Where is our Confidence (Disciple First) | Ps Kenneth Chin

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We hope this message will light up your day.

Where there is clarity, there will be confidence. This is

a statement that X Church was given by the Lord

many many years ago. Where there is confidence, there will

be courage. If you were a bandager, if you were

a boss, if you were a leader, a pastor, and

your people that you send out can't complete the past

or don't know how to do the task, or don't

do the task well, it should go back to the

leader and the leader should ask himself was I clear?

Because when you give clear instructions, when you give a

clear vision, a clear mission, there will be confidence that

will come from clarity. And when you have confidence, then

you will with courage carry out the task. I realized

that people don't have courage because they don't have confidence,

and usually they don't have confidence because they don't have clarity. Tea,

how many of you have decided that you would go

to YouTube to look for instructions for something that you're

not clear about. Many of us at RAND that to

fix something, you know, UH, to set up something, we

go to YouTube. And my wife recently, you know, she

was changing our water filter and she thought she remembered

how to do it, but because we only changed it

once every six months, she forgot. And so she said, hey, Kenneth, come,

you know, help me. I said, I I don't know

how to do this. You know, I said, Remember we

had roles and responsibilities in the house, you know. I

pay for the house, you know, and you do the filter.

She said, yes, I know, But you know, I thought,

I thought, you know, just to ask you. Maybe you remember,

I said, no, I'm not paying attention. I'm just drinking

the water. And then so both of us went into

YouTube because YouTube is very clear. They got video. What

what are you looking for? You're looking for clear instructions

that can go A B C one two three. And

that's how we get confidence to operate something that's very expensive.

We get confidence to know how much strength to pull

or to push because the video said that's the way

it's done. So more of us in this life needs

clarity because if we don't have clarity, we will not

have confidence. And without confidence, you will not be courageous

enough to carry out what you need to do. So

I hope you understand that that's why we could plant

ex cyber Jaya that many years ago, maybe I think

now seventeen years ago about that, right, seventeen years go,

sixteen seventy years ago, ex Hiba Jaya. We had confidence

and most of them were students, if not just graduated.

Why because there was clarity. I know what to do,

I know why I'm here in cyber Jaya. I know

who I'm trying to reach. So we that clarity comes confidence, confidence, courage. Okay,

So I hope I've nailed that pretty well, all right,

and I hope you get that clear. So next, Slight says,

confidence is powerful because you are able to do things

that you didn't even know you could do. Confidence has

allowed us to plan a church in the UK. When

God first told me the plan a church in London,

I was thinking to myself, are you sure? Because usually

it's the other way around, right, And all these years,

you know, the UK or the US or Australia, you know,

you wait for people from there to come to do

great things in Malaysia. But for Malaysias to go out

and do great things, we go, oh no, no, let

the Caucasians do it, Let the whites do it, you know,

let those with bigger currency do it. And of course

the ring. It is so weak compared to the pounds.

That's why it's called pounds, because it's heavy, you know.

But when God gives us confidence, there is almost nothing

that's impossible for us. So you want to know about

confidence a little bit more today, Let's look at the scripture.

In the fear of the Lord, there is strong confidence,

and his children will have a place of refuge. I

like that. The fear of the Lord is important. When

you fear God. The Bible says, not only confidence, you

will have strong somebody is strong confidence, strong confidence, and

his children will have a place of refuge. I like

this promise because most of us are afraid that we

will fail. But when there's strong confidence, you will have refuge.

So he's a promise. When God gives you strong confidence,

he also assures you as his children that you will

always have a place of refuge. You will be therefore

safe when you are given confidence from the Lord. Next scripture,

being confident of this very thing, that He who has

begun a good work in you will complete it until

the day of Jesus Christ. Amen, God has begun a

good work in all of us. Do you believe it?

All of us? Everyone in this room. God has begun

a good work, but he doesn't just begin. He will

complete it. So we are all still work in progress.

Ah by God will complete and we will be more

and more like Jesus. Isn't that our goal to be

more like him? So let's talk about the first confidence.

I have two parts today, and I want to talk

about the first one. First confidence is our Christianity. Sorry,

I think there's a little bit of a typo there.

All of Christianity, I should say, I should try to

correct that. Now, all of Christianity, if you're taking notes,

I'm thinking notes to now, all of Christianity is found

in one name. It is not found in a denomination.

He's not found just in a church or a church building.

Is not found just in doctrine or in religious teachings,

or in your dressing or in the in the cross

you wear around your neck. It is not It's not

found in your heritage. Oh my father is a pastor,

Oh my grandfather was the bishop. He's not found there.

