The Wonder of God's Word | Pr Jack Ling

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The wonder of God's word. Let's go, let's get into it,

Palm more one nine twenty five to thirty two, Verse

twenty five. Let's look at that right your bibles. You

should look at it, because I'm not putting out on

the screen for now. Okay, what does it say? Verse

twenty five? Oh sorry, flip my bible to the right

page some one one nine. Okay, verse twenty five. My

soul clings to the dust, Give me life according to

your word. That's the thing that we are reading here.

My soul clings to the dust. Just now. What Maria

shared with us is she was at a very desperate place,

very like I think it maybe felt like death to her.

She she also said something about, you know, taking her life,

and it's like it's it's really like a dead end.

And maybe some of us here you're you're feeling that way.

I don't know what you're going through or you know

someone going through that and it feels like death. It's

a dead end, hopelessness. All right, children, you can draw,

all right, there's a little picture there for you as well,

or you can write so simple to write okay, right,

some I don't know what you're going through. Maybe you're

going through something challenging. Maybe you know someone's going through

that and it feels hopeless and difficult. The psalm is here, right,

my soul clings to the dust. I cannoly imagine what

this person's going through, all right, or went through, you know,

even if let's say no, he's talking about the soul,

you know, but let's say the physical body, right, just

clinging to the floor, the dust on the floor. You

just can't get up. Anyone who felt that like that before,

you just want to get up. You don't wait, right

because when I wake up and I have to face reality.

You know, I felt a bit of that before. You know.

One time we had this sports thing exta. I'm glad

it's not happening anymore, but we had this sports thing.

Was so competitive, all right, and we were competing each other.

We had groups and I was leading that group, and

I felt so stressed out just doing sports. I can't

imagine all that, you know, twenty twenty four or these

people losing the game and whatever it is, you know,

so stressful, right, Sports actually can be very stressful, and

so I was so stressed out. The next day. I

woke up right, I didn't want to go. I didn't

want to go for the sports thing. I even looked

at the window. Okay, and this, you know, because I'm

so stressed out, the whole team is relying on me. Right,

So this is just one glimpse of what maybe some

people go through. Like I don't know, like you wake up,

you go, I just don't want to go to work today.

I don't want to go on you know, whatever it is,

and it feels like the end. But you know what,

God's word tells us this. You may be clinging to

the dust and you feel like I don't want to

get up anymore. But says, here, give me life. According

to your word, give me life because he knows that

God's word can wake us up, can get us up again.

A lot of times people say, just get up right,

but we don't have the strength and we need something.

So what is that something? God's word. God's word can

come by reading the Bible. God's word can speak to

you at any time. I've heard this before as well.

I've heard God's word to me. You know, I was

doing some strange thing, you know, because I was doing

my assignment and I was doing some I think I

can't mention here because because they've got children here, all right.

I was doing stuff that I'm not proud of speaking

of as well. And then I heard I heard an

audible voice of God actually saying stop it now. Have

you ever heard that? People, I don't know anyone here

you've actually heard that before, experience like, say stop that now,

and you don't know where it came from. I tell you,

God is speaking to you. I've experienced that, and uh,

maybe you're not bad enough to be spoken to that way,

but I'm telling you God speaks to us. And I

heard that before and after that. I've not heard too

much audible voices anymore from God because I don't need to, right,

because I read his word and he speaks to me

gently now, right, But it was a strong one time

I heard God's audible voice stop, that's enough, And so

that helped me to stop and get back on track.

