Submit That All May Know | Pr Jack Ling

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So the title this morning is submit, Submit your assignments,

Submit your work, something your homework. Submit that all may know.

Submit that all may know is this picture of the

dog here. I think it's like the You know, when

you train a dog, you're training to teach it to

submit to your instruction, to your command, all right, Otherwise

it causes a lot of problems. All right. Some of

you here you may have passed before, and you know,

some of your dogs are really disobedient. They're not listening

to you, you because you've not taught it to submit.

So when I taught my dog to sit, and some

of you have done that before, I did watch a

bit of video from what it was the guy with

dog whisperer or is it dog whisperer? Okay, And I

mean I learned it and it worked. So for those

of you who want to have dogs, maybe you can

take some tips as well. When you when I wanted

to teach my dog to sit, I had to push

her down. I had to push her down like the

desert of arrow. And then and then I of course

I give a treat a treat, right, And then after

a few rounds, and then it started to realize, oh

if I do that, you know, because my master's trying

to tell me, sit down, and it's put my you know,

my back down and sit and then I get a treat.

So then after a few cycles, it became automatic and

I didn't have to push her anymore. She would sit

all right, And I managed to we you know, we

managed to because we did have a helper at home

one time, and you know, it was convenient, but you know,

there's pros and concert you know, of doing that. But

one day she had to leave. So when she left,

before she left, just like maybe a month or two

before she left, I realized something because every time we

went out, we kept a dog in a cage, and

then I will help her after we left and close

the gate. She will release the dog so that, you know,

the dog can have a life. Otherwise she'll be stuck

in the cage the whole time we're at work and

at school. So I thought I hit a ready and

I thought, okay, she's not going to be around to

release the dog. I will need to release the dog

and get out of my house. While the gate is

open and make sure she doesn't run out. So how so,

because thank god I've already started, I've already trained her before,

and I know how it works. I started to train

her to when I say in, she goes into the cage.

Uh and uh you know uh and and I figured

out that some some whaler right that even when I

left the cage door opened, she will go in and

I'll say sit, sit in the cage. And as long

as I kept saying sit, sit, sid, she just stays

seated in the cage with the door open, even when

the gate is opened. And then when I start to

go out and I close the gate, then only I

say come, and then she now gets out of the cage.

So after a few drills, because she didn't understand it,

every time I wanted her to go in the case

I have to go near the cage, and then only

she realized, okay, there's a signal, and then she's like,

you know, she would be very playful, not one thing

to go in until I maybe put some food in

or whatever something like that, or I take a slipper

like you better get in if not right. So, but

she was she was so used to that. But then

when I started to train, I say, I need to

tell her to sit and stay and all that, even

when I walk far away, because the moment I move

away from the cage and she's in the doors that open,

you follow me and like they it's time to play

or something. So I did that, you know somehow, all

right with with the with a good treat, You must

have a good treat. If you give normal kebbles, they

might not listen to you, but you know it's like

me and stuff like that. Then you know, you know

those special treats that we buy them. And so long

story shot, it worked and then she now manages to

sit and stay while I get out of the house

and then close the gate. And then although I was

the one doing that training, mostly my wife was. So

I told her this is how you do it. You try,

and then she started to know how to do that

as well. And I think my kids are so able

to say in sit, then I can open the gate

and come in and things like that. Okay, so thank god,

thank god. So now we don't it's okay, we don't

have a helper, but we can release the dog and

come back home. And she's never run out before. Okay.

So anyway, that's my story about the dog, and so

I put the picture there. Okay, right, children, you can write,

you can you can draw as well. I put some pictures. Okay.

It's from Jeremiah twenty seven all right, and a little

bit of twenty eight to twenty nine as well. Okay,

I'm gonna talk about this thing submit that all may know.

Let's read from the Bible. All right, I'm gonna read

verse one and two. First, yall can open your bibles

to children. If you have your bibles, you know where

the Book of Jeremiah is, all right, Okay, you have

well digital bibles okay too. We do want to encourage

that you have a physical copy of the Bible because

it's very powerful to do that. You've heard some stories

from Olivia. You know, it's just bringing the Bible to

work and people are asking are you Christian? All right?