God made it very simple that even children can not

only understand, but follow, because it's not in a practice

only or a principle only. It's in a person hallelujah,

that Christianity is found in a person. You don't just

follow a religion, you follow a person. And in him

he's found all the authority and all the power and

all the salvation that you and I need, all the healing,

all the prosperity, all the joy, all the peace. He

is the Prince of Peace. It's him a man. Now,

let's very quickly read some scripture found in First Corinthians

chapter two. I would like to say that this is

one of my favorite scriptures. And I told my wife

that if I go before her and she, you know,

erects a tombstone, that she can put this scripture somewhere

in the tombstone. Because the last ten years I've kept

going back to this portion of scripture because I keep

being reminded by the Holy Spirit that this is an

important reminder for me as a servant of God, but

also for all of you. Let's read it together, and I, brethren,

this is Paul the Apostle writing, when I came to you,

did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom,

declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determine

I underline this whole sentence. I determine not to know

anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I

was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Can you imagine the apostle Paul being in weakness, in fear,

and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching

were not with persuade received words of human wisdom, but

in demonstration of the spirit and of power, that your

faith should not be, should not be in the wisdom

of men, but in the power of God. Now, let's

talk for a moment, as XTV just switches to the

next slide. Let's talk about confidence in a very honest way,

right now, Okay, can I be honest? Can we be

just real open? Where is our confidence really? You know?

I think about talking with people who have left churches

and gone to other churches. Right Sometimes they're let in

a good way, lead in a god way. And I

was also let out of sib k L. Doctor chewing

Chi was once upon a time my senior pastor. I

went from FGAKL two SIB. I love FGKL and I

wouldn't have left, but God says go. And I was

offered to be the youth pastor of Sibkl, and I

love Sibkl so much. The two pastors, pastor doctor Chewing

Chi and his wife, Pasta lie Chu, were so dynamic,

so loving. I never wanted to leave Sibkl. And then

the Lord says, remember the vision that have given you.

So I left Sibkl and started the church with two people.

I told the members of that church in Sibkl to

the young people, because I was a youth pastor, I said,

and I grew the youth group from twelve people to

one hundred and twenty in three years, and all glory

to God. But I told all the young people you

are not allowed to follow me. The last thing I

want to do is to break young people's hearts and

also to break the church. It's very important to understand this. Okay,

the Lord told me, don't do it. Don't allow anyone

to follow you. Some of them wonderfullow. I said, no,

you are to stay. Only two people follow me, Elder

King Yap and another brother called Ryan, who went to

start his own church after that. Many were seven years later.

And so these two followed me out because they followed

me into as ib as well. And so in fact,

in fact, when it came to them, or so I

told them, you better pray about it. Don't just follow

me because you like me. You got to know because

church is where God places you. So when I talk

to people who have left, okay, not just from X,

but from anywhere. Let me just be very honest with you.

Sometimes I agree with the way they left or the

reason they left. Sometimes I go because when I ask

them for the reason, they will tell me this other

place I went to. The worship is more alive, the

part master is uh more uh practical, Uh his his,

he's funny, he connects. The teaching is deeper, right, and

so on and so forth. Do you realize, without even

thinking too much about it, do you realize that when

you say this and that abc whatever the reason is

that you have left, you are actually also saying that

in these things I put my confidence. Think about it

for a moment, because as I go through the slides

of you, I just want to remind you today that

your confidence and my confidence should be in Jesus, meaning

that if He is still here, then so should you.

I don't know how how sometimes you sell your church

when a friend comes and hey, you know, do you

like your church? Of course, I love acts, and if

you give all the reasons why you love acts except Jesus,

I fear that your confidence is in all the things.

Because God can take away things. He can take away lights, sound,

he can allow a pandemic to happen, and He took

away everything. Some big churches with big sound systems told

me there are churches who were like white elephants and

they had to reconsider what is it we are building?

And now more and more senior paces are telling me

we want to be like you. Grow small. You know,

they have four thousand people in their church, eight thousand

people in the church, and some of them have already

Fga is one of those. When I went to speak there,

they took me for lunch and the leader said, we

want to do what you have done. I think the

pandemic has taught us a lesson growing small. Can still

grow while in pandemic, but you're not allowed to go

into your big building. You understand. We rethink where our

confidence is. So even the ex church, I pray that

people ask you why you're here. You say, because Jesus

is here. He is here, He's alive, and every Sunday

when I come, he does something in my heart. He

changes my life. You heard the testimony just now right.

Our God, our God, his name is Jesus, our God

is in the business of transformation, with or without music.

Think about it for a moment. Many of us actually

like eloquent speakers. I think if he, if he or

she came up here and was not at least decently

eloquent with his English language, and he just went I,

good morning, my name is and I uh I. You know,

you think, you think for a moment, because Paul the

Apostle is saying that he did not come with eloquence

or speech. Paul the Apostle, So I wonder how because

because a lot of times we chase after speakers. Also,

for many years, I've made it a point not to

invite speakers from overseas to come and do our conferences.

