That All May See That We Are Called | Pr Jack Ling

You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I want to share with us this morning.

The title of my message is that all may see, okay, that all

may see that we are called all right. I know the theme for this

year is that all may know. But I'm taking this from you know,

the scripture today that all may see they will know when they see, just

like how I told you about the Bible, they see us having the Bible,

then they know, all right, because how they know sometimes know it's

a very it's a concept. Right, they know something. But when you

learn in your classes, your classroom, you need to see, right ABC

numbers you know, plus minus your teaching you to write now for you it

helps visual, right, and of course they need to hear. But we'll

focus on this this morning, that on may see that we are called now

all right. So just quick recap from last week. Was Olivia's message right,

talking about King Hezekiah, right and all the other kings who didn't do

well. Then Hezekiah did better, all right, and the Lord prolonged his

reign to be able to lead Israel, lead the other one. Yeah,

okay, yeah, thank you for that. So but then he also in

the end he did he made a mistake, right. One of what Hezekai's

mistake was that he focused on his own time. He didn't bother about the

future. And so then you know that that was his mistake and his foolishness.

Uh and uh. But you know, from there, I just want

to say that, you know, our God is really about passing it on.

You know, good leadership is about being able to pass it on to

the next generation. All right, So if we have all the good stuff

here now for ourselves, but we never pass it on, that that is

not how God wants it to work. And that's why he he has a

you know, told us to make disciples. When you make disciples, you

pass on something to them. Yeah. So I want to encourage all of

us here to have this thought of making disciples, because that's what the word

of God is. Right, How do you make disciples? Start with one

person? Can we start with one person? Right? It doesn't have to

be that you're a leader that you make disciples. The Bible tells us to

make disciples. Anyone, every one of us here who follows Jesus make disciples.

Tell your neighbor that you need to make disciples. Ah, wow,

challenging word, isn't it to just say that? Tell your other neighbor,

I need to make disciples, right, I'm telling I'm talking about what Jesus

told us to do. Right. One day, when you go up you

meet Jesus, He's going to ask us, all right, did you do

what I told you to do? Right? Make disciples? Right? And

so we have to answer that, right, and then you'll say maybe you

say yes, say how how did you right? So okay, so I

want to challenge us here. Yeah, you can make disciples actually, just

focusing on one person. At least you make one disciple, then one disciple

might make ten. Then you it counts under your account, isn't it.

No? I just kidding all right, I don't know. I don't know

how God counts it now, but you know it doesn't. Don't worry about

that, right, You're not here about that, okay, but focus on

one. Let's focus on one. Even if it's your own child, make

disciples, Make him or her a disciple, right, teach them the word

of God, teach them the right way. Yeah, And if you don't

have that opportunity to make disciple of your own child. Then someone choose one

person, pray and seek the Lord, and he will show you. There's

more than one person that needs to be made a disciple this morning and today,

all right, So passing on to the next generation is so important.

Now I want to talk and share from Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight this morning.

Okay, you're taking notes, right, that's why you can write. The

scripture for today is Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. I didn't put the full Deuteronomy

because I know got children here today, So just write the fall letters,

ok you t dute? Okay. Chapter twenty eight, verse one to fourteen

is where where the scripture is. Very good, very good. I can

see everyone trying to take notes sitting right in front of the screen. Wow,

very good. Okay, okay, So deuter on me chapter twenty eight,

one to fourteen. Okay, so let's see where we go from here.

I want to tell you a little bit about the Book of Deuteronomy,

right because I've been reading that. That's the books, that's the book that

I've been focusing on. So so you you you you remember, you know

I've been preaching from the Book of John all right. I think I think

I'm done for now for the Book of John. I'll stop there. Okay,

the rest of it do yourself, okay, because it's pretty straightforward.

From there. It's, you know, the journey to the Cross, and

maybe maybe you know Easter or you know, I don't know, next year

or something. Okay, we'll talk a bit more, but I think I'm

done for for the Book of John for now. But I'll see where the

Lord will lead me or when it comes to speaking the word. Okay,

So today I'll focus on Deuteronomy twenty eight because I've been reading that book recently,

and the Book of Deuteronomy very interesting, is book by Moses. It's

a book about Moses talking about how he couldn't enter the Promised Land. He

couldn't enter, and so he wasn't selfish. He didn't keep it to himself

and say, since I can't enter, you also don't enter. He didn't

do that. He could have, but he's you know, so thank God.

You know, he follows the heart of God. I pass on the

right thing, even if you can't make it, at least pass on what

is right to the next generation. Yeah, even if you fail, pass

on what is right to the next generation. Don't say I didn't make it.

