Sent to Father the Nations | Pr Jack Ling

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Sent to Father the Nations. Sent to Father the Nations.

Quite interesting the title here, all right, I would think

it's still there on me, no, okay, but let me further,

you know, get into it so we understand why I

put this send to Father the Nations.

Okay. Uh So why I.

How this came about is because in a Book of Genesis,

you know, when we're talk about missions, in my mind,

I don't know it's just me or what, but I

always think about Abraham. Okay, Abraham because he was the

one sent sent out right from his land.

So that's why.

And and you know Abraham, you've heard of him, right,

the father of many nations.

Right, So that's why the word is there.

But now let me just read from Romans first Romans chapter.

Eleven, Romans chapter no.

Chapter ten, Okay, chapter ten, verse thirteen to fifteen. Okay,

let's read that, all right. If you have your bibles

can turn together, all right. Otherwise you can listen, okay

to what I'm reading. So as they say here, for

everyone who calls the name of the Lord will be saved.

How then will they call on him in whom they

have not believed, And how are they to believe in

him of whom they have never heard? So how do

they believe? If they've not heard right? They need to hear.

They need to hear from who. Look at your neighbor,

say from you, say looka they say from you, all right,

and then look at you and you're not a neighbor,

and say from me, from me? They need to hear

from you and from me. All right, those of us

here we know the good news. We need to share it.

They need to hear it. Yeah, otherwise they cannot believe. Okay,

you know sometimes that.

You you, you.

You, you face some challenges that you go like and

you go like, why these people are like that?

You know why they're behaving like this?

Why because they don't believe yet and why they have

not believed? Because they have not heard right, And they

need to hear from you and me.

So after you say why, you have to point.

Back to yourself or I haven't I haven't shared it,

like I haven't shared That's why they're acting like this.

That's why they still corrupted, behaving this way, all right?

They need to hear from you and me a man.

So right, we need to prepare ourselves even more to

be able to share. And that's why you know we

practice sharing. Your testimony so powerful. Right, you may not

know all the scripture yet, it's okay, but you have

a testimony.

We prayed, we have a testimony. God moved. What can

I say? How else can I explain this? All right?

God moved?

So okay, back to this. So they don't believe that

because they need to hear and now and now are they?

And how are they to hear without someone preaching? Without

someone speaking? How are they to hear?

All right?

And how are they to preach unless they are sense?

As it is written? How beautiful are the feet of

those who preach the good news?

All right?

So we I guess in the end here we need

to realize whether are we sent or not?

All right?

So if we don't, they can't hear because there's no

one sharing, there's no one speaking, and maybe the person

is not speaking. Again, you and I are we speak?

Are we sharing? Are we speaking? Right to the peace people?

Maybe because we don't realize that we are sent, that

we are sent? So that's the question. Maybe the answer,

you know, have I been sent? If I have been sent?

Where?

Where have I been sent? If you don't recognize that

you have been sent here right wherever you are a

Malaysia dell, whatever, IBM, I don't know what else where

else you work right in your.

School, scholar, mananga whatever, collar? All right?

If you don't recognize that's where you've been sent, Malaysia,

right from the Philippines, from in there, from Africa to Malaysia.

You don't think that you've been sent, then you won't

start to preach, you won't share, right, And that's so

this is the truth of the word of God being

shown here to us. All right, I'm still learning something

new here, right. So if we why white people don't share,

don't speak, don't you know? Open because we don't realize

we're actually sent. We have been sent here. God has

a mission for us. Amen, Amen, And so we need

to accept the mission. Yeah, there's an assignment given. We

need to accept it otherwise we won't do it.

Amen.

Okay, So tell your neighbor behind you or in front

of you wherever, all right, you have been sent, You

have been sent, Okay, So we need to accept that

that sending.

Okay, Now, I'm gonna move on, all.

Right, of course, I just want to emphasize again the

last words there, How beautiful are the feet of those

who preach the good news? Okay, you look at your feet,

I look at your feet. Look at your feet. For one,

your feet beautiful or not? Most time feet doesn't look beautiful.

Why no, you don't. You don't praise more beautiful feet, man,

all right, But you know the Word of God is

using that even though feet normally look not nice, now right,

you're ready to look at people's face. Hands also look

better than feet, right. And the smell, the smell, the

smell of feet and what it steps on sometimes, right, okay,

accidentally or whatever it is. Right, feet is the dirtiest lot,

all right. It's dirtier. It's dirtier than your your bum

because it's on the ground the bum at least it's

in mid air.

Okay. And then when you whenever you do a business,

you wash it. One. Ah, you hardly wash your feet.

Right, you're stepping, you stepping, you're stepping, right, So actually

your feet is very dirty. So anyway, but the gospel

says that the Word of God says, how beautiful are

the feet of those who preach the gospel, all right,

And so you want your feet be beautiful, you want

it to be less smelly, right, says yeah. Those who

reach the good news preach the gospel of peace, all right,

and of good things are of good news. Amen, So

let's preach, let's preach, let's go, it says, because those

who appreciate they are sent they go. And then harlee lujah.

All right, Let's go to Genesis eleven, right now, Genesis eleven.

Genesis eleven is where we have the origin stories of

Abraham dood.

