Christ Is Enough | Dr Jill Ling

You're listening to a message to go from ex Church.

We hope this message will light up your day. Today

is actually the first Sunday of the second half of

the year, so fast, right, it's crazy. So so my

dad's birthday today seven seven.

Yeah, and I.

Thought, hey, you know, like how sports, right, you always

have that halftime check in, whether it's football or you know,

different games, you have the half game halftime check in.

So I thought it's good to do a halftime check

in with us this morning, just a quick one. So

we know that the theme that God has given X

Church this year is that all may know now amen,

And I want to encourage us that truly this is

God's word for us this season. And I just want

to give glory to God that he has been moving

that people have been come to know Jesus. Okay, today

I just want to share three very quick photographs of

three people in my personal circle that have come to

know Jesus in the past half a year. Okay, So

this is a quick check in, and I'm want to

give God glory to encourage us to keep believing, to

keep sowing into lives to know Jesus. So I want

to show us the first picture. So this is my

high school friend Ching Ching. So some of you remember

me preaching about, you know, how she came to know Jesus.

It was over basically, at least for me and her,

it was. I mean, we've been friends for twenty over years.

But in the last two years God has been moving

true dreams, true reconnections. And so she accepted Christ in

March this year in Singapore.

Amen. Praise God for that.

Yay.

Amen.

So I got to meet her when I went to

Singapore for training. Next picture, Yeah, yes, So in this picture, okay,

we see Tannisha right, that is next to Passssandra and guitar.

Right.

So Tanisha is our very own young person here from

ex Cyberjaya. And she also accepted Christ in April. Yeah,

at our ex teens party. Yes, praise God. And you

know she's growing in the Lord. You know, she has

been inviting her classmate to church over the past few weeks. Yeah,

and her classmates sister, and they come from a challenging background,

and I'm just so proud of her for, you know,

looking out for her classmate who's going to a tough

time and bringing her to church so that she can

find hope and love and life in Jesus.

Amen. So proud of you girl. Keep growing in the Lord. Amen.

And the next picture this is this is this was

an in turn in my workplace.

She's been with me for the past two months.

Her name is Alexandra or Alex for short, and she

actually got saved at our ex teens camp.

Yeah about yeah, one two months ago.

Yeah, Alex got saved supernaturally as well. And so she's

just flown over to Australia to.

Further her studies. Yeah.

And I've had the privilege of giving gifting a Bible

to Ching Ching walking her through the starter pack. I've

also had a privilege of gifting Alex a Bible and

walking her through the starter pack.

I just want to praise God.

In a matter of half a year in my personal circle,

He's allowed me to either be directly involved or be

able to witness the salvation of three precious sisters in

my life. And I give God all the glory. Come on,

praise God together with me. So I'm telling you friends,

if this is just me and my circle and God

is already moving, right, I believe he's moving in your

personal circles.

Amen. Amen.

So know that the theme that all may know is

just not something in words, but it is in power,

the power of the Lord. So even as we start

the second half of the new year of the year,

you know, let's continue to press on, you know, in

the Lord and say, Lord, I want to see you,

you know, save different ones in my personal circle. Yeah,

maybe not the first half of the year yet, but

the second half of the year. There's still time. There's

still time that all may know in your personal circle.

And everybody say amen, amen. So today I'm going to

preach continuously on the theme that all may know and

the angle that God has given me today for us

is we can show the title Christ is enough. Everybody

repeat after me, is enough that all may know? Okay,

So today I want to share with us. I want

to encourage us, I want to teach us. I want

to equip and empower us to know that Christ is

really enough.

Okay, that all may know. Okay.

So now currently I am reading the Book of First

Corinthians for my personal devotion. Anyone here, you're also reading

First Corinthians.

Anyone? Okay? No, all good?

You are you know the Lord is leading you to

his book in season that you need to hear from him.

So for me, it's First Corinthians. Okay, we can show

the next slide. So since the theme of our church

this year is that all may know. Previously, I was

actually in the Old Testament for my devotion, but in

recent time God has brought me to the New Testament

for this season, and He's called me to read the

Book of X. So I actually I've been reading the

Book of X for my devotion. And I read it twice. Yeah,

I finished one round and then I felt the lot say, no,

you're not done yet. Read another time. So I read

the Book of X over again. So I read it twice.

Uh, And the.

Heart was I wanted to know how did the Early

Church make Jesus known? I wanted to come back to

the old g S. They are the old G's, you know,

how did the Olgis do it? I want to learn

from them. And it's been so power packed, you know,

just just learning from the Book of X, the Early Church.

