one

day I speak to you this, and the next day

I speak to you that, do you have trust in

what I say? If I flip flop like that, I

mean I'm not steady, I'm not sure. I'm not immovable

when I say something that is just talking rand Do

you know people like that? I know people like that.

But the ones who are firmed. Once it's said, it's done,

it's done, finish. So the moment they say it's taken

care of, you walk away and you already know. I

don't need to worry about it. That's God, unshakable, immovable,

You can count on it, the word of God. So

the word is exalted above God's own name. This is

another one that I struggle with. Wow, your word is

above your name? Until we understand that God's name is

the embodiment of his word. You and I sometimes we

take the name of Jesus. Very likely you Cantonese people,

more cong yes, soon? Why not? I learned this a

long time ago. What more cong YAsO me? Don't talk

Jesus literally means don't talk nonsense? Why not? Okay? You

all are very you don't answer. Okay, I'm telling you

that's what it means. Right. I'm sixty years old, sixty

five years old. This is what we learn not during

the seventies. You know how it helped me. One day

I was meeting with a contractor and a contractor was

trying to cheat us, trying to cheat us a six

hundred dollars. So when I questioned him, then the contractor

spoke no. The consultants spoke to the contractor more cong

So I took very dramatic I took the big file

of the contract and I threw it on the table.

He said, more con What did you tell him not

to tell me? So I learned some as cantonist. God's

word is not like that. God's word is exalted above

his own name. Hey, do you believe it that when

you pray for people they will get healed? Okay, you're

saying amen just because I'm asking the question, or you

really believe it. If you really believe it, then you

are God's power on this earth today to bring healing

to your friends. Hey, God's word did not say only

the pastors can lay hands in the name of Jesus

and the people will be healed. You are a rotten person,

so if you pray in the name of Jesus, nothing

will happen. Guys, God's Scripture, in God's Scripture, we are

already known to be rotten. Scripture says there's no good, no,

not one, not even one. So if you look at

yourself in the mirror and say you're good, God's word

looks at you and says you're not good, not even one.

But you see, God did not institute that as the

criteria for his word to work. What was the criteria

instituted for the for the word to work? His name?

Because his name is above everything else. I don't know

whether I shared this with you before, but this one

will help you. But please don't do it unless the

Lord speaks to you. I don't want you to say, oh,

I did something like this because the speaker said that, No, no, no,

you are responsible for your own faith. My daughter was

about a year old. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, just lessen

a year and we went to church and she was

crying and crying and crying, none stop crying and crying

and crying. But we were in church to do what

to worship God? God first, this is my understanding. Okay,

God first, I'm so bad. I let my daughter cry.

I know why she was crying. I mean I don't

have extra vision, so I don't know why she's crying. Okay,

she cried immediately after the service, after the worship was over,

she was still crying. That would be now four to

six hours. So I told my wife, let's take her

to the hospital. So we took her to the hospital.

And when we went to the hospital, the doctor did

an national examination and say, she's dislocated the army. Baby,

She's just located arm. So when you carry a child,

don't carry a child with the two arms. You just

carry the two arms. Let not good, carry the child

under the arm with the body. That's how you carry

a child anyway. So he says, I'm going to get

the X ray ready. I looked at my wife and

my daughter was still sitting on her lap and still crying.

So she was sitting down. I was standing up. I

had a toy in my hand, but my daughter was crying.

And I looked at my wife and I said, I

am not happy with my child going through an X

ray at this age. So let's pray. Father. We went

through a service, we honored you, and your word says

that we honor you. You'll be there for us, You'll

honor us back. So Father, I pray in the name

of Jesus, heal her right now. In Jesus name, me pray.

And the moment I said in Jesus Name, I pray,

my daughter reached out to grab the toy from me

with the arm that was supposed to be dislocated, and

immediately she started giggling and giggling and giggling, from crying

to giggling and giggling and giggling and laughing and gig

she was laughing. So I just looked at my wife

and says, she's healed. Let's go. So I just took

her to the counter. I'm telling you the truth. I

just took her to the counter. Tell the doctor not necessary,

she's healed. And I walked up. Why is that where

is the name of Jesus. God's word is exalted above

his own name. In Psalms one thirty eight, verse two,

it says, I will worship two words your holy temple,

and praise your name for your loving kindness and your truth.

