The Richest Person You Know | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. This is the first question that I want to

ask you this morning. Who is the richest person that you know? Personally?

The richest Think about the richest person that you know? Okay? Right?

God, everyone got a name in mind? Yes? Yes, okay?

By what measured you think this person is rich? Okay? Tell me

what makes you think that this person is rich morning? Yes, that's right,

okay, good? Anyone else got other answers? No need to work

get or also get money? Ready? All right? Some answers here?

Happiness? Oh so the person that the richest person that you know right now

is measured in terms of happiness. This person's really really happy? Wow?

Who's this person you are? Oh? Okay, okay, So you didn't

think about money, right, okay, okay, So the person that she's

thinking about has money but also now knows how to spend it well, right,

and so this person's happy? Okay, okay cool? Any other answers?

What makes you think this person is really really rich? That free know?

Whodang right? Know? Who doang at all? How nice? How

nice you want to be? This person on it. Why now you want

to be the richest person that you know? Loan free? No, no,

let me let me ask you that question. Do you want to be

the richest person that you know? Hey, you don't want to? Why

not? Hah? Okay, So not everything is as rosy as it seems.

Right. There are rich but there's a butt there, right, but

they're the busiest person. So you don't want to be the richest person that

you know? Okay, but you don't have to be that kind of rich

person. Can I tell you that you are the richest person that you know?

I can't believe that. Riches cannot be what's this? What theology is

not? I cannot believe this. I cannot believe this impossible. Now I

want to bring to you the word of God that tells you you are actually

the richest person on earth. Wow, you're like, uh sure, no,

bo I look at my bank and counter that's some point one thousand ring.

How can you say that I'm the richest person that I know? Okay,

So when you look at yourself by the end of the message. By

the end of the message, I want you to think about this and the

next time you look at yourself in the mirror, like, hey, you're

the richest person. I know. Wow, you want that? Okay,

let's go through the Word of God. And how I came about this title,

or at least this concept of being rich in God is I was reading

the Letter to the Corinthians. Right, y'all know the letter the Corinthians.

How many letters are then the Bible to the church and the corinth How many

letters were written? Two? Which is the one that you know, our

first Corinthian, Second Corinthian. Okay, good, so these are the letters

written. But actually Paul wrote four letters to the church in corinth He wrote

four. The first one was lost, so what you know as the First

Quartians is actually the second letter. The third letter was also lost, and

what you know as the second Corienti is actually the fourth letter written to the

church in corinth All right, so interesting or not interesting? Right? You

can know a lot about the Word of God. But let's go to First

Corinthians chapter three, and I just want to give you a little bit of

this. But this is not the main TEXTILE be preaching from. But I

just want to read to you from First Corinthians chapter three. If you're there,

say amen, Okay, First Quarinenttians, Chapter three. I will be

reading from verses twenty one to twenty three. Wow, XTV, let's give

it a hand for xtivy tyrol. Yes, thank you, thank you,

you're very fast. Okay, I'm gonna read for this is NKJV right,

yes, NKJV version. So it says, therefore, let no one boasts

in men? Wow, straight away, right, just now talk about the

richest men or women that you know. It says straightway, therefore, let

no one boast in men. For all things are yours? So weird,

right, All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the

world or life or death or things present or things to come, or are

yours? And you are Christ and Christ is God. Hmm. I have

seen this before, right, What's the first thing that comes to your mind

when you read this? All things are yours? Rich? Yeah? Rich

rich? Okay? And so I've been meditating on this phrase all things are

yours? How come? Why did Paul say all things are yours? Right?

And as you unpack the little things further and further, there is Paul.

There's actually seven things there, right that is yours. One is Paul.

And then there's Apollos, and then save us and then the world and

life, death, things present or things to come? How many things there

eight? And all these things are yours. It's quite crazy you think about

it right now, many of us you probably don't understand the context. What

what's the meaning of having Paul right? Paul is considered the father of faith,

right, father of faith. So he's saying that the faith that you

now have, or whoever is bringing the faith to you, that is yours,

all right. And then there is Apollos. Apollos was a very intellectual

man of those days. He was very highly educated. And so when you

receive people who are highly educated and you know, come to teach you the

word of God, or in your conversations with others, you go like,

wow, okay, this is a truth of God, and that is yours

as well. And it says Cephas is actually who he is called Peter right,

Cephus is his original name. But Peter founded the Church of God.

