Storehouses - That All May Know | Pr Jack Ling

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Today. The title and children right taking taking notes as well?

Thank you, exkus teachers. I think what you've been doing,

you guys have been doing is working, all right. They

are very motivated to take notes, all right. It's there's

some encouragement okay as they take notes. So that's that's

a good thing. It's good, all right, because that's what

God does for us as well. I mean, there's the

reward all right in heaven. So anyway, today the title

of my message is storehouses, storehouses, all right, storehouses that

all may know. Okay. Our team this year is still

that all may know, and he will continue on a

right that all may know. Will continue on of course

that all may know will always be something that is

that it calls out to us because all need to

know still all right, until the day all knows, then

it's done. It's done, finished, all right. So storehouses that's

the title. So children, you can take notes. You can draw,

so I tried to put some things for you to

is simple enough, I believe to draw, okay, all right,

you know, draw my face okay, all right, storehouses is

the message it all may know. So now, now how

do we start this? All right, I'm going to talk

about famine. Famine. It starts with famine, right, because we've

been talking about, you know, buying your Bible and bringing

your own bible. Bring your own Bible, okay, anyone you

recently purchased a Bible because of this byob thing that

you know, Passandra's traditional face didn't come up. I know

you're brought a bigger Bible, okay, because you know, as

we age, we need bigger lettersa to be able to see.

That's a good one, all right, So yeah, I think

thank god, you know, bookshops selling bibles still around in Malaysia,

still available. I believe some of you buy online, right,

so still available. It's still good. Yeah. And I think

Olivia was sharing about just a testimony of just bringing

the Bible, not not even reading it yet, but bringing

the Bible to work, and that has caused already a

kind of a stir in a good way that people

ask her, is that a Bible? And people can recognize it?

You know, like sometimes I walk around I remember when

was that? You know this one time I just walk

around carrying this thing, and people will look at it

like just holding this thing like that, and people will

look at it like, what's this guy carrying because it

doesn't look like any normal book. Right, if it's how

to train your Dragon, you will see pictures right or

on it, like guru book you know about like how

to how to get back to whatever computers whatever, right is,

it will be all there. But when they see a

book like that and it sees golden stuff there and

and you know, shiny and leather, and then this decided

there's no other book that looks like this. There's this

golden side here. I think it's like to protect the

pages or something, and they'll they'll they'll wonder like, oh,

it must be a Bible or something. Why is this

guy carrying this? Who is he? Right? So that already

will cost something and it's a good conversation started, all right,

So uh, anyway, I just wanted to mention that, all right, anyway, Bible.

So we've been doing that, right Passandra's video has been

on and she's been talking about the famine of the

Word of the Lord, right, and so I just wanted to,

you know, find out a little bit more, you know,

how is that going to possibly happen? Because when when

we say something like, you know, what if the Bible

vanishes from this earth? And there's a movie right that

is trying to show that the whole Bible is vanished

from this earth. I think it's called Eli Book of Eli.

I love that movie, although it'll be violent, but I

love killing all right, But it shows like, Okay, if

possibly that happened, then that kind of situation now, but

I just can't really meaning in my mind's like, will

they actually happen, like the Bibles vanished from the face

of this earth? The Internet stops working, Internet will never

stop working? Right, they love people love the Internet? Right

just that maybe yeah, I mean the apps, Bible apps vanish.

I don't know. It will take a lot to actually

make that happen, So there will be some really good,

big effort to like stop, you know, Bibles. So I

don't know whether that will exactly happen. Okay, I fifty

to fifty on that. But as I read and as

I just studied a little bit, I realized there is

a way it could happen. So let's talk about famine

for a while. So I studied famine because that's the word, right,

famine of the word of the Lord. Actually, the exact

words are famine of hearing the words of the Lord.

Famine of hearing the words of the Lord is the

exact words. That's in Amos chapter eight. Okay, but let's

talk with famine for a while. So I studied famine,

like literal famine. What is famine, right, famine of the earth? Food?

It's famine has to do with the word other word

that you hear. I'm famished, famished? What's famished? Right? Very hungry,

so hungry, desperately hungry. So famine has to do with that.

So it's got to do it hunger. People are starving,

people have a lack of food, maybe even maybe water. Yeah,

So what causes hunger problems? Famine? All right, it's I studied,

and I think generally like the UN or something like

like you know, the World Health Organizing or whatever, whoever

looks into these things. There's two main causes, right, that

causes famine or world hunger or problems in us in

a in a country. One is it's a problem with

the land. Problem with the land, which we can call

bad ground. You know, there's a story of the good

ground right in the Bible. Okay, well we'll touch a

bit on that later as well. All right, so the

land is bad, why could be no, no, it's not.