So I was the one people to ask us that lover,

you shouldn't you shouldn't be ashamed though, all right? Okay,

So I want to encourage you because that itself, it's

like it's a tool of evangelism, you know, people coming

to know the Lord just because you have a Bible

with you, okay, all right? So anyway, Jeremiah twenty seven, okay,

now verse one to two, so I had it, did Okay,

now I got it right. Here we go the yoke

of nebuk Neza. In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah,

the son of Josiah, King of Judah. This word came

to Jeremiah from the Lord. Thus the Lord said to me,

make yourself straps and yoke bars and put them on

your neck. Okay, all right, that's the verse one and two.

So what do we see here the rain of Zedekiah,

all right, son of Josiah, king of Judah. The word

came to Jeremiah. Okay, And what is the word that

came to Jeremiah from the Lord? Make yourself distinct straps

and yoke bars, and put them on your neck. You

know what a yok bar is? Have you heard of

that before? I don't really know what it is, so,

but apparently it's this thing that you put on a

cow a yoke. Right. I think Jesus did say something

about my yoke is light and easy, you know, Uh,

the yoke they attach on a cow or a horse

or something like that. It's for the work animal to pull,

and there's something that that's connected with that yoke and

it's either for farming maybe or whatever it is to

sort of the cow when it pulls, it's attached. Okay,

So it's it's you know, when when you talk about yoke,

it's a sign of like a servant or maybe a

slave as well. All right, because you're working and you

have someone is telling you something to do, and you're

submitting to this, you know this yok So the first

thing I want to tell you is this God uses

teaching aids. This is really strange because God is trying

to tell Jeremiah, You've got to put this thing on yourself.

And yeah, so you know, God doesn't just talk, just

doesn't say, Okay, now I want to tell you to

do something and give you some verbal instruction, but he

actually wants people to see what's going on. And so Jeremiah,

where is this thing? He looks a bit strange, all right,

and he needs to tell someone this message and he

needs to show them something, okay, which is this yoke.

I put a picture of possibly what a yogo would

look like, all right, That was on Jeremiah, and I

want to tell us this that God, when he wants

to speak to us, and when he wants to teach

us something, he actually shows as many different things and

signs to actually speak to us. The Bible is one

form of his message to us. But how many of

you here you've also experienced many different things from God

that he's actually telling you something, all right. It could

be something visual that you see, all right, could be

you know, from nature. Maybe some of you you've seen

like a sign board, a billboard or whatever it is,

and it's actually speaking to you. Right. Maybe you read

something and then suddenly something jumps out at you and

you just realize, this sounds like God speaking to me.

Maybe someone you know that he sent to you and

to verbally tell you something, okay. Or maybe it's an

experience that you're going through and you know God is

trying to say something to you through that experience. He's

using aids to speak to you because he knows you know,

we are you know, we are all. We all learn

and we communicate in many different ways. You know. How

many of you here you know when when you were

in school and when the teacher just keeps talking, you

didn't get it right. Some of you, dealer, because some

of you very good at listening, because that's your way

of listening of learning. But you know, I'm in the

education line, and we actually do a test with our

students of how they learn. Sometimes they learn by visuals

and why we need to show stuff pictures and stuff

like that. Sometimes when you bring in object lessons and

do demonstrate. That's why science experiments, right you see, Oh

now I know what the book's saying. I see the

frog being opened up here, and all right, that's the

part is real, okay, And so these things help us

to learn. And sometimes they need to experience something, right,

So same thing with us. We all need many different

ways right to be to communicate, to receive communication. And

that's why God let us go through stuff, see stuff,

experience stuff, feel things, because then we really get the message.

So how many of you here you know you're going

through something, you're experiencing something. You know that you know

you're maybe even family members or friends are going through something.

Maybe God is actually trying to tell them something. All right,

I want to encourage all of us here to have

a perspective and see that because maybe you can help

them interpret what they're going through all right, Like Joseph

went had dreams, right, and God spoke to him through dreams.

And God spoke to me through dreams many times, all right,

to get married to Jill. I actually had dreams, right,

So I don't know. Maybe not of you will have dreams,

but different things. God speaks to us. He wants to

speak to you. And so whatever you're experiencing, whatever you're

going through, whatever you're seeing in life, or at this moment, asked,

what is God trying to tell me? All right? And

you will get a message from him, all right. If

we are not interested that, surely we won't get the message.

