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Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church (Part 1) | Elder Dr.Jill Ling

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from ext Church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day. So

  3. what is the purpose of unpacking the vision it comes

  4. in to use, which is so that we can understand

  5. You can start feeling up as we go to Lisa,

  6. so that we can understand the vision as we unpack it.

  7. And understanding is not enough to move forward. We don't

  8. move forward in our minds only. We need to undertake.

  9. Undertake means put it into action. Everybody's say action. It's like,

  10. we can't just get fit by watching fitness videos on

  11. the couch. We can't just taste good food by just

  12. watching recipes on the you know YouTube. We've got to

  13. actually try out war work it out. Okay, So we

  14. got to not just understand the vision of ex Church,

  15. but we got to undertake that means work it out,

  16. all right, Okay, Now, before we go to the next slide,

  17. how many of us here.

  18. Love to travel? Raise your hands? Raise your hands?

  19. Okay, yeah, me too, All right, I know the Trial

  20. family be traveling soon. Johnny Mercy's as you travel, okay, Now,

  21. how many of you when you reach your travel destination

  22. you are like me? Where I will open my bag.

  23. I won't just open it, but I will actually take

  24. out things and put it in their rightful places and

  25. kind of make that travel destination for the next few

  26. days my home my second home. So I will take

  27. out my toiletries and I put it in the bathroom.

  28. I'll take out my clothes. I'll start hanging them in

  29. the wardrobe. You know, I'll take up the and start

  30. plugging them in. I make the hotel room or the

  31. Airbnb or whoever is hosting us like my second home

  32. for the next few days that I'm going to stay there.

  33. I literally unpacked and put everything in your rightful place,

  34. so that I know you know where to reach for

  35. stuff when I need to and I feel comfortable.

  36. Okay, how many of you are like me? You do that? Nobody?

  37. I don't believe it in a sample size of fifty

  38. people here, not.

  39. One, not immediately, not even in the house. Okay, okay,

  40. just kidding, Okay, no, precious, but okay, that's how I wrote.

  41. You can ask my family.

  42. When we reached the hotel room, I will start unpacking

  43. staff for the first hour, settling everything in it. It's

  44. just me, like, and it's fine. You know, we all

  45. have our different travel styles. So I wanted to use

  46. this analogy to show you about unpacking. Okay, okay, thank

  47. you anology. Thank you, thank you, brother, thank you, thank you.

  48. All right, okay, So this was the analogy that passa

  49. kind of use, okay, in which you say, you know,

  50. when you unpack your bag, you know, whenever, whether you're

  51. your travel destination or you reach back home, different things

  52. go to different places. They have their rightful place, right, yes,

  53. And so when we unpacked the vision, there will be

  54. seven uh different places in the same house that this

  55. vision goes to. This vision leads us to. All right,

  56. and these are the seven places that unpacking the vision

  57. will lead us to. Okay, all in the same house,

  58. but seven different spaces. Bathroom LA, kitchen la, your room LA.

  59. You know you get what I mean.

  60. Okay, So this is in your booklet as well. All right,

  61. these are the seven places that unpacking division will leaders to.

  62. Okay.

  63. A place of prayer, everyone, say prayer. A place of passion,

  64. say passion, A place of purpose, say purpose, A place.

  65. Of practice, very good, you get a drill.

  66. A place of prepare, a place of plan, and a

  67. place of power.

  68. Excellent.

  69. Now these are the seven places that this series will

  70. take us to across the next six weeks. Today we

  71. are going to cover number one all the way to

  72. number five part of it. Okay, number one to number five,

  73. and in the next few weeks we're going to stick

  74. on point number five because prepare has a lot of content.

  75. You know, in life are preparations sometimes takes the longest time.

  76. You know, you can cook a meal for the whole

  77. day and you finish it in fifteen minutes, and all

  78. the moms here say yeah, true, yes, okay, all right,

  79. then we will end with plan and power. Okay, now

  80. let's move on to the next light. So let's start

  81. with prayer. Let's start with prayer.

  82. Okay.

  83. Prayer is the first place that we should be stirred

  84. to go to while unpacking the vision of ex Church. Now,

  85. we have to remember that the vision of X Church

  86. is provided by God and not men, not past the

  87. canev So God's vision, God's provision, God's vision, God's provision.