It's not you know, suitable for planting, and crops can't grow,

could be polluted. It could be no rain, no rain,

no water, no water, sauces than that place you can't

plant anything. It could be man made reasons like war

or you know, something happened, you know, war whatever, like

currently there's a war right in the Middle East. So

that can cause a lot of famine. Like no, food

can't can't grow, agriculture can't take place, you know, and

so and so could be animals, insects, right, just destroying.

So even though your plant it destroys, can't you can't

maintain it. So, of course the Bible tells us a

little bit about background or the good ground. The story

of the you know, the parable of the ground and

the soil and the seeds is that the first thing

was what there was a bird that took away the seed, right,

and so that's got to do with the equivalent of

that is satan, right right, taking away the word of

God from us. So okay, okay, I don't go into

that part. First, I just talk about the physical stuff,

is okay. So one is the birds take away, so

animals are all right removing the seeds. Can't even plant,

animals destroying crops. Then the next one is what anyone

remembers after the bird is rocks, rocks. It is hard,

hard ground. So the seed can't go in because it's rocks. Yeah,

so bad is hard ground, hard ground, right, can't go in.

Maybe it's not enough water, maybe the soil is not suitable,

there's too much rocks, okay, so the roots can go deep.

And then the third one is someone mentioned thorns thorny,

So these are you know, distractions, right, things that it

could be meaning, could be other plants that stop the

real food plants from growing. It's like weeds, you know,

and yeah, what do you call them? Pests? Like past

plants growing and and and thinking over the ground. Okay,

so uh me in the Bible tell us that kind

of like that's like distraction, right, and other things that

is not of God and and and of the world

that believers get distracted and they don't get into the

Word of God anymore. And then I think that's about it.

That's about it, all right, And uh, of course we

mentioned you know. The other thing is there's no there's

no water, no water, and uh, when we talk about water,

we talk about Holy Spirit. We're talking about Jesus, the

living water. So there's no Jesus, there's no right. So

bad ground causes famine. Have that in mind, okay, So

I'll talk about that later a bit more. But we

need to be good ground. We cannot have a heart

heart heart heartedness, all right, what's how hearts? We talk

about that later. I have a time. I have some

time for that. But now, okay, the other reason for

famine two main causes, right. The other reason for famine

is poverty. Poverty. How does poverty happen? You know? Poverty happens,

you know, And on this earth, there's enough food for everyone. Actually,

there's enough food for everyone. There's more than enough. Some

countries have too much food, right, some don't have But

why is that? Why is that imbalanced? There? Because of

bad decisions decisions that are not made right? You know,

there's greed maybe and or maybe even the people who

you know who don't have enough, why because they they

they they spend their money on something else, like maybe

weapons more than supposed to be food, so they don't

bother about basic things like that. They rather spend on

other things that they thought was, you know, more important.

So just priorities, it's gotta do it. Priorities. Everyone say, priorities. Yeah,

so if we make bad decisions because of priorities in life,

we can end up poor. I've experienced that myself in

terms of like I went broke one or once or

twice in my life. But actually, you know, most times

you you you you get it once? Are you you

get broke once? Right, You'll you'll tell yourself, I will

never want to get there again. Most of us are

all like that. You get that two three times out.

And although I don't know, I pray for you for

wisdom because I don't know how many of you have

experienced being broke, you know, and when you experience that, right,

you will feel like, please don't ever get here again.

Because at that time when I was broke, I saw

nothing in my bank account. And you guys, okay, I

can still here find out that the children all right,

all right, yeah, this is all training for us and

one all right, the children are training here, we also training,

all right, Okay, all right, thank you for doing that.

All right? We we listened through. Okay, where was I

again broke? I was broke one time, so I saw

nothing in my bank account, right uh? And uh then

I still need to eat that, you know. And I

was still so prideful to go for lunch with nothing.

I went for lunch. Maybe I forgot I was. I

had nothing. I went for lunch with my friend ate

the nice banana leave meal. I think I put like

meat and stuff on it. Anyway, After that, like, how

am I supposed to pay anything? Like? After that, I

like pleaded in the sense like hey, friend, sorry, actually

I have no money. I felt so embarrassed after just

saying that. I thought I was gonna say and it's like, okay,

you know, I mean, it's a kind person, right, maybe

definitely will pay for me. And so but when I broke,

when I said those words, actually sorry, I actually had

no money. Can you help me pay first? And I paid

him backlighting but because I had nothing to pay back anyway,

so I said you pay for and then like, hey, shure,

no problem, you know I was when I pay for me.

