Clarity Confidence Courage | Olivia Leong

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Clarity, confidence, courage.

Yes, the longer title of this is, with clarity comes confidence,

with confidence comes courage. Okay, with clarity comes confidence, with

confidence comes courage. This is a phrase where our senior, sorry,

our founding senior pastor, pastor Chemist Schin, a reverend chemist Chin.

He has shared this two weeks ago. Yeah, two weeks

ago when he was here, right, and he emphasized mainly

about confidence.

Right.

If you read back, you're not saying, you'll remember he

was talking a lot about confidence, right, doctor Jill last

Sunday spoke about believing right, about don't doubt, just believe right.

So that's a powerful message as well. We ought to

have the message to go so to have us listen again.

But yeah, but today we're gonna go deeper. Okay, with

clarity comes confidence, and confidence comes courage. When God gave

me this word, I'm like, Okay, God, tell me, what

do you want to tell your church? So he brought,

he gave He reminded me this scripture in the So

this is the main scripture Luke, Chapter twenty four, verse

thirteen to thirty five. Okay, you can write down in

your notes first. This is the main scripture Luke, Chapter

twenty four, verse thirteen to thirty five. All right, you

can turn to it also after you write your notes.

I'm also turning to it. Yeah, it's good to bring

your bibles. Yeah, let's continue to bring our physical bibles.

Let's be proud about it, because while we have it,

let's use it and be proud of it.

I still bring my physical Bible to the office.

I'll try to say this as much as I can

and not be ashamed about it. There are days where

I also feel like giving up. But yeah, let's keep going. Right.

God hasn't said no.

God hasn't said stop the government no no, No one

is taken away my Bible yet.

So I shall continue to have it.

Right. I just just this week, another clique just came back,

came to tell me your Bible looks a bit like, uh,

I'm tia in Chinese court, so it's like sulta vegi. Okay, yeah,

I need to fix my Bible. Yeah, my pre believing

friend the clique reminded me again.

I'm like, yes, I must remember, they're reminding me. To

fix my Bible. Yes, I will do it soon, okay.

So okay, but before we get to Luke chapter twenty four,

verse thirteen, a little bit of a background, so children,

pay attention, okay on the slides. I have wonderful slides

for us today. Hopefully you can pay attention. All right,

So just the background before verse thirteen of the chapter

twenty Luke, chapter twenty four.

So what happened was if you.

See the title of your bible, right, there's always the

title in your.

The beginning of the scripture.

It is to me, I'm reading the New King James version,

chapter twenty four.

Verse one before that says he is reasen.

So this is the story of when Jesus died and

rose again, right, So going back the slight before, right, yes,

so yeah, so.

We know this is the story. We know our God

is alive. Jesus is alive. He's not dead, He's not

in the tomb, right, He's alive.

He was he So we have this background about Jesus.

He was crucified.

Now today is the third day, right, yeah, And in

verse one it says that now he is on the

first day of the week.

Right, this is already Sunday. Okay.

Now you see these pictures here, all right. So from

verse one to twelve, basically it's trying to say, uh,

we have Mary Magdalene and some women went to the tomb, okay.

And then they were going there to annoying Jesus with

spices and oil. Right, okay, this is the third day.

His body must be smelling very bad already.

Okay. So when they went there early in the morning.

As the sun was about to rise, they went there

and the tomb was open, and it's empty, okay. And

they saw angels okay. So you can see the picture

there right, okay. And then they were so shocked they

went back home, went back to the disciples and told

them what they saw. They saw an empty tomb, and

they saw angels, right and speaking to them, some of

the disciples like waking up on it and like what

are you trying to say? They must be saying like,

you must be you must be so sad, you must

be having very bad mental health or something, and you

are seeing things like you're seeing visions, you're seeing ghals

or what you know. So, but some so that's why

the there's two this or there's these two disciples, or

rather Peter was also running, running to check out for himself.

So that's why that picture there, right, They were checking out,

like is this true? What Magdalene is trying to say,

marry Magdalen was trying to say, right. So yeah, so

that's the background of the story.

Right.

There was an empty tomb. There was some the ladies

saw angels, visions of angels, don't know, but they didn't

see the body. The body.

