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As disciples of Christ, we must be birthed right. And

being birthed right means we need to understand our salvation right.

You know, if you don't understand what it is all about,

we technically won't be born so right la because we

don't really understand what we're supposed to do, or we

don't really understand what does it mean for us. So

we have to be born right this time without any flaws,

you know. So for us to comprehend our salvation fully,

we have to understand. There's actually two parts in salvation.

Salvation is twofold our use the word twofold or two components.

And one is always use the word indicative, meaning what

God has done for us. And there's another part we

often sometimes don't really talk much about it. It's also

what we as believers are how to do. It's an

imperative part. Imperative mean that it is a command or

it is a responsibility that we are also supposed to do,

you know. So today I will try to cover both

parts of what does it mean? And we start off

with what God has done for us first, the indicative part. Okay,

so fast, so good, right, Okay, so you're gonna start off.

So the first thing that what God has done for

us is your salvation. Birds your identity it all. When

you are born again, your identity changes. Your identity is

transformed into a new identity. So that to understand you

read John chapter one, verse forty two. He says, yeah, Now,

when Jesus looked at him, he said, you are Simon,

the son of Jonah. You shall be called the called Siphas.

That's what it will say. Maybe in some translation it

would say you shall be called Peter. So Peter, the

Peter that we all know in the Bible. Before he

was called Peter, his real name was Simon, And I

don't know how you call it in Greek. Maybe it's

simone or whatever it is supposed to be. But Simon

in Greek it means the red. If you know what's

the read. Yeah, in in Basa it's the la lang, know,

the long grass that is wavering around, So it's a

read meaning it's just like a random grass at the

street kind of thing. So that was his name. I

have no idea why his parents named him that, you know,

I don't know. People will go around naming your child

the reed or lalang or grass or whatever. So so

I have no idea, you know, I have no idea

why they called him that. But that was his name.

That was his name, and his name was true to

his character, because if you read Peter's story throughout the

Bible in the beginning, you will see him behaving like

a read. And what I mean by a read is

that it's always wavering. It's always unstable, you know, like

a reed that is blown by a wind, or like

a lalang or a grass that is blown by a wind.

You will see it sway according to the leaf. It's

never steady, it's never strong, you know. He's just always

waving to where the wind blows him. You know, wind

blows wind kind of thing, you know. So, and he

was like that in his nature. He was an unstable person.

It was a hot head, you know. And you can

see throughout the Bible when you read and the things

that he has done, sometimes you feel like, are you serious?

Why why you want to say stuff like this? So

why you want to do stuff like this? You know,

he himself will go to the water. Then he gets

scared and then he drowns, and then you know, he

gets so angry he pulls out a knife and he

cuts someone's ear. You know, he says that no, Jesus,

I won't let you go. And then next moment you

see him denying Jesus three times and and I didn't

running away, you know, uh, And he's like, no, Jesus

won't let you die, and Jesus calls him, get behind me, Sytan,

and you know, it's just this guy is just full

of you know, it's pretty obvious it's an unstable guy,

you know, with how he stands, what he says and

and things like that. But what what Jesus do is

that it calls him. He said that you shall be

called fast and see fast, or however you pronounce it.

In Greek, it also stands for petross, which means the rock.

Just called him the rock, you know, like the rock

like buttu you know or not not Dane Johnson the rock,

but but but the rock, you know. So so you know,

Jesus called him that because Jesus was saying that you're

going to be this stable, strong, unwaived man that the

church will be builowed upon and you will be that man.

And probably when Jesus called Peter this, when he named

him Peter Petross, he didn't probably realize the impact that

he was going to do. Probably he was thinking, why

did Jesus call me a rock because in my rock

inside hear or whatever, So he probably wasn't really aware.

But Jesus knew that this man's identity was about to change.

But the interesting part is that before Jesus called him this,

what happened was that Peter acknowledged that Jesus, you are

the Messiah that we have been waiting for, that you

are here to save us. That was the moment that

Jesus chose to change his name. Is because when he

acknowledged who the Messiah was, it was a mark of

change in identity of that person. And the same goes

to us. The moment when we acknowledge who is our Messiah, ooh,

Jesus is in our lives, our identity changes changes into

you know, what he really wanted to be. You know

this transformation right, it is what our Christian life is

all about, you know, it's it's it is to for

us to be born again into into this new identity

into this new transformation. That is what it's all about.