Right, So the church is yours, amen. Exchurus belongs to who,

Yes, it belongs to you, not just to Pasta Gloria or the Lsbo.

It belongs to each one of you. It is yours. It is

yours. Think about it. It is yours. It says the world is

also yours. Okay, who ultimately owns the world? Who ultimately owns the

world? It's God? Right, But then it says that you are Christ

and Christ is God. So if you belong to Christ, the world is

yours. Have you ever thought about that before? Wah? I don't know

how to begin to count your inheritance. Right, everything is yours, it

says also life is yours. That when you're breeding right now, it's yours.

It's yours to enjoy, or it's yours to destroy. Right, Even

death is yours. Now some of you think this, I don't want,

right, Chinese people, I don't want death, cry not. It's like

but but Paul is saying, it's also yours. Why is it yours?

Do you want to accept this gift? Because in death you know that.

Firstly, it brings to you the brevity of life. Right. Death reminds

you that you have a short time on earth, and therefore you have a

purpose and a calling. But death also brings to mind victory, amen,

especially when you're in Christ. We who are in Christ are no longer afraid

of death. The world can be afraid of death and say, ah,

you know, don't Saya and all that don't don't talk about death because they

don't know what's after death. But do you know what's after death? For

you believe us, Oh, some of you do. The rest of you,

I'm not sure yet, not sure yet. I want to tell you.

If you're not sure and you're new it's your first time Visicy. I

don't want to scare you, Okay, I don't want to scare you,

but I want to tell you that in Christ we have a second life after

death. There is a first death for all of us. Guarantee, all

of us will die one day, right, But there is a second death,

and the second death comes when Jesus returns to earth to judge all of

us. There will be a day of judgment. And when we are found

in Christ, we are no longer afraid of the second death. And this

is in the word of God, all right. So if you believe in

Christ, and you believe in the hope of Jesus coming back, you're no

longer afraid of death. And that's why even death is yours. You look

at death and go like, okay, you know it's a temporary goodbye with

our loved ones, but we will be reunited again. You may not have

this confidence otherwise, but knowing that Christ alone has given us this confidence.

Even man it says life is yours, death is yours, things, presence

or things to come, whatever it is in the future. You know,

Christians, right, we should be the most hopeful people around Coraina, we

should be ald, but not all of us get it all the time.

It's not easy. It's not easy to be hopeful in this very challenging world.

But that's why we need to have hope. It's because it's challenging.

Can you imagine a life without hope. I think it will be even worse.

It's very bleak right, the way things are going, how the economy

is going, how politics is going, how the weather is going. It's

crazy. Are you enjoying the weather now? No, it's getting crazy.

It's getting more erratic. It's either super hot or it rings like crazy.

It floods and it thunders and there's flesh flights everywhere, and trees are falling

down, poor things. You know, serious, It is really freak accidental.

If you're driving Sally and the tree falls out on you, it's getting

more common these days than we've ever heard before. And the world seems to

be like crumpling up and dying. Right, So we live in the world

that is it's all bad news, bad news. But that's why we have

good news. Amen. The Word of God is good news to a world

that is dying because we know that we do not need to die forever.

In Christ, there is life, and life is life everlasting. Amen.

A man, so he says, all these things are yours? Wow,

are you? Are you feeling a bit like rich already? A little bit

little bit still like I don't understand lie, you know, I really still

cannot bring it. Okay, never mind, let's move on to Ephicions.

Now we're gonna be reading a lot on this book of Ephesion. Now it's

actually a letter, a letter written by Paul to the church, right,

And why Paul wrote this letter was because he wanted to bring encouragement to the

church to say, Hey, Christians, I want to tell you that you

guys are rich, but you live like beggars. You live like you don't

have anything. How Come why do you live in poverty? And you know

that poverty is not in your pockets? Right? Do you know that poverty

is not in how much you have in your bank account. Poverty is a

mindset. If you think you don't have, then you don't have. Right.

