Father's Day - The Prodigal Son | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I just wanted to share something I caught from

the Lord regarding the understanding the father's heart. All right, Luke chapter fifteen.

So Luke chapter fifteen, verse eleven. Luke fifteen was eleven. It's

about the portigal son. So this morning, I just pray that you were

able to just follow. So Luke chapter fifteen, verse eleven says that a

certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said to his father,

Father, give me a portion of goods step falls to me. So

he divided them the livelihood. Friends, I'm not sure how many of you

all all ever asked for inhabitants before it's time, But in the Asian Southeast

Asian context, that's almost like a big no no asking something before it's time.

Now. Uh. Sometimes sometimes I do feel that you know that we

are very stubborn in that sense of like we listen to people outside, that

we listened to what's at home, if you understand one trying to say,

we tend to be more open to outside suggestion that internal where family really matters,

and that's part of partive ging in life whereby we are maybe were growing

up. When we're growing up, we our friends play a big part in

our growing up years. When parents say no, our friends say you can.

Then we listens more to our friends than our own parents. Now that's

part of a past of growing up in life as well. But here's what

I want I wanted to point to you. Number one is this is not

number one, but the father, the father, the father of the two

boys, decided to part, decided to give, decided to the word is

to allow the son to have early inheritance. It speaks up about how much

the father really the word is believed in his son. He knows. How

may you know that the father really knew what the son is going to do

with the money, That dad already knew what the son's go how the son's

gonna use the money, because the son track record will show because in no

culture that people ask early inheritance. When someone asks early inheritance, there must

be a reason. It's not for business, investments of education, it's's for

something else. The father already knew. But the father, even though the

father knew that the son's intention, the father still gave the father still gave.

I want to encourage you and let you know that this morning, I

pray that you have a better understanding of our father in heaven. He's hard

towards us. Sometimes in our journey, friends, in our journey, we

asked for things that we don't even know we're asking for. I'm not sure

where they under said that the truth of is your ask for a king.

The child of is your ask for a king. And God said, I

want to be your king. I want to lead you. Don't be like

other nation whereby king leads you allow me to lead you. Human king will

ask for higher taxes, the best of the crops, the best of the

land to serve the palace. I've been faithful to you in the desert,

I've been faithful to you all these years. Allow me to lead you.

But the chrulre is you rejected us. As Prophet said, please give us

a king, and God gave. God allowed sometimes they ownly. Sometimes we

asked for things. I pray that we have wisdom of what we'll be asking

for. Because things received too early may not be too good. Things received

too early may not be too good. Ends. I pray that you open

this one and say God, speak to me, because sometimes you're maybe asking

for some things in our life when it's too early. We may not be

too good. All right, now, we'se thirteen. Then not many days

after the younger son gathered together come on journey to a far country and wasted

his possession with probly leaving something you know that it is not. You don't

just simply pack your backs and leave. You don't simply pack your backs and

leave. We pack our backs and live because we think that we know better.

We think that we know better, we think that we can do better.

I was explaining this to the AAM service. I say that you know,

not many of us here aware of father's clothing, not many of us

here. If you, if you're if you're from Malaysia, you understand that

unique. All those only came much much later. Right, our parents the

choice of clothes they wear majority of us what you want to pick it up?

I'm not sure everymy of you heard of the bank called Crocodile, Right,

there's another brand called Arrow Arrow Durban. Uh. So we all remember

that you go and our dance. So that was the best that they could

have. And sometimes the clothes are still very good on the shelf there here,

this shirt is really nice. You need to pick up and wear it

if you're going for a thematic experience or like you know, like a retro

party in your company. Dad, all retro closes. I want to wear

it, right, majority of us here won't wear it. And this the

youngest son have asked for the inheritance and decided one day, I'll pecker all

my belongings, everything I have. I decided to wench out on my own.

I want to see with my own understanding. Maybe I could pick it

out even that to them, my dad, Maybe I could just try it

out now if I know understand people do live home because you know of different

situations. But this situation here, it's not here has full of wisdom.

But there is a certain prime arrogance in his heart. There is a certain

prime arrogance. Sometimes I just I will show it to you. I will

show it to you, and sometimes that's us as well. Let's it.

Maybe you should consider studying something else. I'll show it to you friends.

