Five Loaves & Two Fishes | Pr Matthew Chang

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

will light up your dea. Turn with me to John chapter six. Okay.

It's a very familiar passage, okay, but I feel this is quite

quite important to cover. Okay. From I'm going to read here from verse

one to verse fourteen, and it's a very familiar passage. It's about feeding

the five thousand. So I'm going to read through first. Then I'm going

to cover a few important points. Okay. So from verse one, chapter

six, verse one, feeding the five thousand another and after these things,

Jesus went over to the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberius.

Then a great multitude followed him because they saw his signs, which he

performed on those who were diseased. And Jesus went up on the mountain,

and there he said with his disciples, Okay, so many people follow him

because it's healed many people. Now in verse fall is say, is now

the passover? Okay, one of the most important fastibals for the Jewish community.

Okay, a feast of the Jews was near. Okay, So now

what it means is that during that time there will be a lot of people,

talking about millions of people who will cross from different suburbs or different villages

and smaller towns to come into Jerusalem. Okay, And so there will be

many people, and you stay say in verse five. Then Jesus lifted up

his eyes, and, seeing a great multitude coming towards him, he said

to Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat? But this

he said to test Philip, for he knew, for he himself knew what

he would do. In verse seven, Philip answered him, two hundred the

nari worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them

may have, a little, okay. One the nari is basically a one

day's which okay, So two hundred the nari is two hundred. It's like,

you know, even if you take one two thirds of your income,

you're not going to be able to feed every one of them. Okay.

And one of his disciples, Andrew Simon Peter's brothers, said to him,

there is a lad here who has five bali loaves two small fish. But

what are they amongst so many? Then Jesus said, make the people sit

down. Now there was much grass in the place, So the men sat

down a number of five thousand, okay, men when they count the most

in the ancient times, when they county, count only men, So women

and children are not included. So if you include them, you average it

out. It could be ten, fifteen, twenty thousand. And when people

a children, they have many children one, not just one. Not here

there are many children men. Okay, So you're talking about anyway at least

ten thousand to fifteen thousand, okay. And then Jesus took the loaves,

and when he had given things, he distributed them to the disciples, and

the disciples to those sitting down, and likewise off the fish as much as

they wanted. So when they were all filled, he said to his disciples,

gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost. Therefore

they gather them up and fill twelve baskets with the fragments of the five body

loaves, which were left over by those who were eaten. Then those men,

when they had seen the side the sign that Jesus did, said,

this is truly the prophet who is to come into the world. Hey man,

all right, So you know when you read this passage, you know

it's quite a familiar passage. Now I appreciate it quite a few times.

Ready, and I want to sink this with what we are the theme for

this month as well, and there is missions. Okay, how many of

you have been to missions? Hands up? Don't be shy, hands up?

All right? Okay. I always encourage people, everyone, every believer

to go for missions. Okay, you should go, your children should go,

You yourself should go, your family should go, individually, collectively,

whatever means you have, you should go. In fact, actually I will

say that there's only one full time job in this world. The only full

time job in this world is We've got Everything else is part time. There

was one of the things that I've now someone told me, you know,

there's only one full time jo. I was thinking, like I was just

coming up. I was just coming up from UNI. Then it's like,

oh, what job should I take? And he reminded me there's only one

full time job. It's with the Lord. Theres is part time. Everything

was would change and that means well into your retirement. You know, when

you're old, how do you imagine when you are seventy years old, eighty

years old, ninety years old, how many grandchildren you want to have?

How many retirement fans do you want to have? How many times you want

to circle the world and have in all your how many cruisers you want in

order to enjoy your retirement? What do you want to spend your life with?

And sometimes I observe where there's my parents or other older people or other

most in the people, you know, I see things I like, and

I see things that I also am were cautious about. I mean, it's

good to retire, but I don't want to see my life just sitting in

front of a TV, you know, and you know, waiting for the

days to be numbered. Okay, personally, that's that's that's my own personal

conviction. I want to be useful. You know, there's nothing that there's

nothing more depressing than being not useful. You get me in right. I

want to be useful. I want to teach until I'm like ninety, until

I can't teach ready, I still like do whatever I can. You get

me in right, you still be that? That is how I always.