  88. So if during this series we don't understand what is

  89. being shared, we don't understand the vision too well, then

  90. the first place we need to go to is a

  91. place of prayer where we talk to God and we say, God,

  92. would you help me to understand this vision for your vision,

  93. give me provision of clarity for your vision, Give me

  94. provision of understanding.

  95. Yeah.

  96. Okay, so that's the first place we want to go to.

  97. Yeah.

  98. Now let's go to the second slide, which is passion,

  99. purpose and practice.

  100. Okay.

  101. So it's important that we always start with the why,

  102. the why of why we do what we do and

  103. say what we say. So some of you may be

  104. wondering why does extra keep saying this or keep doing this?

  105. Maybe gain clarity from this series. Yeah right, Okay, Now

  106. let's move on to the next line. Okay, So when

  107. Pastor Kenna was sharing this point, right, he was literally

  108. very passionate on screen. I was watching his video again

  109. and I can really sense the passion coming through the

  110. video screen from three years ago, four years ago. Yeah.

  111. So when Pastor Kenno started at church, he started it

  112. with a burning passion where he believes that God only

  113. has the best for each one of us.

  114. Say the best.

  115. Turn to your neighbor and say God has the best

  116. for you. Turn to another neighbor and say God has

  117. the best for you. Okay, amen, the people out there, Okay,

  118. A man, this is what we're do in God's house.

  119. We prophesy to one another. Amen.

  120. We affirm His promises which are yes and Amen. So

  121. when Passa Canna started ex Church twenty five years ago,

  122. he started it with a burning fire where God, I

  123. want everyone who comes to ex Church to not only

  124. know that you have the best for them, but to

  125. experience your best for them.

  126. This is past us passion, this is past his passion.

  127. That all of us experience God's best for our lives,

  128. whether it's in our health, whether it's in long life,

  129. if God wants us have long life, whether it's in

  130. our resources, our finances, in our mental health, in our relationships,

  131. in our marriages, our families, our workplaces, our ministries, life

  132. at large. Passa Kenneth really wants to see all of

  133. us experience God's best for our lives.

  134. Amen.

  135. Because God said right that I have come to give

  136. you life and life abandoned Lee, not just halfway, but

  137. abundantly the best.

  138. Everybody say the best.

  139. Yes, and so experiencing the best means that we live

  140. this life that God has given us to his fullness

  141. of possibilities.

  142. Yeah.

  143. And so is there any one of you here where

  144. you are actually desiring a breakthrough in your life today. Yeah,

  145. we can just take maybe half a minute and reflect

  146. and write down what is it that you are desiring

  147. a breakthrough for in your life. Yeah, there's a space there.

  148. If you're ready, you can write it down. Just take

  149. the next twenty seconds. So if you're on page five

  150. right at the bottom, there's a question do you desire

  151. a breakthrough life? Write down the breakthrough that you're desiring

  152. for at this point in time. If you're done, you

  153. can look up, so I know you're done, like exam

  154. like that right, Okay, give us ten more seconds and

  155. we can complete the rest at home.

  156. Okay, cool.

  157. So this is to get you started off now. So

  158. in pastes sharing right, the phrase that he used is.

  159. Lord, there must be more. There must be more for

  160. our lives.

  161. And then it's followed by Lord, show us how to

  162. get to that more. Show us your secrets of getting.

  163. To that more.

  164. So there must be more that God has for us,

  165. but it's also embedded in his secrets, his ways.

  166. Okay, right now.

  167. So Pastor is always, you know, hungry to find out God,

  168. what is your secret for us to live your more?

  169. And when Pastor discovers that secret, he will share it

  170. openly with us. He's not a stingy student that will

  171. not share, you know, so that we wouldn't hit the

  172. exam marks.

  173. He is more than.

  174. Happy to share God's secrets with us so that we

  175. experience his more. Now let's go onto the next It slight.

  176. But although Pastor started ex Church with the desire of

  177. helping us to experience God's best, He's so much more

  178. for our lives, Pastor realized that our own interests shouldn't

  179. even be the purpose white church exists. The reason the

  180. purpose white church exists is to please God, not please ourselves.

  181. Church exists to please who God and not ourselves. We've

  182. got to get that clear, and we have to be

  183. very careful, especially in this day age where church and

  184. religion can be manipulated with the focus being on ourselves.