Nothing wrong with that. But I do feel sometimes our hearts or influence where

we do have good values, if we do have good moral compass, if

we do true north leaving the home too early. It's not good. When

you do have good values or you have good moral compass, your own is

leaving your home too early, it's not it's not good. Maybe you see,

for example, perhaps you know you know that God calls you to plan

the church, and you say, passage, please allow me to plant excident

kill please. You know I've been praying, I'll be one thing you know

I got, I've done my research reading. I want to go up right

now, right now. I cannot wait anymore, says say, wait,

wait, I don't wait anymore. I can do it on my own.

After I was okay, I wish you did like you. No, it's

friends, all of us go through these phases that come out. I'm not

knocking anybody. All of us come out if you're honest. Stuff. We

were young ones, just like yesterday, right, we were young ones.

We went through these faces whereby we think that we can go on our own

strength. So the young son decided to journey and it is all wasted.

Friends, it just shows to me that his revalues that he has, it's

very different from his dad, very different. If you want to go out

going with the right values, come on, if you want to leave.

Leave with the right values. Don't just leave because you're angry. Don't just

leave because that you're attempted. Your friends play a big influence in your life.

Tell me we though, he don't just waste on his own. I'm

sure he has a group of friends there. The Bible here says it was

fifteen that he went and joined himself the citizen of the country. He sent

him into the fuse and fits swine friends. This is why he called the

Halla culture. This is this what you work, what you call it's not

proper Jewish boy feeding the pigs and the chan is even right now he's feeling

for the sake of survivor, sell out his culture, sell his belief system.

What used to be unclean can now we can become clean for the sake

of survivor. Sometimes in our journey of our life is the same thing as

well. We will let go of all our venue just to survive, just

to feed ourselves, just to put fullard, just to satisfy what we need.

Have you ever in a place whereby we give up our call belief because

we have to satisfy the internal cravings of our stomach. Have we given up

a lot of things in our lives just to satisfy our internal craving. The

young boy did friends, A Jewish boy said, being brought up in such

a way whereby what's uncleansed and clean you cannot touch. But for the sake

of survivor, friends, he has crossed the line for ourself survivors that I

got no choice. He thought, he has no choice. And sometimes in

our journey of life we always think you have no choice, no choice.

Life is like that, I was talking to a young working out. You

know these days, friends is very different. I grew up a generation whereber

I saw. We saw the birth of handphones. We literally saw the both

of handphones. We saw the birth of internet back then. You never understand

what doesn't mean to unpluck your telephone night and plug it on more them right?

You You never You've never You never knew that you have to wait for

your presents and their phone call for you to unplug the tell for like the

plan this morning and your press is buttoned just to just to wait for it

to dub. We saw the birth of their friends. We saw the birth

like I see key was back there was in so we like, what on

earth is that? Right? I asked you, I see you understood what

it means to get the very first email. We were so happy with tell

friends someone emailed me. These days if you go like, please don't email

me these days, you don't even want to give our emails out. We

saw the birth of that. But as work began to change and bringing handfuls

back there was considered a luxury. Now it's a necessity. Right And I

was talking to working out. She was telling me the elder, you know,

work right now is very different. There's so much pressure at work.

Pressure use work, press measure. We are pressure to perform in a way

whereby we felt that we couldn't perform. Then, being a churl, I

have to bring up different perspective. I just say, look when we say

the Bibles. When when the Bible says that we've got all things are possible?

What that this statement means? With God all things are possible? What

does this statement means in your working career? Because if God only works in

the followers of the church, then the scripture has to be phrased differently.

With God in the followers of the church, all things are possible. So

I say, every believer, every believer, I know, listen to the

world of God at least fifty two times a year, minimum fifty two that

if you come to church every week, assuming that every for the right given

take maybe your holidays and stuffing that right at least for the eight types of

year. I say, for the eight types of year. Your faith.

Your faith. Your faith must mean something to you at your workplace, must

mean something to you at your workplace. Because we say we worship, we

declare that we've got nothing's impossible. But yeah, at your workplace. The

statement I get back was, but elder, you must understand it's easier say

than done. It's easier say than done. How do you understand the Word

of God declares it, but it's easier say than of course, But yet

that doesn't that doesn't this proved the Bible that we've got all things are possible.