You all like that.

You're like, uh, you know, when you watch a superhero movie,

you go like, how did this guy becomes Spider Man?

Right? How did this guy become whoever?

I don't know what the superheroes now, Wolverine, whever, okay,

very violent, this Wovery, Deadpool, this very violent?

Okay.

But anyway, but we all like to know the origin stories, right, like, oh,

how did this guy you know, what happened to him? Yc

suddenly Spider Man?

All right?

So anyway, Abram is a hero of faith, a man,

so we know him. You know, father many nations. You know,

he's the father of faith, father of faith. He's famous

for faith, right, you see her. I know I read this.

David was a king. Not many of us ended up

being kings, all right. Moses was, he was a prince

of Egypt. And you know that he will split the

Red Sea and everything, all right, Moses, and you hear

Moses the plagues now is like super drama, all right,

it's like a movie, all right. Not many of us

will see those things. Not many of us will split

seas and stuff like that.

All right.

But when you think about Abraham, I think about Abraham,

he's something we can achieve because all he did was faith,

and he was also known as friend of God. So

that's something we all can do, all right, immediately, right,

you don't have to go to see you don't have

to become a king, all right, you can be like Abraham. Yeah,

and I'll tell you a little bit more. You know,

although Abraham was known, you know, his famous, he's like

a hero. You look at his origin stories, right, you

see a lot of flaws, you see a lot of

mystakes that he did, and yet God and shows God's grace,

God's mercy in his life.

Right.

And when we when we think about that, yeah, Io

can iso can be like Abraham. Okay, So let's go

back now. So let's go to the origin stories of Abraham.

It starts with the Tower of Babel. Okay, all right,

So we tell Babel why because I guess talking about missions, right,

And the nations came from there, all right, many languages

all right, and the culture all started, I believe, from

this place where they were coming together, all right, and

they wanted to they build a kingdom.

They had one language, all right, And.

So there's the Tower of Babel, and God had to

scatter them, right.

It's all part of God's plant, you know.

Even as they were building up and they were trying

to build a kingdom, all right, God just by one

flick of a finger, like right, yeah, you're build a

kingdom wall, You've got a big army. I don't know

what they did, right you are, you're you're building and

building and you're so united, right, so familiar right right.

It's like our governments of today. You know, we're trying

to do something, you know, build the economy and everything.

And by a flick of a finger, go like okay, scatter, scatter,

all right.

Uh.

And I believe this is all but part of God's plan,

all right, because it's better.

Right.

Now we have Nazi Lama. Now we have all the

country Chinese food. Now we have so much variety. It's

from I guess it's started from there, all right. Otherwise

it's all the same food because the same language. Also united. Right,

they just only have I don't want they had timeline.

H what do you think they ate the time?

Bread?

Bread, bread, bread, bread, Just kidding, Okay, okay, So the

Tower Babel happened and scattered, and so they we had

now nations, right, culture, variety, uh and uh. So then

moves on to chapter eleven. Right, you look at it,

you look at it. You can see it talks about

M's descendants. Shem is from no one, right, Noah's Noah's sons, right,

and so from there, you know, it says the son

of whos and whosig of who you will see that

that what do you call that? You know, the genealogy, right,

And then finally it comes to Terra. So Tara, you know,

came from the descendants descended from Shem.

And Tara was the father of Abram. Abram.

Okay, he's who was not known as Abraham yet, right,

Abram did you all know Abram's father's got era not

very famous.

Ah, but now you.

Know, okay, Tara Terra Terra in basa terror means like

very great, right, Like it's like from t E R

R O R terror terror you sunger tara l you see,

it means they're very.

Awesome, you know.

Anyway, Terra part of Abram, Nahore and Haran had He

had three sons, right if you if you know, just

look at chapter eleven there, so what happened in there?

You can see Haran, one of his sons die, all right,

So sad story. But Haran died before Tera, before before

his father, all right, So meaning it's a sad thing

to have your child die before you. So anyway, that's

a sad story there. So Haran died and uh, and

then you move on. You'll see Abram right got married

to Sarah, and of course Nahore or who married someone

Abram I put there in Beckett's father is because the

meaning of his name is actually father.

Abram's name means father.

However, it also mentions that you will see that Abram

and Sarah and Sarah was barren, so it's kind of

like your nickname is father. But you are not a father,

so a little bit sad or so there, all right,

a bit maybe a bit embarrassing as well. Right, you're

called father, You got married, but you can't have kids,

so that's all right. What's what's going on there? It

mentions that Sarah was Barren right, meaning of Sarah? I

think it's princess, princess okay, beautiful name man okay. Anyway,

Tara took his family from you can see in chapter eleven.

It's interesting to me Tara actually took his whole family

Abram Nahoor, you know Sarah and you know the others

as well, and including Lot. Lot was the son of Hawn,

so Hawan died and so there's Lot was Lot remained,

which is a poor thing or so all right, now

no father and so that's why that's why it shows,

that's why Abram took care of Lot, and that's why

there's some closeness there because can you imagine, right, the

guy lost his dad, and so that's why he's looking

for another father figure. So Abram ro he's meeting his

father mass his father is anyone just kidding, all right?

He I believe he loves to take care of people

are all right, So he took care of a lot.