And then we know that in the Book of X

there were there were three key figures. Okay, so the

book starts with Peter, right, and then after that it

went on to Stephen, and then it went on to Paul,

and Paul basically planted diferent churches around Europe and Asia.

Uh and today, you know, a lot of the modern

churches that we have in the world are a result

of Paul's missionary journeys and planting. Okay, of course, and

the other disciples apostles of Christ as well, right, Like

I know the church in India, owes it largely to apostles Thomas, right, Thomas, Yeah,

in India and different continents, you know, different apostles when

to plant. Yeah, but Paul also had a big hand

in a lot of the churches. Uh. And so I

wanted then, I wanted to read a little bit more. Okay,

So after Paul planted the churches as mentioned in the

Book of Acts, how.

Did he keep in touch with them?

What did he say to them to keep their faith going,

to continue to make Jesus known?

I was? I wanted to know more.

So I basically am now on a journey of reading

the Pauline epistles or his letters to the different churches

that he's planted, because I want to know how did he,

you know, continue to strengthen the church to make Jesus known.

It wasn't easy.

Each church had their own challenges, right, So I started

by reading first Tessalonians, and I shared with your last

month right on the Church of Tessalonica a little bit.

I couldn't share everything, but I shared a little bit

what I could. And so today I'm going to go

on to share about the Church of Corinth.

Right. So this is literally in the order.

So Paul planted Tessalonic, the church in Tasalonica first, and

then later on he planted the church in Corinth. Yeah,

and so the letters are in their order, so I

wanted to read in that order. Okay, So today I'm

going to just introduce us to the church in Corinth,

all right. So I'm going to share with us two things,

the background of the city of Corinth, and then I

would share with us the background of the Church of Corinth.

It's just like you know, Casey's family comes and then

we introduced them to the city of Cyberjaya, and then

we introduced them to the church hearing ex Cyberjaya. So

we start from a bigger perspective, then we zoom in

to you know, the local church all right.

So this is.

An ancient map, all right, during those times where the

epistles were written. Okay, Just to recap Greece in those days,

was this region, okay, this region, and Greece was divided

into two sub regions, Macedonia and a Kare all right,

And the Church of sorry Tessalonica and the Church of

Thessalonica was in the region of Macedonia. But the city

and the Church of Corinth is actually in the region

of a KaiA, So one is in the northern region.

One this is in the southern region. So we talked

about the church in Tasalonica the last round, and today

we're going to talk about the church in Corinth.

All right.

Ethens, the capital of Greece, is quite near the city.

Of Corinth, all right.

So that's location wise where the city of Corinth is

a little bit more about the city of Corinth. Corinth,

just like Thessalonica, these two were port cities.

Port cities meaning.

That they were located by the seaside and it was

a very strategic location and a lot of people will

come from all over to trade.

So it was like.

The Singapore of those days, yeah, the Malacca of those days,

the Pinang of those days. Yeah, So it was a

it was a you know, busy, hustling and bustling pot city,

very cosmopolitan. There were there were Romans in the city,

there were Greeks, there were Jews and all.

Kinds of people in the city.

Yes. So the last time I preached, I shed that

Tassalonica reminds me of Cyberjaya is a melting pot of cultures.

So Chrinth as well is also very much like Cyberjaya,

a melting pot of cultures. You got people from north, south, east,

west and all over all, right, so we can actually

identify with them. And if you ask, does the city

of Chrinth still exist, Yes, it does, Just like the

city of Tassalonica, the city of Corinth exists. And this

is one of the many pictures of the city of

Chorrinth in modern day. The bridge actually reminds me of

the Pinang Bridge. Yeah, those of you from Penang a

little bit, I was like quite surprised, he doesn't that

look like the Pinang Bridge.

Yeah. So this is the city of.

Corinth in modern day and it is currently an important

industrial hub in Greece, so they produce a lot of

industrial items and they are also a tourist hub, so

you can actually Google, there's even a website called visit

Corinth and they'll give you all the different things you

can do there.

Right.

Of course, the Corinth that you see in this picture

is called the New Corinth because the old Corinth was

actually destroyed in a massive earthquake. Actually, interestingly enough, the

old Corinth, Right, they went through tree earthquakes and one

fire which basically destroyed the old city. And this is

the new city that was built in the last few centuries.