You also going to follow me down, right, don't do that,

right, But thank god, Moses was still humble. In fact, he

was known as the humblest man right on earth. So yeah, so this

is why I guess he's so so kind still, you know. And so

he's telling everyone, yeah, I didn't make it, but I want to

tell you how you can, how you can enter the Promised Land still,

and so he gives this long you know, a book of Deuteronomy to the

Children of God. And so that's what it's about. And so we are

here right now at this chapter, chapter twenty eight, where he's talking about

the blessings and the curses all right, of following blessing for following the commandments

of God, and curses if we don't follow, all right. And so

it's very very interesting the chapter before. We won't read the chapter before,

but the chapter before, all right, there's this part here. You can

look at your Bible. So there's this part about it. I just want

to point to it a little bit. For example, he says here in

verse fifteen, curse be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image,

sorry and abomination to the lord, hey, a thing made by hands

of craftsmen. All right, so you know you can go on and you

can see that. And then he says at the end of this verse,

and all the people shall answer and say, ay man, yeah, I

heard a few people saying that, right, but you know, the world

of God here, says and all the people, so can we roll play

a bit? All the people here, even children, and all the people

shall answer and say sounds a bit more like all right, I'll tell you

so you can see how many of that this here the curse be, because

because we there's more than ten here, I believe. And so as they

say things like that, there's this you know, the the priest is declaring,

curse be this person who does this thing, and all the people say

amen. And everyone had to say amen. All right. I want to

tell you here that in our church we actually want to encourage everyone to respond,

respond to the message, especially to the word of God. Right,

you don't want to say amen to the announcement, I understand. Okay,

well I do that. Sorry, announcement still amen, but you know you

but but when it comes to the Word of God, I want to encourage

all of us. You you need to respond. You need to respond at

least say yeah or or yeah or whatever whatever your your your your agreement grant

is do it. Do it. I oran encourage all of us here.

Don't stay silent because science it's actually very dangerous. Right. It's either you

don't agree, or you don't like me or whoever is preaching here, right

or whatever, right, or you're distracted, then you don't agree. I'm

not telling you to agree with my words. I'm telling you to agree with

God's work when you hear God's word being preached, especially when I'm preaching God's

with I'm saying it and I'm reading God's word. I want to encourage all

of us here to agree with it. Okay, not with me here again,

agree with God's word because if we don't, we don't verbally agree.

I really don't know where do we agree? And so all right and and

so okain you don't agree, then okailler, it's fine, okay, But

if you do agree, say it, because you're you're challenging yourself as well.

Yes, I agree. Maybe you're you're thinking yeah, because but I

don't practice it yet. I don't practice it. Yeah, and you feel

like I feel bad like I agree, but I don't do this right,

something like that. But don't worry about that. Nobody is asking you to

be fully practicing it yet. We're just saying whether you agree with it or

not? Ah right, you know, like you know, like I think,

you take a load. Then they ask you, do you agree to

pay back? Not that you paid back, so you haven't paid back yet,

but you're agreeing to pay back right later on. You may, you

struggle, your struggles, you pay, and all this kind of stuff.

It's real, right, it happens, but it doesn't mean you disagree to

pay. You still agree, I want to pay, right, That's why

you sign it and your amen and your yes is like signing like I say,

yes, I agree, I haven't done it yet, I am about

to. I want to, and therefore I agree. All right, But

of course if you don't agree, then then yeah, finally you're off the

hook line. That's all right, But but I want the challenges. All

let's agree, because that's what happened in Deuteronomy. Let me explain a little

bit more. When you can you imagine it, Just imagine with me,

right this the priest is reading out this thing. Let me read a few

more. Let's see. Ah, Okay, I picked this one. I

think it's verse eighteen. Yeah, everyone, you got your bibles? Can

you turn to that? It's not it's not on the screen. I'm not

gonna put a lot of scripture on the screen nowadays, so that we can

flip to the Bible. Okay, okay, Now, whether you're a physical

Bible or digital Bible, flip to it, because you you know, at

least you can confirm whether I'm reading right stuff. Okay. Verse eighteen.

Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man in the on the road. Hey,

anyone done that before? Ah, careful, don't do that. Yeah,

And then next one says what and all the people shall say hey,

man continued role playing for me? All right, So listen, that's one.

See. Curse be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road and

everyone says amen. Right, but listen, imagine half the people don't say

amen. So the precide caust be anyone who misleads the blind man on the

road. Silence why, because they're thinking, I want to do that.

I just plan to do that tomorrow to this brother who I'm so angry with

is blind, but I was planning to, so I can't say amen,

right, right right, something like that. Right. Uh. So that's

why that even the even the guy who was planning to do it, I'm

sure he would just say amen, amen that maybe maybe it helps change his

my life. Yeah, since I say that already, I was planning to

la, but I won't because I just say amen, I just agreed.

All right, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna push that guy

on the road is blind? Right? What else? What else? Let's

go to some more tree key ones? Ah, god something a bit you

know, not not suitable one for children and a ah but you know my

kids hurting this. You know I put this the Bible out loud for them

audio. And what does that mean? They ask me all these questions?