If you think that there is much for you to be thankful for,

you actually have much. So it has your bank account change yet? Nothing

yet? Right? But what has changed? Your mindset has changed, your

language has changed, your attitude has changed. And you know the difference between

a poor person, you know the happiness part, right, rich person who's

happy? You can be a rich person and be the most unhappy person also,

right, Yeah? Yeah, I see some not saying yes, I'm

sure you know that the richest person that you know could be very unhappy and

you can know some of the poorest people who are the happiest. Yeah,

I think, so what's the difference? So it sounds to me like being

rich materially doesn't guarantee happiness, right, because some of you say, I

have to be so rich, I have to sacrifice my life work all the

time, you'd be so busy. I'd rather not have that, right,

So you understand that richness it's a mindset, right, It's either it's in

your mind or it's in your heart. Okay, so let's let's go to

chapter one. We're gonna be reading a lot of it, right because it's

a letter, right, So how are you gonna do this is I'm gonna

read one verse and you're gonna read one verse? Is that? Okay?

So that together we declare God's words in our spirit. We will be reading

from chapters one versus one all the way to chapter two and in verse ten.

Okay, so let's just go this one. We probably need xtivit help

for this lack because let's read all together in one version, and so we

have the NKJB version, So let's read it together. If you have it

in your physical Bible, then you follow along, all right, Okay.

So I'm gonna read verse one, verse two a letter okay, Well,

okay, I read verse one verse Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the

will of God. So he's the writer of this letter. So Paul is

saying to the saints who are in Ephesus or exchui Us and faithful in Christ.

Just nice, right, nice? Right? I read it again,

okay, to the saints who are in exchiers and faithful in Christ, Jesus

man Verse two blessed be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has blessed us with every every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in

Christ verse four, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to

himself according to the good pleasure of his will Amen verse seven. In him

we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the

riches of his grace, having made known to us the mystery of his will,

according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself. In him

also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him

who works all things according to the counsel of his will. Amen. In

him, you also trusted after you heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel

of your salvation, in whom also, having believed, you were silled with

the holy spirit of promise. Therefore I also, after I heard of your

faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, that the

God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give to

you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. And what

is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working

of His mighty power, far above all principality and power, and might and

dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but

also in that which is to come, which is His body, the fullness

of Him who feels all in all. Chapter two, Go one, Verse

one, Amen, can we hear an amen? In this a man,

He made you alive? Verse two, in which she wants what according to

the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the air,

the spirit who now works in the suns of this obedience. But God,

who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he

loved us and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly

places, in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved true faith,

and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, for

we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared

beforehand, that we should walk in them. Amen. Amen, did you

enjoy reading God's word so rich? Right? I don't appreciate it? Close

And amen, go back and meditate on all this that you've read. Now,

you know, when we read all this at one glance, we're like,

whoa, hang on a moment. There's just a lot to process,

right, There's a lot to process, right. And I want to break

it down in terms of I want to tell you what's in your bank account.

You're like to talk about your bank accounts? No, No, I

want to give you a glimpse of your spiritual bank account. How about that?

You want to see what you have there? Do you know? Many

times right in this world it feels that we are walking and we only have

one type of bank account. Is the world bank World's bank account? Right,

and we look at it and we go like a lam, what kind

of richness is this? All? Right? But I want to tell you

that we are people, We are spiritual people. It says that you have

been made alive, right, And you might be thinking, hey, but

I was not date before? What correct? Why you say I'm alive?

Or but we are all live, aren't we? Do you know that?

At the very beginning, I want to go back to Genesis. Now,

we God made the whole earth right, and he had this great idea to

create Adam. And if have you heard of the story of Adam and Eve.

Right, if you don't know, ask your friend. He tell me

about Dam and Eve. Okay, later after church you have a lot to

talk about. But God created Adam and if and I don't believe in evolution

because I don't want to come from an ape. You you really believe your

great great great grandparent is a baboon? Did you really want that inheritance?

I'm like, no, thank you. Or it's like you just came out

of teen air boom suddenly sadly came out boom, sadly elaine boom by a

stroke of luck. There is no such thing as luck or coincidence. Everything

is designed. Don't you like that? How many of you are? You

want to make something right? To cook for dinner? You just boom,

let it and it happens. And you're like, yeah, I don't know

how this chocolate cake came about, But suddenly I don't see it now I

see it? Is that how you get your food at home? Yes,

sir, whoa Matilda? You can share how that happens or it ah,

But but how did that happen? See? See, someone had to do

the dirty work, right, Someone had to cook, and someone had to

go and buy the ingredients. First, someone had to plan and look up

the recipe, and someone had to really get his hands dirty and bake it

and wait and test and then present and then of course you happen ready.