I say you look at the life of Joseph. He did not go

to Howard Basedess school. He didn't go to Mt ivy Leagues or maybe in

this contact MMU the top whichever union right, Sorry here a lecture, Please

forgive me. I did not my reference with the mm and CO be Okay,

I know that a lot more right, but I did not go to

the top university. But yet the Bible says, even in prison, he

was the best prisoner. You. We have to think from this perspective of

like were news at the end of the day, so that the younger son

said he had no choice, no option. I'll sell my birthright. And

many times for the sake of survivor, we have sought out our birth right

as well. We have sold out just to survive, just to feed the

internal cravings. I pray that this message will encourage you because there is always

another way. Come verse seventeen, now verse sixteen that he gladly feels he

stub out with the pots come on of the swine. You think about your

friends, think about it for a moment. I'm not sure how many of

us here, but devil with food that will cause us the diarrhea. You

eat moldy cheese, there's a possibility of diarrhea. You know some you ever

bought cheese before? Right? Sometimes because of work we forgot to eat and

stuffing that it comes moldy in your in your in your feet. I'm not

sure how many a verse here will cut off the moldy part eat the rest.

I would I would. It's moldiness is only a part of the right.

The rest is you okay right? How like that this cut out that

that that the MOLDI part you eat the rest? Huh right? Okay right

the rest? Okay right? But my wife, no moldy, miss molding

the whole they contaminated. But show I went like, but my dad also,

God, do this, mam. He's still survival to his ad at

d year, still alive, no diarrhea. Friends, I'm not sure how

many of us in the food that the moment you taste something it's not right,

you still continue eating. You must have a different value system. You

must have a different revalue system if you're continue eating stuff, which is a

possibility of having divehere. And this younger son had a different value. See,

your values will reveal what you do on friends, your values, you

will read what you do. All of us here have a set of values.

It will show in what you do. A lot of people say we

love God. Yes, I do not doubt your love for the Lord.

But your love for the Lord the value how you value God will reflect and

what you do for God? What also so quiet? So the young son,

even the pixed food is good enough for me. Come on, even

the pigs food is good enough for me. Come worse eighteen or break?

She came in worse eighteen. I obviously I have the worst eighteen experience.

Then was the worse eighteen? Said I will arise and go to my father?

Come on. See a lot of times we desire change, We want

to change, a lot of times we tell people to change, like right

now, we're pretty go without. You're supposed to live like that. But

change would happen until there's awareness. Friends, change won't happen until there's awareness.

You know that. That's your parents say. You tell your children,

don't do this, and most time most children just obey. We obey rather

than we understand. We obey God rather than we understand why cannot. And

many times in our lives we obey to the limit to that I think I

can, like Eve in the garden. After I eat the apple, I'm

still alive. And many times in our life we tell people to change.

Change would't happen until there is awareness. Come on right now, And the

Bible here says I will arise and go to my father first. If you

want change to happen in your life, I pray that your awareness. I

finally understood it. Why I need to change, Why I need to change?

Until now, friends, until now, I just want to let you

know some of us here. Let me just pin the industration for you all

right outside clothes, the clothes that you wear. Can you touch a mettriss

not? Come on right now? I know I was speaking at the ams,

majority of them saying no, something that's killma, like the closer very

right now, closer, right now. When you go back home, do

you chase your home clothes or do you allow do you allow this clothes to

sit on your you allow yourself to see on your baby? This check clothes?

No, no time to say something? Something is there close to nima?

Huh No, no, no, something is there? Yes in the

house? Come on? Is there yes in the house? Yes, yes

there, Yes, I see y, yes, I see yes, come

on right now. I I I beloved to the yes category, all right,

I beloved yes, all right, I belove the yes category. But

my wife beloves to no category. She said, dear, if you want

to see, this is a gem corner. These guys only see on this

corner. So that I really don't understand, I said, germ is everywhere.

It's not that our house is very in bubble plastic, hung up pure

oxygen. I said, I don't understand this germ concept because I never grew

up with it. I never grew up with a family outside clothes. I

can nowhere because when I was with my grandparents. My parents comes from a

small village, a robber typic village. Majority of that of them, they

finish what they just lide down whatever they have, sleeper like we can again

to do the world. I belong to the Camra okay, but my wife

is a bit more refined, bit more refined. See, you count to

change. So there are days, there are days I just take it.