It's not much of just the other blessings and stuff

like that that we receive. That is the side quest

I would use the word, you know, But the main

agenda that Jesus is here all about it is to

transform our identity into a new person, you know, to

be spiritually regenerated into what we are supposed to be.

You know. That is the process that he wants to

take us through. And there's an order to this process,

you know, And if you read the Bible you will

see this as in order to this process. And it

starts from redemption and God saves us by his grace

nothing that we do, and then presentation where we offer

ourselves saying that Lord, I acknowledge that you are Messiah,

and we present ourselves and then starts transformation where God

renews our mind, renews who we are and everything. And

then after we are renewed, then we are able to

discern the will of God, discern what God wants us

to do, discern what is our purpose, and then we

are able to demonstrate our life as a new creation

and what we are supposed to do. So that is

the order of that of the process of what Jesus

is taking us through, and it will be done, and

it will keep on happening until the day we meet

Jesus face to face. You know. That is what we

are going through is salvation, you know. So today you're

just gonna look very deeply into the transformation part, because

that's the essential part of salvation that we sometimes probably

don't really see or understand enough. And transformation is what

Peter was starting off at that time, from being a

read to become a rock. And that's what Paul describes

in Romans twelve verse two. You can read Roman's twelve

verse too. He can say, yeah, you don't be confirmed conformed,

conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing

of your mind, that you may prove what is that

good and acceptable and perfect will with God. So you know,

the words is one worse, but it's a very deep

and powerful worst because conform informity in in in Greek,

the word is called schema. I mean, you don't read

of that, I'll just read the form. It's called schema,

and schema talks about an outward form. And he says

that do not go according to the outworld form of

the world, because in today's world, and even the world

back then, there was a lot of external patterns and

and and values and culture. You know, you know, in

terms of the morality, in terms of what the culture says,

in terms of ideology, a lot of things that is

changing our identity. You know, even today, moral lines are

very blurred. You know, when you say you are a

person who have morality, you are now out to choose

what is morality. You know, it even means that you're

accepting that any gender can walk into any toilet. That's good. Distracted,

you know, that can walk into any toilet, and if

you are someone who's against that, then they say you

are you know, not a moral person. You're full of

hatred and things like that. So your morality is blurred

by the external world. But when you do so, when

you conform to this world, what is happening is that

you are imitating those who live only for the visible

things of this world. That is what is happening. When

you say you are living in the world's way, or

you without saying living in the world's way, you are

only living for the things that are visible, maybe living

for what is just outside you know, for the fame,

for the name, you know, for the for the nice house,

for the nice car, and all these things. And your

eyes is just fixed on the visible things. But what

Paul is saying, he is that don't be conformed, don't

follow the visible patterns of this world, but be transformed

by the renewing of your mind and transform. In Greek,

it uses this word called meta morphosis. I mean, if

you read biology or even science, metamorphosis is a very

very common word. You know, anyone knows, dude, spoiler spoilers. Okay, okay,

so fast, okay, you know, so you through this process

called metamorphosis. Thank you for putting it out so you know,

and and and and let me and let me break

you through that. This when when Paul is saying that

you shall be transformed or should you shall go through metamorphosis,

it's not talking about a one time thing. A lot

of times we think that salvation is just a one

time thing, or being transformed in Christ is just a

one time thing. All I need to do is come

out to the altar to be prayed for, and I

shall be transformed. All I need to do is say

that prayer, and I shall be renewed. But it doesn't

work like that. It is a one time adjustment, meaning

it's a one time commitment, but it is an ongoing

process that will take on probably forever, to go through

a process of recreation. I won't say I won't use

the word change. I won't use the word, you know,

becoming a better person or the better version of ourselves,

because a lot of times we use the word when

Christ comes in, we are becoming a better version ourselves

of ourselves. But that's not what Jesus is trying to do.

To make you a better version of yourself, But e

is to change your entire being and change your entire

conduct of how you act and when. Only when you

go through this process you'll be able to see. That's

what the word says again, that you know that after

the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what

is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Only when you go through this process you'll be able

to see reality through God's word. You know, as though

after you go, when you go through this process, you'll

be able to realize right the whole world you're living

in a very different perspective. Then you'll be like, oh,

my word, this is there's an agenda behind everything, or

there is everything is just so different as though that

you're eyes are just open to see what is not

right and what is right in this world and what

is not right and what is right in your own

life also. But you will only be able to go

through this when you go to metamorphosis. And why Paul

use metamorphosis because he understood what it truly means. Because

if you can see it, this is a transformation process,

right from a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. So when someone

goes when this caterpillar goes through this process, it becomes

a completely different being. There's nothing alike with a caterpillar

and a butterfly, you know, like completely. You know, if

you read scients, you will understand that their entire system changes,

their digestive system changes. So the point that a caterpillar

eats a leave to be alive, but a butterfly doesn't

eat leave, It lives on nectar. It's a complete change

of what it takes into herself. No butterfly will go

around and look at a caterpillar and say, oh, that's

me ten years ago or like or three months ago.

