Disciples Do and Teach | Ps Jack

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Disciples, do and teach is the title this morning. Okay.

Our theme this year is still is still a few

more months before the end of twenty twenty five, and

the theme that we've been you know, living by this

year is disciple first, Disciple first.

Okay. There's a meaning to that meaning.

Discipleship is priority because it's Jesus' last commandment to us,

all right, the greatest commission, all right, is disciple first.

So and also the meaning of that also goes with

be a disciple first, Be a disciple. You know, you

want to make disciples, you also need to be a disciple,

all right, So ask ourselves that question. Am I a disciple?

Am I a disciple of Jesus Christ first and foremost?

Right?

And also we believe in imitate me as I imitate Christ?

All right?

That's we've been hearing this message, you know, in the

past few weeks. It's not I think pass Kenneth was

the one who also mentioned this, uh we it's it's

not easy to say something like that, imitate me. Do

you dare to do that to your neighbor, imitate me,

do you dare right? So it's not about daring, so,

but it is Uh, it's instruction, all right. Uh and

uh Paul was able to do that, and he's encouraging

us to do the same. So I want you all

to I want us all to be encouraged that we

can do this right, not by our own flesh, definitely,

not by not not by our own my, our own idea,

but by the Spirit of God, by His presence, by

through Jesus Christ. Definitely, let's do it. Imitate me as

I imitate Christ. Even though we don't live perfect lives yet,

maybe we're not reading the Bible every day yet, maybe

we don't even pray much yet. But just taking the

step of faith and say I believe this is the

word of God.

And I receive it into my spirit and.

I will obey. Just say, okay, let's do it imitate

me as immitate Christ. I'm going to live this out.

Even if you just started with that, then let the

spirit of God help us get into it. Amen, be disciples.

It starts somewhere, all right. It can't always wait for

like the perfect disciple. Then oh okay, then let's start

doing stuff that will never happen, and then nobody will

ever do.

Make disciples. Right, It's just like marriage, just like you know.

Starting starting the process of marriage, you know in Malaysia.

Maybe the Chinese people also, maybe not need Chinese or

all kinds. Okay, all right, I would like to say, oh,

I need to save up first. I need to buy

a house first, get a car first, stable job. Okay,

Now I'm ready for marriage. That might never happen. You

might not buy the house in time. Then by the

time you bought the house, you're fifty years old. Oh

now I'm ready for marriage.

Like it's too late. The girl has gone married to

someone else, you know what I'm saying.

So you can't wait always for the perfect situation, all right,

although there's practicality in that, of course, have a job.

Of course, dream of buying a house, or at least

rand the house. You can rant a house. You've got space,

you have a roof to you know, take care of

your family.

You can't buy a car. Okay, at least I've got

enough money to do.

Grab for a moment a lot, you know, plan, go

move nearer to your workplace, whatever it is, right, so

you can plan and if you have enough to you know,

to survive, to maybe be a blessing to another life,

and say, okay, by faith, Lord, show me who I

should marry, pray see God by faith.

Amen. Same thing with children.

You cannot wait until the perfect situation now and you

have children. Right, it's all faith. So the same thing

with imitate me, as I imitate Christ's faith, say yes, Lord,

I will do it. I'm not perfect yet, I'm still

you know, a bit like shaky here and there. Right,

I still don't look like a disciple, right, But by

faith I say it, and I don't.

I do it. It's just like h just like work at

appointing at you we laughing, okay, they right?

Just like also like getting getting fit, you know, wait

until all muscles suddenly appear it right, by faith you

say yes, I will be a muscle man.

By faith, I say I will be fit. You know.

Then I'll go to the gym. Then you start going

to the gym. Right, So discipleship is you start doing discipleship. Amen,

go to the first meeting, meet up you know the

leader for the first time. Start somewhere, Amen, tell your

neighbor it. Start somewhere, okay, right, don't wait for the

perfect situation.

I want to tell you one thing here, all right.

I want to talk about discipleship for a while here,

some more disciple first, So we just want to live

out Matthew twenty eight right, eighteen to twenty right. So

Jesus came to them, saying, all authority in heaven and

on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and

make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name

of the Father, and of the Son and of the

Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have

commanded you. And behold, and behold, I am with you

always to the end of the age. All right, Okay,

we'll get back to the verse data. But I want

to say something about you know what we're doing here

in church. You know when you join the band, when

you're part of the band, all right, a young person

joining the band playing the cahn singing, it's it's discipleship,

all right, Get ready for that when you join and

you serve that discipleship. Why because I want to encourage

you know, even the leaders here who are part of

you know, you're the seniors, You're the leaders of the team.