The tomb is empty. But where is Jesus. Everybody's wondering

what happened to Jesus? Right, They were still thinking Jesus

still dead? Okay, so this is where we continue on

from verse thirteen.

All right.

The title of the scripture that's there on my Bible,

before verse thirteen, it says the road to a Mayas. Okay,

let's let's go verse thirteen of chapter twenty four.

Now be whole. Two of them or.

Two of the disciples, were traveling that same day to

a village called a Maayus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem,

verse fourteen, and they talked together of all these things

which had happened. Yeah, what happened was Jesus died and

then the tomb was empty. The lady saw some vision

of angels, and then Peter went to the empty tomb

and see everything is empty, but Jesus is not there.

The body is not there. Okay.

They were talking about it, right, So this two oh yeah, sir,

that was reading some commentary as well, this too, recognize it.

In verse thirteen is two two of them.

They didn't say it's a man or a woman disciple,

but yeah, most of the pictures are always men. Okay,

so just take note, right, it's it's it's not really clear, okay.

So that's two disciples. Okay, that's just two disciples, okay.

And also it says in verse fourteen, sorry, in verse

thirteen that they were heading towards in Mayers from Jerusalem

seven miles. Seven miles is about eleven kilometers. That's about

the same distance between here and my home in Puchong.

So those of us know me, I stay in Puchong.

So yes, it's about eleven miles about two hours walk, okay.

So if on walk it's two hours, right, it's not, yes,

imagine it's two hours okay. So and you can see

the next slide that's a map, just to share with

us Jerusalem is right on the middle right hand side.

There's a small circle there and it's labeled Jerusalem.

Okay. And then you can see.

A a half circle in blue color. That's the distance

from Jerusalem, about eleven km.

Okay.

So Mayus could be any of those very near the

blue blue half circle there, okay, right, Hi, Possibly of

E Mayus is the white one called or E Mayu's

uh E mayor's quibbe. All right, okay, Right, so there

is there is, sorry, there is. You can see that's

a pathway right, it's either going towards or I Mayus quibebe, right, okay,

all right, Sorry about my pronunciation. Okay, So that's sorry.

That's a that's also another I Mayus Nicole police further

up west right. It's probably more than eleven more than

seven miles already, okay, So possibly not there, all right.

So anyway, just to share with you, la, okay. So yeah,

so you can see the possible path that these two disciples.

Are hating, yeah, hating towards the west. Okay.

So let's continue on in verse fifteen from Chapter Luke,

Chapter twenty four, Verse fifteen.

So it was.

While they were conversed while they conversed and reasoned that

Jesus himself drew near and went with them verse sixteen,

But their eyes were restrained so that they did not

know him.

Okay, right, just pause the moment.

Imagine these two disciples, and all the disciples in fact,

and especially these two disciples. They are so down and

so sad that their master, whom they love and adored,

is gone, right, and the body is even gone right

now right. They were so sad, so they were hating,

They were hating towards Uh. Yeah, they were sad, and

Jesus came. You see in verse fifteen. It's so beautiful

that Jesus himself drew near and went with them. Jesus himself,

this resurrected Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

He is so amazing. He conquers in and death. He's

victorious already, but a lot of people.

Don't know yet. He can just go straight up to

heaven and do what he needs to do.

Why does he need to bother these two disciples who

are so said, I don't know, have you ever bought

Have you ever thought about why Jesus is so bothered about?

Sometimes about us?

Sometimes we feel like Why would Jesus be so bothered

about my little trouble? Why would Jesus be so interested

to know about my little problem.

He's so great. He's so great.

Yeah, he's resurrected, He conquered sin and death already.

But Jesus himself drew near. I want to bring an

encouragement to us this morning that Jesus wants to come

near us. He desires to walk with us. He desires

to draw near to you and to me, and want

to walk with us. Right, Okay, however, the disciples eyes

were restrained. Just an encouragement from Matthew chapter eighteen, verse twenty.

Know that even when we are sad, when we have

lost somebody, when we have lost something, something tragic happened

in our lives. Know that Matthew chapter eighteen, verse twenty

is very important. For where two or three are gathered

together in My name, I am there in their midst.

