Disciples of Jesus Bear Much Fruit | Olivia Leong

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Jesus himself was the example of love, example of washing

each other's feet to serve each other.

Remember, right.

And then we also talk about the good Samaritan. How

we remember about who our neighbor is?

Right? Next life? Right?

And we remember about the story of the beggar in

the restaurant. Remember the story next line? Yeah, okay, yes,

So these were the points that we had on the

second part from Matthew chapter twenty two, verse thirty four

to forty, which it says Jesus said that you shall

love the Lord your God with all your heart, with

all your soul, and with all your mind.

And this is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like, you shall love your neighbor

as yourself.

Right.

So, and then we talk about like the points, who.

Is our neighbor? What is love? From First Quarantians chapter thirteen, right.

And also we talk about world's wisdom and God's word right,

the comparison of it. Then we talk about, of course

the story of the beggar at the restaurant next light.

Yes, so I shared a story about this crazy.

But yeah, God is good. God is good, and he's

working in our hearts. He's making us stronger. Right, Okay,

So now today are we ready for potry?

Yeah, that's good.

Okay, let's go potry diesel. Disciples of Jesus ba much fruit.

Repeat after me, Disciples of Jesus bare much fruit.

A man? All right? Okay.

So we will be reading from John chapter fifteen, verse

one one to it. So this is the main scripture

for today. John chapter fifteen was one to eight.

Yeah, you can turn to it if you have your bibles,

all right.

I shall be reading from the NKJV version John chapter fifteen,

verse one to eight. It says that I am the Vine,

I am the true vine.

This is Jesus.

Okay, right, Sorry, Before I continue to read, just a

little bit of a background from John chapter fifteen. Now,

Jesus when he was speaking, right, if you have your bibles,

and your bibles will have like all the.

Great words, right.

And the background about this scripture is that this is

the last words of Jesus Christ to his disciples before

he is going to be lad to be crucified. Okay,

So always think last words for someone who's going to

die or going to live this earth or yeah it's

gonna yeah, going to go through a big trouble is

very important, right, important words, right, and you want to

take note.

And he is like telling.

His disciples because it's so important, because when he leaves,

he knows that with the words that he will tell

his disciples, it's so important and for them to carry on.

Okay, So this is very important.

John chapter fifteen, Verse one, Jesus said, I am the

true vine, and my father is the vine dresser. Every

branch in me that does not bare fruit he takes

away in other In other words, it also says in

my Bible he lives up. Okay, he lives up. Every

every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he

lives up, okay. And every branch that bears fruit he

prunes that it may bear more fruit. Amen 's three,

you are already clean because of the word which I

have spoken to you.

Verse four. Abide in me and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it

abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide

in me.

Verse five.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who

abides in me, and I in him bears much fruit,

for without Me you can do nothing. In other words,

it also says that without abiding in Jesus we cannot

do anything that will last, anything that is eternal.

Okay. Verse six.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast

out as a branch and is withered.

And they gather them and.

Throw them into the fire, and they are burned. Verse seven.

If you abide in Me and my words abide in you,

you will ask whatever you desire, and it shall be

done to you.

Hey, it's a secret promise of God. Hey, verse seven.

If you have not highlighted it in your Bible, you

can do it right now. If you abide in me,

I shall repeat again verse seven. If you abide in

Me and my words abide in you, you will ask

whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you.

Hey, Hey, hey, hey, highlight, highlight, highlight, highlight. Okay, that's

verse seven, verse eight, verse eight.

You can also highlight this very important verse eight. By this,

my Father is glorified that you bear much fruit, so

you will be my disciples. A man God bless the

reading of his word.

Amen.

So, just to break down for us this this scripture

from Chapter fifteen, verse one to.

Eight, right next Life.

Okay, yeah, so that so today's main scripture is actually

from verse seven to verse eight, but for the context

of it, we have read from verse one to verse eight.

Okay, right next Life. Okay, So John chapter fifteen.

It's so important to abide in the vine because Jesus

said that I am the true vine. In verse one,

it says, I Jesus is I am the true vine.

That means there will be or there could be. There

was probably vine that are not true.

Right. So that's why Jesus had to say that I

am the true vine, and my father is the vine dresser. Okay.