So I'm telling you God's word is not only just

the Bible. He will speak to you. He will speak

to you in whatever way you need to hear it,

all right, Whether is someone telling you. Maybe you hear

you see it on the signboard somewhere. I'm sure you've

you've experienced that before, some people, you know, I know

Passa Dan, Passa Dan is the leader in Excotach when

he told me, you know, he was so challenged and

you know, depressed one day and then he was standing

in front of a lift and the numbers on the

lift spoke to him. God can speak to you in

any way. And so but I guess we need to

be open enough to know that He is speaking to

you right through me, through Maria, through the song that

you heard just now and you sang along. Right when

you go out and eat lunch later, he might just

tell you something you know through the menu. I don't know. Okay, listen,

he will speak to you, all right, whether you want

to listen, all right. So but this guy knows it

all right. My so clings to the dues. Give me

life according to your word. Anyone you're feeling down out,

let God speak to you. He will revive you. Anyone

heard of this word revival before revival and with someone's

Christians we prayed, Lord give us revival. Right. Revival comes

from God's word. Yeah, you want revival. You want revival

in your life, you want revival in the nation, you

want revival in the church. God's word. We've got to

have God's word. Amen. So it's so powerful to have

God's word. Now, Next one, when I told of my

ways to you, you answered me, teach me your statutes. Okay,

so listen. So what happened was this guy was honest.

He was open enough to talk or tell God everything

and not not hide. Right. Sometimes we feel like we

want to hide things from people, especially people first of time, right,

because it's embarrassing right to go and tell all your

dirty stuff in your life. But you know, and sometimes

we hide from God. So but you know, I tell

you the truth. You don't need to hide from God.

He knows you, or he knows what you're going through.

He can see everything. Right, He knows you because he

made you. So I recommend don't hide from God, be

honest with him, be open with him, because that is

a start of knowing his word. Yeah, we want to

know God's word because it gives us life. Right. And

sometimes we struggle and say I don't understand God's word.

But actually to know God's word, we need to be honest.

We need to be honest with God because actually, I

think a lot of times what stops us from knowing

God's word is our pride. Our pride thinking that we're okay,

and if you're okay, and whatfore we need any help? Right,

We're okay, we don't need help, but if we know

that we are in trouble. Actually, God, I'm in trouble.

I've been in denial all this while. I've got I've

got issues. I got issues, right, I mean, look okay

in front of everyone, but really I struggle struggle with consistency.

I struggle with discipline. I'm late for work once in

a while, still, right, right, right, Okay, yeah, I mean

I struggle with that as well. Right, I've got I

have negative feelings about people, right, I've got some negative

feelings about what happens in church, right, right, I mean

we're human emotions, right, what we think about you know

the influence of the social media and everything, right, and

then people planting thoughts into your mind or rather the enemy,

and so we struggle with things. And if you honest enough,

then we will know that we need help. And so

when we need help, and we know we really need help,

we're honest with God, we open up to the Lord

and not hide anymore. Then we can truly say, teach me.

What is the second part? Say teach me your statutes.

Teach me your statutes? Right, what are statutes? But by

the way, these few versus here talk about how we

can view God's word. It can be a word spoken,

it can be a statute, you know, it's a statute.

A statute is something that has been established and it

cannot change. You know, a rule that has been set

and don't need to change because it's so good. It's

such a good rule, don't change it anymore, you know, like,

for example, red light stop. It's such a good rule.

Nobody wants to change that, he said. Some guys only

feel like I should think purpose better then the whole world.

We're confused, right because you said stop or what it

looks like ice cream? You know. So things that have

been set, rules that have been set so good, like

the Ten Commandments. It's a set rule, no need to

edit anymore, okay, because it is set by a just

and right God. So good, you know, in making a

decision and making a rule that it's great. So anyway,

he says here, teach me your statute, teach me your word.

You know, sometimes we go to many different teachers to

learn God's word, all right, but you know the best

person to teach God's word is who God himself, because

he made that right, It's from him. So the best

teacher is actually God. And I want to encourage all

of us here. Why do we seek God to learn

His word? Sundays you come, you know, it's like reminders.

Actually it's a reminder of the word you've already learned

from the Lord himself. And so when we come here,

just you know, it's just one time. But the rest

of the days you learn God's word from God himself.

You know, even when the preacher comes here, no matter

what he preachers are, you know, why don't you pray

God you teach me your way. Even whatever you the

preachers preaches, I'm going to catch something from you Holy Spirit. Hallelujah.

Can we do that? Ye want to courage you know,

when you read the Bible, don't go in search, google

everything only. I mean, I'm not against that. I still

do that, so I google, like search, I read. But

remember who is the real teacher of his word, Lord himself.

Seek him pray, he will speak to you, he will

reveal to you. You know, I'll tell you a little experience.