Many yeah, many of us are like Matilda, are like, hey,

it happened already. But guess what. There is a creator at work behind

the scenes, and we don't see it right. And can I introduce this

person to you? He is God your life. You might think, oh,

yeah, accident happened. You know my parents, you know, one

day they had a good time and the accident happened and I was born.

No such thing. Everything has been ordained by a creator, And I personally

want to tell you that that is a better belief system to have. You

can't believe that everything happens by accidental lives, Okay, then you know,

at the end of the life, what is the meaning of life? If

everything's just by accident? Then my sort just you know, I don't know

what would you make of life if you've got seventy years to live everything's just

an accident. Wow, lot accidents are to happen in seventy years. But

I want to tell you that we came from a creator, and he had

a good plan for all of us. Right, and so God made Adam

and Eve and he created them so intricate and so beautiful. You know that

every single person here is different. You look around, got any same same

people like you are? Wow? You look around the whole world, eight

billion of you. You have eight billion sets of fingerprints unique to you.

Even twins have different sets of fingerprints. They might have very similar DNA.

But even then God says, Okay, I give you a little bit more

difference because I have the capacity to it. God is a very creative person.

You look at surrounding you, right, there's no single grass blade that

is the same. Every snowflake I know you've got no snow la sorry malays

got no snow if you've been overseas, every snowflake, if you put it

through a microscope, the design is different. Wow. What an amazing creation

we have. So don't think that you're an accident. You would designed into

God. God was thinking about each one of you. Can I say that

God had a plan for each one of you? And so he's like saying,

but I want to give you all these things, everything that I have.

I want to give to you my children, because it says also in

Genesis that you are made in the image of ape. No arong with them,

monkey, no primate, you are made in the image of God.

Wow. Hello, If you don't think you you have the best looking further,

then I don't know what else redealer. Oh, some of us don't

write. We look at urselves like I wish I can change my nose bigger,

slimmer, a bit not so button nose like Chinese nose. Right right?

Maybe okay, am I he thinks I'm wrong off you? Maybe I

want to have as fair skin as richer and Evilly knows all the family all

life fairskin one right, but don't have But do you know that everything about

you was designed and beautiful in God's side, and he wanted to give you

a lot. But then, of course, if you're gone. In the

story, there was deception, right, there was an evil plot. If

you're watching a movie right now, there's an evil plot. There is an

evil person, and he came in the form of a serpent. He came

and deceived Eve, and Sin entered into our lives. And therefore, from

the very beginning until now, Sin has been raining in this world. And

that's why whatever that you see right now, you might say, I don't

understand it, But can I tell you that the very simplistic way of looking

at it from a biblical worldview is that everything that is ugly, everything that's

destructive, everything that's evil in this world happened because of sin. And it

says that the penalty of sin is death. And that's why we are facing

that. You're like, what it must be dire? We were not meant

to die. Can I tell you that when God originally designed Adam and Eve,

no one was supposed to die. Death only came after sin, right,

And so now we have the content with sin? So how on God,

what's the plan be? There's no plan be, but there's plenty and

plancy. Is Christ? All right? And he says that I will bring

Christ to redeem the people. And he says, hey, guys, sometimes

out you're lived like you don't know what is your spiritual inheritance. And therefore

I say to you, you have a rich inheritance. Believers of God.

Okay, don't go around thinking I'm like an orphan. Later I come to

church only you know, and I need pray. I'm so needy. I'm

so needy. God, can I tell you today that you have an inheritance

in Christ Jesus Amen? And therefore, when you know, when you know

that you have a God in heaven right, a father who loves you,

would you not tap into the richness of God? Would you? Still?

It's like, you know the protigal son. You're not the story of the

prodigal son. He came from a very rich family, right, and he

went and squandered his living, and then he suddenly remembered it. Actually,

you're back home. Even my father's servant got food to eat. Why am

I like out here eating looking at the pigs food? And I'm hungry?

Many its are like that, right, hungry, like are you? But

we forgot that we are sons, sons and daughters of the most High God.

