That All May Know | Elder Ang Peng Hoe

You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I want to teach you know, that's my

style. So today we'll be looking at quite a number of scriptures. But

I am just going to give you the scriptural reference first to what I'm going

to be sharing, and then you have time please go back and read all

these scriptures. I'll be making some reference to some here and there, because

if I read the entire chapter then I won't have time. Okay, mainly

i'm reading from or I'm referring to Matthew chapter nine, meth You chapter ten,

and also Second Corinthians five, chapter five, all the way to the

start of chapter six. So quite a fair bit of scriptures that we're going

to be making reference to. Some of you may have heard me share on

this, but I'm here insurance after a long time, so I think it's

good to share a message on the team for this year. How many of

you all know what the team is that all may know, and you're going

to be hearing a lot of teachings and sharings on this team. It is

fundamentally a team based on evangelism. Evangelism Okay, this is a big word,

a word that sometimes we don't like to use because it's the one part

of our faith that sometimes you're like, got to do this or not.

Why can't we just reap the rewards of having a good God that has given

us insurance for the end of our life where we will go to a nice

place, you know. Sometimes that's what we have in our minds. But

evangelism is actually basically a duty and a function in which, believe us,

those who say we follow Christ, we have to take on while we are

here on this earth. And so it's something that is very important for us

to understand. In Bahasa, the word evangelism is pun in Jilan, so

of course we know the word in jail is actually it's actually gospel. It

is the other word for gospel. Another word for gospel is the good news.

Okay, So evangelism is basically the act of sharing the good news,

the act of, yeah, just bringing the good news to someone who has

no idea what the news is. That's what gospel is. You know.

You think of the word gospel, you think of the world the word herald

h E R A L D Herald. Have you heard of that? Word

is usually used to name newspapers. You know, there are different newspaper public

publications, some called the Herald. If you have ever heard that term before.

Uh. And when you think of herald, you actually think of someone

who is announcing, and that's what you used to be back then. Whenever

a nation conquers a land and they want to send news back, they will

send this soul horse rider back to the Roman Empire and then they will herald

the good news. They will say, hey, we have won and they're

declaring it no, and we have taken this land and this is where we

are today. We are going to celebrate this. So when we think of

the Gospel, we've got to think of that. We've got the thing of

basically someone who's riding on a horse going back to people who don't know the

news here and celebrating the news by announcing it and announcing it with great joy.

You see. You try to match that with how we look at evangelism

today. We always look at it as must must tell someone about Jesus Ah.

Why can't I just enjoy him for myself? Okay, it is a

very common thing. Uh, And I speak it not just uh. You

know, from understanding, but also from experience, because it is it is

something that I struggle. It's not so easy. And and no, let's

let's let's go to scripture. Let's read some scriptures, let's get some understanding.

And I pray that today you'll be encouraged. More than anything else.

I'm not here to put people down. I'm here to help us understand God's

word. And with that understanding, I pray, every understanding must translate into

action. And I think that's that's important. That's why we send our kids

to school. That's why you all go to school. Right, you're putting

all the hate knowledge in the world into your heat, but it doesn't translate.

If you come on you can't work, then something is fundamentally not right

with the entire education system. It's the same for us as believers. No,

sometimes we can have so much hate knowledge, but if it never translates

into something, into change, lives, into actions, then we remain where

we are. And so God's word is full of knowledge. But I believe

the Holy Spirit is both knowledge and power. It gives us the knowledge and

understanding and the Holy Spirit that empowers us to do what we are called to

do. Okay, that all may know. Okay, it starts in the

Gospels. I believe it starts with Jesus himself telling us why and then showing

us the way. Okay, there is nothing in which we are left or

entrusted to do here in this world that is not already shown or already taught.

That means God didn't just say you go wing it yourself. And I

don't really care about how it ends up as long as as long as you

get yourself to Heaven, it doesn't matter. No, I believe Jesus himself

has showed us the way, and the scriptures has always pointed us on how

we need to do it as well. And so why must we share?

Why must we preach the good news? And how do we do it effectively?

That's the question that I want us to have on top my mind.

My men, all the best way helping me in the slightes Okay. In

Matthew chapter nine, Okay, Matthew chapter nine, Okay, Verses one and

two, we actually read this story of a paralyzed man who was brought to

Jesus, and so in verse one and two he says, Jesus climb into

a boat and went back across the lake to his own town. Some people

brought to him a paralyzed man on a mat. Seeing their faith, Jesus

said to the paralyzed man, be encouraged, my child. Your sins are

forgiven. Okay, very interesting thing for Jesus to say. Yet at the

same time we are talking about evangelism. So why did Jesus deal with the

sins of the paralytic or the paralyzed man rather than deal with his sickness?

