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That All May Know - The Lord JESUS CHRIST & His Love Through Me | Olivia Leong

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from ext Church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Today's word, right, we'll just go straight to it.

  4. Today's title for the Word of God for us today

  5. is that all may know the Lord Jesus Christ and

  6. his love true Me.

  7. All right. So just to let us all know, especially

  8. those of us who are new here the church.

  9. Here in ext Church, we have our senior Pastor, our

  10. senior minister, our founding senior pastor has declared the theme

  11. for this church this year, which is that all may know. Okay.

  12. We want to see the world. We want to see

  13. everyone know the Lord Jesus Christ.

  14. Okay.

  15. And today's word will be founded on John chapter fourteen.

  16. All right.

  17. So I have also today, even as today is family,

  18. I would like to invite different ones from different age

  19. groups to come and read a portion of scripture from

  20. John chapter fourteen with their physical bibles, if possible.

  21. All right, So I would.

  22. Like to invite Timore to come and read for us

  23. from verse one to verse six. And also I s

  24. I so different ones please come up. Tim More Isesa, Magdalen,

  25. Ezra Os Ezra Ezra and Stephanie.

  26. And Johann come come, hey, is s I s here first?

  27. Very good? Okay, Timo, come come forward, Stephanie, yes, yeah,

  28. get get your physical bibles, come come come okay, okay,

  29. So first one is Timo.

  30. Timo, come first, Timo come first?

  31. All right?

  32. Okay?

  33. Are we all ready? So is Timo? Is Sa? Magdalen

  34. after A Sa is Magdalene, Magdalen Ezra after Magdalene is

  35. Ezra then Stephanie and Johann Johan is final there yeah,

  36. all right, okay, all right. So Timo will read from

  37. verse one to verse six. Okay, ah, yes, I will

  38. be reading from verse seven to eleven. Magdalen will be

  39. reading from verse twelve to fourteen, Ezra will be reading

  40. from verse fifteen to eighteen, Stephanie will be reading from

  41. verse nineteen to twenty four, and Johann will be reading

  42. from verse twenty five to thirty one. All right, we'll

  43. pass the mic as we go. Thank you guys. All right,

  44. So whenever you're al ready, may begin.

  45. Yeah, John Chapter fourteen, verse one to six. Let not

  46. your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also

  47. in me in my father's how so many mentions. If

  48. it were not so, I would have told you I

  49. go to prepare a place for you. And if I

  50. go and prepare a place for you, I will come

  51. again and receive you to myself. That way I am

  52. there you may be also. And where I go, you know?

  53. And the way you know? Terman say to him, Lord,

  54. we do not know where you are going. And how

  55. can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I

  56. am the Way, the truth, and the life. No one

  57. comes to the Father except to me.

  58. Amen. All right, just pause there for a moment. Yeah,

  59. thank you Timo for reading. Yes, So just pausing there

  60. for a moment. I'm supposed to let us know the

  61. background of a verse chapter fourteen.

  62. Yes, So this scripture of the entire chapter.

  63. Fourteen is when Jesus is having his last supper with

  64. his disciples. He's going to be, yeah, taken away from

  65. his disciples, and his disciples are.

  66. Very close to him.

  67. It's like it's like my children and me, we are

  68. going to be separated. But so these are his last

  69. words before they are before Jesus is taken away.

  70. So yeah, these are the words.

  71. All right, So continue on from verse seven Ayesa, Yeah,

  72. verse seven to verse eleven.

  73. If you really know me, you will know my Father

  74. as well from now on. You do know him and

  75. have seen him. Blip said, Lord, show us the Father,

  76. and that will be enough for us. Jesus answered, don't

  77. you know me, Philip, even after I've been among you

  78. such a long time. Anyone who has seen me has

  79. seen the Father. How can you say, show us the Father?

  80. Don't you believe that I am in the Father and

  81. that the Father is in me? The words I say

  82. to you, I do not speak on my authority. Rather,

  83. it is the Father living in me who is doing

  84. his work. Believe me when I say that I am

  85. in the Father and the Father is in me, or

  86. at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

  87. Hey man, thank you Ayesa. Now Magdalene will read from

  88. verse twelve to fourteen.