Yeah, so bland man uh gell, you know all this is sensitive one.

But lying with this, lying with who, lying with the lie with

the animal one? You know that are then he I mentioned the guys don't

say em And then I know all the people say, you know, talk

about the animal and right, and all the people say, what are you

doing? Things like that? Right? And I'll tell you what you do?

You think Moses simply talk about these things. No, I don't think

so, because he only mentions it because it's happening. Things like that were

happening at that time. People were abusing animals like that, They were in

relationships they shouldn't be in right with whoever that's you know, not sutable the

same in front of children, now right, y'all know that, right,

So it was actually happening, and that's why Moses, you know, and

the team and the priests had to say that. So, curse if you

do this, you know, curse it, if you steal your neighbors things,

curse it if you abuse the blind man. And everyone should say amen,

because ok maybe I did it. But yeah, okay, now I

know he's wrong. Now at least now I know he's wrong. I will

aim to stop doing that. And you know, throughout the whole Bible you

will see all all of this as in a New Testament, you will see

it's all held out, spell down. What sin is is spelled out,

right, don't you know. Don't be a drunkard, it's actually in the

Bible, right, don't gossip, don't put down your neighbor. It's on

the Bible. And so then you know, sometimes we ask what is sin?

Right, It's all spelled out in the Bible, and that's why we

need to read our Bible. When we read our Bible is revealed to us

what is sin. And sometimes then we realize, oh, actually I've been

doing that. I've been doing that, and the Bible tells me now that's

wrong. And so therefore I need to say, amen, amen, I've

got to stop this right now, and then I can I can move on,

I can move on to abundant life. All right. Of course,

thank God, the Bible just doesn't just tell us what is wrong. It

tells us what we need to do. Right. The Bible tells us don't

do this, but this is what you need to do. And so thank

God. You know, I love that. The word of God is so

amazing. I want to say one more thing. As I read the Book

of Deuteronomy and as I read all these laws, I want to tell you

it must be God. You know, if a man wrote this, you

think you will write it like this. A man normally will write something to

advantage themselves, to benefit themselves. But all this is going to stop them

from their pleasure. And so why would a man write there so definitely.

It was an amazing God who wrote all these laws Old Testament and New Testament.

Amen. All right, now I want to move on. I want

to move on right, Okay, I want to start with this. So

just how I already went on it right, It starts with amen, starts

with amen. Now let me dwell on this a little bit. We know

the word amen, and you know and we you know we say it in

church and we can say more. Okay, but I want to explain to

you in the first verse of Deuteronomy twenty eight. Okay, what does it

say? And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God,

being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord

your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Right

first line there, And if you what faithfully obey. I want to focus

on the word faithful. Here we sang today you know, Lord, you

are so faithful, greatest my faithfulness. I did not plan this with Olivia.

She picked the song right, And to this message is I'm going to

start with that faithful right, God is faithful. But then this verse here

tells us if we faithfully obey, we faithfully obey. So God is faithful.

But are we faithful? Yeah? Are we faithful? So God?

But God wants us to be faithful. That's why the word of God tells

us here, if you faithfully obey. I want to focus on the word

faithful. Right, faithful and amen are linked when that's why. That's why

I'm encouraging us all to respond, especially with amen, because it's linked to

faithfulness. We want to be faithful. It is linked to amen. Let

me explain a little bit more. The word faith alight, a rather faithful.

The root word of faithful in Hebrew is faith no brainer, right,

faithful? Faith Ah? You know original word faith? So let me tell

you some of us here we're wondering, how can I be a faithful husband?

How can I be a faithful child? How can I be a faithful

student? Right? How can I how can I be a faithful staff?

How many of films here we will consider ourselves faithful workers for our companies?

Or do we go like ah, I don't care what they do as long

as I get my salary. I just do my part. You know,

so many of us we don't like thinks about our company? Right? Our

places? All? Right? And that's why there's a lot of like,

you know, none of it happens here, but you know, that's why

there's a lot of like office gossip, all right, and backstapping and things

like that, because we don't really care. It's not my business. Someone

else is getting more money. We are thinking all these things, right,

But the Bible wants us to be faithful even to a company that we don't

own, even if we don't like the boss. And we are there,

we believe that the Lord has placed us there. And so since you're there,

let's be faithful. You're in this country called Malaysia. It's not always

nice, it's not always good. You know, Malaysia is not always kind

too many of us. Right. I know, because you know, I'm

a citizen here, and we know the politics here. We know the stuff

that goes on, right, we know sometimes that the unfairness that happens.

But the Bible, the Word of God, wants us to be faithful.