And so like the prodigal son, what he do was the wisest thing

that the prodigal son did. What what do you do? He went back

exactly? And so today I want to give you an opportunity, if you

have not known this father, to run back to the father that we have,

the real spiritual father. Our earthly fathers will well one day go,

but our spiritual Father is there forever. Because we are spirit people. We

are not just physical people. We are made of our physical our bodies,

and our soul. Right, and so our spirit men was Date when Sin

entered into Adam. Then all the children of Adam were Date. In our

spirit. We are alive in our bodies, yes, right, our bodies

are alive, but our spirit was dead until we came to this man called

Jesus, who gave us a life again. Amen, all right, So

what is our inheritance? Can I give you Katinka kating your spiritual bank account?

Number one? There's nina, There's so many. Okay, let's see

how much I can do. Okay, whah, yeah exactly, wah,

you got so much? Okay. Number one is you have adoption and acceptance.

Amen, you're adopted. Do I want to be adopted? I thought

your original already. No. In the family of God, as you read

in the Bible, the sons of Israel, the Jewish people, Yes,

they were the first inheritance of God. Correct, the people of God.

If you read your Bible, you will know that the Jewish people are the

first sons of God. And we are called the gentiles. Right because anyone

Jewish. Are you a Jew? There is no jow. I want to

beat a Jew. Okay, I want to really make friends with the Jew.

If you know, please let me know. I really want to pick

their minds because they are the chosen ones of God. But then God says,

it's okay, don't worry people, I have chosen the Israel. But

I want to bring the rest of my children back. And so he says,

even the gentles, I will bring you back. I adopt you.

So this is the language as yous, I adopt you. And this is

in verse five, having predestined us to adoptions as son by Christ Jesus to

himself according to the good pleasure. And he says that we have been accepted

in the beloved. Wow, have you been rejected before? Yeah? Not

nice? Right? Can I tell you? The good news is that in

God you are accepted. In God, you are accepted, not because of

how rich you are, not because of all the good works you have done,

not because of your cable you got any cable. But you are accepted

when you believe in Christ Jesus. Amen, that is your inheritance. You

are adopted as sons. And does do you know if I go to Benny's

house now, right, and I'm not his family, la okay, spiritual

family maybe la? Right? Right, Bennie might meet your house on not

can I can? I invite myself to him? And if I go in

there as a visitor, a stranger, I will Benny will say, come

and sit down here, and then I will sit down there. I look

around, they're not move right, not my house, and then hungry,

but they don't say anything, are you okay? Okay, okay, let

me chat? Then after that, oh, where's the toilet? Oh there,

okay, go the toilet, I go use okay, and then I

leave right, And that is a stranger in a home. But if,

for example, Benny adopts me, Bennie adopts me as his daughter, right

right, right, Bennie can write, then I go into his house?

What do children do in your own house? You strive me go, you

kick your shoes. You're going to put yourself out in the sofa, hungry

like, ah, give me some food, right, You're go and help

yourself to the ice cream there and they say don't touch, but you still

touch, right okay. And you have access to every room, access to

everything there because it's your home. It's your inheritance, and so I'm telling

that you now have access to God's kingdom? Do you know that? So

why do we live as though we're like, Oh, God, I don't

know whether I should go in or not? You know I go in,

know, So I don't know when I should think out my sleepers or not.

We're not sure of out inheritance in the Kingdom of God. And what

are the blessings? The spiritual inheritance. It's faith's hope, it's peace,

it's love. All these things are your inheritance. Guys, do you know

that you have access to it? Healing, provision, everything that God has

as a blessing unto you, it's yours adoption and acceptance. You know what's

your address? Right? It's like my address is in Christ. Where do

you live? Not to us? I live in Christ. Therefore I can

go to anywhere in the world and I can access into the Kingdom of God.

Can you see this as your inheritance? Is It's very powerful? Right?

Somebody can wrap your head. Oh, you don't live in a small

room. You live in the Kingdom of God. Amen. That's the first

thing that you have. The second thing is this redemntion and forgiveness. Wow,

how many of you can actually say all my sins are forgiven, all

my sins are forgiven. How many of you there to say that? Okay?

One, how about the rest of you are oh? Yes? Two?

Wow? He hello, the rest of you? Do you know your

inheritance and not? Yes? Christ says that all your sins are forgiven.

And that's why Jesus as a man, he had to go to the cross.

