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Jesus Christ the Way the Truth the Life | Olivia Leong

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

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

  3. Okay, let's continue John Chapter fourteen, Verse two. In my

  4. father's house are many mentions. If it was not so,

  5. I would have told you. I go to prepare a

  6. place for you, firs. Three. And if I go and

  7. prepare a place for you, I will come again and

  8. receive you to myself that where I am there you

  9. may be also verse four. And where I go you know,

  10. and the way you know? Okay, So this is what

  11. Jesus said. Verse five, Thomas said to Jesus. Thomas said

  12. to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going,

  13. and how can we know the way? Verse six. That's

  14. where we read just now the main scripture for today.

  15. Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth,

  16. and the life. No one comes to the Father except

  17. through me. Amen. So a little bit about the background

  18. from what Jesus was trying to say that in his

  19. father's house from verse two on, wass in his father's

  20. In my father's house are many mentions. If it were

  21. not so, I would have to so Jesus was saying.

  22. In Okay, in English, it sounds a bit weird. In

  23. my father's house in my mention is already a house

  24. in my father's mentions, So in my father's house are

  25. many mentions. So in English terms, I cannot imagine in

  26. the house or another house househouse, I don't understand, but

  27. but I mean in translation, it means that in this

  28. big building there's many rooms. Okay. So a bit of

  29. a background. In Jewish culture, it is a norm for

  30. communities to build houses with rooms for expansion. Okay, So

  31. just imagine, okay, when the son is all enough to

  32. get married, the father would start building an expansion right

  33. next to his house. No one knows when the father

  34. will hand over the new place to the son except

  35. the father alone. Okay. The bridegroom and the bride begin

  36. the marriage process where the bridegroom's family pays a dowry

  37. for the bride and then the couple enters a betrothal

  38. or the engagement process. That's that lasts almost a year.

  39. So engagement process in the Jewish culture is a year,

  40. whereas here Malaysia is like, I don't know, a couple

  41. of months a year or so about a year, yes,

  42. But for the Jewish culture, when their betrothed. When they

  43. are engaged, they are considered like like officially married, but

  44. they don't stay together physically together. Okay, okay, yeah, So

  45. during this period of engagement, the couple is legally married

  46. and consecrated to one another, except that they have not

  47. physically bonded. On the day of the marriage, the son,

  48. which is the bridegroom, would leave the father's house with

  49. a group of people to go and receive his bride.

  50. The bride does not know when the bridegroom will come, okay,

  51. and must always be ready for this is scarier okay.

  52. The bridegroom would then bring his new bride okay, after

  53. collecting the bride into the new house or the new

  54. rooms that the father had prepared for him and his bride. Okay.

  55. So now we understand why okay okay, And so Jesus

  56. is the bridegroom. We the church are his bride. Okay.

  57. Here the Word of God mentions this as well. Right,

  58. Jesus is likened himself to a loving husband that is

  59. faithful and committed to see this marriage to be consumated. Right,

  60. he pays the price for his bride and the and

  61. has betrothed to the church. So Jesus Christ is engaged

  62. to the church. Okay, we have already the engagement ceremony. Okay,

  63. and yeah, so yes to his church himself. Yeah, he

  64. is taken away from them for a short period and

  65. returns to the father's house. So now Jesus he is

  66. with his father. Okay, at the father's appointed time, he

  67. will Jesus will then come back to receive his bride again.

  68. The bride doesn't know the way to the father's house,

  69. but Jesus, the bridegroom, knows, right, and he will show

  70. the church them the way, the how to and carry

  71. us back to his father's house. Okay. So in this

  72. period of waiting, we must remain consecrated and ready like

  73. the parable of the ten virgins. Right, because we now

  74. belong to him, we can take comfort that this waiting

  75. will soon be over and he will come back again

  76. to bring us back to the Father where he has

  77. made room for us. It all makes sense now, right, Yeah. Wow, Okay,

  78. thank god, I'm not a Jew, but we have to wait.

  79. I don't know when come okay anyway, the okay, anyway,

  80. so that's very good, very good, now I understand. Also better, like, oh, Okay.