You ever wonder that, because I mean, I believe in this case this

man's suffering and his sin were directly related, and that's why Jesus dealt with

it in this way. But he did not always deal with it in this

way as well. There are sometimes when he deals with sickness, he really

just deals with it, get straight of the cause of the sickness, and

a person is healed. But in this case that was what he said.

There was a paralyzed man came to him and then instead of saying we healed

walk, he said, I forgive your sins. And you know the thing

about Jesus is he's an amazing doctor, okay, and he always diagnoses perfectly.

He always makes the right observations. He was the best doctor to people.

And that's why scripture tells us that it is not the healthy that needs

us to assist them, it's always the sick that needs us to assist them.

The gospel actually reminds us of that. And so Jesus saw straight into

this man. The cause of this man's disease, he saw straight into it,

and then he dealt with the cast, not the symptoms. A lot

of times when you see the doctor, what they do is they identify your

sister, your symptoms. That's what diagnoses is and then after that they will

address the symptoms. But Jesus went straight for the cast, and straight away

he said the son, your sins are forgiven. And then to prove that

he had already dealt with the problem, Jesus released him from the consequences of

the cost. That's why he says, I tell you, get up,

take your bait, and go home. So not only was he free from

the cause, the cost has been addressed, he's also free from all the

consequences that follows the cost, and that's why he said that to the paralyzed

man. You see the key factor here, that third opposition, And we

know wherever Jesus go, he tends to tick people off. Okay, you

see, a lot of people were unhappy. Uh. And it's not the

fact that he healed the paralyzed man. I think everyone would have been happy.

It was the fact that he dealt with sin. In other words,

if only Jesus just healed the flour make him walk, everything would have been

all right. It wouldn't have been a problem. No one would have raised

an iota of discontentment on why he did what he did. Why then,

did he not just remain on earth as a physician? Think about it.

I mean, he could have. He could have been the most popular physician

in the whole white world, not just going around healing people's diseases and sickness,

and then maybe everyone can live forever and ever. But we know that

it's not the problem. It would have been a wonderful mission to have a

doctor like that, such a noble calling and such a noble purpose. However,

Jesus did not come just to save people from sickness. That is the

first thing that we need to realize. But he came to save us from

sin. Sin, And you know what he was doing. He was essentially

claiming his divine prerogative to forgive sins. Because we know only God can forgive

sins. That is why people hated him. They hated him. They hated

him with a vengeance. Actually, and then we also reader it's not just

him healing the paralyzed man. We also read that he hung out with text

collectors. The next thing we go on, we read Okay, Jesus and

the text collector, and verse nine says this. As Jesus was walking along,

he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his text collector's booth. Follow

me and be my disciple, Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up

and followed him. Imagine, No, what is like to be such a

person. Basically, a text collector is a social outcast, someone who's society.

I mean, you all don't sing for joy to the Lamaga hasildalam,

the LHDN writer that right now it's time time to something your text. No,

I don't think you all are like daily. I pray for all those

who, Okay, you should, you should. Many of them don't know

Jesus you should. But yeah, but that's the reality. This group of

people are not really love. They are quite unpopular. In that sense.

But what did Jesus do He called this man. Basically this man was collecting

text He called him from collecting texts to collecting stories about Jesus, and ultimately

today we have his gospel. The Gospel of Matthew is a text collector's gospel,

because that is who Methew or Levi is. He's actually an accountant.

For all your accountants know there is an accountant writing part of the one of

the four gospels here amazing. Apart from text collectors, there was also another

group of people that Jesus hang out with them. He mixes a lot with

them. Then they are also another group of social outcasts. They're simply just

called sinners sin us and I know, you know, it's quite an interesting

work. Sometimes we talkt about sinners, do we we over generalize it.

We think that everyone's a singer, which is true, everyone is a sinner.

But in this case verse eleven, when we read but when the Pharisees

saw this, they asked his disciples, why does your teacher with such scum

per strong words? Nalty sorry, NLT A bit more straight up. That's

what I like reading it. It's politically incorrect, but we get the point

of course, the first question that we ask is are we all not seen

us? Yes? Like I said, you know, sometimes we have that

over generalization of the word sinners. But the word here in this context,

okay, in this context is not talking about all of us in general as

sinners. It's talking about people who have been excommunicated, basically Jews who used

to practice Judaism, but they have been excommunicated from their local temple, their

local synagogue. They were people who were not allowed to go into the congregation

because somehow, one way or the other, they have broken God's laws.

Either day, like I don't want to observe the sabob, I want to

go and deal the land and work with my cows on a Sunday, sorry,

sab Saturday, Saturday, and anyway, you know what I mean.