And so back to this, Terror took the family from

Earth to go to Canaan.

All right.

I've never really noticed this part, but I always read

the part where Abram left er er of the Childians.

They were all they were idle worshipers at the time.

They you know, they didn't believe in.

The Lord yet.

But the Lord called him all right and brought him out.

So anyway, if you notice this, all right, Terror, which

is Abram's father, was the one who actually started doing this.

He went out from Earth, brought brought the family, wanted

to go to Canaan.

All right.

It's so this is interesting to me. All right, Well

we'll come back to this later. But what happened was

they stopped. The whole family stopped and settled at Haran.

What his son's name was Haran, and he stopped at Haran.

So I don't know what the story is exactly, but

it sounds like maybe the place's name after his child

or something. Maybe all right, but one of it is, uh,

some link is there?

All right?

He stopped maybe maybe he started this place and he's like, oh,

it's called Harran. Then the set music starts playing, I've

got to stay here, right. I just remember my son

right now, and he stayed there one way this I

don't know. I'm just I'm just imagining a bit, okay.

But anyway, so he stayed there, stayed there, stayed there,

and when he was two hundred plus years old, he died.

Tara died at Haran. He was going to Canaan. Did

he arrive there, No, he didn't. He didn't make it

there yet. He stopped Haran. It was the emo time

there whatever, But he died there.

Okay.

So that's the bit of an origin story of Abraham.

Right.

So Tara died, and so we go on to chapter

We're going to go on to chapter twelve. Right, Oh,

but I.

Wanted to say, is there the next light there? Yeah? No,

kingdom is greater than the Kingdom of God.

This is just talking about how the Tower of Babel, right,

they were building, but they kept there.

Are no match for God, and God is in control.

Why I want to say this is because you know,

I recently, you know, I went to buy apples and

oranges and I saw like increased price, and so I

was telling me eggs. You know, it's almost like double

the price right cutting of eggs, and I mean, I'm

human line, I feel a bit troubled. Everyone else, you know,

and they we're hearing the throw price is going to

cut increase soon and it is quite disturbing, right, just like,

oh wow, how do we how can we survive?

And I also worry.

I worry about the people, the other people who you know,

I can imagine like I don't know how much these

people earn, and I go like, and then if the

prices increase, how are they going to survive?

And are then't going to turn the crime to survive? Right?

So all these things just come in my mind like

like it just troubles me, all right. And but but

I read this and no matter what, you know, God

is in control.

He's still in charge, all right.

And throughout this whole story of Abrahm, you will see

that God is in control, all right. Just just looking

at even how Tera brought his family going to Canaan.

Stop that Haran didn't finish the journey, all right, But

it's all part of God's plan. He allows it and

he's working through it.

Amen.

So guys, So what I'm trying to say is I'm

encouraging myself encouraging all of us here. Don't worry. Right,

God is in control. He will provide. Continue to look

to him and trust him even more now, right, even more.

Now we look to him and trust him, all right,

and He's going to come.

Through for us.

Amen, Amen, all right? Now moving on, So where we now?

Chapter twelve. So in chapter twelve, all right, God speaks

to Abram. We see what we see in Genesis chapter

twelve is that God speaks to Abram. And if we

look at the Book of Acts and in the Book

of Hebrews, Abram got this message of going to getting

getting out from Earth to Canaan. All right, And I'm guessing, right,

I believe I you know, in my just my thoughts

and my calculations of how this works out, is perhaps

God already spoke to Abram, and the sequence is a

bit mixed up in the you know, in Genesis eleven

and twelve. But God spoke to Abram and say, you

need to get out from er to go to Canaan.

And so perhaps I imagine the conversation, It's like he

goes to that daddy terror that no, I believe, I

believe I need to go to Canaan. You know, you know,

I heard a voice from this God right to bring

me there. And then I I've got a feeling. It's

like Tara goes like, oh you go, you want to go,

you want to go to Canaan.

Let's all go, let's all go.

And that's why I see we see Tara bringing whole

family going to Canaan. Okay, it's just my imagination, huh again,

So maybe that's why. Then it goes and Abram is

going along, Sarah's there, Lord is there, and they settled

at Haran, and they stopped there, and Abram also stops there.

And what I'm trying to say is sometimes sometimes all

the good intentions, all the nice things that we hear,

and sometimes even family can get in the way of

what God told Abram. God told Abram to get out

from earth and go to Canaan. Let's look at the

exact words. Exact words Chapter twelve, Right, what does it

say here? Now the Lord say to Abram Chapter twelve,

verse one, I'm reading, all right, go from your country

and your kindred and your father's house to the land

that I will show you. What did I say here?

Go from your country, get know from Earth. Get know

from Earth, all right, go to Canaan, go to the

place that I'm going to show you. Then he says,

what and your kindred, your family, leave your family, That's

what he's saying. Yeah, a lot a lot of people

won't like this, and a lot of people take this

and say, yeah, you Christians like to leave your family,

all right, but not necessarily. This is just this, But

this was specifically God told him to leave. Why maybe

because they are holding him back, Maybe because I don't

worship is going on, all right, and God wants him

to have a clean cut from this. Go I've got

a mission for you. You've got to do something, all right.

