Missions at Acts | Pr Jack Ling

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It's a privilege to be able to come and you know,

give God to work to all of us this morning.

It's so good, yeah, to just be able to worship him.

I mean, you have the freedom to do that, you know,

So we don't want to take this for granted, you know.

And it's good to have to see everyone, to be

together with everyone here. Let's continue to do that, you know.

Let's not ever you know, give it to the flesh

and let's continue to invite. Let's continue to you know,

work with the Kingdom of God. There's space, you know,

as we see around us. And I want to say that,

as we've said it before. You know, it doesn't have

to be limited to just the worship time at ten

ten ten ten ten, than that is another just plant okay,

then you know we can always plant another one, yeah, uh.

And I mean as long as there's willing.

Soul's willing hearts, all right, we can definitely do that

because so many more, so many more need to know

the love of Jesus, all right, uh, and to know

his word. And so we're always willing and open. The

flesh is weak, right, but the spirit is willing. So

let's continue to look to the spirit. Submit to the spirit.

All right.

By God's grace, we can amen. So I want to

say a few things before I get into the world,

and then I want to pray. I want to pray

with all of us here. It's missions emphasis month. That's

why you know we're dressed up and funky costumes. Beautiful

costumes matter. Yeah, yeah, I got this what do you

call this?

Kurta corta?

Okay, I got this kurta a long time ago, although

it looks very new because you know, hardlywhear.

So.

In fact, I wore this to my sister's wedding. I'm like,

I don't know whether I should have done that, but yeah, probably, yeah, yeah,

I was gonna rebel, you know, even at that time,

so I just simply wear things. Although I thought it

was nice, and she asked me to do, you know,

the wedding worship, and I did some weird song.

Uh, it's just weird. Everything was weird.

The last time I did a wedding worship. I said

this to submers before back in Quantan. You know, I

was a kid. Somehow this person let me do, asked

me to do. I did a worship I did. I

didn't do worship, so I did some song and then

it was from Jass of Clay, you know, anyone who

knows Jazz of Clay. Then I did the song arm

Snail Down. You know, you know that song career called Liquid.

It's like a really rock the couples like whatever, you know,

you they invited me to do.

I did that.

He didn't die for nothing, you know, the whole screaming thing.

And the next moment, I know, you know, a few

months later they got divorced. I'm like, oh, so anyway,

I was messed up like that anyway, I don't think

it was my problem.

Now is they did themselves right anyway, made decisions before.

Yeah, yeah that I got revived, and you know, and

then now I do a bit better. You know, when

where I get invited to worship, all right, I did

for I end uping gone.

So they're still married.

And they're okay, okay, we're doing well.

So anyway back here, what I was seeing wa wait

wait wait, I thought about that. Yeah.

Discussive, discussive yeah yeah, yeah, so uh I got it

in Singapore. Got in Singapore, all right. I was just

telling a few leaders there. I got it when when

I went to Singapore for a shopping competition. They can't

believe that I went for a shopping competition.

I actually got.

Second place, all right with another you know friend of mine.

The first place was went to went to Aussie's, Aussie's Australians.

We had to go shopping Australians. So we got second place.

And how we did that was it wasn't by fluke,

all right. We actually went for we we went for research.

We did research, shopping research. I'm telling you, men are

very good with shopping if you let them, Okay, So

all right, I got a card. They put in quite

a big I mean I've got a good amount of

money because seeing dollars right, uh. Me and my friend

we went the night before and walked around the whole

Singapore because we were supposed to shop around Singapore. So

we walked around you know, and know Singapore is that small.

So so we we saw all the discounts, and I

was telling the group there the.

The highest discount was ladies dresses.

So we were two men and go like we got

grab that and then we ran, you know, and then

they ran to this whole steck and we grabbed all

the ninety percent dresses, bought them. I don't know where

they are now because we bought them and she actually.

Belonged to us. I think we gave you away to

some people. Maybe.

Yeah, I didn't bring back because the sizes are all out,

you know, that's ninety percent. It's all out sizes and

somehow I don't know where all yeah, when, but.

We got second place.

Yeah, and then where I came on newspapers and stuff,

called me, interviewed and everything. So yeah, yeah, there was

It was interesting.

Okay.

Anyway, that's how I got this now anyway, back to

back to yeah, most serious things. Okay, all right, I

want to share some things, all right. Firstly, you want

to say, you know, send greetings from our foundings in

your pasta pass Cannath h and also you know Passendra

is she they are in Iskandar as we saw and

you know we prayed for them h and it Skanda

is having the anniversary anniversary, so that's why he's there.

Yeah.

Also yesterday if some of you many of you were there,

thank you for being there for the victory Academy production.

And that was our first ever major production. All right.

We brought the whole school together.

It's unbelievable in a sense because the whole school was involved,

all the students, primary and secondary. Everybody played some partler,

you know, and it was a really beautiful picture. I'm

telling the truth. When we were preparing them and practicing

at first, you know, it started all very playful. Yeah, yeah,

let's do production, let's act you know, like funny. But

then when it came nearer to the date and became

more real, suddenly they were like, it's getting real.

People actually going to watch us.

Oh my wall, And then you know, and people paid

for it and stuff like that, right, so you have

more expectations.

And so we there were some tears.

People some are crying and like, you know, and nervous

and say like I can't say this line. You know,

I don't know why, you know, and and so all

these things got real and but eventually, you know, thank god,

they pulled it off. Yeah, and some sometimes we need that,

we need some things to get real in our lives.