But the old city is not very far off from

the new city, just a couple of miles. But this

is the new Corinth. Okay, so it still exists quite amazing, right, Okay,

so background on the city of Chrinth. Now let's zoom

into the Church of Corinth. Sorry, this one I don't

have pictures. I tried to search, but I could only

see all the you know, like remainings of old buildings.

I'm like, nah, I don't think i'll put that, Okay,

but yeah, so background on the Church of Corinth. So,

like I said earlier, it was one of the churches

that Paul planted. Okay, there is a starting fact, right,

And it was also a church that Paul kept very

close in touch with Paul would always WhatsApp, Yeah.

And PM and DM.

The church in those days, yeah, true physical letters and

truth sending people. Yeah, human letters in that sense.

Yeah. Okay.

Now, I mentioned earlier on that the city of Corinth

was a port city and it was very cosmopolitan, and

because of that, everybody brought in their culture their influence

to the city, and they also brought it into the church. Yeah. Okay,

So the city of korans right, although so far, when

I tell you, you know, the different stuff about Korinth,

it sounds like quite a wild, great city, right, I

told you it's like, you know, like a Singapore like

that modern day. But in those days, right, the city

of Chrinth was also a very sinful city. It was

so sinful that the locals had a term, the term

of chrinthianized.

Chrinth.

So to make someone fall into sin is to corintheanize

the person. Wow, that's a strong word, right. I pray

that never comes a cyber gyre for us. Okay. If

anything people want to label, you know, cyber giant, let

it be for good, not for bad.

Okay, But can you imagine.

The city was so sinful that people coin up a

term or this person has been choranthinized. This person basically

has you know, fallen into sin because of his or

her time in that city. Yeah, that's quite sad. Now

what kind of sin were they were they living in?

There was a lot of sexual immorality going on in

the city and also the church, yeah said, yeah, okay,

I shall not go into details we have under eighteen's here,

but you can read the Book of First Corinthians, okay

for more details. Yeah, so sexual immorality was high on

the list. I don't tree was also high on the

list as well. Yeah, they were worshiping a lot of

pagan gods and also disunity. They were very very fractionated,

very disunited because so many cultures right in the city.

Then they bring that same culture into church. I pray

that you know, the House of God here and every

other house of God will always be united, no matter

how many cultures backgrounds we have here, different ways of

doing things. We serve the same God, we walk in

his same way. So I declare the unity of God

over ex Cyberjaya, ex Church and every Church of God

on the face of this earth.

Amen. Yeah, okay, So these with a few.

Simple areas that the city was living under, and also

the church because it crept into the church. So the

city had a lot of sexual immorality, it crept into

the church. The city had a lot of idolatry. And

he was also creeping into the church. The city was

very disunited, and he was creeping into the church as.

Well, you know.

Yeah, and so there was one, you know, big problem

area for the Church of Corinth. The other problem area

was that they had different philosophies on God. And that's

what I'm going to focus on today for our message.

I'm going to touch on that. Okay, they had different

philosophies of God, and Paul had to address that in

his letter to them. Okay, now, so today I'm going

to talk about how do we make Christ known to

people with different philosophies of God. Yeah, I'm not going

to go into specifics, but I'm going to go into

the general principles and I hope from there we'll be

able to catch something.

Yeah. I also share testimony as we end as well. Well.

Now let's look Okay, so the first point of today's

message is the world seeks to know God. The world

seeks to know God and that's the same for you

and I. That's why we are here today.

I believe.

I choose to believe by faith and love, that we're

all here today because we're all seeking more of God.

It's not because we have a leader title. It's not

because we're on the serving roster. It's not because someone

forced us our parents, it's not because of peer pressure.

Just because my friend is going, I'm going. I choose

to believe and I pray that we are all here

because we too are seeking for more of God.

Amen.

Amen, And let me tell you it is not just

us that are seeking for more of God.

The people in the world who are.

Who do not know Jesus, yet they too are seeking

for more of God. In fact, they are seeking for God.

They have not found God. But we have found God,

and we say more of You Lord. But they haven't

even got to the right house. We have found the

house we are going in. We're making ourselves comfortable, opening

the fridge, using the toilet, sleeping on the bed, jumping

on the couch, and we say more of You Lord. Yeah,

but we want to help people find the right address today,

the address of Jesus.

Amen. Amen.

And so let's look at Eccally says this chapter three,

verse eleven. Okay, so I want to encourage us also

to you know, have our physical bibles, bring it to church.

Let's read it from our physical bibles. Okay. So what

I'm going to do is.

Right, I'm going to read Egally says this chapter tree,

verse eleven.

I will read it from my Bible.