I made it a point not because I don't like

speakers for overseas. I tell you they have been a

blessing to us many, many times. But for many years,

many many years, Malaysian Church has been so caught up

with Caucasian speakers, so caught up with white skinned speakers

that means like if you're white, you're right, because they

can't with their language. They come with their accent. They come.

You know, okay, now I know there's a white brother

sitting here, and you go, oh no, no, no, no, no, okay,

we're friends. But you know, I had to say it

because for years, when I was growing up, I don't

know why Malaysians and maybe even Southeast Asians and maybe

Asians always look up to the white men. And I

tell you, looking up is all right, But when they

look up, they look down on themselves. They look down

on their national speakers. They look down on speakers that

have their own same skin color, and they are the

shape of their eyes thing they ding ding bing me.

I needn't asshole, no, hello, right, we look down. That's

why I'm telling you right now, I've studied it a

little bit, not a lot, but I'll study it a

little bit. God is allowing revivals to happen outside of

white men. Even God is trying to give us a message.

You know, where revivals are happening career Africa. It's moving

away from the white lane. I'm telling you because for

years and years, and it's not that they're wrong, is

that that we are having a wrong perspective. So I refuse.

I say, what message are we giving to our young

people when we always celebrate only one color? And so

if we bring them, it's going to be good. If

we don't have them, it's not going to be good.

If we bring them, the fee will be two hundred

ring it if it's you fifty ringid or so, I'm

not sure, but I want to pay you with me. Listen, listen,

you know that's why I come here so seldom people

that just don't invite me back. Speak the truth, and

truth will set you free. Are you also with me?

Very important? Our young people are looking up. They're trying

to catch the message that they're older ones are them,

and so we need to celebrate more of our local

people so that there when the younger people say, oh hey,

that guy that looks like me can speak too wow,

he can heal too wow, he can do marvelous things too.

God wants to celebrate because out of every tribe, tongue,

and nation, we were standing before the Lord. He didn't

say we were standing behind a different color. We will

all be celebrated, every town, tribe, nation. Are you always me?

This is very important? So we've heard about colonization and

we say, oh we Merdeka, are we independent? But think

about it for a while. So our vers may be

independent on the outside but still colonize on the inside.

Is the way we see ayway, okay, So I love

my white friends. I tell you when I was invited

to New Zealand to speak in the conference major conference. Uh,

I was invited once and twice and three times and

ten years in a row. But the first time I went,

I tell you, I was so scared, you know, because

I've never seen someone like me on a Caucasian stage.

And who was I? Who was I sharing the stage

with a guy called Russell Evans, founder of Pleader Shakers, Right,

I'm so nervous, you won't believe it. And then I

thought to myself, No, I'm gonna try the Australian accent.

Maybe they like me more. I'm gonna see whether there's

a there's a joke. I can tell that it's more

you know, yeah, not so Malaysian. But I tell you

what the Lord told me, is it, Kenneth, You're not

to copy anybody else, be yourself. They invited you, Kenneth Chin,

go up there, and I will use your broken English

to heal broken hearts. I'm not giving you excuse. I'm

not giving you an excuse that you, oh, don't perfect

your english or don't perfect or no, I'm not giving

you an excuse to not be excellent. But I'm telling

you right now, God can use the lack of eloquence,

the lack of academic background. He will still use the

poor to put the shamder rich and the weak to

pull the shamder the strong or the foolish to put

the shamder wise. I also do mean I hope that

you are encouraged today, including my dear brother here yea,

he loves Malaysia so much. He's here right he's he's here.

Where is our confidence? Because I'm telling you right now,

if your confidence was just in eloquence, and because the

guy has got accent, and because I don't know, I

mean sometimes I'm looking at the past us, you know,

in different places and different countries. Right now, you know

they're really working out. The body is getting bigger, and

their shirt is getting tighter, and there's a certain style

now skinny jeans. I tell you what, I have not

put skinny jeans on because you guys will run away.

You'll be speaking by and closing your eyes and say

save us Lord. Too much is being revealed. I tried

skinny GE's one time. Two of the legs can't even

go one into one, okay, jokes aside, I try to

put you know, tight shirt on. Really revealed different things.

I was very wavy, you know wavy, but you know

there's a certain style, and you and I, if you're

not careful, can like styles. I see more and more

speakers and worship be this way shoes, so you know,

because I also watched the videos and somebodys the viewers coming. Oh,

the style a style. Turning off all the lights is

a style. We keep the lights on because I think

that's what heaven is. How many have you expected to

go to a heaven it's very dark. Jesus is so bright.