Think that way. I'm here to do discipleship.

So when I'm part of Extreme and a young person

is playing and he's not playing right, I'm not saying

Anderson didn't play right. But you know, if he makes mistakes,

if it's not you know, doing the way that we

believe should be done, speak to him, make corrections, say hey,

you know should maybe you should not play at this time?

All right, I'm talking even about like, uh, you know, hey,

you're not smilinger when you play. We're so sad like

that when you're paying Oh, I know, I know, you know.

I'm just saying I'm not saying him. I'm just saying anyone,

anyone on the band, even next week's man, last week's man.

I'm just saying we can speak and say, hey, come on,

you're singing the song about joy the Lord, and then

you know you look quite sad. I mean, of course,

in gentleness, speak speak the truth in love, definitely use

all the Bible, you know, knowledge that you know, and

speak it.

All right, that's discipleship. Uh.

Even when I'm preaching here, I'm I'm trying to do that.

I'm trying to speak into our lives to make disciples yeah,

I hope you're not to hurt or offend it. You know,

I'm trying not to sound harsh.

I'm trying to be gentle. I'm trying to speak it

in love. Yeah. Amen. So the same thing, you know,

when you're serving an express.

So it looks like just making food, making drinks, but

it's also disciple ship. Right when the person doesn't come

on time, maybe we just keep quiet for one day

next week, same thing. Okay, now I give thee more chance.

Maybe you know something at home happen whatever? Third time?

So many times? Really right there we say there, we

asked you nicely, a actually, why do you wish?

You know?

Can you come a bit earlier? It's got questions or

you know sensitive ferent Wait, I'm really serving the lord man,

come on?

You questioned me? Who? Right?

Sometimes it can go that way. Sometimes I used to

think that way a lot, like I'm really serving man.

Come on.

If I'm not here, then you got guitaries or not? Oh,

if I'm not here, the foot will be self or not?

Right?

Well, we sometimes with this to sit around here. That's

very of the flesh, that's there was me last time

or so?

All right? But but of.

Course if if we take it rightly, we will say

thank you for telling me.

I will try to be early next week. Let me try, all.

Right, because some adjustments that we need to make wake

up a little bit earlier, all right, And this is

very sensitive.

You know.

We asked about dressing. Say you know, hey, why you

wear t shirt and come your self?

All right?

Nothing wrong with it, Nothing wrong with that. Right if

you're here first time, second time, you're doing that. But

after a while I'll be like, hey, do you have

you know, something more formal, something more smart, right, because

you know we're here to self the king. Right, you

go to the Sultan, you meet President Donald Trump, you'll

be dressing up, isn't it.

Right? I love it how they welcome Yeah, you know

Donald Trump, all the dance and everything.

I tell you, it's like worship man. I mean it's

like it's like I don't think they worship him. But

I'm just saying we do that for a president, just

a president, a human of America.

What more for Jesus Christ.

You should be ready, welcome, dance and everything ready every Sunday,

which I am not close to the idea. I say,

you know, a few times with our leaders. I say, actually,

if we can have a choir here, if we can

have a dance team doing, why not we can have

a full band, you know, with all the musicians all

submitted and united, and say, I'm here to serve, all right,

I'm not here to show my you know, just show off,

but I'm here to serve the Lord.

And and we're all united, why not.

It's definitely okay. We're not here just to play a horn.

I'm saying that that the church is not here to

just just play a few instruments, you know, and sing

mediocre levels and stuff. That we are here to give

our best to Jesus Christ. Amen, right, right, So just

doing some discipleship here, all right.

So same thing in.

Our homes, in our huddle, right in our small groups wherever.

Whatever it is that we do in next church, it's

it's disciple first. It's disciple first, okay. And uh, And

and I tell you the truth is, actually we we

love it.

We like it. We want to be disciple, all right.

Our flesh may fight it sometimes, but our spirit actually

like it. Our spirit loves it because we are made

in the image of God. And and and it's God's

way because if we are not disciple.

What is it if you're not disciples? Were left alone

the own thing, go play far away, right, leave me alone.

I have my own thing to do. That's what we've

been doing so a lot. All these busy parents are Okay,

you're gonna go play screen, just watch the TV. There.

I got my own thing to do.

So but but actually better if I can take my

time off, can sit with them, A can stop the

screen for a while. Let's play a board game together.