Okay, I'm using the ESV Bible, but you can have

different versions, and let's read it together. And then I'll

come to the slide because this is a different version.

But I have a reason why I wanted to use

this version on the slide as well. Okay, not to self, Please,

do not have so many bookmarks in your Bible. Okay,

are we at Ecally says this chapter three I'm not

there yet.

Can you wait for me? Can? Okay? Thank you, love

you guys. Okay.

Egally says this chapter three, verse eleven. Okay, he has

made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put

eternity into man's heart yet so that he cannot find

out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Amen.

Now, I believe that most of the Bible versions that

you have are quite similar to what I read, but

to highlight the point that I want to get across,

I'm going to use this version from the Amplified Bible. Okay,

and so let's have a look at the slide, and yes,

let's read it. Let's read it together. Since we have

we're on the same page. Literally, Okay, three two one.

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time.

He has also planted eternity, a sense of divine purpose

in the human heart, a mysterious longing which nothing under

the sun can satisfy except God. Yet men cannot find out, comprehend,

grasp what God has done his overall plan from the beginning.

To the end in Man. Wasn't that beautiful? Wasn't that powerful?

I love this version how it really amplifies the world

of God. For this verse and here we see that

God has actually planted a longing in every human heart

for him. God has planted a longing in every human

heart for him. And that's why from the start till

the end, man has been, is and will always be

searching for God. Because the dna of man contains a

hunger for the Lord. If we were born hungry for

milk and food, we were born hungry for God. We

are all born hungry for God, and that includes our

friends who do not know Him yet. And that's why

we've got to lead them to the brain of life Jesus.

Amen. Amen.

Now, so everyone is hungry for God, whether they realize

it or not, whether they admit it or not. But

people haven't innate hunger, longing, deep desire for God. It

is part of their humanness, our humanness. And man has

been trying to find God in his own ways. We'll

look at the next light. Man has been trying to

find God true many many, many ways. But not all

roads lead to the same destination. My friends, that is

a deception of the enemy that he uses to say, Oh,

all God's lead to the same God. That is not true.

And some of us who were assault yesterday we learn

this right. There is only one way, which is Jesus Christ.

And we'll come to that in a while. But I'm

just trying to say that man has a longing for

God because man was created with that longing, and because

of that, man tries to search for God through many

different ways.

Okay, now, let's.

Look at the next scripture, which is in First Corinthians,

Chapter one, verse twenty two. Let's hold on to this light.

I'm not gonna put okay, I think it's right. Okay,

put this okay. First Corinthians, Chapter one, verse twenty two.

Let's turn to it, even though the verse is on

the slide. First Corinthians, Chapter one, verse twenty two. Okay,

short verse, here we go. For Jews demand signs and

Greeks seek wisdom. For Jews demand signs and Greek seek wisdom.

This short verse.

Has been the essence of what God has been teaching

me in my personal devotion in the past week, and

it's also an essence of today's message. How many of

you have actually come across this verse or you remember

this verse? For Jews demand science and Greek sik wisdom. Now,

what has this got to do with us? Jews and

Greeks far far away, a long time ago. I want

to tell you that this verse has everything to do

with us today.

Let me show you why.

The Jews in those days represent the Eastern culture and

still represents our Eastern culture today. Most of us here

are of the Eastern culture. Most of us here, and

how does the Eastern culture look or search for God?

The Eastern culture many times search for God, thrue, science

and wonders.

They look for God's power.

If you study a lot of the Eastern religions, which

I will not name today, but you know some of

the key Eastern religions, a lot of their practices and

belief systems have to do with seeing God's power, true

signs and wonders.

And the Jews also.

Next, I want to show us a verse but our

science and wonders all that it takes to get to God.

Let's look at Matthew twenty four twenty four. Let's turn

to the scripture Matthew twenty four, twenty four, easy, worse

to remember year twenty twenty four. Matthew twenty four, twenty four. Okay,

So are we there yet?

Almost? Okay?

So it says this is what Jesus told his disciples

are before he was going to be crucified. He said,

for false Christ and false prophets will arise and perform

great signs and wonders so as to lead astray, if possible,

even the elect. So this verse tells us that we

cannot just base our search for God based on someone

who can perform signs and wonders. That is not true

and safe enough because there can be false Christ and

false prophets who will also perform great signs and wonders

to lead people astray. Even you and I we are

the elect, but even you and I have to be

careful to not get wild and swept away by someone

who can do great science and wonders. Okay, this is

a reminder for us as well as children of God,

the elect, and this is for us to also help

those who do not know Jesus to know that, hey,

we cannot just base our search for God based on

someone who can perform great signs and wonders speakers, They

cannot be God.