  81. We are the bride and Jesus is the bridegroom. Okay.

  82. So that's why Jesus said I know the way to

  83. the Father. I am the way. That's why our this

  84. we will unpack. Okay today first point okay, we will okay,

  85. So how how my message will go is there is

  86. three point. Jesus is the way, Jesus is the truth,

  87. Jesus is the life. Okay, one point each and every

  88. point we will unpack them and at the end we

  89. will have a discipleship application to it. All right, okay,

  90. So the first point, Jesus is the way right and

  91. unpacking Jesus is the way. One of it is. Just

  92. now I have explained about the Jewish culture, all right,

  93. how the bridegroom come and receive his bride. Jesus is

  94. like the bridegroom. The church is like the bride, and

  95. we are now anticipating waiting for the bridegroom to come, right, Okay,

  96. And so now Jesus say he is the way. Jesus

  97. is the way right. And now unpacking this I would

  98. also like to bring us through the force spiritual laws. Okay.

  99. If anyone knows this, never mind, if you don't know.

  100. It's okay, we will go through together. Okay. Jesus is

  101. the way, all right. So know that God loves us. Amen.

  102. God loves us so much he and he offers a

  103. one wonderful plan for our lives. Okay. And Jesus came

  104. that we might have life and have it abundantly. Right.

  105. That's why if we celebrate Christmas, right, Jesus is. Jesus

  106. has great plans. God has great plans for every one

  107. of us, okay, and he wants us to experience abundant life,

  108. a life full of meaning. However, why is it that

  109. most people are not experiencing this abundant life? Point number two?

  110. All of us have sin? Okay, all of us. All

  111. of us have sin, and sin is the problem. Sin

  112. separates us from God. That's the problem. Now sin. If

  113. you see that word there, sin as I am in

  114. the middle of sin is the letter A and the

  115. letter I always point to. And that's the whole problem, right,

  116. I become you know, the self centeredness of sin is

  117. usually I, I always thinking about ourselves, I and our

  118. ones our It's not it's yes, it's it's sin. Right,

  119. So sin, that's always that focus of sin. And know

  120. that in the word English. In the English word idole

  121. also starts with the letter I I idle I. Yeah,

  122. there's a lot of how we say sin, all right,

  123. So sin separates us from God. So as you can

  124. see that little picture that God is holy man is sinful,

  125. and the Holy God cannot tolerate sin. Okay, So sin

  126. is a problem. So that's why that's a separation. Okay,

  127. that point, Jesus Christ is God's only provision for our sin.

  128. Provision means the solution Jesus Christ is the only solution

  129. to bring both the Holy God and the sinful men together.

  130. True Jesus Christ, we can know and experience God's love

  131. and plan for our life. Okay. So Jesus came to

  132. be the solution to the problem, and Jesus the solution

  133. is in the person Jesus. Okay. Only to Jesus Christ

  134. we can know and experience God fully. Okay. So knowing

  135. this is not enough. Okay. Number four, we must individually

  136. receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Then we can

  137. know and experience God's love and plan for our lives. Right,

  138. So we must receive. We must respond Jesus Christ is

  139. like that big present, okay, the greatest present for the

  140. whole world, and it's also for me and for each

  141. one of us as well. Right, the present is there. Right,

  142. the present will always be a present and only be

  143. that present there. It will not be my present if

  144. I don't take it and open it and use it.

  145. Right.

  146. So, in the same manner, if we want to experience

  147. the Lord Jesus Christ, we must receive it and yeah,

  148. use it, yeah, or experience it. Right. As many as

  149. received the word of God, says, as many as received

  150. him Jesus Christ, to them, God gave them the right

  151. to become children of God, even to those who believe

  152. in his name. Right, So just believe in your heart

  153. very easy. Later we'll have that opportunity for every one

  154. of us here as well. If you have not received

  155. Jesus Christ as your personal lot and savior, will have

  156. this invitation. Yes, and you just need to believe in

  157. your heart, confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord.

  158. And yay, you have your presence to yourself and let's

  159. walk that life together. Yeah, this church believes in walking

  160. the Christian faith together. Yeah, not alone, okay. So also

  161. written in X chapter four vers eleven say, and to

  162. twelve it says that this is the stone. So just

  163. a bit of a context here. This is where Paul Peter,

  164. sorry Peter, and if not mistaken, John was in the

  165. san Hedrin when he was speaking to the high priest,

  166. if not mistaken, okay, So he was saying to them

  167. that this is the stone which was rejected by you builders,

  168. the Jews that christified Jesus, which has become the chief

  169. corner stone. Nor is there salvation in any other For

  170. there is no other name under heaven given among men

  171. by which we must be saved save from what, save

  172. from sin, same from shame, save from Satan, saved, saved

  173. from death either no death. Okay. So only Jesus is

  174. the way, right, and it's so strong in the older days, right,

  175. in the earlier days, in the early days, Christians they

  176. call themselves people of the way, the way. It was

  177. so impactful that you know, Jesus is the way and

  178. they call themselves the people of the way. Right. Are

  179. we bold enough to say that today? How we people

  180. of the way?