Let's go play sports, all right, Daddy will teach you. Ah,

but Daddy, I'm so good at basketball already. I don't

need you to teacher, no need. I can do better

than you, daddy.

That's that's what. That's what.

The opposite of no note of disciple is no discipleship is, Yeah,

you're very good in radiala.

Go join the NBA, all right? Uh?

Then then and then and then the kids always realize

after that, you know, dad plays with them. Okay, I said,

I still have something to learn. I know that is

not that fit anymore, you know, But and but then

he's still taller than me, all right, and there's still

something that can teach you. Wisdom, patience, all right and strategy.

Amen. So that's the discipleship. And like like I said,

we actually like it.

We all actually need it, and we know we feel

not nourished when we take it.

Amen. Everyone.

Okay, those that are back and hear me because the

speaker I don't know how far travels. Okay, it's all good,

all right, Okay, alright, let's get into this some more.

All right.

So just now that verse a, right, make disciples, and

then what teaching is there? So I said earlier disciples,

do and teach, do and teach. You can't just do,

all right, you can't just be doing stuff. Uh, make

disciples of all nations, baptizing them, doing activities. But we

need to each Okay. So this is this morning's message,

all right. I drew it from Jeremiah fifteen.

Right.

I don't think I really shared Jeremiah fourteen with you

all yet, I've been doing it in so many it

and I went to clang and then by now I'm thinking, now, mind,

I'll just do Jeremiah fifteen, okay, and maybe take a

little bit of Jeremiah fourteen to give you some summary.

All right.

Basically, Jeremiah fourteen is about you know, determination, God was

determined to bring punishment. Jeremiah was told by God not

to pray, but he still prayed. He was determined, you know.

And then the people who were so determined to go

against God. So the question was, what is your determination

for Jeremiah fourteen. But now I'm just gonna go into

Jeremiah fifteen, okay, and let's read the beginning of it,

just to get an idea Verse one to three. Okay,

Jeremiah fifteen, one to three, it's on the screen as well. Hey,

Then the Lord said to me, though Moses and Samuel

stood before me, yet my heart will not turn.

Toward these people.

Okay, God speaking, send them out of my sight and

let them go. And when they ask you, where shall

we go, you shall say to them, thus says the Lord.

Next light, those.

Who are for pestilence to pestilence, those who are for

the sword to the sword, those who are for famine

to famine, and those who are for captivity to captivity.

In the next light, I will point over them four

kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord. The sword to kill,

the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air

and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Wow. Okay, so what is this about?

Basically, God is really so upset already, and he's been

waiting very long and he's been patient for long enough.

And so you will see, you see, at this point,

God is expressing that enough is enough. I'm going to

give it to them, all right, They're going to get

the spank right, uh and uh we see her. You know,

God gives a lot of time. If you look at

how long this has been, you will see the years

has gone by, and warnings that have come, and you know,

God has been giving them warnings and chance after chance,

and so now at this point God is saying, no,

I've really given so much chance and time.

Now they need this. And even if you look at

it again later, even when he.

Says all this and it sounds very strong, right, he

will still say, okay, you know at the end, I

still want.

To restore them. You know, God has never gone into

like a punish and I destroy and wipe them out totally.

Yeah gone.

You know, even if even Noah right, there was a

boat right. So but he you know, but God is

expressing how how upset he is. He wants to you know,

he wants to send pestilence he wants to. He's saying,

you know, if they will be sent to pestilence, to

the sword, all right, to what else before.

It slight before XTV Verse two, verse two. Okay, So.

Pestilence, sword, famine, and captivity. Right, So these are the

four ways he's saying, These are the four ways they

are going to and right, either pestidens in sickness, either

someone is going to come and attack them sword, or you're

not gonna if youre enough food or water, and or

you'll be captured and you'll be tortured there. So this,

you know, it shows how angry God is by now

and all sad? Okay, And then the next slide, verset three,

you will see saying, you know, when they die, what

happens when they die? The sword to kill and then

the dogs to tear means after they're dead, the dogs

will coming tear them apart, and then what else? And

then the bursts of the air will come in eat them.

Meaning I think I mentioned this before. There's no proper burial,

all right, there's no proper funeral.

There's no you know, what do you call it? The

eu logy? Oh?