After that, I realized that it is a bad thing

to do don't don't do that, you know, unless you

really really need help, right, and I really need to

help my I guess I needed help this, right, And

so I told myself, Please don't ever get to this

place again. Don't ever get so broke again. Please manage

your money properly, please, whatever you know, the decision, you

might want to say, not earning enough or whatever, but

you can manage it. There's a way to manage it.

If you can't eat that, don't go banana leavenila, cook

at home or whatever it is or whatever. Right, skip

a meal whatever, right. A lot of us can do that.

Skip a meal on die lie, you know, so manage right,

especially those who are young. Right, you're earning your first paycheck,

all right, it's you gotta struggle. It's not easy. But

my advice to you is learn to manage early. Learn

to manage early. How Actually, the best way to manage

is to give your tithes and you're offering to God first.

That is God's way of training us to manage money.

If you know how to set aside to give to first,

to God, you will learn how to set a site

for everything else. Okay, if you don't know how to

set a site for God. Let mess everything else. I

don't know, all right, because when you set a side

for God, then you will know. Okay, this is the

little that I have left, and always every week I

know what I'm going to give to Jesus, and so

I will not touch that. So there's a lot of

discipline there because there's a fear of God. Is it?

I will not touch this? This belongs to God. And

everything else in your life you'll be like, I will

not touch you know, like like for example, like I

know they're playing instruments this morning, and some of them

are like can I I don't want touch everything? No, no, no,

this is the church instruments, Please take care of it.

I'm trying to teach them that that there is some

things that you just don't touch. Okay, So same thing,

all right, So same things all when you get married,

do be touched other women? Ah? So you know, so

you will know, I mean before marriage, So don't see

be touched any other women. But you know how to

set aside, set apart. Okay. So decisions okay, So poverty

come from bad decisions. So I want to tell you

one more thing. We're very interesting. I learned something from

just studying famine. So there's this term called food desert,

food desert. Have you heard that before? Okay? Who learns

agriculture things like that? All right, right, wow, we need

some people like that, right anyway, So food doesert? Maybe

Paul would say, yeah, he knows because he's a farmer.

He likes the farm. Okay. Anyway, uh Paul, Paul and

Priscilla and in India right now, Yeah, continuing their their marriage,

their wedding, their wedding. Okay, anyway back to this. Uh

w was I food desert? Food desert? Okay? What's the

food dessert? Food desert? Is this the definition of food

desert is the place, for example, you know, some cities

is full of food, but it's food that comes from

for example, convenience stores like Family Mard, like seven eleven

h like petrol stations. It's all this fast and fast food. Okay.

I know you guys love your fast food, especially the kids.

But fast food is considered something from this, you know,

under that category. Food desert is a place is full

of these things fast food, convenient stuff and all processed. Okay,

and people want that so much. Their decision, their you know,

their choice is that more than real food, healthy food

that you buy from grocery stores, like fruits and vegetables

and real meat and whatever. They almost they're they're kind

of rejecting the real stuff because they reject the real

stuff so much. The demand is only for the fast

food in w McDonald's. Hey, I'm not condemning them. I

used to like to eat those things right once and while, right,

but it's the demand is for those things so much

that the grocery stores have to shut down or they

have to move out. They move out from those locations

because nobody wants to buy real stuff anymore. And the

and the process stuff so cheap, so buy quick, quick

food everything, right, I get. I see you get full,

but you're filling your stuff with junk, and the new

nutrition is little or less. You know, you can't eat it.

You can't eat for process food every day. Guys, anyone

here doing that? Save yourself? Okay? Right? Then the cook

maggimy is okay, right, So uh learn to cook real

food okay? Because uh, and so that's it's called a

food desert, and that is actually part of famine. You

think you're full, but you're full of chunks it's femine.

You're actually hungry. Your body is actually hungry for real things,

real nutrition, but you don't get it. Okay, So guys, okay,

doing all right. So two main causes for femine, these

two things. Now I want to move on. Let's what's

on the next light. All right, let's read Amos Chapter eight.

Kids doing okay, taking notes? Right, can open your bibles

and so kids, all right, Amos chapter eight, verse eleven

to twelve. Okay, you can open your bibles XTV. You

normally put it up as well, right, so it's fine, okay, fine,

we wanna punish people for not bringing bibles. We put

it on the screen so to help you guys, so

that we can learn together. Yeah, thank you XTV. Okay,

all right, Amos Chapter eight, verse eleven to twelve. Behold,

the days are coming, declares the Lord God, when I

will send a famine on the land, not a famine

of bread, nor a thirst of thirsts of water for water,

but of hearing the words of the Lord. Hearing the

words of the Lord, they shall wander from sea to sea,

and from north to east. They shall run to and

fro to seek the word of the Lord. But they

shall not find it. Now, burying in mind those two

causes of famine, you know, in the real world and

as in like a you know, the physical world. Now,

let's think about it in terms of the word of God.