I don't know how many four days ago or no

caterpillar will look at a butterfly and say, hey, I'm

gonna be that. They can't do that. They are completely

different creature. And when Paul says that we are to

go through metamorphosis, we are to become like that, to

a complete change of a being of who we are

before we knew Christ and acknowledge Christ, to who we

become after we acknowledge Christ's completely changed. It's not a

better version of ourselves, but we are just completely a

new person in all total. I mean, of course, we

can't change our look like a caterpilla and a butterfly

become more handsome or more pretty. Too bad, you can't

do that, but you know yourself. Your character will change

and needs to change completely. That is what we are

out to go through. So when we say that we

are transformed person in Christ, we should be able to

look back to ourselves before we knew Christ and today

who we are. And there must be a difference at

least not caterbular to butterfly maybe, but caterbulla to cocoon.

Progress is still progress, you know, but we must be

able to say that we are transforming if the day

that we know Christ from the before, whenever you were safe,

or that you accepted Christ in your life from that

day before till today. If you are still the same person,

and if there's no transformation in who you are, then

you're out to ask yourself, are you really going to transformation?

Are you really going through metamorphosis? And a bigger question

you might need to even ask yourself, are you really saved?

Because with salvation the process begins. And if we can't

say that I'm not a changed person, I'm still the

same even to a certain degree, then we cannot say

that we have experienced is love. We cannot say that

we have experienced transformation in our lives. So we got

to ask ourselves this because that is the beginning, and

this is what salvation is all about. Is changing your

identity from a read to become a rock. That's what

he wants to do in your life. You know the

second part of it. Your salvation birds from your being,

not your doing. You know a common struggle with us

as believers, right we always there is an instability in

our faith. There are some days we are good, some

days we feel like, yes, I'm all holy and I

can conquer the world through Jesus. And some days we

feel like I'm such a sinner and I should run

and hide away and hide myself and never come out,

you know, because I'm such a sinner, I'm such a

bad person. But we have to understand, right, if we rely,

and if we think that that is what our life

looks like as a believer, then there's a misunderstanding in

what we think salvation is. We are lacking clarity in

what is the true nature of salvation because we have

made it as though our salvation, our transformation, our life

as a Christian is so much reliant on what we

do and who we are, and then this false identity

becomes our self and we keep saying that it results

our actions. And some days we are stable, we are

they're all powerful serving worshiping. In the days when we

make a mistake and we mess up and then we

feel like we are not worthy to worship God and

we hide ourselves away, we probably don't go to the

Lord until we feel good again or until circumstances of

life changes again. And we're just wavering because we think

that it is all up to us and it's what

we do. But truth is and Ephesians two US eight

to ten. It says, here, for by grace you have

been saved through faith, not that, and that not of yourself,

but is the gift of God, not of works, unlest

anyone should boast, For we are His workmanship, created in

Jesus for good works, for which God prepared beforehand, that

we should walk in them. When you read the worse,

the first statement it says here is that for by

grace you have been saved. And Paul speaking this to

the believers, and he's saying that you have been saved.

It means the work has already been completed. You know,

you one use have been saved. If the work is

not done yet, you'll be said, Probably Paul will write

it as you know, you are being saved to faith,

or you will be saved by faith, or you're not

gonna be saved. You know what. It says, you have

been saved, meaning the work is completed. It's done, it's finished,

you know. And then the word standing then it says

that we are created in Christ Jesus for good works.

The word for good works means good works or the

work we do, our action, our obedience, serving, all these

things are a result of your salvation, not the cause

of your salvation. You know, none of the things that

we do will ever save us. But we do it

because we are grateful that we have been saved. We

love others because we have already been saved, not because

if I love more person, I'm gonna get more brownie

points so that I'll be safe. It's not like that.

It doesn't work like that, you know. And that's why

in Second Corinthians five' was fifty sorry five verse seventeen.