Always know when you are.

Very sad, we want to encourage you in the Word

of God. It's Kingdom values to always be with somebody

that you can share your heart. Don't be alone. Okay,

it's very dangerous. Okay, this is the word of God.

Matthew chapter eighteen, verse twenty. If you need to write

it down, write it down, okay, where two or three

are gathered together in my name, I am there in

the midst so in order that God, of course in

our rooms. Yes, but even more important to be with

somebody when in the midst of our sadness or in

our difficult times. Good to be with somebody, or at

least if you can't connect with somebody. Now, thank God

for digitization, we can connect with somebody.

Let's do that.

Okay, it clear, says this chapter four vers twelve. If

you can write, yeah, write in your noseless. This chapter

four wards twelve says Ecclesias. This chapter four verse twelve says,

though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.

And a threefold chord is not quickly broken in the

midst of sadness. Don't be alone all the more when

we have somebody with us, having another person will be

very good.

That's what it clearses this chapter four wars twelve.

And in this in this situation, the two men, two disciples,

were very very sad, and thank God that Jesus came

to to be that third card, that third fold that

it cannot be broken.

Yeah, okay.

Hebrews chapter ten, verse twenty five also encourages us that

let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do,

but encourage one another, especially now that the day of

his return is drawing in. There, Jesus is returning soon.

Let's gather together. Hey, we have homes. Right, Let's gather

together every time our homes neither asks, hey, we are

gonna have homes. Let's not neglect that meeting together, because

that's where we find our faith to be encouraged again.

You know, you never know somebody will bring a word

of encouragement to us. Right, and even for prayer service

as well, local prayer service every time your home seers say, hey,

let's gather for local prayer service together.

Let's come together. Let's not neglect a meeting together. Yeah.

And I'm so glad that we are all here together today.

And I pray that you will find God's Grandma work

today here in his house.

Amen.

Okay, let's continue on verse seventeen of Luke Chapter twenty four.

Luke Chapter twenty four, Verse seventeen, and Jesus said to

the two disciples, so he came the disciples didn't recognize Jesus,

so he was like a stranger to these two disciples.

And Jesus said to them, what kind of conversation is

this that you have with one another as you walk?

And are said verse eighteen. Then the one whose name

was clear your Pass. Okay, this is recognized as a man,

clear your Pass answered and said to him, are you

the only stranger in Jerusalem? And have you not known

the things which have which happened? This which happened there

in these days?

Right? Cleo, pass is saying to this stranger Jesus like, hah,

don't you.

Know, it's a big thing. It's like head lies. Don't

you know what's happening? And Jesus said to them, what things? Hey? Jesus, Hey,

this is the the creator of the heavens and the earth.

He is the all knowing God. He is all knowing,

He is a great God. He is asking this question

what things? Is this a question of what Jesus lost

memory or something? No, I don't think. So there is

a reason why Jesus is asking this question what things.

He's probably trying to draw out something within us, right

within the disciples. Right continue on verse nineteen so they

said to him the things concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who

was a prophet mighty indeed and word before God and

all people Verse twenty and how the chief priests and

our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified.

But we were hoping that it was he who was

going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this today is

the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain

women of our company who arrived at the tomb early

astonished us when they did not find his body. They

came saying that they had also seen a vision of

angels who said he was alive.

They didn't believe Verse twenty four.

And certain of those who were with us went to

the tomb and found it was just as the woman

had said, but him they did not see.

Right.

So the two disciples were very sad, very discouraged for

the fact that their master had been crucified.

He is Jesus of Nazareth.

They didn't even okay, So they said that this Jesus

of Nazareth was a prophet, mighty indeed, and word before God.

They didn't even say that he was a savior of

the world. He was wasn't a messiah at all?

He was.

They were just saying, yeah, he was a prophet, mighty indeed,

word before the Lord.

How the chief priests and rulers. Imagine Jesus hearing all

this and like.

Huh is this all you know about me? It's like,

you know, I don't know in my human mind. I'm

just thinking imagining, right, imagine, right, But Jesus is so merciful.