But you don't understand germs are everywhere, and besides, you won't die.

It's not you. So there are days I experimented. She she she goes

on railroad tour with the church. I purposely go back to my church,

go back with my outside working clothes. I see on the bit here Now,

I wish you were here to tell me, but I won't let you

know. I'm lying right, I'm lying down the baby my outside clothes.

I just want you. I don't want to be accountable to you. I

fell into my weakness. I said the picture to her that She said me

back, dear, you know you're testing me right the days I do that,

I didn't even tell her that she comes back from what she lies out,

that she wakes up. See you feel okay, okay, okay,

nothing wrong, goobla. I just want to let you know. I lie

that with the outside clothes, and this theory and this test is to prove

that nothing wrong with outside clothes. Excuse, husband, do do that?

Okay, husband, do that? But friends awareness until I got no awareness,

I need to change. I got no awareness unless you're sweaty and said,

but come on, he did stread all no awareness. But the young

son decided decided because this awareness, he remembers. He remembers in his father's

house there were access friends, you and I. Today, I pray in

a quiet time, they be aware of how God caeesars. So he said,

O will rise and go to my father and say to him I've seen

against heaven and before you first awareness awareness will lead to action. First,

A lot of times you want action to lead awareness is you cannot turn the

other way around. In now words, you do until you become aware.

Very hard you give up. The motivation to change is very small. You

keep running until you become sleep friends. I can guarantee you after the first

two meters you give up because you stop at the mama shop there. It's

true. Many time you tell my mom will come and tell me you got

to lose weight. You gotta lose weight, you gotta lose it. I

thought, my mom, I am my ring. I can take out easier

now. But there's no need to change, only because I got no awareness.

And sometimes our motivation to change is how parents to tell the Jewets,

please clean your room, Please clean your room, the very ways to clean

your room. Now. Once I put everything under the mattress, it's clean.

The readly on the outside, put everything in another. Shift from one

place to another place. Your place is clean. The other places ther tea

right, no awareness to change. Let me let me just share my other

life story with your sometimes to wear outside clothes? Right, you never sweat?

Do you recycle your T shirt? Now? You never sweater? You

thick the T shirt? It's not all right? Will you still wear the

second day? Okay? Let me forgive you another one jeans? All right?

How far will you push it without putting the wash. Huh make a

worry cause I told my wife jeans, you have to wash up because it's

made to last. I went out. I think I went up to five

months washing my jeans and they become very sticky. Then that I knew it'side

to wash. But otherwise I gotta know where again again I'm putting this thing.

I said, I just put the wash because someone told me to put

the wash. But I never understood it because when she's not around something,

she goes on the on on mission treatment stuff that she knows that I don't

see. If I don't need the wash, I don't need to wash.

No awareness, no awareness, friends, Verse nineteen, I'm no longer worthy

to be called your sons. Make me like one of your servants. Awareness

action that comes a change of values. Friends, I pray that you're the

young sons. I'm not here to talk about young to focus on the young

son. I wanted to focus on the father's respond because the death response is

very important. Verse twenty, and he arose he came to his father,

but when it was still great far away, the father saw him, had

compassion and ran, fell this that and kissed him. Friends, I want

to let you know before you do anything, you think that you need to

prove yourself to be the son of God. Before we do anything. Our

father in heaven celebrates you breaks shield. Do you know an Asian context again,

an Asian context, we are not very good with praises, in fact,

very hard. Save your baby grabbing Enyma or Homer, whereby praises is

very normal. I know a dad, I know someone's dead when the sun

he opens his son's room just the study table. The light there is light

but not stop bright enough. And majority of us we survive, we can

study. But the dad says, son, wow, your room not brighten

up. Let me help you to change the light bulb. The father immediately

by a new table. M change the light bulb, change the death,

everything so that the sun will study better. When I heard the story and

I told this this, this, this, this, this, this story,

I see your dad saying it. By David is open opening, not

studying at you right, very different gainer Asian. We're find it very hard

to celebrate. How many if you think that you did very well for worship

bleeding Hey, I just say a statement. Your should be saying yes.