  185. We must be careful. Are we here to just please ourselves?

  186. Are we here to please God? That is a very

  187. important heart check question that we need to ask ourselves

  188. every day every day. Yeah, okay, all right, so we

  189. are here to please God. Now we want on the

  190. next life. Okay, so we talk about the word, which

  191. is we want to experience God's best. But why because

  192. ultimately we want to please him. Because God wants us

  193. to experience his best. So when we experience his best,

  194. we are actually pleasing God. God wants to bless us.

  195. God wants to give us the best.

  196. Okay.

  197. And how do we experience God's best and please him

  198. is by applying his word, his promises, his truth into

  199. our lives. The word of God is the secret to

  200. the more in your life. The word of God God, right,

  201. and we are big on transforming the truth of God

  202. into testimonies. The word of God is alive in you

  203. and me, and we've got to live that out. We've

  204. got to show the world the living word of God

  205. that it transforms from truth to testimonies. Okay, just a

  206. very quick one. Now we can take a break just

  207. from the screen and from your book. What area are

  208. we in right now? What district is this? Cheer us,

  209. chore us?

  210. Okay?

  211. Now, how many of you know that there is a

  212. road called Jalalan one one eight in cher Us? Any

  213. of you live there? Anybody from Jalan one one eight?

  214. Anybody heard of the Jalan one one eight before? Quite famous? Right?

  215. It's just the one is it just opposite are you

  216. kidding me? Oh wow, very special? Okay, now, okay, galant

  217. one one, it is just opposite, Okay.

  218. Why I say so? It is.

  219. Fifty ten years ago my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

  220. Stage three. So stage four is terminal.

  221. Stage three is closer to terminal than it is to

  222. you know, the early stages. And not only that, his

  223. Gleason score, which is a score of aggressiveness over ten,

  224. is seven, seven over ten. So how do you think

  225. the prognosis of my dad's prostate cancer was? It's more

  226. than the outlook is stage three over fall aggressive score

  227. is seven over ten.

  228. He's closer to.

  229. Losing his life than keeping his life, Okay. And it

  230. was a very very difficult time for our family and

  231. a lot of seeking the Lord in tears, in prayers,

  232. uh in his word was done during that period. Of course,

  233. my dad had to go through treatment, he went through

  234. radiotherapy for a period of time, he changed his lifestyle.

  235. But the one thing that kept me going and gave

  236. me hope that my dad was going to pull through

  237. was the word of God. So why I say so

  238. is one day I was traveling Insuras for something and

  239. I kept seeing the sign bought one one it.

  240. So it's like when I drive along.

  241. Cursus, suddenly there'll be a copit yam jalan one one

  242. it no no noterus touter us. And then when we

  243. drove to Passajack's cousin's house, I passed the road that

  244. says one one eight jalan one so one one aid

  245. kept coming up to me, and I was like, God,

  246. why am I saying one one? It keep coming up

  247. to me, and then he led me to sound one

  248. one eight. Let's all turn to someone one eight shall we? Okay,

  249. let's go all the way to verse seventeen. So here

  250. is written I shall not die, but I shall live

  251. and recount the deeds of the Lord. I shall not die,

  252. but I shall live to recount the deeds of the Lord.

  253. And I knew instantly that God was speaking to me.

  254. He was telling me that my father will not die

  255. from prostate cancer ten years ago. My father's going to

  256. live and live abundantly to tell of God's mercies and miracle.

  257. And even up to now, my father is alive and

  258. he's healthy, and you know he For cancer patients, right,

  259. they have to be at least cancer free for five years,

  260. then only is deemed as clear of cancer. My dad

  261. has been clear of cancer for ten years and I'm

  262. believing for more. And in fact, God told me how

  263. many years he was going to live. But I shall

  264. not disclose it here in public. It's just a personal

  265. thing because God knows I need to be prepared for

  266. my dad's homegoing. But that's how good God is that

  267. his word became flesh in my life and my family

  268. and I go around sharing this testimony. You know, my

  269. father almost lost his life from advance pro s take cancer,

  270. but then God really healed him miraculously and saved him.

  271. And this is and I example of how God's truth

  272. turns into a testimony and we get to share it

  273. so that many you get to believe in our Lord.

  274. Amen.

  275. Amen, Okay, cool, let's move on all right now, still

  276. under practice. Okay, the next slide. So, our mission in

  277. ex church is to help people believe, help people believe.