It also says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he

is a new creation. All things have passed away. Behold,

all things have become new. You know. It says if

there's if anyone, any one year is in Christ, then

you are a new creation. It says that in Christ,

meaning that we are in union with Christ. And when

we are in union with Christ, it changes our existence itself.

We are a new creation already, you know. It's in

Christ that it happens. You become a new creation in Christ.

And one trying to say is that your transformation and

you trying to change yourself will never happen by you

trying to change yourself. It can only happen to Christ.

And when you are in Christ, and when you're living

in this shared union with Christ, you're trying to change yourself.

Even if you have a bad habit and you want

to get rid of that habit, you will not be

able to fully get rid of it. You will only

be able to It's only possible when you are in Christ,

in communion with Christ. You can't do it yourself. So

and that's why our faith fluctuates. So because our faith

fluctuates according to our actions. In those days that we

don't do those bad things, so called back things, then

we feel we are good, high and mighty, ready to serve,

ready to worship. And on the days that we do

those things, we feel the worst. We feel like we're

not worthy to even stand in front of Him. But

that's not the point. That's not how it's supposed to be.

The point is that we are in Him, and as

we as long as we keep remaining in Him, good days,

bad days, sinful days, nonsinful days, transformation will continue to

take place, you know, will continue to take place. You know,

I'm not giving you a disclaimer saying that go on

and do sin. Okay, don't take that as that, but

what I'm trying to say that don't beat yourself up,

don't be caught with guilt, because guilt is a lie

of the enemy to keep you away from God, keep

you away from experiencing this transfer. And it's a cycle

that will keep repeating. But the day when you realize

that your guilt will not transform you, even not your

remorseful feeling will transform you. But only when you are

in Christ will transform you. That is the day you

will begin to experience transformation in your life. Amen. So we,

therefore we are not birth right through our works, through

our deeds, our action, but we are birth right to Christ,

and we've got to allow him. Allow Christ to do

his work in us, and you will do the metamorphosis

in you to transform you to who you need to be.

Rightfully the rock not that read okay, the third part

of what God has done for us, God's eternal love,

birds our salvation. You know, if I ask anyone here,

can you explain to me Trinity? How would you explain it? God,

the Father and the whly Spirit. And if someone who

doesn't believe yet come and ask you, hey, what is

this tree in one God you're talking about? How would

you explain it three persons in three different positions. Okay,

might work maybe for some people huh more confused? You know,

I mean as believers, right, most of them. We struggle

to explain trinity, and some people struggle to understand the

concept of trinity as well. Tree in one you mean

three in one coffee, you know, just just kidding, you know, well,

I hope that energy and you know, you know, so, Okay,

So we're gonna read. Okay, We're gonna read from First John,

chapter four, verse seven to nine. He says, here, beloved, beloved,

let us love one another. For love is of God.

And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

And he who does not love does not know God.

For God is love. And in this the love of

God was manifested towards us. That God has sent his

only begotten son into the world that we might live

to him. And when you know it's this is the

word seven He says, here is that for love is

of God or love is God or God is love.

We commonly year this statement. Everybody uses this statement, Oh

God is love or love is God. However you want

to play around with it, and sometimes we don't. Maybe

not fully understand what does that mean? Or maybe we

use it because we are trying to say that that

God is a loving person or a loving being that

loves us. But if you say that love is an action,

it's a service that we have to put in the

communion that we have to have with one another, you know,

that is love. Right, So the original the entire statement

of loving someone or love is that it is a

verb or is an action where you are portraying it,

I don't know. However, maybe by huguing, you know, doing

good deeds, you know, five languages of love, whatever, you know,

you're doing something to them and that's why you say

that you love them. And in John seventeen was twenty

four says here that you loved me before the foundation

of the world, and in states that God loved Jesus

even before the entire creation happened. And that itself is

a proof of how a trinity god works because a

singular god cannot say that he is love, because who

is he loving? If he is an only god. If

he's an only god, a singular god, he cannot be

called God is love because how does he love? How

does he love? What does he love? Because before he

created anything, that was nothing, So that means he had

to be loving someone. There was a loving relationship that

was happening. That means the sun was present. That means

the Holy Spirit was present. So for us to say

that God is love as a statement, it says that

it shows that it's a trinity God, a God who

is not just loving, but he himself is being himself

is love. That he was loving Jesus, his Son, and

the Holy Spirit from the beginning. They loved one another,

they were in communion with one another, they were in

fellowship with one another, and there was so much love

that was within them, and they created everything out of

that love. That's why he says, hey that for everyone

who is born of God knows love. And everyone who

was you know, and everyone who loves is born of God.