I'm going to do something new. I'm going to something

new in your life, all right. But he couldn't leave.

They all walk together, all right, from Earth to Haran

and stop there, and it was an Emo time whatever

it is, you know Haran, you know, remember Harran.

And so they all stayed.

And but then finally Terra died. Terra died, all right,

And perhaps sometimes that happens.

And so then now Abram has no nothing to hold

on to it.

Oh my father has gone, So now let me leave,

all right, say from your family from your father's house

to the land.

And I will show you.

God really wants a clean cut that and he wants

to get Abraham to move.

But you know what happened. Abram brought Lot. Abram brought

Lot along.

Why because he's so loved him, right, and the poor

thing is like, oh poor thing. The guy has know Dad,

I gotta come take care of him. So he with

that all right. He still brought his family. But the

word of God is so clear that says get out

from the country and from your family. I'm thinking he

should have just let left a lot of the lot

stay together with nahoor or whatever.

Yeah, right, I've got to go all right? So why

why you say this?

Because when when you see that with a Lot in

the picture, he caused a lot of problems for Abram, right,

and until if you look, you look forward, you look

in the next chapters, until Lot is gone, then Abram

can move forward. So it took some timeline be a

ding dong here and there. And that's like the story

of our lives is in it. Right, we want to

move about this family, we want to move, but there's

things work whatever, right, and and we were helped back

sometimes and then build ding dong here and I want

to serve but right, whatever it is, right, could be,

studies could be and all it's all good stuff.

It's all valid, all can be argued, all right.

But but God's word is very clear, and I believe

he will provide away. He provides away, and sometimes it

will take some time, right because we're struggling, We've got

things to take care of. But he gives us an

instruction very clearly, and he wants to do something new.

Amen. So where are we now? Chapter twelve? Right? All right,

all right?

Yeah, So God spoke to Abram, go through your country

and from your kindred, from your family, and from your

father's house to the land, and I will show you.

And it comes to with a promise, right, he says,

and I will make you a great blessing.

Abram was stuck in Haran.

I said that, right, And when he left Haran he

brought a lot, okay, And I want to highlight here

that SARAHI was barren. That we mentioned the Genesis eleven.

Now what am I trying to say here? Is Abram,

like I said, he's he's not perfect, right, and he

made mistakes and he struggled and it took some time

to fully obey. And so what we will say is

Abram actually partially obeyed God. He left, he left Earth,

wanted to go Canaan stop, and Haran stayed there for

a long time. Right, it's partial obedience. He obeyed but

didn't finish, all right, said don't bring your family. He

brought a lot, right, still went on with h took

care of him. It's fine, and it all sounds good

and nice, but he did not obey.

All right.

I mean we can argue, you said, but you know,

you know, if Abram need to care a lot, and

who's gonna take here a lot?

And we're all very nice that we want to think

for on behalf of people and things. That always says that.

Yeah, he needs to he need someone to care for him,

and you know all these things. But can we trust

God that he's going to take a lot? Trust gone,

he's got a plan. He's gonna he tells Abraham, gonna

do something. He's got a plan for a lot. Then

let a lot deal with godline, all right, I don't

know how lot, how old lot wasn't but uh, it says,

but what we know if we study this Abram partially obeyed.

God, all right, But I thank God. He's merciful.

He's merciful, he's kind, it's full of grace, and that's

what we we all need that, and that's what's happening

to all of us here. Even I think many of us.

We're trying to obey God. Partially obeying God, a right,

And it's weird thing on the day that we fully

obey him. But we continue, all right, like Abraham, he continued,

he continued, and God's grace what's upon him, all right,

But we do see that Sarah remained barren and different things.

That he struggled.

You know, even I think there was a time he

went to Egypt. He escaped to Egypt, and then some

drama happened because he couldn't he didn't obey again, he

was lying, all right, and then the pharaoh almost took

Sarah as his wife. And so a few of these things.

And then you know, as he brought a lot along

and then he gave Lot all the land and uh so,

so just the partial obedience and then and what we

see is the blessing. There's no blessing, there's no blessing.

Impartial obedience. That's why I'm saying here, all right, sometimes

we don't see the blessing in our lives. Maybe we

want to just take a look at a check, like

is it because of our harshal obedience? And see God?

Let's see God and see his full blessing come in

our lives as we fully obey him.

Amen. By his grace, by the power of His spirit,

We're able to do that. Amen.

So now I want to move on from here. All right,

let's look at our own journey. Let's look at our

own journey and where we are right now? Just now

I mentioned if we don't white people don't believe because

they haven't heard, right, And why haven't they heard? It's

because there's no one preaching. And why is why are

we not preaching? Because we don't know whether we're sent

or not? Because you know we're sent, we will preach.

Amen. And so.

I want to ask us here, where where are we now?

Where are we now? Where has God sent us?

Right?

Are we recognizing now that we are sent? Are we

recognizing who have we been sent to?

Okay?

For some of us, you know, like including just talking

about our family, we have our children. You know, God

sent us as parents to speak to our children. All right,

some of us are working in a place God has

sent us there. Let's do something there. God has sent

us here into this church.

Yeah. So what what are we supposed to do here?

All right?

Are we here just to you know, come stand in worship?