I want to give advice until while until I can't ready until I expire.

You get me in right, issue, And I tell you, as you

know, even when we have parents, right, I tell you. You

just what you as children, you want to see what your parents do is

in it. There's nothing more inspiring, more fulfilling than to see your parents

still going on in life, contributing and giving and that because you as a

child, right, it gives you perspective about what life should be about instead

of you know, just like chilling and or stuff like that. I have

parents who go for retirement as well, but I can tell you that it's

not exactly how I envision my life to be. I want to continue serving,

not because or I'm talented anything, No, it's just you have to

have purpose in life. That's only the reason why we are here. We

must have a purpose in life. You get me in right, And one

of the best things we can give to our children is to give them purpose,

not for now, not for just their school, but for the rest

of their lives. You get me in right, So then they will so

then they will not give up. So then they will not you know,

back down and being discouraged, because there will always be a purpose for them.

Okay. And when we talk about missions, you know, and I

really believe that it's not just about as good as far as you can.

You know, you know I'm going to today and I'm going to share a

bit about what you know in my personal opinion on what mission is and how

we should have the heart of mission, and how Jesus went about doing mission

through this miracle as well. Now it's very important to observe here how did

the miracle happen? Okay, I've explained a lot of the settings before.

Okay, a lot of people just see that, Hey, this story is

about the filos and the twoth flesh. Yes, but I will say that

there is more. Okay, and this is very useful for anyone of you

in your life, whether in this stage right now you are asking, I

really don't know what it's God's plan for my life. You know, I

have this dream and this thing that I want to set up. Maybe I

want to serve the lot in this way. Maybe I want to move to

this. Maybe I want to start a church. Maybe I want to start

a business. Maybe I want to start something. But how do I know

that this is the will of God? How do I know that you know

this is something that He will bless? How do I know that I need

to wait? How do I know that He do things that I do are

good? And pleasing for his life as well. How many of you know

what I'm talking about here, You're all struggling it, we needs in it.

And I feel that this is something that I personally went through and can

share some of my experience with that. And in your own life as well.

You should pray, read through the scriptures, and then you come into

and a clear understanding of what God wants in your life as well. So

the first thing we know, there is a problem, okay. The problem

is that there are ten to fifteen thousand people. They are hungry children,

they are hungry and people who have hurt that you can do miracles supposed to

feed them. Now when Jesus. One of the first thing that you noticed

that is that Jesus testates his disciple as Philip. Okay, ask Philip to

go about and pick okay, knowing that they will never find something that would

be immediately ten to fifteen thousand, and Philip, look at this money,

you know, two thirds of an earning of an annual income. Couldn't do

it, okay, But then you know, then someone answered that, hey,

we have filos and two fish. Now I believe that this is a

very important teaching about missions. Okay, A lot of times when God calls

to us to missions, you will see five thousand and ten thousand and fifteen

thousand. But he calls you not because you have the resources or the capacity

to reach ten fifteen. He calls you as you have right now. It's

very simple one, okay, because the miracle is not with the bread.

The miracle is in the hand who is okay, So all of us like

the philips, you get me in right. So a lot of us we

fail because we look at our annual income first, true or not we got

a mission. We look at our annual income fast before we look at them.

You know, what else do we have? You know? We look

at you know, my income. God Jesus could have done a bit more

with the income than the bread. The bread is even lesser God looks at

you know. But there's a very important lesson. You may have five thous

two fish, but that is exactly where God will pick even though that is

where you are. God or God will pick you and he will put a

dream. Okay, so the dream and your reality. A lot of times

there will be a gap. Not always a case, I can't speak for

a situation, but a lot of times you will find that the dream or

the calling will have a gap with a reality. Okay. What that means

is that doesn't mean that you cannot see how that gap closed. Doesn't mean

that it's not God's calling. God is faithful with his promise, Okay,

And I will later on I will share a bit about calling with you guys,

and then I'll share some examples with you guys and how you should respond

to them as well. So that's the first thing. There's a gap.

But God calls you wherever you are. Now I want to ask you.