For your name have magnified your word above For you

have magnified your word above all your name. Wow, you

have magnified your word above all your name. That was

an act of God. You say it was God who

has done it. God has said the word is going

to be above my name. Because he said it. I

believe it. I believe it because he said it. And

I know, yes, I know the Lord is going to

see me through. That's a song, by the way, So

it means eh. Okay, let me tell you what is

that word exhoct It means advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellence, increase,

lift up, magnify, be much, set by, nourished, promoted. That's

what this word means. Exalted above it means to make large.

God has made large his name. And then we talk

about what is his name. That word name means name.

It also means above all his fame, above all his renown.

In other words, God is identified by his name, and

the word exceeds even that. It is an honor, it

is an authority and character. Wow, Jesus, Jesus Jesus was called,

is called what the word? The word made flesh When

everything else feels, go back to the word. I tell

you that. On eighteenth of December twenty twenty five, I

was doing some work in base Cam and I hurt

my knee. I hurt my right knee. Wow. I thought

it would go away. You know, guys, we tried me. Macho,

We don't go to the doctor straight away. I'll get better.

One month went to two, Two months went to three.

Finally three and a half months. I decided to go

ahead to the doctor. Three and a half months. I'm

walking like this every day now, every day like this

for three months. Three and a half months, I went

to the doctor, who took an X ray. Then the

doctor tone, there's nothing wrong with your leg except you know,

it's muscles. Your age, see age, your age. You got

to go for physio. You got to learn how to

use your leg again. I mean, I've been walking for

sixty five years. All of a sudden, I got to

learn how to use my leg again. What's wrong with

this guide? So anyway, your leg you're old, you're this,

you're that. That was what the doctor said. So anyway,

I continue. Then I have to walk. I have to

open up the school on a Wednesday. That's my turn

to open up the school at seventy am. The thing

about this is that the doors, the glass doors, the

locker is on the floor. What's wrong with this? In

militia you go to China, all the glass doors, the

locker here. You know why on earth we got to

go down there? I have no idea. Seriously, it's so crazy.

The problem is I go down, I cannot come up.

Really serious, truthfully, I cannot come up. And then I

hold the handler to pull myself up. And then I

was afraid I will break the glass door because how

many of you know I don't weigh five pounds. This

cannot work. So what I did was I say, okay, God,

now mine it is my duty. I will buy a

pole a staff so that when I go on a Wednesday,

I'll go down and look and use the staff to

get up. So I was like the last abender, you know,

I brought my own staff. I brought my own staff

to the office so that day I actually only one sir.

I bend down and then I unlocked and I put

the staff and I pulled myself up in work. So

I got up. But you know what God wanted to

see to what extent I would go, still believing in

trusting him, but still doing what I needed to do

because it was right. And you know, I take a

picture and I put it on the group to say

those are open. You know what was my words there?

I encourage the rest of the school. I say every

initial bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

So in my pain, I confess the word. That was

Monday Wednesday. One man met me outside and then after

that they say, hey, you're having problems walking. I see

you struggling. They say, yeah, yeah, I got this problem

with me. He says, come and see me, Come and

see me on Monday. He happened to have been the

professor of Cairo, not Cairo, professor of physiotherapy with Cyberjaya University.

So I went to see him. So he checked my

knee out and he said, oh, you went to the doctor.

Yeah yeah, yeah, you took X ray. Yes, Why did

doctor say nothing wrong? He says, my age, I'm old

muscle's I got to learn how to walk again. Then

he says, I tell you what you know, what's your problem?

You got to dislocated me and don't worry ill. He

didn't give me any notice, No notice given, and suddenly

I can move my knee. I said, Wow, I'm okay,

I'm all right. The next day I went walking ten

kilometers again. That's God, that's how God comes through. I

confessed the word. I spoke the word at the time

when I was feeling pain, and God saw that I

was still willing to do the right thing. He arranged

the situation for someone to come and help me. So

I asked the doctor. How come the doctor cannot see

with an X rayed at my knees like that? He

shook his head. So until today, I'm also shaking my head.

So I'm waiting to see that doctor again. I got

a question to ask. So anyway, Jesus was called the word.

The word made flesh where everything else fails. Go back

to the words. So you are having trouble, So things

are not working right, father, I don't understand. Hey, how

many of your students here? Any students don't be shy. You're

either student or you're not. Okay two two students, Let

me tell you. When you struggle in your work, lay

hands on your books and say, Father, in the name

of Jesus, helped me study. Because what subject is that?

The Lord did not invent every subject you will ever learn?

Who invented it? God? What are you studying? Business? You

know who was the one who thought business? God? You look,

he said, you know what, if you trust me, you

will never run out his business? Is you trust me?