He was the perfect man and the only man that could go to the

cross. He was blameless, he was the only sinless man and in God's

count because God is righteous. He's like, all of you have sinned and

fallen shot of the glory of God. And there's what you all deserve is

death. That's it. If God is truly a just and a righteous God,

and we want that right like God, If you're righteous and holy,

you should punish all the bad people, right. We always say that,

right. If Malaysia is a just country, all the bad people should go

to jail. Correct, and we are the good people. Correct? Actually,

no, any of you broke traffic likes before speed yes, jaywalking,

driving, using the phone, God, God, God, ah or that

one? Oh, so ah hot langlois or that line line yes, and

the many more so are we guilty? We are guilty as charge, you

know. And then God comes and says, poor people putting all of you,

really putting. This is God's grace, his compassion. Right, he

didn't just say poor thing putting you Richard, bye bye, go to jailer

right, I care about you. By go to jail because you did wrong?

What right you did wrong? And so you have to pay for it.

Isn't a just system. We want it, we want a just system.

But God goes beyond justice. God went beyond justice to say you go

to jail. And God says, this is the extension of justice, which

is great. He says, Richard, you don't have to go. I

will go. You don't have to go. I will go. You don't

have to go. I will go. I will take the punishment of sin

for you. And that's what Jesus did at the cross. He went to

the cross and he says, I will take it. I will take it

for you. You don't know me, but I know you why, I

mean you, I created you. And it says, well, well,

we will still get sinners. Christ died for us even when we were not

perfect and we were not coming to church at all. Christ already had done

it for us, because that was a plan of redemption and forgiveness for all

of us. Wow. If that is not something that you want to rejoice

in, I don't know what else is. Who else can forgive you of

your sins? No one, Jesus says I came to save them from their

sins. I did not just come here to save you from hell. I

came here to save you from your sins. That's know what, and the

sins that is past, present and future. You're like, what about tomorrow,

vy sinner? Then you repent tomorrow after you committed your sin and say

God forgive me, and he says, I will forgive you if you repent

before God. You repent before God and God says I will forgive you.

Amen. So that means I'll be can continue to live our life right guilt

free. Wow. How many of you can actually say that? Without God?

I think our lives are filled with shame, right, disappointment maybe,

and we feel like, wow, there's nothing much in my life going for

me. But can I tell you that the good news? I told you

this is the good news? Right. The good news in God is that

we can live a guilt free life, a shameless life, a life that

we can live out proud and with confidence in God alone. You don't have

to be afraid. You know of what your friend says about you. This

is the inheritance that we have. This is the confidence that we have.

What else do we have? We have wisdom? Well, how many of

you want wisdom? Yes? And the Bible says that what is the beginning

of wisdom fear of the Lord. So if you want wisdom, then I'll

ask you, but do you fear the Lord? Ah? What is fear

the Lord? So scared of him? But no, fearing the Lord means

God. I acknowledge you in everything, and I acknowledge that what you think

matters most is what God thinks about this matter. It's not what you think.

It's not what the world thinks. It's not what all your TikTok advisors

is. Okay, it's not what's viraling right now, It's what God says.

And if you want to know what God says, then you have to

read this law. Otherwise, how I cannot read to you everything you know?

Now we all read one chapter, So really, right, like how

the vinishes. It's only one and a half chapter, you know, right,

not even two full chapters. And you're like, wow, so much

already, so much right that we can glean from the word of God.

We have wisdom, We have an inheritance, it says, right, and

you are God's inheritance. God says, so, hey, I chop you

are? I chop you? Okay? Nick? Your mine? No?

Wow, I chop you, Gloria, I chop all of you your mine?

You belong to me. Would you like to belong to God? Yeah,

you want to write. If you don't belong to God, you belong

to the devil. No, thanks, Yes, that's the right answer,

Truman. You either belong to God or you belong to the devil. There's

no such thing as no, I'm my own person. No. If you're

your own person, you are a slave to your flesh. Right. Would

you like to be answerable just to your flesh? Whatever I feel? I

doula right, And that's like the sentiment of the world. But that is

not a life worth living. You've tried it before, right, all of

us before we know God. We've tried living on our own before. And

how did that work? Out for you. Fantastic, not really right.