So when Jesus chose the bread and the fire, those of bread and two

fish, when did the miracle happen? He chose them, and then when

Philip brought them, it just multiplied, suddenly appear everybody's plate. Okay,

so we got read them right now, No, isn't it. So what

did Jesus do? He set them in fifties? Okay, So then fifties

took the bread, he blessed them, he broke it, and he gave

his name. Now I think I appreciate this before in all the sequence,

it's a very very important. So there's a few sequences here. So the

first part is about choosing, blessing, breaking, and the giving. Okay,

I'm gonna repeat again. There's the choosing, there is the blessing,

there is the breaking, and there is the giving. So I talked about

the choosing already again. God choose based on the resources of where you are

right now, not based on the future blessing, the or the or the

calling that you will be. He chose it the second thing that he gave

thanks. He looked to the heavens and he gave thanks. Okay, for

God has provided and he it's a simple heart acknowledging that God is in control.

Then God is sovereign. God appoints, God provides, God strengthens,

and God calls and God leads. Okay, this is something you and I

will all have to understand. Okay, when you receive a call, you

just don't go sympthy, running and do. But first of all, you

have to first of all acknowledge and honor God first. But did the miracle

happen when he prayed? No, the miracle happened when during when? When?

When the bread was broken? And it is a very important thing I

want to share with you guys as well. You may be called Okay,

you may be blessed, but unless you are broken, the miracle will not

happen. Okay, you may be chosen, you might be blessed, unless

you are broken, the miracle will not happened. Look at Jesus. Was

Jesus to chosen one's he blessed? When he became out of the baptism,

doh came, this is my son whom I am well pleased, blessed enough.

But when did the miracle happen when it's the most important miracle that Jesus

have given to us happen When he died on the cross. He gave me

in right, and he died on the cross. Everything leads to the brokenness,

to his broken body. The resurrection came of his broken body as well.

There must be a brokenness that happens the miracle, the bread and the

fish multiplied because something was broken. Now, I'm not saying that this is

wow for sure, the only way, but a lot of times people said

that I don't know what's God's calling for my life. And normally I will

tell people is that you know how God spoke to me, is that you

know when you look back in your life, you take start to take stock

first ten years, okay, or maybe for seven years, then the next

seven years and the next seven years in each stage of your life, what

was the thing? What were the things that broke your heart the most?

And those are a very good indication where God is touching you. What are

the things that break your heart? And the things that break your heart.

It's a very strong indication where God is putting his finger in there. There

there is way it hurts when God shows you things that break your heart.

God's opening a doorway for you to look into his heart as well. What

breaks his heart? And see how I'm saying it's always God. It Bible

says that God is close to those who are broken hearted, isn't it?

The things that are broken, splintered and shattered, these are the things that

God will not despise, God will not neglect. But God is close to

them. And when you see things that are broken, you realize what God

is near. God is very near when you go to missions. Right,

it's not about hey, planting building a bridge, you know, it's not.

It's not about what. It's about what getting close to the brokenness of

God? Yeah? Men, right? What God? No broken body was

given for to lives to people who don't have much. You know what I

mean, right, people, people who really need the Gospel more than anything

else. When you see things in your life, when you when you go

through your past, no stay stages in your life, let me ask you

this question, then, what breaks your heart? Don't tell me whether it's

a good business plan. Don't tell me whether this pastor was there. Don't

tell me you see potential. It's not about that. If you want to

see whether this is truly God, this is something a very strong indication where

God is leading. You tell me what breaks your heart? You get me

in right you go. You know why because when you go there when things

are not successful, when the fans don't come in, when you dub your

calling, when there's no support, you will still serve because why because it

breaks your heart true or not. As parents, you continue to being there

with your child. You know why, because you see your child's broken heart,

you will go near. These are the things the true force that draws

us continually faithful. Are the things that breaks our hearts. It is our

is our brokenness that draws God to hear you. Now, He didn't come

in just to improve us enough. It comes because humanity is broken. Mission

is about going to the broken. Get I mean right. If you go

to missions not understanding and understanding fully, that is that your heart is broken