You never run out? He told that we do you

just do what I tell you to do. Do? And

you know what the jazz kept feeling with oil? What

is that? That is income? Business? You're doing? I G

S R. Learning everything? Hey, God, book of numbers? You

know accountant? God healed, he's a doctor. He taught them

how to build it? Ample architect? Want to go on?

Can go on? By a one? You lay hands on.

That's what I used to do. I lay hands on

my book and I say, in the name of Jesus,

open up to me, give me understanding. In the name

of Jesus. I was the head prefect of my school

in Singapore, the first Malaysian to be a head prefect.

I think in the whole of Singapore until then, I

don't know whether now and the only Malaysian to have

let the Singapore in the Singapore Pledge. I said, but

I'm not Singaporean, and he said, no, no, no, you

do it better than anybody else. I can still recite

it until now. And until that time, my teachers are

very angry that I became the head prefect. So I asked,

so whender my teachers said, why are you upset with me?

She looked at me and says, you have the potential

to be top student. Don't you know that every head

prefect in this school has failed. I said, don't worry,

I will be the first past and past I did,

and after that, every head prefect after me started doing well.

Name of Jesus, even in my studies. In the Name

of Jesus. Two parts of being there are two parts

of being faithful to the word. The two parts, Okay,

we want to go through the two parts. Number one

is be hearers of the word. Be hearers of the word. Hey.

Don't ever tell someone you only listen. You're good for nothing.

You don't do Hey, It's all right. Let them listen

to the word first? Why? Because scripture says be here.

You know, you need to hear the word. You need

to hear the word. What happens when you hear the word,

you get bathe hearing. Faith comes by hearing of the word.

When it comes by hearing and hearing of the word.

So before we can be doers of the word, we

need to hear the word. You know a lot of

times when you do your quiet time and you read

the word, do not read it in your head alone?

Read it aloud? Why do you read it aloud? Because

faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of

God when you read. How many senses are you using

to bring the word into you? You are using sight,

you are using speech, you are using hearing. And how

many of you because the words are small, you put

your finger there? Touch what's the fifth sense? Smell? Okay,

some Bibles smell a lot, so you know better. You

get the smell of the Bible and the smell of food. Okay, guys,

I mean that's what I do. I would read the word.

And how many of you know that when I read

the words that Jesus has said, I always changed my tone.

I have always a little bit of fun when I

read the word. You know why, because when I got

saved long ago, the Lord spoke to me. I went

to a little church. The church was in the jungle,

or rather in a in a palmer le state. It

was a little church attended by poor people. And in

the midst of this church there were lots of cows,

so cow down everywhere. It wasn't a nice smell. Go

to that church wasn't a nice smell. It was, you know,

that smell permeated the place. But in that place where

poor people were worshiping God, they were worshiping God in

spirit and in truth. The worship here two hours. We

cannot stand worship plus message. That was the first time

I was attending a born against service. And the worship

alone was two hours, you know how long the message

was to ours And after that we had another worship

you know how long another two hours. So the first

born again service I ever attended was six hours. You know,

I didn't feel it when I went in there. During

the worship, it was like a gold pillar came down

on me and I could look through and I see

all of you as gold, but I can see you,

and it was I was inside this column, and then

the sound from the outside came low, and I heard

the voice of God, and it said, Terrence, you're not

a Christian except me. Now, without anybody knowing all, the

call is not given yet you know, I gave my

life to the Lord, and then this gold pillar went

back up. That was how I got safe. So ever

since then, I you know, when I read the word

of God, and when I ever come to the parts

of Jesus, I try and imitate the voice that I heard,

because it sounds so much better than my own voice.

It sounds so rich and so powerful. And when I

hear it, I get so excited. I'll give you an example. Okay,

Jesus answered and said, that's my voice. This voice did

not come because of me, but for your sake. Now

is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of

this world will be cast out, and if I am

lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

I imagine power of God when I hear that voice,

and it excites me because to me, that's what my

my Jesus is. He's not some wimp, he's not a wimp.

He's somebody powerful. So the thing is is before before

we can be those of the world, we need to

hear the word first. Being faithful means going to the

world first and hearing what it says. Hey, guys, how

many of you, in the moment something goes wrong, you

run straight to somebody in there. Don't do that before

you run to anybody. I'm not saying, don't go to

your CPC. Go out to your CPC, run to your pastors.

Can after you've run to God. You must go to

God first. God uses pastors and and and and holy

people to help you. But if you don't give the

law order chance first, your eyes on the wrong place.