There are people who don't, who choose not to follow or who started breaking

the laws of the synagogue, the laws of Judaism, the laws of Moses,

and that's why they have been excommunicated. And that's how the Pharises view

them all this as sinners. And so there are two groups of people who

had difficulty mixing in ordinary society. I like to call them marginalized. Okay,

they are marginalized or sideline. And then Matthew decides to throw a party

for all of them, invited them all to come, and Jesus is the

center of this party in this story Methew chapter nine. And from just these

few passages you'll take note. You take note of this that Jesus would actually

be bordered about sins. I think very important for us to take all that,

because if only he had start to healing, he would have been all

right. But we will never have the cross today. That's the reality of

it. So the first thing to take on is Jesus was bothered about sins.

The other thing for us to take not is he was bordered with sinners.

Jesus came to basically deal with sinners, and he came to deal with

sins. That is his purpose. And this is why we therefore have the

responsibility of telling everyone the good news of Jesus. What is the good news

of Jesus. Well, the good news of Jesus is earth going out and

telling people about sin, helping them acknowledge sin in their lives, and basically

that we are sinners. We are all sinners before the Lord. That's what

the good news is actually doesn't sound like good news, right telling someone that

you have sin in your life and you're a sinner against God. I know,

But that is the good news because all of us are sinners, and

today essentially we don't have to remain in that state of mind or in that

position. And that is why Jesus came. He came to sick and save

those who are laws. As we read on chapter nine, go back read

the entire chapter nine. It's quite a lot of verses you will discover.

Know the biggest problem that the early believers were facing, it's still the same

problem we have today because verses thirty five to thirty eight. It starts off

in an NLT with a title that says the need for workers, and then

verse thirty five reads as such, Jesus traveled through all the towns and villagers

of that area, teaching in the synagogue and announcing the good news about the

kingdom, and he healed every kind of disease and illness. When he saw

the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless,

like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples, the harvest is

great, but the workers are few, so pray to the Lord who is

in charge of the harvest, asks him to send more workers into his field.

Until today, we are still praying this prayer because there is a lot

in the harvest. There's still so many people who have yet to know who

Christ is, let alone respond to the saving knowledge of Christ Jesus. But

we are still praying God send more workers out into the field. That is

the reality of the situation. That's why I say a lot of us sometimes

when we start to believe, we cannot just rest and chill and relax because

the next chapter, Jesus actually shows us how all may know. Basically,

he told us the only way that all may know is by doing what I

did with my disciples. I send them out. So go is a very

powerful word in the scriptures that talk about evangelism, because if you don't go,

there will be no evangelism. You need to go all of it.

If I want to break it down, there a quite a lot of scriptures

that talk about evangelism. But think about it. The most famous one is

Metew twenty eight. What does it say? It says, go therefore and

make disciples. The other one that we read a lot from is in Rome.

I think chapter ten. You know, how will the people know?

Then he talks about it unless someone walks towards their direction. There is a

going And in chapter ten of Matthew we read in verse five Jesus sent out

the twelve apostles with these instructions. This is why he did. No,

don't go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, but only to the people of

Israel, God's lordship. Go and now go again, Go and announce them

that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sake, raise the day,

cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as

you have receive it. Still, go and go and announce the Kingdom of

Heaven. Go and announce the good news. He didn't stop them from healing

the sick, casting out demons, et cetera. But again, the main

purpose was to go and announce. And so this was essentially the real turning

point in Jesus' ministry. If you study the scriptures, you will realize this

was the moment where disciples became apostles. Okay, what the what? What

is the what does the word apostle mean? Anyone want to take a guess.

An apostle try appointed close close when you appoint what you do after that,

after appointment you acknowledge the person, and then what happens? What do

you do? You keep him in scent. Actually that's the word apostle means

scent one. And so those who have been called to be with him,

those who have been called to study him, those who are called to dine

with him and eat with him and observe him, we know those were the

disciples. Now they are actually called to depute times for him. It's a

whole different meaning. Firstly, they came, they followed Jesus, they watched

his ways, they learned from him, they ate with him, they dine

with him, they observe him. And then now he says, now you'll

be me where I'm not there. So that was how he sent his disciples

out. It's amazing. And these are not learned people, know this.

Are not people with three years of Bible degree and then the masters in theology

and then a PhD in divinity. No, these were many fishermen's tax collectors,

basically people who work with their hands. But they understand working, and

they understand going, and they understand moving and so they were sent out to

do what Jesus had already been doing. Jesus told them that they were to

preach and to heal as they had seen him do, but without him being

physically present, and that was the crucial change that took place. And he

gave them some commands. No, he told them, Okay, don't take

anything of herself, no money, knows backlos, no break. Why would

they send with nothing? You think about it, Okay, science is just

good to take our minds and thing in the scriptures. Why send with nothing?