It's like this, I google, I read like all these

good teachers sometimes aw so good information, all right, and like, yeah,

I'm going to share this to the church. It's going

to be an amazing thing because you know it's from

this expert. Right. But then I find as I can

read that find I put it aside, and then I

sit down and I say, God, what do you actually

want to say to the church? What do you actually

want to say to me? And then I get another explanation.

I get another you know idea that it's even better

I feel sometimes than an expert. Why I'm not saying

that you know better than an expert, but more like

it makes sense for us. We need this now here,

and and God supplies that it gives us that thought,

like you here, this is what we really need today.

You know, God's word can really speak to us at

any time, at different situations, even with the same verse. Yeah,

so I find that more and more, you know. So

I I read a little bit and after that I

still pray, say, God, you teach me, you show me. Amen.

So a right moving on moving on everyone. Okay, so

far children, you're getting something. Yeah, okay, praise God, thank you,

thank you for responding. Starts with amen, remember that. Okay? Anyway,

all right, Verse twenty seven. Right now, make me understand

the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on

your wondrous works. Okay, make me understand anyone here? You

like your teacher to make you understand? Anyone experienced that before?

The teacher's like, you're not getting it, man, I'm gonna

make you understand how you stand there. If you can't

do this, you're gonna stand. You can't do this, I'm

gonna move your table away, You're gonna I'm gonna make

it because you're distractive of your friend. Right, let's say that. Now,

I'm gonna push you aside because can't be talking. I

want to make you understand what I'm teaching you today. Right,

you all love that. You don't need that because you

can understand easily, right, most of you are. Some people

have been a challenge, right, so they need some help.

And so anyway, I work with a school. Sometimes teachers

we try to help people understand. We try to make

them understand. All right, But you know that the problem

is where it's the student who does not want to understand.

No matter what you do to make them understand, they

don't want it. You can't do much, you can't do much, right.

It goes back to the students wanting it. And so

this guy wants it. He's telling he's asking teacher, make

me understand, make me understand, all right, So okay, many

ways that teachers help to make students understand. Right. So

there's what you know. There are some ways you got

just read this, I understand that read really right? Should

understand right? Like no, no, no, But you know, and

in the teaching line we discover and we know that

people have many different ways to learn. Right. There's the

visual learner. There's those who like to read, those who

need to hear right, those who need to do something

they call it, they call him kinesthetic. They need to

do something right, something, They need to make something that. Oh,

now I understand how volcanoes work because I made him

make a volcano, right, Because there are many ways right? Uh.

And of course there are other things like, for example,

the guy, like I said, the guy's so so so distracted.

He's just a very social person, right, go into class,

just want to talk to everyone. Then sometimes the teacher

to go like, okay, right, to help you, I need

to separate you from your friend for a while so

you can learn. Okay, It mean sometimes teacher is not

really punishing anyone, they're just helping you get away from

you this. Yeah. Yeah, so don't take it personally or students.

The teachers just trying to help you. Right. But yeah, anyway,

we'll talk the other thing. That one we leave it

to another day. Okay about teachers who are always, you know,

giving you a hard time, they are such people. But anyway,

right back to this, so we won't be able to understand.

No one can help make us understand unless we want it. Right,

So are we willing? Are we willing to allow God

to make us understand? Yeah? And we look at the

second line of this verse. It says here, I will

meditate on your wondrous works. Yeah, so what does that mean?

Meditate means I will think about it. I will take

time to let it brew. Right, And it says here

I put the point here. God's work can be seen

in this wonderful work. Right, So God, he doesn't just

give you text reader should understand now, read the Bible,

should understand. Now he's not doing that to you. You

know how he does it. He does it by showing

you examples. He shows you visual He comes and shows

you his life through Jesus. So we have pictures when

we read the story and the parables, we have pictures

in our mind how God works. You know, when we

say the story of the prodigal Son, we have an

idea we can make a movie out of it, right,

and he uses people like mel Gibson and made the

passion of the Christ. So when we watch it, it stirs

our emotions. You go like, oh, that's what Jesus actually

went through because the longest time is just black and

white words in your mind. Right, but now you see

the makeup and everything that looks so real in the

blood and everything, Like wow, I was so moved just

watching that movie. Right anyway, normally that you know, you

look at creation, you look at beauty, you look at

the flowers. Right, and just now we read something about

the sparrows, right, God feeds them. They don't need to worry.