On even Oh, then now let's pray, let's really pray,

all right, let's let's see God let's get serious. Let's

get down to business, all right. So you know, uh

and and you know, so when things get real in

your life, don't be afraid. It's for a reason. It

tests us, right, and so thank God we are people

of God, we can always look to him.

Right.

Exams are real, right, exams, it's like always getting real.

Why didn't I study, you know, weeks before? And then

of course the most real thing is when you when

you come face to face with God, uh, you know,

at the end and go like why you know, why

didn't you this or that?

So let's let's prepare, all right, let's prepare. There's still time.

God is so kind he gives us another chance and

another chance again, so it's getting real when he gets real.

Then only panic too late. All right, let's get ready now,

let's prepare now, and then by the time we're steady,

all right, because we know we're in the truth and

the truth has set us free.

Amen, harleelujah. Amen.

So now, so I also want to say, you know,

I want to share it since his missions emphasis month

and giving time is coming up, right, we believe in this,

you know, as a church, that we do need to

you know, give for missions specifically, because this is what

God wants to do.

You know, it's in the Bible.

We can see, you know, God mentions the nations, the

nations when you know in Revelations, when you read it

and you see you know in heaven will he specifically

mentions the nations are there. That means people everywhere, you know,

He wants everyone to be there. So so that's why

we do the same thing. And we want to work.

We've got partner. We've got to reach all and man

and so yeah, I want to talk about the missions

giving for a while, so I know it's coming up.

And uh so what what is what happened? You know,

just very honest. Financially, Uh, it was not It has

not been looking very good, you know in terms of

our family and so uh you know, of course of bills.

To pay things like that. You know, in the middle

of the of the year.

I don't know about all of you, but in the

middle of the years, somehow there's a lot of bills

to pay. Is it the same for all of you

or is it just a family middle of the year

right right? All the taxi run now the tukay, all

the text insurance or suddenly the middle of the year.

So yeah, that's why you know, the funds are going

down and things like that. And so I I realized,

and I told you, I told you, like, hey, missions

giving coming up, nothing to give. I actually say somebody like,

we're not going to give I mean, we have to

go and dig from the reserves or whatever. I was

ready to do all that, but I didn't like the

practice of keep digging from the reserve. You know, then

like keep digini and then by the time the reserves

you right, you keep digging from the reserve. So anyway,

I pray, I just pray a simple prayer, you know.

I didn't do a long prayer whatever. But I just say, Lord,

I believe you can you can provide. You can provide

for us to be able to give a good amount,

a good amount, all right. And so within the next

few days and weeks, you know, well I don't go

into the details of how, but God provided a significant

amount of money, you know, to us through you know,

different you know ways, but we are able.

Right now, I just want to say, we're able.

To give a good amount to missions, and I pray

God for that.

Hallelujah, Amen.

So that's that's the testimony, all right, And so I

want to why I share this is also I want

to challenge all of us here. You know that you

may be facing challenge, You may be even facing financial

you know, difficulty, But all you need to do is

turn to God. Turn to God, ask him he is

a provider.

Amen.

Right, that's what we say, right, he's a provider, then

look to him law to provide.

It's as simple as that, right.

We all need some childlike faith, yeah, uh and uh,

you know, then be ready to receive. And of course

you don't walk with him, lah, don't just ask him

ather leave him alone like atm machine.

Right, it's not but walk with him, right and uh,

and seek him and he will provide. Amen.

So I just wanted to shad it simple and quick

but powerful testimony that we are able to be able

to give for the missions. And I want to encourage

all of us here as well be faithful that. All right,

With whatever amount you have, you set it a sign

and give it onto the law, give it to missions,

because we need to do something.

With that money for missions. Amen. All right. So I

want to say I'm so glad to see.

The different students coming back, all right, Uh, maybe we

went on holiday or whatever it is something like that, okay,

all right, But anyway, I want to say that we

are doing this rock climbing activity, okay, especially for our youth.

Who's our youth.

Youth is our teenagers and our campus students. All right,

So if you are in college and university right now,

we're actually doing this rock climbing thing today today? What

time again? Three pm? Where Putra Jaya Extreme Park. Where's

you go?

Taman Taman.

German Jabar means challenge challenge, challenge park. Okay, all right,

So if you are interest that, you can still join. Okay,

even if you're not a youth you want to climb

some rocks, just join, okay. All you need to do

is go and talk to uh Chingo Priscilla, yeah all right,

uh and she will sign you up.

Okay.

Transport all that we can work around, work on it

to get there. So three pm is the time we

are going for rock climbing, especially for our campus students.

Teens you can.

Join as well, uh and anyone else because they are

families joining as well. There are some families with children

joining as well. It's going to be fun. Okay, No,

you don't have to. It's not a competition, all right.

You don't not obliged to climb until the top, all right.

If you just want to touch the rock a bit,

so it's okay, just to have some fun and get

to know one another. You can also invite friends, right,

if you have some friends, you can you can text.

Now I allow you to all right, while listening multitask

you text your friend you want to go for rock

climbing just today, like I allow you to do that,

all right, But yeah, I just wanted to tell you guys,

that's what we're doing, all right. And then okay, few

more things. Huh, you're okay. I mean, I'm just trying

to talk to the church today. So one more thing

is this. I was mentioning about the mixer. All right,

look at a beautiful mixer here, all right. Do you

really realize the difference. Yeah, it's a small, little one.

So it used to be what four or five times

you get in this around there? Yeah, this is what

you call how many channels?

Five?