That's that's how. That's the thing about us learning and studying.

If we are not interested, we won't we won't learn,

won't get it. No matter how much communication is coming,

we won't get it. Okay, are we all okay? Here?

All right? All right, move on, move on, all right?

So of course, I let's move on, all right. I

wrote here. I wrote here humility. Humility is what helps

us to learn. Right. If we think we know it all,

we won't understand it. We won't learn anything. But we

if we humble ourselves and say, okay, I don't know everything.

I feel very smart, but okay, maybe I don't know

every thing. So if we put that attitude on, then

you will learn something. Even in it, in the simplest lesson,

you can learn something new. Okay, All right, now, let's

read verse four to five. Are we there's five? He says, here,

give them this charge for their masters. Thus says the

Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, this is what

you shall say to your masters. It is I who

buy my great power and my outstretched arm. Have made

the earth with the men and animals that are on

the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems

right to me. Okay, possia for a while, This very

powerful verses here, because God is saying something about himself. Here.

What is he saying? It is I who buy my

great power. He's trying. He's telling us if you never

knew God had great power, He's telling us here that

I have great power. It is by my great power

and my outstretched arms. His arm is not short. He

has outstretched arm. He can reach. He can reach whatever

it is that you can't reach. Okay, and what does

he say? Some more? He made the He made everything.

He said, he made everything earth man, animals, all right,

And like this last part here is also another thing

he's saying, I give it to whoever it seems right

to me. Okay, what does this mean here? Sometimes we

see you know, there are leaders, there are people in charge,

but he's saying, no, no, no, no, no, they're actually

not in charge. I put them there, even the silliest,

the most evil person that you see leading. Right. You

don't like that person, you don't like him or her,

But it's go who allowed this person to be there?

And you're going like what? But you know we are

not so wise. God is wise and he knows what

he's doing. He knows that we need this person there

to annoy us. Maybe why because maybe there's something we

have a problem with and we need to learn something. Right,

how about we reversing? How about you going Ledna instead?

You don't like this person, you think, Jashla, are you

going to do better? Ah? Then after that you understand, Okay,

I understand why this person is like that, because then

then he or she can leader? All right? And God

allowed it. God put the person there in charge. Okay,

so uh we will see someone now I'm going to Yeah,

my point here is this. God is the creator and

he's the master planner. He is creator and he's the

master planner. So no matter what we're going through, we

question it, we doubt. But now the truth of the

word of God tells us that he says that I

am I have great power. I've outstretched Hey, don't look

down on me. It's trying to say, I do have

great power and I am in charge. Don't don't make

don't don't look down on me. God is saying I

am in charge. I put them wherever I want them

to be. All right, yeah, correct, judge, Right, okay, now

we move on verse six to seven. Let me read that.

Now I have given all these lands into the hand off?

Who into the handoff? Nebu Kanza or you don't know

how to say the name? Is it? Nebo Canza? All right?

What does uh? What does vegetails call him? Nazar? Nazar?

Nazarniser Nazar? Okay, all right, anyway, the king of Babylon,

my servant, Oh my, have you did you hear that?

God called this guy who's not a believer, who is

I think, not such a good guy? God calls him what,

my servant? Can you imagine that all right, this leader.

Can you imagine all the political leaders that you don't like?

And God says, my servant, what does that mean? Right?

Didn't this guy kill someone? Didn't this guy you know,

do some horrible act? Took some money, my servant? It

boggles our minds. But God makes whoever to be his servant. Right,

and you might be one of those as well. That

you're you don't know that God is actually using you, right,

God is using God uses can use anyone and everyone,

even if we don't want to be used. That's a fact.

So even if you're evil, God can use you for

his plan. Okay, So might as well be intentional about it.