You know, our God is such a merciful god. He

loves us just as we are. We don't need to

know everything, but he still loves us. He's so amazing, right,

And they were hoping that they are okay, so next night, sorry, right, yes,

so Jesus on the cross, yes, so this this is

They were very sad because they are their master, this

prophet who Jesus of Nazrus, the prophet who was mighty

indeed and were you know, the chief priests delivered him

and condemned him to death, and he was crucified right

in verse twenty one, next light, right, next light. So

during those days, right, you know, the Israelites were being

occupied by the Romans, right empire, and the Romans was

oppressing Israel, right, And what were the Romans oppressing the

Israelites was.

They were oppressing the Israelites.

With heavy taxation, military occupation, political control, and religious interference.

Right.

And yeah, they were really praying for someone to deliver

them out of this Roman oppression, right. And they were

hoping that this Jesus of Nazareth would be the one.

Right.

They had great hopes, but now their hopes were crushed.

The news of their master's resurrection seems like idle tales,

Like people are just saying things, but they don't see

Jesus resurrected. They see they say, oh, Jesus resurrected, but

we don't see it. We can't believe it until we

see it, right, they just cannot. So they were very sad, right,

and now that yeah so yeah, so and now they

are they are walking towards They were walking towards EMUs. Okay,

they were saying they were actually giving up already for

following Jesus. Right, They're like, okay, we just yeah, let

go and just go back to our old ways.

Yeah, we'll just go back.

Maybe they were fishermen, they will go back fishing, or

they'll go back to your old career and yeah, and

then just bury the story of their following Jesus away

because they didn't believe anymore and Jesus died.

Yeah, And in fact, they.

Were leaving Jerusalem also because they were feared the Jews.

The Jews were looking out for people who were following

Jesus and they want to arrest them. So they were

fearing the Jews. So that's why they were running away.

And when they are away from Jerusalem, at least they

got some space to talk, right. You know, in Jerusalem

they cannot say so loud. But after they walk out

of the place where they are, look they are Look,

they are wanted.

They are there. They can share out.

Better, they can express out themselves better, right, Okay, So

that's that's why they're coming out of Jerusalem and going

back to where they were, Okay. And then verse sixteen,

you can also see that their eyes were restrained. They

did not know Jesus was there, right, And because they

didn't know Jesus was there and the stranger was there,

all the more they can talk freely. Right if Jesus

was the was the one that if they knew Jesus

was the one, they would probably be restricting in the conversation,

right right, for example, like, okay, just take for example,

if I say Passenger and doctor Jill suddenly come to

visit our house.

You know we will be all, okay, okay, everything proper.

You know, you don't say you don't start screaming and

our children, right.

All they'll start screaming at our husbands.

You know, everything will be proper. Right, or maybe a

normal neighbor will come. You know, if it's not, if

pass Jet and doctor Jill, this guys is out as

someone's we'll say like, right, maybe maybe right, right, So

we were like, yeah, so they didn't know that Jesus,

I mean the stranger was Jesus.

Right, so they could stalk freely.

They could just share from their hearts, right, what they

were thinking about. Right, let's continue on, right, Oh yes, yes,

And our Lord Jesus takes notice of the sorrow and

sadness of his disciples, and Jesus he is also afflicted

in their afflictions. Right, he shares, he hears, he comes

to us, right, this is our Jesus, our Lord Jesus,

whome we worship and adore. Amen, right, okay verse yeah,

and also in verse nineteen. Know that Jesus asks what

things he wants to hear our hearts, right, that's why

he asks what things in verse nineteen right. And interestingly

that Jesus when he asked this question, he is like

he's making light of his suffering because he's already resurrected,

like he's gone to the next to thirty, like, wow.

He's victorious.

He's champion, already champion over since Ittaan and death. And

then they are still crying about the suffering. You know,

they saw the gory things that he went through, but

Jesus is resurrected. This is even better than all the

sufferings that he has gone through. And he's like asking

what things for example, like if let's say I finished

like PMR, like from tree. You know, I'm now already

from five. You know, I will say to the firm tree, Ah.

Right, is it? It's okay?

Nothing all the suffering us small small thing on it

right now from five more tougher things.

You know, I'm like glorious already. Okay, I'm just saying,

I'm just saying, okay.