So, and Jesus he he wants his people to know

that he is the true vine, and he wants his

disciples to abide in him. A very good reminder for

all of us, if you're a believer of the Lord

Jesus Christ, be reminded again that it's so important to

come back to God again, to abide in him, to

draw from him. What is he really trying to say

in our time and in our season, in the challenges

that we are living in today, It's very important to

come back to God again. I am the true vine

right to abide in Jesus.

Right. It's very hard to see, but there was actually

a writing.

The vine is the vine is the one that's grown,

the branch that's growing from the bottom up, that's the

true vine.

Okay.

And then the branch that branch out there, it says, believer,

the branch.

Okay, okay, yes, okay.

So this is the vine right, the vine right, the

true vine okay. And we are called to abide in him.

Okay.

And I'm going to spend a bit of time here

because this is so so important before bearing much fruit.

Okay, it's the source of it. Okay. Abide okay. This

in fact, this word abide it.

Has I have also shared this in the first part

of this series that we talk about abiding in God's word. Now,

just a reminder again, abide in Greek is called mayor

no okay, man no. Everybody saying with me, man no,

man no okay.

Abide.

Abide is to remain okay, to remain In reference to

a place, it means to tarry to sojeurn or not

to depart okay, or I like to to translate it

to not to give up okay, not not to depart

don't give up from from abiding, right, abiding, to stay,

to continue to be present, to be held, kept and continually. Okay,

there is I truly believe there is something about just abiding,

just staying this.

You know, you know, you know I've been you know,

during my.

Campus this, I've you know a lot of people around me,

my campus friends. Then okay, then that a lot of

people use to jump from church to church, right, yeah,

but my leaders in ex church was encouraging all of

us that actually, you know, abiding, you know, staying in

a church is not wrong.

Okay, it's not wrong.

And you know, it's like a stone that is not

always rolling will be collecting moss.

Is that a saying to that again? Yes, rolling stone

gathers no moss.

Okay, yes, so I always remember a rolling stone gathers

no mores. And I really appreciate that that that encouragement

to abide, not just abide, not just abide in the church,

but also to abide in God. And I find that

very beneficial for me personally, right and also for me

about abiding even in my workplace. So just in case

if you did not know, I have already worked in

DHL for now seventeen years, still abiding, okay, so abiding

in extra abiding in my company, abiding in the Word

of God.

Abiding, And I gather so.

Much moss in a way, if you like to say

that so much benefit, so much that I could still learn.

I mean it's like never ending. If you ask any

of our DHL colliques here, never.

Ending, never ending.

It's okay, it's okay, So abiding is so much to learn?

But because okay, okay, next the next point. Number two, right, abide.

Men also talks about in reference to time, to continue

to be, not to perish, not to perish, not to

die or not to give up, or to last, to

endure okay, true time okay, okay, for a person like

for a person to man no, to abide means to survive,

to live on okay verse sorry. Number three, Men also

talks about in reference to state or condition.

He talks about to remain as one, not to become

another or different. Abide to be the same person, to

be consistent.

I thank God that he is the same God yesterday, today,

and tomorrow. He is a god he abides okay, man, no, right, this.

Is his characteristic and I appreciate that.

Right.

And he's calling his people, he's calling his sons.

And daughters to follow after him, to abide, to be yes,

to be more.

Like Jesus, to be more like Jesus. Right, to be

more like Jesus. Right, and also the second part.

Okay, As you can see at the bottom that Meno

also talks about to wait for and weight one.

In this generation, we don't like to wait. Agree yes, agree.

Yes, I know, right, like we like instant nodles or

my my, my kids love instant nodubts. Everybody, I'm sure

some of us love secretly yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah.

We we cannot wait.

We must have the fastest car, if slow, slow car,

family car, cannot don't have the power one, don't lie,

don't lie, you know, must be fast, must be there

like you know, the fastest you know, yes, everything must

be fast fast yeah yeah, but you know, this generation

must learn to wait. In fact, it is actually difficult,

I must admit also, it is very difficult to wait.

No thing in our lives encourages us to it. You

agree or not?

Yes, right, even when we are sick or when we

are recovering from something, from an injury, we will find

it so difficult, right, It so difficult to wait to recover.

Sometimes it takes months, sometimes it may take years.

Waiting time, right, and in fact, God is also encouraging us.