The Bible says he there's no need for sun because

He will be the sun. So I want to you know,

when I put all the lights on, I'm just training

all of you for heaven. Now. I'm not putting the

other churches down that are using you know, less is best.

I'm very careful not to put other churches down because

they are all accountable to God themselves, and so are

we Maybe they are all beeeing God. Maybe God did

say turn off the lights. I don't know, but he

didn't tell that to me. And we won't just copy paste,

copy paste, copy paste. We must be obedient to his voice, faithful, amen,

every Okay? So is your confidence in having no lights?

Is your confidence in the sound system, because we both

about it, right, confidence in your top guitarist, top drummer

where has the drums? Don't even have drums, car horn

so you can't even spell it. And she's cart John

you know cart Jonathan? You know? Okay. I hope I'm

getting to you. So if Paul the Apostle think about

this and then I'll move on. Sat here and mumble

and stumble, because he said I have no eloquence And

what else did the scriptures say? I came I was

with you in weakness. No preacher wants to show you

you weakness because why would you listen to them? Right?

We want to see style, biceps, shoes, nice combed hair, No,

maybe a nice chain round the neck. I don't I

don't know what what what see Jesus said about join

the Baptist He told the people, what did you come

out to see? Powerful Jesus is always challenging us. What

did you come out to see? But I was with

you in weakness, in fear. I wonder how many of

you will go up to Apostle Paul and advice say no, no,

a possible. You know, don't be afraid. He's telling you

he is afraid and in much trembling. Can you imagine

a preacher here trembling. That's why they have this big

bull pits. They have this big bull pits. I don't

know why we don't have it, because big bull bits

help cover the fact that your knees are having close fellowship.

But he's he's here with much trembling. So how many

of us, and this would be my last example, but

how many of us we would like stand up and

go to the toilet when Apostle Paul is speaking, or

scroll your phone not knowing that he is palled the

apostle whose letters you are living your life by. But

he's a good writer somewhere else, pause it, they say, whoh,

his writings are amazing. But his presence, you know, his

physical presence. I think he was bald, he shaved and

took a vow. I think he was shot. Are you

assuming me, Jill yesday when you brought up that he

spoke and spoke and spoke and spoke until a young

man died, right, I mean just laughing at it. He

could have been a boring preacher until young man he

fell off the third floor died. I'm joxa side, but

you know what I'm saying, he could have been boring.

I mean, would you have walked out of apostle Paul. See,

the thing is the danger is we can be walking

out of the very thing that God is gifting to

you just because our confidence is in all other things.

So boring doesn't mean God is not there. No where

is our confidence. Really, Jesus said to him, I am

the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes

to the Father except through me. Amen, He's not religion,

He's not denomination. Is Jesus? Is he here? Is he here?

Those of you who are nil, stay on try us

for a few more weeks and tell you why, because

you will find that Jesus is real in this place.

Jesus is real in this place, and we are following him.

So disciple, first, the theme that we have this year

is really Jesus first. That's it. Jesus first, in all

of our decisions, in all of our lives, in all

of our choices, we want to please him. Somebody say, amen, Now,

the devil is not afraid of any other name but

the name of Jesus. Really, he's not afraid of your doctrine.

He's not afraid of your ability to memorize scripture, because

some people can memorize but not use it. In fact,

the devil himself uses scripture. Matthew, chapter four, What do

you say this, what do you say, throw yourself down?

Because isn't it written right? Psalm ninety one, verse eleven. Well,

the devil didn't quote that. Some I said, like, he

didn't quote the actual verse, But he said, didn't the

Bible say? Or it is written right that He will

give his angels charge over you, to keep you all

your ways, and in their hands they shall bear you up.

So verse eleven, verse twelve, side by side, in their

hands they shall bear you up. Lets you dash your

foot against the stone. The devil is using it. And

if you didn't know your word, you'll probably be caught.

I think there's no one here in this room that

knows the Bible more than the devil. Because why he

has many, many, many centuries to have memorized it. Were okay,

so he's not afraid of which church you belong to

if the devil comes, you know, I'm ex church. No,

I think he's gonna laugh, ha ha. No, I'm from

this church. I'm from this denomination. Do you know who

my pastor is? Listen, ladies and gentlemen, before I draw

this towards you know the last lap. Your church didn't

die for you. Jesus did. Your pastor didn't die for you.

Jesus did. Your Bible didn't die for you. Jesus did.

Can I go? I can't go on, but you know,

for the sake of time, you know you can add

into the blanks. Your heritage didn't die for you. Your bishop,

bishop pope didn't die for you. If you're not sure,

go ask him. Write a letter, Dear Pope, did you

die for me? There was only one? Only one. That's

why Paul said for I determined not to know anything

among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified to me.