Or is there something that we need to do in

the church?

All right? Is there something that you need to contribute

in the church? You know? Is there someone you need

to se peak two in the church? All right? Uh so, church.

Workplace, your family? Who have we been sent to? That's

a question?

Right?

Uh So I want to encourage all of us to

be aware, you know that we've been sent and these

are the people.

This is my mission ground. Okay.

Of course you know some of us will go for

missions as well. All right, you go for missions. If

God calls you to go for missions, go And I

want to courage all of us or so to sign

up and do you know missions, because you will you

will understand a little bit more what it means to

be sent. Yeah, So sign up, you know, for the

community outreaches that we do. Sign up for the trips

that we are going to have. You know, if you're

able to, you know, go go outside of the country. Right,

we have church in Thailand, we have the church in Singapore,

and there will be team they will go. And that

experience is amazing because it helps us to understand how

we are sent, how God sends us. So anyway back

to this, So who have we been sent to?

Now?

The title of my message earlier was sent to Father

the nations. Now, okay, this might be a better message

on Father's Day, but I want to talk about fathers

for what. Okay, but it's okay, So yeah, of course,

mainly to the guys. To the guys, fathers soon to

be father's right, and ladies, just listen, just listen.

It might apply to you.

So so just take whatever the Holy Spirit drops in

your heart. So I've got three points here about fathers.

All right, First thing is, uh, you know, I believe

of course, I'm looking at the story of Abraham. Right,

he was sent, he started from sent from Earth to

go to Canaan and so from there he was to

be the father of many nations.

Right, what does it mean? What does it mean to

be a father? Right? We're not just talking about biology.

Biology, biological father very easy to be a biological father, dad, Right,

But how do you actually really father people.

Right, It's more it's intentional.

You've got to be intentionally uh fathering someone, and you don't.

It doesn't always have to be biological, right, there's you.

You can be a spiritual father to people, all right.

So the first thing I want to say is fathers

need to recognize that they are fathers. Okay, first thing

is fathers need to recognize that they are fathers because

many times fathers are also in denial. Why because maybe

especially men, we like to play play for people. I

still play the Nintendo Switch sometimes with the kids. Jill

hardly touches it right, and we love to play.

We love fun. And so suddenly now you've got me

father so serious? You know why? So serious? Right?

Suddenly I have to think of a younger person. Right,

is a challenger for many guys. But fathers need to

recognize that they are father now, all right. And when

you realize and you recognize that your father, you will

you will you know some things you sacrifice her, like Okay,

I gotta sleep earlier now, right, But why because I

helped this guy sleep?

Right?

Got to be with the guy, right, If not, they

will be in the room not sleeping, right, Now this

person keeps coming to me and like say, Daddy, I

want something like a Right.

If we don't recognize it, we will be like in denial.

Right I said, get away, like go find someone else,

all right, then that's not fathering anymore, pushing away your responsibility.

So fathers need to realize that they are fathers, and

now we need to learn to be a father. Now,

the next thing here I want to say is fathers

need to know recognize who they are fathering, who they

are fathering. Recognize your father's one thing. Now, you need

to know who you're fathering, right, And so that's why.

We say make disciples.

And so if you don't recognize who you're fathering, right,

then you won't know who.

The father, right uh. And uh.

You might recognize your father, but then you're not fathering anyone.

So also we've heard it before, right, you're you're not

leading anyone. If you do you look behind, no one's

following you because you don't know who you're who's leading,

who you're leading in the first place. So you do

need to recognize who you are leading, who is your

son and your daughter, right Uh? And so that's we

call them disciples as well, so this one you know,

male father mothers, Okay, and recognize their our disciples. So

the other thing here I want to say is fathers

need to recognize who their own father is.

Right.

If we try to father people but we don't recognize

our own father firstly, of course father in heaven, God

our father, right uh. And and we can't have you know, uh,

spiritual fathers right in our own lives if you don't.

If we know who our own father is.

Then we know how we are as a son, how

we behave, how we speak, right, we have.

A role model to look to.

Yeah, and sometimes we don't have it all right, we

do need to go back to someone. And so that's

why we make disciples, and we need to be disciples. Okay,

ladies here you're doing okay, you're catching something. Yeah, So

we need to recognize who our own father is, and

so then we are able to then we are in alignment.

We're in submission. We're not doing our own thing. Yeah,

And we have someone to answer to. So let's say

we we talk to someone unless we know, we know

who we're taking care of. We're discipling and we want

to make corrections. We shouted at this person, we have

someone to answer to it, right, That helps us to

be in check. Otherwise, you do whatever right, then nobody's

want to question you.

Right.

So that's why we need someone to keep us in check.

And so we need to recognize who is our own father.

And then finally we need to recognize right. I think

you can also you know, use the word making disciples, right.

We need to know that we're raising sons and daughters fathers.

The word father is powerful because when you say a father,

we're talking about raising sons and daughters, not just you know,

a believer, not just a Christian. We're raising sons and daughters.

Sons and daughters. When we see sons and daughters is

a very powerful word as well, because it's got to

do with this. Like you know, when you talk about

taking up your father's business, right, you won't do it

just anyhow, You will do it how your father wants it,

all right, okay, And so we want to know how

exactly that wanted this to happen, and so sons and

daughters were aligned to that.