If you are in that waiting period, don't fred Okay,

it's a time where you can learn something. And probably

God is speaking to you, right, be encouraged, brothers and

sisters that he wants to speak to you, and he

wants you to learn something about abiding, about waiting, about

being still right and yeah right, and even in the waiting,

sometimes we will tend to want to take charge. You know.

Sometimes when we are abiding in you know, waiting, sometimes

we want to say something. Sometimes we wonder, like you

know it, like you know, we cannot. We cannot keep

the silence for too long. We must say something. I

must admit, as girl, as women. Now we just have

to say something one yes, you know, no, we cannot

have silent period, agree not agree on yes, yes, okay, okay,

I see some nodding here some once I'm smiling, yes, yes, okay, yes, okay.

I'm not alone, okay, all right.

Yeah, So you know, in our lives there is like

you know, nothing encourages us to it, but the word

of God calls us back to abide in Him. It

is so important and even in our huddle meets right

pastor also remind us to wait upon him. All right,

So just the next like how to abide in Jesus,

how to abide in God?

In fact?

Yes, the word of God says in Isaiah chapter forty,

verse thirty one, there is this promise that says that

they who wait for the Lord, in fact this weight,

it's like abiding as well, wait for the Lord. Abiding

in the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount

out with wings like egos. They shall run and not

grow weary. They shall walk and not be faint.

Amen.

Right, brothers and sisters, if you are in this waiting time,

be encourage. The Lord wants to strengthen you from the inside.

But it requires us to wait to abide, right, So

how can we abide?

Like okay, okay what wait? Wait? Abide means to do what? Okay?

Oh yeah, this.

Word wait weight also talks about like you know, you

know a lot of us like to the ladies and

ladies are with long heven like.

To read right rading braiding, Yeah, yes, and it takes time.

Also, yes, I know the weight In Isaiah chapter for

thee just now, we read that weight talks about weaving together.

So in this waiting time, right, God wants.

To weave us. Also we weave.

That means we are bind binding ourselves with God to

know him, to really hear his heart. Okay, so here

how to abide in God? Three ws Also at our

huddlemat we also talk about this worship. Worship is not

just about singing songs. Worship is a lifestyle worship. It's

not a performance like what we did today, right, It's

not a performance. Worship can be at home as well.

Worship also talks about a sacrifice. What is that sacrifice

that you want to bring before God as you abide

in him? Hey, abiding in God requires sacrifice. That's an

act of worship. That's where the if you remember Abraham

when he sacrifices his son, Right, that's a sacrifice of worship.

When we worship. For example, for me to abide in God, it.

Takes me to sacrifice my sleep. Okay, I need to

wake up really early because other time of the day,

there's no other time. So the only time that I

can make is early in the morning before I start

my day.

So it requires my sacrifice.

So that is worship also, right, worshiping God, thinking about him,

meditating on his word.

That's worship unto God, thinking about Him.

Even throughout the day when I'm busy, I'm reminded of

different verses in the Bible. Sometimes I do have stickers

on my desk as well, like reminding me Versus that

I shall hold my tongue, I shall be patient, and

things like that.

Bible Versus reminds me.

And when I remember the Bible Versus, when I meditate

on it.

I worship God right, worship God.

And God requires us to worship him in spirit and

in truth.

Very important.

The Holy Father God in the Bible, it talks about

Father God, Who are seeking?

Do you know that God seeks us?

He seeks us. We don't just seek people, don't just

seek God. But God seeks us. He seeks our hearts.

And he seeks worship ers who will worship.

Him in spirit and in truth. So let's be reminded

to worship God in spirit and in truth.

Right.

And when we say in spirit and in truth, truth

talks about the Word of God. Spirit talks about the

Holy Spirit. Okay, who the Holy Spirit is? That's why

we need to wait upon him. That's number two wait right,

that's what I say.

Just now.

We can't wait a bide, need to abide and wait.

Wait means to you know, like waiters.

Waiters. You know, like waiters, they wait upon the customer.

Right.

And waiting is also how do you say a non

active active word? It requires yes, it's an active yes, yes,

waiting it requires also energy and you need to wait.

You need to be alert.

One the customer says something you must take not write

it down or yeah you remember, but yes, a short

pencil is always better than a long memory. Okay, not yeah, wait,

wait upon the Lord right. Wait and maybe the Holy

Spirit is speaking to you something again, Write it down, Write,

write it down, journal it.