Guys always have this habit of speaking to God first.

You know. I always talk to the Lord. I go

to Buffays, you know, say Lord, what should I eat it?

So I am I'm walking past the Buffy line and

lots eat And then I said this one don't touch.

Then everybody else I know at the table will come

and see, Hey, you gotta try this. You know it's

so good, you gotta eat, you gonna eat? No, No,

it's okay, no, thank you. I refuse to eat next day.

I'm the only one that's okay. Every one of them sick.

Why all it that one? What's the difference? You see?

Because I have this habit to talk to God about

mundane things, he makes mundane things come alive. Is that fun?

That's sleeping such a yeah? You know. So now at

least my wife when we go to Buffy Lain what

I don't touch, she won't touch. She learned already the

spirit of the Lord will be speaking to you. I

remember once we went to we went to Bia. Okay

any Indonesians? Yeah, no, okay, because I'm not knocking anybody, okay.

So we went to say and so they say, oh, come, come,

let's go. Inside of my spirit was jumping up and down. Don't, don't, don't, don't.

I kept trying to dissuade them. I said, no, no, no,

let's not do that. We can just go to one

of these these No, no, no, I want to try Nassia.

We go to the Nassi Pad, spent it jumping up

and down. Okay, So we went because I went for

a wedding. Okay. So the wedding was in the night.

Went for a family. Wait, family member got married and

sorrow by us. So we went to night. So we

went there in the night. This is the afternoon lunchtime.

They all want to go and eat uh na saipar down.

So we went to the shop. What a guy come,

put this, put that, put this, put this, you like,

you like, and you're talking over the food. And then

he takes it, puts it away and puts the one

on the dirty table of black cloth he cleaned. And

he takes that plate, puts it in another plate and

goes puts it back inside there and bring some other plates.

Don't know how many times he's taking that plate out

and put it back. What did I eat? I did

not eat. I did not eat. No, no, you're not hungry. No, no,

I'm not hungry. It's okay, sorry, fine, I don't eat.

So I didn't need So in the evening we went

for the Receptenna dinner reception. I'm seated at the table,

one by one. Everybody's disappearing, all having explosions, all having

bad explosions. I am okay. So I am telling you.

Listen to what God has to tell you, all right,

And where does it come? The word says, talk to

the Lord, discuss with him, share with him, don't ever

tire of the word, don't ever tire of hearing it

or preaching it. Why because the more you talk about

the word, who is doing the hearing, you are doing

the hearing. Always remember this, A God's word is powerful.

In Hebrews four to twelve, it says this, for the

Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than

any to it sort piercing even to the division of

the soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow. It

is the discerner of thoughts and intents of heart, of

the heart, guys, it is something that really speaks to you.

It discerns, you know, when you have the Word of

God in your heart. But Scripture says the word of

God is the discerner of spirit and truth. You know,

it discerns. How do you build discernment? You know what

is discernment. Discernment is that voice in the spirit that

speaks to you right from wrong, to do or not

to do. I went to China. In China, I went

to study to look into opening some schools in China.

All right, so I am meeting these Chinese businessmen for

the first time. Do I speak Mandrin? No? So I

went with a friend who speaks Mandrin. So I spoke

to the friend, and we went for this dinner. And

at this dinner, this guy is chit chatting, chit chatting, chatting.

But while they were talking, the Spirit of the Lord

was speaking in my heart. So I whispered to my friend.

I said, the guy who's talking got no authority to

do anything. You See the guy who's quiet on the left,

he is the decision maker. He's the one who is

listening to everything. See this other guy, he's trying to

figure out how he can cheat and take everything from us.

The Spirit of the Lord ministered that to me, and

after the conversation, he said, you're absolutely right. The guy

who was doing all the walk the talking was just

a worker. The guy who is quiet is the is

the son of the tycoon, and the other guy is

his right hand man. I said, I'm not touching this

deal with a ten football the Lord has. So the

words were nice, the business looked okay, But the Lord

had already told me don't touch these people. So how

often do we make mistakes like that because we don't

build up a capacity to hear. When you listen to

the word, the capacity of your discernment will improve, and

when the Holy Spirit speaks to you you can pick

out certain things. Then after that, So the first part

is be here and the second part is be doers

of the word. Guys, how many of you played pickleball?