for it. You will go on your own strength, out of your own

flesh, out of your own piety. You have some sense of moral righteousness

and self righteousness. You're trying to go to missions, and you will struggle

very hard to find meaning and purpose when things go hard and tough. Before

you do this, ask yourself, what breaks your heart? Get me in

right? You need that pivot to always go back in because tell your missions

is heard, missions heart. You want to start a new business, you

want to touch someone's life. What breaks your heart? You get me in

right. Some people are touched because of children they see. They just breaks

It breaks their heart to see little ones who have no parents, you know,

who have no one to look to, no one to provide, no

one to guide. They see children who are lost and aimless and being used

and manipulated into gangsters, into drugs, into prostitution. You know that there's

other things. They go and do it again, okay, even when they

are not appreciated. There are things that break you out. How many of

you have seen these latest remember this title by Jim Corviso. It's about human

trafficking one. I mean, no one talking about it's a famous show.

They just came out a few weeks ago, The Sound of Freedom. Yes,

okay, I think they're going to show in Malaysia. But you know

it's called the Sound of Freedom. Many of you heard her they show before,

the Sound of Freedom. Okay, I've not I've not watched it there,

but I've heard very good things about it. It's very scary and I

know that it's true. It's about human trafficking. I was in Cambodia doing

missions once before. It's very sad. A lot of Cambodians are very poor,

and even sometimes the Vietnamese and the Meamaris are very poor as well.

So what they do is that allot of them stay at the villages and once

a while, you know that the one day they'll tell me this news.

You know, the dead or the mom or the family will bring the daughter

into the city. You'll bring them to an apartment and said that all we're

here to audition you for a job and stuff like that. They're going to

this room and they said you wait here, someone will come along, and

then when they left the room, another person would come in. They will

measure them, talk to them and stuff like that for a while. And

then after a while they realized that no, the mom and dead left ready

and just realized that they had been sold already. And this is I heard

this labout ten years ago, and now they're talking about it in a sound

freedom. It's very sad to know that you have been abandoned and sold like,

you know, for ten thousand years dollars, and then they hold to

that. It's heartbreaking, you know, the things like this that you do.

And then when I went there, I was working with Terrence and Deborah,

and then they took me to this school. This school used to be

a prostitution center. And when I went to the school, I didn't realize

it was protititioning in the centers like classrooms, you know. But then they

say these classrooms were made because they broke down the walls between you know,

all these small chambers. These small chambers was very small, maybe the size

of three chairs like that, you know, the white the whip three chairs

maybe fall a bad small with a beat, and they should be prostitution centers.

And then they will break down the walls and turn into a classroom.

And so when I went there, there was like, oh, the ladies

they rescued from all these hotel operations along the way, so they saved a

few. And then these ladies who were safe will also in turn volunteered to

do a rescue work to save them from the villages as well. So the

ladies the girls would bring the girls to bring the girls as well, about

a few hundreds of them, and then they started this missionary school to do

that as well. So you see, these are things that you know,

there are many needs in as well. You might think that human trafficking happens

in their human trafficking. Human trafficking happens in Malaysia before. I've had a

very close call with someone who tried to do non since when my children before

I was One time was in a book. We were having a I think,

I think, you know, it's like a bizarre or a fair there

walking around and then suddenly realized that my daughter was just standing. Someone came

out to my daughter and you know, try to hold my hand my daughter.

Then I quick my wife and I quickly reacted and realize, oh,

I'm just trying to take picture with your daughter, so you know, without

asking you why they were hold and my daughter was much younger, it's probably

about five years old like that. So they try to do things like that.

You know, my daughter, they really gave me a waking call,

wake up call about you know, about this human trafficking. It happens.

You don't realize that they don't report it much as well. So it's very

scary, very heartbreaking to see the start of things, like I said,

things that break your heart. And sometimes when you do missions, you might

not be appreciate it. Sometimes not many people will give the money to you.

