12+1 Core Value Part 2: Christ Centered | Pr Sandra Chin

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The second core value is now then we talk about

Christ centered. Amen, Amen, right, the Christ centered. If we

are to tick the verse just to read. If you

have your bibles, we can turn to XS. Chapter two

and verse thirty six. X. Chapter two and verse thirty

six is the where we want to establish this verse right,

So X Chapter two, verse thirty six. This is Peter

who's speaking, and he says, therefore, let all the house

of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus

whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. Amen. The coming King,

the Christ, the Messiah, the one who saves. He's the

foundation of the church. All of God Church is founded

on Christ center. Is Christ? Amen? All right, hallelujah. So

for the church, we always remember that we build this

church number one by the Holy Spirit who feels us,

and we continue to need the flow of the Holy

Spirit in our lives. Number two, that we want to

always remember to be Christ centered. Now, Amen, So I

know that you have your books and just for us

to guide each guide us, we will feel the thing

I help you. Okay, okay, all right, So I try

to follow my notes based on the notes on the

points here, all right, So I don't complicate you and

talk anything I want, so I just better follow. So

so just to establish, as I speak, you can just

take whatever notes you feel it helps you. Okay, there

is no hard and fast rule. But this is based

on the teaching and the sharing that we have heard

from pasta. And so we want to share why and

the whole the fuel that fuels our church. Amen. So

what so we said the church is Christ centered, and

everybody would say, of course amen. So yes, Jesus is

the lot of the church. Jesus the head of the church. Amen.

So we agree. We are not at all disputing, all right.

So then the question comes, Hey, what pulls us away

from Christ? Can men? Okay? What pulls us away from Christ?

Or what pulls us as a church away from Christ? Amen? So,

so we wanted to establish that we live in the world.

God made this beautiful world, but sin came in and

then he gave us salvation and you have to choose

because he doesn't pause us. So fine, So, but we

are living in this world, and in this world, we say,

there are a lot of things that attract us a

lot of things that distract us. Amen. So I've got

this things that attract and distract. So even as a church,

all right, we are being reminded. Sometimes we can be

distracted because we see what are the people are doing? Hey?

And I remember those days. You know, our partners and

leaders used to say, past the gentlemen, past the see

no p's the conference of people can oversee speaker. No,

we all want speaker. Ne wrong Malaysian, Nay Malaysian people.

What is this? Then my committee will say fast, nobody

will come love for the conference because you don't have

much sale speaker. And I say, choy, try try, try, try,

I say, hey, what sally speaker? Of course not. We

have Malaysian made speaker, made in Malaysia by the Lord

who called us to live here. And we have had

these speakers. We have had oversea speakers. But just all

these costs a lot of money. But so fly them

and some you want more more famous speaker, or they

got requirement, Non, they got agent. So the agent must

be fly business class, first class, mustay in first class

water Manto lague, the bollet of Ford. God night, we

have saved all our money to help missions to go

to rough feed the pool. No feed you just saying

we we keep going outside to look. But the lots

plann the church here right, so they are also servants

have got all over. And you know that even if

you have invited speaker, they are pastors who have paid

the price in Malaysia, given their lives to build the

house of God here. They have wonderful stories to also

share with us. And now now and then you might

get different speakers coming outside of X. So, so there

are a lot of attractions. Of course, it's very attractive

and also can distract. After that, we look elsewhere. Now

you're open to YouTube. Whoa, so many speakers. You have

a menu of speakers. Mana, you are also God? Oh

these church, that church, this past this, the some of

that dan you oh pasta, my my my, my mentor?

H is Stephen for tick? Really? Oh he's your mentor?

How is that? So? Yes? His teaching is very good. No,

he knows your name and not you know where you

stay in it. I know where your name Elene Pong

and you stay in o Eugene near there, yeah, okay,

near there, near the happy Garden. So and I know

where you work also central Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, sorry

your birthday. Does Stephen Fertick know that? Does does he

know that your mom likes this and your dad is

not so well? Who's your pastor? Oh? Please, Lord, don't

let me vomit them. We're so distracted with other things.

Other people are the lights and sounds and sound systems?

You want me to buy one boss? Or something is

about bossy pastor what kind of sound system is the

made in China? Okay, I don't know. Maybe Bossy Bosses

is also made in China. Now everything is made in China,

So no, wow, this that. So we are so attracted

to these things and then can get distracted on who

really is the church? Who runs the church? Not us?

Jesus right, we have to keep our eyes on the

lot because we get attracted, distracted. And this is what

happened to Israel. I say it again, God said, I

will be your king. I will lead you. I will

faithfully lead you to green pastures and to a land

flowing with milk and honey. Your lives will be blessed.

Don't you worry. I will fight for you, et cetera,

et cetera. Oh but what did the people is going

to say, please give us a king like all the

other nations. It sounds familiar. Dads in the room, your

son or daughter saved. Dad. Can I have that car

because my neighbor has the car that I want to

go to that school because you know my friend going

to that school. I do want to go to the school.

La kabanksan genis now, I do want to go. I

want to go to the international school. Keep the focus.

Get an education. Yo, what is this right? Just go

to school and study right? So we are get distracted.