Journaling is very important. Journal it o Holy Spirit speaks

to us. Journally it.

Wait upon the Lord right, Walk in the spirit. Okay,

you will understand that walking in the spirit it also

walking in the spirit fights against the flesh. The flesh

and the spirit doesn't come together like water and oil. Right,

it cannot mix together. Flesh and spirit is always at war,

and we need to walk in the spirit.

Okay, how okay. We will read later okay.

In the Bible verse, later in galations, but always remember

as we abide in the Holy when we abide in Jesus,

in God, right, we want to know him, right, many

of us see the Holy Spirit as a power.

Right, we want to use the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit,

please heal me, Holy Spirit, please do this, Holy Spirit,

please do that. Yes, yes, Holy Spirit can.

But the problem with this is we always want to

use the Holy Spirit as a power.

But he is a person.

When we know the Holy Spirit as a person, we

want Holy Spirit to use us. Okay, right, So it's

important to know the Holy Spirit not just as a power,

but know the Holy Spirit as a person so that

Holy Spirit can use us. Okay, always remember okay, right,

So next next part right, so abide in Jesus. The

next slide, right is to bear much fruit only in

that abiding with the Lord. That's why I have spent

I have spent a few more moments a larger portion

of this time to talk about abiding because it is

so important. We need to focus in abiding so that

we can bear much fruit. Not focusing on bearing much fruit, yeah,

and focusing on the bearing much root because the abiding

will produce the fruit. So important to have have that remembrance.

Sometimes we always tell, okay, you need to be more patient.

You need to be more patient, or you need to

be more loving.

But how can they unless they abide in the Lord?

Right?

Okay?

So yes, very important. Yeah, even for ourselves. We will

always expect ourselves. Oh why can't I be more patient?

Why can I be more joyful? Why can't I be

more self contrued? It's only in that.

Abiding in the Lord, abiding Jesus.

Okay, So that's that's where bearing much fruit comes about.

Let's read in Gallations chapter Yeah, next night you can

see the verse Galaxians chapter five. If you have your Bibles,

you can turn to it. Gallations chapter five. Let's read

from verse twenty two to twenty six. Also look at

the screen. It says that, oh from verse sorry, okay,

Let's read from Galatians chapter five, verse sixteen. Okay, yes, okay.

Galicians chapter five or sixteen. It says, I say, then

walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the

last of the flesh, for the flesh lasts against the spirit,

and the spirit against the flesh. That's what I say

just now, right like the Holy Spirit and the flesh

cannot come together.

They cannot come together.

Right, And these are contrary to one another, so that

you do not do the things that you wish verse eighteen.

But if you are led by the spirit, you are

not under the law verse nineteen. Now the words of

the flesh are evident, which are adultery, phnication and cleanless luteness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,

outbirds of wrath.

Reminds me of my kids.

Okay, selfish, ambitious, sorry, dissensions, heresies, and we murder, drunkenness, rivalries,

and the like of which I tell you beforehand, just

as also, just as I also told you in time past,

that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom.

Of God wow Verse twenty two.

But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,

long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such

there is no law. And those who are who are Christs,

have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If

we live in the spirit, let us also walk in

the spirit. Let us not become considered provoking one another

and being one another right. And do you know that

I believe personally, I believe the problems that we are

facing in our world today reveal the lack of the

fruit of the spirit. It is said, but there is

still hope because the Church is still alive today. Right,

That's why we are here, still existing, still breathing. We

are not all called up to heaven because that's what

to be done. Right, Thank God for this solution, which

is the fruit of the spirit.

Right.

Yeah, we have so many things like just now we

have read just now on so many things.

Of the flesh. Right right.

And if only the Church or every believer of the

Lord Jesus Christ, every disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ,

bites in the true vine and produces much fruit, man,

the world can truly be a different place.

And it shall be even as declared this in faith.

Amen, right, yes, okay, right, And when we disciples of

the Lord Jesus Christ, bear much fruit next light, then

people will eat of this fruit. People will taste of

this fruit, people will experience of this amazing fruit of

the spirit from.

Us, and they will glorify God in heaven. Right.