What does it mean? The famine of hearing the words

of the Lord? Okay, so when we let's go to

the next life. Yeah, famine of the of hearing the

words of the Lord. How do we know there is

a famine? How we know there's a femine? Anyone? How

do we know? Not enough food? Right? Someone says something hunger, Right,

We've seen those pictures, right, We've seen the pictures of

people sitting around. There's not much food. It's so skinny

flies everywhere, but you know, and stuff like that, Okay,

and they eat whatever they can find. So that's signs

of famine. But how do we know that? How we

know the signs? How do we see the signs of

the famine of the word of the Lord? Right? Okay,

let me tell you some stories. I work in the school,

and currently the school, we teach the Bible, and we

we teach the way of you know, doing what's right

and things like that. So for example, we take things

like bullying very seriously. So when people go around bullying

people teasing other people, if you want to be here,

you can't be talking. You don't go back to you

all right, okay? Or as I saying again, like for example,

bullying is very serious for us. Like if someone is

calling names. Someone just came up to me yesterday and said,

you know what my son one of the parents I say,

my son said when in v a victory academy. Uh,

I can't even say what's the word? I can't even

say word a word like I should even say. It's not.

I mean, it's a bad word, but it's not not

not to extend a fall letter, but l O, as

you know what I'm saying, Yeah, say my friend my

my my son said, I can't even say that word

to my friend. Whereas the previous school I went to,

that's just normal, Like it's okay to say call someone

you know, loser, it's okay. But in VA if I

say it, the teacher is going to discipline me, which

is true. So uh, and then the parents say thank you,

thank you for doing this because at least they know

what a negative words. Because in in the other previous school,

some of these things are normalized. It's okay, it's normal

and so this is one of the things. One example.

So the other example I have is, uh, you know,

there's there some kids who came, you know, registered for school,

and you know, we met the parents and just asked, hey,

you know, we meet parents to talk to them and

just ask, like, you know, how their kids are before,

so we know what to expect when we deal with them.

And so the parents, we just asked, you know, why

are you changing you know, schools because they come from

another school, say we're changing schools. You know what was

the issue there? Was your kid bullied or so we

know if your kid was bullied before, we need to

help them get back to their feet or whatever it is, right,

so we asked. And then so the the parents said,

because they they've experienced VA before, they've experienced Victory Academy before,

then somehow they had to go somewhere else and then

now they they're back here and they want to come back.

And so they were they were bullied in the school

that previously not ours. Girls you know, in the school

day were at bullied and to the extent of physical

you know, beating from another student. So uh, and then

so like you said, ah, man, like my heart broken out,

as in like the parents say. And then they were

saying to me, the students said, does their children say?

You know that this will never happen in Victory Academy.

They were so confident to say that, because it's true,

we actually watch out for those things, and if that

ever happens, right, it's definitely a discipline case, right, and

we will speak to them and we will counsel them,

like why are you doing these things like that? And

so what I'm trying to say is this, when I

heard those things, now I realize there is a famine

of the word of God in many places. They don't

know God. They don't know God's work. Not only that,

maybe they know God's word, but they're not living out

God's word. So it's one thing to know, you know,

to know you read the Bible, you know, but are

we living out God's word? Because if we're not, that

means we haven't consumed God's word. Like food, if we

eat it, we will show it right. If you eat it,

it'll come out right right. If you eat it, you'll

have the energy. Right. If you eat enough healthy food,

you will look healthy and you will act healthy. Right,

if you eat too much junk, you also show it

in sicknesses, in diseases, in your skin color showing you know,

I mean not not skin color, but you know you

turn different color, right, unhealthy colors. So the famine of

the word hearing the words of the Lord, I believe,

is that you don't assume God's word enough. You are

actually starving of God's word so much, and sometimes you

don't even know it. Because just like the junk food

that those guys are eating in that land, and so

much so that they rejected all the healthy stuff, and

all the grocery stores are all out, and they think

they're full. A lot of people are doing that. They're

eating stuff. They think they're healthy, they're full, but actually

it shows through their action by their fruit. They will know.

By the fruit, we will know. So what fruit are

we bearing? Right? It's a good check. Right, You look

at yourself? How am I living my life? What kind

of things am I saying to each other? To myself?