Israel did that to God. They rejected God's leadership. And

so God said, okay, you want a king, I'll give

you a king. But when I give you a king,

he's going to use you as servants. He's going to

text you, he's going to take all your stuff. I

don't take nothing from you. All I ask is to

worship me. So come to me, know me, and I

will know you and make my house with you. No,

we want a king. This is exactly the church today.

We are so very attracted to what else the world

is having it? To be honest, and I had asked

the leaders a question, what really do you admire church

as a believer of Christ. As follower of Christ. Sometimes

we actually not wrong, but sometimes we can so admire

what the world is doing that we wanted. I wish

my church is like death organization, like death company. But

we are not a company. We are Church, Holy Spirit,

Birth the Church. We are not Kasana. All right, I

don't know what company. Okay, what company? Okay, I don't know.

I'm not a corporaker. I'm not. We are not. They've

got great ideas, and we can learn good ideas. How

to make security better, you know, how to so all

this is good, to be better, but to be one thing,

not so hungry for that, coveting to be like them.

We actually secretly admire people outside of the world or

the people of God. We want to be like so

and so and so and so and so. Look, they're

so influenced. Sometimes my judge member said, pass the past

is so famous, you know, and then they're writing in

the in the U version. So how come I just

don't write in the U version and say you don't

you think we never asked me. We asked, Well, they

don't said us. What can I do? Oh, the past

is on the U virgincy they face they're sharing the

word five minutes or no whatever. Yeah, I know they didn't.

Juice is Lah. Although we were called actually for a

meeting with the U Version people, but I told her

I was too busy. It's out there planting churches, you know,

so there are time to meet you. Yeah. So just

recently there was a call someone said would you like

to come? We would like to have you and pass

I said, I'm so sorry. We are traveling to another

another city. We cannot be there, but thank you for

thinking of us to come and meet the U Version team.

So pastor a small time en now, but we are

not a distracted We keep our focus is Jesus. Jesus

this at the end of the day. You want to

make sure we are preaching Jesus to you. There are a

lot of attractions. So Matthew seventeen five, what does Matthew

seventeen five? And if you can turn to Matthew seventeen five,

we want to read some verses, okay, so that we

learn together. What does Matthew seventeen five says? There are

many things that will attract and distract us, right, but

what is the what does this verse say? This happened

at the transfiguration, at the amount of transfiguration. And then

you know, Jesus suddenly transfigured and you were so wow,

look so bright. And there was Peter, the disciples right,

James and John and so suddenly out of the heaven

the while Peter was saying, hey, I can see Moses,

I can see Elijah. A la la lah, let's do this.

And then the Father God from heaven says, suddenly a

voice came out from on the cloud saying, this is

my beloved son in whom I am. Well least here him. Amen.

Who at the end do we want to base our

church on Jesus? Amen? Jesus Again. Like I said, there

are many good things out there, and what we can

adopt and use learn is okay, but don't be so

fall in love with it. And I think that is

the way to go. No that if God didn't speak

to us, he didn't speak to us. And you know

we won't do it that way. And we can't. We

keep looking at otherwise other church is doing. And I

tell you people, we will always keep seeing what other

church is doing. Cannot live like that. I ask you

in your family, if your child keep looking at what

the other neighbor. Father is providing, mother is providing you.

Oh they're eating you know, rose chicken every day. See

how you say, mama could what you eat? You eat

us steam fish healthier? Okay, same fish? No, Mama want

to eat ROAs chicken or round every day? Tell you

and say, my neighbor eating that? What as a father,

what you feel if you're very strict father, my your

slap you? You see that? Eat it right? But if

you're the father mother who got no stand? You are

a rosch? Are you okay? Going by roast for you all? Lord?

Every day? Make ROASTI because that's all that neighbor there

eating papa. Hey, you as a parent or so be

fired out right? I cook? You eat what I cook? Right? Yeah,

you don't spoil your kisses. No, you are the parents.

You establish that foundation. Gonna eat fish. I'm gonna eat vegetables. Yes,

and you thank me for it because next time you

want to have insulin problem? Ah, okay, I need the

diabetic you eat. Mama cooked that food? Right? You think

only very good there? Look very nice on me. This

is healthy food. Parents will say that right. Who you

want to give you? See me the church? Now I'm

telling you hello, the church is Jesus. Okay, I'm not

gonna turn off the lights for you to worship right away.

You can hold hands out in the dark. No right, bright.

Jesus is a have you not heard o? Yo? You

and I were in darkness one time. Now Jesus translated

into his marvelous light, and you want me to go

back to the darkness again? See how actually live? We

never think? How? You never think? You follow God? God

is light? Why do I want to wash him in

the dark? Then I come seventy years so I cannot

read my Bible to to. I don't know what's it

faller becoming more like the world, or becoming more to

the light that's not our dna here. I'm sorry you

tell them whoever? And I just want to dim light,

dim light, I'll dim you. I tell you, Jesus is

the light. I want to walk in the light. I

want to sing in the light. And if I have seen,

let the light shine and clean me. Jesus clean my sin,

cleans my sin. I do want to live in sin.

I'm a broken person. I don't need to hide in

my sin. Light which shine like is? Okay? I broken? Broken,

so broken laugh. Right, the lights shine and shine everywhere

through the woles of my life. Amen. Wow that But

if you keep it, the whole cannot see it. Love.