For example, how many you think that you did ra well for worship bleeding

right? How do you think that she sang very well? She got potential

to cut the old album? No, seriously, let's go on, let's

go on all right right? How many think that you Peachick is correct?

Singing pea Chick is correct? Huh what ye wos Jack said? And then

when when, when I'm trying to get it here, if God asked you

to sit in the middle of the room, if God actually see in the

middle of the room, I'm not sure how many your words. He will

be very comfortable with people with the angels saying that you know this, you

know, Noah, he was fitful, I know, should have me overs

here. We feel FIGETI after a while that people are just appreciating you for

who you are. I know, show how me over he steady and not

feel funny when people just lavish words of affirmation towards you. Because in our

in our growing up years, sometimes sometimes some families words negative words is much

louder than positive words. Sometimes a growing up year, sometimes scolding is a

norm, appreciating its luxury. Even in a working environment. We did something

correct, very few echolits come but a moment, a mistake is made,

or moment a mistake is made, the emails, the texts, the phone

calls that comes your way. It's a lot understanding. Every mistake is cost

fine, But I'm trying to explain to your the Father ran towards the sun.

It speaks about the Father celebrating the sun even before the sun. For

the proof, I got a very and we know of a tough guy.

And you know, just really tough. He can take all the bidding he

can take. Really, you try any physical challenge towards him, he can

take it. By the very moment it's gonna get married, we say that,

look, we want to do something really different. But why do you

see in the middle here and all the guys, these guys, this is

a guy, but suddenly say, rather, I appreciate you by the third

person that he couldn't take it, because I say again, very seldom we

celebrate our world by not doing anything. The fact that your life, just

imagine right, the fact that you're alive. Your father ever celebrates you.

The fact that you are a believer. The Father celebrates you. You have

your church plan, yet you're sat homeshet. You know, I want you

to imagine right now, how much. Our father ever celebrates you. The

Bible says, in Samsuns thirty to forty, you form me, You form

my inner parts. Come on, God is the one who formed you.

That's why he celebrates you. The fact. Yeah, God's creation he celebrates.

But God, why are you making me like that? Why did you

just put in a bit more brain? Sell else, sharper nose, bigger

eyes? God, why I want to ten scheme? My wife's so fair?

Lord, we very very rarely celebrate ourselves, But here the Bible says,

God celebrates you. I want to encourage you in your quiet time.

Just hear how God celebrates you. The Bible says that he form you,

form my inner parts, You cover me my mother's room. I will praise

you for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Friends, you are fearfully and wonderfully

made by God. Some the same psalms on you iver seventy seventy to eighteen.

How precious are your thoughts towards me? Friends? God thinks about you.

God thinks about you many times. In a working world, we want

other people to think about us, But our father and hevn't thinks about you.

First. If you're not thinking about something friends, you're not going.

You won't be running towards the direction when the thing comes. You order something

precious online, could be a notebook, could be your phone, could be

something that you'd be one thing. You'll be actually looking at the delivery date

to find out when the thing will arrive. Because as antip anticipation you value

it. You celebrate that when things arrive. But if it's just one of

those things that you don't really need because you're so unsaivie, you decided maybe

I want it in the future, you don't really look forward to the delivery

one. Okay, delivery comes right. Our father and Heaven celebrates you.

How prescious are your thought towards me or go? How was are the sums

of them? But if I were to counter their outnumbered the grains of the

sand. When I'm awake, I'm still with you. So the father in

heaven, the father heard the story, choose to celebrate the sun him returning

even before he has done anything. Before you say I'm sorry, he says

someone worse twenty too, the worse one, then the sun. The Father

Father, I've seen against heaven and your side. I'm no longer to be

worthy before your son. Right, That's how number it isn't it When we

make a mistake. Remember the first time you got meself, you didn't.

But the first time you ever drove your parents' car, you got it accident.

And he's not one of the small little scratches, but the big one

sit that will never drive anymore, Just the one driving more because you know

the way of the responsibility and somethings. We were extreme man. It's either

all or nothing. One we actually wear extre man, right, and he's

I wanted this one to highlight to you it Worse twenty two. But the

father said to the son. The father said, to the severn, bring

out the best ropes and put it on him, put a ring on his

hand, sitting out on his feet. First of all, the father celebrates

you, and the worse twenty two. Worse twenty two reveals that our God

is a fitful God and a loving Father. Faithful and loving God. Faithful

and loving God, fitful and loving God. The Bible here says he told

hisselfn bring out the best ropes. I want you to imagine now with me,

that you're putting on your best coding for someone who has never bathed.