Five channel? The one before was fourteen, okay, fourteen channels?

So all right, what happened was that channel that mixer

got damaged After ten years thank god. All right, it's

been faithful for ten years, all right. But now this

is actually Adel's personal mixer, all right, thank you for

allowing us to use that. So now he can't do

his song production at home anymore, all right, but h

yeah for now. But so, but what we need to

do is this, all right. I was just telling the leaders.

We want to get a new one, all right, and

we don't get expensive onlines. It's just you know, good price.

But but it works for ten years at least, you know.

So we're going to get a new one soon. And uh,

you know, the way we work here in church is

in our church is we try to raise the funds

first from the local plan, all right, and not go

straight to the you know, to the church finances and

say let's let's buy straight away there, because we want

to take initiative, all right, We want to take ownership,

and so we want to raise some funds first from outside. Uh.

And I mean there's no like real real rush for that,

but then we don't want to take too long for that.

I just want to talk to you about that first.

To raise some amount now okay, may not be the

full amount. We see what we can do all right,

and then from there we are we we then we

approach the central Church and say this what we managed

to raise. We need some help from the central right now.

And so they are more than willing. They're more than

willing always to you know, to fund whatever that's needed.

But then we don't want to also just keep taking, right,

We're a church who gives. So this is something that

I just want to tell you.

Hits up.

I don't know when the target is to get the

new one next, but sooner, so right, but priority your

missions first, missions fund first, all right, So whatever you

can save up set aside, contribute to that first, all right.

Don't go and give to the MIXERU they say nothing

for missions, all right, So all right, just helping us

to prioritize missions first. Then this one we will collect

later on, okay, but again no obligation. Right, it's all

from a willing heart, as the Lord leads you. And

then one more thing before I go into the message,

I need to say this, okay, I said it before.

Is a choir acquire. I'm serious about this. We're serious

about this. You talk to the worship Pastor's office, they're

like excited that we're doing this. Okay, we're going to

have a choir. We're going to have a choir. I

think they're gonna stand here. They're gonna stand here, okay,

looking at all of you and singing all right, and

clapping the hands and raising their hands. It's not gonna

be a dead choir, say as somebody say amen to that.

It's not gonna be a dead choir, right, because that's

not why we have a choir.

The choir.

The choir is to lead all of the rest of

us to be excited, you know, in our worship. Yeah,

so I want you all to start practicing already from there,

all right. Start clapping your hands a bit more, start

singing out a bit more, right, Start smiling you know what.

The choir has to smile a right, no matter how

you feel, what you came in with on baggage, Come

in your choir, your aunt, you're smiling.

Yeah, right, let's worship. Let's praise the Lord.

I mean out of a joyful heartline all right, I

mean don't don't don't do it out of foster, right,

but walk with God. Get your quiet time, right, okay,

And then as you join the choir, it's out of

your heart out of your heart that you know you

you love God and you're smiling, you're raising hands.

And clapping all right.

Uh, yeah, we want to do that because you know,

if I suddenly ask some of you suddenly to go

play the can, the one, you need to learn up

a lot of things, right. But choir, Hey, you've been

seeing all your life, right, some of you in the toilet,

but you know you've been seeing all your life, right,

and that's your immediate instrument.

You don't need to buy anything. Maybe it's some new.

Clothes, are right, because we might want to like coordinate,

you know, simple, we won't make it so difficult and simple,

you know, dress up, you know, don't make a short

sly at least, you know, so something like that. We

want to do the choir and open to any age group, yeah, kids,

to adults all right. Of course we might need to

come a liarle bit okay, so uh that's and also

it's an opportunity.

To serve, all right. Uh, and uh we want to

set up choir.

So what's gonna happen is you can also immediately right now,

you know, from today onwards, just tell your homes leader

I'm interested to be part of the choir, and then

your homesteader will let us all know the Extreme team

and we will.

You know what you call roster you to do.

Maybe we start once or twice a month first. I mean,

we may not have the choir every week. We'll see

the availability. How many people have right, we have cohan,

we put don't have co hon. It's okay, all right?

Uh have choir? We put choir? No choir, it's okay,

right choir. I think at least it must have three people,

are right?

Two?

Maybe they get you to back up la straight. We

think the mic ands Okay, we don't know. We we'll decide, Okay,

I'll talk to Adriel, who is our coordinator for Extreme.

All right, yeah, okay, everyone, okay, they were excited to

join the choir. Okay, okay, don't worry. We'll train you.

We'll train you. Okay, we'll train you. Right, don't wor

lead you sing out because you're not putting a mic there,

so you sing how bad? So it's okay, it's not

really you know, hurd, it's more of you like yeah, yeah, yeah.

Take it as your workout on Sunday.

Okay, okay, hope, I don't scare you, all right.

All rights, as the Lord leads you to join.

Okay, right, So that's about all I wanted to say,

right in terms of like some administrative things. Now let's

get into the message, right. The message today is I,

uh simply just title missions at acts at our church

because I want to just share a little bit of

what we do here and uh, and then we can

I want in the end, I want to encourage everyone

to participate, to take part, yeah, to take part by praying, praying,

you know, for what we are doing here in our church,

in terms of missions, in terms of evangelizing, in terms

of cross culture. Right, as doctor Jill mentioned, right, was

what was she talking about last week?

What is missions? Right?

And so missions is basically like evangelizing, but cross culture,

all right, and so getting out of your confidence zone

to reach someone else. Yeah, that maybe that's different from you.