So what what are you attracted to? And why are

you attracted? Then you're asking us to put that into

the church. We are reminded it is Christ centered. Okay,

and and and and here's Jesus, Father, God is saying, here,

my son, He's establishing that Jesus is the is the way.

A man. Don't have any other thing, any other man,

even we are, we are just human being. God happened

to choose us to do this work. But even then,

I know you don't look at man man. I know

you don't look at manmen. You might look at Ma

sale manna Milaysia. Don't count. Yeah, of course I don't

speak like that, you know all right? Next one, fame

and popularity? Are we after fame and popularity? You're my pastor?

So nobody know my pastor, nobody know my church name.

Don't you worry? X action experience, Ah, so many write

so many ex ex ex not excell Okay, sometimes we

are drawn to famine popularity. Hey, if God calls you

and raises you as a celebrity as a great influencer,

and you're shining the light of God. Praise the Lord.

Go and shine for Jesus. Amen, But don't we we

until I want to be like the influenza or your

nose bleed to be like that. But you're you're not

called to that. You're called to do something else. So

famine popularity. What about Jesus? Was he famous and popular? Oh?

Yes he was. He was a star. He was. He was,

at least for the first part of his life. Why

everybody walk touch gate? He touch gate here, touch get here?

Right forgiving you forgive me? Wow? Popular? It is so

when in storm will stop? You know, never seen before

my life? Wow? Popular? His name became very very popular. Right,

But then what does John? Firstly at John, check the

two and verse thirty five. John Chapter two, verse twenty

three to twenty five. Sorry, John, Chapter two, twenty three

and twenty five? What what did Jesus make out of

all this? Okay, so this is Jesus. I'll tell you.

If anyone of us did what he did, I think

everybody will be bowing down and our feit ready. Because

he turned water into wine, and not just any useless wine.

Very good quality wine. Then they are come join my company.

Can you make my water and do wine? Right? Wow,

he became famous. Hey, invite Jesus your wedding, okay, and

my next time anyway, Jesus will turn your water and

do what he's on your wedding. Okay. If I Jesus

go turn your water and everybody wants Jesus, he can

label it Jesus white. Okay, So here you go, so

very popular. What happened in John chapter two twenty three

twenty five He says that so when he was in

Jerusalem at the passover, then manny believed in his name

when they saw all the signs, which he did. So

people are attracted by the signs. Wow, wow wow, whine

healed da da da. Then But verse twenty four Jesus,

he says, but Jesus did not commit himself to them

because he knew all men. He knew what is man's

nature verse twenty five. And he had no need that

anyone should testify of men, because he knew what is

in man. Basically, the verse in a simpler English version means,

Jesus knew what is man's nature, and I know that

I don't need men to to to qualify me, or

to to say that you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus,

you're very good, very good, very good. All right, no need,

he said, I don't need to trust it. It's the

same with us as well, and sometimes as church members,

as shep, we also like to yeah, love, you are

like your mama. Jokes, right, ma, mama, you're better than

your ma ma. You know your ma past better than

your pastor. But we cannot be like that because sometimes

we go out if you are the picture over there

and they say, whoa, Tyrell, you're the best five minutes,

because we also go your point better and oh then

if tirag like whoa, I can now be seen your

post the okay, we coordinator say, come, come, come. But

we trust men's words more than we trust God's word.

We want the accolade of men. We want accolagic acceptance

and the validation of people. Of course, validation helps us

to be a bit more confident. I can, I can,

I can. But if we keep and trusting our lives

into the man's words, then we are looking for fame

and popularity, right, so are you? My person is so

not popular, don't nobody knows his name? Waste my time

being all right, are we looking? Do you think the

church is built on fame and popularity? Ask you when

you know that, right, then don't admire those things and

don't desire that. Come on anchor your own faith in Christ.

You you you are the church, right, not just this

ex church, but you made up the church. Thank you that.

We're so glad we could become your friends and family.

Now where you joined us, I join you, you join me,

Then we have this family church. But if we keep

looking to better day, better bear better here, better day?

Are you not famous? Popular? Jesus said I don't trust

myself into the hands of men, So actually we also should,

and sometimes we long for it. Not as human we

long for validation, not in validation, but validation. We want

to be very well past the best. What a message

that day? I mean, the day is finished preaching? Nobody

say nothing, not a thank you, not very good or

very bad. At least you tell me very better or

very better, okay, better improved. But if every every time

we do something we want to validate need validations, where

are then to say I'm serving the lot because I

love Jesus? Right, you just wanted to serve. Amen, Thank

you so much. Right we got the one that tea

teams serving here today. I mean, I don't know, I

don't know. You want to bring garlands for them or no. Right,

they're just serving because they enjoy serving. They love the lot.

They're here. Thank God for family that we can call

on family, family, help, please, help, help, and then you

get them here not and then they will they come

together with us, and we are so blessed. So I

don't know if we need validated. Thank you, doctor Joel,

Thank you, thank you. You never call you doctor Dr Joel.

You know all these validations because about fame and popularity.

Even Jesus brothers sit to him in John chapter seventh,

first three to four. If you look at John chapter seven,

three to four, even his brothers say, he you savior

of the world. Right, come go to the parties happening

pass over? Why are you hiding inside the house here?

Go go to Jerusalem. Why are you staying in Nazareth? Go?

And then people would know you are the Savior of

the world or the Son of God, if you that's

what you say you are. They didn't even believe, so

they mocked him by saying, oh why are you hiding here?