  181. Right?

  182. Okay? That's something to think about. Okay. So next, like

  183. a discipleship application, Okay, As you can see in this

  184. picture is actually a picture of a crowded mall. Allow

  185. me to share me share some story here. So a

  186. few weeks ago, I was going shopping with my kids

  187. and my husband. Okay. I have an elder son he

  188. is nine years old and my daughter is seven. So

  189. when we were walking in this in Okay, we were

  190. in Ioi City mall. So when we were walking in

  191. the mall, uh, my son Anderson, he was holding he

  192. was holding my husband's hand, and I was holding my

  193. daughter's hands. So but I wasn't holding my husband's hand, okay.

  194. So we were walking okay, two by two okay, and

  195. it was so crowded okay. But and then at the

  196. same time, I got easily distracted. Last as girls, we

  197. also see so many things at the same time. I

  198. still have to keep watching on my husband where he's going.

  199. He's always walking ahead first, okay. So I'm like, okay,

  200. oh lost him. We're like, oh, where where is daddy?

  201. Where's daddy? Okay? Then thank God for technology, I can

  202. call my husband, hey, where are you? Where are you? Okay?

  203. And this happened like not one time, but five times.

  204. So I'm like, oh, no, that's not good. Yeah. So

  205. I thank God for that I can I can still

  206. call my husband on the phone. La. So just just

  207. something something that encouraged that, that just reminded me, like, okay, right,

  208. So in the midst of the crowd, okay, are we

  209. it's very important to stay close to Jesus, right and

  210. the leaders around us. The crowd is like every day

  211. outside in the world today, right, social media, everything, Okay,

  212. everything is calling to our attention, and we can be

  213. easily distracted. I have to honestly say, I am also

  214. distracted many times. Okay. Yes, At the same time, I

  215. thank God that my daughter holds tightly to me. Okay,

  216. she follows me. Okay, But sometimes I also can get lost.

  217. But I don't get lost and just yeah, leave my

  218. husband and then I my daughter do my own thing. No,

  219. but I call back my husband, right. So the same

  220. sometimes we as humans, we can sometimes get lost and

  221. people are following us. Oh no, okay, but we need

  222. to remember to get back, connect back, okay, call back right, Okay,

  223. So call back to my husband. Okay, call back to Jesus. Right.

  224. So we need to follow Christ. We need to follow

  225. our leaders even as they follow Christ. And we trust

  226. that our leaders are also following Christ at the same time.