Well, I believe Jesus wanted them to learn how to depend on the

people. They went to for food, for change of clothes, for money,

because we are going and they are serving the people, and so don't

worry. They were to go with nothing, and I can imagine. No,

it was such a tough test for the disciples, but more importantly,

it was for them to learn how to depend on God, because he's the

one that gavet the instructions on other than just depending on the people. Building

the relationships with the people and hoping that the people will be the one that

helped them. Hopefully they can be tan makers wherever they are called to it's

not just that, it's really just knowing God and trusting him. But we

read that the disciples did go boom, they went, and they came back

with amazing testimonies, amazing testimonies, and they were to preach the Kingdom of

Heaven is at hand. They were to heal the sick, cleansed the lepers,

raise the dead, cast out demons. You know, but persecution would

follow, and it sure did follow. Persecution never left the church. I

just want you all to take note of that. No matter how comfortable you

are. If you think we are here worshiping so freely in this beautiful land

and nation, and you know, being a Christian means that everything is fine

and dandy, that's not true. Because I always believe persecution will follow those

who put their trust and their hope in the Lot and follow after his ways.

But he said, yes, when persecution does follow, you should not

fear people, but fear God. Because verse twenty eight says is, don't

be afraid of those who when who want to kill your body, they cannot

touch your soul. Fear only God who can destroy both body and soul.

And so Jesus actually teaches them. And if you read the whole chapter ten.

You will see the scriptures actually saying that when you are in this tight

corner, sometimes you may find yourself in the dark because you belong to Jesus.

Have ever experienced that? Because sometimes we think, oh, Jesus,

in my life, everything is all light, every day is sunshine. Every

day I wake up and there's a smile on my face and everything feels awesome.

But the truth is, we do sometimes find ourselves in the dark,

even when we know, especially when we know Jesus. But if you are

there in the dark because of Jesus in his name, you're there. I

want to say, don't worry, don't be afraid of man, but know

that the Holy Spirit is the one that always puts the right words in our

mouths. It's always there with us to help us and to guide us.

And we read again and again of all these examples of Holy Spirit empowered people

in scriptures, whether it's the Life of Different in the Book of Acts,

or whether you read the Life of Paul Peter James John in all those scriptures,

all of them have been put in a tight corner. Either they are

put in you know, they are court convicted, charge in court and there

they are standing and trying to no explain what they believe in, and God

has always put the right words in their mouth. We have tons and tons

of their testimony. Testimony is recorded in scripture and it's it's amazing. So

don't think that God can. Sometimes we are like, I don't think I

can, But we can because that's what the Spirit of God wants to do

in our lives. So it's been shown throughout the ages that you find whenever

people of God who have stood on trial requested to be a witness, the

Holy Spirit has always delivered them from the fear of men and put words in

their mouth. And that's why another word for evangelism is to witness. That's

what we are called to do. If you are called to witness, you

have to think of it as a legal term as well, because if you

are called to appear in court and you are put in the witness dog in

Basa, Lasia is called kandung success likes though you're a cowl or a or

a gumbing, but it is it is you know, you are sitd in

the dog. That is where you have to just testify or witness what you

have seen. Okay, You're always called to witness what you have experienced first

hand. Don't have to tell story about other people. Just witness what it

means to you first. That's what witnessing really is. That's what sharing the

gospel really is. Of course, after that you can continue to because there

are many other people who have also experienced God in the same way. But

start off with what He means to you first. And that is a really

evangelism when we are able to say, this is what God has done for

me, and that is why I can have a smile on my face even

though everything else around me is not going well. But yet I put my

hope and my trust in God. And so it says, let the fear

of the Lord take away the fear of people in every situation. Realize that

the spirit of God is there to help us. Amen, let's look at

it deeper. And I'm going to go deeper some more into Second Corinthians.

And now we're going to move from the gospels to the epistles. Okay,

Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse eleven. I'm going to read all the

way to chapter six, verse two. Okay, it's a lot of scriptures,

but I'm quickly going to read them because in the NLT it just starts

off by saying that we are God's ambassadors. What does that mean? Sounds

like a big one. No. When I was young, all I wanted

to do. Actually, I really want to become an ambassador to travel.

You got to travel everywhere, and yeah, I mean without having to be

a besides being an ask to it, which was something else that I thought

maybe it would be quite cool. But yeah, I didn't choose that path

anyway. Can imagine myself as to it. I don't think I got to

height anyway. Okay, I think henine foras towards Yeah. Oh I just

made it. Okay, Okay, I say it's a verse eleven. Because

we understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade others.

Again, I really again, because we understand our fearful responsibility to the

Lord, we work hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere and

I hope you know these too. Are we command commending ourselves to you?

Again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud of us,

so you can answer those who brag about having a specular ministry rather than

having a sincere heart. If it seems we are crazy, it is to

bring glory to God, and if we are in our right minds, it

is for your benefit. Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we

believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died

to our own life. He died for everyone, so that those who received

his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead they will live for

Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we have stopped evaluating

others from a human point of view. At one time we taught of Christ

merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now.