And so I want to want to share a little

bit of what we do here for missions. So I

want to start with Luke nineteen verse one to ten. Okay,

let's look at this story just to catch the heart

little bit you know of missions. What it means again,

Luke nineteen verse one to ten. Let's read this story. Okay, right,

if you're there, you can return to your bibles. If not, yeah,

thank you XTV for still putting it up.

Is good. Right, here we go.

He entered Jericho and was passing through, and there was

a man named Zachius. He was a chief text collector

and was rich, and he was seeking to see who

Jesus was, but on account of the crowd, he could not.

He could not because he was small of stature. Everyone

says small, small, So so what he did He ran on?

He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore

tree to see him, for he was about to pass

that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he

looked up and said to him, Sachius, hurry and come down,

for I must stay at your house today.

So he hurried.

Okay, So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully.

And when they saw it, they all grumble, what are

these people?

Yeah? They all okay, they and grumbled he.

Has gone in to be the guest of a man

who is a sinner. And Zacchius stood and said to

the Lord. What did he say, the old Lord? The

half of my goods I give to the poor and

if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it

four fold. And Jesus said to him today, salvation has

come to this house since he is able, sorry, since

he's also a son of Abraham, for the son of

Man came to seek and save the lost.

Amen, we stopped there.

Praise God for this powerful word here, for this powerful

story of Zacchius. So what happened Zacchius? You know he

was a text collector and what it was, he was

a text collector and he was rich. Right, So how

is he rich because he collected texts? And also it

says later on race is defrauded people. He actually collected

more than he should. Yeah, because that time knows CCTV

right ready, hard to catch people who are doing the

wrong thing.

So he did that.

And so he was a sinner, right he you know,

as what we read as well. So what was he doing?

He was seeking to see Jesus. Do you know that

a lot of people actually seeking Jesus. They're seeking hope,

they're seeking the Word of God. Maybe some of them

they're seeking and they don't even know they're seeking. But

there are a lot of people who are hungry and

they're seeking and so same thing you know here, you

know around us, many of our friends actually they are seeking,

they're hungry. But you know what, what's the problem with

zach Yas he was small? He was he was not

tall enough to see Jesus. And you know, so that's like,

you know something that there was not enough, you know,

he was too short. So the same thing with many

of the people around us. They're seeking Jesus, but something

is stopping them from reaching, right. Maybe it's their own circumstance.

Maybe he himself saw himself as small. Maybe he wasn't

that small, but you know, the Bible does say that,

you know, he was small, so then he but then

he tried away to see that he climbed a tree, right,

he didn't want to go up to Jesus. Maybe he's

not just the smaller he climbed the tree. Maybe he

was shy. Maybe he knew he was a tax collector,

he was ser he defrauded people, so that sin also

probably stopped him from coming close to Jesus. So I

want to say that many people around us who are

like that as well. Okay, uh, and so uh that's

why what what Jesus did? He saw him? He saw

him on a tree, and he hurried to him. He

rushed to him, right and says, zac kis, come down quickly, quickly,

come down, all right, that's the wrong way to look

for me. Come down. And what does he do? I must,

he says, I must stay at your house. I must

stay at your house. Do you know that's one of

the ways we do missions. We go somewhere, we stay there. Yeah,

we go there, we stay there. And that's all he did.

He went there, stayed there. I mean, the Bible didn't

say he said anything to him, yet, like all right,

he went and stayed there. He probably ate with him,

he talked to him, got to know him, all right,

let him share, you know, maybe he opened up his

himself to Jesus. And then finally, what you say? He says,

you know, Lord, I've done wrong, you know.

You know, you know.

First thing he says, God, you know, just because of

staying with him, He says, God, now I will give

half of my goods to the poor.

All right. It turned into an action. There was transformation.

And so then he after they said, you know, if

I've defrauded anyone, I will give them back fourfold. I

will give you back and then from there Jesus says,

Salvation has come to this house. Salvation has come to

this house, Repentance has happened, transformation has taken place, And

so Jesus did missions. Jesus did missions by coming to

stay at Zacchia's house. All right, Zacchius couldn't reach him.

He was too small, he was too short. The sin

was blocking him. So the same thing, you know with

many of our friends. Sin might be blocking them, something

might be blinding them. And so they they, you know, try,

they're trying many different ways to climb the tree, right,

the bow down to the three. They do different things.

They're seeking for truth and they don't know how to

find it. And so Jesus had to come to him.

And then they said, can I come in, go into

your house. He stepped out of his his area. I

don't know what he was supposed to do. Like him,

he was walking somewhere, he had the business to do, right,

but then he went to do this instead. He stopped everything,

say I'm going to ex Actress's house. So missions interrupts us. Right,

it's uncomfortable, but it is what Jesus did, and so why.

We do missions. Jesus did it. Jesus did it.

And when and then we say we follow him, right,

so let's follow Jesus, all right?

Uh, and uh it's.

Not too difficult, right because like like Jesus did, it's

like going to someone's house, staying with the person, being

with the person. And uh, you know, we are the

representatives of Jesus, you know, when we go to someone's

house where we go for missions, where we visit them,

when we stay with them, all right, we carry we

are like Jesus in the in their face and they

get to see Jesus in the flesh through our lives.

And sometimes we don't have to say too much, and

there'll suddenly say I will give half my poor, have

my you know, fortunate to the poor. Okay, okay, I

you know defrauded people will give them back fourfold and

salvation will come to that house.

Amen.

I wanted to show you this story, uh, you know,

to talk about how Jesus did missions and therefore and

that's why we do it as well.