So I'm faithful to my nation, to my country anyway, because God has

placed me here, I believe, And so I don't complain about why am

I here? Want to move somewhere else? Dad something? Hey, people

moving around it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay to move

around. I'm just talking about myself, right, It's okay to move around,

all right, But for me, I don't complain, and it does

not wants me to move I will, I will, okay, Just that

I'm saying, I don't complain right about you know, the negative things too

much. It's okay, you cant express right, some negative things is fine,

it's human. But I want to be faithful to the country. I

want to be faithful at my workplace. I will be faithful to the ministry

sometimes, you know, even ministry in church? Right, are we faithful?

Are we faithful to our leaders? Are we faithful to the church that

God has placed you in? Right? Because even it's just got politics right,

quite sad, but it happens. But the question is are we faithful?

Right? And the word the root word again or faithful is faith?

What is faith? Faith is believing? Faith is I trust I trust him?

I have faith. I have faith in Allen to play the guitar.

He's going, He's not gonna suddenly, you know, take out the guitar

and swing it around. You know, I have faith in him. That's

why we let him be on the band. We have faith in Anderson and

he's not suddenly going to stand on the horn and jump around right and kick

it. We had faith, that's all he said. Okay, you know,

Olivia asked, can we have Anderson on? I said, let me

think. Ok, I don't think he would jump on the thing. I

didn't think all that, but you know, I don't think he's gonna take

a hammer and whatever. So yeah, I got faith in Anderson. He

can play. I say, how many songs? She said two? I

can two songs can all right, So that's why he played this morning,

right. So we had faith. That's why we allowed and we you know,

we we do things and so, uh, faithful has to do with

faith. So like this, you want to be a faithful worker, you

want to be a faithful uh partner of the church. You want to be

a faithful leader. Then you need to have faith. You need to have

faith. Firstly, faith in God, right, because that's that's the first

thing. If you have faith in God, it's easy to have faith in

people. Right. It's easy to have faith in our leaders because I know

God plays me here. So yeah, the leader is still working on stuff.

Is still you know, brushing up, you know, on some things.

But I trust God that he's doing that. He's working on this guy,

he's working on this person. Yeah, and let me give you another

example. So yeah, let's say I, you know, me and Passa

Candeth. I just say, give you example. If Passa Kenneth say something

quite strong right on social media maybe right or in the message, he says

something very strong and I feel it. I felt it, like, ouch,

are you talking about me? Pastor? Right? I feel it,

and so I feel upset. Let's say, and I go like, yeah,

I think this person is not the person I thought he was. I'm

going to get sad and upset right now. There, I go around complaining,

you know, to my wife, I don't know why this past right.

Then after I add on, I go to Paul, say, you

know, you know that are so upset no with this pasta. I went

on, I go on, I go on, I complained. I got

sick. And so now I start I start to lose faith. And so

as I lose faith in my pastor, I start to go like this,

I think I don't be initiuch anymore. Right, Pasta, this this this

you know doing all these things to me, talking about me. I have

no more faith in this pasta and so therefore I say, you know what,

like week, I'm going somewhere else. And therefore, just like that,

in a week, I stopped being faithful to the church, simple as

that, because I had no more faith. I didn't believe anymore, because

I got you know, I got offend it. I don't believe anymore.

I don't believe God put me here anymore because you know this guy, you

know, you know, hurting me whatever, And I don't believe in all

these things anymore. I just go because now I want to put my faith

somewhere else, and I want to be faithful to someone else. Simple as

that. That's what faithful fullness is. Same thing in marriage, right like,

I don't like this person anymore, no more interest, So I can't

be faithful anymore. I want to find someone else. Simple as that.

You won't be faithful. You got to have faith, Okay, say to

your neighbor. You want to be faithful, you have to have faith.

And so therefore, okay, let's go to the next light. I show

you the Hebrew word a man amen. Okay, that's where it comes from

amen. Amen. Okay, of course different spelling a bit, lah,

but you know it's the same root word. Amen. Faith. Yes,

I believe. Thank you for saying that, Pastor. I believe it hurts

me a bit, but I believe I will go with it and I will

be faithful. All right. You know some of us here, you know

we've been coming to church. Thank you for believing, because you're still here.

All right. You come to church, you come to church Sunday after

Sunday, you're here, and so you're faithful to at least come to church.

But I want to challenge you the next step. You know, whenever

the Holy Spirit leads you, don't just come See where you want to serve?

Yeah, see where you can serve? Okay. I'm not forcing anyone.

I'm just challenging you. According to the Word of God, right,

where can you serve? I know there will be a lot of challenges,

but I want to say, you know you can overcome it, right,

I know? And right and Joel, they they make something work hard to

be able to serve, all right. I really respect that, okay,

and I pray that the lot will make it even easier for you. Right

in the time to come so that you know you you you can both still

serve at the same time, all right, but you know as the lot

leads you, So I want to challenge us. All here, take the

next step, all right? Of course, no rush, no rush,

You don't have to immediately take next step. But I'm just saying that you

can't stay in one place forever. Yeah, because that's what it means by

growth. All right, I want to go on. I want to go

on. Okay, So amen has do it? Faith has do it?