  278. Now do you think when someone hears your testimony it's

  279. going to help them to believe a bit more easily. Yes,

  280. that's why it's so important to have testimonies, because the

  281. word of God people might find it hard to believe,

  282. but when they read you as this living word is

  283. more believable because they know you.

  284. All right, Okay, so you can copy that down. Yeah.

  285. Helping people believe and every testimony must be powerful, personal

  286. and practice.

  287. Girl.

  288. Right, it's your story. It happened in a very practical situation,

  289. and it's powerful.

  290. Yeah.

  291. Okay, Now let's move on to the next line. Okay,

  292. So reflection time again. If I am the walking Bible,

  293. what are people reading about me? What are people reading

  294. about me? Okay, that's a reflection question for us to

  295. think about and answer. But I'm not going to get

  296. this to pen it down now, Okay, all right, shall

  297. we move on?

  298. Okay, very cool.

  299. So we've covered the first four piece, which is prayer, passion, purpose,

  300. and practice. Now we come to the final pee for today,

  301. which is prepare everyone say, prepare, prepare.

  302. Okay.

  303. This is a long part which will cover today in

  304. the next few weeks.

  305. Huh prepare? Okay.

  306. Now, how many of you have already been in ex

  307. church since twenty twenty raise your hands, give me a wave?

  308. Since twenty twenty.

  309. Okay, about half half year.

  310. Do you remember what was the vision in twenty the

  311. theme that God gave us in twenty twenty Okay, yes

  312. it is there open book question Nah o more answer.

  313. Purpose.

  314. So in twenty twenty, when the pandemic hit the world,

  315. God gave us a very very significant theme for ex

  316. Church and the theme was Purpose. Everyone say purpose, and

  317. purpose means always starting with the why.

  318. Everyone say why.

  319. And that's why the image is a start button because

  320. we want to start with purpose. Always start with the why.

  321. Even when you get into a relationship, right, I mean, yeah,

  322. it's not just for good look or good feels, but

  323. why why do you even want to get married? The

  324. why is very important? Even when you further your studies.

  325. Why why do you want to further your studies? Is

  326. it just to have money or job?

  327. Why? Right? So the why is always important. Okay.

  328. Now Past said during this unpacking series, he hopes that

  329. we press our start button on to be open to

  330. grow in understanding and living out the vision.

  331. Of ex Church.

  332. But he said, please don't press the stud button as

  333. a pause or stock button because the same button that

  334. turns something off on can also turn something off. So

  335. let's not turn off during these six weeks. Let's keep

  336. the start button on. Okay, Canna, I canna?

  337. Okay, very cool. Next like.

  338. Okay, all right, next month we go to the devotion

  339. when now, when Pasta was sharing this also, he said

  340. some people told him, Pastor, whatever you're sharing is very good,

  341. but I think, right, it's only for leaders. This material

  342. sounds that it's only for leaders. This is too much

  343. for me, and a pastor says, no, that's not true,

  344. because everyone can be a leader. Okay, turn to your

  345. neighbor and say you can be a leader. Okay, turn

  346. to the other neighbors, say you do can be a leader.

  347. You know you're prophesying each other. Okay, what defines a leader.

  348. A leader is someone who is able to lead themselves

  349. first before they lead others. So if you're able to

  350. lead yourself first, that makes you a leader already, even

  351. though you have not let another person yet. But the

  352. first person that you lead is yourself. So now, by

  353. this definition, aren't all of us leaders. The fact that

  354. you led yourself to wake up, to dress up, to

  355. come to church today and be here, you are already

  356. a leader because you could still be in bed or

  357. somewhere else and letting sleep or entertainment lead you.

  358. But you chose to lead your sleep. You chose to

  359. lead your entertainment.

  360. You chose to lead yourself here, so that makes you

  361. a leader already. Okay, now, so we go to the

  362. next line. So God makes no mistakes, Say no mistakes.

  363. There is no mistake that each of you are in

  364. ex Church at this time and season. There is no

  365. mistake that we're here together.

  366. Now.

  367. Who has God given you as you are in ex

  368. church right now? Who are the people in your circle

  369. of influence, in your church plan, in your homes, in

  370. your huddle, in your relationships? Who is in your circle

  371. of influence? God made no mistake that they are in

  372. your circle of influence. Why do you think God gave

  373. these people to you in your circle of influence? And

  374. how do you think you can draw the best from them?