  89. I tell you the truth. He who believes in me

  90. will do the greater things than these. Because I ask

  91. for anything in my name, If I will do it

  92. for you, then the Father's glory will be shown the same.

  93. If you ask me for anything in my name, I

  94. will do it.

  95. Amen, Thank you, Thank you.

  96. Magdalen. And Ezra will read verse fifteen to verse eighteen.

  97. If you love me, you will do the things that

  98. I command you. I will ask the Father and he

  99. will give you another helper. He will give you this

  100. helper to be with you forever. The helper is the

  101. spirit of true. The world cannot accept him because it

  102. does not see him or know him.

  103. But you know him.

  104. He lives with you, and he will be in you.

  105. I will not leave you all alone like orphans. I

  106. will come back to you.

  107. Amen.

  108. Thank you, Ezra.

  109. All right. So that's verse eighteen, verse nineteen to verse

  110. twenty four.

  111. Stephanie, thank you a.

  112. Little while longer, and the world will see me no more,

  113. but you will see me, because I leave, you will

  114. also live.

  115. At that day.

  116. You will know that I am in my Father, and

  117. you in me, and I in you. He who has

  118. my commanments and keeps them, it is he who loves me.

  119. And he who loves me will be loved by my

  120. father Man, and I will love him and manifest myself

  121. to him. Man Judas, not his carriot, said to him, Lord,

  122. how is it that you will manifest yourself to us

  123. and not to the world. Jesus answered and said to him,

  124. if anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and

  125. my Father will love him. And we will come to

  126. him and make our home with him. He who does

  127. not love me does not keep my words. And the

  128. word which you hear is not mine, but the Father

  129. who sent me.

  130. Amen.

  131. Thank you, Stephanie. And last portion verse twenty five to

  132. thirty one Johannes, Yeah, okay.

  133. Verse twenty five to thirty one.

  134. Today I am telling I'm telling you these things now

  135. while I'm still with you. But when, but when the

  136. Father sends the Advocate as my representative, that is the

  137. Holy Spirit, He will teach you everything and will remind

  138. you of everything I have told you. Verse twenty seven.

  139. I'm leaving you with a gift peace of mind and heart, Imen.

  140. And the piece I give is a gift the world

  141. cannot give, Imen. So don't be trouble or afraid. Remember

  142. what I told you. I'm going away, but I but

  143. I will come back again to see you. If you

  144. really loved me, you would be happy that I am

  145. going to the Father who is greater than I am.

  146. I have told you these things before they happen, so

  147. that when they do happen, you will believe. Verse thirty.

  148. I don't have much more time to talk to you

  149. because the Ruler of this world approaches. He has no

  150. power over me, but I will do what the Father

  151. requires of me so that the world will know that

  152. I love the Father. Come, let's be going.

  153. Yep, thank you, Thank you. Give a hand to everyone

  154. who read the word of God.

  155. Amen.

  156. God bless the reading of his word.

  157. Amen. So beautiful to hear the voices of different ones

  158. reading the word of God. Amen. All right, So very quickly,

  159. and children remember to write notes. Okay, Right, So I'm

  160. going to place the slides very quickly. On the first point. Okay,

  161. I really believe even as I was preparing this word

  162. for us today, God's word for us today.

  163. All right.

  164. The first point here says in verse fifteen about the

  165. word of God, very clearly, Jesus commands his disciples.

  166. Two, if you love me, keep my commandments.

  167. All right. So this is first point, everybody, first point.

  168. We love God by keeping observing and obeying his words.

  169. So you know, when the Word of God says love

  170. here in this scripture, verse fifteen, if you love me,

  171. this love means agapal means love that is like full right,

  172. a person's love towards a person to welcome, to entertain,

  173. to be fond of to love dearly. If you love

  174. Jesus dearly, if you love God dearly, keep God's commandment

  175. when this word keep also means ethereal. Okay, ethereal means

  176. to guard, to keep one in state in which he is.

  177. And to observe, okay, means to keep not just to

  178. put in the back, but to observe it, to obey,

  179. to do it. All right. If you love me, keep it.