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The

old life is gone and a new life has begun. And all of this

is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ.

And God has given us this task of reconsuling people to him. For God

was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against

them, and he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are

christis ambassadors. God is making his appeal to us. We speak for Christ

when we plead come back to God for God made Christ, who never sin,

to be the offering for our sin so that we could be made right.

We've God thrue Christ as God's partners. We beg you not to accept

this move, sorry, not to accept this marvelous gift of God's kindness and

then ignore it. For God's says, at just the right time I hurt

you on the day of salvation, I help you. Indeed, the right

time is now. Today is the day of salvation. I know a lot

of us is Let me help you break it down, okay, and hopefully

I bring some understanding to this. You see, one of the things that

people find injectionable about Christians is that they will not keep their religion to themselves.

You feel that. If you don't feel that, then I don't know

whether you should feel guilty now. But you know, why do Christians always

insist that everybody else must come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ? And

people find that offensive? Some people are like, what you always imposed that?

Impost that on me? Why do Christians do this? Why can't they

just be contented with their own personal faith and then just keep it in them.

Right, and Paul actually gives two reasons. You know, it's so

you'll be like, no, that's not true. I don't think that's how

I feel. But you know, sometimes you go you just imagine before you

were believer, and then suddenly you join a company and then you sit on

the cubicle and then the cubicle next to you is this Hallelujah guy. You

know, got all the cross everything, no picture of Jesus, marry everything

all day. I think you'd be worried. Right, you'll be like this

one yes and Kong, yes, Oh it's the truth. Why why why

can't they just keep your eyes sould to yourself? No? Keep basically a

translated keep Jesus to yourself? Basically why And Paul actually gives two reasons in

these scriptures, two motives. And it's as simple as this. The fear

of the Lord and the love of Christ. That is why we do it.

And these two things go together, they go hand in hand. Just

to go out and seek to persuade people through the love of Christ is not

enough, and just to do it through the fear of the Lord is not

enough. Together, remember, when you read the scriptures, you will see

that these two goes hand in hand. See, the one thing that we

aim to do in life is to please Christ, and we are therefore afraid

of displeasing him, afraid of displeasing him. No, people will say,

you know, well, aren't you afraid of displeasing people? Yes, we

are. Nobody wants to go and offend each other, upset them, disturb

them. No, it's not my calling and my purpose in life. Every

Sunday I take the mic, I want to come and pisce all of you

all off. I want to share the gospel, talk about Jesus, or

shove Jesus down your throat. No, I really don't intend to do that.

I don't intend to disturb and upset you. But the scripture tells us

that we are to first fear God, fear Jesus, fear displeasing him.

And this is the motive that overrides all others. And we would hate to

break the heart of the one who loves us. Right, It's a natural

thing. See. The only reason, and we have to think of it

in a bigger perspective. The only reason why you and I are still here

after we are safe is because there is something for us to do here in

this world, if not all of us would have been taken up. Really

the meaning we say Jesus, thank you so much. I've come to meet

you. I receive you and your love in my heart in heaven, because

yeah, why not, that's the ultimate purpose for us to worship God.

Then salvation would have just been like that. But Noah, I'm still here.

You are still here, and no, we are not left behind.

Okay, I know how you'll be thinking, Oh, man, only the

noble and the good fellers all got taken away. We're all here, left

to suffer and a tone for our sins by for ourselves. No, that's

not how the scripture teaches us. We are still here because God has the

plan and the purpose for us, and we are supposed to tell the world

about Jesus. Sometimes, as humans, we always have this sense of abandonedment.

No, no, science, that's kids. So we have that father

don't care about me. And you know it's normal, Okay, some some

parents really don't care about the chilren. Okay, don't do that. But

it's so easy for us to feel abandoned. And there are days when sometimes

we live our Christian life like as tho. We are abandoned children, and

we are not. We are not abandoned. Please remember that, because the

spirit of God is here with us, and so we know the fear of

the Lord is matched with the motive of the love of Christ that compels us

goes together. We know the fear of the Lord, and therefore we persuade.

We fear God, and that's why we go out and tell others.

And it is the love of Christ that controls and directs our path and directs

our life. It is both. We don't want to break his heart because

he loves us, and his love is what compels us to go out and

love others. And how do we love others? Well, We love others

by telling them about the good God who has done great things for me in

my life, and I know that he can do the same for you.

You see, if you go out and talk about your religion, most people

will tell you that you are crazy, You're a maniac. That's what scriptures

is, That's what Paul says. Some of them would think that I'm guilah,

I'm a maniac. But Paul is telling the Corinthians, I don't mind

if you think I'm mad, because I'm mad for God. At one point,

Jesus was thought to be mad. No, you know, they thought

Jesus was mad. A carpenter who claimed that he can save the world.