But Jesus to go and make yourself famous, Go and

make yourself known. Jesus says, no, I will wait here, right,

I say, that's not my business. You want to go,

you go, of course Jesus went later. But you aren't

going to be pushed because of men's words. So are

we looking for fame and popularity in our personal lives

as well? All right? I mean, if you're a good worker,

you're a good manager. Praise the Lord, God's favor on you.

And if God's favors on you, you you have everything

in Christ Priority, priority, third one? Okay, what what would

draw us away? What would draw us away? Number one?

We are attracted to something else except Jesus. We are

one fame and popularity. And last the third point is priority.

What is the priority in our lives? Who is the

priority in our lives? Who is a parity in ext church?

Extra us? We are, we are extra located injuri Us.

What is your privarity? Big thing? Japarty? I don't know

what the name of the japarty? Okay, anyway, all right?

What what is our pararity? So the but but what

Jesus teach us is Matthew twenty eight. Matthew twenty eight

twenty says, what does he say? We we are inundated

with the Matthew twenty eight. Go go and make disciples. Okay,

so we all know that. Now we can go, okay,

main disciples. But then don't full stop there? Don't full

stop there? Read the next verse, verse twenty teaching them

to observe all things that I have commanded you and

I am with you always. So who is our party?

Who is our church party? Are we preaching Jesus because

people might don't talk about Jesus, can talk about something else?

How about how about it what's happening in Israel? How about?

How about is trom going to be the anti Christ? You?

I don't know something as us? What I preach about?

ENTI end times? Hey, I appreach about what you should

live today? And times can come and times can go?

Are you still rooted in Christ? So I'm not going

to purposely preacher and times posly a purposely preacher. No,

I have to teach you and I together learn to

live every day with Jesus. So it doesn't matter it's

an end time or the front time or the back

time or whatever time you are living with Jesus. So

then even if Jesus comes Da dah, you see him.

You're ready. My parents hello you. Every day we teach

you to have Jesus every day, your clothes in Christ

every day. So if Christ comes, you're ready. Why should

I just focus your eyes only on the end time

and then you don't live today for Jesus. That's why

the priority should be commanded teach whatever Jesus has commanded us. Right,

So if I don't teach the full gospel of the

Word of God, we have failed the church. We cannot

So what pulls us? What draws as a church? We

have to be a church. The church in Malaysia must

be careful to be focused on who is our priority, Jesus,

not the latest news so many things. Suddenly, if it's COVID,

talk about COVID. No, I have to talk about Jesus,

my healer. I'm sorry, I have to talk about Jesus,

my healer. I'm not gonna talk about COVID is. How

do you detect if that one is the COVID bug?

I don't know. I try, You know what I mean?

Our priority has to be Christ centered, all right, not

any it focused. It reflects back to us and as

a church, the church right, but individually also question to us,

who's your priority? Are you doing what Jesus commanded you

and me to do? That's why we pitch right. We

do that so friends, work will draw our attention away

or the purpose for us to live as God's people

is we get attracted to so many things, we get distracted,

can be attracted, and then we get distracted from what

may seem borring. The message has been the same since

year before. Don't know how many more than two thousand

years ago. Like I don't know what a messaged. Sorry

every Sunday you talk, I thought about Jesus. Oay, sorry,

that's the only person I know. I don't know. I

thought about Father God. I thought about Holy Spirit, Thank

you Jesus. Like all right, you're boring. Give me la

some famous and popular peoples even for take a poor

man is coughing there or he's just serving Jesus. Brian Houston,

because you know, I just thought about the famous name Jesus. Okay,

and the priority is Jesus. You're boring meal. But that's

the thing, it's the boring food. Mom and Dad's you know, right,

it's the boring food that makes your children grow. Right.

Why do you give your children eggs? Why do you

give them the brown rice? Right? I think it's so boring,

but it's healthy. Right. Why do you give them milk

every day because they need milk? No, anybody's milk, no cow,

Clarabelle the cow or you know, Janey the goat is

mother's milk. Boring, You're not boring? Then you get don't

know what kind of sorry, no chubby baby? Yeah? Boring, right,

But it's the boring and the mundane that gets us.

The narrow way leads us to eternal life. Amen, eternal life.

Sometimes it sounds so boring. You the same every Sunday

if you want Jesus number one, open your heart to

the Lord. Admittbeas Jesus was, give another pat not a pattern.

I don't want another pattern. Okay, I tell my testimony.

Then it's still me. I want to focus on Jesus. Amen.

So remember these things can distract us, or it can.

We are so attracted that we get distracted but the church.

But we need to focus on the Christ who died

for the church. Everything flows from Jesus, including your life

and my life, our own personal life. Is it centered

on Christ? Amen? Is Jesus at the center of it all?

Very dangerous if you sang that song Jesus a center

it all. Oh Jesus Anderson and my church and my

life and my family. Wow, we young If we can

sing like that, now we have to live like that. Amen.

So it helps us as we declare right. So we

must build on Christ, the foundation, the rock, not build

on the whims and fancies of the crowd or what

people want, because it changes right now today you like green,

Tomorrow you want purple? Right? Then change like that? Right?

Why wear green every day? We're borrowing a so be

always changed? Right? But God never changes, and the church

remains faithful to the Christ who laid his life down. Amen. Amen.