We en we are, and everyone is everyone loves, who

loves is born of God. Because God created everything out

of love, that loving communion that he had among him,

the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So because

we know that this is how God is, that he

is love and it's all about love because he's constantly

loving the Son, and he's constantly loving the Holy Spirit

and they're loving one another. So we have to know

that the ultimate mission when Christ came down to earth

was not just to die for our sins and save us,

but actually to love us, to bring us back into

this loving relationship with him, to be part of this communion,

this eternal communion that's between the Father Son and the

Holy Spirit. Now we are part of it. That was

his mission from the beginning. Not just he loves us,

but he wants us to be part of that love.

You read these verse it says again and again that

everyone who loves is born of God and knows what

it means to love. Because when you are born out

of His love, you will know what it is all about.

So when you're born again, when you're born right again,

we are born out of love, a love that we

love God so much, a love that God loves us

so much, and we can't contain in our inside of us,

that we love everyone around us. That is the love

that is speaking here, you know, and that's what is

here for to allow us to enter into this eternal love,

to experience that love. Not just save us, yes, save us, great,

you've got an entry ticket to heaven. Yeah, great, But

beyond just that which is to love us, to make

be part of this holy communion, the Father, Son, the

Holy Spirit, and we are now part of it. The

whole point of why he even chose to break his body,

you know, and he does communion and we break his

body and drink of his blood, is to show that

you are no longer yourself, but you are now part

of me, my body. And when you're a part of

his body means you're a part of the Father, You're

part of the Son, and you're part of the Holy Spirit.

You're part of that communion. Now, that is what it

means to be saved by him, That you're part of

this loving relationship that covers you so much, and we

need to experience it, and I pray that all of

us will experience it to that really, to the highest

level of his love, because that's what he has done

for us, not just save us from sin and allow

us to be free, but save us so they can

be part of his body, that communion. Amen. All right,

So we have spoken all about what he has done.

Now we speak about what we are to do. Okay.

The first thing we have to understand is that salvation

is both a privilege and a responsibility. Philippians two twelve,

verse thirteen says, Therefore, my beloved, as you've always obeyed,

not as in my presence only, but now much more

in my absence, work out your salvation, your own salvation,

with fear and trembling, for it is God works in you,

both to will and to do for his good pleasure.

You know, we are very privileged that we are saved. Amen,

then we get to experience is love. But salvation right

is nearly not just a privilege, but it is also

a responsibility. Whether you like it or not, you are,

if you are safe, you're part of this responsibility. You

have been given this responsibility already, and you cannot deny it.

You cannot just say that I'll just take the privileged

part and just ignore the responsibility. You can't do that.

It's a two way relationship between us and God. No relationship,

no loving relationship, is one way. It's not one sided love,

which is God loves us and now we love him.

So when we love him. There's responsibility in any kind

of loving relationship. If you are a partner, you are

a boyfriend or girlfriend, if you are married, if you

are children, father and son, whatever any kind of relationship

as responsibility. You cannot just have all the privileged part

that you know, your enjoyment and pleasure part, and then

reject the responsibility. Then that's not love. That's just last

you know. So it's the same thing in this love

also there's a responsibility. And that's why it says here

in this verse that you are to work out on

your own salvation. That's your part. You're working it out.

And then in verse thirty it says there for it

is God works in you both to will and to

do for his good pleasure. It means that you are

working out yourself, you're working out your salvation and God

is working in you. Let me explain it a lamentum.

Maybe you know when you accepted Christ and now God

tells you or you're reminded that you have to forgive

someone that you hate the most. The person did so

many bad things over you, probably even abuse you or

did you know, really really bad things that you can't

forgive that person for what he has done to you.

But now you are a new creation. You accepted Christ,

and God reminds you of God tells you forgive that

person because that is who I am. I'm all about forgiving.

And then now you have to struggle, comuster your courage up,

find yourself in a place where you need to struggle

to forgive this person. And even when you try to

go and rebuild your relationship, reconcile your relationship with this

person and start again, and the person keeps hating you,

scolding you, chasing you away. And then now, right now,

you're still going back because God told you to do it,

and you're going back to forgive this person. So you

are right now working out your salvation by trying to

make that move to forgive that person, by breaking yourself down,

by being selfless obedience to forgive that person. But while

you are doing that is working in you. It's making

you a little bit more patient, it's making you a

little bit more graceful, it's making you more a little

bit more loving, so that you can still love that person.