  180. So to keep here means to observe, to obey all right? Okay,

  181. am I going too fast? Very easy? Right? Yes? Okay,

  182. so all right, So that is from verse verse fifteen. Okay,

  183. in the same point next night, Okay, God will reveal

  184. himself to us. This is God's promise. Okay in verse

  185. twenty one. Allow me to read this again, all right,

  186. verse twenty one. If you have your Bibles, you can

  187. flip to it. In John chapter fourteen, verse twenty one says,

  188. he who has my commandments and keeps them means to

  189. observe them. It is he who loves me, and he

  190. who loves me will be loved by my father, and

  191. I will love him and manifest myself to him.

  192. Here in verse.

  193. Twenty one says that God will reveal himself to us

  194. when we love him by having his word and observing, obeying,

  195. and living God's word out very clear, okay, in verse

  196. twenty one. All right, So if we love God and

  197. we obey him, God promises to reveal himself to us

  198. if anyone of us here amongst us here, or anyone

  199. can hear the sound of my voice. Because this is

  200. also called that, you know, if you are really seeking

  201. the Lord God, the Living God. The Bible says the word,

  202. the Living Word says, keep his word, you know, keep

  203. his word, obey his word, and God will reveal himself

  204. to us a man. All right. And also the next light,

  205. this is two point one very clearly, it says in

  206. verse twenty three. Okay, in verse twenty three, allow me

  207. to read here from John chapter fourteen, Verse twenty three.

  208. Jesus answered and said to him, if anyone loves me,

  209. he will keep my word, and my father will love him,

  210. and we will come to him and make our home

  211. with him. Wow. Isn't that awesome? God, the Living God,

  212. the creator of the heavens and the earth, making his

  213. home with us.

  214. Wow. So God will be with us.

  215. God promises to be with us when we love him

  216. by having his word and observing it.

  217. Wow, this is powerful. Right.

  218. How do you know that God is with you? Yes,

  219. you know the Bible says, yes, God is with us.

  220. But how do you know when we love him, when

  221. we keep his word, when we obey and live it out,

  222. know that He is with you? Sometimes you feel like, yeah,

  223. I've done everything. How do I know God is still

  224. with us? His promises is here, believe it, believe it right,

  225. believe it right, and God is with you. Yeah, this

  226. is his promise. His promises are yes an amen? Right? Okay, yes,

  227. so this is point one right and making his home.

  228. You know in the Old Testament time when God makes

  229. his home in the tabernacle, right, the tabernacle that the

  230. Israelites made, right, his presence come down. He made his

  231. home with his people. When when the word of God says,

  232. when Jesus says here that he will make his home

  233. with him, means he will choose to dwell, choose to

  234. hang out, choose to leper you know a Malaysian language, Yeah,

  235. choose to dwell, choose to yes.

  236. Hang around? Okay in.

  237. Younger language, okay, okay, make our home to dwell, Okay,

  238. stay abide right, those those kind of words. Yes, he

  239. choose to dwell. Okay, So this is his promise for us. Okay,

  240. this is already point one that when we keep God's word,

  241. God will reveal himself to us, and he will choose

  242. to dwell with us.

  243. Okay, he will be with us. Okay, Okay, children.

  244. Okay, poor number two, Poor number two. Holy Spirit, we're

  245. gonna talk about the Holy Spirit. Here. The Jesus telling

  246. his disciples, for he leaves. Okay, don't worry, don't worry. Okay.

  247. As we read in verse one or so, he says,

  248. let not your heart be troubled. Don't worry. Believe in God,

  249. believe in me. Don't worry. You know you will not

  250. be alone.

  251. Okay.

  252. In verse sixteen to verse eighteen, allow me to read that. Also,

  253. Verse sixteen to verse eighteen of John chapter fourteen says.

  254. Jesus says, and I will pray the Father, and he.

  255. Will give you another helper that he may abide with

  256. you forever. The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot

  257. receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.

  258. But you know him talking to the disciples.

  259. You know him, for he dwells with you and will

  260. be with you. And verse eighteen says, I will not

  261. leave you as Ofthans, I will come to you. While

  262. you know Jesus he calls, affirms, and promises his disciples.