So we just want to keep building the church based

on Christ, not on any other fancy stuff. A man

so one thought for us to remember. It was an

example Pastor gave when we take communion, And why did

Jesus introduce the communion to us? You know that the

bread represent the body of Christ is broken for us.

The syrup Okay, the God that I've been now represents

the blood of Jesus. That blood for us. And then

he says, every time you take of it, do this

in remembrance of me, remember me. You know, it's like, Jesus,

is this is this? What's the word? Uh? Maybe I

use it all the time, insecure person? Why every time

I take I must remember Jesus. Jesus is your problem

in security? Is it right? He's saying, every time you

do this, remember me? So insecurement. We might be thinking,

like the God that we serve is the insecure god.

You know, He's like, why does he want us to

wash it him? Because he's God? We are his creation.

So when Jesus said, when every time you partic of

this communion, it's a remembrance that he came that here

too the cross, and he didn't do it for fun.

He came to get us free from sin and the

clutches of eternal death. So you remember me, right, and

when you remember Jesus. Yeah, every time we take them,

you know, yes, thank you Jesus. So thankful, right because

yesterday you don't know what I did last summer? Thank

you Jesus. You know you wash my sins away. Amen,

we remember his name Jesus, then we remember, oh yeah,

it's Jesus. It's Jesus. It's Jesus. It ain't know the

the you know the cross. My Jesus ain't no souvenir

hanging on the wall. He's real. He's not hanging on

the wall on my neck. He's living inside of me. Amen.

So it's okay if you have a cross, it's okay,

it's okay. But it's not just. It's not that Jesus

hanging on my neck or hanging on the wall. And

there's no relationship, no recognition that this is says who

did it for me? Who took away my insecurities, who

took away my no confidence and not confident. I just

cannot do the Christ. But Jesus say, I've done it

for you, all my pain, all my shame. He took

it my sin. So the thinking of the communion help

us to remember Jesus. Amen. And he's telling us that

that there is no other way. It's me, okay, it's me,

and that we we we we are being reminded again

and again, maybe because we forget easily, Amen, And that

we will give him glory, not give glory to I

think sometimes we give glory, like you know, there was

one time well, I tell you this story. I don't

know how much time I should end. Ready. You know,

one time, a long time ago, after nine years of

being married, I finally got pregnant, right, and then I

had a miscarriage. And so I told this person, yeah,

I got a miscarriage. Some of you. I say, so

I had a miscarriage. And someone said, oh, I'm so sorry.

The person say, you know why you got pregnant because

of the vitamins I introduced you doing it. I'm like,

what Jesus gave me pregnant, not your vitamins. I was

so shocked did this to say? I see you that

that Brandon gave you a I've never heard that before. No,

I pray, I asked the Lord. But unfortunately my body

wouldn't carry through the baby. And so we give glory

who am way? Oh? Who's Anna? I don't know what else?

I don't know all the names are all right, I

can't remember his name. We give glory to other things

except Jesus. Hey, even if you found the best doctor,

thank God, God give me that. Amen. Oh if my

you know I've had these sickness. Lord is the one

who hear me, not the vitam means it was a

byproduct or a great doctor who had a girl read

inspired God moment and said, hey, take this, you know,

then we give glory back to God. That's why Jesus

not insecure. He notes that we got problem with remembering.

He just remember me, amen, right, because he doesn't want

us to make make monuments of Elijah and Moses. Right,

a man, you know, and in days to come, you

will outlive me because I'm already old, and we are old.

And then we pass away radio or whatever I got tickets,

I hope, sola, and then and then you don't make

a monument of us. Yes, we can refer to, yes,

the founders, but when the founders are far gone, can

you even remember what this church was built on Jesus?

If we just Jesus, Amen, hallelujah. Amen. So that's the point.

What can go? With testing and trials and temptations will come?

All of us will have testing, trials and temptations, all right,

and we have to ask the Lord, how Lord, how Lord?

Remember again our priority? Do all that Jesus had told

us to do from word of God as we read it. Amen.

So those are the three points, and the next second

point was What does Christ centeredness look like? What does

Christ centeredness look like? Christ centeredness? How does he look like?

How are you keep talking about Christ anderedness? Tell the

only one way? I got no other answer. Keep your

eyes on Jesus. Sorry again, Jesus, are you arama Pastai?

Got no other point. Keep your eyes on Jesus. All right.

This is the church. It's built on Christ. If I

preach you anything else, you should be careful. Why is

she preaching some built on Oh is the Canada? Cheen?

Oh is the again? Other founders? No? Again? Know, Yes,

they've done great things, but they were servants of the

Lord who did what God as saim to do. That's it.

And then the Holy spe continue to use so many

of you to build God's house or to to to

to disciple others, or to reach out to others. We

do it together. We do it with the help of

the Holy Spirit. Friends, we have to keep our eyes

on Jesus because Hebrews Chapter twelve, verse two says you

know this verse, run this race, ran this race right,

run it looking looking and do who Amen, the author

and finisher of our faith, Keep our eyes on the lot. Amen.

You know you will go to many testings. Sometimes in life.

It could be people bully you. It could be not

getting your promotion, it could be O caase like me.

You know, I don't have children. I don't have So

what do I sit there, squad there and cry? Honestly,

I can't why. Because my Jesus is living inside of me.