  375. We may not always like all the people that circle

  376. of influence, but God gave them to us and He

  377. wants us to draw the best, even from the people

  378. that we may not like. Wow, mind blowing, But that's

  379. our God. Because he may not actually like us very much.

  380. He loves us.

  381. But do you think we're very likable always to God?

  382. Sometimes we also don't let ourselves write, Oh man, I

  383. wish I could have done better than that. But if

  384. God can draw the best from us, which maybe in

  385. the natural we wonder, how can you like me when

  386. I've done something like that? And he can still want

  387. to draw the best from us. We can all we

  388. are made in His image, and we too can draw

  389. out the best from others, even for the people that

  390. we find it hard to For the people that we like,

  391. it feels easier. Oh, I like you, Okay, I'm going

  392. to work on you. I'm going to draw out your best.

  393. But for the people that we may not really like,

  394. writ Oh, it's tough. But if God has given us,

  395. let's be good stewards. Okay, all right, now let's move on.

  396. So we're still under prepared. Okay.

  397. Now, even as God is getting us prepared, he's also

  398. preparing us. And at that point in time when Pasta

  399. cannot shed this. In twenty twenty one, we were in

  400. the thick of the COVID pandemic, and Pasta shared that,

  401. you know, God is so good. Nobody knew that COVID

  402. was going to come, but God knew. And so ten

  403. years before COVID hit our world, God already started preparing

  404. ex church to be pandemic ready. And in the bigger picture,

  405. God is preparing ex Church to be persecution equipped. That

  406. means we're ready when the pandemic hits. We're ready when

  407. persecution hits. We're ready for whatever problem that will hit

  408. the church and our faith God prepares us. Okay, So

  409. I have been in church since two thousand and two.

  410. How many years is that?

  411. Twenty three? Right?

  412. Twenty three years. People like Benny, people like Michelle have

  413. been here even since the early days. Yeah, different ones

  414. of course, Paster Jack as well. And I must say

  415. the first ten years of ex Church we were focused

  416. on the big.

  417. We met as one word ship service.

  418. We had a big service, it went into hundreds, We

  419. ran evangelistic events, it could even go into thousands.

  420. Yeah.

  421. But then later on, in the second decade of our

  422. ex Church history, God started to break us up into

  423. small and that's how all the different church plants were planted.

  424. Excyber was planted, Jurist was planted. Out of this breaking

  425. the big into small, and then the emphasis.

  426. Was on homes.

  427. Homes became the heartbeat of the church. We say, it's

  428. not enough for you to just come on a Sunday,

  429. but you've got to be part of homes because homes

  430. is really church. Coming for Sunday worship. Is not church

  431. being a part of the homes is okay. And then

  432. when the pandemic hit and we cannot meet more than

  433. ten people in the place, we are ready to meet

  434. in homes.

  435. Yeah.

  436. So God has been so good to prepare us, right,

  437. so next light, So God is calling us to prepare. Hey,

  438. next like and Passer kind of gave three examples. Prepare

  439. like John the Baptist. John the Baptist is not the Messire,

  440. but he came to prepare the way for the Messiah.

  441. Prepare like Noah and the arkh. In Noah's time, they

  442. had never seen heavy rains turning to floods. They have

  443. no idea what a flood is. But he prepared in

  444. faith and obedience anyway for the unseen. Yet be like,

  445. prepare like Peter and the miraculous catch. Remember Peter was

  446. trying to catch fish all night and they caught no fish.

  447. And then when Jesus came, he said, cast your net

  448. on the other.

  449. Side, and then.

  450. Immediately they began to catch so much fish until the

  451. next was starting to break and the boat maybe was

  452. starting to sink. But Peter had to prepare for the

  453. catch Okay, let's go to the next slide.

  454. So still on the story of Peter.

  455. It is God who adds daily to the church, and

  456. it is he who draws in the fish into the nets.

  457. But the work of preparation is ours.

  458. Okay, let's go to the next slide.

  459. It is our job to prepare and, like the story

  460. of Peter and the miraculous catch, prepared by launching into

  461. the deep. Where is God calling you to launch out?

  462. Two in this season? Usually it will be an uncomfortable place,

  463. because the deep is always uncomfortable. But don't be afraid,

  464. because God is preparing you and I for a big catch,

  465. his catch in our lives.

  466. Prepare by letting down the nets.

  467. How are we going to catch the fish If we

  468. don't put the nets down, They're just going to swim

  469. by us. Prepare to strengthen the nets. In the fishermen's

  470. free time, they are mending the nets. They are strengthening

  471. the nets so that they're strengthening so that you know

  472. it will be powerful and strong enough to catch the fish.