So what more us? So when we look at God's

wonderful work, he's trying to help us understand his word.

He's trying to help us understand, you know, not just

the black and white that we read here, but he

shows us examples. Yeah, so you want to understand God's word.

Look at his wonderful work. Remember how he delivered you know,

the slaves in Egypt. Remember that, and all the miracles,

how many? How many signs was there? The plagues? How many? Remember? Yeah,

so when we remember that, you know that nobody can

do that, and normally that he doesn't just do storre

you know, stuff that is way in the past. What

Maria shared, it's on and no she just you know,

I think she can go on some more with some

more stories, but this is like updated story way okay,

and I'm sure he has been doing that with you

guys as well. All right, that's why we have testimony.

Time is so powerful, so God's word can be seen

in his wonderful work. Amen, all right, we move on

now Verse twenty eight. My soul needs sorry, my soul

melts away for sorrow. Strengthen me according to your word.

So just now we also heard you know, and we

don't have the strength, we can look to God's word. Yeah, Maria,

thanks for being honest, you know, sharing about how she

really had no strength. She had to take care of

the child of two children parents and she looks like

an impossible situation for a single month, but God helped her.

And how she's able to do that is she holds

onto God's word, God's examples. You can remember that his

faithfulness to his people from a long time ago until now,

and he will be faithful even now. Amen, hallelujah. So

anyone here you need strength, you feel down again, you

feel like you can't look to God's word and his

promises that are yes and amen, and you can gain

strength from there. You can carry on all right now,

I move on, I move on, okay, because time is

running out or so verse twenty nine foot false ways

far from me, and graciously teach me your law right

so false ways. I'll tell you a lot of times

why we get messed up in our lives, in our minds,

especially it starts with a mind, is because of lies

from the enemy. That's what the enemy does, right, He lies,

he he He makes us think of things negatively, uh

and uh, and causes fear right and causes us to

be afraid and also sad when we when we believe

the lies of the enemy. It causes a lot of sadness,

all right, and we're afraid to go forward, you know,

like for example, you know, the two spies, or rather

how many spies again it's two, right, and that's so

short end Caleb. But then sorry, twelve twelve spies. Twelve spies,

but two only had positive words. But the others they

saw and they you know, I believe it was an

enemy that stirred them, you know, to see it goes.

Oh they ought too big, too gigantic. I can't go, No,

don't go, all right, fear and so but then the

two of them had faith, and you know, say no,

we can't, let's go. And so if we go with

the lies of the enemy, sometimes we freeze and we

can't go forward. But God's word is the measure of truth,

all right. Always come back and say, hey, okay, I

heard this, I'm feeling this. Let me measure it with

what God says. And if God's work, you know, it's

like a like a weighing scale or like a ruler.

And if it doesn't add up, it doesn't measure with

God's truth, then we shouldn't believe it, because then we

will keep going down. All right, stop that for a

moment and say, wait, wait, wait, pause. I don't know

where I'm going the right way. I don't know whether

I'm believing in the truth. Let me manure with what

God says. All right. If God tells me I'm his child,

if God tells me I'm wonderfully made, then why am

I feeling like I'm not worth it? There's a lie

of the enemy, and so I measure we got word. Ah,

there's a lie. That's a lie experiment. Done right, Okay,

I know the truth. Now I'm going to go with

the truth. Amen, Praise God. Hey we move on. Hey,

verse thirty, I have chosen you know, verse twenty nine.

Just now, he says, yeah, and graciously teach me all lo.

You know, God, it's very gracious when he teaches us.

He gives us a lot of chances, and it takes

time to do it patiently. Thank God for that. All right.

Many times as teachers we good like this guy's not

getting it. We want to all right, I want to

bring out the the kine or whatever it is already.

But all right, patience is is something every teacher needs,

all right, But it's hard, it's difficult. To have patience.

But if you're in the Lord, it gets easier because

when we see God, he graciously teaches, He's so kind,

gives us so much time. All right, now, anyway, moving

on us. Sorry's thirty again. So what does worse study say?