You know, this guy was good and all these things

like that. So it's just your body is left there

to be taken. So this shows how horrible the death

they will go through. All right, just want to to

paint a picture of how how much anger you know,

it has cost the Lord. And it talks about Moses

and Samuel, because Moses and Samuel, you know, they are

people of intercession, and when they interceded, they managed to

save people. You know, I think just show us in

Psalm ninety nine was six to eight should be on

the slide as well. Okay, Moses and Aaron who were

among his priests. Samuel also was among those who called

upon his name. They called to the Lord, and he

answered them. In the pillar of the cloud, he spoke

to them. They kept his testimonies and the statute that

he gave them. Oh, Lord, our God, you answered them.

You were forgiving God to them. But an avenger of

their wrongdoings shows here. You know, Moses and Samuel into interceding, praying,

and God hurt them and forgave the people. So it's important,

right we can stand in the gap for people, we

can we can pray for on behalf of people, all right,

But to a certain point. Like I said before, you

can't you can't keep relying on someone else's faith. We

got to have our own faith, all right. I call

it piggyback faith. Can't piggyback on your daddy so long

after you you know, you're supposed to be bigger, stronger

on your own have your own faith.

Yeah, and uh.

Now so so the title I put, sorry, the sub

point there I put was where did I put disciples

versus death? Dogs that have dogs devoured and destroyed. So

if you if we don't take up discipleship, it ultimately

leads to this. You know, it creates anger towards God

because it leads to sin, It leads to iniquities. It

leads to this obedience. You know, if you've heard me

long enough talking about Jeremiah, God always says, Jeremiah, speak

to them, tell them, although they will not listen to

you because they are so stubborn already. And so it

leads to this, to this. If there's no discipleship, it

leads to death, it leads to I just put it

all the dealer. It leads to a horrible this honor

even when you know it comes to the end, destruction

and It's not just destruction for you as an individual,

it's also destruction for the people around us. You know,

when we are not believers, when we don't believe, when

we don't have faith, people around us will be even worse.

So we need people who will lead the way and

so that others will be able to follow and be

inspired by a life of testimony, a life that loves Jesus,

a life of you know that has peace. If you

represent Jesus Christ in your workplace, in your family, you

shine a light in the darkness.

Amen.

So I want to encourage all of us here continue

to be disciples and not the other way. Okay, Next one,

Next one, Jeremiah for.

Jeremiah fifteen, verse four. This is the one that you

know you saw.

The other slide says disciples versus dependents, Disciples versus dependents.

We want to make disciples not dependent. You know, a

dependent means depending on someone else's faith. A dependent means

I can't pray.

On my own.

I need someone else to pray for me. Right, That's okay,

Like we need that sometimes for a while. But I

want to encourage you to be a disciple that knows

how to pray in situations so that you can pray

for someone because so many other so many more people

need to be prayed for, so many more people need

to hear the word of life. All right, I can't

speak to you here, but I can't go into your office.

I shouldn't want to go into your office. Okay. I

got enough things to do on a weekday. Right. I

have my own job to do as well. But you

are there, and the people around you there need to

hear the word of God.

They need to hear life. They need to hear your testimony.

Amen.

I can't go into your school, right, the gods will

stop me.

Who are you?

Oh, I'm the pastor of the per can I right, No,

I have no license to go in there. So you

are there. You are the beacon of light there, amen, hallelujah.

So be a disciple so that you can shine in

the darkness in those areas you are part of. Yeah,

because if it's always dependent, then you won't shine there.

All right.

You're waiting for the person in the church to shine.

Then okay, good, I got my you know, my feeding

for the weekend.

I'll go out now.

But you should be the pastor in your workplace. People

should come to you and call you a pastor? Can

you counsel me? I'm going through something right now with

my family, Right, I don't have to be called pastor.

But you know, sometimes people see you talk so much

like that, then they'll call you pastor.

Right, It's fine, okay, all right? Or brother brother brother

is a very Christian word, okay. Anyway, yeah, So now, okay,

let's read. Let's read, okay, Uh.

Jeremiah fifteen four says, and I will make them a

horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of

what Mana say, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah,

did in Jerusalem. So a name has been brought up here,

two names. In fact, Mana say the son of Hezekiah.

Who are these people? Why are their names brought up?

Okay? So yeah, they are getting punished.

They're getting the death and dogs and devouring and what else,

destruction destroy because of.

This guy.

A name, right, no one else, there's no there's not

three four names.

This this this, this is this guy.