  263. Don't worry. You will not be alone. I will come

  264. to you. You know, you know, be comforted. Brothers and sisters.

  265. If you feel alone throughout your journey this week or

  266. around this season, know that God is with you. He

  267. is with you, all right. So this is His word

  268. for you today. And yes, so holy Spirit is from

  269. the Father. Yeah, the Holy Spirit is from the Father.

  270. It's not from It's not man made. It's not something

  271. somebody think up something or some holy spirit. No, this

  272. is from the Father, the creator of the heavens and

  273. the earth.

  274. He is. Holy Spirit is from the Father.

  275. Okay. And next light, holy Spirit is also the helper,

  276. another helper if you read, if you read from verse

  277. verse sixteen, right, and I will pray the Father and

  278. he the Father will give you and another helper. If

  279. you read that another helper is it means the same

  280. kind of Jesus, Jesus speaking to his disciples.

  281. Don't worry.

  282. There is someone like me coming to help you. Okay, Yes,

  283. another helple, the same kind of Jesus. Okay, he is

  284. the He is from the from the from the Father.

  285. He is the helper. Okay. So you might be wondering

  286. what help can he give? Okay, So what help can

  287. he give? Here? Next light?

  288. Right?

  289. He is also the Holy Spirit abides with you forever.

  290. Here also promises God is with you. You know, sometimes

  291. there are times when we go through our journey and

  292. we feel like, wow, even like to.

  293. Share the word of God. You're going to share God's

  294. love with someone?

  295. Right?

  296. How how how do we know that?

  297. You know?

  298. God is with us?

  299. He promises us again and again and again. We cannot

  300. believe you.

  301. You have to believe because it's speak.

  302. To it again and again and again. And this is

  303. what he says. Holy Spirit says, Holy Spirit.

  304. Abides with us.

  305. Jesus says, yeah, okay, that he may abide with you forever.

  306. His promises is here okay, and next light Holy Spirit

  307. also he is the spirit of truth right now out

  308. there in the world. It's just a mess. Okay, it's

  309. a mess. You don't even know what is truth, what

  310. is lie? What is white? And what is black? It's

  311. so great out there, okay about so many concepts and

  312. so many beliefs.

  313. Know that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth.

  314. Okay, as Jesus says, he is the Way, the Truth,

  315. and the Life. The Holy Spirit is the same kind

  316. of Jesus. He is the spirit of truth.

  317. Okay.

  318. Yes, next, light, Holy Spirit also teaches us all things

  319. right In that same verse from verse John, let's read

  320. John chapter fourteen, verse twenty six.

  321. Verse twenty six says, but the.

  322. Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in

  323. my name, he will teach you all things, all things,

  324. all things that's correct, and the'sn all things. Holy Spirit

  325. will teach us all things and bring to remembrance all

  326. things that I said to you. Wow. Wow, we do

  327. not know something. I like Ella's testimony. Ella, thank you

  328. for sharing your testimony today. It was so hard to

  329. do mathematics, she prayed, God, help me with my mathematics.

  330. Wow, and she scored excellently. Praise God.

  331. Congratulations again, Ella, And it is so good that we

  332. are reminded today. Holy Spirit is with us and he

  333. can teach us all things because he creates the heavens

  334. and earth.

  335. What does he not know?

  336. He knows everything right, So yes, it's good to go

  337. to him, very important to go to him, all right. Next, light,

  338. he is also Holy Spirit that brings, brings to remembrance

  339. things from his word. Okay, he reminds us of his word.

  340. Sometimes we may forget. But thank you God, Holy Spirit

  341. that he reminds us daily his word.

  342. But of course we must read his word.

  343. If not, how to remind right, How to remind something

  344. that you don't don't know?

  345. Okay, you get what I mean?

  346. Right, yeah, you get You don't input something you cannot

  347. have output, right okay, Like like you deposit something in

  348. the bag you can withdraw. You cannot withdraw something that

  349. you cannot you didn't deposit, right, So Holy Spirit cannot

  350. remind you.

  351. Okay, you need to pick the Bible right, read the Bible.

  352. Man. Holy Spirit can remind you, not how to remind you.

  353. Okay, very good, okay, very very good.

  354. Reminder. This is number two about Holy Spirit. Okay, everybody,

  355. very good. Next?