This is a son that was working in the pig's farm, smelly and dirty,

coming back to the father, and the father just said, clothes him,

put the rope on him. Right now, I'm not sure how many

of us here will even bring out the best tower. Come on, right

now, the best tower for your son that just finished playing soccer in the

rain. You just came here for football. Bring out the fluffiest tower in

the house. Put it around my child so I can feel the warm the

heart of the tower. Your parents that bring out the one, the one

to go there on the tower right first, right after you kick up the

main dirt there only you bring out the knights and fluffy on. But the

dead friends saw beyond the dirt, saw beyond the pig smell, saw beyond

everything the child did and saw his son. You will only put out things

of value when you value something. That's how much our father in heaven values

us. He gave his only son, one and only son. Friends,

into this context, into this context, you and me, we give up

one and one and only handful. If we were challenged to give out one

and only handful of even give we're rather by a chief foy and gif right.

It's rest I'm not saying, but this is how God sees. She

will only surrender give up something when we see something else is of value as

well. That's why Dad, Dad's in the house paid the price for the

family, because they value the family. You will only give up what you

value because you see something you see with more valuable friends, God says his

only son, Jesus Christ. Because he knew friends, he knew, he

knew, he knew. No matter what we try to do, we cannot

reconcile back to the father based our own strength. That was a depiction of

the father running towards the son he knew friends. The son may not make

it to the doorstep. Think about it, because all this time the sun

had nothing to eat. He knew, he qupt. That's the possibility of

the sun fitting halfway. And sometimes this is our thing. Prove to me

you're truly sorry, then only I embrace you. Prove to me that you're

really sorry, then I would love you back. And sometimes human being are

we're that cruel one e were the best of Christians. Something we have that

way, you're really sorrier, really sorrier, maybe just surface la right.

And sometimes you are like that the Father in Heaven's different. Friends, This

Dad saw the soun of far away, decided to run towards him. It's

like the story of God sending his son Jesus and the Cross, because Jesus

said, do one come to the Father except to him. Could you imagine

many times you try our own way to get to the Father, to get

to heaven. Will fail. We will fail, friends, we will fail.

And no matter what we try to do, Friends, we cannot get

this stay in this sin, this guilt away, except by the shading blow

of Jesus Christ. God has come towards us to save us from sin,

from the penalty of sin. And this is the story of God right the

Father running through the sun. He says he put the rope, Friends,

the rope just symbolizes forgiveness. Think about it, naked dirt. God give

him covering. God give him forgiveness. I'm not sure where you are with

your journey of life. But God wants to cover you. Think about for

a moment. God wants to cover you. God wants to cover you.

But do you know how hot? Like saying how hot is this? Sitting

in the room, sitting in the place allowing God to cover your nakedness,

to put his rope on you, and like the sun, respond I'm not

worthy. Most of us respond like this, I'm not worthy. I'm not

worthy enough. I'm not worthy enough. This wanting the Lord was to remind

you, remind you again how much he loves you. He don't just take

out any rope. He took out the best ropes to cover you. Friends,

the cow of sin, our shame, our guilt. I'm not sure

how many of us here ever tried to go out to do something and we

failed. Power past of life to come back to a place whereby to say

that we are failed or we didn't make it. I'm not show how many

of us you have a smile or fac saying that I didn't make it.

That the word celebrates pass us, and very few people celebrates mistakes or regrets

or the words that we want to use the word acceptance of mistakes and regrets.

Things happen in our lives. It's not because we choose different paths,

different roads, something something new, work, some mistakes. We have lived

it. But yet I treat it all. Allow people just to reaffirm us

again, do you know how hard it is for someone to put on to

reaffirm you, to say it's gonna be all right. It's going to be

all right if you're honest with our old hearts, friends, our pride.

Someone stop us from receiving, from experiencing God's love, our pride, pride

in our hearts, stop us, really and really, it wasn't sound so

noble, but sounds so arrogant, sounds so noble. So father, I'm

not worded to be called your your son. Just just make me a servant.