That is enough. He says, I don't want to know

anything else. I don't want to know. You know color

and culture, and you know what you do here in

this church where you jump when you sit down. You know,

I just wanted to know, come out Jesus, because only

that name can drive demons out. At the name of Jesus. Philippine,

Chapter two, right, verse nine ten eleven. Only at the

name of Jesus, every niche shall every time confers that

he is Lord, no other name. I think it's x

four twelve that says, no other name under Heaven given

among men by which we must be every Okay, let's

talk about holy communion very quickly. Do you know why

we say holy covenient? What did Jesus say twice? He

said it within the very word that we use almost

every time with the communion, which is found in the

First Corinthians, eleven, verse twenty three, threty six. For I

received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you.

The Lord Jesus, on the same night in which he

was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks,

he broke it and said, take this in my body,

which is broken, for you do this in remembrance of me.

That's the first time. In the same manner, he also

took the cup after supper, saying this cup is the

new covenant in my blood. This do as often as

you drink it in remembrance of twice? So why do

we do it? Why do we do it in remembrance

of me? Is not the rabina, It is not I

don't know even what we're eating there, proper dumba or whatever?

Is it proper dumber in that in that particular, you know, ah, yeah,

nicely cut for you. Some places actually have to say

or CHAPARTI you know, yeah, I've been through some places

a Chapparti're serving CHAPPARTI oh, I love that. I love that.

I just wish the dream was dull goes an, you

know what I'm saying. I remember a child, especially its child,

saw his mother sick and knew that communion was powerful,

went up to the mother and said, mom, take communion.

And he bought coca cola because he didn't know better.

He was only six years old. Put coca cola into

a big cup, not communic big cup and audio biscuit,

audio biscuit. I don't mind it for communion, hallelujah. Maybe

had pull your and lick for the cream in the middle,

And the story was told because the mother was healed

within that hour. So is God looking at Rabina or

is he looking at No, It's not is the remembering

of him? Is the making sure that he comes into

that situation, comes into that place, that problem, that pain.

Are you all with me? Very very important? I take

community every every morning. I took it this morning as well.

Every time I'm finish, I'm finished with the Covenian emblems,

I will ask Elder Shelley, who's my pa? Elder Shelley,

have you met her before? My pa for twenty three years?

So you know she puts the thirty thirty days worth

of communion into envelope. I take it every day, remember me.

But can I ask you one question? Why did Jesus

ask you to remember him so often? Why did he

think that we will have amnesia? Like you finished today

and you go home, you're in your car. I can

remember I remember Jill worship leading, because that's the phenomenon. Seriously,

I've never seen Jill all these years. She's been from

a campus student, no, I am you when she was

studying to be a doctor until now she's a mother

of three. Two days the only day I took a

video and sending my wife, I said, I said, I said, wow.

And of course the fact is that there was no

worship le there today, so you stepped up to take

up that role this season. So what this season? Not

just today regularly? Oh and she's quite good at yeah, yeah, yeah,

I can see the passion. Yeah Jill, Wow, my word,

a woman of many talents. That also means that other

people here please rise up to the worship beaters. Come on,

come on, you got has to do so many things,

you know. Okay, please, if you want to worship me,

go meet butza Jack, you tell you what to do? Okay,

all right, you just had to wait one year. I

was kidding, kidding, well, you Adril is a man. The

look that like that just means really in uh Tagalog okay,

because you know I have some Filipino blood in me, okay,

praise God. So yeah, so so so it's so it's

so good to see. But do you think we also

remember a doctor? Jill was? She bled? Then we go

home and then the next week, Oh yeah, it's about

Jesus because we forget No, I don't think so for me,

it's every day, right, so there, I forget him yesterday.

It's not Let me tell you what I think it

is because in my time of recovering from my injury

and in this message of where's your confidence? Do you

know that we can put our confidence in so many things?

But Jesus that he is trying to say to you,

I know that sometimes we get it right, sometimes we

get wrong. But when you do get it wrong, you

take communion and it's like Jesus calling out to you.

Remember it's me. Oh no, I like the pastor where

he's a great preacher and I'm going to follow. Remember

it's me. Oh, I tell you that preaching was so

good it changed my life. Oh it is it is?

It is that preaching. I need to buy that that

that that the message. I need to hang it on

my wall, you know, because that message change Jesus. It's me.

Oh I think it might be my giving. No, my giving,

I give very generously. Is my giving that has made me?

It's me. I think in my prayer life, my prayer

life has really increased. You know, I'm fasting every week.