  356. Next, is there a point number three?

  357. Next life? Yes? Okay, and this is point number three.

  358. We're gonna talk about Jesus. John chapter fourteen, verse six.

  359. John fourteen, verse six says Jesus said, I am the Way,

  360. the Truth, and the life. No one comes to the

  361. Father except true me. All right. It's a good verse

  362. to also memorize. Actually, all the verses here can memorize,

  363. okay if you can. And I just want you know,

  364. when I was preparing this, I was like, oh no,

  365. Pussa Jack ready shed this word in early May on

  366. this portion. It's really good if you can get this

  367. message on Spotify. It's from verse one to verse six. Okay, Spotify,

  368. pussa Jack shed a very powerful message, a very clear

  369. and very powerful message.

  370. On this you can get it.

  371. Yeah. I will not at to preach this part, but yes,

  372. you know, just know that Jesus he is the Way,

  373. the Truth, and the life, and no one comes to

  374. God the Father except true Jesus. All right, this one

  375. everybody know, kids, God the notes now right now on

  376. the same point of number three.

  377. Okay, this may shake everyone's I don't know.

  378. Theological believes or what, but allow me to say this

  379. to us. Okay, God's word for us today, all right? Okay,

  380. next life. Also in John chapter fourteen, verse seventeen, allow

  381. me to read versa before we go crazy, John chapter fourteen,

  382. verse seventeen. The word of God says, okay, the Holy

  383. Spirit is the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive.

  384. So Jesus is telling his disciples the Holy Spirit is

  385. the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive. But

  386. it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,

  387. you know the Holy Spirit. Jesus is saying to his disciples,

  388. you know him, for he dwells with you and will

  389. be with you. Meaning to say, from what I understand

  390. are the world cannot understand the Holy Spirit. The world

  391. cannot see him, cannot comprehend. In fact, when we try

  392. to share God's love to them about the Holy Spirit

  393. or who God, amazing God is, they just cannot understand

  394. because they think that all that we say, all that

  395. we believe, is foolishness unto men. All right, it's just foolish.

  396. It's how can you believe in something and just believe it? Yeah,

  397. and that's it, you know, and you know, inviting Jesus

  398. in your heart and believe it and that's it. Yeah.

  399. So the world, the world.

  400. Cannot seize it.

  401. The world cannot understand it.

  402. That's why all of us who have the Holy Spirit

  403. with us, we are the only way for our friends,

  404. our family, our neighbors, our colleagues, our classmate, everyone, our niece,

  405. our nephews, our cousins. We are the only way to

  406. the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, this may shake a lot

  407. of our Like, hey, ken man, you know, of course

  408. God can use every other thing in his own creation,

  409. but he chooses to use you and I.

  410. Right, So we are the only way to Jesus Christ.

  411. Right as how, Jesus Christ is the only way, the

  412. truth and the life to God the Father. Right. Even

  413. as I was putting this point right, I'm like thinking

  414. many times I was studying the word of God. God,

  415. am I going to preach something like, you know, a

  416. crooked But God assure me, just speak the truth and

  417. know that we are you and I tell you you

  418. are the only way to Jesus Christ. Okay, So we

  419. are the only way that someone among our circle of friends,

  420. someone that are related to us, knows Jesus Christ. Okay, right,

  421. So and just allow me to also share my testimony. Okay,

  422. So two weeks ago, Andrew and I we went to Bali.

  423. All right, it's for an opportunity. It's an opportunity and

  424. also an invitation that was given to us by Andrew's cousins.

  425. Andrew cousins.

  426. Okay, so Andrew's cousin is like the eldest how do

  427. you say, the eldest big sister. Okay, we caught that, Yeah, yes,

  428. correct that. Yeah, Andrew's cousin's side, right.

  429. So and she.

  430. Has been very helpful to Andrew, especially during his campus

  431. days when we when he came from Johor, Okay, from

  432. not a very big city to a very big city.