Matthew Chapter five, verse sixteen says. If you can see

the verse on the bike on the screen, it says

Matthew five or sixteen says, let your light so shine

before men, that they may see your good works and

glorify your Father there in heaven. People needs to see,

people needs to taste, People need to experience this which

is very lacking in the world today. It is only

from this fruit of the spirit that they will be

able to experience and then glorify God in heaven. Right,

as we are all in this our forty days prayer

and fast. Right, there's this a devotion that we have

been reading in X in the Book of X. Right,

so I like to draw examples of these tree stages

like we saw just now, abiding in Jesus, or rather

abiding in God, bearing much fruit, and.

God being glorified. Yeah.

Next, like there's actually okay, Yes, I wanted to say,

glorifying God. That is our ultimate aim as well. Haber

Cook two fourteen. Haber Cook two fourteen says for the earth,

let's read together, ready, one to treat for the earth

will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord as the water covers the sea.

Amen.

If we like it or not, how it is in

the world today, it shall come to pass. Right, people

will glorify God in heaven. The whole earth shall be

filled with the glory, the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord as the water covers the seed, right, and

let's be part of this, Okay. So let me draw

examples from the Book of X chapter thirteen, verse forty

two to forty nine.

It's amazing, Okay. When I read with this.

I read this is really really encouraging X chapter thirteen.

If you have your Bibles, you can turn to it.

I shall quickly go through this, okay. Chapter thirteen, verse

forty two. It says that, Okay, so remember this part.

Of the story.

If we've been following the devotion right for forty days,

pray and fast, Okay. In this where where we have Paul, right,

we have Paul and Barnabas. Now they have been sharing

the gospel, right, Okay. Now we are at verse forty

two of chapter fourteen. Okay, so this is the reaction

of the Jews.

Okay.

There were a mixture of people in the congregation when

Paul and Barnabas was sharing the gospel. There were Jews

and there were gentiles, okay, all together that verse forty two.

So when the Jews went out of the syneagou meaning

to say oh after worship, surveys after everything is done.

So when the Jews went out of the synegogue, the

gentiles bag that these words might be preached to them

the next Sabbath. Right, so the gentles wanted Paul and

Barnabas to come back next week and come and share again,

right verse forty three. Now, when the congregation had broken up,

meaning to say, when everybody had gone back home, right,

many of the Jews and devout proselytes, proselytes are the

uh Greek Greek converted to Judaism. Okay, these are proselytes, Okay,

there are there are the gentiles.

In other words, okay, yes, they followed.

Paul and Barnabas, who's speaking to them, persuaded them to

continue in the grades of gods, meaning to say, uh,

there are some Jews. That there are many Jews, and

there are some gentiles right, converted to Judaism.

They followed Paul.

So after after it's like after worship service, right, everybody

go back, But this there's a big group of Jews

and some proselytes. They followed Paul back and continue to

talk to Paul after worship service. After the service, right,

but then Paul tells the people Paul and Bannabas tell

the people to continue in the grace of God. This

is this is something very supernatural. I don't know why,

but when I was meditating on this scripture, this was

like a key right. The Paul and Barnabas was telling

the people before next week, before I come back next week,

continue in the grace of God. Right, continue in the

grace of God. I was still meditating, and I'm still

meditating God. What is this continue and this word continue,

It's a keyword. Continue, abide, continue in the grace of God. Continue, Okay, Continue.

So Paul and.

Barnabas encourage the believers to continue, or rather they will

not believers then yet, but to continue. Hey, pre believers

also can continue. Can abide in God? Amazing, Wow, revel Okay,

continue in the grace of God verse forty four.

On the next Sabbath, which is the next.

Week, almost the whole city came together to hear the

word of God amazing verse forty five. But when the

Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and

contradicting and blaspheming. They opposed the things spoken by Paul

verse forty six. Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said,

it was necessary that the word of God should be

spoken to you first.

But he's talking. They are talking to the Jews.

But since you reject it, the judge and judge yourselves

unworthy of everlasting life.

Behold, we turned to the gentiles verse forty seven.

For so the Lord has commanded us that you should

be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

Was what the age?

Now, when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and

glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as

had been appointed to eternal life believed Amen, Verse forty nine.

And the word of the Lord was being spread throughout

all the region.

Amen.

You're talking about missions, right. It's missions month. Hey, it's

missions month. We are still a missions month. We are

reminded today to continue to abide, to continue in the

grace of God in his presence, continue to abide in

the true vine.

Right.

So, yes, okay, next light, So just breaking that down,

you can go back and meditate.