Sometimes you call for help, people too stretch out were able to help

your help. You feel like a small voice in a drown you know,

drowning sea. You know, but you still do it. Mother Terrista is

still helping. She doesn't see like how old she would be. She just

treats one wound at the time about Jesus able to be there at that moment

when she's dressing that wound, she believed that Jesus was there. So the

things that break your heart are the things you need, that brokenness, because

it is that brokenness that will sustain you. Even until now when we look

into the cross, even as we partake communion, we remember the brokenness of

Jesus's broken body that was for us as well. And so I hope when

I share about brokenness that you and I you know some of you. When

you make your decisions, when you think about longevity, when you think about

purpose and calling, you will considered and remember what breaks your heart and you

never deviated from it. God has pointed something or that really broke your heart.

I tell you those things that you don't forget. One and you realize

that you don't forget these things. One God continue will use that. God

will pinch your heart and you will. He will make it so sensitive you

will remember it for the rest of your life, and people around you will

know about that as well. Remember, God wants to use that. Okay,

maybe you yourself have become a victim before. I don't know what it

is. I don't want to speculate, but whatever it is that you've been

through, God wants to use that because that is where miracles happen. No,

not because of what, not because of the filos and two fish,

but in his hand, brokenness can achieve miracles. Brokenness can save lives.

Amen. That's one of the things I want to share with you guys constining

about missions. So he was chosen, he was blessed, he was broken,

and then he was given. We need to share, we need to

continue spread, we need to disperse, We need to what do you call

it, distribute this message of his brokenness to all the rest of the world.

They were like people who were you know, I talked about ten fifteen

thousand peoples in it. It looks daunting, it looks like this is not

I tell you, I can tell you that what the disciples were thinking.

Jesus, we were following you. We were in this happy you know circle.

You know, suddenly our business became twelve people into fifteen thousand people.

Nobody wants that one fifteen thousand people who are hungry, you know people now

they are very demanding one. You know, there fiating thousand people, you

know, and when you go into missions, it's like that you get to

be responsible, saday called and responsible for things that it is really beyond your

reach. And now if your control you don't like it to fit hungry,

demanding people. It's not easy and you don't know how as well. And

you don't know because it's and it's very difficult, you know why. Suddenly

you can't take care of yoursel off year's name. Suddenly when you look at

what does it mean? Ten? Fifteen thousand means you're all Your plan is

gone and on your own personal plan is completely gone. You know, you

want to play football gone ready? You want to call the college the one

probably would be jeopardy. You want to have retirement gone? Ready? Everything

is gone. Suddenly my life is taken over by fifteen thousand people. Suddenly

my life is taken by calling by remission. You know how I'm saying here,

it's very difficult to digest that. Okay, but what did Jesus do?

Jesus a race smart? It was? How do you call it?

A premission's training for his disciple? I would call it? Okay. He

set them in fifties, isn't it. He didn't say, Hey, you

go to random people and you just hey, you know whoever can catch you

throw? There's something though? Here, here you catch it, Here,

you catch it. He set them in fifties and then he broke it.

He put a basket there, and then he gave it to a disciples twelve

baskets okay, and I share you and I share this many times with you

guys before you know. So how and the reason why he did it was

very very purposeful. Okay, he said, like, maybe Raphail, I'll

get you to stand out and volunteer. Okay, can you stand up for

Okay? You come to me, pretend I'm Jesus and you are Philip.

Okay, So I'll give you one basket okay, and then you feed the

people. And so you go to them and you start, you know,

pretending you are feeding them, you know, passing them the rations. And

then after that you give out all this family is so much one and then

your empty basket done? Ready? Then how about what would you guys start

saying? Correct? Isn't it? Where's mine? Where's mine? Where's mine?

About? How will you feel that first row to roe for? And

then you look at behind her there are like fifteen thousand people still not your

fat, isn't it? How would you feel to discourage? Isn't it?

That's you? Knows, Raphail, I know what he's doing. You know,

tween so small, feeding one basket at a time with a mission feels

so big. Doesn't make sense? Isn't it. But this is not according

to what you want. This is according to Jesus's plan. You know,

Jesus ask him to do it. So you empty basket? Really, so

how do you feel ja You feel nervous, inadequate, You feel like you're

gonna get stolen. You know you're gonna I mean, you feel bad for

them, You feel bad for yourself as well asn't there? So why are

your options? So the only option you have is to come back, isn't

there? That's the thing is You've got no option. But you're like Jesus,

do you have more? Correct on? It forces you that the way

that Jesus does it what it is intentional, so that he got no option

but to come back to Jesus. So you have to come back with the

same basket. Then you have to ask it and Jesus do you have?