There's just something that we're all searching for. And can I tell you that

answer is found in Christ. Imen we have the Holy Spirit. It says

that in verse thirteen, it says that in Him you also trusted after you

heard the Word of truth. So you hearing the word of truth. Now

I'm telling you if you've never heard this before, I'm telling this is the

truth that the Gospel of your salvation in whom also having believe. If you

believe whatever that the Word of God is saying, you are sealed with the

Holy Spirit of promise. Wow. It's a guarantee. You know. It's

like God saying, ning your mind right, cho boom, I give you

the Holy Spirit. Wow. The Holy Spirit is a seal. It's a

guarantee that we belong to God. And you know what it says about the

Holy Spirit. What is the role of the Holy Spirit? Can you tell

me a guide? Wonderful? You like a guide with you? Twenty four

to seven? Not just ways, you know, ways also can fail you

on right, I see to bring you to a direction and re reround and

bring you to the most expensive toora you want to waste is your guira.

I think you want the Holy Spirit? Right? What else? What else

is the role of the Holy Spirit help her? Hey, you want to

help her? Not because we all have so much challenges in our life,

right, no one is gonna help you know that though no Tansrie, no

king is able to help you all the way or wants to in fact.

But do you know that the Holy Spirit is always saying, He's like,

I'm here, Hello, Hello, I'm here. You gotta ask me because

Holy Spirit? Can I tell you he's a person, He's not a spirit.

No, he's a real person. And with a real person you treat

with respect, right, and Holy Spirit is a gentleman. Can I say

that he will not like, Hey, Nicholas, I'm telling you listen to

me. He's not like that. In fact, he is a very gentle

spirit. Therefore, if you choose to ignore him, guess what, he

will just remain silent and you go like, God, where are you,

and like, I'm here, but you're not listening to me. You're so

busy, you're not making time for me. Right, and so Holy Spirit

is your other inheritance? What about the next one? He says you he

made a lie in any person alive, you're in this place. Yes,

we are alive. Not only are we physically alive, you are spiritually alive.

And that's why right now, when whatever that I'm speaking to you,

you can receive, because they person don't receive anything. Right, If I'm

talking to people who don't know God spiritually, they are day Okay. Can

I say that when you all of us will date once, all of us

will date ones. And it's only by the grace of God that we believe.

We say, okay, Wow, God put this faith in me,

faith to believe, and therefore I'm awaken. Ah, Suddenly I see things

clear. Now wait, there's a song, right, I can see Okay,

I want to tend to sing. Okay, Yeah, I can clearly

see now the things of God, the spiritual things of God, and I'm

awakened to it. What else do we have? We have grace? This

is in chapter two, verse eight, for by grace you have been saved

through faith. Wow, guys, guys, do you see how rich you

are? You have the grace and the mercies of God. Can I encourage

you every morning when you wake up, can you just say God, thank

you for your mercy this morning, that I can wake up. You know

when I drove here, Say, if you are an Inconjung's cut, the

Lost Cut, I can see it. It's like, is it raining already

going through Reyna? Thank God that I can arrive in church safely. Amen.

It's by God's mercies, you know. Do you know that it is

by God's mercies that you can do your daily things, you can eat,

you can have your whatever enjoyment in life. Right, it is by God's

mercies, and it's grace. The next one is peace. How about that?

Anyone looking for peace? Yeah? Peace? Peace? You think money

can give you? You know the answer to that. But sometimes I'll behavior

still like, hey, I'm still looking for Manila. If I have money,

then all my problem solve. Correct. That is still the mindset that

we're working on. But the gift, when you are spiritually awakened, it

says, even when I don't have money, I will praise God. Even

when I'm going to trials and challenges, I thank you God because you're making

a man out of me. You're making me christ like in my challenges.

That is a piece of God. Even though I don't understand why things happen

again and again and again, I know that God, you are in control.

How about that? And then being able to just sleep soundly at night

every night, even though everything might seem that, oh it's so hard,

right, It's okay, God, I leave everything in your hands. That's

what true surrender. You're saying the song this morning, right, I surrender,

I surrender. But it's not just in your words, you know,

it's in what you actually do. Are you able to sleep well at night?

Friends? Can I ask you that? Oh? Yeah? I like,

yeah, of course, because you know my husband prepares everything for me.

Cut him already, everything, make up, next morning, things there,

poor husband like the whole night, working right, making sure that your

breakfast is there. But how about that? Knowing that we are saving in

God's hands. Amen, That is the inheritance the world that we have.

And last but not least, this is citizenship. And this goes on later

on to chapter two. How would you like to know that you have a

passport, the super passport, you know, Malaysia passport. Quite gang,

right, they say, very good, very valuable. You can go to

a lot of countries without visa. Can I give you another passport? A

passport to Heaven, passport to the Kingdom of God, and you can proudly

say, I am a citizen of the Kingdom of God. I belong here,

and therefore I enjoy all the rights that God has for me a man.