And so that's what we're doing here.

Even in ex church we always say this, you know,

we're raising up sons and daughters. So I want you,

you know, I want to ask you a question. Do

you see yourself as a son and a daughter of

the church of this house?

All right?

And I want you, I want to encourage you to

see yourself a little bit more this way. I am

a son and I'm a daughter of this house. So

how do you behave if you're if you see yourself

that way. I'm not just another church goer. I'm not

just another guy just just coming here and sitting. But

if I'm a son and daughter or son or a

daughter of the church of ex Church in Cyberjaya, what

should I do?

Then? What is my part? Right?

There's a part that you play because now you're a

son and a daughter of the house. And that's what

we see ourselves as you know, you know me and

Jill and you know a few of us here we

see ourselves that way. And so that's why we will

check with Pasta Kenad and go like, Pasta, how do

you feel about how Excyberjaya is now when you come

you know, whenever Pascal comes back here and he sees

and you go like, I don't recognize this this church anymore?

They are behaving differently right, and so, uh, you know,

if we were sons and daughters, we'll be able to

take it and say, hey, Jack, don't do this. You

know this thing, don't don't sing that song really like

that song is not I don't know. I'm just giving

some examples, all right. Uh, it's not aligned to what

were we believe in. And if I'm a son and daughter,

of course maybe i've heard a bit like ouch, but

I've got it. Okay, since my dad is telling me

don't okay, I'll trust it.

I'll go this way, all right. So, uh, do you

understand what I'm saying.

I want to encourage all of us here to see

ourselves more and more as sons and daughters of the house.

And so he we send you, all right, we say, hey, Sean,

I want to send you to.

Do x Pakistan. Okay, all right. I won't simply say that.

We won't simply say all right, but I'm just giving example, right, scary, right,

Will you go?

Will you go?

Son and daughter of the house, He'll say, You'll say,

I pray about it first, Thanks, thanks for the privilege.

I pray about it. Let the Lord lead me. If

he calls me like he called Abraham. I'll go halfway first.

I own settled there. Oh no, just okay, all right,

just give you an example, a right, what if the

instruction comes what if the request comes?

Right, how do we respond to that? Yeah? Okay, uh, Amen,

move on. Okay.

Fathers remind and reprimand wow, stronger their reprimand now go

through this. So fathers speak the good news. Father speak

the good news. Fathers should speak life, and fathers should

not be silent when it matters.

Okay. Uh.

And when there needs to be a reprimand correction, it

needs to be done all right, otherwise the question is there.

If not, then who will do it right? Father will

do it okay.

And it's only the father who can do it. If

you leave it to someone else, I need to go

to correct the child. I tell you the honest truth.

Here this morning, I was praying here, so you saw it.

I was prey. See this.

Two boys kicking each other right there, two legs there.

No one else is going to do it right, So

I use my stop me and I continue and they

stop like thank god, they stop. Good boys, good boys,

at least they stopped right. The father is doing that right. Uh.

Sometimes mom tries to do it, but sometimes it works sometimes, right,

like mom is trying to you know, care for us young,

all right, because mom's role is you know a lot

of nurturing, right and carrying.

So, uh, the fathers have that role and we have

the gift.

That's why a voice is like this then in the house,

let me hear you. You see, the ladies don't have

this voice. Ladies don't have this voice, all right, and

so so we have the voice. God has given it

to us. And this is and it is for a reason,

for a reason a man, okay, and so yeah, if not,

who will do it?

Right?

And I know, you know some of us here, you know,

our families. You maybe the father figure in our families

are not really present at the moment physically, but thank God,

you know, thank you for the church. Thank God for

you know, I don't know, maybe even like uncles and

things like that.

We can tap on that.

And uh, you know, the Lot provides the Lot provides

the father figure in our families. So no worries even

if we don't have a biological fathers now, you know,

for different whatever reason, there's always another father.

Figure that we can look to.

I believe, all right, if not look to Father God right,

and he will reprimand us as well. Okay, so the voice,

like I said, the voice of the fathers come with

authority and power. Now I want to maybe share a

little bit more on this. So just not the first

one saying recognizing Father, right. I maybe my my own

story is that until I recognized Pastor Kenneth as the

father of this house in my life because I came,

you know, God, I believe God sent me to the church,

and I believe, you know, we all might need to

consider this. Do you believe that God sent you here

to this church?

Right?

Or is it like I decided this is my church

and I picked it like like Netflix or something, all right,

and if it doesn't please me, I'll go to another one,

all right. So so if you think that way, then

it's very easy. You will switch very easily. And even

after you switch to the other one, you might switch

to another one. What I'm saying is you gotta ask

yourself that question, is it God will.

Sent me here?

Did the Holy Spirit send me here to this church?

And so if you believe that, and I believe that's powerful,

and I believe God definitely sends you a right to

wherever you you're supposed to go. And so if you

believe you're send here, then remain, remain and grow, remain

and grow, and God has a plan.

Okay, So.