Okay, Now, how about the Greeks? Who did they represent?

They represent the Western culture, which some of I mean, like,

we may not originally be from the Western culture, but

I think it is creeping into our lives and you know,

influencing us quite a big as a bit as well.

Right, And what.

Does the Western culture pride itself on? Knowledge, logic, reasoning, order, wisdom?

The Western culture seeks after wisdom, and so how will

they seek for God through the path of wisdom? Trying

to discover God true wisdom, trying to prove God true

science and knowledge and wisdom, trying to reason out God,

trying to debate right. And so can you see now

that both the Jews and Greeks have relations to our

modern day life because people that we know some could

be more Eastern culture based and they're looking to see

God true signs and wonders. But there are also people

in our circle that are maybe more Western cultured based.

They're looking to see God through the knowledge part of things,

through the reason part of things, the wisdom part of things.

I'm sure you and I know people who are looking

for power, to see God in power, and we know

people who are looking to see God in wisdom, and

some maybe half half or you know, have both. But

this is how it relates to our modern day life.

And haven't all of us been at this pace? Maybe

some of us are still on this journey God. I

want to see more of your power in my life. God,

I want to have your I want to see more

of your wisdom in our in my life. We could

also be on this journey without knowing it, but we've

already found God. But we're saying I want to see more.

I want to see more. So some of us here

we are more skewed towards singing seeing God's power, and

some of us here are more skewed towards seeing God's wisdom.

To continue to grow in our faith. We're saying, God,

show me more of your power. God, show me more

of your wisdom. And for those who haven't found God yet,

they're saying, God, where are you? I want to see

your power first, then I believe. I want to see

your wisdom first, then I believe. So this this one

verse just blew me away. I'm meditated on it for days.

It was so mind blowing to me, like I've read

it before, but I've never seen it in this light.

And that's the power of God. You know, you can

read the word of God over and over again, and

each time he gives you a fresh revelation. And the

revelation is not for you to keep to yourself. It's

for you to share it with someone around you. Soone

I encourage you at two levels. Friends, One is continue

to keep going in your quiet time, all right?

And number two.

Is don't just keep the goodness that you get from

God in your quiet time to yourself. Ask the Lord,

who do you want me to share this truth with?

It could be a friend, It could be your family member,

it could be just any opportunity. But really, this is

how the fastest growing discipleship movement in India has grown.

I heard, whatever that they learn from their small group study,

they are challenged to share it with someone the moment

they step out of that small group. This is how

they grow to the last time, I told you twenty

six generations of disciples. So whatever we get out of

a quiet time, it's not just for you, It's for

someone who knows you. God always gives us a double portion,

one for us to put in our pockets, the other

is to put in someone's pocket.

Amen.

Okay, now, okay, let's look at First Corinthians, chapter one,

verse twenty to twenty one. First Corinthians, Chapter one, verse

twenty to twenty one. You know, wisdom must have been

a very big thing for the Church of corinth I

actually did a simple manual calculation. I searched up the

word wisdom in a New Testament and I analyzed which

book mentioned the word wisdom the most. And I kid

you not, First Corinthians mentions the word wisdom the most

in all the New Testament books. You to guess, what's

the number number of times that the word wisdom is

mentioned in First Corinthians spot on Olivia seventeen seventeen. The

word wisdom is mentioned in First Corinthians seventeen times one seven.

And I look, where's the next book that has the

next number of words or wisdom.

Yeah, it's another book. Okay.

It's also one of the Polite epistles, but it's less

than five. It's mentioned less than five times. And then

there are some Poline epistles that have no mention of

the word wisdom at all. So it's very interesting that. Wow, God,

you're speaking to this church to be careful not to

rest their faith and their salvation in the wisdom of men. Yeah, amazing.

Now let's look at First Corinthians chapter one, verse twenty

to twenty one. Okay, and okay, I am going to

read it all right, and then we'll look at the

slides again. Okay, First Quarrenthians chapter twenty, chapter one, verse

twenty to twenty one. Where is the one who is wise?

Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Verse twenty one? For since in the wisdom of God,

the world did not know God true wisdom. It please

God throughe the folly of what we preach to save

those who believe. Now, let's look at this version. This

is the Nalty version. Maybe some of your Bibles are

you know, Nalty, But I like how this version explains

this verse. It's nice and clear. Yeah, okay, so let's

read this version together again. Okay, three two one. So

where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the

world's brilliant debaters.