I'll tell you, so we'd better know what happened to

this guy first, all right, So right, I'm going to

talk about Hezekiah for his father, his father's what's going

on with Hezekiah? What happened to him? So Hezekiah was

known actually as a good king. He was known as

good king, right, right, He trusted the Lord. He held

on to God. Right, he obeyed the Lord's command. He

sought the Lord through the man of God Isaiah.

All right.

He prayed to the Lord for help, and the Lord

delivered him. That was his testimony, is the Lord delivered

them from the Assyrians. The Lord, you know, cost one

hundred and eighty five thousand Assyrians to drop dead, and

then they got victory. This is his testimony. His story

so powerful, you know. And then one time Hezekiah became sick.

When he became sick, he prayed, he prayed, and God

actually gave him fifteen extra years to live. What a

powerful testimony. Right, he didn't die. He was supposed to die,

I think like at that time, but fifteen years extra okay,

But however, what's the story. However, towards the end, baby

on another you know, enemy came to visit They came

hearing that he was sick. Very nice they came to

visit him. When they visited him, you know, and actually

they are the enemy. What happened was Hezekiah showed them

all his treasure, all his artillery, all the stuff in

his kingdom.

He showed them.

I don't know why. It was a foolish thing to do.

It was a foolish thing to do because you're a kingdom.

They're a kingdom to come. They're not your friends yet.

I don't know, you know, whether he was that close

to them, but he showed them. And why it was

foolish because the prophet Isaiah actually rebuked him.

Isaiah rebuked him.

Okay, but you know when Isaiah rebuilt him, he didn't like,

he wasn't sorry. He said, oh, it's a good thing,

you said, you know, and say and he says something like,

you know, it's okay. As strong as I have peace,

my kingdom has peace during my time, all is good.

Meaning he's saying, I don't care what happens with my

children's time because I'm not around to see it anymore.

So all the best to them, right, And that's how

we sometimes think as well. I don't model they all

deal with their own issues.

I have my time. I enjoy it really good.

I got peace, and when I go to the grave,

I won't see it anymore, you guys, you know, good

luck something like that.

Right, that's what he's saying.

Let's read a little bit in Second King's twenty fifty twenty,

Chapter twenty was fifteen to nineteen.

Why because you want to see how you know what

he did? All right? So what have they seen in

your house? Okay?

I think it is Isaiah? And Isekiah answered, they have

seen all that is in my house. There is nothing

in my storehouses that I did not show them. Well,

show even the stock. You know why you have to

show that. I think it's a little bit of pride,

like I am awesome. See I kept everything, you know,

everything so organized? Yeah, okay, showing them. And then he says,

Then Isaiah said to Heskiah, hear the word of the Lord. Behold,

the days are coming when all that is in your house,

and that and that which your fathers have stought up

till this day, shall be carried to babylawn. Nothing shall

be left, says the Lord. And then and some of

your own sons, remember Mana, say we mentioned just now.

Some of your own sons who will come from you,

whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they

shall be eunuchs or you know what a eunuch isn't okay?

Means can I have children really removed the you know,

the organ okay? In the palace of the King of Babylon.

Then has a guy has said to Isaiah, the word

of the Lord that you have spoken is good for

He thought, why not if there will be peace and security.

In my days? Exactly that right? Okay?

So the word is he was shortsighted. He only looked

at his own time, but it didn't bother about the next.

So that's why a message this morning, I said, disciples,

do and teach, because we don't just care about our time.

We care about our future generation. We care about our children.

Even if you.

Don't have children, you should care about the people who

are coming after. And you know, we've been hearing a

lot of things lately in Malaysia itself, and I think

everywhere else is also. I'm sure there's some crazy stuff

going on, all right. That's the incidents happening in the school,

right and and you see that's one thing that's already

so horrible, right, the boy who stabbed the girl in

the school, and not just once, but many many times.

So something is not right there. But you know what's

even worse, it's the response after. Now we're hearing of

children using that incident to threaten their friends and saying, hey,

you know, like I heard about a boy speaking to

a girl saying, if you don't do this for me,

I will do worse than what happened in that school

course was going on, right, Obviously, our young people they

need guidance. The young people, they need God's word. Without

God's word, they're going to go crazy like this. But

they're hearing other words. They had hearing a lot of

social media words and some of you you know, if

you read the report, the boy has been you know,

influenced by a lot of things that he watches or

plays and he can't differentiate reality, you know and game world.

All right, yeah, I mean I've been talking to some

of our own young people in the school as well,

and and they're not I wouldn't say it's like fully

safe the way they think at this moment as well.