On this, right.

So, just the script from the scripture, we can see

that in X chapter thirteen to forty two to forty three.

Yes, so the believers, the congregation.

Was was hanging out with Paul and Barnabas even after

worship service. Okay, right, I guess that time they were

they have a lot of timeline, so they were all

hanging out, you know, after lunch marketing with Paul and Barnabas.

I think, right, so abiding, right, abiding.

And then it was at verse forty three, at the

second part of verse forty three, where Paul and Barnabas

was encouraging the Jews and even the Gentiles to continue, right,

continue in the world, in the in.

The grace of God. Right.

Hence, something might have happened between the continue when Paul

asked them to continue and the last the next week

when the whole city came. There must be something that

had happened. Cannot just suddenly the whole city came. There

must be something that was being done in between. Maybe

it's not written, but there must be something. I believe,

truly believe that it's something so supernatural. Maybe during the

abiding time, the continuing of the grace of God, right,

the believers probably shared the word of God with people.

Hey, did you know last Sunday what happened? What happened?

Right?

And they they brought the whole city the whole city.

Came right, right, Hey, this is something that God is

encouraging us to do as well. Okay, yes, And then

of course we can read also at the end in

verse forty four to forty nine that you know when

when the Gentiles heard, hey, salvation is not only for

the Jews, but it's also for the Gentiles.

Hey, it's also for us.

And they were rejoicing and they were they were glorifying

the word of God, they were magnifying it. They were

saying great things of God's wonderful word, right, and they

were so happy. So, hey, did you know that salvation

is not just for the Jews, but it's also for us, Yes,

for all of us, right, the whole earth, right, for

the whole earth.

Everyone, never one excluded everyone.

Okay, so yes, so yeah, So just just an example

of this scripture is so amazing. Think about it. God

is working even in our myths even today. Yeah, He's

probably giving an answer to some of us who's probably

finding an answer or asking God for something.

So let this be an answer for you, my brothers

and sisters.

All right, So just want to share a bit of

my story very quickly. So just want to share even

today is Missions Missions month.

I want to share with us my.

Missions feel okay to the every This is my week

day picture. Okay, my week day missions feel okay. And

I'd like to share this because I want to say

that I am not just a full time mom. I'm

not just a full time employee, but I am a

full time believer and disciple of the law Jesus Christ.

I follow Jesus always today, always, Okay.

I sing the song every day.

I don't just sing the song, but I live it

out today always Jesus, I follow you, okay.

So let this be our anthem. Every day we wake up.

Jesus today, always Jesus, I follow you.

Okay.

So this is my mission's field every day. The moment

I wake up, I open my eyes, I'm already in

my missions field.

Okay.

Firstly with my family. And you can see my mother

in law is there. That's Andrew's mom if you're not

seeing it seeing her before. So that's Auntie Amy. That's

what we call her, Okay, I call her.

Mama, all right?

And yes, and also in the picture in the middle,

we just took this on Friday this week, so Friday's

are actually our team that comes to the office. So

we celebrated our team manager's birthday. He turns yeah Fourteennine

fe Yes, he's probably the oldest among all of us.

And you can see the rest of us, they are

quite young, yes, okay, right, and yeah he's he's yeah,

so we celebrate together. So we we have so I

deal with these people. And actually there are a few

who couldn't make it to office on Friday. But yeah,

so I have these people as my missions feel people, Okay.

And they are of different race, they are of different countries,

they are of like different beliefs, right, and yeah, we

are called to be missionary, so I'm called to be

an ambassador.

Right. We just came out from missions conference. Right.

We are called to be ambassadors to shine his light

for God. Right, So yes, I am there right on

a weekday. So on the right side, the most right

of that picture is now netball.

Okay.

So the Hasha Olympics, our company have this annual spots

they right, so I am. Yeah, practices are starting and

our tournament is in October.

So we are practicing.

So and I always ask God even in that abiding time.

That's why it's so important to hear from God, Abiding God,

what is it or where you want me to go?

Holy Spirit? I want to go where you lead me, right,

So I I and for just to share, I have

been in this, this this game netball for now three years, okay,

but every year it's all different people.

They will shuffled the people. Okay.

So the people it is always not the same, or

sometimes they are the same. So I knew I know

some of them, but some of them are new to me.

Right.