And Mirus you're saying, okay, use me, I use me properly,

Use me properly the way I should be used and

not I thought I was, you know, I was in

charge and everything. But actually use this for his plan

anyway he's in charge. Okay, So let's let's let's go

to the master planner and say, God, actually, what how

you want me? How you want to use me? Is

there a good way you can use me? Okay? So

this is quite interesting, right, God calling this guy my servant,

and I have given him also the beasts of the

field to serve him. God is giving him so many,

so much power. Okay, all the nations shall serve him. Wow,

all the nations at the time, you know, it was

just there a they didn't know, you know, other lands.

But at that moment, whoever there was around, they knew

that was all and all the nations shall serve and

not only he says, he and his son, his son, okay,

his son and his grandson generations. How is this fair? Right?

God giving power to this guy who is really actually

you know some people call him as evil, and then

give his son someone and his grandson samore and we

all go like, what God, are you there? Does God exists? Right?

That's why you know people question because they don't know

the master planner. He has a plan. Now, well we

until well, okay, until the grandson, until the time of

his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings

shall make him their slave. Ah. This is where we

see and we realize God has a plan. He may

allow this person to rule, and then the son and

the grandson, but finally I will still punish him because

he actually doesn't know what he's doing. All right, I'm

using him to teach some people a lesson, and then

after that I will punish him as well because he's

actually an evil guy, right, because he says at the end, right,

he says, then many nations and great kings shall make

him their slave. All right, everyone, okay, getting something here? Yeah,

So don't be in a you know, thinking, you know,

God is using me mightily and things like that. But

does he approve of it? That's very important. God can

use anyone. God can use you know, a good person,

a bad person. But then actually the most important is

in the end, does he approve of it? Because if

you're being used by him and then you're you you

think you're you're doing all the good stuff, but actually

you're you're, you're hurting people, you're you know, causing problems,

then God is gonna punish you because that's what happens

to neb all right, So check our hearts in this,

check our lives. Let's be used by God. Definitely, let

God use you, right, say, God use me, but then

make sure let's let's do it in a way that

approve that He approves, off, that pleases him. Amen by

his word, by his truth, by his Holy Spirit. Okay,

I'm gonna read on right now, verse eight to eleven.

But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this

nebucadness a King of Babylon and put its neck under

the yoke of the King of Babylon, I will punish

that nation with the sword, with famine and with pestilence,

declares the Lord, until I have consumed it by his hand.

So do not listen to your prophets or your diviners,

your dreamers, your fortune tellers, or your sorceress who are

saying to you you shall not serve the King of Babylon.

For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you,

with the rest out that you will be removed far

from your land, and I will drive you out and

you will perish. But any nation that will bring its

neck under the yoke of the King of Babylon and

serve him, I will leave on its own land to

work it and dwell the declass the Lord. Right. So

were there were profit prophets at that time trying to

say nice things like, oh, no, you won't be suffer

under the king. You know you will be okay here,

don't believe these people. We fight, We fight we go

against whatever is happening. But Jeremiah is the one who

is getting the word of the Lord. And Jeremiah is saying, no, no, no,

you're gonna You're gonna go under the King of Babylon.

And God wants you to go through that, right, and

this this guy is called his servant at this time

at least, right, So you've got to submit. You got

to submit. So that's the word. I mean, let's be

clear of what God is saying and what God is,

how God is leading us. And if that's the thing

that we need to submit to, even if we don't

like it, we just got to do it because it's

very I mean, we all want nice things. We all

want someone to tell us, oh, no, you're not going

to suffer. Everything's gonna be all right with you. You're

going to prosper, everything is gonna be you're gonna be rich.

You know, you're not going to go through any pain

and suffering. Yeah, we all like to hear that. But

is that the truth? And if the truth is that

we do need to submit under a person or you know, government,

or a group or even a church, right that you

don't feel so comfortable sometimes, right because the leaders challenge

you too much and say come, serve, come, do this, come,

do that, come, you know, and you don't like that,

but that if God is telling you to submit, that

we got to otherwise. Right, there's the there's the opposite

of it, which was, you know, the warning is that

those who don't, they're gonna you're gonna suffer even more,

you know, die by the sword and things like that.