Faithfulness? Okay, the rest of the words, next timeline we will explain.

Okay, move on, let's move on. Okay. Then as we

read you know verse one just now, okay, Now I'll go to verse

two. One and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if

you obey the voice of the Lord your God. This one I put on

the slide. It says slight for this ah. Okay, Verse two,

and all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake. Use everyone, say

overtake, overtake, you know, anyone overtake cars here before take you.

I want to go faster, right, overtake. Okay, if you obey

the voice of the Lord your God. So there is a promise. There's

a promise for the faithfulness to obey. When you faithfully obey, there's a

promise. The promise is blessings that shall come upon you, not just come

upon you, it will overtake you. What does this mean? You know,

many times when we do what is right, when we do the right

thing right, we feel like we're losing out, isn't it When we do

the right thing? Sometimes you feel like, ah, then this guy who

cheat his way, he got further, he got more. I'm not getting

you know, I do right, I don't get right most times the case.

Many times that's the case. And this you know, people who cheat,

who or you know, who do the quick the shortcut, they get

a hit. They do what's not right and they get a hit. And

so that's why we feel like, what, you know, why should I

do this? Then? Why should I do what's right? Because I'm not

gonna I'm not getting it. But the promise of God, if you can

hold on to it, tells us that blessings shall come you follow the commandments

of God. And not only that it will overtake you. Hallelujah, Hey

man, it will overtake you. You it will go ahead of you.

The blessing will go ahead of you, meaning you will walk into it,

you actually bump into it. It's not it's not trying to catch up with

you. You know, it's Usain bolt and it's like, what the blessing

is already here. Overtake you. Those who do right, the blessings overtake

you. Don't worry about those short cut guys that come on. Don't worry

about the cheetas and the shortcut guys there. They get a hit a little

bit, but something else is waiting for them. I hate. Something else

is overtaking them, waiting for them. Ahit there, Okay, the Lord

have mercy on them. But I'm telling you, those who do what's right,

your blessing will overtake you. Amen. Amen. So why I'm saying

this is, you know what, recently the oil prices went up, right,

we worried about diesel or suddenly no more subsidy and all this kind of

stuff, right, and and then all the prices of stuff are gonna go

up, and you're all these worries are very valid. I usually worry,

Okay, but let's hold on to the promise. Of God that he will

still bless us and the blessing will still overtake us as we follow his commands.

It's faithful to him, right, he will be. He's faithful.

He's faithful. He has faith he why you know you want to say that,

No, God has faith in us. That's why he's faithful. He

believes in us all the way. This frail made of clay people all right,

in one crush, he can destroy us, right, but he believes

in all of us, and that's why he is faithful. He loves us,

Amen, hallelujah. So it comes with a blessing, all right,

if you obey, let me go on, let me go on. Okay,

I want to I want to talk about the blessings. Let's talk about

the blessings. We love. This isn't it. I want to know what

the blessings are. The blessings is throughout Versus three to all the way you

know, to eight. I'm gonna focus on that. I think there's a

slight for that. Let's look at the blessings. We will love this.

Let's claim it for ourselves. Amen. But of course it comes with the

you need to obey the Lord for Zah faithfully obey the lot and the blessings

are these. Look, if you look at the verses, I'm basing it

on the verses so you can look at it. I'm not making this up,

but I'm just kind of like changing the words to help us understand,

you know, in a modern language in a sense. Right, So it

says here will be blessed in the city and the fields, meaning sometimes you

know why, because sometimes I feel like I'm living in the city here,

living an urban life. God blessing all the farms and the duria and all

their What am I getting? Right? But the Lord actually tells us that

we will be blessed in the city. Even in an urban life. God

can bless you. God can bless your finances. God can bless your protection

right and your friendship, your relationships. You know, your health, your

mental health. God will bless you in the urban way. He is not

a god of the kampo moni, all right. He's God of the city,

all right. He loves k l City, all right. He loves

Jakarta, he loves so what's the Philipinos Manila? He loves Manilla's in there

now. China is the capital now, Oh, not New Deli anymore New

Deli is there. Yeah. God loves the cities all right. In fact,

when you look at Revelation the cities, God actually has c has cities,

and we will be living in cities. Don't worry, you're not going

to kampung all right? Oh do I love kampum all right? And he's

also the god of the kampung some of us are, you know, we're

from the kampung. We're from the villages, we're from the you know,

the field, the country. It's always thing like I think God is only

in the city because look at those churches there, they're growing, But the

village churches, all the young people living right going to the city. But

you know what, the Lord will less those even in the villages. Yeah,

in the kampong, especially your Dudian farms, okay, right, and

your animals and your flocks. So next one it says it talks about fruitfulness

and increase and the young. It talks about young flock. But I want

to focus on that as well. The Lord will will bless you in fruitfulness

in many sense, okay, in your you know, in your work,

in your ministry, in your family. You will be fruitful in all that

we do. There will be increase. Everyone say, increase. Increase is

good, isn't it? Increase is good? All right, because that's where

we see numbers, that's where we see amounts, that's where we see abundance.