  433. So that yeah, her name is Alice. Okay, So Alice

  434. was so kind to you know, just host Andrew, bring

  435. him and maybe get his essentials like bucket, slah, you know,

  436. hangers you know when you first go into campus, right,

  437. and so you need all these essential things, you know,

  438. and got all that and then she drove Andrew in

  439. his in her small car, go all the way to

  440. the campus and drop him at the hostel, you know,

  441. get him settled down. And even every weekend, you know,

  442. ask how is he doing? Bring him out macca, you know,

  443. at least a family member, just comforting. So this this

  444. start yere, this Alicetier is very kind, has been so

  445. kind I mean from his campus is I mean, I'm

  446. sure even before that as well. So she has been

  447. so kind and even throughout his life and even me

  448. getting to know her as well and I joined the family,

  449. you know, she has been so kind to all of us,

  450. very very kind. And yeah, so now she is she's

  451. not young anymore, but now she's finally getting married yay.

  452. So we're so happy for her. And she invited both

  453. of us for this wedding and we said, yes, we

  454. must be there for her, love, because she's been there

  455. for Andrew for almost most of his significant milestone days. Right,

  456. So while we were there, So the wedding was at Bali.

  457. So this picture I took it. It's not from Google. Okay,

  458. it's nice, right, It's just it's a picture taken from Bali. Okay.

  459. We were at sun Or if anyone has been to Bali,

  460. we were at sun Or Snor It's at the south

  461. southeast side of the island. So it's the sunrise kind

  462. of seaside.

  463. Okay.

  464. So that's why this is evening time, so you don't

  465. get the sunset, so it's not so hot.

  466. It's actually very nice.

  467. So this was about like evening time already, like five

  468. five something, five something six, right, So yeah, so we had.

  469. We had actually the reception at the garden and then

  470. the dinner was at the beach, so wind was blowing

  471. so nice. Yeah, So we were at Bali, uh and

  472. and Andrew and I were thinking, maybe we can also

  473. take this opportunity to tour the island of Bali for

  474. our post wedding anniversary. Right so, Andrew and I has

  475. been married for now eleven years already, we haven't done

  476. any big outing lass, so we were like, okay, just

  477. go out for a few hours, no makama. But now

  478. this time we thought like, okay, so since we can

  479. come out, why don't think the opportunity go traveler? Okay,

  480. so go Bali. So that's that's what we did. And

  481. we went to Bali. And yeah, so because we haven't

  482. gone out for more than seven years out of the

  483. country already together without the kids. Right so, and even

  484. as we were out there, right where we were traveling out,

  485. just before we travel out, I remember Anderson was praying

  486. for us.

  487. Say, Anderson was praying that.

  488. God that you will help mommy and daddy to share

  489. God's love to everyone.

  490. That our pressure and pressure sun.

  491. Preyer prayer like okay, okay, God, damn message, good reminder. Okay, yeah,

  492. that all may know, right, yes, so I'm like good reminder. Okay.

  493. So while we were there at Bali, so we had

  494. a driver to bring us around. Okay, a tour is

  495. easier to get to know the place around us. So

  496. Andrew and I had a driver to drive us around.

  497. So next night there's this man. He's so that's this photo, right,

  498. the man decided Andrew. His name is Spartan. He's the

  499. driver is Yeah, his name is Spartan. Okay, yeah, okay,

  500. we call it the nickname. His name is very long,

  501. so his name is Spartan. So he's a driver. He

  502. drives us around Bali for a couple of days, okay.

  503. And he is a very devout Hindu. So in Bali,

  504. the majority people believes is a Hindu religion, okay, about

  505. eighty six point nine as at twenty twenty. Majority of

  506. them are Hindu and uh yes, and it's a different

  507. kind of Hindu compared to the Hindu in Malaysia and

  508. in India. Okay. And they have temples everywhere, temples, temples in.

  509. Their shops, temples at home.

  510. At home also got a few temples, so and everywhere

  511. on the street is temple everywhere you see. I'm thinking like,

  512. oh God, if we can convert this, if the whole

  513. nation is converted, what would they do. I mean, they

  514. will have churches everywhere, streets, cornered church, even in schools,

  515. even in their houses. Their houses are built in such

  516. a way it's like a temple itself. So it's like, wow,

  517. so amazing, crazy. Yeah. And you know, Spartan himself, he's

  518. a devout Hindu. He really believes in his belief, Okay.