  227. That's why it's important to pray for our leaders. Every Sunday,

  228. we pray for our leaders. So that's why it's very

  229. important because we are following our leaders too, so follow

  230. me as I follow Christ. Right, So that's why I

  231. also put that last point there. When we are lost,

  232. you know, Christians so sometimes can get lost. I'm honestly saying,

  233. we also can get lost. So when we are lost,

  234. it's not the end of the world. Call back Jesus,

  235. call call call well you Jesus, were where because Jesus

  236. is the way, right, So call to Jesus, call out

  237. to Jesus. Okay, very cool, very important, all Okay, So

  238. that's number one. Jesus is the way. Second point, Jesus

  239. is the truth. Now, Jesus is the truth out there

  240. everywhere today you open the social media, opened the news everywhere,

  241. it's just fake news, fake news. You're on your music

  242. also very deceiving news. What they're singing. Also, I don't

  243. understand okay, anyway doesn't make sense sometimes like uhuh is

  244. it true? Sounds good, but hey, everything out there is

  245. really is that truth in it even right, So that's

  246. why it is important to know the truth. And I

  247. thank you God for giving us Jesus, because Jesus is

  248. the truth. Right. So just a very quick story. I

  249. just recently came back from Hanoi, okay. So this is

  250. Andrew on the left, okay, and that's my sack okay,

  251. and they met okay. So this was the first day

  252. of lunch. Okay. So Andrew found this restaurant a very

  253. nice place. But it's very crowded. Okay. It's like a

  254. coffee shop like that. Very yeah, very crowded. We didn't

  255. I didn't show the crowd love. It's very rare. Crowded

  256. to a point where we need to share tables with

  257. other people, okay, So we will sit it down and

  258. then does this lady had to share with us also,

  259. So we managed to strike a conversation with this lady.

  260. So her name is Deep d i Ep. She's a

  261. Vietnamese also, but she's from the I think she's from

  262. the middle or the southern side of Vietnam. Okay. She

  263. it was also her first time visiting Hanoi. Hanoi is

  264. the northern side of Vietnam, Okay. So yeah, so she said,

  265. oh yeah, this is a couple of this. She's been

  266. here a couple of days. Ready, So we asked, oh,

  267. where she did travel and this? Oh? Then she introduced

  268. us a very nice restaurant of fish shop, very nice.

  269. Said you must try the other places really not nice one.

  270. This place you must go. I'm like, oh, okay, So

  271. you know Andrew and my husband is a foodie. He

  272. loves to eat for so anything. And thank god that.

  273. Of course we didn't just hear her. We got to

  274. know her. Also. She's actually a lecturer, very young lecturer.

  275. She's a lecturer in a university teaching about arts. So

  276. we asked her, so, what are you doing here in Hannoi.

  277. Then she said, oh, she's here to meet with the

  278. with the origin of the person who who created a

  279. certain art. She's looking for this person and she's trying

  280. to interview this person. I'm like wow. Then I asked,

  281. what do you do with all this? Oh, because they

  282. want to keep the culture going for generations to come.

  283. I'm like wow at a young age. She was like oh,

  284. cheering her. So she was just telling her story and

  285. she's very honest, So for me, I believe her. Okay.

  286. People say, how can you trust a stranger and first

  287. I'm like, so, actually I got to know her. And

  288. she's also a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. I think,

  289. just a Catholic. Yeah so yeah, but yeah, so we

  290. were just sharing a few things. Yeah, so I got

  291. to know her. Her name is Dave, and then we got

  292. in touch and we shared with her about our trad

  293. and things like that. Yeah. So she was, yeah, a

  294. friend of mine now, yes, okay, so and the truth

  295. is okay. So the next light, after a few days,

  296. we went to visit the fish Shot and it is

  297. really nice. Okay, what's the name of the show? You

  298. can ask and s I don't know the name, but

  299. it's really good. Yeah. And then we added like fish

  300. stomach on it on the other side, so you you

  301. you have to wrap it with the rice paper, you know,

  302. and at thet it to the wrap and things like that. Yeah.

  303. So it's really good. Sorry to trigger some hunger juice there. Yeah.

  304. So so it's you know, following the truth. Following people

  305. who knows the truth is great, right. You don't want

  306. to be following some fake news and then get disappointed,

  307. wasting time, wasting money, wasting effort. Right, So yes, likewise,

  308. Jesus is the truth. Okay, coming back to our point

  309. from all the food oday. All right, so Jesus is

  310. the truth. Okay. I he was to say, Jesus is

  311. the food. Jesus is the truth. Jesus says the truth.

  312. Come back, come back, John chapter one, verse fourteen. Right,

  313. the Word of God says here and the Word became

  314. flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,

  315. the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,

  316. full of grace and truth. This is the Word of God,

  317. even declaring who is this son of God? He is

  318. the begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

  319. In John chapter one, verse seventeen, it also says, for

  320. the law was given true Moses, but grace and truth

  321. came true Jesus Christ. Again. Right, the word is repeated.

  322. And it must be so evident that John, when he

  323. writes this book about the Son of God, is the

  324. God what the Word made flesh full of grace and truth. Right. Okay,

  325. So just allow me to share five points of the

  326. importance of the truth. Okay, if you're writing down, I

  327. try to speak slowly. Okay. Five points of the importance

  328. of the truth because today I feel, I really feel

  329. that the world needs to know what is the truth.