It's like that, like Jesus has already gone the next

but they are still talking about the suffering and Jesus

asking what things right like? He wants to know and

he wants to Yeah. So he, Jesus Christ, made lights

of his sufferings in the comparisons with the joy set

before him, Jesus and your great suffering, but didn't focus

on the pain. He looked forward to the joy of

saving us and taught us to stay strong and trust

God through our own hard times.

Amen.

So yes, okay, Let's continue on verse twenty five of

chapter twenty for from the Book of Luke Luke, chapter

twenty four of US twenty five. Let's continue, then, Jesus

said to them, all, foolish ones and slow of heart

to believe in all that the prophets have spoken, are

not the Christ to have suffered these things and enter

and to enter into his glory? Let me read that

sentence again, Oh, not the Christ to suff to have

suffered these things and to enter into his glory? Verse

twenty seven, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets

he expounded to them, in all the scriptures and the

things concerning himself. Just a reflection God. You know, God

expects us to be quick and to truly believe. You

see he he he he he. In verse twenty five,

Jesus was like you a wa like, I don't know

to say scolding or what? Okay, he said, all foolish

ones and slow of heart to believe. That means that

God is expecting us to be quick to believe, to

be you know, don't be slow to believe, quick to.

Believe, be quick to believe, like like a child like faith. Right.

When a child hears something, he or she believes it

like immediately. So that's why.

Yeah, you know, but God says that be like this

child like faith, quick to believe and be truly believing

right in the things that have been shared, right with

no doubts, no expecting, no exceptions, no conditions, just.

Truly and quickly believe. Right, wow, something something I caught here?

Like, hey, God expects us to yeah, believe when when

when God says something, believe quickly okay, quickly, And Jesus

was very patient. He was patient enough to remind his

disciples again, right.

I can imagine Jesus.

Has probably said this like ten thousand no, no, I'm

just as like maybe many times already before he was

crucified that he will rise again. Right, he has probably

expounded before he did it again. Anyway, It's like he's

like repeating himself. Home, leaders and leaders around here, do

you feel sometimes very tired repeating yourself?

Hey, be encouraged. Jesus also did that. We follow Jesus.

Okay, we follow Jesus, and let's do it again, because

our Lord Jesus also did it, like he repeated again,

and it's okay, right, it's okay, let's do it again.

Let's repeat again. Our homies didn't catch the message. Let's

do it again. It's okay, all right. We are all

in this together. And Jesus also did it together. He

was so patient, he.

Revealed he expounded again. Right, Our Lord Jesus revealed himself

to the decigre pos through the scriptures, something about about

going through challenging times and being in at a very downstage,

that the word of God is able.

To lift us up.

I really believe that in times of challenges it's good

to always run to the word of God. Right in John, Yeah,

and because Jesus Christ himself he is the word of God.

John chapter one, verse one to five, and fourteen, it says, yeah,

I shall declare it to us. In the beginning was

maybe let's read together. Okay, it's good to read the

Word of God. Let's read together. Ready, one to treat

In the beginning was the Word, and the word was

with God. And the Word was God. And he was

in the beginning with God. All things were made through him,

and without him, nothing was made. That was made in

him was life. And the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness

did not comprehend it verse fourteen. And the Word became flash,

and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the

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

Of grace and truth. Amen.

God bless the reading of his word. And Jesus Christ,

he is that word.

Right.

And for those of us who are trying to understand

who this God is, our God whom we worship. He

is the God, his light. He brings life a man,

and he is the Word of God. He and when

he comes into your situation, when it comes to into

our situation, he brings light, and he brings his word,

he brings life, he brings truth.

He's the God of full of grace. Amen. Right.

So when he came right he expounded the Word of

God to the disciples.

Right.

Yes, so you know our Lord Jesus Christ, he had

suffered and entered into his glory, like I mentioned just now.

And for those of us going through a suffering and

heartbreaking time, take heart. I want to encourage us again.

The Word of God wants to encourage us again. Here

in Romans chapter eight, verse eighteen, next light right, it's acrfo.

I considered that.

The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to

be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Amen. Amen.

This is what Paul wrote to the Romans when Paul

was also going through difficult times. That hey, our glory,

our glory that will be revealed to us.