  519. He and while he was touring around, touring us around,

  520. he also shared briefly about his belief, his culture and

  521. his practices, his background. He's like preaching to us, you know,

  522. like they're like okay, yeah, you know, was sharing with

  523. us every day. Of course because as a tour guide

  524. he has to explain why is this and why is that?

  525. But of course at the same time he has to

  526. help us understand the belief site so that when we

  527. see something, ah, we understand it. Okay. So yes, so yeah,

  528. so he brought us around, Okay. So just also because

  529. we went on Thursday Thursday until the next Wednesday, we

  530. were in Bali, right, so in between on Sunday we

  531. visited a church. So next light, so we visited a

  532. church on Sunday. It's called Maranatha Maranatha Ministry, Bali Church

  533. on Sunday. And you know what, God's presence was really evident.

  534. It's like it's like x Hyberjaya. But it was in

  535. a small shot lot, okay, as you can see the

  536. pictures there, all right, And yeah, God's presence was really evident.

  537. And even though in the small congregation, and they're also

  538. very welcoming, very friendly. They were so passionate in their

  539. worship even though it's just a small band, and there

  540. was a powerful word spoken as well. I remember that

  541. this lady he was she was preaching from Jesus' temptations

  542. and how she reminded us that God's word is really important.

  543. God's word should always be in our mouths and we

  544. must be careful in what we speak. So yes, she

  545. was preaching the word of God about the word of God.

  546. So I thought that, yes, Holy Spirit is reminding me

  547. also to bring this word to us today, that the

  548. word of God is very important, all right. And oh yeah,

  549. and did you know also they actually have a big

  550. kitchen all right just outside there the entrance of the church.

  551. So as you can see, I know, it's a bit

  552. small Andrews. Andrew and I were standing on the on

  553. the picture on the left bottom right, just in front

  554. of the entrance is actually their kitchen. So in that

  555. kitchen they prepare actually like things to eat after service,

  556. like a big fish for everyone. Unfortunately we can't stay

  557. back after service to Macan with them.

  558. Yeah, but yeah, we sent our regards to them.

  559. Yeah, and we've got some photos and yeah, as the

  560. big picture, as you can see on the right, the

  561. lady next to me is actually one of the leaders.

  562. She actually preaches the word of God also, and the

  563. others are very faithful believers. And Andrew was saying that

  564. it's also amazing to see many men in the church

  565. that day. Okay, so sorry that this picture doesn't doesn't

  566. paint a proper picture of many men, you know, in

  567. the congregsion.

  568. But yes, there's actually a lot of men serving. So

  569. it's really good. It's really good.

  570. So the church is faithfully doing their part despite them

  571. just being the minority in the whole country, in the

  572. whole island. Okay, right, So just just a briefing, just

  573. to let your own know about what I did on

  574. that Sunday, and I was away okay, I was at

  575. church worshiping God as well, all right, so yeah, okay.

  576. So while we were touring, so after service were the

  577. Spartan brought us around Bali. So and one of the

  578. many things that I had observed along the roads of

  579. Bali in most places, was that the front doors of

  580. the houses are usually open, and that there is a

  581. symbol of a white cross in front of every door

  582. post of the entrance. You may change to the next light, okay,

  583. can you spot okay, so as you can see, these

  584. are how do you say, their front entrance of their

  585. yeah houses oay, it's like their gate, you know, their gate.

  586. So for example, like this house, they actually have their

  587. front doors actually opened, and they have a cross, a

  588. white cross. Every every house has it. And as if

  589. you can see, also, the the structure are very temple like. Yeah,

  590. they build their houses like a temple itself, right, and

  591. they have crosses everywhere. So I like every house.

  592. There's just so many.

  593. I wanted to click everything, but yeah, I cannot click

  594. so many. But yes, so many along the roads everywhere

  595. we go, we see this light, right, And and I

  596. asked Spartan and Spartan, why do the people have crosses

  597. in front of their houses?