God has made.

The wisdom of this world look foolish, since God, in

his wisdom, saw to it that the world would never

know him true human wisdom. He has used our foolish

preaching to save those who believe. Wow, this was another

verse that also blew me away as ours reading it

during my quiet time. And this is such an assurance

to me that really we don't have to be all

wise to preach the gospel, because even in our foolish preaching,

God has the power to save those who choose to believe.

So I want to encourage you friends, you can preach

the Gospel to your friends and family. You don't just

need a pastor, a leader, your homeless leader. You don't

need an online sermon to preach to your family and friends.

You can do it. Turn to your neighbors say you

can do it. Turn to another neighbors, say I can

do it. Even in foolish preaching, God can use it

to save But people just have to choose to believe.

So I took it as a great encouragement. I don't

have to be like Billy Graham. Wow, you know, powerful eloquent,

anointed evangelists to save millions of people. I just have

to be Jill. I don't have to have all the

words to say. Sometimes I mispronounce my words. Sometimes I'm

not in the best energy or mood.

But it's okay.

In my foolish preaching, God can save someone. I just

have to go with him and he'll do the rest.

I'm just a shell. He's the one who.

Gives me the substance and flows through me. Amen and

all of us too.

So I'm so encouraged that God, in my foolish preaching,

you can save people who choose to believe. And this

is also a caution to us and the world to

not try to find God true human wisdom, because God

already determined. He said the world will never know him

true human wisdom. It is said already by God that

the world cannot reach Him by human wisdom alone, and

so we.

Don't have to get afraid. Sometimes, right, I get.

A bit afraid by the amount of knowledge that's coming

out in the world, not on a daily basis, but

hourly and minute basis. So much information it's just coming out,

or so much knowledge. It's just being churned out like

never before, and it can feel very daunting and overwhelming. Like, God,

with so much knowledge going on, how are people going

to find you? Because they're going to quote this knowledge,

They're going to quote that theory, They're going to quote

that fact, that discovery. How am I ever going to

keep up debating with the wisdom of the world.

I can't.

It's just too much. I just feel so overwhelmed. I'm

a person that likes to prove you know things or

God by you know, showing you evidence. But I come

to a point, God, I cannot do it. I cannot

match up with the amount of knowledge that the world

is churning out. So there's no way I can fight knowledge,

your knowledge. I'm not going to try. I'm going to

find knowledge with you. God. The Holy Spirit. You are

all knowledge. Yeah, and so yeah, take heart that. Really,

don't be afraid of the amount of knowledge that's coming

out in the world, because people ain't going to find

God just by knowledge itself.

Amen.

People are going to find God true, You and I

the foolish preachers. God chooses to use the foolish to

shame the wise.

Amen. And I'd rather be a fool for God than

a wise person in the world. Amen. Amen.

Okay, now let's go on to the next point. So

point one is that the world seeks God, and how

do they seek him? Many times it's either true seeing

his power or his wisdom. But that is dangerous because

anyone that has power can lead them astray, and anyone

that has wisdom can also lead them astray. But I

told you that we are not to follow after just

power alone. Neither are we to follow after wisdom alone.

All right.

Point two, the world needs Christ. I know it looks

so simple, like that's the right answer for the exact question.

But I want to show you.

Let's turn to First Corinthians, chapter one, verse twenty two

to twenty four. First Corinthians, Chapter one, verse twenty two

to twenty four. It's quite easy. All our verses are

in that part of the Bible. Don't even have to

turn the page. Okay, now, let's read it first. Corinthians,

Chapter two one, verse twenty two to twenty four. For

Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom verse twenty three,

But we preach Christ crucified a stumbling block to Jews

and folly to gentiles verse twenty four. But to those

who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power

of God and the wisdom of God. We have both

the question and answer in the same few verses. The

Jews are looking for signs Jesus Christ is the power

of God. The answer is in the same passage. The

Greeks are looking for wisdom. Christ the wisdom of God.

The answer in the same passage.

This is a to me. This is a beautiful and

powerful passage.

It's going to become one of my favorite for life

already because it holds the secrets of how we are

going to make Christ known.

You're looking for power, My God has it. You're looking

for wisdom.

My God has it too. What are you looking for?

My God has it? Your God may just have power

but no wisdom. Your God may have wisdom but no power.

Your God may have nothing. My God has everything. Friends,

Can you see the perfection of Christ in this verse?

He is what the east and West needs?

Friends.