You can still forgive that person even more. You know,

when you say yes, I'm gonna serve in church, and

then now you started to decide it to serve in

church and all now and suddenly you say so many

years and then you find yourself your time is gone.

You got no more me time anymore. To spend for yourself.

You can't go for so many holidays anymore because you

have a responsibility on some day year. You can't come

late to church anymore. You have to work with different

people when you serve, and sometimes you don't like everyone. Unfortunately,

you know, you can't avoid that. Sometimes you don't like

everyone you know, and and and now you're still learning

to work with grace. And now you're being more patient.

You know, you're learning to be more disciplined so that

you'll be on time. You know you are saying no

to a lot of things, saying no to staying up

late on a Saturday night, or saying saying no to

going for a holiday, so that you will be here

serving and doing things. So what is happening. You are

doing your part of working out your salvation by choosing

to serve, choosing to loving. What God is doing you

is transforming you, becoming a more disciplined person, becoming a

person with much more grace to work with one another,

a person who is you know, selfless, no longer fish,

but selfless. So that is how it works. When you

work out your salvation, you're giving an opportunity for God

to work in you. And transform you. But when you

don't do anything. For example, you just say that prayer

and he said, I am a Christian. Now, yes, Lord,

I have been safe. But you don't do anything about it.

You just go back to your old, same life. You

just come to church and sit down, listen amen, and

you go back and then you just carry on with

your life. You are not giving him an opportunity to

work in you. There's no opportunity because it's telling you

to forgive that person. But you say, no, Lord, I cannot,

and you just avoid that working out your salvation part

and you said, no, Lord, I don't want to serve.

You know, I still want to go on a holiday

or do my own thing. I'm okay coming late to church.

I'm fine with it. You're not giving him an opportunity

to work in yourself. He can't. You got to give

him a room to work in you. So that that

is what it means. Here. Two means to work out

your salvation. It's an ongoing relationship with one another. You

work out, he works in you. If you don't work out,

you got no gains. It's the same thing, same thing,

you know. Yeah, yeah, So that's how it works. That's

how it works. How does he work in you? John

fifteen to five. He says here, I am the vine,

You are the branches. You're abising me, and I him

very much fruits and before without me, you can't, you cannot,

You can do nothing. You know. That's why he says here.

So it's in You have to abide in him. It's

a continuous process that you keep working out, and he

works in you, and then you bear fruit. You abide

in him, you work out your salvation. You do what

you need to do, and He will work in you

and you will bear fruit. That is a continuous process.

But how does he do that in you? He do

that in you true the Holy Spirit? How does he

abide in you when you abide in him through the

Holy Spirit? You know? X Chapter one eight says here,

but you shall receive the next light. You know, you

shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

and shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all

Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

And X four thirty one says here, when when they

had parayed, the place where that they were assembled together

was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit,

and they spoke word of God with boldness. This is

the act of the Holy Spirit. That you will receive

power in you to do mighty things, to become witnesses.

You'll become bolder so that you can go out and

tell people about Jesus. You will transform you. And how

did the red Simon become rock Peter is when in

the Pentecostal he experienced the Holy Spirit. From the one

who rejected Jesus three times, it became the one who

saved three thousand people, preached over three thousand people, willing

to give his life for God, went into the prison

for God. How and why because the Holy Spirit is

the one that transformed him. And the Holy Spirit is

the one that can transform you nothing else, no one else.

So we shouldn't shy away from the Holy Spirit no

matter what in our lives. Sometimes we have fear, you know,

fear when you see people speaking tongues and they are

you know, or whatever, when you hear and see and

these things, you know, sometimes they are a lot of

different theological viewpoints and things like that when it comes

to Holy Spirit. But I want to encourage all of

us here to let go of that fear. Let go

of that skepticness and let the Holy Spirit work in you.

If you don't allow him, then you will not experience it,

regardless of whatever you know. But because the indwelling of

the Holy Spirit in us is a privilege that those

who believe in Jesus can have that will enable us

to carry on with the work. Are you finding yourself

tired being a Christian? Also tired morning wake up and

need toreate a Bible and you can't understand anything? Or

are you tired serving every week in week out? Oh? Man,

can't they be a replacement for me? Why we're doing

it all on our own and not allowing the Holy

Spirit be the one that enables us to do it?