  330. Jesus is who is the truth? Jesus is the truth.

  331. But why is it important to have these five points? Truth?

  332. Number one? Point number one, Truth grounds our identity and values.

  333. Very important, Truth grounds our identity and values. So if

  334. Jesus is the truth, Jesus grounds our identity and values

  335. because truth helps us understand who we are and what

  336. truly matters. Agree, truth helps us understand who we are

  337. and what truly matters. Right, Because we know who we are,

  338. we will know our very purpose. Truth grounds our identity

  339. and values. Right John chapter eight, verse that you want

  340. to ty two. Then Jesus said to those Jews who

  341. believed him, if you abide in my word, you are

  342. my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth, and

  343. the truth shall make you free. So in order to

  344. know the truth, Jesus says that we will need to

  345. abide in his word. We need to read his word.

  346. His word will be the truth. In fact, Jesus is

  347. the Word made flesh. He is the Word in himself, right,

  348. the word. If we abide in his word, we are

  349. his disciples, and that is our identity. How do you

  350. know that a man or a woman is off is

  351. following Jesus. You will know when this person abides in

  352. the world of God. There is a fruit that will

  353. come out from it. The fruit of the Spirit will

  354. be evident when someone abides in his Word with the

  355. Holy Spirit living in them. Okay, So truth grounds our

  356. identity and values. Point number one. Point number two. Truth

  357. brings freedom and growth. If want to replace Jesus is

  358. the truth. So Jesus brings freedom and growth. Amen. Living

  359. in truth frees us from fear, deception, and self denial. Amen.

  360. Without truth, identity becomes unstable and values shifts with convenience

  361. or pressure. Right, when we have the truth, we will

  362. be strong enough to know what is right. And we

  363. can be strong but old enough to not be afraid

  364. to do what is right. Like Queen Esther right, she

  365. knows it was so deep difficult for Queen Esther to

  366. do what is right. But because she knows she is

  367. a Jew, she needs to speak up. If not her

  368. whole family, her whole community will be wiped out. But yes,

  369. Ruth knows the truth. Right. Likewise, right, living in truth

  370. frees us from fear, deception, and self denial. Without truth,

  371. identity becomes unstable and values shifts with convenience or pressure.

  372. Here in ex Church we also say that we don't

  373. live by our convenience. We live by our priorities. Right,

  374. we live by who we are. Right, we are not

  375. lived by all because it's conven then we do this

  376. or we do that, but we do something like pass

  377. the jack, doctor Jill. It's not convenient for them to

  378. come here every Sunday. They stay in shah Alam. That's

  379. like very far and that's two tolls away. Right, If

  380. it's convenient, they'll go to x KK just round the corner, right, Yeah,

  381. So no, they are here, right, it's not convenient, but

  382. they know who they are. They have disciples of the

  383. Lord Jesus Christ, and there is a purpose why they

  384. are here today. Right, Okay. Likewise for us joint chapter eight,

  385. verse that you one to thirty two. It also says,

  386. then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him. It's

  387. the same verse like the first point, if you abide

  388. in my word, you are my disciples. Indeed, and you

  389. shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,

  390. free from what, free from fear, deception, and self denial, okay,

  391. very important okay. And next verse from this second point,

  392. it says in Daniel chapter eleven, verse thirty two, one

  393. of my favorite verse, that I hold on to very

  394. dearly right. Those who do wickedly against the covenant shall

  395. corrupt or polluted, pollute with flattery. But the people of

  396. God who know their God shall be strong and carry

  397. out great exploits. It's very important to know our God, right,

  398. to know the truth, so that we can be strong

  399. and not be afraid to do what is right right

  400. and to carry out great exploits. So for our for

  401. everyone here included Malaysians, non Malaysians, we are here in Cyberjaya.

  402. I don't think anyone here is born in Cyberjaya, right.

  403. So Cyberjaya to us is like a mission case, right,

  404. and we are here to do great exploits for the

  405. Lord God, for the Lord, for his kingdom here. Amen,

  406. all right, So let's know our God, okay, wherever God

  407. has placed us, okay. So that's point number two. Point

  408. number three. The truth guides wise decisions. The truth guides

  409. wise decisions. Is very important to know the truth because

  410. the truth guides wise decisions. When we know what is true,

  411. we can choose rightly. Falsehood leads to purch choices and

  412. harmful consequences, while truth helps us act with clarity and purpose. Amen,

  413. It's so important to know the truth because the truth

  414. guides wise decisions. Okay. Also from Isaiah chapter nine, verse

  415. six six, it says, for unto us, a child is born,

  416. that's Jesus Christ. Unto us, a son is given, and

  417. the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name

  418. will be called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince

  419. of peace. And his name is counselor. Hey, counselor counselor

  420. that counselor who has wisdom. Right, Jesus is the truth.