I have chosen the way of faithfulness. I set your

rules before me. Now this comes in the form of

a question, will we choose God's word over our own word?

The psalmis here says I have chosen the way of faithfulness.

I have chosen to obey God's word. All right, And

it says I set your rules before me, your rules

before my own rules. I may have a rule like

I should sleep on Sunday. I may have a rule

don't talk to this neighbor. Right, he gave me a

hard time. I don't like him. Makes a lot of noise,

burns this thing very smelly. Right. Our rule tell us

don't know avoid, don't do this, don't buy this person lunch,

don't be nice, don't look at this person's oone, avoid

eye contact. That's our rule, right, keep ourselves safer, it's

safety rules. Right. But if we set God's rule before

our own rule, then we cannot follow our own rule, right, Okay, Okay,

I can't avoid eye contact anymore because God's rule is

that we need to love our neighbors. Right, So if

you put God God's rule, a lot of things have

to change in our lives. Yeah, So will we choose

God's word over our own? Amen? I believe and I

hope you know, by faith and by the spirit, we

will do that. Okay, ex Church, Now we move on

about to end verse thirty one. I cling to your testimonies.

O Lord, let me not be put to shame. Just now.

We heard the testimony from Maria, many many testimonies from Maria,

all right, and God this you know, when you read

the Bible, it's a lot God's testimonies, right of how

he delivered Moses and his people there to talk about David,

you know you talk about all these people of old

Paul right through Jesus especially, right, it's testimonies. And like

I said, this updated testimony is through our own lives.

People here every Sunday we come, we're hearing testimonies, all right,

and these are testimonies of the Lord. And so what

happens when we trust in God's testimonies when we hear

God's testimony. We know that when the future problems come,

we can already prophesy that we won't have to go

We don't. Well, we may go through, but we will

not die in these problems because God can give us

life and God can protect us. He's a protector and

God will save us from the situations. He has done,

you know, the signs and wonders in Egypt, and save

these people and brought them out, you know, into the

Promised Land. Of course through teaching them. He has done

it through Jesus, you know, going on across to save us.

He has done so many wonderful things we can believe

he's going to do it again. He's going to do

it again. Amen. And so when you go with God,

he will not disappoint you and he will not embarrass you. Right, says,

don't put me to shame, write anyone here. You don't

like to be embarrassed. Right. Firstly, don't be embarrassed about

God's word, because he will not embarrass you. He will

not disappoint you. You can be confident to say, my

God will deliver me. I have not yet been delivered,

but my God will deliver me. And you will not

be embarrassed. You will have the story that say, you see,

I told you right, God will deliver me and he did. Amen.

All right, many many of us will have stories to

be able to tell, and please tell because we will

know right and it helps us to just confirm God's

word in our lives. Amen. Yeah, We're got to move on. Finally.

First thirty two says I will run in the way

of your commandments when you enlarge my heart. Just now,

I heard a word run or so from Maria. Yeah,

and he says here you know, you know it's not

easy to run for something. The guy who runs hundred

meters all right? Is it still husaying boat? Who is

the say old guy now? Right? I don't know who's

a one hundred meters champ now, but that guy runs

like crazy to get that to reach that line for

the gold medal and the glory. Yeah. You can't simply

make people run that fast. Okay. So this person is

not just walking, he's not taking a stroll. He's actually

running with God's word. He loves God's words so much

now that he will run. God says this, He'll run,

and he will move quickly and do it. The obedience

is quicker and quicker and quicker anyone here you you love,

that you will love that for your life, that you

will quickly do God's word when God says it, you

do it when you hear it from the Bible. Okay,

I've got to change it. I pray this over our church,

that we will run with God's word. You know, because

you know some of us wanted to walk first. Start,

walk first, at least walk, don't stay still, right, walk

with God's word. And then the more and more you

get into God's word, you will love his word so

much that you will run. I got this question from

one of the secondary students, you know, during chapel in school, say,

how come is so easy to sin? How come is

so easy to sin but so difficult to follow God's word? Right?

My answer is this, Actually, it's easy to do what

you like. It's easy to do something for someone you love.