I'm like, I've got work to do, man, I got

work to do, all right, and so thank god I'm there.

So I'm educating them, right, I know, we're a Christian school.

Victory academy. But I told the management, and so I say,

doesn't mean it's all good, man. We better be teaching them,

we better be speaking into them their lives because this

other influence is also very strong still and they're all

exposed to it.

Yeah.

So yeah, we can't just think of our own generation.

Is the next, the next need us, the next need us?

You know, in the leadership we've been talking and saying,

you know, the Book of Esther, it's called the Book

of Esther, but actually Mordecai was the man in the book.

He was the real, the real influence guy. You know,

he's the he's the leader there and he guided Esther

and it should have been called the Book of Mordecai,

but he didn't take.

Credit for it.

Esther because she became Queen Esther from Mordecai's guidance, from

Mordecai's discipleship and leadership. So that's why all of us here,

you know, we need to be more thecais to the

young people around us, and some of us are like Esther,

you know still you know you're the young person and

then you need a Mordecai in your life.

Yeah, a man. We need each other.

We need to work together, and we need to help

our society, our community, all right, so that it doesn't

go any worse than what it is now, amen, Harley Leuyer,

Praise the Lord. Okay, And now I want to talk

about Mana say, man I say, all right? So what

man I say?

Now? So MANA say, there's another slight there I put there?

Right, Disciples versus despicable despicable? Me what that title? I

tell you For the longest time we're all watching like

nothing like that. But the word is actually a very

horrible word, right, It actually is the same meaning as disgusting,

doing disgusting stuff. Despicable evil is the word doing evil stuff.

So watch what your kids are watching, right. They're trying

to make it normal.

I'm despicable, I'm despicable, Okay, don't I'm a minion. Looks

very cute the thing, but no, please, they're trying to

normalize evil, normalize negative bad. You know, crime doing bad

is good? Now, like you know the guy is actually

a bad guy, but he's good. It's confusing, right, I Mean,

it's funny lot the show, but educate after you watch,

you know, you know what they're trying to do, right,

her brainwash. You talk talk a bit, talk a bit,

and they'll be like, what, just a cartoon, you know that?

But yeah, that's how they do it. They make it

look like a cartoon. They don't make it all out

right for you. It's so scary of course, you wouldn't

even want to look at it, but they make it cute.

Then okay, acceptable, Then it gets into your mind, to

your system.

Okay, all right. So anyway, MANA say, what's might I say?

All right?

So because of what has a guy had, not caring

about his future, this is what we get, a mana say,

And mana say, you know, okay, I need to read

the Bible for you, because this it tells us exactly

how horrible, how despicable it is.

Okay, all right, let's read it.

And he did what was evil in the sight of

the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations

whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

For he rebuilt the high places that Hazekayah, his father

had destroyed. His father destroyed the idols, He built it back. Right,

how come he didn't learn that from his dad? It

totally didn't get anything, right, Ei did that or he

just rebelled.

I don't know, right.

And and he erected altars of bail and made an asherah.

As ahelp.

King of Israel had done and worshiped all the hosts

of heaven, and hosts of heaven means is other gods right,

and served them, okay. And he built altars in the

House of the Lord, in the House of the Law,

in the temple itself, of which the Lord had said

in Jerusalem, will I put my name. And he built

altars for all the hosts of heaven. These are not angels.

And these are at the the eighties in the two

courts of the House of the Lord. He's not only

the altars outside. He brings them into the church and

now built all the altars inside the church instead. So

this is how twisted this guy has gone right. Next,

and he burned his son. He burned his own son

as an offering. And this was despicable already to God right.

And used fortune telling and omens, and dealt with mediums

and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight

of the Lord, provoking him to anger. This was years ago,

all right, And it has led now to Jeremiah saying

this is you know how angry, angry I have been

from there until now, all right, And the carved image

of Asherah that.

He had made.

He sat in the house of which the Lord said

to David and to Solomon his son, in this house

and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all

the tribes of Israel, I will.

Put my name forever. He's so daring.

And then finally, moreover, Manasei shed very much, very much

innocent blood. He killed many, many people, all right, perhaps

for no reason, or so till he had filled Jerusalem

from one end to the other. Can you imagine that?

How big is Jerusalem from one end to the other

is filled with blood of the innocent? Besides the sin

that he had made Judah to sin, so that they

did what was evil in the sight of the law.

So this part here, wait before that, this part here,

he says.

Is Judah.