Christ is not just a Western God, as a lot

of the Eastern people say. Christ is God of the

East and the West, the north and the south. Christ

is Lord of everything.

Friends. Are you convinced now? I am so convinced.

I have risen out with a new level of confidence

to speak to anyone now because I know that My

God has every power, every wisdom, every answer that they're

looking for. I know it, and I want to pass

his confidence to you guys as well. To not be afraid.

Who is surrounding you ad the money for power to

prove that this is God? Are they the monding for

wisdom to prove this is God? Don't be afraid because

Christ has the perfect answer for your friend and your

family member. Whatever that. It all boils down to do

two things. Power and wisdom or PNW like praise it worship.

Power and wisdom is ultimately what the world is looking for.

To find God. Show me power, I will say, He's God.

Show me wisdom, I would say, is God money isn't

the end thing. Money is power and a part of

wisdom as well. Yeah, so Christ meets both needs. He's

able to satisfy people who are looking for him true power.

He's also able to satisfy people who are looking for

him true wisdom.

Amen. Amen. And I want to just show us John

fourteen six.

You know Christ is the perfect way, the only way

to come to Father God. Okay, we look at John

chapter fourteen, verse six, and it says Jesus said to him,

I am the Way, the truth, and the life. No

one comes to the Father except true me.

Amen.

Christ is the perfect way, the only way to God,

Father God, and he has all the power and all

the wisdom that the world is looking for.

Don't feel intimidated by the world. Amen. Amen.

That's why the title of today's message is Christ is Enough.

I couldn't put a longer title, but if I could,

this is how I would have said it. I would

say Christ is enough for both the East and the West.

So you put the East and Mess together, what do

you get the whole world. Christ is enough for the

whole world.

That all may know. Amen. Amen.

And the final point that I want to share with us,

point tree is we need the Holy Spirit to preach Christ.

There is no way you and I can preach Christ

without the Holy Spirit, no way. And that's why we

really acknowledge, we really believe in the power the presence

of the Holy Spirit in our lives, in our church.

Holy Spirit is part of the Trinity. If we live

the Holy Spirit out of our lives, we are not

worshiping God completely. We're only worshiping two thirds of the Trinity.

But we have to include the Holy Spirit in our lives. Friends,

if you look at it, Father God, together with the Trinity,

created the world, and he sent his son Jesus to

save the world from our sins. And Jesus has ascended

back to heaven. And then Father God send the Holy Spirit,

who is our teacher, our helper, our comforter, to live

with us until the end of times. And because he

knows that we cannot live the ways of Jesus, we

cannot preach Jesus without the Holy Spirit. If you look

at the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit was not always

with every person of God on earth, with the prophets,

with you know, selected men and women of God. But

the Holy Spirit was not poured out yet to the

commonness like you and I, and they couldn't keep the

commandments of God six hundred and thirteen commandments. They couldn't

keep it by their own strength. So we need the

Holy Spirit too, walk like Jesus. But we also need

the Holy Spirit to preach Jesus. If you notice the

Peter in the Gospels versus the Peter in acts, what

was the difference.

The power of God, his boldness, his wisdom.

The old Peter in the Gospels like to talk before

he thinks, and he was actually a scaredy cat. He

was a coward, that's why he denied Jesus three times

a lot, but actually very cowardice. But after the Holy

Spirit was pought out upon the disciples, Peter was transformed

into a different person. He no longer was impulsive out

of his own strength. If anything, he was impulsive in

the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit gave him the

right words to say, gave him the power to say,

and you will read. The new Peter was also bold.

He rose up to preach to the public, he rose

up to lead the disciples. He became a different Peter.

And you and I need that same Holy Spirit that transformed.

The scared Jill.

Don't know what to say to a Jill that knows

what to say. Not out of my own wisdom, but

it's the Holy Spirit who inspires me and gives me

the power to witness for Christ. Okay, let's look at

Second Corinthians, Chapter one, verse one to five. We just

scroll down a couple of verses. This is a final point.

This is what Paul told the church in corinth And I,

when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming

to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus

Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in

weakness and in fear and much trembling. And my speech

and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom,

but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so

that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men,

but in the power of God.

Amen. Even Paul, who.

Is like they're there, you know, highly learned, highly trained,

highly experienced, highly spiritual and religious, did not dare to

rest his confidence on his own wisdom, but he rested

it on the Holy Spirit. Because why, let's look at

Matthew chapter ten, verse nineteen to twenty. And this is

the final verse for today, Matthew Chapter ten, verse nineteen

to twenty. This is what Jesus encouraged his disciples. He said,

when they deliver you over, do not be anxious. How

you are to speak or what you are to say.