Yes, I have, give you another basket and you do again. Then

you finish already a lot again, isn't there? Then what do you do?

You come back again and you ask one time, five times, ten

times, thirty fifty, one hundred, one hundred, twenty times, five

hundred times. You keep doing and doing. By the time you reach five

hundred do you still feel the same way? Why? Yes? I mean

the has the people change? Has the peep number of people change? Has

the you know, the hungryness and now changed same hungry people, isn't it?

But why has changed your faith? Thank you so much? You've passed

the test already. Life is like this, isn't it? We keep depending

on God. You're depending on God. It's not coincidence. Now, it

doesn't mean you're a weak enough. You're a weak in a way, but

you're not at the wrong place. You're not on the wrong path, You're

not on the wrong process. You're weak by you're strong in this way.

But it's not nothing to be weak and lost. No, you're not lost

by you're a weak by. You're found has has found you When you keep

doing it the same thing again and again. Sometimes you're like, I don't

understand it. But my confidence builds. My faith builds, not in the

basket that I have, but in the one who provides a man, isn't

it? And they can only happen, not in the beginning, but when

you have faith to continue to do it again and again and again and again

and again. Give me Jesus will not tell you, Hey, it will

be all the fact, No, you just believe you keep doing it again

and again and again and again. That's how missions are done. That's how

your brokenness in your life, what is broken, is that you will be

able to touch the brokenness in the world you're going in, right, It's

always been that case, and Jesus intended it to be that way, you

know, put in a way he kind of like puts a blind fold into

you that you can't see it. He forces you to do one thing,

to turn to him and just just because you know, how does that trying

to state into your life? Just because in your present situation you feel there's

something you know and there's a brokenness. There's a very strong calling for you

to do something, to step out, but yet you can't see it happen.

But I've got a commitment and this and that commitments are real. It

just means that there are people who are dependent on you. I agree with

that, But do not stop there. I ask that now. Did you

pray? Did you seek? Did you wrestle with God? Someone will just

say no, you won't even come to Jesus enough. You just bustcar.

I'm done with this, No way, you just drop and walk off already.

Most people are like that because they just don't see it. So I'm

asking, why don't you turn to Jesus and do something out of faith?

And from that faith you sit And then when you do it out of faith

and you see what is God trying to teach you? Again and again?

So some letters are it's not meant to be learned from preaching here one or

not. Some that a learner three four, five years in your life.

When you are faithful, you understand what I'm saying. That's why people are.

Sometimes people learn a lot more by just by being faithful, really than

by jumping church to church to church to church. One. You know,

you realize that you keep trying to change ministers are but you don't learn,

you know, because it's men not been learned by different persons. It's meant

by staying faithful. Philip or Peter or Andrew, whichever, They're not going

to learn that by changing their master's one or not. They will only learn

the true lessons. They can only be learned by staying faithful. It's very

hard to tell young people now they're dead, you know. Actually, I

want to talk about in all that the things that you know when we talk

about missions right in the Bible, that you know it's contrary to the world,

contrary to what I called the Disney effect. How many of you know

what? It's a Disney effect? You know what's thest How many feel like

Disney? I'm going to break bubble man, that's kidd Okay, you know

that. You know I say this because I'm a parent as well, and

I see this very very very clearly. You know what's the theme about that?

Most movies are are trying to tell you from the very beginning, from

the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, from the sound of music. How may

I watched the sound of music? How many of you love the sound of

music? I mean I watched quite a few as well. I watch a

lot of musicals. When I bec those are the only tapes I have you

at how I watch? You know es are alive? Okay, I'm not,

I'm I'm I know I'm destroying this music. Okay, I know?

But you know what's the theme? You see? The theme is you gotta

get out of your zone to find something that is destined for you outside true

not It's always the theme your family, your school, your country, your

skin, your mentality, whatever it is, it's constraining you. You've got

a breakout of there to find your destiny for this. What what? What's

the lady? That lady? What's her name? Ready, God bless us?