It's going to be greater than our present suffering.

Take heart, my brothers and sisters, while we still have

our breath, while we still am not great ridden. This

is not the end yet, right. Just want to bring

an encouragement against to us. It's not the end yet, right.

He is with us a man. James chapter one, verse

two to eight says, my brethren, counted all joy when

you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of

your faith produces patience. But let patients have its perfect work.

That you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. That's

the reason why we have to go through difficult times,

so that something within us can come out of it, right,

and something good, whatever that has been deposited for many

years already, right, let it come out even through this

difficult time.

I like this analogy of tea. Who likes to drink tea?

I love teas, right, I love teas, write tea bags,

tea bags, I love tea in the tea bags, right.

And when it's put in hot water, you will see

the good thing that is inside. It will come out slowly, yes,

but it requires hot water.

You put in cold water, I don't know.

I don't like yeah, cold rutie, but probably it takes

longer for the good things are.

The good things will come out faster with hot water.

So hot water that's the testing time, right, So yes,

so also know that even in the hot water, when

we are all in that hot water, remember whatever that

has been deposited in our hearts will come out like

what James chapter one says. Okay, right, amen, All right,

let's continue on Luke Chapter twenty four, Verse twenty eight.

Then the disciples drew near to the village now they

are in a mayor's really drew near to the village

where they were going, and Jesus indicated that he would

have gone further right verse twenty nine. But they constrain him.

The disciples constrain him, saying, abide with us, for it

is towards evening and the day is fast spent. And

he went in to stay with them, right, Okay, So

if you have that slide that has the picture of

the disciples urging Jesus to stay, that'll be great. You

don't have a okay, right, so yes, further down, I

think it's the next few slides. Yeah, okay, no, okay,

and am I it's all right? So so okay, it's fine,

all right, So they constrained him. You know, interestingly, that

we have a god who loves us so much that

when we invite him, he will stay.

Right.

You don't invite him, he will go further right, Yeah,

And if you really want to know, and if you

really want to know this god even more, you can

invite him. And he's a gentleman, right, he will come

and hang out with you if you invite him, right,

he our God, doesn't force us his way into our

hearts like the dictator.

He's a good God. He's a merciful god. Right.

And in Revelations chapter three, verse twenty, this is he,

This is Jesus, this is our God. Right, this is

what he says. Behold, I stand at the gnaw and knock.

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, or

rather invites me, I will come into him and dine

with him, and he with me. Wow, you get to

Marca and with Jesus. Who wants to have a macan

with Jesus? Man I of course, first friend said, of

course Jesus, right, I mean, who wouldn't like now? Now

we have like we have Asians, ammit? Right, oh we

have all the leaders of the world.

Come.

Who if if you've been invited to dine with the president,

would you.

Would you say yes? You know?

Or maybe maybe your favorite your favorite president you know,

invites you.

Of course you're like you of course say yes, right.

But hey, Jesus, the king of kings, he is bigger,

He's greater.

Than all the kings of the world.

He is saying, here, hey, if you invite me, I

come right, if you if not then, No, it's all right.

I'll just go further.

Right Mettia chapter seven, verse seven says us and each

chel it will be given to you sick, and you

will find knock and it will be open to you.

Right are we asking? Are we asking Jesus? Are we

seeking Jesus? Or are we seeking somebody or something else?

Are we knocking on his door? You know this is

a good question to ask ourselves. Okay, yeah, all right,

let's continue on Luke chapter twenty four, verse thirty. Now

it came to pass, as he sat at the table

with them, that he took bread and blessed and broke

it and gave it to them verse thirty one. Then

their eyes were open, and they knew him, and he

vanished from their sight, And they said to one another,

did not our hearts burn within us? While he talked

with us on the road, and while he opened the

scriptures to us versud the tree. So they rose up

that very hour and returned to Jesus seven miles to

hours walk again, and found the eleven of those who

were with them gathered together, saying to the Lord is

reason indeed and has appeared to Simon verse thirty five.

And they told about the things that had happened on

the road and how he was known to them in

the breaking of bread. And see the countenance on the

picture of these two disciples so different from the one

that was earlier.