It must be my twenty one is me. It must

be fun. I come from London, you know what I'm saying,

And so it's just to poop my friend. I come

from this is where it all began. Church of England.

You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.

Yeah, it's me, but you know I'm I'm.

The son of a Bish. It's me, but you know,

you know it's I'm from the Catholic background. I'm from

the Catholic It's me. Don't you know who I am? Don't.

I don't need to know who you are. I need

to know who he is. Do you know which Bible

school I came from? It's me? Do you know I

have a doctorate? It's me because it's very easy to forget.

Do you know who stress I go to? It's the

Happening Church in Kale. Now it's he is the Alpha, Ed,

the beginning Endy, the first ender. It will be him first,

it will be him last. When you appear before God,

everything is stripped away. You know nothing, no degrees, no denomination, nothing,

just you and Jesus. And all you need is Him

to get through the pearly gates. Amen. The angels up

there don't want to hear anything else. Oh tell me

you know the doctrine of justification and give it to

me in King's English? You know, And after you've done

the doctrine of justification, go into the doctrine of sacntification,

and finally the doctrine of glorification. And the man who

died on the cross next to Jesus, who had no baptism, nothing,

no church membership, nothing, nothing, nothing, And the Angel says,

by what right do you have to come into heaven?

He says, the man in the middle cross said I

could come. Hallelujah, Come on today. I promise you you

will be with me in Paradise. All you need is

one word from Jesus and you're there. What did the

man do at the cross? He just acknowledged the Lord.

But he did nothing as far as Christian doctrine is concerned.

That you're with me, didn't even go to church, didn't

serve the Lord, didn't even give any tides. That doesn't

mean that you shouldn't know. Are you also doing me?

This is very important? Is Jesus next night. Don't need

to remember anything else but him. That's what Communion says

to you, number two. Remember it's all about him. Amen,

number three, Remember to give him all the glory when

you take communion. It's him, it's him, it's him, only

him in him. By him, through him, for him says

the next flight. Okay, I've got a rush. Now the

second confidence. Now that you have the first confidence and

is Jesus, and Jesus lives in you, and He is

the way truth in life, and no one comes to

the Father except through him. I want to give you

the second confidence. Is important that you understand this disciple first.

The whole essence of discipleship is found in two words.

Follow me. Yes, that's the whole essence. Many churches have

asked me to come and do a talk with them

and speak to them about discipleship abou huddles. And I

tell you why because many leaders, including pastors, are actually

afraid to use these two words, because, actually, to be

honest with you, I was afraid when I first started,

because how many of you are confident enough? You know?

Like I look at Jack. Now, Jack is under my care.

He is one of my huddle members. And I've had

the privilege of hurdling him. I say privilege because I

look at how God has used it. Amazing and so

I'm very proud of Jack, Pastor Jack, very proud of him.

And I have twelve men like that. Okay, Elder King,

young and so on and so forth. All right, but

I have to be bold enough to say Jack, follow me,

or in First Corinthians eleven, one imitate me as I

imitate Christ. But you know a lot of people love

leaders don't dare say that because we don't see our

lives as perfect, don't see our lives as inspiring. Nothing.

But it doesn't matter, because it doesn't matter what you see.

It matters what he sees. And he said, this is

the way to do it. You must make disciples. And

when you want to make disciples, you have to say, Jack,

follow me. I'm not perfect, but follow me. And Jack

has to say to someone else, follow me, and then

someone else who say, someone else follow me. But many passers,

when I speak to them, I said, oh, how do

you do, Pastor? I said, the first thing I have

to do is Jack, follow me? Is you actually tell

a young man to follow you? I said, that's not

the full sentence, the full sentence as I follow Christ.

I don't promise Jack I'm perfect, but maybe he can

also learn from my mistakes, from my weakness. But many

pastors who say to me, past I don't even dare

say it. And to a older man even worse, because

some passers are like maybe in their forties, but they

are men in the church at seventy. And yet you

still have to if you want a disciples, say to

seventy old man, I might not have experience like you

in business, in work, or whatever it is, but I

follow Christ. And I asked, if you want to be

part of a disciple, shape follow me. You don't have

to learn from me how to be a dad or

how to be a boss, but you can maybe learn

from me how to be more like Jesus. Avery. Okay,

So this is a second confidence we all must have

in a disciple. First theme, you must you must translate

the confidence you have in Jesus into what does it

mean to you? Aby? Okay, So the next scripture, imitate me,

just as I also imitate Christ. You know that. So

I got a few more slice left, and I'll pray.

What confidence did Paul have to even say imitate me

as an inmate Christ? What was his confidence? Because he

also had to have a confidence. So I wonder very

very quickly, because I don't have time. Accept the Tree.