So we need the Holy Spirit. You want to be transformed,

you want to become a new creation. It's only through

the power of the Holy Spirit it is possible. You

want to be able to read the Bible and understand

everything is saying, including Leviticus numbers. You need the Holy

Spirit to understand. So you need the Holy Spirit. Next one,

what we have to do. We have to pursue joy

over happiness. You know, the whole world is always about

being happy. Everybody asks what is the goal of your life.

I want to do well so I can be happy

and make my family happy. But what if I say

that happiness is always changing, circumstantial, you know, it's always wavering.

But joy, the joy that the Bible speaks, is radical.

It is unchanging because when happiness is based on your circumstance,

if today you've got money in your bank account, you're happy.

Tomorrow you don't have, not happy, But the joy you

have you don't have, You're still joyful. It is unshaken,

unchanging because you are secured that God loves you and

that is your joy. And that's why John fifteen eleven

says these things. I've spoken to you that my joy

may remain in you, that your joy may be full.

You know, our salvation never guarantees us happiness. If you

want to be safe so that we can be happy,

it will never be possible. But when you are safe,

you will have joy, a joy that will enable you

to stand through every trial, every struggle, and every pain

that you will face. And you will know that if

you're even if you're suffering, that doesn't mean God is

not there, but you're about to experience God in a

deeper level because you're joyful still to everything, you know.

That's why James One was to the force, it says, yeah,

it commands us to count it all joy. When we

are going through trials and tribulation, it's a joy, you know.

And when we are enjoying, not shaken, and we continue

to rejoice even in hardship, it shows that we are

birth right because we are not a reed. A reed

will always look for happiness. Waiver today, this makes me happy.

I go for this. Tomorrow that makes me happy, I

go for that. Amen. But if you're a rock, well,

if you're a rock, you'll be able to rejoice in

love and you will not be broken even in suffering,

you will be standing strong. So that's why don't pursue happiness.

If we are pursuing happiness as those who are saved,

then we are in the wrong track already. We're not

born right. Already we pursue joy, a fulfilling joy, even

through struggle. Yet we can smile even through struggle. Yet

we can sing and say hallelujah, that's joy. We pursue

that right. I'm getting there, last one, getting our salvation right. Yes,

thank you, Tyrrell first part, you're not saved just at

that conversion alone, meaning when you say that prayer. Later on,

as we at the end, we will say the same

prayer we do every week. You're not saved by just

saying that prayer. But it's just a start. A lot

of us think by saying that alone, we are already

saved and everything is all right. Now we are with Jesus.

We got that ticket to have it. No, but it

is a start of us being saved, and the process

will go on. The transformation will go on, metamorphosis will

go on till will become christ Like, till the will

is lifted off that we can stand in front of

Jesus and when we look at Jesus, we can see ourselves,

and when Jesus looks at us, he can see himself.

Until that day come, your salvation process is ongoing. It's

not a one day thing. That's why we have to

work it out so that we can become christ Like.

Second one, Jesus is not just our savior, but he

is Lord too. And why I'm saying this is that

we all love the part that Jesus is savior. Oh yeah,

Jesus saved me. Praise God Ala Lujah, happy in all.

But he is our lord too. Do we know what

is the meaning of lord? It also means master. When

we say Jesus is our lord, and we call him

our lord, means we surrender our will to him, because

he's the master who owns us already. So we have

to give our will to him. Our priorities, our desires,

our life, direction, everything unto him. And now he owns us,

he moves us according to where he wants to move

us to. We have to submit, and that's the harder part.

We struggle with that. That's why he says in Luke

six forty six, why do you call me lord lord?

And do and not do the things which I say?

Because when we call him lord, we call him our master,

and we are submitting to him, meaning we had to

do what he says, give up our lifestyle, give up

our desires. That's the part we Struggle's. Third one, Jesus

is not just our savior, but also the judge. First

Timothy for one says, I charge you therefore before God

and the Lord Jesus Christ will judge the living and

the dead at its appearance and his kingdom. We always

look at his grace. We love his grace. We love

that we are safe, but we forget that there is

accountability with this grace that we receive, meaning one day

we will need to account to him when he returns

as a judge to us, he's a merciful savior, but

it's also a very righteous judge. So one day we

will need to account to him and say, I've given

you seventy years of your life, what have you done

with it? It will ask us that, just like he

asked the man with the talents, I've given you this,

I've given you that, what have you done with it?