So this was just last week Thursday night or from

eight to ten pm netball. Afterward, I'm like, oh God,

if this is missions for you, God all the way, God,

I'm like, oh, so come back. So anyway, yeah, so

this is missions feel for me on a week day, right,

And you know that I cannot do all this by

my own strength.

It is truly the work of the Holy Spirit.

And He gives me the strength to do it, just

to meet with different ones and in fact, just abiding

in the office, okay, continuing in the office every day,

just being in that among the same people on a

constant basis, people slowly open up to me. In fact, okay,

so these among these people, there are more people. Okay,

I cannot feel the screen. If not, it will be

too much. So there are people that even ask me

even in this past week. So just also just to

share with you quite we have gone through in our domain. Okay,

in our domain, that has been quite a number of

deaths that has happened, whether is it among our colleagues

or even their close family members. So I've visited a

lot of them as well in their you knows, you know,

in different things. And one of my clique came to

ask me even this week, like, Olivia, what because they

know I'm a Christian, they know that I'm a believer

of the Lord Jesus Christ. So they asked me, so,

what do y'all do as Christians? After after someone passed away,

So I had the chance and they asked me, like

why do y'all do such things like do you do.

Any rituals or anything?

So I explained, we believe that if they believe in

the Lord Jesus Christ, they will go to heaven. You know,

I had the opportunity to share with them about eternal

life and the hey, I mean, if I'm not there abiding,

who would they ask?

How would they know? Right? So even the same.

Abiding has a lot of benefits waiting or continuing. I mean,

of course, if the Lord leads you otherwise, it's okay,

but remember to abide in him and to hear from him, right, Okay,

So yeah, just just to share with us that, hey, missions,

our missions feel can also be our every day the

people that we meet every day in our families as well,

in the cliques that we have, right, the people.

That we meet every day.

Right, and you know that God can use us mightily

even in that waiting, even in that continue Sometimes it

can feel my day, I can honestly say it can.

Be can sometimes feel a bit boring.

But I say, Holy Spirit, you show me, you reveal

to me, and truly enough, every other day there'll be

someone asking me about something.

And you know, I carry my Bible to work. I

put it on my desk.

People who still ask me about my bible, be why

or bring your bible?

Yes, bring your bible.

So yes, you know when we continue and God has

a reason for everything, and God will lead us one

life at a time. Maybe it's not like the full

Gospel at this one time, but you know, slowly because

different ones of these people know me and they're amazed

at me, like why would.

Chinese girl play netball.

I don't know, but anyway, just saying I'm just saying right,

like like why Olivia, would you come to all this

every day?

Nobody does that, that's crazy, but yes, but yeah.

It's a sacrifice. As why it's worship and to God.

It's a sacrifice. And I say, I give it all

to Jesus, like, yeah, let's make our everyday omissions feel

okays as I also do. But it's not perfect that

they are days that are not perfect. They are days

that are are conflicts. But I always ask Holy Spirit

when I abide in him, I know there is this

fruit like we've read just now right, the fruit of the.

Spirit, And that becomes real. And when I have.

To display humility I have to say sorry to somebody,

or I have to forgive somebody, it reveals something.

Hey, wow, God, people still forgive people.

Like what in you know, who in the world now

will humble themselves to do such things like someone will

be like the fruit of the spirit, self control, kindness, goodness. Yes,

nowadays is very rare to see this. Shall we all,

like you know, rise up to this occasion to bear

much fruit so that the world may know and glorify

God in heaven. But firstly, of course, to abide in God.

So important. Okay, So next light, So just a closing,

I can invite the extreme rs up as well. So

in closing this is this is something I want to

live with us. A reminder again, a call to action

is to abide in Jesus right in order that we

can see all our friends, all our love ones glorify God.

It's only in our abiding in God, abiding in the

true vine. Okay, So let's continue to remember if you

can go to the slide where we talk about the

weaving of the hair, right, abiding in Jesus, worship, wait.

And walk in the spirit.

So this one I want to live with us, and

I want to encourage all of us to meditate upon

this our word even as we go back even this week. Right,

let's meditate. Let's let's see how we can set a

time or maybe a place where we can even come

to that secret place to be with.

God and just to abide. Amen, to come back to

God again. Amen. So let's rise to our feet. Amen.

I'll let h Extreme to lead us in a song

and we'll see how the Holy Spirit will lead us.

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