And the reason why sin is easy now for some

of us is because we love. Have to say that, right,

we love the darkness, We love whatever that's telling us

to see. That's why it's so easy to say. But

if you know, you know, you know, how you fall

in love with someone, you got to get to know

them first. You won't love someone just by looking at them.

You might be attracted, Oh so beautiful or was dress

so well and things like that, But then when you

start sitting down with them and the mouth opens and

they talk, and you were like, not what I wanted,

no matter how pretty or handsome this person looks. And

then you get to know them, you're like, okay, it

is not for me, you know, right, How you love

someone is you get to know them the more time

you spend with them. You know, even when a person,

let's say a person doesn't look so you know the

way you expected, liar, the face, the outlook. But when

you get to know someone, sometimes you fall in love

with them no matter how they look. That's why when

you get married and a person doesn't wear makeup anymore,

you still love them. You still love them, right, because

that's real, that's real love, because you know who this

person is, and then you love this person. So same

thing here. Right to love God, you've got to know him.

And when you know him, get to know him. You

spend time in his word. All right, maybe the team

can come up already. You spend time knowing God and

experiencing God walking with him, seeking him when you have problems,

and knowing that he helps you, you will fall in love

with God. You will love him. You know how wonderful

God's word is. Every Sunday you're here, I'm sure you're

falling in love with God more and more every day,

and I hope so. And when you love him, it

is easier to do what he likes. And then you

will look at singing go like, ah, come on, that

was my ex. That was my ex boyfriend or girl

right away, all right. I used to like that lie,

but not anymore because I've got a new love who

loves me, all right Jesus, and so I then you

will find doing the right thing easier than sin, and

sin will be more and more difficult to commit because

you don't love that anymore. You love Jesus more. Hey,

okay here, hello, all right, all right, yeah, can't you

hear me? Right? Okay? Okay, all right. So the love

for God's word will give you a big heart, a

big heart, it says here right, look at it. It's

quite interesting. When you enlarge my heart, I will run

in your way of comments when you enlarge my heart.

When you know God's word, your heart and largest, And

what does it speak when you know you've heard of

that having a big heart. People have big hearts, They're generous,

they can include more people because you know, like I

don't just think of my own family. I got five

people in my family. I buy only five things. I

only have five you know, plates, five chairs all right

on the room. Just enough, No no one else can come.

That's a just enough heart. But if you have a

big heart, you want to buy more, I'll get more.

I'll just prepare more. My car has a bigger space, right,

because I can include more people. Generosity, love for others.

I won't avoid I contact with people because I love them.

I care for them, and I will look at them

and I will speak with them. I will smile for them.

You know, I will not save my face muscle, all right,

because not just a smile for my family only, but

other people, straight serious, right, because what's it for? Right?

But you have a big hard, you're willing to invest

even in other people. I was telling you about I

don't know. I haven't told you. There was a boy

came and played basketball. Well he just came. We were

playing basketball, me and Ezra, and then this boy came

he's on the bike there looking and I think he's

about to go off straight. We got like, hey, hi, right,

would you like to play with us? Very quickly? You know,

I believe, you know, God gave me a big heart

enough to okay, I can include one more guy, right,

basketball court is big enough. Right, so say come and play.

Then he's like hesitated at first, and then he starts

starts playing and it's more and more. It's like doing

tricks and stuff. And then next moment you're saying, can

I come to your house? Can I come to your house?

Every day? He said? I mean, he was saying that

like he didn't come now, But I'm like, how to

answer that. It's like, yeah, sure, sure, sure you can.

All right there, he's like, hey, if I annoy you,

don't score me here he said. They were like, I won't,

but if you annoy me, I'll tell you. If you

know me, I'll tell you all right, can come look

for me right and come and play basketball with us?

All right? Every you know, almost every day we're here

playing basketball. So and I find you know, naturally I

don't do that kind of stuff. Naturally, I'm not so friendly, right,

But I believe it's God who gives me that heart

and just knowing. You know, our church says that all

may know this guy should know Jesus, and I just

wanted to be wanted to be Jesus to him, you know.

And I think he experienced Jesus because I don't think

anyone was so friendly to him ever and let him

come to the house anytime, you know. But I haven't

seen him since since then, so I hope to see

him again too. Amen.

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