Amen.

Hallelujah. Now, one thing I want to speak to us

here is no okay, I want to talk about going going, okay,

going to missions. I want to challenge all of us here.

You know, if we're all able bodied, all right, we

have no issues you know with walking and going right,

even if you're carrying babies, right, And that's what we

do here.

We do this, right, We bring our kids along.

You saw just now the XPG right and pasta Matt

and his whole family going. Actually, that's one of the

best things you can do with your children, all right.

I want to break the mindset, you know. And we've

been doing this already. We've been breaking mindsets, you know,

in ex church. We don't have to keep our kids

at home. We can bring them along, all right. We

bring them along, of course, you know, we can assess

the danger a little bit and say, okay, how much

should they do?

How much should I allow them to take part?

So you you it's okay, all right, you want to

be saved that way, but don't hold back. Don't hold

them back from taking part together with you, all right.

Parents don't and I don't say because I got kids,

I can't go, all right, that's a very easy reason. Okay.

Sometimes we use our kids are to defend to protect ourselves. Say, oh,

my kids are too you know, too busy. My kids,

you know, they cannot they will jump into the river,

you know, like they would lie even if they did

this fun line, right, All right.

Of course we need to be responsible as parents.

To watch but I'm telling you right, as a church,

we all can watch out for the kids.

Yeah.

Uh. Later, I want to share a little bit, you know,

about some experiences of missions that we do. Uh, you know,

even with family. Uh and uh you know. Yeah, just

different experiences that we do here with the children. Okay,

but now I just sort of point us to also

on Timothy too wonderful. All right, So on Timothy chapter two,

first wonderful, let's read this.

First of all, are we there?

Yeah, okay, so I'm reading for my own Bible, all right.

First of all, then I urge their supplications, prayers, intercess intercessions,

and thanksgiving be made for all people, for kings and

all who are in high positions, that we may lead

a peaceful and quiet life God lead and dignified in

every way. This is good and pleasing in the sight

of God, our Savior, who desires all people, all people

to be saved and to come to the knowledge of

the truth.

Amen.

So this is you see, God's desire for all to

be saved. All right, So this is one of the

other reasons why we do missions. It's God's desire. It's

God's desire. Tell your neighbor, this is God's desire. God's

desire is for all to be saved. Yeah, all is who.

You me?

Everyone, even your neighbor right in front of you. Can

you mention the neighbor? Can you have it on your mind?

Out the neighbor that's living across you, the neighbor that's

beside you. Yeah, can you mentione them? Can you just

have them in your mind for a moment. How about

your your family members, right, even the most difficult ones.

Yeah. God wants to save them as well. Amen. Kell.

It may it may not be you, but you know,

we can pray.

For them and maybe someone that they're in contact with

will be the one speaking to them and preaching to

them and bringing salvation to them.

Amen. So I want to focus a little bit on

this verse again.

You see the starting here, right, He says, what I

urge the supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings we made for all, okay,

including kings and high positions, right, that they may lead

a peaceful and quiet life. Godly and dignified in every way.

So it's talking about prayer.

Prayer. Prayer is powerful.

I just share just now about you know, praying and

God providing to be able to give so the same

thing for your neighbors, your family members. That are not easy,

all right, and sometimes you think, how are they going

to get saved?

How are they going to listen to the gospel? All right,

start with pray.

Let's pray, all right, let's let's include these things in

our prayer, all right. I know is even myself, you know,

we pray then always want to pray about the good day.

Thank you Lord for yesterday, Thank you loved for good

day today.

All right.

I have this pattern. I pray, I pray you know,

for a good day. I pray for the children. I

pray good day at school. All the work will be

a success, you know. Then we then you know, we're

trying to get into pray for I mean our organization,

the church.

All right. Then we pray for Malaysia.

We do pray for Malaysia as well, and then we

do pray for the peace of Jerusalem at the same time.

But yeah, sometimes the interrupt the the standard prayer that

we do and include you know, even the people that

God wants to save.

Yeah.

I mean, of course you cry and you think it's

impossible to reach out. You try and talk to the person,

it's always like a wall, right, and then you you

lose hope, right, and you and we stop believing, say

I can reach out, But.

That's not true.

That's not true, and and and and God still desires

for them all to be saved.

All right.

It's not our job to get them saved. But we

need to work with God, and we we pray. We pray, Amen,

start with prayer, and I believe you know, as we pray,

we will see doors open. We will see that it

will be made more easy to be able to reach

out to the people around us.

Amen. So everyone, okay?

Yeah, So first thing is what we do missions because

Jesus does it.

Jesus does it.

And so we follow our Lord and we do it together.

All right, This is what we do in next church. Second,

all right, God desires for all to be saved, yep.

And so that's why we want to serve God's desire.

We love, We love the Lord, right, a man, anyone

here loved the Lord?

Yeah?

Amen, that's why you're here in church. Yeah, and so

we we love God. We want to serve his desire.

And his desire is what in first three we see.

We see this and many other posts of the Bible.

All right, God wants all to be saved. He wants

to see the nations there in heaven.

Amen.

And so that's why we want to do the same thing.

We want to serve the Lord, our God. We love him, hallelujah.

So now I want to talk to us a little

bit about you know, what happens when we do missions.

What happens all right? So what happens when we get

involved with missions?

Okay?