Now why did I say that I was gonna say

about being sent to the church. Recognize myself, okay, Right,

So so I came to ex Church, and then you

know I was a church hopber. I will just tell

you the truth. I hopped from church to church to

church when I was a college student. All right, uh,

and then we still over the nomadic church goers whatever

it is like sounds silly right now, but anyway, a

few of us now, but we're doing that. And then

finally I kill the ex church and I felt like

I need to stay here a bit more. You stay

here a bit more because the messages from there was

like that, or so like, hey, don't keep going to

a church like hotel, right, you need to unpack.

Thank God for churches like that. They would teach us

that thing.

Because when I went to all the others, I didn't

hear all these messages, or maybe I wasn't hearing messages.

I was just what I was doing. I was partying.

But but when I went to.

Ex church one day, and then the message was that

you gotta unpack. This is not a hotel, right, your

luggages are still there, not not open. Right, you gotta unpack,

and you gotta you put up your picture frames right

someways houses walls or clean right because you don't want

to nail it.

But how you unpacked.

You're putting up furniture, you're putting your painting, you're saying,

this is my house. I'm gonna do stuff in this house,

and so unpacked. And so when I heard those messages,

I go like, wow, this is new to me. It

is new to me. I've got root down, words like

root down right, Otherwise you're a seed that stays on

the ground and never roots, and one one kick you

fly everywhere and you never grow your remain a seed forever?

Who wants to remain a seed forever? Or do you

want to grow bare fruit?

You know?

Root down, grow roots all right, and have flowers and

fruits and be a blessing. Right, that's what we want

to see in our lives, all right. And I believe

many of us are doing that already here, so praise God.

So I heard that, I.

Then started to realize you know, and I went up

to pass, you know, and say, can you you know,

kind of like lead me be my mentor or something

like that, and to my surprise, you say yeah, sure,

like whoa, okay, cool now then get serious, get serious

all right? And so now he's my father, right, and

he fathers me. He's very good, all right, because you know, uh,

most times it's all good and dandy, all very nice.

One is very kind.

So but there are are a few times in my life, right,

maybe I've mentioned before, when I go up to him,

I complain I do this and I'm doing negative things

and he.

Will tell it to me.

They say, like I told you before, you know, I

was complaining with someone and he says, check, just deal

with it now. I was like, oh, okay, all right,

that's good. That's good.

Uh. And there was one time, maybe I haven't shed

it before I was.

I actually signed up to work full time at that

time because I was so sinful. I signed up to

work full time to repay my sins, the wrong concept.

But I was doing that.

I was doing to be a graphic designer. And past

Kenneth has this thing they do staff devotion, and it

came to my turn. It came to my turn, and

I don't know for what reason, maybe I forgot to

prepare whatever. I took our daily bread and I tried

to go in there and read the content there, and.

I started to make up.

Stories there and I said this and there. I went

here and there and I said, yeah, you know, sorryer, sorry,

I didn't prepare. I actually said it like then they

all heard it. You just just listen first. Then late

later he says, uh, you know, whenever it's your turn, everyone,

you know, when it's your turn to do the woship

is take it seriously and prepare.

WHOA.

It was painful for me to just hear those words,

but someone had to do it.

If not who you know who, I will.

Never learn If he never said that it's hard to do.

I'm sure it was hard for him to say that

and do that. But if no one did that, I

won't be here today. So I will be this guy

always thinking like yeah, I can always wing it and

just walk around do whatever like. But that helped me

to wake up, and from that day on, I never

never never prepared anymore. I'm always prepared, you know, or

I try to reprepare her even it's just one day before.

Just try and prepare if I if I forgot, then

I won't be sleeping that that night, you know, and

I'll just prepare.

Okay. So that taught me a life lesson. Praise God.

Some of us we need that.

Yeah, I just want to check out anyone everyone here,

all right? If you've had some someone like that in

your life who just gave it to you.

And you didn't like it at that time, but now.

You appreciate it, raise your hands, anyone, anyone serious?

Okay? So so you didn't raise your hand. I don't

know why, but you're willing to accept to receive. Yeah.

Maybe maybe the person who told you was very nicer.

They said it until you didn't know it was a scolding.

Okay. Anyway, anyway, all right, if no one, then who

right now? Okay? Then the other thing is this I

want to talk about. We say it.

Reminding and reprimand okay, yeah, I mean I do appreciate

you know, times where I speak with my children and wow,

wow it's a retoulay right right, Okay, maybe I'll keep

those stories on another day. Let's end it soon, okay,

all right, uh, okay, let's go on to the last point,

last point, last point.

Father's role model.

Okay, uh, actions speak louder than words. And we can't

just recognize our role we say, recognize right that we

are father or we are you know, we're helping someone,

we're discipling someone.

But we need to role model. We need to show

it in.

Our life, okay, because what we say or do plus

how we say or do it will work hand in

and it's powerful. Okay, and then we thank God for

our role model in Christ Jesus. Now I want to

go to one last scripture that we close. All right,

maybe yeah, the musicians can come up soon. So first Timothy,

chapter four, verse twelve. All right, I want to say,

all right, before I read the scripture, when I first

had kids.

And realize I have to now.

Be an example, right, A lot of things change in

my life.

I would be very honest with you. Right.