Check it and go like, am I actually having a

famine of the word of God in my life? Do

I need to now change my diet, my diet of

what I consume in my spirit, into my spirit. Right,

listen to the songs that you're listening to. Just analyze

it a bit, right, don't be so biased. I know

you love your music sometimes, but step out of it

for a while and say, okay, step out of it

for I'm just gonna analyze the stuff that I'm listening

to and see the words, write down those lyrics, and

go like is this even right? All these things these

guys are saying? Is it even right? And am I

really okay with it? So check it right? Like, just

be a neutral guy for what get out and say like,

is this even right? The guy? You know the lyrics

this guy's saying and talking about other people talking about

you Sometimes the song I'm whacking the listener so much

and they're still like yeah, I'm listening, like yeah, this

is me. Come on, man, don't give there so much

for the stuff they're saying to you and other people

that's so negative. Yeah, I know you love it. I

know they you know why because they make it so sweet.

They sweeten it. They sweetened it by the beats and

the music. I know. I'm a music guy, man, come on,

I make music. I produce music, and I know we

need to make it sweet. Even worship music some sweetness

in it so that people can accept it. Of course,

if it's not nice, I'm a bit hard to sing that,

you know, I understand that. But that's what they do

in the music industry. They make it sweet and you

love it your your soul, love it because your your ears,

you it tickles your heart. But please check what is

this guy actually saying? And then you need to make

a decision. It's hard sometimes, I understand it's a hard decision.

You go, oh man, this guy's knocking God. This guy

say insulting God. I really got to stop listening to

him or her and go like, oh man, that music's

so nice. You gotta make a choice. You've got to

make a choice. Otherwise you're feeding yourself with all the A,

n W and the KFC. You're thinking you're healthy, but

really maybe you need a doctor to tell you that.

Check your your vitals, your heart right. That's and that's

why we we we do discipleship here. Discipleship in this

church is very important. Next year is going to be

even more. We're gonna do even more discipleship, and that

then the discipleship is going to be like your your health,

check your doctor, checking your heart, your you know your blood,

your in a sense, your spirit. All right, And then

I know a lot of doctors will tell you, don't

eat this, don't eat that, don't do this, don't do that,

exercise more. But when are you going to do it

or not? Right, still have to make a choice. So

in the end it's still back to we make a choice, yep.

So don't make a foolish choice until you become poor, broke,

a broke spirit. Right, if you're broke because of money,

you can still save it. Well, broke spirit, who's going

to help you? I know one personae Jesus. Jesus is

the savior of our spirit, of our soul. Only he

can we can turn to him. He can save us.

All right. Let's go with the next slide here, ah, right,

So the other way to know, all right, famine is

this Romans ten seventeen. Everyone, let's read together one two three.

Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the world of Christ.

Faith comes from here and hearing through the world of Christ.

If we hear the word of Christ, the word of God,

we should be able to act by faith. Faith is

a sign of health. Faith is a sign that we

are healthy. We are consuming the right stuff. If you're

consuming the right stuff, you'll consume the word of Christ.

You will show faith.

Okay.

What's the opposite of faith, fear. The other opposite of

faith is flesh, unbelieved flesh. You'll know the words. Okay,

it's the flesh. You will love the things of the

flesh more than faith. Example, if you are asked, you know,

to serve. If you're asked to, would you like to

take part in homes? If you like to come for

pre Okay, relax, relax, I'm just saying, all right. Would

you like to go for missions? Would you like to

say a prayer? Would you like to read the Bible? Okay?

These are things of faith. Okay, But if the flesh

comes in is I don't want to read the Bible.

I don't believe in God. I don't know what is real.

That's that's unbelief, that's the flesh. Me myself, I am enough.

I can do all things through myself. Why what the

Bible says? I can do all things through Christ, which

strengthens me. I can't do it on myself. Me, I

myself not enough. I know some music let's say that

I am me enough. I don't know me myself. I

I'm enough, I'm good, I'm so strong, I'm stronger by myself.

That's a lie. That's not the word of God. The

word of God says I can do all things through Christ.

It's only through Christ. Right, only with Jesus, then we're strong. Right.

Who strengthens me? Christ strengthens me? Amen? Hope everyone's doing okay, okay, right,

all right. I I'm here to encourage you. I'm here

to encourage us to love God, to have faith, to

not be famished, to be full of the Holy Spirit,

to be full of the Word of God. Amen. Right,

And you know, I'm just reminded we need to go

to battle with the flesh. I heard yesterday, you know,

someone said, uh, this is mingshing me. He's one of

our leaders. He hates up x TV. Actually right, he's

the boss of x TV right now. But one of

the things she shed was quite interesting. Right, is this

he said? He struggled with his quiet time. He struggled

with reading the Bible. He struggled like every time I

look at the Bible, I don't know, I don't feel

like reading it. I read it, so I don't know

what I understand. So what he did was he said,

you know, let me find something to try to at

least have the Bible in my life. So what he

did was he he said, I'm you know, I'm driving

to work anyway, you know, and I listened to podcasts anyway.