That's what it said here. So I want to challenge

all of us here, all right, who is the prophet

in your life? Who is the person telling speaking God's

truth in your life? Listen to him or her because

we're moving into a time of discipleship a little bit

more right in twenty twenty five. Right, the theme that

we're gonna speak on is discipleship, and so make sure

you follow the right person, all right, and then that

person is gonna challenge you, all right, not like thank God, Okay,

I pray not. You won't get any to lead you,

all right, But whoever God leads you to, all right, submit, submit,

and don't fight it. Submit under the yoke. And then

I'll go on somewhere because God has a hope and

a future for all of us He's got good things

planned for all of us. All right, now we move

on everyone doing all right here, we've got to try

and end quicker children thinking notes. Still, okay, right, all

right now, I'm just gonna talk a little bit about

So in verse twelve to twenty two, Jeremiah goes and

tells the king and the Priessa all these things that

God told him to and he warns them, you know

that some of these prophets are gonna lie to you

and tell you all these sweet things and you're not

gonna suffer and things like that. Let's fight them. But

then Jeremih said, no, don't believe them. You will need

to come under the king of Babylon, and at least

for a few years. I think it was at least

seventy years forty to be said with you, I think right. Anyway,

then what happened was in chapter twenty eight. I'm just

gonna do a quick, you know, summary of chapter twenty

eight if you read it. There's this guy called Hannah

and Aya, who is I think one of the well

he calls himself one of the prophets as well, and

he goes and says, no, Jeremiah, you're lying, says, and no,

the truth is, you know, we are going to be okay,

and we can fight and so and then he traumatizes

it by breaking the yoke that Jeremiah was wearing. He said, ah, see,

all right, and God is going to deliver us. He

tells all these things, but he did not hear from God.

So be very careful with whoever that they says they're

hearing from God, all right, and you can see by

their lives whether they actually follow God or not. Right,

So what happened was then Jeremiah, you know, God told

Jeremiah one more thing, saying that, hey, go tell hen

Andaya you know about the lies that he's talking about,

and tell him he's actually going to die. And so

Jeremiah goes and tells him. And then at the end

of chapter twenty eight you can see if you're still there,

and of chapter twenty eight, right verse seventeen. Right in

the same year, what does it say, in the seventh

month the prophet hend and Aya anyone there died, so

the word of God will come true? All right? Yeah,

in the same year, in the seventh month, okay, all right?

And then and then now we move on to chapter

twenty nine. Of course, you know the thing now starts

to happen. You know they're going, yeah, they're yeah, being

exiled right now to Babylon and chapter twenty nine. What

does it say? I want to read from verse five

to seven. This is what God says, all right, to

help his people prepare to be under this king. See O.

God wants to discipline his people. That's why he put

Nebukanza in charge, all right, But he doesn't leave them

to suffer and say like, ah, now learn your lesson.

You know, he doesn't do that to them. He's so merciful,

he's so gracious. He still loves them, and he gives

them instructions of how to go through this pain. All right?

What does it say here verse five to seven, let's

go way? It is build houses and live in them. Why?

How difficult can you do? Is that? Living in them? Lah?

All right? He didn't tell you to go for a walk,

dig a tunnel and go underground. Why he didn't say

all that? It just build houses and live in them.

That's what we're all doing, isn't it. You didn't build

your houses that. You didn't build your house, right, you

just rented it. Live in it right. In a way,

it's trying to say, don't complain, don't be so angry,

live in your house, cook, eat food, sleep well, all right,

that's what he's saying. Here, plant gardens and eat their produce,

plant gardens. Don't be so angry with the lids that

there's a bad place. I don't want to do anything.

I don't want to I don't want to plan anything.

You know, I'm just gonna staff. Right. Let's say, say

eat the produce. Take wives. Ah, those who are not married,

say get married, okay, and have children, sons and daughters.

Take wives for your sons. Make sure your sons get

because you've got to be here for a long time.

You've gotta be here for a long time. So this

is what you should do. Because if you don't know

what to do, don't just stay at the screen. Don't

just have screen time, all all right, to live and

do it well, all right, make sure your sons get married,

Give your daughters in marriage that they may bear sons

and daughters, have children, have grandchildren. Multiply. There. I think

that God is trying to say among themselves, are not

with the baby onions? Okay, And he says he multiply

and do not decrease. Don't give up, because the thing

about them, when they get excelled, they feel like they're prisoners.

They feel like, you know, I'm not part of this

is different culture here. I'm just gonna you know, wine here.