Remember the story accept the Tree where the man who

was lame from birth seated at a gate called Beauty

the Beautiful Gate. Remember this, Okay, you can go back

and read it. Actually retriever was three to four, eleven

to twelve. I put some of the portion of the

scripture there. He saw Peter and John about to go

into the temple ask for alms, and fixing his eyes

on him with John, Peter said, look at us. What

do you say? What do you say? Look at us?

Did he say, look at Jesus. Now there are many

times those who are into like, oh, I just follow Jesus,

I just follow Jesus will have trouble trying to say

to people, look at Us. But that's what Peter said first,

because the man who is lame at the Beautiful Gate

can see Jesus, and your friends and your colleagues and

your schoolmates can see Jesus. So you've got to be

confident enough to go to your workplace and say, I

am the Jesus in flesh and the Jesus that lives

in me that I put my confidence in. I live

his life out. That's why it's so important you have

a good testimony wherever you work, wherever you go to school, wherever.

Even if you're a housewife homemaker, is so because the

neighbors are looking. They don't know Jesus. So you gotta

be confident to say this is part of God's plan.

Because many of us go like, oh, look at us.

Should I say look at us? Should I say look

at me? Should I say follow me? And you feel

a little bit scared. But I'm telling you this is

God's plan. Look at us. Now. As the lame man

who was healed held on to Peter and John, all

the people ran to Okay, I missed the whole part

that he was here, and he went into the temple

with Peter and John leaping. What praising God? Right? How

does the song go walking and leaping and praising God?

Walking and leap And that's how that's how we sing

the song straight from scripture. Because the man who once

couldn't walk, looked at Peter got healed in the name

of Jesus. Shortest prayer I've ever heard. So always pray

long prayers. That's because I want to heal. Know this

guy just said, in the name of Jesus, Christ of

Nazru's rise up and walk. Short prayer when Jesus is

the center of it all. Short prayer when you are

in the center of You know, maybe the prayers get

longer because sometimes you are very dependent on our eloquency

of prayer. We make it so eloquent that the newcomers

who come I don't want to pray because, oh you know,

I heard Andrew pray and he was praying Bahasa and Mandarin.

How will I ever measure up? I'm kidding. We love Andrew,

don't we? Because his brother is Peter? So why does

Puzza can pray for ten minutes and it's all kings

English and he has got justification in their signification glorification?

How am I ever going to measure up? God loves

simple prayers, but sometimes we make it so into he

he answers eloquent prayers. I ask you in me, look

at us? And so this man is holding onto them

and they all Now, all the people in the temple

are looking at Peter and John right now. Listen, So Peter,

when when Peter saw it, he responded to the people

men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or

why look so intensely at us? I love that in

just the short post of scripture, you see two opposites.

Number one look at us? Number two, why look at us.

Are you're very confusing? Ah, this Christianity very confusing. What

do you want to do? Look at you or don't

look at you? I want you all to be confident

to know there's a time to say, look at me,

and then after that give God all the glory. Stop

looking at me. He might have started with me, but

now they are given you Christ. Follow him and his name,

says X three sixteen. So follow him through faith in

his name, follow me has made this man strong, whom

you see and know he has the faith which comes

through him, has given him this perfect soundness in the

presence of you all. So the next slight says, the

real problem is the real problem is not look at us,

but continue to look at us. That's what you and

I need to avoid. Hey, we're okay with this. When

I came in here first and I started by saying

good morning, hello, and all that right, you're looking at me.

If you didn't need to look at me, I should

be speaking from the back next time. All the preacher

should speak on the back and you guys just look

at the front, and you know, no, no, listen to me,

look at me, all right? But I prayed it after

a while as I go on preaching, you are just

looking at Christ. Now it happens, you know, it happens

because the preacher can shift your attention to Jesus. And

after a while, oh, I'm not even I'm not even

thinking about Passa anymore. Although I'm looking at him, my

thoughts have gone on to the Lord. And then now

I'm asking how does this affect me? How does this

change me? Do you understand? But you know if a

preacher comes and then the whole forty five minutes, one hour,

and you still look at him thinking about him. You

know his biceps are flexing, and you know, and sorry,

but you know what I'm saying, It's still me. It's

still me, It's still men there for forty five minutes,

you just got the preacher. And that's why when you

go out, you speak about the preacher. Did you know?