He listens to I don't know what podcasts. Before this,

they said, what you know, what I'm gonna do. I'm

gonna switch my podcast to the Audio Bible instead, since

I'm driving anyway. I think it's not too hard. Right then,

he said, when he started playing the Audio Bible, he said,

he can't even listen to it. He's just like drive

and audio Bible is someone reading there, probably some you know,

some British guy that's so difficult to understand the accent

for Asian guy. And he's like, whatever, you know. But

then I believe it's a holy spirit working inside of

him saying just keep playing it. You don't listen and

so don't understand, just play it. And he kept playing

every day, just played, make make sure he just played

it podcasts of the Audio Bible, and eventually I think

his ears started to get tuned to it, like and

then he said, like, I started listening, actually listening to it,

and as he listened, he started to actually understand what

it's actually saying. And because you know, he said, just

the hole spirit told him just keep playing because naked

a habit so much so that he said when he

didn't play it, he felt weird, he felt strange. The

Bible is not on today, so he's like, I gotta

have it on, like you know, so it's a fight.

It's a fight. He's fighting the flesh. Because the flesh.

He says, No, don't no play, turn on your favorite

podcast of money, how to make more money or whatever.

I don't know, entertainment jokes, right, it could be music

as well, right, but I want to emphasize on the Bible.

So he started doing it. And then he said, because

he did that so much, now it has now graduated

to not only just listening to podcasts. He wants to

actually read the Bible because he has experienced the beauty

of the Bible. He realized it's not as boring as

I thought it was. It's not as difficult as I

thought it was. I actually understand, and so that's why

now you can he can read it because I understand, right,

So he got a breakthrough. Everyone will okay, anyone here

needs a breakthrough? Yeah, okay, so fight it. It's a

battle between the faith, between faith and the flesh a man.

All right, Okay, what's next on day? All right? How

do you overcome? How do we overcome? Oh, I'm going

to give you something. It's very specific here. How do

we overcome? All right? So I want to tell you

just now to talk about storehouses. Okay. In the story

of Joseph, there was a famine, right Joseph, you know,

Joseph the Dreamer, Right, he draamt and his brothers bowed

down to him. Brothers didn't like it, sold him off

to slavery, and they say, yeah, now see whether we

can bow down to you. But you know, God turned

around the whole situation from impossible right to a beautiful story.

My kids love to watch the cartoon of Joseph the Dreamer,

so good. But in that story, there was a famine

and Pharaoh had a dream before that, right, Pharaoh had

a dream that the famine was going to happen. Seven

years are plentiful, seven years of famine, severe famine bad.

But Joseph was able to interpret he was there at

the right time, at the right place. Anyone here, you're

at the right time, at the right place, at your work, right,

You're there for a reason. God placed you there, okay.

And Joseph was there to interpret the dream of Pharaoh

and say, yeah, this is what it means. And Pharaoh,

by God's grace, by the spirit of God, I believe usked,

you know, got him, got Joseph to be just be

empowered just under Pharaoh, all right. Some people say it's

like a prime minister, okay, viceroy or something like that. Right.

So he then he leads people to store up, you know,

storehouses grains so that for that seven years, don't eat everything,

store it because the next seven years they will need

to come and get it right. And so what happened was,

you know, a famine hit and they were ready. There

were storehouses, storehouse ready. Good planning, good planning, isn't it right?

It requires planning, It requires work. There was work done

to store enough grain. Even imagine if you just start

enough for five years, next two years. How Joseph was

smart man to be able to calculate how much for

seven years? I don't know whether I can do it

I could do it. It's real big time manager, right. There's

a lot of work. And to organize the people to

do all this. He needed to go to farms to

make sure they didn't eat all the food, make sure

there's enough to do surplus. It's a lot of work

to make sure the whole world at that time, the

whole world, because that was the world in the view.

They didn't I don't know, they didn't know the Americas

and all that yet. But he prepared for the whole world.

It's an amazing task. Joseph w heads off to you, man, Joseph,

such a good job. Make sure seven years he could

do that. So, guys, it's work. It's planning, right, you

want to you want to be a store house for God.