So what's her name? That lady? That? No, the main

lady, the one on the mountain there not spinning a weed? Yeah,

I can't remember. What's an She's not elsa? Outside is another version?

Okay. Anyway, not many popping is definitely not many poppingist. Okay,

don't you there no skating? Don't you there? Don't anyways, you know,

and you think pastor, but what's wrong with that? Okay? I

tell you that it is not wrong, but it's deceptive. Okay, there's

difference between being directly wrong and being deceptive. Okay, let me tell you.

So this is the story to tell that you've got to find it outside.

You look at Frozen, you look at Moana, you look at a

Laddin, you look at and a lot of movies outside as well. Okay,

it's all about you gotta and it's very powerful and I agree with it.

Actually a lot of movies I love. You've got to breakthrough racial barriers

you've got to breakthrough. You know, you're in a tradition. You've got

to break through so that you know you are able to reach a reach and

achieve things outside as well. And these are good things, okay, overcome

thinking outside the barrier thinking, you know, trying to achieve outside is good.

To overcome your skin color, to overcome things they are not right,

wrong, traditions and stuff like this are very good to think beyond. But

the moment they take the same stick and they use it and hijack it for

something else, to bend truth on biology, on family values, on God.

That is when something that is useful becomes abused. Look at Internet,

great stuff, isn't it? Information dissemination, email, connecting to the world.

Someone in the missions can get the latest price and then so they don't

have to go through intermediate intermediary, the paper can send money quickly, useful,

educating people as well. Good, isn't it. There used to be

a joke, you know they said that, Hey, you know, long

time ago, you know, I think it was the book called The Hitchhiker's

guid to the Galaxy. I mean, if you read the book before,

I think I'm talking to a wrong generation here. Okay, He says that

now, I'll imagine a future where humans have unlimited technology in the palm of

your hand. What would they do with that? And the aliens said,

I think they will start taking pictures of cats. You're talking about, right,

It's kind of ironic, is name? When you were younger? Wow,

the knowledge of the world of the universe at the palm of my hand,

what would you do but take pictures of themselves? No, it's true.

That's why we humans have done it all when we last time, when

we are young, we thine like it's amount of things we can do.

But in our actual and what do we do? We don't use We don't

use it fully. Isn't it We abuse it? Or we waste it,

isn't it? It's kind of sad Like I said the same thing as well,

the same thing. That's the same mentality that Disney and the world.

They don't realize it, but they push for it because they feel like this

is the human way. We've got a stretch we're gonna because humans are so

full of desire to achieve, to reach to non gaming right, higher and

higher. We've always been wanting to build the Tower of babel for as a

society, as not as individually as a family. We don't want to climb

and achieve, achieve, achieved, so we break down every single barrier and

the world looks like that, Wow, it's good. And the devil at

the right time, he's aches it and he takes it out and put it

into something else, into your biology, into God, into family values and

everything. And you see that causing confusion throughout our generation. You don't even

know who you are right now. Some people say that I don't know how

to misgender you. How can I misgender you if you don't even know what

your gender you are? You know, it's very hard to all these things.

People are trying to wrop in between right now. They do that and

they do it with family family as well. If if someone can say that

you are no, I say that you don't know you're a guy or a

girl, why is to stop a person to say that, hey, I

am not your I want to come to you right now, and I don't

let you know that I'm your father. Since biology is not it's not it's

not the main criteria. Why is it to me come to you? Said

Nicholas, Hey, I'm your grandpa. So I'm a kay taker right now.

It doesn't depend on biology, it doesn't depend on certificate, It doesn't

depend on doctor. I can claim to be your grandfather because I feel like

it, and none of you can say anything about that. How die are

But if you say anything, you're offending me. You are denying my rights.

How someone can come to your daughter say hey, I'm your brother,

we can hang out together. Why is to stop that person? You see?