First thing is, well, right, first thing is we are

obeying when we get involved with missions, whether it's pray,

just pray, just by praying for people around us, all right,

to be saved, Praying for people around us to be saved, right, neighbor, whatever,

you know, praying for the church plants, when we pray

for church plants, right, that's that's a cross culture that's

across the nations all right, across the sea. When we pray,

you know, whether we pray, whether we give. And that's

why I want to encourage all of us, you know,

set aside something. It doesn't have to be last large amounts.

But you know, whatever the spirit is challenging us to do,

we give as we give, and as we go and

as we go. You know, when you go for community outreach,

you know, for you when you go to c CEC

and reach the children there, you know from menma who

had to escape their country, right and they're there, they're

not getting an education proper there, and so when we're there,

we're helping. We're contributing to the education, all right. When

we go for local missions. Yeah, the orang Asli trips

that we do, I want to encourage. I want to

see that everyone in x here in Cyberjaya has at

least gone to one to orang Usi trip once. Can

we do that no matter how new you are, All right,

come talk to us. We definitely want to sign you up. Right,

it may not be immediately last, so don't be afraid.

It's not tomorrow you have to go. I'm not ready,

all right, scary line, I know, but there's preparation.

Don't worry. There's preparation.

There's preparation, just like we know it's like exam like that,

things get real, right, So so so definitely need to prepare.

Definitely need to prepare.

All right, But anyway, go back to this when we

do missions. When we take part in missions, we're actually

obeying God. Yeah, so what happens when you take part?

We are actually obeying God. Everyone say obey, obey, so

you know, you know, if we do that, we can

at least say I've obeyed God. I've obeyed God by going,

I've obeyed God by giving, I've obeyed God by praying

for someone, you know, for someone's salvation, for someone's salvation.

It's cross culture, all right, obedience. What's the next thing?

When we take part in missions, we pray? Oh? Sorry,

we prepare. We prepare and share are very good words. Yeah,

there's preparation. You need to prepare, right. If you're not

very good with preparation, this is why you need to

do the missions, then you will train.

Oh there's such thing as preparation in life.

Okay, And that's why we bring our kids, because the

kids now take part in this activity and go like,

oh why we have to go so much?

Meetings are Mammy, daddy, prepare?

Ah, you can't just walk into the orne there and

then speak basa.

If you don't know one word of it.

Hey, and it's not that scary line, not not like

you have to save like a thousand vocabulary right in

Basa and one goal. We have this cheat sheet you know, okay,

these are the Christian words that you use in Basa.

Ten keywordsuji tuhan right, allah baba right, and so there's

some words that you can use, okay. And so we

prepare you even for a short trip and h then

you you learn Basa, right, you learn whatever language are

that you you know wherever you're going. And you know

in Menma, I know you know sometimes we're going there

and we speak English all the way because we're teaching English, right,

licensed to speak English. Right, But why don't next time

you go to ce easy learn at least to create

in in Burmese. Ah? How how how translate the ming blaba?

We learn one a bit now now everybody say that

me ming blaba, right, ming laba? Any one from Manma

who knows exactly the word the greeting ming blabah is

the one. And I know, thank you it's Jess to

Timber day, Jes in my mind, Jes to him. But

day it sounds like Jesus, but jesuit timb day, you know,

go to the restaurant again today, I don't know what

it is.

Guys from Manma just just guesses.

Asking you're from En all right, then then they would

be so impressed because I find Myanma to be the

hardness language to learn.

So long, you know, kull jesuiting money so long.

Anyway, anyway, and you see the written Mayanama went, oh

man can be very confusing. But anyway, I took up

the challenge because I had to go to Mahanma once,

you know, and then like in a way like a

nightmare to be because like, oh man, that's the hardest language,

and I see it, I get, I get scattered away.

But uh then when I was I forced myself, let's

let me learn someone's remember it. And then it's etching

my mind now jesuiting buddy. Yeah, So that they I

went to the bicycle shop and get this guy to

fix and say from Mma, yeah yeah, jesuiting buddy. It's

like he's so amazed because I think nobody ever says it.

All right, so anyway, yeah, uh yeah, so prepare, we

need to prepare. We'll need to prepare.

Uh.

You know when we go for missions, right, I just

give you a picture when uh uh, Like, for example,

we go for or a slei together, we'll need to meet.

We need to just talk about what's going on, all right,

what's the plan? You know?

We need to plan the travel there, right, we need

to plan the finances there. How much we need to

contribute together to make sure we have enough, all right

to buy stuff.

And we want to go there and not just walk

in there. But you know, we buy some we prepare.

Uh.

We we buy some groceries, maybe some food, some gifts,

all right, and we have something like this. We we

we also we are also careful, right, We're not just

go there and then buy all candy candy, candy candy

to all the tune. It's not that we want to

be careful because we wanna we wanna add value. We

want to add value, and we don't want to destroy

the place where we go, all right, And so we

have something like for example, uh, we'll say, hey, guys,

one of the like rules that we have, Hey, guys,

don't simply give gifts to the kid by yourself. Everything

we do we do as a team. So you see,

we want to work together and unity as a team.

And so let's say someone suddenly he didn't mind you

want to buy like stationary and like want to be

like hero hero, you know, and like suddenly give up

gives like Santa Claus. We say, guys, don't do that.

Let's do it as a team, right, And so they

know it comes from the group, and so they won't

look at this or this guy and I said and

that guy.

Ah.

So these are some of the things that we prepare for,

and so we decide we want to give a gift.

We decide together and we kind of like look at

it and go like is this healthy to give? Or

if it's not, then then let's not give that, all right?