Amen. And so you know, and we can go on right Efficient

chapter three, and I'm gonna read to use some of the other promises that

things that we used to quote, right, And I want to let you

know that a lot things are quoted from Emvisians. If you don't know it,

I want to give you a flavor of the letters so that you yourself

will go back and read it, read it again and again and say,

God, I'm gonna receive and claim all these promises for myself. My spirit

don't need to be downcast for long because as I read your word and I

profess. And that's why I want you to read it out loud right.

When you read it out loud, your spirit receives it and you hear it

right Efficient chapter three, Verse twenty. Now you all know this. It

says, now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that

we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to

him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.

Amen. You like that? Not? It says that God can do

exceedingly, abundantly more than what you think and ask. It's like we ask

for God for so little, right, like God give me this job,

God give me this. But God says, Hey, hello, lo,

my plan for you is greater, exceedingly abundling more than what you can think

of us. Wow. That is our inheritance in God. Right, And

so what is the application of this? Firstly is to accept this inheritance?

Are you aware of us or not? Now that I told you already?

Are you aware of all the spiritual blessings, every spiritual blessing that you have?

You are so rich, you know, guys, seriously, you are

rich beyond words, so rich, and we just sometimes didn't know or we

are not aware of it. Right, So I want to tell you that

you, guys are rich, right inheritance, This is the inheritance that God

has given us. When you have the awareness already, then you need to

accept it and begin to tap into it. Right, how would you tap

into all this? Spend time with got yeah? What else? How else

will you tap into this inheritance? What do you need to do when you

got money in the bank, acout what you need to go and do if

you want to use it or invest I like that. That's a different teaching

for another day. But what if you need it right now? What do

you do your money in the bank? We draw line loo simple as that.

Use your ATM card right. Okay? Of course some of you young

people are put you to ATM card. Everything digital now we don't even need

ATM card. For those of your older ATM card right, ATM card.

If you still believe in physical cash, grab and QR. But you still

need to grab and QR right and make the transfer right. You still need

to press something more so, you still need to press that spiritual button to

say God, I'm going to withdraw this right now. I need healing God.

I'm gonna press this. God, I need provision. I'm gonna press

this. I need to access into no point knowing it's all in the bank,

you're like very rich. But if you cannot use it for what,

you cannot use it for what? Right? And God is saying I given

you excess. His name is Jesus. That's why we pray in Jesus name.

Did Jesus name. Did Jesus name? Jesus name is powerful? Amen?

Amen? And once you start being able to withdraw, then you gotta

use it wisely, right, use it wisely. And as we were saying

that you then you need to walk worthy of this inheritance that you have.

Do you know that you are blessed to be a blessing? Yes? You

think all Why I enjoy already? No, go BALI and enjoy. I

don't need to work anymore, right right? Ah? And that is our

end goal, like I just want to not work for forever. No,

But can I tell you that theology is not right purpose. We are all

made to work, We are all made to walk right, walk worthy of

this calling. And if you reach chapters three, four, five, six,

it will tell you everything what it means to work worthy of this calling.

You know, rich people, really rich people that I know, they

actually very humble and they're not there like flashing it off right, like,

well look at me, I'm so rich, But they're actually there serving others.

Yeah, they're using their richness for the good of others. To me,

that is real richness. That is real wealth, truly truly real wealth,

not just the man made You know, I want to flesh it out

and everything. It's like, I'm just walking worthy of my calling. Right,

And if it's just for one to three, it says this. I

therefore, the prisoner of the Lord be sees you to walk worthy of the

calling with which you were called. All right, you're called into this inheritance,

Amen, and you need to walk worthy of this with all loneliness and

gentleness, with long suffering, and bearing with one another in love, endeavoring

to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. So three

things, they're right. One is to be lowly and gentle. Now,

spirit, what's the next one? To be long suffering? Oh, we

all don't like this word, right, long suffering, suffer long haha.

I don't want to suffer long. But this is a character of God,

long suffering and bearing one another in love. We need to learn to bear

each other's burden, guys, Okay, we need to learn to bear each

other in love. And lastly, to keep the unity of the spirit in

the bond of peace. Unity is very, very important for God's people.

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