Doesn't matter. It doesn't make me a better woman, a

stronger woman, doesn't matter. He makes me his child. So

that was my testing and my child. What do I do?

Do I dig some hole? I'm sorry. I cannot be

in a hole, so I just have to live low.

I have to keep my eyes on Jesus and try

and try again. Then it happened. I feel sorry for myself.

Know maybe if I have to sit down and think,

I don't want to sit down and thing like that.

I've got so many good things to think about, right,

So I just think, Okay, I think we tried. It

just must be our business. But if God wanted it,

you will give it to me, right because we keep

our eyes on Jesus. Amen, we keep don't look to

the left or to the right. Really keep your eyes

on Him. And and and I like what was shed

to us. Uh, And I love this. It's my favorite

verse is that Jesus says the whoa, the devil comes

to still kill and destroy, But I have come to

give you life and more abundantly life, more abundantly right.

That verse set me free many many years ago. Yeah, really,

you know I'll be there in a whole ready. But

thank you to Jesus. Is an abundant life. And how

FASTA put it for us as we were learning from him,

is that there's nothing on earth you cannot have if

Christ wants it for you. Come on, that's nothing on

earth you cannot have if Christ wants it for you.

Christ wants you to have something. And you and the

whole people all the world will say, you'll never get it.

You'll never get it, You'll never get it. You just can't.

You just poor, like just like the guy that I dated,

the doctor, medical doctor who said to me, if you

leave me because I broke up with him, if you

leave me, you will never see the world. I didn't

have to think. I just as just this naive kid, right,

and I just I don't care. I'm just happy to

stay in my church and surf. I don't care if

I never travel the world. It's Okay, it's not everything,

isn't it true? You got the food at home, drink

water every day, you can breathe, you got health. There's

everything you can so if you can move, you can work,

you can earn, you can find a way to travel

if you want to. But because I'm from a poor family,

my father lost everything, nothing, nothing to give me, no house, nothing,

So he knows I'm poor. But if Christ wants it

for you, you ask the Lord. I mean even my education.

My father lost all the money to help me to

edit what I do? What do I do? Do I

sit there and cry and be the spoiled child like

some rich kid. No, go and work, clas just go

and work and fund my own way to school. Then

work and study what can study? And then God provided

as I asked the Lord, Lord, you are my provider.

And then he provided a scholarship for me so I

could study and finish it. I finished very first two years.

I graduated professional paper of course, and then build my

career based on my profession. And I graduated the same

time like my classmates graduated. I was so kiasu. Yeah,

I couldn't go to university. I just I should have tried.

I think I could have entered with a choose a

course that nobody wanted, literature, you know, could have I

just lost hope because I didn't get the ace that needed.

Keep your eyes on Jesus. It's a lot of things

we won't have, but there's a lot of things we

will also have. Amen, Amen, I think I want to

tell you, maybe you don't think the same moment. Don't

value this. Maybe your value is different. That's why I

ask you, what do you value? Core values? When my

father lost everything, we rented, right, we rented when we

got married. He earned five hundred dollars very good now,

and then I earned maybe a thousand over teaching. And

then we rented a house to stay. Not wrong, right,

because you can rent, but people will say, are you

you should buy a house? Buy it? What my millionaires?

And then we said, actually, because we were just getting

ready that we can leave any time when God says,

go to India, go to you know, China, goever the missionary. Right,

So we were living like that because we wanted to

be ready for God. So I got no liabilities, right

is it called it liabilities? Yes? Yes? Can nothing to know?

So just can drop everything and go except I can't

drop my family, take care my mom and dad. But

but when God wanted us to have a house, I

was happy renting because I knew anytime God calls, we

can just drop everything. And then God said have a house.

And He's like, no, we don't need that. When he

told me, God says, I want to I don't need it.

I don't need a house. I'm going to buy a house.

Buy a house. I don't even know. All right, already

got to do so many miracles, and then say buy house.

By house is a bigger miracle. But God wants you'd

have a house. Then he pays the bill, and he

kindly provides for us. And God provided for us the

down payment for a million dollar hour, nine hundred thousand

something like that. I told you nine hundred thousands. Well,

but the check came in for ninety thousand exactly. God

wants you to have the house. And then now we're

thinking we'll go back and rent another place. The house

will maybe we'll give it to the church so that

they can use it for all your training sessions. I

don't know. I don't know, I don't know. I don't

have children to give heritage, so I give it back

to the church. That's why my husbands playing like, Okay,

if you're DIARYTD and me who just rent her? So

keep your eyes on Jesus. Amen, guys, keep your eyes

on Jesus. Don't be scared. I also, if you have

a million, I adopt. You know, some people say have to, Oh,

you don't have children, you should adopt. Adopt for what?

No son? When you oh, they can take care of you.

Oh my goodness, how selfish. When you adopt, it's because

you want to give a future for this child, and

that child will carry your name, and you give them

an identity. God adopted us to give us an identity

and to save us, not so that I can take

care of him. And he goes old. He never goes old.

I say, I'm not gonna adopt no kid because I'm

good old at it. I tell you what, parents in

this house. You know, your kids are there, but they're

not taking care of you because they've got their own

families to take care of. That's the truth. So I

ain't gonna adopt somebody because I want someone to take

care of me when old. It's okay, somebody will take

care of Mela. I don't know who but Jesus right.