Uh and uh so, And then of course we communicate

with the with the leader over there and say is

this a need?

Can we contribute this way?

We don't just go in there walk and bring a

lot of the bag of rice, but they already have

lots of it stored there. And then now it's like

becomes like you know too much. So we see what

they need, we talk to them, we communicate, and then

we bring in what's needed. So I'm just trying to

paying you a picture, all right, or preparation that goes

into this of course, then you know, when we come

together we get to know each other bit more as well.

Within the team, right, everybody needs to prepare testimony normally,

just prepare even it it was simple, just prepared because

you might be called on to share your testimony at

any time. So all these things right, it's like, oh,

I've never prepared testimony for but yeah, you should la

by now, all right. So with that, as you prepare

testimonies while you're doing missions, then now when you come

back to you know, your usual world, you also have

a testimony already that you're ready to share with anyone.

So missions prepares you, right, you prepare a mission, my

mission prepare you too to be ready to evangelize to

many more people.

Amen.

So of first, sometimes when we go lesson to another

country and then another language, we need to prepare in

that language a bit non okay, But thenk go for

trying slats.

All right in menmo.

Then you know Pastor Samuel is the he's very good

in translation in English and in uh you know his

own language, and so uh, and then we hear real

stories you know, from from them of what's really going on,

and we can pray more specifically, you know, about the

challenge that they face.

Okay, So preparation.

The other thing I wanted to say is we actually

eat together a lot eat together. I remember, you know,

we went to Orsi trip once with a Korean family.

Man I ate some real authentic Korean food at that time.

Thank God for for the experience.

Okay.

Uh And when we went out TOI, she cooked Korean food.

Love for the Orsi. She brought the ridiculous of po

non halal. But yeah, can can can can eat porte.

Yeah.

So anyway, Uh, the rosy all the Korean food so nice,

so nice. Yeah, anyway, Uh you know, so we cook,

we cook for the whole church there, you know, that's

what they do there. And so we eat together. It's

it's it's enjoyable in that sense. Uh. So, So there's

preparation and then we share it. That's what I'm saying.

We share, We learn to share. And you know, when

the kids see all these things, they see what's going on,

and they see you know, us sharing and this community

and things like that that's going on. Uh, it's such

a value add on, even for children. Yeah, hallelujah. Amen.

Then next uh, we definitely pray. Right we meet together,

we definitely pray. We pray a lot, right more, We

pray a lot more than we normally do. When you

go for missions, you'll pray a lot more. Yeah, you

want your prayer life to up join the missions and

pray more because you will need to because it's spiritual.

Yeah.

Uh and uh and and me knows that this is

significant and that's why they will mess with those who

want to go for missions. And but then we cover

with prayer, no problem. The blood of Jesus covers amen.

So uh, prayer. And you know when we go, we

pray for people, pray for people. And you will see

a lot of powerful uh miracles when you go for missions.

Yeah.

Uh, you will see healing take place. Yeah, like Andrew

was mentioning, you know about Pasta Palin, Yeah, you will.

You will see breakthrough tacond place. I remember Isaiah's story, Yeah,

teacher Isaiah. Yeah, he said, you know he got dreams right,

and then he heard the story there from the pastors

over there. But their names again that's the FSA Pacellina. Yeah,

and so uh, you will see, you will experience miracles.

You want to know how God real is? You join, right,

don't worry if you're very newer, we won't give you

a big, big roller. Ah, we'll see what your skill

set is. You can cook, okay, cook, just cook, just cook.

You can drive, just drive, just drive, and at least

smile and say hello to the children. All right, well,

sly you can appreciate today. But but but it's only

everybody sicking, the only one you can appreach. Ah, you're

the only one left us. So so you also be ready,

be like, that's what no one did we preach Basay,

Yeah yeah, English.

Next one.

Yeah. So but but you know, goa prepare, you go prepare,

and you will see how real God is and you

will see miracles even in your own life. All right,

you want to see miracles church, Yeah, let's do this.

God is real, So prayer and power you will see that.

And then finally, what's my final point. Transform Transformation will

take place. You know, we will be transformed. First of all,

we will be transformed. We will see transformation. You know,

we may not see it. We may not see it.

You know, we go and then we leave. Ready, we

may not hear or see anything or the transformation, but

transformation will take place. You know, many things around us

are a product of missions, hospitals, schools that started. Yeah,

it's still happening today and it can still happen today.

So let's be the missionary, even if it's a short trip. Right.

I know you guys want to build toilet, Paul. Yeah,

now they got toilet, church and toilet. Yeah.

Is it completed now you don't know? Yeah it is?

Yeah, So transformer transform right from north no church building

to now there is and we can do more, you know,

for the Lord. And so we want to see transformation

taking place in our nation, all right, in other nations,

let's take part. Let's take part and see transformation take place.

Amen.

Not by our own strength, not by our own strength.

It's all by God's grace and his mercy and his power,

and then we can give glory to him.

Amen. Amen.

All right, I'm about to come towards a close already

I just want to say, finally, is this how do

we do missions?

How do we do this in church? Right now? Church?

I think Dr ju did you already mention something about this?

So?

Yeah, how we do it?

Right?

First?

As I mentioned already, I'm kind of repeating myself. We pray,

let's pray, all right, let's pray together. You know, when

we pray together in the morning before worship starts, we're

praying for the different church places, right, the local plants,

the global plants. That's that's the one of the ways

we do missions in Acts is to plant churches.

Yeah.

So if you you're part of this, you're part of

a missions team already just being part of this all right.