Get me right? But you say, but if you try to stop

me, you are trying to limit our human freedom. Same principle you are,

but taking it to abuse it. And this is what the Bible,

That's what the devil always does. One enough, It always takes what is

godly, what is good, and then use it for and he takes it

and hijacks it. Look at the temptation of Jesus. What did he tempt

Jesus with all the scriptures? You know? It doesn't tempt you with something

not from scripture? And why not always from scripture? And are turn this

stone into bread? You see when you you are not educated, if you're

not in the right mindor you would done it. You know, hey,

in order to save the world, I need to jump down and know the

angels will save me. At Jesus Christ done it now for the greater good

of men. It's about honoring God. No us, the girl right,

No people let knowledge. You see. So the devil will always use that

to twist and pervert the things that God have said before. And so because

of that, people, and then because of that you see future generation generation

and the future join. Now generations are seeing that happening. They are challenging.

They say that my family is always stopping me. Whatever my family is

teaching me is stopping me. I gotta come out of my family to find

something better, whatever the church is telling me. Church Higher. You have

this anti establishment thing already. I used to be very anti establishment. Let

me tell you I used to be. In fact, I used to be

offended very badly by a pastor when I was young before. Oh, now

i'm pastor. The ironic thing, isn't it to be offended by a part

of very badly? Oh? I will never be cont pastor again. I'll

never do that. I'll never serve and all this interesting They just want to

control me on it. You know what I learned nowadays, I don't care.

I only serve God. I only serve because my heart breaks because people

need God. Whether he's a pastor or not, he doesn't. I still

love the church. In fact, I might heart grows for the church.

I want people. I want us to be good leaders, but I want

the church members to love the church to understand that, Hey, as much

you know, we are all sinners and we are all fallible. We need

to come united instead of like condemning, is that you need to come in

to pray, to support, to love. You know, if it's the

same thing if I come to your family and I give counsel to your family

you have problems, whether husband or wife or children, do I come to

tell you a son and daughter you need to leave the house. I will

never tell you to do that. Who will do that? I will tell

you you got to reconcile with your parents, husbands, and why you got

to reconcile. That's the true spirit. Not just because you being offended you

tell you go and go to go to another family and you wreck them up.

You never do that. That's not right. That's about me, That's

not about God. That's wrong. You know what I'm saying. What I'm

saying here, So you must understand the deception. What the enemy is trying

to do so much to the world, to our children, to our families.

So that's why I always plead with people to to be, to see,

to be, to be very mature, to be very persevering. You

know, don't leave your family just because of that. Don't leave your friends

just because of an offense. A lot of things that God wants us to

do has to go through endurance and trial and tribulation. But when you when

the Disney thing is about, hey, when you meet an obstacle, if

something means that something out there is waiting for you, and you keep changing

and keep changing, keep changing, keep changing, can change you will never

find anything. You will never learn the value of being sticking onto something and

overcoming something. Yehm in right, and you continue to get lost. I

feel like frustrated. I keep trying to find something out there, but I

cannot find it. Maybe I need to change country. They have to.

Then I need to change family. I need to change my wife. I

need to change my husband. Ready true or not true or not? Tell

you no matter why you change, your family is to the same one and

all. But you've got to make the best out of it. It starts

with you instead of trying to force a person to change. That is why

I said that this need effect. It is not exactly really helpy. Not

all movies are like that, but they are missing the plot. You gem

in right, really missing the plot. Children. I know your parents and

your mum, and they are not perfect. I am far from perfect to

my children. But you gotta hang in there, man. You gotta love

parents. You know how many children are here. You're gonna love your parents.

You know, seriously, they're not perfect. Far for unprofit, I

can guarantee you. And you don't know how many times they beat themselves and

they pierce themselves, how much they fail you. It's true, you don't.

They punish themselves more than you punish them. But they still start with

you, They still stick with you. These are the values that serve us

well. Okay, my time is up here. Okay, I hope you

guys caught something. I'm talking about missions, but I'm talking about sticking to

the things that are true, that are important for us as well. When

God grant you the conviction, when God lead you and point you to where

your heartbreaks and where his heart breaks as well. So then you find his

calling so that you will not be lost. You will know not that what

just is good, what is acceptable, but you will know that which is

the perfect will of God. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this

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