There will be increase, and there will be and there will be the

young. You know, the young is so important. I love to see

that we have so many children here. It shows that we are fruitful,

right and multiplying nicely here. Okay, uh and uh uh. Also young

people, young, our teens, our college students, in college students say

hello, sounding Okay, you guys need some energy. Okay, Hey,

young people are so precious, And I want to say, you know,

you're very precious to all of us here at ex Church because at one time,

I want to tell you that there was almost no campus students in X

Church. All right. Then I realized I realized how sad that was,

because firstly, then you know why why why? I also sad because I

realized there's so many colleges here, and we are the we're the Christians,

right and uh and if the church cannot draw the young people into the House

of God, I think that's quite sad, all right. So I want

to encourage all you young people. We love you and you're very precious to

us. And I want you know, I want to challenge all of you

to also reach out to your friends. They need to know God, they

need to know Jesus. Amen. All right. Also our young adults,

Hey, young adults, all right, going for outing soon. Yeah,

invite your friends, Invite your friends. I invited my barber to why Wa

Why Wa Retreat. Yeah. I invited my barber because they're there. I

went to get a haircut. I got a new barba. Sorry, I

betrayed the last barber. Yeah, because he was so expensive. So now

I found this new new barber nearer to me, cheaper so much, people,

I have the price cheaper. So I'm going to this guy now.

And uh, you know what, it's very sad because it's very sad because

he he runs his business in Summit, right, So anyone here you want

to support this guy, you can go to Summit and get a haircut from

this guy. The shop has got a unique cut. I guess I'm saying

this because every time I go there, no one is there. No one

is in the shop, only him. He's saying that he's just sitting there

one time I found him just sleeping and then I was in. I already

made a point with him and say, hey, so faiet. He said,

how can I help you do a haircut for me? Then he suddenly

asked me because the last time I went, I told him about the Easter

event in uh Suban. He didn't come, but I think he was happy

that someone invited him. All right, So the next time I went,

he uh now suddenly tells me. Hey. He tells me another church,

and I say, you heard of this church before? I say yeah,

yeah. Then say I'm thinking of going there, thinking of going there,

and like whoa, well, at least not thinking a way to church.

I said, hey, why did you join? I said it's fine,

it's fine, Yeah, you can go try. Uh Then I said,

why you suddenly talk about going to church? They say like, I'm so

bored. I'm so bored. I want to I want to make some friends.

So I mean, I laughed not but actually he's very sad, right,

So I'm like, oh, okay, get here. That's he That's

what I thought. Why They were like, hey, hey is this camp?

Would you like to come? And he's like yeah, he's so happy.

I'm telling you someone good, like why walk camp again? Like this

guy hearing of someone telling you come to white Wal Camp. Sure, thank

you, thank you for you know. I can see he's like his joy

someone finally talking to him and inviting him to a camp. And so when

I first got the in the promo, now I send it to him.

I send it to him. I say, hey, this is the camera

we're talking about. You know, if you're interested here you can sign up.

Then he said, bro, thank you. His reply to me,

bro, thank you. Okay, So I hope he goes that. I

hope he goes that. I don't know. Yeah, anyway, I'll go

and get a few more hair cuts there and yeah, persuade him. So

anyway, why did I say that young people? Young people? Young people?

Yeah, all right, those who are young at heart. So hey,

keep going, all right. I want to tell you your age It

is just a number. Amen, Amen, The age is just a number.

Right. Why because if you keep doing things with the young people,

you keep living your life. You know, according to the word of God,

you will keep going. You will keep going the moment you stop,

the moment you stop. Oh, just telling me. You know, we've

been watching some documentaries about the Blue Water, Blue Zone, Blue Zone.

It's about how people live through hundreds of years, one hundred years old plus.

And so one of the things is this when they stop living, when

someone sends them to the old Folks Home to retire and now relax, their

lifespan suddenly cuts shot. Okay, I want to tell you. I encourage

you those who are you know, you don't consider yourself young adult and all

these kind of things. You know at the age is just a number.

Keep serving, all right, don't retire, you know after a while.

You know, I have this misconception. So I keep wanting to tell my

parents, hey, stop, don't do so much, sit down a bit

more, you know, I keep doing that last time, relax, you

know, don't don't don't walk around so much, don't go and carry the

Is that that? And then when I heard this documentary said don't don't don't

stop them from living. Let them live, let them do stuff, all

right. They will know I want not to carry all right, you don't

stop them, let them live. And so I stopped telling my parents do

to to know, don't don't do don't to sit down all these things.