Of course, if you serve, then you you get deeper

into it, all right. And if you ever travel overseas,

you know it will be awesome. You know, if you

want to think of which church plant I want to

go when I travel, make it a dual thing, you know,

fun and faith. All right, Go to Osaka and go

to go and see mister Benji buster Benji. Now is

buster Benji Benji? Someone says, BBJ buster Benji? All right anyway,

and a pastor Michelle, all right, go visit them. Let

us know and we can call them say you know,

someone's coming all right where else? Curtis in Germany haven't

started it, but you know, all right, they're about to

start Acts German as well. But Cassie yeah, yeah, yeah,

Indonesia and uh Karawachi extcha Karata Machudi yeah, okay, right,

Chuni Botswana Camaroni right, the one, Yeah, that one is expensive,

but yeah, why not? Right, go go to Africa, now,

God k Whatswana, Whatswana? Kenya first, Kenya first? Okay, your first, Wow,

we have a Yeah, we got family there Kenya.

And then go to Botswana. Yeah why not? Yeah? Okay.

So that's the first thing we do, right, we pray.

Let's let's let's an encourage church. Let's continue to pray,

including in your prayer. Uh, join our prayer meetings. Right,

let's pray. Let's pray because you know when we pray, right,

it challenges us as well. Right, and uh, we're connecting

with God. We're communicating with God about his heart. Uh.

And the second thing is I want encourage you.

I've said already give give towards missions and and and

so it's coming right next Sunda, next Saturday. It's Missions Conference.

If you haven't signed up, I can't still can right today?

How to sign up?

If you haven't signed signed up, today is the last

day to sign up for Missions Conference. I heard from

the office that you can scan and sign up. If

you haven't signed up, you can still do it. I

heard from the office that they've prepared lunch for everyone.

It's free.

This conference is free, no need to pay a single

send for it. But the church is kind of sponsoring

covering this, all right, and so there's a lunch provided

for the conference except for children eleven and below. A right,

I don't know shops nearby, GREBMA or whatever. Okay, all right,

but yeah, do sign up and be part of the giving.

I think the giving you can do in the next

few weeks doesn't have to be just next week, but

of course you know it'll be nice to do to

do that next week, but if not, you can do

it in the following weeks as well, as long as

you just indicate in your in your envelope.

Okay, give and then go go right.

I want to challenge all of us here right to

go for at least one of it. Okay, you you

ask a lot, now you know you ask a lot

to lead you how many times you want to go

all that? I don't want to say at least once

or twice whatever? You decide that, all right, go for

the community outreaches. All right, We are signed by homes, right,

and if you're not part of homes there, please do

join the homes. Please do join the homes because that's

where we really do stuff together, all right. If you're

not part of homes, all you do is you're coming

to the Sunday, right, and you're not really connected with

the life of the church.

All right. I want to encourage you to do that.

Although, yeah, it might be uncomfortable, it might be a

change you know, of your schedules or whatever it is,

because I don't know what you have planned, you know,

during the weekdays at night. But it's actually healthy, it's

healthy to join homes. And then don't worry. We won't

bug you too much. We bug you a little bit

because you will join a WhatsApp group maybe and we'll

say there's homes and it's still your.

Choice whether you want to join or not.

But I hope you do join, all right, but join

join because it's healthy for you and we want to see.

All of you being healthy in your walk with God.

All right.

When you join the homes. What happens are at homes? Firstly,

you eat, ah, it's not too difficult, right, eat, okay,

And the more people join homes, the better the food, right,

because that's that's I will testify for our homes.

Right.

We got food from India, we got food from Philippines, right,

and all kinds of all right, uh, and we've got

cording food so sometimes from some Malaysians, okay, Japanese?

All right. So first thing you do in homes is eat.

How difficult can that be? Right?

H And if you don't bring anything, it's okay. You

don't bring anything's okay, you eat free, it's okay, okay, right,

But by the time you feel like I want to

bring something, can you can?

You can?

Right, bring us homes leeder first because maybe what you

bring not suitable. Yeah, you know, no, you know really

you know, if everybody decides to bring jelly, right, five family,

bring jelly, that's all you have, jelly.

Dinner of jelly, right, Okay.

If everybody decides to bring cops, no meat, no vegetables,

so some planning, okay, so maybe you know for you

it's like, hey, all you need to bring is uh

uh some straws because you need to drink that thing

or the bowl today go soup?

Yeah? All right? So what was I so signed for homes?

Because that's the life of the church, all right, and

it's healthy, it's healthier, all right. Then from there all right, uh,

you know, we assign homes to be part of our

community outreaches, okay, uh, and uh we will ask you

la you know, and of course if you can enjoy

your join, all right, it's good for us to be

able to join. Then you will see what goes on.

And uh, we challenge ourselves, all right. And it's not

always that, it's not always. It's not like every week.

It's like once in how many times have you gone?

Those who will go once a quarter you actually go

into c CEC, which is the MEANMA school that's in

KL right, something in KL Yeah, so I see, all right.

So that's one.

And then of course there's the orsi trips all right

that we want to encourage different ones to sign up

as well. And if you've not gone, all right to

any Ornarcy trip on to encourage you, you know, as

a homes, maybe plan something, uh and find the right date,

talk to you know us, talk to the missions board,

and then we will make it happen.

All right.

It's fun, it's fun, right uh. And uh, if of

course there's any opportunity. As a lot leads you, as

a lot provides. You know you want to go to

overseas trips, please do so as well. So these are

some ways that we can take part in missions.

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