Right, they were like, Wow, we've met the Lord.

And you know what, brothers and sisters, friends, just one

encounter with the Lord again caused these disciples to you

turn back and not return to their always again.

With just one encounter with the Lord, when you.

Meet him, you know you will, you will like you know,

you know, you know when you meet with the Lord,

you want to come back to him again. You know,

it's just that one encounter, and miracles happens in our hearts, right,

Like the disciples, their hearts were burning when Jesus was

revealing the scriptures to them, because Jesus himself is the word,

right here is the word. Such an encounterspurret them to

give up their rest in hey, they were already well.

They were also hating. Have you ever tried walking when

you're very sad? The journey feels so long, even though

it's two hours walk to us, We're like, oh, Lord,

it's really.

Long enough without being sad, Right, if you're sad.

Journey is long, hey, but if you're if you are

like happy and you're like excited through our journey's like

like five minutes.

Day, who like you know, right?

Right?

And you know what? Okay?

So they were so sad traveling to Amos, and they

were supposed to rest and return back to Galilee, right,

but they they they decided to give up that rest.

Don't need anymore. They just need to return back to Jerusalem.

And because they met the Lord, they saw the reason Savior,

and they besides the ladies like earlier or on re

read right, Mary Magdalene saw the angels.

Okay, yes, Mary Magdalene saw the angels.

But I was reading, I was doing a Bible study,

and apparently there were some women who actually saw the

reason lot first before these two disciples.

But so these two.

Disciples suddenly, so they were the first few people that

they saw the reason lot physically, like they were.

Jesus was with us, and we need to tell the

people that Jesus is actually alive.

We saw him, we talked with him, and he walked

with us, and we march un with him.

Right.

They were so excited, full of joy, and they walked

back seven miles back to Jerusalem, just to encourage the

disciples again. And the Lord is alive and reason and

no more doubt, no more dispute, no more yeah, no

more doubting anymore. Just to conclude three points today. If

you want to write notes, these are the notes, okay,

to summarize Luke Chapter twenty four. Okay, three points Clarity, confidence,

and courage. Just drawing out this really God kingdom principles

which was already in the Word of God given to

us two thousand years ago. It's a kingdom principle that works,

and it's amazing. Let me tell you why. Okay, just

drawing out from this scripture. Right, clarity, Our Lord Jesus

Christ knew the state of our disciples. Right for all

of us who are in this discipleship relationship, do we

know the state of the people that we are leading?

Right? It's like Jesus, Hey, we want to follow Jesus. Right.

We always sing this song and we shall always sing

this song.

We want to follow Jesus. All right, Hey, let's follow

Jesus in this way. Let's know our people, Okay, where

they are at? Jesus humbled himself. He humbly came to them.

He also asked powerful questions. Even though he knows the

answer already, he still asked the question not for his benefit,

but for the benefit for those who are graining through

the tough time. He asked powerful questions in love. He

asked powerful questions in love and patiently revealed scriptures to them. Right,

he brought clarity, He brought He brought clarity to the

questions that were in the disciples hearts. Right, there were

clarity and once clarified with clarity. Second point, confidence with clarity,

both the disciples had their hearts on fire. Were not

our hearts burning when he was opening the scriptures to us?

Their hearts were on fire, changed and convey victored.

Their hearts were changed, and like, yeah, that's it.

Confidence right when God, When when Jesus was revealing this

to the disciples and their vision, their mission, their purpose

was realigned again, right, such confidence right because of the

clarity was given earlier. And with that confidence they returned.

They had courage now. Third point, they returned seven miles

back to Jerusalem. They didn't like, oh yeah, whatever we

saw Jesus, Okay, let's go back to it.

The galany no, no, no, they didn't.

They knew the importance of going back to Jerusalem because

everyone was seeking the Lord Jesus.

What happened to his body? People say his reason?

He said to himself, He said to us he is

he will rise again on the third day, and he

appeared to us.

All the more he needs.

They need to bring it back to Jerusalem with no

more fear of the Jews. Hey, remember we said that,

why probably they were they were they were coming out

of Jerusalem.

They could be afraid of the Jews.

But now meeting the Lord, they were no more fear

of the Jews.