Nobody here? One? Okay, Just by talking about pickleball, do

you get good at it? No? Just because you talk

pickleball you think you will improve. You have to get

on the court and practice play. I was the tennis

coach of my school because I had entered competitions and

stuff like that. Why I didn't get anywhere and tennis

because I'm shot. If you're told you can get somewhere live,

you're short forgetting. You pray just to enjoy. But I'll

tell you this, you don't get good by talking. So

all during the term when I'm playing and talking and

training my school team, my standard of tennis is going downhill.

So I look forward to coming back during the holidays,

getting in touch with my tennis playing friends, play with them,

get all my skills back. Then when I go back

to Singapore, the skills all day again. You see, we're

not just to hear something, we are also to do it.

This is what word faithful also looks like we're talking

about one of the course all right. What is the

call word? Faithful? God's word is a mirror that helps

us see what we need to see. It helps us

see our true selves. You want to know what you are?

Look at the Word, and the Word acts like a

mirror to Hey, look, it's all right being not good

as long as you are yourself before the Lord, because

you give me an opportunity to change you. Do you

think they all started out good? Look at Peter. Peter

did a lot of things. Yes, I had a lot

of miracles happen in his life. But he was so flawed,

right or not. He's just like you and me. We

are flawed, we're not perfect. But the Word of God

changed him. You know how You know that the Holy

Spirit changed him. You look at scripture and you find

that throughout the Gospel they had none of the disciples

spoke the word of God. Check and see did any

one of them voice out anything from the Word of

God the moment they were baptized by the Holy Spirit.

You read in the book or X the words of God,

the Word the Scripture were just flowing out of the mouse. Hey,

the Lord just spoke to me something. I think I

got to write a song about it. Okay. So, as

I was preparing for the men, he said, isn't it stranger?

He's always telling his children to remember, remember, remember, But

you know what he tells himself forget. He tells himself

to forget our sins. He tells us to remember what

he's done for us, because, trust me, if God remembers

our sins, we're in trouble. Every time we ask him

to forgive us. You know what he does. He removes

the sin. As far as the east is from the west.

He forgets our sins. That's what scripture tells us. So

isn't it very odd? God tells us to remember why

he tells himself to forget? Worthy of a song? Right?

I wrote another song. It's called I Am whom I am,

says I am God. I am whom I am, says

I am. You'll understand it with the second life. I

will be who I am, says I will be. So

it's a funny song. Hopefully get published. So be In

James one two twenty five, it says, but be doers

of the word and not hear us, only deceiving yourselves. Right,

be those of the word not hear us or need

deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hero of the

word and not a doer, he is like a man

observing his natural face in the mirror. So you're hearing, hearing,

and hearing. Faith comes by hearing. But eventually it's got

a work too doing, because if it if it just

remains as hearing, then you're like forgetting your face. Because

the word of God is a mirror by which you

see what you are and how you need to be.

For he observes themselves goes away and immediately forgets what

kind of man he was. You see, we are doing

what only God should be doing. If there's anyone who

should do the forgetting, it's God. We are the ones

to do the remembering. But he who looks into a

perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and it's

not forget, not a forgetful here, but a duel of

the work, this is the one who will be blessed

by what he does. So we know them, We know

they are faithful when we see them doing. How do

you know faithfulness? Pastor cannon and past the center of

course bringing greetings? Do you know that I've and I've

told past the days I've had an a chance to

observe you quietly while you're not knowing that I've been

observing you, and I say, you know what I found out?

I found out then you are the same person. What

I see when you're with me is the same person

I see when you're alone. There is no two past

the cannons. There's only one man, and he's the same.

So it's not difficult to understand because who is he

following Jesus? And and and what did what? What does

Jesus say? I'm the same yesterday, today and forever last,

But not Lisa. The word anchors us in a changing world.

This world is crazy. The world has determined that the

Word of God is a hateful speech? Are you aware

of that? The King of England last week was declared

to be the leader of all faith in England. What

a slap on the face of the Church of England.

Because until that point of time he was the leader

of the Church of England. So he has put Christianity

on the same level as everybody else. Is it no

wonder that England is a country that's going down, down

and down. It's a failing country. In case you don't know,

he's failing miserably reject Jesus. Of course you're going to fail.

Did you know that if you were to speak, Oh no,

if you're even quiet, they take you to jail for

praying to Jesus. Why hate speech in your head? England?

You know? Did you know that they've actually they've taken

someone to Coote for praying silently in his head. It's

now gone for it's now at a case of appeal.

He was already found guilty. Can you beat that that?

If I were to say Jesus loves you, they can

send me to jail. Did you know that? You know why?