I would have thought he was mad. He thinks he can convert everyone.

No, the fear of the Lord and the love of Christ will lead you

to do things that some people may say that you are crazy. But we

do them because the love of Christ and the fear of God compels us to

do it. Those are the two motives. You see. The love of

Christ controls us because we discovered that love at the Cross, and everybody discovers

God's love at the cross. That's why, until today we can still sing

songs of the Cross, and something happens in our hearts because we understand God's

love for us. You know, if your faith means nothing to you,

you wouldn't be sitting here. In all honesty be the easiest thing to give

up one. But yet it's at the Cross that we discover God's love.

And if you really want to know Jesus loves you, then go to the

cross and you look at the cross and you say that He did that for

me. The love of Christ compels us because when we look at the cross.

We see that not only was I involved, It's not just I involved

there, No, but the fact that he died for all. He died

for all. And that's why our faith is not It is personal, but

it's not just to be kept personally. There is a reason why we are

called to evangelize. But sometimes we like to take on the ways of this

world and say that keep your faith to yourself, don't have to offend other

people. But if you don't realize that the cross is not not just for

me, No, sometimes you think, or you just look at yourself hanging

on the cross. No, no, no, Jesus hung on the cross.

If it was me, all of it, all will we do because

it would not have achieved what it was supposed to do. But because it

was Christ who hung in that cross, and he did not just hang there

for me. Yes he did, and that's why I stand here and testify

off his goodness and what he has done in my life. But he hung

there for all, and that is why I've got to take it a step

further after that. That is why we persuade someone else to be a believer,

because you remember that they are also already involved. Even before they know

Jesus, they are already involved on that cross. We are not there.

It's not just our cross, it's there a cross too. Amen. So

why did Jesus die in across? Okay, I'm going to go deep because

that's what the scripture. I want you to read the scripture and understand.

Because a lot of people, a lot of times know when we when you

talk about evangelists, it's just the pastor. I want to grow his church.

So they've got more tights and offerings to collect. Uh, they want

more people, know, so they can report numbers, report numbers. Know,

it's not about numbers. If you understand why you are supposed to do

you, if you understand the gospel, the fear of the Lord and the

love of Christ will compel you to do it. So why did Jesus die

in Across? Well, he died in across so that there is a personal

revolution in everybody's life that takes place. Revolution another word for revolution is of

course in Basa's revolution, but I translated as per ubahan change. There is

a change. No longer I do. Are you the center of your thinking,

because that's how we behave No, I am the center of my thinking.

No longer will there exist the capital I. But you will start to

realize it's Jesus. Because Jesus died the purpose of every human life on earth

is to live for him, not for our self. Does that make sense?

Not for ourself, because Jesus must be the center of thinking. Jesus

must be the center of our behavior. But usually before we know Jesus,

I am the center of my thinking. Normal until today's unless we still do

it, I am the center of my feelings. It's my feelings that I'm

worried about. Is your own feelings that you're worried about? Right? But

yet he's changing that, and he's asking you to take into account what he

is thinking and what he is feeling, and then you will realize what purpose

is all about. Let us go a little further. No, I've explained

the motive. The motive is again the fear of God and the love of

Christ. Then that's why Christians don't keep their faith to themselves. But more

importantly, if you don't keep your faith to yourself, what do you go

out? And do you go out and share? What are you sharing?

Because a lot of times, after we teach to spend our teaching or evangelism.

Then at the end of it, I got I got I understand evangelism.

And then the question that comes back is, but I don't want to

share it's normal. So what what is the message. Let's look at the

message, and the message is the gospel actually, because the reality is human

beings are always judging each other. He's good, he's bad, he's strange,

he's abnormal, he's funny. Right, we say all these things,

But when you have been to the cross, you don't judge people from a

human point of view anymore. You look at the man and you don't look

at the clothes. You don't just look at the size of his house.

Instance, You see someone for whom Jesus died for. That's what the scripture

is telling us. You see them from Jesus's point of view. If you

read again the NLT that the version that I just read, it says you

used to look at people from a human point of view. But it's the

revolution has taken place your outlook that you can actually shift how you used to

look at people and look at them differently. You just see sinners for whom

Jesus died, which is the thing that makes all of us here equal.

The reality is all of us are not equal in dignity. A lot of

times we like to think, no, I'm equal, we are all dignified

people. But no, no, actually we are equal in depravity. We

are all people who have fallen shot. We are all people who are deprived

one way or the other. We potential for dignity, but that's the reality.

We like to look at it as we're all great, But the scripture

says that, no, we are all equal because we're all bad. And

there were people who look at Jesus when you were here on earth, and

they they judge him with a human point of view, and this is what

they just They say, he's just a carpenter. But they were wrong,

because a cap can't raise the day, a carpenter can't heal the sake.

A carpenter can probably make coffins for the day and make baits for the sake.