Really, I encourage them to good. Walk okay, good good, help

me, help me do something right when I come back, you know,

to quantent they want to go and buy stuff. Thank you, go ahead,

go ahead, I'll come with you. I'll come with you. You

know. Yeah, they're active. Praise God. They're alive and well and

man. Okay, then there's blessings in uh. It says something about the

kneading ball, the basket and the kneading bowl. I understand, as I

understood that supplies and food. You will have enough food. And all the

foodies say, a lot of food is here. That's enough food. There's

enough supplies. Don't worry. It won't be like Mco where we couldn't get

even bread at the time. Right, remember that, or yourself. You

don't want to remember that. Right, go to the you go to the

grocery store empty shells. So sad, right, scary, But you know

the Lord will continue to bless you with enough. He says here the next

verse is in your going in and coming out right, you will be blessed.

Your travels will be safe. Aren't you glad that God actually specifies all

these things. He doesn't keep it vague. You know, he specifies what

is sin? He defines it so clearly what sin is, and then he

defines what blessing is so clearly. You will be blessed in your traveling.

Next time you travel. You're on the plane, you're on the car,

you're driving, you're on the boat, and you're wondering, is God gonna

really protect me? Remember you to on me twenty eight. I will bless

you, and you're going in and coming out, I will, right,

so you will be safe. God will protect you and he will provide for

you. Amen. And anyone who tries to attack you will be defeated.

All right. I'm sure you know many of us will have many testimonies about

that. That many people try to come against us. They're jealous, different

things, right, But the Lord will fight for us. Right. But

you know, very very carefully worded, those who try to attack you,

Right, we have enemies. Many of them don't try to attack you.

They just enemy with you. They just don't like you, and therefore they

are safe. Nothing happened to them yet. But the moment they try to

attack you, that's where they get into trouble. Yeah. Amen, And

all the people who have enemies, say careful not to say, I don't

have enemies. All my people, Ah, my friend are my friends all

right? Anyway? All right, so don't be afraid anyone who tries to

attack you. They're gonna get it, all right. The Lord is going

to fight for us, and he's gonna scatter them. Scatter Why because they

then they cannot regroup. They cannot regroup, they cannot plan another attack on

you. They will be scattered and their plans will fail. Yeah. So

the Lord has good strategy here. He doesn't just defeat them. He scatters

them and they no longer can mess with you. That's who our God is

so amazing. Finally, he says, here, all right, I gather

this as because he will command a blessing in your bond and the work of

your hands, the work of your hands, So that means your workplace.

He will bless you at your workplace. You don't let your workplace. Now

believe the promise of God that you are going to make your workplace awesome.

Right, don't wish to go to just Google and work life. Right,

you are the blessing in your workplace that the Lord has placed you there.

And when people see you, that all may see that the Man of God

is in my workplace, in my business. Therefore, I am going to

be blessed. Right, some of you you're already doing that. You don't

even know it. You're a blessing at your workplace. People love to have

you there. Then the moment you walk away and you leave, they will

miss you because you are God's child and you bring joy. You bring God's

presence to that to that workplace. It's so amazing. Colleges as well.

The moment you know you're there, the moment you're there, everyone loves it.

Everyone wants you to be around, right. They want you to be

their assignment partner right and do all the work for them. But but Nola,

you make disciples of them, you teach them. Hey, cat like

that. Ah, you must sit down with me and work. Don't just

take advantage of me. I know I'm super awesome, but right, that's

how I want to pass it on to you, so that you can be

awesome when I'm not around. Ah. First, believe in Jesus. Okay,

okay, all right, Yeah, God brings a blessing through you at

your workplace and in your work. And I will tell you one thing.

It talks about the land that I'm giving you a right. Although yeah,

that that that promise was for the people you know of God at that time

in Deuteronomy. But the Lord, I want to believe this is prophetic.

The Lord will always have a place for you, you know, whether you

have a you know, you have land or a place to stay, even

if you're renting it. You will have a place and people. You know,

that place can be a blessing to many people. You know, you

can invite the people in for healing for or you know, for for to

hear God's work and hear the life of the Lord, the life that God

wants to give to them. Amen. All right, And that's all the

blessing there that I want to talk about. And then we're gonna close soon.

Everyone doing okay? Children, you're taking still taking notes? Drawing,

Drawing me if you've done notes, draw me, draw my face. Ah,

someone Anna drew all day so beautiful? Yeah, so handsome? So

ken ken, that's the other activity, draw me, draw my face?

Okay, adults kind of so okay, all right, moving on, next

next light, next light, you th on me? Twenty eight nine.

The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has

sworn to you if you keep the commandments of the Lord. He reminds us

a few tim keep the commandments. Keep the commandments, he reminds it a

few times. Here and walk in his waist. And then I want to

bring us to the New Testament little bit first Peter two nine to twelve.