He made Judah's sin. Okay, he made Juda Juda. Judah

is a group of people, Siah. What he what Mana said,

did not only was he himself evil, He caused other

people to sin. Can you imagine that? So I want

I want to just past it forward and talk about

this for a while. You know, some of us here

we had a pass and what we did before we

might have influenced some others to join in and sin.

All right, And now that we became believers of Jesus

Christ and hopefully have turned from our wicked ways and

want to live righteous lives, the person we affected to sin,

the effect is still there, the consequence is still there,

and they.

Might be affecting others still.

So I want to tell us here what we do

really affects the things around us. Yeah, so many times

we say I'm sinning, I'm doing my stuff here is

for It's just me, you know, I'm just sitting my

own I'm you know, it's all all. All the sin

is contained within me. We think that way, but I'm

telling you it's not like that. It goes around. It

is passed on to others, and others are affected by

it and they continue in that darkness. And then once

we got saved, fine, we're happy, we got saved, we

found Jesus. But then how about those guys we affected

some time ago. I think we can think about that

and go like, maybe go back to that guy and

go like, hey, you know, that's why I let you

to go, you know, drugs and smoking and pornography or whatever.

I want to tell you, I'm so sorry. Maybe you shouldn't,

you should stop doing it. If it was me who

affected you, I want to tell you it's not good.

Trilah. I don't know.

I'm just saying because it affected so many people that

even when Manas say now now go to the next one,

go to the next one. Yeah, it's interesting. And when

he was distressed, Manasa actually turned back to God. In

all his evil, he managed to turn back to God

by God's grace. When he was in distress, he entreated

the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself.

Everyone say humbled himself.

He humbled himself greatly before the God of his father's

He prayed to God, and God was moved. See you

see how merciful God is, no matter how much he

has done. God was moved by his prayer, by his entreaty,

and his health his plea, and brought him again to

Jerusalem into his kingdom. God brought him back, saved him.

Then Manase knew that the Lord was God. He was

so good, and so Manase got saved. But you see

in Jeremiah. God still brought up his name.

Yeah, and Mana say he got saying but you know,

man is manasilah is Mana said problem, He's still got blame.

So I heard someone say if when you go to heaven, right,

you will see one guy who is a very embarrassed face.

And my likely is Mana say someone actually just funnily

said that, you know, because it'll be like, yeah, I

got saved, I made it to heaven, you know, but yeah,

you heard about what happened.

Right.

Still, things still went on, got people got punished because

of me. Still Yeah, sorry, sorry, maybe I don't know

all right, but yeah, so I wanna I want to

I want to encourage us.

I want to challenge us.

All right, don't just think what you do is just

within your own thing.

It will affect someone else.

Someone else is following you, all right, someone else is

affected by you.

Okay, all right, let's move on. Let's move on.

Now, Okay, finally let's go to Okay, the next point

I want to talk about is this, Disciples do and teach,

Disciples do and teach.

Okay, I'm gonna read Jeremiah.

Chapter fifteen, verse fifteen to twenty one. So it says, here,

oh Lord you know, remember me, and visit me and

take vengeance for me on my on my persecutors, and

your fourbearans take me not away. Know that for your sake,

I bear reproach your word. Your words were found and

I ate them. Okay, So so sorry, I tell I

missed one thing. What the question is?

What is?

Because the point was disciples do and teach? Right, But

the question is what do disciples do?

What? What should disciples do? Okay?

So I'm going to draw from this last few verses

about what do disciples do?

Okay? So back to that. Yeah, thank you James.

All right, your words were found and I ate them,

and your words became to me a joy and the

and the delight of my heart, for I am called

by your name, Oh Lord, God of Host. Pause there,

all right, pause there, right, So what do disciples do?

First thing, find God's word. Your words were found, and

eat God's word, and I ate them. I enjoyed it.

I it was delicious to me. Your your words became

to me a joy, delight in God's word. Seek God's word,

read God's word, eats it, consume God's word. That is

what disciples do what do disciples do? It says disciples

do and teach the disciples. First thing you need to

do is to find God's word, eat it, consume it,

have God's word in your life. If you don't have

God's word in your life, everything else will go. Hey,

WHI you know that we all know that. I know

that we've not been reading the Bible. We don't understand

what God's word says. We're deciding based on don't know,

somebody's word, my.

Own word, some opinion.

Right, So keep going into God's word and see what

God says to you.