Keep your eyes on Jesus right, and he has to

be the one who takes care of us. And therefore

number following that is to keep his commandments. I already

said it, right, John fourteen fifteen says, if you love me,

Jesus says, keep my commandments. Amen, keep my commandments. If

you don't know his commandments, it's time to tick up

the Bible. Read God's word, meditate one small portion at

the time. That is his command forgive love your neighbor. Amen,

help those who can help themselves, speak up for those

who can't speak up. Pray for those who need healing.

Pray for those you know. Visit the poor, the ones

in the jail, in the prison, you know, clothe those

who have no clue. This is commandment of Jesus. Go

and do that. Paul really, under the inspiration of Holy Spa,

also wrote so many of the epistles teaching us how

to live right. So, friends, how what does Christ centeredness

look like? Keep your eyes on Jesus and follow what

he tells you to do. Amen. Moving on, we have

to end ready, Number three, how do we keep Christ

in the center? Okay, seems like the same question. By anyway,

that's what the book says. So I have to find

the details. I just want to make sure you follow.

So how do we keep Jesus at the center? Sorry,

I come back the same thing. Just Jesus JJ, all right,

Joline and Joel JJ. Just Jesus, okay, Jesus and no other.

You know, Jesus was not very concerned about how big

his congregation was. In John chapter six, you read John

chapter the whole of John chapter six, people were following

him because he was healing them. He was feeding them.

He was you know, you know, lifting up the down hearted,

the broken heart. He was healing right. And then he

suddenly had to talk about communion, eat my blood, eat

my flesh. What is this? What is it? What's cannibalism?

Eat my blood, eat my body or yo. They couldn't

take it. They're like, no, this is nonsense. No, he says,

I'm going to give you a new covenant and my blood. Yo.

So after they heard this, they say he has gone mad,

as a demon in him and on that day they

all left him. So if he had a church of

a thousand, they all left him. Only twelve people remain.

And then he asked them bitter, so do you all

want to leave me too? Because they've all gone. So,

if he was interested in fame and popularity, he wouldn't

have done what Father told him to do, which was

to say, I will be that bread, I will be

that that cup. Right, And so in John six sixty

eight and sixty nine, Jesus asked all of them, twelve

of them, so do you want to leave me too?

What do you say? And then Jesus said, and Peter

Peter rose up to say, no, Lord, you are the Christ. Amen.

Let's look at that verse, so you know I'm not

blying to you, okay, six sixty six sixty six sixty

six is from that time onwards. They all left him.

They all left him all right, and they just moved away.

They walked with him no more. And then sixty sixty seven,

then Jesus said to the twelve, because they look like

they're all standing there still, gabron Hollo one thousand church,

we all work for all our offerings gone. If you're

thinking about offerings. All the people left. They were like,

go brah. And then Jesus said, so do you also

want to go away? Peter said, Lord to whom shall

we go. You have the words of eternal life. Also

we have come to believe and know that you are

the Christ, the son of the Living God. Amen. So

just Jesus, nothing else, not the healings, not the not

the miracle of five loaves and two fish. Just Jesus.

When you have Jesus, your five loaves and two fish

will multiply. Just Jesus. And the most importantly, even as

you look unto Jesus, you must surrender to the Lord.

Many many distractions will come, many attractions will come, many

temptations will come. But we have to live that life

that will be surrendered to the Lord. There are things

we have to surrender. Lie right, we want something, we

don't like, something, we upset read something, we very happy

with something. But all of these have to be surrendered.

Paul in Philippians three says, you know, I press on

to the upward call, letting go of all that's behind me.

And it could be good Echolades, and or it could

be bad experiences. But he press on to the upward

call of God, and he goes forward by surrendering the

things that have been good, and also surrendering those things

which have been broken in our lives and we just

have to move forward. And you know what, not everybody

will understand. Seriously, they won't understand why you're doing this.

They don't even understand what in the world you are doing.

Why are you choosing this power? But it's not about

the fame and popularity, but everybody saying, yes, more important

is God's giving the not to you. You are my

good and faithful servant. Amen. Yeah, that is more important.

If you really sit down by yourself, why nobody you

go to your favorite cafe que No, I know your

got your favorite cafe, and then you have your eyes

cut of much ah, right, and then then you just

take a journal and then you just fart quiet for

a moment and be still. I believe the law will

speak to you and encourage you, and then you will

see what is the priority in your life. If it's

not a godly party, an eternal priority, the law will

remind you. Then you know, he will then have to

say remember me, not because he's insecure, but because he

is your ankle faith. Amen, the Amen surrendered to the Lord.

You know, there's so many verses like in Luke nine

twenty three, it's about Jesus is you know, if you

want to come, come and come take up the cross

and follow me? How many of us are willing? Actually?

You know you ask us really and go down to it.

Are we really take up the cross and then follow Jesus? Yo?

Take up the cross me? People laugh at me, you know,

because I'm a Christian. Take up the cross is sometimes

having to forgive people and walk on. You know. Sometimes

take up the cross means I might still have this sickness.

You know, I might still have the leg. You know,

I I haven't got my million dollars. You know, I

haven't paid the debt. Nobody take up my chrossler and

then follow Christ. Because actually, if Jesus really walked today

on Earth, I don't know if we will follow him.