  421. His name is counselor. We can always go to him. Okay,

  422. you need wisdom. Jesus is the truth. Okay. First point,

  423. why is it important to have the truth. The truth

  424. is relational. It creates trust and preserve unity in the

  425. context of our relationship with each other. Okay. Truth is important.

  426. Without it, relationships are broken. I have applied this at

  427. home and also at work, and it works. Okay. Truth

  428. is very important. Okay. If itsients Chapter four, verse twenty five,

  429. it says, therefore, putting away lying, let each one of

  430. you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members

  431. of one another. It is important to know the truth

  432. because it creates trust and preserves unity. Okay, right point

  433. number five. Why is important to have the truth because

  434. the truth promotes justice and peace. The truth promotes justice

  435. and peace. Okay. Truth is like the soil where justice

  436. grow and peace is its fruit. You see the diagram there. Yeah,

  437. truth is like the soil where justice grow and peace

  438. is its fruit. Yeah, if you think about it, Actually,

  439. it's very true. In the Book of Zacharia, chapter eight,

  440. verse sixteen to seventeen, it says, these are the things

  441. that you shall do. Speak the truth to one another,

  442. render your gates judgments that are true, and make for peace.

  443. Do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

  444. And love no false or means love no false or

  445. means don't love broken promises. Kid. For all these things

  446. I hate, declares the Lord. So God doesn't like us

  447. to tell lies. God wants us to speak the truth

  448. and render judgments that are true and make for peace. Okay,

  449. all right, and don't love false promises. Zachariah chapter eight,

  450. verse sixteen to seventeen. Very strong words here. Okay, So

  451. our god is the god of truth. He wants his

  452. people to live in the truth and to promote the

  453. truth as well. Okay, so a discipleship application here, and

  454. we can see here in John chapter eighteen vers thety

  455. seven Jesus is the real role model of peace, of truth. Sorry,

  456. of truth, Jesus is the truth. John chapter eighteen was

  457. thety seventh. Pilot therefore said to him, So this is

  458. the situation where Jesus was brought to Pilot. He's about

  459. to execute that judgment to crucify Jesus. Okay, so Jesus.

  460. So Pilot has a conversation with Jesus, and Pilot therefore

  461. said to him, are you a king? Then? Jesus answered,

  462. you say rightly that I am a king for this

  463. cause I was born, and for this cause I have

  464. come into the world, that I should bear witness to

  465. the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.

  466. After I read this sentence, suddenly the song the Voice

  467. of Truth from Casting Crowns. You know the song Okaya,

  468. I love the chorus of the first two lines. The

  469. Voice of Truth tells me a different story from the

  470. world of lies and you know, deceivedness and things. The

  471. Voice of Truth tells me a different story. The Voice

  472. of Truth says, do not be afraid. It's a very

  473. powerful song. So if you want to listen to you,

  474. it's good. The Voice of Truth casting crowns. Yeah, check

  475. it out. Okay. So yeah, yes, So you know, Jesus

  476. is really the the role model of this and he

  477. speaks the truth, especially when it's most when it's the

  478. most difficult time. Okay, he still speaks the truth. Will

  479. we still be bearest of the truth, especially when we

  480. are in the most difficult situation. As parents, we need

  481. to faith fully and diligently disciple our children and also

  482. the people around us. As leaders of the church, we

  483. need to be faithful and diligent in discipling our people

  484. with the truth in love. Okay, very important. Okay, So

  485. that's one. Okay. Third point, Jesus is the life, so

  486. we have Jesus is the way. Jesus is the truth. Now,

  487. Jesus is the life. John chapter eleven, verse twenty five.

  488. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.

  489. He who believes in me. Though he may die, he

  490. shall live Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He

  491. is the life. When we talk about resurrection, Jesus is

  492. in this business of transforming what was dead to be alive.