Did you know? Did you know? Did you know? Did

you know? Did you know? You must come next time

he preaches because it's the preacher. But you should go

away after Preacher Finisher is talking about Jesus. Yes, you

can say, yeah, the preature was really really he just

pointed us to the Lord. My life is changed because

not of the preacher, because of the words of eternal

life that came from Christ. And now I'm going home

wanting to follow him, not follow the preacher, because when

we follow a preacher, when the preacher leaves the church,

you might leave with him. I pray that when the preacher,

that your favorite preacher leaves the church, you are still

here because Jesus didn't tell you. So, Jesus is still

Once we are confident in Christ, then we will also

be confident to be used for Christ. Okay, Andrew, I

need your help now. Can you just dig into my

bag and there's a there's again, you can bring it

to me. Thank you so much. Yeah, just in case

cose he's like I can see his nervousness digging into

my back. No worry, you will not see things that

you shouldn't be seeing. No lipstick in there. Okay, fast

one not quick? Why not? All right? I'm just gonna

take one out. Let me see which had I want

to use. Oh, hold this form? Thank you. I'm all

right for now. I'm all right enough. Okay, okay, let

me use my my uh oh, I think I want

the other one, you know, because I'm gonna shake hand

with you, Jack in the bit. Okay, I'm gonna go

to a close so so just I want to just

give you an illustration. Okay, yellow glove looks like a hand? Here?

Can you see? It looks like a hand. Looks like

a hand. Everybody looks like a hand. All right? Is

it a hand? Sure, I'm gonna try. I'm gonna experiment

it on, Pazza, Jack pack, give me a good, warm,

firm handshake. Oh, my word is good man. I can

feel the pool. Okay, uh, let me try to see,

but I can pray for you. Lay hands on you,

come near it, near it? Yeah, lay hands on your okay,

all right. I don't know why his hand keeps slipping

off like some Christians. Do you feel anything any annoying?

Going for any heat? Any heat, at least warmth, at

least warmth? No? No, my word, but he looks like

a hen. Well, let me do something. Question. You work

so hard? Turn around, turn around. I'm just gonna try

to give you a good my such, just a really

good my such because you work so hard. Yeah, okay,

stop sliding off like, let's sap. Come on, But do

you feel it? Do you feel it feels cooler? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah yeah. Sometimes you know, Christians can be coold. Okay,

now they're giving you a good my such on the right,

let me give you a good mysuch on the left. Jack, okay,

all right, oh oh my, can you imagine that my own?

That's good. That's good, that's so good. I'll give you

a back my such as. Okay, all right, he said

that was okay, all right, okay with that, tell me

you can do nothing. You might look like a hand.

You might look like a Christian, look like one who

comes to church every Sunday. The parents are Christian. You

come from a good church, good pastor. Listen. Your first

confidence is what confidence, confidence in Jesus. Once you get

that right now, it's look at me. I want all

of you to make sure you understand this, because when

we shy away from me, then you don't serve the Lord.

But now all I have to have is Jesus in me.

But do you see Jesus. You see the glove. When

you go to the office, they see the glove. When

you go to school, they see the glove. When you

go to college, they see the glove. Don't shy away,

and see no, don't shy away. Say, God, you have

a purpose for the glove. I've got to be confident

in the purpose of the glove, because now that the hand,

the real power Jesus is in me. Listen, listen to

this very powerful statement and maybe actual if you can

put up the next light, which is probably the last light.

The next light just says this. It looked like the

hand but not the hand can do nothing without the hand.

But number three can do anything the hand can do.

Do you hear that? I can. The glove can now

do anything the hand can do. If the hand Jesus

can heal, so can the glove. If the hand can bless,

so can the glove. I can do all things. Thrue Christ,

who strengthens me. I always say with me, don't shy

away from this where you are doing this all this,

look to Jesus, look at us, get your healing, and

then don't look at us everybody. Okay, now Jack, come

up here for one last time. Handshake. Oh my work

said good? Is it better? Yeah? It is better. Can

I lay hands on you? Feel something? Yeah? Okay, you

feel something like fail the hand? He felt the hand.

I love that he may not have felt a glove

because there's no important. You felt the hand you felt Jesus.

So when we come up and lay hands on people,

they don't need to feel you. They ultimately need to

feel the hand. Okay, now last one, all right brother,

Oh bah, holy prey, We thank you have would decide

must balance? Oh you really want to be a blessing

to people. You really want to make a different their lives.

Come on, guys, come on, yeah, you're welcome. They hey,

pasa that you deserve it. Ah, come on, let's give

a puzza jagg ahead and give God a hand. All right.

You can't see the hand, but you can feel it

as long as Christians are confident to be used by God.

Number one is who Jesus want to get Jesus right now,

get yourself right. Jesus wants to appear in your classroom,

in your office. Don't shy away from it. Don't just

pray it. They will see Jesus. Be Jesus, be the

Jesus with gloves on. Because they can't see him, they

can see you. But they will eventually feel him and

receive him and have a good handshake from him, and

they will feel they will know it is not you anymore.

Look at us, says Peter and John. And then finally,

why do you look at us as if we didn't.

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