I've blessed you. Amen, Yeah, you were very happy and

I blessed you, But what did you did with it?

We will need to account and ignoring the fact that

we need to account him is a very shallow gospel,

very shallow understanding of ovation, and that will not transform us.

But if we acknowledge that one day we will need

to account to him, we will be careful and sometimes

we need to be vigilant. The Bible itself says stay

sober and vigilant, so that we will be vigilant and

to do what we need to do, because one day

we're gonna count back the Big Boss of what we

have done with our lives. The last one. Nothing can

separate us from the love of God Romans eight. Romans eight,

thirty eight and thirty nine says that nothing can separate

us from God's love. Neither dead, neither the sins, neither anything.

But we can separate ourselves from the love of God.

We can separate ourselves from the love of God. We

can cut ourselves away from God's love. We can resist

is love and live outside of is love. His love

is really inseparable, unbreakable. But a relationship requires abiding. And

like the prodigal son as well, he's distant himself, but

the Father was just there, constant, So we can separate ourselves.

You never think that no matter what we do, we

will never be separated from His love. We will be

separated on our own, on our own terms, on our

own actions. So we have to come back. We have

to go back to him. HM. We have to be

birthed right in order to grow right. And John Tree

was three to aid, says Jesus answered and said to

him most most assuredly, I say to you, unless one

is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God

naked e must said to him, how can a man

be born when he is all? Can you enter a

second time into his mother's woman be born? Jesus unsaid,

most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born

of the water and the Spirit, it cannot enter the

Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh

is flesh, that which born of the Spirit is spirit.

Do not marvel that I say to you, you must

be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and

you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where

it comes and where it goes. So everyone who is

born of the spirit. So the truth of our salvation

and discipleship is that without being born again, born from

the above, we cannot go through transformation. We cannot go

through growth. All the programs that we have, teachings that

we have, systems that we have, everything that you might

even sign up for, will not be able to transform

you or do what the Spirit does to transform you.

Unless the Holy Spirit, you're born again in the Holy Spirit,

baptized again in the Holy Spirit, you will not be

able to be transformed. And he says this here clearly,

just like a child, he only has nine months inside

the stomach of the mom. After that, he cannot grow

inside anymo already. He has to be born out to grow.

So we also need to be born again, born right

again this time. Let's get this time right, born right

again in the spirit. That's why we emphasize so much,

be born unless we're born of water and spirit. So

we need to be born again in water baptism. That's

the whole power of water baptism. It is a physical

reminder that when you go to the water and our

old self dies and we come out, we come out

as a new person. We are born again. It's a

physical representation. So we need to be water baptized. And

if you're not, you have to consider it because it

is a significant that you're born again. Physically, you are

showing that you're born again when you do that, and

you have to be born You have to be baptized

by the spirit. Also because internally only when you're born

again through the spirit, you can transform. If not cannot,

it says they're clearly, unless you're born again of the

water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

I'm gonna close ready, maybe the band can come up

and that's why Jesus compares discipleship to birth is to

end all sorts of argument of shallow following, because it's

another standard. You know, it's not just change our attitudes,

it's not just become a better version of ourselves. But

Christ clearly says unless you're born again, you will never

be part of the Kingdom of God. The standard is

set right up there that we have to be born.

It's not a shallow following. We have to be birthed

as a new person again, new creation. So we have

to ask ourselves. We have to allow the Holy Spirit

to baptize us. We have to receive the Holy Spirit

allow that process to happen inside of us. The salvation

is not just what getting good in being a moral person,

but it is metamorphosis, a complete change in the person

through the spirit that lives inside of us. For Quarenteens

fifteen forty nine says, the one from above is in

those who are born from a birth. So we have

to be born from a birth again, which means born

through the Spirit again. Amen, we need the spirit to

go through metamorphosis. You know, you can look back in

your life, and I can look back in my own

life if ten years ago, if you tell me I'll

be here, I will laugh at you and I right

now ten years look at my ten years ago self.

I laugh at it as well, because it's just a

different person. But if I did not allow the Holy

Spirit to transform me, if I did not allow to

give it up and change myself, I would guaranteely say

I would have ended up in prison ten years ago.

So we have to. I mean, you look back in

your own life. Can you say that I've gone through

this metamorphosis the old self and the new self is different,

completely different. Maybe you're saying it or not yet, not

yet just a little bit. Then maybe it's time for

us too allow the Holy Spirit to do so.

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