Right, because God says he will make him make us a holy holy to

himself. But here in a New Testament, Jesus has already done that for

us, all right, So all we need to do is hold on to

Jesus. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthuit, a holy

nation, a people for his own possession. That you may proclaim the excellencies

of Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light as positive for

a while. Okay, you're moving a little bit quicker. Want to end

it before twelve? Okay? Children, sorry, you just write the bold

words if you need to otherwise, draw my face. Okay, I want

to focus here. First of all, holy nation is this is linked to

the verse we had just now. Right. God wants to make us,

want to establish us as his holy people, and he has already done that

through Jesus Christ. So if you believe in Jesus. You are a holy

nation. We are a holy nation. We have a we have another a

country. You know, as if you're living in your in another realm,

another realm, another dimension. If you watch Spider Man Spider Verse something like

that, you know, like you're in another verse. Right, we live

in another way, according to another rule, right, according to the word

of God. So let's continue to do that. But I want to focus

on this thing called uh with the word called the word called right. What

is this about? Let me let me just make sure I don't get this

wrong. They all may see that we are called right. Uh. Okay,

now we'll move on first, and then I'll talk about call right.

The next verse, next part care we finishes. Once you were not a

people, but now you are God's people. Once you had not received mercy,

but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you, as

a journals and exiles, to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which

wage war against your soul right there against you. Don't be friends with the

passion of the flesh. Right, some of us we get mixed up,

and we become friends with the passion of the flesh and say they are at

war against you. Okay, be clear about that. And then the next

one, keep your conduct among the gentiles honorable, so that when they speak

against you as evil doers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God

on the day of visitation. All right, they need to see they need

to see our good work, our good deeds to be able to glorify God.

And they will glorify God, and they will turn to Jesus. When

they see you right, representing God doing what is right, they can turn

to God. It helps them, Okay, And that's what we want to

do. We want to help them turn to God. Now I want to

go back to verse ten. It's verse ten their Deuteronomy. Yeah, okay,

and all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by

the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. Anyone

who here wants people to be afraid of you. No, nobody want to

sell you, Like, what kind of verse is this? You're You're like,

don't know where I want this? And everybody be afraid of me,

run away from me. I'll be the most lonely person in life. No,

okay, So let's let's let's be clear what this is actually saying,

so that you'll accept it and say, hey man, okay, so all

the people of the earth shall see that you are called the meaning of that.

Okay, Now it's like this, I just appointed student leaders in my

school, Okay. And what I did was I called them up. They

stood, and I got them to come to the front. Right, We're

just missing the badge. We haven't made the badges, so I haven't pinned

it on them yet. But basically what I'm doing is I'm appointing them as

student leaders. Were so proud to stand in front of all their friends.

I'm you're not right, that's what. Or you're prefect or very proud,

right, I'm prefect. You're not itself. You don't like that. So

how you go like, haha, you're prefect, we are not, thank

god, whatever, that's messed up. Okay. So anyway, Uh,

that's what it means. These people have been entrusted by the team right to

say, yeah they should be student leader. Put them up, records clean,

you know, cleaner generally, right, academics. Okay, So that's

why we appoint them. So same thing here. It actually means appointed.

The people shall see that you have been called by God. God wants to

call you out and say, Sarah Stan, don't understand by all right,

celestee Stan right? Roy stand okay, Johann stand. You know then I

have appointed you student leaders of exper come to the front right now to get

prayed for, and you know I will tell your responsibilities. So it's the

same thing here. God has called you. He has appointed you out of

so many people right on earth, and he wants to appoint more, but

he has called you first. And so you have been appointed and you have

something to do. You have a job, all right, you have a

role to play, and that's what it means by call. And so you're

like you're the prefects is okay? And then people are like afraid of you.

No, no, something like that. But let me explain to what

afraid Okay. It's actually Hebrew word, right, and if you look at

it properly, it means respect. It's like the fear of the Lord.

When you say I fear God doesn't mean you run away from him, right,

You fear him mean you respect him. So I will do things that

won't hurt him. I will do things according to his word because I revere

him. He's my father. It's just like how you're afraid of your father

sometimes, right, Oh, culfew, I'm late. My father's gonna kill

me. He never kills you, la, right, But you say that

because, oh no, he's gonna take away my privilege. He's gonna,

you know, I don't know, spank me or whatever. Right, you're

afraid in that way, but you respect your father. You respect your parents.

So the same thing here. People will respect you when because they see

you, they see you. This guy he brings his Bible around wherever he

goes. He knows the word of God. I don't know, so he

must have some answers, right, and so I respect him. Wow.

I've seen him pray. He thanks God before he eats at least, right,

I see him go for prayer. And he did offer me to pray.

You got a problem, I will pray for you, right, And

this guy knows God. And so that's what I respect this person. And

I'm afraid or so in a way because he can call curses on me,

right, you know, wh we don't do that, all right, you

don't. So you're appointed and that's why people will respect you. All right.

What's the next lie here? And all may see that we are called

It starts with Amen, and it comes with a blessing, and that all

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