  473. Prepare by enlarging the boats. Are we really ready to

  474. invest our resources to enlarge our boats? Prepare and make

  475. ready the partners the other fishermen to hold up the

  476. net and pull in the net because the catch is

  477. just too many.

  478. Okay, So this is our role.

  479. Be ready to launch into the deep, to let down

  480. our nets, to strengthen our nets, and launch our bones,

  481. boats and bones, and ready the partners.

  482. Okay, all right, let's move on. Okay.

  483. So let's read this together from the booklet Isaiah, chapter

  484. fifty four.

  485. Verse two to three.

  486. Okay, and the count of tree one two three, and

  487. the place of your tent, and let them stretch out

  488. the curtains of your dwellings.

  489. Do not spare.

  490. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, for you shall

  491. expand to the right and to the left, and your

  492. descendants will inherit the nations and make the desolate cities inhabited. Okay,

  493. or a man Isaiah fifty four to two to three. Right,

  494. a reminder for us to enlarge the place of our tent.

  495. Okay.

  496. Now we are still under prepare, say prepare, Okay. This

  497. is the final let for today's word. Okay, we're gonna

  498. introduce or reintroduce the.

  499. Vision of X Church to you. Okay, let's go to

  500. the next slide.

  501. Okay, now, the first twenty years of ex Church, God

  502. called us to be a Joseph church. So when you

  503. think of Joseph, you think of building storehouses for the famine.

  504. So the first twenty years God was focused on building

  505. up our church as his resource for the world. So

  506. it's a lot of I guess the focus was very

  507. much inward building the church, making it strong and ready.

  508. But in the next twenty years, which are we are

  509. ready in now God has caused us to be a

  510. Daniel church, sent out into the marketplace, sent out into

  511. the world. Having been built up and made ready, Now

  512. is our time to go into the world and be

  513. His saw and light in the world.

  514. Okay, Now, in.

  515. Twenty fifteen, God gave us also a call to be

  516. like King has a Cayer, to set our house in order.

  517. If you know the story of King has a Caier,

  518. He was going to die from a serious sik but God,

  519. in his mercy, lengthened the number of his years and

  520. gave him fifteen more years to live. But in that

  521. fifteen years God wanted him to set his house in order.

  522. So in twenty fifteen God told ext church that we

  523. have to set our house in order. So the nd

  524. line is twenty thirty. Now, in twenty eighteen, God gave

  525. us another call to be like Nihi Maya who rebuilt

  526. the walls of Jerusalem, and we are to be rebuilt

  527. the walls and hang up the gates. Okay, walls signify identity,

  528. see identity. So in this time until twenty thirty, God

  529. wants us to rebuild our identity as a church. Coming

  530. back to the ray Jane now, because maybe you know

  531. there's a lot of in influence of the world or

  532. other churches that tries to come in and influence ex Church.

  533. God has a unique calling for every church. We are

  534. not to be like the church down the street. God

  535. has their own calling for them. We've got to live.

  536. Out God's call for us. Okay.

  537. Now let's move on to the next slide. So if

  538. you notice, twenty thirty is the next check mark. For

  539. those of you who run marathons, that is your next checkpoint.

  540. Twenty thirty. Okay, it's not the finishing line. Is a checkpoint.

  541. People always think, oh, everyone's talking about twenty thirty as

  542. the finishing line, but no, it's a checkpoint.

  543. Okay.

  544. And at twenty thirty, God wants ex Church to be strong,

  545. and He doesn't just want this generation to be strong,

  546. he wants the next generation to be strong as well.

  547. So that's why we're doing all that.

  548. We do, because past the ken of they prophesy before that,

  549. we are living in the times of plenty right now,

  550. plenty spiritually twenty twenty three to twenty thirty, but twenty

  551. thirty for the next seven years will be a time

  552. of famine. Spiritually. That means it might be very very

  553. hard for us for people to find God in the world.

  554. I don't know what's going to happen twenty thirty onwards,

  555. but we have to be patient, trust God and see.

  556. But right now, it's a time of preparation, in this

  557. time of plenty, where you and I can still come

  558. to church. You and I can still you know, be

  559. part of homes. You and I can access His word

  560. freely and openly, you know, talk about.