Because it's considered hate speech. Then you get some joker

who's says this. Huh. I'm gonna sue anybody who calls

me a he or him when I want to be

called they them. So I'm thinking myself, why are Christians

so silent about it? Why don't we sue him for

making me called him? Day and them so before they

sw I sue him simply because why should I be

forced to speak incorrect English? H This is nothing to

do with what you are, what you're You're forcing me

to speak incorrect English. You're a guy. You want me

to call you a herb. Sorry, not going to be

that way. Does God love them? Absolutely? Let me tell you.

Take for example, the people in Thailand, the ones who

are you know, transgender. You mean to say God doesn't

love them? Do you know what kind of life did

they live? It's not easy, and I can sense God's

compassion for them. He loves them, but you see, they

don't know a better way. Thank God. The Church of

God is rising to speak to them. But don't for

a minute thing God hates them. You know, God loves them,

He loves them, but that's it. You see, the world changes.

Twenty years ago, you'll never hear of that, but now

it is commonplace, all right, God's word. They're always complaining

about God's word. Oh it's too old, it's not relevant,

it's outdated. It's too fat, it's too ugly, it's too skinny.

This is what people complain about God's word. The world

is constantly changing and attacking the word. First look at LGBT.

Do you know who they are attacking. They're attacking God's word.

I've just been watching some testimonies of children who were

their sex was changed when they were ten years old.

You know what they're doing. In the schools, they are

constantly telling the children, oh, you should be a woman,

Oh you should be a woman. And then they what

they do is they take the child away. They talk

and if the parents speak up, you know what they do,

they take the child away from the parent. You mean

to say, this is not happening in the world. Open

your eyes. This is what's the law. In some countries,

they take the child away, and for the woman they

remove the woman's parts. When the child becomes sixteen, seventeen

years old. You know what the child says, I regret

doing this. How could they do this to me? I

was only a child too late. The world is changing.

This so even how they address God's word, it changes.

But you got to know that the word of God

does not change for you or for me. It is

the same. It's shifting sends, but God's word is not

shifting send. The world can have many opinions. We are

only interested in whose opinion God's opinion. His opinion is

the one that matters. You want to be saying, keep

to God's word. Don't be like the world. The world

has lost its way. And in case you don't know,

this is truly scripture coming to pass, prophecies coming to pass.

How the world is today professing themselves to be wise,

They are fools. They have given up the glory of

God for what to worship themselves. In the last days,

there will be many smart people, but God is not fooled.

Let's not be one of those smart people who think

we are higher than God. In one Corinthians one twenty five,

it says this because the foolishness of God is wiser

than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Hey,

who are we to ever say God does not know

what he is doing? Because even at God's most foolish,

if that were possible, he is still far, far, far

better than most intelligent human being. In other words, God

is number one, and we are I don't know were

we just we're there, and we are to look to

number one for all the answers. God's word is the

only one that will stand. That's what scripture means. Heaven

and earth will pass away, but my word will not,

because the word of God is everything he is and

everything he needs to be. And that's it. God is

not like us shifting sand. He's firm. How would you

like it? How would you like I want to go

to kl CC and klccs every time changing its place.

Your ways also no work. He's here today, tomorrow it's

somewhere else. But you're so happy that he elsey is.

His day is fixed. You follow ways, you will go there?

Why not? How many of you likes a shifting goal posts?

If the goal post will to shiver, all of you

will give up watching football. When the guy's about to

score here, the two fellows come, they take, they run

and put the goal somewhere else. How to play like that?

There must be some rules right or on. You don't

want things that shift, You want things that are firmed.

That's what the word of God is. God will keep

to his word. And God's word is always what his

promises are, yes and amen. He will never forsake his word.

So that's good because then when you study God's word

and what is he telling you, He's not going to

forget it. Let's be as faithful to doing the word

as we are, also to be faithful hearing it as well,

Lord said A Lord said, be a hearer, be a doer. Okay,

and just know God loves you. He's so wonderful. They

have God who's so firm, so firm in our life

that we don't have to worry about anything. And with that,

that's my message for today, word faithful. If we want

to see our lives change for His glory, let's recognize

the faithfulness of trusting and following his word and we

see our lives changer. Know what Scripture says, from glory

to glory. He's not glory to mess. It's not glory

to mess. As long as we are following the word,

it's from glory to glory. So it doesn't matter what

level of life you're in. If you are in the pits,

guess what one day you'll be in the mountain. If

you are on the mountain, guess what one day you'll

be in the sky. One day in the sky, guess

what one day you'll be exploring out of space. Glory

too glory.

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