  493. He is expert in this right. So he is Jesus

  494. is the life right. He is the life right. So

  495. in anything that if you feel that there is something

  496. that is broken in your life, or you know very

  497. hard to restore back something that's dead, Jesus is the life. Okay,

  498. go to Jesus. Jesus is the life right. Because in

  499. the Bible he also says he who believes in me

  500. the key word, he who believes in me, though he

  501. may die, he shall live a man. John chapter three,

  502. verse sixteen to seventeen. Let's read this verse together, shall

  503. we want to treat? For God so loved the world

  504. that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes

  505. in him should not perish but have everlasting life. For

  506. God did not send his son into the world to

  507. condemn the world, but that the world true him might

  508. be saved. Amen. You know, Jesus is the life. He

  509. God loves the world, and he gives us life, everlasting life.

  510. He loves us so much and he wants us to

  511. experience this everlasting life, right John ten ten. It also

  512. says here the thief does not come except to steal

  513. and to kill and to destroy. I have come that

  514. they may have life, and that they may have it

  515. more abundantly. Amen, So the like. Now we also mentioned

  516. earlier that God loves us so much and he has

  517. great plans for us, for us to live this abundant life,

  518. a life full of meaning and a full life. Right

  519. abandoned life. Romans, Chapter six, Verse twenty three says, for

  520. the wages of sin is death. Sin pays off with death, okay,

  521. But the free gift of God is eternal life in

  522. Christ Jesus, our lord. Hey, did you know the Bible

  523. says got free gift? Also anything free? All the girls

  524. love it? Anyone? Actually, you guys a love it is

  525. freak gave way, free give. Who doesn't want a free give?

  526. Who I want a free give? Right? Hey, we don't

  527. even have to work for it. It's free. But hey,

  528. someone paid the price. Jesus paid the price. He laid

  529. down his life for us that we can enjoy this

  530. eternal life. Amazing, right, this is the best gift, no wonder.

  531. It's called the best gif. Jesus Christ is the best

  532. give of all right discipleship application for this last point, right,

  533. life transforming business. Yeah, so you can see this picture here. Okay, yes,

  534. don't see net today but yeah, okay, okay, yeah, sorry.

  535. Remember it was Ned's baptism, so we have Adriel and

  536. Rja there so and if we remember, Ned actually shared

  537. his testimony here at service before so powerful his life

  538. was changed. I mean, this is just one life. We

  539. have so many of us here, and all of us

  540. have this same similar testimony where God has transformed our lives,

  541. every one of us, including myself. We came from broken places.

  542. We came from places where we are lost or lacking

  543. something you know, not full, right, the life that is

  544. not full. But hey, when we know Jesus, Jesus is

  545. the life, and he promises us abandoned life. Right. So

  546. life is given out of love, as we have read

  547. just now John three sixteen right, for God so loved

  548. the world he gave. Life is given out of love.

  549. If you think about it, as I was just writing

  550. this sentence, I was thinking about it, even our children.

  551. It is because of the love of two people, a

  552. man and a woman who loves his art, who loves

  553. each other and gave life to children. Life is given

  554. out of love, right, it is out of love. That's

  555. why there is life. Life is given out of love.

  556. Anything that has life shows signs of growth. Right, you

  557. don't see something dead will have life. So how do

  558. you know when something has life? When you can see

  559. it's growing? Okay, growing from strength to strength. Bring from

  560. faith to faith. For example, each one of our lives, right,

  561. we grow from faith to faith. So if you realize,

  562. if you realize that your life is stagnant, let's go

  563. back to Jesus. Jesus is the life, okay, And we

  564. are here to make disciples that make the difference, because

  565. Jesus says bad will call us to make disciples and

  566. baptizing them and teaching them to observe all that I

  567. have commanded you. Right, So we are all here together

  568. to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to help

  569. people to receive this gift. Jesus is the life. This

  570. gift Jesus is the life, and we will see life transform. Right,

  571. this is what we want to see life transform. Many

  572. out there do not know this gift. Jesus is the life.

  573. So that's why we are here in Cybergia and you

  574. can invite your friends to our Invite your friends here.

  575. Introduce God, you know through your life as well through

  576. through my own life. Okay, let's help people believe. This

  577. is our tagline in the ex church. Let's help people

  578. believe in Jesus, who is the Life, the Way, the Truth,

  579. and the Life right. So this call to action. Who

  580. around me needs to experience the life of Christ through me?

  581. Even this week, Christmas Week, this is the best time

  582. to shout it out. Hey Christmas, what's Christmas is about?

  583. Let's tell them about this gift Jesus Christ, the Way,

  584. the Truth. End.

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

  586. information on our church, please visit ax Church RG. We

  587. are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

  588. this week is going to be a good week ahead

  589. for you. God bless