There's one time, you know, when Judah was first was born, right,

and his baby sitting at the back, and we normally

put him in the back in a chelsea. I uh,

you know, normally when I dry life and like many

of us, a lot of people make you angry when

you drive. Right, many almost every day when you drive

while you some of them somehow make you angry and

like Sally cut you or honk you for no reason,

whatever it is. And so uh, to be very honest

with you, all this foul language, right, especially when I'm alone,

when some of the were like, oh, you know, stop.

It, and sometimes the foul language would just come out. Right.

But when ahead, juda right, it's right at the back

seat there and the child seat there.

Right. There's one time I tried to.

Control myself when I when I had when I had Tudor,

I really tried to control myself, you know. And there's

one just one time some something happened and I got

me so riled up. I actually say a bad way

and then stop, go ahead just there. Oh man, you

heard it. I don't think you realize it until now

it but but.

That really kept me checked and I realized I have

to be a role model. I just can't do anything

I like.

And so that's why at this point here about being

a role model is so important because uh, you know,

when you think and you realize that you need to

be a role model, you will live your life a

bit more, right, Yeah, But the best role model you

can be is your love for for God, love for God,

love for Jesus. And as they see that, you know,

as people that follow you see that, people your fathering

see that. They they have an example, you know, because

they read in the Bible. They read Abraham everybody David

so awesome. But they don't see these people. And that's

why we need real life people around. Yeah, I'm not

talking about just past us and elders.

Look at your friend.

Look your friend, say he's talking about you. Okay, a friend,

Look at friends, say he's talking about you. Right, you,

you can be a role model. You don't have to

wait for them. You don't have to wait to be fifty.

They don't need to be a role model. If you're

not a role model now by fifty, I don't know

whether you will be a role model.

Right.

It starts now, starts now. Okay, So let's have that awareness.

Right.

We are sent to father the nations. We are sent

to be a parent to the nations. No matter how

young you are, don't despise your youth. And the last

verse I want to read is this First Timothy, chapter four,

verse twelve. Okay, let no one despise you for your youth.

But set the believers an example. Everyone, say example example

in what five things here?

Show me five? Hey, we count down? Example in what

number one? Speech? You know? Speech? How we speak? Example

in how we speak? Right?

Some of us our examples are then the singers in

spoti five, and so our speech follows that. Right, be

careful with that right, all the movies or whatever. But

let let your example be Father, God, the Lord, the

Lord Jesus.

And so when you speak, you speak out of the

word of God.

So be an example in speech. Next the example in

conduct and conduct, in the way we do things, how

we do things right? How you do your assignments you're

leave it all for your friend to do right? Or

how you enter people's house and leave the house right,

do you do it respectfully? In your conduct, in your

in your in church?

Right?

Okay this time, don't kill me. How you arrive at church?

I'm bothering you guys, now, please all right? Then you

are you take it? How you arrive at church? What

time you arrive at church?

You know? Noah, he h too much? No Noah. You

know the team is supposed to arrive at seven forty.

He arrives at.

Seven, And I won't stop him.

No, I won't stop him. But yeah, okay, So how

do we arrive at church? Right?

How do we serve? How do we whatever? How do

we you keep the quiet time?

Conduct? Number three? In love? Right? Just now? I sit

there in love or not? Yeah?

In love enough. I didn't shout at you. I didn't

pinpoint people except Noah, all right. I didn't name and

shame anyone, all right. I was in love okay, all right,

all right, I'm sure you have real reasons. Ah, if

you were late today, whatever, don't worry, okay, all right, No,

no condemnation in Christ Jesus, yay before Okay. In faith, wow,

it's very important.

Okay. What is faith?

Abraham stepped out in faith not knowing where he was going.

Right, That's what the Bible says. That's what the New

Testament says.

And sometimes, you know, you say, I want to surf,

want to serve, but I don't know what it's going

to cost me. Yeah, you can try and calculate the

cost as much as possible, but uh, it's it's faith.

It's faith. You know.

We we we do pre marriage counseling with people and

we say, you know, there's a lot of people say,

I don't know when I'll get married.

No, I need to already collect all my money. Da

da da.

Right, but sometimes, but getting married is a step of faith.

You won't know you have everything yet in place. But

if you have enough, you know sufficient. You go and

you say, okay, God, you need to help me. Now

faith and then have having children with the economy situation, Now.

How you count it?

So it won't make sense, right, but step of faith,

step of faith. Man, So same thing with serving, same

thing with church, right, same thing. We go into missions

and then finally in purity. Wow, this one is hard, right,

it's hard, but it says, yeah, this is instruction. And

so Paul is trying to be a father to us

as he's doing it with Timothy. You need to keep purity.

You need to keep pure. Don't be like everyone else.

Everyone else is doing it, but we don't have to, right,

Everyone is watching the stuff on Netflix that we shouldn't

be watching, but we don't have to.

Amen.

Yeah, doesn't mean everyone's watching YouTube. You must watch YouTube,

plan right, it feels like you must. Everyone is doing it.

So I feel that i must because I'm part of everyone.

Are you part of everyone?

Oh? You're not.

You're different. We're different. Hey, tell your neighbor you are different.

You're different, You're not part of everyone. Man, you are

God's children. God is your father. Many people out there,

they don't understand God is their father, right, their father

is someone else. But they need to know God the

Father soon.

Amen.

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