They they weren't afraid.

Anymore to go back there because it's such an important

message that they are bringing right. No more fear, because

they had clarity, they had confidence.

Their hearts were burning right.

They met with the Lord and they knew that this

is it right, and they brought this message. And they

had courage to even face the disciples, even if the

disciples were to school and they're saying, what you're talking

nonsense or what. No, they had courage because something real

happened in their hearts. Out of the abundance of their hearts,

they were just bursting out their experience.

With the Lord.

Right, Yeah, this also can be applied. Okay, this, this

kingdom principle can also be applied also to those For example,

now we were talking about like a discipler towards a disciple, right,

how Jesus was discipling. Hey, for those who are being disciples,

the disciple can also do the same like clarity, confidence, courage.

For example, if you are going through a tough time,

you need some clarity. You have some questions about certain things,

maybe about the church or something you don't understand. Maybe

you are here from another country. You want to understand

something about this country. But you are suffering yourself. Please,

don't suffer yourself. We are here, Okay.

We are a church. We are a church, We are family.

We are here. You know, I'm sure you know some

of us here. Get to know us. If you do

not know, we are happy to get to know you.

Right, Clarify, go to raise your hand, right, you need help,

Just reach out to your homes leader.

If not, you are not in the homes, be part

of the homes. Okay.

Clarifi glad, clarity, so that you have confidence and courage

to do what is right. Okay, right, you do not

know where it's homes. The next when his next homes, Oh,

we don't know, ask your home leader or he will know. Okay,

we will know.

Okay.

And for those of us who still don't know when

his homes download the church calendar. How to get the

church calendar? Ask your homes leader. Okay, clarify, clarify, very good,

this is kingdom principle. Okay, let's practice it even amongst us, right,

And I just want to share testimony, a very quick

testimony as well, even this week, you.

Know, past the Canada. Actually he he not.

Just shared this this kingdom principle two weeks ago, but

he has already been sharing even before this.

But this this.

Because it was brought up again, I felt that this

is something that I need to start practicing.

Also clarity, confidence and courage.

So what happened was even this week, this Friday in fact,

so and also maybe before Friday as well, some of

my cliques were just talking to me. Hey, they had

a lot of questions and they were that there was

some complaints about certain process in our team. Then I'm like,

because certain exceptions were becoming certain exceptions were becoming normal.

Which weren't supposed to be. So there was some complaints.

Isn't it like this? Isn't it like that?

I'm like, let's get some clarity. I remember the word

of God. The word of God sets us free when

we apply it. Right, So I remember clarity, confidence, courage. Okay,

let's do this. So I got my coliques together. I said, okay,

let's clarify with Boss. Okay, what is the way to go?

Okay? So I arranged a meeting with Boss and everybody. Okay.

Finally on Friday, we sat down and we had a

good talk okay, and I thank God for a good boss.

And he was very open, and he was very honest

and very humble to hear and explain again.

Right, and it's good.

Right, And we all had the confidence. And those that

were in the meeting who had questions was now more

confident because the questions was already clarified. And because they

had the confidence, I could see in their faces, like

eyes were so bright and littered, and they had courage

to even to speak up for what is right. Right,

if someone in another collique who didn't do what is right,

at least we can speak up or maybe escalate or

escalate in a good way. So that we can all

go together a line to move forward as a team.

And I'm so glad that I did it.

And you know what, after the meeting, when we came

out of the meeting, I was even sharing this.

I was so surprised why I shared it, but I

was so surprised to share this kingdom principle to that

colleague that had complained, now clarified, had confidence and courage.

They said, yeah, no, I think I know what to do.

I say, good, because with clarity comes confidence, and with

confidence come courage.

I actually say that all to her.

Wow, you can actually apply this in your life at work,

in school, anything, even in your home, your relationship with

your friends.

So important.

This is a kingdom principle and it's a you know,

I feel it's a truth that can set a lot

of people feel like what it did to my colleagues,

you really we felt so liberated. We're like, yeah, it's

good that we clarify the week and we can move

forward in the coming week.

So it was such a good time.

And I really feel that in everything that we hear

the Word of God preach, when we apply it, it's

so liberating and it's so like we can move forward right.

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