Right. God is not speaking to anyone else but you

speaking to you. Right. God is a personal God. Right,

Please don't believe the lie of the devil that this

know the God's word is only for those people. You know,

they're doing all the right things.

They are on the stage, they dress up well, only

the only God speaks to them.

No, God is speaking to you, no matter where you are,

even if you're like Mana say, even if you've done

stuff like Mana say, burning their children and stuff like

that so horrible, God still loves you and God still

speaks to you. Right.

Did you see how how God actually saved him just

like that. He just comes prey, only done nothing, yet

did nothing to reverse the problem.

God saved him and brought him back to Jerusalem.

Hello, it's like it's like the Father running ten steps

to Yay, He's home, you know it is. And uh

so that's the first thing we need to remember. Find

God's word and consume God's word. Next light, I did

not sit in the company of.

Revelers, revelers, revelers, revelers, okay, whatever.

Nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because your hand

was upon me. For you filled me with indignation. Why

is my my pain and seizing my wound and curable

refusing to be healed? Will you be like a deceitful brook,

like waters that fail? All right, I want to focus

on that first line there. I did not sit in

the company of English teachers, any revelers, revelers, revelers.

Let's let's go with that. Revelers, okay or or okay,

never mind.

In in Proverbs they will say I did not sit

in the path of sinners scoffers. Right, So, yeah, you

know what it means, ah is the is the is

the sinners. It's the people who go against God. I

did not join them. It's the second thing a disciple does. First,

he takes the word of God as priority. Second, he

doesn't join in the sin. He doesn't join just because

everyone else is doing it. I'm doing it. Also, he

doesn't join them. He sometimes has to sit alone. I

sit alone, but I know God is His hand is

upon me. Hey, man, you're not alone. You sit alone,

but you're not alone.

Amen. God is with you. And that's even better. You

have the Big Man with you. Okay. So that's what

What do disciples do? First? Eat the word of God? First?

What eat the word of God? Second? What do disciples do?

Don't sit with the word. You cannot pronounce the company

of revelers? Okay, good, such dictionary later the pronunciation okay, mockers,

I use another world you need to okay, course zippers. Yeah,

so okay, next next life. Therefore, that says the Lord.

If you return, I will restore you, and you shall

stand before me. If you utter what is precious and

not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth.

They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn

to them.

Okay. Pass here. The thing that disciples do, they speak.

They speak what is good they speak life, precious. What

is precious? Right?

Not worthless? Okay, nor more this worthless stuff. Stop talking

brain rot. I've been talking to some teenagers that they

say brain brain rot, Like, okay, stop.

Talking about brain rot, word rot. You want rotten brains?

Don't they say brain life. My brain is alive, my

brain is awesome. It's good.

Word is created by God. It's beautiful. I have a

beautiful mind. That's better.

Okay.

Don't talk about worthless things. Talk precious, right and uh,

and you shall be as my mouth speak like God speaks.

Speak what God will speak. Right, you don't know what

to say, don't say anything, but speak what God will speak.

And man, that's why we need his word in the

first place. So we have his word that we can

speak His word.

Okay. And then next night.

And I will make you to this people a fortified

wall of bronze. They will fight against you, but they

shall not prevail over you, for I am with you

to save you and deliver you.

They declare the Lord. I will deliver you out of

the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the

grasp of the ruthless.

Last point, here, hold on, I'm with you. It doesn't

it sound familiar?

Make disciples of all names, and I am with you

always to the end of the age. It's the same

message here, all right.

But I want to go rewind a little bit of

those words I didn't underline on top there. I will

make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze.

They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail

over you. This is very familiar with discipleship. You know,

when you do discipleship right and you tell someone something,

sometimes fight back happens, but you.

Will be like a wall. You'll be like a wall.

Thick skin, not afraid speak the truth in love. But

don't shy. Don't shy back, all right, don't be afraid

to speak God's word. Even though they will be pushed back.

People don't like what you know.

They hear.

They might go against you, fight against you, but they

will not prevail, amen, because they don't have God's word yet.

And God's word is the solid one. So you have

Scott's word, you speak God's. You stand firm, and you

know whatever they try to fight you with, it will

not hold, and finally they will need to give in.

So actually, you know what you say is right. It's true, Amen,

because I am with you.

God is with you. He will deliver you. Don't be

afraid even through persecution. I say very like, it's very easy.

But I'm also like, okay, Sally, I get persecuted.

How all right?

But by faith, by faith, I speak it. Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid. Amen, he will deliver. You can hold

on to this word. Let's hold on to God's word.

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