But you can look at Jesus and you can judge him as a human

being, and I'm sure you will come to the conclusion that he is a

great human being. But that wouldn't change your life, that wouldn't have promoted

any revolution within you. We therefore, no longer look at Jesus or anyone

else from a human point of view, because that's not how God wants us

to look at it him, and that's not how he wants us to look

at one another. Now we know that Jesus can change our lives because he

has died for all. He is the universal savior, and we see no

one. Sometimes we think, no, see this person, this one cannot

save one gone case? Really koto none okay, bully the salamat Khan Okay.

I don't know what it is it in your language, brother, but

basically we are already we are already judging from a human point of view.

I know this person, and honestly, sometimes if I I have gone through

that know sometimes when I got friends who I meet after many years and they

realize that I work with the church, they're like, ah, this devil

can work with the church. Yeah yeah, no we but really, if

the change or perspective has taken place, we see nobody disqualified from being able

to repent and believe. You can go to anyone and you can say Jesus

loved you enough to die for you, and that person is capable of becoming

a new man a new creation in Christ Jesus. No one, no one

can say that I'm so bad that God cannot forgive me. And that's why

Paul is challenging us. And this is the message that he wants us to.

Chell athers, how do you look at people? Because if any man

is in Christ, he is a new creation. This is all of God.

Because only God can create something out of nothing in the beginning. Think

about it, Genesis chapter one. What happened? There was nothing? There

was no form, no life, no space, nothing, But year God

created something out of nothing. So what scripture tells us? And I believe

it with all my heart. And if he can create something out of nothing,

he can create somebody from a nobody. No matter how you look at

it. If you think your own life is so messed up, it's beyond

it's beyond saving, think again. Because God can create, God can make

something new. All things can pass away. How does it all start?

How does God create new life in me? It begins by being reconciled to

God. That's what the scripture is saying. You see, the word reconsole

simply means to turn enemies into friends. And that is why God has asked

us to be those ambassadors. That's what God is doing in Christ. By

nature, you see, we don't like God. No. No, by

nature. We might go to church. No, sometimes out of the sense

of duty I have to go, but not because we love him. We

actually dislike him by our nature. Because there's sin in our lives. We

want to make our own decisions. That's the reality of it. We don't

like his word, We find it boring. Sometimes we read a rich level

taker, so boring God. Or sometimes we just don't understand it, we

find it challenging. Or sometimes we just don't want We don't want to follow

God. We want to rebel. It's our nature. It is so difficult

to persuade men and women to accept the love of God. That could be

even some of you sitting here reluctantly. I'm here just because someone forced me

to come. By nature, that is me, that is you. We

are all we were all once dead, and sometimes it's still within us.

Is God therefore an enemy of men? No? But you see the thing

is God is an enemy of sin, and he hates it, and he's

very angry with it. It is as if you spend a lot of loving

care creating something you create something so beautiful, and then once you have created

it, some vandal comes and destroys it, comes and smash it up.

How would you feel? Well, that is what we have done to God's

world, and he hates it. And that's what has happened to his creation.

His people as well. Vandalize in our nature. That's all sin in

us. Now, somehow that must be dealt with. And you see the

good news I have for you is this, God found a way to take

away the hatred in his heart against our sin. He found a way,

and that way is the Cross, is Christ on the Cross. And this

is why, as Christians, people in whom Christ lives in, we therefore

become ambassadors to send to tell others. And what is it that we are

telling them? We are bringing them a peace offering, a peace offering.

You may have forgotten, no the wrong things you had done, But God

never forgets the wrong things that you have done, not until He forgives you.

Then he forgets, forgive and forget. That is God and only God

can do that. And so here we are told that God has found a

way of dealing with us in peace. He says, we can forget all

that now I am offering you peace and I want to be your friend.

And therefore our role as an ambassador is to present the message that says,

be reconciled to God. Accept this offer of friendship. The barrier on his

side is now gone because of the cross. He can now overlook everything wrong

that you have done. He can now forgive, and he can forget and

you can accept his love. That's the gospel. How can God do such

a thing? Do be asked? How is that possible? How can he

just wipe out everything? Now we come to verse twenty one of the passage,

Chapter five, verse twenty one, and it says this, in short,

Jesus was perfect. He knew no sin. So that's why we read

that. We're like, huh, what does that mean? You see,

that was the verdict of everyone, everyone who met Jesus. If you study

him and you try to find fault in him, you will end up disappointed,

just as how Ponty is pilot realize in his conclusion, I find no

fault in him. You know, I've read countless books of especially lawyers who

try to debunk faith, who tried to debunk Christianity, who try to make

a claim that all these things that the Christians are claiming is wrong, and

they go to everything, they study the evidences. The evidence is actually the

scripture, the scripture in itself, and then they study the claims in the

scripture, and then they realize there is no way any court will say that

the scriptures are wrong, because if you study it, and you study how

all the different the number of eyewitnesses, how it was all recorded, how

today we have all these scriptures and they're all consistent. Take a lot of

them, and she come to realize what I may not believe. After examining

Jesus and examining the claim that he is the son of God, I have

to admit that he's he's he's something special, and I have to admit that

if he claimed that he's got no wrong in him, that's the truth.