Sounds so good. With your friends, sounds so good. But there's

certain pride because you're rejecting God's forgiveness. Think about it. You're rejecting the

very thing that could save us, could help us to restore us. Could

you imagine that? Don't waste the rope. Don't waste the rope. The

rope can be used so somebody else. Don't waste it on me. Just

give me one of those one hour you've gotta show. Weally want to give

the realag the house. Just give it to me. Don't waste the rope,

but you're worth the best rope. The Bible says that he put a

ring on his finger. Ring really speaks of identity. That's why marriage couple

to exchange rings identity. God wants to restore. Do you know one of

the hardest part is to restore by your identity. Yes, a lot of

us experts God forgiveness, but to restore by the identity who you are in

the Lord, who you are in the Lord. It's hard because it it

was renewing your mind. It was renewing your mind. It's not one of

those change your name on the icy right. If you ever born in the

Chinese family, your parents give you a very terror Chinese name, nobody could

pronounce, nobody could smell, smell, spell right. And he said,

I was I met somebody that day and I said, hey, you look

very familiar. Yeah, I think my name I think her name was was.

I think her name was Stephanie. Yeah, back then you used to

know me as Mary. Change. It's not it's just that the story identity.

It's not just about changing your name like you know or your Christian It's

not that. It's about knowing who you are in Christ. It's about knowing

who you are in Christ. Friends, But many types Christians we don't know.

We just we assume that we know just because we received Jesus in the

hearts. And that's the problem with majority of us. We buy ears stuff

thinking that we can fix you out. We need the manual. We think

it's supposed to look like Dela. When you fix it, we did one

most cool there. I think you can give extra. We don't read the

manual because we think that it's supposed after Oma Christianma they go to church on

Sunday. You come to church on Sunday, you see people lifting up there's

you also go lift up your hands right, people singing, use reading the

Bible. Then the problem is that there is no change. So when problem

and things hit in our life, when challenges come away, we find it

hard to overcome because we don't even know our identity. At your workplace,

the challenges come in work place. Friends, you're not just another human being,

your child God, there is always a solution. If you ever speak

to Elder Terrans, Eld terreance is that he's Slice s living right now.

He lost about fifteen to train kilos really right, Slice Limer, but he's

his top processing is that I'm actually very naive when it comes to fixing things.

But I always pray to God. God, I know the word says

review. Nothing is impossible. So therefore give me the same annoying thing.

Whether I look at something, I can fix it. He will come to

work one day. Elder, I fixed my led TV my screen, how

vet turned white color. I decided to set it into the service center.

They give me a quotation close the four figure. I decided to forget about

it. I shall YouTube how to repair, and he did. Elder,

I fixed my TV less than hunger and git. If it is for me,

I will I will tell you about this. Betther just change lavee.

He's so proud. He's so proud. The fact that he just said is

that I know who I am in Christ. It could be an LED screen.

I got no knowledge, but with God, give me the understanding of

how to repair. Every time we hit a problem with something regards to our

rental place, some repair work where we go normally write to them, tell

them that you know some parts were liking and sometimes because maybe we are younger,

they don't. They don't give the kind of respect. So I always

said Terrence to go help me to set the The thing went nobody. You

can nowt mess around with him because he doesn't smile. On even by him

staring staring at the fishes in the sea, the cop of life again,

the kind of his face, girl face? Anyway, say I come just

recently, say Terrence, you know that there's this problem. Just help me

to just look into either did you report it? I see that I think

the mentionedment reported on Monday until Friday morning that he was done. Older just

say, by the end of the day will be set that he's that confident.

Now you say, but Elder, this ergant, no, no,

no, friends, you need to know who you are in Christ. I'm

trying to get it. You need to know who you are in Christ.

The fru for go. Yes, but this part you got it correct,

elder led TV screen. I can fix it. He wants to make his

own table and I want to make I look at him where they just builer

you're sixty two. Really don't waste time, right? Families were important?

Anyway, this is I'm trying to get it. The ring, the ring.