It is work. It is planning. And I want to

invite all of us here to do it together. We're

here to do it together. I hope I'll be a

good manager like Joseph, right right, you know you all

manage that. You all managed to get there. We managed

to get there all right, by grace, By God's grace,

we need to be storehouses. Uh. And so one thing

I noticed is that his brothers had now had to

not come to him, his brothers come to him. Of

course they had to bow down to him, and they

also got food. And I tell you sometimes we are

storehouses even for our own people. You get that. There

a lot of people who claim their Christians, They say

they believe in God, but are they really storing enough

food for themselves? Even even the people of faith, Jacob,

they didn't have the wisdom to store They didn't get

the wisdom to do that. They will believe us in God,

but they still had to come to Joseph who was

the real storehouse to actually get the food. So when

the time of famine hits, who's going to be the storehouse? Right?

We can claim to be believers and Christian and all

these things, but then when famine hits, are we gonna survive?

Do we actually have the word of God stored inside

of us? Okay? I wanted to emphasize that because pass

Kenna did mention before that we are, how a church

that is a storehouse we need to be ready for

when the time famine hits. And I'm telling you famine

is hitting already because I told you the stories, right,

people don't have God in their lives, in their hearts

and they're hungry. But who do they turn to? Will

they know where to go? Everyone that time knew that

Joseph had the storehouse, and they all went there. They

knew where to go. Okay, But if imagine Joseph was

not ready and there's no storehouse, is going to die.

So same here, same here? Who is going to be

the storehouse for when pleming hits and everyone is looking

for people who actually have the Word of God in

their lives. I'm telling you not just just people who

read it, not just people who own the Bible. And

I'm not just saying just that, it's people who actually

live out the Word of God in their lives. They

have it in them. They live by faith. Right when

you look at them, you know these people they really believe,

they serve there. You know they're in there. They have action, okay,

pass Kenna. They share before that our church plants are storehouses. Okay.

And I want to say it's not just people who

know the Bible in their hats, but actually live out

the Word of God in their lives through their lives

by faith, meaning their action shows faith. Right when when

we are asked to go, you know, one of the

things that we do is there's this prayer pray really

no no, no, Suban love Subang prayer all the time. So

far until now, the ex church always sends the most

people to Subang rarely prayer. And I want to say

that is because that shows faith that we believe in

prayer and our young people actually go to prayer to

support Subang Subang. Why because we started in Subang and

so we continue to support the Subang prayer rally. Okay,

it shows faith. When you go for prayer, you're saying

I believe that God is going to help me in

my situation. All right. Sometimes prayer sounds like what am

I doing there? I'm just talking, saying a few words there,

I'm singing some songs and then what happens? All right,

I'm not here ring preaching. I'm not learning something. Preaching

sounds a bit more interesting, line, right, Okay. I maybe

try to make it interesting, try to, you know, jokes

a bit here and there. But you go prayer, there's

no jokes. Uh. Some people try to pray a bit fornilla,

try to joke in their prayer. Sometimes I do that,

all right, but sounds a bit inappropriate to do that

when you're praying, all right, try to crack a joke

in the prayer. Yeah, it's not easier. But what I'm

saying is you go prayer right. Normally it's like who

goes a prayer right? In a sense unless people who

have faith and you want to pray for the city,

you want to pray for the church. It's not you're

not gonna pray for yourself or when you go for

prayer service or prayer services. We do pray a bit

for ourselves, but we pray for the church. We pray

for other people. We pray for other church plants, we

pray for people going for missions. Who are these people?

Does it benefit me? Right? But it's faith and that's why.

And that's a sign of faith. Okay. I'm not saying

that that is the only sign of faith, but I'm saying,

what is faith? How do you show faith in your

in our lives? Amen? Everyone? Okay, here, I want to

encourage us here, let's live by faith and you you

will have faith only as the verse it just now,

through hearing and hearing the words of Christ, the words

of Christ, the word of Jesus. Okay, how else do

we overcome? Okay? So I said, okay, let's go into

it is that the next night. Okay, wait, hold on,

let's go back to that previously. Let me just try

and finish that, and then we're going to end sooner.

I want to talk a bit more about m Yeah.

So uh church planting, Yeah, church planting. Let me share

with you the vision of the church of X Church. Right.

Our vision comes from there, the versus Habakuk two fourteen. Okay,

let's read together one two three four. The earth will

be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the

Lord as the waters cover the sea. This is what

we want to see. This is the vision that God

has put in the Bible. And uh uh you know

He has shown past the kenneth this vision for X Church.

And so this is where we're heading to. We want

to partner with God so that the earth will be

filled knowing God's glory, knowing God and His glory as

the waters covered. See that's whole earth. Yeah, and so

that's what we're we're hating. But then how are we

going to do it? How do we do it? Is

also very specific? All right, she's in the next light.