He may not have promoted a personal revolution, but at least they can come

to a logical agreement that this man is sinless. It was the verdict of

not just men, No, it was the verdict of Satan himself. You

see the devil try to slender him, but I couldn't find anything to pin

on Jesus. Try to tem him so many ways do this do this I

offer you. This couldn't every time he gave and answer, he gave it

right answer, and he acted out with no sin. And he was also

the verdict of Jesus himself, because he's which of you convict me of sin?

Remember when they were going the stone him, he asked, which of

you convicts me of sin? Above all, it was the verdict of God

the Father, because it was God the Father who said, this is my

son in whom I am well please. And for the first time in all

history, God looked down from heaven and he saw one perfect life lived on

earth from beginning to the end, and who was dead Jesus. Jesus was

also put to death as the worst criminal on earth. What was happening?

Why did that have to happen? Why did God allow such a perfect life

to end like that? Was he an assassination so as we asked, No,

it was Jesus assassinator. No, it wasn't anything like that. It

was Jesus who chose to go to Jerusalem to die. Why because at the

cross you see two things. You see sinlessness and you see sin in the

same person. That's what it means. By him who knew no sin was

made sin by God. You see, God the Father treated Jesus, his

son, like a sinner. Jesus was going to have to face God's rather

face God's anger and his condemnation. And I want you to understand that God

the Father was treating Jesus as God's holiness must treat a sinner. You see,

if you say that God is holy, and you say that God is

just God, he's full of justice. That means that every wrong must be

punished and that an atonement has to take place. And that is why he

who knew no sin, he made to be sin, Why that we might

become the righteousness of God. That's what the scripture says. It's totally unfair.

It's an un fair exchange. But it is as though Jesus is now

saying to us, I took your sin, Will you have my righteousness?

I took all your badness? Will you have my goodness? I took all

of God's anger directed to you, And will you now have his love?

Amen? That is why everybody in your town, everybody in your city,

everybody in your workplace, everybody in your schools, all of us are involved

in the cross, because he died for all but it doesn't work automatically.

We all know that a person needs to remove the hostility in his heart and

accept this reconciliation. You need to accept God's peace offering get right with God

now, and there is something urgent about it. I want to continue to

encourage all of us here who believe, because since Jesus died, you can

get right with God. And that's why the scripture goes on to say that

now is the day we are living in it. We don't need to wait.

You know, back in the Old Testament they had to wait for the

promises to be fulfilled, and they were waiting and awaiting. But the scripture

now says today is the day of salvation. Nobody needs to have any unforgiven

sin on your conscience. And I don't wish that for any one of you.

Know, if you are a believer, believe and know that the Lord

has forgiven and wiped out all that has passed. If you are not a

believer, I want to urge you and I want to say I don't want

you to go around with a guilty conscience. And we all have that because

we are all sinners. The minut we do something wrong, we feel it

really we know it, and then we go around our lives with that,

carrying that guilt with us. But the scripture says today is the day of

salvation. That means today all of us can come before the Lord and say,

Lord, thank you for that great exchange, because you are taking my

weakness and you are exchanging it for your goodness. And that's what he wants

to do for us, because there will come a day when it will be

too late. You know, Jesus came those many years ago. Scripture tells

us that he will come again. But when he comes now, he comes

to sick and save those who are lost. When he comes again, and

we don't know the time in which he will come again, he will come

to judge. And I pray that we know Jesus when he is our savior,

instead of knowing him as the judge. And this is my plea to

all of you all, because we live in the day when people can get

right with God and love him and He can love you in return. And

now is the day. This is a day that he's talking about. Therefore,

I want to encourage believers. You are all ambassadors all. I don't

care whether you're a one year old Christian, Daniel old Christian, fifteen year

old Christian. Look warm Christian, Hot Christian, not very hot Christian.

We all have the good news in us. We all experience God's goodness,

and we are all who have His righteousness in exchange for our shortcomings and our

wrongs. Don't keep this to yourself, because we are all therefore called to

be ambassadors for Christ. Remember, you carry with you the peace of God

that surpasses all understanding, and you carry this peace offering wherever you go.

That's why Christians in the Middle East or in a lot of parts of the

world, when they see one another, they always greet each other as Shalom

Shalom. God's peace be with you. And we carry that peace offering of

God to those who don't know His shalom yet. And I pray that one

day day too, that all may know who Christ Jesus is. We hope

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