  561. Christ and pray.

  562. Let's do it while it's still day, okay, because time

  563. will come when it's night and we may not be

  564. able to to, you know, do the things of God

  565. so easily. Still can, but needs more effort night, right,

  566. you have to turn on the light. It takes more

  567. effort to do things at night, still possible. Okay, but

  568. now it's still day.

  569. Let's work.

  570. Well, it's still day. Okay, all right, let's go on.

  571. What it means to us as a church. That's like, okay,

  572. let me see you. Okay, you know what. Okay, I'm

  573. trying to follow the notes as well. Page nine, page nine. Okay, okay,

  574. we go back one more slight Richard, Sorry, okay, here, yes, I.

  575. Need to give you the answers.

  576. Okay, we are at page nine, all right, at point

  577. number three. In twenty twenty, we celebrated our twentieth anniversary

  578. with a clear vision for the next twenty years. And

  579. that vision begins with His kingdom purpose and priority. So

  580. in the Lord's prayer we pray, let your kingdom come

  581. and your will be done right. And now, like I

  582. said earlier on in point four, God declared Daniel as

  583. our vision for the next twenty years.

  584. Okay, we all call that. Okay.

  585. Now we're up to speed, Okay, wrapping up soon, okay.

  586. So what this means to us as a church. The

  587. big vision that God has for ex church is found

  588. in Haber Cook two fourteen. Let's read this out aloud together,

  589. one two three for the earth will be filled with

  590. the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the

  591. waters cover the sea Habercook two fourteen.

  592. Amen.

  593. Okay, So I know when we say the earth here,

  594. you think of the whole globe. But did you know

  595. that the earth is also where you are at right now?

  596. Your families, your school, your workplaces, your church plan, your ministries,

  597. your circle or influence.

  598. This is your earth. So Ashira, you can also have

  599. God has an earth for you for his glory to

  600. be filled. Right, yeah, tej Jason, God has an earth

  601. for you for his glory to be filled.

  602. So all of us have our own piece of the

  603. earth that He wants us to bring his glory into.

  604. Amen. Amen. Okay, So where is your earth? Yeah?

  605. All right, So have a think about it when you

  606. go home, all right. And we are going to wrap

  607. up with this final verse from Genesis chapter one, verse

  608. twenty eight. Let's read it together, okay. One two three.

  609. Then God bless them, and God said to them, be

  610. fruitful and MAULTI apply feel the earth and subdue it.

  611. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the

  612. birds of the air, and over every living thing that

  613. moves on earth. Genesis chapter one verse twenty eight. Now

  614. there are three things we can draw from this verse.

  615. Verse is the what This is the very first commandment

  616. that God gave man.

  617. Actually, so it's very important to take note what did

  618. God command us? We can go to the next light

  619. to feel the earth, similar with Hypercook two to fourteen.

  620. How is by being fruitful and being and multiply ourselves,

  621. in other words, to make disciples. We first as a disciple,

  622. and then we make disciples. That's how we multiply ourselves.

  623. And the why is so that when we populate the

  624. earth with God's disciples, we will be able to have

  625. in his influence his dominion over the earth. Because God

  626. originally made the earth for himself and for us. His

  627. creation is people. But because of sin, the enemy took it.

  628. But God wants us to take back this earth for

  629. him and that's why Jesus came.

  630. But we still have to work out, you.

  631. Know that taking back in his name, in his power,

  632. in his authority.

  633. Amen. Okay, and that's it.

  634. We'll go to the last slide and we're going to

  635. close with this extreme can come up.

  636. We're ending already, Okay.

  637. So as we go from here, let's ask ourselves what

  638. excuse us am I thinking about right now with regards

  639. to living out the vision that God has what X.

  640. I know we spoke about a lot of things today,

  641. but I'm sure there is something that jumps out at

  642. you today and it could be very different between different

  643. ones of us. Here. What is God speaking to you

  644. today from this whole sharing? What is the one thing

  645. that God is stirring your heart?

  646. My child, my child? Would you? Would you? And what

  647. may be the natural excuse? Oh Lord, I can't it's

  648. too tough, it's too crazy.

  649. If I says my child, would you? My grace is

  650. sufficient for you. My strength is made perfect When you

  651. are weak, do it, but you can do it in me,

  652. says the Lord.

  653. Amen.

  654. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  657. this week is going to be a good week.

  658. I hit for you. God bless