Number One, he did not look like Shao Khan or

Jun Cook k Number two, he was not rich. He

didn't even own a house, probably rented, you know, he

didn't have the groovy clothes, oh my gosh, sack cloth,

doesn't even drive, probably at a best bar. I don't

think we would want to follow Jesus because he's not

Warren Buffett, because he's not Donald Trump, because he's not

Mark Zuckerberg because he's just not a lot of musk.

I think the honest truth is we won't follow Jesus

if he was here today. He has no fame, he

ain't good looking. He doesn't even promise you that you

will score one hundred points for your isam, or you

will be rich, whatever. But he does promise you that

I will be with you, and I will be the

same yesterday, today and tomorrow. And when you have you

want joy, I will give you that joy. I will

give you that joy. Ask of me whatever you need,

and I will answer you. There's a mountain in your life.

Speak to that mountain in my name. That mountain will

be removed. That's what he offers us. He offers us

eternal life and our names written in the Lamb's Book

of Life. I don't know, you might say, where is

the Lamb's Book of Life? I can't see it, and

you just he say, believe in me, follow me, and

that your name will be written on the Lamb's Book

of life. What are your burdens that you're carrying? Have

you surrendered to the Lord so many things that you

so many things that bother me? And do we surrender

it to the Lord. I want to be like this.

I want to be I wish this. I wish that

in the comparison never stops, right, it never stops. Honestly,

it never stops. This is earth, this is the world.

Yet it is a beautiful world that God made. Make

him the center of our lives. Amen, Make him the

sense of our church. Even as a church, we have

to surrender to the Lord. How do we live? How

do we continue to keep Christ? Then you tell yourself

every day you wake up relations two twenty, it's no

longer either live. Christ was crucified for me. It's no

longer I who lives, but the life there I now live.

I live by faith in the son of God who

loved me and died for me. I'm crucified with Christ,

and you crucified with Christ. You and I don't actually

actually were like the walking dead, so they always say,

and did people feel offended? Right? Dead people cannot get

offended right because they're dead. So we are dad to

the flesh, but alife in the spirit. Amen. Amen. And

that's that's only possible because Christ is in the center. Amen.

It's hard to live like the dead man. I can't

because I still get offended a little bit, and then

I tell myself, die, die to yourself, and come alive

in Christ and turn't hold onto these things. Right, our ministry,

we encourage, We encourage ourselves in the lot, like how

King David did right when he was very down. Everybody

wanted to kill him in a second semul thirty, but

he encourages for semul thirty. You want to encourage himself. Right.

So church, we are a church that is anchored in Christ,

looking unto Jesus, the authorn finisher of our faith, because

of the joy that was set before him. Let me

see calculated ready. You know, the joy of going to

be strip, naked, beaten humiliates it. You know, accused as

a as a robber, accused as a traitor, accused as

a criminal. But the joy that was said before him.

He endured the cross. Jesus endured the cross, and, despising

the shame he had to, he sat down at the

right hand of the throne of God. Amen. Somebody went

before you and me, and his name is Jesus. Every

time we partake of the communion, we remember it's Jesus. Amen.

He just remember me. I'm here. If you are, if

you forgot that I'm here. Jesus is is not because

he's insecure, is because we might forget and get attracted

and distracted with different things. Amen. So those are some

of the key thoughts for us today. And we as

we gonna close and we're gonna pray, I just want

to say to us, in all things, I'm slowly beginning

to understand a little bit more about seeking first the

Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then all these

things will be added unto you seek first the Kingdom

which is which you. It's not in in in silver

and gold. It's not silver and gold, it's not things

you can touch and see. The Kingdom of God is

amazingly generous and and it's so full of life in Christ.

And if we seek the righteousness of God, all the

things that you and I need will be added back

to us. Amen. Don't don't don't carry the burdens that

the world throws at us. Maybe you don't understand everything

we do. Why we must do this. That's why the

Lord says, come, come and speak. Talk. Talk to the Lord.

He hears us. Because the Holy Spirit is living in us. Amen.

So we center our lives on Christ and whatever we are,

who we are, what we are. You know, if you

just live in the who you are, you'll never will

never amount to anything that that we makes a difference.

It's only when we are in Christ we stand forgiven,

we stand washed in the blood of Jesus. We could

have many lackings or blessings, but it is in Christ,

in Christ alone only. Amen. So I'm telling you honestly,

I'm not because I'm I'm just saying to you. If

people ask me, just yes, somebody asked me, do you

have children? And I say no with a smile, I'm

not crying. I have such freedom. But that's my life.

God chose for me, and I'm serving the lot and

I just laid up to the lot again. Surrender to

the lot again. Amen. Amen. I just have a child

somewhere in heaven. I just have to look at life differently.

Just I'm not like you. Doesn't make you less a woman,

doesn't make me less a woman. Right, God is so

good to us. So come church, Come and remind yourself

that Jesus is the center of our church, and he's

the center of our own walk with Jesus. Jesus at

the center, Amen. And that's what counts for us to

go the long, long haul when we don't focus left, right, everywhere,

every distraction, everything nice other people doing. Let's follow be

centered on Christ. It's a good reminder, Amen, it's a

good call value for us to remember that this church

is built on Jesus and our personal lives, our personal

walk in Jesus is also anchored on Jesus and nothing

more or nothing less Jesus. Amen.

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