You are to say will be given to you in

that hour. For it is not you who speak, but

the Holy but the Spirit of your Father.

Speaking through you. Amen. Paul knew this principle.

That as great as I may seem to myself and

the eyes of the world and to God, I cannot

depend on myself. I got to depend on the Holy Spirit,

because it's the Holy Spirit who will give me what

to say in the exact hour. You know, yesterday I

just heard testimony from Lithia. Oh you don't mind me sharing,

you share it insult, Yeah, but just briefly. Okay, So

yesterday we had our AsSalt, our Saturday ex leaders training,

and so we were sharing testimonies of how God is

moving in our lives, our homes, our church. So LiTi

actually shared the testimony, and I think it ties in

very much with this point. So Letty has reconnected with

her basically her roommate from college days to working days

back in India. So when she was a student, she

actually stayed with this particular lady. And then later on

when they after they graduated and they started working, they

still continued to stay together. So you can imagine they

were closed, you know, good friends BFFs. And then life

went on. Everybody you know had their own separate power,

fell in love, got married, had kids, traveled the world

and finally they ended up together in kl In recent time,

so Letti reconnected with her college roommate, and this college

roommate she is she is of the Catholic faith and

her husband is not. Her husband is of a different thing,

all right, pray believing he has his own faith, okay.

And so recently they moved into a new place and

they invited you know, Balagility and family to a housewarming

of their new place. And they actually asked you know,

Balagility to actually say something or pray something for their home.

Because I believe that they see Jesus in their lives.

They could have caught some religious person of their faith

to come, but they didn't. They called Jesus walking in

flesh and blood here to their home. Now balagility took

it with great responsibility to say the right thing.

They were very worried about.

The wisdom of what to say because it's a man

of break situation, right, And if they say the right thing,

then maybe their friends would be wanted Jesus. But they

say the wrong thing, their friends might close up to them.

So it was such a big burden or responsibility on

their heart to want to say the right thing because

they love their friends, right that I know. At least

Little fasted the day before they went over. How many

of you would fast before going for a party?

Die yet? Maybe right?

Because you want to Yeah, lose one kilo to eat

tree kilows, right, Yeah, that's party. Right. But she fasted

the day before going for the housewarming because she's like, God,

I really need you, I really need you, I really

need you to tell me what to say to my

good friend. I love them too much to say the

wrong thing. And then she looked at Balaji. Ballaji normally

has all the answers, but that day he had no

answer as well. She looked at him and he also,

I'm sorry, I also don't know what we're going to

say later on, So you know, Ballaji that's not normal

for him. He always has something good to say. Yeah,

never a doubt moment in the Lord. But Litty and

Village were both stuck, like, what do we say later? Yeah,

sought the Lord and haven't really got anything from the

Lord yet. But God was moving behind the scenes. So

they went to the house warming and they still had

no idea what they're.

Going to say.

Wow, but they just trusted, Okay, God, you will give

us the words to speak in that hour, not this

hour yet, but that hour, that hour and true enough.

So they had a good time together, you know, fellowshipping

over the house warming, eating, laughing, talking, and it came

to the part of them having to say something for

the family and their new home. And then Letty felt

led to actually declare the blessings of God from Deuteronomy,

which was what passed ject preached last Sunday in church.

Yeah, am I right?

Deuteronomy? Yes, okay, the blessings of obedience. You know, blessed

are you? You know when you obey da da da

da da you your household, your family, your livestock, your land,

your grain, everything. And she boldly took yeah, I took

out her Bible and declared it.

And what do you think happened the husband?

The man teared up, grown tough, staunch pre believer teared

up as she was reading God's words. He was so

touched that someone would love his family enough to proclaim

blessings of God over them. Wow, does this situation make sense? See,

they went not knowing, not having the wisdom of the

right thing to say, but they depended on the Holy Spirit.

And when they did, the Holy Spirit came true that

very hour. And it may not have been something Litty

might have naturally wanted to do, to take out her

Bible and declare scripture outright over a pre believing family,

but she just knew that was the right thing to do,

and she did it out of faith and obedience. And

as the words were being read out blessings of God,

the man just teared up and his heart was moved.

And I believe his heart is now open and God's

going to go in and do even more.

Amen.

And can you see we can start out not having

the wisdom of God or the power of God, but we.

Rest on the Holy Spirit.

He will give us the wisdom the power we need

for that hour or rhymes right, Amen? We hope you've

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