God wants to restore that identity towards you. You know we do some

you know what some of us Christians do that we think that we can trow

on the floor. You know why you don't like it? Maybe not,

I would say, don't like yeah, maybe because my fingers so small,

the rings to be keep slipaking out. God says that he with the center

on his feet. Purpose. God is in the business of restoration. See

a lot of us here are safe. We are you re see Jesus in

your heart. We are safe. But go on to restore. Come on.

Restorations is important because many times we don't even know they're we need restoration.

Just because we could are alive, we could function, we could live,

we could transact every day business doesn't mean we are living to the fullness

and understanding of what God causes to be to cery. Restoration is important.

Even though we know that we are a child God, but our mindset is

a servant mindset. And again, even though we know that we are child

got inside the deepest power our hearts, but our mindset sometime and we think

that we're just servants. And God wants to restore their friends, and finally

there's going to be this point. How we see God is how we approach

him. How you see God is how we approach him. Earlier part of

scripture, the youngest son saw the father as just a provider, give you

money, that the Father gives happy that's it. And many times now Christian

what we approach God that the same man a provision provision, but the days

where by provision provider needs to give you understanding. He's a living dead.

Think about it for a moment, when you hit a war made mistake,

will we still approach God in the same manner or not? Or is he

just a provider? Just a provider? God, give me a cap up.

We do pray prayers that God give me a space, give me,

give me an entry, give me a blessing, breakthrough in a workplace.

All good, But is that all about our father? Heaven't like that a

provider? Is he also your savior? Come on? Is he also your

Lord? Because if you're only going to approach a father in heaven as just

a person just dispensing help, it that's very limiting. As I close right

now, I just want to encourage us, really really want to encourage you

and encourage myself as well as I close. Number one is this this is

that he celebrates you. I want you to know that Asians and we're not

say again we're not very good with celebration. I was we had the ADM

Mandrid had some presentation, so two of them sang a couple of songs.

Not you're not from the worship team, but these are the two people that

like to sing in karaoke. So they sang, so I was just last

show. One of the guys. They say, brother, he's gonna be

eat it eaten. Just let me just just just see where you are.

I want to let you know one celebrate you. You sang really well.

I get that. I let you know what happened. The more thing that

we say about him to appreciate him, celebrate him, his face turns rader

and raider and raider and became like a tomato. After that, I said

we there, and just said we all been to the part before because we

just think that we are normal, nothing really worth celebrating. We are not

like the most brilliant people in the in the classroom. The world celebrates achievement,

but God celebrate presents. The world celebrate achievement. If Elmas didn't achieve

anything, we used to buy his book or not. If we don't design

the card, do don't make any change? Still by his book. The

world celebrates achievement. That's why we buy books because they achieve certain things.

But God celebrates presents the fact that you are here. He celebrates you.

That's how our father in heaven is. He's faithful, he's loving. No

dirt can push him away from you. You think about it for a moment.

He could have waited the door, waited for the son to come right

to the door. As a dad, he said, title too, because

it wasn't him who kicked the son out. If it was a father that

kicked the son out, yes, the father running towards the sun asking for

forgiveness. But this is the dad because he knew the son couldn't make it

to the doorstep. Because the Bible already described that he's hungry. No one

gave him anything. A son that is dirty, smelly, a son that's

lost. That's why he can tell his servant, my son was lost,

but now it's found. My son one was lost, but now it's found.

He celebrated the presence of his son more than the achievement of the son.

Nowhere in the Bible. He said that what do you do with my

money? Because he valued he knows in the sun is more valuable than money.

As I close right now, when the courage avers here have a better

understanding how our Father and Heaven is better understanding the heart of the Father.

Have a better understanding when you do a quiet time. Even the book lamentation

must mean something in my life. Otherwise God would have written it and put

in the Bible. It must have been. You must have when you do

a quite to understand that God wants to speak to you. So when you

go out into your workplace, you have a solution. You have encourasion,

you have strength to overcome every challenges you face. Everybody's talking about the price

increased. But God, if God can provide for Isaac in the days of

famine in the Book of Genousys, think about it. If God could provide

for Isaac in the days of famine, how much more earth. If God

only works in those in the Old Testimate New Testament, then God doesn't work

now. Then first then you must all give up the Bible. The very

fact the Bible is still here. The Bible is still here. Whish mean

to say that God's still is at work and still working and can overcome every

challenges debic face. Only if you believe. We hope you've been blessed by

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