I'm just gonna get depressed here, you know, and I'm

not gonna have I'm not going to live my life.

I'm just gonna let my generation die off here. What for?

This land is not my place, it's not my home. Right,

you can go that way, but God is saying no,

don't do that. It's okay. Get up, live your life,

build your houses, live in and plant gardens. Eat, make

sure you're healthy, take care of yourself. Right, be happy,

even if you're in an alien land. Be happy. And

many of you here, you're not in your home land. Right.

Sometimes you might want to complain and things like that,

So all right, but you can do the same thing here,

all right, because you might be here for a long time,

and it's okay. Be a blessing to the land, even

if you don't like it. You go like you want

to curse it, right, if you want to curse the land,

But but you're living here. Right, better bless it because

through blessing it you will be blessed. Right, you're going

to destroy the land here then you're living on it.

You just destroy your own place. Okay. So anyway, what

else they say here? But seek the welfare all right? Sorry,

always says yeah, right, seek the welfare of the city

where I have sent you into exile. And pray to

the Lord on his behalf. Pray for the land. That's

why pray for Malaysia. And I like it. You know.

Sometimes our our chairperson they all from different countries, but

they pray from Malaysia. They bless Malaysia, okay, because that's

what the word of God here tells us to do. Right.

It is their home as well, and says here, pray

to the Lord. It's behalf for in its welfare. You

will find your welfare when you bless the land. When

you take care of it, it comes back to you

and it blesses you as well, all right, harlen lujah.

And then finally is there a point there? But there's

no point there? Okay. Yeah, God's plan for us is good. Okay,

let me finish reading ten ten to eleven. For thus

says the Lord for Thus says the Lord, when seventy

years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and

I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you

back to this place. God promised that I will bring

you back. You know, for I know the plans is

where the famous verse comes from. For I know the

plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans for

good or welfare, and not for evil, to give you

a future and hope. So God, like I said, he

didn't just leave them to suffer on their own for

many years. He gave them instructions of how you're going

to go through this, and he does that all the time,

even for us here, how you're going to survive your university. Right,

thank you for coming to church. Then you hear God's plan.

And at homes and at through huddles, you know, through

your leaders, they encourage you, they tell you how you

can go through it. And sometimes I love when, you know,

when when our campus students who have gone through life,

you know, they've gone through assignments, they've gone through exams,

and they come up here and they say, you know,

I had a lot of exams to prepare for, but

I continue to serve God, and I continue to come

to church anyway. I didn't skip, I didn't miss, and

God helped me anyway, and I scored for my exams.

So this is stories, all right. They're telling you of

how God worked in their lives. And I believe that's

how God speaks to us through those who have gone ahead. Okay,

and so and what I'm trying to say here is

God his plan for us is so good, and he

wants to tell us. He wants to instruct us and

continue to guide us how to go through our difficulty. Amen,

maybe our worship team can come up. Ready, we're going

to close. Remember, he says, he seek the welfare of

the city. Pray for Pray for the place that you

are at right now. Pray for the church you're part of.

And that's why we pray for church every morning, right

for you know, all the different ones in the different

plants as well. And be a blessing. Be a blessing

where you are, Be a blessing in the church, all right.

Don't just come and pick off the produce. You get it.

It says plant gardens. You should be planting gardens, not

taking the stuff from the garden. Only all right, you

know what the difference is, right, consumers and then those

who actually help out and contribute. All right, be a contributor.

Some of you are new to church, it's fine, okay, Okay,

no condemnation whatever. You're new to church, right, it's okay.

But eventually we welcome you and want to invite you

to contribute and serve and be part of the family. Okay, Family,

we help each other out, right, Family, I wash the dishes.

I don't just put it there. Because we go to

a guest house, they will say, no, gonna just leave

the dishes there. We will clean it for you. But family,

if you're you know your family members leave the dishes

there for you, you're scolding, like wash your dishes? Life? So family, right,

we want to be family here. So we contribute and

we put in our contribution together to serve God, and

ultimately we are part of God's family. Amen, hallelujah. Let's

all be used by God, because you're going to be

used by God anyway, but let's be used by God

for his good for good. Amen.

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