  598. You know what what does that mean?

  599. Oh? Then Spartan explains, Oh, it's because this is just

  600. as we enter the house, we want to be reminded

  601. that we need to have a good relationship with God

  602. and also a good relationship with men. I'm like, wow,

  603. really and then yes, and and and I also research

  604. a bit about this white cross thing on their doors.

  605. It also symbolizes that they they have this symbol means

  606. they have completed some rituals. They have completed some rituals

  607. already in the house, like when they dedicate their house

  608. or something like that. So it's like a mark of completion, right.

  609. And it also talks about like protection and purity. Yeah,

  610. so for the house. So I'm thinking for myself, wow, God.

  611. If only they knew.

  612. So I explained to Spartan, Spartan, did you know that

  613. for as Christians we believe about the cross. It talks

  614. about the love of God and how God came down.

  615. So I took that opportunity to tell Spartan about why

  616. Jesus came and he said like, yeah, anyways, this Spartan, right,

  617. he before he became a tour driver. He was actually

  618. he was actually on a cruise. He works on a

  619. cruise that goes around the world, so he has visited

  620. many countries. And he says that he has never heard

  621. about Jesus the way that he has heard from me.

  622. He says so detailed, like wow, okay. So I'm so

  623. glad that I had the opportunity to share it spartan

  624. about Jesus and his love and how even he has

  625. completed it all by conquering since Sittan and that. Yeah,

  626. though Andrew, Andrew actually was sitting in front, I was

  627. sitting behind. So as I was explaining, Andrew said, yeah,

  628. he saw him yawning. I was trying to explain something.

  629. Hopefully he heard something. Wow, okay, okay, But nevertheless, right,

  630. no matter what the reaction is it from the receiver.

  631. And know that our role is just to share God's word. Okay,

  632. that is what God has commented us to do, right.

  633. And yeah, so there were many traffic jams, you know,

  634. I also took the opportunity to also share. So actually,

  635. on our we went to a few places around Bali,

  636. and our last place was a hotel in Somnia in Bali,

  637. and there is a hotel called Plugny Hotel. Then I

  638. told I thought the opportunity also Spartan, did you know

  639. there is a story about Plangny Plugny in Bahassa is

  640. the rainbow? Okay? So I told him, do you know

  641. that we actually have a story about the rainbow and

  642. the Bible? I say, he didn't know. Okay, there, I

  643. tell you stories. I told him story it's or traffic

  644. jam all the way right, So like yeah, so yeah,

  645. told him about Noah and how how Jesus is like

  646. that the art is like no like Jesus, you know,

  647. trying to save us from our sins and all that. Yeah,

  648. so of course, yeah, a long story. But yes, that's

  649. what Andrew was saying, like, ha, so long story, Like okay,

  650. it's okay, but we we we took the opportunity to

  651. do that because men, they were this could be only

  652. their chance of hearing the word. Right. So that's why

  653. that last point when I shed just now we are

  654. the only way to the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. All right,

  655. So in conclusion, extreme can come up already. In conclusion,

  656. here is the summary, so in case if you miss

  657. any notes. So this is the summary. Okay.

  658. First point, always.

  659. Remember to read the word of God and keep observe

  660. and obey them because God promises that he will be

  661. with us and he will reveal himself to us.

  662. Okay.

  663. Second point, Holy Spirit is our helper from the Father.

  664. He is from the Father.

  665. He is the spirit of Truth.

  666. He abides in us forever, and he reminds.

  667. Us his word.

  668. Okay. And see, the Holy Spirit doesn't the Holy Spirit

  669. doesn't read the word of God for you. He reminds you. Okay,

  670. he reminds you. And our job is to read the

  671. word of God. Okay, all right, Poet Tree, Jesus Christ

  672. is the way, the truth and the life, the only

  673. way to the Father. And we are the only way

  674. to Jesus Christ. All right. That's poet Tree, okay, all right.

  675. And that is you may refer our John chapter fourteen,

  676. verse seventeen. The more slight for that.

  677. Is there another slide for that, Frederick? That's all okay?

  678. Yeah, So poetry, Jesus Christ is the Way, the truth

  679. and the life, the only way to the Father. We

  680. are the only way to Jesus Christ. John chapter fourteen,

  681. verse seventeen. Amen, we hope you've been blessed by this message.

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  686. God bless