How do we fulfill the vision? It is discipleship through

church planting. And that's why we plant churches in Cyberjaya,

in Nilai, in Sricamanghan and also in the rest of

the world. So we like you know in Botswana we

have as well in the UK in Melbourne. Right. This

is how we fulfill this vision, so through church planting,

but not just church planting, it's discipleship through church planting.

Oh man, I have no time to talk too much

about this, but you know, church planting changes your life.

I was not always a church planter, but when I

started planning church, I felt like I was buried to

the ground. All my pride had to go, right. I

felt like I was buried, you know, and then I

had to have a new life because I can't do

the things that I used to like to do. I

can't speak the way I used to speak, right, I

can't treat people the way I used to treat people. Okay,

I tell you one truth. Olivia's not here. Yeah there

was this, yeah this tell her quickly it's okay because

Olivia's not here. But one time she came up to

me during the early days in church planting, and she

was not married yet to Andrew. But then she was

like Andrew, you know, she was like be a complainer.

She like Andrew because Andrew is a very practical guy.

He's a good worker, a right great guy. But at

the time Olivia is like, you know, every time she

loves to do God's work on and she's you know,

like go pray and things like that. And then I

think I can't remember the exact situation, but you know,

Andrew was saying, how why you want to so much?

You know, I probably asked you her this guy question.

It's very practical, it's good, right, and then she's like, well,

like this is I just went straight and I you know,

that's what I don't think it was nice of me now,

But I said, well, you want to marry a pastor?

I said that to her, not everybody can be pastor

that I just wept like after that, and I realized

what a bad I don't think any pastor should speak

like that to anyone. She's like, I think she got shocked,

like those words coming from a person who's leading the judge.

But after that, I went home. I rang in my

head again. I laughed about it a bit, but I

realized that was quite bad. That's quite bad. It's quite bad.

I think the Holy Spirit speaking to me, like, don't

talk like that to people. And it's from that day onwards,

I stopped talking like that. Right. Uh. There's one time,

so you know, during homes is this guy called Quan

Chin con Chin. He was our first part of our

first group, you know, planning the church together. He he

loves to explain stuff. He's like he teaches the Bible.

He's like explaining and he's taking his time, and he

went a bit over time. I'm a timekeeper guy. I

keep time as much as I can, right, And so

I looked at Quan Chin. It's a whole group of

people there, he's teaching the Bible, a lot of students there.

I just went like, time's up, brother, Like everyone's looking

at me, and she's like okay, okay, But I set

it out loud like you not a nice wayer. I

only did that because wepeat that a few times, you know,

so like you know, and then after that I got,

you know again, it rang in my head, rang in

my head, rang in my head like don't do that,

don't do that. There are better ways to do it.

Nothing wrong with keeping time and all the timekeepers in

the house say yeah, yeah, you're my friends. We love

to keep time, all right, it's good. Time is precious. Yeah,

so so I but God spoke to me and said,

don't do like that. There are better ways to keep time.

And there's a nicer way to you know, you can

smile and you know, and go near to him. Gotta

move on, you know, or whatever. Right, So I learned

a lot being a church planter, and uh, and I realized,

you know, some things I can't do, and uh and

and I keep learning. So church planting is de I

push him and any all of you, anyone of you

you are if you're involved, you're serving, you're taking part,

you're part of this. You are actually going through this.

I full shit through the church planting that we do.

There are many ways that we do it. Sometimes it's

here church planting. Sometimes it's at homes when you help

to plant homes, meaning when you are joining the homes,

you're actually helping the plant homes. You're joining the homes

and you're helping there. You're serving there, you bring the

food sometimes and whatever you do right, it's sacrifice and

you're doing your part. Right, So thanks for doing that.

Some of you, you leave worship at homes. You teach

the word, things like that, so homes. But it's all

dicip pusship. Right when you prepare the word, you need

to have the fear of the Lord. You can't just

do anything you like, and you know, do it by

the flesh God. Be in prayer. You got to pray,

and if you haven't been praying, suddenly you want to

help homes. I got to pray, join the homes in prayer.

And then of course small groups. Some of you, I

know that Massa has an amazing small group right now?

Are you all from the small group? Yeah? Yeah, well done.

I love I love seeing the updates you know from

the Massa homes. They started with only two of them

TMU and Timo tim t Timo. Yeah, and now they

have how many? Now?

Eight?

I see eight sometimes nine? Right, people joining and I

think when they started as we like, what am I doing? Right? Like?

What am I doing? Just do you know? And it's faith,

that's what you call faith. You step out in faith.

I want to encourage any other colleges here. You can

do your small groups too. Don't worry, don't worry if

it's just one person, it's just two you start, and

then you invite, and you will see God move in

your small groups. Okay, and that's how we do it

to fulfill the vision. It's discipleship through church planting. Amen.

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